Socialism doesn't work, yet we have to constantly embargo/sanction/bomb socialist countries to keep them from rising while at the same time having to throw billions to other capitalists to keep them from sinking.
From what I understood there was never a ban on Chinese cars being sold in the US, they just put an 100% tariff on them to make it impractical for both dealers and buyers.
Just read up on Xi's anti-corruption campaign, while it wasn't explicitly an ideological purge it's pretty clear that those that it removed weren't exactly devoted marxists.
He just seems a little more pro-private enterprise then I feel comfortable with. He at least seems competent and I don't think he is an outright revisionist like Gorbachev, but enough to make me skeptical.
There are some revisionist elements in the CPC (I'm wary of Li Qiang for example) but I definitely wouldn't call Xi a revisionist. His installment as General Secretary was more or less an orthodox marxist coup against revisionist Shanghai politicians.
Maybe Milei was a comrade playing 4D chess all along. Crash the economy as hard as possible while bootlicking the US as hard as possible to get them to throw all their money into saving a sinking ship.
Shouldn't they be happy then that China is taking it upon themselves to block their "intellectual property" from entering the country? I guess that falls outside their pre-installed scripted thinking regarding China.
This is a smart move, as the US was trying position China into middling complacency by allowing them to access Nvidia chips but banning China from accessing the leading edge ones. Banning Nvidia all together prevents this and forces domestic Chinese chip makers to go full throttle on their own innovation.
They withdrew from Afghanistan and then tried their luck against Russia, now they are scaling back from both Europe and Asia and trying their luck in their immediate backyard.
I used to work in a tech store and I can confirm the shift. The stuff that says "Made in China" now are things like laptops, hard drives, drones, TVs, game consoles etc. while basic and cheap products like toys and clothes are now made in other countries.
That's a fair point but I feel like Russia and Iran have already been fairly accommodating towards Azerbaijan with all things considered, to no avail. When Azerbaijan attacked Armenia, Russia let them without any real consequences despite Armenia being a CSTO member (at the time). If Azerbaijan really wants to be a SCO member, I say that they are going to have to make some concrete concessions.
I'm in agreement with India but not because of Pakistan. Azerbaijan is a snake that's collaborating with Israel, Turkey and Ukraine and has no place in the SCO as things stand. They let Israel's F35s fly over their airspace to attack Iran without protest and Aliyev regularly makes anti-communist statements about the USSR.
Socialism doesn't work, yet we have to constantly embargo/sanction/bomb socialist countries to keep them from rising while at the same time having to throw billions to other capitalists to keep them from sinking.