What our results show is that the United States, as a world hegemonic power, is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain its advantage and come out on top of this competition, and therefore to bear all the implications of free trade, for which it once defined the rules to its advantage. China has indeed succeeded in significantly reducing the importance of this unequal exchange, with its disadvantage in the transfer of wealth gradually diminishing: the proportion of this unfavorable transfer in the Chinese added value fell from -3.7 percent to -0.9 percent between 1995 and 2014. As a matter of fact, China had to trade fifty hours of Chinese labor for one hour of U.S. labor in 1995, but only seven in 2014.

On top of this, the sectoral analyses that can be drawn from the application of our second method of calculating unequal exchange are very enlightening. Although forty-three out of the fifty-five sectors of activity (78 percent of them) considered by our study between 1995 and 2014 highlight transfers of value directed from China to the United States (the most significant being textile, clothing, and leather-goods manufacturing, as well as the manufacturing of furniture and other supplies), twelve other sectors are at the origin of transfers of values going in the opposite direction—that is, operating to the detriment of the United States. These latter activities include: the manufacturing of computer, electronic, and optical products (with $6.9 billion transferred from the United States to China in 2014); agriculture and farming; hunting and hunting-related activities ($3.1 billion); the manufacturing of motor vehicles and trailer and semi-trailer services ($1.1 billion); and the manufacturing of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations ($422 million, still calculated for 2014).

However way this pans out, the Philippines has a tremendous stake and risk: no thanks to the successive puppet presidents and greedy bureaucrat capitalists. While the country has remained as a US neocolony, the Duterte regime also practically behaves like a vassal to China. ###

In a recent CPP statement about the turnaround success of the New People's Army, they also called on their forces to target Chinese companies and military bases that are actively involved in exploiting the country and its lands:

In particular, the revolutionary movement must take effort to frustrate plans of the Duterte regime to allow the further expansion of Chinese companies, especially those involved in the construction of seven Chinese military bases and in the plunder and destruction of Philippine marine resources in the West Philippine Sea in violation of Philippine sovereignty. Some of these same Chinese companies are involved in some big-ticket infrastructure projects for the construction of mining roads and dams that are encroaching deeper and deeper into the ancestral lands of the national minorities and forests in various parts of the country. These infrastructure projects not only displace thousands of peasants and minorities from their lands, they also wreak havoc to the natural ecosystem of the country’s remaining forests.

https://cpp.ph/statements/make-the-duterte-fascist-regime-bleed-from-a-thousand-cuts-mount-more-tactical-offensives-nationwide/

Not to say the Filipino communists right just because they're revolutionaries from the "periphery". But one has to wonder, at some point, maybe, the CCP, isn't all its been cracked up to be by some?

Acdtrux posted:

US and other superpowers have openly and discreetly backed the Hongkong protests. The people of Hongkong can very well accept such support

I'm afraid this is not a dialectical statement :/

i didnt know CPP were pro-Kurd

liceo posted:

€uro-amerikkkan imperialists cutting africa up:



China: A Modern "Social-Imperialist Power", gluing it back together with train tracks:

Most of these lines go to ports to export raw materials. That being said I don't think this map is accurate.