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@ChinaCounter Something to remember is that no country has recognized Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa islands, not even the US. Their status remains open as the terms of Japan's surrender in WW2 haven't been completed.
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@GraphicW5 To charge Putin only to undermine Xi makes even more mockery of this troubled court.
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@zei_squirrel For those who wonder, she died 2014 after holding several high positions in Vietnam.
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@RnaudBertrand Australia pays to the US to get protection from possible security threats created by the US. That is a well-tested concept to make easy money.
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@BoredSoloDev @roland080424 @lporiginalg Japan has very strict rules for every situation. Those who cannot follow them will be kindly but firmly isolated to their own bubbles.
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@CheburekiMan Ukrainians don't really realise the West just sees them as fundamentally the same as Russians and are happy to get their numbers lower.
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@CheburekiMan If Ukraine won with NATO's equipment, be sure it is NATO's win in history books. But if they lose, NATO had nothing to do with that.
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@Spriter99880 Finland's rush to NATO membership was a mistake second only to allying with Hitler.
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@DmytroKuleba Didn't Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko already admit that negotiations were done in bad faith to buy time for Ukraine to prepare solving the problems by force?.
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@Zlatti_71 The West did a remarkable job bringing Russian wealth back home. It will start flowing out again at some point, but its main direction will be China. The West is poisoned for decades to come.
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@JulieM615 The "cultural genocide" in Tibet she talks about is because monasteries lost their slaves and couldn't be maintained in such huge numbers any more. The "Uyghur genocide" is the silliest Western propaganda nonsense in any recent memory.
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@BeijingDai Not taking Ukraine's coastline would leave the Russian fleet exposed to NATO's grey zone attacks.
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@RnaudBertrand This is in preparation of restricting Chinese exports from Xizang, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan, on the pretext that it is to help Tibetans, just like the Americans have been busy "helping" Uyghurs by trying to prevent any of their exports from reaching the markets.
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@GeromanAT I recall when the British press was giggling at the Russian aircraft carrier's troubles.
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@djuric_zlatko Beijing is approaching the moment when it feels confident to cut all contact with the US army over continued arm sales to Taiwan. The US promised to stop that over 40 years ago, yet hasn't kept its pledge.
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@RnaudBertrand Extremism only thrives when the center fails to deliver anything and appears broken beyond repair.
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@TaiwanSpecial Just call it New Year of the Dragon. Calling it "Lunar" new year makes no sense and is embarrassing. Don't appropriate Chinese festivals if you want to rip off the "Made In" tags.
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@BeijingDai First she publicly humiliates China's pet initiative and now goes to Beijing to beg for major investment. Can't say that is a well thought-out strategy.
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@SCMPNews So should China start passing bills that question the United States' rule over all the land they took from the natives?.
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@thonwingp Beijing didn't exactly cancel the trip. Borrell announced on his own that he's going but China didn't confirm anyone would be receiving him. The clown show is just another indicator of the chaos in the EU's foreign affairs.
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@AZgeopolitics The US first makes Europeans dump Russian fuel, then sells its own to them with a high price and buys cheap Russian fuel through India. The EU is in for a ride, as usual.
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@TimDoering97 @pkursawe @bad_dad1957 @GeromanAT So . NATO says that after Ukraine, Russia will overrun the rest of Europe with just these?.
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@narrative_hole Tucker is merrily challenging the entire establishment that doesn't know how to shut him up.
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@RnaudBertrand The US making it absolutely clear to the Chinese that instead of relying on Western technology, they have to be independent, is a blunder of astronomical proportions.
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@rezachapman @KurtWagner8 Well, at this point, it takes the largest company to be the largest advertiser.
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@BeijingDai The main problem with democratic system is that long-term planning becomes almost impossible. That shortcoming has been fixed in Western democracies by their continued plundering of the Global South, but soon that wealth is not flowing in their direction any more.
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@apocalypseos Germany produces 4M cars annually, exporting more than 50% of them. China production is 30M but exports are just 15%. Compared to Chinese, German overcapacity is staggering.
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@sirZerwal These are all American vassal states the public media of whom is obliged to endlessly repeat the same anti-China drumming that the US has tuned itself onto.
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@zadokq244514 Basically any American working for any foreign organisation would lose his citizenship 😅.
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@RnaudBertrand Many comments from Western people having not been to China write as if China was stuck in the early 1990s. That probably is because many of their own areas haven't had any progress since then.
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@BORReport The superhero movie era is slowly wrapping up and making space for original content.
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@GeromanAT Well, to be fair, the US has publicly said Ukrainians are a cheap way to fight Russia.
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@Kathleen_Tyson_ I am wandering what Putin has in mind for Prigozhin. The man has been absolutely brilliant delivering whatever has been asked of him and might be an excellent front for the underlying security state.
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@EliDFriedman Taiwanese are very Taoist, and sneering at their religion while pretending to be pro-Taiwan is just not productive. Here is the Yellow Emperor temple in New Taipei City:.
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@djuric_zlatko Let's keep in mind that this war leaves the EU greatly weakened and isolated, the main beneficiary of which is Washington. They are not as unhappy with Putin as their official language would let one believe.
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@Alare_Bems @RnaudBertrand Xinjiang was tamed with huge investments on infrastructure, jobs and education and with zero tolerance for extremism. Also, everyone in Xinjiang is a Chinese citizen. Israel has a lot to learn.
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@Spriter99880 Instead of sharing new ideas, Western leaders keep visiting other countries to give lectures.
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@tomcanetti @ginarush @crikey_news @DariImpio Oh please, what nonsense. Go Google Maps, browse to Shanghai, search for "gay bar" and count the dots.
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@GeromanAT These news coincided with Ukraine retreating across the front and facing failure to conscript more men to the army.
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@bobWaltzer @RadarFennec Much of NATO countries' GDP consists of overvalued services that evaporates in thin air if they need to support war.
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@ENDCOMMUNISM1 @Arth168 @HaraldinChina Day 1: Impossible to criticise Chinese government in China! They are so awful! Day 2: Look how many people criticise Chinese government in China! They are so awful! 🙄.
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@GeromanAT Armenia has a long track record of disastrous policies that have almost entirely destroyed the once powerful country.
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@bohdan7777747 @GeromanAT The one promise in Minsk I&II for Russia was to pull its troops out of Ukraine. That would eventually have happened but Ukraine didn't take a single step to act on the constitutional reforms it committed to do.
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@GonzaloLira1968 Very interesting summary. Once again, Putin has played his extremely challenging hand so well, so far.
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@USAmbJapan Pakistan owes China $23B, of total $126B debt. Zambia $6B of $33B. Sri Lanka $7B of $83B. You might want to check their other lenders for the real vultures here.
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@Spriter99880 Recently, the US has floated, with some success, its new fighting doctrine that its allies do the fighting when the US goes to war.
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@DD_Geopolitics Wow she wants Georgia to be subordinate to anything that the EU wants already before joining 😅.
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@witte_sergei A meaningful comparison would be industrial capacity, not GDP. Much of the West's GDP is just smoke and mirrors.
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@vtchakarova Tiananmen Square Massacre is the most famous bloodbath without a single known victim.
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@georgemagnus1 The US prints a trillion dollars every three months or so to finance its unaffordable expenses. That empty cash directly increases their dollar denominated GDP, telling how completely useless it is as a measure of anything meaningful.
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@Kanthan2030 Financial capitalism requires absolute customer trust. Switzerland has frozen assets of foreign investors that are deemed as supporting the EU's opponents, and the exodus of capital reflects the belief more might follow.
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@djuric_zlatko The EU continues to buy vast amounts of Russian energy, not only directly but also through middle men who need to be paid their own cut. Blinken should avoid this kind of self congratulatory nonsense.
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@MichaelSchuman @TheAtlantic Meanwhile in the real world, foreign arrivals to China are up 132% during the first half of the year.
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@MyLordBebo The most frightening part is how the EU now adamantly supports this kind of warfare that is solely aimed at the civilians.
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@djuric_zlatko Honestly, Sweden should just let the application die a quiet death. They are 100% surrounded by NATO without obligations to contribute. What's there to be unhappy about?.
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@sfrantzman Deliberately detonating a bomb in a cafe full of people needs quotes around the word "terrorist"?.
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@RnaudBertrand The West generally regards India as something harmless that can be dealt with in case it becomes an issue.
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@SCMPNews DPP has always been about dividing Taiwanese and using the divisions to its own benefit. Without Chiang Kai-shek and his extreme stubbornness, Taiwan would not exist as a political entity today, but that is just too much for DPP to bear.
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@GeromanAT This is reminiscent of NATO leaving Kabul so we can see the training they provided bearing fruit.
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@Parrots38 When the depleted Uranium is first morally high-grounded, it becomes entirely harmless to the environment.
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@imetatronink Wouldn't it be something if the US found itself forced into a war against Houthis, out of all possible wars it could fight.
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@BarrettYouTube They can't easily eavesdrop on the Huawei equipment so that needs to go. At the same time, the general public is told this is for their own good.
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@Spriter99880 The US treats Ukrainian independence with increasing indifference, unbothered to pretend any more this wasn't their own fight against Russia, even if Ukrainians keep getting killed in it.
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@mariocavolo Many of the Tibetan exiles stem from the former upper class who had it pretty good back in the day. Their point of view to all this is completely different.
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@Astro_Young1 @LIM49Spartan You mean when it is shot down, it crashes on Zelensky's palace and kills his entire cabinet, ending the war right there?.
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@notXiangyu The West is "worried" about China's minorities only because they might be useful to break up the country.
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@RnaudBertrand The US defunding the UN would start the long process of relocating the organisation somewhere else, if not in name but in practice, and leaving China as its main bankroller.
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@Coconut_sevan @GeromanAT Oh we still have people here who think the nominal GDP has a connection to the ability to manufacture weapons and ammunition.
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@Xnerdz A fragment of a Russian passport stuck in the propel has helped to identify the pilot. Washington is sanctioning him and his dog.
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@AmericaExpanded @ChinaCounter Now you are quoting NYT. The US government has not recognised Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa. This is the tool of last resort if Tokyo one day tells the US to get lost.
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@AmericaExpanded @ChinaCounter Perhaps you can actually read it. You won't find anything about the US recognising Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa.
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