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Africablack

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"Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis.

The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country.

Belgium, which is the former colonial power, has said it will respond to these measures and labelled Rwanda's decision "disproportionate".[...]"
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Belgium is still salty Rwanda left its sphere of influence. For what they did to Rwanda it's them that should be sanctioned.
 

Biscuits

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it's weird how this list doesn't even include Israel. if we rank countries by their overal strength then we have to include everything. not just their economy or military but also their influence. the second weird thing I noticed is that he ranked Singapore at 11th place higher than countries like the KSA, Turkey, Italy. Singapore is a prosperous city for sure but in the end it is just that, a city state. if we make a list of which country is more prosperous Singapore would probably be number one maybe but this is a list of the total strength not a list of economic perfomance.
personaly that is how I would make the list:

1-USA.
2-China.
3-Eurozone.
4-France.
5-UK.
6-Russia.
7-Israel
8-Germany.
9-Japan.
10-South Korea.
11-Saudi Arabia.
12-Italy
13-Turkey.
14-Brazil.
15-India.
16-Indonesia.
17-Spain.
18-Canada.
19-Asutralia.
20-Malaysia.
21-UAE.
22-Singapore.
23-South Africa.
24-Mexico.

France and the UK have larger more prosperous economies than Russia. plus they are members of the EU & NATO and thus have more influence than Russia in Europe and unlike Germany they do have nukes. France's nuclear arsenal is independant unlike that of the UK which is dependent on the US that is why France is higher than the UK. France's and the UK's military and nuclear arsenal is sufficient for self defence and deterence and while their military is smaller than that of Russia however that is done by choice because the UK & France would rather spend on welfare and keep the military spending at a minimum which is a wise thing to do.

Israel is a prosperous nuclear state and while it is small however Zionist influence basically has the entire west (including the US) by their balls. it is this influence that makes Israel a capable state otherwise it would have been closer to the bottom of the list.
Russia goes far ahead of UK and France just based on economy size and military alone.

I mean the Russia/China vs France/US stories in Africa are a micocosm of just how it would go if France clashed by itself against Russia.

Putting US ahead of China is also controversial with how far US is behind economically, even if they have a larger standing military and more countries under their control. Is it actually worth more to have a bigger peacetime military and more "yes men" nations when said yes men don't make up for the difference in economic power?

1. China or US (1.5)
2. (large gap)
3. Eurozone
4. Russia
5. Japan
6. South Korea
7. France
8. Turkey
9. UK
10. India

By tech level:

No1 = complete high end electronics industry, multiple 6th gens, mastery of 5th gens

No1.5 = complete high end electronics industry, concepts of at least 1 6th gen, mastery of 5th gens

No3-4 = self sufficient for govt use electronics industry, concepts of next gen aircraft, ongoing trial of 5th gens

SK, UK, France, Turkey etc. = incomplete supply chains, no indigenous 5th gen but "stealth lite" designs in trial/planning

India and below (for example Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa) = trial of indigenous 4th gens, no indigenous tech industry of note
 

Eventine

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I'm no economist, but I'm not seeing how "new offshore trade" is any better than outsourcing.
It isn't, unless they can hide supply chains running through China via cooking the books. But, out sourcing is still better than not making any money at all, and it allows Chinese companies to participate in and develop global supply chains that aren't vulnerable to Western tariffs and sanctions.

The hit to domestic manufacturing will have to be addressed, most likely through the Chinese government redirecting capital gains from out sourcing towards domestic industries, which is equivalent to subsidizing.

But ask yourself this - what else can you do? The reality of economics is that consumers are just as important as producers. If the West shuts off its markets, then China must find alternate consumption sinks. You can't force countries to buy your stuff if they're willing to make their own citizens suffer in order to block trade. This is why China is investing in its domestic market and also in off shore suppliers.
 

iBBz

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it's weird how this list doesn't even include Israel. if we rank countries by their overal strength then we have to include everything. not just their economy or military but also their influence. the second weird thing I noticed is that he ranked Singapore at 11th place higher than countries like the KSA, Turkey, Italy. Singapore is a prosperous city for sure but in the end it is just that, a city state. if we make a list of which country is more prosperous Singapore would probably be number one maybe but this is a list of the total strength not a list of economic perfomance.
personaly that is how I would make the list:

1-USA.
2-China.
3-Eurozone.
4-France.
5-UK.
6-Russia.
7-Israel
8-Germany.
9-Japan.
10-South Korea.
11-Saudi Arabia.
12-Italy
13-Turkey.
14-Brazil.
15-India.
16-Indonesia.
17-Spain.
18-Canada.
19-Asutralia.
20-Malaysia.
21-UAE.
22-Singapore.
23-South Africa.
24-Mexico.

France and the UK have larger more prosperous economies than Russia. plus they are members of the EU & NATO and thus have more influence than Russia in Europe and unlike Germany they do have nukes. France's nuclear arsenal is independant unlike that of the UK which is dependent on the US that is why France is higher than the UK. France's and the UK's military and nuclear arsenal is sufficient for self defence and deterence and while their military is smaller than that of Russia however that is done by choice because the UK & France would rather spend on welfare and keep the military spending at a minimum which is a wise thing to do.

Israel is a prosperous nuclear state and while it is small however Zionist influence basically has the entire west (including the US) by their balls. it is this influence that makes Israel a capable state otherwise it would have been closer to the bottom of the list.
There is no such thing as the "Zionist influence". Its just propaganda created in order to frame the US as a victim and not a terrorist state it really is, like "Oh, we are occupied (by a state with 5 million compared to 340 million). Nothing we can do to stop it. Sorry. The US is ZOG. We are innocent and we love you and we love peace and want world peace". The reason Israel has the entire West by the balls, is because the US has the entire West by the balls and Israel and the US are one entity. Its the US lapdog to bully everyone in the Middle East into submission. It has a diaspora from every single country in the ME. They look the same and speak the same languages of their neighbours. That is why they not only serve as a good military base, but they are also a gold mine for intelligence gathering and infiltration. The reason the US defends Israel politically is because if Israel is convicted of war crimes, then so will the US by proxy. By defending Israel, the US is simply defending its own interests.
 

Ringsword

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Bill Maher and his guests are so ignorant of China, they sound stupid. The average Americans have no idea that the US probably won't catch up China in manufacturing in their life time.
No,we Chinese have captured and enslaved all the Oompah-Loompahs of Willy Wonka fame and with a steady diet of high quality cocoa beans and high tech surveillance have enable the evil CCP-ka CPC to utterly dominate every manufacturing sector-BTW rumours have abound that Chinese have captured aliens from darkside of the moon and has forced them to give CCP/CPC the massive generational breakthroughs in science/tech/miltech we see today.FFS-what has rotted their brains so much??
 

Lnk111229

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It isn't, unless they can hide supply chains running through China via cooking the books. But, out sourcing is still better than not making any money at all, and it allows Chinese companies to participate in and develop global supply chains that aren't vulnerable to Western tariffs and sanctions.

The hit to domestic manufacturing will have to be addressed, most likely through the Chinese government redirecting capital gains from out sourcing towards domestic industries, which is equivalent to subsidizing.

But ask yourself this - what else can you do? The reality of economics is that consumers are just as important as producers. If the West shuts off its markets, then China must find alternate consumption sinks. You can't force countries to buy your stuff if they're willing to make their own citizens suffer in order to block trade. This is why China is investing in its domestic market and also in off shore suppliers.
Adding to this. There literally smuggling "industry" between borders of China and Vietnam. We talk about shit tons of good there. Which mean China can just offload anything to Vietnam assembly industry off the book no traces whatsoever. So China can just continue do their strategy: move to high end industry while offload their low tech pollutants industry to neighbours. Everyone have money. Win Win for us. This can also apply to Laos and Myanmar etc. So thing continue like always. Chinese hater/doubter can keep buy made in US/EU/Asean goods with China made part inside while think they teach Chyna lessons. Lol
 
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W20

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iBBz

I don't know what planet you come from.

We've seen twice in Washington a scene that surpasses the most delirious parody of a dictatorship: more than 50 times applauding, and all the congressmen afraid to stop applauding.

And they applauded the man who, in that same congress, in front of the television cameras demanded that the sons of Kansas, Arkansas, and South Carolina go kill and die in Iraq, and that, of course, the American taxpayer pay for the bullets and bombs.


And each congressman has someone on his shoulder charged with guiding him along the 'right' path.

And in 1967

— Sir, I see the American flag
— Never mind, follow orders.

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70, the legions of Titus and Vespasian, Legio V Macedon, Legio X Fretensis, Legio XV Apollinarus destroyed the Temple.

1967, the Roman/American balls hung in a display case in a museum at the Biblical theme park.
 
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