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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned after protests over the island nation’s worsening economic crisis turned deadly.

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BlackWindMnt said:

Bro have you heard if you have like 10% more democracy our coal will generate at least 3% more energy.
If you vote in our guy like all democracy loving asian countries should be doing, our LNG will generate 5% more energy.

Would we Australia a democracy loving people ever lie to you guys, i don't think so....

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The US and UK wants to start another civil war in Afghanistan, so this is why Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe recently visited Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran.

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The Marcos family's return to power does not bode well for the Philippines' liberal democratic future, with the very real danger that the country could now become a hybrid regime, whereby an all-powerful coalition oversees semi-competitive elections behind a democratic facade.

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The West should engage the incoming Marcos administration government on a mutually-respectful basis and gently advocate for good governance reforms, as well as empower civil society lest Manila draw closer to authoritarian powers such as China.

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Quite the contrary, having spent many years of his life living in the U.S., with stints at Wharton as well as Oxford University in the U.K., Marcos, whose son was also educated in England, is a passionate Anglophile with a deep love for British culture and music.

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First, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs established a consulate in Laoag in 2007. Officially, the consulate functions to facilitate commercial and investment relations in the surrounding regions. Unofficially, the Laoag consulate is a hub that actively creates connections between Chinese and provincial elites in Northern Luzon.

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During the Duterte years, the Marcoses capitalized on Chinese commercial and people-to-people opportunities. Ilocos Norte State University signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese Universities to bolster research and joint exchange.

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When it comes to foreign investment, Energy Logistics, a joint venture between Xidian Holdings Philippines and an unnamed Singaporean company, began construction on a solar and wind park in Ilocos Norte in 2019. Qingdao Hengsun Zhongsheng Group, the contractor of the project, started land reclamation until the local government halted the process later the same year after it found that the company was in violation of several local laws and regulations.

Heavily dependent on basic agriculture and food processing, a search of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission database shows that there have been 217 new companies with Chinese investors in Ilocos Norte between 2001 and 2018. While the region has not been a target for Chinese development finance projects, a Bongbong administration will likely lead to Chinese loans for hard infrastructure projects.

Similarly, the Marcos family will target Chinese companies to help increase industrial capacity and bolster the province's transition toward higher productivity.

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Overbom said:

So the next domino has fallen.
The message is becoming clearer by the day:
Align with China at your own peril

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Temstar said:

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Good, I know where they can start:
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See all those fishing poles hanging off the side? She's fishing the shit out of the pacific right now. Are you gonna sort him out or what?

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Temstar said:

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Good, I know where they can start:
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See all those fishing poles hanging off the side? She's fishing the shit out of the pacific right now. Are you gonna sort him out or what?

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The Biden administration is quietly pressing the Taiwanese government to order American-made weapons that would help its small military repel a seaborne invasion by China rather than weapons designed for conventional set-piece warfare, current and former U.S. and Taiwanese officials say.

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The war has convinced Washington and Taipei that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the coming years is now a potential danger — and that a smaller military with the right weapons that has adopted a strategy of asymmetric warfare, in which it focuses on mobility and precision attacks, can beat back a larger foe.

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President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan is trying to orient the country’s military toward asymmetric warfare and has moved to buy a large number of mobile, lethal weapons that are difficult to target and counter.

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And U.S. officials have decided that certain weapons systems the Taiwanese Defense Ministry has tried to order — the MH-60R Seahawk helicopter made by Lockheed Martin, for example — are not suited for warfare against the Chinese military.

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The U.S. officials have warned their Taiwanese counterparts that the State Department would reject such requests. They have also told American weapons makers to refrain from asking U.S. agencies to approve Taiwanese orders of certain arms

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