very easy to sow dissent and pad the pockets of western politicians

This is not quite true

but to some degree it unfortunatley is true

The lingering depression builds up and breaks out eventually

Even for docile peoples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ej2BFBCbo

and they are sitting on an untold amount of USD

it really depends how bad it gets

dude

More a function of time

ppl don;t just revold every time there is a depression. lol

Not just intensity

One would hope.. but the spirit mighta been bred out of them.

they never had spirit to begin with

are you aware of their famous philosophies?

Yes they did.. at least in ancient history.

Historically, even those kinds of people can rise up

one and all devised to keep the peasants in line

If they start starving, and dying in the millions, they may, *may* overthrow their government.
But they’ll just replace it with yet another form of despotism that promises bread.

just hoading the USD, waiting to the day when they flood the market with all that inflation from 20 yrs of quantive easing

you think confuscianist chinks were anything other than a slave to their nobles?

theyve always been like that

Not in a *timely* manner

content to lay down and be kicked

But eventually

We have a much smaller world tho

And exposure to other cultures

they can but won't

@Scale_e Mao's Plans say that widescale starvation isn't enough.

So the time required will likely be accelerated

@Laucivol Mao was wrong.... about a lot of things.

@Laucivol only peasants died under mao

if the urbanite chinks died en masse

theyd change their tune

communist gov is playing both sides against each other; creates a limited affluent class to use western capitalism to fund their develoipment whille leving the rest as peasants

Which is the group that needs to rebel - the peasants.

No.

most of chinas population is urbanite tho

then when world economy tanks (always does), they turn to peasants and go < "see. capitalism bad. communism good"

A common "problem" with westerners is that you seem to think that Liberalism must always produce the best outcomes by definition (at least long term). You literally have no clue how to even begin to deal with a system that isn;t like your own, but it still works, and perhaps even beats yours in some ways.

^^