I fully get your point. These mining projects - and some basic digital services - should be publicly owned in my humble opinion.

I already provided the evidence, you’ll see it also in the numbers. But tankies doing tankie things, including, unfortunately, the permanent insults. I end this discussion.

This is not relevant, it has nothing to do with my comment above.

This is what has been happening in China for a long time.

And? I know this paper but don’t know what you want to say by posting this link.

It is useless to pick a few sentences out of reports and then re-interpret them to make them fit for your desired narrative.

This is rubbish. Chinese state-media has been spreading reports of reduced US debt holdings. I provided even one link (that you have ignored).

Here is my original premise for reference …

What kind of satire is this?

Such a discussion is waste of time.

The only one that has a ‘claim on Taiwan’ is China.

@Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca

China does … not decouple from its debt purchasing

This is wrong. In February 2026, Chinese regulators have advised financial institutions to curb holdings of U.S. Treasuries due to concern over concentration risk and market volatility …

Officials urged banks to limit purchases of U.S. government bonds and instructed those with high exposure to pare down positions, though the advisory does not apply to state holdings, Bloomberg reported.

Just a few weeks ago, on 17 September, the South China Morning Post - a propaganda media outlet based in Hong Kong under the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship regime - reported that China cuts US Treasury holdings to 18-year low amid global bond sell-off. The SCMP says China has "“ersistent concerns over sustainability of Washington’s finances” and that China “see[s] overall foreign holdings [of U.S. debt] shrink for second consecutive month.”

There never was any evidence for China’s sell-off, but China’s rhetoric haven been pointing into that direction for a long time now.

But of course this is Scotty posting, a notorious Sinophobe, who wouldn’t understand what any of what their posts even mean. Just sees “China + action” and equates it with bad.

I don’t even mind your insults, but you should at least try to not spread fake news.

the “If you’re new here” at the bottom

I am not sure whether I understand this. I just wanted to provide additional context by adding these numbers. One underlying thing here is that China’s official rhetoric differs greatly from what they actually appear to do.

Tankies must really be desperate if they post a story that happened half a century ago in another attempt to make Canada look bad. OP is also posting ‘news’ from Chinese state media and other propaganda outlets, but apparently not even there are relevant posts today.

Tankies must really be desperate if they post a story that happened half a century ago in another attempt to make Canada look bad. OP is also posting ‘news’ from Chinese state media and other propaganda outlets, but apparently not even there are relevant posts today.

The article mentions sources and links to two of them.

What is far more concerning is Carney’s RCMP–Chinese police cooperation deal starting this year, despite illegal Chinese police stations in Canada, influence campaigns, transnational repression … And Canada isn’t not even dependent on China.

Yes, currently. But China’s population will age faster than in almost all other countries. China has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. The number of working-age people peaked already in 2015 and has been decreasing ever since. By 2050, there will be fewer than 2 working-age individuals for every person ages 65 and older (for comparison: in the U.S., there will be 2.5 working-age adults per for every person 65+ in 2050).

The problem is that China is still not a high-income country. Unlike many other countries, China hasn’t benefited from what is called a demographic dividend—a time of economic growth driven by a large working-age population compared with smaller numbers of dependents ages 65 and older and younger than 15.

It is true that China experienced unprecedented economic growth during its dividend period in the 1980s and 1990s, but this growth started later than in countries like, for example, Singapore and Japan, and its fertility rate decline has also been faster since. As a result, it exited its demographic dividend era with quite relatively low income per capita, and this threatens to leave the country with fewer resources to care for an aging population.

Simply speaking, countries like Japan, Singapore, and the U.S. got rich before they got old, China got old before it got rich.

This is because of an aging society, and Canada is among the majority of countries that will experience such a shift.

Globally, the number of people aged 60 years and older outnumbered children younger than 5 years already in 2020, according to the World Health Organization. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22%.

Among the larger economies, China is among the most effected by an aging society (far more than Canada). The number of people over 60 years will reach 28% by 2040, the WHO says. Some experts fear that China gets old before it gets rich, stating that in 2019, around 75% of older people (aged 60 years or older) in China suffered from noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension.

In 2050, 80% of older people will be living in low- and middle-income countries, according to the WHO forecast.

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OP is frequently posting bs propaganda, including Chinese state-media.

My criticism was not directed at you.

Edit: It’s the same account. Just click to see OP’s post history.

One is here: https://lemmy.ca/post/71922045 (they are using a Chinese state-media propaganda outlet)

Here is a non-state, but pro-Russian propaganda outlet: https://lemmy.ca/post/72023330

Yes, he shares this behaviour with all dictators it seems. Maybe it’s why he admires Xi Jinping so much as he said some years ago as “he controls 1.4 billion people quite ruthlessly.”

Yes, down with Israel’s right-wing government, but also down with all other authoritarian governments like those in China and Russia. OP is acting in bad faith and frequently posting pro-authoritarian propaganda using their sources such as Chinese state media.