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It may be good to still have some ambiguity.
A Russian-Chinese alliance may be a block that will act the same way on all issues.
But, that is just not what Europe wants. Europe wants to solve their Russian problem, hopefully in a peaceful way. Europe wants to continue with their China relations, although there is room for improvement.
Russia China almost seems like the good cop bad cop routine.
China does not do that good cop bad cop routine. The Western people like it, China does not.
Here Russia can play the bad cop, while China stays in the background with its mouth shut. That suits China.
Clearly, Russia and China should support each other.
What's that special ingredient that's being in short supply causing this shortage?
Not sure.
A quick rant.
To me, the Huawei fight against the US government is still the most important one on the geopolitical scale, for China, and a important one for the world.
This is a global fight.
Take for example the United Arab Emirates cancelling their F-35 contract for now, and they committed to buying Rafale jets, all because they would not accept the demands of the United States to ban Huawei 5G from their networks.
What's next? Qatar won't ban Huawei 5G from their networks, and they are an very close US ally in the region. The Americans probably livid over that.
Saudi Arabia, they happy with their Huawei gear. Iraq probably too, lol. Iran has that mega-deal with China. The entire Middle East is a Huawei 5G world. Only exception is Israel, simply because they never used Huawei in the first place, so no need to change, but they do have a Huawei research center in the Jewish state. Heh.
France never fully banned Huawei, and they got stabbed in the back with the submarines.
The new German government has not given any indication they will be any different from Merkel regarding Huawei 5G. Few countries in Europe have actually banned Huawei. Simply put, we need evidence. They might not want to talk about it, because that could worsen tensions with the US.
They cancelled a F-35 deal because of Huawei, and France got stabbed in the back, because they were not fully onboard on issues (they never are) with Huawei being one of them.
Everyone is waiting for more clarity from the Germans about Huawei in Germany. When that happens, whether for or against, then the geopolitical tectonic plates will move once more.
Brazil is cool with Huawei. Brazil is South America's largest nation and economy, and we knew from reports that all countries in South America will be using Huawei. The Brazil leader was a little flaky, so the Americans thought they had a chance, which turned out to be false. All of South America is a Huawei world, just like the Middle East, just like most of ASEAN, and Africa too.
The only battle ground remaining for Huawei 5G versus the US government is again, Europe, where no one wants to say anything.
If the Germans do not accede to US demands of limiting Huawei 5G in their networks, so far they have not, and like hardly anyone else has, then we really have to wonder how deep this fracture will be.
There is a lot of noise right now about how America is punishing [sic] Chinese tech companies. Is it a diversion to hide the fact a F-35 deal was cancelled for now because the buyer preferred Huawei 5G instead?
Look, even Mexico is a big client of Huawei. If the Mexicans won't listen to the United States, not sure what is the motivation for others to listen to the United States about the 5G.
Let's not forget that the sanctioning of SMIC started only because they could not get anywhere by sanctioning Hauwei 5G.
The way I see it, once they started bombing Cambodia, the Vietnam War was lost.
With these extra sanctions against other Chinese companies the last couple of days by the Americans, now they are bombing Laos.
To me, the Huawei fight against the US government is still the most important one on the geopolitical scale, for China, and a important one for the world.
This is a global fight.
Take for example the United Arab Emirates cancelling their F-35 contract for now, and they committed to buying Rafale jets, all because they would not accept the demands of the United States to ban Huawei 5G from their networks.
What's next? Qatar won't ban Huawei 5G from their networks, and they are an very close US ally in the region. The Americans probably livid over that.
Saudi Arabia, they happy with their Huawei gear. Iraq probably too, lol. Iran has that mega-deal with China. The entire Middle East is a Huawei 5G world. Only exception is Israel, simply because they never used Huawei in the first place, so no need to change, but they do have a Huawei research center in the Jewish state. Heh.
France never fully banned Huawei, and they got stabbed in the back with the submarines.
The new German government has not given any indication they will be any different from Merkel regarding Huawei 5G. Few countries in Europe have actually banned Huawei. Simply put, we need evidence. They might not want to talk about it, because that could worsen tensions with the US.
They cancelled a F-35 deal because of Huawei, and France got stabbed in the back, because they were not fully onboard on issues (they never are) with Huawei being one of them.
Everyone is waiting for more clarity from the Germans about Huawei in Germany. When that happens, whether for or against, then the geopolitical tectonic plates will move once more.
Brazil is cool with Huawei. Brazil is South America's largest nation and economy, and we knew from reports that all countries in South America will be using Huawei. The Brazil leader was a little flaky, so the Americans thought they had a chance, which turned out to be false. All of South America is a Huawei world, just like the Middle East, just like most of ASEAN, and Africa too.
The only battle ground remaining for Huawei 5G versus the US government is again, Europe, where no one wants to say anything.
If the Germans do not accede to US demands of limiting Huawei 5G in their networks, so far they have not, and like hardly anyone else has, then we really have to wonder how deep this fracture will be.
There is a lot of noise right now about how America is punishing [sic] Chinese tech companies. Is it a diversion to hide the fact a F-35 deal was cancelled for now because the buyer preferred Huawei 5G instead?
Look, even Mexico is a big client of Huawei. If the Mexicans won't listen to the United States, not sure what is the motivation for others to listen to the United States about the 5G.
Let's not forget that the sanctioning of SMIC started only because they could not get anywhere by sanctioning Hauwei 5G.
The way I see it, once they started bombing Cambodia, the Vietnam War was lost.
With these extra sanctions against other Chinese companies the last couple of days by the Americans, now they are bombing Laos.
This most recent exchange between a prominent Russian director with Pres.Putin is what still convinces me that he (Putin) is the right person for the job in leading Russia. If Russia was led by a western leaning fella then the dissolution of that country and the problem that separation creates will be ginormous and would have unforesee consequences if it's allowed to unfold. As much as we have our bones to pick with historic Russia, we have to understand her not through the prism and context of western lense as I feel our friend @Phead128 seems to be doing. We get our undies in the twist whenever the west pokes and push China from the western point of view and not appreciating the Chinese long history, culture, and practices so not come off like a bunch of shrieking hypocrites and two face, we must apply that same principles when dealing with another historic country like Russia.
More sanctions on SMIC
Less chip supply for the next 5 years at least
Less auto supply for a while
Prices increasing
Jobs decreasing (auto manufacturing and dealers lay off people)
Crime increasing
File stories under "Trade Wars are easy to win"
Putin is fine, just worried his successor is a West-lover and might exchange lifting US/EU sanctions for a quasi-alliance against China (akin to a "Reverse Nixon"). I like Putin he is firmly pro-China, but his successor...anything can happen.
A quick rant again, because want to mention this.
American wars have a tendency to expand.
In Vietnam, it started off with advisors. Then more military advisors training the army. Then US troops arrived. At the height of the fighting, the Americans had over 500,000 US troops in South Vietnam.
What started off as a few advisors, escalated to half a million US troops, later the bombing of Cambodia, and Laos.
The same pattern was observed in the Middle East. Iraq. Then it morphed into Syria (remember that) and even Yemen, via proxies.
The US government wanted to stop Huawei 5G from embedding itself into Western networks of allied nations.
That has gone global, and a full scale tech decoupling is in the cards between the United States and China.
How did a fabricated dispute between the US government and Huawei, lead to a global tech decoupling?
American wars have a tendency to expand.
What makes this kind of interesting, is that Huawei 5G is global. The vast majority of nations on the globe want that.
What does that mean for the United States where it adamantly refuses to have anything to do with Huawei? Should we expect a tech decoupling or some other sort of decoupling in those cases?
If Huawei is doing something in Mexico, then by US law, Micro$oft could be forbidden from working that project. The US government do not want people working with Huawei, but Huawei is everywhere.
How far will this US decoupling go?
We do not know.
The Americans do not even know what they are going to do.
American wars have a tendency to expand.
In Vietnam, it started off with advisors. Then more military advisors training the army. Then US troops arrived. At the height of the fighting, the Americans had over 500,000 US troops in South Vietnam.
What started off as a few advisors, escalated to half a million US troops, later the bombing of Cambodia, and Laos.
The same pattern was observed in the Middle East. Iraq. Then it morphed into Syria (remember that) and even Yemen, via proxies.
The US government wanted to stop Huawei 5G from embedding itself into Western networks of allied nations.
That has gone global, and a full scale tech decoupling is in the cards between the United States and China.
How did a fabricated dispute between the US government and Huawei, lead to a global tech decoupling?
American wars have a tendency to expand.
What makes this kind of interesting, is that Huawei 5G is global. The vast majority of nations on the globe want that.
What does that mean for the United States where it adamantly refuses to have anything to do with Huawei? Should we expect a tech decoupling or some other sort of decoupling in those cases?
If Huawei is doing something in Mexico, then by US law, Micro$oft could be forbidden from working that project. The US government do not want people working with Huawei, but Huawei is everywhere.
How far will this US decoupling go?
We do not know.
The Americans do not even know what they are going to do.
solarz
Brigadier
said it best: for decades the West has been saying China was a backward and repressive country, yet China has grown from a dirt poor third world country into the second largest economy in the world. So at one point, you have to ask yourself, what's going on here?