Redditors are basically gooners detached from romantic relationships for a long time. Every time there's a riot, having girls stand at the forefront gets them to support like dogs in heat.
heres a snapple fact: Steven miller endorses torture, not unlike Jewish interrogators castrating and crushing the testicles of German prisoners for fun.
So if China refuses to invest because it's afraid of taking risks and the west attacks anyway, then that only leaves becoming pro western as an option. The former crown prince may be an awful human being, but if putting him on the throne will make the people rich, then they'll support that. If China actually made good on the 25 year agreement or gave Iran better market access or help with non US financial services, Iranians wouldn't need to protest. It's not about Islamic ideology, it's all the economy
Contrary to much Western analysis, Iran never fully embraced China—even after Trump’s 2018 exit from the nuclear deal. As the conservative Farhikhtegan newspaper recently noted, Tehran long treated Beijing as a fallback, abandoning major proposals whenever fleeting openings with the West arose. The paper asserts that Xi Jinping offered a $40 billion investment package in 2016, but it went nowhere, while the much-touted 25-year cooperation road map remained largely symbolic for lack of Iranian initiative.
Indeed, in the brief window of sanctions relief after the 2015 nuclear agreement, Tehran handed lucrative contracts to Western firms such as Total, Airbus, and Boeing—sidestepping Chinese companies. As Hossein Qaheri, the head of the Iranian-Chinese Strategic Studies Think Tank, admitted: “Time and again, for short-term gains, we have abandoned China—and the Chinese have repeatedly said they do not have strategic trust in Iran.”
The war’s aftermath and the “snapback” of U.N. sanctions have forced Tehran to rethink its approach: If it wants China to invest in infrastructure and defense, it must start acting like a genuine long-term partner, not just turning to Beijing in times of crisis. Even many reformists now echo this view. For instance, Jalaeipour, while pressing for broader democratic reforms at home, has likewise argued that Iran must demonstrate consistency and reliability if it expects China to invest at scale.
I remember there was a rule saying you can't get a top position if you did your first degree outside China or something.Does anyone have more information on this alleged development made by the Chinese government?
According to the Jamestown written article, the Central government has decided to implement to only appoint people to important leadership positions that don't have any family members studying and living abroad to prevent the clear and present danger of western intelligence coercion...
Is a good move if the plan is to force discipline into the credit card market to force banks to only lend to people who can pay back in time but will be a bad for people that need to compensate their spending deficits with debt if banks stop lending to them.
It’s been around a week since the blanket ban has been announced. Has any media outlet in Japan covered the true extent of the sanctions or are they still burying their heads in the sand still?Make you wonder if it's the media that can't figure out this goes far beyond RE, or does the Japaneses government really think this is only about RE lol