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Ironically, picture looks a lot more like western Chinese rather than Japanese.
 
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Sounds like IR is in its most precarious position so far, can't say I have any positive feelings about either side here. A bunch of angry disparate mob replaced the Shah with Ayatollah and in 40 years the same thing is happening to the Ayatollah with the most popular figure among the opposition being....the new Shah.

It's so ironic and honestly funny if it doesn't involve real people, I wouldn't be surprised if some Sunni extremist militant group burst out from the mountains and captures most of Iran now that it's in Chaos, followed by US forces droning everything that moves for the next 10 years. I know it's far fetched, but having read Persian and middle eastern history, I'm not sure if anything will improve from here on out.
 
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CIA-Politico and CIA-EU leaders absolutely seething
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China conspicuously revived its long-established tactic of courting specific EU countries and their national interests, something it has often used to destabilize Brussels
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Once again in Bali, China took the canny nation-to-nation approach, meeting Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Italy's Giorgia Meloni and the Netherlands' Mark Rutte, while avoiding European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel. A meeting with Michel, at least, had been widely expected in diplomatic circles.

China bristles at the EU designation that it is a "systemic rival" to Brussels, and instead decided to leverage its influence with individual European countries.
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Brussels boxed out​

In stark contrast to the French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian leaders, the Brussels-based EU chiefs didn't get a look-in.

In a show of Beijing's continually negative view of the European Union, Xi decided not to go ahead with what POLITICO understood to be a near-certain plan for Michel, the one representing all 27 countries, to meet Xi.
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Xi's change of heart over a meeting with Michel came shortly after the EU Council president's prerecorded speech at a Shanghai trade expo was dropped. According to Reuters, he tried to call out Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine in the speech, a message that was deemed too sensitive to Chinese ears.
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Even the CIA media are dunking on Trudeau
To the relief of European diplomats, at least Xi did not handle their bosses in the same way he treated Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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"That's not ... the way the conversation was conducted. If there is sincerity on your part ..." Xi said, before Trudeau interrupted him, defending his country's interest in working "constructively" with Beijing.

Xi took his turn to interrupt. "Let's create the conditions first," Xi said.
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Go and stand in the corner, Justin.
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