Miscellaneous News

The yuan is used more and more in Russia.

China-Russia trade increased 28% in the first 5 months of 2002.

China reaffirms refusal to comply with US sanctions on Iran​

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian rejects the new sanctions announced on Wednesday by the US Treasury Department against Iran.

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Squidward said:

Probably nothing nuclear. Even if you didn't care about getting nuked in return, irradiating the waters around the Taiwan strait is just going to make any armed reunification even more of a pain in the ass.

My guess is that the PLA just kept mobilizing more and more conventional forces until the US finally felt threatened enough to call it off. The PLAAF's mobilization is the most obvious since they went on to fly around Taiwan right afterwards, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out significant amounts of PLARF and PLAN assets were also ready to go.

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I think the PLA just mobilised sufficient forces for armed reunification and the US realised that if they triggered a shooting war by going through the Taiwan strait, the first thing that will happen is their forward deployed carrier gets obliterated, the second to closely follow is the successful armed reunification before they can get a replacement carrier into the AO.

It was a stupid move to use a carrier to try to call China’s bluff on this, since loosing that carrier as the opening move would put the US in an unrecoverable position and by the time they can muster enough forces for a credible stab at preventing armed reunification, the mission would have creeped into launching their own amphibious invasion of a PLA liberated Taiwan.

They will probably have another go at salami slicing this new red line, but with probably a Burke, while a couple of CSGs observe from a safe distance.

But in the meantime, it’s kinda funny that American salami slicing against China has materially weakened American positions instead of China’s. But I guess that’s par for the course for America and the west these days.

apparently this talks about another leak from China regarding the new tank shells. is this another big leak? How significant is this leak?

FriedButter said:

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I wonder if it was a tinfoil hat conspiracy group.

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Without knowing which "certain group" is meant here, how is it possible to decide or even to consider whether it is a "tinfoil hat conspiracy"?

Red Moon said:

Without knowing which "certain group" is meant here, how is it possible to decide or even to consider whether it is a "tinfoil hat conspiracy"?

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There is a reason why I used the words “if” and “wondered.”

Also why shouldn’t we consider it? Should you not consider all possibilities?

FriedButter said:

There is a reason why I used the words “if” and “wondered.”

Also why shouldn’t we consider it? Should you not consider all possibilities?

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There is zero information to "consider" if one doesn't even know anything about the mentioned "certain group".

FriedButter said:

There is a reason why I used the words “if” and “wondered.”

Also why shouldn’t we consider it? Should you not consider all possibilities?

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COVID/vaccine conspiracy theories really aren't a thing in Japan, or in Asia in general (except JeremySun). The same with QAnon, the 5G one and any others that come to mind.

Since we're exploring everything; North Korean/CIA/KGB operative is out as they wouldn't be messing with homemade contraptions, they have the real stuff. He could be a religious cult member, or a leftist militant. The thing is if he was they would say it already.

When a politician is attacked in Japan it is almost always by an ultranationalist. I think he's a nationalist and they are looking for a way to spin him as something else. They don't want to denounce their own support base.

Police searched Yamagami's apartment and found an even more powerful five-barrel gun/hand cannon.

The man brought a gimped twin-barrel to kill Abe with. What a mad lad.






Correction: There were multiple weapons, including a friggin' NINE-BARREL volley gun -

MortyandRick said:

apparently this talks about another leak from China regarding the new tank shells. is this another big leak? How significant is this leak?

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That leak has been discussed before in the 99 MBT thread. In short, it’s nothing new since state media already reported the specs.

LawLeadsToPeace said:

That leak has been discussed before in the 99 MBT thread. In short, it’s nothing new since state media already reported the specs.

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Here is the thread to it:

smug said:

To me, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal since like PapaOsama said, they've talked about the specs before on TV but I bet it'll get talked a lot about in the west.

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