700 dollar is just enough for a Mate 60.About the same time when he pays for the disaster in Hawaii, only 700 dollars per household, with the added humiliation of a few billion dollars sent to Ukraine as a comparison. At the end of the day, the people of the USA are cry babies. Sucking it up is ultimately all they can do and no amount of guns will solve anything because they are fundamentally a bunch of cry babies who cry when they try to smack you…. In the ass
This remind me of this picture that i already posted. based on greater wealth creation in Mideast. it is expected more indian will get employed to have enough money and education to move to west and there will be more demographic opportunity depend on effectiveness of economic grip of Arabs in west. this without the new large wide body airline from Saudi. and there will be certain airlines not on map.A significant portion of their population also live in the latitude that will be very "miserable" due to global warming especially without air conditioning and also suffer water scarcity. That along with wide wealth gap may cause a lot of local unrest.

Jai Hind!!, this is why Xi did not attend. He is scared of us, this is not an diplomatic handshake but a warring to Xi.
I feel that the Peter Zeihan propaganda is an overall improvement over the older propaganda nutjobs like Gordon Chang, Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon. At least for Peter Zeihan, he is saying that China is so doomed, so the US should not worry too much about it. The older yellow peril nutjobs would say that China is doomed, but is also evil, so the US must hurt and destroy China. Biden is still influenced by the propaganda of those older nutjobs.Biden says Xi has significant problems like youth unemployment and an economic crisis.
Interestingly, this is not the first time Biden has mentioned tired Peter-Zeihan-level-stupid cliches about China. He did it in the SoU address and various other times for the last year and he seemed to me genuinely to believe them because he says it with such confidence. I'm really beginning to wonder whether the American political system has become so dysfunctional and delusional that it started to believe its own propaganda. I really wonder whether POTUS is getting proper intelligence about China.
A Canadian warship has at least 3 encounters with Chinese ships as it patrols contested waters
Tensions are high aboard HMCS Ottawa, as China asserts itself in the waters off Japan
This is what happens if you don't create the right conditions, you get shot at by "laser" from Chinese ships.
Long may the Western sanctions game continue! Sanction Russia, sanction Huawei, sanction Chinese officials, sanction Russian cats, sanction Chinese tomatoes. More sanctions please. Sanction them all!“The withdrawal of Western companies from Russia has created vast opportunities for Chinese businessmen and enterprises to cooperate with Russia. For example, in the vehicle manufacturing sector: many Chinese carmakers have entered the Russian market throughout the past year. While previously they made up only 5-6% of the market, now it is almost 40%,” Zhou stated.
Funny how I still recall some months ago - That a few here in this forum claimed that "soft power is of absolutely no use in the geopolitical fight between superpowers".
The thing is - Not a lot of people outside of the military circle talk about military stuff everyday. But there are fvck tons of people everywhere who talking movies, dramas, songs and games. Every. Single. Day.
I believe I need to knock this sentence onto this forum wall for everyone here to actually make sense and understand.
While China is now equipped with the capability to militarily go toe-to-toe with the US in her own front yard (i.e. WestPac), yet China is nowhere near the US when it comes to soft power influence and control projection.
Besides, soft power isn't just about building bridges, schools, airports and hospitals. It is about connecting, managing, and even controlling the minds & hearts of the targeted audience & population.
Just this one simple question is enough: "How often do Chinese people talk about American movies? Meanwhile, how often do American people talk about Chinese movies?"
TL;DR - China needs to do A WHOLE LOT MORE if she intends to stand toe-to-toe with the US (and her allies with far-reaching soft power prowess, i.e. South Korea and Japan) in the soft power battlefield.