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Africablack

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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.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm fearful for the next generation of Chinese leadership. The strength that China has displayed in restraint has the collective west losing their minds and not knowing what to do. China hasn't fallen for their traps and has come out strong. Do not let them bait you into doing anything that will appear like China is the aggressor, time is on China's side!
 

Africablack

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As a football fan myself, I have never considered Messi an idol. Real football fans don't idolize football stars to the heavens. Because these guys come and go. They have a playing career that spans around 20 years at best, most of the time, its less than that. After that, we would look for the next superstar to carry our beloved football team to glory. Messi is truly one of the best footballers of his generation, but his footballer career is already coming to a close. I will never pay HKD5000 to watch a once-great footballer play a non-competitive game of football. That is already a scam on its own. Those who did that were either Messi-worshippers, hardcore Barca-fans, or just casual football fans who didn't know what they are paying for.

Messi is not universally beloved among true football fans, because he plays for FC Barcelona for most of his career, and FC Barcelona have many rivals and haters. Go ask the Real Madrid fans and other rival La Liga fans if they could ever worship him. Never, they would rather spit on his name than worship him.

Football today is so heavily politicized, that it has become a new propaganda arm for the West. We have witnessed: BLM, LGBTQ, Israeli flag waving (prior to the 2023 Gaza War), banning of Palestinian flags, Mesut Ozil's support for ETIM's "Uighur Genocide" propaganda, banning of Russia from UEFA but not for Ukraine, forced expulsion of Russian billionaires from football businesses in Europe, and now with Messi sulking in HK. I love football, but it is also time to call it out.

Another disgusting thing that is happening is all that money being thrown around in this sport. Sometimes, the money that is spent to buy a superstar today could buy us an entire stadium. There are football players earning up to more than 1M Euros per week. Sponsors and media are throwing hundreds of millions around like candy. And the average football fans are getting milked for money like never before. Such as that HKD5000 Messi-no-show game in HK. This is madness, spending all that money on a sport where a bunch of guys are kicking a ball around.
Fair points but I'd like to say that players earn millions because they bring in millions, that's capitalism.
 

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He added that, if Russia “managed to exhaust the European economy, while maintaining Chinese backing, American monetary and financial controls of the world would collapse, and with them the possibility for the United States to fund their huge trade deficit for nothing.



No "if", Russia actually already managed to accomplish what this academic mentioned here judging by the data.

It's truly amazing to see how Chinese backing managed to keep the Russian economy rock solid, and the EU de-industrialized.

When the war and sanctions first began they laughed when people said the West would suffer more, but now it is true.

The West has suffered more economically, geopolitically, politically, socially, and however else you want to put it!




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Anyway, It seems that Biden may be considering to withdraw from Syria and Iraq for real.

His prospective voters really don't like all the extensive warmongering he's been doing.

I think he will move out before the elections, but then after the elections directly enter the war against Hezbollah and resistance groups from Syria & Iraq for Israel's interests.

For this kind of flawed political system is very common to lie and do one thing before "elections" and one thing after it.

Anyway, here's some more context as to why Biden needs to pretend like that in order to win.

The ethnic, religious, racial, and other composition of his voters should also be considered.

This is also not to mention how his dementia also keeps on worsening every living day.




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emblem21

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I like his videos but he's too trusting of modern-day sources. Most of his content comes from history authors or other academics who study from afar without any practical knowledge of the world outside the lecture hall.
The comment section along with other similar videos is mostly filled with the standard China bashers who assuming they know better but in reality, they have ate one too much video from serpentaza to realize that if China was supposed to collapse, then they really need all the prerequisites for such a development in place which in all honesty mostly amounts to wishful thinking of their part. This fear mongering recently seems to be mostly projection of their part and very little in terms of real substance and lots of really high levels of delusion. Still watching videos like this is an exercise is suffering as most of them really don’t have much in terms of rational or objective thought out into them and this one shouldn’t watch any of them and expect any good result from them
 
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Bellum_Romanum

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"leading to an inevitable societal collapse"

@gpt Did you take the time to watch the video in its entirety? If so, how is the video along with the poinst presented differs from the myriad of videos and opinion makers regarding China from the likes of Serpentza, Falun Gong, Peter Zeihan etc. What was the compelling points the YouTuber expressed that you found the temerity to actually post the video. It would be really nice and appreciated if anyone of us can include our points and opinions on any links, so that people that posts here can make up their own mind to find it amongst ourselves if such an effort to watch anti-China video is productive and educational.

I personally watch the first 10 minutes of the video and I am annoyed to say that it's a rehash of what's been said and expressed about China's 1000th gloom and doom prognostication. Such as aging population -- China doesn't have the oldest demographics amongst East Asian countries, yet no one talks about the impending societal collapse of S.K., Japan, and Taiwan.

Granted, I didn't watch the whole 32 minute presentation because I concluded that people who are dead set on the false assumption that China's collapse is just around the corner will find the videos thesis reassuring and comforting. Since videos like these are never ever meant to actually provide "EDUCATION, ACCURATE OBJECTIVE INFORMATION" but rather for EYEBALL/CLICKBAIT. What's funny about the man's thesis is that he makes the argument that his country and the west have been the singular reason many assumed that China was set to surpass and overtake America. And that the Western media wanted to portray China as the next best thing to push for funding for big government like defense among other things. But, if there's no truth to China's rise in economy, poverty alleviation, science and tech, education achievements, manufacturing heft how did China become the number 1 trading partners of well over 120 official nations of the world? And to top it all off, he's projecting that China will undergo a massive CIVIL WAR which will engulf the whole country killing untold millions of people in the process which will the bloodiest Civil War in the history of mankind. The tell tell signs are apparently hiding in plain sight. The western media just didn't want to report about the "DAILY STRIKES CHINESE PEOPLE" are doing all over China (proceeded to show the white paper protest last Dec. 2022).

Now, if the said examples aren't proof of how "objective" the whole thing was, I can only imagine how the rest of the video is going to look like peppered with litany of cherry picked data, outright data manipulation etc.

But, I could be mistaken, and maybe I jumped the gun too soon and got WAY TOO SENSITIVE, silly wumao Chinese in me, got emotional because I am afraid that those Xi bucks will stop coming into my direct deposit account. So @gpt Please, by all means help me understand your perspective and the perspective/content of the video perhaps I will be able to learn something new that I have yet to discover.
 
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