• meth_dragon [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 年前

    Because the people were disappointed in what DPP had done with the economy

    inciting conflict with your biggest trading partner does tend to have negative effects on the economy

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      Well yeah I guess, but really it’s more about the policies they had been pushing domesticlly

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        i am sure the success or failure of those domestic policies were not in the least contingent on international political conditions. the economic policies of an island that imports 97% of its energy with a food self sufficiency rate of around 30% and exports accounting for 70% of gdp can in no way be considered to be overexposed or at risk to trade fluctuations and even if that were the case, i am sure that foreign policy would not play an outsize role in determining the magnitude or periodicity of said trade fluctuations.