re: Whoa, China’s Foreign Ministry Just Threw A Dumpling At The G7

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Pointing out perhaps the combined GDP of those 3.2B is 2/3rds that of the 0.78B? Meaning the G7 GDP per capita is about 6X that of its BRICS counterpart? Nah, you won't see that from the OT

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It’s funny until you understand a twin deficit economy based on energy, materials and labor from those plebeian countries can’t sustain itself without foreign capital flows. The one thing you can do to frick up your gravy train is weaponizing your currency and we have signaled to the world we’re more than willing.

ETA: don’t even get me started on GDP numbers from financialized countries