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TAIPEI, July 21 (Reuters) - Taiwan is investigating a potential leak of official documents including diplomatic cables and classified reports on the island's sensitive bid to join a global trade pact, according to two officials familiar with the probe.

One official said initial findings show parts of the documents, posted on online message board 8kun and reviewed by Reuters, are real while bits were forged, without giving details.
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WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - Beijing-linked hackers accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of U.S. government emails, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday.

Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also hacked in the wider spying operation disclosed this month by Microsoft (MSFT.O), the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter.

A spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington said China consistently opposed hacking and it rejected "groundless" speculation about the source of cyber attacks.

"China firmly opposes and combats cyber attacks and cyber theft in all forms. This position is consistent and clear," spokesperson Liu Pengyu said in an emailed response to Reuters.

"Identifying the source of cyber attacks is a complex technical issue. We hope that relevant sides will adopt a professional and responsible attitude ... rather than make groundless speculations and allegations."
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BANGKOK, July 21 (Reuters) - Thailand's election-winning Move Forward party announced on Friday it was making way for runner-up Pheu Thai to try to he form the next government, after its leader's bid was twice thwarted this month by a military-backed Senate.

Move Forward and Pheu Thai have 151 and 141 seats in 500-member lower house, respectively, but their alliance needs the backing of more than half of the combined chambers, including a 249-member Senate appointed by the military after a 2014 coup, which has voted as a bloc to protect establishment interests.

Move Forward's ambitious agenda of ending business monopolies and reforming the military and a tough law that insulates the monarchy from public criticism, represents a challenge to conservatives and old money elites, which have for decades wielded influence over Thailand's politics.


Chaithawat said rival lawmakers had used Move Forward's bid to amend article 112 of the criminal code, which prohibits insults of the crown, as a pretext to deny the will of the people.

"They used 112 as an excuse and used loyalty (to the monarchy) to clash with the public vote," he said.

Pheu Thai, the political juggernaut of the billionaire Shinawatra family and Thailand's most dominant party for two decades, is expected to nominate real estate mogul and political newcomer Srettha Thavisin for prime minister for the next vote on July 27.

The benchmark Thai index (.SETI) and baht were both up slightly in Friday morning trade.

Pheu Thai faces the many of the same hurdles as Move Forward, and has its own bitter history with the military, which overthrew two of its governments, leading to criminal charges that forced two prime ministers - siblings Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra - into self-imposed exile.

But it has been more circumspect on the proposal to amend the royal insult law.
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Well, there we have it. Proof of what the top echelon leadership thinks of the American lead containment policy towards China. In other words, they think it is damn stupid.

What they also think, is the current people in those positions in the United States, have no wisdom, and have no courage.

Besides being damn stupid with their China containment policy, supported by their allies they claim.

Quite a nice birthday party for Dr. Kissinger.

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The problem is that the current younger US leadership is filled with nepo babies who have only ever known a time period where US was "unopposed". They go around and believe US never needs to compromise, but they don't realize that the only reason US could seemingly be "unopposed" hinges on the smart politics of their fathers and grandfathers, who set practiced cunning geopolitics, made compromises and set real guardrails.

Truth is that America was never this global dictator who can redraw maps however they like. US got China's reluctant support, giving them safe markets and access to goods in exchange for China (and the rest of the world) turning a blind eye to US invading 3rd world countries. US compromised with corrupt USSR elites, promising and delivering untold wealth in exchange for the end of the Union.

So during those years while America was still the no1 economy and could go around attacking Iraq, Syria et al, that all rested on a series of under the table agreements, one that was negotiated for by Kissinger's generation.

The current US leadership will cause WW3 because they're manchildren. Just look at the likes of Rubio for example. They really think pressing Nazi claims against the remaining former Allies will be a smart way to secure continued US "dominance". USSR and China were the deciding battlefields of WW2 that buried the most nazis for a reason. While Russia is in a stagnant state, China has united properly and rebuilt to a massive extent. And Japan and Germany has atrophied as well, leaving US as the only major combatant of the new Axis. This isn't something US should be gleefully walking towards, but they are, and people like Kissinger are too old to stop them.
 
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Biscuits said:
The problem is that the current younger US leadership is filled with nepo babies who have only ever known a time period where US was "unopposed". They go around and believe US never needs to compromise, but they don't realize that the only reason US could seemingly be "unopposed" hinges on the smart politics of their fathers and grandfathers, who set practiced cunning geopolitics, made compromises and set real guardrails.

Truth is that America was never this global dictator who can redraw maps however they like. US got China's reluctant support, giving them safe markets and access to goods in exchange for China (and the rest of the world) turning a blind eye to US invading 3rd world countries. US compromised with corrupt USSR elites, promising and delivering untold wealth in exchange for the end of the Union.

So during those years while America was still the no1 economy and could go around attacking Iraq, Syria et al, that all rested on a series of under the table agreements, one that was negotiated for by Kissinger's generation.

The current US leadership will cause WW3 because they're manchildren. Just look at the likes of Rubio for example. They really think pressing Nazi claims against the remaining former Allies will be a smart way to secure continued US "dominance". USSR and China were the deciding battlefields of WW2 that buried the most nazis for a reason. While Russia is in a stagnant state, China has united properly and rebuilt to a massive extent. And Japan and Germany has atrophied as well, leaving US as the only major combatant of the new Axis. This isn't something US should be gleefully walking towards, but they are, and people like Kissinger are too old to stop them.
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Part of me thinks China only said that so the current idiots in charge in DC would explicitly and categorically ban it.
 
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Sooner rather than later, Belgium may cease to exist.

The small Western European state that hosts the headquarters of the EU and NATO has long had a dysfunctional national political life. It holds the world record for the longest time taken to form a government during coalition talks — over 500 days.

Now the strains between Dutch-speaking Flanders, in the north, and French-speaking Wallonia in the south of the country threaten a far bigger crisis.

Elections are due to be held in June 2024. According to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls, the far-right Vlaams Belang party — which wants to turn Flanders into a fully independent, breakaway state — is now the biggest political force in the country.

Tom Van Grieken, who became president of his party when he was only 28 and who has been key to its recent success, has been firm about his plans for independence if he wins.

“We believe Belgium is a forced marriage,” Van Grieken told POLITICO in his office near Brussels’ EU quarter. “If one of them wants a divorce, we’ll talk that out as adults … we have to come to an orderly division. If they don’t want to come to the table with us, we’ll do it unilaterally.”
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What are they suppose to do with $500 million or more realistically about $10 to $50 million? Get 0.1 to 1% of funding and in exchange you will cease activities with anything Chinese related.

She acknowledged the U.S. can't monopolize the industry, despite passing the CHIPS and Science Act last year to pay companies to build semiconductor factories there. Billions are allocated for manufacturing in the U.S., but Yellen noted the program includes $500 million for similar investments internationally.
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