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supercat

Colonel
I thought these Japanese have given up on lodging diplomatic protests over East China sea. It is just useless and bizarre attempt of Japan to flame a situation that shouldn't have concern it.
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Well, instead of protesting, Japan should engage in some healthy competition with China by initiating their own development of the East China Sea. But, they know they cannot compete with China anymore nowadays, so all they can do is protesting now.

In other news, what the hell is this? Should African-Americans separate from the U.S. and establish their own country? Just asking
 

supersnoop

Colonel
Registered Member
The real question is did CCP vote Labor?

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Well, the population of Australia is only 25 million, but somehow Labour received over 100 million votes…

Stickler for details here, but they used the Soviet logo with the long handle sickle rather than the circular one…


Breaking News, SK President Yoon to change name to Moon…

So let me get this straight, they lost some of their safest seats because it's clear that moderate liberal voters wanted them to move towards the middle instead of going far right, and their solution is to put an even more far right guy in the leadership spot?

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see it if pays off for 'em.

This has been happening in western politics for quite some time now. The solution to attract moderate voters is actually to try to radicalize them. Karl Rove’s “energize the base”
 

Abominable

Major
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So these are the countries that BRICS are trying to expand to.
BRIC was just a western concept from the 90s. They were all target markets for western corporations to expand into, but had very little in common economically, let alone politically. At some point South Africa was added to add some diversity.

This new bunch of countries is even more unusual than the original BRICs.
 

Rettam Stacf

Junior Member
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BRIC was just a western concept from the 90s. They were all target markets for western corporations to expand into, but had very little in common economically, let alone politically. At some point South Africa was added to add some diversity.

This new bunch of countries is even more unusual than the original BRICs.

Agree with you that BRIC and then BRICS have been nothing other than a talking shop due to the members diverse geopolitical priorities. But with the new economic reality that energy and food are the true currencies, China has the opportunity to make the BRICS+ a powerful economic block to match the influence of G7. But China first has to steer BRICS to expand with the right membership to match the objective of the organization.
 

FriedButter

Brigadier
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WASHINGTON — Leading senators of both parties have struck a deal over a draft bill that would expand a 1996 war crimes law to give American courts jurisdiction over cases involving atrocities committed abroad even if neither party is a U.S. citizen, in the latest response to Russia’s apparent targeting of civilians in Ukraine.

Basically the US wants to become their own version of The Hague. US law is imperial law after all.
 
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