What's the matter anyway? Just blame it on "made-in-China" technology and parts, and you're set for life!
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I am skeptical of AfD's racistness too. What I see is they are really a bit problematic but they don't look like a true extremist and racist party. American and British media label any party in continental Europe that is not mainstream (pro-EU, neoliberal, Atlanticist, loves immigration, loves virtue signaling) as extremists. Look at this BBC-made figure about a French election. Every major politician except Macron was labeled as an extremist.
It is you who is arguing for argument's sake. Like 90% of your posts I saw on this forum consist of concern trolling and US shilling, now you are whitesplaining why anti-Asian discrimination in higher education is a good thing. You so far did not provide a single evidence as to why picking candidates based on race and subjective criteria rather than objective ones is a better approach.
Global Britain was emerging market enough. Reminded you of a certain supapowa country.
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AfD is in the awkward position of having now a mix of outright white supremacists, disgruntled socalists, conservatives and anything in between who are (understandingly) upset with current government in Germany.
That hodgepodge of opinions and values is kind of a novelty in german political landscape. The only unifiyng thing that I could recount for the current AfD is that they are upset of german current governance.
The pact they have made is fragile and lose, any party internal conflict can be quite fatal for them.
This gives a huge opportunity for foreign state actors be it China, Usa, Russia to consilidate a dominant block inside the party which when their inevitiable election success in autunm 2024 arrives will ensure that the foreign state actor who manipulated the AfD the best will have a extremely powerful tool inside the germany and thus europe.
Sadly US State Department has done a better job in manipulating than Zhongnanhai in recent years so I am not optimistic about the pro-China block of AfD winning the power struggle, they even may get purged.
Russia is preoccupied with holding themselves together, so it will boil down to a Sino-Us dualism again.
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Didn't realize it was Russia that got Iran to end its decade long rivalry with Saudi Arabia and work with the Houthis towards de-escalation in Yemen.
No, they only impose them on their geopolitical enemies.
Kind of a moot point since Russia still got sanctioned for annexing Crimea in 2014 and by the time Wagner got really involved in Mali the Ukraine War had already or was close to kicking off, and we all the know the story of Russia and sanctions afterwards.
Don't think it needs explaining why India has been able to avoid American sanctions despite maintaining ties with Russia and mistreating its minorities.
So is the whole post lamenting that China wasted 10 years not building any solid allies? The past is the past and China then was too tied with the American economy and much poorer, so they had to pick their battles like it or not. China has no other obligation than the development of its living standards, its not the Soviet Union promoting some kind of insane vision of human utopia so can you blame it for acting mercantile at times? Plus you mention sanctions, for all the headlines China isn't even in the top list of countries with the most American sanctions. China-America relations suck, but its not as you say........
Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Tim Cook visiting the country say otherwise. There are still areas of cooperation outside the Washington DC bs that exist and since China is still a developing country, its areas it can't afford to sacrifice.
So which is it, is it that China treats its allies poorly or that all of China's allies are poor countries? With respect to the latter, I already explained why that is in a previous post.
AssassinsMace
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The Western media has some weird obsession with China's reaction to the "coup" in Russia. It's like they saw it was a surprise that China would support Putin. And why would they support the insurrectionists when the Western media was not too long ago was claiming Wagner soldiers killed Chinese in Africa? Oh, they forgot about that...
AssassinsMace
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When you say you're seen as worthless in your own country, you're probably not soldier material. Before it was that Taiwanese "kid" claiming he went to Ukraine to volunteer to fight Russian hoping that Ukraine would do the same for Taiwan if China invaded. Maybe they were hiding the fact there's a vetting process for foreign fighters wanting to join Ukraine's fight against Russia to make sure they know how to fight and not get killed instantaneously from having no military experience. I doubt the Ukrainians ever even bothered with the likes of these two. That's why both of them are in their own countries telling their stories to the media and not fighting in Ukraine.
I'm sure china was well briefed about what happened between wagner and the MoD of russia.
Also strong hopium of western elites of splitting russia and china again.