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What’s stopping China from helping Detroit?

Think about it. China does foreign policy based on sift power rather than militarism or blackmail. China builds hospitals in Mali in exchange for good, rather than invading and seizing the gold for themselves. China is the reason hundreds of millions of people in Africa have electricity and running water, right? If China can do this, why aren’t they stepping in and helping Detroit rebuild?

China could fund mass construction projects. Build housing all over Detroit that resembles housing in Chinese cities. Build a functioning metro/train system. Build more hospitals. Build better schools that look like wonder museums rather than prisons. Build urban farms to fix the food desert issue. Give Detroit the latest and greatest tech. Bring back millions of jobs. Why not?

China turns shitholes into functioning cities. Just compare their cities from 37 years ago to their cities now. They could easily do the same for Detroit. Trump Administration be damned. Just get the mayor of Detroit to form a working relationship with Xi and the CPC and watch things happen.
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What's stopping China from paying MY bills? Where are MY reparations?

>>2503393
It's soft power. Even OP admits China is only "generous" because they want something out of the countries they win over.

>>2503391
Soviet Union solved China's problems

this thread was posted on tankiejerk a couple of weeks back

>Just get the mayor of Detroit to form a working relationship with Xi

Why doesn't the manager of a struggling local family restaurant just ask the Prince of Saudi Arabia to bail him out?

IF CHINA DOESN'T BUILD A 4 ACRE MANSION FOR ME TO LIVE IN, AND KILL MY BOSS AND MAKE ME THE HEAD OF MY NEWLY-NATIONALIZED COMPANY, AND ALSO GIVE ME FREE FOOD FOR LIFE, THEN THEY ARE NOT SOCIALIST

Detroit should offer their mines to China so they can come and exploit the local workers, then they just have to build an hospital and socialism will be achieved

>>2503668
Send him to China and get him to beg for infrastructure help, even some science and engineering school equipment

>>2503658
objectively wrong
proletarian solidarity and bilateral trade and relations =/= gimme gibs gibs, fix all muh problems soviet daddy

>>2503393
based. Charity is a christcuck concept. When you help a people through charity, you are not liberating them but tying them to the charity, you make them dependent on you. Which is why no christcuck charity ever fixed any problem in Africa.

>>2503709

Why would the leader of a global industrial superpower waste his valuable time making deals with the mayor of Detroit Michigan? What does the mayor of a failing American post-industrial city have to offer that China wants? America began outsourcing its industrial manufacturing sector to China a long time ago; we already sold Detroit to China and China is not going to give it back.

What's to stop the ant mound in my backyard from appealing to the galactic overlords to save them from my lawnmower?

Knowing the animals of Detroit, they will piss it all away and then blame the Chinese for not doing enough for them
Fuck them

>>2503723
the same people live there as when there was industry. you create lumpen by replacing jobs with welfare.

>>2503727
You are correct, But still, China should not help americans. They are ungrateful.

What's stopping China from giving me 100 million dollars and a Chinese Gf?

WHAT A FUCKING STUPID THREAD. OP SHOULD KILL XERSELF.


>>2503737
why isnt china offering me a job in chongqing and free HRT

>>2503738
anarcho-gibs smh

Chinese won't even give you a free glass of water at a restaurant and OP thinks they'll bail out Detroit

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>>2503759
never barter with a Chinese man

why would they bother? fuck america

>>2503759
Kek you have to be baiting every Chinese restaurant gives out free water. You do have to know how to ask for it in Chinese though or just bring a Chinese friend along.

Detroit, Seattle, Portland–
What narrow paths, deep woods and slippery moss!
Whither are we bound today?
Straight to the foot of Appalachian Mountains.
To the mountain, the foot of the mountain,
Red flags stream in the wind in a blaze of glory.

>>2503779
we matter too…

>>2503710
Manchuria is a pretty big gib

>>2503717
They build Detroit back up.

>>2487365
For the record, those two houses don't exist anymore.
The first house (3610 St. Aubin) is now a vacant lot. The second house (William Livingstone House) is something else entirely now (284 Eliot St).

The fourth house (James V. Campbell House, 261 Alfred St) doesn't have any recent images from this decade, but here's where it looks like now.

>>2504213

>Mr. President, sorry to interrupt but we've got the mayor of Detroit on the phone. He wants make the city go back to what it was in the 1960s, all we have to do is shut down all of our auto factories and fire all the workers and tear up all of our contracts with American auto companies and destroy our massive state-capitalist industrial economy that our country bent over backwards and starved its population for a hundred years to build.

>What's the catch? It sounds too good.

>>2504693
Why make such a big deal out of exporting some batteries and electric motors to an automobile manufacturing heritage area?

>>2504364
>>2504377
How did you find the addresses of these buildings?

>>2504693

putting any kind of aid in detroit with the chinese flag on it would be a kick in the dick to the US government far before you got to the point of undoing de-industrialization, and once the US government demands they stop doing that you can publicize that too

>>2506424
Reverse image search and news articles from the 2010s.


Detroit needs to be made beautiful again.

Back in the 1930s, the city of Detroit (once dubbed the "Paris of America") was covered in beautiful socialist realist murals, all of them commissioned by FDR's administration. These murals glorified the working people of Detroit by portraying them as heroes.

Today, Detroit is the beacon of ugliness in America. Those beautiful socialist realist murals have been locked away in a museum away from public view. Breathtaking old buildings have been demolished. Most of the city lies in ruin. Detroit music now consists of J Dilla "beat tapes" made by pushing buttons on a sampler and adding a distorted drum pattern, and songs by Eminem and Insane Clown Posse about hacking people to death. Not to mention all the illegal raves where people play heinous techno "music." Meaningless modern "art" is everywhere in this city as is graffiti.

I fully believe the reason Detroit won't recover to its past greatness is because of this ugliness embedded within the city's modern culture. When you are surrounded by ugly art and music, you start to see the entire world as ugly, chaotic and confused. This causes you to start losing faith in your fellow man and creates an overall sense of nihilism and despair. It doesn't matter if the auto jobs come back. It doesn't matter if all of those empty lots are replaced by adequate housing. It's the CULTURE of Detroit that needs to change before anything will be fixed.

Get rid of the graffiti and replace it with socialist realist murals glorifying industrial workers. Get rid of hip hop and techno and get Detroit's children learning CLASSICAL music like they do in China, and have public classical music concerts like they did in the Soviet Union. Rebuild all the beautiful old buildings again.

BEAUTY will save Detroit before reindustrialization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QWI4H4_ik4

>>2507402
This video explains the Detroit disaster.

If China gorges warm relations with Detroit, the CPC MUST reintroduce beauty to the city. This in itself will do wonders to fester class solidarity.

Detroit isn’t even a problem city anymore, it’s been completely gentrified and it’s covered in tourist traps

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>>2507411
>cross necklace
>"war on beauty"
Ironic

>>2507418
Only downtown is gentrified.

>>2487462
/thread

>>2507402
>and songs by Eminem
Didn’t he grow up in a trailer park?

How is Eminem’s music not proletarian?

>>2507411
Ah yes, the return of "objective" beauty standards

>>2507608
8 mile is the name of the neighborhood he was from

>>2487462
Of course YOU posted something a glowie would post like every other thing you post.

Detroit and other Rust Belt cities are particularly severe cases due to the effects of globalization on the American manufacturing industry, but they're not the only ones and the reasons are more than just the changes to the industrial landscape. You also see it in cities like Jackson or Atlanta or Houston, any major city where you see the historical legacy white flight plain as day, urban areas falling to decay as Whitey cuts his losses and moves out to the suburbs.

So now you have this decayed urban city full of abandoned buildings falling to ruin and a bunch of poor black people standing around everywhere who are desperately looking for any work they can get. But they can't pick up hammers and drills and go fix up all those abandoned buildings and turn them into businesses or homes for their community and earn a decent paycheck for it, because that property doesn't belong to them. It still belongs to Whitey and he doesn't want to give it up, he's sitting on it and waiting for a miracle from heaven that will draw wealthy millions yuppie gentrifiers to the city and the property value will skyrocket and the black people will all go bye bye and Whitey can take back the city again. Until then, the inner city just sits and rots.

>>2507402
>muh socialist realism
Fuck off Maupin.

It's like, Detroit's industrial glory days are never coming back, this is the global economy and you can't reverse history, regardless of what Donald Trump might believe.

If you want Detroit to be a thriving community again, you simply give it to the indigenous inhabitants, the people who stayed in Detroit and didn't abandon their hometown. I think it's only fair that they get some kind of reward for their loyalty. Start a federal program to buy the abandoned properties from the bank and sell it to Detroit residents at very affordable rates, work with the zoning board to rezone appropriately, create an incentive for local residents to buy up all these abandoned land and turn it into businesses and apartments and neighborhoods, etc. Detroit is never going to be the giant industrial powerhouse megacity that it once was, but it could be a modest respectable town that is run and owned mostly by black people. And that's something America has never been able to abide.

>>2507741
Indigenous as in Native Americans, or the New Afrikans who overwhelmingly inhabit Detroit today?

>>2507748

Second one, I don't mean *that* indigenous, let's not get crazy now.

>>2507402
>BEAUTY will save Detroit
Spooky


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