Is something going on in China?

[dirtyninety]

Not sure but Xi is the worst ever.
He shoots every messenger.
Any one with brains that goes against him gets killed.
Chinas vaccines are trash.
Their demographics are the worst in the world, and next is Germany.
Their wage are skyrocketing, their property market is collapsing.
They have 350 million in partial or full covid lockdown.
Their pig population continues to die.
They had to ban rice exports.
West African crude that used to go to China is is now going to go to Europe.
So now to replace that they need Russian crude that has to go around the horn of Africa.
China is in deep trouble.

Long game.

 

[t-noah]

What has changed is there is no United States anymore. Of course, we really saved Stalin and enabled Mao...so whatev.

Thought-provoking. Indeed.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

The millennial generation in China is coordinating a stop pay on mortgages which they have to begin paying on up 3 or 4 years before they can have their home. It's a crazy mess.

 

[SCNCY]

The millennial generation in China is coordinating a stop pay on mortgages which they have to begin paying on up 3 or 4 years before they can have their home. It's a crazy mess.

Wait, what? So people are paying for mortgages on homes that they aren’t even living in?

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Wait, what? So people are paying for mortgages on homes that they aren’t even living in?

 

[deadeyededric]

The USA would smoke them both. Seriously, no doubt.

Well yeah in a conventional war. Russia is weak and China has terrible equipment. I'd be more worried about horrible cyber attacks and things like that with those two. I could see China trying to poison Americans with their exports.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

Wait, what? So people are paying for mortgages on homes that they aren’t even living in?

Yes thats exactly how it works, and then Evergrande blew up, and the yuan is crashing and the Chinese banks were borrowing in US dollars but earning revenue in Yuan, and the dollar blew up to the upside, so the dollars get more expensive, and China CCP was warning them not to do this but foreign currency risk seems to get forgotten for every new batch of bankers/finance people. And then they did a bail in, where they take the deposits and people were like, okay mfers we aint paying our mortgage. Not sure the full story but above is what I have gathered.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Call me crazy but I’m not wild about Russia and China teaming up against the current iteration of our military.

What about our military + NATO?

 

[Cyclonepride]

What about our military + NATO?

There is not a positive outcome to be had, regardless of who "wins".

 

[Nothingman]

There is not a positive outcome to be had, regardless of who "wins".

And yet here we are. Again. With all of the technological advances, the world is full of the exact same people as it was 100 years ago. It would be a really nice thing if that was a positive.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Call me crazy but I’m not wild about Russia and China teaming up against the current iteration of our military.

Only took six months for the Russian army to go from the second-best in the world to the second-best in Ukraine!

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Only took six months for the Russian army to go from the second-best in the world to the second-best in Ukraine!

If you have nukes it's irrelevant.

 

[KnappShack]

If you have nukes it's irrelevant.

Forget who said it first, but Russia is a gas station with nukes.

I thought at the beginning of the war that nuclear blackmail could be the end game.

Ok, NATO, I get Ukraine or Paris is bombed.

 

[isutrevman]

If you have nukes it's irrelevant.

Kind of. I don't know if you can win a war with nukes, though, just ensure that both sides lose.

 

[cygrads]

Kind of. I don't know if you can win a war with nukes, though, just ensure that both sides lose.

Seems like I heard some in the Putin regime actually think they can win a tactical nuclear war - so there's that.

 

[cyclonemagic]

A coup in China (even if just a rumored coup) would be really big news that would move quickly throughout the world. It seems strange that none of the major news outlets are reporting about the coup. When I google, most of the reporting is out of India.

 

[Gunnerclone]

A coup in China (even if just a rumored coup) would be really big news that would move quickly throughout the world. It seems strange that none of the major news outlets are reporting about the coup. When I google, most of the reporting is out of India.

That’s because there’s not a coup and it’s all a troll.

 

[cygrads]

A coup in China (even if just a rumored coup) would be really big news that would move quickly throughout the world. It seems strange that none of the major news outlets are reporting about the coup. When I google, most of the reporting is out of India.

Makes you wonder huh...

 

[3TrueFans]

That’s because there’s not a coup and it’s all a troll.

But it was trending on Twitter.

 

[BoxsterCy]

And yet here we are. Again. With all of the technological advances, the world is full of the exact same people as it was 100 years ago. It would be a really nice thing if that was a positive.

People be people and don't change. It's why military sci-fi set hundreds of years into the future always seems to feature Sino-Russo alliances as one of the earth powers. Humans invent more and more "stuff" and build more and more "stuff" each year but don't really evolve that much, still just tribes lead by power hungry leaders and supporters that hope to benefit.