It's insane how poised China is to be the next global leader.
Idk why Americans are so stupid, but they get taken advantage of every day because of it.
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It's insane how poised China is to be the next global leader.
Idk why Americans are so stupid, but they get taken advantage of every day because of it.
The Mainlanders learned from elsewhere on how to get ahead no matter how, as the national goal is to make this century theirs by 2049.
Great. I agree.
What does China think of what's been going on in Ukraine for the last four years?
Exactly. It would restore my faith to their good intentions if they’d call their puppet out of Ukraine. But their only true goal is to try and fight the US in all thigs they can (without pissing them off ofc), so two-faced.
It’s likely not going to take that many months when they will resort to that ”strong fist” too. Tech giants know this too and that’s why they need to get all the chips they can NOW because it’s going to be a few years of no chips from certain areas…
their puppet
Who?
Vlad the Paler
America should have never elected a felon pedophile.
Well yes, but he assumes the Trump administration has at least an iota of competence, when really they're the administrative equivalent of a monkey with an assault rifle.
EDIT: I've been contacted by the Monkeys With Assault Rifle Association (MWARA) and would like to issue a formal apology for this false equivalency, as it was an insult to their competency. They sure made a monkey out of Trump.
EDIT2: Again, I'd like to issue a formal apology...
Well I mean how else was the president going to distract us all from him being in the Epstein files millions of times.
It was never about that. There's already been a lot of instability in Iran (massive water shortages) and this was just an opportunity to put their foot on Iran's neck to cause even more instability. With that instability created and oil prices going up, it will cause global inflation. With things becoming priced out for regular people it will cause some markets to crash, then the ultra rich will buy up those things and consolidate even more wealth and power.
Probably a lot more of those. And none of these involve killing people.
Yeah but you forgot that our president is a malignant narcissist.
The world cannot return to the law of the jungle,” he added.
If only he had said that to Putin too, when Russia invaded Ukraine and started a full scale war.
Time for Europe to hold him to this announcement.
A Zionist state should never have happened.
American electing a president which supports a Zionist state should never have happened.
This aggressive war is one link ina much larger chain of things which should never have happened, as is the next link, the war crimes already commited by the aggressor states.
Any war should never have happened. But at one point some people descide that the status quo isn't good and war is the only way to move forward. Perfectly good resources are wasted, civilians die, trust between peoples is destroyed.
And when war has begun, politicians again use the war as a basis for argumentation for their own agenda. It colors the meaning of a statement.
It's mind-boggling that the entire history of war hasn't been "our leaders decided they wanted a war so we tossed them in a pit with sharp sticks to figure things out and suddenly they decided war was avoidable"
We have more in common with a random American Crack dealer, a random middle-Eastern farmer, Chinese retail worker, South American factory worker, than anyone who leads major countries, anyone in the 1%.
I have no ill will toward any Iranian, in fact I've known quite a few immigrants and think better of Iran than most US states, yet my country leaders decided it was a good idea to bomb the fuck out of them. We should toss them in a hole until they can work together with the rest of us, yet here we are...
Based china. Crazy timeline we live in where china is the voice of reason.
lol yeah while flying fighter jets above taiwan daily
Theyre just taking advantage of a golden opportunity for PR.
I don't believe its honest, given what goes on inside their own borders.
Watching the West enter another Forever War for Israel is great for China.
Agreed! Given the opportunity they WILL invade Taiwan.
Although to be honest, do you know any government that is honest? It's all PR.
Good to hear Taiwan will only be reunified diplomatically, if ever.
You don't understand the situation. China does not consider Taiwan a separate independent country, and has never recognized it as such. Unfortunately USA and most of the world has agreed to accept the 1 China policy, which means Taiwan is not treated as a real country in many international contexts.
China see Taiwan as an occupied part of China.
So by their definition they are within their right to attack Taiwan, including by international law as they see it.
So in their view, they can say this, and attack Taiwan, without seeing that as a double standard. And the west has basically agreed to it from a legal perspective. But at the same time USA say they protect Taiwan, which would traditionally have meant likely the rest of NATO too. But now NATO is in shambles because of Trump, so maybe USA will be alone now. America first!
China has to speak from both sides of the mouth. Iran is a client and source of its oil. US is a client and source of its $1 trillion dollar trade surplus. China needs both of them.
which they are both frenemies of russia, he doesnt want to upset that balance too.
It never would have happened if Trump were... Oh... Nevermind.
Democrats need to stop nominating the lesser evil if they truly want to stop the greater evil.
The problem is the ones who live in mini-mansions don't want to pay more in taxes, so they convince everyone under them that raising taxes is a bad idea.
It's not like they have much choice. You look at the ballot and choose fascism or fascism light.