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Bellum_Romanum

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supercat

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The US think tank launched a large number of translations of Chinese documents and papers, and the results were "shocking"
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The problems is, there is a huge gap between the opinions of think tank and the policymakers in D.C.

So, the US is now trying to throw Ukraine under the bus.


Entire "masterpiece" of NYT archived:
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So one month after Hersh's report that incriminated the US Navy, the NYT comes up a report that implies the involvement of CIA? That's the best they could do?

Why the West hates China:

China’s ‘two sessions’ 2023: Chinese development ‘shatters’ modern-is-Western myth, Foreign Minister Qin Gang says​

  • China’s growth model an important source of inspiration for developing nations, Qin Gang says at first press conference in new role
  • Former envoy to Washington also blames rapid US interest hikes for worsening debt problems
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emblem21

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If antagonizing 2 nuclear powers was not enough, how about some COIN operations too?

Considering that the USA actually inflamed the situation with the cartels with the drug smuggling and weapons laundering, it’s a bit rich for the USA to take to act now in Mexico as though they are peace keepers. Not that cartels are good or anything but just can’t find myself sympathizing when these cartels target US citizens with horrific violence because the USA has spent for long abusing Mexico that really much of South America and Central America hates them so damn much that any violence directed at a U.S. citizen it’s almost a drop in a lake at this point
 

TK3600

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They have no choice. US is banking on Mexico for nearshoring, but everybody in the Southern hemisphere hates their guts. The ruckus in their "backyard" is an existential threat. This attempted military coercion is a response to AMLO's recent maneuvers:

As US lawmakers, both current and former, escalate their
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on Mexico’s government while also
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over Mexico’s proposed partial ban on GMO corn, Mexico’s government is looking to strengthen its ties with like-minded governments to the south. To that end, it has proposed forming a common front with at least five other Latin American countries to combat inflation, especially in food prices, across the region.

“We are going to carry out an anti-inflation plan of mutual aid for growth, for commercial and economic exchange with Latin American countries,” Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador (AMLO for short)
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during his daily press conference last Thursday.

The governments AMLO has invited to join the initiative are exclusively left leaning. They include Lula’s newly formed government in Brazil, Gustavo Petro’s in Colombia, Luis Arce’s in Bolivia, Alberto Fernandez’s in Argentina, Xiomara Castro’s in Honduras and, most controversially for Mexico’s neighbour to the north, Miguel Diaz-Canel’s in Cuba.

AMLO hopes CELAC will eventually supplant the widely reviled Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS) as the main institution for intra-regional relations.


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Lula + AMLO =?

The success or otherwise of any new attempt at regional cooperation, if not integration, will depend in large part on how well AMLO and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (aka Luka), the region’s two most important leaders, are able to work together and find common cause. Latin American’s two super states, Brazil and Mexico, appear to be finally rowing in a similar direction for the first time in decades — and what’s more, in an era of rising multipolarity — this is a rare historic opportunity that is at least worth trying to capitalise on.
How dare they? It is coup time.
 

HighGround

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Feel free to believe whatever you want. Chinese leaders obviously learned from history and believe the importance of food security.

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Food security. Not agricultural autarky.

But like you said, we can all believe what we want to believe. Though it is humorous how similar these arguments are to Western think tanks about China’s food imports being a “
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”.

One doesn’t have to dig deep to see the root causes of most famines or food shortages. It’s almost never because there were “too many mouths to feed”.
 

Hadoren

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I don't get the food problem in a blockade? Wouldn't Russia, Central Asia, and continental ASEAN provide the food via land in such a blockade?

This assumes China doesn't produce enough food for herself (a questionable assumption).

The United States could try to bomb the trading routes. But China's land borders with Russia, Central Asia, and continental ASEAN are 15,000+ kilometers long. You're talking about continuous multi-thousand kilometer stealth bombing runs to prevent 15K+ kilometers of potential border trade - while at the same time needing to bomb military bases and military production. It sounds like a great way to attrit B-21's.

Finally, the War in Ukraine shows that civilian infrastructure is difficult to destroy. Both sides have found it challenging to destroy simple bridges; Russia hasn't managed to fully turn of the electricity in Ukraine after months.
 
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