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Chevalier

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GulfLander

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Russian President Vladimir Putin took partial responsibility Thursday for striking and downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in December 2024. Speaking alongside Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Tajikistan, Putin sought to blame Ukrainian drones that had crossed into Russian airspace on the night of the crash as well as technical failures in the Russian air defense system. These comments marked Russia's first admission of responsibility for the crash.
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taxiya

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They don't need education. They will just pay Chinese existing engineers working in rare earth companies 500K-1 million dollar salaries and those engineers will happily move to US or other countries. Their biggest advantage is extreme wealth.
China literally made that a crime yesterday. Any such Chinese nationals could end up in jail. See post
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. Happily move to US? Think about those who moved millions to US eventually (one way or the other) returned to China to face trail.
 

Ringsword

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Even if the entire rare earth refining industry chain were moved to the United States, I guarantee it would be bankrupt within two years!
The entire industry chain is a multi-trillion dollar industry, and its annual rare earth output is worth less than $30 billion. Who do you think would invest in this?
Do you think you can convince Wall Street to invest in this?
All this is true on what you guys are all saying but reflections on the Opium Wars is perhaps relevant as then China had silk,fine porcelains etc that the West craved but could not get without paying in silver/gold and the west didn't want to.... and because of their superior/advanced weapons/military organization deliberately/wilfully defeated a backward/late-dynastic Qing China-and the subsequent Century of Humiliation. BTW the same west craves China's factory goods,scientific advances and her RE/CM's to the insane max ..BUT thank Heaven this time/China is so very different and the one military card so depended on by the west for their pirate gains has been nulled/blocked by China's vast military power(Sept 3rd parade was no accident),unity,and civilizational discipline/organization otherwise the west at the point of a gun at China's head will demand ALL 45 million mt of China's RE's/CM's-the game is just beginning and dangerously so.
 
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Temstar

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I’ve maintained that it’s not enough to just sanction them; once the PLAN is large enough to cover the globe thrice over, China should start extraditing these individuals starting with pompeo.


so the five eyes anglo supremacist settler state can be trained! There’s hope yet to prevent another xiongnu event.
Australians can be pragmatic, particularly under the current labor government. They've learnt since the Scott Morrison days that generally the first offer by the Chinese is the best price you're going to get and no one wants to get themselves into an US soybean farmer type situation.

My daughter was just asking me the other day "how come Argentina is getting in on the soybean business to take advantage of the trade war? Aren't Milei and Trump friends?" to which I responded "did the US hesitate to take up Australia's lobster business with their Boston lobsters during the trade dispute when Scott Morrison was PM?" and I can just see the lightbulb above her head light up.
 

antiterror13

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The only possible demand from China for a big move like this is complete removal of all export control on Chip equipment including EUV. Nothing else compares. This is the equivalent of the US chip export controls in size and sweeping nature.

I do hope export control on chip equipment stays, it greatly benefits Chinese domestic chip equipment manufacturers and supply chain, pain now but great in the medium term
 
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