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AssassinsMace

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According to the West, soft power cannot be gained though force or incentive like money, yet here because they claim China is motivated by using green technology to gain soft power, they still make it sound like there's something wrong and nefarious going on. If it was the West who was the leader in green technology, there would be no question nor any challenge allowed to the West's motivations being for the good for all.
 
FriedButter

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Randomuser said:
Did USAID get restated or something?

I noticed a lot of generic China bad posts are coming back on social media.

The funny thing is how tone deaf they are because they are repeating the same old points even though we have people like Bald who have actually been to China showing that's not the case.

I guess the lesson learnt is people will always come up with a way to see China bad even if that's against reality. That's just how they are
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USAID is the State Department. They are under new management where Macro Rubio is in charge of it. USAID was only dismantled so they could fold the MAGA aligned parts under direct management from the Trump Admin.
 
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This video aswell as ChongqingHotpot represents Shanghainese people which is why me and my dad are embarrased to be Shanghainese.

Shanghainese people are such western cocksuckers to the point that it could rival that of HKers and time and time again west stabs China in the back so we it reasonable to view pro western people as the fifth column of China plus HK riots were not long ago so there is that (The Chinese diaspora being from the coast dosen't help).

It dosen't even help that the Shanghainese government is also somewhat like this where they rewrite history to make basically glorify the "Paris of the East" even though all was just a corrupt, crime ridden aparthied state. Not to mentioned they completly omit the fact that Shanghai was already a port city since the song dynasty from the Shanghai history musuem and Shanghai zoo has a eurocentric view on the history of pandas which is fucking disgraceful.

I wish Xi Jinping would have more power so he could purge this shit once and for all.

Xi Dada is also from Shaanxi along with my mom which is another reason whu me and my dad do not claim to be Shanghainese but Shaanxi ren.
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Being old school Shanghainese isn't about dressed in suits while working at an investment bank worshipping the west. Proper old school shanghainese is about wearing a singlet on your way back home chugging salty soda trying to cool off because you've been sweating it out all day working at Bao Steel contributing to modernization of China. Fortunately that side of Shanghai is not gone, for is not the carrier Fujian, largest warship ever built in Asia not born in Shanghai not long ago?

Don't let haters tell you what Shanghai is and isn't, and least of all don't let these neo-Shanghainese still trying extra hard to hide their 乡毋宁-ness control what it means to be a shanghainese.
 
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han1289 said:
In which case China has not inflicted the kind of economic hurt that will make japs think twice.
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The confrontation has just begun and you never play all your cards at once.
han1289 said:
China has the economic tools to hurt Japan, but it won’t because it’ll also affect China.
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Well yourself just gave one of the reasons why China doesn't go for the knockout blows that keyboard warriors keep advocating for, so what's your objection? We live in a globalized economic order, whether you like it or not is inoperative, only choice is to get used to it.
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So, a lack of determination.
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Lots of people have mischaracterized China's measured approach to policy as such. Today, China has emerged on top of most of its past geopolitical confrontations, including the trade war with the US. So who are we to criticize?
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And what’s happening now? A return to the status quo. Is that winning a standoff? China gave them face and an off ramp, prioritizing economic stability. Neither netherlands as a whole nor any dutch companies suffered any economic reprisals. Nor the executives that engineered it. German car companies had a production slowdown…for a week. And this was a situation where the dutch played a universally criticized move and China was well within its rights to make them pay.
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They got ownership of the company back and humiliated the Europeans by outing them as lapdogs with no independent foreign policy. So in short, yes it is winning. Eventhough I rarely do this, I say this is one area where there's not much room for debate.

Eh anyhow, back to point one, the confrontation is just starting and thus far China hasn't dropped the ball geopolitically at all this year. So just wait and see what happens.
 
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China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements — the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

And because Australia is chairing the CPTPP process this year, the diplomatic fallout is landing squarely on Canberra's desk.
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A lot of CPTPP members are already RCEP members (Australia is part of it) or members of ASEAN which China already have a free trade agreement with, it's not a big deal if China can't join. Ultimately the TPP was originally designed to isolate China by the US so the fact that the US isn't part of the CPTPP is already a good outcome for China.

Peru and Chile also have bilateral FTAs with China, and Canada/Mexico is unlikely to create one with China because of US influence/pressure.

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iewgnem

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No they didn't. Chinese CEO hasn't been reinstated.
Management is still under the Dutch executives who did the coup
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And China hasn't release Europeans from the slave chain either lol
Nexperia chips have resumed, they are being drip-fed to European firms, making it hard to plan. China, Mr Richtberg quips, is giving European firms “enough not to die, but not enough to live”.
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Right now Nexperia in still 100% Chinese, Chinese office is still the only one receiving payment and European executives is still executive of an empty shell. Beijing explicitly commented the Dutch move was a good "first step", there was no indication anyone consider the problem solved and as such punishments are still fully in place. I don't know what Wingtech wants, but for China its preferable that European Nexperia dies than returning to the original state anyway.
 
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4Tran said:
It's important to bear in mind that China is winning right now, and winning very hard at basically everything. The American-led counterattacks have all failed; some quite spectacularly. The more this trend continues, the more it favors China so why start a military conflict and risk everything. The calculus would be different if China were losing right now, but that's far from the case.
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If you were to start a military conflict, it's should be precisely when you're winning.
The worst time to start a conflict is when you're already losing.
Art of War's "win before you fight" specifically implies fighting when you're winning and only when you're winning.

In this case it would obviously not be a good look for China to start the fight out of the blue, but it would be in China's interest to force the losing side to start the fight. Japan was especially vulnerable to the fallacy of fighting when losing when they were under US oil embargo 80 years ago, and they can be made to do so again.
 
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