cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/5165625

Lol this reeks of desperation.

The United States has the largest economy in the world, by traditional GDP measures.

But when adjustments are made to account for Purchase Price Parity, and the cost differences for similar products, it is China with the largest economy.

The United States has a giant services sector, and includes careers that have no equivalent in other countries. The massive legal, finance, insurance, real estate brokerage, and lobbying industries are far larger in the US than in any other country.

When economists remove those sectors from the calculation of GDP, the result is "Productive GDP", and involves accounting only for the production of tangible products in the economy.

China has developed the world's first emergency medical rescue drone to bridge critical gaps in disaster response in extreme environments. It is equipped with advanced medical functions and a 300 kg payload. It offers respiratory support, intravenous infusion, vital signs monitoring, defibrillation and remote real-time video monitoring. It can operate in challenging environments, such as turbulent areas, places with extreme temperatures of -25C to 46C and altitudes of 5,000 meters.

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From the perspective of economic growth theory, there is no such thing as a purely "consumption-driven" growth model. Economic growth is primarily driven by capital accumulation, effective labor input, and technological progress. Technological progress, in fact, relies on investment. China's rapid accumulation of capital has been a key factor in its rise as the world's leading manufacturing power and its strong international competitiveness. This viewpoint is supported both by Marxist political economy and traditional Western economic theory. Consumption only stimulates growth when there is insufficient effective demand.

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Chinese foreign policy on Palestine has reflected the disjunction of two eras: revolutionary Maoist support for Palestinian liberation vs. the more recent “balanced approach” accommodating Israel. The Gaza genocide, however, could prompt a new path.

Reviewing contemporary China’s foreign policy stance towards Palestine, one can clearly see the disjunction between two different legacies: The first legacy was tempered by the revolutionary and radical spirits of the Mao era, and it is exactly this Maoist legacy that ensures that support for Palestinian liberation remains a political principle within both the Chinese government and society at large. The second legacy is the so-called “balanced approach” of the post-reform era which became institutionalized since the late 1980s, and this legacy basically prompts the Chinese government to regard its relationship with Israel as neither a threat for China-Palestine relations nor an obstacle to China’s support for the two-state solution.

Just like in any other aspects, the current administration of China does not wish to pick a side between its Maoist past and post-Mao legacies and attempts to simply ignore the disjunction between two approaches by putting the differences aside and emphasizing common ground. As the result, China’s responses to the ongoing genocide in Gaza tends to be mixed. On the one hand, the Chinese state has unequivocally spoken against Israel on all international platforms, and compared to the West, the Chinese state has made it crystal clear that it supports the Palestinian people to use all available means, including armed struggle, against Israeli occupation. When almost all major Western powers are busy in physically suppressing pro-Palestine voices by delegitimizing them as “anti-Semitic,” the Chinese state not only tolerates, but also largely encourages and interacts with the Chinese netizens’ genuine expression of their sense of justice for Palestine.

Nevertheless, one can still remain cautiously optimistic about the future of China’s role in the solidarity movement for Palestine. At the state-level, the Israeli government’s hysteria since October 2023 has already made the Chinese government unhappy. China refuses to condemn the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and quarrels with Israel in the UN have already destroyed the previous honeymoon between the two states. While economic ties between China and Israel may continue to deepen in the future, after the quibbles over the Haifa Bay Port, both states may be reluctant to cooperate with each other on similar large-sale projects in the future.

In terms of social culture, the war in Gaza prompted the ideologically increasingly anti-West Chinese youth to reconnect themselves with the revolutionary legacies of the Mao era. Through actively learning about Palestine from online sources and enthusiastically creating poems, songs, videos, paintings, and any other literary and artistic creations praising the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation, a generation of Chinese youth, whose impression of Palestine is largely shaped by the horror of current genocide in Gaza, is likely to become a generation that is the most sceptical of the Zionist narrative since the 1980s. With the young taking up more important positions in the Chinese government and society in the long-run, there is a strong hope that China will possibly (re)embrace its anti-colonial traditions in the 1960s-1970s and play a more active role in the global solidarity movement for Palestine.

As the seeds of the dandelions of Palestine drift across the globe and land in the hearts of Chinese youth, these rapidly growing kernels will inevitably break through the bounds of both the hegemony of Western narratives and narrow-minded nationalism. Eventually Chinese youth will be inspired to rethink the role of contemporary China and to re-embrace their fellow Arab brothers and sisters.

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After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism, a new trend has emerged in China. The search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. The trend is so popular that it’s gained its own internet buzzword: the “run philosophy."

This video popped up in my feed andabout 2 and a half minutes in they start talking to a former policeman turned artist name Ye Fu. His story is that after Tiananmen Square he renounced his job, and then was sent to prison after being framed by a friend. After he was released he left the country and eventually settled in Thailand and runs a place for Chinese people fleeing China, basically wealthy chinese liberals.

He claims that before Tiananmen square people were full of hope, and that now people are miserable and desperate, etc. Says everyone is miserable and the economy is about to collapse. The usual.

So I looked him up and his name is Zheng Shiping, and his pen name is Ye Fu.

His grandpa was a direct male-line descendant of chieftain (土司), his grandfather, Liu Jilu, who had graduated from Huangpu Military Academy, was a general and Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard. After 1949, Yefu's parents stayed in Mainland China. They were cast as rightists, and suffered political persecution. Yefu's grandfather was brought to be persecuted. His grandfather and two aunts committed suicide due to such tough and hopeless life conditions.

His wiki page also links to conversation with Xiong Zhaozheng, the friend who betrayed him, and seems to indicate they were involved with an "overseas democracy" group (coughCIAfrontcough) that was under surveillence at the time of June 4th.

(auto translated by google)I’m sorry, Brother Yefu, no matter what you are like, I have always regarded you as my most chivalrous friend and brother. I’m sorry, I’m not as strong as you, I confessed everything after three days in prison. I apologize for the suffering you have endured, etc.

You have many doubts about that case, and I have many doubts too, the reasons for which I cannot explain to you now. I will explain the truth when I am old and buried in the earth.

People from the Overseas Chinese Alliance did come, but I never admitted it to the police, so they had to release me in the end. I don’t know why you were sentenced. I did go to Guangzhou to contact them a few times, and once at the airport, Liu Fudao [a leader of the Hubei Writers Association and a famous writer] and his men forcibly took me back. The police later showed me photos of my meeting with you and everyone else, indicating that all my actions were under surveillance.

https://chinadigitaltimes-net.translate.goog/chinese/99602.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

And I found another interview that seems to confirm their involvment with an oversees "pro-democracy" group.

03:29 Chai: The thing that he [Ye Fu] cannot wrap his head around is that he went to Guangzhou on your behalf to send a document that you told him an overseas democracy activist would pick up. Later, when the procuratorate brought forth the charges, your name wasn’t mentioned, nor was the name of the overseas democracy activist—even though [the procuratorate] had all the documents. This perplexed him. I’m sure you can understand his feelings, right? Why weren’t you charged with a crime while he was sent to prison?


https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/09/accused-tiananmen-informants-silence-reveals-enduring-public-secrecy-around-1989/

Does the state department act as publicists for these people, so whenever a journalist wants an interview they are funneled towards people like Ye Fu?

I've been browsing through it but can't figure out if it's propaganda or useful info

I've been browsing through it but can't figure out if it's propaganda or useful info

China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements — the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord — after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.

On Monday, his first day back as president after his first term ended in 2021, Trump signed an executive order directing the United States to quit the WHO, which he slammed over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He also announced that Washington was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord for a second time, a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming.

Asked about Trump’s decisions, Beijing said Tuesday that it was “concerned” by the withdrawals and that it remained committed to international cooperation.

“China will, as always, support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities… and work towards building a shared community of health for humanity,” said foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun during a news conference.

“The role of the WHO should only be strengthened, not weakened,” he added.

Guo also responded to Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, saying that “Climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humanity”.

“No country can remain unaffected or solve the problem on its own,” he said.

“China will work with all parties… to actively address the challenges of climate change.”

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4241734

So I've been watching a YouTube channel called Little Chinese Everywhere. It's a Chinese woman who travels to all different regions of the country. Her videos on minority regions have been amazing, and demonstrate what socialist national liberation looks like in practice. In this video, she goes to a Tibetan city where, for four to six months of the year, the Tibetans leave the city and "play in the grasslands" - long extended summers spent entirely living in the traditional way, but without dependence on subsistence pastoralism. It ends up being a months-long social and cultural festival where all of their traditional lifeways thrive. Then, when the weather turns, they to back to the city and live a modern Chinese urban life (but still thoroughly Tibetan). Tons of her videos show this thriving of non-Han nations with autonomy over their land, lives, and development. It's genuinely moving stuff, and it seems like an excellent model for a socialist post-US and its native nations.