China has been collapsing since 2011. Yet China managed to grow it's economy to about 70% of the US economy today. If this is collapse, does that mean that the US is collapsing faster than China?
BRICS expansion is a no brainer. There are lots of things to criticize India for but this isn't one of them, I can honestly see why they may have reservations about bringing in countries like SA that could possibly dilute their influence. I wouldn't want BRICS to expand too quickly but I think the process shouldn't be too slow either. I've said this before but it needs to expand in a way that brings in key players from different regions, for me the next wave should be Indonesia (Asia), Nigeria (Africa), Argentina (Latam), and Saudi Arabia (Mid East/West Asia). That way you keep everybody happy. I wouldn't want to bring in too many countries from the same region nor would I want too many Muslim countries at the same time, no offence to my Muslim friends but it can't have disproportionate influence in a developing country forum.Don’t forget they are also incompetent nationalists. Then they wonder no one takes them seriously on the internet when they throw jin hind tantrums.
FREEPORT, Maine, July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday a deal may be on the way with Saudi Arabia after talks that his national security adviser had with Saudi officials in Jeddah aimed at reaching a normalization in relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
"There’s a rapprochement maybe under way," Biden told contributors to his 2024 re-election campaign at an event in Freeport, Maine.
Biden did not give details about the possible deal.
Bro BRICS is a front propaganda for Russia and China, it was term by Jim O'Neill, so you can sense what purpose it was. What matter is Chinese BRI and Russian Eurasia economic union. This is the Core and BRICS is just a misnomer. Of the BRICS, China held sway over Brazil (economics) while Russia is viewed positively by South Africa for her support in their struggle against apartheid. What about India? like I said until they show the money and didn't dithered, nobody from the Glodal South will give them a damn.BRICS expansion is a no brainer. There are lots of things to criticize India for but this isn't one of them, I can honestly see why they may have reservations about bringing in countries like SA that could possibly dilute their influence. I wouldn't want BRICS to expand too quickly but I think the process shouldn't be too slow either. I've said this before but it needs to expand in a way that brings in key players from different regions, for me the next wave should be Indonesia (Asia), Nigeria (Africa), Argentina (Latam), and Saudi Arabia (Mid East/West Asia). That way you keep everybody happy. I wouldn't want to bring in too many countries from the same region nor would I want too many Muslim countries at the same time, no offence to my Muslim friends but it can't have disproportionate influence in a developing country forum.
Shocked..Don’t forget they are also incompetent nationalists. Then they wonder no one takes them seriously on the internet when they throw jin hind tantrums.
Actually it is. India like to have to say on things where their opinion don't natter much because they don't contribute much.There are lots of things to criticize India for but this isn't one of them,
Like what influence India has in BRICS? It's just a coin term,not an organization. Even if it was, I don't see how India even remotely outweigh the strategic influence of countries on whom much of global energy trade depends, as does USD.I can honestly see why they may have reservations about bringing in countries like SA that could possibly dilute their influence.
That is an ideal scenario for an ideal world. I agree. But it is not an ideal world we live in. Without countries with leverage, BRICS would look like a multi cultural boy band. Besides India's reasoning of "aspirational democracy" entry doesn't flow my boat much.I've said this before but it needs to expand in a way that brings in key players from different regions
You don't have a choice. You are talking about economic market the size of 1/3 of global population, with youngest group amongst all ages, having geographical reach from east-south east-south asia all the way up to horn of africa.nor would I want too many Muslim countries at the same time, no offence to my Muslim friends but it can't have disproportionate influence in a developing country forum.
I honestly wonder if the Russia integration project will be able to one day return Chinese land which has been stagnating under Russian occupation for many decades.Bro BRICS is a front propaganda for Russia and China, it was term by Jim O'Neill, so you can sense what purpose it was. What matter is Chinese BRI and Russian Eurasia economic union. This is the Core and BRICS is just a misnomer. Of the BRICS, China held sway over Brazil (economics) while Russia is viewed positively by South Africa for her support in their struggle against apartheid. What about India? like I said until they show the money and didn't dithered, nobody from the Glodal South will give them a damn.
The Post repeats false U.S. claims that the Japanese government had hindered war crime trials against the units members:
It was the U.S. government, not the Japanese one, which gave immunity to Unit 731 members. It even paid them :However, according to U.S. officials, the Japanese government continued to decline to assist American efforts to place perpetrators on a list of war criminals prohibited from entering the United States. Ishii lived in freedom until he died of throat cancer in 1959. The Times reported that other Unit 731 veterans became governor of Tokyo, president of the Japan Medical Association and chief of the Japanese Olympic Committee.
40 million yen today are the equivalent of $284,000. Nicer to have than not to have ...The US government offered full political immunity to high-ranking officials who were instrumental in perpetrating crimes against humanity, in exchange of the data about their experiments. Among those was Shiro Ishii, the commander of Unit 731. During the cover-up operation, the U.S. government paid money to obtain data on human experiments conducted in China, according to two declassified U.S. government documents.
The total amount paid to unnamed former members of the infamous unit was somewhere between 150,000 yen to 200,000 yen. An amount of 200,000 yen at that time is the equivalent of 20 million yen to 40 million yen today.
The U.S. military used the knowledge gained from Unit 731 to developed a number of biological weapons and to test them, allegedly also on humans. It even used those weapons, like Unit 731, during the war against North Korea and China.
As Jeffrey Kaye, who has long studied the case, :
By repeating the U.S. government false claims of 'Cold War propaganda', by not correcting it and by repeating false U.S. statements which accuse the Japanese government of hindering the war crime trials, the Washington Post is covering up the U.S. war crimes that were based on the experiments Unit 731 had made.A preponderance of the evidence over the past couple of years has established that the U.S. used biological weapons in its war with North Korea and China in the early 1950s. This is , as well as a close reading of the . It is time now to move on to an examination of how the U.S. pulled off the operation.
The story that follows documents what seems like an unsuccessful attempt by Air Force flyers to tip off the press and government officials to the secret U.S germ warfare campaign then underway in Korea and Northeast China. This attempt at military whistleblowing allows for a wider consideration today of the evidence surrounding the germ warfare charges, especially how the bioattacks were organized.