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[luminary]

The whole point of the US-India infrastructure deal is to delay actual infrastructure projects, embezzle contractor money from the nations involved, and never finish it, so they can keep the Middle East disconnected and down for another decade.

The last thing the US wants is to improve interconnectivity that China could take advantage of. China owns Haifa port and Piraeus port that the plan goes through, they would be some of the biggest profiteers if the rail was actually built.



As expected, India's ego has been blown up to gargantuan proportions after G20.

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The Asian Age

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Deccan Herald

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The Times of India

 

[Han Patriot]

Hong Kong is definitely more than the $7.66 they say. It's at least $10.

I also lived in inland China for several years. I'd say that the price there was closer to $5, not $3.46. And that was almost a decade ago.

Depends what you are eating. 30 rmb us about right in Shanghai.

 

[HereToSeePics]

Taking the cargo of a ship that doesn't belong to you and selling it for profit - definition of piracy

What method they use isn't really relevant. It just shows that China should provide its own shipping companies so that friendly trading partners don't have to rely on western service providers. The sanctions on Russia are not just an opportunity to take over the Russian consumer goods market and replace western financial services for Chinese trade. It should also be an opportunity to take over the shipping industry. No country would dare touching a ship flying the Chinese flag

I think you misunderstood my comment - my criticism was strictly directed at the original twitter phrasing of the event and I didn't make even the slightest comment that this seizure of oil is "ok". The twitter post makes it sound like the tanker was intercepted by armed commandos repelling down helicopters with guns blazing, by using the specific phrase "pirates", all which it is not.

The precise definition of piracy is(wikipedia/google):

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

So it requires both parties to be ships at sea.

 

[jwnz]

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- Op Ed

by Sherelle Jacobs (The Telegraph)

"Twenty-two years ago today, the West woke up to a diabolical new existential enemy. When 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed two into the Twin Towers, killing almost 3,000 people, the US government and its European counterparts learnt to their horror that the fall of the Soviet Union had not, in fact, brought about the End of History – that is, the final exhaustion of the great dialectical battle between the forces of freedom and fundamentalism.

Instead it turned out that there were people who were willing to blow themselves up in order to destroy the West. Their fundamentalism boiled down to a total rejection of Western civilization, and in particular its idea of freedom anchored in individual liberty and personal autonomy rather than unquestioning submission before God.

Frightening as this attack was, it was at least tangible. The new struggle seemed a straightforwardly Manichean one, between individual freedom and collective fundamentalism; the life force and death instinct.

Terrorists, exalting their murderous deeds, raged against the infidel in the open air. The movement had standout villains, most notably Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire who seemed pathologically obsessed with Whitney Houston and yet so despised American consumerism that he refused to use a fridge. The gauntlet thrown down by these terrorists brought out the essence of the West. The cowboy president George W Bush vowed, with a Texan smoke ’em out lilt, to hunt down the ringleaders “dead or alive”.

Today, the enemy we face – the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – is in some ways more frightening than al-Qaeda. This new enemy does not seek to destroy Western values by waging open war. Rather it is steadily rendering freedom and democracy obsolete, through infiltration of our economic and political system in the shadows. The CCP has been extraordinarily successful in capturing Britain plc..."

Typical isn't it. The West always needs a boogyman to scare the public in order to keep the MIC and the ruling class in, the general public down, and the rest out of the garden.

 

[BoraTas]

Looks like this Doug Fuller fella has changed his mind since... Lol
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Apple and Nvidia should have asked think-tank writers before spending literal billions in IC design...

 

[FriedButter]

The precise definition of piracy is(wikipedia/google):

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

So it requires both parties to be ships at sea.

Why would you use that definition to define piracy instead of the legal definition? Go rent a helicopter and steal some cargo off a ship in any jurisdiction. Good luck with your defence of I did not commit piracy because i used an aircraft and not a ship.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Article 101: Definition of Piracy

Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b).​

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18 U.S. Code § 1659 - Attack to plunder vessel​

Whoever, upon the high seas or other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, by surprise or open force, maliciously attacks or sets upon any vessel belonging to another, with an intent unlawfully to plunder the same, or to despoil any owner thereof of any moneys, goods, or merchandise laden on board thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

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[HereToSeePics]

Why would you use that definition to define piracy instead of the legal definition? Go rent a helicopter and steal some cargo off a ship in any jurisdiction. Good luck with your defence of I did not commit piracy because i used an aircraft and not a ship.

Even the UN definition that you cited:

(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

So it seems clear that the definition of piracy requires 2(or more) actual-physical things at sea no? (and, no, we're not talking about software/music/movie piracy since this is strictly in a naval related context)

 

[supercat]

Change "China" to "American / Western businesses in China", and it makes more sense

Ever wondered why the West keeps badmouthing China's economy?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701296604282757217

The whole point of the US-India infrastructure deal is to delay actual infrastructure projects, embezzle contractor money from the nations involved, and never finish it, so they can keep the Middle East disconnected and down for another decade.

The last thing the US wants is to improve interconnectivity that China could take advantage of. China owns Haifa port and Piraeus port that the plan goes through, they would be some of the biggest profiteers if the rail was actually built.



As expected, India's ego has been blown up to gargantuan proportions after G20.

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The Asian Age

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Deccan Herald

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The Times of India

The so-called India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor probably will end up contributing more to the BRI instead of taking something away from it. Furthermore, what's the point of bypassing the Suez Canal?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701017076293591268

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701071630653345845

As for India, they have a long way to go.

It Will Take Another 27 Years for India to Have a Bigger Labour Force Than China's​

...if we assume the labour force participation rates for both countries will remain constant, and so will other factors.

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You have to be very careful about what you read on Twitter, including "Reader added context". Basically, the "sex assault" of the artist was just kisses and hugs 10 years ago. It seems that it's indeed a case that the Yoon administration used the sex assault charge against the artist of the statue of the comfort woman as an excuse to remove it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701079482520768904

Today is the 50th anniversary of a different 911. After the CIA assisted coup, thousands died and are still missing under the dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701219367101640868

 

[siegecrossbow]

Today is the 50th anniversary of a different 911. After the CIA assisted coup, thousands died and are still missing under the dictator Augusto Pinochet's rule.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701219367101640868

 

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Typical isn't it. The West always needs a boogyman to scare the public in order to keep the MIC and the ruling class in, the general public down, and the rest out of the garden.

The author's of half-Nigerian heritage. I know this is a touchy subject, but compared to diasporic Americans, diasporic Brits seem to go the extra mile to assimilate into Anglo culture including becoming more extreme in their views. Probably due to greater racism diasporic folks in UK get compared to Americans and thus the greater need to prove themselves.