Just hope a polar shift won't happen in our lifetime. That will really fuck things up.
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No wonder Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore should not have an Indian Prime Minister.
Singapore and India are really corrupting each other here. For all the shit in Hong Kong and Taiwan, my friends in Hong Kong and Taiwan aren't flooded with a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, and haughty Indian immigrants.
Proper diplomatic courtesy between two antagonising powers in the face of incompatible political agendas, let alone during normal course of diplomacy, would be the 'exchanging of views' where either side lays out their positions and, if the US side so chooses, to express to the Chinese side their viewpoints and concerns vis-a-vis China and Russia... and their 'expectations' from either party, if the US side wishes to be so bold.
Yang, for his part is of course well within rights to take everything Sullivan says 'under advisement'. Sullivan can make requests and demands all he wants, just like Yang can vice versa.
What is not appropriate (not suggesting that's actually what had happened, as we simply don't know) is the diplomatic faux pas of the US expecting China to relay at the leadership level communique not meant for Chinese leadership, but the head of state of another country.
This is essentially Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor, senior aide and assistant to the Executive Office of the President of the United States, "asking" Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, to pass a note to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, effectively reducing this affair to one where the leader of China mediates between the US President's aide and the leader of Russia. So yes, this would be absolutely degrading and wholly against diplomatic protocol.
This isn't the first time the Yanks have pulled this stunt. Remember when Lloyd Austin requested repeatedly for months to meet with Xu Qiliang, head of the Central Military Commission, and was denied repeatedly?
Proper protocol for the US Secretary of Defense is to deal with his actual counterpart, the Minister of National Defence i.e. Wei Fenghe, not the higher-ranking Chairman of the CMC (or rather Vice-Chairman since the Chairman is Xi Jinping) whose counterpart is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
All of Austin's predecessors had followed this most basic norm, but not my man Lloyd. So against protocol, he naturally had the door soundly shut in his face -
And who did he get to speak with finally? Minister/General Wei after all -
And who did he get to met at the Shangri-La forum? Minister/General Wei -
We can discuss whether China is willing to or whether China should mediate between Russia and Ukraine. But there should not be any doubt from either side of the debate that China is the most effective mediator if she agrees to do so.
PeoplesPoster
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Might not want to go around saying that and jinxing ourselves. Last time China had a major earthquake more than 80,000 people died. Natural disasters don't care about politics or national boundaries.
Mediator is the wrong word and is being used as a euphemism.
Can China force Russia to reduce some of it's demands? Yes. Does it serves China's interests in any way? Absolutely not.
From enrolling for a military career of 15 years and a pension. Now downgraded to 4 year service and 25% chance for a military career with nothing for the other 75%.
Modi doing this to reduce military size and government spending. Looks more like India is broke and this is not a modernization attempt.
Very true, but do note that both countries have a very different methodology when dealing with these kind of crisis though. We could be seeing forces at work that no amount of woke is going to be enough to handle so in reality, the USA ought to stop fooling around and start handling its own problems or else if one of these crisis really does go off, well as I said before, it would simply be too late
South America will inevitably tilt away from US in one form or another, leftist government or not. Honestly, it doesn't even matter who's in charge in South America, as long as it's not a US stooge. Even under Bolsonaro, PetroChina got a good stake in Brazilian offshore oilfield, and Huawei won its biggest 5G contract in South America. US is all rhetoric and no substance.
