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... Taiwan, certainly outshines mainland China economically.

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Originally posted by SignyM:...

China's most significant bar to becoming THE biggest per capita economy is energy (not just oil) and the next biggest is water. Unless they can solve those significant factors they will be numerically bigger than the USA in just five years or so, but per capita they will still have a long way to go. But to the other nations in the region (Japan, Koreas, Indonesia etc) China alread IS the largest economy.


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Please don't think they give a shit.

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... Taiwan, certainly outshines mainland China economically.

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I hope you realize that many of Taiwan's basics - water, power, all transport, finance, as well as other major industries, are all government-owned. And Taiwan does NOT guarantee 'free speech'.

It's not the shining anti-communist, anti-socialist example you think it is.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't pretend you don't love Mao.

You cheer when Democrats try to enforce any of his playbook here in the states.

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SECOND: ... Taiwan, certainly outshines mainland China economically.

KIKI: I hope you realize that many of Taiwan's basics - water, power, all transport, finance, as well as other major industries, are all government-owned. And Taiwan does NOT guarantee 'free speech'.
It's not the shining anti-communist, anti-socialist example you think it is.

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Not surprising that the richest 1% of Americans remain in control of the American economy. That is the way Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump Bill Clinton and Barack Obama wanted it.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

don't tell me you STILL believe that this is all the Reublican's fault, after watching Clinton and Obama ass-kiss banks and financialists?!

The only difference is that the GOP supported the industrial capitalists, while the DNC learned to love the money-printers. Both elites, but the DNC hitched its wagon to the more destructive parasite. The RICHEST elites are bankers, financialists, speculators and tech. That's where you'll find the DNC worming its way up numerous assholes.

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You know nothing about what the top 1% are doing but you keep pretending you are some kind of knowledgeable expert. Again, YOU KNOW NOTHING. You know no one of importance. In the amount of time you have left to live, you have no chance of knowing more.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Joe Biden’s new go-to tool to fight inflation? The deficit.
https://www.vox.com/23153687/joe-biden-interested-deficit-inflation-ec
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Many words have been written about just how much deficits matter, but economists who spoke to Vox said that they matter more in times of high inflation.

It’s true that deficits are decreasing: The $2.8 trillion deficit in 2021 was lower than the record $3.1 trillion deficit from 2020, when Donald Trump was president. And the projected 2022 deficit of $1 trillion will be an even steeper fall — something for which the president is taking credit. But that’s largely a product of the big spending programs from 2020 and 2021 tapping out, according to many economic experts. Biden’s signature spending package, the American Rescue Plan, worsened the deficit to a degree — shrinking a projected $870 billion deficit reduction to the $360 billion decline that actually happened from 2021 to 2022.

“I’ve heard the president and his administration say over and over again, things like ‘we have reduced the deficit because of our actions.’ That is only true in a very backward sense,” Marc Goldwein, a senior vice president at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscally conservative group, told Vox. “The deficit is coming down year over year overall despite their actions.”

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Originally posted by TraineeAlternate:
Just asking a few opinions: How many years before China's economy, military, technology, and culture becomes powerful enough to trump that of the United States? What happens after this; more importantly, can it be stopped?

Chinese culture is very prevalent in Firefly, almost as much as Western-American culture. Even shipping crates bear as many US flags as Chinese stars. This is obviously a prediction of US-Chinese cooperation or conflict as almost-equals sometime in the future.

"That's why I never kiss them on the mouth."
"When do I get to get sexed up?!"
"This is my most favorite-est gun..."

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