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good for them.
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Wait for the shitcoin(s) the BRICS will be using. I don't get the euphoria if You see the digital Yuan and its social control mechanism behind it. Who the hell will prefer this crap over the USD?
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yeah, no.
First off, you know the US' propaganda has a clear track record of claiming others do what it it actually doing. this is the same thing. It yells about that while the US is actually surveying banks, closing accounts for politically uncouth activity. Or Canada. (You know nobody in China, right? There is no social credit system. Nobody in China has the slightest idea what you're on about if you mention this. They have credit scores, but they're no more invasive then the credit score data vacuum the US has.)
And second, and more importantly, the BRICS are not planning a end-user currency. The basket currency is made as a base-layer international trade bookkeeping currency, nothing the people in the member states will use.
BRICS is not that integrated and has no desire to be; the base layer rule in BRICS is national sovereignty and self-determination, for clear historical reasons of all involved, they have all at one point been at the receiving end of Western imperialism.
You already figured out Western countries lying to you about everything from inflation to Ukraine. They're lying about this as well. For much the same reasons.
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You're right with the wholesale currency. But you're completely off the rails if You think that there is more surveillance in the US than in China. That's sbsurd.
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The US banned Huawei because it could't control chip production and therefore not mandate backdoor surveillance equipment in hardware. Privacy conscious people use huawei BECAUSE of this, while the US is trying to tell us hauwei is the security risk. lmao.
The US national security state is an absolute information vaccum. Has been for 25 years. We KNOW this, there are tons of whistleblowers who told us, from Assange and Snowden on. this is documented.
China has allegations cooked up by the US. Are they surveilling stuff? Of course they are. More than the US? Hardly possible, and there is no equivalent proof in that direction, in any case.
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Watch the foreign capital movement out of China in recent months. Then ask Yourself: where would You put Your life savings (if btc wouldn't exist)? And don't tell me You would prefer China of the US.
I'd love to hear more about this whole idea, "there's really no social credit score in China".
I listened to a podcast some time ago, where the interviewee made the same point. I can't remember details though, and would be interested in hearing more, and also who, specifically, is promoting the story, if it's not true.
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maybe you saw brian berletic? it's here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYnZREu-Mk
always hard to say who exactly, but it's part if a pattern known as "atrocity propaganda", where one side tries to spread dehumanizing horror stories about supposed crimes that portray an enemy as an animalistic uncivilized terror. it's old, it's been around in WW1, but today you see it against hamas, russia, iran, china, among many others. it was used against serbia, afghanistan, lybia in the past, anyone really who the US wanted to discredit.
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Very interesting, thanks for the pointer to Brian Berletic.
You know, I think this whole concept, that the CCP social credit score story is propaganda, is really interesting and worthy of a top-level post. Specifically because it's one of the items that's often brought up by people who are, often, our ideological friends. People who hate the idea of a social credit score.
Hello and thanks again. I think what we can say is that the world is in a surveillance race and a battle to outdo each other. We have known this at least since Edward Snowden that the west has also fallen into this trap. What the article does tone down, however, is the fact that in my opinion China has taken the lead in this race and is being used by the west as a shield and line of argument to introduce the same surveillance systems, if not more stringent ones, as in the european union. And that's why the observation that the western media is playing the game of western politics and exaggerating the Chinese surveillance system is completely correct. What i knew was that a variety of different credit scoring systems similar to ours existed. What I had assumed and that doesn't seem to be the case yet, you're absolutely right, is the bundling and centralization of all this data. Whether this is the long-term goal: i think so. But it won't be any different for us. All in all, bad times are dawning. Thanks again for the article which put everything into perspective a bit. greetings
Thank You, I will watch the video this morning. But before I'll do this keep in mind that the other side has its own propaganda department
Controlling governments.
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The U.S might just confiscate a national institution or ministry
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Sorry but I don't get the context. Could You please explain Your point if You don't mind?
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Before the debt was given, they might be some collateral that will be place should Ethiopia defaults, that where I feel they U.S might own a part of Ethiopia national institution
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Ah I get it now. Yes, that's the damn way superpowers are preserving their influence.
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