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Cook Islands PM beats no-confidence vote over China deals

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown survived on Wednesday a vote of no-confidence in parliament brought by the opposition over deals he struck with China that strained relations with New Zealand.

Members of parliament voted 13-9 to defeat the motion introduced by the Cook Islands United Party. Two members abstained from voting.

Brown visited Beijing this month to strike a strategic partnership with China spanning education, the economy, infrastructure, fisheries, disaster management and seabed mining.

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China says Taiwan seeks to give away chip industry to US

China said on Wednesday that Taiwan was seeking to give away the island's semiconductor industry to the United States as a "souvenir" and leverage it to seek political support from Washington.

Speaking at a regular news conference in Beijing, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said, without offering evidence, that people in Taiwan were concerned TSMC could become "United States Semiconductor Manufacturing Co".

US media have said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to major companies, has been in talks for a stake in Intel.

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vincent said:

I was surprised by the prices in the upper class supermarket

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Good video. I cannot say myself having seen many high end supermarkets but I have to admit that this is one of the best based on what's shown in the video. Well lit, everything clean and in order, helpful and polite staff.

Most of the expensive items highlighted in the video seem to be the imported foreign goods. They might have high duties included in their prices, in addition to possibly high margins. Some prices of the local produce are not bad, like less than 2 CAD for that cup of cherry tomatoes, less than 5 CAD for 12 free run chicken eggs. They are cheaper than the Canadian ones actually.

Cook Islands PM beats no-confidence vote over China deals

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown survived on Wednesday a vote of no-confidence in parliament brought by the opposition over deals he struck with China that strained relations with New Zealand.

Members of parliament voted 13-9 to defeat the motion introduced by the Cook Islands United Party. Two members abstained from voting.

Brown visited Beijing this month to strike a strategic partnership with China spanning education, the economy, infrastructure, fisheries, disaster management and seabed mining.

#CookIslands #China #NewZealand

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Just as history has shown us, the only language that Anglos understand is violence.

Randomuser said:

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Bet you never saw this coming huh

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This flags are not based on voting record and most countries abstained. when it comes to show the cards in Public.
Turkey is respected atleast they put the vote where they believe there interests.
Only Arabs have that Soft Power that dont need to show the cards. that word continue and finest qualities of Muslims have meaning to convey by Putin.
The most important flag is UAE. without UAE this India would not have happened. This is that extra trade that was not before on this scale. and wealth / connections of UAE are on such scale that Zelensky would not have got those drones parts and artillery shells at all but this would have shorten the war.

Overbom said:

lol this Macaroni

Your biggest favour is how Xi has smh still not sent million of drones to help Russia. No worries though, your time will eventually come

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Macron to Trump: Make trade war with China, not with us​

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Its funny because Trump isnt fighting both at same time, Trump learned from 2018 is only fighting Europe this time, while its Europe that find itself fighting trade war with both US and China at the same time

iewgnem said:

Its funny because Trump isnt fighting both at same time, Trump learned from 2018 is only fighting Europe this time, while its Europe that find itself fighting trade war with both US and China at the same time

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Maybe it's time for the Type 055s to have FON operation in the Mediterranean.

SanWenYu said:

Most of the expensive items highlighted in the video seem to be the imported foreign goods. They might have high duties included in their prices, in addition to possibly high margins. Some prices of the local produce are not bad, like less than 2 CAD for that cup of cherry tomatoes, less than 5 CAD for 12 free run chicken eggs. They are cheaper than the Canadian ones actually.

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I think Indian prices include taxes but their VAT system is complicated to say the least. Popcorn has different tiers of taxes and concrete has an 28% luxury tax imposed on it.

FriedButter said:

non-branded popcorn mixed with salt and spices would attract a 5% GST, pre-packaged and branded popcorn 12%, and caramel popcorn, categorised as a sugar confectionery, 18%.

Previous controversies have involved taxing chapatis or unleavened Indian flatbread differently from layered flatbreads, different rates for curd and yogurt, and cream bun versus bun and cream served separately.

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The Japanese are complaining about strawberrys.

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I wonder if this "strawberry" business is some sort of code for "Ichi-Go" the massive IJA offensive late in 1944 which was designed to knock KMTChina out of the war and secure China as a victory at last-for some sort of geopolitical nonsense from japan???Maybe I read too much but still keeping guard up as should China(I really have no worries on that aspect)

Ringsword said:

I wonder if this "strawberry" business is some sort of code for "Ichi-Go" the massive IJA offensive late in 1944 which was designed to knock KMTChina out of the war and secure China as a victory at last-for some sort of geopolitical nonsense from japan???Maybe I read too much but still keeping guard up as should China(I really have no worries on that aspect)

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Nah it's just Japaneses being poor.

Africablack said:

You've got to be specific on the country you were in in Africa. Different countries have different standards of living.

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I've been to several but the one I spent the most time in was Malawi.

siegecrossbow said:

PPP means everything is cheaper if you can don’t need to import consumer goods and electronics.

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True. But for some things like dairy or meat (e.g. pork in an Arab country) there's no option but to import.

Another thing is, I'm sure most of the stuff in these supermarkets is never bought and is sat on shelves for months. I remember telling a member of staff that something had expired, they said okay and took it off the shelf.

The next time I went there it had been put back up.