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emblem21

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by Sherelle Jacobs (The Telegraph)

"Twenty-two years ago today, the West woke up to a diabolical new existential enemy. When 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed two into the Twin Towers, killing almost 3,000 people, the US government and its European counterparts learnt to their horror that the fall of the Soviet Union had not, in fact, brought about the End of History – that is, the final exhaustion of the great dialectical battle between the forces of freedom and fundamentalism.

Instead it turned out that there were people who were willing to blow themselves up in order to destroy the West. Their fundamentalism boiled down to a total rejection of Western civilization, and in particular its idea of freedom anchored in individual liberty and personal autonomy rather than unquestioning submission before God.

Frightening as this attack was, it was at least tangible. The new struggle seemed a straightforwardly Manichean one, between individual freedom and collective fundamentalism; the life force and death instinct.

Terrorists, exalting their murderous deeds, raged against the infidel in the open air. The movement had standout villains, most notably Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire who seemed pathologically obsessed with Whitney Houston and yet so despised American consumerism that he refused to use a fridge. The gauntlet thrown down by these terrorists brought out the essence of the West. The cowboy president George W Bush vowed, with a Texan smoke ’em out lilt, to hunt down the ringleaders “dead or alive”.

Today, the enemy we face – the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – is in some ways more frightening than al-Qaeda. This new enemy does not seek to destroy Western values by waging open war. Rather it is steadily rendering freedom and democracy obsolete, through infiltration of our economic and political system in the shadows. The CCP has been extraordinarily successful in capturing Britain plc..."
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Wow the Brit’s have an amazing sense of self worth, well done…. Honestly is devolving into a bunch of racist red necks a really good thing for the UK right now, I mean they have Russia who are disarming them literally and figuratively so to speak, most of the global south cutting them loose but by bit and an economy and supply chain that is rapidly falling apart without any plan at all to fix it. Does China really care about this useless nation other than its attempt to press the Taiwan question which will eventually be solved via China sending what little of its fleet to Davy jones locker. It’s obvious, the UK has no value and it is not a loss if it never became part of the belt and road
 
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To be fair, this story is clickbait headline journalism - doesn't involve actual pirates or US military forces stopping and raiding tanker ships on the high seas. It's pure lawfare. The crude was being transported on a Greek owned tanker and the US subpoenaed the Greek shipping company and told the tanker's crew to diverted the ship. China/Iran navel escorts wouldn't have made any difference in this incident.



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Taking the cargo of a ship that doesn't belong to you and selling it for profit - definition of piracy

What method they use isn't really relevant. It just shows that China should provide its own shipping companies so that friendly trading partners don't have to rely on western service providers. The sanctions on Russia are not just an opportunity to take over the Russian consumer goods market and replace western financial services for Chinese trade. It should also be an opportunity to take over the shipping industry. No country would dare touching a ship flying the Chinese flag
 
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Now, think tankies can threaten British govt workers. There is a witch hunt in the Anglosphere. All because American establishment wants it... As extra Britain still has the goal of being the "2nd guy" of the global order. As I said 2 years ago too, ethnic-Chinese in English speaking countries should have a contingency plan to leave the country. First gen immigrants should evaluate returning back to China.

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In Germany it is not much better since the greens tenure, I know 3rd gen vietnamnese (!) who are CO in the Bundeswehr that didn't get advanced security clearance because they were in Vietnam before (!) they joined the army.... But he needed one to become a pilot.

Prob looked to much like a chinese.

So now they do some bullshit position but dude wanted to fly A400M...

3-4 years ago such problems weren't existent.
 
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The whole point of the US-India infrastructure deal is to delay actual infrastructure projects, embezzle contractor money from the nations involved, and never finish it, so they can keep the Middle East disconnected and down for another decade.

The last thing the US wants is to improve interconnectivity that China could take advantage of. China owns Haifa port and Piraeus port that the plan goes through, they would be some of the biggest profiteers if the rail was actually built.



As expected, India's ego has been blown up to gargantuan proportions after G20.
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