Because the market for copium in America is almost as profitable as the market for fentanyl.
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It's one hell of a drug.
It’s such a roundabout cokehead thinking: force people back into the office so they’ll be forced to spend money on nearby cafes and shops and restaurants and maybe that’ll raise commercial real estate prices with the added benefit that the Karens of middle management can take out their existential crises out on their team members all on zoom, in the same open plan office space and the divorced middle age corporate executives can eye rape all the young interns.
Canadian euthanasia and now this? What is it with western elites and murdering their own people? It’s almost like they’re committing genocide.
It was part of the deal with Australia, they will follow the American containment policy regarding China in return they will balkanized Indonesia especially Irian Jaya and the strategic island of Sumatra. I'm afraid and I may get flak from our Singaporean members, the Singapore gov't is in cahoots too, since a weak Malaysia and Indonesia is in their best interest.
Jokowi is well aware of the problem BUT his Defense Minister had other thing in mind, since he has ambition to become the next President, he need to assuage the American (buying F15).
Next Year Indonesia will join BRICS and this is Jokowi answer to American interference.
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plawolf
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Apple’s preferential treatment by China thus far is less to do with profits or even employment (the number of workers they employ in China, while large by most standards, is really nothing by Chinese standards), but rather about the political clout Apple has with America’s leading political class.
People keep harping on about how America ‘allowed’ China to catch up, but that’s just plain coup and assigning waaay too much credit and power to the US.
America didn’t take its eyes ‘off the ball’ when it comes to China. It has been obsessively paranoid about China and going out of its way to screw with China since before it was even a country. America was looking to regime change China even in 1989, when the Cold War was still going strong and China was supposed to be America’s ally.
While there was certainly an element of good fortune that dragged America’s attention away from China from 2001, but China has also worked tirelessly to use America’s greed against it to divide their leaders and disrupt their plans to sabotage and attack China by making it too profitable to do business with China, and too expensive to not to.
But today, too much damage has already been done to that symbiotic relationship that not even Apple can do much to dissuade America from the directly confrontational path it is determined to go down. As such, there is less and less value for China to continue Apple’s preferential treatment. Especially when it is working every more closely with America’s intelligence apparatus.
As with most things, America’s gleefully promoted stereotype that Chinese are greedy and puts profits above national interests is more projection than truth. While their indeed plenty of greedy Chinese people who would gladly sell out their country for wealth and riches, China’s political selection process, especially after Xi’s purges, are very effective at weeding such people out and ensure they never climb too high in China’s power structure, and thus can limit the damage they can do. In America, greed is good, and corruption is not only legalised as ‘campaigning’, it’s actually the real full time job of American political leaders. Running the country and doing the jobs they are elected to is actually the side-hussel.
Those empty commercials office buildings can be converted to affordable residential housing. More land for housing. Work remote has so many benefits, no traffic, save gas, save time, flexibility for kids pick up, etc..
That line of thinking are for COMMIES and not for your freedumb loving Americans. Hands off my empty commercial buildings!!