From the imaginary Great Famine of 1959 to the Property Apocalypse of 2025 – the annual ritual of getting China catastrophically wrong, year after year after year.
What do you think is the cause of the poor predictions? Is it propaganda to skew [Western] public perception? Is it using [Western] economic and/or political models to assess the Chinese models, thereby not assessing correctly? [Western] economic and/or political models are fairly correct but China responds to address the deficiencies and thereby makes such predictions "wrong"? Other?
Capitalism has been at war, hot and cold, with Communism since 1873 and, as Churchill observed, truth is the first casualty of war. Our vast Western propaganda machine (which convinced us that Hitler started WWII) simply switched to demonizing our allies in 1946–and nobody even noticed.
The predictions are so utterly at variance with reality that the only possible answer must be "propaganda".
When confronted with a socialist nation that is prosperous and growing, the US government gets palpitations. Its first instinct is to engineer a coup (a "colour revolution" as they are now called) and install a pro-Washington government that will return to proper capitalism red in tooth and claw (and slavish obedience to Washington). Failing that, the approach is to attack the offending country and if possible "bomb it back into the Stone Age".
With China, alas, neither of those has any chance of success. Indeed, if attempted they might result in serious blowback, harming the USA itself.
So all that is left is slander and libel. Persistent, continual defamation, ignoring contrary facts, and hoping that the Western public at least will exhibit the usual "goldfish memory" and keep forgetting all those predictions that turned out to be completely wrong.
It's not much, but it's all they have. And they couldn't bear to do nothing.
What do you think is the cause of the poor predictions? Is it propaganda to skew [Western] public perception? Is it using [Western] economic and/or political models to assess the Chinese models, thereby not assessing correctly? [Western] economic and/or political models are fairly correct but China responds to address the deficiencies and thereby makes such predictions "wrong"? Other?
Capitalism has been at war, hot and cold, with Communism since 1873 and, as Churchill observed, truth is the first casualty of war. Our vast Western propaganda machine (which convinced us that Hitler started WWII) simply switched to demonizing our allies in 1946–and nobody even noticed.
The predictions are so utterly at variance with reality that the only possible answer must be "propaganda".
When confronted with a socialist nation that is prosperous and growing, the US government gets palpitations. Its first instinct is to engineer a coup (a "colour revolution" as they are now called) and install a pro-Washington government that will return to proper capitalism red in tooth and claw (and slavish obedience to Washington). Failing that, the approach is to attack the offending country and if possible "bomb it back into the Stone Age".
With China, alas, neither of those has any chance of success. Indeed, if attempted they might result in serious blowback, harming the USA itself.
So all that is left is slander and libel. Persistent, continual defamation, ignoring contrary facts, and hoping that the Western public at least will exhibit the usual "goldfish memory" and keep forgetting all those predictions that turned out to be completely wrong.
It's not much, but it's all they have. And they couldn't bear to do nothing.
"From 1980-2008, EU GDP grew 2.7%, the US 3%, and China 9% ".
Omitted: "annually". Otherwise it looks like very slow growth.