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Oh man, an article written by a guy who is promoting his new book co authored by a shameless self-promoting/self-hating Chinese Alina Chan. A non-virologist who claims to be the one who reopened the plausibility of the lab-leak theory by simply tweeting. On the record as "I am getting threatened and want to change my name, but after I get a book deal".
Yes, please post more of this trash. This is the rubbish bin of the internet.
Ok, I am being hard on you, but this was an absolute crapstain of an article. Some how he pulls in HK, Uighurs, Covid, Climate change, and Australia all into one article. Is he calling Evil China Bingo?
I believe I found a better version that wasn't a google docs, but can't really find it right now.
Another interesting from this website I linked down below. Here's an excerpt:
Ironically, the genesis of all this, the Obama TPP, was designed to force China at dollar-point to reform itself and be More Like Us. Who is it now that seems to be setting the rules of today’s international system in both trade and diplomacy? China is offering favorable access to its lucrative market to diplomatically influence the alliance on its own terms. All the U.S. has to offer its allies in Asia is a subordinate and expensive role in a new Cold War...
Where is the State Department? Nine months into his administration Biden still does not have an ambassador in Beijing, leaving China policy in caretaker hands. His nominee for ambassador, Nick Burns, is an old State Department hack, having made a career by bending over backwards in both directions as administrations changed. Coming out of a spokesmodel-type university job, Burns will be read by Beijing, if he ever gets there, as a placeholder, a political crony handed a sweet, mostly ceremonial, final job.
Elsewhere, Beijing seeks to make friends with its “belt and road” trade and investment initiative in Asia. If America’s Afghan War had any winners, it’s probably the Chinese, who found some common ground with the Taliban (look it up, it’s called diplomacy, often done even with your enemies) and thus potential access to their vast mineral resources. American businesses meanwhile of Biden’s deaf ears he clarify the economic relationship with China.
While Biden passively allows the military to prepare for war under the sea, China is winning in the competition over our heads in a game Biden does not seem to even know exists. American foreign policy credibility and its confrontational strategy have been shown to be a farce.
America is still a big, mean dog, but our ability to influence events around the world is limited to barking and biting and only works when barking and biting is the solution. When dealing with near-peers like China, we have few if any tools but to reimagine economic competitors as enemies. Our policy toward China, like our president, is a failed artifact from another era...
Peter Van Burenis the author of , , and .
Ironically, the genesis of all this, the Obama TPP, was designed to force China at dollar-point to reform itself and be More Like Us. Who is it now that seems to be setting the rules of today’s international system in both trade and diplomacy? China is offering favorable access to its lucrative market to diplomatically influence the alliance on its own terms. All the U.S. has to offer its allies in Asia is a subordinate and expensive role in a new Cold War...
Where is the State Department? Nine months into his administration Biden still does not have an ambassador in Beijing, leaving China policy in caretaker hands. His nominee for ambassador, Nick Burns, is an old State Department hack, having made a career by bending over backwards in both directions as administrations changed. Coming out of a spokesmodel-type university job, Burns will be read by Beijing, if he ever gets there, as a placeholder, a political crony handed a sweet, mostly ceremonial, final job.
Elsewhere, Beijing seeks to make friends with its “belt and road” trade and investment initiative in Asia. If America’s Afghan War had any winners, it’s probably the Chinese, who found some common ground with the Taliban (look it up, it’s called diplomacy, often done even with your enemies) and thus potential access to their vast mineral resources. American businesses meanwhile of Biden’s deaf ears he clarify the economic relationship with China.
While Biden passively allows the military to prepare for war under the sea, China is winning in the competition over our heads in a game Biden does not seem to even know exists. American foreign policy credibility and its confrontational strategy have been shown to be a farce.
America is still a big, mean dog, but our ability to influence events around the world is limited to barking and biting and only works when barking and biting is the solution. When dealing with near-peers like China, we have few if any tools but to reimagine economic competitors as enemies. Our policy toward China, like our president, is a failed artifact from another era...
Peter Van Burenis the author of , , and .
I will read that.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
They don't talk about how Obama did nothing for the environment during his Presidency despite declaring himself the Green President when running for office all because China was going to end up making most of the money when he thought it was the US that was going to profit from forcing the world with green standards that US green tech companies were going to exploit. China offered cheaper alternatives that would've been more affordable around the world. It was Obama and the US that thought about making money over the environmental well-being of the planet. Not to mention also Obama took it personally that China sent a low-level official to meet with him at the UN Copenhagen environmental talks during his first year in office after he set it up to blame its failure on China before the meeting ever started all because he knew the US Congress, for domestic politics, was never going to ratify anything agreed in Copenhagen and thus the US would eventually be blamed like what happen to Bush Jr at Kyoto before him. Obama didn't want that mark against his Presidency hence why he didn't do anything for the environment during his eight years in office.
See this is an example of what I was talking about in my preceding posts. It's the truth and Chinese think that's too confrontational to use because the US won't like how the tables have turned to embarrass the US. What did China fear? Losing US acceptance and respect? And because China did nothing, the West's narrative that China is holding up from saving the environment. Remember the EU during the Bush administration hounded him over the environment. They didn't say a word when Obama was doing nothing for eight years.
See this is an example of what I was talking about in my preceding posts. It's the truth and Chinese think that's too confrontational to use because the US won't like how the tables have turned to embarrass the US. What did China fear? Losing US acceptance and respect? And because China did nothing, the West's narrative that China is holding up from saving the environment. Remember the EU during the Bush administration hounded him over the environment. They didn't say a word when Obama was doing nothing for eight years.
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Any one here truly believes into any non-sovereign-backed crypto currency that, if possible, he is willing to put/invest his own money into this kind of item? Just curious
Since board has no polling feature (or, I simply dunno), I just create a Yes / No simple voting
If you are a true BELIEVER, please vote an ANGRY FACE
but if you are instead a true NON-believer, then please vote SMILING FACE
SIMPLY CURIOUS
I will disclose that I'm a true NON-believer. I won't put my bucks into such crypto.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The US trying to spin rare bi-partisanship as a triumph against China. They're trying to portray Nicolas Burns as an anti-China fighter. Maybe he is but that's irrelevant because he doesn't make policy on his own. He does the bidding of the President. Trying to portray him as the lead against China shows how weak Biden is with China. So it isn't that Ted Cruz sees an opportunity against China. Even he realizes that no US voice to talk to China is dangerous for the US. Blinken has already ruined his reputation in China's eyes to be able to speak to China for the US. The mighty US afraid things could get out of control without an ambassador to speak directly when their military can easily handle China? I think not.
I have more money in crypto then on my savings account(around 6 months of comfortable living), because saving is fucked here in Europe. I can get at best something like 0.2~0.3% interest on my savings, some countries like Denmark even have negative interests mortgages. So you lend money and instead of you paying for the principal and interest you only pay for the interest but the bank pays you a interestAny one here truly believes into any non-sovereign-backed crypto currency that, if possible, he is willing to put/invest his own money into this kind of item? Just curious
Since board has no polling feature (or, I simply dunno), I just create a Yes / No simple voting
If you are a true BELIEVER, please vote an ANGRY FACE
but if you are instead a true NON-believer, then please vote SMILING FACE
SIMPLY CURIOUS
I will disclose that I'm a true NON-believer. I won't put my bucks into such crypto.
Bizarro world.I don't believe crypto will replace Central bank fiat money and governments wont allow to give away such a society controlling tool.
But I can get better rate of return playing on the crypto exchange.