Normally I despise regime changes but the current leadership in australia is so damn bad that it could quite frankly use at least one
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I love the use of gymnastic terminology regarding tariff exemptions. It's the end around to just saying they removed tariffs. It's like "most favored nation" status. All it means is normal relations. Most countries the US has trade relations with are under that category. For a country that embraces democracy that's about the truth, there sure is a lot of spin and manipulation of words. All it says is how uneducated Americans are that just the spin and manipulation of words works on them when it usually conveys the opposite is happening.
A united West, which is nothing new, has not changed the fact they don't have money. They're already hurting because of Trump's trade war causing the worst inflation since WWII which they don't admit because it says the US lost the trade war. We haven't even seen the long term effects of sanctions against Russia economically and geopolitically. More sanctions and tariffs on China isn't going to make it better. It'll be worse for them. They can talk all they want how this is an example of why the US and the West should work on being not dependent upon "foreigners" and source domestically. And working towards that goal will just cost them more money which means more inflation. The nature of Western capitalism is making the most money you can and more than before. That's what outsourcing is all about not like how most Westerners think that it's a humanitarian gesture on their part to increase the wealth of poor countries around the world hence why they threaten to take those jobs away as if that was an example of their power. The place they outsource is where they get every cent possible so they can profit the most. It's what Tim Cook says about the manufacture of iPhones. The only place where they have the skills and be able to produce as much as Apple needs is China. Other countries want to lure Apple because they can offer cheaper labor than China. It's not just about labor. Plenty of countries can have cheaper labor but how about the infrastructure? Yeah the labor is cheaper because an adequate infrastructure to make factories work doesn't exist. Those countries think and expect rich US corporations are going to build and pay for it for them. That's why China is China and not like them because China built all that on their own where Western corporations don't have to worry about paying that. Some Westerners think what if they never did this or that like outsourcing to China...? Yeah and the US wouldn't have gotten super rich and advanced in tech during that same period of time outsourcing. It's no coincidence. It's so fragile to anything negative... the problems just snowball and get bigger and bigger and that's why they have the worst inflation since WWII. So go ahead and sanction away against China and their future gets worse.
This is the world the West created. The reason why there's cheaper labor other than in the West is because they were aiming to control and enslave the world. In order to do that they would have to destroy and make other countries poor so there would be chaos and therefore exploitable to get under their control. Some Americans I come across charge slave labor in other countries is because they blame the government in those countries where they don't just make wages for work equal to that of Western countries. No the West destroyed economies around the world so they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. They can't automatically declare equal wages to that in the West. And that's why the West is having so much trouble in the world today because their system only works when they're in control of everything and everyone. It changed everything for them when they embraced human rights where people are suppose to be treated equally and remember it wasn't voluntarily. They were forced to embrace human rights to stave off a world revolution against them because they feared the communist revolution in China against Western imperialism was going to spread around the world.
You look at places like Saudi Arabia where Western critics point to their human rights violations but the West doesn't look at it as serious as when they point the finger at China because Saudi Arabia has oil, a strategic resource in the world. China doesn't offer anything like oil so the West doesn't give China a pass. China does have a precious powerful resource of its own. The West wants it but the problem is China's resource has a brain. China has the largest developed market in the world. The West can't easily claim or take it because it's about people. The purchasing power of 1.4 billion people is something they want but they have to be control which they are not. It's what insulates China from Western economic assaults. They want 1.4 billion people buying their stuff but it also means they have to suck up to 1.4 billion people and not offend them or they won't buy their stuff. It was so much easier when they could force people to do what they want. Today Republicans are more and more anti-corporation because the very capitalist consumer relationships they expect for their own society, they don't want given to the Chinese. The consumer is always right is something that's only their privilege. They don't like how US corporations want to be doing business in China because their own markets has become saturated and they need new money and in their culture of greed, they can't so easily leave China alone. In their own capitalist consumer culture, they have to be in China.
A united West, which is nothing new, has not changed the fact they don't have money. They're already hurting because of Trump's trade war causing the worst inflation since WWII which they don't admit because it says the US lost the trade war. We haven't even seen the long term effects of sanctions against Russia economically and geopolitically. More sanctions and tariffs on China isn't going to make it better. It'll be worse for them. They can talk all they want how this is an example of why the US and the West should work on being not dependent upon "foreigners" and source domestically. And working towards that goal will just cost them more money which means more inflation. The nature of Western capitalism is making the most money you can and more than before. That's what outsourcing is all about not like how most Westerners think that it's a humanitarian gesture on their part to increase the wealth of poor countries around the world hence why they threaten to take those jobs away as if that was an example of their power. The place they outsource is where they get every cent possible so they can profit the most. It's what Tim Cook says about the manufacture of iPhones. The only place where they have the skills and be able to produce as much as Apple needs is China. Other countries want to lure Apple because they can offer cheaper labor than China. It's not just about labor. Plenty of countries can have cheaper labor but how about the infrastructure? Yeah the labor is cheaper because an adequate infrastructure to make factories work doesn't exist. Those countries think and expect rich US corporations are going to build and pay for it for them. That's why China is China and not like them because China built all that on their own where Western corporations don't have to worry about paying that. Some Westerners think what if they never did this or that like outsourcing to China...? Yeah and the US wouldn't have gotten super rich and advanced in tech during that same period of time outsourcing. It's no coincidence. It's so fragile to anything negative... the problems just snowball and get bigger and bigger and that's why they have the worst inflation since WWII. So go ahead and sanction away against China and their future gets worse.
This is the world the West created. The reason why there's cheaper labor other than in the West is because they were aiming to control and enslave the world. In order to do that they would have to destroy and make other countries poor so there would be chaos and therefore exploitable to get under their control. Some Americans I come across charge slave labor in other countries is because they blame the government in those countries where they don't just make wages for work equal to that of Western countries. No the West destroyed economies around the world so they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. They can't automatically declare equal wages to that in the West. And that's why the West is having so much trouble in the world today because their system only works when they're in control of everything and everyone. It changed everything for them when they embraced human rights where people are suppose to be treated equally and remember it wasn't voluntarily. They were forced to embrace human rights to stave off a world revolution against them because they feared the communist revolution in China against Western imperialism was going to spread around the world.
You look at places like Saudi Arabia where Western critics point to their human rights violations but the West doesn't look at it as serious as when they point the finger at China because Saudi Arabia has oil, a strategic resource in the world. China doesn't offer anything like oil so the West doesn't give China a pass. China does have a precious powerful resource of its own. The West wants it but the problem is China's resource has a brain. China has the largest developed market in the world. The West can't easily claim or take it because it's about people. The purchasing power of 1.4 billion people is something they want but they have to be control which they are not. It's what insulates China from Western economic assaults. They want 1.4 billion people buying their stuff but it also means they have to suck up to 1.4 billion people and not offend them or they won't buy their stuff. It was so much easier when they could force people to do what they want. Today Republicans are more and more anti-corporation because the very capitalist consumer relationships they expect for their own society, they don't want given to the Chinese. The consumer is always right is something that's only their privilege. They don't like how US corporations want to be doing business in China because their own markets has become saturated and they need new money and in their culture of greed, they can't so easily leave China alone. In their own capitalist consumer culture, they have to be in China.
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03/25/2022 03:29 PM EDT
The White House has indefinitely postponed a special summit with leaders from across Southeast Asia that was initially scheduled for next week, according to four sources familiar with the schedule change.
The gathering with the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was set to take place on Monday and Tuesday at the White House, and it was meant to “demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment” to a region that is critical to its commercial and security interests in Asia, the White House said in late February.
On Friday, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said in a statement to POLITICO that, “The President looks forward to welcoming the ASEAN leaders to Washington, DC for a U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit. To ensure invited ASEAN leaders can all participate, we are working closely with ASEAN partners to identify appropriate dates for this meeting.”
President Joe Biden will instead meet on Tuesday with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, to discuss both U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific region, such as supply chains and maritime security, as well as the bloody conflict in Ukraine.
Biden has spent the past month increasingly focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine; he returns from a four-day trip to Brussels and Warsaw on Saturday, where the war and subsequent sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin have been top of his agenda.
The month-long conflict in Eastern Europe has injected a new urgency into U.S. efforts to reinvigorate old alliances and cultivate new ones, including in the Asia-Pacific. But it has also underscored, yet again, how difficult it is to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from the conflicts of the 20th century in Europe and the Middle East, and toward the biggest global challenge of this century: an increasingly aggressive China.
Date in flux: On Feb. 28, the White House released a statement from press secretary Jen Psaki saying the administration was “proud to announce” the “historic” ASEAN summit would take place on March 28 and 29.
But the administration has been less definitive in recent weeks. A U.S. official said on March 10 that the administration was working with ASEAN leaders to set a “formal date” for the gathering, but said “it has not been postponed.” Asked at a March 17 press briefing about the status of the summit, Psaki said only that the White House was “working through the schedules of a number of leaders, so that’s always a challenge and a factor.”
The possibility of postponing the gathering of ASEAN leaders was first raised earlier this month when Cambodia’s foreign minister told Reuters that some Southeast Asian leaders could not travel to Washington on the dates the White House had announced. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam are all members of the association.
Conflicting schedules: Schedule conflicts do appear to be the cause of the delay, as neither the Biden administration or ASEAN wanted to leave out key members, people with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO.
“It seems that the event is experiencing scheduling turbulence, with more than one of the key ASEAN members unable to move or cancel pre-existing commitments on dates that the USA has proposed,” said Kurt Tong, a partner at The Asia Group. “It is challenging given the long ten-member ASEAN roster and that organization’s strong desire for inclusiveness.”
A critical region: The White House has repeatedly declared that Southeast Asia is a central focus of its foreign policy efforts, particularly as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to counter China’s rising global influence.
Vice President Kamala Harris carried that message to Vietnam and Singapore during a weeklong trip in August. And a string of key Cabinet officials, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, made visits to the region in the administration’s first year.
Biden himself participated in a virtual summit with ASEAN leaders in October. At that meeting, Biden first announced his administration’s intention to craft an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that would deepen U.S. trade and investment ties in the region, with an eye towards China.
The Commerce Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are now seeking public comment on what the framework should entail. The administration has already said it will not include market access provisions found in typical trade deals, which many partners in the region are seeking, and instead focus on issues like supply chain resiliency, decarbonization and infrastructure and clean energy.
The war in Ukraine has also contributed to delays in Biden administration decisions on imposing new tariffs on China, as POLITICO reported last week
Biden’s summit with Southeast Asian leaders postponed
The month-long conflict in Eastern Europe has injected a new urgency into U.S. efforts to reinvigorate old alliances and cultivate new ones, including in the Asia-Pacific.03/25/2022 03:29 PM EDT
The White House has indefinitely postponed a special summit with leaders from across Southeast Asia that was initially scheduled for next week, according to four sources familiar with the schedule change.
The gathering with the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was set to take place on Monday and Tuesday at the White House, and it was meant to “demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment” to a region that is critical to its commercial and security interests in Asia, the White House said in late February.
On Friday, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said in a statement to POLITICO that, “The President looks forward to welcoming the ASEAN leaders to Washington, DC for a U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit. To ensure invited ASEAN leaders can all participate, we are working closely with ASEAN partners to identify appropriate dates for this meeting.”
President Joe Biden will instead meet on Tuesday with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, to discuss both U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific region, such as supply chains and maritime security, as well as the bloody conflict in Ukraine.
Biden has spent the past month increasingly focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine; he returns from a four-day trip to Brussels and Warsaw on Saturday, where the war and subsequent sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin have been top of his agenda.
The month-long conflict in Eastern Europe has injected a new urgency into U.S. efforts to reinvigorate old alliances and cultivate new ones, including in the Asia-Pacific. But it has also underscored, yet again, how difficult it is to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from the conflicts of the 20th century in Europe and the Middle East, and toward the biggest global challenge of this century: an increasingly aggressive China.
Date in flux: On Feb. 28, the White House released a statement from press secretary Jen Psaki saying the administration was “proud to announce” the “historic” ASEAN summit would take place on March 28 and 29.
But the administration has been less definitive in recent weeks. A U.S. official said on March 10 that the administration was working with ASEAN leaders to set a “formal date” for the gathering, but said “it has not been postponed.” Asked at a March 17 press briefing about the status of the summit, Psaki said only that the White House was “working through the schedules of a number of leaders, so that’s always a challenge and a factor.”
The possibility of postponing the gathering of ASEAN leaders was first raised earlier this month when Cambodia’s foreign minister told Reuters that some Southeast Asian leaders could not travel to Washington on the dates the White House had announced. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam are all members of the association.
Conflicting schedules: Schedule conflicts do appear to be the cause of the delay, as neither the Biden administration or ASEAN wanted to leave out key members, people with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO.
“It seems that the event is experiencing scheduling turbulence, with more than one of the key ASEAN members unable to move or cancel pre-existing commitments on dates that the USA has proposed,” said Kurt Tong, a partner at The Asia Group. “It is challenging given the long ten-member ASEAN roster and that organization’s strong desire for inclusiveness.”
A critical region: The White House has repeatedly declared that Southeast Asia is a central focus of its foreign policy efforts, particularly as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to counter China’s rising global influence.
Vice President Kamala Harris carried that message to Vietnam and Singapore during a weeklong trip in August. And a string of key Cabinet officials, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, made visits to the region in the administration’s first year.
Biden himself participated in a virtual summit with ASEAN leaders in October. At that meeting, Biden first announced his administration’s intention to craft an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that would deepen U.S. trade and investment ties in the region, with an eye towards China.
The Commerce Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are now seeking public comment on what the framework should entail. The administration has already said it will not include market access provisions found in typical trade deals, which many partners in the region are seeking, and instead focus on issues like supply chain resiliency, decarbonization and infrastructure and clean energy.
The war in Ukraine has also contributed to delays in Biden administration decisions on imposing new tariffs on China, as POLITICO reported last week
ScoMo loosing the coming election is the only regime change you are going to get.
And this is why their strategy is failing, they are way too obvious in wanting to use them as pawns against China. China doesn't ask the countries they invest in to be against the US, simply that they stay neutral or friendly to China. The cost for countries to be enemies with another is way higher than being neutral/friendly with them, It would take US giving a massive concession or a tilted cost/benefit factor to convince these countries to go against China, like in the case of pathetic states like Lithuania.
Its easy for US to convince allies like EU, Japan, Australia and UK because they benefit from the world order led by US or because they are completely politically, economy or militarily captured by them. So it would take China becoming an even more powerful and prosperous state to have the resources to convince them and/or some impressive diplomatic moves to win them over to our side. So in due time, we'll see what can come out of it.
China should continue to improve relations ASEAN by having their economies and opportunities closely intertwined with them. Make it completely suicidal or unthinkable to be against China by tilting that cost and benefit scale.
The US is working at a disadvantage because of asking too much from these countries, needing them to make China their enemy.
True but with the coming chaos coming to the world, I believe there be more then just that happening
R/Sino is next