You are doing that thing again. Is China living closer to the ideals of the empire or Mao or closer to the rules of Adam Smith just like US? You keep lambasting the US for the exact rules you are playing. The British messed China up, but should I say its ok since the Mongol empire pillaged everything from Hangzhou to Kiev? You keep doing that thing again. That said it hadn't no impact on its laws under decades of Mao or Deng. Western powers couldn't impact China in those decades no matter how hard they tried. Well yeah, the US was fairly open about what it did to Japan. It didn't turn around and act like it was pulling protectionist measures. It didn't start acting like it was Japan who started it in the first place. You claiming you are American doesn't lend credibility to your argument. Its so useless since there are bot farms within america itself. Your arguments should be the only defence here.

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There is no free market capitalism anywhere in the world. This is not the 1800s. Western industries are tightly regulated down to the IP laws you mentioned. If the US was an laissez-faire system you would have a point on hypocrisy, but its not. China will complain about tariffs when they are their standard. China will steal IPs then turned around and state it now wants the products to compete fairly. The US didn't force China or Deng to open up its markets. And if that is what you consider pillaging then the US reaction to China is justified as a defence against pillaging.

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“The 119th congress was the least productive in history, no congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the house, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no house votes scheduled until after the election.” - community notes X Sooooo I’m screaming to fire people from boring jobs and start paying them to be Americans. Our senators are doing it for themselves. Let’s give every American the senator treatment: you get to be less productive and make the same pay!

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You will hold these bonds or we will put you in prison for all the laws we know you've already broken.

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Kevin Warsh seems like a nice neutral guy, I wonder who his in laws are.

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It is not a bubble in China. They are handling it quite nicely. Laws put in place. Governing bodies to manage risk. You know...like smart adults would.

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