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[BlackWindMnt]

In remarks published on Monday, Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi revealed details about the involvement of intelligence services from nearly 20 countries in the violent riots that swept Iran last fall.

“Among the countries that have been active in these areas are the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Albania, Australia, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Norway, Bahrain, New Zealand, as well as the occupying Zionist regime,” he said, according to excerpts of his interview with Khameni.Ir.

The following are the highlights of the interview:

-- Movements by French diplomats in Tehran to gather field information on the riots and the state of Iran’s security and law enforcement apparatus and exchanging the information with an intelligence officer of a European country's embassy.

-- Attempts by the Zionist regime of Israel to create a fund to support rioters and protesters through the initiative and financing of the United States and other countries.

-- A meeting of the ambassadors of 28 European countries at the compound of a European embassy to discuss the possibility of closing European embassies, with a focus on Germany.

-- The use of non-European nationals (Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis) and the presence of European nationals to gather information on the riots, which led to the arrest of 40 individuals from one neighboring country, a French-Irish national in Khorasan Razavi province, and a German national in Ardabil province.

-- Intensification of activities and support by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in creating necessary cyberspace platforms for disseminating news of the riots, including efforts to send technical equipment, escape tools, and lifting sanctions on mobile communication devices.

-- A request by the CIA to establish a joint team with the Israeli regime’s Mossad and Britain’s MI6 to reactivate the project of assassinating Iranian scientists, especially in the nuclear, space, and military fields towards the end of the riots.

-- Joint periodic meetings of the intelligence services of the UAE and the Zionist regime in an Arab country to support the riots in Iran.

The unrest followed the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, who died in hospital on September 16 last year, days after she collapsed at a police station in Tehran. Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization issued a report, saying Amini's death was caused by prior illness rather than alleged blows to her head.

The protests were peaceful at first, but soon turned violent. Steered by foreign intelligence services and their hostile media outlets, rioters began fatally attacking security forces and indulging in vandalism acts against public property in several cities.

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Sounds like Iran got the Hong Kong times 5 treatment from the west. After the protest failed it probably showed Arab nations western way of regime changing is not working anymore. With Chinese incentive they probably said fuck this western shit let's try some diplomacy again.

 

[taxiya]

Blinken was met by Department chief of North American and Oceanic Affairs. So there is full protocal, no "humiliation".

Screen capture from WP of Blinken arriving Beijing. See the person in red circle.
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[Overbom]

You guys get offended way too easily. China is master at talking. It can talk and talk until the end of time

Its current number 1 strategic objective is to stop/delay a war as much as possible and to buy time for its rise.
As long as this objective is being achieved Xi can be drinking and laughing with Marco Rubio for all I care

As long its only talk, no damage is being done except for some hurt feelings by people who don't have a comprehensive strategic overview of China's priorities at this moment of time

I've said this once and I'll say it again, China needs to take greater care of its honour and dignity !

Example here. Dignity and honour means shit all in front of power. Let Germany play its stupid games, let them stay coupled with China for now, and lets collect back the debt with interest after 10 years. See the stats about China's power now, and then project the stats about China's power for the next decade.

Baerbock and Scholz are dime a dozen, they come and go, even Xi will go sometime. But at the end, hard power is what matters

 

[GZDRefugee]

You guys get offended way too easily. China is master at talking. It can talk and talk until the end of time

Its current number 1 strategic objective is to stop/delay a war as much as possible and to buy time for its rise.
As long as this objective is being achieved Xi can be drinking and laughing with Marco Rubio for all I care

As long its only talk, no damage is being done except for some hurt feelings by people who don't have a comprehensive strategic overview of China's priorities at this moment of time


Example here. Dignity and honour means shit all in front of power. Let Germany play its stupid games, let them stay coupled with China for now, and lets collect back the debt with interest after 10 years. See the stats about China's power now, and then project the stats about China's power for the next decade.

Baerbock and Scholz are dime a dozen, they come and go, even Xi will go sometime. But at the end, hard power is what matters

There needs to be balance between short term and long term retaliation. Accumulate too much damage now and you won't be in a position to carry out your grand plans when the time comes. Just like a scuff on the streets, you need to punch back as necessary so you don't get dogpiled.

 

[luminary]

neo-Nazis aren't even subtle these days:

Uruguay meets unprecedented resistance on its plan to melt, recast giant Nazi eagle statue​

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They cast every major Chinese male character except one (Da Shi maybe) and they cast Benedict Wong for that one, while the Chinese females characters are still Chinese. Fetishization spree.

That's not mentioning the Tiananmen square scene in the beginning. Hard pass.

 

[Overbom]

There needs to be balance between short term and long term retaliation. Accumulate too much damage now and you won't be in a position to carry out your grand plans when the time comes. Just like a scuff on the streets, you need to punch back as necessary so you don't get dogpiled.

What's the damage? Blinken primary purpose was resumption of mil-mil dialogue so that the US can safely pressure China with its military.

I ask: Has Blinken achieved that?

 

[GZDRefugee]

What's the damage? Blinken primary purpose was resumption of mil-mil dialogue so that the US can safely pressure China with its military.

I ask: Has Blinken achieved that?

Blinken already got what he deserved with the "fuck you" to the hotline proposal. On the other hand, Italy's shenanigans with Sinochem and Pirelli absolutely deserves a clap back or it sets a precedence that you can steal China's shit without repercussions.

 

[alfreddango]

Blinken already got what he deserved with the "fuck you" to the hotline proposal. On the other hand, Italy's shenanigans with Sinochem and Pirelli absolutely deserves a clap back or it sets a precedence that you can steal China's shit without repercussions.

newspapers are already talking about the government doing something similar with electrolux and midea

edit: I should mention that according to the news, midea isn't involved with electrolux (yet?). if they make an offer for the factories electrolux owns in italy, then the government will intervene and block the purchase

 

[Minm]

You guys get offended way too easily. China is master at talking. It can talk and talk until the end of time

Its current number 1 strategic objective is to stop/delay a war as much as possible and to buy time for its rise.
As long as this objective is being achieved Xi can be drinking and laughing with Marco Rubio for all I care

As long its only talk, no damage is being done except for some hurt feelings by people who don't have a comprehensive strategic overview of China's priorities at this moment of time


Example here. Dignity and honour means shit all in front of power. Let Germany play its stupid games, let them stay coupled with China for now, and lets collect back the debt with interest after 10 years. See the stats about China's power now, and then project the stats about China's power for the next decade.

Baerbock and Scholz are dime a dozen, they come and go, even Xi will go sometime. But at the end, hard power is what matters

This is all very true. But at the same time, you can't leave the human rights stage to them exclusively. The international community in the global south will think that China is great economically but still isn't challenging western hegemony in human and civil rights. Xi telling Blinken directly that his criticism of China is an insulting lie and giving him a book on "socialist values" would help.

If China doesn't state clearly enough that it has its own values, people will think that China still accepts western values as superior but wants to focus on money and power for now, with the ultimate goal of becoming a similar society as in the West. This view needs more challenging from top officials

 

[tres]

Several obvious problems with that approach.

Firstly, at the most superficial financial level, one does not simply buy a majority stake in a major company on the stock market since there will never be that amount of shares just floating around. Usually such stakes comes at a significant premium above and beyond the listed share price of the shares precisely because of the controlling stake aspect of the buy. To simply dump the shares at market value would mean a significant net loss on the investment for Sinochem. Indeed, there just won’t be the normal market demand to absorb all those shares, and as soon as a certain percentage threshold is reached (which will be far below Sinochem’s holdings), every professional trader in the world will know what is going on, and the share price will nosedive and Sinochem will need to stop selling or take a massive loss on the share sales. As soon as the fire sale is over, the company share price will rebound, so it won’t do any lasting damage beyond to Sinochem’s bank account.

Secondly, as already mentioned by others, this move sets an unacceptable precedent that must be strongly, and I would argue, disproportionately resisted and punished. Doing anything less risks opening the floodgates to similar Chinese-Exclusion-Act-2.0 level discriminatory clauses popping up all over the place as greedy western politicians and their rich puppeteers look to effectively rob China of all its overseas investments.

In many ways, this is a perfect illustration on why China should never, and will never limit its military preparedness to merely being able to defeat western military misadventures in China’s backyard. This is a key reason why Chinese military modernisation and expansion is focused so much on the navy and expeditionary combat capabilities.

If Chinese military might is purely defensive and geographically limited to its own homeland, there is little China can do to protect its overseas investments from being plundered like what happened to Russian assets. And China doesn’t have to have done anything wrong for that to have happened. All it would take is for the west to find some pretext to start a war with China, and then re-write the law books to make it perfectly ‘legal’ to seize Chinese state and private assets when they come to fight China and loose. In order to safeguard Chinese foreign investments, China needs to develop and maintain the expeditionary hard military power needed to come to the homes of the Europeans and take what they stole back.

Actually it's easier than you think to acquire large percentage of shares or dump them. The difficult you mentioned is because of the regulatory requirements of filing once the shares ownership reaches a certain percentage. When that intention becomes public, it drives up (or down when selling) share price. However one could sell put at the desired purchase price without filing , and selling calls against owned shares when dumping. I say milk this company by selling calls , sometimes you could get your investment costs reduced to zero.