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Hu Jintao is retired. Is he not news worthy because he's retired?

You comparing a random vice-mayor to Xi?

Wow, China is so impressive. 厉害了中国!

> Xi stepping down because a vice mayor commits adultery. LOL.

A mayor losing his job because he has an affair. Why is this thread even here?

Uhh ok, congrats?

The IMF data refers to current account balances, which takes net primary income (basically net investment returns) into account. Japan has recorded more trade deficits than surpluses in the past decade. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.GSR.GNFS.CD?end=2021&locations=JP&start=2011 But...

He can't even differentiate between trade balance current account balance lol. He's posting this just because he hate Japan.

Still doesn't stop Japan from recording current account surpluses. Lol relative to GDP Japan prints more than the US. Trade is not a zero sum game. The world does not need to gain trade surpluses against Mars for its economy to grow and its inhabitants' standards of living to improve. One...

Don't you know? Wars are like anime battles. Russia be like: "Heh, amusing Ukraine-kun. You actually lasted more than 3 hours and made me use 20% of my power. I will show you my true power now." And then Russia will power up and release it's inner Nine-tails beast to ravage over Kyiv.

Superb comprehension you have there, not unexpected from you.

1) Current account balance is a better indicator than trade balance. Japan still likely recorded a current account surplus despite its record trade deficit as Japan has large amount of amounts of overseas investments generating income. A large portion of other countries' trade surplus (China or...

We're talking about Lavrov and his Apple products, and this guy had to bring out a graph on global manufacturing to make a point. Lmao.

Yeah, so much of the value added is accrued to the Chinese workforce. China should buy more Apple products.

Profit accrued to Apple.. Hmmm...

Why is there such a steep fall in the number of childbearing age woman aged 25-30? My own hypothesis: Other than the one-child policy in earlier decades and a falling TFR, a large factor is due to the Great Leap Forward which has led to widespread famine from 1959 to 1961. Births fell...

Blue: Number of births. Orange: Number of female births 25 years ago. Note that the one-child policy was abolished in 2016, so there is a small uptick in births in 2016/2017 despite a decline in female births 25 years ago. Blue, left axis: Woman population, aged 20-35 ('0,000) Orange...

The Shanghai Academy of Social Science estimates that there will be more retirees (assuming aged >65) than workers (assuming aged 15-64) in China towards the end of the century. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/china-population-shrink-60-years-world/ It's going to be worse than Japan...