First Tsai with that TSMC talk and now this. I can see why Yoon got people investigating him all over the place already.
If Yoon gets arrested the Blue House is absolved of all wrong doings.
First Tsai with that TSMC talk and now this. I can see why Yoon got people investigating him all over the place already.
Well, Ukrainian & Western behavior on the Taiwan question is continuing to bridge those differences and I think by now China is definitely far more supportive of Russia than in the beginning. Jingoism of Western regimes is helping at creating a unified block against them.Based on diplomatic norms, with him saying something like this, here is my conclusion: There is no diplomatic rift or anything like that, its simple actually, Central Asia is getting closer to China and Russia is losing its influence over that region
The message is very clear.Well, Ukrainian & Western behavior on the Taiwan question is continuing to bridge those differences and I think by now China is definitely far more supportive of Russia than in the beginning. Jingoism of Western regimes is helping at creating a unified block against them.
The message is very clear.
Xi's first visit post-Covid to Kazakhstan, Xi saying to Kazakhstan "will defend and support your territorial integrity and independence" (which btw was in front page of a lot of Kazakhstan's newspapers...) then a day after for SCO, Putin comes out with this statement.
Clear as day imo. Forget about Ukraine, this is about Central Asia
Much of Brzezinski's analysis is concerned with , focusing on the exercise of power on the Eurasian landmass in a post-Soviet environment. In his chapter dedicated to what he refers to as the "Eurasian Balkans", he uses 's .
It is about Ukraine. to provide cover to Chinese that there are differences so that Western pressure becomes less.The message is very clear.
Xi's first visit post-Covid to Kazakhstan, Xi saying to Kazakhstan "will defend and support your territorial integrity and independence" (which btw was in front page of a lot of Kazakhstan's newspapers...) then a day after for SCO, Putin comes out with this statement.
Clear as day imo. Forget about Ukraine, this is about Central Asia
The situation with Russia is obvious. We have Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan in the South but the markets of these countries are not so large, they cannot replace the European Union or even Russian markets for us. Further, if you take a look, even if we trade via Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, there’s Afghanistan, which, as you understand, is not a partner that can predictably trade for a long period of time. Yes, we export to Afghanistan, we are the largest exporter of wheat and flour to Afghanistan, but apart from these products they import almost nothing.
The remains of Chinese soldiers are returned to their homeland in a ceremony of peace between China and South Korea.Remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War casketed in S.Korea
SourceEditorChen Zhuo Time2022-09-15 14:46:30
INCHEON, South Korea, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War were casketed in South Korea on Thursday to be sent back to their homeland.
The ceremony to lay the 88 remains in coffins was held in Incheon, west of the capital Seoul.
The Chinese delegation led by Vice Minister of Veterans Affairs Chang Zhengguo, officials with the Chinese embassy in South Korea, officials with the South Korean defense ministry as well as personnel responsible for the excavation and identification of the remains attended the ceremony.
A flower basket was laid at a temporary settlement for the remains of the Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs.
All members of the Chinese delegation bowed three times to the Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs and presented flowers before the South Korean side placed the remains in coffins.
This year's repatriation ceremony, the ninth of its kind, is scheduled to be held at the Incheon International Airport on Friday.
China and South Korea have successfully carried out the handover of the remains of 825 Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs in South Korea for eight consecutive years from 2014 to 2021, following humanitarian principles and in the spirit of friendship and practical cooperation.
The G7 trade ministers met on on 14 and 15 September. They clearly target China's economic model in their released communique after two days of discussions in Germany. Globalisation is fine but only according to their economical, political and cultural preferences.
1. Level playing field in the white mind: no use of subsidies and no state owned enterprises. When those are present the economic playing field is unfair. Targets China's mixed economic model.
2. We will develop new tools and international rules: they want to change the WTO rules book so that China will be forced to change its economic model more according to their taste: neoliberalism.
"Levelling the playing field and addressing economic coercion
We will sustain and further step up our efforts working toward a level playing field through more effective use of existing tools, as well as developing appropriate new tools and stronger
international rules and norms on nonmarket policies and practices. Our shared concerns Include unfair practices, such as all forms of forced technology transfer, intellectual property
theft, lowering of labour and environmental standards to gain competitive advantage,
market-distorting actions of state-owned enterprises, and harmful industrial subsidies, including those that lead to excess capacity.
We will also promote discussions at the WTO on how to improve transparency to shed light on and reduce challenges posed by non-market policies and practices that harm the global economy, and on modernizing the global trade
rulebook. We thank the OECD for its work in this area."
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You mean CHIPS act? Yeah, pretty much. But the West and hypocrisy are almost synonyms at that point, so no surprises there.Isn't CHIPS 4 a textbook example of government subsidization?
If these G7 nations cannot do things in a straight forward and honest manner, they many find themselves pointless to trade with given that should energy really run down low in Germany, France, UK and even the USA with how Biden is doing things, well what on earth can these nations provide that is worthwhile, it’s not like China/ Russia and even India have a heavenly mandated duty to subsidise these nations no matter how poor the treatment and how useless the payment is (I mean Euros and US dollar cannot really buy another thing that these nations cannot get from else where, I mean what does the EU have of value other then useless ideology and funny money). Should these nations cut off trade lines with these nations and the supply in those nations run low enough that even the elites feel it, will they be preaching even then, with the people angry and homicidal they will became given that these leaders are there to solve problems, not them them to go in a diet for Ukraine, a nation that quite frankly only benefits the MIC (and even then only for a short period of time) and absolutely no one else. Tourers mean everything, something that the G7 is simply not in abundance of right now with the energy supply grids as compromised as they are now by their own handIsn't CHIPS 4 a textbook example of government subsidization?