freediver wrote on Aug 27
th, 2022 at 8:52am:
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 26
th, 2022 at 6:53pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2022 at 5:44pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2022 at 2:47pm:
But still far better off than the Chinese whose wealth you constantly dribble poo about.
Er.... the subject (in the post to which you imagined you were replying) is the result of 4 decades of market neoliberalism in the UK....neoliberalism which Xi has finally realized needs to be managed rather closely......
Do you think he will fix by starving 50 million Chinese to death?
Of course not; Mao wasn't dealing with market neoliberalism, which was gradually introduced in China following Deng's "opening up" in the 80's.
But now Xi is faced with the downsides of
market liberalism (eg real estate bubbles, share market funny-money deals etc etc) which he will fix with planned intervention into the free market. (market subsidization, tax exemptions, targeted govt. spending.)
Quote:Perhaps drowning a few million baby girls in a bucket?
That practice is confined to poor neoliberal economies, China has lifted itself out of that category in the last 4 decades.
Quote:How about incubating a deadly plague for a few months before admitting it exists?
Did the US incubate that plague?
Quote:What will China's next great leap backwards be?
China will double its economy by 2035; you better concern yourself with what's happening in the democratic neoliberal economies - with egregious market failure everywhere resulting in cost of living crises in the 1st world, and actual starvation in the 3rd world.