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New car total ownership cost has shot up to 12k a year in the you-must-have-a-car-to-surivie usa. Use car prices are also a joke. 100k mile Toyota Camry prob cost 14k+.

daifo said:

New car total ownership cost has shot up to 12k a year in the you-must-have-a-car-to-surivie usa. Use car prices are also a joke. 100k mile Toyota Camry prob cost 14k+.

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Automakers have intentionally cut productions to inflate the prices. Same thing with housing, home builders have consolidated and cut back on building new homes. Same thing with drugs, pharmaceutical companies intentionally create drugs shortage to increase prices. What America has right now is crony capitalism. And the two parties system and hate and division and distraction created by the MSM has ensured that there is no alternative.

siegecrossbow said:

Why not just let dead people run the country. Seriously.

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That comment make me think of WH40K...

Guess Russia's going to have to own up to China being an equal and perhaps sooner rather than later, the pilot rather than first class passenger when it comes to Central Asian politics.

Jiang ZeminFanboy said:

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UK ambassador out, and the stolen artifacts from British museum must be returned

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Some UK politicians need a periodic reminder that Malvinas Islands belong to Argentina.

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The gaslighting is off the charts, while her ignorance as US secretary of commerce is really worrisome.

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Another episode for Mitch McConnell.

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Gives me the vibes of the USSR before its implosion, when its leaders became so senile and its leadership so sclerotic.

Moonscape said:

Not a waste of time. Huawei releasing the Mate 60 Pro with a domestic 5G Kirin chipset during the visit was extremely entertaining. It's the J-20 maiden flight all over again.

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Yup.

I'm glad there are patriotic South Koreans who doesn't want to be a bootlicker like Yoon.

Stating the obvious is not really an argument.

supercat said:

Stating the obvious is not really an argument.

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Gordon has stooped to the level of debating random people on X? How the mighty has fallen.

99PLAAFBalloons said:

Notwithstanding that neither of you have noticed that this is coming from a parliamentary select committee rather than the British government, you both have clearly not been reading what the political opposition in the UK have been saying. Sunak may not be a Cameron but the foreign secretary he appointed is by most measures a moderate (and is catching flak in the media for his relatively nuanced engagement with China) that isn't trying to chase some headlines and score points

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The political opposition says exactly the same thing the party in power does. Labour has been just as infiltrated by people loyal to foreign countries as conservatives have.

I will say the anti-China rhetoric is new to the UK. Unlike America, there's never been the concept of "yellow peril". It's mainly neoliberals (i.e. controlled by America), or Indians.

99PLAAFBalloons said:

If you think things are bad now, I'm sure you'll love it in 2025 when the British equivalent of Baerbock, David Lammy, is the one that China has to deal with. The "golden era" is over but at the high level, the current government has not been particularly antagonistic beyond some carefully chosen words. That is almost guaranteed to change for the worse when they're out

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There is no British equivalent of Baerbock. The Green party in Germany is the modern continuation of the Nazi party. Hitler loved the environment, animal rights, etc, if he were alive today he'd be their leader. They have the exact same policy on Europe.

siegecrossbow said:

Gordon has stooped to the level of debating random people on X? How the mighty has fallen.

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Because he can't win in any debate. Every word come out from his mouth is gold- if you do exactly the opposite.

A Quora take on the recent British diplomatic visit to China. I think the same exactly.

What is the significance of Foreign Secretary James Cleverly being the first senior British official to visit China since 2018?

It means financial profligacy from covid stimulus together with Brexit and the Ukraine conflict is finally biting, hard.

Unlike, say, fixing a Libya, Egypt, Iraq or Afghanistan, landing punches on a giant like China has its cost. The harder the punch thrown, the more it costs.

China hasn’t even countered much, merely parrying.

The UK seeks benefit from China it cannot get elsewhere, but this is after giving the finger to bilateral relations repeatedly, from the PM to Parliament.

They will come, and dangle assurances on Taiwan like old, and expect generous gifts in return.

They will be sorely disappointed because China hasn’t yielded to the tremendous, multidimensional pressure brought to bear over the past 7 years or so, since Donald the Orange took center-stage.

The Taiwan pressure point isn’t working anymore, short of the nuclear option of tearing up One China. But that’s a one trick pony leading to a reset in bilateral diplomacy, and the subsequent trade fallout, a la Lithuania.

James going to Beijing spreading goodwill and cheer isn’t going to erase the memory of the QEII sightseeing in the SCS, bragging about the intent to get itself militarily involved in conflict half a world away. Or Rishi and Co. gloating over the expansion of BN(O) privileges to over 5 million Hong Kong residents, after the mayhem that was sponsored and openly supported by the British establishment.

Weird, them Brits, waving a dagger in the left hand while extending the right for a handshake.

Take more pictures of Beijing, James. Something to bring home.

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99PLAAFBalloons said:

Notwithstanding that neither of you have noticed that this is coming from a parliamentary select committee rather than the British government, you both have clearly not been reading what the political opposition in the UK have been saying. Sunak may not be a Cameron but the foreign secretary he appointed is by most measures a moderate (and is catching flak in the media for his relatively nuanced engagement with China) that isn't trying to chase some headlines and score points

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I don't know much what Sunak has or hasn't done, but let's not propagate the West's sophistic notion that a 'parliamentary select committee' is not 'the government'. Three branches yada yada. Especially in the British system where the people who make up the executive branch are all sitting members of said parliament. Especially since these parliamentary committees are frequently used as an 'out' by their governments to say and do outlandish stuff about China.