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coolgod said:

We don't want to compete with @tygyg1111 though

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plawolf said:

You are being naive if you think China’s response will be limited to merely sinking their navies if NATO dares to get involved in Taiwan.

China can be magnanimous, but it also has a long memory, and as far as I can recall, not a single member of the original 8 nations army ever formally apologised to China nor has China ever actually formally forgiven them for their crimes against the Chinese people. For them to come again to attack China would be far to much like an attempted re-enactment for China’s liking, so the retaliation will not be remotely as light as just the destruction of their expeditionary forces. China will deploy combat forces directly to the European theatre alongside the Russians and steamroll Europe. The French will surrender rather than use their nukes, and the British will have their nukes remotely disabled by the Americans and/or have all their SSBNs sunk by American SSNs if they don’t stand down, since any nuclear launch by a NATO state against Russia or China will inevitably result in full global nuclear MAD, and America doesn’t want to die for Europe.

America will retreat to CONUS and maybe comfort itself by annexing Canada and Latin America, while China and Russia lock down the resources of the Eurasian world island and quarantine America to the Americas. I think that’s a position both sides can settle for, and it will be a long Cold War of economic and technological isolation for America while China and Russia rebuild the rest of the world into a better and fairer place than it is today.

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Minm said:

And yet nobody benefits from America harvesting all of Europe. If the EU removes American multinationals and doesn't buy American weapons anymore, the US will be weaker. EU countries might decline more slowly than they would have otherwise, but they're similar to Japan in a way. They can't afford the debt that building a powerful army will incur. Not a real threat

A Europe that turns more and more into an American colony is much worse

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duskseeker said:

The floor where they assemble planes is not a super sterile environment. So yes, there will be a high amount of fecal matter

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coolgod said:

It can be stopped, it was just an agreement for a sale, the sale didn't go through yet. Hutchison would have to pay a fee of course, but if they follow through they will also have massive losses in China and HK. Their monopolies are actually ruining Hong Kong, public discontent creates easy environment for Hong Kong government to intervene in Li Ka-shing's other business.

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coolgod said:

It can be stopped, it was just an agreement for a sale, the sale didn't go through yet. Hutchison would have to pay a fee of course, but if they follow through they will also have massive losses in China and HK. Their monopolies are actually ruining Hong Kong, public discontent creates easy environment for Hong Kong government to intervene in Li Ka-shing's other business.

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China courts global CEOs for meeting with Xi Jinping​

China is seeking to hold a meeting between President Xi Jinping and global chief executives this month, as scores of international business leaders from Citadel’s Ken Griffin to HSBC’s new CEO Georges Elhedery are expected to gather in Beijing for an annual summit.

Authorities in Beijing have approached chief executives planning to attend the China Development Forum, the country’s premier business assembly, which is held each spring in Beijing. The potential meeting with

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would take place on March 28, following the CDF, said people familiar with the matter.

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The meeting and list of invitees was still being negotiated, the people said, as many CEOs were reluctant to wait around in Beijing following the CDF, which will be held on March 23 and 24.

Some of those invited to participate in the Xi meeting, which is expected to be attended by about 20 or more business leaders, may cancel their attendance at the CDF, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

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About 72 global chief executives are on an initial list of attendees for the CDF, the people said. They include Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone, Albert Bourla of Pfizer, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, Evan Greenberg of Chubb, Aramco’s Amin H Nasser, Masahiro Kihara of Mizuho, Bill Winters of Standard Chartered, Patrick Pouyanné from Total and Vincent Clerc of AP Møller-Maersk.

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The CEOs being courted for this year’s meeting, however, are expected to come from a wider range of countries, said one person familiar with the matter, including the UK and Europe.

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this week that Montana senator Steve Daines, who is planning to travel to China for the CDF, was trying to get Trump to designate him as a special enjoy to China to facilitate a meeting with Xi.

After publication, his office denied that he was pushing for the designation.

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coolgod said:

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China courts global CEOs for meeting with Xi Jinping​

Planned contact comes as Beijing seeks support of international business and fends off Trump’s tariffs





Let's see if Steve Daines gets to meet President Xi. Could set up a Xi Trump meeting later this year.

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