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Richard Roskell's avatar

The difference between China and the USA is now plain for everyone to see. Those who live in the West will continue to be inundated with propaganda painting China as an evil entity. But the reality is so different that even in the West the truth is slowly becoming clear.

Developing nations that take advantage of China's BRI will still have to work hard to make their economies successful, but the BRI will create infrastructure that makes success a possibility. And as that infrastructure carries goods to the international market, improving the local economy, that same infrastructure will bring incoming Chinese merchandise to the people. This keeps Chinese factories running. A huge win-win arrangement for both parties.

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Bonnie's avatar

Thank you for your excellent in depth presentations of important news of the world politics aside from the disturbing news of the realm (USA ) At 80, I gaze with horror. A lot of our problems are brought by Democrats, supposedly governing America for the people. It's difficult where we citizens went wrong. It's more likely anyways that the corruption of Democracy started long ago with corrupting one after another congressman and other official. Now thanks to Citizens United noone can afford to run without this "dark" money. Excuse the expression but My Ass!

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Michael Peck's avatar

US grand strategy has been and remains to prevent any rival power emerging. It’s only modus operandi: political regime change and military interventions, and in the case of Russia and China, “containment” (euphemism for encirclement).

While China builds the US bombs, and it seems very clear now that it will try to choke China’s maritime trade, possibly using Taiwan as a trigger but not for a war it would surely lose.

Every so often the “coming war with China” line slips out, as recently with Hegseth 👇

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i84AIH_3YJU

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Karuna's avatar

Thanks so much for this. I enjoy your YouTube presentations, but also good to have reading material.

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Barry Lando's avatar

Great summary!

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