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Chevalier

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Biscuits said:
So, essentially Plaza accord with Chinese characteristics. If the economy keeps going poorly for America, that might indeed be how the trade war ends.
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Don’t forget having a US taxpayer funded Chinese MSS personnel on the boards of all major tech and finance companies listed on the NY stock exchange.
Lethe said:
Apropos of nothing, there is a famous 2001 Bollywood film called Lagaan which depicts a cricket match between Indian villagers and British colonial officers in the late 19th century. The evil Brits are demanding taxes that the village is in no position to pay owing to drought, so a wager is agreed: win at the foreign devil's game (which none of the villagers know how to pay) and no taxes will be owed for two years; lose and owe double taxes. No prizes for guessing who wins. The film is clearly intended as an allegory for the emergence of a confident and diverse Indian nation from colonial bondage, with the cricket team including a Sikh, a Muslim, even a Dalit. It's actually quite good.
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it also had the Indian fantasy of an English woman falling in love with the Indian lead which was later symbolised by the UK being symbolically screwed by an Indian prime minister.
jwnz said:
According to Wikipedia

Upon arriving in China, Hoover developed gold mines near
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He became deeply interested in
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so basically no different to a sexpat who wanted to exploit China and only learnt enough from The Lonely Planet to order beer and prostitutes.
taxiya said:
If the US is willing to "卖儿卖女"/"sell their children", then why not?
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Biscuits said:
Won't be anything as dramatic as that, because Washington won't bite.

China itself already adequately defends Taiwan. It's a big mental block for America to give up claims there because they seem to have staked their national future on taking over a part of China in order to reverse the fortune of the cold war, and Taiwan is the only part that seems semi realistic to invade.

A deal needs to trick US into thinking "we will still have a fighting chance", only then can it work.

Lets not pretend it is a devastrating undertaking for China to lend its national power into temporarily keeping American afloat. Countries don't run on currency but rather the act of circulating currency. A deal with America will only mean more orders for China, more circulation of assets, which in the long run causes growth, not damage.

A modest deal, in the style of the Plaza accord, the forced transfer of some technologies, dramatic reduction in sanctions from both sides, a pledge to open American markets and grant legal equality to Chinese firms, that is in the realistic realm. In return China can bail out US like in 2008.
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Every deal must be preceded by a show of good faith and when it comes to the anglos, that show of good faith will have to be massive considering their deceitful nature - just look at them promising not to expand NATO.
No, that act of good faith must include the ceding of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Australia and New Zealand to China as autonomous regions in perpetuity.
 
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Atomicfrog said:
RBC would acquire 100% of the common shares of HSBC Canada, with HSBS global. These shares will drop considerably in value with the £1 to rescue of Silicon Valley Bank. The offered price is probably way to high right now to continue or if it remain, an horrible deal.
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It wouldn't be the first time a dumbass Canadian or Canadian entity, business or government, got cucked into oblivion. It won't be the last.
 
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Chevalier said:
Don’t forget having a US taxpayer funded Chinese MSS personnel on the boards of all major tech and finance companies listed on the NY stock exchange.

it also had the Indian fantasy of an English woman falling in love with the Indian lead which was later symbolised by the UK being symbolically screwed by an Indian prime minister.

so basically no different to a sexpat who wanted to exploit China and only learnt enough from The Lonely Planet to order beer and prostitutes.


Every deal must be preceded by a show of good faith and when it comes to the anglos, that show of good faith will have to be massive considering their deceitful nature - just look at them promising not to expand NATO.
No, that act of good faith must include the ceding of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Australia and New Zealand to China as autonomous regions in perpetuity.
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Also carve out DFW metroplex as the "Huawei Concession"...
 
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jwnz said:
Sorry, but the Australian government and military wholeheartedly disagree with your assessment.
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If the government disagree there might be some hope that Australia would be willing to avoid all out destruction against them in the South China Sea but most normal people I know have no real knowledge of what China can do to Australia and mostly default to either the USA defends us or we simply have to start learning Chinese. Because the Australia military is that weak that whoever ends up at the top, Australia will have no choice but to follow
 
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The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) held talks with Taiwan in February about switching diplomatic ties for $50 million in assistance after frustrations with China, the outgoing president of the Pacific island nation has said in a letter.

Panuelo lost his seat in Tuesday's national poll, election officials confirmed.

He accused China of bribing officials and making “direct threats against my personal safety” as part of a bid to take over self-ruled Taiwan. Panuelo also accused Chinese officials of bribing local officials to be “complicit” and “silent”.

In February, he met with Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and told him that Micronesia would need money for its trust fund if it was to switch diplomatic allegiance.

“I was transparent with Foreign Minister Wu; we project we need an injection of approximately $50 million to meet our future needs,” Panuelo wrote. “We can and will receive this, over a three-year period, if and when we establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan.”

He said Micronesia would also receive an annual $15 million assistance package and Taiwan would take over various projects that China had begun, including a national convention center, two state government complexes, and two gyms.

The FSM, which is home to fewer than 115,000 people and located about 2,900km (1,800 miles) northeast of Australia, is independent but receives financial assistance and defence guarantees from the United States under a so-called compact of free association.

‘Mutual respect’​

Beijing swiftly condemned the claims accusing Panuelo of “smears and accusations” that “do not accord with the facts”. “The Chinese side is always willing – on the basis of the One China Principle – to uphold the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, push forward friendly cooperation with Micronesia.”



Taiwanese lobby back at it. Hm, I'm sure this has nothing to do with it:

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If approved by Congress,
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would receive $3.3 billion, the Marshall Islands $2.3 billion, and Palau $890 million over between budget years 2024 and 2044. In addition, $634 million would be allocated to the U.S. Postal Service to continue to operate the three countries’ mail.
 
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