This might also depend on what statistics are being used.
Wouldn't that be because its completely in China's interest to keep the wildly inept and self destructive Trump in office? Trump crippling the US with domestic instability and especially blowing up all its alliances for literally no gain can only benefit China in the long run.
Not really.
Perhaps not automatically. But Trump torching any alliance and credibility the US might have had is a gift for China. As well as Trump trying to legalize and legitimize Putin's land theft which will in turn do the same for China's ambitions for Taiwan.
Things being bad for the US may not automatically make them good for China, but this is a scenario in which it is incredibly advantageous for China. China's strategic interest is in an economically and politically isolated US, so it has a free hand to develop and move into rapidly-developing economic southern markets -- South America, Africa, the Middle East, and southern/southeastern Asia. Dedollarization is a linchpin of China's strategy, and the US declaring economic war on itself on every conceivable front does nothing if not incentivize those selfsame countries to liquidate dollar reserves, and start holding and trading in yuan. A sudden dollar glut in the vein of tens or hundreds of billions re-entering the global currency market is an economic shock the US cannot survive with its current fiscal and monetary policies, and that's exactly where we're headed right now thanks to the uncertainty around Trump's stupid-ass tariffs.
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Did you catch the bit where I showed they aren't a majority of that group by any stretch of the imagination?Who else?
What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.
The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.
Now that very much depends on the law. If all were followed, and always had been, a lot more of us would be living under feudal kings or robber barons. And the US wouldn't exist.
Technically robber barons also wouldn't exist. And i am not sure (a system based mostly around interporsonal connections) would arise from such a law-centered society. There also would be a lack of any need to enforce laws and probably a lack of structures that do so (aside from clearing up misunderstandings)
Plastic surgery complication, maybe.
You might feel that way, but unfortunately you live in a country where the citizenry voted in a criminal who made his contempt for the law explicit so that makes you the minority.
Much of what robber barons did, and how they operated, was within the law of their lands. That's just how much leeway the central authority gave them. We tend to call them 'robber' not because they infringed law but because they abused devolved legal authority to exploit people.
The systems based around interpersonal connections-- inheritance, primogeniture, even early monarchy itself-- tend to have their origins in pre-law, pre-centralised-authority society. So all else being equal, they would have still arisen. Then when central authority and law arose centuries later, we're hypothesising they were always rigidly adhered to.
I expect it would be quite the opposite. In our reality, repressive laws have often only softened or compromised in the face of enormous pressure-- including noncompliance and lawbreaking. Without that pressure, what would prompt the repressive powers to relinquish that power? A democratic vote could potentially do so, but a lot of countries wouldn't have democracy in the first place without lawbreaking to begin with. That leaves us with the goodwill of dictators.
Slavery was once legal in the United States. Lawbreakers went and freed slaves. I guess those laws should have been followed by all so that things would have run more smoothly.
Can they make up their minds. Last time after years of pretending to put importance in peace they found it glorious when Trump used Bush era talking points to advocate joining the war in Gaza, or use the night of the US to steal Greenland and Canada. But now they’re isolationist again?
