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daifo said:

US Fanatics: Ban TIK TOK,
AOC: Hold my purse...., let me open an account

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siegecrossbow said:

It is a shrewd move that would bolster her standings amongst young voters.

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Among the American attendees were Cristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, and Ray Dalio, founder of the world's biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, according to a photo in the statement released by the Chinese foreign ministry

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They told Chinese officials that the American business community "is committed to preventing the two countries from falling into a cycle of mutual isolation and conflict".

To avoid such a conflict, the US delegation recommended greater face-to-face contact, more flights between the two countries, and deeper economic, trade and investment cooperation

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Temstar said:

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Plus as we know Tim Cook is also there.


While you may think such meetings are purely performative, at the minimum they serve to show other 3rd party that US businesses aren't so keen on decoupling, thus why should they heed US's order to decouple.

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emblem21 said:

What on earth is in a full English that is special

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Chevalier said:

High fat, carb and sodium and protein. Excellent for winter mornings and chest days.

re the Restrict Bill which is trying to ban TikTok, it’s also how the USG wants to not just spy on you but control all the websites and apps that you use. They know that with Huawei and TikTok, that the entire world won’t be using American apps now so the USG is just going to take what they want, spy on you and violate your rights, regardless of which country you’re in.

Even worse, using a VPN will result in a fine up to a million dollars or jail time. Now why would a free and democratic country be so afraid of what it’s citizens see on the internet?

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anglos are far too docile, unlike the Gallic Europeans who riot at the mention of an increase in the pension age. There should be general strikes and rubbish dumped on congressmens doorsteps If change is to occur.

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plawolf said:

The Trump-Biden admin years will go down in history as a key period of transition in Chinese and world politics.

Before Trump-Biden, China’s primary objective was to seek common ground and accommodate the US as much as possible to try to limit the negative spillover to the US from China’s re-emergence to achieve a win-win scenario where both China and America can live with each other as peers if not equals and as co-leaders of the world. This was best exemplified in the way China helped the US and west contain and mitigate the 2008 financial crisis that western greed created with no complaint or attempts to capitalise on the west’s troubles by seeking unreasonable terms or advantages as conditions for China’s vast and generous assistance.

Trump first ripped off America’s carefully crafted and long maintained mask with his crude bumbling aping of a mafia boss to try to shake down China.

Alone, the negative impact of such a toxic Presidency might have been contained by pinning the blame on Trump the person if followed by a more reasonable successor administration. However, Biden’s administration showed itself to be, if anything, even more deeply and fundamentally hostile and unaccepting of a rising China than Trump’s. The fact that anti-China sentiment is bipartisan and so deep rooted expunged all remaining doubt within the minds of China’s leaders and most Chinese citizens that America will never tolerate China’s rise.

Consequently, Chinese policy and strategy has fundamentally changed from one of avoiding a new global cold and possible hot war, to winning it. Xi’s inauguration speech as good as spelled it out.

I think we are now in the period of the quiet before the storm. This may be a longer period of peace than many might expect, as China systematically puts pieces in position globally, but it is not stable long term.

In the future, when later western generations lament the waste and destruction to come and ask where it all started to go wrong, remember what Trump, and especially Biden did to sow the whirlwind.

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