cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112
China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion
Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion
Can’t wait for China to emerge as the global hegemon and for the rest of the world to drop the USD as the reserve standard.
It seems effective not to become vassals to the yanks. Europe should take notes, ditch these stupid obese people, and chart its own course, away from muhrican degeneration.
I’m American and completely agree. Europe is in a much better spot to lead than America is. America needs to be shamed.
Half of America is ashamed, and the shameful half is too busy eating its own excrement to know what shame is.
I mean, we’re also obese. But your other points stand 😁
Of course they do. Cost of living goes up, people buy the cheaper options of essentials . The ones mass produced in China.
With the coming change I hope more countries will join the Belt & Road initiative.
Man I remember arguing with somebody that said that China would want the USA to be stable and strong and that they don’t want the USA playing these games
My response is that China’s loving this and they’re going to be breaking in profits and low and behold.
China does not care about the United States stability as long as the United States is not focused on China.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” - ancient Chinese war man
does nothing. wins.
It’s almost like the rest of the world just…moved on.
Ffs. We need a strong USA. Get rid of this moron.
Why do we need a strong usa?
I would settle for a stable USA that takes care of its people.
Never existed
Sadly
Yeah the need for a “strong country” is just pure awful nationalism.
Fight for a “good country” instead.
A strong USA is a call for stability. Consider what they said about the mongols, “For fear of his yasa and punishment his followers were so well disciplined that during his reign no traveller, so long as he was near his army, had need of guard or patrol on any stretch of road ; and, as is said by way of hyperbole, a woman with a golden vessel on her head might walk alone without fear or dread.”
Weather the mongols (or the USA) are a good empire is a separate matter. The US brings a lot of stability for small countries and keeps sea ways open for trade. It is not an act of charity the way some republicans frame it, but still. Simply saying for the US empire to fold those responsibilities begs the question, who or what will take its place?
These are not easy questions and leave a lot unsatisfied. They almost remind me of anarcho capitalists saying that with out states and leaving things to the free market everyone will hold hands and sing kumbaya.
An very interindepedent countries economically is what would create stability. Countries would be forced to talk and make concessions rather then war. There is no stalibility in unilateral world
stability for whom? the us has a knack for destabilizing everywhere else.
Iceland, South Korea, and The Philippines make a short list that would agree they’ve benefit. The class may discuss others.
At the same time bombing a dozens countries, organizing coups in dozens of countries, creating multiple failed state full of terrorism
I am with the rest of the world.
We certainly don’t need a strong USA.
Or any USA for that matter.Seriously. The states mostly hate each other as is. Split up, be happier. You’ll have little Russia down in the south where rights are a joke and children go back to the mines but hey, that’s just good solid capitalism. And then you’ll have everyone else forced to live with their crumbling neighbor slinging shit over the fence for a few decades.
Honestly youre right. As an American I really think we’re hitting a point where atleast for awhile we may need to consider balkanization. I just don’t know how much longer things can keep going the way they are. Maybe California, Illinois and New York could do a cyberpunk esc new usa thing since they span from coast to coast. Then when the south eventually rots away we can do actual reconstruction.
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Man, As an American i just want to live a comfortable life. I can’t do shit about the fact that a third if the country is rewarded and upset about stuff that has nothing to do with them because the richest told them to be. Fuck it man. You want to do something about it?
All these idiots voted for the warmongering imperialist uniparty.
Now we don’t have to do anything about it, just watch you go down2A black panther style
I don’t get the reference if that’s from Marvel, I am an adult so I never watch those.
Not from marvel. From history. And very American. If you know you know. Black Panthers were good people.
I sure know those, didn’t end good, like Move, etc but at least they tried.
This is the results of decades of bipartisan foreign policy. If you want change, we’ll have to oust the majority of Democratic Party leadership as well.
We need a strong USA.
Glances at the last 40 years of US history
Do we?
