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supersnoop

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To be fair, that is just a business leader trying to kick-out the Chinese competitor from the market. This is a cottage industry at this point. Just tell something Chinese is a threat to the natsec. Even garlic wasn't spared. I can at least understand nitrocellulose.

Note: I am not writing anything definitive as I haven't checked but my gut feeling says the article is misleading. Europe has a massive chemicals industry and militaries don't consume much products in the first place compared to civilian economy. It is very unlikely that Europe couldn't produce gunpowder without Chinese materials.

They just want the environmental rules loosened.

However, over-reliance on China goes beyond nitrocellulose, Johansson warned. Environmental rules need to be overhauled to make it easier for European companies to diversify their supply chains, he added.
 

Taar

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Pinkies like you are the real threat. Why? Because we only became somewhat rich and prosperous in the last 40 years, whilst the older imperial powers had been rich (through pillage and setting up international institutions to benefit themselves) for more than 200 years. If you don’t realise our own vulnerabilities in face of enemies inside and outside, your hubris will blind you. Then you will become a hitlerjugend/red guard cheers for war and premature offensive against the status quo powers. China still needs a stable international environment to enrich itself, whilst engaging in institutional reforms and enhancing social welfare to decrease wealth disparity and further root out corruption. If Beijing can’t even effective tax the rich and build up a genuine healthcare system for commoners, what makes you think that China can win a war against the US-led status quo? It is pro-war cheerleaders and demagogues like you who bring about disasters and another century of humiliation. I think you should think about how to stop the bureaucratic capitalists from moving their corrupt monies abroad and enhance public childcare for pregnant women and single parents before going after Taiwan.
You know, when tianya (天涯)BBS still runs, there are a lot of people just like you in there, calling people pinkies(小粉红) for any opinion that don't agree with these people in support of the actions of the Chinese Government. And these people tried very hard to be considered Mainland Chinese, but their lack of understanding of culture of China, and the use of words from Taiwan for certain items, showed that they are really 1450 from Taiwan. All the Chinese words you have used in this forum, are the classic favorite arguments from 1450 that are very very rarely used by mainland Chinese. And your predecessors from tianya, they all become laughing stocks that every one just make fun of.
 

ACuriousPLAFan

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Another day, another China threat emanating from Europe.

China is a threat to Europe’s gunpowder supply, defense boss warns
Saab chief cautions that Beijing dominates supplies of a key component to make powder to fire shells, and metal for submarines and warships.

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Honestly, with all the "cHyNa iNdUsTrIaL oVeRcApAcItY" moaning and berating coming out of the West recently, I'd like to see the West enact some hefty tariffs, if not sanctions or even outright embargoes against China against those industries which they accuse China of "oVeRcApAcItY".

If they really believe that China's present "oVeRcApAcItY" in the civilian industrial sector is bad, let's see what happens when China transfers all those "oVeRcApAcItY" into her own military industrial complex.
 
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pmc

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This trafficking charge against Turkey is for long time and Turkish marrying into foreigners. The surprise is Erdogan has not done anything about it considering where Turkey is located and the Arabic order. and this will be the the reason Russia has to decrease this Israel Iran flare up so it does not impact Gulf Arabs. to be effective with Israel you need to do many other things.
 

GodRektsNoobs

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Honestly, with all the "cHyNa iNdUsTrIaL oVeRcApAcItY" moaning and berating coming out of the West recently, I'd like to see the West enact some hefty tariffs, if not sanctions or even outright embargoes against China against those industries which they accuse China of "oVeRcApAcItY".

If they really believe that China's present "oVeRcApAcItY" in the civilian industrial sector is bad, let's see what happens when China transfers all those "oVeRcApAcItY" into her own military industrial complex.
There is no such thing as industrial overcapacity. There is only advanced production capacity and obsolete production capacity. There might be an overabundance of products, but that's just a temporary phase as the obsolete production capacity is being utterly annihilated by advanced production capacity.
 

FriedButter

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Blinken to warn China over weapons-related exports to Russia​


US secretary of state Antony Blinken will warn China that the US will take punitive steps unless it stops sending weapons-related technology to Russia, as Washington considers putting sanctions on Chinese financial institutions.

During a visit to China next week, Blinken will tell his counterparts that the US and its allies are becoming increasingly impatient with Beijing’s refusal to stop providing Moscow with everything from chips to cruise missile engines to help rebuild its industrial base.

Blinken does not plan to reveal what measures the US will take, but several people familiar with the situation said it is considering sanctions on Chinese financial institutions and other entities.

One person said his message would be the clearest warning yet that the US had delivered in person to Chinese officials.

The US has in recent weeks stepped up its warnings about the situation, including in meetings with European and G7 allies.

In an interview, deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell said China was undermining European security by supplying Russia with dual-use technologies at the same time as trying to develop closer economic and political ties with Europe.

“What we’ve tried to underscore with European and Chinese interlocutors is that these dual objectives are inconsistent, and that we want China to think very carefully about the way forward,” he said. Campbell said the US was being “very direct” about its concerns and would “hold China accountable” for its actions.

Blinken will visit China from April 24 to 26 and hold meetings in Shanghai and Beijing. Campbell said Blinken would raise the issue with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi.

One US official said that other G7 members had told Washington that they had, or would, raise the issue with China after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Capri this week where Blinken discussed the matter.

One person said China had become increasingly concerned about the possibility of sanctions on its banks. President Joe Biden issued an executive order in December warning foreign financial institutions that they “risk losing access to the US financial system if they facilitate significant transactions relating to Russia’s military industrial base”.

“China has been worried for some time that the US might increase sanctions on China, particularly in the banking arena, because of its support to Russia during the war,” said Dennis Wilder, a former CIA China analyst now at Georgetown University.

Four top Chinese lenders selectively stopped accepting payments from Russia last month, according to Russian media reports, particularly in relation to transactions for critical electronic components. The US state department declined to comment.

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen raised the issue during a visit to China this month, but Blinken intends to press the matter in stronger terms. Biden voiced concern to Chinese President Xi Jinping when the leaders spoke by telephone three weeks ago.

Campbell said it was “too early to say whether China is re-evaluating its stance and its position with respect to Russia and the war in Ukraine” following the spate of warnings from Washington. While the US hopes the threat of punitive measures will persuade China to change course, it is also urging European countries to take action.

The US believes European pressure is critical since China is worried about the impact on its economic relations with Europe as its own economy slows. One person familiar with the deliberations said Europe had imposed sanctions on only three Chinese groups since the start of the Russian invasion two years ago, in comparison with 100 such actions against Chinese entities by Washington.

Senior US officials last week released a list of technologies that they said China was sending to Russia. In 2023, they said, 90 per cent of the chips that Russia imported came from China and were being used to produce missiles, tanks and aircraft. They said 70 per cent of Russian machine tools imports in the final quarter of last year were from China and were “likely used” to produce ballistic missiles.
Blinken does not plan to reveal what measures the US will take, but several people familiar with the situation said it is considering sanctions on Chinese financial institutions and other entities.
Treasury secretary Janet Yellen raised the issue during a visit to China this month, but Blinken intends to press the matter in stronger terms.

Sounds like the US is about to issue an ultimatum to China to cease trading relation with Russia.
 

Eventine

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All the US ever does is issue threats. All stick & no carrot leads to nothing but resentment over time. I think the Chinese government, even if it caves or appears to cave in this one example instance, will move to decouple further in the future. There is no long-term cooperation with entitled, self-important white supremacists.

Also, the sooner China calls Europe’s bluff, the better. The region is in a state of collapse & should not be holding Chinese politics hostage with the carrot of market access. Actually, this is the reason China needs to address demographics above all else. You cannot rely on foreign markets going forward as they have been and will be weaponized by a West increasingly fragile about its own industrial competitiveness.

Would China build its future prosperity on the basis of selling to Indians? Of course not. So why is it banking on the European & American markets? Tariffs and sanctions are the way of the future & it is likely we will return to a world more like the 18th and 19th centuries in terms of great power competition and closed markets. In such a world, demographics and resource control will become key to national wealth & power.
 

jiajia99

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"The Japanese military on Sunday (Apr 21) confirmed seven people missing after two military helicopters crashed on Saturday, the news agency AFP reported. The two SH-60K helicopters, belonging to the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) were each carrying four people on board."
Japan has certainly changed from what it was in WW2 with their sheer cruelty and determination (credit to where it is due) being completely replaced by incompetence and reliance on foreign powers (aka all on the USA) to appear as a creditable threat on paper, which anyone with half a mind would know that being next to an actual super power (CH) (or two or even three give that those other two also have nukes) with endless resource is most definitely false. Really, these kind of situation is something I honestly would expect from Taiwan with there training accidents happening quite often but with Japan, seriously, they have no strategic depth whatsoever in regards to training or safety, I honestly expected far better but I guess being under the USA and it’s tendency to force their rules on others has seriously damaged Japans ability to actually fight (I mean the continuous humor/horror show that is Taiwan is just plain sad, more then half its population literally expect to surrender the moment China ever comes knocking)
 
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