#LAOs

TAX THEN EAT THE RICH

RUOKAnny

Everybody fawning over Western countries' responses to COVID19 while ignoring all the non-Western ones who've quietly been doing much better but hey they're not white so why would we care

✪SovietSpaceDog✪

palante_palante

Reasons why the capitalist world wants to keep you from reading Stalin:1) The world communist movement was at its most united during the Stalin era.2) He was a major theorist

StellaHongZhang

StellaHongZhang

China's Ministry of Commerce just released the latest Report on China's outward investment.http://images.mofcom.gov.cn/fec/202102/20210202162924888.pdfSome interesting stats to report: 1) Realized OFDI flow to #BRI countries in 2019

ElMo Flonzelay-Quixote

LaineyRubin

The unusually-suited-for-trump William Barr:From 1994: Barr, a "top layer for the same criminal covert action team" as Oliver North, wanted to abolish parole & use prisoners as slaves to corporate

WheeledPatriot2

WPatriot2

China is totteringThey don't have nearly the strength they are trying to project. Never mind the financial nonsense they are pulling....they aren't even helping their people right now with the

✪SovietSpaceDog✪

palante_palante

When a socialist country undergoes a liberalization of the economy -- of using the market and participating in free trade with capitalist nations, and opening the economy for private businesses,

Carl Zha

CarlZha

That time in 1953 when CIA financed remnant KMT army took over Northern Myanmar as an anti-Communist base agst People's Republic of China and turn the area into the world's

Christopher Moore

TheAuthorGuy

I'm increasingly concerned by analysis of the MAGA crowd resenting "coastal elites" because they control culture - art & entertainment. I think it's a valid observation, but I wonder if

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

The New York Times (@petersgoodman) highlights how the global financial response to the pandemic, to date, has fallen short of providing the financial support low income countries need to cope

Tom Tugendhat

TomTugendhat

It’s a privilege to have @konotarogomame briefing @ChinaResearchGp on the Security Environnement around Japan. Japan’s Defence Minister looks forward to the deloyment of @HMSQNLZ next year and describes the UK

Chris Arnade 🐢

Chris_arnade

While I understand the sentiment & arguments behind these types of articles, I pause & remind myself of all the immigrants I have met across the US -- from Congo,

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

A bit more on global debt issues, spurred by the @petersgoodman article.As noted in the NYT, debt service deferral cannot be the only way to help low income countries, as

M.P.

OmanReagan

Q: So why can't we just use a vaccine-only strategy where we just keep going like we have been and wait to get vaccinated? That's what the Biden administration is

Essential Borker

workingdog_

hot take: people should have systems of values that they try to hold themselves to; whether that be a religion or a moral philosophy or Something. Political tendencies don't count.

✨malefic sympathaiser 🇱🇦

ionamsak

lemme just rewrite this thread ( https://twitter.com/ionamsak/status/1344259775169777671?s=20 ) so it's neater lmfao. here's a theory on the h9-h12 square and how it could talk about colonisation. first i'm going to

Aren R. LeBrun

proustmalone

POLL: I’m going to ask a few questions about your history/social studies experience in US high school. If possible, please answer every question. Thanks!Q1) Did you learn about the Iran-Contra

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