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[Dolcevita]

China and Vietnam have upgraded their land port. Hopefully this warming relationship can develop further.

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More trade and cooperation between China and Vietnam is always better. It'll take awhile to mend ties and build trust, but at least Vietnam is moving in the right direction. Long may this continue. This is in contrast to the crap and backstabbing we are seeing with the Philippines, India, and South Korea. Their loss in business with China is gonna become Vietnam's gain. If Vietnam can work towards a friendlier relationship with China, it could stand to become the manufacturing powerhouse of ASEAN.

I just checked tradingeconomics and it appears Vietnam has already surpassed Philippines in both nominal and per capita GDP. I remember back when Vietnam GDP was just a fraction of the Philippines when they joined ASEAN.

Really sad for the Philippines.

 

[canonicalsadhu]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1739792200630727037

The article is actually pretty insightful. Of course WSJ has no access to the inner workings of MSS but from public job offerings and public statements it's clear that MSS is relentlessly focused on civilian and defense tech intelligence and recruits mostly tech experts. On the other hand, I really found this to be shocking:

The intelligence community is just not set up institutionally to be adept at understanding China’s commercial and tech issues

They actually say that the US gov was shocked with SMIC 7nm. I would also add CIA director Burns publicly admitting to being blindsided at China brokering the Saudi-Iran deal. This sub makes fun of the US state/commerce department being filled with low-quality pol-sci / IR / lawyers given the level of ignorance they have displayed with the chip export sanctions, but could it really be that CIA is no different and is so incompetent? I don't know, maybe the article is intended to misdirect and underestimate them.

 

[FriedButter]

In others words the garden wants the jungle to fight their wars for them. Ukraine is so important for them yet too chicken to send their own troops to fight.

The author is puffing up some imperial NATO delusion that nobody is really going to agree with. Your technology, trade, and financial policies will be dictated within the imperial NATO senate.

For a start, there should not just be regular meetings of NATO defense and foreign ministers. Ministers responsible for finance, trade, commerce, and technology should convene within NATO as well.

On the other hand, the emphasis on Article 5 has also constrained the bloc’s potential for more nimble political action.

It would be the institutional basis for the alliance to incorporate key tools of security policy, such as economic sanctions and export controls.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

I just checked tradingeconomics and it appears Vietnam has already surpassed Philippines in both nominal and per capita GDP. I remember back when Vietnam GDP was just a fraction of the Philippines when they joined ASEAN.

Really sad for the Philippines.

It's really just nature taking its course. Intelligent countries who play their cards right advance. Not so intelligent countries who don't don't.

 

[Serb]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740929546877280548

 

[FriedButter]

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I don’t remember if anyone posted their year end message on the forum. The article only contains one sentence of that message. Great news for Huawei except for the panicking politicians in Washington. It would appear they have fully emerged from the disaster.

“After years of hard work, we’ve managed to weather the storm. And now we’re pretty much back on track,” Huawei’s rotating chairman, Ken Hu, said in a year-end message to employees.

 

[Nick las]

• Retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis says China isn't ready to fight the US in the next 10 years.
• "If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China," Stavridis said.
• Stavridis said US allies such as Japan and South Korea would come to their aid if war breaks out.

China wouldn't be able to fight the US if war were to break out within the next decade, said a former NATO supreme allied commander.

"China, in my estimation, will not be ready to take on the US in a very mature way for about 10 years," retired US Navy Adm.

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said in an interview on

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, which aired on Wednesday.

Stavridis had served as NATO chief from 2009 to 2013. Before taking the helm of NATO, he was the Commander of the US Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, overseeing military operations in Latin America.


In 2021, Stavridis co-authored a novel titled "

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." The book is a fictional account of a war between the US and China over the South China Sea.
Stavridis gave his assessment of China's military capabilities when host Michael Medved asked if a US-China war would break out before 2034.

"Even though China is building a massive fleet, even though they're acting very aggressively, they're not ready yet to line up all that they need to take on the US Pacific Fleet," Stavridis said.

China has the

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, with over 355 vessels in its fleet, according to a 2021

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. In July,

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revealed that China's shipbuilding capacity is

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than the US.

But this, Stavridis argues, would be inconsequential given the strength of US military alliances.

"If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China. We have treaty allies who are sworn to come and be a part of a military campaign like that. That's Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand," Stavridis said.

"So that's a lot of firepower when you kind of put it all together," he continued.

Stavridis told Medved that such deterrence would give the US "a bit of a grace period" to strengthen its military further while easing bilateral tensions through diplomacy.

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This doesn't make much sense. How would a balloon navigate without a propulsion system? Had the components of such a device been found, the US media would have screamed through the roof.

How it started, and how it's going.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740707387554574626

Booming trade:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740674182898417911

Afghanistan needs electricity and lights.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740775685994811736

National priorities:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1527982704536743937

 

[supercat]

• Retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis says China isn't ready to fight the US in the next 10 years.
• "If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China," Stavridis said.
• Stavridis said US allies such as Japan and South Korea would come to their aid if war breaks out.

China wouldn't be able to fight the US if war were to break out within the next decade, said a former NATO supreme allied commander.

"China, in my estimation, will not be ready to take on the US in a very mature way for about 10 years," retired US Navy Adm.

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said in an interview on

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, which aired on Wednesday.

Stavridis had served as NATO chief from 2009 to 2013. Before taking the helm of NATO, he was the Commander of the US Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, overseeing military operations in Latin America.


In 2021, Stavridis co-authored a novel titled "

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." The book is a fictional account of a war between the US and China over the South China Sea.
Stavridis gave his assessment of China's military capabilities when host Michael Medved asked if a US-China war would break out before 2034.

"Even though China is building a massive fleet, even though they're acting very aggressively, they're not ready yet to line up all that they need to take on the US Pacific Fleet," Stavridis said.

China has the

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, with over 355 vessels in its fleet, according to a 2021

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. In July,

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revealed that China's shipbuilding capacity is

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than the US.

But this, Stavridis argues, would be inconsequential given the strength of US military alliances.

"If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China. We have treaty allies who are sworn to come and be a part of a military campaign like that. That's Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand," Stavridis said.

"So that's a lot of firepower when you kind of put it all together," he continued.

Stavridis told Medved that such deterrence would give the US "a bit of a grace period" to strengthen its military further while easing bilateral tensions through diplomacy.

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Really?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1740737839015616518

Last time I checked, Ukraine pretty much won every war games against Russia conducted by the US and NATO. That tells how much credibility such supreme US/NATO commanders have.

 

[Chevalier]

Oh, it’s actually far far worse than that. There have always been powerful factions within Russian who have always been pathetically pro-western. Basically their version of Hanjian who were desperate to be ‘accepted’ into the white master race club by the Anglos. Hence all the Russian soul belonging to Europe BS.

These factions were powerful, distributed and entrenched. So much so even Putin couldn’t do too much against them without risking serious internal upheaval and maybe even open conflict and civil war. Especially since these oligarchs parked the lion share of their assets abroad, where Putin couldn’t reach it, and with those stashed away trillions, even if Putin moved against them and wiped their influence out in all of Russia, they will always have a strong base to infiltrate back from.

But thanks to the idiocy of the west, these factions have been all but eradicated both domestically and abroad.

In Europe and America, much, if not most of the wealth frozen and seized by western authorities belonged to these pro-western Russian oligarchs, all but wiping out their nest egg power base abroad.

In Russia, the heavy handed propaganda war by the west was a true awakening movement for the overwhelmingly majority of Russian youth who were previously too naive and inexperienced in life to fall for wester propaganda. The die hards who are beyond redemption are now easily isolated and their capture and prosecution no longer creates martyrs as overwhelming public sentiment is not to cheer for the capture of traitors, instead it just just makes more penal legionaries for the western front.

The west has done more to help Putin awaken and unify Russia and fundamentally shift its allegiance eastwards than Putin could have ever managed by himself.

This is the biggest and most spectacular needless own goal yet by the Anglos. Ukrainian was absolutely a war of choice by the Anglos. All they had to do was leave it alone and it would have stayed the same for another hundred years as a buffer against Russia that could be turned into a battlefront at almost any time. But the west just couldn’t help themselves. They cannot leave potential rivals alone, even if they are weakened and no longer interested in being rivals to the west. Their continued existence is too much for the west to tolerate and they will always seek to utterly destroy or subjugate anything they don’t totally dominate.

It's what you call a forced mistake, induced by pro-Russia Russians and China.

Easily one of the best trades in the 21st century. I recieve: Russia with all its military and resources (+ Ukraine). You recieve: inflation and 300 billion in Russian traitor assets that you owned to begin with.

Explains now why the Anglo press were waxing lyrical about “state backed piracy” and “privateers” ever since the Yinhe incident;

I just checked tradingeconomics and it appears Vietnam has already surpassed Philippines in both nominal and per capita GDP. I remember back when Vietnam GDP was just a fraction of the Philippines when they joined ASEAN.

Really sad for the Philippines.

Filipino elites evidently would prefer to build and live in a world where Asians are forever slaves to white westerners. This state of affairs is a natural result of their efforts.