Yeah yeah I know I'm playing on easy mode by posting Reddit comments, but watching Chinese Politics Understanders in the imperial core proclaim Jinping's tentative position because of all the Atlantic articles they've read will never not be hilarious

Don't bother comrades

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    new home prices dropped 0.2%, which was the biggest drop since 2015

    My god! They'll be eating their own babies after a drop like that, if they aren't doing it already!

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Home prices dropping is good though :puzzled:

    • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      But is it good for a firebrand like Xi? Surely his regime of hardliners will crumble under the weight of a 0.2% swing, and the people of Taiwan China will cry out for free-market-enabled political stability :citations-needed:

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      liberals can only ever think about how their homes constantly rising in price = good

      but never think about people who actually require houses, to, you know, live

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean sorta. China is a socialist country led by a communist party and there is a distinction but I don't think that's quite what they're going for.

  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    Taiwan is gonna rejoin PRC voluntarily all China has to do is wait

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah the leader of more than a billion people is worried about the people not being behind him and about being on shaken ground.