It is Windows 7 sticker.
Look at the red mark logo, it is Lenovo. Otherwise it should have been IBM in capital letters.
Ukrainian War Developments
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Look at the red mark logo, it is Lenovo. Otherwise it should have been IBM in capital letters.
You could be right. NATO-labelled laptops is a big deal after all.
I guess they have no choice but to rely only on captured NATO rocket launchers to further their case instead.
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While it may be obvious to you that normal commercial and trade relations is the only path forward - that is not obvious to many members calling for one of either two extremes:
- Take advantage of the situation to extract as many benefits from Russia at the current time as possible
- Provide direct financial / economic aid
Not only is Russia a great power - it is a former superpower still holding on to delusions of grandeur. Russia is never going to accept being a junior partner in a Sino-Russian partnership. While both nations benefit today from partnership and cooperation in many arenas, and both have a shared interest in standing up against US led imperialism, their relationship should be recognized for what it is rather than what it is not.
Also, Chinese should not forget all that Imperial Russia and the USSR have taken from China in the past 200 years. If the USSR had their way, China wouldn't have a Xinjiang problem today because Xinjiang would not even be Chinese, just like Outer Mongolia and Outer Manchuria.
That is obviously not a realistic scenario. Sino-Russian relations did not advance to the point where it can be deemed a strategic partnership until 2014.
What was the term used to define Sino-Soviet cooperation and friendship?
China is the current ascendant superpower. Russia is a declining former superpower. Superpower's do not have peer-to-peer strategic partnerships. None of the Western European nations are a strategic ally of the US - they are vassals, either willingly or through coercion/pressure. As the power differential between China and Russia continues to grow at an ever-increasing rate, does anyone believe Russia will just settle down for being China's vassal? At best, Russia would end up being a neutral party, perhaps the leader of some sort of new Non-Aligned Movement seeking to get the most economic benefits it could from both sides.
I've realized that the topic of long-term Sino-Russian relations is crossing over into being, "off-topic," - so this is the last post I will make on this topic.
Maybe China need Russia to rob the hell out of any European Countries who want to remain the die-hard US poppets? After all, China can not reach Lithuania without Russia, for a start. Those countries in Europe who sponsored and voted for the "Xinjiang" non-sense need a whip on their asses so they know they need sympathy of a big power on the other side of the continent. China would be glad that Russia give them a lesson.
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There was a real 'false flag' incident at the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the USSR.Oh well ... the former genius has spoken again! ... sometimes it's really not that hard to understand why the West is seen so much critically all over the world!
On 22 June 1941, Romanian forces and German forces from Romania invaded the USSR (which included territory
that the USSR had recently seized from Romania). Hungary, which shared no border with USSR, was not yet involved.
Having a bitter dispute (which lingers to this day) over Transylvania, the Romanians and Hungarians hated each other.
Romania launched a 'false flag' operation to help draw Hungary into the war against the USSR.
Pretending that they were Soviet, Romanian aircraft bombed a town in Hungary, killing some civilians.
The Romanians dropped an intentionally unexploded bomb with Russian markings for the Hungarians to find.
Then Hungary declared war upon the USSR.
My post is responding to slippery-slope fallacy: "US/NATO will rob Trillions from China if Russia fails." Explain how that is even remotely possible? Even Qing-era, when Qing China has zero allies, there was no "robbery of Trillions" and Qing is far weaker than modern-day PRC. You have to respond to my post in context, not take it out of context.
My posts did not dispute this. I mentioned that Russia is useful to distract/deflect/divert US/NATO attention/containment effort against China. Problem? China is not relying on Kuznetsov to save the day in Taiwan straits or SCS crisis, if that is type of relationship you are insinuating...
Instead of UK-US relationship, a better example would be Pakistan-China relationship, there is a shared common enemy (India), but unlike the UK-US relationship, there is no mutual defense pact, no shared ideology, ethno-linguistic, heritage/culture, or history. So UK-US relationship is not comparable to China-Russia relationship. UK-US is like Father-Son blood relations, where China-Russia is at best similar to China-Pakistan relationship, but relatively more co-equal in nature (atleast for now).
- a) China and Russia do not have a mutual defense treaty or formal treaty alliance.
- b) China-Pakistan relationship is a better proximate to China-Russia relationship than the US-UK relationship.
- c) Pakistan needs China far more than China needs Pakistan, this is also true.
- d) US-UK have shared common enemy (Russia/China), and so does China-Pakistan have a common enemy (India) and same with China-Russia a common enemy (US), but the difference is that US-UK actually has a formal alliance, whereas China-Pakistan and China-Russia does not have a formal alliance, much less shared ideology, culture, language, history. So please atleast pick a better comparator.
And finally, what is wrong with this statement: "China needs Russia to counter/divert/deflect/distract US/NATO containment efforts against China. But even if Russia didn't exist, US/NATO cannot rob trillions from China." that I originally posted?
It's true, Mariupol has been without power (and therefore without water or internet) since early last week. As such for many days now its an information black hole with no ways of telling what's happening inside, besides the occasional photo from outside the city showing parts of it burning.
Kharkiv is headed in that direction too. It's taken so much fire that information coming out of it has slowed down to a trickle.
there is immigration of Global South to Europe. ultimately the interests of Global South and Europe will converge.
thats the reason Turkey is still attached to Europe and Turkey want to drag rest of Central Asia to this system.
Iran will be in similar situation. India is already there.
Chinese are not attracting this scale of immigration nor it can afford global military bases to support its trade. China can produce more but still it cannot make alot of complex products 100% domestically. when US was becoming superpower it had practically 100% control over complex products with full energy independence. China need Russia in various ways to divide this Global south from North.
Is the Ukrainian government crazy? Or are the Russians taking inspiration from Colin Powell's tiny vial of white powder? I double checked the calendar and confirmed it's still 3 weeks til April 1.
"Russian media outlets, including TASS, InterFax and others, citing anonymous sources, report that Ukraine is trying to make plutonium based dirty bombs in a place within Chernobyl."
"The reports also claim that Ukraine started researching on nuclear weapons immediately after the country officially gave up its disposal of nuclear weapons from Soviet Union. For more than 20 years, Ukraine has been working on projects to develop its own nuclear weapons and missles (with nuclear warheads)."
"To speed up the development, Ukraine sought the required plutonium materials from abroad in the early days of the projects. Based on the information on hand, it is believed that the US has been involved and transferred the (plutonium) materials to its ally." [ Not sure if this "ally" of the US is Ukraine. -- my notes ]
A screenshot of the report (in Russian) on TASS:
Found this :
"Russian media outlets, including TASS, InterFax and others, citing anonymous sources, report that Ukraine is trying to make plutonium based dirty bombs in a place within Chernobyl."
"The reports also claim that Ukraine started researching on nuclear weapons immediately after the country officially gave up its disposal of nuclear weapons from Soviet Union. For more than 20 years, Ukraine has been working on projects to develop its own nuclear weapons and missles (with nuclear warheads)."
"To speed up the development, Ukraine sought the required plutonium materials from abroad in the early days of the projects. Based on the information on hand, it is believed that the US has been involved and transferred the (plutonium) materials to its ally." [ Not sure if this "ally" of the US is Ukraine. -- my notes ]
A screenshot of the report (in Russian) on TASS:
Found this :
Completely agreed, people have gone out of their mind in paranoia. The current us political system is far too fractured to come up with coherent evil scheme to destroy china. China will be fine as long as it continues to secure it's domestic supply chain. Western democracies will be fine too.
Russian invading Ukraine has taken some pressure off china in the short term. China can take this time to continue to secure it's supply chain and grow it's economy.
Develop better relationship with everyone, including Russia. The longer covid is behind us, the more positive other countries will be toward china.
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