His actions are voluntary. He has lived in China for some time and even joined the CCP.
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It's high time for China and its people to realize that the era of leaving the world to the mercy of predators and wolves – to be shaped, influenced, harvested, wrecked, and destroyed – must end. This detachment cannot continue, especially under the guise of divine protection or indifference to global suffering.
The world is in need of new leadership, and China must not shy away from this inevitable responsibility, whether it is prepared or not. Many of the challenges that China has faced, including those that led to the collapse of the Imperial dynasty, resulted from a combination of indifference and hubris.
The goal should be to shape the world in a more balanced manner, one that curbs or at least equilibrates the overwhelming and often detrimental Western influence. This influence has been persistently aimed at reshaping social constructs that have formed today's civilizations into highly individualistic and hedonistic entities. In my humble opinion, this outcome is dangerous.
Read this Reddit thread to understand Anglophone thinking among the citizenry.
That is up to the CPC politburo standing committee. We have no insight in their closed door policy discussions. They make the big policy decisions. They have an open chance with enlisting the Russian Federation and Iran in some solid partnership but have been even extremely lacklustre in that regard. When the PRC is that lacklustre with countries that are wide open for a certain level of partnership with the PRC than I would not count on them building something solid with countries who play the middle ground.
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More like read that thread to UNDERSTAND HOW THE DUPLICITOUS AND ARROGANT INDIANS are. Americans thinking, expressing their desire to contain China isn't a surprise that's actually a given in the context of the current geopolitical tensions between 2 juggernauts in China and U.S.
This seems like a logical move from the US and India. The emergence of the WS-15 puts the PLAAF far ahead of the IAF.
I disagree with the comment that says that China and India are not historical enemies. In my opinion, Chinese culture is inherently at odds with Hinduism. China must continue to distance itself from India and strengthen ties with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and ASEAN.
Lula isn't a pushover or sepoy like Modi. Compared to the other world leaders at the conference, he's an old hand in international diplomacy. He knows a trap when he sees one.
Also, Lula has really bad personal experiences with US diplomatic "surprises" (one infamous occasion when Obama crashed a private Lula-Hu meeting and got cussed out in Mandarin).
I've heard some speculation that the G7 might've discussed Ukraine peace settlements trying to use Brazil, India, and South Korea (which has experience being a split state in perpetual war) as puppet mediators and split up BRICS.
Everybody knows any sort of real peace negotiations needs to take place away from the US's eyes and outside NATO interference.
I agree. I don't know if those in the sinosphere realize just how pervasive, deceptive and poisonous Western neoliberalism and revisionism is. It's already poisoned the well in China (partially responsible for modern culture of lower birth rates, compare and contrast with Israel's highly educated but equally high birth rates).
At least South American and African anti-colonial movements are doing the heavy lifting.
No surprises here... Japan is the 52nd state of the US (Canada being the 51st). So this is like the FBI or some other alphabet agency superseding the state or local (Japanese) police.
The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths, according to a report by Brown University.
Nearly a million of the people who lost their lives died in fighting, whereas some 3.6 to 3.7 million were indirect deaths, due to health and economic problems caused by the wars, such as diseases, malnutrition, and destruction of infrastructure.
These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the Cost of Wars project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
The report also analyzed the effects of wars in Libya and Somalia, which were sponsored by Washington.
The scholars estimated that, in the countries studied, there are still today 7.6 million children under age 5 who are suffering from acute malnutrition, meaning they are “not getting enough food, literally wasting to skin and bones, putting these children at greater risk of death”.
In Afghanistan and Yemen, this includes nearly 50% of children; and, in Somalia, close to 60%.
In a separate study in 2021, Brown University’s Cost of Wars project found that the United States’ post-9/11 wars – more than any conflict since 1900, excluding World War II.
This 2021 report noted that “38 million is a very conservative estimate. The total displaced by the U.S. post-9/11 wars could be closer to 49–60 million, which would rival World War II displacement”.
The May 2023 study, which estimated that US post-9/11 wars killed 4.5 to 4.6 million people, emphasized that large numbers of civilians are still perishing today, due of the lasting consequences of these violent conflicts.
Although the US military withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, “today Afghans are suffering and dying from war-related causes at higher rates than ever”, the report noted.
In addition to the staggering death tolls, millions more civilians were wounded and suffered other incredible hardships due to these wars.
“For instance, for every person who dies of a waterborne disease because war destroyed their access to safe drinking water and waste treatment facilities, there are many more who sicken”, the study highlighted.
The 2023 report “highlights many longterm and underacknowledged consequences of war for human health, emphasizing that some groups, particularly women and children, suffer the brunt of these ongoing impacts”.
People living in poverty and those from marginalized groups had higher rates of death and lower life expectancies.
The document stressed how the “post-9/11 wars have caused widespread economic hardship for people in the war zones, and how poverty, in turn, has been accompanied by food insecurity and malnutrition, which have led to diseases and death, particularly amongst children under age five”.
In virtually all wars, indirect deaths represent the majority of the lives lost. The Brown University researchers pointed out, for example, “In conflict areas, children are 20 times more likely to die of diarrheal disease than from the conflict itself”.
Damage to infrastructure that happens during wars is likewise very deadly. “Hospitals, clinics, and medical supplies, water and sanitation systems, electricity, roads and traffic signals, infrastructure for farming and shipping goods, and much more are destroyed, damaged and disrupted, with lasting consequences for human health”, the report noted.
Economic problems caused by these post-9/11 wars have been devastating.
Two decades of US-NATO military occupation of Afghanistan left behind a borderline apocalyptic economic crisis.
More than half of Afghanistan’s population is in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 per day. A staggering 95% of Afghans do not have enough food.
In Yemen, more than 17.4 million people are food insecure, and 85,000 children under age 5 have likely died from starvation.
Even in countries where large numbers of US troops weren’t deployed on the ground, Washington’s wars have destroyed the lives of countless civilians.
US drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia “significantly impact people’s livelihood sources”, killing workers, destroying farms and businesses, and bankrupting families.
“The severe impact of such economic setbacks on populations who depend on the land for their survival cannot be underestimated”, the report emphasized.
Washington’s so-called counter-terrorism laws in Somalia have also “hampered humanitarian relief efforts, intensifying the effects of famine”, the researchers noted.
Hundreds of thousands of children have died from famine in the East African nation.
The Brown University studies are part of a growing body of scholarship documenting the death tolls of post-9/11 US wars.
A 2015 report by the Nobel Prize-winning group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) concluded that 13 years of Washington’s so-called , including 1 million in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan, and 80,000 in Pakistan.
IPPNW cautioned that this 2015 figure was “only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely”.