Well, they practically didn't for a very long time. But legally, just another salami slicing. I am behind my past assertions here.Didn't see this in English. Summary: ROC stops recognizing mainlanders as ROC citizens.
I think the same too. At some point, this kind of salami slicing will damage China's credibility as a power. But until that point, it is actually setting a bad precedent for the US and its allies. As you said, one of the main reasons European calls for sanctioning of Russia were ignored is Europe's past support of GWOT and the bombing of Serbia. Most countries have stakes in peace, but when a serial aggressor wants you to sacrifice from your own economy to punish someone else's aggression the response is "It is not our war bro".There will be a US-supported creep towards recognized statehood in all but name. Post-WW2 legal framework is becoming irrelevant anyway.
Good, China should play along would give the perfect precedent when China becomes top dog, They invaded Iraq and now nobody care about Ukraine's sovereignty, Kidnapped someone's daughter only to realise others can now do the same thing to your spies, Froze Russian fx now nobody wants your bonds resulting in inflation, I wouldn't be surprised if they were given medals by Xi in the future for their services to motherland
I have friend who lives in South America and is quite well versed in their politics. According to him, there is a conflict between people with local heritage and European heritage in most South American countries. The latter groups are usually supported by the USA and they are usually right wingers. In the last 30 years, these people grew less influential thus you see the current political changes. He expects events in Peru to go the same as Bolivia eventually where the pro-US, ethnic European, coup government was overthrown.Unbeknown, it seems, to most people in Peru and the US (considering the paucity of media coverage in both countries), . The plenary session of Peru’s corrupt US-backed Congress last Thursday (May 18) the entry of US troops onto Peruvian soil with the ostensible purpose of carrying out “cooperation activities” with Peru’s armed forces and national police.
A by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador, who is currently person non grata in Peru, suggests it could be around 700.
Peru’s security forces, including 140,000 mobilised soldiers, have a brutal crackdown that culminated in the deaths of approximately 70 people. The new US forces will be joining them, possibly as soon as next week.
Is this the first step of the US government and military’s stepping-up-the-game process? The US seems set on for the 21st century.
A major problem is that many houses in Germany can only be kept warm with heat pumps if they also get a better thermal isolation. About 30% will have to undergo massive renovations. In some regions, where real estate is fairly old, or built in a quick and cheap way during the post-WWII reconstruction (especially in the former GDR), it is more like two-thirds of buildings that have to be overhauled. For many owners, these renovations will prove too expensive and they will have to sell.
There simply is not enough capacity to install all those heat pumps — the current rate is about one seventh of what would be required to fulfil the plans of the German government for 2030.
But the proposed boiler ban has already led to a series of unintended consequences. Thousands of Germans are seeking to beat the ban by installing new gas boilers before the January 1 deadline set by the bill, locking in CO2 emissions for decades to come.
Around 168,000 gas boilers were sold in Germany in the first quarter of this year, a 100 per cent increase on the previous year, according to the ZVSHK, a trade association for heating, plumbing and air conditioning engineers.
"Let's force people to renovate their houses during economic hardship and just after closing down running nuclear power plants. And let's not forget how we doubled down on gas as the government multiple times during last two decades"Outraged and furious’: Germans rebel against gas boiler ban
Official European Council report outright admitting their vassalage:
The art of vassalisation
Why does the leader of the most powerful country in Europe believe he is alone and defenceless unless he acts in lockstep with the US? Why, with a war taking place on the European continent, does US leadership remain necessary to solve even minor inter-allied disputes?
Europe is not really at the table when it comes to dealing with the Russia-Ukraine crisis. It has instead embarked on a process of vassalisation.
Germany is being harvested by the US. Greens are the perfect US pawns"Let's force people to renovate their houses during economic hardship and just after closing down running nuclear power plants. And let's not forget how we doubled down on gas as the government multiple times during last two decades"
Maybe they are trying to get Germans to spend more to increase the consumption ratio. I dunno