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ACuriousPLAFan

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Temstar said:
Gordie and friends might want to sit down for this news:
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It's not 5.5% but hey, considering the state of the world I aren't even mad.
It's almost like they delayed this news for a few days to make way for the big meeting.
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So much for "Chinese officials delay release of economic data, that means the Chinese officials must be fudging the numbers, Chinese economy about to collapse, SeeSeePee finished" murmur last week.
 
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The rise in childhood AKI fatalities in Indonesia comes as The Gambia’s government
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linked to paracetamol syrups used to treat fever, which contained excessive levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, in a scandal linked to four
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I have checked much of domestic news in Australia and some other westerns sources. If this was Chinese made medicine, for sure we would have heard of this reported constantly and China in big red capital letters in the headlines, typical of sinophobic media. In fact it's reported pretty low key here, despite Australia neighboring indonesia. First I hear of it was only today when Australia decided to send sone antidote.

No wonder when you read all those xenophobic comments online in Aus forums regarding buying food from local sources and boycott foreign stuff, when you dig in, they pretty much mean food from China.because any Chinese food or milk scandal gets bigged up in western news.
 
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getready

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Biscuits said:
Again I can't speak for him in particular but personally I think Russia could always be brought closer. Consider for example there's minimal military integration in terms of platforms, no consistent, dominating mechanism for yuan cross border trades etc. Not to mention, Russia has mostly failed at sharing in China's growth as well as ideology.

It is not interesting to China what the west thinks about them, because the west is an enemy that will either be contained or destroyed. It is however of great interest that Russia stays in a type of mutual dependency.

Look at for example America and Germany. Germans are not going over the border to rape or kill Americans and of course like you say China also has no problem at all with Russian immigrants or Russians at home creating hate crimes. But nonetheless, US ensures that the Germans are curtailed in their potential to deviate from the bloc leader.

Unlike US, China will not demand allies to do anything that they aren't comfortable with just to further the homeland's ambition. However, that doesn't mean that allies shouldn't be prepared with the right mindset and right amount of modernization so that when the time comes, they will act in China's defense out of their own volition. For that, every nativist or pro west Russian power broker that is purged, is a (small) victory for China.
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OK fair enough, I don't agree with some of this but I also dun want to prolong this Russia vs China, China vs West argument or blow this up in breaking news thread.
Initially all I hope for is people to take things into perspective and into broader context, especially at sensitive time like now.
Regarding pro west faction of Russia, I don't know enough to comment. it's an issue for Putin and when he finally leaves or forced out or watever, it might be an issue for China. Nevertheless, thanks for the reply, I appreciate the counter response.
 
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