Facts. Liberal democracy is a product of development and not a tool countries can use to develop. It's a luxury system poor countries can't afford.
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Interesting. So Russia must've known it was coming.
The second article is amazing. They try to project the brutality of the residential school system for natives in North America where the kids were beaten for speaking native languages, meanwhile they admit that there is regular Tibetan language instruction in Chinese boarding schools. That is already a massive difference. They also make it seem like only minorities attend these boarding schools, when it is just the common policy for all rural areas, even with Han people.
China is making massive money in the EU, their companies can even charge multiple times what they charge in the mainland there and enjoy multiple times profit margins.
Over the years there has been a clear trend toward more and more money being made domestically, and in the Global South, but the EU is still a huge source of profits.
The thing is that due to how fractured the EU is, I doubt it can do much against China there. Build some electric vehicle and battery plants in France and Hungary- and they will take care of everything for you from within.
Every individual voice most often counts there and is needed for some serious initiatives like that, even in terms of economic policy.
Also, the US isn't the only one who has the influence over EU. Local huge corporations have immense influence as in all liberal democracies around the world.
Germany's car makers historically made a lot of money in China, and even though they would be squeezed out of that market in the future, they still need to actually manufacture there, for their sales to the rest of the world, as you can't build EVs without China nowadays.
The same is true for many, many other manufacturing companies that manufacture in China, China has the best resources available for manufacturing in the world if you want to compete globally.
They all also lobby to German governments to cut out any trade war bullshit. That's why the EU's help over Taiwan wasn't even a thing to begin with.
To add, this farse over peace talks with Russia is also aimed to fulfill Macron's ago, everyone knows it's just a ceremony that would yield zero chance for results.
And Russia probably wouldn't mind China saying some words like "encouraging" them for peace. There is no way that would damage relations.
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if traditional way of doing things than all Saudi cabinet would be past 70 years age and this open way to corruption, easily deceived by foreigners and lack of reforms. MBS got all the sport, entertainment and business events second to none in one country and this is his legitimacy with younger people which is increasing in numbers. They should look after there own country now.
Saudis older generation has done alot for Muslim countries both for there independence and keep them afloat. (look at Saudi position on Algerian independence or Egypt Suez conflict despite not on the same wave length with there political system).
Why Germany is increasing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region | DW News
Two German warships have set sail towards the Indo-Pacific region, in an effort to increase Germany's military presence in the region. The "Frankfurt am Main" ship set off on Tuesday from the northern German port of Wilhelmshaven. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the South China Sea were putting pressure on freedom of navigation and trade routes. - Trans-Atlanticist Propaganda/Misinformation Outlet DW News
Disclaimer:
1) Deutsche Welle News is described as "a German public broadcast service" officially. In reality it is a media out-let that spreads US propaganda and misinformation.
2) So called "Chief Political" correspondent Nina Haase is a de-facto US agent that spreads US propaganda and misinformation.
3) Defense minister Boris Pistorius is also a de-facto US agent that does the bidding of his masters in Washington DC.
He doesn’t appear to be getting much support based on the comments under the tweet. Guess his whining and grinding has its limits until, well it becomes a little bit too annoying for everybody. He probably should know the moment you are funded by a foreign entity that is basically well, not good, is well when most people probably comes to the conclusion that well, he is not a good person and thus not someone worth listen to, this is putting it in there mildest form possible without getting into trouble for using a lot of expletives due to the amount of hypocrisy exposed in this silly tweet. I mean these people are not educated in simply logic for heavens sake or maybe they have completely sold their soul to the point where they live in lala land
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That's the ideal way to put people to sleep. Infect them with entertainment and useless activities so they don't have time to think and do anything about the more uncomfortable things in life such as a usurper taking over the country.
Wasn't this practice the norm against that famous ancient Hejazi from the Quraysh? Wherever he went to catechize people, his enemies sent a bandwagon of entertainers to sway people's attention away.
That is pretty much true. Much of Southern Europe was against opening up trade with China. The textile and shoe industries in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal were all severely affected. The only reason trade was opened up was because Northern Europe thought they would earn a lot of money selling China machine tools while their own production would be basically not affected. But once China starts exporting cars, airplanes, and machine tools, well, then their tune will change.
This is pretty much guaranteed.
Not just that. In Finland cutting ties with Russia had severe economic impact. A lot of Finnish companies had large investments in Russia, and their timber industry regularly imports Russian timber which is processed there. The Finnish government just ignored the concerns of the industry, and even popular sentiment which was against joining NATO, and joined anyway, enacting severe sanctions on Russian trade. But what should you expect from a country with an airheaded leader that is a WEF implant.
It is done as a kickback for China's imports of European machine tools.
It will. But the politicians won't care. It won't affect them.
Of course I can understand that China does not want to leave a juicy market. But will happen eventually. The EU will likely add tariffs to Chinese products much like the US did.
Actually, the EU central leadership is increasingly asserting its control. And worst of all is they seem to be politically captured by US interests.
The EU had close economic ties with Russia and they just discarded all of them. Russia sold them commodities cheaply, and they exported expensive manufactured products. What better deal could they get than that? The EU had plenty of leverage on Ukraine to force them to uphold the Minsk agreements. But they never used them for more than a fig leaf to rearm Ukraine.
Remember how the US pushed the EU to cut imports of Russian gas promising they would deliver their own LNG as a replacement? Do not be surprised if the EU suddenly decides they don't need environmental standards at all and should continue buying fossil fuels, imported from the US or the Middle East, to continue manufacturing their highly polluting internal combustion cars.
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This is the list of agreements made during the visit, , there is only 中法关于中东局势的联合声明 that is related to international conflict (middle east). Whatever AFP or this website claim that Xi said is NOT what China acknowledges. In diplomacy only signed papers have values.
I am sure Macron has tried to make the Russo-Ukrainian war into the joint declaration but Xi rejected the idea (otherwise no joint declaration). So instead of "backing" as AFP tried to present, the reality is "rejection". It is another example of dressing up a failure as success.
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