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Trump, putting words in people's mouths again.

Trump said that Putin is meeting with Xi in China and the two are discussing about "doing damage". Trump said that on 16th May, Xi says that he is going to take Taiwan. Lol! Where was that speech? I can't find it anywhere. Trump must be imagining things again. Like he had always been. Yet Americans still dream of this clown taking them to glory again.

China had been continuously boxing with both Trump and Biden. It had started slow with Trump, but have improved over time. China is in fine form now. Biden has been beaten around, now slumped in his corner. Trump had not been in the ring for 4 years, and he is still showing the same form he had in his last term. While China had already sized Trump up. So let's bring on Round 2 of Trump!

ACuriousPLAFan said:

The United States of America of 2024, i.e. The 21st-century version of the Soviet Union.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1790883313630007574

Now who's the one building the Iron Curtain, eh?

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USSR also put incompetent high tariffs on Western, technologically superior cars during the Cold War 1.0, making them quite a rarity inside the Soviet Union at that time, to protect the domestic, lower-quality alternatives (other products too).

Only some foreign diplomats or influential elites, who got them smuggled, owned them in limited numbers, they were not sold in any dealerships and were rarely seen in the streets. Similar to the Cold War 2.0 nowadays. It is just that the US is the USSR of the modern day.

Instead, the majority of the people owned Soviet-made inferior-quality cars. And probably were all quite shocked if they traveled abroad and noticed the stark difference in the quality of the cars sold there, not just in the West, but also in many third-party countries globally.

The same is happening now with the attack on Chinese EVs. There will be a point when the rest of the world, countries like Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Morroco, Thailand, Vietnam, all these countries will have more superior and cheaper cars on their streets than the US in total.

Basically, even if they entirely banned travel to China (as they are clearly trying nowadays), everywhere they would go they would see through the new 'Iron Curtain'. Also, it is a different dynamic nowadays in the age of the internet. That certainly won't "end" very well there.

Wait till the Muricans realize that this is not all about the "climate hoax", but about all of the extra innovative features, space & comfort, smoothness & quietness, flexibility & practicality, the total "feel" of it, and low maintenance cost, that the EVs provide due to their nature.

And please don't mention how they still have Tesla because Tesla is happily eating all of that US government and state, taxpayer-funded, subsidies, to go into Musk's compensation and further lobbying efforts. They would rather spend all of that money to enrich themselves or further lobbying and rent-seeking than to innovate to lower prices or to make superior products.


A record number of Tesla vehicles, made in the US factories, regularly fail, due to quality issues, just like Soviet-made cars did in the USSR too.

















Also, this is not only about cars, soon the US, just like the USSR, will start putting tariffs on many other technologically superior and cheaper Chinese manufactured goods to protect the domestic bloated rent-seeking, expensive, share-buyback giving, "alternatives".

This will all lead to lower satisfaction rates among citizens, inflation, and decreasing standards of living, also not in comparison only with China, but in terms of other third-party neutral countries around the world. They will also have "way nicer things". Look at this too:

Sardaukar20 said:

To be fair to the Soviet Union though. The Iron Curtain was a mutual thing in the Cold War. It was the West who started it, just as they have started the Cold War. The post-war Soviet Union was ready to work with the West, but the West rejected it and threaten the Soviets with anti-communist aggression and nukes.

The Americans will continue to hate and suspect the Chinese. They have been doing yellow peril since the 19th century, long before communism appeared in China. The "evil CCP" is their excuse today. Yesterday it was Fu-Manchu. Not too long ago, they were hating everything Japanese. America has deep seated insecurity when seeing any non-white, non-Christian nation rise up to the level of the white-Christian nations. This is the true nature of America, and should be treated as a norm.

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Correct it to any non-protestant, non-mason nation.

Russia is white and orthodox and they hate it with passion.

Spain was catholic and "white-mediterranean" and the number of prejudices against it in late 19th century were as big as against Russia if no bigger. Most of them remain until today and in their movies like to portrait all spanish estereotypes as fanatics and so on

They also hate Serbia.

The US has to pay $125 million a day in interest on debt to China to uselessly posture all day like this, as they have officially broke for decades (can't generate budget surpluses mechanically anymore),

Their "gazillions" military budgets wasted on useless posturing like this, useless 800 bases, useless wars in the Middle East, rent-seeking oligarchs, corrupt politicians, bloated social spending of military personnel, and maybe 1/10 get to be effectively used against China.

That's why China basically doesn't even see these clowns as threats and was willing to finance their deficit spending for quite a while (make it more vulnerable and weak, so they could defeat them easier).

But, now, as they are nearing their collapse, China has to pivot a little to gold in order to prepare for the post-US world order, and not lose all that hard-earned value. (Gold rise would offset UST loss).











If the US can't even convince their civilian population to support a war against 2 million barefoot Palestinians, then imagine convincing them to go to war against China peacefully, without some kind of inner social chaos bursting out first the moment the actual war starts.

_killuminati_ said:

Not just "China scholars", but a significant number of all scholars in the West, involved in studying foreign countries, are biased and look at subjects only through a Western, colonial lense. This played an important role in colonialism; to dissuade colonial subjects from revolting, by altering their histories. Colonialism ended (arguable) on paper only - the psyche is still the same, from that age, in politicians and "experts". Pretty much any subject you can find from around the globe that caught the interest of these scholars will portray only their own logic and disregard every other perception, especially one that contradicts their own.

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No idea who this guy is but he summed it up well, exactly how I put it,


"We must keep Africa poor at all costs"

"The job of many Western academics is to convince Africans to keep doing what you're doing; show them it's your fault you are poor, it's not our fault. This is what we do in academic institutions."

The Anglo-American axis are really pressing countries in Europe like Germany to go full anti-China throttle with its latest salvo.

Comrade Speaker Johnson strikes again

Russia may lay new oil pipeline to China – Putin​

The planned mega pipeline project that will carry natural gas from Russia to China could see an extra conduit laid for crude oil, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Moscow and Beijing are nearing a deal on the construction of a mega gas pipeline known as the Power of Siberia 2. It will transport up to 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Yamal Region in northern Russia to China via Mongolia.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday during a two-day trip to China, Putin said it may be possible to lay an oil pipeline next to the new gas route.

”Various routes [for Russia’s oil to reach China] are available, one of them is the route through Mongolia. It is possible to lay both gas and oil pipes in the same corridor. Experts should decide how best to proceed,” Putin said in the Chinese city of Harbin.

Russia has traditionally supplied oil to China via the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline, via transit through Kazakhstan, and by tankers. Moscow also plans to develop railways as another means of transporting crude to the Chinese market.

Energy negotiations between Moscow and Beijing are not limited to the mega gas pipeline, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Thursday. “There are other new projects,” he added without elaborating further.

Russia became China’s largest oil supplier last year. Beijing imported a record amount of discounted Russian oil in 2023, taking advantage of Moscow’s push to find new buyers following the implementation of Ukraine-related Western sanctions.

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Energy negotiations between Moscow and Beijing are not limited to the mega gas pipeline, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Thursday. “There are other new projects,” he added without elaborating further.

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”Various routes [for Russia’s oil to reach China] are available, one of them is the route through Mongolia. It is possible to lay both gas and oil pipes in the same corridor. Experts should decide how best to proceed,” Putin said in the Chinese city of Harbin.

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Sardaukar20 said:

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LoL... First meeting was a standard welcome with Lotus flowers. But after realizing that Blinken was actually a parasitic worm, China had to use Croton flowers for the second meeting to purge the unwelcomed parasite.

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Serb said:

USSR also put incompetent high tariffs on Western, technologically superior cars during the Cold War 1.0, making them quite a rarity inside the Soviet Union at that time, to protect the domestic, lower-quality alternatives (other products too).

Only some foreign diplomats or influential elites, who got them smuggled, owned them in limited numbers, they were not sold in any dealerships and were rarely seen in the streets. Similar to the Cold War 2.0 nowadays. It is just that the US is the USSR of the modern day.

Instead, the majority of the people owned Soviet-made inferior-quality cars. And probably were all quite shocked if they traveled abroad and noticed the stark difference in the quality of the cars sold there, not just in the West, but also in many third-party countries globally.

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I will not go too much into history but those were not low quality. They were designed for large segment of Soviet Population and how the country was organized. You cannot expect Soviet after Post World War to have same standard of living as US and with US comes all the allies and this Lada/UAZ/GAZ brand exist because there is still such market who follow this thinking in the same regions they are influenced by what you see with Gulf Emirates . it is not just they put reminder of 75th anniversary but put the name of the person who makes billions from IPOs even Western. ( Royal family front man). I will trust there understanding of how automobile should be as SOFT POWER too much matter to them and it was again demonstrated when Gulf Arabs and Non Arabs were seated when FIFA opening match happened in Moscow. think over this fact you will get idea why USSR is history. If there is hard decoupling of Europe (aka New Europe) than Western Europe will regret ever creating this automobile industry.