China Diplomacy

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-chi...ly-contentious-start-first-talks-under-biden/

Rhetoric is heating up.

The United States' relationship with China will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be and adversarial where it must be, deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyberattacks on the United States, and economic coercion toward our allies.

Yang prodded Washington, saying he hoped "the United States will do better on human rights," and arguing that the Black Lives Matter movement, "did not just emerge over the past four years. The slaughter of African Americans has always been a problem."

"China urges the U.S. side to fully abandon the hegemonic practice of willfully interfering in China's internal affairs," added Foreign Minister Wang in follow-up remarks. "This has been a longstanding issue and it should be changed. It is time for it to change. And in particular, on the 17th of March the United States escalated its so-called sanctions on China regarding Hong Kong, and the Chinese people are outraged by this gross interference in China's internal affairs."

This is not supposed to be the way one should welcome his guests, and we wonder if this is a decision made by the United States to try to gain some advantage in dealing with China, but certainly this is miscalculated and only reflects the vulnerability and weakness inside the United States

 

[byco42]

It's all scripted Kabuki that was no surprise to any of the attendees. It's what they anticipated and planned.

 

[Spartanmack]

I sure hope we get those pregnancy flight suits and lowering the physical combat standards for women worked out by the time this thing boils over and we end up at war with China.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I sure hope we get those pregnancy flight suits and lowering the physical combat standards for women worked out by the time this thing boils over and we end up at war with China.

 

[Gulo Blue]

EU has imposed their first sanctions on China in 3 decades:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...g-abuses-first-in-three-decades-idUSKBN2BE1AI

It's only 4 people, so still effectively rhetoric, but rhetoric they haven't used in a while.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Coordinated sanctions reportedly on the way:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/...anctions-on-china-over-uighur-genocide-477434

 

[Spartanmack]

hey, diversity and inclusion is the strength of our military and we're gonna need all the able-bodied women we can get to make our military even stronger.

 

[Michchamp]

where would China even be right now if our business leaders and CEOs had not willingly shifted production there to gut American manufacturing unions and labor power here in the states?

Are we going to just keep pretending there was no agency involved in that decision and all the capital involved in shifting production there came from nowhere?

 

[Michchamp]

factories just grow like mushrooms... suddenly they're there one day, and people have jobs, then they just close without warning or human involvement and reappear on the other side of the Pacific.

 

[Gulo Blue]

where would China even be right now if our business leaders and CEOs had not willingly shifted production there to gut American manufacturing unions and labor power here in the states?

Are we going to just keep pretending there was no agency involved in that decision and all the capital involved in shifting production there came from nowhere?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/22/inv...vestors-attracted-to-china-bond-markets-.html

Americans are still interested in putting their money in China
In just two years, foreign holdings of Chinese government bonds have nearly doubled to over 2 trillion yuan ($307.7 billion), according to data from Wind Information.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Are we going to just keep pretending there was no agency involved in that decision and all the capital involved in shifting production there came from nowhere?

Ideally, the threat of our companies leaving would cause change in China. Instead, the threat of losing access to Chinese markets is changing US companies.

 

[Michchamp]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/22/inv...vestors-attracted-to-china-bond-markets-.html

must be all those American leftist, socialist, and liberal financiers pouring investment money into China and buying up Chinese bonds... SMH... don't they love America?

 

[Michchamp]

Ideally, the threat of our companies leaving would cause change in China. Instead, the threat of losing access to Chinese markets is changing US companies.

let the invisible hand of the market lead us where it will, right? government intervention in the market would be bad. BAD!

 

[Spartanmack]

where would China even be right now if our business leaders and CEOs had not willingly shifted production there to gut American manufacturing unions and labor power here in the states?

Are we going to just keep pretending there was no agency involved in that decision and all the capital involved in shifting production there came from nowhere?

who is pretending there was no agency involved in those decisions?

 

[Spartanmack]

let the invisible hand of the market lead us where it will, right? government intervention in the market would be bad. BAD!

government intervention in the market is a big part of what drove those companies overseas. High tax rates, expensive regulation and overprice labor were/are the driving forces for the shift.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Ideally, the threat of our companies leaving would cause change in China. Instead, the threat of losing access to Chinese markets is changing US companies.

It?s certainly hindering the production character/plot driven films. Everything these days seems to always have to be the Avengers or the Justice League. Asian people just love that shit, by the billions.

 

[Gulo Blue]

It?s certainly hindering the production character/plot driven films. Everything these days seems to always have to be the Avengers or the Justice League. Asian people just love that shit, by the billions.

And Mulan thanks the Hong Kong police.

 

[Spartanmack]

And Mulan thanks the Hong Kong police.

and Top Gun after they removed the offensive patch from Tom Cruise's, I mean Maverick's bomber jacket.

 

[sggatecl]

and Top Gun after they removed the offensive patch from Tom Cruise's, I mean Maverick's bomber jacket.

Taiwan #1!