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I sense some Western MSM are getting tired of the US rhetorics. The above is from a local NZ news site, in the past it would refer the US plane as a surveillance plane instead of a spy plane. Reading the article it's void of sensational phrases like endangering the crew or violating international norms, etc. Instead, it's mostly quoting from a US statement, but crucially adding the term "spy plane" to accompany the quotes.

siegecrossbow said:

It's Wumaoing time!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1663231259785723904

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Official stamp of approval.

Korean Central News Agency reports launch of first reconnaissance satellite failed

SanWenYu said:

The "Chinese interference" she has received must have been her constituents calling her hanjian.

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Doubtful, her riding has the worst homeless and drug addiction problems in the country.

I can only think of two scenarios:
1. Chinese government uses pictures of her riding and captions: “Jenny Kwan Canadian MP advocates for HK independence, this is her riding. This is how she brings freedom and democracy to the people she represents”

or option 2. MSS goes to Vancouver and says “you know, there’s nothing worse we can do…” but it’s interfering because they took one look at it.

luminary said:

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Tesla leak to a German newspaper. yeah sure. There is no dumb CEO than Musk. remind me why he has to build a factory in Berlin. on top of that he has not exited California to Mexico fast enough.
I even think Musk advertising of China may push Japanese and Koreans to look for business in other automakers in North America as they ramp EV production. Tesla has alot more dependency on them in US market.
The other brands came much later and with smaller budget but gap in user experience is already closing in various EV components.

This isn't coercion but national security. It is targeted to prevent the Chinese military to gain any sensitive technology. Don't ever try to equal American national security with Chinese coercion. It is completely different thing.

fatzergling said:

This is so pathetic ... if you gonna fight China you better be ready to face hell, not whine at the first few moves China makes.

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The soul of the Anglo oligarch is that of a coward and bully

pmc said:

Tesla leak to a German newspaper. yeah sure. There is no dumb CEO than Musk. remind me why he has to build a factory in Berlin. on top of that he has not exited California to Mexico fast enough.
I even think Musk advertising of China may push Japanese and Koreans to look for business in other automakers in North America as they ramp EV production. Tesla has alot more dependency on them in US market.
The other brands came much later and with smaller budget but gap in user experience is already closing in various EV components.

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sounds like the CIA ordered it’s slaves in Germany to leak kompromat on Elon musk for his visit to China.
Make no mistake, the USG is in civil war over China

UK seems to be unable to tame its inflation either due to Brexit or just inflation being sticky.
Poor households are being hit the hardest because they spend more of their disposable income on food. More people are using food banks in the United Kingdom than ever before, eclipsing even the peak of the pandemic.

The Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest food bank network, handed out close to emergency food parcels over the 12 months to March 2023 — a 37% increase on the previous year.

supercat said:

Decoupling from China is impossible at this point, despite the realization and admission by America's bureaucrats such as Jake Sullivan that the post-cold war neoliberalism has failed. The reason is that the ones that wielding real economic and political powers in the US, the 0.1% oligarch such as Elon Musk, have benefited so much from the neoliberal globalism, they simple don't want change it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1663562160486875139

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The fundamental issue is that the US can't get away with pushing its own interests in the disguise of global interests. The premise "US hegemony is great for the world" is not particularly convincing, and the solutions posed by the Biden administration do nothing to address this flaw, which is why it was offered at the G-7 club - by its very nature an exclusionary group of US vassals - and not the UN.

Bringing India into the club won't change this and that's if India is even interested in being a long term US vassal. They’re just as likely to “betray” the US at the first opportunity.

All that being said, I think we are witnessing a decisive shift to neoconservatism in the US, where the main difference between neoliberalism and neoconservatism is the latter’s fixation on foreign policy and geopolitical dominance over economics.

Americans spend twice as much on health care than most developed countries but many measures such as maternal mortality rate is much higher than other developed countries.
At the same time, the maternal death rate in the U.S. remains one of the highest among developed countries — an unfortunate trend that has continued for years. Data collected by the found that the U.S. had the highest maternal mortality rate of all of the countries studied, with nearly 24 deaths per 100,000 live births. The data is in the U.S., for whom the mortality rate is more than 55 deaths per 100,000 live births.