It's funny because he also could've just sat on it instead of drawing attention with an edited video and an AG announcing it won't be released.
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The EU could try to negotiate a graceful exit by seeking to keep their IP agreements and legalized tech advantage that is otherwise only enabled by US imperialism. The "designed in Sweden (made in China)" types of business and various cultural cottage industries like parma cheese etc etc. Obviously China will lap them quickly on this, and arguably already has in many ways, but China's leaders would likely see this as a win-win as opposed to the deindustrialization and cleaving off of Europe - and they continue to work to keep normal relations with the EU.
Whether the EU can politically functionally do this is a very different question, though.
Michael Hudson wrote a fairly popular book called "Superimperialism" with exactly this thesis and it gets periodically updated with more recent examples. It is a common source for folks here speaking about debt and balance of payments and China, so I highly recommend checking it out. There was (is?) a recebt hexbear book club about it as well.
The rhetorical calculus of calling it "the left party" is actually pretty great. Reactionary news media in the UK (basically all of it) moved on from "communist" and "Trotskyist" as negative left shibboleths and now just say "hard left". They would have to say things like, "the hard left left party" and that is at least very funny. Or, "hard left MP from the left party" and sound like fools. It feels like an attempt at reappropriation and that is a good instinct.
This is also its downside, though. Not snappy and a bit ambiguous.
It's ghoul to ghoul communication
Reminder that "Israel" sterilized black Jews without their consent.
Not my mayonnaise sandwich!
They only think it was a mistake because they lost and the hippie generation got PTSD.
Neoliberalism is a financialized path to austerity and stripping productive industry for parts while disciplining labor.
China has increased investment in healthcare and vastly expanded coverage in recent history.
It would certainly be better to implement a universal system with no out of pocket costs / removed from capital, but this is also not neoliberal.
A pressed sandwich can be great! I prefer the kind wrapped in parchment paper and pressed with weight, myself (cold sandwiches). Or the kind where you just put another (cast iron) pan on top while frying it.
Yes or even shooting themselves/others. It takes knowledge and practice to handle that recoil, especially if, like one of my friends, you are very skinny and not strong.
And a neighborhood communist leader gave a decent showing at the last presidential election.