Miscellaneous News

coolgod

coolgod

Brigadier
Registered Member
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679144174178934785
Exchanges among China, Russia and Indonesia are in line with common interests of the three countries, which are representatives of emerging markets & important members of the G20, and benefit regional peace & stability, said Chinese senior diplomat Wang Yi in a meeting with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov and Indonesian FM Retno Marsudi on Wed. Wang went to Indonesia to attend a series of ASEAN meetings from Thur to Fri.
Click to expand...
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679097880890736642
F01am9_aQAIoTiq.jpg

More and more group meetings between China and Russia without you know who.
 
Chevalier

Chevalier

Major
Registered Member
FriedButter said:
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!


It would be hilarious if the Russians built a display of burnt leopard 2 tanks in Germany.
Click to expand...
The modern equivalent of stacking enemy heads outside their gates.
Dark Father said:
We already have one but of course there are legions of politicians and commoners who still do not want to acknowledge that simple fact. What you are advising is doing the bare minimum like in the past few years on the foreign policy front with zero effect. It has only worsened the international environment from the PRC's perspective.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679162508937146368
Click to expand...
Baerbock looked like she was ready to cry.
“you can’t do that!! We’ll do that to you!! You don’t ban Soviet Russia!! Soviet Russia bans you!!”

except Germany had a chance to be China today with industry 4.0 but decided white supremacy was more important so they can lay in the bed they made.
 
L

luminary

Senior Member
Registered Member
Still amused at how the LGBTQQIP2SA movement has somehow gotten dragged into geopolitics.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"I believe that this issue, and these strong attacks by the West against the establishment of families and against the culture of the nations, is another area of cooperation for Iran and Uganda,” Raisi said after a private meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.




https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679160005012996099
 
BoraTas

BoraTas

Major
Registered Member
manqiangrexue said:
You're a big fan of loud people talking a lot, aren't you? How very suitable for Western politics. In China, we say, "The silent chicken eats the most rice." We don't like endless public meetings with announcements for fanfare, to give people something to react to (probably has something to do with the need to constantly win elections in the West). And then they silently cancel most of them or just let them rot without follow up. We do things to do things, for the results, not to rile people. Despite the nonstop chicken clucking of the Western henhouse against China and Russia, in the end Russia cannot be defeated in Ukraine and China's rise, in every category, is unstoppable. It reminds me of a tree full of howling shrieking monkeys as two Harpy Eagles silently circle above. This is the difference between silent predators and their panicking screaming prey.

But even beyond this comparison of predator and prey, I cannot emphasize enough the strength and beauty behind silence. There is a natural rivalry in North America through millions of years of evolution between the great horned owl and the bald eagle. The bald eagle is twice the wingspan, 3 times the mass, and has a 3 inch knife-like beak that the owl cannot match. But the owl, armed with slightly stronger talons, gets the better of the eagle the majority of times, because while the eagle has some advantage in one-on-one combat during the day, the owl dominates the night when eagles and their chicks are completely helpless against owls attacking in absolute silence due to their unique ability to fly without making sounds. As a matter of fact, great horned owls prefer to kill bald eagles for their nests rather than build their own! It is because of this stealthy adaptation that there are 300K bald eagles today with every effort from the US government to protect them, vs 6 million horned owls which have never been threatened.
Click to expand...

I agree about him taking news too seriously but he is right about Chinese foreign policy being too passive. For example, recently NED cooked up an anti-China hysteria in Thailand and got anti-China parties elected. What good is spending billions on BRI when you are unwilling to spend a few billion on cultivating friendly media and groups?
 
supercat

supercat

Colonel
Why the West cannot compete with China anymore.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678857448923250693
I can't avoid being amazed by the amount of flexibility and efficiency in Chinese administrative procedures. People really go the extra mile to help you, which happens with no other country's public administration (at least in my experience).

During our current trip my younger daughter needs to get a new passport so we decided to do the procedure in Shenyang.

First issue: normally new passports can only be sent to a local address. Problem: we're only in Shenyang until tomorrow and we don't have a local address. The officer at the counter said "no problem, let's connect on WeChat, I'll receive the passport for you and will personally send it to you." Something like this is unthinkable in any other country.

Second issue: for some weird reason my daughter is shown as having an existing pending passport application in Shanghai, which makes her getting a new passport here impossible. No-one knows why that's the case, clearly some sort of bug in the system. Not to worry: the big boss of the place is called, he says he's seen this situation before when the case officer from a previous passport application forgot to mark the case as complete, leaving it as pending. Which would make sense since my daughter got her previous passport in Shanghai.

Third issue: We're told this is something we can only clear personally in Shanghai, because only they can confirm locally why the application is still pending. We tell them we have no plans to go to Shanghai so the big boss kindly takes it upon himself to call the central system to ask them to investigate.

And... it's solved! It was indeed a mistake made in Shanghai, her new passport can be issued in Shenyang and the officer will receive it personally on our behalf.

Bear in mind all of this, from us stepping foot in the office for the first time to solving all the issues, was done in the space of 24 hours.

So a huge thanks to the immigration office in Shenyang for going the extra mile. I find it absolutely amazing that for a country the size of China, with the largest public administration in the world, they still manage to have such level of flexibility, personal service and speed.
Click to expand...
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678969680646778881

They are stealing our data!
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678905010153725952

Another picture of the 100 meter hurdler:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678964079824863232
 
D

Dark Father

Junior Member
Registered Member

U.S. Joint Chiefs pick pursues more Indo-Pacific outposts​

Gen. Brown says Washington needs to improve logistics capability in the region

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's pick to head the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has said the military under his watch would seek more operational sites in the Indo-Pacific region and work to strengthen Taiwan's self-defense capabilities.

The nominee, Gen. Charles Brown, answered questions during a confirmation hearing held Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Brown would serve as the country's highest-ranking officer and one of Biden's top advisers.

If confirmed, Brown would be the
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
of the Joint Chiefs after Gen. Colin Powell, the late officer and statesman who stepped down nearly three decades ago. The current chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, is due to retire in September.

"I'm mindful of the security challenges at this consequential time and the need to accelerate to stay ahead of the growing threat," Brown told the senators, with an eye on China. "The Department of Defense must implement the national defense strategy and prepare a joint force that can win the next war, if called upon."
For the Indo-Pacific, Brown discussed how it takes time to move military resources across the "massive" distances in the region.

"You cannot wait till the crisis occurs to be able to deploy capability," he said. "You have to preposition capability and have that in place. You have to work with allies and partners to have access to locations."

"I'm mindful of the security challenges at this consequential time and the need to accelerate to stay ahead of the growing threat," Brown told the senators, with an eye on China. "The Department of Defense must implement the national defense strategy and prepare a joint force that can win the next war, if called upon."

For the Indo-Pacific, Brown discussed how it takes time to move military resources across the "massive" distances in the region.

"You cannot wait till the crisis occurs to be able to deploy capability," he said. "You have to preposition capability and have that in place. You have to work with allies and partners to have access to locations."

Brown served as commander of the Pacific Air Forces from 2018 to 2020 before becoming the chief of staff of the Air Force. To respond to crises in the Indo-Pacific, he has advocated transitioning the air forces from large bases to smaller sites spread across the region.

Source:
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top