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Maikeru said:
Malaysia and Cambodia apparently agree to co-operate with US against China:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1982520087233151123
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Low IQ countries with no power are not in a position to say no. So what happens is if they say no they get smacked by one side. Or if they say yes to working for one side, they will get smacked by the other side. That's all there is to it. They'll get crushed if they try to actually follow through on what might for now just be lip service to Trump. If they say no to Trump, they'll also be crushed. These middle countries just tend to get crushed no matter what, whether it be Ukraine, Korea (historically), Vietnam (historically), Afghanistan (historically), Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland (historically), etc.
 
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Maikeru said:
Malaysia and Cambodia apparently agree to co-operate with US against China:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1982520087233151123
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I'm surprised there aren't more anti Americanism in these countries especially getting bullied like this and then taking it. This is the power of propaganda. They just feel like it's ok to sit back and take it, but if these deals make them sell less to the US, then in the future the US would have less economic leverage

I thought Malaysia was pretty friendly to china right now, so I doubt much will come of it.

Cambodia relies too much on China especially it's geography. I doubt they will be able to go against china much. It's like Mongolia trying to be anti china and anti Russia. Lol
 
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GulfLander said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981956638593499492
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If my memory is correct, Michael Beckley is an expert of coping. He is the genius who argued that it's almost impossible for China to pursue armed reunification with Taiwan because of China's one-child policy, as though Taiwan's demographics were much better than China's. I won't waste one second to read what he writes.

9dashline said:
Hey guys, here is your chance for free cruise vacation
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Sure, sign me up, as long as the sanitation plumbing works.

Chinese people enjoy unprecedented prosperity. The Chinese diaspora "researcher": but at what cost? As though the U.S. is not a society full of degeneration (just compare the number of its prison inmates with China's) and is worth emulating.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1982159764055277834
To be fair, as the author of a book about China, Dan Wang has no choice but to criticize the Chinese system, otherwise his book would not get any promotion on the Western market.

Donald Trump is copying the wrong things from China, writes Dan Wang​

America is getting authoritarianism without the good stuff
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MortyandRick

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MortyandRick said:
I'm surprised there aren't more anti Americanism in these countries especially getting bullied like this and then taking it. This is the power of propaganda. They just feel like it's ok to sit back and take it, but if these deals make them sell less to the US, then in the future the US would have less economic leverage

I thought Malaysia was pretty friendly to china right now, so I doubt much will come of it.

Cambodia relies too much on China especially it's geography. I doubt they will be able to go against china much. It's like Mongolia trying to be anti china and anti Russia. Lol
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Here are some key excerpts.

1. If the United States imposes a customs duty, quota, prohibition, fee, charge, or other import restriction on a good or service of a third country and considers that such measure is relevant to protecting the economic or national security of the United States, the United States intends to notify such measure to Malaysia for the purpose of economic and national security alignment. Upon receiving such notification from the United States, Malaysia shall adopt or maintain a measure with equivalent restrictive effect as the measure adopted by the United States or agree to a timeline for implementation that is acceptable to both Parties, to address a shared economic or national security concern, guided by principles of goodwill and a shared commitment to enhancing bilateral relations between the United States and Malaysia.

2. Malaysia shall cooperate with the United States, in a manner consistent with applicable requirements of domestic laws and regulations, with a view to restricting transactions of its nationals with individuals and entities included in the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List (Supplement 4 of Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations), as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control Lists of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) and the Non-SDN Consolidated Sanctions List.

3. Malaysia shall explore the establishment of a mechanism to review inbound investment for national security risks, including in connection with critical minerals and critical infrastructure, consistent with widely accepted international best practices, and shall cooperate with the United States on matters related to investment security.


Article 2.9: Labor

1. Malaysia shall adopt and implement a prohibition on the importation of goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part by forced or compulsory labor. Malaysia may acknowledge U.S. government determinations on entities under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and shall take appropriate action to prohibit importation of goods from those companies. The Parties shall cooperate by sharing best practices on the development and enforcement of forced labor import prohibitions, as appropriate. Malaysia shall implement the obligations in this paragraph within two years of the date of entry into force of this Agreement.


Basically aimed at china. The US wants to Malaysia and Cambodia to sanction who they sanction eg. Huawei and stop products form Xinjiang.

But there's a lot of "explore" and "in accordance to domestic laws" so depends on how it's initiated.

However China will hit back cause this is basically a loss of sovereignty by these two countries
 
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