LMAO when clowns run the show, who becomes the joke?
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Well, watch this most recent talk/discussion held by CSIS where Bonny Lin works and you'll get the ideas and arguments with respect to this particular issue.
I was very young in 2003. I did not understand what was happening in 2003.
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1. absolutely no discussion of potential China/Taiwan conflict (militarily, politically, anything!)
2. no attacking other members, no matter how their opinions may differ from you (no slurs, name calling, etc.)
3. no one-liner posts
4. no single Twitter/Reddit posts, in fact we highly recommend not to use Twitter/Reddit as your source of information
*The above are immediately ban-able offenses!
5. keep the Ukraine conflict discussion to that thread - that means don't flood the World News thread!
6. posting a link to anything (news sites, official announcements, etc.) must be accompanied by some sort of analysis allowing for further discussion
7. if you all you want is to call out another member, but have nothing useful to bring forward to continue the discussion, then don't do it
8. call out inappropriate behaviour, not difference in opinion
9. if you see a troll post, the right thing to do is to IGNORE it!
We hope this thread will be used to provide useful updates on what is happening, staying away from obvious propaganda and mis-information.
Can you post a weibo link? The image is too pixelated for me to find the source. I am very interested in this list.
Remember when the USSR offered to join NATO, and all that it asked was a reunified and neutral Germany?
But the West were like: "Nooo we wanna keep Germany split and plunge the whole world into decades of Cold War that teeters on nuclear Armageddon. Yes, we prefer it that way."
And thus, the allied nations in the West founded the mighty NATO to counter Soviet aggression and their Red Menace to the much-vaunted Western freedoms and democratic values. Did the Reds cower in fear? Nay! For it had only made the Soviets even more aggressive! And from the vast Eurasian steppes, the Warsaw Pact was born. How will the story go? Nobody knooows...
I'm not going to repeat what I wrote in response to others. I highly recommend reading the history of PRC ascension to UN permanent seat here. It is far more complicated than simply Sino-American reapproachment and US allowing it to happen. That is a very oversimplification of how PRC gained the permanent seat and ignores the decades of building support among UNGA members and decades of dirty tactics US employed to thwart admission until the very last minute.
BMW's German plants in Munich and Dingolfing, its MINI plant in Oxford, as well as its engine plant in Steyr, Austria, will sit idle. These are jobs that will be lost in Europe because of the war and operational restrictions due to sanctions.
Surely Chinese manufacturers will benefit from this.