Yeah, it’s very much a mixed bag I find. The whole no opinion polls is absolutely made up. Collecting public opinion is a big part of doing the 5 year plans. Maybe they mean there are no opinion polls done by western polling agencies?
The most hilarious part for me was the whole notion that having savings is bad actually. Turns out that not having to worry about your cost of living is what makes people gloomy!
Ultras are no different from liberals in my opinion. Both favor idealism over materialism. The whole point of scientific socialism is to focus on measurable material improvements that can be realistically achieved. Marxism is not an Utopian ideology. People who reject real progress that existing socialist states make are rejecting the only path towards communism that we’ve found to actually work in practice.
Definitely more than DPRK given that UN sanctions against them have just been lifted. Meanwhile, Cuba is sanctioned by US, and most countries aren’t participating. Meanwhile, Russia is being sanctioned by the US and all their vassals.
I think the other important outcome is that the sanctions are a catalyst for a new economy emerging outside western control. Russia is just too important of a resource exporter, and now that countries can’t trade with Russia using SWIFT, we’re seeing now ways of settlement being developed. However, these will not be restricted solely to trading with Russia going forward. Western sanctions on Russia ended up undermining one of the most powerful tools of coercion that the west had at their disposal.
I doubt it, China can see what’s happening with western economies right now just like everyone else, and it doesn’t take a genius to realize that western advice isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Furthermore, having savings is obviously important when the global economy is headed for turbulent times, without savings there’s no ability to amortize economic impact of a downturn. So, I think there’s zero chance that China would start cutting their savings rate nw.
Confiscating Russian assets a violation of the principle of sovereign immunity (www.globaltimes.cn)
SMIC achieves success in 5nm node that will make up Huawei Mate 70 processors (www.gizmochina.com)
China Intensifies Push to ‘Delete America’ From Its Technology (www.wsj.com)
archive.is/eO2ZR
Biden announces new tariffs on Chinese EVs, semiconductors, solar cells and more (lemmygrad.ml)
whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes…
Bloomberg attempts to reconcile their propaganda narrative with reality. US economy is doing great, but everybody is angry. Chinese economy is collapsing, but people seem calm. How can this be?! (www.bloomberg.com)
archive.is/H4deh
Qualcomm confirms that Huawei no longer need its chips (www.gizchina.com)
BREAKING: Putin weaponized an economist! (www.nytimes.com)
Wall Street investment funds lose billions on Evergrande bonds gamble (www.youtube.com)
Why iPhone Sales are Collapsing (www.youtube.com)
China's CIPS (SWIFT competitor) did CNY 123 trillion (~$17 trillion) in business volume in 2023. (www.cips.com.cn)
Mao Freed Tibet. Period. (lemmygrad.ml)
It finally happened: I’ve been DMed by a smooth ultra
They claim to have recovered from ML brain rot themselves, and they’re here to save me from the only socialist tradition yet to bear fruit....
Biden calls Kim Jong Un ‘South Korean President’, I believe this is called foreshadowing (www.hindustantimes.com)
Life in the most sanctioned country in the world (www.youtube.com)
Huawei is not a remarkable Chinese company. It's a typical Chinese company. That's the problem for US. (www.youtube.com)
Yellen was stumped by the question: Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those (electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things.) (www.marketplace.org)
archive.ph/E0JUs