China has done very well. It's the belief that Chinese feel the CPC works for the people. That's far more valuable then voting between a few crooks running in the West. This survey was done by a Western firm, trying to promote Western democracy, lest anyone accuse this of bias

That's why Trump is impossible to work with. He's too inconsistent and just unstable.

One of the most valuable things for any political class to possess is the trust of their own people in their leadership. The Western elite have abused that trust too many times with "Iraq has WMDs" types of lies. Now most Americans recognize that China isn't a threat to them.

The other option is to buy a car from a manufacturer that is more honest. Elon doesn't get that this false advertising ajd outright dishonesty is going to cost him long-term trust, and ultimately sales. He is burning bridges at a time when the competition for EVs is rising.

The real economy has been in trouble for years now in the Western world. The top 10 percent are holding the consumption up for now, but that's in trouble too, particularly with the tech layoffs. A bigger issue is what will happen when the AI bubble bursts and AI stocks plunge.

More so than any political views, a bigger problem facing Tesla is that the product they are offering isn't particularly good.

This post is contradictory. On one hand, you claim that Canadians are parasites. At the same time, you are clearly unhappy with Canada moving closer to China and away from the US. Y should happy to lose nations you call parasites. Clearly, the US benefits at Canada's expense.

That's the danger of being blinded by hatred. Rational thought becomes impossible. Notice how anyone who opposes the idea of Finland or the Baltics joining NATO is subject to tons of name-calling, but no discussion about the logistics of supplying any Western army deployed there

You've let your hatred and anger cloud any objective analysis. The China will collapse predictions have a terrible track record. Liberalism is quickly becoming a failed ideology, just like the USSR, and the US is losing a huge amount of hard / soft power on the global stage.

Assuming that this is real and not a parody or AI, she probably doesn't seem to have the brains to realize that her phone, her electronics, and most of her other belongings are made in China. She's also talking to a camera in the doorbell made in China. It's willful ignorance.

As much as the majority of the American people are not fans of Trump, the main reason why he got into power to begin with was because the existing American elite utterly failed and outright betrayed the American people. That brutal truth hasn't sunken into the Democrats yet.

One more reason why the decline of the dollar dominated system is going to be a big win for humanity. The Cubans have been suffering for decades now because of the US and their attempts to put the nation under economic siege for the purposes of regime change.

The competition is going to intensify for Nvidia. China won't be content to just replace its domestic GPUs, but to also be an export powerhouse. Especially once China gets its EUV machines in full production. GPUs will follow the same trends as EVs, consumer electronics, etc...

There's cognitive dissonance at @nytimes because for years, they've advanced the narrative that China should be more like the US, but now that ordinary Chinese people are doing better and Americans are doing worse, its not what the NYT can defend. It's a US Regime-Change fail.

The US is short of rare earth elements and minerals abundant in Greenland. The government's sustainable development programme is a hindrance. The US also needs reliable cheap oil and it's struggling under the yoke of over $70 trillion public and private debt, reliant on its

The answer is that the US elite wanted to get richer. They hated the New Deal and the Post-WW2 social democracy. They created a system that looted wealth for themselves. But it also had the consequences of costing the US its industry and with it, nation state war making ability.

Canadians are mostly broke, except from the richest 5% maybe. Most can't afford to eat out and even groceries are a struggle. That's the times that we live in. Unless wages rise faster than living costs, this is not going to change. It's a trend across the entire Western world.

Trump has betrayed the idea of MAGA being less war and focusing on the problems in the US. Ultimately their celebration is premature, like the "Mission Accomplished" in 2003 by Bush after the US overthrew Saddam. They might also turn Maduro into a martyr. It was a big mistake.

The answer is that the Western world wanted to provoke this war. They hoped that this would be their chance to get Putin out, get another Western stooge like Yeltsin in, loot Russia of its natural resources, and Balkanize the nation. Western elites never wanted Russia to exist.

The US has known for decades that any attempt to expand NATO to Ukraine would provoke a Russian response. Biden and Victoria Nuland wanted that. CIA Director Gates told Condi Rice this in a 2008 memo. And newly released transcripts of Putin and Bush's 2008 meeting contain this:

This is the story of corporate America. Chasing short-term profit and causing long-term damage to their companies, which will actually cause long-term damage to the company. It is a widespread moral rot in the elite class, looking for quick profit, which fails in the long run.