terça-feira, 6 de abril de 2021

The Economist__"Cruelty is not an accident, it is structural"

 

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-economistthe-invisible-chinese_28.html

Its seems that the problems of China mentioned in the post above are just the tip of the iceberg. A new article published in The Economist explains how Chinese women are being forced not to file for divorce because if they do they will surely pay a high price for that, as one said: "In a Chinese divorce all women lose

Lincoln once said that "A house divided against itself cannot stand" and it seems that China has many internal divisions that sooner or later will lead to internal tensions and to a serious reduction of  its economic competitiveness, meaning that Europe shouldn´t be so afraid about the power of the Chinese dragon as i previously wrote in the last paragraph of the text in here https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-role-of-academia-towards-type-1.html

PS - A more worrying issue however is the recent Chinese braggadocio https://www.economist.com/china/2021/04/03/china-is-betting-that-the-west-is-in-irreversible-decline