The UK still owns the Pitcairns Islands in the Pacific. Someday, hopefully in the not-so-distant future, China can sail a fleet to Britain and nicely ask to "lend" the Pitcairns Islands and other British overseas territories for a very long time.
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Hyundai cars are just as good as any European car these days. As long as they're still available you'll be fine. Chinese cars have made massive strides in the past few years. If you want to go electric rebadging Chinese models with old Soviet models may not be a bad idea. That's what European car manufacturers are starting to do anyway, you may as well jump before being pushed.
Remember car sales are down big time in the west as well. This isn't like the 80s when the west was booming and USSR was in terminal decline. COVID, Brexit and the microchip shortage means VW and other big manufacturers are going to need bailouts to survive. I heard a third of their global income comes from China alone, you can bet that is now on a timer.
Russia is going to suffer, but that's largely because of the legacy of Yeltsin and early years Putin. At least you won't starve and won't face domestic political unrest.
nobody has any illusions about the true nature of the capitalists. it was well known that at the tail end of Hu Jintao's tenure that they had allowed enemies to infiltrate the government, party, strategic corporations, etc. Hu did Xi one big last favor - liquidating all the foreign spies - at the end of his term. They were trying so, so hard to get a color revolution going in the early Xi years and so many ran away to foreign countries before Xi's 2nd term. They've failed, so far.
To me, this is another Meng Wanzhou incidence except it is now a turbine, and as before, on US behalf.
Nothing morally wrong in doing business in China. Problem with H&M is that they assumed China is guilty without doing unbiased on site investigations. Besides they should not ban cottons from Uyghurs' owned and run business.
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The Pentagon now openly disobeys the SCOTUS' ruling. We are really living in interesting times.
Today is the 72nd anniversary of the start of the Korea War. To this day, many Koreans, including South Koreans, hate the U.S., because as Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay admitted, U.S. bombing killed 20% of the Korean population.
As some of us suspected, preliminary study seems to indicate that Indians do have the smallest brains in the world (probably caused by malnutrition), although more study is needed.
Unfortunate killings in Oslo, Norway. Apparently a targeted attack on that city's gay community.