DougDaBroadcasta
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Why is China saying this at this very moment?
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And Mark Carney, Canada and the rest of the G7 is doing just that as I type this. The E.U. Along with Canada, Mexico, Australia, etc. will cut deals with China and let the U.S. and Russia play patty cake while the rest of the world moves on.
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The sun is setting
Bigs23
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Dumbass overplayed a hand he didn’t have.
He truly believed these countries would bend the knee.
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China is a cruel tyranny and having it become the new global superpower would be devastating for democracy, but it is simply hard to argue against his point. Empires do gradually decline and fall, often through self-inflicted wounds. Trump, imo, is a major self-inflicted wound - we elected him (twice), and about half the electorate continues to blindly support him no matter how self-destructive his policies are and will continue to be for the USA.
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He won't be the leader of the "Free World", he'll just make the world less and less free and more and more under Beijing's control and influence. There's no need to lead the "Free World" if doesn't exist anymore.
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Wasn't the country going to end during Trump's first term.....right after it was going to end during Obama's first and second terms?
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Who cares?
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China already is a global superpower.
Also, if any country/nation is leading the way to destroying democracy as we know it/knew it - it's Trump's America. His getting in bed with Putin and Russia, and with the Saudis and with playing footsie with North Korea, his desire to mimic Orbán and Hungary, etc.... Trump and that lot is doing a fine job getting rid of the "Free World" and "devastating democracy".
All China has to do is sit back and let it happen.
Also, if any country/nation is leading the way to destroying democracy as we know it/knew it - it's Trump's America. His getting in bed with Putin and Russia, and with the Saudis and with playing footsie with North Korea, his desire to mimic Orbán and Hungary, etc.... Trump and that lot is doing a fine job getting rid of the "Free World" and "devastating democracy".
All China has to do is sit back and let it happen.
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thats what you get and deserve when you vote for politicians who turned communist china into a world power over the decades just for greed....both parties.
dont blame china they have always been our enemy.....blame your want and need for cheap materialistic garbage made there
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China is a superpower but the future for that country is not good. They have so many things working against them in their population that they are going to struggle to stay at their spot as the worlds second superpower.
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It's not that the country will end, but things are changing. Trump doesn't understand the real strength of the US or of working with people instead of only focusing on "winning".
Wasn't the country going to end during Trump's first term.....right after it was going to end during Obama's first and second terms?
Just wonder how bad off we will be when he is gone? How long will it take to recover.
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This is true. And it proves an authoritarian dictator on the left ain’t good for people and country… and is just as bad as an authoritarian dictator on the right. I’m sure the world will agree authoritarian dictators ain’t good for anybody. Trump’s desire to be just that ain’t good for anybody, especially we here in the US.
The future for the US is not looking that good either, despite Trumps blow hard message of MAGA.
The only true way is my way. Vote for me everybody!
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I remember when everybody was convinced Japan was going to take our spot as the lead superpower...
Something about natural resources, geographic size and population base interfered, I believe, among other things. China has some arounds on those, including political interference.
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*economic superpower
But Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun is an easy read to understand the Japan panic of the mid 80s to mid 90s … if you are more a movie person, Gung Ho with Michael Keaton is instructive (though mediocre as a comedy — probably also racially offensive today, I don’t recall - I only saw it on cable when it came out).
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I do as well, but I believe people thought that Japan could replace us as an economic superpower, and that was back in the 1980s when Japan had the world's 2nd largest economy. Unfortunately, for Japan the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s leading to what was called the "lost decade"...let's hope we don't suffer the same fate if we enact foolish short sighted greedy economic policies over the next 4 years.