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Trump now raging against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, bizarrely says his name ‘sounds Chinese’
Really though, 洋金 is our Caucasian comrade worth his weight in gold.
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The global south is not interested in taking sides and creating an enemy out of the West and it would be a mistake for China/Russia to push BRICS and SCO in that direction since the whole appeal is that China is not pushing countries to take sides. And the purpose is to create an alternative to Western-dominated financial platforms and institutions rather than a replacement. This way neutral countries can have more options and more bargaining power.
And I think people are overly enthusiastic here about the increased interest of various countries in BRICS and SCO. It may simply be countries calculating that their move to join Chinese institutions would cause Western countries to pay more attention to them. Just look at the Solomon Islands debacle. After their deal with China, you had a torrent of diplomats from US, Japan, Australia, NZ suddenly taking interest in deepening relations and providing aid. My cynical view is that this is the real cause of increased interest in BRICS and SCO.
And this:
Oh yeah? Washington DC wants to expand US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region?
Perfect casus belli for China to hike her military spending to at least 2-2.5% of her GDP (personally I would like to see that go to 3% or more), considering that China now truly faces existential threat from the United States.
The MSS and Publicity Department should start with their jobs now.
It is time for the professional military and paramilitary branches of China to receive significant expansion and upgrade as well, seeing that the US is really itching to contain China's development and growth with North Korea as an excuse.
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I don't see how countries from the Global South joining BRICS+ would mean actively taking the Chinese+Russian side and against the West.
We have two founding members of BRICS i.e. China and India that are currently at real odds with one another, alongside the fact where India is currently standing on two seperate boats (SCO versus QUAD) simultaneously.
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He's Korean not Chinese, I don't know why Trump would be so mistaken.Trump now raging against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, bizarrely says his name ‘sounds Chinese’
Really though, 洋金 is our Caucasian comrade worth his weight in gold.
He changed the order and spelling of his name to sound more American. His real name is Kim Glen-Yung and was born in Pyonyang, DPRK.
You sure it isn’t Kim Young-UN?
I am actually quite impressed that there are people who actually believed those results.