Macron and Scholz better beg on the phone soon, before the big man goes on vacation then celebrates the 20th National Congress.
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Isn’t it too late already since Xi has been couped and is now under house arrest?
plawolf
Lieutenant General
So, the super secret source for all the China coup stories is Xi himself. He is sick of American and European leaders harassing him for meaningless meetings to do their weird threaten-begging ritual dance, so he couped himself to get some peace and quiet.
Gazprom only paid for half of Nordstream 2, the rest was by EU companies like Shell Uniper, Engie, OMV, etc.
So Russia doesn't lose more than EU does.
supercat
Colonel
Yup, considering what Europe and the U.S. are staring at:
So the current "leader" of the Iranian riots is a U.S. asset. Sounds familiar?
It's about time: Edward Snowden was just granted Russian citizenship.
It's so much better to spend $1 trillion on schools, hospitals, roads, railways, and other infrastructures than wasting $6 trillion on wars of choice. The title reeks with the taste of sour-grapes.
BTW, China may have a historic $1 trillion trade surplus this year. Notice the vibe of sour-grapes in the title of the article, similar to the article from WSJ above.
I don't know if it's appropriate to post this here because it's related to PLAAF J-15 fighter aircraft, but I thought the context of this twitter video makes it interesting
Winter is coming.
(Bloomberg) -- The energy crisis engulfing Europe is making consumers turn to a solution thousands of miles away: electric blankets from China.
Export data points to a surge that’s buoyed the fortunes of companies like Shenzhen-based UTK Technology Ltd., a producer and seller of the blankets on e-commerce website Alibaba, which confirms demand has reached an unprecedented level this month.
Daily inquiries from European buyers have increased fivefold, and most people request urgent shipping, according to Crane Jin, UTK’s general manager. The company expects to deliver over 10,000 blankets to the continent in the next month.
“We have been working overtime a lot lately,” she said.
(Bloomberg) -- The energy crisis engulfing Europe is making consumers turn to a solution thousands of miles away: electric blankets from China.
Export data points to a surge that’s buoyed the fortunes of companies like Shenzhen-based UTK Technology Ltd., a producer and seller of the blankets on e-commerce website Alibaba, which confirms demand has reached an unprecedented level this month.
Daily inquiries from European buyers have increased fivefold, and most people request urgent shipping, according to Crane Jin, UTK’s general manager. The company expects to deliver over 10,000 blankets to the continent in the next month.
“We have been working overtime a lot lately,” she said.
Electric blankets are 0.5-1.5 kW I believe. That's going to absolutely destroy the EU power grid if everyone uses it for 8 hours a day.