The one constant with China is change. There have been plenty of dynasties whose power waxed and waned over the years. Much of the current Chinese territory is being held through force, like East Turkestan or Tibet. As long as the people keep experiencing better living conditions they’ll tolerate the tyrannical governance of the CCP. The government’s betting big on censorship and shows of force, but I doubt it’ll suffice if enough civil discontent rises at once. China’s not a very resource independent country and all it takes is a shortage of food or oil to quickly destabilize its economy and its hold on power by extension.

Since much of the world still relies on China’s factories for so many general goods there’s a balance on its power through trade. As production and logistical chains continue to diversify outside its territories though, it’ll have a harder time keeping its citizens in check through economic growth. It’ll either have to start shifting into a service economy with good relations on its trade partners and neighbors for goods, or it may start to take a more nationalistic path. There’s an argument that both paths are actively being followed.

China heavily investing in trade and infrastructure with African countries may keep things peaceful as it continues to grow economically. This prosperity will only delay the inevitable though. People will eventually want to move away from factory work into more lucrative but limited service jobs as inflation starts to take hold due to an ever increasing amount of money in circulation. Its expected population decline will also start to kick in as the much higher population of older citizens would burden the comparatively smaller one child policy generation that would be needed to take care of them.

China promoting nationalism will distract the resentment of its people from the government to outside powers instead, but it would come with some severe geopolitical consequences. It’s already pissed off all its maritime neighbors by trespassing and overfishing in their waters, along with intentionally using its navy to attack fishing vessels. It’s also trying to claim vast swathes of international waters by dumping a bunch of sand and establishing forts on them all over the South China Sea. China and India routinely fight in border skirmishes using sticks and stones to try to keep the conflict from escalating. Eventually all the regional countries might decide to form a coalition and starve China out of its oil via a few strategically placed blockades either on the Strait of Malacca or along Sri Lanka. The economic damage over something like this might provide enough domestic unrest to force the government to change.

The CCP can’t hold its iron grip on power forever. One day HK will regain its ability to choose its own destiny. I only hope these people will still be around to see it.

That’s what we get for having farms downstream from livestock. Now that we have fewer EPA regulations you’d best start scrubbing your veggies real well before eating (if you’re American).

For those wondering without wanting to click, the title is “Reversed Front: Bonfire”. It’s supposed to depict an independent Taiwan and Hong Kong which is what obviously pissed off the delicate sensibilities of the CCP.

A significant portion of society’s lost respect for devastating and easily preventable diseases. I don’t think we’re getting it back until we dismantle its misinformation machine even if antivaxxers catch it themselves.

Staple carb. It’s supposed to be the bare minimum in cheap and regularly consumed food. After that society’s just a few missed meals away from people rioting.

Israel needs its lebensraum.

If the CCP’s all about championing the humble worker then surely they’ll approve of this guy’s actions, right?

Guess I’m not a real fan then.

I’m still driving a 2010 Versa equipped with one of their last automatic transmissions and it’s going strong. They used to have great affordably priced cars up until they introduced their horrendous CVTs. I’ve never been so disappointed with their offerings until test driving an Altima equipped with one. If you’re not consistent with maintenance on the thing it’ll end up costing you thousands of dollars to replace later. Add on the case that they made their vehicles the worst rated car for privacy by Mozilla (which is really saying something) and now you have a company that became very irrelevant in the 2010s onward.

It’s sad a car company with such a great legacy might end up going away, but they brought this upon themselves by cutting corners in production costs, raising their prices beyond what’s reasonable, and selling out their customer’s privacy for an easy buck.

Swastikab, they redirect its passengers’ ride to ICE facilities if the cameras pick up dark skin tones!

It has AC and only RWD.

Makes sense. They’ve been one of the most vocal countries against the genocide.

I miss the days when most long running anime didn’t have seasons and would just keep going until the story was over.

The problem here is we don’t have a better successor to our shitty system. China is likely to become the next dominant super power but we all know how fucked they’ve been to the Uyghurs, the Nepalese, India with border skirmishes, Asian mercantile boats through naval clashes, and practically every other country with their Wolf Warrior diplomacy. If fledgling markets thought US hegemony sucked, just think how China will treat them. They don’t give a fuck about soft power.

Absolutely. It’s easy for another Occupy Wall Street outcome to happen where this movement just fizzles out if there’s no structure to solidify into. Considering that most Democrats won’t acknowledge or support the movement, someone must rally these people into making an organization out of this momentum to challenge establishment Dems and Republicans. Long lasting and meaningful plans for governmental change have to come from this otherwise we’ll just stall out and get nothing done. Again.

Unless you’re the Mongols of course.

Ah just like how Egyptians used mummies for kindling. All that’s missing is some snake oil salesman peddling tinctures made of these corpses as a cure to measles or something.

Stay strong and hold the course. Citizens from all over the world should denounce the Republican party as the source of all this evil. Make their voices so loud the corporate owned media can’t shout over the din. My stupid American counterparts need to learn Republicans should never hold the levers of power in this country again.

The orange buffoon doesn’t see the US isn’t the only trading partner Canada and Mexico have. They’ve obviously prepared for this ever since he tried doing it during his last presidency. Maybe the pain he inflicted on average Americans will finally make them start mobilizing against him in even bigger protests.