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Around the same period in the 90s, I remember white people and their media were saying how “asians can’t innovate” because “asians lack freedom” and “are too rigid with Confucian thinking”.
Apparently liberal western democracy means stealing from asians and killing them and claiming their innovation as your own.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
We are potentially entering a rapid paradigm shift in Ukraine where Macron is openly and repeatedly talking about sending in French troops directly and officially into Ukraine to prevent a total Russian victory. That would be a massive escalation and only a tiny step away from NATO fighting Russia directly in Ukraine. Which would be an absolute red line for China, as the Russians would resort to nuclear weapons at that point, which would almost certainly escalate out of all control and lead to global nuclear MAD.
In the event of open direct combat between Russian and NATO in Ukraine, the only thing that will prevent Russian nuke use is direct PLA intervention. And note the wording that China will intervene ‘anywhere’. This to me is China saying that any Chinese military intervention will not be limited to merely the theatre of operation between Russian and NATO troops. Indeed, the most effective and efficient way for China to militarily intervene in such a scenario would be AR. If America cannot meaningfully commit to the fight against Russia, the Russians should curbstomp the EU components of NATO in a direct war in Ukraine, or at a minimal, maintain an indefinite stalemate in Ukraine against them. Once China has secured its own core interests in Taiwan, it can then shift overwhelming military might to help the Russians steamroll the EU and UK leave the Americans confined to its own homeland, at which point they will probably turn against each other and tear themselves apart in Civil War 2.0.
As such, I believe that this may be a subtle but unequivocal direct warning from Beijing to NATO to remove any remaining doubt and wishful thinking about whether China will intervene if they attack Russia directly. It is done at the sub-official level for plausible deniability, and to allow NATO to bury the story to save face and not look like they are being cowed by China, because the core objective for China is to send a message to prevent itself getting sucked into a war it doesn’t want to be involved in, not to score media points.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Route changes cost money. It becomes more expensive and less practical to get the amount you need.
You make statements without making sense. Why would you show US trade with EU? I said EU needs Russian energy and Chinese imports. And you posted data about US-EU trade. Your head is completely empty.
Chinese imports reduced:
Russian energy to EU down:
Not since WWII, fool. The economic decline since the Russio-Ukraine War.
Only in your imagination. No oil = no power; oil = hard power.
Hope so. Since you credited Arabic "soft power" with supporting Israel so I'd desperately hope China doesn't accidentally "earn it" and end up empowering Japan or some shit LOL
He's not doing shit except maybe getting a couple of French guys killed.
That is a picture of rubble. It's probably symbolic of your mental health.
Nothing you say is accurate; you have no idea what it means.
Oh so complicated. You just don't understand and I don't want to waste time explaining it LOLOL
They're just pictures of people standing there. They don't mean jack shit. I can take a picture of my high school graduating class and claim it's a visible demonstration that my high school has more soft power than any country in the world and it would make more sense than you.
Really? What did he say? Or are you making up stories looking at him grimacing in the desert sun?
And those who are obsessed with it (you) can see/imagine it everywhere and in every random picture.
That would be an accurate summary of your attempt to bring up events since WWII when the subject is limited to the effects on the EU economy from the US-instigated Russo-Ukraine war.
Yeah, they need oil to have what you confuse with "soft power" LOL
They had that but because their societies are failing in hard power, their global image also suffers. Nobody transforms soft power into hard power; it is only the other way around.
it appears the outrage is because these women are being presented to Asian Chinese rather than pristine caucasian men in their 50s.
so, it looks like South Korea wont exist past this century if not this decade.
Such a feat truly would be historic. No asian army has reached the hinterlands of the European Plain since Subotai and the Golden Horde breached the borders of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. It would be the first time in 500 years since an Asian army was last in Europe.
This is the real reason the Anglo elites hate China, because China is nemesis to the sins of the Atlanticist elites.
China has now opened its financial markets to the likes of Goldman Sachs which means it’s plausible for China to detain and execute foreign executives who cheat Chinese customers, or at the very least force them to give up their billions to pay reparations
The Europeans are getting jealous about China's lead in battery technology. DW says that China is at least 3-4 years ahead of Europe.
Sodium batteries was only a concept a couple of years ago, except in China. But now its seeing early commercialization in Chinese EVs. The Europeans are debating whether its even worth catching up. A startup founder says yes. But a more established Li-ion battery maker in says no, because Li-ion is still superior in performance. Na-ion still has energy density of about 50% of Li-ion. But its far cheaper. NaCO3 ore is at $290/ton, while LiCO3 ore is at $13,657/ton. DW says that Li-ion battery prices are still more lucrative than Na-ion batteries, so it might be better to just stick to investing in Li-ion. They doubt that Na-ion would eventually replace Li-ion.
Europeans are still debating about the future of battery technology, while the Chinese are rolling out Na-ion batteries for the commercial market. At this rate, they are not gonna catch up. If China could one day develop Na-ion batteries that can rival the energy density of Li-ion batteries, than that is gonna be a big game changer for the battery industry.
Sodium batteries was only a concept a couple of years ago, except in China. But now its seeing early commercialization in Chinese EVs. The Europeans are debating whether its even worth catching up. A startup founder says yes. But a more established Li-ion battery maker in says no, because Li-ion is still superior in performance. Na-ion still has energy density of about 50% of Li-ion. But its far cheaper. NaCO3 ore is at $290/ton, while LiCO3 ore is at $13,657/ton. DW says that Li-ion battery prices are still more lucrative than Na-ion batteries, so it might be better to just stick to investing in Li-ion. They doubt that Na-ion would eventually replace Li-ion.
Europeans are still debating about the future of battery technology, while the Chinese are rolling out Na-ion batteries for the commercial market. At this rate, they are not gonna catch up. If China could one day develop Na-ion batteries that can rival the energy density of Li-ion batteries, than that is gonna be a big game changer for the battery industry.
The US is currently on the level of the USSR (in the period leading to the collapse) regarding human and social health metrics and a similar downtrend is observed between today's US and USSR of that time. Meanwhile, today's Russia overtook them in nearly all such quality of living metrics and is miles ahead. Since we have no such precise research on the collapses of other huge empires of the past in history, just some qualitative data, this kind of info comparing the USSR and the US directly is the most valuable and useful to gauge how long will the US last.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
American elites: pfft, those numbers don’t count as they include blacks, you amateurs know how much work it took to pump their mortality numbers so high without anyone realising it’s a feature and not a bug?