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Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I thought China already owned a large portion of the world's rare earth reserves, as well as the vast majority of current global production. But Xi wants to control everything, the entire world... |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
China Throws Its Weight Around Russia's Backyard wrote: Former Soviet republics in Central Asia have finalized a deal to build a railway that will provide China with a trade link to Europe that reduces Beijing's dependency on Russia.Does Putin understand that his war in Ukraine and Western sanctions offer China a first-class opportunity to reverse a century of Imperial Russian conquests in Central Asia? All the states in this region will be liberated from Russian embrace (only to become dependent on China). However, the West will welcome this railway and start using it ASAP to circumvent Russia for the foreseeable future. If Russia changes one day it will be too late. Chinas highways and railways will be the shortest, most cost-efficient and best maintained ones connecting China and Europe. In one generation, no Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik will speak Russian anymore, but they will want to learn Chinese as foreign language in every school. China, unlike Russia, is a trading empire, which can offer them perspectives in their own country instead of cheap jobs abroad in Moscow as construction workers or cleaners, while Russians view them with racist eyes as inferior. Can't Putin hear the remains of Tsars rotating in their graves? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30974 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Can't Putin hear the remains of Tsars rotating in their graves?Commie ears don't hear Czars. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
But these 'commies' never were true communists. They have always only called themselves that to deceive their people. They never strived for brotherhood, equality and justice among the 'proletarians' of all countries. Instead they only wanted absolute power and have always sought world domination. The Russian commies were Bolshevik Imperialists, the Chinese Maoist ones. They simply pasted their theoretical reasoning onto the pure idea of Communism to create Mao Bible and Lenin's Writings which they then presented like a religious monstrance legitimating their claim to power. They killed the previous aristocratic class in the Red Revolutions only to adopt their imperial self-image.Can't Putin hear the remains of Tsars rotating in their graves?Commie ears don't hear Czars. And that is what I observe: While Xi is purposefully rebuilding the Chinese Empire, step by step... Putin destroys the legacy of the very Czars he cites as his spiritual idols. He and Russia's leading class seem too incompetent to grasp that. Or they still ponder on how to remove Nero without burning Rome. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I bet that Xi will get around to addressing this problem. China's Millionaires Are Leaving the Country. China is expected to lose more wealthy people via emigration than any other country this year, according to a recent study. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
The communists of the past had this solution: let those who want to emigrate leave the country. Their money and property simply become state property. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30974 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The communists of the past had this solution: let those who want to emigrate leave the country. Their money and property simply become state property. Ah, the era before bitcoin. You did see where Chinese are assisting Mexican drug cartels to launder their funds across the US border. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30974 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I bet that Xi will get around to addressing this problem.Kim's solution: all you aunts and uncles for three generations go to the torture cells. Of course being an overseas agent it also acceptable. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Pooh Xi's pirates are stepping things up to another level. China’s “game of chicken” in the South China Sea hasn’t been going so well. So it has unleashed its Krakens. China’s “game of chicken” in the South China Sea hasn’t been going so well. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
1st it was real estate and now Xi has a banking problem. China Reels From Banking Crisis. At least 40 high-risk Chinese banks have been lost to mergers in the first six months of this year alone as local lenders buckle under exposure to debts, according to reports. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Will Xi's plan to repopulate Hong Kong work or will it just make his crumbling economy worse? After a population exodus, Hong Kong looks to mainland China for new residents. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22495 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
An interesting situation. Before the end of the British mandate in 1997 there was a fairly constant stream of people leaving China to set up a new life in HK. This dwindled to a mere trickle in subsequent years as the Chinese government cracked down on the HK economy and imposed tightet controls on the population. And then people began to leave HK by various routes (leagal or otherwise). Now the population (probably the wealth demographic) has dropped to a critical level and so the Chinese government has entered panic mode and is forecably moved. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
It was also British policy to offer every Hong Kong Chinese a British National (overseas) passport even after 1997. This was done in response to Chinas breach of the 1984 Sino British Joint Agreement of "one country, two systems principle" after 1997. The UK thus provided the Hong Kong Chinese with a Plan B. This was certainly not in the interests of the People's Republic. There are 7.5m inhabitants and... Home office estimates that there are around 2.9m BN(O)s in Hong Kong. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
He's put a target on his back and Pooh Xi will not be happy with his revelations. Former Chinese spy who spoke to Four Corners set to give evidence to Canada's Foreign Interference Commission. A former Chinese spy is set to give evidence in a major Canadian inquiry into foreign interference following his appearance on Four Corners, where he revealed Beijing's illegal operations on foreign soil. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Xi pirates are still acting the aggressors. Chinese and Philippine ships collide again in disputed waters, and the countries are trading blame. Chinese and Philippine coast guard ships collided at sea, damaging at least two boats, in an encounter early on Monday near a new flashpoint in their increasingly alarming confrontations in the disputed South China Sea. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
The Philippines may need to modify the design of its coast guard ships. The ancient Greeks had a solution for this type of conflicts: |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
This move by the U.S. likely won't please Xi, and likely PooTin and little well overfed Kim either. Satellite Photos Show US Reclaiming World War II Airfield for China War. An overgrown airfield on a small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America's role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed by the U.S. Air Force as it prepares for a possible future fight with China.Meanwhile the stupidity of Chinese pilots is on display. Chinese military video appears to show 'dangerous' intercept of Australian aircraft over South China Sea. The People's Liberation Army has released video of a 2022 incident that appears to show a Chinese J-16 fighter intercepting an "enemy" Australian P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft while it was conducting a routine patrol in international airspace. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
China test-fires ICBM for first time in decades The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and "fell into expected sea areas", Beijing's defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was "routine" and part of its "annual training". |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36584 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Xi's plans to reverse his economic blunders regarded as far too little and far too late. Economists sceptical about China's rate cuts, new stimulus measures. China has announced a raft of measures aimed at countering a prolonged downturn in its property market that is heavily weighing on the world's second largest economy. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19361 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
A bit embarrassing Reuters - Chinese nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US official says China's newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank earlier this year, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday, a potential embarrassment for Beijing as it seeks to expand its military capabilities. |
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