Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoPublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldimagemessage-square251fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imagePublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square251fedilink
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 hours agoAt some point, though, when the government keeps running up deficits to subsidize this, the bill comes due
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoYeah, sure. China has a debt to GDP of 88.6%. That’s not great. Luckily we don’t have that problem in western capitalist countries, right? USA: 121% Canada: 104.7% UK: 101.8% France: 111.6% Japan: 251.2% Italy: 136.9% Belgium: 105%
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoThis isn’t about the US. My criticism of the US was pretty clear in the original post
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoI also didn’t only post numbers for the US.
minus-squareanachrohack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoOk fine: this isn’t about the west. You see a comment about economics and your immediate response is whataboutism because you think this is about politics
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 hours agoDid you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?
At some point, though, when the government keeps running up deficits to subsidize this, the bill comes due
Yeah, sure. China has a debt to GDP of 88.6%. That’s not great. Luckily we don’t have that problem in western capitalist countries, right?
This isn’t about the US. My criticism of the US was pretty clear in the original post
I also didn’t only post numbers for the US.
Ok fine: this isn’t about the west. You see a comment about economics and your immediate response is whataboutism because you think this is about politics
Did you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?