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Xiongmao said:

That was fascinating to watch. How can a people forget to speak their own language? The long term societal ramifications of this I can't even begin to fathom.

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I found something kind of funny. If you talk Japanese the way it is taught in China, you sound like you are from the imperial era.

Like you'd say stuff like 鍵盤 (jianpan = kenpan), 写真機 (xiezhenji = shashinki) or 旅館 (lvguan = ryokan). Not even complicated words.

Current terms: kiiboodo, kamera and hoteru...

honestly speaking, if you watch Chinese shows with people who speak imperial/WW2 era Japanese like 血与心, you can almost understand it. But you can't understand modern "post-colonial“ Japanese.

it really reminds me of how post-colonial countries like India, Philippines or Nigeria talk with regards to English.

Looks like the USA is coaxing/forcing the G7 to join the USA trade war against China. Lots of articles about how China can survive a trade war with the USA. How much pain would it be if it was a trade war with the G7?

FairAndUnbiased said:

I found something kind of funny. If you talk Japanese the way it is taught in China, you sound like you are from the imperial era.

Like you'd say stuff like 鍵盤 (jianpan = kenpan), 写真機 (xiezhenji = shashinki) or 旅館 (lvguan = ryokan). Not even complicated words.

Current terms: kiiboodo, kamera and hoteru...

honestly speaking, if you watch Chinese shows with people who speak imperial/WW2 era Japanese like 血与心, you can almost understand it. But you can't understand modern "post-colonial“ Japanese.

it really reminds me of how post-colonial countries like India, Philippines or Nigeria talk with regards to English.

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Of course,many Chinese loan words are almost directly from Tang Dynasty China,-pronounciation is almost exactly Cantonese(an older,form of Chinese),world-seikai,problem,mondai,Dai To Ah Senso=Great East Asian War,sento ki-fighter plane.It's even easier to recognize when written-and I am NO scholar in this subject

chlosy said:

Looks like the USA is coaxing/forcing the G7 to join the USA trade war against China. Lots of articles about how China can survive a trade war with the USA. How much pain would it be if it was a trade war with the G7?

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The answer is obvious if you just list the countries that make up G7

GulfLander said:

Whats their main goal tho? To blame CN and force CN to pay? Confiscate US treasury owned by CN or assets?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1912550614929637821

**Jamie Metzl is a principal of the global investment company Cranemere, Inc. and a senior fellow of the Asia Society, where he previously was executive vice president. Metzl has served as deputy staff director of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senior coordinator for International Public Information at the Department of State, director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council, and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations in Cambodia.
Metzl is a founder and co-chair of the Board of Partnership for a Secure America, a member of the board of the Jewish refugee agency HIAS, and the International Center for Transitional Justice, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former White House Fellow as well as Aspen Institute Crown Fellow. He holds a PhD in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University and JD from Harvard Law School.

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Trump2.0 seem reviving this...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1912886716131586375

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Well, if you are losing the trade war and desperate, you start to shoot from the hip.

daifo said:

US/Japan trade talks. Japan undergoing the century of humiliation

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To be fair, I'm not aware that Japan has made any actual concession yet, nor the EU.

GulfLander said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1913210537577488816

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Utterly meaningless - soon Ukraine will be on their own and Russia will reach total victory.

Trump says US will 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon​

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Oops.

chlosy said:

Looks like the USA is coaxing/forcing the G7 to join the USA trade war against China. Lots of articles about how China can survive a trade war with the USA. How much pain would it be if it was a trade war with the G7?

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China is stronger then it has ever been in 200 years-economically,militarily,politically and socially(nation united)-HTH is China ever going to "bend the knee",capitulate,surrender?? to a bunch of greedy,rapacious,violent/vile barbarians like of olden days who seek her destruction and slavery?If anything China has entered a state of siege mentality-arming/armouring in every sphere until this storm passes.If anything the G7 can't withstand hardship,pain and privation (not boasting like prewar imperial Japan) but realistic observations.Many Chinese still have memories/stories passed down from grandparents(like me) about unbelievable trials/hardships that they endured-and China/Chinese NOW has the discipline,organization,resources,skills,abilities etc to see this through until victory.It might be that bad.

daifo said:

US/Japan trade talks. Japan undergoing the century of humiliation

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They wear Trump-san's name on their heads like he is their god!

Not only were they humiliated, they're so cucked, they couldn't even recognize the emasculation . . .

Topazchen said:

What does it feel like to be on the receiving end when someone confidently claims you’ve been calling them—when you know you haven’t?

It’s enough to make you question your own sanity.

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You make America sound like an ex-fiance who is still telling her family and friends that you two remain "madly in love" and will get married this summer "as planned" (once you agree to her demands for a more generous prenup), even though you have already blocked her number and will only communicate with her through your attorney.

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They wear Trump-san's name on their heads like he is their god!

Not only were they humiliated, they're so cucked, they couldn't even recognize the emasculation . . .



You make America sound like an ex-fiance who is still telling her family and friends that you two remain "madly in love" and will get married this summer "as planned" (once you agree to her demands for a more generous prenup), even though you have already blocked her number and will only communicate with her through your attorney.

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I can read Trump's mind,"If only these slanty-eyed Asians were Chinese instead of Japanese....why has my good friend Xi not called....to surrender???"

Ringsword said:

I can read Trump's mind,"If only these slanty-eyed Asians were Chinese instead of Japanese....why has my good friend Xi not called....to surrender???"

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Are you sure Trump can really differentiate between Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and so on and so forth?!

chlosy said:

Looks like the USA is coaxing/forcing the G7 to join the USA trade war against China. Lots of articles about how China can survive a trade war with the USA. How much pain would it be if it was a trade war with the G7?

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It already happened under Biden and all US allies' economies are on the brink. The big guy, the US, is now feeling the pain of just their own tariff on all the cheap stuff they get from China. At least Europe knows they still need inexpensive stuff from China and that's why they're still trying to engage with China. They still need China to buy all the stuff from them that China can get anywhere else. That's the dilemma they put themselves in. The significant trade they use to have was advanced technology that China didn't have but because of the US, under Biden, they can't sell it to China but they somehow think China is suppose to make up the difference they lost in trade by expecting China to buy more stuff that China can get cheaper from anywhere else. They f*cked themselves over.

In regards to Asia, lets be truthful and say Asians put more value into money more than other things except maybe their image. That's why they'll end up finding a way to make money from things they're expected not to. Look at how Taiwan was selling chips through fronts to China. The Vietnamese supposedly hate the Chinese but they still want to make money from them. Why would Japan demand China buy and eat their radioactive fish? The Japanese with their cultural image of cleanliness don't understand why? Asians aren't going to stop making money from China no matter what the US tells them.

On top of everything else, the US isn't opening it's market to anyone even their own allies. Biden didn't do it. And Trump built his entire narrative on how the world even allies are ripping off the US. If the US had unlimited money as they like to tell the world, they wouldn't have worry about trade imbalances with the rest of the world... but Trump is. The US will have to pay way more than they can imagine to buy off the world not to trade with China. The US would have to pay tens of billions of dollars to each country to get them not to trade with China and the current narrative says they won't. So where are the US's allies going to have to make money from?