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One anti-Chinese Slovak politician named Miriam Lexmann tried to get EU members to sign an open letter condemning China's economic pressure on Lithuania. Out of the 700 strong member guess how many signed up?

40

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Bellum_Romanum said:

The U.S. has reached the limits of it's power. In the pursuit of trying to be everywhere and anywhere it'll ended up going nowhere or getting stuck at a place it didn't prepare to be at.

Eldrige Colby and his acolytes in American Foreign policy circles are already sounding the possibility and reality where Europe will be left on it's own security wise. They're arguing for greater European involvement and defense spending for the protection of the continent. They're getting frustrated that EU doesn't have the large capacity of strategic lift and other important military assets required for the crisis (of their own making) in Ukraine.

It sounds like EU is going to get the Afghanistan treatment which is rather pathetic since the E.U. Defense structure was deliberately made weak by the U.S. in order for the U.S. Defense Industrial juggernaut to be the main beneficiary of any defense related windfall in the continent. A dependent EU to the U.S. means a perpetual client state for American defense industry and more...Which brings me to my realization that I don't think America has really operated on a coherent grand strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union. America went blind and became arrogant of it's perceived role in the dissolution of Soviet Union and drank the Kool aid of Francis Fukuyama's pronouncement of "End of History."

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US-Japan alliance restricting vital tech exports to China risks ‘major impact’ on trade, supply chains​

• Tokyo and Washington are mulling a multilateral framework to regulate the export of advanced tech to China, according to Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper
• •Experts say restrictions would be hard to implement because of potential supply chain disruptions, and risk severe damage to China-Japan trade

Rare public row erupts over funding for US$16 billion China Brain Project​

• Committee member Rao Yi says money is going to too few institutes and unqualified people are leading teams
• Chief scientist says it’s inevitable that resources will be concentrated in some research areas of the greatest interest for society

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US-Japan alliance restricting vital tech exports to China risks ‘major impact’ on trade, supply chains​

• Tokyo and Washington are mulling a multilateral framework to regulate the export of advanced tech to China, according to Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper
• •Experts say restrictions would be hard to implement because of potential supply chain disruptions, and risk severe damage to China-Japan trade

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hullopilllw said:

Is it possible for thise move to hit Japanese much severely than China over the long term.

I thought it would be a great opportunity for Japanese MNCs for swoop in and grab those Chinese market which their American counterparts are forced to give up on due to the abuse of entity ban list.

By tying themselves to US' supply cut-off policy, Japan is only going to share the expense of losing trade with China for the sole interest of US. There is nothing for Japan to gain by aligning with the US, somemore it is totally against the spirit of RCEP which is to promote free trade across Asia Pacific.

Or Tokyo might has weighted the pros and cons, decided on that any move to damage China is worth it without a regard to the cost. Pure hate and bitterness ?

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