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My parents. My long-suffering, hard working parents. How I wish I was more successful for them

When you hear "US release $25B", US doesn't actually release the money rather they give Iran ACCESS to the funds to buy certain specified items (like humanitarian stuff) only!

I think we need less corrupt pharmacists and NAFDAC enforcers

That's why I love Tiwa besides her great voice. They said they'll release unless "you find us something". Without wasting a second she fired back: "Release everything you have. See if I care"

shortgun:
You never jam better juju

My friend if juju existed AS WE THINK OF IT, there would be no kidnapping! You'll just use juju and locate the kidnappers

TossTos:
Make e no worry .. jazz dey juju dey .. I no go tell you lies .. forget all this way Dem dey talk there .. Juju dey Wella wey you go open mouth and not close am..

There are many things that will make you open mouth and not close am that have scientific explanations!

ponziponzi:
The fact that you want it to happen doesn't mean it will. Having a preconceived mindset based on what you want to believe, and then looking for sources

HacheNoire:
Do more research!

CaseSensitive:
It's simply

And don't forget China has gifted us so many viruses including COVID 19 (Trump calls it China virus )

ponziponzi:
The fact that you want it to happen doesn't mean it will. Having a preconceived mindset based on what you want to believe, and then looking for sources that support it, is the height of intellectual laziness and idiocy. It certainly doesn't deserve an intelligent discourse or my time.

HacheNoire:
Do more research!

CaseSensitive:
It's simply

Instead of being emotional, can you guys simply counter the points I raised one by one (as shown in the screenshots) and patiently tell us how China will overcome them and surpass US.

1. Far more people are dying in China than are being born.

2. The "run" (japa) movement - young people want to leave China and their first destination of choice is US.

3. China will inevitably be left with lots of old people and not enough young people (as is attested to by travelers to China - you see old people working everywhere)

4. Lots of young people, and best and brightest everywhere, want to move to US.

5. China has an impending debt time bomb.

Demurray:
Why didn't you obi form his party when there's time?he knows better than every obidients that he has to comply with the demand of the perty owner or get out.

Obi really fuuuuccclk up for not building on the success of the 2023 general election and it's crystal clear that he won't win the election come next year with all the happening. #thebittertruth

Predictor3:
Yes, buhari built a party which joined tinubu's ACN to form APC. Obi is just not serious.

Did Trump build Republican Party. Wasn't he a Democrat? Isn't he the god of the Republican party today?
Once someone joins a party he can push aside the existing leadership and take over- if the party members are behind him. No one owns a political party in a democracy - unless you're the only one in the party by yourself.
Of course APC is not neutral in all this. Knowing how Tinubu plays politics, Dickson could have been bribed. It is entirely possible he is APC agent

Easylife1234:
China is next on the line to rule the world

CaseSensitive:
China has no hegemonic ambition - they have no interest in ruling the world. They're only interested in trade and world peace.

Whether they're interested or not, China is NOT about to rule the world. China is in an irreversible downward trajectory that will culminate in them no.longer being a world power. US will "rule" the world for a long time simply because of the way the country is structured. Young people and some of the best people in the world want to go to America and become Americans and they CAN. You can't go to China and become Chinese. And US political system is such that they constantly correct course. Midterm elections they may throw out Republicans. In a short while Trump will be out of office and they could go for his exact opposite. How can countries like China or Russia compete with that??

CaseSensitive:
It's simply not worth the energy engaging with these people. They have no interest in thinking beyond surface-level narratives.Critical thinking remains frustratingly rare among my country people, particularly when it comes to geopolitics, its real-world implications, and Nigeria's position within the global order.

The irony is striking. Many of these same people are holding Chinese smartphones they could actually afford, phones that would have otherwise taken them years of savings to replace with a 4 year old American equivalent. They're driving or at least aspiring to own Chinese electric vehicles that exist at a price point no Western manufacturer can offer. Everyday products that have quietly become staples of Nigerian life - affordable and accessible, overwhelmingly come from China.

But somehow, these same Nigerian consumers will cheerfully root for China's decline. No ideology behind it, no analysis. Just herd mentality and borrowed sentiment from people whose interests are actively opposed to theirs.

Brain ceIIs in very short supply for these people I tell you.

So because China dumps cheap, slave-labour stuff in Nigeria you will not say the truth?
Do you know how many enterprises have had to close because what they make can be imported cheaper from China? Is life better now that everything is made in China and breaks very easiy?

HacheNoire:
Do more research!

The best of Chinese don’t leave their country to the west. The competition is high and only those who cannot fit in leave.

What do you think is the West that will entice a Chinese? It’s like you saying Qataris are dying to come to the West?

They don’t see the west like we Nigerians do. They have affordable education, healthcare, taxes and security, with a lot to show for it.

Can you say same about the US? No!

Did you read the screenshots I posted above?
You are so wrong. Maybe that is part of why they're considered a developing nation. They have "japa" too (especially to US - the country with the highest number of Chinese outside Asia). They call it "run". The young people, their 1st choice of where to "run" to is US

zinaunreal:
If not for cheap goods you will still be in yiur village looking through your neighbors windows watching their tv. Be wise

But that their TV will.last and last. China own will spoil the next week and add to garbage dump and to environmental hazards

blingxx:
The same china that have been existing for more than a thousand years ?.. you people are really funny with your headlines ?

It will still be existing but definitely no longer as a world power

Samogloby:
So Obi build coalition that's why Atiku should should not contest. The way you guys reason at times can be funny. Atiku and some leaders formed coalition under ADC why Obi was on the fence and confused

Chachalogo:
Which ADC did Obi build?
So Atiku who began the coalition movement before Obi joined the train should forfeit his ambition for Obi? I have never in my life seen this kind of entitlement mentality.

Contest what? How many times must he contest? Can't someone just be an elder statesman?
Is it the North's turn? It's like come 2031 and Obi wants to contest against Kwankwaso "because he brought him to NDC"!

HacheNoire:
Stop consuming the propaganda of westerners media.

Get on TikTok or Rednote and see live videos of Americans and British living in China. It is a strict environment that does not give room for indiscipline.

Yes, you cannot antagonize the government but at the expense of what the same government is delivering.

Thats why you see it’s more organized than any country in the west.

They have their odds as no country is perfect, but far ahead any western country. Only the Middle East comes close when it comes to structured and sane society.

That young Chinese want to leave is Western propaganda?? They even have their own "japa" word for it - "run", as shown below.
Same way US is struggling to keep people out, Chinese use all means to try to keep young people in.

ponziponzi:
Yes, China has a demographic problem that will worsen over time, but so do most countries in Asia and Europe. See the list of approximate total fertility rates (births per woman). For context, a rate of 2.1 is considered the replacement level.

To say China is on an irreversible downward trajectory is laughable. There is absolutely no

frankson1:
China don beat your almighty US in everything. Na population una dey use brag now 😭😀😀😀

All those countries you mentioned young people are NOT itching to leave and some have robust immigration.

You don't have to be a genius to see that China is on an irreversible downward trajectory.
More people are dying than are being born. Add to that, YOUNG people want to leave soon as they can (especially to US, while on the other side young people are struggling to enter US). What will be left is old folks. Add to that the looming debt time bomb!

Chachalogo:
Which ADC did Obi build?

So Atiku who began the coalition movement before Obi joined the train should forfeit his ambition for Obi? I have never in my life seen this kind of entitlement mentality.

Did Buhari build APC? Besides you're lying, Obi was involved from the beginning when opposition politicians picked ADC

Wadosky:
Ralph Nwosu formed ADC.

Not ADC as we know it today

Wadosky:
Tell me why Peter Obi cannot build his own party if he is that popular.

He did - ADC, assuming Atiku will see sense and support him

badoh:
Dickson no get joy at all. Imagine instructing Obi to stand up in his sitting room and ask him to recite time-table while Kwankwaso the running mate was seated. They are just preying on Obi's weakness and the way I'm seeing Dickson, he may start to give Obi conditions if he wants to remain as NDC presidential candidate.

He also asked him to kneel down and raise his hands, which he did, but it was not recorded
Are BAT people now happy?

izombie:
See as this man dey yan trasssh because Obi don elevate his party. Before Obi joined NDC who dey even buy their form?

Honestly, this nobody is becoming too full of himself

Easylife1234:
China is next on the line to rule the world

Pure propaganda. Quite the opposite. China is on a downward trajectory but it is downplayed. Example, you'd think China has no debt, but see below

HacheNoire:
Everyone copied the inventor! How they are able to make it better at a cheaper cost is what should amaze you!

Did Elon Musk invent Tesla? Did Nokia, Damsung or Apple invent the mobile phone? That your narration does not sell.

Let’s even accept they copied all and enhanced it, is it not worth appreciating that even those who invented it could not compete.

Did they also copy infrastructure, or copied how to invest in their people?

Give it up for China. If it’s good, say it’s good.

Give it up for an oppressive regime that suppresses people! China's problems will only get worse because YOUNG people want to leave if they can. The exact opposite of US. Young Chinese know there is freedom out there and who doesn't want a good thing. China will eventually be a population of mostly old folks who need to be taken care of and not at all enough young folks to take care of them!

Insipidvamp:
China's population issues precede modern western democracy, I hope you know that. In the 90s, China was one-fifth i.e 1.1 million of the 5.5 million persons in the world.

Remember Malthus's theory (below). Well it turned out to be wrong. Same thing happened to CCP. They turned out to be wrong. That's what happens when you apply Humans' very limited reasoning to things of God!

ppogba:
So, why then is the US SUN crying more than the bereaved?

Is it their population?

They're just observing a FACT

Kemetian:
WILL YOU SHUT UP.

THEY PAID WHAT?

DO YOU KNOW AFRICA IS OWED $5,000 TRILLION IN REPARATIONS FOR ITS HISTORICAL PLUNDER BY THE WEST?

DO YOU KNOW THE AU IS DEMANDING REPARATIONS FOR WHAT IT CALLS "A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY" AND "AFRICA'S HOLOCAUST"?

DO YOU KNOW THAT REPARATIONS ARE DUE TO AFRICA AS A LEGAL RIGHT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "THEY'VE PAID"?

How long ago was slavery? How long ago was one-child policy that just ended 2016.
Besides, no country is a Saint. Will Nigeria pay reparations for millions of Biafran children starved to death??

zinaunreal:
Na by population?? Omo na wa you ooo. With you crisp english see wetin you dey dish out

YES, in China’s case na by population! That's their superpower. That's why they were able to flood the world with cheap goods from cheap labor. Now too many old workers, not enough young workers. And it'll only get worse

CorperKola:
So you are telling me china does nore abortions than the USA that literally glamorizes and promotes aboetions under the guise of reproductive rights

Population decline is the fate of the whole world as women get more wealth and power
This is what feminism brings

Enjoy it

During those decades of one-child policy in China, all subsequent pregnancies were aborted. Also, girls were routinely aborted so as to make the one child a male. You're comparing this to abortion in US??

Blakjewelry:
One of the most stupid postulation I have ever seen, why is the US with ¼ of china's population still a world power. I was expecting to see a compelling argument only to see this rubbish.

Population was China’s superpower. How do you think they were able to flood the world with ridiculously cheap goods? Now go to China and all you see are old people working everywhere then add massive debt as shown below!

CaseSensitive:
"How China will crumble as a world power" - coming from a USA media machine.

China is already a superpower, they're leapfrogging into the future while USA is still trying to figure out if Iran's supreme head is dead or injured.

China is on an irreversible downward trajectory and only the blind will refuse to see it

Lukuluku69:
America became a Superpower when they had the most people living in that space?

Not just population, demographics. Too many old people and not enough young people to counterbalance it. US always has young immigrants flooding in. While in China the young leave if they can

jonsn:
Whoever came up with this conclusion must be disillusioned. Period.

Probably never read the article. I'd summarize for ya:
China is on an irreversible downward trajectory because of rapidly dropping population, and because too many old people compared to number of young people

Sheuns:
US is world’s super power and it’s not by mouth.

Correct. And it is not even close

Abagworo:
Population decline is a good thing for the world as scramble for scarce resources will reduce. The US is great because her population is stable

Wrong! Demographics not just population. Too many old people and not enough young people. People who go to China are surprised at the number of old people working - right from the airport

QuinQQ:
Hiw about Nigeria? What did we do to deserve Buhari and Tinubu and APC?? And we have churches in every corner

Nigeria is a crime scene. Evrerywhere bribery and corruption. Just the Karma from money ritualists and evil politicians and police alone. Infact we're even lucky a country called Nigeria still exists

ponziponzi:
So why are you interested in their downfall? What do you gain as a Nigerian from China’s downfall? China lifted more than 800 million of her people out of poverty in less than 30 years. This has never been done in human history. A country that moved from being dirt poor country to one of the most technology advanced country in the world in less than three decades. Instead of you looking at what they have done right and try to implement it, you are looking and happy for their downfall. I understand that the US government as the world leader are not happy to have a peer competitor in China but how does that help you and your family. Let’s image China crashes today, will that improve your life and that of your children? Just think about it and stop consuming news and information not meant for you.

Meaning what exactly? Did I say I was happy China is on an irreversible downward trajectory? It is just a fact. Just same way I'd say Nigeria has serious insecurity problem due to Buhari and Tinubu. Doesn't mean I'm happy about it.
China was able to lift out of poverty mainly because US (mainly) opened her market and allowed China to dump cheap goods, while China closed her own market. Everything everywhere became made in China!