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zyklon

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Taiwan is trying to ban “wutong”, a Mahjong phrase, because it sounds like acronym for AR in Chinese.

Sounds very democratic of our Taiwanese compatriots! :cool:

That India still grapple with the illogical questions like if US can "allow" them to become a superpower (how does a broke person "allow" another broke person to become rich???) is why India remains just a third world nation with nothing going for it than the others in this group.

The more important question for India is if China will allow them to reach developed country status...

Don't know if that's the dominant perspective in India, or necessarily the outlook of a significant number of their elites and/or policymakers.

However, no country ever became a superpower by asking for permission.

That's the wrong attitude, even for great powers.

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Not sure if this has been posted here already, but this is perhaps the right attitude if you want to be a de facto and de jure citizen of a superpower, at least if you're an ethnic Chinese resident of Taiwan.

 

Dante80

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First of all Hokkaido is closer to China than Kyushu, lol. But ignoring that, deploying them far from China means you have missiles to redeploy and use later, deploying them close to China means you cease to have missiles after the first 30 minutes.
They looking for N. Korea too. These are area denial weapons.
Show me on a map a better spot to deploy them? From Kyushu they are covering the Yellow, East China and Japan seas.

Here is an example, staging from Fukuoka.2025-03-16 21_05_45-Draw a circle with a radius on a map.png
 
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AssassinsMace

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It’s not a mistake that they believe in lies. Those that believe what they believe about China is intentionally or psychologically because they want to believe it. Why? Because first and foremost they want to believe they live better aka are more superior than anyone else. Talk to Republicans and they love to say everyone wants to come and live in the US for its freedoms. They believe that because it tells them white people have created a superior culture and society. And then the kicker is they want to deny those very people they believe want to move to the US from being able to do so. Why? Because it makes them feel superior that Americans have things that everyone else doesn’t. That’s why they’re not going to believe anything that says otherwise than what they want to believe. No need to convince them because all that does is make them feel like they’re that important enough that you need them. When you don’t care about what they think, they get very angry because it says you don’t value their opinion like it were as important as they think. The shoe is on the other foot.

Like the saying goes… Living well is the best revenge.
 

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Xi Jinping snubs EU-China anniversary summit​

Brussels sought visit to mark 50 years of ties, but move adds to scepticism about warm words from Beijing

China’s President Xi Jinping has declined an initial invitation to visit Brussels for a summit to mark the 50th anniversary of ties, as the EU questions the sincerity of recent Chinese overtures.

Beijing told EU officials that China’s second-ranked leader Premier Li Qiang would meet the presidents of the European Council and Commission in Brussels for the summit rather than Xi, two people familiar with the matter said.

The hosting of EU-China summits traditionally alternates between Brussels and Beijing. The premier usually attends the summit in Brussels, and Xi hosts it in Beijing, but the EU believes the importance of this meeting — to commemorate half a century of diplomatic relations — means that China’s president should attend, the people said.

Both sides said talks continued, but the initial snub has confirmed the view among many in Brussels that China will not add concrete action to its warm words about the need to co-operate in the face of US President Donald Trump’s assault on the multilateral world order.

This year’s summit comes at a particularly sensitive time for EU-China relations.

Tensions between Brussels and Beijing have grown since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with the EU accusing China of backing the Kremlin. The bloc has also imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, claiming they are subsidised.

EU officials say China, which last year had a €304.5bn trade surplus with the bloc, is not doing enough to rebalance trade by reducing subsidies for its industries and lowering trade barriers for foreign companies doing business in the world’s second-largest economy.

“The relationship is on ice,” said a senior EU diplomat. “It is a change of tone not substance. Their policy is not going to change and the same is true for us.”

Lu Shaye, China’s former outspoken ambassador to France who is now Beijing’s special representative for European affairs, said China’s policy towards Europe had always “advocated peace, friendship, co-operation,and mutual benefit”.

“This has never changed. It is just that the contrast with the current US policy towards Europe makes China’s policy towards Europe appear even more visionary, fair and reasonable. I hope this could serve as a wake-up call [for Europe],” he said.

Known as a “wolf warrior” diplomat for his aggressive diplomacy, Lu caused an uproar in Europe last year when he questioned whether Crimea was part of Ukraine and the sovereignty of former Soviet republics such as EU members Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

His appointment to manage China’s diplomatic relationship with Europe was seen by some commentators as a hardening of Beijing’s stance, but at the same time, another EU diplomat said, “there is a Chinese charm offensive under way”.

“China even said that they expect Europe to have a seat at the negotiating table [in Ukraine peace talks],” the diplomat added. “I also hear less talk about EU-China trade frictions. They still exist, but there is less focus on it.”

The EU’s trade chief Maroš Šefčovič is set to visit China at the end of this month. Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares told the Financial Times last month that the EU should also see potential opportunities. When China “can be a partner — let’s take advantage of that”, Albares said.

Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, said in February that while the EU would keep “de-risking” by protecting its industry, “we can find agreements that could even expand our trade and investment ties”.

Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium have forced the EU to respond, even as industry groups warn of the damage it will cause. But a senior EU official said a critical focus when it came to China was defensive measures to keep out “a wave” of Chinese products displaced from the US market by the tariffs.

On Friday the EU opened an anti-dumping investigation against Chinese exports of adipic acid, used to produce nylon and many other products. It is the 11th case since October, including those regarding sweetcorn, metal screws and candles.

“Informal discussions are ongoing both about setting the date for the EU China summit this year and the level of representation,” said an EU official.

China’s ministry of foreign affairs said it did not have “any information to provide” regarding the matter.
Beijing told EU officials that China’s second-ranked leader Premier Li Qiang would meet the presidents of the European Council and Commission in Brussels for the summit rather than Xi, two people familiar with the matter said.
 

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None of those regions represent an unified state of 1.4+ billion people. India's population is expected to hit 1.8+ billion before decreasing. Nothing else in the world comes close.
EU can import the best from Global South and it is already happening with students. so why concentrate on India when younger people will be flowing to Europe and Europe has advantage of New Europe through Arabs. manufacturing need much more than quantity.
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European Countries Witnessing Significant Growth in International Student Numbers​

Feb 17, 2025
 

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you would think BlackWater founder will have done more research for a speech than what is already known.
he is observing what is in front in battlefield and called Pentagon bloated. but not realizing that most of expenses are in much deeper R&D and larger systems that enable this tactical success.
FPV drone need to be resupplied and right people at right time and place which can only happen with robust Airlift capability with full protection and surveillance. how many Russian transport chopper Ukraine has shot down?. hardly any when you look scale of sorties which is off the charts.
now comes the Air Shield. there are loitering drones and there are stealthy long duration missiles to stress out airdefense and all connected to that Air shield thousands of kms away. this is persistence over battlefield and reduce the advantage of satellites. This is first high tech war where importance of AWACS has been reduced through other high tech systems from Su-34NVO, Su-57, Satellites, Drones, Radar Helicopters and soon Tu-160M. They already pilot trained for 24hr flights. but US Airforce is buying E-7. not even Israel want this kind of Platform for AWACS.

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jiajia99

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MAGA win, Trump king!
I am surprised that no one has tried to do anything in the USA as of now like a real uprising or any sort of general strike of some kind despite Trump firing people left right and centre in very large numbers. Though I must admit people worldwide boycotting Tesla and given Elon Musk a nervous breakdown is somewhat funny, in all seriousness if things continue down this path, something has got to give because the USA is losing jobs at a vast rate and Trump despite his bullshitting hasn’t added any new jobs as of now given how the economy and the dollar itself is extremely vulnerable right now
 
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