That Mao mug is kind of iconic by now
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If you want to earn brownie points with China how about starting with announcing your adherence to One China policy
Don’t forget that even when China was in turmoil during the century of humiliation and under western predation, the west still propagated propaganda about the yellow menace and claimed Chinese were cruel and needed to be destroyed and genocided. People may think I’m being hyperbolic when I advocate the conquest of the lands of the five eyes but it’s also to deprive the Europeans from continental sized resources to perpetuate genocide upon others.
"Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria " (It is with iron, not gold, that we shall reclaim the Fatherland)- Roman Consul Marcus Furius Camillus.
You wanna know how i know that modern Westerners ie the Anglosphere have absolutely no connection with the Roman Empire? Because the most they can do is bitch and moan, rather than taking up arms as the Romans did when the Republic was threatened either by Gauls in the case of Camillus, or Caesar. At least the Chinese rose up successive times in history past and in modern history when Chinese civilisation was under threat.
In the case of Iran, their key weakness is that they identify as wannabe westerners as opposed to the heirs of Cyrus which they purport themselves to be; until they prove that they are serious about joining into the fight as Russia and China have done, Chinese aid will be spent towards more ready and willing fighters with cojones, like say the Houthis.
Scott may not have seem Cook's interview abt CN as "low cost" labor thing..
Most of it is chest thumping for Zelensky.
But apparently, Putin and Trump meeting has been scheduled for March and Scholz is going to pay a visit to the Kremlin before February 23rd.
But apparently, Putin and Trump meeting has been scheduled for March and Scholz is going to pay a visit to the Kremlin before February 23rd.
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Australia has wrested the Border-Gavaskar trophy from India after 3-1-1 in a five test series, only the 6th Australian victory of the 17 test series played between the two nations since 1996, and the first since 2014. Australia's victory means that it will progress to face South Africa at Lord's in the ICC World Test Championship final in June.
The largest individual stories to emerge from the series all belonged to India, with the offset by the reaffirmation of Jasprit Bumrah as arguably the most formidable bowler in the world right now, the latter rightly being adjudged despite missing the last day of play under a back spasm cloud.
The largest individual stories to emerge from the series all belonged to India, with the offset by the reaffirmation of Jasprit Bumrah as arguably the most formidable bowler in the world right now, the latter rightly being adjudged despite missing the last day of play under a back spasm cloud.
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Many Americans still labor under the false impression that China's manufacturing and economy is just a result of mass uneducated unoriginal brainwashed peasant slaves in sweatshops, and for that matter that all Asian economies are similar sweatshops. It allows the white supremacists to still sneer down at Asians as robotic uncreative and "inferior". They did it first with the Japanese decades ago, and the Chinese are just the latest in the series. Of course then from this false conclusion must of needs come the similarly false conclusion that any high tech must be the result of theft and that it must be inferior to the "real deal" from the West. This can cause misjudgment about capabilities and lead to miscalculation in case of conflict.
I think that many people overestimated Iran. They are clearly only a standard regional power under siege right now.
They are not China and Russia who can actually take a Western all-around hybrid attack, from economic sanctions, propaganda, military provocations, and geopolitical pressure, and not only survive but instead make the West pay more and get more damage objectively.
I think that it is good Iran survived the Western total sanctions, military attacks, and intelligence operations and stands still, with a still operational regime that is better economic, military, and socio-political situation than Israel, the little overlord of the Western sphere now.
Not many countries in the world can do that. But, we can't expect more from Iran. Nor should Iran expect much help from China too.
China instead of investing in Iran, better invest in its own military, and industry, which will also eventually be used against the US anyway.
Why invest billions in a foreign country, when you will also eventually have to fight against the US yourself too anyway?
It is way safer option to invest in your own capacity primarily, which will stay there forever and you can micromanage.
People should see what happened to Assad, in fact, that's why I now respect leaders like Maduro and the Iranian regime even more.
It is truly a miracle how they managed to still keep their power and sovereignty intact after all those sanctions and secondary sanctions.
For you to be able to repel and return Western economic attacks, you need to have substantial power and self-sufficiency internally, and significant international influence.
Only great powers and superpowers can do that. Russia couldn't do that some time ago, but now it clearly can.
And if Russia managed to narrow the gap with the American empire so much in this hybrid war, imagine how much equal superpower China would pulverize them if they decided to fight it like that.
But they have no choice anyway. That's why I think that all the US frenzy about success against Assad and partially Iran now is brainless.
That's like China being proud of being able to clash to a standstill against Great Britain or France nowadays in 2024.
They should first look at how Russia beat them in Ukraine and in the economic showdown, how China slapped their economic sanctions like a fly and used their tech sanctions as fuel to develop itself, etc.
Look at that and the humiliation of the EU now (an important part of the American empire that the US center now cannibalizes).