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KYli said:

No academics should be allowed to spread fake news and fabricate lies.

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The counter attack continues.

Actually, I am kind of waiting for the CCP to apply the Canadian sanctions, not sure what that will be. LOL.



After the EU sanctions, the CCP has done this so far.

• throw those two Canadians into jail for real.
  
  
• sanction 10 EU politicians and European entities
  
  
• ruining western corporations China operations depending on their stance regarding Xinjiang
  
  
• going after arrogant and spineless western academics

There should be more. This does not seem like enough. LOL.

There already is a tech war of sorts, as Europeans always practiced discriminatory sales of products to China. The most high end tend not be sold.

So we see if this escalates further into tech, and the economy.

The west is facing an economic downturn that is better than 2008, and they want to take on China right now?

Sure.

escobar said:

I don't see any pre-determined strategy. Rather a "reactive" strategy

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You may define "non-aggressive" as "reactive", and "reckless" as "pro-active". It is all about definitions. No offence intended, but seriously based on the difference between your and my culture/history, I am not surprised of the different opinions. I have personal experience of that, not just through internet forums but personal.

Sanctions against UK just announced.

KenC said:

Sanctions against UK just announced.

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Good.

Haha! Look at that list.

H2O said:

While sending goods via rail will never replace shipping, China have been aggressively expanding the rail system for several years now. I'm not sure on the progress at the moment but China planned for rail to replace 30% of shipping by 2020 which is a significant amount.

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30% was an impossible target.

The current railway lines can only handle 100,000 TEU per month (1.2 Million TEU per year). And they really compete against air cargo, rather than sea which is usually much cheaper.

I can see that in 2019, Chinese ports handled 204 million TEU per year.
Based on a 16% export trade share, that would imply 33 million TEU per year was sent to Europe.

solarz said:

Love Dilraba!

(In b4 @Equation!)

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You don't love her as much as @hullopilllw, who set her as profile picture.

It's interesting how the non-Republican media talks about this now. Would they say it if a white person was caught with racist postings about black people from the past and got "cancelled" and then say political correctness has gone too far? A white supporting a white would look obviously racist. But here since it's an African American having past racist posts about Asians, it's safe to bring it up now because white people look like they're coming from a non-biased perspective.

Alexi McCammond obviously had a problem with Asians for her to post it on social media only because she knew more likely there were like-minded people to give her sympathy. She wouldn't have posted it if she knew she would take heat for it. By their own logic that she shouldn't be held accountable because it was in the past and people can change then how about her own racism. Did she not like Asians because she's just a racist or did some Asian do something to her in the past for why she feels that way? Shouldn't she be taking that advice that it was the past and definitely not the same Asian that did her wrong? She obviously didn't foresee and take the same advice.

I won't be surprised if China one day regrets having helped UN sanction Korea to please US.

The former USFK commander noted the impoverished North has endured decades of economic hardship, exacerbated by U.N. Security Council sanctions in 2017, largely thanks to what little help China has provided.

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"It is China that has left North Korea a basket case for these years. China could long since have improved North Korea's economy in the same way that the United States enabled the emergence of South Korea's economy. And China has not done it, and they will not do it because it is not in their interest,"

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Because China didn't help starve the North Koreans into submission like the US wanted to force them to submit to the US, it's China fault that North Korea is experiencing any suffering...