escobar
Brigadier
PRC will continue convince themselves that US adheres to the one-China principle
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
First of all, these are rumours, and the Chinese government does not respond to rumours, only actual events.
Secondly, it’s been clear for quite some time that the Biden Admin is a rudderless mess where Biden is too busy trying to find his marbles to be able to keep his underlining in check and everyone is running their own agenda and pulling in different directions.
It is entirely possible, likely even, that whoever is making this leak knows they don’t have the pull to make a call on this magnitude of significance, so they leak it hoping China will react so they can then use that reaction as retrospective justification to do what they originally wanted but couldn’t on their own.
The worst thing China can do is actually react too strongly to such rumours. Since doing so will chop the legs out from under those in the American government arguing and fighting against such idiocy by whipping up public opinion against ‘backing down’, which will probably be enough to trump all other considerations when Biden is finally brought in to make a decision.
The US Supreme Court leak on Roe v Wade overturn also smacks of this kind of gamesmanship. Because I cannot remember any previous leaks like this before.
They want an outlet to vent their anger for their own failures. Republicans and Democrats (stealthily) are happily using the China card to avoid having to shoulder the responsibility of the covid response and the economic mess they created
And because people are dumb (yes they are, I never accepted the argument that people are smart) they believe these lies and then they think China = Asia = whoever looks Chinese I will blame him for my own failures and then maybe attack him depending on how much of a loser I am
Disgusting
here is my take on hikvision.
Washington has been saving serious sanctions for this company in particular, it’s trivial to get support for sanctions against Chinese spy-tech.
Washington WANTs China to respond, because they can win a moral battle against a spy camera company.
China should respond by sanctioning the Private American Prison industry and the products and services they provide, citing slave labor and human rights abuses, citing a specific measure in the International Labor agreements that China just ratified maybe. This puts China at the moral high ground, even in the minds of americans.
China can escalate by sanctioning other such industries as the anti-abortion organizations, insulin makers, environmental polluters, hunting organizations, gun makers, drug paraphernalia manufacturers and more hilarious industries that just make America look ridiculous.
Washington has been saving serious sanctions for this company in particular, it’s trivial to get support for sanctions against Chinese spy-tech.
Washington WANTs China to respond, because they can win a moral battle against a spy camera company.
China should respond by sanctioning the Private American Prison industry and the products and services they provide, citing slave labor and human rights abuses, citing a specific measure in the International Labor agreements that China just ratified maybe. This puts China at the moral high ground, even in the minds of americans.
China can escalate by sanctioning other such industries as the anti-abortion organizations, insulin makers, environmental polluters, hunting organizations, gun makers, drug paraphernalia manufacturers and more hilarious industries that just make America look ridiculous.
The bauxite ore isn't particularly rare. And Russia isn't a substantial miner of bauxite. I don't think Ukraine even has any mines. Most of it comes from Guinea or Brazil.
This is about refining bauxite into alumina. RUSAL has a large alumina refining facility in Nikolayev, Ukraine, and this alumina then gets sent to facilities in Russia or Ukraine for electrolysis and smelting into actual aluminium metal. Alumina refining facilities are typically built near either large mines or port facilities. I assume this facility is there for historical reasons because of the port facilities in the Black Sea region.
RUSAL operates large alumina refineries inside Russia proper as well. Like four times the capacity of the plant in Ukraine. These are close to the mines in Central Siberia. From what I understand Russia has enough capacity to refine and smelt all it needs. But it has more smelting than refining capacity and what comes out from that is basically for export.
So basically this will impact global aluminium prices, and Russian aluminium exports, unless they can come up with alternative supplies like they are doing right now, but it should not impact internal Russian production and consumption.
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I agree.
That's a novel approach and I quite like it tbh. You are right that targeting Hikivision is quire smart from them because well... who is really want to be seen protecting a spy camera company.. This allows the deep state to punch through business lobby resistance and any possible Democratic party or allied countries resistance by waving the "human rights" flag
The prison labour counter, proposal is also smart move. You can hold the moral ground and give some cover so that lobbies and special interests groups can find a narrative to resist against the US deep state.
All these are well thought proposals. I never bothered to think about possible targets beyond hard-hitting their big companies. But this new approach on sanctioning these kinds of businesses is an idea worth exploring..
If I may add another benefit for China, is that this way China would bring to light the US' dirty laundry in front of the whole world (systemic competition), while introducing more political infighting to US politics because Democrats would have a resurgent progressive wing demanding to resolve these issues. Finally, Democratic / Republican schism would be widened as more friction and spotlight would be introduced in their policies and how they differ
Excellent stuff
In4ser
Junior Member
CCP should talk about investigating Hunter Biden’s alleged corruption with China. Take initiative on the moral high ground. Looks bad for Dems regardless of the outcome.