This might be too complicated for the average consumer at CVS, which tends to skew towards an older demographic.

Colonialism is essentially theft with a pretty red ribbon on top to make it look good so we can all unequivocally say fuck colonialism.

But my point is beyond that. It’s that the progress that’s been achieved through those ideas you’re celebrating was predicated on theft from and suffering of people in developing countries. In a sense those in developing countries have an ownership stake in Western industrialization and China is the first previously developing nation that’s coming to take back what is, in part, theirs. The West needs to come to terms with the fact that they won’t be the last to do so.

‘Investment’ is a nice way to put it. A more apt description would be that the developing world invested in the West’s industrialization (or the West stole it, whatever floats your boat) and the Western world chose to give essentially nothing back to its investors, directly contradicting the new capitalist world it had created.

Which is why many in the developing world feel that China’s rise to prominence is the West’s chickens coming home to roost.

A Kenyan official once said: ‘When China visits we get a hospital. When Britain visits we get a lecture’

Deepthink R1(the reasoning model) was only released on January 20. Still took a while though.

You’re watching an empire in decline. It’s words stopped matching its actions decades ago.

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It’s a good thought but much less practical than retaliatory tariffs. I don’t think there is precedent (in recent times) of Western nations overtly violating each other’s intellectual property rights.

How are the speeds?

Not sure how this is feasible unless you’re certain your audience is going to use a VPN too. Seems like a risky way to lose views ie. your revenue stream.

As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%

East asian countries after WW2 (minus China) are essentially subsidaries of Western/US imperialism.