first two paragraphs should be enough to convince anyone that it’s not news, just a highly biased opinion piece

good for them I guess? the middle class has been dying/shrinking for decades. it’s not that big of a brag

Bernie’s retiring from politics then?

could still play out that way - but Nigeria isnt the most stable place, a hard shove or two would easily topple their house of cards

Rwanda is blameless then?

perhaps Brazil or whomever should stop burning it down?

get on a boat?

yes - but if there’s no enforcement then laws are rather meaningless.

They expect to be profitable in their first year, Torres said.

most businesses that cant turn a profit wont last that long. taking out a personal loan… may have been a poor decision.

I guess they didnt get the memo to gtfo?

Biden’s mouthpiece

did you not even look at the trade deficit numbers in the link you posted?

rofl the pics in that article. never change, Africa

looks like China has vastly more to lose.

so what? the media is stored/hosted elsewhere. the domains are just an access method. this is just as effective as nailing the front door shut and ignoring the windows/back door.

russia’s space program is sort of shit these days though?

never heard of supervised consumption before. was picturing a bunch of guards staring down at a buffet restaurant until I read the article.

why would Israel care about what China wants?

there’s two graphs in the article

not that open - I tried to run rm -rf in the terminal and it did nothing.