Eric

Just an Average Joe

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@StanThye @haugejostein Incorrect. They have simply grown from a very low base. This could have been done without the desperate levels of inequality and human rights abuses.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@thinking_panda Yep, there are advantages to living in a highly unequal middle income country.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@pstAsiatech More sensible thought: both help, and if two countries both have the latter, large subsidies (like you see in China) can make the difference.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@pstAsiatech Put another way: the CCP steps back opportunistically from one of its countless egregious acts. Won’t be long before it commits another.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@RobAtkinsonITIF That message would be a lot clearer and more powerful if Trump hadn’t slapped tariffs on all countries, alienating allies and taking the focus off China.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@RobAtkinsonITIF This seems to neglect the fact that there are structural factors (e.g. the $ being the global currency) that make a trade deficit inevitable and the fact that Americans just love to spend. More importantly, Trump should focus on China’s outrageous mercantilism, not attack allies

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@mtmalinen Explanation = your buddy Putin, and his facilitator in chief, Donald Trump.

Happy to help.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@mtmalinen Even if one accepts you delusional description of “Nazi-Ukraine”, you neglect a key point: it is Russia that has invaded Ukr. Putin’s war crimes stop when he decides to stop his aggression. You obviously know this, making your tweet even more inexcusable. Do you have no shame?

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@EmmaMAshford Yes, and i’m sure this supports your defeatist agenda. Weird how you have never offered your own approval of a policy that supports the victims of Putin’s barbarism.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@BenjaminNorton Nope. Given that all trade unions in China are ultimately controlled by the CCP, Huawei is state controlled. Workers in China, like citizens generally, have very little voice in Xi’s highly repressive dictatorship.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@ianbremmer Unfortunately this was a hollow gesture. Trump followed this up by effectively showing sympathy for Putin’s continued barbaric bombing of Ukraine (facilitated by Trump’s egregious halting of Ukr support), rather than condemn him.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@EmmaMAshford Very weird that that is your focus. Instead, you should work on moving from being “kind of appalled” to completely outraged by such egregious callousness.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@EmmaMAshford Kind of amazing how Emma only ever offers defeatist analysis on Ukraine, that undermines their cause and promotes the interests of ‘war crimes’ Putin.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@dominictsz When do you think China’s political system will mature? Dictatorship is so last century.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@EmmaMAshford That’s because Trump is parroting Putin’s propaganda while his sadistic henchmen rape and torture in Ukraine. Nobody with a moral compass could go along with that.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@mtmalinen @MarinSanna Why are deranged reactionaries like Tuomas almost invariably the type of men who look like they didn’t get laid enough in their youth?

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@GuntherEagleman That’s right. No need to support democratic allies when you can cozy up with deranged amd fanatical dictators like Putin.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@JerrysTakeChina No engagement with evidence or reasoning Jerry?

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@mtmalinen On the one hand, the Flynn Effect suggests a rise in IQ over the last century, on the other, we are in a world full of people like Tuomas who are addicted to deranges evidence free conspiracy theories. Hard to make sense of.

[Eric @Eric11564315829]

@AaronBastani @Ross_Greer Does your analysis stop short of caring about non-Europeans (not least the Taiwanese)?