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The poor are addicted to entertainment.
The ambitious are addicted to information.
The rich are addicted to execution.
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It's important that Western culture continues to be the dominant global culture, not Chinese or any other culture.
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Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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Si on doutait du danger de dépendre de la Chine, Kylian Mbappé en donne une démonstration éclatante.
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Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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This is one of many reasons why China will never be a global superpower to rival the US.
Major Chinese brands drop Mbappé as backlash grows over Mao joke bbc.in/4ijeU1E
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Warum ich als Deutscher
nicht auf der Seite von China stehe:
Die Chinesen verdrängen und zerstören mit unfairen Handelspraktiken unsere Automobilindustrie. Dasselbe versuchen sie jetzt auch noch mit unserer Chemie-, Stahl- & Maschinenbauindustrie. Sie bedrohen uns existenziell.
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“If you go to China and get out of the few shiny cities, it gets pretty grim pretty fast.”
Grant Newsham just revealed that China is not the juggernaut it pretends to be.
“In actual fact, it’s a very poor country.”
“There’s 600 million Chinese at least who live on $5 a day or less.”
“Youth unemployment is officially admitted to being about 17-20%, when actual fact is probably closer to 50%.”
@NewshamGrant
