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Housing prices fell dramatically in the US in 2007-2008. Housing prices are falling dramatically in China right now. What's the difference? In one sentence: Chinese banks will n...
Sometime in the next seven years, a human being will set foot on the Moon for the first time since 1972. That human will probably be a Chinese taikonaut, and the outrage from the...
The progress China has made in renewable energy just THIS YEAR makes the entire rest of the world look like it's standing still. I wrote in December that to call China the "world...
We're often told that Belt and Road Initiative projects go unfinished, take too long, are bad for the environment, don't hire locals, displace communities, cause too much debt, &c....
When the United States has a crisis, the government bails out the corporations When China has a crisis, the government bails out the people Thread π§΅
We don't hear much about Tibet in the news these days. Why not? Because it's getting harder to hide the truth: the average Tibetan has a much better life in China than elsewhere....
What's been happening to western social democracy over the past 30 years? Nothing good. A thread π§΅
Some folks cited these passages by Lenin as evidence he disagreed that neocolonialism is a more profitable form of exploitation. Actually, these quotes do not conflict with that c...
World War II was the last inter-imperialist war. Those who believe we are currently seeing, or will soon see, a new inter-imperialist war are mistaken. If we ever do, it won't be...
In 1916, Lenin called imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah said that neocolonialism is the last stage of imperialism. Both are obsolete. Since 1990...
How China stopped a genocide that the United States and the United Kingdom caused A thread π§΅
the fall of the USSR caused the biggest drop in life expectancy ever recorded in history outside of war or natural disaster