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taxiya

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Giving Scholz a full scaled official reception is a good answer to Biden who at best will get an in-person meeting with Xi on the side-line of G20 summit. I think Macron should get a state visit in Beijing around G20 time too. Diplomatic formality is of huge value in top leader meetings, more important than the details they are going to talk about.
 

supersnoop

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Temstar

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Giving Scholz a full scaled official reception is a good answer to Biden who at best will get an in-person meeting with Xi on the side-line of G20 summit. I think Macron should get a state visit in Beijing around G20 time too. Diplomatic formality is of huge value in top leader meetings, more important than the details they are going to talk about.
Yeah Macron said he would visit too but after Scholz. With these things it's going to be first come best dressed and decreasing as the line gets longer.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
The US should be the last country China talks to since remember how China was the last country Biden talked to since becoming President. China should send a lower level official to talk to Biden at the G20 harkening back to when China did that to Obama after he tried to setup China to blame for the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit during his first year in office to cover-up how domestic US politics was going to prevent any international agreement from happening. Since Biden was a part of the Obama Administration and it was seen as a great diss by China, the message should be loud and clear. Xi should have meetings with other heads of state while at the G20 but not with Biden and watch how Biden will go searching for Xi to interrupt whatever he is doing. Obama did something like that after the low-level official was sent to talk to him.

In the same vein when the Western alliance starts to crumble, you'll see other countries setting up their own deals with China. You see that where some are looking to create industries to avoid US ITAR laws. The US's promise that China would surrender immediately and thus they can cut up China like a pie like after the Opium Wars isn't happening and they're going to be hurt by it more than you see their sanctions against Russia are doing to them. All the countries that want to suck on the US's teat are too many for so little sour tasting milk from only two nipples where Great Britain permanently has one to itself... They're going to be looking to greener pastures or else their garden is going look like a desert..
 

xypher

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TBH, they are one of the few groups of people that roaches would probably be more prejudiced against than mainlanders




So projected candidates so far?
Boris Johnson (again)
Rishi Sunak
That guy who lost 15 times before
The lettuce
Xi Jinping (WFH)
Rooting for the hyperpower representative. It is time for India to establish the colony of Rajesh Britain.
 

supersnoop

Major
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I know this was posted before, but just for fun, roll it into a time machine

2022
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Absolute Gem
“What we’ve seen over the past 20 years is that they have delivered on every promise they’ve made earlier than they said they were going to deliver on it,” Gilday said. “When we talk about the 2027 window, in my mind, that has to be a 2022 window or potentially a 2023 window; I can’t rule it out.”
Later in the article
On Saturday, Xi used a speech at the 20th Communist Party National Congress to vow Beijing would “never promise to renounce the use of force” to reunify with Taiwan, threatening to use “all measures necessary” to achieve it, but gave no projected timeframe.

Contradicted right in the same article

Blinken
Instead of sticking with the status quo that was established in a positive way, a fundamental decision [was made] that the status quo was no longer acceptable and that Beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline

1999
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"No one explanation can adequately cover what they might be doing, but I think they're seriously considering taking action, even with our participation," he said.

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If I changed the date to October 2022, would you notice?

So the PLA, which is probably 100x more capable than it was 20 years ago, hasn't done anything or suggested anything different for the past 20 years has disturbed the status quo?

Sadly, for the TI-people, nothing has changed for them either.

After so many years of hearing the same thing, I think this is where we are at (Just in time for Halloween)
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Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch (a place Linus believes is the most sincere and lacking in hypocrisy) on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to turn up, but a humiliated yet undefeated Linus stubbornly vows to wait for him again the following Halloween.
 
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