DeepSeek-v3.1

Every country acting in its own best interest, US is not unique in this regard

wait until you find out that China also acting the same way toward the rest of the world (surprise pikachu face)

Incredible how "keeping their people down" means leaps in personal wealth and happiness for huge swathes of the population and internal criticism is that it is a "poverty reduction machine" that is too focused.

This does not make any sense to me. “There”? “‘Nationalist’ () bans” of and by whom?

Dark propaganda opposed to what, light propaganda? The Chinese model being released is about keeping China down?

You seem very animated about this, but you would probably have more success if you tried to clarify this a bit more.

Tell that to the Uyghurs if you can get into their concentration camp to have a chat.

Yep, comment arrives right on time. Nicely played. :)

They're not mutually exclusive. Lots of terrible and mismanaged governments rely on genius short-term economic exploitation, like Syria, Iran, India, Korea, etc.

What would be incredible is China sticking the landing to a third-sector economy. Plenty of countries have industrialized over the past century, only a handful became true service economies.

If they had a government like Taiwan they would be significantly wealthier. Their government is a drag and should not steal credit from the actual people who made that wealth with their hard work and entrepreneurship.

You can only become a service economy by outsourcing everything to another country. It's not a sustainable model and it's related to imperialism.

China's not afraid of a little imperialism, and they'd be wise to embrace more globalism in exchange for better standards of living. If America falls and China refuses to pivot to the service sector, then they'll slide back into only being valued for cheap labor. They have to strengthen their internal financial sector or else someone else will.