Propaganda is going to be most effective at mass levels, which means keeping simple and with easy recognizable villians...
otoh, since Clinton and the Democrats had been sucking up to the Russians (all the way up to Syria...), it made this particular line of attack silly, I think even to more LIVs than they estimated
That's the oddity I've always wondered about, why they would go through with a massive uranium deal with us and then ruin Hillary in the election, why they would see Hillary bending over to them for years on Syria, but not want her in power.
they are afraid she isn't an honest politician...one who stays bought-off.
they were very likely concerned that the Chinese would out bid them at crucial points; Russia is a lot more worried about China than they are with us
The Chinese would be able to. Their economy is SMASHING right now, which is why they're not letting ICO's in. They see a centralized economy that's controlled by the state and are afraid if they decentralize it, it's going to crash.
Here nor their, but the Chinese would win that bidding war. Russia needs MidEast oil and Saudi and Syria Money to balance the equation. Thus, Syria.
I was under the impression that the appearance of a successful Chinese economy was a shell game, but to be honest, I haven't looked at that in depth
It's legitimate in that the rich are getting successfully richer, but I do concur that
BUT the Chinese government is allowing for more free market practice that is allowing for a more diverse economy. Verdict is still out I suppose.
I remember something about building empty cities?
That's actually a funny story.
So the Chinese built entire cities that were designed to look European. These cities were meant to create UBER expensive apartments to move the rich out and essentially artificially lower the in-city markets. This failed, because nobody could actually afford them, so there are huge, beautiful European cities in the middle of China that people can't afford to live in. BUT they take their wedding photos there, so that's a plus.
Also, there are other cities that they just put in shit places in an effort to urbanize the country after the fail of the Great Leap Forward. They basically just said "fuck it, we need cities everywhere." but because of their ridiculous HuKou system and the fact that the housing market is still too expensive for anyone, especially the displaced rural Chinese, to move in, so now the cities are abandoned.