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Doubt it.
When Imran Khan ran for PM, he used a lot of anti-China rhetoric. But once he got elected, he made a 180 degree turn and fully embraces China and CPEC. The next civilian government will not be any different.
Besides, the real power in Pakistan belongs to the generals. They have good relationship with China with all the weapon purchases and technology transfers. Besides, they need China's Security Council veto to protect them on some of their shadier work with people considered by the West as terrorists.
I heard there are a couple of million Ukrainians that need a new home and a new place.
That’s self so concerning that such a strong friend of China elected a leader with so much anti China rhetoric? Too bad china couldn’t have a relationship with Pakistani like Canada to the US. But then again China dislikes alliances.
The unresolved territorial dispute between China/India is the biggest hindrance to normal relationship between China/India, not the China/Pakistan close ties. This, we can thank the barbaric legacy of British imperialism for the border dispute. Also, India's traditional is 'non-aligned', so there is no possibility for China/Indian 'alliance' even if the territorial dispute was resolved. At best, you can get shared strategic alignment on Multi-Polarity and anti-Hegemony, which can still occur without resolving territorial dispute, just see India's refusal to join Western attempts to isolate/sanction Russia. That said, even if the territorial dispute is resolved, India would be anti-Chinese hegemony too, and will play both sides against each other for maximum benefit. Soviet Union/Russia was a strong friend of India mostly because of weapon sales, not any shared ideology or politics. Does China have anything weapons to offer until recently?
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Was this said by the CCP? I don't think they said anything about redlines aside from Taiwan.
Dude, there are plenty of European politicians talking shit about US, even amongst the likes of Merkel and Macron. But when push comes to shove they all bow down to America like little puppies.
The Chinese know abundantly well (no pun intended) what a famine looks like, esp. amongst those who'd lived through the Great Leap Forward.
Yeah. I think that is in the Chinese genes now. Some people said early in covid lock-down that the primary reason the Chinese could do it but the Americans could not is average Chinese family always find a way to save. As a result, even "poor" Chinese families can survive at least a few weeks of lock-down without starving.
Well, this time, there is another rumor, saying:
Sinopec was being forced to buy shat loads of US LNG in the context of US/China trade war. It has locked in many contracts prior to the current war. Now it simply tells its LNG ships to sail directly from US to Europe. And with these paper works, Sinopec is making around USD200mil per LNG boat. And rumor said Sinopec has those contracts in hundreds
Yeah Unipec (business arm of Sinopec) is supplying them with US gas, presumably diverted from the same Louisiana plant that they'd signed to buy the gas from -Yeah. I think that is in the Chinese genes now. Some people said early in covid lock-down that the primary reason the Chinese could do it but the Americans could not is average Chinese family always find a way to save. As a result, even "poor" Chinese families can survive at least a few weeks of lock-down without starving.
Well, this time, there is another rumor, saying:
Sinopec was being forced to buy shat loads of US LNG in the context of US/China trade war. It has locked in many contracts prior to the current war. Now it simply tells its LNG ships to sail directly from US to Europe. And with these paper works, Sinopec is making around USD200mil per LNG boat. And rumor said Sinopec has those contracts in hundreds
What's particularly telling is that this doesn't just happen because of the war. China is in fact contracted to supply LNG to Europe through the year, precisely because China had already had ample stockpile when Covid hit.
Remember when Biden asked Xi to release China's reserves last year when OPEC wouldn't budge?
It only goes to show how gas-strapped Europe already was even before the war.