[MtnClimber]

Will China invade Taiwan before a new congress is seated?

[mjp]

government monopoly + government bureaucratic management+ central planning + government controls + force = chaos + destruction

[Yo-Yo]

Biden's "China eat our lunch? C'mon, man" moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD9d3TUYHNo

[Gay State Conservative]

Fifty years from now...and maybe even twenty years from now...China will have left the US,Europe and Japan in the dust from an economic point of view,a military point of view and an "overall influence" point of view. In the 1990s the world's economic giants (US,Europe,Japan) had an opportunity to keep Red China in the stone age by blocking Chinese made goods from their ports.

But instead they decided they wanted to pay 2 cents for a paper clip instead of 2.2 cents.

[Still Thinking]

No more saying no! No more dragging your feet! The government can do what it wants, without having to worry about all those pesky free-market naysayers!

As usual when liberals are enjoying these mental wank-fests, they ignore two flies in that wonderful totalitarian soup.

1. Why would the best minds EVER end up in government?

2. One size really really does not fit all. Really! It takes that number of minds, and superior ones at that (sorry, government-lickers) to make the best and most robust economic decisions.

[PIF]

It pretty much doesn’t matter what Xi does as there is likely noway to reverse the financial blows from the real estate housing construction markets mostly due to his central planning ‘three red lines’ edict like his ‘zero tolerance’ covid edict.

30% of the Chinese economy or about US$60 trillion is tied up in the real estate market. Much of that is tied up in Ghost Cities all over China. They are just concrete shells, but now thanks to Xi cannot be refinanced. And because they are shells, they cannot be sold as actual places that people would want to live in (feng shui ).

So the entire edifice teeters on collapse.

Watch this 13 min video for more in-depth info - SerpentZA:

The Secret behind China’s Ghost Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8JBTIVUVw