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sheogorath said:

The brits seem quite desperate to prove they are still relevant and not a washed up former empire of inbreds and tax dodging tourist pests of the mediterranean.

Turns out the "chinese students in Sydney" were actually a bunch of white kids

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Sardaukar20 said:

Any news of people dying from a crush and stampede in a festival is tragic news. That death toll is still climbing.

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Because this tragedy is happening in South Korea, CNN is reporting it as it is. Minimal politics.

But I still remembered how CNN reported tragedies that happened in China. They always try to spin them as the fault of the Chinese government.

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But the most notorious of all was the way the Western MSM reported the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. It was just so grotesque, it deserved its own thread.

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has a message for U.S. Republicans making election promises to slash Ukraine’s support: That will only empower China.

Stoltenberg pushed his point in an expansive interview with POLITICO this week, in which the military alliance’s chief made the case for a long-term American presence in Europe and a widespread boost in defense spending.

“The presence of the United States — but also Canada — in Europe, is essential for the strength and the credibility of that transatlantic bond,” Stoltenberg said.

Yet anxiety is coursing through policy circles that a more reticent U.S. may be on the horizon. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections could tip control of Congress toward the Republicans, empowering an ascendant, MAGA-friendly Republican cohort that has been pressing to cut back U.S. President Joe Biden’s world-leading military aid to Ukraine.

A victorious Russia, he said, would “be bad for all of us in Europe and North America, in the whole of NATO, because that will send a message to authoritarian leaders — not only Putin but also China — that by the use of brutal military force they can achieve their goals.”

The Biden administration recently described China as “America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge” in its national security strategy.

And the document explicitly ranks China above Russia in the longer term: “Russia poses an immediate and ongoing threat to the regional security order in Europe and it is a source of disruption and instability globally but it lacks the across the spectrum capabilities of” China.

NATO allies themselves have taken varying approaches to China, with some still adopting a much softer line than Washington.

Stoltenberg acknowledged these divergences. But he argued the alliance had made progress on confronting Beijing, emphasizing NATO’s decision earlier this summer to explicitly label China a challenge in its long-term strategy document.

It is “important for NATO allies to stand together and to address the consequences of the rise of China — and that we agree on, and that’s exactly what we are doing,” he said.

Yet while allies have agreed to “address” China’s rise, they haven’t figured out who should foot the bill for those efforts. Some U.S. lawmakers, academics and experts are advocating for Europe to take the lead in managing local security challenges so the U.S. can focus more on the Indo-Pacific.

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AssassinsMace said:

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No wonder the US is so desperate to stop Chinese innovation in important technologies of the future. The West waste a lot of money on little progress. You actually see some limited use of these technologies in China being applied commercially. Like I've been saying, every step of the way cost more for the West to do. This is where you see PPP actually counts when the West poo-poos it. They don't like anything that makes it look that other economies are equal or surpassing them.

In the Metaverse they seem to to want to avoid speaking about the commercial aspects of it because it makes it look like it's about making money from people which is a turn off to Americans. They're trying to make it look like it's a giant playground for free. In the Chinese version they don't hold back from telling the truth of its commercial potential like using it for shopping

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Biscuits said:

Someone talked earlier about Elon's prolific bootlicking of the state department. Perhaps, it was so frantically done because Elon needed to prove himself equally capable as the elite families that traditionally control America.

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