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The poster Vina Nadjibulla is the separated wife of the captured spy Michael Kovrig. She lobbied hard to bring him back to Canada.
Wife of detained Canadian Michael Kovrig calls for diplomatic solution ahead of Chinese trial
Vina Nadjibulla praises supportive comments from Canadian and U.S. leaders but wants action to secure release
‘Free at last’: Canadian Michael Kovrig, wife speak about emotional return from China
She greeted him as he got off the plane from China.
A year later: Michael Kovrig shows up to Biden's address to Canadian Parliament with his Chinese girlfriend
Michael Kovrig reflects on ‘brutally hard’ Chinese detention: ‘You’re totally alone’
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China should just let Donald fulfill his expansionary fantasy and improve trade ties with the U.S. instead.
Just make sure the anglos have to fight and bleed every step of the way, the same way they make Chinese and East Asian workers and students fight every step of the way up the career ladder.
Typical US media. They're worried about individuals betting a few hundred dollars on polymarket but says nothing about Wall Street hedge funds betting tens of billions on the same things.
- Americans who are too self righteous for Manifest Destiny.
- Americans who hate Trump so much, anything he suggests or proposes must be a bad idea by default.
- Americans who hate Trump so much, they want him to fail even if it'll hurt the national interest, whatever that might be interpreted to be.
- Americans who are xenophobic, even though some Canadians (usually from Alberta or Saskatchewan) are arguably as or more American than themselves.
- Americans who are afraid territorial expansion may (further) overextend the US. This one is probably the most legitimate concern.
The list is actually reasonably lengthy, and also why while Trump, or more likely a successor may eventually succeed at annexing Canada, they'll more likely than not struggle, if not fail to secure the political mandate necessary for annexation by way of armed invasion.
In the unlikely event that the US invades Canada, the US may find itself both overextended and scrutinized elsewhere by countries worried about what American intentions will be for them.
Why bother invading such countries? Let them come to you!
War is pretty terrible. Try it if you want.
To be fair, if you want China to do well, you should aspire for China to win, whatever that is to you, without firing a single shot.
Of course they do! Have you not met any of them?!
You don't have to like them, but that isn't going to deter or alter their unrelenting belief in American Exceptionalism, however bizarre or illogical that might seem to you.
Many of them grew up equivocating greatness with America, and maybe that was or even still is true in certain contexts, and for better or worse, there isn't much that'll change their minds at the moment.
In case you missed it, there are plenty of supporters of the incoming president who are deeply sympathetic to the Confederate States of America, even if they're politically savvy enough to not vocalize it in public.
Seem some t1bet themed ngo's in the west/india been uisng the earthquake for antiCN thing.
In Times of War, the Laws Fall Silent.
Some of you guys really do not and should not feel upset or even annoyed by this.
These self described pro-Tibet activists are complaining about verbiage: they're effectively grasping on straws.
Kind of embarrassing, if not outright reflective of the futile state of their languishing separatist movement:
> A devastating earthquake in Tibet killed 125+ people, yet China is using this tragedy as an opportunity to advance their colonial agenda to replace Tibet with “Xizang” in the international media coverage of this event.
Like seriously: do you have any actual atrocities committed by these allegedly evil communist Chinese occupiers to complain about?!