"You've got a population that's considerably older than the vast majority of the youth in Europe, that is too old to work," Biden told Time.
I believe this is known as a tautological statement.
He's a member of the American Tautological Society of Saying Things Twice of America that he belongs to.
I'd call it an octogenarian brain fart
I've been hearing that one for 15 years or 4 recessions
Warns? This is a bad thing?
Yes, unironically. America and China are rivals on the world stage, but the world is deeply interconnected - if China's economy takes a dive, it's bad for everyone; just as it would be if India or the US's economy took a dive.
And China might suddenly collect on US debt.
Wait...
So why do we keep banning their electric cars and completed solar panels?
If their economy is crumbling, why do t we let Americans buy their cheap green products as climate change is a pressing issue that we cant afford to wait to address?
I don't see logical consistency here...
Because dumping cheap equipment hurts everyone in the long run. It damages the research pipelines, it damages production capacity, and it risks public safety.
It's essentially a method to create a monopoly that you can then exploit later.
I think the issue is I said "cheap" meaning "inexpensive".
And you've taken it to mean "low quality".
BYD is surprisingly high quality, as is their solar panels.
For the panels specifically, we can completed units for consumers, but allow the pieces imported with a tarrif and then put together and sold at a drastically higher price.
Making it crumble is the point. The sanctions and whatnot are working. Mission accomplished. God this is so stupid.
The difference is China doesn't give a fuck about its aging population. Once it gets it's hands on Taiwan, the US isn't the defacto world power any more.
Unless china can peacefully occupy Taiwan, that won't be the result.
The result will be that TSMC et al will blow up the fabs. At which point basically the entire world is screwed and china is not any better off relative to where they started.
Reunification can only happen after China gains the ability to chose its own leaders. Otherwise the Chinese leaders can never be trusted. When the reunification happens, I think that Taipei should be the capital of China for the first 10 years or so since that is where the experience in democracy is located.
Just like the Russian pipeline got blown up, those fab labs will be smouldering dust. https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8?t=91
Ok tankie
The only economy on the brink is the US. China was one of only 3 that grew GDP and outpaced inflation the last several years, where wages outpaced inflation.
Ok tankie
That's per a UN report, but I'm sure since your state approved propaganda machines like MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, etc. Did not repeat it. It must not be true since it shines a bad light on the US and is contradictory to the propaganda the state feeds us that we are doing so well
I admonished someone else for using tankie too loosely earlier, so I feel I should do so again.
Calling them an apologist is maybe more appropriate in this context. They are not actually making a tankie argument (one involving force), just spouting low level propaganda (I do not know or care how accurate).
This guy!
