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It's yet another of the unfair advantages that China had over other countries, stemming from treaties signed decades ago that no longer make sense.

Glad to see it gone (and I'm not even an American).

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The "unfair advantage" is not one sided and otherwise considered developmental aid for developing countries (as developing countries, rising them out of poverty, seems to be the best overall strategy for humans). The classification of china as developmental country is complicated, but you can't just look a Beijing skyscrapers and go "yeah we're done here." (Or you can, but that's not very helpful, one option would be GDP/c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP..., although, thanks to the huge population, the gdp overall is quite high) also it depends on the time of evaluation.

Until recently the US was on the winning side of the deal, too (according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union#Shiftin... ) they even blocked an increase of dues in 2010. Until they started to lose money in 2015. Now it's unfair and a decades old treaty (even though it is adapted all the time and serves valuable reasons).

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