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Repression in China Chat GPT: Repression in China is a complex and controversial topic that has garnered significant international attention and concern. It refers to various actions and policies by the Chinese government aimed at suppressing dissent, controlling information, and restricting individual freedoms. Some key areas of repression in China include: Freedom of Expression: China heavily censors the media, restricts internet access, and suppresses the free flow of information. The "Great Firewall" of China is a system of internet censorship and surveillance that blocks access to many foreign websites and monitors online activities. Political Repression: The Chinese government is known for cracking down on political dissent, targeting human rights activists, lawyers, and other critics. It has a history of imprisoning individuals who challenge the government's authority. Religious Repression: China has a history of suppressing religious freedoms, particularly when
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"We're going to go after China because China is the one sending the fentanyl. We will end all normal trade relations until China stops sending fentanyl. This is where President Trump went wrong. He focused on trade with China. He didn't focus on the fact they were buying up our farmland. He didn't focus on the fact they were killing Americans. He didn't focus on the fact they were stealing $600 billion in intellectual property. We need to start focusing on what keeps Americans safe. That hasn't happened in a long time. As your president, I will make sure every American is safe." -Nikki Haley, at the recent Republican presidential candidates debate
From article How China is stoking a new Cold War with the West. Steven Mosher. October 21, 2023. Pick any terrorist group, rogue regime or horrific conflict in the world today and you’ll likely find China is behind it. Take Hamas for example. The bodies of its 1,400 Israeli and 30 American victims were not even cold before CHINA’S STATE MEDIA BEGAN SPEWING OUT INCENDIARY HEADLINES CLAIMING ISRAEL, WITH U.S. ENCOURAGEMENT, WAS CARRYING OUT INDISCRIMINATE ATTACKS ON GAZA CIVILIANS — rather than the other way around. … China’s social media was filled with the vilest anti-Semitic comments from semi-official sources. Su Lin, a prominent Chinese influencer, claimed after the brutal attack that “Hamas is still too gentle. Israel is a Jewish version of Nazi and militarism.” SUCH POSTS WOULD BE INSTANTLY REMOVED IF THEY CONTRADICTED THE THINKING OF THE RULING CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP). But they are encouraged as Beijing tries to undermine Israel — along with much of the rest of the world.
Mostly summarized from Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, 5th Ed. PART 12 Short Run Macroeconomic Fluctuations Chapter 33 of 36 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Section 18 of 44 … Figure 4 here … In the long run the quantity of output supplied depends on · the economy's quantities of labor, capital, natural resources · the technology level Because the quantity of output does not depend on the overall price level the long-run aggregate supply curve is vertical at the natural rate of output … Classical macroeconomic theory predicts the quantity of goods and services produced by an economy in the long run. So it also explains the position of the long-run aggregate supply curve. The long-run level of production is sometimes called potential output or full employment output. More precisely we call the long-run level of production the natural rate of output. This is because it shows what the economy produces when unemployment is at its natural, or normal, level. … The na
Lynn Chu: Obedience to military hierarchical strict discipline was called “democratic centralism,” as communism was established in Eastern Europe by means of Bolshevism. “Bolshevik centralism is especially rigid; it is an abstract regime deduced from theory and forcibly implemented. Bolshevism is the absolute dictatorship of a single person and his assistants; Bolshevism is infallible and inquisitorial, and that is why it has nothing in common with science and scientific philosophy. Science, which is what democracy is, without freedom is impossible.” —from T.G. Masaryk, The Making of a State Own comment: Communism puts the mafia at top, citizens (slaves) must pay protection money and act as if they love doing it.
Just started this audiobook, enjoying and learning much... “The world’s 20 biggest languages, which are the subject of this book, are causing the decline of hundreds, even thousands of smaller ones.” "Among them, these 20 languages are the mother tongues of no less than half the population of the world. Take second-language speakers into account, and the numbers are much larger still. Again, the figures are debatable, but it’s safe to claim that at least 75 per cent of people on this planet are able to communicate in one of the Babel Twenty. A less pertinent but more exact figure would be this: over 90 per cent of humankind live in countries where one or more of the twenty are routinely used by central government." 20 Vietnamese | 85 million 19 Korean | 85 million 18 Tamil | 90 million 17 Turkish | 90 million 16 Javanese | 95 million 15 Persian | 110 million 13 Japanese | 130 million 12 Swahili | 135 million 11 German | 200 million 10 French | 250 million 9 Malay
From Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order. Steven Mosher. 2017. Kindle online sample. Section 1. From introduction: In a world bristling with dangers, ONLY ONE ENEMY POSES A TRULY MORTAL CHALLENGE TO THE UNITED STATES and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China … China is the country: -that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago -whose economic power rivals our own -that BELIEVES ITS SUPERIOR RACE AND CULTURE GIVE IT THE RIGHT TO UNIVERSAL DEFERENCE -that teaches its people to hate America for standing in the way of achieving its narcissistic "dream" of world domination -that believes in its manifest destiny to usher in the World of Great Harmony -which publishes maps showing the exact extent of the nuclear destruction it could rain down on the United States … Steven Mosher exposes -the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon–and the roots of China's will to domination in its five-tho