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minus-squaremerde alors@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 days agoor they changed. 30 years is a long time. their debut was released 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall a year after the dissolution of USSR 9 years before the September 11 attacks 15 years before iPhone 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS China wasn’t a superpower back then EU didn’t exist in its current form Apartheid was still an actuality internet wasn’t omnipresent
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoHow was China not a superpower then? They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.
minus-squareMirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoChina’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.
minus-squareDragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days ago Apartheid was still an actuality So you’re saying nothing’s changed?
minus-squareDMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoNothing’s changed. South African Blacks 40 years ago had it no worse than they do today.
or they changed. 30 years is a long time.
their debut was released
How was China not a superpower then?
They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.
China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.
So you’re saying nothing’s changed?
Nothing’s changed.
South African Blacks 40 years ago had it no worse than they do today.