Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Tovarishch Krasnov - Товарищ Краснов

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25-3-11 "Slava Ukraini!" [Trumpootistan Can't Be Trusted] - Lincoln Project > .25-2-26 Malcolm Nance Has Reached His Limit on Ukraine - MN > .
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25-2-14 Pledging Allegiance to Whom? - Lincoln > .
25-2-14 The Insane "Fork In The Road" Email to Federal Employees - Legal > .
Alienating Allies  > FVEY - Five Eyes >>
25-3-6 'My jaw is dropped': [Mélanie Joly] stuns Amanpour - PBS > .
DUH's corruption 
25-2-27 DUH’s Ukraine 'Minerals' Deal permits Corruption - Paul W > .
25-2-26 Full text of the Ukraine-US Minerals Agreement European Pravda
Trumpootistan 
25-3-18 ‘Flagrant display of personal and political weakness’: Pooti plays DUH > .

American Democracy Threatened ..
WW3 ..

Trade & Skill Wars 2025

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25-4-14 Total [DUHmented] Trade War: USA vs Xina - gtbt > .
23-7-30 Skills Wars Are the New Trade Wars - EcEx > .25-3-4 [Xina Hit c 38% Tariffs | Stocks Plunge, Manipulation Fears] | Update > .
> Poland >>25-4-21 How Xina Could Wage War On The Dollar - Nolan > .
CONomics - Buck >> .
DUHmented Oligarchy - Buck >> .
Economic Warfare Fronts - Weighs 'n Means >> .
Trade Logistics, Shipping  

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Xitonomics 2025

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25-4-20 Xina’s Ruthless Economy - EcEx > .
25-4-20 Xina Dumping the Dollar? - Dalio re Reserve Currencies - Boyle > . skip > .
24-11-14 [Xitonomic Implosion - Xi's Tofu-Dreg Xina Xitting Wall] - gtbt > . skip > .
> BRICS >>> HuángXi >>
25-3-28 Xi vs Princelings: Xina’s war posture is deceptive - Lei > .
25-3-1 [Brad Setser: Xi Making World Pay for Chinese-Blunders] - Update > .
25-2-7 [Xi's ignorant misunderstanding of investment in innovation] - Digging > .
25-2-26 Xi’s Manufacturing Dream vs Xina’s Harsh Reality - Digging > .
[The Wire China - Barry Naughton on the state of the Xi Jinping Economy]
> Xitty Strife >>   > Xinsanity >>   > XIR >>   X Skullduggery    > XPD >>


Comment (edited)
Officially the GDP has doubled since 2014. From what I and my friends see: 
  • - Productivity growth in MOST sectors is pretty low since 2014. 
  • - Innovation in the service sector is limited to low productivity services like delivery services (yes they are backed by high productivity digital services but that a small GDP contribution). 
  • - Xi Jinping cracked down or discauraged many innovative sectors because they didn'T fit his vision. 
  • - Money was funneled into whatever he liked. A LOT of infra and housing - but also SELECT high tech sectors, which he pampered with ridiculous amounts of money. 
  • - A lot of money went into foreign investment, which was mostly unprofitable. But this has been scaled down a lot already. 
  • - In the "focus industries" (but also in general) the internal competition is so bad that nobody makes a profit, everybody is just betting to come out on top in the end. 
  • - For workers, even the highly qualified ones, this competition is pure hell. Quality of life is miserable. not in material terms, but psychologically, school pressure, work pressure, "get married and make children" pressure ... 
I see many many similarities to Japan in the 80s. Just on steroids. And we all know how this ended. BTW, I also speak Japanese and know the country well. Don't believe the conspiracies. The Japanese economy was a bubble in the 80s and everybody knew it.

Xitty Conflict 2025

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25-2-12 Xina's Power Peaking = Dangerous - Warfronts > .
25-1-22 [DUH vs Xina's Imploding Economy; US Industrialization] || PZ > .
X vs Oz 
X vs US
25-2-7 Taiwan & South Korea in turmoil: Coincidence? [XiPaganda] Strategy? | Lei > .
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XiXiPee Censorship 

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...