Gucci_Minh [he/him]

That is correct, there were border raids which prompted the invasion, but the Sino Soviet split is what caused the worsening relations which led to that. Basically, the invasion was cringe, even if there was some justification for it, but what was more cringe was the repudiation of Stalin and the revisionism in the USSR that followed by corn boy.

Capitalist roader (affectionate)

True, the Sino Vietnamese war was an L, as expected of post Sino Soviet split Chinese foreign policy. And yeah I had the same concerns over liberalizing too fast, esp in the Jiang and Hu era, but it seems like that’s been reigned in too. Trust the process I guess.

Yeah that, and to expand a little, he was often derided by hardliners for being a sellout, and the plan to develop productive forces in China had some close calls from a full capitalist restoration. It seems to have worked out so far however, since the PRC was originally an impoverished pariah state, and now it is more advanced in many respects than the west. The work that needs to be done now is to take the productive forces that the capitalists gleefully supplied in exchange for cheap labour and turn it towards domestic production and consumption.

Its insane how much our favourite capitalist roader was vindicated holy shit. All that’s left is to press the communism button.

Cheetahs go fast

China: here’s what we’re going to do for the next 5 years

West: we can never understand those inscrutable Confucian Orientals

You’re in luck, China will back down from it’s red line (again), because they actually care about the continued existence of human civilisation over acting tough

However, because I just posted this prediction on chapo.chat, the opposite will come true and there’s gonna be a hot war.

Even with the current model of state directed capitalism, the amount of investment into social services and poverty reduction already shame the west. China isn’t yet in a position to press the communism button, but once the threat of America and it’s puppets decline there may well be a pivot.

If China can manage to turn its industries and markets to an internal production/consumption model and reduce its reliance on being an export economy, it would be much better off even without the massive growth. Growth will have to stop at some point, and the focus will be on stability, since China hasn’t made any indications it’ll try to fuel growth through imperialism like western economies have. Japan style stagnation would be not so terrible if your society is socialist.

I’m not checking for new food, I’m just wondering if my standards have dropped enough since last time I checked to eat the half a carrot and raw onion that’s been sitting there.

What 0 historical or geopolitical literacy does to a mf

Make tankie mean pro-Soviet intervention against reactionary Hungarian colour revolution again.

Socialism, in an extreme simplification, is a mode of political and economic organisation in which the workers own the means of production, and receive the full value of their labour. While social welfare programs are often attached to that, they are not socialism in and of themselves, nor are they a prerequisite to socialism (but it is nice to have).

I had it saved so I don’t remember where, but Googles reverse image search yields more matches than tineye

Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin

Damn you really got him kind gentlesir with this scathing correction, I tip my fedora to you

China is good actually

If I had a sufficiently powerful laser I could point it at one of the retroreflectors they put up there and get a reflection back, there is actual proof, and the fact that the Soviets even acknowledged it says a lot about its veracity. Do you think that just because some of the stuff that the US says is true that I’m to take the other things at face value without proof? If NBC cites CBS cites AP cites Reuters cites CBS cites NBC… am I supposed to just be like oh well there’s a lot of citations so clearly it must be true? Please try to challenge this “west good by default” mindset that you have, it clouds your judgment.