It is an important 1/6, though, and they have tried to coerce policy changes with trade threats a bit. If you live here, you know we’ve gotten a few rounds of it.
Isolated, in the sense when they do something like that, other countries voluntarily going along with it isn’t even a question (the whole “only Han Chinese are people” thing kills earnest cooperation). Except maybe North Korea, although they ~only trade with China anyway.
Which dovetails into the next thing. Comecon was based in Europe, but if you’re not counting it as part of the historical West, I revise that to “the Eastern bloc did much more coercive trade policy than the West”. Since they didn’t trade freely with the greater world at all, it was strictly conditional and on a case-by-case basis.
You live in the worldwide capital of Atlantic trade slavery and you believe China is more racist than you somehow?
Well, typical American, assumes everyone is also American, even literally on Canada@lemmy.ca with a user called CanadaPlus. Black slavery was never a major part of our economy.
Your ilk claims to be anti-American, but somehow you’re overwhelmingly American, mostly white and actual third world people think you’re goofs. Basically, go home yank, and take your conspiracy theories with you.
GDP in USD is a bad metric, try GDP PPP.
Most of what you wrote needs no debunking, but I will address this for anyone reading. That’s based on a goods basket of some kind, and usually meant to represent household spending (although if you’ve actually been to a poor country, you can see it still misses the mark of actual lifestyles).
For broader economic power, real dollars (or renminbi or pesos or whatever unit you like) is best. Because that’s what you actually trade with.
China, weak:
It is an important 1/6, though, and they have tried to coerce policy changes with trade threats a bit. If you live here, you know we’ve gotten a few rounds of it.
Isolated, in the sense when they do something like that, other countries voluntarily going along with it isn’t even a question (the whole “only Han Chinese are people” thing kills earnest cooperation). Except maybe North Korea, although they ~only trade with China anyway.
Which dovetails into the next thing. Comecon was based in Europe, but if you’re not counting it as part of the historical West, I revise that to “the Eastern bloc did much more coercive trade policy than the West”. Since they didn’t trade freely with the greater world at all, it was strictly conditional and on a case-by-case basis.
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Well, typical American, assumes everyone is also American, even literally on Canada@lemmy.ca with a user called CanadaPlus. Black slavery was never a major part of our economy.
Your ilk claims to be anti-American, but somehow you’re overwhelmingly American, mostly white and actual third world people think you’re goofs. Basically, go home yank, and take your conspiracy theories with you.
Most of what you wrote needs no debunking, but I will address this for anyone reading. That’s based on a goods basket of some kind, and usually meant to represent household spending (although if you’ve actually been to a poor country, you can see it still misses the mark of actual lifestyles).
For broader economic power, real dollars (or renminbi or pesos or whatever unit you like) is best. Because that’s what you actually trade with.
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