i cant understand, who is this black bum? Never heard of her. Is she something like important?
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Its too late for the West to contain China, their best bet, and only realistic hope, is to do a MAD scorched earth and take us (those that are left) all back to the Stone Age.
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Sanctions war isn’t going as planned – The Economist
The expected knockout blow from anti-Russia restrictions “has not materialized,” the UK magazine reports
People walking on the Red Square in Moscow. © AFP / Natalia Kolesnikova
The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the conflict in Ukraine have so far been unable to deliver the desired result, The Economist magazine has acknowledged, adding that the strategy has “flaws.”
“Worryingly, so far the sanctions war is not going as well as expected,” the British publication in an article on Thursday, insisting that the effectiveness of economic restrictions on Moscow “is key to the outcome of the Ukraine war.”
“Russia’s GDP will shrink by 6% in 2022, reckons the IMF, much less than the 15% drop many expected in March... Energy sales will generate a current-account surplus of $265 billion this year, the world’s second-largest after China. After a crunch, Russia’s financial system has stabilized and the country is finding new suppliers for some imports, including China,” it pointed out.
At the same time, the energy crisis, which has been provoked by the sanctions war, “may trigger a recession” in Europe, where gas prices spiked by another 20% this week, according to the British magazine.
This all means that the expected “knockout blow [from restricting Russia] has not materialized,” The Economist said.
“The unipolar moment of the 1990s, when America’s supremacy was uncontested, is long gone, and the West’s appetite to use military force has waned since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” it acknowledged.
Economic restrictions “seemed” to be the new tool that would allow the US, EU and its allies to project their power globally, but the conflict in Ukraine has revealed that “the sanctions weapon has flaws,” it said.
One of those flaws is “the time lag,” the magazine continued. For example, “blocking [Russia’s] access to tech the West monopolizes takes years to bite,” it added.
The Economist suggested that isolation from Western markets could only “cause havoc in Russia… on a three- to five-year horizon.”
“The biggest flaw [of sanctions] is that full or partial embargoes are not being enforced by over 100 countries with 40% of world GDP,” the outlet insisted. “A globalized economy is good at adapting to shocks and opportunities, particularly as most countries have no desire to enforce Western policy.”
With economic curbs failing to cripple the Russian economy, one should “discard any illusions that sanctions offer the West a cheap and asymmetric way to confront China” if it decides to use force against Taiwan, The Economist warned.
The west failing miserably.....LOL
She's a nobody mini-miny miny-mo on the international stage, but she became (in)famous because of this:
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I agree with one thing, something never changes, like My "waste"rn detection formula which conclusively states- An wastern will always be more well versed of other nation's history than it's own fake manufactured nation.
I'm disappointed with Chen's retweet, it should've been "B-tch please" with a native american person's image.
IIRC Chen corrected himself with "lifetime bitch" when challenged that it was wrong to call her that.
But China will still ultimately win.... because China will outbuild the west and recover faster.
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Jaq James (short for Jacqueline) established CO-WEST-PRO as a grass-roots people's service to counter anti-China disinformation that was undermining the friendly relations and peace between Australia and China. Jaq has since expanded CO-WEST-PRO's objective to counter all Western propaganda affecting Global South nations.
Jaq offers the public informative and educative reports when international law intersects with anti-Global South disinformation. Rather than being commissioned upfront to write analytical papers, Jaq instead offers her work upfront and interested members of the public can pay a commission afterwards if they appreciate her work. This ensures that potential perverse incentives that could influence her work are taken out of the picture.