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[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

"restart the economy"

If 6.1% real growth in household expenditure is bad enough to need a "restarting of the economy" and "rebalancing" then where the fuck does that put the west? Like it's one thing to put a neoliberal spin on things, it's another to simply talk about phantasms. I know that neolib standards were low, but not this low.

The only stats this mf quotes in the entire video are of a single data point from a single province.

Also, I shouldn't have to explain this, but obviously economic growth is driven by technological innovations (and increasing the people's access to existing innovations). Guy accuses tech investments for being unsustainable. His solution to increasing Chinese GDP "sustainably"? "Rebalance the economy". Surely that's something that can be done over and over again, right? We know because the great overlords of our great society come out with new "business model innovations" on a monthly basis.

I find it somewhat humorous as well how the whole economic and geopolitical strategy of the CPC is boiled down to "Xi said". Lol ok.

Edit: He mentions the cost of the bridge. He does get it wrong by 3 orders of magnitude, making it seem as if the bridge cost 140 billion dollars (which would make it almost 66% of china's military budget lmao.

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