Miscellaneous News

[FriedButter]

The UK decline is caused by their own internal machinations. China isn’t going to help them. Their problems are systematic. The only thing China is going to extend their hand is for business opportunities, which you shouldn’t mistaken business relations as helping.

 

[tygyg1111]

I see lots of people calling bs on this study because, "You wouldn't get that impression from English language social media sites." Well, there in lies your problem isn't it? On top of that, ask how many of those haters online actually reside in the country they claim to be representing.

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reality goes brrr

 

[liamban]

Is this another argument with someone who thinks it's perfectly logical to ride on top of trains again ?

 

[horse]

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[gadgetcool5]

Iran faces energy shortage as factories, schools, govt offices close​

Iran is now facing a major energy crisis that is forcing schools, government offices, and factories to shutter and cutting power and heating to ordinary Iranians. The New York Times (NYT) reported on 22 December that the Islamic Republic has found itself in a “full blown energy emergency” coinciding with recent regional setbacks.

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Very bad news for Iran, which does not have the capability to transport its own presidents in helicopters newer than 1970s American models that crash, or to repair its own pipelines that get blown up by Israel. People have talked of a "China-Russia-Iran" alliance, but if China really wants an alliance with Iran, it is going to have to step up and provide money for Iran to invest and do things like repair its pipelines & restore its power generation capacity. Remember, it was economic stagnation that killed Assad's popularity and led no one to be willing to fight for him. The Iranian government may also be toppled unless its economy can turn around. And if Iran falls and is replaced by a pro-American government, China's geopolitical status in the region will be badly weakened.

Also, it sends a terrible message to the entire world when countries that get sanctioned by the Americans keep falling into an economic abyss. It tells everyone to stay in line for fear of being sanctioned.

 

[zbb]

A DPP MP screams "why you want to be Chinese dogs" at Pan-Blue MPs when a reporter points out the writing on her jacket about loving Taiwan is in Simplified Chinese and her jacket was likely purchased from Taobao.

 

[Thecore]

A DPP MP screams "why you want to be Chinese dogs" at Pan-Blue MPs when a reporter points out the writing on her jacket about loving Taiwan is in Simplified Chinese and her jacket was likely purchased from Taobao.

She looks has filipino facial features.

 

[tygyg1111]

Iran faces energy shortage as factories, schools, govt offices close​

Iran is now facing a major energy crisis that is forcing schools, government offices, and factories to shutter and cutting power and heating to ordinary Iranians. The New York Times (NYT) reported on 22 December that the Islamic Republic has found itself in a “full blown energy emergency” coinciding with recent regional setbacks.

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Very bad news for Iran, which does not have the capability to transport its own presidents in helicopters newer than 1970s American models that crash, or to repair its own pipelines that get blown up by Israel. People have talked of a "China-Russia-Iran" alliance, but if China really wants an alliance with Iran, it is going to have to step up and provide money for Iran to invest and do things like repair its pipelines & restore its power generation capacity. Remember, it was economic stagnation that killed Assad's popularity and led no one to be willing to fight for him. The Iranian government may also be toppled unless its economy can turn around. And if Iran falls and is replaced by a pro-American government, China's geopolitical status in the region will be badly weakened.

Also, it sends a terrible message to the entire world when countries that get sanctioned by the Americans keep falling into an economic abyss. It tells everyone to stay in line for fear of being sanctioned.

What are your thoughts on, for instance, when countries that aren't even sanctioned by Americans, such as America's Nato partners, are falling into an economic abyss?

Or is this a classic case of "if this is what its doing to us, imagine what it's doing to them?"

 

[MortyandRick]

What are your thoughts on, for instance, when countries that aren't even sanctioned by Americans, such as America's Nato partners, are falling into an economic abyss?

Or is this a classic case of "if this is what its doing to us, imagine what it's doing to them?"

You mean when Texas has that black out one winter when their electric grid was overloaded which lasted for weeks?
Or the fact that their tool so long trying to fic the Baltimore bridge collapse that they lost billions of dollars a day?

Nah those don't counts cause that happened to the US and the west and surely isn't the govt's fault at all.

 

[Feima]

A DPP MP screams "why you want to be Chinese dogs" at Pan-Blue MPs when a reporter points out the writing on her jacket about loving Taiwan is written in Simplified Chinese and likely purchased from Taobao.

Several presidential terms ago, as acting speaker of the legislative, this Qiu person rushed through passing bills by pretending not to hear opposing MPs during the readings. She'd ask "any disgreement on clause XYZ of blah blah bill?" KMT MPs would scream "we disagree, we want to debate", she'd pretended not to hear, struck her speaker's gavel and said "passed!"

Taiwan democracy is a joke.