• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    while the broader economy sputters.

    Is this still the liberal line on China? Over 5% real gdp growth is sluggish? That too for an upper middle income economy? While the first world struggles harshly?

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      This will be the liberal line in China forever.

      Their stance on China’s economy is entirely based on a desire for it to fail and not on observing it at all.

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      Liberals will literally eat dirt in mud huts kept outside of the golden walled palaces of the oligarchy and still scream about how China is worse somehow. Because the want it to be, because they NEED it to be. As long as they can smugly go “well, it’s still better that China,” and actual believe it to be true. That’s all that matters to them.

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      2 months ago

      China isagging behind the west in key innovations like replacing doctors and therapists with unregulated AI companies so it has slowed down due to the absence of a bubble.

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        Capitalism: Replaces everything with unregulated AI horseshit.

        Chad Socialism: Adds or supplements actual labor and resources with responsibly made, managed and intelligent AI when and if it’s needed.