@DanCollins2011 Because they realized there's no such thing as international law anymore. Might makes right.
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After a decade or so of China-Philippines issues now Phillioines wants to co-developed oil & gas with China in the South China Sea.
This Iran war will flip the switch on geopolitical relations.
Everyone is looking to China and BRICS.
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Some anti-China accounts are trotting out the same old clichés about China not having freedom, and so on. Please—the U.S. government won't even let American companies sell chips to China. Do you think a U.S. company like Manus could be acquired by a Chinese firm? Obviously not.
America makes the first move, and China makes the next. We're all just trying to win—it all comes down to who's got the skills. So let's not hear any whining from either side.
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@AyeshaTariq "Legal right"🤡
Laws are only useful when enforced.
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Technically, Iran has no legal basis to charge fees or close the Strait.
Egypt's right to charge tolls for the Suez Canal is part of the 1888 Constantinople Convention, which also guarantees freedom of navigation for all nations.
Egypt was granted ownership and sovereignty of the Suez Canal by the United Nations.
The Strait of Hormuz is a natural international strait, not a man-made canal like the Suez.
Under UN convention, all ships have an unconditional right of transit passage through the Strait.
Most importantly, the Suez has an alternative - going around Africa, albeit a longer route. The Strait of Hormuz has limited alternatives, as we have quickly found out.
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@Yaqiu USA can't even solve their own inequality problems. They should stay out of China's.
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The American left’s persistent blindness to inequality and repression in China is genuinely hard for me to understand. Many of those least willing to see it are educated elites. There is some deeper psychological dynamic at work here, and I'd love to hear a serious explanation.
何流 | Liu He@HeLiuLeo
China has inequality but no one cares. People look at central Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and scream ‘CHINA’. They don’t even bother venturing out to look at Beijing’s shabby suburbs, let alone the rest of China - villages, towns, counties, before staging their mindless orientalist worships. It’s ridiculous.
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@RebeccaYChan True story, last year a 14 year old Chinese student built a home made mach 8 engine. 山东临沂14岁初中生张恒
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War by other means:
Denial of rare earth to the Genocidal Americans.
Denial of profits to the US military industrial complex.
Americans are forcing taxpayers and their vassals to buy:
-US Patriot missiles cost $4 million each.
-US THAAD interceptor millions cost $12-15 million each.
-US ship based interceptors costs $28 million each.
China can provide the Global South with inexpensive defensive weapons to protect themselves from the genocidal, ethnic cleansing Americans.
On sale now: China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000 youtu.be/-zEXIDJWs30?si…
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@RichHeydarian There's no such thing as international law. Otherwise US and Israel would have been indicted. You have to fight China for it. Yeah, not happening.
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Dude, what nonsense is this? You guys SHAMELESSLY claiming the entire South China Sea basin based on Mickey mouse claims in clear VIOLATION of the INTERNATIONAL LAW!
Don’t worry, no Filipino president would dare give up sovereign rights in West Philippine Sea, lest gets impeached or worse!
Shen Shiwei 沈诗伟@shen_shiwei
How shameless the Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is? By creating conflicts with China in the #SouthChinaSea on one hand, while playing as a victim and try to take some advantages from China, when his country suddenly faces energy crisis, due to U.S. war against Iran.
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@PastorOMuppetz @RevBlackNetwork So how did USA fund all the wars?
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@RevBlackNetwork Capitalism doesn’t rely in scarcity, scarcity is inherent in all societies and is the exact problem that all economic systems look to solve. Capitalism is just much better at this than all other systems
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Capitalism depends on scarcity which is why it fails everywhere it’s been tried
𓅃 UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance@FalconryFinance
Americans will kill the buffalo, slash the water reservoir in the desert, they will destroy anything they do not control, just to deprive the world of its own abundance
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@136Division @DefNotNSA Nigga your current nationalism is a cult, Tiananmen square or something
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If you can't distinguish btwn wumao & regular Chinese ppl, then this right here is your tutorial.
No Chinese person has right brain would ever display this kind of shit and actually take pride in it.
China in English@En_chinaNews
Muslims in china 🇨🇳
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@AngelicaOung Isn't Iran letting tankers past if they pay ￥2mil? The rise in price will at most be that 2mil.
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Life is full of surprises. But I have a question…is the demand for petroleum just a lot more elastic than we previously imagined? If the straits of Hormuz could be closed for almost a month and Brent under 100 (no analyst would have predicted) then it’s not just an illusion or simple politics.
I don’t want to downplay the misery of ppl queuing for gas in Pakistan but fact is no disasters foretold have happened yet from the removal of those cargos. We will see about the secondary effects like food later.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
The White House is (truly) winning the oil jawboning battle against Tehran — still to be seen if Trump would win the physical oil market war. But to see Brent trading at sub-$100 a barrel (and WTI below $90) after 25 days of Hormuz almost full closure is almost surreal.
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@_sn_n I don't think they'd knowingly do that. But they will vote for another that will have the same policies as the pedo but for AIPAC money.
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@manaman_chhina Capitalists: "What you are practicing is not REAL capitalism!"👺
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“He’s never held a rifle, never dodged a shell
But he’s real good at sending other boys to hell”
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@OopsGuess What they are saying is China was creating artificial demand by subsidizing the cost of solar. But recent events has proved that the supply of fossil fuel is uncertain and potentially catastrophic. They are insisting they are right with clear and present evidence.
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🇪🇺 China refutes von der Leyen's "overcapacity" claims.
So, did China force them to buy?
No.
They bought because the products were competitive.
Only the West can willingly enjoy cheaper, better goods and then rebrand the experience as being victimized.
The real scandal, in their eyes, is not “overcapacity.”
It is that someone else became better at industry than they were.
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@kage_urufu Silly...
China and Vietnam are some of the most capitalistic countries on earth.
You do not even have to go, just see how they operate.
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This reminds me...
China and Vietnam ultimately chose communism because the Liberal world order failed them.
Hồ Chí Minh was ignored and sidelined at the Paris Conference in 1919, with France ignoring Vietnamese independence.
China wouldn't be given Shandong despite WWI contributions
Tạch Toán 12@DucKhiemDang
@kage_urufu I saw someone said the French should have listened to him and not let a communist take over... Buddy no reasonable white man of that era is willing to even listen to what the yellow man say
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South Korea has the highest rate of poverty among elders in OECD countries (41%)
fucking shameful
Sizwe SikaMusi@SizweLo
They have 70 and 80-year old grandma hookers in South Korea, I don’t think Kim Jong Un wants any of that Capitalism.
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@nxt888 You missed an important intermediate step. When Libyans came out to protest for democratic and anti corruption reforms Ghasdaffis troops were gunning them down in the streets and Ghadaffi was using his jets to target unarmed protestors. We only bombed regime security
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Libya negotiated.
Let's be precise about what happened to Libya.
In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West.
He paid reparations for Lockerbie.
He dismantled his nuclear program.
He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda.
He did everything that was asked of him.
He negotiated. He complied. He normalized.
In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months.
His own military turned against him with Western backing.
He was captured in a drainage pipe.
A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed.
Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera.
"We came, we saw, he died."
The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet.
And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years.
This is what negotiated security guarantees look like.
This is the documented outcome.
Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding.
The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up.
The lesson is not complicated.
The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess.
The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
"Negotiations" this word the people of the world hate most. You can stand against the devil fighting. The moment you stop you're done.
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@AngelicaOung Muh feelings are hurt when the government won't let me complain about the economy.😩
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ECONOMIC STAGNATION WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
It's really easy to GET HYPED with the amazing things that are happening in China...especially when it comes to strategic breakthroughs like the robots and drones. And did you know they might be getting good domestic EUVs sooner than you think? But as I spend more time on the Chinese internet, especially the Chinese side of Youtube where netizens are free to kvetch away from the censors, it's obvious a lot of people also feel exhausted by their daily economic pressures: finding a job, getting that bag...none of it is as easy as it used to be.
Psychologically, the pressure is compounded by the fact that you can't express it freely online. Being too negative about the housing market, youth unemployment, and even your own personal economic fortunes can cause your account to get shut down. A very popular blogger who focused on "bai-lan" 擺爛 was recently struck. Bai-lan means just choosing to rot. If lying flat is getting by with the minimum of effort while being socially acceptable, bai-lan is not even bothering about the socially acceptable part.
The youtuber below "Heard" says that this is causing internal psychological exhaustion for the Chinese because they don't even get to complain. Their personal reality is not matching the external narrative that's being shoved in their face. Complaining, she said, is also a form of crying for help. They feel alone. .
She suggests various psychological "hacks" to get by. One is to find other ways of psychologically validating yourself and remembering that even though you might not have the job, the economic circumstances and cash to prop up your ego, you still have dignity and that it's OK not to grind like it's the go-go 2000s when the larger economic environment is no longer so growth-oriented.
"Cook a good meal for yourself. Take care of a plant. Those can all be good sources of micro self-esteem."
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@MichaelKovrig Good keep Canada addicted to fossil fuels. You deserve what you believe.
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Turning to China to hedge against Trump carries serious risks. The CCP playbook runs from inducements to dependency, to demands for deference, to coercion. Stay out of the doom-loop. That and more in my testimony to Canada’s House of Commons Committee on Trade, now online: bit.ly/40S1fWW
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I don’t know if Chinese people consider it badass but North Korea has no problem killing Chinese fishermen who encroach in their waters while South Korea tries to negotiate or talk to China about encroaching fishermen.
en.kims.or.kr/issubrief/kims…
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@DanCollins2011 Iranians, like the Russians, always thought they are white people that's why they kept screwing the Chinese over. That was what Putin did until EU decided to boycott him.
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It’s clear now the Iranians were sandbagging in the 12 day war last June.
They viewed this round as existential and went full bore.
(Didn’t help we double-tapped a girls school and killed their Pope on day 1)
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@nikstankovic_ Please look at what Iran agreed to during the negotiations before US assassinated all their leaders. Iraq, Libya, Syria all decided to "show restraint". To the American barbarians that is weakness and invitation to scalp.
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Close but not yet.
As someone who thought Iran should have and would chose restraint from the start... I disagree. I thought that mainly because I did not think it fair to ask Iran to fight for some "global justice". Why aren't you doing it?
Make no mistake Iran has suffered immensely in this war. Human, economic and military. Decades.
But they chose sacrifice, from the top down. That is who they are. So now they decide when and how this ends. Nobody else.
Najam Ali@NajamAli2020
Many disagree with my view that Iran should now show restraint. They want escalation. They want a decisive finish. History warns against this instinct. In 1982, Iran had pushed Iraq back and held a clear advantage. That was the moment to consolidate. Instead, it chose total victory. The result? The world aligned against it. Years of attrition. Hundreds of thousands dead. And in the end, a forced compromise. That is the cost of overreach. Today, Iran again holds leverage: this time through the Strait of Hormuz. It has the ability to impose real economic pain. But leverage is not an invitation to exhaust it. It is a tool to negotiate from strength. Right now, the world is not aligned with the U.S. But if Iran pushes too far, if global economic pain becomes intolerable, that alignment can change very quickly. And when it does, the balance shifts. The lesson is simple: Victory is not in total domination. It is in knowing when to stop. This is the moment for strategic restraint and smart negotiation from a position of strength.
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