@jeremybernier@levelsio Many min wage earners have to live outside the city due to high rents. Slow public transportation makes working late unappealing, so restaurants, cafes close early
@gonglei89 China’s most effective tool last year, rare earths, has more economic/time/environmental barriers that can be surmounted with enough political will. But do you pollute your land and spend 10 yrs building up an industry for $1B annual imports with shit margins or do you compromise
@PlisskenPatriot Men ask for just the opportunity to get to know a woman and basic courtesy if it doesn’t work out. Many young women today, due to social media & dating apps, are bratty, rude and entitled.
➡️men turned off
➡️men and women remain single
@ThePoliEcon Japanese invective at the Chinese is fear masked as hate. They project how they treated Asia when they were strong, but the Chinese are not a militaristic people, despite some voices clamoring to repay a blood debt
@zhao_dashuai It’s fear masquerading as hate. They know China is only getting stronger and they project onto it what a strong Japan would do. But the Chinese are not warlike like the Japanese, even if some want to collect on a blood debt
@yishan@Molson_Hart I’d also argue they didn’t want to waste resources chasing a vanity metric that, as the defender, the US has more to lose than China has to gain
@hilton_ctwh Opinions evolve when economic winds change. At this point, TW’s (economic) future is likely more secure tied closer to CN than to an angry US trying to repatriate its semi industry. Seems logical—I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the pro-DPP expat archetype & their motivations
@chinogaston Undignified for a government official to leave this way, might as well climb out of a window. And democracies aren’t supposed to be afraid of the media I thought