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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Perhaps last week's amendment of some provisions in China's Criminal Procedure Law for the PLA troops during wartime by the Standing Committee of the NPC is one of the indicators?

I'm surprised at how nobody is discussing about this. According to what I can scout, the amendments could mean that during wartime, PLA troops will be granted immunity for certain actions that are deemed unlawful during peacetime. One of the possible explanations is as follows:
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Any idea what the blurred out words say?
 
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
The US Ambassador to China says that China needs to accept that the US is a leader.

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You mean... the US being a leader in terms like how people can just pull out a gun and casually shoot anyone right out in the open?
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Lethe said:
I consider myself a realist in international relations terms, but this is where I part ways with that paradigm, because it fails to reckon with the power of mythology.

All nations have their mythologies that can be more or less dangerous both to themselves as well as others, but none is so terrifying in nature and scope as the role that the United States has arrogated to itself as the world's judge, jury, and executioner.

Folks who argue that conflict is improbable because there are few concrete interests at stake fail to reckon with the most compelling interest of all: the compulsion to play out the role that has been prescribed by one's national mythology.

TL;DR: America would see the world burn before giving up its self-image as the "indispensible nation" that "sees further into the future than other countries" (Madeleine Albright).
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The world has seen more than it’s fair share of would be messiahs with its own manifest destiny; Anglo chauvinists are simply the modern incarnation of the British empire and the subsequent Teutonic occultists led by one Austrian corporal, all believing they were exceptional.
China is the single continuous human civilisation since Neolithic times, for these people to believe they can change China and refashion her in their own image of enslavement, is the very height of western chauvinistic arrogance.
 
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Serb said:



Is there some truth and logic to this plan? What would China prefer, a quick win for Russia in Ukraine or a pronged war until the Taiwan scenario?

Because if China starts supplying Russia with weapons it's a near game over for the West. They can't outproduce China in any way, they barely keep up with 10 times smaller Russia.

I mean for China to supply weapons to Russia through Belorussia so as to avoid a bad rep. with the rest of the world.

I think China doesn't want the West to restart its military-industrial production there she doesn't want a prolonged war in Ukraine.

Then all of that restarted production could be switched to Taiwan in 2025 and 2027 away from Russia.

However, if Russia wins the war quickly, then there would be less reason for the West to restart their military production, or at least not on that scale

And if Russia wins, it would collapse Western dominance even more in the world, making it easier for them to side with China on Taiwan later.
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On the contrary, The American hegemon would like nothing better than an excuse to turn away from Ukraine and start preparing for war against China.

A prolonged Ukraine war is unquestionably in China's strategic interests.
 
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Andy1974 said:
Some Saudi news;

They are joining UK 6th Gen fighter program.
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Joint R&D and Production.
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This intent to participate in R&D. for any project of this complexity to succeed. The sponsoring country need to have its own semiconductor chain, display screen tech, software and advance fabrication in all levels of composites and titanium. it will be very difficult or expensive for outside vendors to participate in it unless the programme is in size of F-35. this the impact of deglobalization and demogrphics in places like europe.
 
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The United States is sounding out close allies about the possibility of imposing new sanctions on China if Beijing provides military support to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to four U.S. officials and other sources. The consultations, which are still at a preliminary stage, are intended to drum up support from a range of countries, especially those in the wealthy Group of 7 (G7), to coordinate support for any possible restrictions.
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The Biden administration's initial steps to counter Chinese support for Russia have included informal outreach at the staff and diplomatic levels, including the Treasury Department, sources familiar with the matter said. They said officials were laying the groundwork for potential action against Beijing with the core group of countries that were most supportive of sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine a year ago.
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China's role in the Russia-Ukraine war is expected to be among the topics when Biden meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Friday. Before that in New Delhi on Wednesday and Thursday, the war will be discussed by foreign ministers from dozens of countries, including Russia, China and the United States. The initial outreach by Washington on sanctions has not yet led to broad agreement on any specific measures, the sources said. One source said the administration wanted to first raise the idea of coordinated sanctions and "take pulses" in the event that any shipments are detected to Russia from China, which declared a "no limits" partnership shortly before the invasion on Feb. 24 last year. "On the G7 front, I think there is real awareness," a second source said, but added that detailed measures focused on China were not yet in place.
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Anthony Ruggiero, a sanctions expert under former President Donald Trump, said the Biden administration does have scope for economically restricting private actors within China and that doing so could deter the government and banks from providing further support."Then the administration can send messages to China in public and in private, with the latter being more explicit, that the U.S. will escalate the sanctions to include targeting Chinese banks with the full range of available options," said Ruggiero, now with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies group. Washington should make China choose between access to the U.S. financial system or aiding Russia's war, Ruggiero said, citing the sanctions approach to Iran and North Korea.
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