• richietozier4 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    china has them backed into a corner. They could pull out, but that would decimate the accounts of the wealthy, taking the GDP with it, or sit back and watch as China over takes them. long game:deng-cowboy:

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The older I get the more Deng seems like the only one who was actually playing 4D chess

      • richietozier4 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The West: This dude is the Chinese Gorbachev! Finally the last bastion of communism will fall

        Deng: :deng-smile:

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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      4 years ago

      And this is one of the reasons why anti-imperialism should be a central issue of the left movement in the US. We might be far away from our own revolution, but that doesn’t mean we can’t help to frustrate attempts by the US to maintain its empire.