plawolf
Lieutenant General
If Harris and gone, they would have needed a lot more hand wipes to save her dresses from all the wipes after each handshake.
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escobar
Brigadier
A level zero incident from NNSA report
The problem is that the guy is too old for this job. Man needs to finally retire and live the rest of his (little) remaining life as comfortable and relaxed as possible
The thing is, if you remember, it was the Democrats who pressured him to run for President. This speaks more badly for the Democrats who couldn't find anyone younger
I like Biden and I believe that he truly cares about the US. However the US' political dysfunction has reached such a level that he cant do much.
IMO he will use the "China threat" to temporarily unite Republicans and Democrats, but this is ultimately just a delaying tactic.
The thing is, if you remember, it was the Democrats who pressured him to run for President. This speaks more badly for the Democrats who couldn't find anyone younger
I like Biden and I believe that he truly cares about the US. However the US' political dysfunction has reached such a level that he cant do much.
IMO he will use the "China threat" to temporarily unite Republicans and Democrats, but this is ultimately just a delaying tactic.
When they put Biden forward the DNC was almost certain that Trump will get re-elected, so they didn't want to put up someone good so as to "waste ammo". Recall that time early last year where after a whole group of people put their name in the hat because they though the impeachment would make Trump political poison, then they all dropped out because it didn't pan out. Biden was the one left standing in April and back then it wasn't apparent that COVID-19 would make such a big impact in the US.
So again, the nature of the democratic process itself meant that US got a senile old grandpa for their leader.
I feel CNN is trying to take some of the heat off Fukishima.
escobar
Brigadier
Where's the outrage of Muslim "genocide" from the bastion of human rights and Muslim protectors? Lol...But since India is an honorary member of the G7 club, this problem will be overlooked just as these bozos overlooked all the pertinent issues that's happening inside India's messy political, social, and economic climate because you know that magic word: "Democracy."
It's part of the $300 MILLION anti-China media push by the American monkeys trying to gin up whatever China threat they can cook up. If Pres.Xi Jinping manage to trip some old lady on one of his visits to rural China the western media led by the U.S. would immediately issue a breaking news alert showing the supposed indifference and cruelty of the Chinese Dictator. If a Chinese fishermen happened to fish near or on a disputed water called the South China Sea the howling hyenas would ring the alarm bells of an impending Chinese invasion or proof of Chinese aggressive bullying of it's neighbors.
All of us here and all of China must be more than prepared to receive this kind of hyper attention from here on out. Any negative news or event that will happen in China even by a single individual will be interpreted or represent the collective and somehow will end up also being the fault of the CPC. The U.S. is trying to deligitimize not only the Chinese government but also the people of China as a whole because they know that by overwhelming majority, the Chinese people approve the current job performance of their government. So in the eyes of the U.S. and her vassals all of China might as well suffer.
G7 my axxe. Doing a China to out do a China. Lol
An out dated institution with 6 white men and a token yellow man (with a cow piss drinking brown man wannabe) trying to tell the world how to run the world. It kinda reminded me what Ali said all those years ago.
That's all the G7 is good for nowadays.
A gental reminder the countries involved I the G7 is the same as those involved in the sacking of China 120 years ago.
US 'othering' of Chinese could be prelude to Taiwan conflict
By FRANZ GAYL - 27 May 2021
Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word "othering" as an act wherein a race or culture is made to appear as "a large, uniform mass, rather than a diverse group of individuals… treating people from another group as less human than one's own group." Historically, "othering" has served as a conditioning mechanism to dehumanize US adversaries, preparing normally empathetic men and women to act with less discrimination and greater brutality in war.
During WWII, US othering of the Japanese involved weaponizing disinformation and propagating racist stereotypes. It was considered as effective at setting the necessary psychological conditions for the controversial internment of Japanese Americans, firebombing of Tokyo, and dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities merely to deter the Soviet Union. Conceivably, left unmodified, a soldier's empathy for non-combatant human beings otherwise could have placed those ruthless American operations and their objectives at risk.
Othering of the Chinese people is evident in recent US news media in the form of a mix of unverified rumors, disinformation, and selective exclusion of contradictory facts. It has been reported that China-averse special interests have even paid US journalists to publish stories biased against China's policies, to include encouraging a US-China confrontation. Meanwhile, the island of Taiwan's secession champions in the US Congress have nurtured the absurd public perception that the US-emulating people aboard the island of Taiwan are "non-Chinese" in ethnic identity.
The apparent sophistication and coordination of Chinese othering are indications that some in the US are working to desensitize Americans to the certain horrors of a war with China over Taiwan. Its effects are already being witnessed in American society. Despite a presidential-level denouncement, racially motivated assaults on Chinese and Asians generally are sharply increasing. The dehumanization of our future foe is in full swing to the delight of China-averse special interests.
Some argue that a US war with China over Taiwan would be a just war, claiming the "non-Chinese" island citizenry deserves our protection, not just ideological support. Others will go further and assert that the US nuclear umbrella needs to be extended to encompass the island. They try to make the desperate case that the island of Taiwan is the last bastion of American values in Southeast Asia, and the final barricade that contains China.
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The author, Franz Gayl, is a retired Marine Corps infantry officer who now serves as a US civil servant in the Pentagon. Opinions are of the author and do not represent the US government.