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Whats breaking news about this ? The US seem to be doing a lot more threatening of China than the other way round though.
China's Prime Minister Li Qiang...
"China and the United States can and must cooperate. And there are a lot that the two countries can achieve by working together! Encirclement and supression is in no-one's interest."
That's not the full story, yes without a doubt the US is by far the most vocal in terms off warning China or other countries, but China has been caught more than once trying to control things that should be outside of their control. For example trying to watch/harras/etc/ former Chinese diplomats/politicians etc. that do not live in their country anymore.
In a country like the US that's reason for them to respond, long before the military threats they tried cutting Chinese companies out like for example ZTE and Huawei, also not without reason, south African countries who received billions of ''help'' from China have been the hub of massive dataflows between Chinese company made devices and China.
Partly the same can be said about google or American companies but there is an very big difference, legally Chinese companies are virtually owned by the state, and China is using the information actively to suppress it's citizens. (we have had i believe 2 different topics about China to go in debts about this.)
One of the few things Trump was right about was trying to replace China's role as mass manufacturing by India(which isn't ideal by any mean but at least isn't a communistic tolitarian state.)
There are significant differences. In the case of China/Taiwan there are two governments, both of which claim to represent the whole territory including Taiwan. But also, Taiwan has many factories on the mainland and is a major investor in the PRC.
Also economically like i pointed out before, China will bark but not bite, because they known it will harm their interest more then it helps them. The current sanction clearly affect Russia, but they will absolutely destroy China so they will not risk that, you can also see that on their response to Russia.
There are differences, there are always differences. Russia/Ukraine is not China/Taiwan but both conflicts involve disputed territory/sovereignty and powerful vs weaker neighbours.
Not really, the Ukraine conflict started with Russia bullying Ukraine and stealing territory, which boils down to Putin not accepting the end of the sovjet union and the west and the same ''strong US'' laclustre response to that, the us and the west only came involved last year after against all odds the Ukrainians showed the Russians arent as strong as before feb 2022 often assumed and claimed by Russia.
I wonder why America fears China so much...
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That is just one graph, if that would have said anything, the yen would have replaced the dollar long time ago. However it doesn't say anything as there are many any other factors involved. China's debt position for example, and yes the US also has a big pile of debts but somehow financial annalist consider the US capacity to pay back bigger then China's.
Economy is always about the larger picture not one singled out graph, so in effect, you really said nothing.
Good point - not sure if I read the plane type or just assumed it as there have been a lot days with one flying around in the area souther of Crimea
I would agree that you cannot hit the prop of an aircraft that doesn;t have one !!
If it was something else - then I have not seen them appear on the FLight Radar website - or some others that spot stuff not seen elsewhere - but then they are spy planes so that may not be surprising!
Flight radar only shows what is available on commercial Radar's regardless of the real drone attacked and if it even happened at all it's fits the ammo of Russia, right before the Ukraine war they fired shots at a Nato ship for in their view sailing in Crimea's waters
And a country where they have an unified messaging app to track, arrest and monitor people is so much better right? Who needs freedom totalirians states are gonna save the world?