Yeah yeah, I’ve heard that before. There’s a whole cottage industry of “experts” that have predicted the imminent collapse of China going back decades. Call me when it actually happens.
China’s economy is stacked like a house of cards and could come crumbling down due to some unforeseen global financial shock, but then again that sounds like most modern economies. I think people just pick on China because, instead of having a group of billionaires stack up the cards, the government does it themselves.
You just described the US, UK, and much of the western world entirely. The global economy is just a bunch of "IOU"s
China is a bit different in that regard, though.
Since apartments are pretty much the only investment for private savings, there’s a huge percentage of the GDP tied to construction. This bubble is not quite bursting, but rapidly deflating, leaving many regular people practically without savings.
Other countries have inflated real estate markets as well, but their markets simply are not that large in comparison (percentage of GDP).
I’ll drop this beautiful book here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China
Americans have been predicting the collapse of China for 30+ years. It’s just wishful thinking.
I don’t know about China, but Biden is really throwing stones from glass houses here as the leader of a country which is teetering on the edge of civil war, had a full blown insurrection in the past few years, and not only has it failed to prosecute the leader and instigator, it has allowed him to run for election again and there is a possibility of him being elected.
And this is not mentioning that so many in the highest offices “on both sides” are so hilariously corrupt in a country with its national ethos being “the land of the free”.
I’m not happy about this by the way, I don’t think a world order built by China would be better than the shitty one we got from the US.
I believe the correct spelling is “Land of the free^*” ^* terms and conditions may apply
We’re not teetering on the edge of a civil war, the rednecks are just rednecking again, no news here.
It’s like if you had a motion in the UN and north Korea objected and the media said “Uhoh, looks like the UN is divided!”
Rednecks need to object, it’s the only way functional people can be sure they’re not doing the wrong thing.
I love Ground News as a concept, but I always feel suss using anything which is promoted in sponsorship deal by YouTubers.
Is there anything I should know about them as an organisation? I feel by design if they were to have biases or open to manipulation that it would be really obvious…
Each specific article will show you the sources. It’s kind of interesting to flip through the headlines and see how each source might describe the same thing differently.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/
EDIT: Come on, don’t shoot the messenger…
More than a fifth of Chinese age 16 to 24 are out of work.
Spain and other southern EU countries have experienced this, and even higher unemployment rates in the past, but with China’s rather large population, we’re about 30 million young people in a country with few safety nets.
China’s economy barely grew in the second quarter from the first and youth unemployment hit a record high in June, providing evidence of a fading recovery.
So what is Xi going to do when these 30 million hit the streets to demonstrate? Draft them and attack Taiwan?
The situation isn’t really a lack of jobs, it’s that younger generations don’t want to work the factory jobs (because they all studied for better jobs) and there is pressure to look after parents. Not only is there an imbalance in young vs old people due to the one child policy but China also passed a law that required children to provide mental and financial support to their parents. Some parents are effectively paying their children to look after them, thereby removing them from the workforce count.
https://www.voanews.com/a/china-elder-care-law-a-struggle-for-one-child-families/1704200.html
More than a fifth of Chinese age 16 to 24 are out of work.
Does that include people in school?
No. School is “work” in that statistic.
Am I supposed to believe a 1/5th of 16 year olds aren’t in school?
Yeah I was going to say that seemed like a weird range to cherry pick. I have to imagine the 16-17 crowd in the US is like, 25-50% employed at best, and that’s 2/9. 5-6/9 in that range are school age if you count college.
I wonder what that looks like for the US
it’s 7.5% for the US and 13.9% for the Euro zone. India, which has a similar population to China is at 17.9% which is so much lower than I would have imagined.
Like we’re one to talk lmao
While the US sits on $32 trillion of debt…
which doesn’t really have anything to do with a healthy or unhealthy economy.
It’s a little different when you’re the world’s reserve currency.
LOL. Fistfuls of copiates.
well stated good sir, you have truly changed my mind.
While the current amount is not great, debt itself is not a bad thing.
Its far more weird how many people pick one of these countries like its a RPG faction. Can we all agree most of these countries do some totally evil things as far as governments go? Who gives a fuck how much debt they’re in, they’re all just printing their monopoly dollars anyways and we’re stuck with the inflation. Its like people like to masterbate to their favorite team via internet comments.
Isn’t China undergoing deflation?
I haven’t heard about that but I doubt it. Deflation is horrible. It stops economies from functioning. Your money will be worth more the longer you wait to spend it, so you don’t spend it until you need to. No government is going to let deflation happen without something going horribly wrong, which it might be, idk.
Edit: apparently the consumer sector experienced deflation. I believe that means it shrank, not the value of money increased over time, which is what is implied by inflation/deflation without other context. I could be wrong though. Either way, it doesn’t look great.
I just wanted to say thanks for explaining this in a way that is helpful to idiots like me.
600+ years of “team white Europe” hooligans and you’re going to complain about unsportsman-like conduct now that the camp you live in will likely have its economy decimated by successful decolonial projects and rematriation of stolen wealth?
The US is the last torchbearer of the “may our team beat their team” that led to the deaths of nearly a billion people, the utter subjugation and domination of multiple billions constituting 80% of the world population, and now that the US finally shows signs of being in an unstoppable collapse and China is creating the conditions for a new global social order you want to say “hey everybody, just be nice to each other and realize all countries are probably bad to the same degree and anybody winning is honestly just as good or bad as anyone else winning”.
Fuck off
Fuck you right in your ass. I complained that everyone in here is pitching their agenda for their favorite country in the comments and what do you do? Exactly that. Learn to read.
You need to learn to distinguish between sports and real life. In real life, we actually engage in historical and political analysis for the purpose of creating better understanding of how societies work so that we can a put our weight behind a better future. In sports we just pick favorites. If you think the people supporting China are just picking favorites, then you are deliberately ignoring everything that goes against your indoctrination and diminishing it so that you don’t have to think and challenge your deeply held beliefs. That’s a lot of effort to, ultimately, just watch North Atlantic fascism go on a global killing spree. Either disengage from politics entirely or get gud, noob.
I see the issue. You’re on Lemmygrad. So naturally everything has to be pro China, pro communism, and the moment someone says “yeah they all suck equally” you have to lick the boot. Seek a prescription for schizophrenia.
Amazingly salient point. It’s clearly schizophrenic to have a political position, research it, and then engage in political debate with ignorant people who believe that their uninformed opinions are not merely worthy of being posted in public but also shouldn’t be challenged because they are both valid and even-keeeled.
Of course, that’s why I joined Lemmygrad, because I decided that team Red was better than other teams, and team Red fans all go to Lemmygrad where we swap stats and gossip about the players and coaches and we root for the red team to build comraderie, sorry, I mean friendships. And then of course we would show up to say “red team good” like a bunch of schizos any time someone says a bad thing about our team because our entire identity is based on whether our jersey wins the world war.
Your grasp of the situation is, of course, astoundingly clear eyed.
:VOMIT:
Ok, with that out of the way, the only one licking boots here is you. No one wants empire to end more than communists. Empire is the antithesis of communism. If you don’t understand that, you’re ignorant and just shouting things at people based on vibes.
But when you look at an enemy of empire, or a victim of empire, and you repeat imperial propaganda against them, you are indistinguishable from boot licking imperial settler racists. The empire doesn’t ask you to love it. The empire only asks that you hate its enemies. And like a good little soldier, that’s the position you hold and express and defend like your life depends on it. When someone says"hey the empire is lying and the enemies of the empire aren’t actually that bad", you go into a frenzied rage, rabidly trying to convince them they have a mental health disorder and that they are blindly rooting for a sports team and cannot see reality like you can. But you’re just ignorant. You don’t have any more information or ability to reason than I do. In fact, you demonstrably have less information than I do. Literally everything you can post about China and Russia not only have I already seen but I have also read a dozen analyses on already.
You have been lied to your entire life. It’s time to read a book and see the world and the empire for what it truly is. And no, LemmyGrad is not the one licking boots here. It’s the people who think NATO is right to expand and stop the evil Russians from their dastardly deeds. It’s the ones who think the US war ships in the South China Sea getting pushed out by China’s projection of power are victims of Chinese expansionism. It’s the ones who think Taiwan and Hong Kong despite being proxies of imperial powers have legitimate claims to autonomy that they should be allowed to use in service of the empire. All of that is boot licking for the empire. And no, it doesn’t matter if you express hatred for the taste, because you keep, fucking, doing it.
deleted by creator
Ground News isn’t a source per se. They provide links to various news sources so you can see different viewpoints on the same story. They try to align the sources left and right and indicate their factuality but that is just meant to be a guide to allow you to challenge your viewpoints or determine factuality and to make it clear what the ownership structure might be guiding them to write.
I’ve been a paying subscriber for 4 or 5 months after finding them and find it quite reasonable and interesting.
https://ground.news/rating-system
tl;dr they buy those ratings from press rating agencies and then average them.
deleted by creator
BRO WHY ARE THERE 600+ COMMENTS HERE, I’VE NEVER SEEN THIS EVER
Lemmy is a ticking time bomb.
You might want to get those things checked out. Seriously, they’re like ticking time bags.
1003 now
Removed by mod
The post itself is dumb, so I wouldn’t complain about dumb comments
Tbh, I find the hexbears quite refreshing👌
Big fan :)
Brigading isn’t a thing, that’s the point of federation. Why is it always people who’ve joined in the last two months making these complaints? Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with events on reddit in that time frame could it? 🤔
I had a look cause you made me curious… It’s just hippies. “Disassociating from the system will destroy it” “I’m sick of furry porn re-enforcing capitalist ideals” “The only reason you’re not a Marxist is that you didn’t really ‘listen’ when you were in college. Wait is Marxism the bad one?”
Doesn’t China have a history of repeatedly shattering into a thousand pieces?
Most china can only do it once
And you’re from the Permanent Kingdom of Perfect Stability where borders never change powers do not rise and fall?
I’ll take that as a yes.
USA probably exploded an actual bomb somewhere while he said that.
Reading the comments…
Wish I could block an entire instance at once. Is that a thing I can do?
That’s fair. I did not know the background of lemmy.ml or hexbear and I’m certainly learning that users from particularly the latter are somewhat unstable. I just subbed to a bunch of top news communities when I joined Lemmy. That’s on me lol.
If it works for you, good. I did the same for ‘politics’ which is just us politics. I still look over the fence occasionally though.
Yeah, some of these posts get wild. It’s a shame, since the actual communists are cool.
It is interesting seeing the left’s version of MAGAts, though.
If you’re a fan of genocides and totalitarian regimes then yeah, communists are cool.
On Kbin, individual users can block instances. By going to https://kbin.social/d/**instance.name**
You can’t block instances but you can block the lemmy.ml and hexbear.net magazines, which are all tankie hell.
lemmygrad is the tankie one, pls don’t block me
I’m gonna keep .ml blocked for as long as they are federated with hexbear, they are annoying as fuck. Also lemmy.ml is super pro-china so it is pretty tankie, might have changed with the reddit migration, but, eh.
You’re probably right, they probably bought the .ml domain to refer to marxism-leninism .
