Message from @Fane
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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
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