proelite
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Also raising barriers to Chinese green tech like solar and EVs.
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Thing with the “credibility” arguments is that there are basically no swing votes in the “international community” so it really doesn’t matter. Euro and Japanese elites will still tightly hug the U.S. and simply just repeat Democratic talking points day in and day out about “isolationism” or whatever
AssassinsMace
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What happened to all the talk of Biden going to China? Suspicious in the first place given his condition. But what if it was dependent on how Sullivan's meeting went? Sullivan travelled to China to set up a phone call...? They wouldn't have Biden go to China for a lost cause. That's why these meetings between heads of state are more ceremonial. Nothing to celebrate... nothing significant was agreed upon. Yes I liked it better when China was ghosting the US. Remember, China can mess with the US economy now and how do you think that will play in the election? It won't be well for the Democrats. That's what Biden to the least is trying to prevent China from exercising.
So basically he's begging not to be 'Pompeo'd' when he leaves office.
Not condoning this but hypothetically, one could do a Pablo Escobar on the Wolverines in Australia and America and Potting and Pompeo and flee to Hong Kong with no fear of extradition.
Pompeo is a lobbyist in DC that for sure makes >150K ().
most US corporates don’t have a substantial presence or nexus with anything in China - for high ranking White House or executive branch officials, they’ll have a plentiful harvest after their government work doing lobbying, legal, or media work; or even just teaching polisci (or similar) at a small liberal arts college.
Sullivan is a lawyer by training who clerked for Justice Breyer, he will always have a job making millions every year as a lawyer, if he so desires to work as a corporate attorney. At a minimum, he can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year teaching constituonal law at a T14 law school.
AssassinsMace
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Years ago Taiwan also tested some surface to surface missiles. Half of them were American and over half of all of them failed to launch. I wondered then as I wonder now. Is it the Taiwanese or Made in the USA? Taiwanese think like the Mandarins where the military was on their lowest rung of the ladder.
AssassinsMace
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Agreed. South Korean soft power was mostly backed by it's economic and industrial might. It also has one of the more formidable militaries in Asia.
However SK is plagued by arrogance, and that had accelerated the decline of it's soft power. South Koreans had too been enthusiastic in trying to establish themselves as second below the Americans in Asia. Some of their kind were propagating a thinking that are some kind of master race. That made their society feel a sense of racial superiority over other non-Western races. They routinely insult the Chinese, and treat other Asians like the Thais like trash.
Now that China is surpassing SK rapidly in many areas, many Asians easily flock to over to the new alternative. Arrogant pricks don't stay popular for long. People are also realizing that much of SK's soft power is dependent on American soft power. Had South Koreans not been as arrogant as they are, their soft power might not have declined so rapidly. But instead of admitting their wrongs, SK chose to become petulant with China and doubled down on their sucking up to their American patron. They do so, hoping that American soft power remains unrivalled. But American soft power is also unravelling, because of their own doing. So SK's soft power is going down together with them.
South Korea's soft power decline is another a lesson for China about the folly of arrogance. But China is not a Western-style Democracy, so it is much less likely to fall into that trap. The CPC knows how to moderate nationalism and have been doing it for decades. I remembered back in the 2010's when there were a number of the more affluent Chinese citizens behaving rather cocky and loud with their newfound wealth. Some of them travelled overseas and gave their nation a bad reputation. So the CPC clamped down on these nonsense and now things have mellowed down.
South Korean soft power has also been destroyed by the insidious influence of global media monopolies. I posted a video about this before, as well as figures from that video.
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The USA, the British, the Japanese... Perhaps the better question is how can china better cultivate its soft power. The answer I seem to be hearing is nothing. Precisely because it's over using its hard power We've gone through this before. Entertainment power isn't the same as soft power...
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