Some years ago, Chinese immigrants came to Japan and were looked down upon as cheap labour. Nowadays, Chinese investors are buying the best real estate in Japan, and Chinese tourists are the main customers of the luxury brand shops in Omotesando.
Japan is a country where each generation is poorer than the generation before. In China, you can give your kids a better life than the one you had.
This kind of argument is very common in China's Internet comment areas, but it is also easy to refute. China's GDP is higher than that of Japan. It has experienced rapid growth in the past few decades, while Japan has lost 30 years. However, as an ordinary individual, what I want to say is who care? I did not share the dividends of the so-called high-speed GDP growth, but only suffered the inflation of housing prices and prices. May I ask the Chinese who can go overseas to consume the luxury goods you mentioned, what class do they or their parents belong to? I have nothing to do. I never thought Japan would be a perfect country, but I also don't think Japan will become poorer from generation to generation. As an individual, I don't care about the grand narrative, I don't care about the international economy, I just want to live in a free Internet, clean food and air, my children can choose not to compete so hard Just live a normal life.
They may not have fulfilled all their main goals to a 100%. However, they seem to be still occupying large amounts of territory that belonged to the Ukrainian government, including most of the Dombas and the water sources of Crimea.
No, but even a Pyrrhic victory appears out of reach. A 100% instant capitulation by Ukraine wouldn't undue most sanctions, NATO expansion, Western military buildup, their tarnished military reputation, or even a semblance of their recent soft power. It's projected to take 10+ years to create the manufacturing base needed just to start rebuilding their former military strength, dependent as it was on Western sources.
I don't think anyone sees a way out of this that approaches a "win" from the Russian perspective.
Not yet, but every week they occupy less and less territory, lose more soldiers and more equipment.
> They may not have fulfilled all their main goals to a 100%. However, they seem to be still occupying large amounts of territory that belonged to the Ukrainian government, including most of the Dombas and the water sources of Crimea.
They don't seem so confident in keeping Crimea, they are building defences in it already.
Most public healthcare systems provide excellent treatments for the majority of the population. And, if you have some rare condition that can only be treated with some state-of-the-art cure that is only provided by some hospital out of the country, and you have several hundred thousand $$$ in your bank account, nobody will stop you from paying the treatment from your pocket.
I am picking up a 16kg and a 12kg masses several times a day, and I am sure that this keeps me in shape. Basically, because I didn't have time to go to the gym in the last five years.
Exactly. They should know better and vote for governments that are aligned with the US government's interests, so they don't need to go through a CIA-sponsored coup.
