Reverse genocide
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Guangdong based companies like BYD, Huawei, Tencent, Xpeng, GAC and DJI need to continue to perform over the next couple of years.
Sorry, I can't help but do the Oprah meme again...
"Everybody check under your seat... yes everybody gets not just 1 new job, but 28 new jobs! Yay!!!"
Biden created 10 billion jobs - more than there are people on Earth, wow. Jai Biden.
Is Gorbachev’s greatest legacy making the US the world’s only superpower?
- Readers debate the mixed legacy of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and paved the way for the US-led international order
Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the former Soviet Union, was famous for his movement, which ended the Cold War. The West praised him for valuing democracy but some Russians blamed him for ending Russia’s status as a global superpower.Was Gorbachev’s “policy reform” really about ending the struggle between liberal democracy and communist socialism? I doubt it. At the time, the Soviet Union’s economy was badly hurt by its nuclear arms race with the United States, causing its people to suffer. Instead of ending the Cold War for the sake of the global community, perestroika and glasnost were more of a forced move by Gorbachev to save his people from economic suffering.
With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the US became the world’s only superpower. The US has since gone on to exert a strong hegemony on global political, economic and social development. Liberal democracy based on capitalism became the ideal political economic system followed by most countries around the globe, with those opposing this either sanctioned or condemned. It was only until the rise of China that this structure of hegemony began to change.
Liberal democracy based on capitalism was never an ideal system. Though I value freedom and democracy, capitalistic ideals inhibit both these values as the capitalistic ruling class exerts a hegemony over the working class. Where is the freedom and democracy in this?
Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost ended Russians’ struggles to make a living in the 1990s, and possibly avoided a nuclear annihilation, but it paved the way for the US and its Western allies to force their ideologies onto the whole world.
Many see Gorbachev as the key person in the ending of the Cold War, but I see him as the key person in the creation of this new world order dominated by the West.
Lew Guan Xi, Selangor, Malaysia
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Let’s wait and see but if the UK really does go south with all the issues they have in regards to energy and food and if the people really lose it and strait tearing things apart, we definite could see the uk being well and truly screwed, especially with Liz Truss and her Nuclear logic at the helm. It this isn’t a race but rather who can survive for longer. With Russia aiding Chinas energy needs in the short to medium term while obviously doing research for a long term solution, I believe China will pull ahead no matter what. But I do wonder, does the uk have the will and determination to put the future of the nation ahead of their need to cling to their colonial days that are long since over. Something tells me that this isn’t likely to happen in the immediate term, not with a leader like Liz truss or Sunak and their need to continue their fight in Ukraine which is one day going to paint a Red Bulls eye when Russia is done with Ukraine
A confident, yet realistic statement. Not quick to declare victory when the work is not yet finish. This is the kinda statement that comes from people who knows what they are doing. Hence, I'm confident that China will eventually catch-up with the West in semi-conductors and software sooner than most people expects.
The West fails to understand that bans and restrictions don't work on China. It could work on spineless nations like Japan, Germany, Canada, etc. But bans don't work on China.
1) The PRC has been banned from the UN for 22 years. Eventually it got it's much deserved UN seat.
2) China was banned from further nuclear weapons development cooperation with the Soviet Union. Yet China managed to detonate its own hydrogen bomb in 1967.
3) China had been banned from importing arms from the Soviets and West. Yet China has built a military that is among the most modern in the world.
4) China was banned from the International Space Station. Yet China is gonna complete its own space station soon.
5) President Trump launched his trade war on China. Yet he and the US ultimately lost.
Let the arrogant haters doubt China's ability to catch up. They have been proven wrong on China many times. They will be proven wrong yet again.