What does China get in return? Market access?
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If they can buy more lithium for batteries from Argentina, that would be great.
Poking the Brits in the Malvinas
Money, control of Argentine's strategic assets, influence and cheap raw materials.
Its a win-win for both sides. Argentine needs money desperately, and China is ready to provide it as part of the BRI package.
How did someone like Liang Liang get accepted by DPP anyway?
Not really. Almost everyone in the US was against the TPP since it would basically kill the remnants of American manufacturing. Plus, while it may hurt China to a certain degree (since China had a predominantly export-oriented economy), it would have hurt America even more since no nation in the TPP was and are able to match up to China's manufacturing might. In short, America would lose their cheap products supply had they signed it; such an outcome would worsen the inflation, thereby making the US the ultimate loser.
see this pretty amazing summary of his life. He himself has said the video is very accurate.
I find him fascinating as I couldn't gauge what color he really is. But so far what I see is that on the issue of China vs the world, he is on China's side, but when it comes to Taiwan vs Mainland, he is squarely on Taiwan's side. To me this is the Goldilocks position all Taiwanese people should take. It gives them the maximum flexibility and control given the cards they are dealt with. But you all know how Taiwanese media is these days.
Propaganda machine hard at work
'Disappeared' right into the change rooms, later seen eating 'under duress' in the dining hall, then 'forced' to sleep in the Olympic village. All the while having rights continually violated by Covid protocols, cue obligatory insertion of 'where is Peng Shuai'