LaughingLion [any, any]

I think it’s misleading to only look at this in terms of their trade exclusively. This is a country of 1.4 BILLION people. The vast majority of their GDP, their economic activity, is internal.

Let’s break this down to something simpler. Let’s say I’m an artist and produce paintings. I sell 997. I give my wife 2. I give my mom 1. Wow, my wife is taking 66% of all my donated paintings. She’s such a big source of paintings I give away for free. Isn’t this a major issue for me? Not really. It’s 0.2% of the paintings I produce. It’s a drop in the bucket of my total painting production.

Now, 2% of a countries GDP is a big deal. If any sizeable country loses 2% of their GDP in the matter of a month that causes a load of pain. That can mean businesses closing, people being laid off, rents being unpaid, and so on. It’s an issue any government under any system will have to deal with.

The west is painting the loss of trade to the USA as some economic nuke being set off in China because they are using the numbers you present. Those numbers are fine. They only show part of the picture. When you start considering the Chinese economy as a whole you realize that while this trade war is a pain point for them it is absolutely one that is manageable for them. That’s why I point this out in regards to their total GDP.

i wouldnt say its nothing, the us is a significant portion of exports for china but as a total of their gdp its a small amount. a country with 1.4 billion people is going to have a ton of internal economic activity.

the harm will be managed very diligently by the chinese. they want to show the world that they cant be bullied and that they can insulate their producers internally. its about sending a message of stability and reliability for them. theyll just pour money on it if they have to becuase socialism with chinese characteristics has no issues with that when needed

reminder that trade with the usa is only 2% of chinas total GDP, so this would be a gross 1% change assuming no other countries pick up the slack and that seems to be trending that way

My father was in Vietnam in the Airforce. Was exposed directly to agent orange. One of the issues that is well known is that it causes deformities in the urinary tract of babies. I was born with such deformities. Kidney issues, chronic stones, and more. I’ve had a camera shoved up my cock more times than I care to remember (and they aren’t small, let me tell you!).

Thing is, even though my particular issues are exactly those covered by the VA in babies they are only covered if your mother was exposed. The US government does not cover any medical issues if your father was exposed and does not recognize them as being caused by agent orange at all.

So at no point in my life has the US government ever paid a cent for any treatment, tests, medication, or time off I’ve needed for my birth deformities even though other worldwide organizations would recognize these as caused by them.

In short, death to Amerikkka.

oh no there is still that, like a tree thats not stuck all the way in the ground? yeah i ran into one already

I played a little put of curiosity because I have gamepass for another month. They changed some game mechanics and so far the textures and meshes look fine. Well, they are grisly. Characters look rough. But it’s a style I guess. I do like how alien the elves look.

Grinding speechcraft is just running around the city and playing this mini game with every citizen. The hero of the game runs around and goes to each person telling a chicken joke, bragging about his cock size, throwing out a cheesy pickup line, and then trying to threaten people one by one daily.

its more unemployment opportunities than anything

last time it destroyed the industry so hard my wife was unemployed for 4 years… they dont bail out the unemployed

all to plan, treating cancer is expensive

no comac plane ever burnt down in orlando

bet they download the game like 4 times - 1 for each language

a lot of soybean farms will be going tits-up soon

it does need to collapse

it will mean unemployment for my wife whenever the market has a big downturn there are mass layoffs in her industry but what can you do

“thanks for the brutal military dictatorship”

my wife works in lending, she does the paperwork and processing side and has for over 2 decades (we old)

the market downturn has been happening before this tradewar shit. the value of the dollar dropping, the uncertainty in the bond market, the lending rates, all that is a perfect shitstorm thats pointing towards a housing collapse again. we’ll be lucky if its just a bear market

you hate bernie because he supports israel

i hate bernie because he supports america

we are not the same

manipulating time and space is not only chronomancy but also teleportation