• Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
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    24 days ago

    To be somewhat fair, nobody in the early 2000s other than certain circles would’ve thought China was staging the biggest fake-out in history

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      23 days ago

      Except they weren’t. What makes this all really funny is that China literally publishes 5 year plans, and the west keeps acting like China is inscrutable.

    • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      23 days ago

      I mean true but also I thought they literally said that’s what they were going to do. Like I swear we are constantly caught off guard by them going to do exactly what they say they’re going to do