Yea, from what I've been reading online the US dollar is about to be replaced with the Chinese yuan.

These things existed in the United States well before the patriot act. I cashed a check at one in Las Cruces NM while driving across the country in 95’, for example.

I am not defending the patriot act, here; I think it is very important not to assign blame for things all Willy-nilly, though, and the spread of payday loans had way more to do with the steady degradation of working class incomes than any specific legislation.

These predators used to be seen mostly in poor urban neighborhoods, but flat incomes and rising expenses have allowed them to flourish everywhere. State laws play a role as well, I am sure.

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$#@! china!

>retaliation for whatever the CCP has their collective panties in a bunch about this week.

It is and China isn't even being diplomatic about it either.

>Neal Dunn, a Republican from Florida, asked with similar bluntness whether ByteDance has “spied on American citizens” – a question that came amid reports the company accessed journalists’ information in an attempt to identify which employees were leaking information. Chew responded that “spying is not the right way to describe it”.
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>src: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/key-takeaways-tiktok-hearing-congress-shou-zi-chew

But this will surely rebuild global investor confidence in China! /s

These are political prisoners taken as retaliation for whatever the CCP has their collective panties in a bunch about this week

Wasnt long ago they id similar thing to Deloitte

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 65%. (I'm a bot)

> Chinese authorities have raided the Beijing office of US-headquartered due diligence firm Mintz Group and detained five staff.

> "We can confirm that Chinese authorities have detained the five staff in Mintz Group's Beijing office, all of them Chinese nationals, and have closed our operations there," the company said in a statement on Friday, the Reuters news agency reported.

> Reuters, citing an anonymous company source, had earlier reported that the office was raided on March 20 and the detained staff were being held incommunicado in a location outside of Beijing.

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Seems like they were digging into something that the Chinese would rather not have broadcast. It's pretty hard to do due diligence in China, as so much of the economy is cloaked in lies and the entire system is a grift.

75 deaths per 100,000 people versus 452 for the US? They handled the pandemic much better than we did

We'll, let's begin with Saudi Arabia, and then we can continue down the list.

But the point here is that Cuba is under embargo, not just some economic sanctions, which means that their economy is severely isolated from the rest of the world. Their government may be garbage, but no government anywhere could have made a significant difference in a situation like this.

Where else do you think we should put sanctions for human rights violations?

This is bullshit, if that was the case, the US would have embargoed half the world today.

imagine how stupid you have to be to fail in that line of 'business'

I’ll read up on it. I’m a political scientist but will admit have not studied that specific period extensively.

It lasted 3 years. There are plenty of accounts of the situation there if you are interested in the history.

Oof

Didn’t Catalonia last for like 4 months under that economic system? I’m skeptical because I’ve never seen an example of a strictly socialist economy working. Mixed economies, sure, but not full blown socialist.

I think the incompetence of the government would prevent that

That would require Han Dong to have the tiniest bit of integrity.

Why wouldn’t we put economic repercussions on a regime that practices horrible human rights violations?

Oh no! Better put another tick on the Crisis Counter! (counter now reads "17")

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Ok now back to doing nothing.

Loan-sharking without mob collection practices?Who could have foreseen failure?