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This kind of stupidity is why I'm bearish on Apple. Companies should never prioritize financial engineering over R&D imo.
The company & shareholders will eat the disastrous consequences of this asinine thinking when the market next adjusts 30-60% and everyone realizes they were wasting money buying back stock at all time highs.
We have to remember there are two justice systems in this country and re-introducing slavery through the prison industrial complex was something we deliberately did without good reason.... not in response to dangerous extremism like in China.
To act like this is not the case, is to ignore well documented history.
Luckily during the war, a volcano (Laki, Iceland) threw Europe & much of the British empire (including India & Africa) into a multiyear drought, causing one of the coldest/longest winters in the USA.
About 3 months after the eruption formal negotiations to end the war began.
No eruption, possibly no USA but historical accounts I've seen rarely mention the role of mother nature.
Very possible he left Russia a long time ago. Nobody is closely tracking cargo ships traveling through the arctic.
A powerful entity conducting a controlled bio-attack to clear opposition to future mining operations is entirely plausable.
I agree that the populace hasn't been paying attention though.
Separating sponsored propoganda from legitimate news will only get harder as time goes on and media companies continue the buyout sprees that generally have the outcome of aligning narratives and interests.
My understanding is that China has aided Vietnam in arresting criminals the Vietnamese government is after. Do you have an example of what you stated?
Who do you think the bigger spy is though, USA v China? Let's be honest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila
This idea could propel mankind into the future faster than the steal, iterate, then lock down IP method we are using today.
We will see what this answer will be in 50-100 years.
May not be the best model, but sounds better than the "bomb our way to profits" approach we've seen employed elsewhere.
- China has 10,000+ years of history (adding documented was a mistake)
- Chinese culture plays too big of a role in decision making to ignore it in my opinion, you may disagree.
At the end of the day, the roads, high-speed rail, bridges, harbors, etc... the Chinese build can't be removed from the continent even if the individual countries do reneg on debt. This could create the kind of stable environment required to attract both Chinese and non-Chinese investors and talent in the future.
China has 10,000 years of documented history and this is a long game, they don't seem as interested in get rich quick schemes as some other civilizations.
Time will tell.
In the end, more money will be made by the people who actually live and work there, not the international arbitraguers (if no shenanigans are added to the process).
There is a reason the statue of Lin Zexu is in Chatham Square, NYC.
The original exploiters of Africa are mad that China is investing and building infrastructure on that continent, which will raise historically low prices.