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tres

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Several obvious problems with that approach.

Firstly, at the most superficial financial level, one does not simply buy a majority stake in a major company on the stock market since there will never be that amount of shares just floating around. Usually such stakes comes at a significant premium above and beyond the listed share price of the shares precisely because of the controlling stake aspect of the buy. To simply dump the shares at market value would mean a significant net loss on the investment for Sinochem. Indeed, there just won’t be the normal market demand to absorb all those shares, and as soon as a certain percentage threshold is reached (which will be far below Sinochem’s holdings), every professional trader in the world will know what is going on, and the share price will nosedive and Sinochem will need to stop selling or take a massive loss on the share sales. As soon as the fire sale is over, the company share price will rebound, so it won’t do any lasting damage beyond to Sinochem’s bank account.

Secondly, as already mentioned by others, this move sets an unacceptable precedent that must be strongly, and I would argue, disproportionately resisted and punished. Doing anything less risks opening the floodgates to similar Chinese-Exclusion-Act-2.0 level discriminatory clauses popping up all over the place as greedy western politicians and their rich puppeteers look to effectively rob China of all its overseas investments.

In many ways, this is a perfect illustration on why China should never, and will never limit its military preparedness to merely being able to defeat western military misadventures in China’s backyard. This is a key reason why Chinese military modernisation and expansion is focused so much on the navy and expeditionary combat capabilities.

If Chinese military might is purely defensive and geographically limited to its own homeland, there is little China can do to protect its overseas investments from being plundered like what happened to Russian assets. And China doesn’t have to have done anything wrong for that to have happened. All it would take is for the west to find some pretext to start a war with China, and then re-write the law books to make it perfectly ‘legal’ to seize Chinese state and private assets when they come to fight China and loose. In order to safeguard Chinese foreign investments, China needs to develop and maintain the expeditionary hard military power needed to come to the homes of the Europeans and take what they stole back.
Actually it's easier than you think to acquire large percentage of shares or dump them. The difficult you mentioned is because of the regulatory requirements of filing once the shares ownership reaches a certain percentage. When that intention becomes public, it drives up (or down when selling) share price. However one could sell put at the desired purchase price without filing , and selling calls against owned shares when dumping. I say milk this company by selling calls , sometimes you could get your investment costs reduced to zero.
 

FriedButter

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Ukrainian saboteurs may have destroyed Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline: Reports​

Ukrainian saboteurs may have been involved in the destruction of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline that was subjected to intense shelling earlier this month, according to classified German defence ministry documents accessed by The Bild.

The report, citing experts from the German defence ministry claims that Ukrainians are sabotaging far beyond the line of contact in order to weaken the Russian forces. The report notes "participation of the Ukrainian side in the destruction of the pipeline [Togliatti-Odessa]" cannot be ruled out. It added that the facility was located in the territory controlled by the armed forces of Ukraine.

Shocker. Ukraine doing something and then blaming Russia for the 10 trillion time in a row. I wonder how long before the headlines “Ukrainians may have blown up the dam” appear over the next several months.
 

Temstar

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I know it's just words and they don't mean anything without action, but just by saying this Blinken made many people 破防 today. They're all talking about it in Taiwanese news right now. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and it was Li Qiang who went to the US and after a meeting with Biden said something reconciliatory like this, how would you feel?

Generally on the topic of if there were any concession from the US or not I think the best way to judge is watch how other countries act, as their leadership have access to intelligence that the public doesn't have access to and so we can get an idea what happened based on their actions, and well:

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Around the same that that Blinken touched down Fumio Kishida said in a speech that he would like to visit China. Imagine how Yoon feels at this moment.
 

Fedupwithlies

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I know it's just words and they don't mean anything without action, but just by saying this Blinken made many people 破防 today. They're all talking about it in Taiwanese news right now. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and it was Li Qiang who went to the US and after a meeting with Biden said something reconciliatory like this, how would you feel?

Generally on the topic of if there were any concession from the US or not I think the best way to judge is watch how other countries act, as their leadership have access to intelligence that the public doesn't have access to and so we can get an idea what happened based on their actions, and well:


Around the same that that Blinken touched down Fumio Kishida said in a speech that he would like to visit China. Imagine how Yoon feels at this moment.


There was a statement like this last year when Pelosi was going to visit Taiwan.
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I'm not sure about the implications of this given this comment seems to come out not as a result of an almost-crisis, but I would still chalk it as a "win" in the Chinese column, given what happened last time with Pelosi's visit.
 

argo

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Western MSM and Pei obvious have no clue that when push comes to shove, China can close off the Taiwan Strait based on UNCLOS.


Antagonizing China will only accelerate EU's deindustrialization and decline.

The idiot being idiotic:

Such baseless accusation and paranoia will send Chinese-Americans to internment camps some days.
I never realized Michael Yon was such a kook. It puts my recollection of him as a frequent guest on left wing talk radio in the early 2000's in a new light.
 

pmc

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coolgod

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I know it's just words and they don't mean anything without action, but just by saying this Blinken made many people 破防 today. They're all talking about it in Taiwanese news right now. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and it was Li Qiang who went to the US and after a meeting with Biden said something reconciliatory like this, how would you feel?

Generally on the topic of if there were any concession from the US or not I think the best way to judge is watch how other countries act, as their leadership have access to intelligence that the public doesn't have access to and so we can get an idea what happened based on their actions, and well:

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South Korea decides to respond to China by borrowing the US's tactic. Begging from a position of strength.

Btw not sure if anyone noticed but Xi said 宽广的地球,容得下中美, instead of the previous 宽广的太平洋,容得下中美. Looks like the MFA China North America division needs to re-brand again :)
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Biscuits

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I know it's just words and they don't mean anything without action, but just by saying this Blinken made many people 破防 today. They're all talking about it in Taiwanese news right now. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and it was Li Qiang who went to the US and after a meeting with Biden said something reconciliatory like this, how would you feel?

Generally on the topic of if there were any concession from the US or not I think the best way to judge is watch how other countries act, as their leadership have access to intelligence that the public doesn't have access to and so we can get an idea what happened based on their actions, and well:

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Around the same that that Blinken touched down Fumio Kishida said in a speech that he would like to visit China. Imagine how Yoon feels at this moment.
The rhetoric among American officials have already reached the level of Putin and Medvedev during Feb 24 last year.

So saying (and lying) about not preparing an invasion of China is now unacceptable in the American public?

Better for Americans to stop lying and just come and try. Only personal costs to American families can cure Americans from the disease of stealing others' stuff.

Not enough of the Chinese public is taking America seriously enough. Every person, from the youngest to the oldest, need to understand, and hate, the American threat. Only then can China work as a cohesive unit to prevent American invasion, and through that, American world domination. Anything short of that will make at least some Americans believe that they can pull off a Crimea moment on the unsuspecting and disinterested Chinese.

The people's political outlook is never organic, it is always manufactured.
 

Temstar

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The rhetoric among American officials have already reached the level of Putin and Medvedev during Feb 24 last year.

So saying (and lying) about not preparing an invasion of China is now unacceptable in the American public?

Better for Americans to stop lying and just come and try. Only personal costs to American families can cure Americans from the disease of stealing others' stuff.

Not enough of the Chinese public is taking America seriously enough. Every person, from the youngest to the oldest, need to understand, and hate, the American threat. Only then can China work as a cohesive unit to prevent American invasion, and through that, American world domination. Anything short of that will make at least some Americans believe that they can pull off a Crimea moment on the unsuspecting and disinterested Chinese.

The people's political outlook is never organic, it is always manufactured.
You are so very correct. In business this is called expectation management - you under promise and over deliver and everyone gets a warm fuzzy feeling. You over promise and under deliver and everyone shits on you even if what you delivered was actually decent, see I don't know, Cyberpunk 2077.

Even though we know it's all hot air at the moment, because the MSM has been selling the whole "US and allies are all in on rule based order and we have China on the ropes" when Blinken gives this speech it gives everyone over there whiplash. Worse still all the other lies and internal mechanisation now gets mixed up in this and we get:

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