Sunak hasn’t done anything. The original opinion piece was complaining about him doing nothing. Not like any of the previous PMs did either.
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Sunak hasn’t done anything. The original opinion piece was complaining about him doing nothing. Not like any of the previous PMs did either.
I don't take it seriously. I don't. It is a joke.
If we look closely at what they want to do, it is all comic book level type of material. Sure it could work, but works best in comic books.
Some of the strategies we see coming out form the West, especially the Americans, are so infantile, that the comic book analogy is the only thing I can come up with to describe it.
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Now, for the boring part.
What the Americans are fighting, is the long term trend.
What are long term trends? They could be described in many ways, let's limit that to three.
1) Long term trends are slow. Not much happens, but it continues the same way.
2) Long term trends are persistent. In that they overcome obstacles. For example, the lockdowns from the pandemic was the only event to cause negative growth in the Chinese economy for the last 30 years, which lasted only as long as the lockdowns were in place. After that was lifted the Chinese economy rebounded the most in the last 30 years. Hence, that shows the long term trend remains intact.
3) Long term trends do not turn on a dime. These long term trends are so powerful, it takes a lot to change things, and often that is only incremental, and not decisive. For example, the 1973 oil shock, and the 2008 financial crisis. We always read things referring to those periods because its affect altered the long term trend. It did not change the long term trend exactly at that point in history, but it altered it at that moment. Subsequent events, will determine if that event was that worthy or not.
To make a long story short, China's current long term trend, is based on strong economic growth, which the foundations of that is based on investments into science, modernization, urbanization, and the general uplifting of human capital sustained by investment into that over decades.
Those are like big time topics.
Has anything the Americans done to spite China, alter any of these long term trends in China? The answer is no. Not in my lifetime, that's for sure. China was weak. Now it isn't. We can make our own deductions.
Although I do agree, that a major war would be a big problem. Then again, who knows?
The Vietnam War was a major war, along with Korean War, neither seemed to have stopped the Americans, or the Chinese, from progressing.
We do not know.
As for the current war in Europe, China takes great interest in that, because if Russia wins, NATO could be toast. The more stress applied to American lead alliances, the better as far as China is concerned.
I agree Calculus for 17-18 year olds should only be prep for university degrees which require advanced Maths.
The typical 16 year-old in the UK doesn't have very good mental arithmetic or a good grasp of personal finances.
That is the root of the problem.
We're talking about things like memorising 12x12 multiplication tables so the answers are known instantly without hesitation.
EDIT But this the sort of thing primary school children should know. And in my British primary school, every single child was expected to be at this level at the age of 9
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“Putin is crazy,” says one Chinese official, who declined to be identified.
Looks like that "unidentified source" has attacked again.
I dont know why they keep saying stuff like "unidentified source", "anonymous sources", "rumours say" when we all know their real identity
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba: Putin has only one option, but he does not want to accept it. This option is to lose the war.
Also Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba: “If Ukraine loses, then the world in which the US plays such an important role will start to fall apart”
Looks like he has two options. doesn't?
Also Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba: “If Ukraine loses, then the world in which the US plays such an important role will start to fall apart”
Looks like he has two options. doesn't?