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Sources on RE: (from Reuters)

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To be pedantic, this doesn't say US automakers received license. It says the suppliers in China received export license. These suppliers doesn't exclusively supply to US. They have customers in Europe and elsewhere too. The article doesn't say they got the permit to export to US. Just that they got export license and they happen to be suppliers to US automakers too. IMHO, these headlines are cleverly worded to mislead. They could have said "Exporters received license to supply to US automakers", if the license allowed to export to US.

There's also this bit in the article, which suggests US companies haven't received license so far. GM and Ford declined to comment. Stellantis is "trying to get license" and only have stock for "immediate production"
GM and Ford each declined to comment. Stellantis said it is working with suppliers "to ensure an efficient licensing process" and that so far the company has been able to "address immediate production concerns without major disruptions."
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In the Trump original tweet after the call he didn't say China agreed to it. If indeed he got that he would have posted that in big letters, because that would have been a big win for him. Instead he posted a vague statement saying that they both acknowledged that RE is a complex issue.

IMHO, If China already gave-in and removed the ban on RE then US have received the only thing they are after and they wouldn't be going to London on Monday to meet with China.
 
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Is " association is not causation" applicable though?
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I remember saying the same thing some time ago, I got the feeling the Chinese leadership isn't interested in forming blocs or another Cold War. All that it does it plays into the US advantages. China will do well to turn down any stupid Yalta 2.0 agreement and continue downplaying any new Cold War, there's no cold war there's just a waning power trying to re-live its glory days and it's lashing out because it knows its best days are behind it.
 
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I think China will keep the export ban on US military companies, knowing that there'll be some smuggling. But it's not in China's interest to crash global manufacturing of cars, electronics, etc for consumer use. Too much blowback politically and economically.
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Not "global manufacturing", just US manufacturing. Blowbacks are quite acceptable in this case.

Trump put US in such position of weakness it would be foolish to not utilize it to the fullest extracting considerable concessions from the US. And small stuffs like semiconductor ban or student visa cannot satisfy China's appetite, only Taiwan may sate it somewhat
 
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you have any hints or rumours of your claim?
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1 Timing, and things Trump openly talks about.

I don't think Assad knows. One of Assad's brothers (head of the 4th division) was killed in his home shortly before the blitz.

2 Yet again, Putin is going to pressure Iran to cave.


17:44, 5 June 2025

Putin expected to visit Tehran soon, says Iranian ambassador to Russia​

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President Trump has deleted his Truth Social posting about Putin / Ukraine / Iran. Here it is for posterity
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supersnoop said:
News is just to control the population and manipulate opinion. We’ve discussed it to death by now, lol.

I have no respect for these rioters. They go after HK Police officers because they haven’t used true lethal force and they know it. Only 3 shooting incidents and no fatalities, I don’t believe more than 1 round was fired in any of them. Basic police training in North America would be multiple shots in centre of mass. It’s not unusual for people to be shot by police 5, 6 times.

If they really are so “ready to die” for the cause as the stupid videos they make, they would go after the PLA garrison. Instead all they do is shine lasers and run away when warned. All talk.

I had proposed a psychological theory behind the protests a few days ago. My research found this informative article. I urge people to take a look.
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One of the key points, if this violence were truly political in nature, you don’t strike out at people like the “Uncle Law” or “Mr. Lee”, they are not authority figures. Same with vandalizing “Blue silk” businesses, most are not big businesses, just regular people trying to make a life too.

Another point that is raised, and I myself mentioned it. One of the ways to stop the violence is to shame them for it. Instead, Western MSM instead is glorifying it, entire US Congress has glorified it. “What a beautiful sight”, what a joke.

On top of that, the schools, they are clearly rotten to the core, mentioned a million times before. Instead of teaching the kids how to conduct themselves in civil society, these teachers have no shame to send them on the front line.

The article even mentioned house of worship as a way to stop them. Again, in HK, church has become a weapon of chaos just like the school system. I don’t blame religion itself, but it’s obvious that in HK, it has become a conduit for the foreign agenda.

How it can get so bad? Read here before that US/UK have been planning this for years before the handover. Not necessarily the unrest itself, but having all the people and infrastructure in place to carry out an operation to foment it and do so quickly. I don’t think there is any doubt now.

Makes you respect the post Tiananmen PRC leadership immensely. I bet the American bloc thought HK would continue to the the #1 city economically in China, triggering rioting would have a huge impact and even domino effect. Instead, even SZ has surpassed it and I would say most Chinese(in China and even overseas) want “cockroaches to be stomped”.
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“Mrs. Pelosi, a second Blackhawk has come home to roost”.
 
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