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Yes, 40 yrs ago as grad student read USG 1950s Great Leap Forward era FBIS PRC press translation interview with PRC stats official "We must never forget the principle of partisanship in the statistical services."
The real Chimerica:
China adopts US economic system.
The US adopts Chinese political system.
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Throughout history and across the world, human nature remains the same.
In 380 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius, through the "Edict of Thessalonica," began to "eliminate all schools of thought, exalting only Christianity."
More than 500 years earlier, in 134 BC, during the
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History is a little girl dressed up by others, they only want you to know "what they want you to know";
There have been multiple outbreaks of "Cultural Revolution" in European history, some lasting up to a century. That kind of religious fanaticism and the spirit of destroying
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"... I was the CIA Director, we lied, we cheated, we stole(Laughter). It’s – it was like – we had entire training courses(Applause). It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment."
Former Sec. of State& CIA Dir. Mike Pompeo — Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019)..
Orwell will be winning the Nobel Prize in the "You are all a bunch of fucking idiots, like I predicted" category.
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Easy to forget how truly demented the panic over Japan was during parts of the 1980s. This was the New York Times in 1985.
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Joe Weisenthal
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Great read from @lionel_trolling on the era when Japan was seen as the rising, dominant Asian economy open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p
"Taxes are legal if the revenues are high."
Thomas Piketty: 
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BESSENT: GETS HARDER AND HARDER FOR SUPREME COURT TO RULE AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ON TARIFFS GIVEN REVENUES COMING IN -FOX BUSINESS INTERVIEW
Kinda wild and sad that Americans bought between 1.2 and 1.5 billion movie tickets every year for 30+ years and realistically speaking, that’s just … never going to happen again?
Akshually Italy is an export-oriented, high-tech manufacturing economy that even by economists' standards is larger than the UK's despite a smaller population. Italy is a major machine tool exporter. Tesla got its giga-presses from a boutique Italian firm outside of Milan.
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Konversatismus
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Do nothing.
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