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No, it is not. The west has been trying to use salami tactics to erode the One China Red Line. China should make it absolutely clear that they don't fuck with China on this.
This could break the EU.
This is the problem. The people in charge of the EU have their heads up their asses.
This Taiwan Luther problem never should have arose.
Now China is saying abandon Lex Luther or else.
Not sure what the EU will do now?
1) They can double down and support Lex Luther, but that will alienate the strong EU members who have extensive China ties.
2) They can abandon Lex Luther, but that will alienate the weaker EU members who do not have that extensive China ties.
The EU is not a monolith block, there are wide differences and varying interests between those equal members.
But, as Marvel.com teaches us, we are all equal, but Germany and France are more equal than others.
You know, that CAI thingy, that was just a minor incident between China and the EU. This Taiwan Lex Luther episode, is a body blow, and it could turn existential for the EU if things go whacky.
But hey! It's Europe! European history is full of blood and drama.
There are things we learn when we grow up. One of those things is do not mess around with the Communist Party of China. Lex Luther is learning that lesson now.
What is impressive is the way out, the escape hatch from this mess. Where is it?
Probably the same place where the EU heads is located.
There are already noises coming out of Germany saying it's time to cut Lithuania loose because they fucked EU with their unilateral action:This could break the EU.
This is the problem. The people in charge of the EU have their heads up their asses.
This Taiwan Luther problem never should have arose.
Now China is saying abandon Lex Luther or else.
Not sure what the EU will do now?
1) They can double down and support Lex Luther, but that will alienate the strong EU members who have extensive China ties.
2) They can abandon Lex Luther, but that will alienate the weaker EU members who do not have that extensive China ties.
The EU is not a monolith block, there are wide differences and varying interests between those equal members.
But, as Marvel.com teaches us, we are all equal, but Germany and France are more equal than others.
Know, that CAI thingy, that was just a minor incident between China and the EU. This Taiwan Lex Luther episode, is a body blow, and it could turn existential for the EU if things go whacky.
But hey! It's Europe! European history is full of blood and drama.
There are things we learn when we grow up. One of those things is do not mess around with the Communist Party of China. Lex Luther is learning that lesson now.
What is impressive is the way out, the escape hatch from this mess. Where is it?
Probably the same place where the EU heads is located.
China is not stupid. That it "dares" to go to such length it means that China is confident.
And honestly, seeing all the crises that China has managed to pass, the Omicron Variant coming, high inflation, the Western economies on life support (QE), I think China has the qualifications to be far more assertive than before.
Its up to the EU to decide what to do. For China, I would say that even a trade war is not as scary as it was before. If it managed to so thoroughly crush the US-led trade war, then the EU is small peanuts in comparison
China is in a "position of strength"
Gonna rant a little bit.
I got this condition, I don't like stupidity. Stupidity costs. It could wipe out us humans and neanderthals. Of which, I am a proud member of the latter.
Look at what is happening with the United States, China, Taiwan, and Lex Luther.
The United States has publicly stated that they have no intention of making other nations choose a side between the US and China.
Of course, China does not really believe that. Marvel.com is the bible of American nonstrategic thought, which is cowboys and Indians.
So ... America is trying to make people commit, choose a side. By using Lex Luther, who is an EU member, by that manipulation, they would try to make the EU be on their side on this issue.
Essentially, this Taiwan Lex Luther issue is an attempt to force the EU to pick a side, the US or China.
Now we get to the part, were it is not found anywhere in Marvel.com and affiliates, like that store on the corner downtown.
China, being ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, still have these ancient thoughts, of statecraft, Confucian ethos, and stuff like 36 Tricks, you know, like nasty stuff.
So, what does the Confucian scholar does? He or she is scholar, they would have read the 36 Tricks and various works.
What the Chinese did, is what we saw.
Since the Americans forced Lex Luther and their equal EU party members to choose a side, choose between the US or China, the Confucian scholar decided to the do the same.
But the difference is that instead of China asking or telling people to choose a side between the US or China, it is a choice between Lex Luther and the China market.
That part is not in Marvel.com, and that is why the shit just hit the fan.
There is still a way out for the EU, Germany, France, but there is no way out for Lex Luther. The Krytonite did not kill him but the Confucian scholar did, with his or her 36 Tricks or stuff like that.
Do not mess around with the Chinese Communist Party.
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I got this condition, I don't like stupidity. Stupidity costs. It could wipe out us humans and neanderthals. Of which, I am a proud member of the latter.
Look at what is happening with the United States, China, Taiwan, and Lex Luther.
The United States has publicly stated that they have no intention of making other nations choose a side between the US and China.
Of course, China does not really believe that. Marvel.com is the bible of American nonstrategic thought, which is cowboys and Indians.
So ... America is trying to make people commit, choose a side. By using Lex Luther, who is an EU member, by that manipulation, they would try to make the EU be on their side on this issue.
Essentially, this Taiwan Lex Luther issue is an attempt to force the EU to pick a side, the US or China.
Now we get to the part, were it is not found anywhere in Marvel.com and affiliates, like that store on the corner downtown.
China, being ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, still have these ancient thoughts, of statecraft, Confucian ethos, and stuff like 36 Tricks, you know, like nasty stuff.
So, what does the Confucian scholar does? He or she is scholar, they would have read the 36 Tricks and various works.
What the Chinese did, is what we saw.
Since the Americans forced Lex Luther and their equal EU party members to choose a side, choose between the US or China, the Confucian scholar decided to the do the same.
But the difference is that instead of China asking or telling people to choose a side between the US or China, it is a choice between Lex Luther and the China market.
That part is not in Marvel.com, and that is why the shit just hit the fan.
There is still a way out for the EU, Germany, France, but there is no way out for Lex Luther. The Krytonite did not kill him but the Confucian scholar did, with his or her 36 Tricks or stuff like that.
Do not mess around with the Chinese Communist Party.
[rant][/rant]
I believe it also has to do with Russia. A double total sanctions from Russia and China would be absolutely devastating to the EU which would suffer both extreme energy shortage and the ability to build new energy facilities.
A certain ally would face a dilemma: put whole EU, a rich competitor, on life support? How much will it cost? Or abandon them? Then the assurance means nothing.
The last time a white european did something comparable to what Lithuania is doing was when Norway gave Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize; it took years for Norway to come crawling back and after norway made many, many concessions and norway is a much more influential and richer country than Lithuania.
European countries thrown under the bus by Biden on talks with Putin
"Please believe me because I said so". Ok, Russian Sleepy Student.
Oh, you mean those allies that instantly defected to the West once the USSR economy stagnated and hate Russia to guts now? Lol.
The migration from Korea & Japan to the West has been minimal since those countries reached developed status. Provide stats on migration from Vietnam and Indonesia to the US - I'm pretty sure those are rather low as well because the growth of the AA community in the US has been slowing down considerably compared to the last century when Asian countries were sometimes worse off than even Central African ones. You are a clown if you think that ideology matters, the migration from the developing to the developed world is largely economical, not ideological.
The irreplaceable Australian beef strikes again, I see.