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EU wont break up. It is a huge market where Germany and France can dump their products and thus have competitive industries.

Also for the poor countries, they can get unlimited ECB QE which keeps their bonds super low allowing them to service their debts. In addition there is fiscal transfers in the EU, which means that rich countries pay up for poor countries to get them developed.

Why else do you think that so many EU countries are so rich? Its because the EU has been funnelling billions and billions of Euros to develop them.

So, rich countries get huge market with minimal competition to dump their products, and poor countries get money to develop. Win-win for both sides.

Obviously, the EU commission is always looking to federalize (EU army..) but it is still a long way off.
 
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AssassinsMace said:
Obama is seen as liberal and he had to have okayed it.
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He isn't leftiest of liberals. Far from it.

He literally warned against going too far left.

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"Obama is a liberal, but he's not the most liberal," said Keith Poole, a University of California-San Diego professor who runs the site.
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The leftiest of liberals think Obama is a devil for throwing Snowden under the bus for his freedom of speech and exposing of US war crimes. They hate Obama too.
 
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lengthy quotes, waste of space. nobody gives a shit to what happens in japn, it doesn't mean anything anyway.
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Your comment is bizarre and rude! As a matter of fact Japan is the 2nd or 3rd most important country in ASIA, competing with India for the 2nd post! So what happens there is important, esp. for ASIA! I don't know you and have not interacted with you as far as I can recall. And usually I don't like to be petty and wasting time by reacting to things like this personal flavor, like or dislike, or whatsoever one's own personal preference!

Yet Tom Fowdy is a good author. This piece is helping his readers to understand few key topics:

- Why was there fundamental different treatments on Nazi Germany vs. Imperial Japan after their defeats in WWII
- Why is LDP so good at holding power
- Why is Japan be so faithful in following the US direction
- Why Japanese gov's policies towards China and Taiwan change so much lately

Just remember, what you deem as important/not important may not be shared by other members here, so please try be more civilized in commenting. And contrary to what you opined, I deem this piece as very important, in addition to post it here, I also share it with my friends.... because I think 97 out of 100 readers don't grasp what happened with Japan and USA after WWII, people just don't get it why Nazi Germany and Japan were treated so differently -- often folks just commenting that German are repentant nation, feel deep remorse to what they did, and Japanese are not, without knowing that the geopolitics of the USA was the key determinant behind the reactions of these WWII losers, even those living in ASIA don't know about the background due to the very much distorted and sterilized version of the WWII history!
 
windsclouds2030

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windsclouds2030 said:
Xiaoying, Xiaoying [Tsai Ing-wen]], you are not who you were twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, you kept saying that you were a Chinese and grew up studying Chinese books. Now you don't even want to say a word of Chinese.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1434031203414200323

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1434058514817687554
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An old video showing the awkwardness of Tsai Ing-wen with her "Chineseness"

見外賓念講稿卡卡 蔡英文自嘲「說中文有困難」

When seeing a foreign guest, Tsai Ing-wen mocked herself that "it's difficult to speak Chinese"


@范蘭欽郭冠英 现在最新的绕口令是： 上联:都说英文的英文比英文的中文要好， 下联:其实英文的英文比英文的中文更差， 横批:蔡日文 从西边来了个说中文的美国人，说着流利的中文，从东边来了个假装不会中文的蔡英文，说着蹩脚的英文。说中文的美国人要和假装不会中文的蔡英文说中文，假装不会中文的蔡英文非要和说中文的美国人说英文。也不知，是说中文的美国人听懂了假装不会中文的蔡英文说的英文，还是假装不会中文的蔡英文听懂了说中文的美国人说的中文。。。。。。说中文的美国人笑着说中文，假装不会中文的蔡英文尴尬的说着英文。

From the West came an American who spoke Chinese fluently, and from the East came a Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to speak Chinese yet spoke poor English.

A Chinese-speaking American guest wanted to speak Chinese with Tsai Ing-wen (or Cai Yingwen in standard Pinyin) who pretended not to speak Chinese, and Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to speak Chinese had to speak broken English with a Chinese-speaking American. I don't know whether the Chinese-speaking American understood the English spoken by Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to know Chinese, or who pretended not to know Chinese understood the Chinese spoken by Chinese-speaking American... the Chinese-speaking American smiled and spoke Chinese, and Tsai Ing-wen, who pretended not to speak Chinese, spoke English awkwardly.
 
Gatekeeper

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windsclouds2030 said:
An old video showing the awkwardness of Tsai Ing-wen with her "Chineseness"

見外賓念講稿卡卡 蔡英文自嘲「說中文有困難」

When seeing a foreign guest, Tsai Ing-wen mocked herself that "it's difficult to speak Chinese"


@范蘭欽郭冠英 现在最新的绕口令是： 上联:都说英文的英文比英文的中文要好， 下联:其实英文的英文比英文的中文更差， 横批:蔡日文 从西边来了个说中文的美国人，说着流利的中文，从东边来了个假装不会中文的蔡英文，说着蹩脚的英文。说中文的美国人要和假装不会中文的蔡英文说中文，假装不会中文的蔡英文非要和说中文的美国人说英文。也不知，是说中文的美国人听懂了假装不会中文的蔡英文说的英文，还是假装不会中文的蔡英文听懂了说中文的美国人说的中文。。。。。。说中文的美国人笑着说中文，假装不会中文的蔡英文尴尬的说着英文。

From the West came an American who spoke Chinese fluently, and from the East came a Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to speak Chinese yet spoke poor English.

A Chinese-speaking American guest wanted to speak Chinese with Tsai Ing-wen (or Cai Yingwen in standard Pinyin) who pretended not to speak Chinese, and Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to speak Chinese had to speak broken English with a Chinese-speaking American. I don't know whether the Chinese-speaking American understood the English spoken by Tsai Ing-wen who pretended not to know Chinese, or who pretended not to know Chinese understood the Chinese spoken by Chinese-speaking American... the Chinese-speaking American smiled and spoke Chinese, and Tsai Ing-wen, who pretended not to speak Chinese, spoke English awkwardly.
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Yes. It is commonly known the the English Vegetable speaks English poorly. AKA broken English. It is little known fact her spoken Chinese is "really" not much better. It's a shame she tries so hard to be a statesman of the world. She is genuinely not an eloquent speaker.

God knows how she managed to get that non-existent Phd from LSE.
 
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This Guinea coup now creates a question-mark around the massive Simandou iron ore project. Chinese have already started work on it; the railroad is being built . Target date for production was to be 2025.
 
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