
Pardon my cynicism but how exactly do people think that this Great Powers struggle can be resolved peacefully when all evidence points towards the contrary? The US is ruled by a cabal of psychos.Some Western publications are published by sociopaths, and are published for sociopaths.
Moral has no place in international trade, your example is completely invalid. Even if moral applies, your boycott example still using personal relationship for international trade, still invalid. If you are going to use stupid personal boycott example, don't cry to me about applying equivalent law to it. Which by the way, international law also exists, governing trade between states that signed it. Trade cannot be weaponized freely like you claimed. China's boycott was legal in the international law, US sanction is not.No, there are two dimensions to it. The first dimension is legal. If discussing the legal dimension, then international trade cannot be conflated to domestic law. But morally (to answer the question of whether something constitutes bullying), there are many comparisons that can be drawn. You drew the legal comparision asking if I can discriminate against Jewish customers in my business in the US. The comparison is a failure because you mixed domestic law with international trade in a legal comparison. But my comparison of boycotting a business in protest to its owner is based on a moral standpoint and perfectly valid.
By your logic, talk about bullying between nation states is pure BS and a waste of time.Interactions between individuals and groups of individuals living in a modern nation state do not make good analogy for interactions between nation states. One well-used definition of a nation state is that it asserts monopoly on violence within its jurisdiction. Individuals fighting each other with words and deeds can be made to stop by the nation state's enforcers.
No such thing between nation states.
According to times of india, China divulged little during the meeting, the US learned nothing new out of it, no follow up meeting either lolUS calls on China to ‘help avert unconstrained arms race’ at rare nuclear talks in Washington
- First such bilateral discussion since 2019 described as ‘candid and in-depth’, according to State Department readout
- US said to have stressed importance of greater Chinese nuclear transparency and substantive engagement to cut risks
US: "So China, you really do have 500+ nukes, right?"
China: "... Maybe? Maybe not?"
US: "So can you keep your nukes at 500+?"
China: "No"
US: "So how many nukes you want to build then??"
China: "Until we both have the same number of nukes per capita"
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