The propaganda chief of the China section by Japanese-owned Financial Times gives us an insight in some remarks from J. Sullivan delivered at the Lowy Institute (Australian think tank).
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Fake news. Never trust/believe the US.
Their only purpose on China, is to destroy it. That's it.
No need for Jake Sullivan to waste our time with fake news
What you want and what you get are two totally different things. When I was 6 years old I wanted a 3 foot GoLion action figure and eyes that light up when you press a button. Instead I got a one foot tall knockoff whose head fell off when I accidentally dropped it.
plawolf
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This is just white exceptionalism and entitlement repackaged and rebranded for the modern age. But at its core, it’s the same wanting to have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too childish stupidity at play.
America, under trump, thought they could start and win a new Cold War against China and have China magically collapse like the USSR.
After Biden took over, he essentially continued and even expanded Trump’s anti-China strategy and policies still thinking they could win, since China kicking America’s butt was of course just Trump’s incompetence.
Now that China is continuing to kick America’s butt, Biden is trying to pull some neck-beard rule lawyering bullshit to say that China and America should only ‘compete’ aka continue to fight it’s Cold War, in areas where America has the advantage and cooperate where China is stronger.
This is what happens you only have lawyers in your leadership circles - when faced with a problem, they automatically think how do we game the system and re-write the rules to favour us?
Good to know Xi has a sense of humor.
You're pretty ignorant when it comes to those matters for sure.
EU can do better or worse without Russia - some countries will lose some money for sure but it won't be dangerous for them. Russia for sure can't do without Europe - I mean without natural resources (gas) export to EU for sure. They tried to play with embargos on things from EU in the past against some countries and it bite them in the ass more than anyone else. So now they leveraged their only true trump card in their hand - oil and gas prices which Russia intentionally raised just before the winter in Europe and emptied their reserves in EU countries recently. Once EU and Russia will agree on something else the border crisis will be ended. The only loser here will be of course Belarus because they will have to deal with the blowback (sanctions and thousands of illegal immigrants from Middle East countries). The EU eastern border's control will be even tighter than ever before with money and resources invested finally in those matters and Russia will happily resume gas export through Poland/Belarus and the new Nord Stream pipe for a hefty sum of money.
That's how it works. Russia won't start a war in Baltic countries or against Poland unless it's put against a wall - similar to Japan-US relation in the early 40's though the gas exporter roles are reverted.
Putin already lost one satellite state - Ukraine and we all knew that he won't let that happen to Belarus no matter what. It will take some decades but there's no going back for Ukraine - the EU countries opened more for Ukrainians and now they see difference between their fellows like Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland/Romania that was made in the past 30 years. Same goes for Belarus - if people were allowed to chose they of course would take closer ties with EU over Russia.
And Baltic states/Poland aren't pushovers. Though Baltics are rather small they have healthy economies and Poland is growing stronger every year.
Would I call this Russia's success in politics over last 20-25 years? It depends probably on how you define success but I would say no.
And I think that Putin et all are really skilled politicians but and they make do really good with their resources.
