"In addition to exports falling 12.4% from June 2022", That begs the question, if China is not selling, then who is not buying, the answer, countries like AUSTRALIA. What, if China is not selling then they don't need to buy the raw materials to make the goods they're not selling. What countries wont they need to buy from, countries like AUSTRALIA.

Gee, with a trillion dollars of LIBERAL PARTY debt to pay off, over the next 100 years, and recession staring us in the face, maybe its countries like AUSTRALIA who should be worried about economic problems.

AC, this guy has been banging on with his China hate speak of 'economic collapse" ever since he joined the Forum in 2020. The flabby soft Western economies will go to the pack long before China or Russia does. Those countries have withstood great adversities in the past, us soft Westerners will spit the dummy if they as much as threaten to take our 'Fruity Pops' away.

The village idiot is back to disrupt the thread with insults and lies etc. With his $trillion of LABOR PARTY debt etc and his arse kissing of "socialist" tyrants such as Putin and Zi. This is the twit that claimed that China had zero unemployment. No wonder he votes for the gangreens.

SM,

The only one peddling hate speak here is YOU, name calling, village idiot, insults, arse kissing, twit. There is nothing in my one post that insults YOU. You are the one firing up as usual at me for my opinion. Maybe YOU should pull your head in.

Paul,

You are a liar and a fraud. I never used the term "economic collapse" and you accused me of "China hate" yet whine when I call you an arse kisser.

Grow up.

BONHOEFFER’S LETTERS FROM PRISON

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. “One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and prevented by the use of force; against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears.”

"Facts that contradict a stupid person’s prejudgment simply ..... are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this, the stupid person is self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack."

" ......... greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one."

" .........stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one. There are human beings who are remarkably agile intellectually yet stupid ...."

" ...... under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or rather ..... they allow this to happen to them."

(It is apparent) "that every strong upsurge of power, be it of a political or religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity ..... the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other."

"...... under the overwhelming impact of rising power (some) humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up an autonomous position." They don't think independently.

" ... .. the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us from the fact that he is not independent.in conversation with him (or her) one feels that one is dealing not at all with him (or her) as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him (or her)". They are "under a spell"; they have become "a mindless tool", incapable of seeing there own acceptance of evil.

Until they are liberated, "we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person".

Dear ttbn,

Good post.