• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    What are the milestones you’re looking for as it does so? What do you expect to see as that economy becomes the dominant force behind global trade?

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      8 hours ago

      De-dollarization, expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative, a transition from fossil-fuels to renewables, energy independence not just in China but in the periphery, revolution in the imperial core, a decrease in marketization and an increase in public ownership by ratio of the economy, etc. All of these are important milestones, but they do not happen overnight.

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            7 hours ago

            “Sure.” is a cop-out. It’s either a “yes”, a “no”, or at least discussion of what is succeeding versus where progress that has potential to occur is being over-cautiously avoided or ignored.

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                6 hours ago

                Eh, fair enough. Play with your food long enough and it’ll go bad or get stolen out from under you though. You’ve got an opportunity to undermine American imperialism and reshape the nature of the global economy. But if your attitude is a casual “we’ll get there whenever, someday, whatever”, you’re just creating space for America to course correct and rebound or for someone with resolve to provide the new direction.

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                    5 hours ago

                    Indeed it is. Since you don’t provide any specifics then all I can do is probe the limits of what you mean by “casual” and see if I can come to a clearer conclusion based off your responses. Or you could just explain what “casual” means to you.