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Overbom

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Strategic ambiguity or not, China knows that the US can't match up its ambitions with concrete actions.
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US flip-flops on ‘Taiwan independence’ wording a big joke, lays bare anxiety over incapacity not matching ambition: experts
The back and forth of the US State Department in its fact sheet over whether or not it supports “Taiwan independence” is not only akin to a “joke,” but also lays bare the US’ anxiety over the Taiwan question deriving from its incapacity of matching its action with ambition in face of China, experts said.
The US’ frequent changing in its wording about Taiwan island shows its obvious anxiety and dilemma in its Taiwan policy, said Shen Yi, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University.
Washington is clear that it lacks the policy tools when handling the island of Taiwan without provoking a military conflict with the Chinese mainland, while at the same time, it is also desperate to use wording changes to earn points in its China policy. However embarrassing this is, it cannot be done without worries it could lead to the mainland’s strong retaliation, Shen told the Global Time on Friday.
Observers noted that Washington’s flip-flops over wording about Taiwan island are nothing but a joke, where it lacks the capability to match its ambition and possible consequential actions over the matter, which is also very confusing for others.
Observers said that the more tricks the US attempts to play with the “Taiwan card,” the few it actually has left in its hand to really contain China.
 

tokenanalyst

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He isn't wrong. After a short covid lockdown nap, the awakened Chinese industrial dragon is now going to annihilate any kind of German Industry remaining.

Things will get ugly for them in the following months
Chinese companies have always valued German products, like robots, cars, machines tools, good optics, like the deal between Xiaomi and Leica. They get a good product, Germany had less bureaucratic export controls than the U.S. (from experience), they cut developing time and they make them win money.
The problem is if the Germans decide to listen paranoid Americans politicians and decide to shoot themselves in the foot with stringent export controls, because the China and Chinese companies are not going to let themselves get kill, if they have to develop everything by themselves, they will do it. DO NO UNDERSTIMATE THEM.
 

Overbom

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Chinese companies have always valued German products, like robots, cars, machines tools, good optics, like the deal between Xiaomi and Leica. They get a good product, Germany had less bureaucratic export controls than the U.S. (from experience), they cut developing time and they make them win money.
The problem is if the Germans decide to listen paranoid Americans politicians and decide to shoot themselves in the foot with stringent export controls, because the China and Chinese companies are not going to let themselves get kill, if they have to develop everything by themselves, they will do it. DO NO UNDERSTIMATE THEM.
Forget about Chinese countermeasures. German Industry is (rather quickly) going to suffer extreme damage due to agent Scholz sabotaging Germany's ties with Russia and subsequently German industries.

I can guarantee you that Chinese industrialists are shaking from excitement on how much market share they are going to steal from the increasingly uncompetitive German industrial companies.

This is an entire self-goal for Germany where China did absolutely nothing to cause this (maybe except activating agent Scholz..)
 

iioklwwelo

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He isn't wrong. After a short covid lockdown nap, the awakened Chinese industrial dragon is now going to annihilate any kind of German Industry remaining.

The moment you lose a customer to a Chinese competitor, that's it, you are done. You are never getting him back again. Things will get ugly for German industrial companies in the following months

No offence, not in too many industries will consumers or businesses prefer Chinese product to German if budget is not a concern. Even when budget is a concern, people might think twice about purchasing Chinese if German is an option.

If German industry shutters, it may be due to lack of cheap energy resources from Russia. Talk about shooting one's own foot. EU has done that well at American behest.

Goes to show economy, by itself, is of no use without military might to back it up. Russians are doing that well with meagre economic resources compared to West.
 

FriedButter

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Forget about Chinese countermeasures. German Industry is (rather quickly) going to suffer extreme damage due to agent Scholz sabotaging Germany's ties with Russia and subsequently German industries.

I can guarantee you that Chinese industrialists are shaking from excitement on how much market share they are going to steal from the increasingly uncompetitive German industrial companies.

This is an entire self-goal for Germany where China did absolutely nothing to cause this (maybe except activating agent Scholz..)

Don’t forgot about the EU plans to create their own domestic semi industry. It has gone up into complete flames at this point. Not even charred paper remains but only ash that is quickly blown away. The other players must be happy about that.
 

henrik

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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.
tesla EVs are selling well. There is a long waiting list for their cars. BYD is the only company that is beating them.
 

iioklwwelo

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West worship is a hell of a drug.

This explains why Chinese and Russians have never really trusted the Iranian regime.

Well said.

Chinese and Russians have demonstrated often enough they are afflicted by this disease of West worship. This may explain why they have never trusted the Iranian or North Korean regime but instead went on to impose sanctions on both of them at the United Nations.


However no unilateral, bilateral or UN sanctions were imposed against US, UK, France, Australia, Canada, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Italy, or any others firmly entrenched in the Western camp.

Chinese and Russians won't even let Iran and North Korea into SCO but invite rather useless colonies like India or Pakistan making the whole entity useless since Chinese have disputes with Indians, and Indians with both Pakistanis and Chinese.

West worship is a terrible disease.

Prior to Americans ramping up the pressure on China with trade war, accusations of Chinese virus and intense propaganda, and prior to dealing the same way with Russia specially in the last 3 months, the Russians and Chinese were very busy in their West worshipping ways.

As they say, old habits die hard. These countries still can't get rid of them.

Tough luck to small countries like Iran North Korea Syria Venezueala or others led by more independent minded regimes. Russia and China with their West worshipping disease were always busy aping the West and cozying up to them since they have been psychologically colonized.
 

FriedButter

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Western allies meeting regularly to game out potential framework for Ukraine ceasefire as war hits 100th day​


US officials have in recent weeks been meeting regularly with their British and European counterparts to discuss potential frameworks for a ceasefire and for ending the war through a negotiated settlement, multiple sources familiar with the talks told CNN.

Ukraine is not directly involved in those discussions, despite the US commitment to “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” US and Ukrainian officials said the US has not been pressuring Ukraine to commit to a certain plan or directly pushing them to sit down with the Russians.

Looks like it’s game over for the West. Probably trying to find a way to avoid humiliation with favourable terms while trying to humiliate Russia in their toilet paper treaty. Ukraine is not involved in their secret discussions to “surrender” Ukraine.
 

iioklwwelo

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https://www.reddit.com/r/iranian/comments/v27s2j
This thread has some input from Iranian diaspora. Basically racism towards Chinese plus Western propaganda. It's not even that strange seeing how Iranians describe China/Chinese people online; the racism is very obvious. The strangest part of that survey is India only having a net -4% perception towards China. I would think it would be Japan levels by now.

Survey conducted by West, not by Iranian institute. Talk about West worship. At least, a Chinese or North Korean institute would have looked better.

Iranian diaspora are mostly Shah era leftovers who were chased out by the revolutionary regime. Their grumbling is understandable.

If you ask Taiwanese DPP/KMT and if you ask CPC fans, you get different survey results. +
 
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