In the dog house for 2 weeks as of July 30th.
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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In the dog house for 2 weeks as of July 30th.
Lots of these countries come to China asking for handouts. Support One China if you give me a check. Build a highway for me, and I’ll even proclaim it at the UN.
Germany and other European countries are vassals. They’ll do whatever their master tell them. Look at the ban on Russian energy.
Just because whatever.
A Very interesting and IMHO Russian perspective on the recent show of force by China regarding the most recent visit of Nancy Pelosi.
The person on the video is a former Russian Military service member, a best selling author who's one of the 2 books he authored I managed to read which is this:
Here is his vlog where he opined the reasons why he thinks it was a mistake for China to threat but backed down. Wonder what you guys think of his assessment.
The person on the video is a former Russian Military service member, a best selling author who's one of the 2 books he authored I managed to read which is this:
Here is his vlog where he opined the reasons why he thinks it was a mistake for China to threat but backed down. Wonder what you guys think of his assessment.
It's interesting why Indian would issue what can be interpreted as a provocative statement with respect to Taiwan an area of geography where it has no power or jurisdiction over with, or is this their way of butressing themselves up with the western powers as their way of making up for their continued support with Russia on the Ukraine war
It's Taiwan that does that, literally bribing presidents of island nations in return for recognition.
BRI is a lot more than "build a highway for supporting the One China policy". Building up Africa's infrastructure will lead to an expansion of trade in the future. Asking other countries to recognise your UN recognised borders isn't that much of an ask, which other country doesn't do this?
You must come from a country too poor to give out handouts.
Agree that BRI is important. But some of these countries are leeches. Plus many are political/economically/socially unstable. What is the ROI on some of these projects.
I remember this guy, I listened to a podcast where he participated. He's a former soviet officer iirc, so it's to be expected that he would have a negative opinion of chinese military/strategy.
fair enough, he's entitled to his opinion; china seems to be pursuing its own strategy, which sometimes can seem questionable to other observers, especially if they're biased. only time will tell who did the right thing
Would these countries support the US for free? Or are you implying that freedom and democracy of the western style have lost to bridges and highways?
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