HobbitFoot

China has a far weaker social safety net than a lot of people assume.

Yeah. Both Hillary and Kamala ran on maintaining the current system and lost.

If you learn about what went on during the Great Awakening, you can see that there was a lot of competition between different churches and no government regulation. For the entrepreneuial pastor, they could slightly change the gospel and church services to target a congregation of their choosing.

Yeah. McCain’s veto to kill the ACA was based on Republicans having to provide their plan while getting rid the ACA instead of after.

It turns out that getting rid of the ACA was the plan.

There have been wargames going back over a decade which highlight how vulnerable current aircraft carriers are to various forms of attack from nations like Iran. I would expect that China would be more than capable of destroying an aircraft carrier, especially if the carrier group wasn’t in the high seas but next to the Chinese coast.

Yeah. Kick them both out.

A community college is usually the cheapest option and doesn’t have student dorms in campus.

I don’t see how that affects his analysis, though. An American attempt to oust the Venezuelan government would likely lead to a wide scale guerilla war and South America would likely become more anti-American in the process.

That someone so high up in the administration is saying it likely means there are reasonable fears of this becoming a major issue.

This is going to sound strange, but a major problem in the world economy is the lack of Chinese consumer spending. It is at least ten percentage points below non-US developed countries and is a major reason for the trade imbalance between China and the rest of the world.

It has been suggested that the Chinese government increase its retired health care benefits to include more money for emergency events as, currently, a large chunk of that cost gets paid by the retirees.

No, I’m expecting a SteamOS PC.