"What will Jane Fonda think of you now?" A 1978 poster about the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia

It is harder than ever to find good news in China's data release today. The economy continues to be structurally locked into increasing production at the expense of consumption, even though China suffers from many years of growing excess capacity. China's industrial output, for example, increased by 5.4% year on year in the first five months of 2026, with a 4.5% year on year increase in the month of May. This was a little higher than April’s 4.1% increase, although lower than the 5.7% increase in March. The uglier numbers were (as always) on the consumption side. For the first five months of 2026, total retail sales grew 2.8%, just over half the pace of industrial output. Although they were barely expected to grow in May, in fact they actually fell by 0.6%, well below the disappointing 0.2% increase in April and the first decline since the end of the Covid lockdown in 2022. For all the excited claims about consumption spending during the important May holiday, in other words, it was more than offset by the decline in spending over the rest of the month, proving, once again, that what limits household consumption is the household budget, not spending opportunities. Meanwhile China's fixed-asset investment declined 4.1% year on year in the first five months of 2026. Last week's trade and debt numbers reinforce the claim that China is finding it harder than ever to restructure its economy. It is expending huge resources in growing output, especially manufacturing output, but Chinese producers rely more than ever on soaring exports to offset weak domestic demand. So far this year's numbers show that China's economy has further increased its already-excessive dependence on surging debt and soaring trade surpluses to keep GDP growth from slowing. It is not clear how much longer this growth model can be sustained before China is forced into a very difficult economic adjustment, but it is almost impossible for China to exit this model without a sharp slowdown in near-term growth, which is why, for all its promises, Beijing has been unable to adjust. The problem, of course, is that as long as this process continues, it will increase the final adjustment costs for the Chinese economy and will further undermine manufacturing in the rest of the world. english.news.cn/20260616/dbe…

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You should read what some senior scholars write about caste system (CS) in China. The current memes are obv sarcastic but CS in China is a harsh reality. Its not explored by many scholars cuz CCP obv won't allow foreign scholars to conduct such studies. In India, scholars can do

Vietnam is such a fascinating case study, won all the wars but still have to whore out their women to chinese. Such a study for all not to dos

See this. China around 200 BCE vs India around 200 BCE but the CCP bots wants tou to believe China was one country but India was not. Fuhh!!

He looks mongol descendant!

Ancient shi warriors were Japanese & mongol warriors who transformed into officers once complete domination! You prove my point!

Indians also had a warrior class which fought with invaders whereas Chinese had no warrior class & thats how Japanese shi became masters of all of china