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I live in the UK and I say, send some of those DongFengs our way, this country is going down the drain anyway. As Sherlock says "The 'East Wind' is coming..."
Chain them to the lamp poles, shave their heads, tattoo their faces with the word "粪“ until the time even their mothers can not recognize them.
Golden era is over!.... but we still want to trade
But Sunak is neither an ideologue nor a hawk. And governing a country is a different task to obtaining votes. Once in charge, his pragmatic instinct cautioned him against slamming all doors on Beijing. China remains a for Britain to prosper outside Europe, being the country’s third biggest trade partner and primary import market.
Severing ties with Beijing would mean old and new trade partners become necessary to fill the void, forcing Britain to negotiate from a position of weakness, not to mention that it would raise the likelihood of an inflationary cost-push in global supply chains that no one desires.
Britain’s Sunak is choosing pragmatism towards China, but his own MPs aren’t convinced
- Faced with an ailing economy and weary public, new UK leader Rishi Sunak has signalled that he won’t risk upsetting valuable trade ties with Beijing
- But this stance comes at a delicate time internationally, and in his own party Sunak must contend with an increasingly vocal anti-China faction
But Sunak is neither an ideologue nor a hawk. And governing a country is a different task to obtaining votes. Once in charge, his pragmatic instinct cautioned him against slamming all doors on Beijing. China remains a for Britain to prosper outside Europe, being the country’s third biggest trade partner and primary import market.
Severing ties with Beijing would mean old and new trade partners become necessary to fill the void, forcing Britain to negotiate from a position of weakness, not to mention that it would raise the likelihood of an inflationary cost-push in global supply chains that no one desires.
Maybe he can beg the US for a trade deal. They’ve been begging for over 10 years now, surely the US will give them a scrap soon
solarz
Brigadier
Why are traitors always the most ugliest looking people? That tall woman for instance with those broad shoulders is either trans or an exceptionally ugly female.
Would their treasonous behaviour have been averted if they were attractive enough to get regular sex, the same way American school shooters are motivated by sexual frustration Directed against a perceived societal injustice?
This must be the famous human rights and freedom the Anglo led west are raving on about.
I tire of these Anglo games, china really ought to pull a lithuania on the five eyes.
The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up
The European Union hosted a 24-hour party in its $407,000 metaverse, but only a handful of people turned up, according to journalist Vince Chadwick, one of the attendees.Last week's event was billed as a "beach party" offering "music and fun" to launch the EU's "Global Gateway" strategy.
When the costly virtual-reality world was first shown in October, EU staff were already raising concerns, per Devex.
"Depressing and embarrasing" and "digital garbage" were among the department's first responses to the underwhelming €387,000 venue.
British dark ages? Just warming up...
LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Britain's economy is on course to shrink 0.4% next year as inflation remains high and companies put investment on hold, with gloomy implications for longer-term growth, the Confederation of Business Industry forecast on Monday.
"Britain is in stagflation - with rocketing inflation, negative growth, falling productivity and business investment. Firms see potential growth opportunities but ... headwinds are causing them to pause investing in 2023," CBI Director-General Tony Danker said.
The CBI's forecast marks a sharp downgrade from its last forecast in June, when it predicted growth of 1.0% for 2023, and it does not expect gross domestic product (GDP) to return to its pre-COVID level until mid-2024.
Britain has been hit hard by a surge in natural gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as an incomplete labour market recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic and persistently weak investment and productivity.
Unemployment would rise to peak at 5.0% in late 2023 and early 2024, up from 3.6% currently, the CBI said.
British inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1% in October, sharply squeezing consumer demand, and the CBI predicts it will be slow to fall, averaging 6.7% next year and 2.9% in 2024.
The CBI's GDP forecast is less gloomy than that of the British government's Office for Budget Responsibility - which last month forecast a 1.4% decline for 2023.
But the CBI forecast is in line with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which expects Britain to be Europe's weakest performing economy bar Russia next year.
The CBI forecast business investment at the end of 2024 will be 9% below its pre-pandemic level, and output per worker 2% lower.
To avoid this, the CBI called on the government to make Britain's post-Brexit work visa system more flexible, end what it sees as an effective ban on constructing onshore wind turbines, and give greater tax incentives for investment.
"We will see a lost decade of growth if action isn't taken. GDP is a simple multiplier of two factors: people and their productivity. But we don't have people we need, nor the productivity," Danker said.
UK economy to shrink in 2023, risks 'lost decade': CBI
ByLONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Britain's economy is on course to shrink 0.4% next year as inflation remains high and companies put investment on hold, with gloomy implications for longer-term growth, the Confederation of Business Industry forecast on Monday.
"Britain is in stagflation - with rocketing inflation, negative growth, falling productivity and business investment. Firms see potential growth opportunities but ... headwinds are causing them to pause investing in 2023," CBI Director-General Tony Danker said.
The CBI's forecast marks a sharp downgrade from its last forecast in June, when it predicted growth of 1.0% for 2023, and it does not expect gross domestic product (GDP) to return to its pre-COVID level until mid-2024.
Britain has been hit hard by a surge in natural gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as an incomplete labour market recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic and persistently weak investment and productivity.
Unemployment would rise to peak at 5.0% in late 2023 and early 2024, up from 3.6% currently, the CBI said.
British inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1% in October, sharply squeezing consumer demand, and the CBI predicts it will be slow to fall, averaging 6.7% next year and 2.9% in 2024.
The CBI's GDP forecast is less gloomy than that of the British government's Office for Budget Responsibility - which last month forecast a 1.4% decline for 2023.
But the CBI forecast is in line with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which expects Britain to be Europe's weakest performing economy bar Russia next year.
The CBI forecast business investment at the end of 2024 will be 9% below its pre-pandemic level, and output per worker 2% lower.
To avoid this, the CBI called on the government to make Britain's post-Brexit work visa system more flexible, end what it sees as an effective ban on constructing onshore wind turbines, and give greater tax incentives for investment.
"We will see a lost decade of growth if action isn't taken. GDP is a simple multiplier of two factors: people and their productivity. But we don't have people we need, nor the productivity," Danker said.
supercat
Major
I will give this the "Putin Soiled Himself" investigative reporting award.
One of the big problems with Western news reporting is that they have to sell what they write. Most Westerners do not want to see positive reports about China. So the Western media will provide mostly negative reports about China to cater their reader's taste. I have stopped follow Western MSM when the COVID origin conspiracy started.
Agitating China this way is really short-sighted, because China can close the Taiwan Strait any day they want.
They don't dress like mainland Chinese. That tells you something.
I doubt B-21 will enter service before Taiwan and China are reunited.
China just can't do anything right.