Miscellaneous News

Bellum_Romanum said:

Thought this dude said Hi in Chinese 喂 (wéi)

Click to expand...

Chinese people truly tired of Washington’s narcissistic show: Global Times editorial

Click to expand...

Over the past months, Washington has repeatedly sent contradictory signals on the tariff issue. One minute, it says it's considering scrapping some tariffs on China. But the next, it says it'll keep tariffs as leverage in the power game against China. The whole process is like one-man face-changing show performed by Washington in front of the world.

Click to expand...

Washington explicitly acknowledged that some of the tariffs implemented by the previous administration were not strategic and instead raised costs on Americans. American consumers are bearing 92.4 percent of the costs of the tariffs applied to Chinese goods, according to a report published by Moody's Investors Service last year.

Click to expand...

An unconditional cancellation of tariffs on Chinese products is not at all a "show of goodwill" by the US to China, much less a "gift," but a mistake to be corrected. In fact, Washington's "tariff war" is indeed going nowhere.

Click to expand...

The Biden administration is hurt by a rock lifted and dropped by the Trump administration. But Washington is now suffering the pain and always thinking about "removing tariffs" in exchange for something.

Click to expand...

The US is so narcissistic that it thinks one glance from it could unsettle China, making China sway by considerations of gain and loss and thus be hurried to make concessions. But frankly speaking, few people in China care about these messages, so they can hardly cause any wave. The Chinese society is already tired of the show the US has put on.

Click to expand...

Kosovo issues warning to Serbia​

Kosovo is preparing for an armed conflict with Serbia and is ready to take on its opponent, Albin Kurti, who holds the office of prime minister in the breakaway Serbian province, told Reuters on Wednesday.

“We have our institutions and organs of security and defense; Kosovo is a state now, this is not the year 1998,” the official was quoted as saying. “This is 2022, so we are much more prepared to defend our sovereignty, territorial integrity, to defend our democracy, rule of law, constitutionality, and to defend our progress.”

Click to expand...

NiuBiDaRen said:

Gravitas: WION correspondent abducted by the Taliban​

Wherever he is being held, they're going to need a lot of deodorant.

Click to expand...

KYli said:

Both Taiwanese Fishermen and Farmers are mostly anti-China and pro-independent.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Click to expand...

Strangelove said:

Or why Chinese are looking down at America...

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Click to expand...

getready said:

is this President Xi’s first official visit since covid? Surprised they never mentioned it in the article. Western media made a big deal of Xi staying in China and refusing to go overseas because they think he will get couped if he goes

Click to expand...

What looked like a dramatic drop in global exports to Russia a few months ago is really just a massive shift in export composition away from the West towards China.

Click to expand...

Brazil: the Minister of the Economy considers France "insignificant"​

Click to expand...

You better treat us well, otherwise we'll send you to fuck off," said Paulo Guedes in particular.

Click to expand...

Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes has claimed France is becoming "insignificant" , threatening to turn away from the French market if Paris does not stop its criticism of deforestation in the Amazon. “You had better treat us well, otherwise we will send you to fuck you” , he launched Tuesday in Brasilia, during a congress of business leaders of the catering sector of which filmed extracts began to be released in the Brazilian press on Wednesday.

Click to expand...

Paulo Guedes, key minister in the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, also put the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019 on the same level as those ravaging the Amazon rainforest. "One day, a French minister said to me: 'You are burning the forest.' I answered him: “And you, you burned Notre-Dame” , “he said, without specifying which minister he was talking about.

Click to expand...

“These are futile accusations! You didn't burn Notre-Dame, but you didn't manage to prevent the small block (where the cathedral is located) from catching fire. With us, (the Amazon rainforest) is bigger than Europe and you criticize us ,” he added.

Click to expand...

“Afterwards, I gave another example (to the minister): “our trade with you (France) amounted to 2 billion dollars in 2000, as much as China. Today it's 7 billion with you and 120 billion with China. You become insignificant to us”.

Click to expand...

"Either France opens its market to us, to us and to Mercosur, or it will become insignificant for us and we will look elsewhere ,” he insisted.

Click to expand...

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

In addition to its large economy and deep commitments to NATO, Brussels, and the transatlantic alliance, Germany is also the current leader of the G-7, a position that gives Berlin a chance to help remedy the growing divide with the global South and restore the credibility of the West-led order. To seize these opportunities, however, the German government will have to overcome the country’s aversion to the use of military force and deep resistance to change. Failure to do so could in the long term not only undermine Germany’s place in Europe but also weaken the Western alliance at a time of unprecedented global challenges.

Click to expand...