Miscellaneous News

Lethe

Lethe

Captain
GulfLander said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945852563322262014
Click to expand...

Thanks for linking this podcast. I like Tooze's framing here that uses the development of China's energy sector (stratospheric growth in demand and emissions, investment in renewable energy technologies, domestic energy transition and the global implications thereof) as a lens through which to consider the broader implications of China's ongoing development for the rest of the world.

"In western discourse, there's this shying away.... and why? Because it's disempowering. What it really means is the material dethroning of the west as the central driver of world history."

Looking forward to the book!
 
G

GulfLander

Colonel
Registered Member
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1946239890628518256
....
zyklon said:
There's loudening chatter that Trump will be attending the upcoming September 3rd Victory Day Parade in Beijing:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1943558077384437996

Japanese political elites are now openly wary of Trump gracing the celebration:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1942472406775304208

If the Japanese authorities are this worried, then there's a serious chance Trump, Putin and Xi will stand above Tiananmen Square in unison on September 3rd, 2025.

On top of that, India is apparently attempting to revive the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral dialogue:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945846477584323043

This means Modi might join the fray in 47 days or so too! :cool:

Even though India was not sovereign, independent or otherwise so much a country during World War 2, there's no reason to exclude the Indian prime minister, especially if the presidents of former colonies like East Timor and Burma got to partake in 2015.

However, there is one potential issue . . .

View attachment 156402

You see, on such occasions, the closer you're seated to Xi, the more important you're.

So let's say retired CPC General Secretary Hu graciously sacrifices his place on the seating chart, so President Trump can be to Xi's left, while President Putin is to his right.

That'll keep the peace between the Americans and Russians, but that means Modi will at best be seated at the same spot as — disgraced South Korean president turned
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
— Park Geunhye: an observably inferior position.

That might be too much for some of our Bharati bhais, especially those who self identify as Hindutva, to bear. :rolleyes:

However, humanity definitely deserves a better photo of the men who rule them than this:

View attachment 156403

Hopefully India's favorite chaiwala will make it!

Regardless, a DSLR captured shot of Vladimir, Jinping and Trump holding court together — with or without one or two of their lessers like Modi and/or Lula — will make for an iconic moment:

View attachment 156404
Click to expand...
I read something in twtr, saying that the Dalai Lama issue cld be "flashpoint" that cld derail this attempt to "fix relations" tho... will it be just minor issue?
...

So there seems to hav been a military exercise near australia, w 35000 personnel allegedly from 19 countries recently.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1946180299580395923
...
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945396956999901397
 
Last edited:
F

Feima

Junior Member
Registered Member
supersnoop said:
But Singapore has compulsory Chinese education. They were probably more hardcore than CPC in Mandarin adoption.
Click to expand...

Indeed the level of Chinese language proficiency acquired in school has a bearing on this. Someone who is good in Chinese tends to read more Chinese, appreciates the language, culture, history, understands (mainland and Taiwan) primary sources on politics, social issues, and gets the idea to visit China to see all that in person. Someone who struggled studying Chinese in school will stick to English and absorb all the western anti-China propaganda with low counter-balancing information intake.

Not everyone is LKY who learnt Chinese successfully as an adult while prime minister. See
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
.
 
manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
GulfLander said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1945851681805316498
Click to expand...
Me: Didn't I see this chick before? Yeah, she looks familiar. Where did I see her from.... Oh shit! She was in those videos-
Wife: What videos?
Me: What?! N-no nothing.
Wife: What videos was she in? Can I see?
Me: No nothing. I didn't say anything. I'm mistaken, wasn't her.
Wife: But what videos were you thinking about? What kinds of videos do you like to watch? We can open them up to confirm if it was or wasn't her.
Me: Let's drop this; this topic is stupid. Let's go get some ice cream, bubble tea, try that that Dongbei bbq you were talking about, whatever you fancy.
 
Tse

Tse

Junior Member
Registered Member
Feima said:
Indeed the level of Chinese language proficiency acquired in school has a bearing on this. Someone who is good in Chinese tends to read more Chinese, appreciates the language, culture, history, understands (mainland and Taiwan) primary sources on politics, social issues, and gets the idea to visit China to see all that in person. Someone who struggled studying Chinese in school will stick to English and absorb all the western anti-China propaganda with low counter-balancing information intake.

Not everyone is LKY who learnt Chinese successfully as an adult while prime minister. See
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
.
Click to expand...
BTW people do note that there are older anti-China non-bananas in Singapore too. These are the leftover Cold Warriors who still think that the true Chinese culture is in Taiwan and that Mainland China erased all Chinese heritage and customs during the Cultural Revolution. Nowadays the stereotype is being fed by cases of badly behaved tourists getting splashed around on the news (which is ironic because Singaporean tourists are widely seen as a nuisance in Malaysia). There are also very pro-China Singaporeans who are Westernised Christians like ex-minister George Yeo. Ultimately the problem is economic in nature because Singaporeans mostly still believe in the myth of free trade free market economics; they believe that Singapore prospered from that "open system" instead of simply being given preferential trade terms and investments for Cold War strategic reasons. Many Singaporeans have financial investments in the US and property investments in Australia with no understanding of how both industries are rotting the economies of both countries. They dream of enjoying the "work-life balance" of immigrating to the Western world without understanding those countries got wealthy in the first place by being hundreds of times more exploitative, corrupt, and polluted than China.
 
GZDRefugee

GZDRefugee

Junior Member
Registered Member
tokenanalyst said:
The ironic issue with nukes is that once you have nuclear weapons...your country become a target because the other side will try to destroy the nukes before they can be used. So a lot investment which is even more than the nukes themselves goes into protect your nuclear deterrent. Build a lot of silos spreaded into a large area, a lot of investment in reinforced structures to protect the nukes in case of conventional bombing or even nuclear blast, road mobile missiles, stealth bombers and nuclear submarines. The investment is not cheap.
That is not counting the retaliation and seeing your cities obliterated. Let be real, Japan is too small and densely populated to survive a nuclear war.
Click to expand...
I think you're jumping the gun. Firstly, the US will not allow Japan to get nukes because a nuclear Japan would not need a US military presence in the west Pacific—unacceptable to Washington. Secondly, if Japan gets nukes, South Korea will also get nukes and what do you think the North will do? No, Japan getting nukes is against American interests and will destabilize the region.
 
Last edited:
A

ansy1968

Brigadier
Registered Member
GZDRefugee said:
I think you're jumping the gun. Firstly, the US will not allow Japan to get nukes because a nuclear Japan would not need a US military presence in the west Pacific—unacceptable to Washington. Secondly, if Japan gets nukes, South Korea will also get nukes and what do you think the North will do? No, Japan getting nukes is against American interests and will destabilize the region.
Click to expand...
An add on, I know the American are not into History BUT when you hear the world Pearl Harbor it automatically correlates the Japanese sneaky attack on them. The American will never trust the Japanese, ever!!!! and the Japanese knows this, Do you think they have no intention of revenge for having been nuked twice. ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top