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Trump’s tariffs guru claim that UK is ‘compliant servant of communist China’ branded ‘crazy’
Peter Navarro has launched a furious attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s relationship with China but sources close to the Trump administration have told The Independent that he is a ‘dangerous influence on the president’
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lych470

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RoastGooseHKer said:
Dr. Ron Vara has been a faithful and compliant servant of President Orange. So faithful and compliant that Dr. Vara manages to sideline all other advisors with regards to trade policy.
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Navarro did at least go to prison for Donald Trump. He's proven his loyalty.

For Trump, loyalty comes first, ability second. Navarro is a made man, he must be amply awarded for his true faith.
 
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lych470 said:
South Koreans are the classic fence sitters. Doesn't hurt to hedge your bets.

Besides, they may be spiritually American but they are still materially Asian. Can't relocate from the Korean peninsula.
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If they are spiritually American, then their spirit is about to die a horrible death at the hands of their greatest savor (aka the orange man). Maybe China can help to rejuvenate these people once the American spirit in them has been throughly cleansed from their system. Also say what one would say about Japan but at least they had some unique history, for Korea, what on earth did they honestly have before WW2 in terms of historical value that wasn’t taken from China because from what I can honestly see, almost everything they have one way or the other is borrowed from others, even Kimchi has roots that came from China for crying out loud. So in the end, Korea will ultimately follow the one with the bigger stick, if the USA loses that stick, who is going to have it afterwards other then the obvious one next door
 
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There's a part mentioned in here where Anthropic points out that DeepSeek admits how US export controls hindered China's AI progress to which why they want the US to even more stringent on export controls. That's a weird quirk of the Chinese that annoys me. Why admit it when you're only telling the enemy your weak points for them to take advantage? This goes again with what I've before mentioned where Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said publicly how Western sanctions were hurting his company so they should stop. What was the point? Play victim thinking then they have to then relent because some unknown omnipotent force makes them? Or is being honest with your enemy admitting your weaknesses allays their fears of you? Which points to another thing about Chinese is they're too into ritualistic thinking. They think if they do this or do that then they're suppose to get this. Life doesn't work that way especially from someone who wants to destroy you just for existing spoiling how they think the world works. Now Huawei is making more money than ever before without Westerners as customers. What was the point again? Is this the kumbaya nonsense where you have to think about everyone and admit your own faults to show how human you you are to your enemies? You want to believe in Dr. Jekyll but ignore Mr. Hyde.
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I think that when they do it that way, best it shows how immaterial Western sanctions were.

In other words, they just telling their side of the story, as they thought those restrictions was a big deal, then it turns out it was not, and they win.

Seems to me, this is just embellishing the story, but when they come out on top, people tend to embellish it.

That is one point I do not like myself, this is business and not some morality tale. Got to be ruthless in business sometimes, because that is what we need to do it. That is how Huawei and Deepseek did it.

Then someone goes into full Confucian relaxed mode, telling us some morality story like that matter at all. It did not matter.

The shit kicking mattered, the morality tale is irrelevant like those sanctions.

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lych470 said:
South Koreans are the classic fence sitters. Doesn't hurt to hedge your bets.

Besides, they may be spiritually American but they are still materially Asian. Can't relocate from the Korean peninsula.
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Yes, I would agree.

I would also say that given the times we live in, it is extremely unwise to sit on the fence and not chose a side.

A small country like Korea, if they do not chose a side, it will be chosen for them, whether they like it or not.

Hope they enjoy negotiating with Trump!

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lych470 said:
South Koreans are the classic fence sitters. Doesn't hurt to hedge your bets.

Besides, they may be spiritually American but they are still materially Asian. Can't relocate from the Korean peninsula.
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No, a fence sitter is someone like Singapore. Koreans are consistently picking wrong bet through out history. Always pick the previous dynasty or previous power. They would still pick Yuan 20 years after Ming took them out. It is not surprising they pick US in an era US is in terminal decline. It is only logical.

If they pick China I would be worried.
 
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