Interesting how this Chinese-made box of matches discloses the number of matches as being +/- 5%. Nowadays, I'm noticing in western food products, it is more and more common for the manufacturer to just label whatever weight measurement they want and hope the customer doesn't check. I've personally weighed a bag of lay's potato chips just this month because it felt light and it came out to around 20% less than the advertised weight. If you go on reddit, for example the mildlyinfuriating subreddit, you'll see this kind of complaint more and more with all kinds of food products from powdered sugar to flour to meat. This is in addition to the sneaky accelerating shrinkflation that has been taking place the last 5 years. More evidence of decaying material conditions in a late state hyper capitalist society in which the trust compact made with the customer is too expensive to fulfill going forward. Also the suggestion to complain to whatever government weights and measurements agencies usually result in no action because all the "unprofitable" government agencies have been gutted to nothing. It's a free for all out there.
These days no one seems to care if he exists. He is simply a relic that no longer has a purpose once he is no longer in leadership. Whatever happens to Australia will be dictated by what nation leads the world. That is how Australia is really, it's leadership's tends to drift towards who ever has control over its economy. Because China controls the EV car markets, Australia is drifting towards Chinese cars because of this. In the end, as I believe Australia will eventually become a vasal of China once the USA is economically and militarily spent. Once that happens, the leadership will ultimately follows China's tune, especially when the USA simply doesn't provide anything worth a damn. When one thinks about, this is more or less why the liberal party has collapsed so badly because like Kevin Rudd, they have no vision except follow the USA like a loose bitch, all these pundits will in the end cease to exist one way or the otherYeah, exactly, could not agree more, agree 1000%
There was a transcript of that video, read some of it then I stopped because,
1. All Rudd did was repeat old stereotypes, which showed he was as unimaginative as he can be. Suppose China was unimaginative sticking to the Leninism. Where would China be today?
2. It is clear that Rudd is CIA man. What else is he going to say.
This reflects the true reason why the West wants to shut out Chinese products. It's not really due to Chinese "subsidies" and "excess capacity"; after all who complains about getting wealthfare that must be paid by an opponent? No, it's because at 1/10th of the cost, Chinese products drastically reduce Western governments' tax revenues.