I suspect current international students all need a backup plan if they don't want to be sent to a death camp within 6 month, because you just know Trump will at this rate cancel all student visas before the year is up.
I suspect current international students all need a backup plan if they don't want to be sent to a death camp within 6 month, because you just know Trump will at this rate cancel all student visas before the year is up.
Ignoring American inability to execute, I think this is a great idea, the countries that gets dragged via treaty into war with China can't actually contribute much to the US, but they can contribute a lot to China by offering up their islands or homeland to China, e.g. A Chinese occupation of Australia would have a lot better optics if its in response to Australia declaring war on China.We interrupt your regular schedule of shitposting, so that we may laugh at more American wishcasting diplomacy:
- an essay by Ely Ratner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Indo-Pacific. Ely Ratner is a Jew, a career Dem staffer and a DoD/State Department/RAND Corp apparatchik.
What I find most repulsive about the current American diplomacy is that it is filled with wishful thinking and can not recognise the realities on the ground. The countries that Ratner named - Japan, Australia, and the Philippines - all have China as their biggest trading partner. The three countries are also covered by bilateral security agreements with the US. For Japan, the US-Japan Security Treaty; for Australia, the ANZUS Treaty; and the Philippines, the Mutual Defense Treaty (US-Philippines). Which begs the question - if all of those countries are already covered by the US guarantees, wouldn't that already achieve deterrence vis-a-vis China? The very fact that this security pact is being proposed shows that American deterrence is being diminished.
What incentives would there be for Australia and Japan to defend the Filipino claims on Second Thomas Shoal? Security pacts are the most potent when one does not challenge it. NATO still exist because Russia has not carried out a military operation on a NATO country. For this proposed security pact, however, things are quite different. China has had a history of testing security alliances; China invaded Vietnam in 1979, after Vietnam had signed a security treaty with the Soviet Union in 1978. Crucially, China successfully called the Soviet bluff. The Soviet Union chose not to militarily intervene in the brief Sino-Vietnam war of 1979.
If the proposed security pact does form, it will not be worth the paper it is written on. The moment the pact gets signed is the moment the Chinese Coast Guard formally demolish the Sierra Madre and detain the Filipino sailors. Would Australia and Japan dare confront China over the shoals in the South China Sea? If they will not, then what's the point?
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Yes it's time the Jews get a taste of their own medicine. Just repeat what they say about China and replace it with "Jews" or "Israel" and they'll scream antisemitism bloody murder. Apparently Rahm Emanuel is being pushed to be the next Democrat Presidential candidate. The Democrats don't learn their lesson. More of the same crony Democrat politics especially when he's being pushed by the likes of Nancy Pelosi. We just heard from blow-with-the-wind Elizabeth Economy admit Trump's tariffs on China was a negative on the US economy but Biden continued it because like I recall years ago mentioning in here that Biden and the Democrats were more concern about looking like they were in league with China and the Republicans were going to exploit it. Damn what best for the US and Americans. So the only thing Democrats have that they can say is theirs is DEI. I'm not talking the feel-good-including-everyone front they hide it behind to get everyone on board. I'm talking what they were actually practicing and only looking out for special interests of a select few people and groups who were all victims of Western culture and not anyone else. The world has to pay for Western liberal guilt. They wanted to spread their DEI around the world trying to push only a very exclusively Western cultural faction of ideals onto everyone else. Everything else... the Democrats followed the Republicans' lead. And look how that basically torpedoed their chances of winning the Presidential election. What's Rahm Emanuel going to bring? Hoping the Jews go Democrat like they did with Trump? Yes ignore everyone else... again. That's why they lost the Muslim vote in Michigan. Their logic was what other choice do they have... Trump? And they did choose him. That same thing happened with most other major groups they chose to ignore.
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuke casualties are overstated by the Japanese government. The real death toll was actually 10X less than what they claim. They should stop with the exaggerations and get over it already."If we applied the same standards to China no one can criticize the SeeSeePee because Nanjing Massacre. Otherwise it is anti-Sinoism.
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But they won't do that, they will in fact even criticise the "CCP" 100x while glazing the Japanese.If we applied the same standards to China no one can criticize the SeeSeePee because Nanjing Massacre. Otherwise it is anti-Sinoism.
This is more relevant in the China demography thread.The new chinese marriage law is extremely dumb if the goal is to boost birth rate. Make it extremely easy to get married and difficult to get divorced. Then how about welfare for women in abusive marraiges??? And why would women get married if divorce is so difficult??? Now they would think a lot harder before comitting, and rightly so.