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NiuBiDaRen

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Really what I'm looking forward to is the in discussion China Korea Japan free trade deal. Such a deal would be massive; there is great synergy between the three technologically advanced economies.

The best would be a talent transfer clause, which allows for easy movement of talent between the countries. That would benefit China a lot esp in areas it wants fast development, and also help the other two in areas they are not traditionally strong in.
 

taxiya

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Germany is very smart on the Nord Stream pipeline. Exluding all the obvious economic benefits for Germany, this deal also geopolitically tries to stop-reverse/slow down Russia's turn to the East from the West

An axis of Russia-China in the continental Asia(Central Asia even extending to the Middle East) would be absolutely terrifying for the fractured EU. The synergies between Russia and China are so huge that noone wants these countries to get closer, even Japan tries to keep some ties with Russia for this exact reason.

However as we have seen from the EU's ambush towards Russia with the Navalny situation, Russia is going full steam ahead on turning to the East and now disregarding the EU.

The best, Germany can hope for is to keep the pipeline alive so that at least Germany can have some influence on Russia
Or even better, Germany just join the axis? An empire that surpasses Genghis Khan's. It is a joke though. :D
 

Petrolicious88

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Taiwanese celebrities who dropped sponsorships in support of the movement so far include: Ouyang Nana, who cut ties with Converse; Eddie Peng (“The Rescue”), singer Chen Linong, and Janice Chang (“Detective Chinatown”), who cut ties with Adidas; Taiwan’s Greg Hsu (Oscar short-listed “A Sun”), who cut ties with Calvin Klein.

Even actors from outside of Greater China cottoned on that making noise about Xinjiang would help their odds of working in the world’s largest film market, including Japan’s Koji Yano.

Meanwhile, Uighur actors, too, have expressed their support for the campaign (ROFLMAO), including Dilraba Dilmurat, Gulnazar, Hani Kyzy, and Merxat, as well as Beijing-born Kazakh actress Rayzha Alimjan.

Dilmurat, who canceled her contract with Adidas, is one of China’s best-known Uighur celebrities. “I love my hometown — there are beautiful cotton fields and adorable people there. I support the cotton of my hometown,” she wrote to her more than 73 million approving followers, retweeting the People’s Daily image. She ended with a hashtag commonly used by state media to accompany reports of how happy people in Xinjiang are, now viewed more than 200 million times: “#Our Xinjiang is a great place.”

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The cognitive dissonance must be strong for Westerners to explain away how Uighur actors are supporting China.

Seriously though if you know Koji Yano (矢野浩二 or 浩二哥), he doesn't need promotion in China at all. That guy is literally the most famous Japanese actor in China, very handsome guy, cast in a lot of Chinese anti-Japanese war movies and dramas.

Also Greg Hsu, the Taiwanese actor, supporting China is absolutely big. He is an absolute star right now among Taiwanese youths for his good looks and romance lead. My girlfriend talked about how handsome he was in a drama (yeah screw him). His supporting China would lead to self-doubt even among the most hardcore Taiwanese independence youths.
Finally seeing Chinese people standing up.
 

taxiya

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Very interested in knowing the details and more importantly how will the investment flow into Iran? US would most likely sanction any Chinese entity involved.
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Assessment by Parstoday. The assessment is written in Chinese though.

The article covers details of the agreement. Here is a summary.

涉及多个领域,包括: 政治、安全和国防合作、农业、经济、文化、科学、旅游业、石油和能源、电信和技术基础设施、贸易、卫生、运输和基础设施以及双边区域和国际政治合作

Translation
Covers areas of: political, security and defense cooperation, agriculture, economy, culture, science, tourism, oil and energy, telecom and technology infrastructure, trade, health, transportation and infrastructure, regional and international political cooperation. (Basically everything one can think of)

在此框架下,考虑投资和融资、国际政治层面中相互支持,联合反恐斗争和举行联合演习以及国防技术的转让。该文件另一非常重要信息是德黑兰与北京之间交易中使用本国货币。加强投伊朗过境战略走廊、投资石化能源基础设施、参与伊朗东部莫克兰海岸的全面开发、帮助在伊朗建立和发展第五代互联网,并加强国家信息网络和援助伊朗和平核工业的发展是《中伊全面合作文件》中涉及到的其他问题。
提高金融和保险合作以及开设伊朗分行并建立伊中联合银行,尤其是在两国之间建立金融渠道替代环球银行金融电信协会是伊中25年全面合作文件中最重要的问题之一

Translation: italic texts are my comments
  1. Trade between Tehran and Beijing will use national currencies. (dedollarization).
  2. China will help Iran to build 5th generation internet. (to safeguard Iran's information security including financial activity)
  3. Improves financial and insurance cooperation. (for example, Iranian oil tankers can be insured by Iranian/Chinese institutions than western institutions).
  4. Establish Iranian Chinese joint bank and a Iranian branch (of Chinese bank?)
  5. Establish financial transaction channel to replace SWIFT. (This is already done in the form of CIPS). This is the most important point in the agreement.
CIPS enabled trade bypassing SWIFT and USD, but to be able to utilize CIPS, Iran need to have banks in CIPS and hold RMB and Chinese banks need to hold Iranian currency. The point 1 and 4 above are to facilitate this.

By totally bypassing USD and SWIFT, US would have no idea who is doing what in this part of world.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Certainly US sanctions has starved NK, but CN which is supposed to be NK "ally" has participed in the last hash sanction imposed on NK.
Can we imagine US helping an opponent of Israel to put sanction on Israel.
It's hard to believe a US general cares about the suffering of the North Korea people when it's the US that's making them suffer. It's as simple as that.
 
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