I don't think it's realistically much different from a lot of other fields, honestly. It's mostly younger people performing most of the footwork in academic environments, after all. In any university it's usually the postgrads and postdocs doing the bulk of the labwork and data gathering. The amount of actual hands-on research and analysis work done by someone tends to have an inverse relationship with their position in an organisation, by virtue of the fact that managerial and communication duties take up more of their time the higher up they are.
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AssassinsMace
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What's preventing them from releasing it now...?
Yo you viet guys, sorry we killed millions of your people. But did you know we need you to be afraid of China. So you can become our Asian Ukraine, uuh I mean huge economic partner.
Does the article mention anything we don’t know? I skimmed through it using a translation and it was just a summary of the meeting with nothing else to add on it.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
As the saying goes, you need to see who the owner is before you can beat the dog.
VDL is America’s dog, so can be spanked at will.
360 is Germany’s dog on paper, it doesn’t matter that she betrays her owners and thinks herself America’s dog. The respects and dignity extended to her has nothing to do with what 360 as a moron might have said or done, but rather is done out of respect for the German government and people that she is supposed to represent.
Similarly, the clown show she put on spouting American talking points in China instead of looking after German interests is a slap on the face of her owners the Germans, not China.
China is far too mature and clever to resort to the kind of emotional diplomacy and policy making the western ‘democracies’ stupidly indulge in.
Similarly, look at what Macron and 360 did and walked away with and you start to see the game Beijing is playing.
Macron came and focused on French national interests (it is now clear why he brought VDL along, so she could spout American talking points and get the cold shoulder treatment but freeing Macron from having to make those points himself), and went home with actual economic gains for France.
360 came and spouted American talking points, and China even threw her a big juicy bone in the form of a statement about not providing arms to either side of the conflict. But that’s a bone for America to eat. Germany doesn’t benefit one bit from such a gift and there are no economic deals that 360 brought home with her for the German people.
The more the western MSM and 360 herself celebrates her bone for America, the more the German people should fume about their foreign secretary spending German political and diplomatic capital to advance American interests while leaving German interests ignored and forgotten.
In a way, this is also a test of the German government and people, to see if there is any national pride and self awareness left or if they are all just hollowed out brain dead American zombie slaves. If German continue to behave like an American appendage, don’t be surprised when China starts to treat it as such. That’s when the VDL treatment will start. But I think Germany still have a few more tries left before Beijing makes up its mind and start to respond accordingly with policy that has real, and far reaching consequences rather than merely through petty and meaningless PR shows.
Apparently Blinken asked CPV secretary general Nguyen to pass on a message from him to CPC.
Perhaps he think if he visit Vietnam four more times and get them to pass on four more messages he can collect five yellow stars and summon China, dragon ball style.
Perhaps he think if he visit Vietnam four more times and get them to pass on four more messages he can collect five yellow stars and summon China, dragon ball style.
From a position of strength indeed.