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jwnz

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Temstar said:
I'm sure China can give serious consideration on price cap for Russian oil.
For China that is, if you want to then buy Russian oil FROM China that's a different matter.
As matter of fact, how do you tell Russian oil from Chinese oil? It's not like China doesn't have her own oil fields.
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Surely it printed on the barrel, like Chinese Oil vs Russian Oil... :p
 
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Is Gorbachev’s greatest legacy making the US the world’s only superpower?​

  • Readers debate the mixed legacy of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and paved the way for the US-led international order

Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the former Soviet Union, was famous for his
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movement, which ended the Cold War. The West praised him for valuing democracy but some Russians blamed him for ending Russia’s status as a global superpower.

Was Gorbachev’s “policy reform” really about ending the struggle between liberal democracy and communist socialism? I doubt it. At the time, the Soviet Union’s economy was badly hurt by its nuclear arms race with the United States, causing its people to suffer. Instead of ending the Cold War for the sake of the global community, perestroika and glasnost were more of a forced move by Gorbachev to save his people from economic suffering.

With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the US became the world’s only superpower. The US has since gone on to exert a strong hegemony on global political, economic and social development. Liberal democracy based on capitalism became the ideal political economic system followed by most countries around the globe, with those opposing this either sanctioned or condemned. It was only until the rise of China that this structure of hegemony began to change.

Liberal democracy based on capitalism was never an ideal system. Though I value freedom and democracy, capitalistic ideals inhibit both these values as the capitalistic ruling class exerts a hegemony over the working class. Where is the freedom and democracy in this?

Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost ended Russians’ struggles to make a living in the 1990s, and possibly avoided a nuclear annihilation, but it paved the way for the US and its Western allies to force their ideologies onto the whole world.

Many see Gorbachev as the key person in the ending of the Cold War, but I see him as the key person in the creation of this new world order dominated by the West.

Lew Guan Xi, Selangor, Malaysia

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UK is 3 billion while Guangdong is 2 billion so unlikely. In 3 years time 90% chance Guangdong beats UK though.
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Let’s wait and see but if the UK really does go south with all the issues they have in regards to energy and food and if the people really lose it and strait tearing things apart, we definite could see the uk being well and truly screwed, especially with Liz Truss and her Nuclear logic at the helm. It this isn’t a race but rather who can survive for longer. With Russia aiding Chinas energy needs in the short to medium term while obviously doing research for a long term solution, I believe China will pull ahead no matter what. But I do wonder, does the uk have the will and determination to put the future of the nation ahead of their need to cling to their colonial days that are long since over. Something tells me that this isn’t likely to happen in the immediate term, not with a leader like Liz truss or Sunak and their need to continue their fight in Ukraine which is one day going to paint a Red Bulls eye when Russia is done with Ukraine
 
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