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A very plain welcome party for any foreign minister.
Nevertheless, when Anthony Blinken arrived, the Indian welcome party wasn't much of an improvement either:
Maybe India is on a budget with its G20 event? So no red carpet welcomes for foreign ministers.
I just think that the US is basically setting up a multi-nation sanctions package on China. By hyping up that China is sending arms to Russia. That means that there is a 90% chance that they are gonna sanction China anyways, regardless of whether China actually did it or not. All the drama and hype is to build a case for those sanctions.
That Uighur slave labor BS story worked quite well. Chinese firms in Xinjiang were sanctioned, and many Xinjiang products were banned in the West.
I suspect that the US is seeking to sanction and weaken Chinese firms that were directly or indirectly involved in the defense industry. The US should want to cut them off from Western financing, material shipments, and other stuff. For example, cutting off Chinese shipyards from European-made marine engines. Or blocking specific ores from being exported to China.
I'm curious to see what justification the US and friends will use when they finally pull the sanctions trigger. Maybe the US gets the Ukrainians to recover a drone wreck and say that it's electronics were made in China. Then more sanctions on China's semiconductor industry. Or maybe the US might cook up a story with ASPI that China covertly shipped artillery shells to Russia. Then initiate a kind of global ban on certain ore shipments to China.
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?? There's DJI drones in use by Russia already, and have been for a long time (also used by Ukraine as well).
As for trying to actually enact some kind of global ban on a certain ore? Good luck trying to do that lol.
So you are saying Philipine is a big Hong Kong? I remember looking Chinese and the Hong Kong airport staff was rude to me, but then I showed my Canadian passport and their attitude immediately change.
It doesn't matter. The US doesn't care that there were DJI drones used by Russia and Ukraine for one year already. The US just wants to create a sanctions regime on the Chinese defense industry and it's supporting industries. If DJI is suddenly a concern now, then the US is just gonna sanction it.
Yes the US will try to enact a kind of ban on exports to China. Be it ore, intermediary products, and other stuff. Will it be successful? Hell no! But that won't stop the US from trying it anyways. There were already historical precedents, like Huawei, Xinjiang, and ASML.
None of this matters when Chinese trade numbers - including from Xinjiang - just keep going up and up.
Nah, never mind Mao. I say just build the statue of Castro beside Pierre Trudeau so Justin could see both his dads together in his hometown.
Maybe they blew the budget on the slum concealment walls.