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Wrought

Wrought

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US is busy cutting its SCS experts because expertise is woke or something.

The State Department fired its top experts on the South China Sea and shuttered the office with a key focus on Indo-Pacific security amid a sweeping reorganization earlier this month, leaving gaps in knowledge and experience that are critical to U.S. interests in the region.

The Office of Multilateral Affairs within the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs managed U.S. engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), coordinated diplomatic response to China's aggression in the South China Sea and oversaw the Mekong River region, according to current and former officers. The office was cut along with dozens of others in the recent reduction in force that left more than 1,300 government workers without a job.

It was also the office that helped prepare Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his trip to Malaysia earlier this month for ASEAN-related meetings. The layoffs were announced while Rubio was traveling home from that trip. "After he used us, he fired us," one fired foreign affairs officer who focused on the South China Sea said. "It's mind-boggling."
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Wrought

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Latest update to the recent US-Japan deal is that they can't agree on what they just agreed to.

TOKYO -- Details released by the White House on its tariff agreement with Japan include many points that are unclear or out of sync with how Tokyo has explained it, including the date it goes into effect and the framework for Japanese investment in the U.S.

The fact sheet states that Japan will "immediately increase
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by 75%." Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told a news conference Thursday that Japan can expand purchases of American-grown rice "at our discretion" but that there would be "no fixed quota."

While Akazawa said Tuesday that the agreement includes nothing about defense spending, the U.S. fact sheet states that Japan will make "additional billions of dollars annually of purchases of U.S. defense equipment."
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FriedButter

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Wrought said:
Latest update to the recent US-Japan deal is that they can't agree on what they just agreed to.
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Trump probably changed it at the last minute and claimed they agreed to it. For example, this image below says $400 billion and 50% profit sharing but he announced 90% profit for US and $550 billion investments. Seems clear that any deal with the US requires either a joint announcement or announcement before the US does. Trump might attempt to tack on terms that were never agreed to.

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AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1948537021657420281
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Is that a threat? Maybe Beijing doesn't follow their stereotype that the Chinese only cares about money and not losing it hence how they're hinging their entire gambit on. It's probably more valuable where TikTok doesn't fall into the control anti-Chinese Jews and of Israel so they can manipulate its user base. They believe China wasted its money on the Three Gorges Dam. That's was $25 billion but somehow losing $20 billion (their offer) from not selling TikTok the Chinese won't be able to refuse.
 
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