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    China Economy Forum

    Well, I would personally wait the final result before celebrating, but the gist of the issue is that US is not stupid. Neither US nor China just wake up one day and say "hey, this guy is my opponent, I am going to do everything to inconvenient him". The reason for the China-US tension and...
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    India's GDP Data Cannot Be Trusted: Nobel Prize Winner Angus Deaton

    Yes, and US federal reserve agrees. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Research, Economic Research, China, Economic Growth, GDP, Gross Domestic Product, Chinese Economy I will just post the conclusion section: "Conclusion We found that reported Chinese output data are systematically...
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    China rejects US criticism of religious freedom

    It is pretty commonly known that a lot of religious extremists and terrorists in China are under US payroll. Good for China.
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    Not so scary: This is why China's military is a paper tiger

    Pff, name a country that actually "fought a modern war" in the past four decades. The wars around the global in the past four decades consist of: 1. Major power dumping ridicules amount of arsenal on countries that can't even fight back 2. Minor power slugging out with each with truly...
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    How China Pays off Debt

    Erm, internet connection to different part of world has different speed. Which part of that is deceptive or digressive? The 20 mbps connection at my office at South Carolina connects to google.com almost instantaneously, but if I am trying to access a Chinese site like baidu.com it will take...
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    A very good video on Chinese economy

    Because the second link didn't include local and state level debt, which your video included as a major part of China's "total debt". It only counted the public (federal) debt, but did not take into account of the local/state level debt like infrastructure investment, certain social benefits and...
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    How China Pays off Debt

    Connection to where? Like I said, if you are talking about connection between China and US, then there is nothing China can do. The bottleneck is the external connections.
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    The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so

    Well, if the experiment is accurate, then it means local causality is not true, this means faster than light communication is possible. Obviously we don't have a ready to use product yet, but if it is theoretically possible, then it will become reality one day.
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    A very good video on Chinese economy

    The reason US debt sum up to 814%, as seen here: State Debt Ranking Percent GDP for 2016 - Charts Total US debt soars to nearly $60 trn, foreshadows new recession — RT USA The numbers are somewhat different depending on the method of analysis, depending on what is supposed counted in "total...
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    The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so

    I knew it was about quantum entanglement the moment I saw local causality. Well, that opens up a wide variety of very useful applications, ones that may be vital if we ever spread out to the stars.
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    Earth is one of the Universe's first habitable planets, and most are yet to be born

    Okay, this is very interesting news and if it is accurate, then we may be the ones with the solemn task of actually seeding the universe with life and civilization. All the more reason to go into space exploration as soon as possible.
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    Xi seals landmark multi-billion dollar nuclear deal in Britain

    Wait, they stopped nuclear reactor research after Chernobyl? Admittingly I don't know a lot about British industry, but do you have any link for that? That sound....stupid.
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    TPP Trade Deal: Gains and challenges for Asia-Pacific countries

    Hmm, I already admitted in the post #50 that "non-existent/almost non-existent isn't that different". If you want to, okay, it is non-existent then. It is your words though. Huh, I just realized something. So, this entire lengthy tirade by you is arguing the difference between...
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    How China Pays off Debt

    What good sites? I am not aware that my colleagues' access to IEEE Xplore has been blocked.
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    Gauging the strength of Chinese innovation: McKinsey Quarterly

    This part is rather critical. Innovation is one of those words that is frequently brought up in modern day economic discussion. However, does anyone wonder why only a limited number of developed economies are called "innovative"? Does this mean the rest of the world dislike to innovate? The...
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    TPP Trade Deal: Gains and challenges for Asia-Pacific countries

    So where is this claim for "If you were forecasting that those domestic industries will grow to challenge foreign competitors if it werent for the TPP" you are asking me to prove? The statement quoted by you in post #47 contains the following: "This means without protective measure in certain...
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    How China Pays off Debt

    Something to note, as far as speed is concerned, the national network speed of China is actually quite fast. The problem typically arises when Chinese members try to assess external sites and vice versa. This is because the connection between China and US/EU has a limited capacity, thus creating...
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    China-UK (Britain) Geopolitics and Economics: News & Discussions

    You gotta hand one thing to the Brits. They are pragmatic, a lot more so than their French neighbors.
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    Which ASEAN Country Will Become The World's Next Manufacturing Hub?

    I know it is a country. The idea is that a multiple culture, multiple language, multiple religion collection of groups unified together. When we are talking about ASEAN and EU, such a group is called a bloc because it is made of individual nations under different leadership even though they...
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    TPP Trade Deal: Gains and challenges for Asia-Pacific countries

    Huh, when did I make a claim about "If you were forecasting that those domestic industries will grow to challenge foreign competitors if it werent for the TPP"? What started this train of post by you is this: "Can you answer those questions and give your analysis for specific sectors in...
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