Reminds me of the fugly chick at my Middle School who always puts the “flag” between her legs when we played flag football for P.E.
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Reminds me of the fugly chick at my Middle School who always puts the “flag” between her legs when we played flag football for P.E.
The current state of the Republican Party is the biggest sign of the US decline. In a normal country, such a party would fast be relegated to sub-10% vote brackets. It is more extremist and ridiculous than many fringe extreme right-wing parties in Europe.
Plot Twist: The USA caused the incident.
Both China and India claimed the other started it. Indias claim sounds stupid, I naturally believe Chinas word that India started it.
BUT… what if the USA told India that China had incurred , prompting them to counter-incur?
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Russian integration project is extremely, extremely long in the making.
Arguably even as far back as during Khrushchev's ascent, China earmarked the USSR as lacking revolutionary potential, as having reached a dead end. Why else did China work as allies of circumstance together with America? This was not done out of charity to the capitalist world.
USSR had become through many different factors, some unlucky and some structural, a sick plant, one cannot call a plant whose yield is Gorbachev anything but sick. China took the tough decision of razing it down, to make room for a healthier successor, because as long as USSR remained leader of the socialist world, the socialist world will not grow. China had to replace them, and to replace them, USSR must go.
Russia will now indeed be headed to a form of vassalage, but that is not necessarily negative for Russians. Growth, a more representative political scene, and a stronger international presence awaits them. China does it reforms with respects to the native population. It does not rule its bloc like a dictator but rather as first among equals.
However, the world will also put China under the greatest scrutiny, because the degree of success of its Russian dependency will decide how likely non aligned nations would be to adopt the same model. So China must work hard, bring about the same positive changes in Russia which catapulted China itself into the still rapidly growing largest economy in the world. If Russian reformism only gives a lackluster result, China will be back to square 1 with just a "multipolar" world, which to be granted, China can gradually work with as well.
Does Putin like this arrangement personally or was he dragged kicking and screaming into it? We'll probably not know the answer until many years later, if ever. But the result is the same.
Arguably even as far back as during Khrushchev's ascent, China earmarked the USSR as lacking revolutionary potential, as having reached a dead end. Why else did China work as allies of circumstance together with America? This was not done out of charity to the capitalist world.
USSR had become through many different factors, some unlucky and some structural, a sick plant, one cannot call a plant whose yield is Gorbachev anything but sick. China took the tough decision of razing it down, to make room for a healthier successor, because as long as USSR remained leader of the socialist world, the socialist world will not grow. China had to replace them, and to replace them, USSR must go.
Russia will now indeed be headed to a form of vassalage, but that is not necessarily negative for Russians. Growth, a more representative political scene, and a stronger international presence awaits them. China does it reforms with respects to the native population. It does not rule its bloc like a dictator but rather as first among equals.
However, the world will also put China under the greatest scrutiny, because the degree of success of its Russian dependency will decide how likely non aligned nations would be to adopt the same model. So China must work hard, bring about the same positive changes in Russia which catapulted China itself into the still rapidly growing largest economy in the world. If Russian reformism only gives a lackluster result, China will be back to square 1 with just a "multipolar" world, which to be granted, China can gradually work with as well.
Does Putin like this arrangement personally or was he dragged kicking and screaming into it? We'll probably not know the answer until many years later, if ever. But the result is the same.
To be fair they are either criminals or hardcore Chinese libs if they choose to enter the U.S. by braving thugs and drug dealers through the Latin American land route. Without fluent English and/or useful skill sets their career choice will be very limited. Either
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No matter how many times you repeat that fantasy, it's not going to be true. Russia is single handedly holding back the NATO war machine right now, and that alone makes it a valuable security partner for China.
That's underselling Russia.
Russia after all is taking on all of NATO.
Canada sent four tanks to the Ukraine, then another four tanks, then told China yesterday that China is on the wrong side of history.
Russia and Canada not comparable at all.
Besides, if we divide trade volumes as in per-capital basis, which is kind of irrelevant, but for a thought experiment, Russia-China trade is about 200 billion, whereas Canada-China trade is about 100-150 billion per year.
Since Russia-China trade is twice the amount of Canada-China trade, but the Russian population is 4x higher than the Canadian population, all that means is the average Canadian does twice much trade with China, than does the average Russian.
The cold war rhetoric is obsolete.
Russia taking on all of NATO, while China will support Russia, and support West Asia peace initiatives, and work towards a prosperous RECP ... what cold war?
These predictions of yours lean more towards conspiracies.
China does not need vassals, nor does it wish to have vassals. China's vision of a new world order is not to copy the vicious and disgusting "hegemon-vassal" model of the US. China’s vision of a world order is one in which countries stand on their own and make their way in an international system as individuals and mutually beneficial cooperation. China believes that sovereignty should be the foundation of the new international system.
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There are some things that I agree, and some that i disagree with. I will say what I disagree about in a short way.
1. You said that Ukraine is Russia'a or Putin's problem only. However, it's maybe their problem, but is Xi’s golden opportunity to keep the West occupied while he prepares for Taiwan. West already churned through their millitary reserves. West's extremely limited millitary industry geared up toward production of mostly land-based millitary equipment, that won't be useful in the Taiwan scenario for years. Both of those points for years as I expect the Ukraine war to last for years. Third point I want to make is that as long as there is such a massive war, in the Europe, beside EU, those countries are in no shape to help the US against China for Taiwan, both from sociological and political but economic standpoint as well. That's why I said that it is in China's favor for the war in the Ukraine to hugely extend, at least until the possible, in my personal opinion, 2027 Taiwan AR. Hence, if Russia was to start losing in the Ukraine, not just a stalemate, but pure losing, I can say with 90% certainty that China would open up some millitary equipment for them.
2. You also understated Russia's importance to China in this moment when a conflict around Taiwan could start at any moment. US could launch a naval economic blockade against China at any moment. Then where would China buy and transport their food and natural resources from, energy, minerals, ores? Trade with the rest of the world? Well, mostly from Russia. That is the first point, and the second point is Russia's massive global nuclear capability. China could currently only destroy the US at best, however Russia cam destroy the whole world US + it's global allies. China needs such a nuclear deterrent now on its side.
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