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NiuBiDaRen

Brigadier
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Yeah, what's the deal with that guy?

Looks like he is going tip over, like in the old folks home.
It is the natural consequence of being a dog to the US President for too long

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Just Korean and Japanese things.
 

Strangelove

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LOL...

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France takes jab at US-led Indo-Pacific bloc​

AUKUS “will not deliver” on the agreement to provide Australia with nuclear submarines, Emmanuel Macron has said

French President Emmanuel Macron blasted the Australia, UK, US (AUKUS) trilateral security pact on Friday, warning Australia that it would be untenable to supply the nation with nuclear submarines.

On Thursday, speaking on the sidelines of the APEC CEO Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, Macron claimed that Australia entered into “nuclear confrontation” with China after it tore up its contract with France to build a dozen diesel-powered submarines, opting for US or UK-built nuclear subs instead.

Macron suggested that by ditching its submarine contract with France, Australia entered into “nuclear confrontation” with China.
According to Macron, Australia’s initial deal with France was “not confrontational to China because they are not nuclear-powered submarines.” “But the choice made by [former] Prime Minister [Scott] Morrison was the opposite, re-entering into nuclear confrontation,” he said.

The French leader told Bloomberg on Friday that the AUKUS deal was “a big signal of distress for us,” arguing that it would make Canberra’s military supply chains unreliable, and that AUKUS “will not deliver” on its commitments.

The French president signaled that Paris could still consider building submarines for Australia, though Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he does not plan to withdraw from the AUKUS deal. “We are proceeding with the AUKUS arrangements, there’s nothing ambiguous about it.”

Regarding Macron’s claims about “nuclear confrontation” with China, the Australian PM stated that his counterpart is “entitled to put forward his views as he does in a very forthright way.”

France-Australia relations frayed in late 2021 when Morrison canceled a $58 billion submarine contract with France in favor of a deal with the US and UK. Tensions boiled over, and Macron publicly accused Morrison of lying to him about the deal, an allegation the former PM denied.

Besides building nuclear subs for Australia, AUKUS members say the pact seeks to protect the international system that respects human rights and the rule of law. China has slammed the alliance, arguing that its projects pose grave risks to nuclear security.
 

supercat

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For those who daydream that they can split China from Russia:

Russia, China switch to national currencies for gas payments​

Russia and China have switched to national currencies in their natural gas trade, implementing a deal they signed in early September, a Russian official said Friday.

Noting that Beijing already paid for Russian gas on the basis of the ruble-yuan parity, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a televised interview that payments in national currencies covered gas supplies from Russia and equipment sales from China.

Novak also told broadcaster Rossiya 24 TV that the two countries were also actively switching to payments in their national currencies for oil supplies and petroleum products.

Russian energy giant Gazprom announced a deal on Sept. 6 with state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to use the national currencies in natural gas payments.

They signed a long-term gas purchase and sale agreement to supply gas from Russia to China through a route in the "Far East," where Gazprom has started to design and build a gas pipeline.
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This is old news. It has been like this for years.

Even the vice president of Carnegie Endowment doesn't think that the U.S.' policy of forcing other nations to choose a side will work.

Nice wake-up call:
 
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