You not accurate in saying China loves US$. China needs to use US$ for buying oil and natural resources. China's US$ all come from international trade surplus. These are hard earned money by Chinese workers and companies.
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The most recent ones were expiring in September. Plus they are contracted to buy 120 mln AstraZeneca shots but they are not planning on administrating them due to blood clots concerns
Its not like they are giving them expired doses, although their expiry date is in "only" 3 months. They will give them something that not even them want to use lol
Watch as Taiwanese fall over themselves in order to get the "British/Oxford" technology vaccine
That's the power of soft power.
In with the new boss, same as the old boss.
Nasty fuckers! This is a good example that needs to be thrown back at Jai Hind e-thugs lmao! They're sure superior all right, superior at being what they eat and drink!
I'd rather eat a cooked bat meat than eat and drink cow poop and piss. Lol
Is this their own F-35 or one of the ones they borrowed from the US to make up the numbers?
If they need more planes to fill out the deck maybe PLAN can spare some J-15
Either way. The once mighty British empire just dont have the capacity to compete with the big boys. It can't produced it's own planes, and having to purchase U.S. made planes and borrowed them in order for the mighty queen Elizabeth to be a viable threat. Yes let's sail down to SCS to scare those horrible yellow people who don't comply with "international law!" Such laughable country. One almost feel sorry for them. Yep. 50 years after the president of U.S. said "Britain loss an empire, and it's still trying to find a role for itself." And now it found one. Being the U.S. lackey!
OMG. I forgot about that, so mighty GREAT BRITAIN claim it is a Pacific power on the ground they took this island from the indigenous people. And now the island population is less than 50. With only 18 square miles of landmass. But still qualified U.K. as a Pacific country. Mmm. So China's SCS claim with larger landmass is invalid. ........ interesting.
Personally, nothing! Let them have all the shouting and winning and spending they tight budget. Just slowly and quitely turn up the screw to shut UK out of China's growing market.
My. Mr boytoy (how inappropriate). I could easily take offence to your name alone!
Please don't try and gas light a legitimate posting here. I maybe many thing, and I've been called many things, but never have I ever been called a bigots in my life.
We are here to inform members here of all things going on in our diverse world. Sometimes in the real world, certain truthful facts will make uncomfortable reading. But this shouldn't mean we bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. It is by infoming members here that we learn new facts, both pleasant and unpleasant.
So if you find my posting "a soft bigotry" as opposed to "hard" (didn't even known you can distinguish the difference), then I'm afraid this one is on you. You have issues greater than I can hope to convince you otherwise.
Deng Xiaoping was firm and determined, but he was also pragmatic and realistic - he used to write an 80,000-word letter to Mao to self-criticize to get back during the Cultural Revolution when he was expelled and exiled from the power center. By the time he became the paramount leader, he had survived so much and with such a long distinguished political career, he was comfortable in his skin and was not obsessed with official titles. He set directions but was less obsessed with details (in contrast to Zhou Enlai, say); he was not a man of words (unlike Mao), but more of actions; he was not dogmatic but pragmatic (of which he was best known internationally). Deng was not as talented as Mao, but was the antidote to Mao's extreme and failed policies. Mao failed each of his chosen successors; Deng did his first two but was rather successful with Jiang Zeming and Hu Jingpao. So you could say Deng's legacy lasted three generations of Chinese leadership.
Neither Hu Jingtao nor Xi Jinping has anywhere near Deng's status and charisma when they became China's top leaders, even though both of them had risen through the party ranks based on their performance in various areas over several decades. To be fair, it's hard for China to create leaders like Mao, Zhou and Deng during the peace time.
Hu was humble and kept a low-profile but was determined when it is necessary - his handling of Tibetan riots in 1989 won him high marks among party leaders, showing his toughness. Hu was more tolerant and could work with others, and thus was considered to be a good leader with collective leadership style, which was considered the right leadership model for China at the time. His unassuming leadership style certainly had its pluses and minuses for the China during his time - just think what if Hu started South China Sea island building and Belt-and-Road initiative, which might please many Chinese nationalists and patriots no end nowadays, but would have proved totally premature and counter-productive. The US elites' hatred towrads Xi compared to Hu is NOT a proof that Hu was a weak and bad leader for China at the time. On the contrary, it had shown that Hu's leadership style and strategy, his "harmonious society" brand of preaching had navigated and bought time for China through a critical stage of China-rise. Also, contrary to some myth, Hu-Wen administration was not a doing-nothing-therefore-screwed-up-nothing one, they accomplished a great deal! I don't need to list them here, but those old enough should remember.
Xi is ambitious and audacious. He might be considered thin-skinned and obsessed with control. To be fair, this might have to do with him lacking the status and power base that Deng had. In order to accomplish what he deemed necessary, he had to be careful and play politics to accumulate and consolidate power. Xi is a man of mission and vision. He wielded power with certain swagger and ruthlessness shortly after taking supreme power, quite unlike his predecessor's humility and cautiousness. This is partly due to his conviction, but more to his upbringing as a first-generation princeling, who may feel to claim certain ownership to the legacy of the People's Republic, unlike the professional managers such as Jiang and Hu that were brought in as care-takers, so to speak.
Different times require different leaders and leadership styles. A leader that is right for a certain time period might not be the right leader in a different age. Even the same leader that was great for one era, might prove to be quite a disaster in a different era. Think of Mao.
Becareful, you may getting taking to court for plagiarism. Us olden can remember that line from the Who's song "won't get fooled again"! Lol