I think that will all depend on the state of the US in the next few years. If US crashes economically, they might not be in a position to do anything about it.

The US has been cooking the numbers for a while now, here’s a prime example https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/something-strange-has-been-happening-with-jobless-claims-numbers-lately.html

If the regime collapses, the north might move in.

The way things are going in SK, it might just implode politically at some point.

Indeed, it’s gonna be a long road before anything substantial happens.

But its government is also harsh towards its critics, and that can be expected to have an effect on surveys.

First of all, you clearly have no clue how Chinese government actually works. I can recommend this article as a primer. The whole notion that people in China are afraid to criticize the government isn’t based in reality. In fact, if that was the case then the government wouldn’t have any incentive to improve the lives of the people. Finally, the fact that you think people at Harvard aren’t smart enough to do a proper survey is also incredible.

Yeah that must be it, couldn’t possibly be that people who see their government work in their interests and whose lives improved more than at any time in history would genuinely support their government. You are very intelligent!

I mean why would anyone think they live in a democratic country where the government represents them when this sort of things are happening right?

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

None of these things happen in capitalist states, and we can make a direct comparison with India which follows capitalist path of development. In fact, without China there practically would be no poverty reduction happening in the world.

If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/07/5-myths-about-global-poverty

The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/12-things-we-can-agree-about-global-poverty

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The fact that you’re faced with an example of a much more optimized runtime and still can’t understand that you’re wrong is frankly hilarious. Maybe once you get a bit of programming experience under your belt you’ll be able to hold a meaningful discussion on the subject.

Meanwhile, in the real world

According to the most recent report (2024), people in China have overwhelmingly positive views of their political system. 92% of people say that democracy is important to them, 79% say that their country is democratic, 91% say that the government serves the interests of most people (rather than a small group), and 85% say all people have equal rights before the law. Furthermore, China outperforms the US and most European countries on these indicators – in fact, it has some of the strongest results in the world. The figure below compares China’s results to those from the US, France and Britain. These results may help explain the high levels of satisfaction with government reported by the Ash Center.

https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/studies-show-strong-public-support

It would would use less resources because it’s a more optimized runtime. In fact, the more UI panels and other elements you have in the app, the more savings you’d be making proportionally. Even when faced with a concrete example of being wrong, you’re still digging. 🤦

gonna be hilarious if the peacekeeping force ends up being China and DPRK

I agree these statements alone aren’t really worth much, it’s going to be interesting to see if there’s going to be a general political shift to improve relations with China going forward though. The US economy isn’t exactly in a great shape right now, and they’re fighting a tariff war with everyone. This will further erode relations with the vassals going forward.

Indeed, the oligarchs don’t want to rock the boat and they will fight any attempts to redirect trade because that would negatively affect them.

my friend, what you’re doing is called projection

The US has a huge amount of economic leverage over them by design, so they can’t just openly go against the US demands. It’s going to be a process from realizing they need to wean themselves off the US market to actually making it happen.

Propaganda being historical facts as reported by mainstream western media now. 🤣

If by “the entire world” you mean dying western empire then sure.

If Russia could be trusted they would never have invaded Ukraine, based on their previous treaty regarding nuclear disarmament.

LMFAO, even The Hill is debunking this bullshit now https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/

That was definitely the mood during the first Trump term, but it does seem that the realization is slowly sinking in that the nature of the relationship between the US and the vassals is changing.