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I did what you asked by stopped being lazy and translated the first 3-page summary, and it still doesn’t address any of the questions I asked?

Specifically, how does the report address this problem (i.e. China dumped their exports into the EU while substantially reduced their imports from the EU, as American tariffs threatened to reduce its consumption demand for global exporters goods):

This is a very valid question with data to support.

It’s not some fantasy scenario or a “maybe” scenario, it’s ALREADY happening and China is already doing that to the EU. I don’t see why it’s invalid to ask the pertinent questions when it is already a reality that the EU has to face.

But more importantly, why is it that my inability to read a language is being used to label my character as “lazy”?

The Twitterer made a claim, I asked for clarification and posed the questions so anyone who can read French can look for those information. Is this not allowed?

If you have actual arguments, then I’d love to hear it. No need to be hostile.

Was the shift stronger than Bernie’s initial campaigns? I think it will depend on how the left organize around and with Zohran. He cannot do it alone. He needs a mass movement behind him.

And Trump wants to kill American science by defunding them lol.

If you want a left wing Fox News, then maybe this isn’t the place you should be looking for.

We all have different opinions here and the discussions on the news mega have been, for the most part, free from toxicity. It’s a place for discussion and to learn from one another, which means you should expect to read stuff that you don’t like or don’t agree with. At least we do our best not to post chud/reactionary stuff here.

didn't bother to read the 3 pages in the rapport

The French document was 153 pages lol! Are you being serious?

If you disagree with my arguments, feel free to retort. This is a place for discussion after all.

But that’s not what’s happening. China does not want to take action - that’s the whole point. It could, but it doesn’t want to.

And if China doesn’t want to de-dollarize during the first couple years of the Ukraine War, and instead doubled down on defending that and allowed the US the time to recover from that, what makes you think we’re going to get another chance to de-dollarize again?

What we are seeing right now is that the US is actively using global tariffs to reshape the global supply chain by threatening to wreck the export economies in the Global South, and because there is no alternative to absorb their surplus exports, these countries had to make deals with Trump.

China showed the world how easily it could kill the Western industries with its rare earth card. It’s too bad that China wants to use it to restore the neoliberal status quo, instead of forging a new path for the world.

And these aren’t just conjectures or some fantasies I conjured up. Read the Russian proposal at the BRICS Kazan summit last year and it’s clear that the motivation to de-dollarize just isn’t there anymore (and China never even bothered despite the wishful thinking of many, including myself at one point).

The US is only “winning” because the big players don’t want to challenge them properly.

My friend, I cannot read French. What’s so hard to understand? That’s why I asked others to look for the specific information I made in my arguments. Is this too difficult to understand?

I never blamed anyone for not being able to read Chinese articles. If anything, I have spent countless hours painstakingly translating Chinese articles and posted them here (not using machine translation because it isn’t always accurate in many cases).

Well I haven't read it but xyz

My friend, I literally said that the article was hidden behind Substack paywall and asked clarification from others who speak French to see if there are any of these info contained the original French document. Is that too much to ask?

I’m not paying for that Substack subscription and it’s fair to ask for details when someone makes a claim. Notice that all of my arguments are backed by my own explanations, even though people may not agree with them, at least I provide a framework for the analysis.

But just recently you basically engaged in that same behaviour here, this is just an actual garbage take and you didn't bother to read anything

Not sure what’s the problem with my comment that you linked. I asked for clarification, and even added my explanations to note that the principal contradictions of these countries cannot be resolved if those questions aren’t answered. Like, it’s fine to disagree but what exactly about it was garbage?

Also I disagree that I am doomer at all. If anything, I am one of the few posters that say China already has the capacity to take on the US hegemony both economically and financially. It is the people that keep making excuses for China that “it’s still building productive capacity” (China already has 31% of global manufacturing share!) and “China is playing the long game” that’s intrinsically admitting that China is too weak to do anything and therefore cannot challenge the US domination.

China Biotech’s Stunning Advance Is Changing the World’s Drug Pipeline Bloomberg

Chinese biotech's advance has been as ferocious as the nation's breakthrough efforts in AI and EVs, eclipsing the EU and catching up to the US

The biotechnology industry is experiencing a tectonic shift, driven by Chinese drugmakers who have come a long way from their copycat days to challenge Western dominance on innovation.

The number of novel drugs in China — for cancer, weight-loss and more — entering into development ballooned to over 1,250 last year, far surpassing the European Union and nearly catching up to the US’s count of about 1,440, an exclusive Bloomberg News analysis showed. And the drug candidates from the land once notorious for cheap knock-offs and quality issues are increasingly clearing high bars to win recognition from both drug regulators and Western pharmaceutical giants.

The findings, gleaned from an analysis of a database maintained by pharma intelligence solutions provider Norstella, show a fundamental shift in medical innovation’s center of gravity. With President Donald Trump already threatening tariffs on the pharmaceutical sector, China's biotech advances — the scale of which is slowly coming into view — risk becoming another realm of superpower rivalry like artificial intelligence and electric vehicles.

“The scale itself is not something we’ve seen before,” said Helen Chen, managing partner at LEK Consulting in Shanghai, who has advised healthcare companies on their China strategy since 2003. “The products are here, they’re attractive and they’re fast.”

This shift has occurred at an unprecedented pace. When China began to overhaul its drug regulatory system in 2015, the country had just 160 compounds to contribute to the global pipeline of innovative drugs, or less than 6% of the total, behind Japan and the UK. The reforms helped streamline reviews, enforced data quality standards and improved transparency. The government’s ‘Made in China 2025’ plan to elevate manufacturing in 10 priority sectors also helped spur a flurry of investments in biotechnology. Altogether, they unleashed a boom led by foreign-educated and -trained scientists and entrepreneurs.

“Not only is it now almost at parity with the US but it has that growth trajectory,” said Daniel Chancellor, vice president of thought leadership at Norstella. “It wouldn’t be sensationalist to suggest that China will overtake the US in the next few years purely in terms of numbers of drugs that it’s bringing through into its pipeline.”

Read the rest in the article.

Zohran’s victory will go down in history as the revolutionary turning point in American socialism.

Honestly it isn’t so bad. Marxism is a scientific approach and it’s actually good to see that people calibrate their views/models based on newly available information, even though the news haven’t been positive for us lately. The goal is to discuss how capitalism works on a geopolitical level and while we are not an academic forum, at least the attitude here is closer to that.

The worst are the NAFO liberal space and the pro-BRICS “alt media” space where those people just continue to double down with their cognitive dissonance after boasting so much about how “Russia/China will collapse soon” or “US/Ukraine/Israel will collapse soon”. While some of their analyses are grounded, they seem more interested in selling a dream without substance. And I’m glad we are not those spaces, where they are also - perhaps not so coincidentally - occupied by a fair amount of reactionaries.

Doomerism would imply spreading doom that does not comply with reality, which may have happened with a few users but mostly people here are just discussing the current events and voicing their own opinions.