If I were Chinese intelligence and Australia was captured by Pompeo/ScoNo types with no hope of a return to normalcy, I would commence a series of Cold War type black ops equivalent to what the US has done to destabilise it’s enemies.There are several levers china could activate like they did during the trade dispute with Aus under scomo. Agriculture and food industry is one. when scomo followed trump in attacking China during height of covid outbreak, ties were soured badly. Imports of Aus wine, lobsters and other produce were cut or outright banned. Ironically before this period there was hope in Aus that they could export their food and animal products to the huge Chinese market. many have seen the mining boom slowly over and hope to open other markets. Of course we know now how this is going. unless unexpected developments occur I feel, Aus will also try to decouple to follow US agenda.
Another hugely profitable source is the Chinese international students. There is already talks of Aus wanting to limit their numbers from anti Chinese groups. Another would be property. Chinese are already the scapegoat for increasing property prices. Although during Covid border closure this was largely disproven, it will be a convenient reason again. I think China has some moves left in their sleeves to unleash if it really becomes an issue.
The biggest myth since the 80s has been that privatisation would lead to better kit, products and services. Utter BS.
tl:dr, cheapskate who didn't do the testing because it was expensive. Ignored repeated warnings including from his own suppliers.
Stockton Rush was a former engineer that got an MBA and went to work for McDonnell Douglas. By all accounts, this is what people from MDD (AKA New Boeing) do, so par for the course I guess.
I think they want to sanction banks even if they don't do business in dollars, I don't think will have very big effect.What happened to kicking China out from the dollar? Before this they were already softening their position saying they were only going to kick out some Chinese banks. These companies probably don't do much business with the West in the first place so they can spin it as striking a huge blow against China and Americans will love it because they want to believe they have that much power over China.
The US and the West talking about war with China... the same thing going on. Threaten extreme action to scare China into submission and then when China doesn't do what they were hoping... never follow through because they'll suffer the consequences. And you know they thought China was going to fold like Japan did because of course they think all Asians are alike.
I know Reddit is not representative of the entire West but it's the window of how most westerners think and view China and Chinese people in general. The comments say that the Spanish idiot's rant is just your typical Football hooliganism thereby excusing or making an excuse for an inexcusable behavior. If these actions were committed by a Chinese person in China the comments would have essentially indict the whole civilization as uncouth and communist bastards etc...
What happened to kicking China out from the dollar? Before this they were already softening their position saying they were only going to kick out some Chinese banks.
The US and the West talking about war with China... the same thing going on. Threaten extreme action to scare China into submission and then when China doesn't do what they were hoping... never follow through because they'll suffer the consequences.
Every society has a need for low IQ ”football hooligans”, they form the bulk of the fighters of the poor bloody infantry.Football hooliganism is actually not an excuse. It is actually a true symptom of often overly nationalistic behaviour that bleeds into violence and often connected with neo-nazi groups in Europe.
Football "ultras" were connected with the Odessa fire that killed dozens of people that was cited by Putin to start the war.
I used to actually defend Europeans saying they were right to be against immigrants etc. But for a has-been continent, they have a lot of unwarranted arrogance for stuff they took from their great ancestors long ago.Football hooliganism is actually not an excuse. It is actually a true symptom of often overly nationalistic behaviour that bleeds into violence and often connected with neo-nazi groups in Europe.
Football "ultras" were connected with the Odessa fire that killed dozens of people that was cited by Putin to start the war.
Given how Saudis occupied the poorest Arab country (Yemen) which is also amongst the poorest in the world, I highly doubt they could really occupy anything. The question was: how did such great governance lead to the fracture of the peninsula into 6 different countries that have the same language, ethnicity, religion, and culture?Saudi have intervened in Bahrain. they have little interest beyond that. They can easily occupy the rest. but they care about Soft Power. no need to remove current Royal families who had developed there own Soft Power. now calling the world wealthiest people with most soft power poor governance.