This photo will give chapo an aneurysm.
And this one will break their brains.
Don't google information about those relationships if you want to maintain your sanity.
It's fine, they're just buying black market US military technology from Israel, like the J-10 fighter jet
I think I laughed far more than I should have at the picture Henry Kissinger and Xi Jinping. They look like they could be brothers.
What about this photo
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSleqL6iNmD1fmlKTjl6zNkxVblXJrWk2ug_A&usqp=CAU
Oh fuck. I accidentally hit the austerity button for my own population! Oh well.
Series creator Charlie Brooker, who wrote the episode, quickly denied any prior knowledge of the allegations, calling the situation "a complete coincidence, albeit a quite bizarre one."
Meanwhile the former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull probably killed his (ex) girlfriends cat in the 80s.
Bro, just become Trotsky and mash the permanent revolution button after purging Stalin and bring about global communism with no war.
Nah, they're at war over land and resources. (Just don't call it imperialism.)
Yes, and Webster's dictionary defines it as a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
One of those darn side effects of living in consensus reality
do you genuinely think "haha this dictionary doesnt agree with you" is a valid point? ever?
what the fuck kind of liberal are you
Bruh China doesnt really have expansionist qualities, which is evidence i would need to see in order to classify it as colloqiually Imperialist (even though Lenin's definition is x1000 more useful in today's context).
Bringing territories such as Hong Kong back into the fold after they were stripped away by western colonial powers is not expansionism, in fact its quite the opposite: it is China starting to say "enough" and pushing back against the Imperial core's neverending bloodthirsty desire to balkanize the PRC and buy up all the SOEs and Coops like hotcakes.
And border disputes are still extremely common outside of the imperial core, with factors ranging from shitty colonial border partitioning to less resources available to keep track of changes in parts of borders that are based on geographic features like rivers. Its not imperialist just cause military=spooky or whatever lib shite.
claiming china is good and socialist is basically believing in q. he has to get it on the inside so he can fulfill the prophecy of communism
I'll venture that believing China is trying to achieve socialism is slightly more grounded in reality than believing a bunch of U.S. politicians have been secretly captured, executed, and replaced with clones.
It seems that the people who tried to kidnap that governor a few weeks ago believe there's an actual ground war with China going on that nobody is telling us about. Right-wing conspiracy theories about the Chinese secretly infiltrating America for an invasion have been a thing since the 1950s, but now they've stepped it up a bit and claim that Canada and Maine have somehow already been occupied by the PRC without anybody noticing and that they're coming for the rest of the US now.
China's just a demsoc nation with ML characteristics. They aren't some ultra pure leftist haven or anything. They're pretty liberal, but at least they still have the mechanisms in place to massively mobilize their labor power to achieve public good. Criticisms that venture beyond that framing of them are usually in bad faith or poorly researched/sinophobic.
This is fair, and I'll add one thing: by being officially communist, it's at least possible for a committed communist to rise to power.
It's wild to me that support of China is contentious in western leftist circles. It's one of the only countries that is actively executing members of their domestic bourgeoisie. They have extensive social programs and pretty high union membership. They also attach union labor stipulations to foreign investments and provide no interest loans like crazy both domestically and abroad.
They're the poster child of what western radlibs preach, but for some reason it's the radlibs that hate them most.
A lot of radlibs are still sorting through all the anti-China propaganda.
that reduction of poverty in china is one of the main contributors to the claims libs love to make that capitalism raised hundreds of millions from poverty right? Like it's actually mostly just china?
if someone knows a source for this that'd be nice, I never actually checked into it just heard it on the internet so
There was a good citations needed episode on it, and I recall a decent source in the show notes that went into more detail
As a massive :LIB: eral, i must note that holding your wine glass like Obama will lead to your wine getting warmer, whereas Xi's method assures it stays at optimum drinking temperature.
Compared to the other pictures, he's so close. I presume this shows how much they like and respect each other.
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Socialism will definitively remain the only real hope of peace and survival of our species. This is precisely what the Communist Party and the people of the People's Republic of China have irrefutably demonstrated. They demonstrated at the same time, as Cuba and other brotherly countries have shown, that each people must adapt their strategy and revolutionary objectives to the concrete conditions of their own country and that there are not two absolutely equal socialist revolutionary processes. From each of them, you can take the best experiences and learn from each of their most serious mistakes.
The Chinese process counted, in addition, with the contributions of great and brilliant political thinkers, who continued to develop and enrich the doctrines of socialism.
China has objectively become the most promising hope and the best example for all Third World countries. I do not hesitate to say that it is already the main engine of the world economy. In what time? In only 83 years after the foundation of its glorious Communist Party and 55 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The relations between China and Cuba are today an example of transparency and peaceful collaboration between two nations that hold the ideals of socialism.
Wonder how the people who love Cuba and decry China as state capitalism parse this.
the main engine of the world economy
ideals of socialism
but is it a materialist force for the international proletariat or just generic "we're not Americans or British pedo finance cartels"?
Folks, you know world leaders meet each other right? Tell me you know this.
Noooooo!!!! Meeting another world leader means you're letting them win!!!!
by leaning away slightly, obama is giving a master class in respectful snubs to Chairman Pooh
