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4Runner

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actually the Chinese system is extremely resilient when it works. There's a bimodal distribution of dynasty survival times: short (too many to list) and long (the famous Han, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing). Fun fact: almost all dynasties that survive 60 years will also survive to 120 years.
Along that line: my own understanding of Chinese history says that 50+ years of peacetime always led China back to #1 economy and its dynastic cycle around 200 years. Whoever succeeds Xi, China may likely become more nationalistic.
 

Taar

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Wrong, China admitted it sent 320,000 Chinese combat forces to directly engage US during the Vietnam War.

WaPo:
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And US is lucky, Mao Zedong threatened over 1,000,000 Chinese combat forces if the US dared cross the 17th parallel with a land invasion. US couldn't risk another Korean War, so therefore it abandoned South Vietnam when it needed it most.
China, at the time, have a lot of non-military personal in the military. China did send people to help Vietnam, but with the exception of antiaircraft artillerymen protecting bridges from bombing way behind the front line, most other are road builders, railway workers and logistics teams(China move these people out of the military in the 80s and 90s). China did not send front line troops to help Vietnam fight.
 

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BRASILIA, March 31 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank more than quadrupled its foreign reserves in Chinese yuan last year, policymakers reported on Thursday, as it trimmed holdings of U.S. dollars and euros and built Brazilian reserves of currency from its biggest trade partner.

The Chinese currency, which until 2018 was absent from the forex reserves of Latin America's largest economy, rose to 4.99% of Brazilian central bank holdings at the end of last year, from 1.21% at the end of 2020.
That gave it the third largest share of the central bank's reserves, slightly behind the euro, which fell to 5.04% last year from 7.85% in 2020. Dollar reserves fell to 80.34% of the total from 86.03% a year earlier.

The shift underscores China's growing economic importance to Brazil, where it represents 28% of international trade, more than twice the United States, its next largest trade partner, World Bank data shows.
 

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"LATVIA REPORTED THAT RUSSIAN GAS SUPPLIES HAVE BEEN HALTED."
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UK's also not getting gas. What incompetent warmongering politicians.

They think they're smart because they only import 5%, but even losing that will cause energy prices to go up. Then when Russia cuts off the gas for the rest of Europe they'll soon find their Norwegian supplier not being able to produce enough for the entire of Europe.
 

Appix

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I absolutely do not like the sound of this. Allowing US authorities access to a whole washlist of data of companies listed on American stock exchanges. This has Xi and Li's green light? Just tell them fucking no.

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