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pmc

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Any users here that lives in Türkiye currently that can share how's the situation is going on over there? This seems extremely concerning.
Germany-Ukraine-Turkey will be at each at other throats and they wont realize it.
Germany is now relegated to third place in Turkey imports and this is not even winter.
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Turkey’s imports from Russia soared 118 percent year-on-year, amounting to $4.5 billion. Imports from China increased 23 percent to $3.23 billion. Turkey also increased its imports from Germany by 11 percent from last year to $1.98 billion.
 

Strangelove

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Japan should do is to really uphold peace and not compromise its pacifist constitution because it has no capacity or potential to wage or sustain another war. "This is not only a sincere advice to Japan but also a warning,"

Don't open a can of worms Japan, just stick to the things you're good at, like Playstation and hentai...
 

getready

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Why would you ever base your views on how people treat tourists in person? For one, most Iranians are happy about any tourists because they're so few due to sanctions so it helps their economy, two, most people in general will be nice to you in person even if they're racist towards your people and three, they know they're being recorded on video so they're going to be on their best behavior.

Also, if the survey is based on cultural influence, why is Russia's, Pakistan's, South Korea's and Japan's answers in particular and everyone else's in general, typical of what you see in every other like/dislike survey. Russia has a -40% perception of America and +65% perception of China in that survey. Do you honestly believe China has that much greater cultural influence than America in Russia? Where Instagram and Facebook reign supreme and everyone in Moscow knows who Kanye West and Elon Musk is and no one can name a single Chinese person outside Xi Jinping? This is a general like/dislike survey.

If you follow Iranians around social media for a period of time, every time China is brought up, it's almost always negative from my experience. Everything from Chinese are all dirty, disgusting people to Chinese only make cheap stuff that breaks. I've been doing this for a while because of interest in how a country's people deal with heavy sanctions. You can say, it's due to heavy influence with Western social media presence there/Western worship, but I ask, why is Pakistan and Russia so positive towards China?
Nah I'm not basing my view solely on how ordinary Iranians treat Chinese tourists. I'm saying that sizable portion of the population do like Chinese based on how the treatment they received. It isn't just fake smiles and polite greeting Japanese are known for. These Iranians go out of their way to make Chinese feel welcome. They invite them to their homes for meals, give them personal gifts, etc. Are they representative of the entire population, no of course not but I'm not even making that claim. But if they treating Chinese tourists so warming then yeah you can infer, that portion of the population dun have negative attitude towards Chinese or at least despise the people.

As for Pakistan and Russia,they are different cases with different relations to china, where you have the China Pakistan all weather brotherhood and the current blooming sino Russia ties thats not limited to political sphere. Ties with Iran in comparison, is more limited and hasn't permeated among the population. It's clear though from the girls view, Iran society still has positive views on Western culture and more affluent countries. China in comparison is less talked about. I already stated some of the reasons she gave so I'm not gonna repeat again. As for monitoring Iranians social media accounts and how they perceive Chinese and Americans, no I haven't done that, and really can't be arsed either, so I'm gonna take your word for it. Either way, even if I dun fully trust that survey, I'm also not going to convince anyone that the results are misleading. Everyone just believe what they want in the end.
 

FriedButter

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Anyone able to find a more official source for this? More confirmation for us. Not that it wasn’t obvious already except for the other places that cover their eyes and plug their ears.

China, together with Russia and other partners, is ready to face common challenges for the sake of a bright future for the Eurasian continent, the Chinese Ambassador to Moscow said.

 

getready

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Japan should do is to really uphold peace and not compromise its pacifist constitution because it has no capacity or potential to wage or sustain another war. "This is not only a sincere advice to Japan but also a warning,"

Don't open a can of worms Japan, just stick to the things you're good at, like Playstation and hentai...
Japan has also made some irresponsible statements on Taiwan recently, I suspect maybe pressure from US. If my memory is correct, they have also mention taiwan in their defence white paper. I think though ultimately Japan will revise their constitution and remilitarize, just a matter of when not if. US will be dying to rearm them. I wonder how south Korea will react if that happens
 

getready

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Anyone able to find a more official source for this? More confirmation for us. Not that it wasn’t obvious already except for the other places that cover their eyes and plug their ears.
I’m keen to know too. Just read something similar from mango press telegram about Xi instructing China to provide more assistance to Russia without risking wrath of western sanctions . Sounded very unofficial and hearsay
 

daifo

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If Tesla goes down even a little it will trigger some significant market instability. They're selling mostly hope and dreams based on their PE ratio and lack of dividends, this is them taking away their leading product. People can't believe just hype forever, especially after already dumping billions in. They have to see results at some point.

The full product line is out now, so there isn't much "dreaming" of the future anymore. 95% of the work/engineering is done now.
Model3 - intro sedan , Model Y - cross over , Model x - suv , model s - sports sedan, cybertruck - truck

At one point I thought their AI driving would give them a edge over other vendors but the AI driving might never happen.
 
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