Japan to help African countries escape China's "debt trap"

If you consider them "very left wing" then your standards for very left wing are a lot lower than mine.

For a think tank, it doesn't get much more left than that.

They demand what comes down to budget cuts of roughly 6% of their GDP, this is 2019. They know this will cause a recession

Are you saying there is NEVER a need to cut spending? Well, that answers everything -- you are a far leftist.

Slashing demand is not how you grow an economy.

By your logic, why not double their spending? My point is that the amount of spending a certain country has at a given point is not automatically the right spending or too low spending -- it can be too high of spending.

But you're a far leftist confirmed by the fact that the basis of every argument you made was that there should never be any cuts to government spending.

I'll point you to a great example of where a short term hurt is good for the longer term. The US suffered high inflation in the mid late 70's even reaching 10%. Paul Volcker had a plan that hadn't been tried before -- he drastically increased interest rates to reduce spending in the economy. It sent the US into a recession but a few short years later, the US was at healthy inflation rate.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/29/1001023637/think-inflation-is-bad-now-lets-take-a-step-back-to-the-1970s

You're automatic response that no reduction in spending is ever good just confirms you are a leftist.

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