@reset_by_peer They are a communist nation but their trade with other countries is more free-market but within its own borders it is entirely communist have you not heard of the social credit system? Imagine not being able to buy something at a fast food joint because you criticized the gov
Me: China is doing communism and they’re thriving
My comments: China is not doing communism, they’re doing a special form of capitalism
Me: ok, can we do the special form of capitalism that they’re doing?
My comments: no that’s communism
Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi sends a ritual offering as the Yasukuni shrine opens a spring festival honoring Japams war dead, including WWII war criminals
I wonder what the people of Nanjing in China think of it?
@ShoahUkraine Japan and Israel always be the disaster of this planet, one patiently waiting for an opportunity. another one has become the master of the US.
Filipino mother and her baby killed by Japanese bayonets. April 9th, 1945.
"She was then lying face downward in an apparent attempt to protect her child who was also bayonetted several times." - Edward O'Brien, US Army Technical Sergeant.
Food for thought.
Yes, the New Great Game is unfolding.
No nation stands to gain more from a closure of the Strait of Hormuz than the United States, across the short, medium, and long term.
This logic is embedded in President Trump’s National Security Strategy, with the Trump Doctrine now visible in practice. Strategically, China loses on multiple fronts with Hormuz closed: seaborne Middle Eastern supplies are constrained just as Venezuelan crude is increasingly redirected toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on short, politically secure routes. At the same time, the Strait of Malacca, and with it, the broader Malacca Dilemma, moves to the center of gravity. In parallel, the Sunda, Lombok, Makassar, and Mindoro Straits remain critical arteries for Chinese trade and energy flows.
Together, they constitute the geographic chokepoints of Beijing’s vulnerability, and Washington is acutely aware of this. Yes, the New Great Game is unfolding, and Wall Street has yet to comprehend the consequences.