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[coolgod]

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Blinken will meet with Wang Yi at 9:30 then meet with alumni and consulate staff in the afternoon. He'll host a press briefing at 6:40 then get on a plane and go **** off to England.

SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN


Secretary Blinken is on travel to the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom from June 16-21, 2023.


9:30 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Blinken meets with People’s Republic of China Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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1:00 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Blinken participates in a roundtable with exchange program alumni in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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2:00 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Blinken holds a meet and greet with employees and families of U.S. Mission China in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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2:45 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Blinken participates in a roundtable with U.S. business leaders in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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6:40 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Blinken holds a press availability in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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The press availability will be streamed live on the

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1670453366625910788

Why does the US keep on announcing they don't want to decouple from China? Is it all an act or can they actually not afford to decouple from China.

 

[muddie]

Basically Italy took the Anglos' side; this should have been evident from the way Meloni passionately demanded weapons to be sent to Ukraine as though she was going to get her whole family killed if she didn't.
Italy can no longer be considered neutral, especially after what happened with BRI in Italy. So let it wither. Italia delenda est.
Bunch of racists and wannabe white supremacists anyhow, which is hilarious considering italians are one tan away from being considered brown.

Italy along with EU has always been U.S. leaning and it's nothing new.

The onus has always been on China's side to persuade/threaten/charm/out maneuver/negotiate etc. traditionally U.S. leaning countries to either stay neutral or even work against U.S. interests.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

i don't even have it anymore lmao, i nuked basically all of my patch stuff

sadgely the character has come to a partially coerced, partially natural end, so i won't really be interacting about milshit in the public sphere anymore

Truly lamentable. We certainly know your government isn't reading your analysis, now we won't either.

 

[Chevalier]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1670598321617133568

Whats with the Mean Girls subtle bs of wearing face masks around Chinese? And yet taking it off, around white Americans?
in any case, words are cheap, Blinken. What tributaries has this emissary from the Duke of Mei offered?

 

[pmc]

I need a vomiting emoji.

According David P. Goldman, the US is impossible to decouple from China because it wasted trillions on wars of choice instead of manufacturing, industrialization, and infrastructure.

US is spending even more on reindustrialization. than you add Mexico to it. Even Israel got $25b in semi investment from Intel. This rise of Mexico peso reflect that strength of trade moving south.

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1670253769710264320

Russians are getting residency in countries that have access to wealth like in Israel or Arabs. and this is reflected in more and more flight connections.

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1660948489855959041

 

[Temstar]

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Oof, how does the saying go?
"若犹泄泄视之，是使数十年后，中原几无可以御敌之兵，且无可以充饷之银"

I wonder if they will have their own Lin Zexu. On the note of comparing US politicians to historical Chinese figures an interesting one I heard recently is Marco Rubio is a lot like Qu Yuan in that in his unwavering nationalism he spends day and night drafting anti-China legislations but it's all for naught because the people in charge don't have the balls to actually go through with decoupling and is in fact dying to talk to CPC, as we are seeing in real time. That be the case Rubio should stay away from holidaying near the Great Lakes so he doesn't decide to throw himself in one day and the grieving people have to throw hamburgers into the lake after him so that the fishes don't eat his body.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

i don't even have it anymore lmao, i nuked basically all of my patch stuff

sadgely the character has come to a partially coerced, partially natural end, so i won't really be interacting about milshit in the public sphere anymore

Looks like that Discord leak really did a number on you guys... damn.

 

[SanWenYu]

Microsoft to move top AI experts from China to new lab in Canada​

Microsoft is moving some of its best artificial intelligence researchers from China to Canada in a move that threatens to gut an essential training ground for the Asian country’s tech talent. The Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has begun seeking visas to move top AI experts from China’s capital to its institute in Vancouver, said four people with knowledge of the plans.
These people said the move could affect 20 to 40 staff. A person close to Microsoft said fewer Chinese staff will move to Canada this year, where the US tech giant is creating a new lab staffed by experts from around the world.

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667269910094053379

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667270420368637955

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667357098345213953

In the US and Taiwan there was & is great tensions by the PRC recruiting great minds for working in China. Even bringing them to court and purging their ass with lawfare. Why should we allow those filth to poach our best minds to work for their benefit.

Microsoft: "No, it is not true."

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近日，有传言称微软公司欲将其在中国设立的唯一研究机构——微软亚洲研究院（MSRA）撤离中国，转移到加拿大温哥华。但MSRA向界面新闻明确表示：此消息不属实。

 

[sndef888]

I've been following the Pirelli story from the start and this is a very serious provocation by Italy. It's less than a billion Euros but I hope it doesn't get swept under the rug and elicits a strong response from China.

This could very likely set the precedent on how U.S. and U.S. allied companies target Chinese assets overseas. Chinese firms hold sizable equity stakes in many U.S. and EU companies, and by denying shareholder rights just because the shareholder is Chinese, it is basically a robbery and partial seizer of property in law.

If China doesn't respond, many companies can follow similar steps and take action against Chinese shareholders under "security concerns".

A very bad precedent has been set. How can present and future commercial contracts be guaranteed in Italy?

Yeah, this is a way bigger deal than western media is making it out to be. China needs to make a very strong response.

 

[jwnz]

You are being way too passive and maybe 15 years behind China’s current hard power and deep infrastructure investments.

If NATO directly involves itself in combat with Chinese forces, that’s game on and basically WWIII. In which case China will not settle for merely destroying the NATO expeditionary invasion forces, it will take the fight directly to NATO’s home, and the Russians would be ecstatic at that development.

All the investments made to install the direct rail link from China to Europe can transport more than just consumer goods.

Should the need and will to do so exist, a vast PLA ground army can be at the EU’s literal gates far faster than most people would believe, never mind expect. This is a feature, and is a core reason why China doesn’t really need or want that many overseas military bases. Why bother with the expense of that when you can just build the infrastructure to allow you to rapidly deploy as much men and materials as you could ever need for any war rapidly instead? That infrastructure also generates massive economic returns and brings wealth, development and local grassroots support in peacetime instead of being a massive economic burden and source of friction and resentment with locals that military bases tend to become. It’s the same reason China doesn’t bother permanently stationing vast armies in Xinjiang or Tibet, and just rapidly surge forces there when needed.

Wouldn't the railways be easily disrupted by enemy forces though? Missiles or bombers, and you only need to destroy one bridge or viaduct to render the long network unusable for a long time.