Is anyone planning on reading this? I'm on the fence. I'm not a huge fan of economic fiction. I also don't find the premise incredibly interesting either.
I used to tell developers that tried to convince me of their exotic "standards": your standard is merely a proposition if it isn't used widely. I feel this applies outside of software too.
A fictional standard is a contradictio in terminis?
I was thinking of reading it just to get an idea of how he thinks about this topic. But Saif have become so pro China I’m not certain he’s thinking clearly
Interesting. If by pro-China you mean he was signaling that he's a fan of the CCP, I'd have to disagree. If by pro-China you mean he was saying they had success in gaining a foothold across the globe in ways that are superior(less violent) to how the US has went about it then yeah. I'd agree. But I would never call that being pro-China.
So we just going to memory hole the millions the CCP slaughtered to rise the power? Just because they build a few infrastructure projects across the globe to countries who can never pay it back in the 2000s all is forgiven.
What foothold did they gain? Did they actually improve any place they supposedly helped?
Wow, of course not. I didn't hear that at all and I for sure don't think it either.
Perkins wrote a book about how the US government and multinational corps have manipulated elections and destroyed economies and environments around the globe for profit. They started talking about how China has learned from what the US did and has been very successful at gaining a foothold in the global south.
I don't think what China is doing is good and I would bet sats that Perkins and Saif do not either. In fact, I am pretty sure they were both pretty clear about that. They did disagree about how the US has more power due to the the dollar but I didn't take anything from that episode that was pro-China.
The CCP is terrible and I don't think their infrastructure projects around the globe cover that up. Its kinda wild that you are hearing that from that episode and me. One can be critical of the US gov and not be praising the Chinese Communist Party. One can and should be critical of both. I'm not saying the US is worse either.
Why would he theme the cover after his other non-fiction books? I think he should have at least drastically changed the background color to differentiate them.
contradictio in terminis?