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semiconprof

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“If you look at geography, if you look at demographics, if you look at history, Russia should be scared to death of China.”
—Michael Green, a former senior White House National Security Council official who is now Asia studies director at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service

What am curious to know is what the heck is Michael Green talking about when he says that Russia should be scared of China because of "history." The man while highly educated, bookishly smart when it comes to all things Yamato (that's his area of studies and expertise) his knowledge on China is anemically pathetic.
It's the Byzantium fixation. Some west elites see Russia as the modern day Byzantium whereas China plays the part of the Ottoman.
 

BoraTas

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I kinda don't understand why some parts of China & Russia are in orange, while some are in yellow. I guess it is related to the naming of the provinces - i.e. if it is like an "Autonomous region" or something close to it, then it is regarded as autonomous, if the Turkic people are just part of another province, then it is "without autonomy", am I correct? I also think that you switched up the orange and yellow - judging from the map, orange means without any autonomy, while yellow is autonomous. Because the huge yellow chunk in Russian North-East is the Sakha Republic, while a yellow chunk in China is Xinjiang (autonomous region).

The dude you replied to is Jai Russian, so tread with caution, lol.
Yes. It seems you are right. Yellow represents autonomous zones while orange does no status zones. The same map in Turkish and different colors:
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horse

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No, it's not a choice between F-35 and Huawei 5G. There are two different things. It's about US losing its position of strength. UAE will most likely buys the F-35, they got the cash and budgeted for it long ago. UAE is using the purchase to leverage the US under UAE own terms.

My understanding is that the United States refuses to sell the F-35 to the UAE if they do not remove Huawei 5G gear from their networks.

Seems like the can of worms for this situation between allies.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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So what's the purpose of the said article? And what sort of actions does the writer and readers of WSJ want, expect, and demand from their government to do that's nothing short of catastrophic result for the global economy.

This article is yet again nothing but an alarmist nonsense designed to scare monger the sheeps into acquiescence and subjugation of their collective rights to their military-security-intelligence-complex.
 

horse

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This is kind of funny. In the west there is a push to "Believe the victim" when it comes to sexual assault claims. In this case it's "Don't care what the victim thinks and believe whatever we want to".

It has reach a rather bizarre state this whole episode.

Essentially, this we see on the internet, where forum posters put words into other people's mouth.

On the internet, posters are quickly called out for it.

This pompous self-righteousness of the WTA, is an embarrassment.
 

horse

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I hope Putin waits until the end of the Beijing Olympics before pressing the button

The Russians are plugged into what goes on in Europe.

Maybe they know there is some division, and they want to ram a wedge between that.

They remember that the last agreement they made regarding the Donbass region in the Ukraine, a few years ago, there were only four people at that square table.

Putin, Poroshenko (Ukraine), Merkel, and Marcon.

The United States was not at that table for that agreement. It maybe was part of Obama's leading from the rear.
 
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