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[Bellum_Romanum]

Anyone here have read or looked into yet another "conspiracy theory" going around X involving the recent incident with an individual named James Woo (Korean-American) who was alleged to have blown up his own home, due to an alleged mental issues.

According to this X post, James Woo's passing is not what it seems nor is as simple as a man going through mental breakdown due to an impending divorce. There's supposedly a cabal of American defense, intelligence retired officials involved in the matter. And as a matter of fact, James Woo is the son of CIA connected parents both of whom were involved heavily during the early days of the South Korean Republic. James Woo himself was the head of a defense/intelligence company with global reach.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1732910829110956033

 

[supercat]

Excellent. I think the big statement here by Putin is that Russia is moving away from the buy-sell military relationship with China to co-development. It's a type of acknowledgement, that China has advanced military technology that Russia desires. For obvious reasons, Russia doesn't want to buy Chinese weapons directly. So the best way forward is to co-develop stuff with China.

So for example, China and Russia might wanna co-develop a new heavy HALE drone. China has the expertise, while Russia would want the ToT, and manufacturing know-how. It would be nice if the cooperation could also extend to major naval vessels and nuclear submarines. Russia needs newer capital ships, and China could use an additional boost in nuclear submarine tech. Since there is that AUKUS deal by the other side already, such a deal not that unthinkable.

P.S.: In my opinion they should insert a special clause in any co-development deals between China and Russia. No sales or ToT allowed to any 3rd countries that have problems with China or Russia. No matter how friendly they are to either of them. So no sales or ToT allowed to India, Vietnam, PH, Turkey, Ukraine, or any other NATO nations or partners. Ideally, these co-developed technologies should only stay between Russia and China only.

Not only co-development - China can also be Russia's arms manufacturer and arsenal, considering China's industrial base.

The China Juggernaut is coming for EU's cake now.

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Sounds like a good bet:

Also, funny how they didn't mention potential Chinese retaliation against German/EU car companies

The title is misleading. Europeans won't be concerned if China's automakers attempt to dump excessive numbers of inferior products, because they won't sell. What they really worry is that China will market some highly competitive EVs both in technology and price in Europe. Considering the reciprocal relationship between Chinese and European automakers, I don't see how a trade war over EV can proceed.

People tend to remember this sort of things. I'm afraid Israel has isolated themselves in the Middle East and the West has exposed their hypocrisy for generations to come.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1733186871914627494

 

[LawLeadsToPeace]

Anyone here have read or looked into yet another "conspiracy theory" going around X involving the recent incident with an individual named James Woo (Korean-American) who was alleged to have blown up his own home, due to an alleged mental issues.

According to this X post, James Woo's passing is not what it seems nor is as simple as a man going through mental breakdown due to an impending divorce. There's supposedly a cabal of American defense, intelligence retired officials involved in the matter. And as a matter of fact, James Woo is the son of CIA connected parents both of whom were involved heavily during the early days of the South Korean Republic. James Woo himself was the head of a defense/intelligence company with global reach.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1732910829110956033

I didn't look into it deeply, but the guy in question is James Yoo, not Woo. The person who wrote the thread is incredibly inconsistent in this regard, so the writer is unreliable from the get go.

 

[daifo]

Pilot program to allow tourist to use e-yuan between China and Singapore.

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[gpt]

Andrey Rudenko, No. 2 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Xi that China's former foreign minister, Qin Gang, along with top officers in the country's military leadership,

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by Western intelligence agencies, according to the report.

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[daifo]

Andrey Rudenko, No. 2 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Xi that China's former foreign minister, Qin Gang, along with top officers in the country's military leadership,

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by Western intelligence agencies, according to the report.

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95% that is just western media with no sources making things up

 

[Maikeru]

If China and Russia wanted to support Venezuela, the best thing they could do is send in part of their Navy to Venezuela to guard it against US military intervention. For example China could send in surface ships and Russia could send in nuclear submarines. But I doubt this would work in the long run. That place is just too close to the US, so they have the military superiority there. And Venezuela isn't the stablest of places to begin with. Regardless of what they think of the US extracting oil from the offshore shelf in Guyana, it's a bad idea for Venezuela to act militarily.

Still, Russia probably doesn't care much at this point about Western sanctions, but I kind of doubt China would send in their Navy.
The Chinese Navy is basically geared up for a conflict in the Pacific, not in the other side of the world.

At this point, the US Navy is heavily committed in the Middle East, and they have two carriers in the Pacific, so I kind of doubt the US could respond quickly to an intervention by Venezuela. But you can bet it would happen eventually.

Before people here start cheering on Maduro to embroil the USA in another quagmire, please bear this piece of information in mind:

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[Bellum_Romanum]

Andrey Rudenko, No. 2 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Xi that China's former foreign minister, Qin Gang, along with top officers in the country's military leadership,

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by Western intelligence agencies, according to the report.

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The same Russian intelligence that weren't able to discern Ukraine’s will to resist and fight the invading Russian forces? They're able to penetrate Chinese important leader(s) and on a country who's culture and geography, and language are still foreign to Russia, but couldn't make an accurate assessment of the country Ukraine, which was and is culturally closer, similar language, and geographically closer to Russia. Hmm sure..

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Chinese spy garlics have hit American supermarkets.
This is totally unacceptable

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So that means the US is a country of vampires?

Not surprising, considering how they conducted themselves across the world since the birth of the American Empire.

I mean, just look at Rick Scott.

 

[Biscuits]

Andrey Rudenko, No. 2 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Xi that China's former foreign minister, Qin Gang, along with top officers in the country's military leadership,

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by Western intelligence agencies, according to the report.

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Fanfic from the same people who claimed Putin fell down stairs and died. Multiple times over the last 2 years.

There are many things that can never be 100% disproved, but one can guess based on US behavior that they really don't have these connections some of their more fringe media are claiming. For example, Qin Gang, who was in the cabinet and likely had access to the same level as Xi, would have certainly known about the impending Hamas attack. If America really had a source like that, would they have done nothing? No tip off to Mossad or anything? US is also (publicly at least) just as unknowing about the size and types of the CN nuclear arsenal as they've always been.

America is just consistently too poor at predicting and ineffective at dealing with Chinese moves to make one believe they have any intel more than the most basic.

Maybe there is a tiny kernel of truth in that Qin Gang had an investment or some sort of business connection, that made him more soft when dealing with the US. That would by itself be enough for investigation and removal.