Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by wbl on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:10AM
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The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?
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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by eiaoa on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:37AM
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> The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?
Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack of globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by jarfil on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:29AM
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Depends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by Tsubasachan on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:54AM
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How many wars has China instigated in the last 30 years though? Seems to me the region is shifting to accommodate the new power balance quite nicely.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by tomohawk on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:35AM
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Before WW I, France and Germany were each others largest trading partners. Trade and prosperity are orthogonal to war.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by notfromhere on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:58AM
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Trade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by oblio on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:43AM
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I'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
by pkaye on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:21AM
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I'm sure there are plenty of billionaires in China that can do more for them.