Wang Yi to Blinken.Has anyone post this .. ?
If China fails to intervene in North Korea, US will take action, says Antony Blinken
- Top American diplomat warns that Beijing must help denuclearise Pyongyang or else Washington will bolster its defence alliances with Seoul and Tokyo
- US aims to steady its relationship with China and ‘make sure that the competition we’re clearly in does not veer into conflict’, Blinken says
America’s top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of , a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has told his Chinese counterparts that Washington wants Beijing’s help in handling the North Korean “nuclear programme” and denuclearising the Korean peninsula. He said the US would bolster its defence alliances with and if China refrained from interveing.
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So India plans to produce and sell 5Mt of hydrogen that is more expensive to produce than hydrogen from the Oil & Gas industry.
Looks like India is probably onboard the Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle plans by Japan. EV had already won the race of alternative-powered vehicles. India is betting on the wrong horse, and I am happy to see this development. Carbon emission credits is a meaningless economic incentive to the Global South. If it is not locally-implemented, but enforced by some Western body, it is worthless.
Green Hydrogen is not in itself, a bad idea, but it should not be the way that India is planning to do it. Green Hydrogen is relatively easily to produce. It only requires a green power source, industrial-grade electrolysis machinery, and water. It should be something that under-developed countries could produce themselves, instead of having to buy it from India at high cost, and earning some bogus carbon credit.
I just can't believed the Indian gov't promise such huge undertaking without investing and planning how to execute such plan, I mean do they know the meaning of shame and embarrassment IF nothing come out of it? Here in SEA India words is meaningless, like the kid who cried wolf nobody take them seriously.
We are talking about the Hollywood of 2023, not the Hollywood of 1993. Nobody takes Hollywood as seriously anymore. The Hollywood today with all that woke agenda. Mulan, Shang-Chi, Crazy Rich Asians, Everywhere Everything All At Once has not slowed the China-hate at all. It has also failed to mitigate the Asian-hate in the US. In terms of bringing China and the West closer, Hollywood had been a colossal failure. What truly works today in the propaganda battleground today is CNN, Fox News, Joe Rogan, Gordon Chang, and NAFO. People really don't care about a pro-China movie, they already have a core bias against China. They can watch Shang-Chi first, then listen to Joe Rogan later, and then hate the Chinese even more.
China cannot win the propaganda war with the West for the next few years. There is no way to sugarcoat this. The English language world is dominated by the West. China just cannot please the majority of the English language crowd. It has to work with the reality that it is in right now. Soft power is not a race that China is in a position to win right now. CGTN and Chinese cinema can only win China so much respect and new friends. Nobody else wants to listening to China's message. They can only be convinced by China's warships, missiles, and nuclear weapons; Hard power. This will keep the peace and allow China to rise in relative safety to the world's no.1 economy, while the West declines. Only then, when the tables are turned, can China have more effective Soft Power. Then, Hollywood might have to kowtow to China anyways, especially if it wants to have a piece of the world's largest economy.
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I was going to post this on Indian military thread but I'll post this recently made Observer Research Foundation (ORF) think tank which is one of the top think tanks in India. On this forum the panelists and their expert audiences discussed Chinas Comprehensive National Power (CNP) and how China managed to achieve their current status in all domains. I encourage people on this forum to watch the video and witness the great reluctance but growing acceptance about China's rise and dominance in the region which animates in my view India's extreme insecurity with China. At the end of the presentation there's a question and answer portion where one of the participants pointedly mentioned that CHINA HAS A VERY GOOD SOFT POWER contrary to what many people believed and perceived in the room. He supported his claim by saying that despite western countries supposed problems with China those countries are actually afraid to do anything about China other than provide some western lip service (human rights, tibet, HK, Xinjiang) but the actions on the ground says otherwise. BRICS is it expanding or shrinking? BRI is it expanding in the global south or shrinking? China's diplomatic heft is it decreasing in the world or has it not increased if not encroached into areas that were not traditionally strongly linked with China see Saudi Arabia.
Some people here keeps using Hollywood as the stick to measure and beat down China's supposed lack lustre soft power capabilities but in my opinion, what I watched and listened on that ORF forum actually made me appreciate China's approach in what most people traditionally associate with soft power which is usually entertainment centric and not economic, trade, and HRDC efforts which are not too obvious for many undiscerning eyes whose focus and orientation tends to be western leaning.
Confidence is divided into four levels: mild, moderate, overwhelming, Indian
If you ever needed proof that Western media and narratives are controlled by the political elite, just look at the silence regarding the Manipur violence.
150 people have already been killed and 2 women were gangraped and paraded naked on the streets. This is some of the most screwed up news of 2023.
Yet there is nothing on western news except short, low-readership articles whitewashing and intentionally downplaying the incidents
150 people have already been killed and 2 women were gangraped and paraded naked on the streets. This is some of the most screwed up news of 2023.
Yet there is nothing on western news except short, low-readership articles whitewashing and intentionally downplaying the incidents
American fun "blockbuster" types movies seem to be a sequel (or 8th sequel) or some multi-part Marvel/Starwars etc type movie. Kinda pointless to watch. The Chinese has similar cinematography ability as the west now, they can produce anything they want.
My Indian high school classmate kept on claiming that India was the richest country in the world — back in 2006-2007. Needless to say my friends made it and inside joke and gave him the nickname “richest country”.
Hollywood may not have the same powerful influence it had in the past but the truth is that it's still a very powerful tool. It doesn't have to mitigate Asian hate, but it can kowtow to China because China's market, that's the real power. If Hollywood were to turn against China it will be another avenue the west can use to fuel even more hate. I'm not talking about a pro-China movie here, I'm talking about China having the ability to make Hollywood bow down and not cast China as the forever bad guys. Another thing that people have to be careful about is falling prey to this "anti-woke" nonsense, that language belongs to racist republicans. Having a black mermaid in a fantasy film should be treated like the insignificant issue that it is, it's no reason to start some weird ideological war.
People need to be careful, most here don't remember the old Cold War and just because China has become an economic super power some young folks are starting to get a bit arrogant. China's rise to the top isn't guaranteed and what could stagnate China's power is hubris by people who think China's rise is automatic. Play the game but don't play it the way your enemy wants you to play. What the US wants is a clear antagonist so they can rally everyone around, don't give that to them. Keep their businesses reliant on Chinese markets and embed the Chinese economy into the global system so much that any confrontation will be very costly. Pulling away and thinking China has reached a stage it can do everything on its own will be a mistake borne from arrogance.