Is Chinese culture dedicated to planting trees to build, or to setting fire to forests?
Is Chinese medicine about curing illnesses with pills or preventing to promote a state of good health?
Is Chinese diplomacy made up of exclusion, threats and cannons or of common plans and open negotiations?
The fact is that the province of Formosa, or Taiwan, has already been recovered, beyond the inconvenience of an outdated empire trying to do its last business, there is no turning back on that, other than a final rectification.
For a thousand reasons, there are no Chinese -in Taiwan- anxiously waiting to raise the US flag in Taiwan.

Posted by: Santi | Nov 10 2024 0:02 utc | 204

Is Chinese culture dedicated to planting trees to build, or to setting fire to forests?
Is Chinese medicine about curing illnesses with pills or preventing to promote a state of good health?
Is Chinese diplomacy made up of exclusion, threats and cannons or of common plans and open negotiations?
The fact is that the province of Formosa, or Taiwan, has already been recovered, beyond the inconvenience of an outdated empire trying to do its last business, there is no turning back on that, other than a final rectification.
For a thousand reasons, there are no Chinese -in Taiwan- anxiously waiting to raise the US flag in Taiwan.
Posted by: Santi | Nov 10 2024 0:02 utc | 204
1 Yes, and the spanish should remember that the first emperor of legend built dams to control the floods (and screw the beavers)
2 And yes, most often (at least in the last 5 millennia) china never once sought out hegemony and seldom needed something from outside its borders.
3 yes, harmony is a personal and a societal value that applies even in revolutions and change.
4 Biggest risk for the rest of the world, as I already mentioned, is a general attitude of “why should I care for the world I don’t need”
5 And personally I don’t like the social submission that 3 implies, but at least there it makes sense, what is being imposed in europe is the sick cousin of 3
6 but 5 is, at most, a problem for the chinese if at all, why should anyone complain
7 Maybe many in formosa lost the han culture and are “westerners” hope they take a look at ukraine before jumping into a suicidal war
8. Hope china remembers, after dealing with formosa, that the Ryūkyū islands are mainly han, it’s high time someone kicks the us out of Okinawa, if the japanese can’t, maybe the chinese should.
9. Returning to your list and implied ideas, china already screwed up big time in its past. Destroyed history, screwed up huge areas, was a very significant migration player in neighboring areas, etc. But let us be honest, seldom did that within the massive framework of recent hegemons.
10. Hope you’re right about taiwan, would be a pity if an island first called beautiful (formosa) by the west, ended up devasteted for a foregone conclusion.
祝你长命百岁
zhù nǐ cháng mìng bǎi suì
By then the worst of the risk should be over.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10 2024 0:25 utc | 206

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10, 2024 0:25 UTC | 206
Thanks!! Same for you!
In my opinion, since the Chinese vision lacks the sense of violence and immediate gain that the US abuses, this whole issue is intended to be nothing more than a masquerade extended over time, in order to keep its opponent neither so far away that it becomes disillusioned and attempts a desperate move, nor so close that such a move is possible. The Taiwan negotiation has only been going on for seventy years, which for Chinese culture is somewhat hasty… without a doubt, they could wait another ten or fifteen years in this tug-of-war while the American empire completely collapses.
That it takes on the costs in an ever-increasing proportion is part of what hastens its downfall…

Posted by: Santi | Nov 10 2024 0:38 utc | 208

This mythologizing of an oligarch exploiter shows the utter dysfunctionality of the US political system, …
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Nov 9 2024 19:09 utc | 195
People often complain about “the system”, but it reminds me what was said about software: “You can make it fool proof, but not damn-fool proof”.
For example, Australia has a much admired voting system, a bit intricate which gives credit to the level of education there. So what? Well, they have unusually cost effective health care system and few other thing, perhaps, that can be envied, but idiocy of submarine program they signed for is astounding, and not only that. Summarizing, the system may help, but with unbounded capacities of human mind, when those are directed against such a system, it does not help much.
Education may sometimes be detrimental, after graduating we know that there are so many things that are important and we do not understand, so about those things we have to rely on experts. Australian submarine program is a nice example. Every country “worth its salt” has submarines, so Australia got to have them (although nobody told that to Canadians…). So decades ago Australian military expert explained the problem and started to work on solution. One could study why Canada abides lack of submarines: effective patrolling hugely long coastline is next to hopeless, but a focused mostly land based defense could overcome and deter attacks from the oceans and seas. And airborne and surface-based monitoring can detect any threat that would require serious response — note that submarines are ultra inefficient for a seaborne invasion. Anyway, Australia got to have submarines.
The next thing that was explained to Australian solons is that unique operational environment of Australia requires a unique design. For example, oceans around Australia experience winds, waves, there are reefs, a galore of unique circumstances (??!!). Thus when a Swedish or French design was contemplated, it would need to be a bit wider and shorter (or opposite?), the engine changed, if nuclear that to diesel or opposite, that would at least double the cost but it would fit unique Australian needs like a glove.
So it was agreed that ca. 25 billion USD will be spend on redesigned French submarines that after spending ca. .5 billion were made a bit shorter, wider and the engine changed from nuclear to diesel. Were I be an Australian expert, I would insist on wind propulsion: sail design is one of genuine Australian strengths, and the main goal for the fleet was showing presence on South China Sea, and what would show it better than an enormous kite in the sky attached with a cable made of ultra strong materials to a submarine. Unfortunately, my voice was not even raised and in a mysterious manner Australia suddenly chose a program for 250 billion USD, 10 k USD for every single Australian, of nuclear submarines (why Frenchies had to redesign nuclear propulsion away?), for some reasons, unique Australian needs emerged that were totally different from the previous one.
My most trusted intelligence source claims that the decision was made in a meeting between Australian PM (then a well educated expert on marketing Australian tourism in New Zealand) and a top American expert who explained the plan to PM and got “Yep” as a reply. Australian solons deferred. Mind you, solons elected in a system that has very high marks for fairness.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Nov 10 2024 2:10 utc | 210

Good news indeed that ‘Mad’ Mike Pompeo and Nikke ‘Naked Pool Party’ Randwannahda Haley will not be hired by the DJT administration…..
Two neo com war mongers – completely in the back pocket of the forever war fascist faction of American politics along with Liz ‘A Bomb’ Cheney and her father the War Criminal Dicky boy……..
Good riddance to this trash……

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 10 2024 2:56 utc | 212

The way politics is done makes me think of the yoghurt rack in a supermarket.
Essentially the same product packaged in a hundred ways for different market segments.
The same way, todays’ politicians split up the electorate in different groups and market their politics for each group.
Yes, for advertising purposes you may split up the market in different segments, and make ads specific for each segment. But these “collectives” have no common political preference. There is no LGTB “collective”, in the same way there is no red-haired collective.

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 10 2024 7:14 utc | 214

As a Eurasian, 18 very useful minutes well spent –
Professor Glenn Diesen speaking with President Vladimir Putin at Valdai Discussion Club (07.11.2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yild468_J9w

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 10 2024 7:31 utc | 216

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 7 2024 15:38 utc | 9

I’ll repost the failed minuteman test during election time, nobody cared it failed
“BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — An unarmed missile test was scheduled to launch out of the Vandenberg Space Force Base early Wednesday morning but it was terminated due to an anomaly.
The mission was “safely terminated” by Space Launch Delta 30 at 12:06 a.m., according to officials. ”
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/vandenberg-space-force-base-to-test-unarmed-missile-tuesday-night-oct-31/

garbage — THIS is from 2023

Posted by: ghiwen | Nov 10 2024 8:07 utc | 218

garbage — THIS is from 2023
Posted by: ghiwen | Nov 10 2024 8:07 utc | 218
Sorry you’re absolutely right, I knew there was a test coming up and was looking for follow up and that link showed up and I bungled the year as the dates fit.
This time they got it right (they had failed quite a few lately )
I stand corrected and apologize, and add a proper link
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/us-military-test-launches-unarmed-nuclear-missile-on-election-night-video

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10 2024 11:48 utc | 220

Thanks!! Same for you!
In my opinion, since the Chinese vision lacks the sense of violence and immediate gain that the US abuses, this whole issue is intended to be nothing more than a masquerade extended over time, in order to keep its opponent neither so far away that it becomes disillusioned and attempts a desperate move, nor so close that such a move is possible. The Taiwan negotiation has only been going on for seventy years, which for Chinese culture is somewhat hasty… without a doubt, they could wait another ten or fifteen years in this tug-of-war while the American empire completely collapses.
That it takes on the costs in an ever-increasing proportion is part of what hastens its downfall…
Posted by: Santi | Nov 10 2024 0:38 utc | 208
Thank you
Normally I would agree with you, but it’s been some years that I feel that Xi would very much like to be the one to do it and has hastened things so that it will be in his lifetime and rule.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 10 2024 12:41 utc | 222

There is more in German DIE LINKE than Sahra Wagenknecht. There is also MP Sevim Dagdelen. She wrote “DIE NATO. ABRECHNUNG MIT DEM WERTEBUENDNIS” (how to settle the account with a ‘COMMU’ITY OF VALUES’).

Posted by: Teraspol | Nov 10 2024 14:53 utc | 224

Santi | Nov 10 2024 1:35 utc | 209 ….
Your sinking ship analogy re the EU — see accounts of the demise of Henry VIII of England’s supposedly top warship the Mary Rose. That would seem to enhance your comparison.

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 10 2024 19:06 utc | 226

As the saying goes,

When FUKUSA aka AUKUS make an accusation, its actually a confession of their own crime.

The accusation…
Starmer

China is a threat to NATO

[sic]
The confession…
Starmer

“We cannot turn a blind eye to the challenges faced by our friends and partners on the other side of the world,”

Posted by: denk | Nov 10 2024 19:30 utc | 228

West blasts China on human rights in Xinjiang, Tibet
The Straits Times
23 Oct 2024 — Australia, the United States and 13 other countries criticised China at the United Nations on Oct 22 over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet

Right after Albanese’s apparent olive leaf con China to relax some trade sanctions, suckered again !
When’ll they ever learn ?
Pale faced speak with forked tongue
Thats all folks

Posted by: denk | Nov 10 2024 20:02 utc | 230

Posted by: joey_n | Nov 11 2024 9:17 utc | 231
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Is that why Russia was cancelled from G8., they dont belong ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2024 15:14 utc | 232

Even if the Rubio nomination, miraculously gets pulled back, Trump has once again exposed himself. The strategy appears to flood the administration with Warhawks, but pull back only if the public outcry is too great and pin it on his transition team. He knows who these people are. My initial impression is that the purpose of that is to create a war cabinet, to pin military escalation on them.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Nov 12 2024 16:13 utc | 234