cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112

China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion

Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    *Napoleon Bonaparte

    But it does sound like Sun Tzu! Which reminds me, got a new copy of The Art of War and I haven’t read it in 10 or 20 years.

    • @oppy1984@lemdro.id
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      14 hours ago

      In my late teens and early 20’s I got really into Napoleonic history, I still attribute that quote to Sun Tzu. It just sounds so much like some of the prose from Tzu, I sometimes wonder if Napoleon read it since it translated into French two years after his birth.

    • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      017 hours ago

      Sorry, off topic, but that 10 - 20 year range is wild and I notice myself using it more often now as I turn 40 like, “oh I haven’t seen this movie in 10 or 20 years!”