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That's a solid L here for us. Anyway, let's see how long it will take the CIA president to bow to the US.
I bet that this will happen in his first speech as a president
Looks like the effects from the conflict in Ukraine are really starting to kick in in Europe. It will be hilarious if Germany and France are the first to admit that there are no genocide or forced incarceration in Xinjiang.
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The Korean people "have chosen poorly!"
Ok, here's a shortlist of the consequences of Korean democrazy in the recent past:
1. Samsung went from #1 to #0 in smartphone sales in 6 years.
2. Hyundai and lesser Korean cars are almost out of the Chinese market
3. Korean cultural export to China disappeared, nobody cares about them anymore
4. I don't see young people clamoring for any Korean fashion or makeups as before
5. The last Korean BBQ meal I had was 4 years ago in Shanghai
I can't think of another significant Korean thing except for Samsung semiconductor they can decouple, LOLZ. Ok, then by all means!
Europe problems are more structural with unreliable engineering and lack of investment that make Electricity prices sky high regardless of imported energy. Ukraine is self sufficient in Electricity but if what Russia has occupied untill now is 80% of Ukraine electricity production. It is creating alot of stress for EU electricity as people moved further West. This happened to Turkey before when it welcome million of refugees. its energy and food imports skyrocketed. simple math more people without infrastructure investment means higher prices for the rest.
I don't really put a lot of stock into this victory. This election victory for the conservative pro-American faction was for me not a surprise, but what this victory does and will do in the Korean Peninsula is going to heighten the tensions to an even greater extent. South Korea in my estimation is itching to flex it's non-existent power as witnessed from the Jai Hind like delusions CSIS Korea talk held this past March in Washington D.C. The main foreign policy advisor to the S.K. president-elect spelled out the new aggressive posture and China Pivot as a supposed sign and signal to the Chinese that South Korea isn't a middling power but a great power.
China just needs to do what it's been doing in terms of economic development and trade because North Korea isn't exactly going anywhere or going to collapse anytime soon no matter how many South Koreans convert to their new and improved Xristianity. Let the South Korean flex and see how the Japanese neighbor reacts to this new found posture wether it'll realign their relationship into positive territory or the current enmity is too hard to overcome, and if that's the case, China doesn't have to do jack squat but let these 2 countries with napoleon like syndrome fight for supremacy.
How big of a chance is there that this south Korean far right guy is a duterte. Run with a anti China program because it works well then still have to accept the economic and geopolitical reality that you can't ignore China.
Because losing China means ASEAN nation or Japan take their share of the pie. While you get deindustealized and become poor.
The Chinese are Marxists. Even though I am a rightist, I believe completely in that too, that according to Marx the economic is the most influential force in the world. Maybe I am a Marxist too, Haha!
The CCP cannot be bothered by that other stuff, political or cultural trends of others, The Marxists have their own belief system.
The Marxists believe they made the right bet. No one outside of the west and three east Asian countries cared to follow the US condemning the war in Ukraine.
Politics should bend towards the people. The people, Chinese people are cheap and gasoline and bread prices going up!
This is absurd. In the old days, someone from the west would have taken out Zelensky because he was bad for Western interests.
Nope. The president elect is part of the conservative establishment using the national apparatus of the party whose orientation is anti-China. Plus, his win isn't exactly a LANDSLIDE victory so he doesn't have the mandate or standing to do away with what his party aparatchiks want him to do unless he wants to shorten his life prematurely.