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Andy1974 said:

This is straight up brutal.
How can the US respond to this?

If they complain about sanctions being unilaterally applied on them?
If they complain to the WTO?
If they ignore it?
If they deny it?

And what if these sanctions are applied in a just and fair manner? Might others join in?

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Hendrik_2000 said:

It is no less irrational than your contrast of wealth generation and crime in US Both of them has nothing to do with each other Most poor people live in city center and predominantly color people. Yes they suffer from discrimination but also lack of interest in education and lack family support since most of them are headed by single parents. The problem with the colored people is their family structure is so weak. Most Asian also come with shirt on their back but their family bond is strong coupled with respect for education they climb themselves out of poverty over 1 or 2 generations.

Every decision you make has a price. US to has to pay a lot of money to rip up the rural internet network But they are willing to pay. The shutting down of apple operation certainly affect the assembly line worker. But they will find other gainful employment. Anyway I don't see any value in screw and assemble work they are sweat shop work that relegate to dust bin in China And add little value

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Crang said:

If only China Russia and N Korea joins Iran.

Imagine the headlines. North Korea sanctions USA

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supersnoop said:

Enough with your racist BS.
Regardless of what the statistics might say, they don't measure the strength of an individual.

You just cherry pick whatever you want to try to prove a point, but it's nonsense.
You keep talking about $300,000 buying a yard with picket fences in the US, but you know what that gets you in NYC? A dirty shoebox, just like Shanghai, just like every other major city in the world.

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Yukiolweipqled51 said:

I think the Afghan forex reserves have been blocked/seized by the United States.

China is unlikely to donate free food for tens of millions of Afghans for multiple months or years.

So this crisis is essentially an American orchestrated one.

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manqiangrexue said:

He's not at all a bright dude; his analysis is usually terrible. He's only good at posting news articles. Recently, he's been driven mad into slandering China, which will make him as successful as every common garden variety Gordon Chang follower. It's disingenuous to make the housing comparison because:

1. China started way lower than the US and is moving up faster; he's projecting his own impatience as China's failures. "Has China surpassed the US yet? How about now? I checked yesterday and then I checked again today! If it still hasn't happened, it's failure! It will never happen!"

2. He's failing to note that China and the US have the same land mass roughly but there are 4x more Chinese than Americans so the challenges to giving the average Chinese as much living space as the average American are much more profound, both economically and technologically.

3. He's comparing Shanghai (major metropolis) housing to Texan (Woodlands is a long drive north of Houston known for cheap land) housing but you'd basically get the same false conclusion if you compared Manhattan housing to Texan housing. I could buy a big comfy house in the Woodlands for the price of a bathroom in NYC or a parking spot in Los Angeles.

Like I said, absolutely nothing about that says "bright dude" to me.

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Bellum_Romanum said:

I totally understand all the excellent points you wrote but what's puzzling and disappointing at the same time with @Hendrik_2000 is his seeming disregard to the country that ought to be rightfully compared to China which is India. Both countries are similar in size, population, and had 2 years overlapped with respect to their independence India in 1947 and the PRC in 1949. As we can all bear witness the two countries growth and development couldn't be further apart from each other. While China managed and still manages to find a way to work with it's avowed strategic rivals like America, Europe, and before Soviet Russia to ensure that China's economic development would not be impeded - which also shows that CPC leadership are not governed by emotional tantrums - and progress unencumbered. Compares that to India's boisterous and loud pronouncements of Superpower India without building up it's important sectors to actually realize that laudable goal, not to mention that it's people and leaders are guided by the misallocation of misplaced confidence of picking a fight with a much more powerful country in China. So rather than allowing their partnership with China to blossom to it's fullest potential the Ladakh episode and their strategic miscalculation has only brought an inevitable slowdown to that countries vital technology sector. Their deficit and procurement of goods from China has actually INCREASED not DECREASE DESPITE THE JAI HINDS DECLARATION and gloating of kicking Chinese investments etc....

If @Hendrik_2000 admonishments and pleading were actually heeded by preceding CPC leadership then the China we all know today wouldn't exist full stop. China would be a giant North Korea always willing to fire their missiles whenever the leadership feels slighted and would then threaten to unleash hell in the world because of massive insecurity complex. None of us Chinese would be proud of this type of belligerent, emotionally stunted government coming from the version of China @Hendrik_2000 would love to see.

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LawLeadsToPeace said:

I actually have a different opinion on North Korea. North Korea isn’t doing that for s**ts and giggles. They have to do it since South Korea, Japan, and the US military are right next to them. They have no economic clout and only have nukes. Before anyone mentions China’s reformations, the Chinese nearly destroyed themselves to rapidly modernize and catch up. People were ASHAMED of being Chinese back in the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. The government was also corrupt due to the rapid expansion of the economy. Fortunately, the West was trapped in the Middle Eastern quagmire and the DPP was too cocky to make a move. Imagine if North Korea were to pursue what the Chinese did. They are smaller and have a bigger target on their back because of South Korea’s desire for reunification and the US’s desire to get right next to the Chinese border. The only way for them to protect themselves from a color revolution is by acting crazy. By being crazy, no one will want to cause trouble for them since things can quickly get hairy. In short and IMO, once the US threat has been removed, North Korea can finally pursue the needed economic reformations, which they are doing right now, and get their economy on its feet.

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