Apple's value added from Chinese source is pathetically low. IMO they should have gotten the boot already but Huawei serves as a goodVast majority of those western brands cars are already manufactured in China for domestic sales and foreign export. So there is no purpose in banning them as it is already beneficial for China. This is a more symbolic action but tariffing US car export to China would be something that triggers those warmongers deeply even if the sales is in the annual tens of thousands.
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When you go on X, always remember to use this checklist when seeing pro-western asians or sympathizers. That way you can know their posts can be disregarded
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The writer is author of ‘Liberalism and Its Discontents’
According to the non-profit Freedom House, there has been a steady decline in the quantity and quality of liberal democracies around the world for the past 18 years. Among the backsliders, there is no case more serious than that of the United States.
One of the biggest transformations that has occurred in US society over the past decade has been a revolution in the moral evaluation of the country itself. For most of the country’s history, its people believed in some version of American exceptionalism according to which the country would be an inspiration to oppressed peoples around the world.
This used to be particularly true for conservatives, but today Maga Republicans believe that their country is pervaded by moral corruption. Belief in US democracy has been replaced by admiration for strong men and authoritarian governments overseas. Trump praises China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for ruling their people with an iron hand.
It is not too late to reverse this process of decay, however. Most Americans don’t understand the depth of the fundamental threat that Trump poses to their democracy, but regard him as a normal politician with somewhat different policy preferences. Anyone who imagines that a second Trump term will simply reprise the first hasn’t been paying attention to what he has been saying and doing.
Why not introduce him as the author of 'The End of History and the Last Man' ?The Democrats have a lot of work to do to wake people up to the magnitude of the challenge the country faces. If that happens, there is a possibility that, rather than eking out another narrow victory, they will win decisively. If that happens, they can begin to think about reforms that will reverse the process of decay. Believers in a classically liberal America need to reduce the ability of political minorities to stymie majorities, and streamline our impossibly complex processes and procedures to make government more effective. But first, they need to win.
Well Sir I respectfully disagree, with $15 million they had successfully convinced the Philippines... Lol500 million dollars and this is the best they could do? Inflation really is a bitch.
someone should remind him of how one certain demographic votes.