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China and Russia capitals connected on New Silk Road for first time​

Thursday 16 March, the first freight train departed between the Chinese capital Beijing and that of Russia – Moscow. It marks the start of a new era of the China-Europe Railway Express.
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A total of 55 40-foot containers were loaded on the new China-Europe train. The route chosen is to exit China at the Manzhouli border crossing to enter Russia, and then go west all the way to Moscow. The goods transported are auto parts, building materials, home appliances, fabrics, clothing, home furnishing, etc. The entire route of this operation is about 9,000 kilometers, and the estimated transit time is about 18 days.

The China-Europe Railway Express between Beijing and Moscow reflects the increasing trade and transportation flow between China and Russia.
 

horse

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Those US sanctions have 2 functions, practically stalling Chinese growth (they don't accomplish much in this area).

But the second is that they hurt Chinese reputation, in the world. "Look we're giving them sanctions every two days, but they can't do much about it..."

China must either step up its sanction game, or respond in some other kind of way to preserve face.

They should also start threatening the US like they threaten China every other day.

Average person just listen to those US sanctions every other day and thinks "Those sanctions against China are really working, China must be so backward to be getting sanctioned on everything..."

That will never happen.

Chinese society has always been elitist.

The upper class, has always been open to the masses, if they pass the imperial examination. Today, it is a similar system in the sense the CCP has an exam, to find the best and brightest.

Crude propaganda is not something anyone is interested in.

David Goldman of AsiaTimes.com newspapers said it best, when he said that after all that training, exam taking, and hands on work, the party official gets promoted and finally gets to met an American politician or diplomat. The Chinese cadre is shocked, because this is the dumbest person he ever met in his entire life.
 

FriedButter

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Only the honourary white Japanese can't see the irony on scaremongering about the Chinese economy being in trouble these days.

Following the "The West is all about projection" rule, I think Nikkei here is subconsciously sending a message to its Lord, the US.

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I wonder if the author gets on his knees and bows down to every Westerner he sees because this article isn’t about about the imminent doom of China economy. It’s saying that China should give up their core interest (ie Taiwan), force Russia to the negotiation table, restore relations with Washington… for the purpose of rebuilding friendship, trust, and economic links with the West. Obviously, the author sees China own sovereignty as toilet paper.

To broaden trade with European economies, it would behoove China to tone down its incendiary language and propensity to admonish countries it views as having infringed upon its ever-expanding domain of core interests.
Beijing should aim to restore regular engagement with the U.S. on an informal level for researchers, former government officials and the like while improving access for journalists.
China can gain many more friends and rebuild trust with the core partners that have facilitated its rise as an economic power.
 

supercat

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China’s longer term problem is the birth rate and resulting population pyramid. It has a better educated, larger, and probably smarter population, but if most people are over 50 it won’t matter. Young people invent, nearly all break through research is done by graduate students under the guidance of older researchers. If you don’t have enough youth then it doesn’t matter if your over all population is larger.

This is one important reason why Japan went from being a research and technology power house to what it is today. If most of your population is over 50, you aren’t leading, I’m sorry.
But China will still have more young researchers than any other country in the world in absolute numbers, except India, if India can catch up with China's development, which is a big if.

UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion franc($3.25 Billion). Switzerland is on hook of 9 Billion franc($9.7 Billion) if Credit Suisse incurred losses exceed 5 billion franc. Credit Suisse 16 billion franc($17.3 billion) AT1 bonds(additional Tier 1 bonds) would be wiped out and become worthless. This is bad. The balance sheet of Credit Suisse has to be terrible for such forced bailout and buyout to occur.
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Credit Suisse is a minor problem compared to some other possible problems down the line:

Noah Smith is such a fraud.

Why the US hates China, explained in 30 seconds:
 

Jingle Bells

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I am not a part of the West, you're completely missing my viewpoint. It's like I call you an allien when you're not. I don't know if it's out of malice, unexplained anger, or out of what?
On trust me, I won't be sarcastic when I am actually angry.

It's not only economic and technological sanctions, but millitary posturing surrounding China, increasing weapon sales and deals toward countries that are directly going against China, new millitary bases around China, more millitary alliances, more soldiers stationed near China, more frequent freedom of navigation exercices, more US-led exercises alongside alies, more of the highest ranked US politicians visiting Taiwan of the US visiting and vice versa, then a plethora of lower rank politicians of the West visiting every week, de jure treating it like a country, not exaggerating, not just the US, but from Lithuania to everyone else.
Those are nothing but media propaganda posturing. You only see what Western propaganda machine wants you to see, because they are not going to report the other side of the story. These are perfectly convincing for anyone who is not trained in statistics, critical thinking and comparing numbers. In short: these are perfectly convincing for 文科生(non-STEM-educated people).

"Increasing weapon sales and deals toward countries that are directly going against China": How much increase is that exactly? And how does that comparing to the growth of Chinese military power? If Chinese military strength grows by 100, and the US increase sales by 0.1, how is that not a act of virtual-signaling under the new rhetoric?

"new military bases around China": Where are these? How many did it increase or decrease during the last or 40 years? Isn't Afghanistan also technically around China? Didn't they just abandon that? Didn't the Americans quietly left their bases in central Asia?

"more millitary alliances": with whom? With whom that was not already a US ally decades ago already? What formal alliance did the US newly form around China, except beat the drum to fool common 文科生 like you?

"more soldiers stationed near China" Again, numbers, numbers, numbers! show me your numbers, instead of your empty claims. I am not a 文科生, you can't fool me with a claim without backing it up with real numbers.

"more frequent freedom of navigation exercices", again, to you 文科生s, sailing your ship in international water somehow trumps building actual groups of artificial islands. I guess if I am China, as long as I don't start WW3 and invade the USA mainland, you 文科生s will keep on calling me weak. I don't know how to take this.

"the highest ranked US politicians visiting Taiwan", well, that was aggravating, but I truly thank the US for doing that, which give China the opportunity to literally wipe out the so-called "Taiwan Strait Middle Line" (海峡中线). Before that, PLA aircraft never flew so close to Taiwan shore. So, keep it up. Hope McCarthy will man-up and visit Taiwan again, will make it much easier to do more.

Therefore, it's not only sanctions, it's everything. And no, it's not a small matter that one could simply ignore.
It's not just everything, it is 文科生's entire universe. Their world view are based on these.

China-Iran-Saudi Arabia happened because China increased the its assertiveness as well, in the international stage, it didn't happen because they choose to ignore US posturing and pretended it didn't happen like you recommend. Had they done that, no one would even think of asking them for that kind of a deal.
........... Now you are contradicting yourself?! Wouldn't this make your previous statement a total waste of time? Why bother to bullshit in the first place?

China plans to internationalize yuan even more, grow in power diplomatically and geopolticallly, restore their position in the world from, as the world leader, before the colonialism took over, how do you think they do that? They can't do that by being passsive.
废话连篇!

The matter of the fact is that PLA response after Pelosi visit was an adequate response during the first time, however, In the future, the same response would not suffice, there would be an even stronger response required if the provocations persist for China to keep the international image they've built. They can only either increase the intensity or the duration of the blockade, hence, be more aggressive, not passive. That's like basic logic.
.......... Why on earth do you even bother to contradict yourself? This is a prime example of a totally useless and meaningless exchange of words. Now I feel cheated to even spend the energy and time to respond to your circle of bullshit. Your entire point is nothing but an incoherent collection of gibberish: you claim one thing, and then mention that the opposite of that thing is also true. That's a contradiction.
 
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