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[plawolf]

lol, As if US care about "CN sincerity". China trying to suggest to US that cooperation in areas such as climate is incompatible with rivalry elsewhere is funny when they are asking India to box border dispute and 'restore normalcy' in overall ties.

The Sino-Indian boarder dispute is a self-contained minor peripheral issue that can be easily set aside without impacting broader relations between the two.

America literally throwing everything at China including the proverbial kitchen sink to try to fuck China over is not a peripheral or self contained issue.

Conflating the two speaks of rank insincerity and/or the most ridiculous level of muddled thinking.

The differences are like having a minor disagreement with a neighbour about who owns one flower on the boundary line and someone who has made it his mission in life to try to destroy your life.

You can easily agree to disagree on the flower issue and have BBQs and even help out your neighbour when he needs it; but you will have to be an idiot saint to even think about pissing on the guy who set himself on fire as he was actively trying to burn your house down, who is still making threats and trying to set your house on fire even as he burns.

 

[AndrewS]

I'am not sure for that. CN will show a facade of disagreement for PR...

That is a given nowadays.

But look at the climate change issue.

China is sticking with 2030 for peak emissions, whilst the US wants 2025.

And in the event of climate change, I reckon American, Europe and Japan will be hurt more. This would be due to:

1. the effect on the Atlantic currents which transfer heat to NE America and also to Europe which is mostly at Canadian latitudes. The Pacific currents are much simpler and less prone to disruption from melting ice.
2. the much longer coastlines of Europe, North America compared to China.
3. in Europe, North America and Japan, the population distribution is skewed towards the coasts. In comparison, China's population distribution is skewed more inland. You can look at the population distribution maps yourself.

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So if you use the logic of being cold war enemies, China can accept a higher level of risk from climate change destruction and rising sea levels than the USA.

China would actually be happy to forego a cold war and focus on domestic development.
After all, China is still only a middle-income country and knows that it can still grow to 2x and then 3x larger than the USA

In comparison, if the USA wants to remain a global hegemon, it is the USA that needs to forge a hostile cold war coalition against China.

 

[daifo]

Here's the snapshot of the FT article -- the author is based in Taipei

The cited survey is "The State of Southeast Asia: 2021 Survey Report" is PUBLISHED by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Singapore -

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I read the comments and that 92% that love USA was from a sample size of 190 people and the survey was some how related to aspi.... My experience with viet is that they are very proud and don't like to be under the shadows (culturally) of China , but that doesn't mean they want to be in warfare conflict with China.

 

[escobar]

The Sino-Indian boarder dispute is a self-contained minor peripheral issue that can be easily set aside without impacting broader relations between the two.

That may be how CN see the dispute, but not IN.

America literally throwing everything at China including the proverbial kitchen sink to try to fuck China over is not a peripheral or self contained issue.
Conflating the two speaks of rank insincerity and/or the most ridiculous level of muddled thinking.

The differences are like having a minor disagreement with a neighbour about who owns one flower on the boundary line and someone who has made it his mission in life to try to destroy your life.

You can easily agree to disagree on the flower issue and have BBQs and even help out your neighbour when he needs it; but you will have to be an idiot saint to even think about pissing on the guy who set himself on fire as he was actively trying to burn your house down, who is still making threats and trying to set your house on fire even as he burns.

That is why I have already said CN should just ignore US Gov and work directly with US companies like they are now doing. Thus, there will be no need talking about sincerity with a climate envoy dude when its gov is literally throwing everything at you. But the two gov want facade PR lol

 

[windsclouds2030]

Nice move, Beijing

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Authored by Noah Barkin
A Senior Visiting Fellow, Asia Program
The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The German Marshall Fund of the United States is a United States think tank channeling Washington's thoughts, opinions and interests in Germany in particular and Europe in general. Every opinion that emanates from this source reflects what the US thinks!

 

[Gatekeeper]

Wow, that's a lot of details! You must have been following her for a long time!

Thanks a lot for putting efforts in detailing the wrongdoings of Zhao Wei. Frankly I have a little interest in following up the celebrity news, and even during the recent news about her I was simply absent from that news development. So I am much surprised to learn from your post about how far the sins the actress has been done, be a mistress of the falling head in the eastern province (but somehow I already guessed/deduced when I read the brief news about the two fall-downs posted here -- an influential leader and a young attractive woman, just a natural causality most of the time: power, wealth and woman), and more shockingly learning that she'd run away with the boss' driver to Singapore and becomes billionaire there fantastic story

Really, Xi needs to clean up the nation from people like this and many other business improprieties incl. the Big Tech sector. It's truly a much blessing that China has a very good and strong and determined leader like Xi Jinping. And of course, in particular the Anglo media wanna see the fall of the nation of China, at least to impede her progress, so any act incl. the clean-up ones that will bring the nation to her betterment will be framed in the negative lenses by the Anglo force. What's better than to witness the regress of China due to all kinds of wrongdoings esp. the rampant corruptions??? That's a no-brainer understanding!

I'm sorry guys. I can't take credit for that. I think I did mention it was a post from someone more knowledgeable.

 

[windsclouds2030]

The United States has unfunded liabilities of around $200 TRILLION and can not account for at least another $100 TRILLION which is on the United States balance sheet and now declared a matter of national security to hide that fact. It could be as high as $200 TRILLION.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1433011062522191876

Please kindly add more info on the US Unfunded Liabilities if any one has some info. This is a very serious info but rarely get the adequate attention all these years. I guess I have spotted the reference to this Mega Hole over a decade ago.

Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, wrote some piece about the Unfunded Liabilities but I had lost track on it.

And this venerable counter is not easy to read:

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Manipulation of gold price is everything to do with confidence in the dollar which is a matter of national security and the US has undertaken regime change, assassinated leaders and started wars to defend the dollar.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1433015528252190724

 

[plawolf]

The United States has unfunded liabilities of around $200 TRILLION and can not account for at least another $100 TRILLION which is on the United States balance sheet and now declared a matter of national security to hide that fact. It could be as high as $200 TRILLION.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1433011062522191876

Please kindly add more info on the US Unfunded Liabilities if any one has some info. This is a very serious info but rarely get the adequate attention all these years. I guess I have spotted the reference to this Mega Hole over a decade ago.

Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, wrote some piece about the Unfunded Liabilities but I had lost track on it.

And this venerable counter is not easy to read:

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Manipulation of gold price is everything to do with confidence in the dollar which is a matter of national security and the US has undertaken regime change, assassinated leaders and started wars to defend the dollar.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1433015528252190724

This isn’t a new problem.

Here is a video from two years ago when it was “only” $156tn.

Another video to give a very basic rundown of how this all came about.

Funny thing is Covid should have knocked a sizeable chunk off that unfunded liabilities total since it has killed off 655k of overwhelmingly retired aged Americans who the government owes unfunded liabilities to.

This is the reason I suspect American covid policies are not entirely down to pure hapless incompetence, and that there is a certain degree of cold blooded practicality also at play with why many in power in the US are making the apparently nonsensical choices they are in not only enabling, but positively encouraging covid’s wildfire spread in the US.

I am sure more than one person in the US government has already crunched the numbers to determine how many millions covid deaths would be needed to wipe that unfunded liabilities black hole clean off the books.

 

[Overbom]

Amazing how fast Japan now wants to protect Taiwan. Doesn't Suga have anything better to do than shouting about Taiwan and China?

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[windsclouds2030]

Amazing how fast Japan now wants to protect Taiwan. Doesn't Suga have anything better to do than shouting about Taiwan and China?

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I will just comment very briefly, if Japan is willing to engage militarily to any "real party" in repositioning the Island of Taiwan to close the last chapter of the "Century of Humiliation", I don't believe that PLA will back off when the ripe time comes just because Japan wanna join the party! China may instead quietly welcome Japan into the party thus merrier and grander in closing the said chapter since the old Imperial Japan was a key antagonist in the most refreshing scenes! That may also explain why China may be building lots new silo fields, to deter the busy body Big Brother from interfering or blackmailing! The more is better, nothing is too much to safeguard the Mr. Intervention from coming close to your house or playing bully!