Your statement is factually incorrect. PISA make it very clear that vocational schools are sampled as part of the testing
oecd.org/pisa/PISA%202022%20Insights%20and%20Interpretations.pdf
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Your statement is factually incorrect. PISA make it very clear that vocational schools are sampled as part of the testing
oecd.org/pisa/PISA%202022%20Insights%20and%20Interpretations.pdf
Seems like that is a part of his act, Erik Prince.
He's always looking at Africa.
Erik Prince, left, chairman of Frontier Services Group, looks at a map of Africa with Deputy Chairman Johnson Ko. FSG, which is backed by Chinese capital, is based in Hong Kong.
circa 2016
I disagree. The anglos were already facing large scale anti-colonialism efforts from multiple colonies during that time. The Sino-Soviet Split was already underway and the global embargo on China didn't end until 1972. Nixon would still need to court China in order to put pressure on the Soviets. HK meant nothing to them at that time.
The Brits lacked the means, while the Yankees lacked the will to resist a PLA liberation.
Chairman Mao could have done this back in 1949 at the height of the civil war. The PLA was literally at HK doorsteps in Shenzhen chasing the Nationalist retreating in Hong Kong awaiting for orders to cross to HK.
But no, Mao was really wise and had foresight. He knew that after the communist takeover of mainland, China will be isolated, and the only window for China for the Capitalist world is HK. So Mao swallowed his pride ordered Zhou Enlai to ensure food and water to flow to HK. So yeah really entitled.
The US is currently just a third world country disguised as a rich country, just like a larger Argentina in the global economy.
The American economy is now driven by consecutive record deficits and debt, subsidies, protectionist policies and an inflated and completely aberrant services sector.
The only thing preventing a dollar crash and an Argentina-level hyperinflation crisis is China, Russia and other countries that in some cases artificially devalue their currencies to invest in independent supply chains at a low cost today in order to gain more competitiveness in the future when the US needs to reduce interest rates and the deficit to stabilize the trade balance, seeing the inevitable devaluation of the dollar with this irresponsibility in printing money to hide the problems of the declining and unsustainable US economy.
And life expectancy and infant mortality are bad because Americans live in an apartheid society with black and second-class citizens living in a violent and unsafe environment with high homicide rates and with health services unaffordable to a large part of the population.
This is not a consequence of the wealth or the risky choice of a free population, it is just the failure of the country, which has terrible policies, social inequality and a horrible distribution of wealth, taxes and monetary policy, just like in other Latin American countries. In fact, for Latin American countries this mess is more evident because they are smaller and less important for the global economy to absorb and alleviate them. However, with the growth and independence of other countries in the global economy, the importance of the US is expected to decrease every year and they will soon be equal to Argentina, because the economic and social policy is the same, and the consequences will be the same.
The American economy is now driven by consecutive record deficits and debt, subsidies, protectionist policies and an inflated and completely aberrant services sector.
The only thing preventing a dollar crash and an Argentina-level hyperinflation crisis is China, Russia and other countries that in some cases artificially devalue their currencies to invest in independent supply chains at a low cost today in order to gain more competitiveness in the future when the US needs to reduce interest rates and the deficit to stabilize the trade balance, seeing the inevitable devaluation of the dollar with this irresponsibility in printing money to hide the problems of the declining and unsustainable US economy.
And life expectancy and infant mortality are bad because Americans live in an apartheid society with black and second-class citizens living in a violent and unsafe environment with high homicide rates and with health services unaffordable to a large part of the population.
This is not a consequence of the wealth or the risky choice of a free population, it is just the failure of the country, which has terrible policies, social inequality and a horrible distribution of wealth, taxes and monetary policy, just like in other Latin American countries. In fact, for Latin American countries this mess is more evident because they are smaller and less important for the global economy to absorb and alleviate them. However, with the growth and independence of other countries in the global economy, the importance of the US is expected to decrease every year and they will soon be equal to Argentina, because the economic and social policy is the same, and the consequences will be the same.
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This doesn't mean that the loss of Japan and South Korea would not significantly impact the economy of the US. South Korea produces more than 70% of the world's semiconductor memory. Without semiconductor memory, the vast majority of modern electronic devices cannot function. It would take years, if not decades, for the US to come up with a substitute for South Korean semiconductor memory output. Such an endeavor would require tens of thousands of highly-trained professionals. It takes a lot of time to train such a vast and sophisticated workforce. Similarly, the vast majority of cutting-edge semiconductor chips are manufactured in Taiwan. What if the US suddenly lost access to TSMC's facilities? How would investors react if Apple told its shareholders that it would have to halt production for at least 10 years? How would Microsoft's shareholders react if it told them that it could no longer run its cloud business due to a lack of advanced semiconductor chips? How would the US economy react to the resulting changes to the stock market? The TSMC plant in Arizona is not even operational yet. How long would it take for the US to replace TSMC and what opportunity costs would it have to endure during that time? South Korea and Japan also build virtually all of the commercial ships in the world outside of China. Without them, the US would temporarily lose access to the supply of commercial ships. Again, it would take years, if not decades to replace South Korean and Japanese shipbuilding output.
I think it's silly to assume that the US would be completely fine on its own.
My thought is; don't bother with this clown.
In time of manpower shortage. PLA can still call for mobilization. Also, part of the PLA reform years ago is reduce military personal and focus on quality instead of quantity. Extra manpower have no use, if they don't have necessary equipment to perform.
Not to mention with reform and reduce of active personals. PLA is still one of the largest military by quantity in the world.