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From 1900 to 2021, world average life expectancy rose from 32 years to 71 years — an astonishing increase that was not the result of people buying nothing and consuming nothing.

Look at Chinese life expectancy under Mao

In 1984, a United Nations report identified East Germany as the most polluted country in Europe; in 1990 the Washington Post reported that Bitterfeld, an East German city south of Berlin, was “the dirtiest place in the most polluted country in the world, according to government statistics and Greenpeace.”

And yet Beijing, one of the most polluted cities a decade ago transformed itself. GDR and socialist countries never got the chance. And don't forget why Clean Air Act had to be implemented .

The article cited:

"Sulfur dioxide is indeed the crucial issue, Mr. Herrmann agrees. The resources-poor GDR depends on native brown coal for 82 percent of its electricity generation, and it has a high sulfur content. Some 4 million tons of sulfur dioxide belched out of East German smokestacks in 1970 and will probably do so again in 1985, the German Economic Institute says. Herrmann disputes this projection and anticipates a slight reduction in sulfur dioxide levels next year."

this is purely anecdotal but I was looking around Dhaka and Chattogram a few weeks ago on Google Street View (dated before Hasina's Government fell) and I noticed Chinese surveyors likely looking to building infrastructure. I do not know how high Bangladesh's increasing closeness to China was on the US' 'reason to overthrow' list but it was certainly there.

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Mozambique has an "authoritarian" Government now according to Wikipedia. SUS. Who edited it.

FRELIMO has controlled the country since its independence and they are only calling it authoritarian now?

Bangladesh reenactment soon? Where you have a somewhat unpopular incumbent Government that doesn't completely submit itself to Western capital but still implements some of the neoliberal policies making people angry.

West then uses that anger to get their puppet in power.

Yoinked

https://imgur.com/gallery/xi-jingping-with-x-9WrD7tt

These commodities will continue to rise in USD prices while falling in RMB prices.

But the exchange rate between USD and RMB is kept relatively tight.

I do not completely understand what financial gymnastics China is doing but they could just provide Gulf countries with 'free' Yuan to import from China with, given their large current surpluses.

Another angle is that many coutries are facing double digit borrowing costs in USDs to rollover or service USD debts. China can stabilise these at rates almost identical to US Treasury rates , these bonds were issued at just 1 base point over UST!

This part makes sense, China can set whatever interest they want, its good to have lower interest rates but ultimately, foreign currency debt is just as dangerous, 'poor' countries won't find many buyers for their domestic currency debt sure, but China can always dispense the Yuans it wants, issue debt in Yuan and have it be paid back in domestic currencies (they already do that for some countries).

Ultimately, China is still caught up in the vortex of selfishness all the other countries are (west is on a whole another level, look at their attitude towards climate financing). They don't want to give too much for 'free'.

This is an article I read recently on BRICS, it talks about the financing.

Xi has the exact same expression no matter whose hands he is shaking.

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He personally hates him

They killed some protestors which is genocide apparently even though there were zero threats towards any minorities.

Unless you consider Pakistan collaborators to be a minority.

In turn, they charge higher prices. So the spiral continues.

time to reduce profit share

And when the war ends, Russia will have to adapt to a post-war economy, curbing state spending, reintegrating huge numbers of demobilized soldiers and reorientating companies away from feeding military industries.

or they could not do that, implement a jobs program so that all the demobilized soldiers can get a job in the public sector instead of being unemployed.

I mean it is clear that even the CNN knows there won't be a Zimbabwe style scenario in Russia in part thanks to the economic policies of the Soviet era.

Central planning

Beef Tallow in McDonalds French Fries Act 2025

cables break all the time and there is redundancy especially in Europe, its not an island in the middle of the ocean.