NHS is incredibly badly run and probably will never get in proper shape unless it’s semi privatised

@beyond_gravity TFL style?

Yes sir

As long as there's good Air Con, it's 100% better

The fucking buses and tubes are boiling

What do you all think about the growing role of geoeconomics and how the US mostly refuses to use or even consider it?

not an argument

it does not grow fast enough

nor does it present an evident danger

Why not? China and Russia for example extend their financial arms more often than their military ones.

China's navy is... lackluster to say the least but the US still considers it a major threat does it not?

No?

They consider China a threat because of its threat to trade partners

South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Philipiness, Taiwan.

China has been fairly self-sufficient

As well

China doesnt preach globalism

It has no need

It preach sinoism instead

What about the one belt one road?

GG @Fane, you just advanced to level 1!

doesnt preach globalism? what the fuck do you think the belt and road initiative is?

you do know china loans billions to african and island nations

As economic imperialism

you know china are far more lenient creditors than the IMF right

China loans the money and then get to use the infrastructure they build to extract more natural goods

you realise thats what the IMF and world bank do

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except they are far more imperialistic in their demands

No shit China has to be more lenient

Its competitiom

Why would u be harsher than the World Bank

Thats a no brainer

They are still practicing economic imperialism either way

and are you trying to imply this is bad?

Theyre influencing African governments to trade more exclusively with China

Thats nor globalism

globalism

n.
A national geopolitical policy in which the entire world is regarded as the appropriate sphere for a state's influence.
n.
The development of social, cultural, technological, or economic networks that transcend national boundaries; globalization.

yes it is

Smh