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This sounds like a question on a school quiz.
Who will the EU sanction next?
A) Russia.
B) China.
C) The EU will self-sanction the EU.
D) All of the above.
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This sounds like a question on a school quiz.
Who will the EU sanction next?
A) Russia.
B) China.
C) The EU will self-sanction the EU.
D) All of the above.
E) whomever the us tell them to sanctionThis sounds like a question on a school quiz.
Who will the EU sanction next?
A) Russia.
B) China.
C) The EU will self-sanction the EU.
D) All of the above.
Enough will the drills, go straight to AR do not collect go
Is that really PS'ed? Cannot really tell. I am going quasi-blind.
If it is, then this photo should be nominated to the Internet Copium Awards.
It should win some sort of consolidation prize.
Since this is copium we are talking about, no real prizes, just consolidation prizes.
Some free ointment for the butt too.
Wanwanese could have at least hired a Jia Hind on the Jewish platform Fiverr for like $5 USD to create some assets in blender or 3ds max and then render it in vray or Unreal Engine 5 to make it look somewhat passable for the real thing....Is that really PS'ed? Cannot really tell. I am going quasi-blind.
If it is, then this photo should be nominated to the Internet Copium Awards.
It should win some sort of consolidation prize.
Since this is copium we are talking about, no real prizes, just consolidation prizes.
Some free ointment for the butt too.
The thoughts and delusions of 20 million brainwashed wanwans on the wrong side of history are completely irrelevant. This is not a referendum where you get to debate the merits of accession and submit your vote by fucking ballot. This is war. A war which your side, the ROC, lost over 70 years ago. Your leaders are illegal occupiers of PRC territory, which is the sole and rightful inheritor of the ancient and indivisible nation state of 'China'. Your opinion means jack sh*t. You. Do. Not. Get. To. Decide. Kindly drill that into your head please.
I can think of one: 蜀汉/Shu Han from the Three Kingdoms period. Oh sure Shu and Wei waged unending war on each other for decades (with some wars with Wu thrown in for good measure), but in the final stages Shu did not go down fighting to the last man and woman and child against Wei even though its population was fanatical in defense of their homeland. If Liu Shan wanted to his subjects were totally prepared to fight to the last.
But Liu Shan didn't make that decision. Instead he surrendered and what's left if Shu was peacefully integrated into Wei and eventually into the final victor the Jin dynasty forming once again an unified China. For this decision to this day Liu Shan gets shit on by people where he's derisively called by his infant name "Adou" and has a well known idiom "乐不思蜀" dedicated to his supposed incompetence. Yet few people consider the possibility that he may have done what he did to end the pointless bloodshed and spare the lives of his people, even if it meant he's the butt of jokes almost 2000 years on.
We will never known what Liu Shan was really thinking when he made that call as he took his thoughts with him to the grave, potentially hiding behind a mask of incompetence. I personally think there's a not insignificant chance that he was a great leader who gave up on his own ambitions to save untold lives and allowed smoother reemergence of Unified China 3.0.
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When you're freezing but also want to starve at the same time.
A loss of 10-20% gdp is completely acceptable if the West loses the same or even more.
If US tries and then fails at invading Taiwan, that will be the end of the dollar as a reserve currency right then and there. Their credibility in a China led Eurasia and west Pacific will be zero. And these regions make up the majority of world resources and wealth.
America could give up their claims on Taiwan and still be some level of world power, but if they commit to conflict and Chinese defenses stonewall them, it'll end up with them being downgraded to a regional power at best, a larger Mexico at worst.
The topic of China is a very divisive one among the Taiwanese public. There is no national consensus. There are indeed strong supporters, but, to identify them, you usually need to be more alert to subtle signals to be aware of their pro-China stance. This is because the recent rise in cross-strait tension had made openly pro-mainland political views shunned upon in the mainstream media. The ex mayor of Kaohsiung, (my birthplace) Han Kuo Yu, had his political career basically destroyed by the DPP-leaning media that larped onto his pro-mainland stance, plus some other tactical mistakes on his part.
Pro-China figures would usually couch their views in quite disguised ways. For example, they would usually say something like 'I oppose the CCP, but I am proud of China as a Hua Ren (ethnic, not political, Chinese)' or something like that. In other parts of the world, that may very well be interpreted as anti-China. But in Taiwan, make no mistake, that is a standard signal of one's pan-blue orientation when speaking to someone you don't know that well.
The strongly independence-oriented folks, however, are far more outspoken and feel more leeway to be confrontational, because the mainstream media is supportive of that. They won't feel vulnerable for expressing these views, unless they have business ties to the mainland, of course.
What I am saying is that the anti-China crowd in Taiwan has a tendency to be more outspoken, because they feel emboldened. The more pro-China side tends to be more reserved and less willing to show it. In short, there is a discrepancy between what you see online and the reality. So, try not to be riled up too easily by the DPP-aligned commenters.
Pro-China figures would usually couch their views in quite disguised ways. For example, they would usually say something like 'I oppose the CCP, but I am proud of China as a Hua Ren (ethnic, not political, Chinese)' or something like that. In other parts of the world, that may very well be interpreted as anti-China. But in Taiwan, make no mistake, that is a standard signal of one's pan-blue orientation when speaking to someone you don't know that well.
The strongly independence-oriented folks, however, are far more outspoken and feel more leeway to be confrontational, because the mainstream media is supportive of that. They won't feel vulnerable for expressing these views, unless they have business ties to the mainland, of course.
What I am saying is that the anti-China crowd in Taiwan has a tendency to be more outspoken, because they feel emboldened. The more pro-China side tends to be more reserved and less willing to show it. In short, there is a discrepancy between what you see online and the reality. So, try not to be riled up too easily by the DPP-aligned commenters.
Well, I'm beginning to see a little light in this mess.
The "Taiwanese Gambit" means sacrificing a pawn, Taiwan, to damage China, watch from a distance as the Chinese kill each other, and further consolidate the club of European vassals.
But I think the devilish Gambit has a solution: Blockade Taiwan.
Washington wants to see the Chinese kill each other. The solution is to invite the Americans to the party and let them kick off the party if they want to.
What do you think ?
The "Taiwanese Gambit" means sacrificing a pawn, Taiwan, to damage China, watch from a distance as the Chinese kill each other, and further consolidate the club of European vassals.
But I think the devilish Gambit has a solution: Blockade Taiwan.
Washington wants to see the Chinese kill each other. The solution is to invite the Americans to the party and let them kick off the party if they want to.
What do you think ?
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