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Foreigners can not buy land in China.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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China's protectionism is far higher than Australia's.
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@keepingcalm6469 US has its own interest.
The United States remained Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first 3 months of 2021 as it continued to gain market share at the expense of Russia and Qatar, Europe’s second- and third-largest sources of LNG, according to the EU Commission’s latest European Gas Market Report.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm), the EU Commission reported in early July.
When compared to Q4 2020, the US picked up 2% market share from January to March this year, while Russia bested Qatar to become Europe’s second-largest LNG supplier. Nigeria placed fourth, followed by Algeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
A review of EU Commission reports dating back to 2019 reveals a steady quarter-to-quarter decline in Europe’s LNG purchases while it also documents the growing rivalry between the US and Russia, Qatar’s fall from dominance, and the emergence of the US as Europe’s top LNG supplier starting Q4 2019.
The EU is the world’s third-largest LNG market, though its imports amounted to only about half that of Japan (36 Bcm) and China (32 Bcm) in Q1 2021.
European gas consumption rose 7.6% to 132 Bcm in Q1 based on a year-on-year comparison. The commission noted that demand for gas as fuel to generate electricity rose 3.4%, also year-on-year (increasing by 4.9 TWh.)
In terms of gas deliveries overall, including pipeline gas, Russia remained the leading gas supplier to Europe (45% of all imports) with the Nord Stream 1 pipeline across the Baltic Sea as its most important supply route.
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Leftist MSM and Malcolm Turnbull arguing for censorship against the opposition.
In Australia, the left has support from CBS's Netwoke Ten, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC(Oz version), Network 7, and The Guardian Australia.
In the US, the left has support from CBS, ABC, NBC/MSNBC, Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
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@ghostdog4330
Myth 1: NATO promised Russia it would not expand after the Cold War
Fact: Such an agreement was never made. NATO’s door has been open to new members since it was founded in 1949 – and that has never changed. This “Open Door Policy” is enshrined in Article 10 of NATO’s founding treaty, which says “any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic” can apply for membership. Decisions on membership are taken by consensus among all Allies. No treaty signed by the United States, Europe and Russia included provisions on NATO membership.
The idea of NATO expansion beyond a united Germany was not on the agenda in 1989, particularly as the Warsaw Pact still existed. This was confirmed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview in 2014: "The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up, either."
Declassified White House transcripts also reveal that, in 1997, Bill Clinton consistently refused Boris Yeltsin's offer of a 'gentlemen's agreement' that no former Soviet Republics would enter NATO: "I can't make commitments on behalf of NATO, and I'm not going to be in the position myself of vetoing NATO expansion with respect to any country, much less letting you or anyone else do so…NATO operates by consensus."
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@mr.mysteriousspyman4016
Reminder
1. Australian education government grants are also given to Islamic schools (ref 1).
2. Islamic schools in Australia obtains "free" money from Islamic gulf states which includes Saudi government (ref 2, 3).
Prove from 1901, Australian governments has given "free land" to Christian groups.
Your argument is hypocritical.
References
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malek_Fahd_Islamic_School
2. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-10-13/32626
3. https://www.smh.com.au/national/mosques-hooked-on-foreign-cash-lifelines-20021125-gdfv5x.html
In fund-raising circles, Saudi Arabia is a five-star destination. The Saudi government first gave to Australian Muslims in 1974 - a donation of $1.2 million - and since then, some observers guess, about $100 million has followed
Dr Kahn had more luck getting funds for the school. In the late 1990s the Islamic Development Bank lent the Islamic Association Western Suburbs Sydney Inc $US250,000, interest free
The favourable exchange rate, a $340,000 grant from the Federal Government, and top-up funds from the community all combined to build the school
You're a hypocrite!
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For Nigeria,
Before British colonization, at the beginning of the 19th century, Usman dan Fodio led a successful jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms founding the centralised Sokoto Caliphate. The empire with Arabic as its official language grew rapidly under his rule and that of his descendants, who sent out invading armies in every direction. The vast landlocked empire connected the east with the western Sudan region and made inroads down south conquering parts of the Oyo Empire (modern-day Kwara), and advanced towards the Yoruba heartland of Ibadan, to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The territory controlled by the empire included much of modern-day northern and central Nigeria. The sultan sent out emirs to establish a suzerainty over the conquered territories and promote Islamic civilization, the emirs in turn became increasingly rich and powerful through trade and slavery. By the 1890s, the largest slave population in the world, about two million, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture.
In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received recognition from other European nations at the Berlin Conference. The following year, it chartered the Royal Niger Company under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company had vastly succeeded in subjugating the independent southern kingdoms along the Niger River, the British conquered Benin in 1897, and, in the Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902), defeated other opponents. The defeat of these states opened up the Niger area to British rule.
In 1900, the company's territory came under the direct control of the British government and established the Southern Nigeria Protectorate as a British protectorate and part of the British Empire, the foremost world power at the time.
Nigeria was independent since October 1st, 1960.
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Starting from 1801, the Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Ottoman Empire's pro-slave traders Barbary states (including Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) of North Africa in the early 19th century. US's anti-slavery direction lead to the 1861 US civil war with Republican-governed anti-slavery USA vs Democrat-governed pro-slavery CSA.
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@ghostdog4330
Fact : Six countries only Agreed To Restrictions On Former GDR
In 1990, six countries – East and West Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France – held discussions on the reunification of Germany.
The Germans, Americans, British, and French agreed that there would be “no deployment of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR (East Germany)“.
That agreement was incorporated in Article 5 of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, which was signed on 12 September 1990 by the six countries :
Until Soviet forces had completed their withdrawal from the former GDR, only German territorial defense units not integrated into NATO would be deployed in that territory.
There would be no increase in the numbers of troops or equipment of U.S., British and French forces stationed in Berlin.
Once Soviet forces had withdrawn, German forces assigned to NATO could be deployed in the former GDR, but foreign forces and nuclear weapons systems would not be deployed there.
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The Three Seas Initiative member countries did NOT sign Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.
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@rossbrown6136
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/27/dear-bernie-sanders-you-cant-separate-cubas-social-policies-its-authoritarianism/
First, consider the issue of literacy in Cuba before Castro came along. Was pre-Castro Cuba a nation of illiterates, and Castro’s literacy campaign as great an accomplishment as Sanders avers? Not at all. A Cuban census from 1953 found that 77.9 percent of the island’s total population was already literate, and that in urban areas the literacy rate was 88.9 percent: among the highest in Latin America and higher than in some benighted rural counties in the United States. Seven years later, in 1960, according to data compiled at Oxford University, the literacy rate for the entire island was 79 percent.
So the scope of Castro’s 1961 literacy campaign, much admired by Sanders, is more myth than reality . Moreover, the image of pre-Castro Cuba as a primitive society rescued from poverty and illiteracy by a so-called revolution is a deceitful caricature, one brilliantly conceived by the Castro regime to make its brutality seem less offensive — merely “authoritarian” rather than monstrous.
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Bernie Sanders is repeating Castro's fake news.
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That's a false equivalence.
Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia into US federal structure.
>Yugoslavia
9 February 1994: At UN request, NATO agreed to authorise air strikes, declared 20 km total exclusion zone around Sarajevo and required Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons from zone or place them under UN control within 10 days; also called on Bosnian Government to place heavy weapons in Sarajevo under UN control. Agreement between 'RS' and Bosnian Government to a ceasefire in Sarajevo, negotiated by Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Rose, then Commander of UN forces in Bosnia.
UN Security Council through UNSCR 836 of 4 June 1994 authorizes the use of air power to defend the safe areas created by UN Security Council resolution 824 of 6 May 1993.
Paragraph 10 of UNSCR 836 stipulates:
"...Member States, acting nationally or through regional organisations or
arrangements, may take, under the authority of the Security Council and
subject to close coordination with the Secretary-General and UNPROFOR, all
necessary measures, through the use of air power, in and around the safe
areas in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to support UNPROFOR in
the performance of its mandate..."
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 17 March 2011 in response to the First Libyan Civil War. The Security Council resolution was proposed by France, Lebanon, and the United Kingdom.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
The US supported France(EU)'s and UK(EU)'s, and Lebanon's United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
NATO wasn't used until United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 since it was vetoed by Turkey.
If, however, you are referring to the NATO intervention in Libya, that was NATO agreeing to enforce a United Nations Security Council Resolution. It was never intended as a permanent expansion of the Alliance to embrace Libya nor to establish a NATO base in the country.
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A Jewish wedding in Aleppo, Syria (Ottoman Empire), 1914.
Ruins of the Central Synagogue of Aleppo after the 1947 Aleppo pogrom
In 1947, rioters in Aleppo burned the city's Jewish quarter and killed 75 people.[191] As a result, nearly half of the Jewish population of Aleppo opted to leave the city,[5] initially to neighbouring Lebanon.[192]
In 1948, there were approximately 30,000 Jews in Syria. In 1949, following defeat in the Arab–Israeli War, the CIA-backed March 1949 Syrian coup d'état installed Husni al-Za'im as the President of Syria. Za'im permitted the emigration of large numbers of Syrian Jews, and 5,000 left to Israel.[192]
The subsequent Syrian governments placed severe restrictions on the Jewish community, including barring emigration.[192] In 1948, the government banned the sale of Jewish property and in 1953 all Jewish bank accounts were frozen. The Syrian secret police closely monitored the Jewish community. Over the following years, many Jews managed to escape, and the work of supporters, particularly Judy Feld Carr,[193] in smuggling Jews out of Syria, and bringing their plight to the attention of the world, raised awareness of their situation.
Although the Syrian government attempted to stop Syrian Jews from exporting their assets, the American consulate in Damascus noted in 1950 that "the majority of Syrian Jews have managed to dispose of their property and to emigrate to Lebanon, Italy, and Israel".[194][195] In November 1954, the Syrian government temporarily lifted its ban on Jewish emigration.[196] The various restrictions that the Syrian government placed on the Jewish population were severe. Jews were legally barred from working for the government or for banks, obtaining driver's licenses, having telephones in their homes or business premises, or purchasing property.
In March 1964, the Syrian government issued a decree prohibiting Jews from traveling more than three miles from the limits of their hometowns.[197] In 1967, in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, antisemitic riots broke out in Damascus and Aleppo. Jews were allowed to leave their homes only for few hours daily. Many Jews found it impossible to pursue their business ventures because the larger community was boycotting their products. In 1970, Israel launched Operation Blanket, a covert military and intelligence operation to evacuate Syrian Jews, managing to bring a few dozen young Jews to Israel.[198]
Clandestine Jewish emigration continued, as Jews attempted to sneak across the borders into Lebanon or Turkey, often with the help of smugglers, and make contact with Israeli agents or local Jewish communities. In 1972, demonstrations were held by 1,000 Syrian Jews in Damascus, after four Jewish women were killed as they attempted to flee Syria. The protest surprised Syrian authorities, who closely monitored Jewish community, eavesdropped on their telephone conversations, and tampered with their mail.[198]
Following the Madrid Conference of 1991, the United States put pressure on the Syrian government to ease its restrictions on Jews, and during Passover in 1992, the government of Syria began granting exit visas to Jews on condition that they did not emigrate to Israel. At that time, the country had several thousand Jews. The majority left for the United States—most to join the large Syrian Jewish community in South Brooklyn, New York—although some went to France and Turkey, and 1,262 Syrian Jews who wanted to immigrate to Israel were brought there in a two-year covert operation.[199]
In 2004, the Syrian government attempted to establish better relations with its emigrants, and a delegation of a dozen Jews of Syrian origin visited Syria in the spring of that year.[199] As of December 2014, only 17 Jews remain in Syria, according to Rabbi Avraham Hamra; nine men and eight women, all over 60 years of age.[200]
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Your argument is bullshit.
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In the mid-2000s, Colombo (the commercial capital of Sri Lanka) agreed to let Beijing build a new port from scratch in the town of Hambantota, in the south of the island. It wasn’t yet thought of as part of a new Silk Road -- that programme was conceptualizsed by Xi Jinping in 2012 -- but all the ingredients were there. "Chinese funds and engineers are mobilised to build infrastructure outside China, as part of a partnership that was meant to be win-win: this is the very definition of the rationale of the Silk Road," said Jean-François Dufour, economist and director of DCA China-Analysis. The Chinese president integrated the Sri Lankan project into his Silk Road initiative in 2013.
But in 2015, financial clouds began gathering over the future of Hambantota’s port, which cost $1.1 billion. Sri Lanka was crumbling under the debt, and was unable to repay the more than $8 billion in loans it had taken from China for several infrastructure projects in the country. Furious, Beijing turned up the heat and threatened to cut off financial support to the island nation if it didn’t quickly find a solution. In December, 2017, after two years of negotiations, Colombo finally agreed to turn over the port to China for 99 years in exchange for the cancellation of its debt.
The concession was humiliating for Sri Lanka, while "the opponents of China, like India, painted the entire operation as a deliberate plan to acquire strategic positions in the region," Dufour said. China was suspected of intentionally strangling Colombo with loans at a 6 percent interest rate, which was much higher than the other lenders - such as the World Bank – from which Colombo had previously borrowed.
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@JohnGeometresMaximos
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Date: December 2005
Dutch dealer gets 15 years for chemical sales to Saddam.
A Dutch businessman was yesterday jailed for 15 years after a court in The Hague found him guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq that Saddam Hussein's regime used in lethal gas attacks on Kurdish villages.
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Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
Try again.
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@mechatronica8417 CCP is indeed hypocrites.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@robertmarmaduke9721 False narrative
By the 16th century, increasing numbers of Chinese fishermen, traders and pirates were visiting the southwestern part of the island. When the Dutch arrived in 1623, they found about 1,500 Chinese visitors and residents.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) came to the area in search of an Asian trade and military base. Defeated by the Portuguese at the Battle of Macau in 1622, they attempted to occupy Penghu, but were driven off by the Ming authorities. They then built Fort Zeelandia on the islet of Tayowan off the southwest coast of Taiwan. (The site is now part of the main island, in modern Anping, Tainan.) On the adjacent mainland, they built a smaller brick fort, Fort Provintia.[22] Local aboriginals called the area Pakan[23] and on some old maps the island of Taiwan is named Pakan.[24]
In 1626, the Spanish Empire, viewing the Dutch presence on Taiwan as a threat to their colony in the Philippines, established a settlement at Santísima Trinidad on the northeast coast of Taiwan (modern Keelung), building Fort San Salvador. They also built Fort Santo Domingo in the northwest (modern Tamsui) in 1629, but had abandoned it by 1638. The small colony was plagued by disease and a hostile local population, and received little support from Manila.[25] The Dutch Governor Pieter Nuyts got entangled in a dispute with the Japanese Hamada Yahei.
The Dutch were defeated at the Battle of Liaoluo Bay by the Chinese Zheng Zhilong in 1633.
The Dutch set out to turn Taiwan into a Dutch colony.[11] The first order of business was to punish villages that had violently opposed the Dutch and unite the aborigines in allegiance with the VOC. The first punitive expedition was against the villages of Baccloan and Mattauw, north of Saccam near Tayowan. The Mattauw campaign had been easier than expected and the tribe submitted after having their village razed by fire. The campaign also served as a threat to other villages from Tirossen (modern Chiayi) to Lonkjiaow (Hengchun).
The 1636 punitive attack on Lamay Island in response to the killing of the shipwrecked crews of the Beverwijck and the Golden Lion ended ten years later with the entire aboriginal population of 1100 removed from the island including 327 Lamayans killed in a cave, having been trapped there by the Dutch and suffocated in the fumes and smoke pumped into the cave by the Dutch and their allied aborigines from Saccam, Soulang and Pangsoya.[26] The men were forced into slavery in Batavia (Java) and the women and children became servants and wives for the Dutch officers. The events on Lamay changed the course of Dutch rule to work closer with allied aborigines, though there remained plans to depopulate the outlying islands.[27]
In 1642, the Dutch ejected the Spanish from the north of the island.[28][29] They then sought to establish control of the western plains between the new possessions and their base at Taoyuan. After a brief but destructive campaign in 1645, Pieter Boon was able to subdue the tribes in this area, including the Kingdom of Middag.[30][31]
On the mainland, Manchu forces broke through Shanhai Pass in 1644 and rapidly overwhelmed the Ming dynasty. In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist Koxinga arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia and establish a pro-Ming base in Taiwan.[36] Koxinga was born to Zheng Zhilong, a Chinese merchant and pirate, and Tagawa Matsu, a Japanese woman, in 1624 in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He was raised there until seven and moved to Quanzhou, in the Fujian province of China. In a family made wealthy from shipping and piracy, Koxinga inherited his father's trade networks, which stretched from Nagasaki to Macao. Following the Manchu advance on Fujian, Koxinga retreated from his stronghold in Amoy (Xiamen city) and besieged Taiwan in the hope of establishing a strategic base to marshal his troops to retake his base at Amoy. In 1662, following a nine-month siege, Koxinga captured the Dutch fortress Zeelandia and Taiwan became his base (see Kingdom of Tungning).[37]
The Taiwanese Aboriginal tribes who were previously allied with the Dutch against the Chinese during the Guo Huaiyi Rebellion in 1652 turned against the Dutch during the Siege of Fort Zeelandia and defected to Koxinga's Chinese forces.[38] The Aboriginals (Formosans) of Sincan defected to Koxinga after he offered them amnesty. The Sincan Aboriginals then proceeded to work for the Chinese and behead Dutch people in executions. The frontier aboriginals in the mountains and plains also surrendered and defected to the Chinese on 17 May 1661, celebrating their freedom from compulsory education under the Dutch rule by hunting down Dutch people and beheading them and trashing their Christian school textbooks.[39] Koxinga died four months after the siege was over, there were speculations that he died in a sudden fit of madness when his officers refused to carry out his orders to execute his son Zheng Jing. Zheng Jing had an affair with his wet nurse and conceived a child with her.[40] Other accounts are more straightforward, attributing Koxinga's death to a case of malaria.[41][42]
Following the death of Koxinga, his son Zheng Jing took over the Zheng regime, leading the remaining 7,000 Ming loyalist troops to Taiwan. In response to raids by Zheng Jing and in an effort to starve out the forces in Taiwan, the Qing decreed to relocate all of the southern coastal towns and ports that had been the targets of raids by the Zheng fleet and thus provided supplies for the resistance. This measure largely backfired, and between 1662 and 1664, six major waves of immigration occurred from these coastal towns to Taiwan, spurred by the severe hardships incurred from the Qing relocation policy. In a move to take advantage of this Qing misstep, Zheng Jing promoted immigration to Taiwan by promising free eastern land cultivation and ownership for peasants in exchange for compulsory military service by all males in case the island was in danger of a Qing invasion.
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From 1683, the Qing dynasty ruled part of the island as Taiwan Prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north and south. In 1887, the island was declared as a separate Fokien-Taiwan Province.
The Qing authorities tried to limit immigration to Taiwan and barred families from traveling to Taiwan to ensure the immigrants would return to their families and ancestral graves. Illegal immigration continued, but many of the men had few prospects in war-weary Fujian and thus married locally, resulting in the idiom "has Tangshan[a] father, no Tangshan mother"
The Qing tried to protect aboriginal land claims, but also sought to turn them into tax-paying subjects. Chinese and tax-paying aborigines were barred from entering the wilderness which covered most of the island for the fear of raising the ire of the nontaxpaying, highland aborigines and inciting rebellion. A border was constructed along the western plain, built using pits and mounds of earth, called "earth cows", to discourage squatting.
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In the 1600s, Imperial China didn't control Taiwan. Dutch Taiwan was a refugee Island for Ming loyalists against Qing (ruling Imperial China).
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@luxbeci2 FALSE.
>Cuba
The US has a sovereign right to halt trade with Cuba.
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden
>Libya
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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The United States remained Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first 3 months of 2021 as it continued to gain market share at the expense of Russia and Qatar, Europe’s second- and third-largest sources of LNG, according to the EU Commission’s latest European Gas Market Report.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm), the EU Commission reported in early July.
When compared to Q4 2020, the US picked up 2% market share from January to March this year, while Russia bested Qatar to become Europe’s second-largest LNG supplier. Nigeria placed fourth, followed by Algeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
A review of EU Commission reports dating back to 2019 reveals a steady quarter-to-quarter decline in Europe’s LNG purchases while it also documents the growing rivalry between the US and Russia, Qatar’s fall from dominance, and the emergence of the US as Europe’s top LNG supplier starting Q4 2019.
The EU is the world’s third-largest LNG market, though its imports amounted to only about half that of Japan (36 Bcm) and China (32 Bcm) in Q1 2021.
European gas consumption rose 7.6% to 132 Bcm in Q1 based on a year-on-year comparison. The commission noted that demand for gas as fuel to generate electricity rose 3.4%, also year-on-year (increasing by 4.9 TWh.)
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@edwinbronfield8928
International trade with free-market idealogy wouldn't work when there's a large participant with large-scale government support and SOEs.
From graphitepublications.com/will-chinas-outrageous-rare-earth-monopoly-persist/
China's rare earth near-monopoly was built on SOE (state-own enterprise) which driven private competitors from the market. Rare earth is important for the electronics component production logistics chain.
From forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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Note that Australia created its universal health care system without the Communist-style mass stealing i.e. built a parallel system to the private health care system. Australia's universal health care system does not compete in international trade.
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There's a difference between annual profit-and-loss vs accumulated liabilities in a balance sheet.
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model),
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (USMCA, CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets!
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model)
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model)
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model)
North America
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5% (USMCA member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (USMCA, CPTPP member, Nordic model)
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9% (USMCA, CPTPP member)
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrium
One Steel has been on a buying spree via a large-scale debt expansion.
In 2006, an agreement was announced under which OneSteel would buy out scrap metal company Smorgon Steel for US$1.2 billion
In 2010, OneSteel acquired two companies, Chile-based forged steel grinding balls producer Moly-Cop, and Canada-based AltaSteel, a producer of ball stock for forged grinding balls, for a total of $932 million
In 2011, OneSteel acquired the iron ore assets of WPG Resources for an estimated A$320 million
The company, as Arrium Limited, accumulated huge debts and in 2015 it announced a full-year loss of AUD1.9 billion[13]
In April 2016, Arrium's directors placed the company into voluntary administration.[14] Soon after that, to reduce Arrium's total debt of $2.8 billion, administrators signed a sale agreement for AUD1.6 billion to sell the Moly-Cop grinding media business – the company's only profitable division, which was not under administration.[15]
In September 2017, British-owned GFG Alliance acquired the Arrium Mining and Arrium Steel businesses, including Australia's main steel manufacturer and distributor, OneSteel.[4][16]
The OneSteel brand was changed to Liberty OneSteel and Arrium Mining was renamed SIMEC Mining.[4] The acquisition also included the Australian reinforcing company, Austube Mills; the Australian rail stockist Emrails; and product brands such as Waratah and Cyclone.[4]
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Toxic debt and mismanagement.
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Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
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Every country has the right to operate a biolab and Ukraine did NOT invade another country. Basic pathology blood test requires a bio lab.
Saddam's Iraq invaded two other countries i.e. Kuwait and Iran.
Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
Did you know Australia has similar security assurances like Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum and Australia does NOT have a NATO Article V level guarantee with the US? From 1950 to the 1960s, Australia detonated nuclear bombs as a joint partner with the UK.
Australia has many Biolabs for agriculture, animal health, human health and 'etc'.
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CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@echelon2k8
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2020)
Place of birth Estimated resident population
Total Australian-born 18,043,310
Total foreign-born 7,653,990
England, 980,360
India, 721,050 <------ India has problems with China
Mainland China, 650,640
New Zealand,564,840
Philippines, 310,050 <------ Philippines has problems with China
Vietnam, 270,340 <------ Vietnam has problems with China
If ALP wants to play the ethnic vote, LNP should play the same game.
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Ukraine has outdated warships and combat aircraft.
Ukrainian airforce's current inventory
Sukhoi Su-24 = 12, stike bomber.
Sukhoi Su-25 = 17, air-to-ground attack.
MiG-29 = 37, 8 are used for conversion training
Sukhoi Su-27 = 32, 6 are used for conversion training
Multirole total: 69
In a war game, China's SU-27SK was defeated by Thailand's Gripen C. China's J-10C (with AESA radar, gen 4.5) defeated Gripen C (gen 4.0).
Australian airforce's current inventory
F/A-18E/F Block 2 (with AESA radar, Gen 4.5) = 24
EA-18G (with AESA radar, , Gen 4.5) = 11, another 1 on order.
F-35A Block 3F(with AESA radar, Gen 5) = 45, another 27 on order.
Multirole total: 80
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@BrumKid False equivalency. Unlike Russia, the US did not assimilate Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan into the US federal structure.
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@robertmarmaduke9721 False.
The government of the Republic of China, led by the Kuomintang, retreated to Taiwan Island in 1949 after losing the Chinese Civil War with the Communist Party of China. At that time, the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion was enforced and largely restricted civil and political rights including voting rights of the Taiwanese people.
In the eight elections starting from the 1948 Republic of China presidential election in Nanking (later known as Nanjing) to the 1990 Taiwan presidential election, the President was indirectly elected by the National Assembly first elected in 1947 and which had never been reelected in its entirety since. Similarly, the Legislative Yuan also had not been reelected as a whole since 1948. The provincial Governor and municipal Mayors were appointed by the central government. Direct elections were only held for local governments at the county level, and for legislators at the provincial level. In addition, the Martial law in Taiwan also prohibited most forms of opposition.
From the 1990s, a series of democratic reforms were implemented in Taiwan. The Additional Articles of the Constitution were adopted to grant full civil and political rights to the Taiwanese people (officially the people of the Free area of the Republic of China). Under the Additional Articles, the President are to be elected by popular vote and all seats in the national parliament are to be reelected.
Following the reforms, the first parliamentary elections on Taiwan were held in 1991 for the National Assembly and 1992 for the Legislative Yuan. The first election for provincial Governors and municipality Mayors was held in 1994. Most importantly, Taiwan held the first direct election of the President and Vice President in 1996.
The provincial government was reconstructed as a subsidiary of the central government in 1998 and elections for governor and provincial legislators were terminated. The National Assembly ceased to be convened regularly in 2000 and was abolished in 2005. The number of members of the Legislative Yuan was reduced to 113 from 2008.
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@paynelesor3940
Murray-Darling Basin Plan was signed into law by then-prime minister Julia Gillard on November 22, 2012, after the Commonwealth reached an accord with each of the Basin states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. But the plan remains highly controversial.
Trying to balance all of those sometimes competing priorities makes Murray-Darling water sharing one of the most divisive and complicated policy issues in the country.
That was brought into sharp focus during the Millennium drought (which ran approximately from 2002-2009), leading to the passage of the Howard government's Water Act in 2007.
That committed $10 billion towards a decade-long effort to reach a national agreement on water use in the Murray-Darling, to redress the over-allocation of water licenses and to return water to the environment.
The 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan was the result of that long and painful process.
Broadly speaking, it plans to remove 2,750 gigalitres of water from irrigated agriculture, and return that to the river system.
As of the end of June 2017, a little over 2,080 gigalitres had been recovered through a mix of government purchases of water licences, and taxpayer-funded infrastructure improvements.
In return for making their farms more water-efficient, farmers surrender the water they save to the Commonwealth.
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CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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Paul Keating is stupid.
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@yggdrasil9039
Most recently, Bjørn Nyland had an opportunity to test the entry-level Made-in-China (MIC) Tesla Model 3 SR+ (currently named Tesla Model 3 RWD) with LFP (lithium iron phosphate) lithium-ion batteries. LFP battery chemistry is known for its limitation of charging at low temperatures (especially below 0°C).
We already know that its winter range (at 1°C) is noticeably lower than in the Summer. But it was a test with a normal battery temperature (roughly 25°C).
The next episode is about how the cold weather affect the Tesla Model 3. The car was left intentionally with a low state-of-charge and the battery had only a few degrees °C in the morning (outside temperature was 2°C). We can treat it as the worst-case scenario.
The EV battery packs are thermally isolated so they maintain temperature quite long.
The general operation of the car is surprisingly good and it appears to accelerate normally Regenerative braking is ok (it can reach substantial levels - up to a few times higher than continuous fast charging).
However, the fast charging is significantly limited when the battery is cold. After plugging-in, the car was able to barely reach 20 kW at about 11% state-of-charge (SOC), and then it decreased to an even lower level, like 13 kW (after 10 minutes).
This proves that the battery temperature is crucial for charging. Fortunately, the pre-conditioning of the battery (heating) ahead of fast charging (car feature), combined with driving (additional heat losses and heat scavenging) improves the charging performance relatively quickly.
The later test at 8% SOC with 25°C battery temperature resulted in charging power of 111 kW (and it dropped to 90 kW after a while).
The conclusion is to avoid leaving the cars in the cold, disconnected from a charging point, and if that happens, maybe start conditioning immediately to achieve best performance and fast charging capability.
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@chrisyoung9194 >about profits for their mates at Woodside..Exxon and Chevron...
That's a FALSE narrative. More than 99% of Australian LNG has been exported to Asia, mainly China, Japan, and South Korea.
Australia’s Top 5 Oil and Gas Companies.
1. BHP Billiton Limited. The petroleum segment currently represents around 13% of BHP’s total business.
2. Woodside Petroleum Limited. Australia’s largest operator of oil and gas production, Woodside employs over 3,000 people and is headquartered in Perth. WA state has a Labor government.
3. Origin Energy Limited. Origin specialise in exploring, producing, generating, and retailing energy from their assets based in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Both Queensland and Northern Territory have Labor governments.
4. Santos (South Australian Northern Territory Oil Search) Limited. An independent oil and gas producer, it produces oil and gas from five central assets, located in Queensland (Labor government), the Northern Territory (Labor government); Papua New Guinea, Western Australia (Labor government), and New South Wales (LNP government).
5. Ampol Limited (Australian Petroleum). At its oil refinery in Lytton in Brisbane (Queensland Labor government), Ampol manufactures fuels including liquefied petroleum gas, petrol, diesel, jet fuel as well as lubricants, greases, and other specialty products. Chevron Corporation, the owner of the Caltex trademark, has given the notice to terminate the license agreement for use of the Caltex brand in Australia.
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@robertmarmaduke9721
Following a shipwreck of a Ryukyuan vessel on the southeastern tip of Taiwan in winter of 1871, in which the heads of 54 crew members were taken by the aboriginal Taiwanese Paiwan people in the Mudan incident, the Japanese sought to use this incident as a pretext to have the Qing formally acknowledge Japanese sovereignty over the Ryukyu Islands as Japanese territory and to test reactions to potential expansion into Taiwan. According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi [zh] and Dong Xun [zh], the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu [ja], replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryukyuans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryukyu was under Chinese suzerainty, and therefore this issue was not Japan's business. In addition, the governor-general of the Qing province Fujian had rescued the survivors of the massacre and returned them safely to Ryukyu. The Qing authorities explained that there were two kinds of aborigines on Taiwan: those governed by the Qing, and those unnaturalized "raw barbarians ... beyond the reach of Qing government and customs." They indirectly hinted that foreigners traveling in those areas settled by indigenous people must exercise caution.
After the Yanagihara-Yamen interview, the Japanese took their explanation to mean that the Qing government had not opposed Japan's claims to sovereignty over the Ryukyu Islands, disclaimed any jurisdiction over Aboriginal Taiwanese, and had indeed consented to Japan's expedition to Taiwan.[51] The Qing dynasty made it clear to the Japanese that Taiwan was definitely within Qing jurisdiction, even though part of that island's aboriginal population was not yet under the influence of Chinese culture. The Qing also pointed to similar cases all over the world where an aboriginal population within a national boundary was not completely subjugated by the dominant culture of that country.
The Japanese nevertheless launched an expedition to Mutan village with a force of 3600 soldiers in 1874. The number of killed Paiwan was about thirty, and that for the Japanese was six. Eventually, the Japanese withdrew after being paid a massive indemnity by the Qing. This incident caused the Qing to re-think the importance of Taiwan in their maritime defense strategy and greater importance was placed on gaining control over the wilderness regions.
On the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, about 45 percent of the island was administered under direct Qing administration while the remaining was lightly populated by Aborigines.[52]
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It was not until the defeat of the Chinese navy during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894–95 that Japan was finally able to gain possession of Taiwan, and with it saw the shifting of Asian dominance from China to Japan. The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed on April 17, 1895, ceding Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan, which would rule the island for 50 years until its defeat in World War II.
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On the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing administration controls 45 percent of Taiwan.
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China Negative List 2020 a.k.a.
anti-foreigner protectionist list
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
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Every country has the right to operate a biolab and Ukraine did NOT invade another country. Basic pathology blood test requires a bio lab.
Saddam's Iraq invaded two other countries i.e. Kuwait and Iran.
Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
Did you know Australia has similar security assurances like Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum and Australia does NOT have a NATO Article V level guarantee with the US? From 1950 to the 1960s, Australia detonated nuclear bombs as a joint partner with the UK.
Australia has many Biolabs for agriculture, animal health, human health and 'etc'.
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SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the “Taiwan Relations Act”.
It is the policy of the United States–
1. to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area;
2. to declare that peace and stability in the area are in the political, security, and economic interests of the United States, and are matters of international concern;
3. to make clear that the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means;
4. to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States;
5. to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character; and
6. to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.
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Former British Commander Colonel Richard Kemp is WRONG!
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@gore1089 False narratives.
Fraud conviction and reversal
After a civil suit in 1999 that reached the Queensland Court of Appeal in 2000, involving disgruntled former One Nation member Terry Sharples and a finding of fraud when registering One Nation as a political party,[147] Hanson was facing bankruptcy. She made an appeal to supporters for donations.
On 20 August 2003, a jury in the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and David Ettridge of electoral fraud. Both Hanson and Ettridge were sentenced to three years imprisonment for falsely claiming that 500 members of the Pauline Hanson Support Movement were members of the political organisation Pauline Hanson's One Nation to register that organisation in Queensland as a political party and apply for electoral funding. Because the registration was found to be unlawful, Hanson's receipt of electoral funding worth $498,637 resulted in two further convictions for dishonestly obtaining property, each with three-year sentences, to run concurrently with the first. The sentence was widely criticised in the media and by some politicians as being too harsh.[148]
The prime minister, John Howard, said that it was "a very long, unconditional sentence" and Bronwyn Bishop said that Hanson was a political prisoner, comparing her conviction with Robert Mugabe's treatment of Zimbabwean opponents.[149] The sentence was widely criticised in the media as being too harsh.[148]
On 6 November 2003, delivering judgment the day after hearing the appeal, the Queensland Court of Appeal quashed all of Hanson and Ettridge's convictions. Hanson, having spent 11 weeks in jail, was immediately released along with Ettridge.[150] The court's unanimous decision was that the evidence did not support a conclusion beyond reasonable doubt that the people on the list were not members of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party and that Hanson and Ettridge knew this when the application to register the party was submitted. Accordingly, the convictions regarding registration were quashed. The convictions regarding funding, which depended on the same facts, were also quashed
[149]
This decision did not specifically follow the Sharples case, where the trial judge's finding of such fraud had not been overturned in the appeal by Hanson and Ettridge. That case was distinguished as a civil suit – in administrative law, as to the validity of the decision by Electoral Commissioner O'Shea to register the party – in which proof had been only on the balance of probabilities.
Chief Justice Paul de Jersey, with whom the other two judges agreed overall, suggested that if Hanson, Ettridge and especially the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had used better lawyers from the start, the whole matter might not have taken so long up to the appeal hearing, or might even have been avoided altogether.
The Court of Appeal president, Margaret McMurdo, rebuked many politicians, including John Howard and Bronwyn Bishop MHR. Their observations, she said, demonstrated at least "a lack of understanding of the Rule of Law" and "an attempt to influence the judicial appellate process and to interfere with the independence of the judiciary for cynical political motives", although she praised other leading Coalition politicians for accepting the District Court's decision
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Margaret McMurdo was appointed by the ALP government (Peter Beattie)
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@hollysmith1347 >And the whole lie of WMD. Why isn't Bush imprisoned for war crimes and U.S sanctioned?
Twenty Iraqi Kurds have taken legal action to expose French firms who supplied poison gas to Saddam Hussein in 1988. The plaintiffs were among the victims of a chemical weapon attack that killed 5,000 in the town of Halabja during the Iran-Iraq war.
A Dutch businessman who sold Iraq chemicals used in the attack was ordered to pay 400,000 euros to some of the victims in April 2013.
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Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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The Iraqi WMD issue is NOT yet over when Kurdish victims are suing European companies in the EU court system who sold chemicals to Saddam. LOL
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@seventhuser904
Opinion Research Business (ORB) published an update to the survey on 28 January 2008, based on additional work carried out in rural areas of Iraq. Some 600 additional interviews were undertaken and as a result of this the death estimate was revised to 1,033,000 with a given range of 946,000 to 1,120,000
The Iraq Body Count project also rejected what they called the "hugely exaggerated death toll figures" of ORB, citing the Survey Research Methods paper, which Josh Dougherty of IBC co-wrote. IBC concluded that, "The pressing need is for more truth rooted in real experience, not the manipulation of numbers disconnected from reality."
Attaching "OSCE" with 1 million claims is FALSE.
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@ozziecoops Scott Ritter is an incompetent investigator who chicken out on investigating western businesses that profited from Iraqi WMDs.
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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Iraq's WMD issue is not yet finished when the Kurds are suing WMD profiteers in the European court system.
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@ozziecoops >amazing the Hague has done nothing to America who has been in 76 wars since world war 2, not 1 sanction from anyone.
The Hague has very little power to sanction anyone outside the Netherlands i.e. sanction is useless without backing it up with real firepower and economic power. For context, Hague is located in the Netherlands and a Dutch national was guilty of precursor supply for Iraqi WMDs.
In terms of economic influence and military firepower, the Netherlands is weaker than Australia. Australia has access to FiveEyes, hence Australia has the influence (borrow ) to use US's economic power against individuals against Australia's own interest as long it's not in conflict with US's interest.
Before Euromaidan, Russia successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kyiv, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Look at the mirror when Russia applied political and economic sanctions on Ukraine before Euromaidan.
The US has the sovereign right to apply economic sanctions on Russia just as Russia applied economic sanctions on Ukraine!
Canada, Australia, and Russia have resource-rich exports with similar GDPs.
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@ozziecoops
The Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
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https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyrophytic-plants
Adaptations of Pyrophytic Plants from bushfires.
some species actually require fire for their seeds to sprout. Some plants, such as the lodgepole pine, Eucalyptus, and Banksia, have serotinous cones or fruits that are completely sealed with resin.
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https://www.livescience.com/40583-australia-wildfires-eucalyptus-trees-bushfires.html
Like many plants native to fire-prone regions, eucalyptus trees (aka gum trees in Australia) are adapted to survive — or even thrive — in a wildfire. Fallen eucalyptus leaves create dense carpets of flammable material, and the trees' bark peels off in long streamers that drop to the ground, providing additional fuel that draws ground fires up into the leaves, creating massive, fast-spreading "crown fires" in the upper story of eucalyptus forests.
Additionally, the eucalyptus oil that gives the trees their characteristic spicy fragrance is a flammable oil: This oil, combined with leaf litter and peeling bark during periods of dry, windy weather, can turn a small ground fire into a terrifying, explosive firestorm in a matter of minutes. That's why eucalyptus trees — especially the blue gums (Eucalyptus globulus) that are common throughout New South Wales — are sometimes referred to wryly as "gasoline trees."
And after a bushfire sweeps through an area, the eucalyptus trees have an advantage over other plants. Their seed capsules open up when burned, and the seedlings thrive in freshly burned, ash-rich soils.
"Give a hillside a really good torching and the eucalyptus will absolutely dominate," Bowman told KQED. "They'll grow intensively in the first few years of life and outcompete everything."
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@jaym5843 From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3%
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5% <----Dear Neo-Hilter, don't blame the bloody foreign banks for Germany's crap saving rate. LOL
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, EU is promoting the Netherlands as a UK replacement.
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3%
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@saintejeannedarc9460 CoV's entry vector type can influence CoV's severity.
CoV with ACE2 binding entry vector is usually referred to as SARS-CoV.
ACE2 expression levels were the highest in the small intestine, testis, kidneys, heart, thyroid, and adipose tissue, and were the lowest in the blood, spleen, bone marrow, brain, blood vessels, and muscle. ACE2 showed medium expression levels in the lungs, colon, liver, bladder, and adrenal gland
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@johnbodman4504
Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@ivanbremer8662
>No plan for Australia’s energy future.
Labor and Greens are against CO2-free nuclear power.
>No manufacturing.
Blame Democrats under the Clinton administration for allowing China into WTO (trade zone) with promise exception entry.
>No COVID plan.
FALSE, Dan Andrews didn't like the detention center plan.
>Failed vaccination plan.
NSW's vaccination rates beat Victoria. Australia's vaccination rates exceeded the US's and Israel's.
> Failed quarantine plan, only saved by state governments, medical professionals, virus trackers and the Australian people.
FALSE, Dan Andrews didn't like the detention center plan. Dan Andrews's hotel quarantine has failed, hence the second wave.
> Failed Aussie repatriation. (With more parked aircraft and pilots than ever in history.)
Fools like you caused the second wave.
>Failed to build Federal, purpose built quarantine. (We have a military trained and experienced at build facility's in developing country's in a crises.)
FALSE, Dan Andrews didn't like the detention center plan. Dan Andrews's hotel quarantine has failed.
Daniel Andrews took the idea of state govt’s running quarantine to National Cabinet! Watch video.
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>No plan for electric car infrastructure or manufacture.
Labor appointed Judge killed Toyota Australia's electric-petrol hybrid engine manufacturing.
>Sports rorts,
That's leftist ABC link.
Bridget McKenzie: no politicisation in ‘sports rorts’ funding
>Timor-Leste bugging.
You're supporting countries outside of Australia. It reveals your anti-Australia position.
>Water rorts
19 percent of QLD's surface water entitlements are owned by foreigners.
The report released in January 2019 by the Productivity Commission that found, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority should be broken up.
Whilst the MDBA is a Commonwealth Government agency, an inter-governmental Murray‑Darling Basin Ministerial Council (Ministerial Council) acts in an advisory role in preparing and implementing the Basin Plan by the MDBA. The Ministerial Council comprises the Commonwealth Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources (who also chairs the Council) and one minister from each of the Basin states (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia) and the Australian Capital Territory.
QLD has a Labor government!
>Robo debt
The Government announced in May 2020 that they would commence paying back refunds from early July 2020. As at May 2021, the vast majority of refunds had been paid.
The refund will include the repayment of any money paid towards a Robodebt as well as interest charged on the debt.
>Billions in unchecked job keeper to profitable companies. Told they can keep the money.
This is NOT the Australian government's fault. Blame CCP for COVID-19.
> Half of the "Emergency" bushfire money still not given out, over 12 months later and 99% of that has gone to marginal independent and Liberal seats
Wrong narrative. Federal ALP has very weak representation in the bush in the 1st place and bushfires occurred mostly in federal LNP held seats.
> property valued at $3 mil purchased by the government for $30 mil
Leftist narrative from leftist news media i.e. theguardian
Counter:
The Australian Federal Police are investigating the purchase of the Leppington Triangle land, later valued at only $3 million, with Infrastructure Department boss Simon Atkinson confirming two public servants face additional internal investigations over the deal.
The Leppington Pastoral Company has said it "was not a willing seller at the time and the price received was considered fair and reasonable value given the significance of the land to our dairy business".
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of the Perich family.
The audit report said government officials focused on "incentivising an unwilling seller to dispose of their land some 32 years in advance of when it was anticipated to be needed" for a potential second runway in a future stage of the new Nancy Bird Walton Airport development.
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Every country has the right to operate a biolab and Ukraine did NOT invade another country. Basic pathology blood test requires a bio lab.
Saddam's Iraq invaded two other countries i.e. Kuwait and Iran.
Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
Did you know Australia has similar security assurances like Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum and Australia does NOT have a NATO Article V level guarantee with the US? From 1950 to the 1960s, Australia detonated nuclear bombs as a joint partner with the UK.
Australia has many Biolabs for agriculture, animal health, human health and 'etc'.
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Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
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@trumpbuddha1053 Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
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China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@SigmaMaleCountMartelus Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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The Iraqi WMD issue is not over.
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@TheShezu Putin: “Speaking of security guarantees … our actions will not depend upon the negotiations, they will depend on the unconditional compliance with Russian security demands”.
The main articles of Russian draft proposed agreement demand included eight articles with the following points:
Article 1: the parties should not strengthen their security at the expense of Russia’s security;
Article 2: the parties will use multilateral consultations and the NATO-Russia Council to address points of conflict;
Article 3: the parties reaffirm that they do not consider each other as adversaries and maintain a dialogue;
Article 4: the parties shall not deploy military forces and weaponry on the territory of any of the other states in Europe in addition to any forces that were deployed as of May 27, 1997;
Article 5: the parties shall not deploy land-based intermediate- and short-range missiles adjacent to the other parties;
Article 6: all member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization commit themselves to refrain from any further enlargement of NATO, including the accession of Ukraine as well as other States;
Article 7: the parties that are member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shall not conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine as well as other States in the Eastern Europe, in the South Caucasus and in Central Asia; and
Article 8: the agreement shall not be interpreted as affecting the primary responsibility of the Security Council of the United Nations for maintaining international peace and security.
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For Article 1, Israel sells missile technology to Eastern Europe while Russia sells missile technology to Israel's adversaries.
For Article 3, Being labeled adversaries are based on action and behaviors. Finland, Poland, and the Baltic states have purchased Israeli missile technology and have historical issues with Imperialist Russia. Russia plays "the great game" geopolitics longer than US's existence.
For Article 4, Russia's demand to degrade NATO's Article V enforcement. Russia dictating terms against Three Seas Initiative member countries.
For Article 5, Israel sells missile technology to Eastern Europe while Russia sells missile technology to Israel's adversaries.
For Article 6, Russia demands to restrict counties in Eastern Europe's freedom of association.
For Article 7, Russia's demand to degrade NATO's Article V enforcement for NATO members in Eastern Europe. Russia dictating terms against Three Seas Initiative member countries.
For Article 8, Putin's bullshit statement.
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@TheShezu >You never bother of agreements just like you withdraw from the nuclear treaty.
1. US's 987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty withdrawal did NOT result in the US grabbing another country's land territory into the American union.
2. Signed in 1987, the INF Treaty led to the elimination of 2,692 U.S. and Soviet nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. Since 2014, the United States has accused Russia of violating the treaty by testing, possessing, and fielding an illegal ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM), known as the 9M729.
3. Trump echoed that statement in Aug. 2 comments, saying that “if [Russia is] not going to live up to their commitment, then we have to—we always have to be in the lead.” The White House previously also cited concerns about the intermediate-range missile arsenal of China, which is not party to the treaty and has deployed large numbers of missiles with ranges that Washington and Moscow were long prohibited from deploying.
Trump follows Obama's Pivot to Asia.
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Mayak >It is the US that is still pumping and stealing oil from Iraq and shipping it by tanker to the US!
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL, hahahaha
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
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@Runaway Puppet
The Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
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In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
USSR's proxy attempted to remove Chile's check-and-balance Congress system. USSR's proxy attempted to concentrate political power into a single entity (individual and political party).
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@paulchiu596
https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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@yt.personal.identification
https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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king fisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Entertainment_Co.
9News.com.au, an online news portal
The Australian Financial Review
Brisbane Times
Nine.com.au, an online web portal
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Age
WAtoday
The Left already has Netwoke Ten (pro-Democrat CBS), Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian Australia, Network Nine, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, SBS, Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
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The Right has Fox News(News Ltd), Parler and Gab.
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@tonynemcich1756 >resource and energy corporations
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <------- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
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1. KMT is overreaching its territorial claim since on the eve of the 1894 Sino-Japanese War, about 45 percent of the island was administered under the Manchus Qing administration (Imperial China) while the remaining land area was populated by Taiwanese aborigines.
2. KMT was militarily defeated by CCP. KMT rejected CCP and it has runaway to Formosa.
3. KMT was politically defeated by partly aboriginal Taiwanese Tsai Ing-wen Democratic Progressive Party.
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Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945 excluded Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude.
Order Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945
This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
September 9, 1945
Order of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supplementing the Act of Surrender
9 September 1945
Immediately following the signing of the Act of Surrender ending the war in the China Theatre, General Ho Ying-chen handed Order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang to Lieut. Gen. Okamura Yasutsugu as a supplement to the Act of Surrender.
I. This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
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@trevorcrook5753
The United States remained Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first 3 months of 2021 as it continued to gain market share at the expense of Russia and Qatar, Europe’s second- and third-largest sources of LNG, according to the EU Commission’s latest European Gas Market Report.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm), the EU Commission reported in early July.
When compared to Q4 2020, the US picked up 2% market share from January to March this year, while Russia bested Qatar to become Europe’s second-largest LNG supplier. Nigeria placed fourth, followed by Algeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
A review of EU Commission reports dating back to 2019 reveals a steady quarter-to-quarter decline in Europe’s LNG purchases while it also documents the growing rivalry between the US and Russia, Qatar’s fall from dominance, and the emergence of the US as Europe’s top LNG supplier starting Q4 2019.
The EU is the world’s third-largest LNG market, though its imports amounted to only about half that of Japan (36 Bcm) and China (32 Bcm) in Q1 2021.
European gas consumption rose 7.6% to 132 Bcm in Q1 based on a year-on-year comparison. The commission noted that demand for gas as fuel to generate electricity rose 3.4%, also year-on-year (increasing by 4.9 TWh.)
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@tassied12 From canstarblue, 09/10/2023
Average Electricity Usage Rate (per kWh)
SA, SA Power Networks, 45.3c/kWh
QLD, Energex, 31.4c/kWh
VIC, AusNet Services, 35.8c/kWh
VIC, Citipower, 26.7c/kWh
VIC, Jemena, 30.7c/kWh
VIC, Powercor, 30.4c/kWh
VIC, United Energy, 29.3c/kWh
NSW. Ausgrid, 35.7c/kWh
NSW, Endeavour Energy, 37.2c/kWh
NSW, Essential Energy, 38.9c/kWh
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@tassied12 Jun 23, 2023, via NINE News
Electricity prices across Australia are increasing
Yearly increase for residential customers with controlled load
NSW
Ausgrid, 20.7%
Endeavour, 24.9%
Essential, 19.6%
SAPN (South Australia), 22.5%
Energex (South-East Queensland), 20.5%
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Victoria
AusNet, 24.1%
CitiPower, 21.5%
Jemena, 27.2%
Powercor, 27%
United Energy, 25.8%
Victorian average, 25.1%
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@tassied12 Jun 23, 2023, via NINE News
Electricity prices across Australia are increasing
Electricity price increase for average customer
ACT, $75 (4.15%)
NSW, $315-594 (19.6-24.9%)
South-East Queensland, $349-$402 (20.5-21.5%)
Regional Queensland, $429 (28.7%)
SA, $439-$512 (22.5-23.9%)
Victoria, $352 (25.1%)
Tasmania, $200 (9.51%)
WA, $44 (2.5%)
I have solar power on my roof, hence the problem is the increase in service charge instead of user charge.
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@Arangggg https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/covid-19-genetic-network-analysis-provides-snapshot-of-pandemic-origins
Study charts the 'incipient supernova' of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America
Versions of ‘A’ were seen in Chinese individuals, and Americans reported to have lived in Wuhan, and mutated versions of ‘A’ were found in patients from the USA and Australia.
Wuhan’s major virus type, ‘B’, was prevalent in patients from across East Asia. However, the variant didn’t travel much beyond the region without further mutations – implying a 'founder event' in Wuhan, or 'resistance' against this type of COVID-19 outside East Asia, say researchers.
From https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117 has
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/07/2004999117/F1.large.jpg
Fig. 1.
Phylogenetic network of 160 SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Node A is the root cluster obtained with the bat (R. affinis) coronavirus isolate BatCoVRaTG13 from Yunnan Province. Circle areas are proportional to the number of taxa, and each notch on the links represents a mutated nucleotide position. The sequence range under consideration is 56 to 29,797, with nucleotide position (np) numbering according to the Wuhan 1 reference sequence (8). The median-joining network algorithm (2) and the Steiner algorithm (9) were used, both implemented in the software package Network5011CS (https://www.fluxus-engineering.com/), with the parameter epsilon set to zero, generating this network containing 288 most-parsimonious trees of length 229 mutations. The reticulations are mainly caused by recurrent mutations at np11083. The 161 taxa (160 human viruses and one bat virus) yield 101 distinct genomic sequences. The phylogenetic diagram is available for detailed scrutiny in A0 poster format (SI Appendix, Fig. S5) and in the free Network download files.
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MaxSt Arlyn
https://supchina.com/2018/03/23/why-chinese-companies-crush-western-tech-giants-in-china/
For example, Bloomberg published an article earlier this month titled “China protectionism creates tech billionaires who protect Xi,” with the author stating, “That’s helped create thriving domestic giants, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.” Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting, was quoted as saying, “As long as they remain protected in the China market, they’ll dominate and use that money to fund their global expansion.”
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-how-big-tech-learning-love-party
Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Sogou, a Tencent-backed search engine, explained this dynamic explicitly in a quote leaked in March of this year:
We’re entering an era in which we'll be fused together. It might be that there will be a request to establish a Party committee within your company, or that you should let state investors take a stake, you know, as a form of mixed ownership
https://www.afr.com/brand/chanticleer/chinese-tech-stocks-pose-an-investment-dilemma-20180815-h1410o
Baidu became China's No.1 search engine partly because Google was outlawed. Tencent became the world's largest gaming company and owner of China's No.1 messaging system without needing to compete with Facebook's WhatsApp.
Baidu and Tencent are prime examples of Chinese companies simply copying the successful business models created in Silicon Valley and then rolling them out without fear of competition at home.
Alibaba, which built the world's largest online retailing business, was allowed to dominate China's small business lending without interference from foreigners or much competition from local government-owned entities.
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@FuNkYTiMeS001 Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@sheronbuytten7054
0. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves, the text from the Nixon Foundation.
Again, the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué has a condition i.e. peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question.
1. The US signed Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum that exchanged Ukraine's nuclear weapons (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) for security assurances. Russia's Budapest Memorandum security assurance is toilet paper.
France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum with Ukraine.
2. Russia started a hot war against Ukraine. Russia's land grabbed Ukraine's five oblasts. Don't disturb when the opponent is making a mistake.
Putin is the best salesman for NATO.
3. Which people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1vJqRDppU
Three Seas Initiative explained and they blame their less developed status on Russia!
"Russian Warship, Go Fukc yourself." Repeated by the Latvian MP Rihards Kols.
4. 20181223/french-president-says-an-ally-must-be-reliable-after-us-syria-pullout-announcement
Macron says 'an ally must be reliable' after US Syria pullout announcement. Macron's anger against Trump's US Syria pullout reveals the real background pusher against Syria e.g. EU.
Look in the mirror Macron.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
Look in the mirror Macron.
5.
Timeline of Yugoslav breakup
1 October 1990: George Bush, in a meeting with the Yugoslav president of the Presidency, gives full support to Yugoslavia.
19 December 1991: Germany announces that it will recognize Croatia on January 15, 1992, with or without the rest of the European Community.
23 December 1991: Germany becomes the first major power to recognize Croatia and Slovenia as independent states
15 January 1992: The European Community recognizes Slovenia and Croatia.
The Russian narrative to decouple North America's raw material security guarantees from mainland Europe will enable Russia to win any war of attrition against Germany! Germany knows the narrative to detach Europe from North America's raw material security guarantees.
Germany used NATO with North America's raw material security guarantees to further its own interest when it failed in WW1's goals. NATO was used to check Russia and avoid the WW1 trigger.
Your narrative is Russian's POV. Hint: Ask Poland, Finland, and Baltic countries.
6. Refer to my counter point 4.
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@Rami-d7j
The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against Tripolitania.
Tripolitania had declared war against Sweden and the United States over disputes regarding tributary payments made by both states in exchange for a cessation of Tripolitatian commerce raiding at sea. United States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute. Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800.
In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.[21]
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The same garbage idealogy from the Mullas.
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@IC-lz3of
In March 2014, Army General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee, "The vast majority of the documents that Snowden ... exfiltrated from our highest levels of security ... had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities. The vast majority of those were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures."[113] When asked in a May 2014 interview to quantify the number of documents Snowden stole, retired NSA director Keith Alexander said there was no accurate way of counting what he took, but Snowden may have downloaded more than a million documents.[114] The September 15, 2016 HPSCI report[105] estimated the number of downloaded documents at 1.5 million.
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@Дмитрийоколов-ч8щ False, Crimea was Crimean Tatars before the Russians. Russia has land grabbed about 40% Donbas.
Donetsk was a British mining city, founded by John James Hughes with a group of ironworkers and miners mostly from South Wales. Hughes personally provided a hospital, schools, bath houses, tea rooms, a fire brigade, and an Anglican church dedicated to the patron saints St George and St David.
Over the years, although a Russian workforce was trained by the company, skilled workers from the United Kingdom continued to be employed, and many technical, engineering and managerial positions were filled by British immigrants; who were overwhelmingly Welsh. A thriving expatriate community was established, living in good quality company housing, and provided with an English school and an Anglican church. Despite the cold winters, hot summers and occasional cholera epidemics, some families remained in Hughesovka for many years. Over the next twenty years, the works prospered and expanded, first under John Hughes and then, after his death in 1889, under the management of four of his sons.
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 ended the Hughes family's connection to the works. The Hughes brothers and almost all their foreign employees returned to Britain or other countries. The works were nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1919.
Putin continues Grand Duchy of Moscow imperialism just like Imperial Russia and the Bolsheviks.
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@christopherbong6639
It's a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions against Chyna.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@robbnugie1164
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/no-relief-how-biden-s-new-trade-chief-will-keep-the-pressure-on-china-20201214-p56n94.html
No relief: How Biden's new trade chief will keep the pressure on China.
Katherine Tai served in the office of the US Trade Representative during the Obama administration.
Tai has a record of successful prosecutions of Chinese trade practices at the World Trade Organisation and a history of being able to organise America's allies in support of those actions
She has been credited with creating the coalition of countries that challenged China's restrictions on exports of rare earths in 2012.
Rare earths are a commodity that China dominates and one vital to production of smartphones, electric vehicles, aircraft, military equipment and other 21st century technologies.
Tai was able to convince 18 other countries to join the suit against China – including Australia – which eventually ended with China removing the export quotas in 2015.
Tai, like Biden and unlike Trump and his trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, is a multilateralist who will seek to enlist allies, and revive multilateral institutions, to prosecute America's trade policies
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Biden has said the Trump tariffs on China's exports will remain, at least initially, but Tai is expected to try to create a partnership of western economies and to use the WTO to try to change the way China does business with the rest of the world
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@DanielSMatthews That's a false narrative.
In terms of industrial strength, Australia is not even half of South Korea. Stop playing with distractions like the arts and sports.
Australia has about half of South Korea's population.
South Korea has technology conglomerate titans like LG Electronics, Samsung Group, Hyundai Group (Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Hyundai Mobis), SK Group (SK Hynix, SK Telecom, SK Innovation), Hanwha Group and 'etc'.
As of 2023, Hyundai Group "includes divisions that build and export diesel and electric locomotives, freight cars, and passenger coaches for the railroad industry, and offshore drilling and extraction equipment to the oil industry." Hyundai's international exports range from heavy industrial equipment to consumer products and include cement, pianos, military uniforms, and consumer electronics products.
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@DanielSMatthews Australia (26.1 million population, 2022) should be compared to South Korea (51.6 million population, 2022)
SK = $1.811 trillion USD (2021)
AU = $1.553 trillion USD (2021)
The South Koreans are giving Elon Musk a headache.
Why is Australia's GDP so high?
Australia's US$7.3 trillion financial sector includes the world's fifth-largest pool of pension assets.
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model),
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (USMCA, CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (CPTPP member in July 2023, Nordic model)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5% (USMCA member)
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets!
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model)
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model)
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model)
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9% (USMCA, CPTPP member,)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (USMCA, CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5% (USMCA member)
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@shannonw6582 >Cuba
The US has a sovereign right to halt trade with Cuba.
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden
>Libya
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@mikemoore5929
The United States remained Europe’s top supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first 3 months of 2021 as it continued to gain market share at the expense of Russia and Qatar, Europe’s second- and third-largest sources of LNG, according to the EU Commission’s latest European Gas Market Report.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm), the EU Commission reported in early July.
When compared to Q4 2020, the US picked up 2% market share from January to March this year, while Russia bested Qatar to become Europe’s second-largest LNG supplier. Nigeria placed fourth, followed by Algeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
A review of EU Commission reports dating back to 2019 reveals a steady quarter-to-quarter decline in Europe’s LNG purchases while it also documents the growing rivalry between the US and Russia, Qatar’s fall from dominance, and the emergence of the US as Europe’s top LNG supplier starting Q4 2019.
The EU is the world’s third-largest LNG market, though its imports amounted to only about half that of Japan (36 Bcm) and China (32 Bcm) in Q1 2021.
European gas consumption rose 7.6% to 132 Bcm in Q1 based on a year-on-year comparison. The commission noted that demand for gas as fuel to generate electricity rose 3.4%, also year-on-year (increasing by 4.9 TWh.)
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@brianticas7671 The overall perception of relations with Russia in Ukraine differs largely on regional factors. Many Russophone eastern and southern regions, which are also home to the majority of the Russian diaspora in Ukraine welcome closer relations with Russia.
However further central and particularly western regions (who were never a part of Imperial Russia) of Ukraine show a less friendly attitude to the idea of a historic link to Russia and the Soviet Union in particular.
Ukrainian's ethnic groups
Before WW2,
Census 1926
Ukrainians: 80% (23,218,860)
Russian: 9.2% (2,677,166) <------
Census 1939
Ukrainians: 76.5% (23,667,509)
Russian: 13.5% , (4,175,299). Russians flooding into Ukraine.
After WW2.
Census 1989
Ukrainians: 72.7% (37,419,053)
Russian: 22.1% (11,355,582) <------
Census 2001
Ukrainians: 77.5% (37,541,693)
Russian: 17.2% (8,334,141) <------ //Post Soveit Union, Russians heading back to Russian Federation.
Russia slicing Crimea (2.4 million population) from Ukraine has further increased Ukrainian's proportion.
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@paultsjan6047
>And what has Russia and China got to do with Australia?!?!
Both China and Russia have ganged up on Australia's and New Zealand's Antarctica marine park plan which caused Australia to enlist help from the EU and New Zealand to enlist US help.
>. So who is thinking of attacking whom with B-21 Raider from the US???
Your argument is hypocritical to accept China's superior military hardware while denying it to Australia.
Australia has the sovereign to right purchase military hardware. Feelings are useless without firepower to back them.
Furthermore, Australia needs to replace the long-range F-111C fighter-bomber fleet.
>And what is so bad about communism or socialism?!?!
That's a red herring and outside scope of the this video topic.
>The US has been renouncing other political system like Socialism .
False narrative. The US accepts Nordic's capitalist-socialist hybrid model.
For post-WW2 Japan, Douglas Macarthur also executed land reform by shifting significant wealthy landlords' lands to the workers with private land title transfers.
Land Reform in Postwar Japan
As part of the democratization of Japan after World War II, Japanese leaders and Occupation authorities worked together to carry out land reform. It is regarded as one of the most successful of the Occupation-era reforms, and has become the model for land reform in other countries. The purpose of land reform was to reduce the wide gap between absentee landlords who owned agricultural land but did not farm it themselves, and tenant farmers who rented the land in exchange for giving the landlord a high proportion of the crop. The land reform laws were intended to limit the amount of farm land one household could own to about the amount of land that one family could farm themselves, without outside labor. The government forced absentee landlords to sell all their land to the government. Farmers were allowed to own a small amount of farm land that they could rent out to others ( 2.5 acres or one hectare in most parts of Japan, and 10 acres or 4 hectares in Hokkaido), and had to sell any excess to the government. The government then sold this land, usually to the tenant who had been farming it. The result greatly improved the living conditions of farmers.
Idealogical basis: The West has its own idealogy on land reform based on the family unit and private ownership as its core idealogy. This is Macarthur's socialism with private land title transfers.
VS
Marxist = land reform transfer to the state, no private land title transfer to the workers. Marxist socialism is fake since it doesn't transfer ownership to families.
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@paultsjan6047
The US internal issues are US matters to solve, but China's "old world" issues have affected multiple countries' territorial integrity. These old-world issues existed before the US being a superpower.
> Australia has a chequered past of human rights abuses and what the white Australians has done to the First Australians.
That's a useless argument when the Australian population has voted First Australians into political offices.
Furthermore, there's an ancient virus lurking in remote Australia that affects thousands of Aboriginal adults and this ancient virus is related to HIV( i.e. HTLV-1) and reduces an adult's life span.
It's a racist argument to separate Australians by their racial group i.e. your argument is a racial segregation argument, hence you should look in the mirror since your own racial segregation argument failed the race neutrality test.
>China do not colonized any countries in the world
FALSE. China land grabs and plays for keeps in the current human generation!
CPC thinks communism cleanly slates its colonial past, but different languages in China are echoes of different ethnic groups and kingdoms.
For the current human generation, China has territorial disputes with other countries e.g. India, Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
Disputes in the South China Sea region
The nine-dash line area claimed by the Republic of China (1912–1949), later the People's Republic of China (PRC), which covers most of the South China Sea and overlaps with the exclusive economic zone claims of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Maritime boundary along the Vietnamese coast between the PRC, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Maritime boundary north of Borneo between the PRC, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, and Taiwan.
Islands, reefs, banks and shoals in the South China Sea, including the Paracel Islands, Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, Macclesfield Bank, Scarborough Shoal and the Spratly Islands between the PRC, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and parts of the area also contested by Malaysia and the Philippines.
Maritime boundary in the waters north of the Natuna Islands between the PRC, Indonesia, Taiwan[20] and Vietnam.[21]
Maritime boundary off the coast of Palawan and Luzon between the PRC, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
Maritime boundary, land territory, and the islands of Sabah, including Ambalat, between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Maritime boundary and islands in the Luzon Strait between the PRC, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
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@paultsjan6047
>The US is the one and only country to detonate two Atomic bombs in Japan killing 200,000 civilians.
Reminders
1. "Rape of Nanking” in China, the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process.
2. Manila massacre was one of several major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army with at least 100,000 civilians killed.
The two atomic bombs are just very large bombs with low kiloton of TNT rating.
3. Don't cry for moral superiority when Imperial Japan started the total war.
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>General Milley had to reassures China that he would prevent Donald Trump from nuking them.
The assurance is based on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's narrative, not from Trump. The Biden administration is stumbling closer to WW3 when compared to the Trump administration. Trump's argument is to allow US allies to be nuclear-armed, which lowers US defense treaty obligations.
General Mark Milley is facing accusations of treason from the Republicans. Republicans plan to grill Gen. Mark Milley and Republicans won control of the House.
Nancy Pelosi's narrative is FALSE.
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@Seawolf Luck is NOT involved with it
READ abc.net.au/news/2020-07-04/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-leaves-states-vulnerable/12420970
Quoting from the article
A mandatory 14-day quarantine period for travellers returning home from overseas is based on national guidelines, but how those 14 days play out varies across states.
A person who tests positive for coronavirus while in hotel quarantine doesn't need to return a negative result before they're allowed to leave, under the national guidelines.
In NSW, every returned traveller must be tested at 10 days.
In Victoria, people are offered tests on days 3 and 11.
Mandatory testing was only introduced last weekend for NSW, and in Victoria the rules have recently been changed so if people decline testing they have to quarantine for a further 10 days.
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NSW is a MUST.
VIC is an OFFER. For Victoria's second COVDi-19 wave, Victora is a soft touch.
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From abc.net.au/news/2020-07-04/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-leaves-states-vulnerable/12420970
Again, Quoting from the article
How is Victoria set up differently?
Like other states, Victoria has strict quarantine rules where the person is forbidden from leaving the accommodation unless there is an emergency situation or an exemption based on compassionate grounds.
But human error and alleged misconduct has been the main cause of resurgence in COVID-19 cases in Victoria, according to Mr Andrews.
Victoria's state-run hotel quarantine has used private security contractors to guard rooms — a process that is now changing after guards contracted the virus and spread it to the community.
In NSW, travellers with a fever or who are displaying COVID-19 symptoms are referred to a "Health Hotel", managed by NSW Health.
Travellers who are well and have no symptoms are taken to hotels run by NSW Police.
Private security guards may assist, but NSW Health says they are all given infection control training.
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Luck is NOT involved with it
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@andrewmeiklem5098 Penny Wong doesn't acknowledge the following CCP trade restrictions!
Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@gore1089 You don't know shit.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@KingOfZamunda >one party instigated the euromaidan coup
That's a FALSE narrative from Putin.
Date: Jan. 7, 2010
Yanukovych: Ukraine will remain a neutral state.
"It’s certain that Ukraine was and will be non-aligned state… We strive neither to join NATO nor the [CIS]CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization]. We’ll maintain a neutral status," Yanukovych said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper.
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The trigger for Euromaidan was Yanukovych initiated non-neutrality policies such as joining a trade block instead of executing Switzerland-style neutrality.
UK leaving the EU and joining CPTPP proves freedom of association.
Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Some trade background for the context
From Tradebarrier Index (lower score = less trade barriers)
New Zealand's tariff score is 2.92
Australia's tariff score is 3.03
UK's tariff score is 3.94 (after Brexit)
Japan's tariff score is 4.05
US's tariff score is 4.54
Germany's tariff score is 4.88
EU's tariff score is 4.88
Russia's tariff score is 6.16 <--------
China's tariff score is 6.8 <------
Russia wants to maintain its higher trade protectionist policies.
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Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17 when Yanukovych renewed foreign base lease with Russia.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases. LOL
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@wanted001 You're not a real Aussie. A real Aussie will have Australia 1st mindset e.g. Australian freedom of navigation, obtaining nuclear power generation for itself, Australian interest in Antarctica, Australian interest in Oceania, advocate reciprocal trade policies.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@matthews1082 >Well Ukraine had been a part of the Russian Empire
Ukraine was part of Poland since the Ukrainian language has Polish influence, the Polish influence with the Ukrainian language is the major separation from the Russian language.
From 1804 until the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Ukrainian language was banned from schools in the Russian Empire, of which the biggest part of Ukraine (Central, Eastern, and Southern) was a part at the time.
During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, the Cossack Hetmanate's autonomy was progressively destroyed. After several earlier attempts, the office of hetman was finally abolished by the Russian government in 1764, and his functions were assumed by the Little Russian Collegium, thus fully incorporating the Hetmanate into the Russian Empire.
On May 7, 1775, Empress Catherine II issued a direct order that the Zaporozhian Sich was to be destroyed. On June 5, 1775, Russian artillery and infantry surrounded the Sich and razed it to the ground. The Russian troops disarmed the Cossacks, and the treasury archives were confiscated. The Koshovyi Otaman, Petro Kalnyshevsky, was arrested and incarcerated in exile at Solovetsky Monastery. This marked the end of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
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1. 1863–1864 January uprising, Russian Empire crushed Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian insurgents uprising.
2. Soviet–Ukrainian War occurred between 1917 to 1921, a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic vs the Bolsheviks i.e. Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (modern-day Russian Federation).
3. 2014, Russo-Ukrainian War. March 1, 2014, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation unanimously adopted a resolution to petition Russian President Vladimir Putin to use military force in Ukraine.
Ukrainian People's Republic is the modern-day Ukraine.
These are unresolved "old world" issues that existed before the US being a superpower.
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Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
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1. ASIO already caught Huawei spy software.
2. China attempts to encircle Australia via the south of the second island chain.
3. China went against Australia's interest in Antarctica. Australia enlisted the EU's help while NZ enlisted US help against the Russia-China team.
4. China's anti-foreign Market Access Negative List resulted in Australia's reciprocal investment restrictions.
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Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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In Australia, the left has support from CBS's Netwoke Ten, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC(Oz version), Network 7, and The Guardian Australia.
In the US, the left has support from CBS, ABC, NBC/MSNBC, Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
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Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler >USA is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies.
DON'T MIX UP WITH TARIFF ON PRODUCTS AND INVESTMENT PROTESTIONIST ISSUES.
China Negative List 2020
Let's focus Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
China has invested in mining companies in Australia and the US.
From mining.com/web/china-locking-critical-resources-uss-backyard/
Rare earth robbery
In 2016 Molycorp’s Mountain Pass Mine in California was shut down because it couldn’t compete with the low rare earth oxide prices coming out of China – which has cornered the market in REOs with about 95% of the world’s production. The timing was bad because Molycorp had just invested $1.25 billion to expand the light rare earths facility. It was forced into bankruptcy, until last summer when an investor group with ties to the Chinese government bought the mine for $20.5 million, beating out American bidders including ERP Strategic Minerals.
https://graphitepublications.com/will-chinas-outrageous-rare-earth-monopoly-persist/
China's rare earth near-monopoly was built on SOE (state-own enterprise) which driven private competitors from the market.
Second, importing countries have been concerned with the agglutination of Chinese mining companies in what appears to be a calculated move to make China’s monopoly even more monopolistic. Most prominently, Bao Gang Rare Earth (BGRE), a state-owned REE company forcibly merged with four smaller companies and numerous smaller companies were shut down to create a monopoly in Northern China which accounts for two-thirds of China’s output. Moreover, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) decreed minimum production thresholds for domestic companies in early August 2012, essentially truncating the smallest REE producers as well as with 20% of China’s rare earths capacity.
Third, Chinese companies have determinedly acted to protect their monopoly by buying potential international rivals. Lynas Corp., an Australian company displayed plans to open a new REE mine when in May 2009, a company owned by the Chinese government swooped in with a $366 million bid and bought a majority stake in it.
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Australian OR American mining companies CAN NOT DO THE SAME THING IN CHINA
It's a no-brainer when countries like Australia impose restrict investment reciprocity against China.
GTFO.
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Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler >Third, American companies (like Texaco, Shell, Exxon) have determinedly acted to protect their monopoly by buying potential international rivals
Reminder,
Woodside Petroleum is Australian.
BHP Billiton (oil and gas) is Australian.
Ampol (short for Australian Motorists Petrol Company) is Australian. Chevron (via Caltex Australia) has terminated the Caltex brand with Ampol.
BP is British.
Gazprom is Russian
Saudi Aramco is Saudi
Tesla has the supercharger network is to break Texaco (should be Chevron), Shell and Exxon domaince.
Texaco is owned by Chevron. LOL
Shell Oil Company is owned by Royal Dutch Shell, commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands of EU, and incorporated in the United Kingdom as a public limited company. LOL
PS; Anglo = British, UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_petroleum_companies
A list of Canadian petroleum companies
Your anti-US arguments are typical of CCP tencent agent arguments.
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@paynelesor3940 >Higher incarceration rates per capita
Do the crime, do the time. In general, East Asian teens focus on school studies.
>higher rates of premature death
Ancient virus lurking in remote Australia, affecting thousands of Aboriginal adults
In a brightly lit lab in the outback town of Alice Springs, researchers have been inspecting vials of blood infected with an ancient virus that has lurked in Australia for thousands of years.
It is called T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1— or HTLV-1 — and Australia has the highest levels in the world.
A distant relative of HIV, it is a blood-borne virus that can be sexually transmitted or passed from mother to child.
The virus can lead to inflammation of the skin, eyes and lungs.
"You're also at risk of developing things like leukemia, so blood cancer, and becoming disabled through spinal cord injuries," researcher Joel Liddle said.
"Once your pro-viral load is high, you're at a high risk of poor health."
Researchers said, in most cases, leukaemia caused by the virus could be "rapidly fatal".
Researchers from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs estimated 45 percent of Indigenous adults in central Australia had HTLV-1 .
"In remote Australia, it's so out of sight, out of mind with a lot of things, health is just one of those things," Mr Liddle said.
One of the difficulties with this virus is that most of those who have HTLV-1, don't know they have it, and a vast number of Aboriginal communities have never been tested.
"I think there's probably confusion and a little bit of anger, too. People [question] why haven't they been told about this," Mr Liddle said.
"There's a lot of reasons to breastfeed. Prolonged breastfeeding may be something that could be addressed but that's up to Aboriginal people to decide."
For Mr Liddle, an Arrernte man, a response to high rates of HTLV-1 demands a delicate approach, with intensive education work delivered in Aboriginal languages.
"I think there's a lot of work to do, certainly I think at the moment, what I see as our main thing is to engage sensitively around the issues because we're dealing with people's health, and all the things and complexities that are going on in remote communities, so we have to be really mindful of that."
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This ancient virus is related to HIV( i.e. HTLV-1) and reduces an adult's life span. Aboriginals have the highest HTLV-1 infection rates in the world.
To fix this issue, non-Aboriginal R&D will be needed to cure this ancient issue, promote safe sex culture (i.e. change culture), and practise monogamy (i.e. change culture).
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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@chrisgriffiths2533 From October 2021 dated information, Olympic Dam's renewable PAREP project will have the following installation
210 MW wind farm
110 MW solar
There are multiple mega battery array projects in NSW.
For the state of New South Wales (NSW);.
1. 1,200 MW megabattery within the Hunter Economic Zone (HEZ). The total planned portfolio reaching a capacity of 2 GW i.e. 2000 megawatts.
If the battery storage has a total generation capacity of 100 megawatts and 129 megawatt-hours of energy storage. This has been described as “capable of powering 50,000 homes”, providing 1 hour & 18 minutes of storage or, more controversially, 2.5 minutes of storage.
Not including Fish-n-Chip business activity.
Hunter Economic Zone has 2,000 MW. LOL
The NT-Singapore project has 20,000 MW solar and 36,000-to-42,000 MWh energy storage and is estimated to provide 15% of Singapore's energy needs.
I'm supplying real numbers.
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@chrisgriffiths2533 Note why I also added SA's "100 megawatts and 129 megawatt-hours of energy storage" as a baseline.
If the battery storage has a total generation capacity of 100 megawatts and 129 megawatt-hours of energy storage. This has been described as “capable of powering 50,000 homes”, providing 1 hour & 18 minutes of storage or, more controversially, 2.5 minutes of storage.
129,000 kilowatt-hours / 50,000 homes = 2.58 kilowatt-hours for each home.
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VIC
300MW/450 MWh big battery at Geelong
900MW/1800 MWh battery at Goyder South
NSW
1200 MW battery array in Hunter's $2.4 billion projects from CEP Energy. Scales to 2000 MW later.
500 MW/1,000 MWh battery just outside of Sydney from Neoen.
3,000 MW wind and solar in Central Orana.
For my household
I plan for a single Tesla PowerWall 2 (13.5 KWh) without EV. That's about 1 KW for 13 hours or 2 KW for 6 hours. It wouldn't be enough when it rains for several days.
I plan for two Tesla PowerWall 2 (27 KWh total) with EV.
No fish-n-chip shop. My current stove is a quad natural gas burner (4 to 5 KW replacement), the two-floor aircon setup has 5.8KW max input (via three-phase, usually operates at about 1KW) and the air fryer has 2KW.
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Russian_conquest_of_Central_Asia
1718-1847: Gaining control of the Kazakh Steppe
Fall of the Kazakh Khanate (1847)
1839: Failed attack on Khiva. See Khivan campaign of 1839.
1847–1853: The Syr Darya line
1847–1864: Down the eastern side
1864–1868: Kokand and Bukhara subdued, Russian conquest of Bukhara
1875–1876: Liquidation of the Kokand Khanate
1873: The conquest of Khiva
1879–1885: Turkmenistan: Geok Tepe, Merv and Panjdeh
1879: Lomakin's defeat at Geok Tepe
1884: The annexation of Merv
1885: Expansion stopped at Panjdeh
1872–1895: The Eastern Mountains
1867–1877: Yakub Beg
1871–1883: temporary occupation of Kulja
1893: Pamirs occupied
Results speak themselves with Imperial Russia/Russian Federation having the largest land area in the world!
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Grand Duchy of Moscow (1263–1547)
1368–1372 Lithuanian-Muscovite War
1376 Muscovite-Volga Bulgars war
1467–1469 Qasim War
1471 Battle of Shelon
1480 Great stand on the Ugra river
1478 Siege of Kazan
1492–1494 First Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1495–1497 Russo-Swedish War
1500–1503 Second Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1505–1507 Russo-Kazan War
1507–1508 Third Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1512–1522 Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War
1534–1537 Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War
Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)
1552 Siege of Kazan
1552–1556 Tatar Rebellion
1554–1557 Ivan the Terrible’s Swedish War
1556 Russian conquest of Astrakhan
1558–1583 Livonian War
1568–1570 Astrakhan Expedition
1570–1572 Ivan the Terrible’s Crimean War
1580–1762 Russian conquest of Siberia
1590–1595 Boris Godunov’s Swedish War
1606–1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
1610–1617 Ingrian War
1632–1634 Smolensk War
1651–1653 Alexis I’s Persian War
1652–1689 Sino–Russian border conflicts
1654–1667 First Northern War
1656–1658 Second Northern War
1670–1671 Razin’s Rebellion
1676–1681 Feodor III’s Turkish War
1683–1700 Great Turkish War
1700–1721 Great Northern War
1704–1711 Third Bashkir Rebellion
1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion
1717 Peter the Great’s Khivan War
1717–1847 Kazakh-Russian conflicts
Russian Empire (1721–1917)
1722–1723 Persian Expedition of Peter the Great
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession Rhineland
1735–1739 Russo-Austro-Turkish War
1735–1740 Fourth Bashkir Rebellion
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1756–1763 Seven Years' War
1768–1769 Koliivshchyna Rebellion
1768–1772 War of the Bar Confederation
1768–1774 Catherine the Great’s First Turkish War
1773–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
1787–1792 Catherine the Great’s Second Turkish War
1788–1790 Catherine the Great’s Swedish War
1792 Catherine the Great’s Polish War, Second Partition of Poland
1794 Kościuszko Uprising, Third Partition of Poland
1796 Persian Expedition of Catherine the Great
1804–1813 Alexander I’s Persian War
1806–1812 Alexander I’s Turkish War
1808–1809 Finnish War
1817–1864 Caucasian War
1826–1828 Nicholas I’s Persian War
1828–1829 Nicholas I’s Turkish War
1830–1831 November uprising, crushed Polish uprising.
1839–1841 Second Turko-Egyptian War
1839–1895 Russian conquest of Central Asia
1863–1864 January uprising, crushed Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian insurgents uprising.
1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion,
Results speak themselves with Imperial Russia/Russian Federation having the largest land area in the world!
Soviet Union (1922–1991)
1924 August Uprising, Consolidation of Soviet rule in Georgian SSR
1924 Tatarbunary Uprising, Crushing of the Soviet-inspired rebellion.
1925–1926 Urtatagai conflict,
1929 Sino-Soviet conflict, USSR defeats China
1929 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan, USSR defeated.
1930 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930), USSR defeats Basmachi.
1932–1941 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, USSR defeats Imperial Japan.
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War, USSR-backed proxy has been defeated.
1937 Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang, USSR's backed proxy defeats China.
1939 Invasion of Poland (Part of World War II), triggering WW2. Division of Polish territory between Third Reich, Soviet Union and Slovakia
1939–1940 Winter War (Part of World War II), USSR defeats Finland.
1940 Occupation of the Baltic states(Part of World War II), Occupation of the Baltic states by the Red Army
1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina(Part of World War II), Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina annexed to the USSR, creation of the Moldovan SSR.
1944–1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states, USSR defeats Ukrainian Insurgent Army
1945 Soviet–Japanese War(Part of World War II), USSR defeats Imperial Japan. Karafuto Prefecture is annexed by the Soviet Union and incorporated into Sakhalin Oblast.
Kuril Islands annexed to the Soviet Union
1953 East German Uprising, Soviet Union crushed East German demonstrators.
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991.
1969 Zhenbao Island Incidentm, USSR defeats China.
1974–1991 Eritrean War of Independence, USSR's proxy defeated.
1975–1991 Angolan Civil War, Independence of Namibia
1977–1978 Ethio-Somali War. Somalia broke all ties with Soviet Union.
1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War, Failed Soviet attempt to quell Afghan Mujahedeen insurgency
Russian Federation (1991-present)
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War, Zviadist revolt crushed.
1991–1993 War in Abkhazia, Russian-backed Abkhazia gained de facto independence from Georgia.
1992 Transnistria War, Russian- Transnistria gained de facto independence from Moldova.
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict, Expulsion of ethnic Ingush from Prigorodny by Ossetian militia
2008 Russo-Georgian War, Expansion of Russain backed Abkhazia and South Ossetia at the expense of Georgia.
2014–present Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian annexation of Crimea
2018–present Central African Republic Civil War, Ongoing.
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Drumpf donny >What about Iraqis
Saddam's Iraq attacked Kuwait. Their land wasn't assimilated into the US. LOL
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Your knowledge is obsolete.
>Afghans
Their land wasn't assimilated into the US. LOL
>Palestine
Unresolved old-world issue. Go ask Italy (Roman Empire deleted Judea) and Turkey (Islamic Ottoman Empire).
>Aborigines
Which Aborigines? Australian Aborigines have extra welfare payments e.g. Abstudy.
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Drumpf donny >I said, check if you have anything in your house or you use is Made in China,
Examples, my Sammy Android mobile phones are made in South Korea and Vietnam, my vehicles are made in Japan, hot cloth iron is made in Indonesia, my LG 4K TV is made in South Korea, the main oven is made in Australia, the gas stove is made in Australia, gas hot water tank made in Australia, reverse cycle aircon (Daikin) made in Japan/Australia, solar panels are made in South Korea (LG) and Japan (Panasonic).
>if yes, then you should just throw them way, no??
That's a red herring when I'm addressing your geopolitical arguments. Your argument is flawed when China practised strong protectionist policies that warped goods trade. Hint: Rare earth near-monopoly by CCP state own ming companies.
Turning debate thread into personal attacking arguments shows that you have run out of valid counterarguments.
>Did I mention Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia or India for that matter, kidd??? Funny!!
You assumed China dominates the recent trade good manufacturing when companies like Samsung have shut down manufacturing activities in China.
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Monique Ryan is a fool. CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@alex_2020 False. Before Euromaidan,
1. Russia, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Date: Jan. 7, 2010
Yanukovych: Ukraine will remain a neutral state.
"It’s certain that Ukraine was and will be non-aligned state… We strive neither to join NATO nor the [CIS]CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization]. We’ll maintain a neutral status," Yanukovych said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper.
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The trigger for Euromaidan was Yanukovych initiated non-neutrality policies such as joining a trade block instead of executing Switzerland-style neutrality.
UK leaving the EU and joining CPTPP proves freedom of association.
Some trade background for the context
From Tradebarrier Index (lower score = less trade barriers)
New Zealand's tariff score is 2.92
Australia's tariff score is 3.03
UK's tariff score is 3.94 (after Brexit)
Japan's tariff score is 4.05
US's tariff score is 4.54
Germany's tariff score is 4.88
EU's tariff score is 4.88
Russia's tariff score is 6.16 <--------
China's tariff score is 6.8 <------
Russia wants to maintain its higher trade protectionist policies.
2. Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
3. Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases.
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@rakeshhubert3031 Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
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China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@rakeshhubert3031
READ abc.net.au/news/2020-07-04/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-leaves-states-vulnerable/12420970
Quoting from the article
A mandatory 14-day quarantine period for travellers returning home from overseas is based on national guidelines, but how those 14 days play out varies across states.
A person who tests positive for coronavirus while in hotel quarantine doesn't need to return a negative result before they're allowed to leave, under the national guidelines.
In NSW, every returned traveller must be tested at 10 days.
In Victoria, people are offered tests on days 3 and 11.
Mandatory testing was only introduced last weekend for NSW, and in Victoria the rules have recently been changed so if people decline testing they have to quarantine for a further 10 days.
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NSW is a MUST.
VIC is an OFFER. For Victoria's second COVDi-19 wave, Victora is a soft touch.
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From abc.net.au/news/2020-07-04/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-leaves-states-vulnerable/12420970
Again, Quoting from the article
How is Victoria set up differently?
Like other states, Victoria has strict quarantine rules where the person is forbidden from leaving the accommodation unless there is an emergency situation or an exemption based on compassionate grounds.
But human error and alleged misconduct has been the main cause of resurgence in COVID-19 cases in Victoria, according to Mr Andrews.
Victoria's state-run hotel quarantine has used private security contractors to guard rooms — a process that is now changing after guards contracted the virus and spread it to the community.
In NSW, travellers with a fever or who are displaying COVID-19 symptoms are referred to a "Health Hotel", managed by NSW Health.
Travellers who are well and have no symptoms are taken to hotels run by NSW Police.
Private security guards may assist, but NSW Health says they are all given infection control training.
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Fuckoff.
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@silveriver9 On China issue
https://graphitepublications.com/will-chinas-outrageous-rare-earth-monopoly-persist/
China's rare earth near-monopoly was built on SOE (state-own enterprise) which driven private competitors from the market. Rare earth is important for the electronics component production logistics chain.
Heavy importers of these REEs such as the U.S., Germany, and Japan believe these rationales disguise China’s true exploitative motive: to force foreign factories to move to China to keep their costs low and their supply high
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703321004575427050544485366
After securing Rare-Earth monopoly, China Dangles Rare-Earth Resources to Lure Investment
BEIJING—China is cautiously using rare-earth resources as bait for foreign investment that could bring in sophisticated technologies that it needs.
Industry and government officials have begun talking about a Chinese government plan to offer access to its rare-earth resources—which are used in products such as hybrid-car batteries and missiles and are under strict export restrictions—to get companies including electronics manufacturers and auto makers to set up rare-earth-processing plants in China.
Try again.
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covid 1234 Your "west rape and pillage" argument is BS.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Your knowledge is obsolete.
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@tkw3864
From forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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@ross4970 Holmes à Court family has profited from hydrocarbon energy-intensive industries e.g. Bell Brothers
Bell Brothers was a diversified company with interests in the aggregates, automotive, civil engineering, heavy heads, mining engineering and transport industries. Primarily based in Western Australia, it also had smaller interests in other states of Australia.
During 1982, Bell Group took stakes in Rolls Royce and Portland cement.
In 1983, Bell Group bought Perth mining equipment company Wigmores, and was renamed Bell Resources Ltd. Through the ACC group, BRL gained control of Bass Strait oil and gas explorer, Weeks Petroleum which owned a 2.5% royalty share in the Esso-BHP consortium.
Holmes à Court are hypocrites.
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@TjJay-ev6mx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
In the 20th century, approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia. Primarily a consequence of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980. An estimated 650,000 (72%) of these Jews resettled in Israel.[1]
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The British mandate over Iraq came to an end in June 1930, and in October 1932 the country became independent. The Iraqi government response to the demand of Assyrian autonomy (the Assyrians being the indigenous Eastern Aramaic-speaking Semitic descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Mesopotamians, and largely affiliated to the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church and Syriac Orthodox Church), turned into a bloody massacre of Assyrian villagers by the Iraqi army in August 1933.
This event was the first sign to the Jewish community that minority rights were meaningless under the Iraqi monarchy. King Faisal, known for his liberal policies, died in September 1933, and was succeeded by Ghazi, his nationalistic anti-British son. Ghazi began promoting Arab nationalist organizations, headed by Syrian and Palestinian exiles.
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@TjJay-ev6mx
Depopulation of local Jewish communities
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, all Jewish communities in Transjordan, the Jordanian-annexed West Bank, and the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip were depopulated.[201][202]
The communities and localities affected included the Jerusalem Jewish Quarter, Hebron, Ein Tzurim, Masu'ot Yitzhak, Revadim, Beit HaArava, Kalya, Kfar Etzion, Atarot, Kfar Darom, Neve Yaakov, and Tel Or[203][204]
In many cases, these depopulations represented final stages of earlier evacuations begun in response to both the 1929 Palestine riots and 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.[205] The Hebron Jewish Community, already having lost a majority of its population as a result of mandatory British evacuation following the 1929 Hebron Massacre, lost its sole remaining Jewish resident Ya’akov Ben Shalom Ezra during the war.[206][207] Kfar Darom, the last of the Gaza Jewish communities following mandatory evacuations in 1929, was itself ultimately abandoned following a three-month siege by the Egyptian army in 1948.[208]
In the case of Dead Sea-region kibbutzim of Beit HaArava and Kalya, negotiations with Transjordan's King Abdullah were conducted in an attempt for residents to remain. When those talks failed, the villagers fled by boat to an Israeli military post at Mount Sodom.[209]
Judean settlements Kfar Etzion, a kibbutz established southwest of Bethlehem, and Jerusalem adjascent Atarot and Neve Yaakov fared less peacefully during the conflict. All three villages were besieged by a combined force of Arab Legion and local irregulars, resulting in a complete evacuation of Atarot & Neve Yaakov, and a massacre of 127 of Etzion's defending force and citizens.[210]
The village of Tel Or had the distinction of being the only Jewish locality permitted in Transjordan proper at the time. Established in 1930 in the vicinity of the Naharayim hydroelectric power plant, the village of was built as a housing compound for Jewish crews operating the power plant, and their families.[211] Following a prolonged battle between Yishuv forces and the Transjordanian Arab Legion in the area, the residents of Tel Or were given an ultimatum to surrender or leave the village.
Depopulation of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter
The largest depopulation during the war occurred in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, where its entire population of about 2,000 Jews were besieged and ultimately forced to leave en masse. The defenders surrendered on 28 May 1948.
Weingarten negotiating the surrender with Arab Legion soldiers
The Jordanian commander is reported to have told his superiors: "For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible."[212][213]
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Afghanistan
See also: History of the Jews in Afghanistan
The Afghan Jewish community declined from about 40,000 in the early 20th century to 5,000 by 1934 due to persecution. Many Afghan Jews fled to Persia, although some came to Palestine.[239]
In 1929, the Soviet press reported a pogrom in Afghanistan.[240]
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>provoke china multiple times
Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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Try again, hypocrite.
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@atomduke7789
Your assumptions are wrong. Australia's place in any conflict between the US and China is enforcing Australia's freedom of navigation and keeping its shipping lanes open to support its northern allies.
Refer to Australia-Japan "Defence Supplies and Services" agreement.
Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of Japan concerning Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Australian Defence Force and the Self-Defense Forces of Japan - Sydney, 14 January 2017
Obligations
3.14 The provision of any supplies and services under the proposed Agreement must be carried out in accordance with the Parties’ respective national laws and obligations.
3.15 Article I provides that the reciprocal provision of logistic supplies and services under the proposed Agreement will occur for the purposes of:
exercises and training with participation by both the ADF and the JSDF;
United Nations peacekeeping operations, internationally coordinated peacekeeping and security operations, and humanitarian international relief operations;
operations in response to large scale disasters in Australia, Japan or a third country;
emergency evacuation of Australian or Japanese nationals, or others from third countries;
communication and coordination or other routine activities including visits of ships or aircraft of the ADF or the JSDF;and for other cooperative efforts as mutually determined and permitted under the laws and regulations of the respective Parties (including for unforeseen circumstances or exigencies).
3.16 The inclusion of ‘internationally coordinated peacekeeping and security operations’ as well as enabling the provision of logistic supplies and services for other cooperatively efforts as mutually determined is an expansion of the 2013 Agreement.
3.17 The supplies and services that may be provided under the Agreement are listed in Tabled 3.1 below.
3.18 For the provision of supplies, where possible, the receiving Party must return the supplies in a condition and manner satisfactory to the providing Party. Where supplies cannot be returned in a satisfactory condition or are consumable, the receiving Party must give the providing Party supplies of the same type, quality and quantity. Where neither option is possible, the receiving Party must reimburse the providing Party.
3.19 For the provision of services, the receiving Party may either reimburse the providing Party or provide services of the same type and equivalent value.
3.20 The provision of supplies and services must be carried out in accordance with the Procedural Arrangement as agreed between the Australian Department of Defence and the Japanese Ministry of Defence (Article V). The NIA explains that a new Procedural Arrangement has been concluded however is a less-than-treaty status document. Consequently, the Committee will not have an opportunity to review this supporting document.
3.21 Similarly, disputes between the Australia and Japan must be settled in accordance with the Procedural Arrangement, or otherwise through consultation.24
Reasons for implementing proposed treaty action
3.22 As noted above, the proposal to replace the 2013 Agreement was initiated by Japan, which sought to broaden that Agreement to achieve congruence with defence reforms passed by the National Diet in September 2015.
3.23 The NIA states that the expanded scope of the proposed Agreement:
aligns with Australia’s other military logistic support agreements and arrangements and offers Australia the opportunity to further enhance the quality of, and potential for, defence cooperation with Japan, and to broaden the interoperability between the two forces.
3.24 It further asserts that the proposed Agreement is ‘uncontroversial’ and ‘builds on Australia’s existing relationship with Japan in relation to defence matters, and raises no international defence policy issues’.
3.25 If the proposed Agreement were not ratified, Australia’s military logistic relationship with Japan would be out of step with those that Japan has with the United States and the United Kingdom.
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1. It's well known China has attempted to encircle Australia via the second Island chain. China has no business in Australia's Oceania backyard.
2. It's well known China's navy ships has surveyed the East Philippines Sea that is a backup route when South China China / West Philippines Sea is blocked by China.
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@ilhanosman4653
Twenty Iraqi Kurds have taken legal action to expose French firms who supplied poison gas to Saddam Hussein in 1988. The plaintiffs were among the victims of a chemical weapon attack that killed 5,000 in the town of Halabja during the Iran-Iraq war.
A Dutch businessman who sold Iraq chemicals used in the attack was ordered to pay 400,000 euros to some of the victims in April 2013.
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Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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@ejs7861 Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Your knowledge is obsolete.
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@Polleej
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp0809/09rp36
Quarantine power
Section 51(ix) of the Constitution provides that the Commonwealth can pass laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to quarantine.
The quarantine power has primarily been relied upon in the area of public health.[94] Public health ranges from the regulation of disease prevention to the regulation of tobacco and alcohol.[95]
The scope of this power remains uncertain.[96] However, the legislative definition of quarantine includes:
the examination, exclusion, detention, observation, segregation, isolation, protection, treatment and regulation of vessels, installations, human beings, animals, plants or other goods or things; or
the seizure and destruction of animals, plants, or other goods or things; or
the destruction of premises comprising buildings or other structures when treatment of these premises is not practicable; and
having as their object the prevention or control of the introduction, establishment or spread of diseases or pests that will or could cause significant damage to human beings, animals, plants, other aspects of the environment or economic activities.[97]
While it is conceivable that the quarantine power may support particular aspects of the Commonwealth taking over the administration of public hospitals, such as infection control and therapeutic medicines in Scenario 3, it would be necessary to also rely on other heads of power.[98]
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@margaretcaine4219 That's an incomplete narrative. Atomic spies or atom spies were people in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada who are known to have illicitly given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
In August 1944, Fuchs joined the Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory, working under Hans Bethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of implosion, necessary for the development of the plutonium bomb. After the war, he returned to the UK and worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell as head of the Theoretical Physics Division.
In January 1950, Fuchs confessed that he had passed information to the Soviets over a seven-year period beginning in 1942. A British court sentenced him to fourteen years' imprisonment and he was subsequently stripped of his British citizenship. He was released in 1959, after serving nine years, and migrated to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
On 24 September 1933, Klaus Fuchs was a refugee when He arrived in the UK. A Russian operative, Semyon Semyonov was ultimately responsible for the Fuchs relationship.
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@WarblesOnALot
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-Air-Forces-F-35-stealth-fighter-have-heat-issues-when-flying-supersonic-and-whats-overheating
With the completion of developmental flight testing, the F-35 no longer has any heat issues when flying within its design flight envelope (with a top speed of Mach 1.6).
In the past however there were 2 sets of speed restrictions:
In the FY2015 Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) report for the F-35, it was noted that the program had an airspeed restriction in place where F-35s were not permitted to fly at speeds equal or greater than 500kts below 5,000ft, 550kts between 5,000–15,000ft and 600 knots between 15,000–25,000ft, for more than 10 minutes at a time without opening the weapon bay doors to vent the air inside them. Above 25,000ft there were no restrictions (aside from the Mach 1.6 top speed).
The reason that this restriction was put in place was because an electronics system that was moved into a weapons bay for easier maintenance access had not been tested and fully certified to last an acceptably long life in high temperatures. When the F-35’s engine is producing high levels of thrust, it produces a significant amount of heat which is transmitted into the weapon bays. This can result in the weapon bays reaching temperatures of over 80C / 176F, so if a circuit board was only previously tested to 85C / 185F, it would require re-verification.
Since that report’s release years ago, those flight restrictions have been removed.
When the F-35’s afterburner was used for extended periods of time it would cause heat damage to the inner surfaces and coatings of the horizontal stabilisers (which extend out behind the jet, either side of the exhaust plume.
This problem was particularly an issue for the F-35B and F-35C variants which accelerate slower and therefore need more time using afterburner to reach speeds such as Mach 1.6.
In the first half of 2018 however, all 3 variants of the F-35 were certified to fly their full flight envelope, and the latest DOT&E report has no mention of this issue remaining, or of afterburner usage restrictions being imposed.
As for the F-35’s Mach 1.6 speed limit, this is purely a placard limit, where the manufacturer was only contracted to develop a Mach 1.6 capable fighter and no funding or requirement has been made to test whether the jet can exceed Mach 1.6 by a non-trivial amount.
Diagrams of the F-35’s flight envelope suggest that all 3 variants can fly faster than Mach 1.6, with the F-35A’s diagram appearing to suggest a top speed of around Mach 1.8 or higher, but this is speculation, and Lockheed cannot guarantee the jet will continue to be safe to operate to (eg) Mach 1.8 without studies and flight testing. In any case, top speeds are not very relevant to real world combat (due to how quickly jets will drain their already partially-depleted fuel tanks trying to reach them) and there could be thermal issues (either with even hotter weapon bays, or additional horizontal tail heating, or with aerodynamic heating causing issues for the jet’s stealth coatings).
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@Brett.Crealy-kh1sk
Read https://www.britannica.com/place/Australia/History
This was the background for the three voyages of Captain James Cook on behalf of the British Admiralty. The first, that of the HMS Endeavour, left England in August 1768 and had its climax on April 20, 1770, when a crewman sighted southeastern Australia. Cook landed several times, most notably at Botany Bay and at Possession Island in the north, where on August 23 he claimed the land, naming it New South Wales
Meanwhile Flinders had returned home and in 1801 was appointed to command an expedition that would circumnavigate Australia and virtually complete the charting of the continent. Over the next three years Flinders proved equal to this task. Above all, he left no doubt that the Australian continent was a single landmass. Appropriately, Flinders urged that the name Australia replace New Holland, and this change received official backing from 1817.
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From 1644, Australia was called New Holland by the Dutch
From April 20, 1770, Australia was called New South Wales by the British.
From 1817, the New Holland name was replaced by Australia.
Supporting 1994 ALP's fvckup on history is LOL..
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@kickDustPedestrian Do you think the EU is just economic engagement?
On 29 October 2008, Australia and the EU signed a new Partnership Framework in Paris, which updates and replaces the previous two bilateral agreements—the 1997 Joint Declaration and the 2003–08 Agenda for Cooperation. Under this political agreement, Australia and the EU pledged to continue expanding cooperation in five broadly defined areas. In particular, the paper examines those sections of the Partnership Framework that relate to cooperation between Australia and the EU on security matters, multilateralism, climate change, democracy promotion, human rights, and their cooperation on overseas development assistance (ODA) in the South Pacific.
In political terms, the EU has an active global agenda, which has been strengthened, since 1993, with the development of a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
The three pillars which form the basic structure of the EU include:
1. the Community pillar
2. the CFSP pillar, and
3. Justice and Home Affairs cooperation, which covers police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters.[10]
Your "Such division did not exist at economic engagement" shows your ignorance.
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@kickDustPedestrian From euractiv
However, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is also from the Greens, sees things in a different light.
“As things stand at present, this pipeline cannot be approved because it does not meet the requirements of European energy law,” Baerbock told ZDF on 12 December, saying “the safety issues are still unresolved anyway”.
Furthermore, it is clear “that in the event of further escalations, this pipeline could not be connected to the grid,” she said, noting that the agreement struck with the US during the last year of Angela Merkel’s reign had foreseen a similar understanding. The US had sought to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine without upholding the sanctions on the pipeline that had raised hackles in Berlin.
Her position has now been enhanced by her fellow Green Super-Minister Robert Habeck.
“Any new military action cannot remain without severe consequences,” Habeck stated in the interview as reported by DW. The option of blocking the pipeline would be on the table, if “there is a new violation of the territorial integrity” of Ukraine, he said.
As Scholz has been officially appointed Chancellor on 8 December, the row may officially mark the end of the shortest ever honeymoon period for a German government, and reveals the difficult position his coalition currently finds itself in.
Germany is heavily reliant on gas: more than 25% of energy used in the country comes from natural gas, a majority of which is imported from Russia.
Nord Stream 2 is a beloved project of the SPD. The last SPD chancellor before Scholz, Gerhard Schröder, had overseen the construction of Nord Stream 1 while powerful party leaders continue to be committed to it. Scholz was secretary-general of the SPD under Schröder, underlining his longstanding involvement in the project.
“We need this gas pipeline,” said Manuela Schwesig, the dominant SPD minister-president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in an interview with Spiegel, warning against “mixing the constriction of the pipeline with foreign policy issues”.
The new Chancellor appears stuck between the demands of his party but is being publicly challenged by his vice chancellor and some of the government’s most powerful ministers, revealing internal tensions within the young government coalition.
The €11 billion pipeline, which has been called “the biggest mistake” of Angela Merkel by EPP President Donald Tusk, may continue to rock domestic and foreign politics long after her departure.
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German Greens will kill Nord Stream 2. Without the greens, Scholz's government is dead.
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@robmckrill3134
From ancient.eu/Huns/
The Huns were a nomadic tribe prominent in the 4th and 5th century CE whose origin is unknown but, most likely, they came from "somewhere between the eastern edge of the Altai Mountains and the Caspian Sea, roughly modern Kazakhstan" (Kelly, 45)
Kazakhstan is 70% Muslim.
Read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_Council
Kazakhstan is part of the Turkic peoples.
The Turkic Council, officially the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, is an international organization comprising some of the Turkic countries consisting of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Like USSR and Russian Empire and its subsequent disintegration, the Ottoman Empire was also a fake country. Turkey has a better chance with Turkic Council.
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"We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender.
Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand -- the ultimatum. And what then -- when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin -- just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this -- this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits -- not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
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@torrokasparov2210 1. Ex-Colonel Macgregor (who left US Army in June 2004) did not consider ramifications in relation to Budapest Memorandum.
2. Ex-Colonel Macgregor's argument runs contrary to the Trump administration's withdrawal from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces.
3. EUCOM has 75,000 personnel already in Europe, British has 153,290 active personnel (1_January_2021_SPS PDF) and Poland has 160,000 active personnel (2022).
Poland has 1,700,000 reserve personnel (2022).
Using the UK as a large unsinkable aircraft carrier, USAF F-35A's 1407 km combat radius (internal tanks) can reach into Ukraine.
From Norway, F-35A's has a striking range into Moscow.
From Italy, F-35A's has a striking range near Moscow.
Finland is buying F-35A with a 1407 km combat radius which has a longer range when compared to Finland's existing F/A-18C's 740 km combat radius (can reach just outside of Moscow).
Poland is buying F-35A with a 1407 km. F-35A has a longer range with an engine upgrade road map and external fuel tanks.
F-35A was purpose-designed to invade a certain hostile country from the pre-1997 position, unlike a short-leg defensive fighter F-16. F-35A has reduced the need for air tankers and USN's aircraft carriers.
F-35A's digital FCS and powerful onboard computers can be modified as an unmanned supersonic stealth cruise missile platform for two B61 Mod 12 nuclear bombs.
Every European country with F-35A has gained long-range strike capability and turned short-range defensive B61 nuclear bombs into deep strike B61 Mod 12 nuclear bombs.
Germany's interest has returned to F-35A for its NATO shared B61 Mod 12 nuclear bomb strike platform.
Putin's complaining about Ageis AShore MK41 VLS in Poland and Romania are distractions.
Ex-Colonel Macgregor has a US Army mindset, not from the US Strategic Command mindset. US Strategic Command has USN Admiral Charles A. Richard, USAF Lt General Thomas A. Bussiere, and USMC SgtMaj Howard L. Kreamer. US Strategic Command is stacked with USAF, USN, and USMC commanding officers.
4. Ex-Colonel Macgregor's combined arms reform argument is not new since the Department of the Navy already has combined arms with the United States Marine Corps.
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Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@joeybrown3583 Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Discrimination_Act_1975
It is against the law to discriminate in areas such as:
Employment (section 15) - e.g. when seeking employment, training, promotion, equal pay or conditions of employment;
Land, housing or accommodation (section 12) - e.g. when buying a house or when renting;
Provision of goods and services (section 13) - e.g. when buying something, applying for credit, using banks, seeking assistance from government departments, lawyers, doctors and hospitals, or attending restaurants, pubs, entertainment venues;
Access to places and facilities for use by the public (section 11) - e.g. when trying to use parks, libraries, government offices, hotels, places of worship, entertainment centres, hire cars;
Advertising (section 16) - e.g. advertising for a job stating that people from a certain ethnic group cannot apply;
Joining a trade union (section 14).
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Racial_Discrimination_Act_1975 is applicable for businesses and government basic services.
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@scottrobinson7360 A new law gives Australian police powers for online surveillance, data interception, and altering data. These powers, outlined in the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill,
The bill updates the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. In essence, it allows law-enforcement agencies or authorities (such as the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission) to modify, add, copy or delete data when investigating serious online crimes.
Lawful communication has no problems with Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill.
Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill still allows users to insult our MPs just like in the real world e.g. scomo from marketing, ditch the bitch, ditch the witch, and 'etc'.
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@poweredbyrice5708 >Well not RT or Sputnik because they are banned in Europe and YouTube has banned Russian media in the US yeah freedom as long as your don't disagree
As of 2021, Russia ranked 150 out of 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. In the 2017 Freedom House Freedom of the Press report Russia scored 83 (100 being the worst), mostly because of new laws introduced in 2014 that further extended the state control over mass media.
In February 2011, Guardian journalist Luke Harding, from Britain, was refused entry into Russia, contrary to OCSE regulations.[which?] He became the first foreign journalist to be expelled from Russia since the end of the Cold War. Some linked his expulsion with unflattering coverage of Russia, including speculation about Vladimir Putin's wealth. On 9 February Russia reversed the decision
In September 2014, a BBC team was attacked in Astrakhan while investigating the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine - at the time still denied by the Kremlin. They had their equipment destroyed.
In 2015, an Australian journalist, Helen Womack, who spent over 30 years reporting from Russia was denied accreditation after listing on a nationalist-operated "list of enemies of Russia" website and forced to leave the country.
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While it's a bit late, reciprocal treatment is a simple concept to understand.
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@MetaView7 >australia has blocked RT. Are you afraid of the truth?
As of 2021, Russia ranked 150 out of 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. In the 2017 Freedom House Freedom of the Press report Russia scored 83 (100 being the worst), mostly because of new laws introduced in 2014 that further extended the state control over mass media.
In February 2011, Guardian journalist Luke Harding, from Britain, was refused entry into Russia, contrary to OCSE regulations.[which?] He became the first foreign journalist to be expelled from Russia since the end of the Cold War. Some linked his expulsion with unflattering coverage of Russia, including speculation about Vladimir Putin's wealth. On 9 February Russia reversed the decision
In September 2014, a BBC team was attacked in Astrakhan while investigating the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine - at the time still denied by the Kremlin. They had their equipment destroyed.
In 2015, an Australian journalist, Helen Womack, who spent over 30 years reporting from Russia was denied accreditation after listing on a nationalist-operated "list of enemies of Russia" website and forced to leave the country.
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While it's a bit late, reciprocal treatment is a simple concept to understand.
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@poweredbyrice5708 >Or simply here in the west you say something they don't agree with the FBI shows up at your door, banned, canceled, and shut down
Cite an example topic.
>every news station pushes an identical narrative with alternative
In the US,
Alternatives: The Epoch Times, News Max, and Fox News / New York Post (News Corporation).
ABC (Disney), CBS, NBC, CNN, and WPost are pro-Democrats.
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In Australia, Network Ten is owned by CBS.
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@tonyk501
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (soon to be CPTPP member)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3%
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%,
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3%
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@johnrittel6129 Another problem.
News(from ABC NET AU) : Ancient virus lurking in remote Australia, affecting thousands of Aboriginal adults
In a brightly lit lab in the outback town of Alice Springs, researchers have been inspecting vials of blood infected with an ancient virus that has lurked in Australia for thousands of years.
It is called T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1— or HTLV-1 — and Australia has the highest levels in the world.
A distant relative of HIV, it is a blood-borne virus that can be sexually transmitted or passed from mother to child.
The virus can lead to inflammation of the skin, eyes and lungs.
"You're also at risk of developing things like leukemia, so blood cancer, and becoming disabled through spinal cord injuries," researcher Joel Liddle said.
"Once your pro-viral load is high, you're at a high risk of poor health."
Researchers said, in most cases, leukaemia caused by the virus could be "rapidly fatal".
Researchers from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs estimated 45 percent of Indigenous adults in central Australia had HTLV-1 .
"In remote Australia, it's so out of sight, out of mind with a lot of things, health is just one of those things," Mr Liddle said.
One of the difficulties with this virus is that most of those who have HTLV-1, don't know they have it, and a vast number of Aboriginal communities have never been tested.
"I think there's probably confusion and a little bit of anger, too. People [question] why haven't they been told about this," Mr Liddle said.
"There's a lot of reasons to breastfeed. Prolonged breastfeeding may be something that could be addressed but that's up to Aboriginal people to decide."
For Mr Liddle, an Arrernte man, a response to high rates of HTLV-1 demands a delicate approach, with intensive education work delivered in Aboriginal languages.
"I think there's a lot of work to do, certainly I think at the moment, what I see as our main thing is to engage sensitively around the issues because we're dealing with people's health, and all the things and complexities that are going on in remote communities, so we have to be really mindful of that."
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This ancient virus is related to HIV( i.e. HTLV-1) and reduces an adult's life span.
To fix this issue, non-Aboriginal R&D will be needed to cure this ancient issue, promote safe sex culture (i.e. change culture), and practise monogamy (i.e. change culture).
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@dash4191 >kids aren't getting taught trans and queer shit and know basic math science history
Real history is not a strong point for Russia.
Before Euromaidan, Russia successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kyiv, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is false.
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Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
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Every country has the right to operate a biolab and Ukraine did NOT invade another country. Basic pathology blood test requires a bio lab.
Saddam's Iraq invaded two other countries i.e. Kuwait and Iran.
Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
Did you know Australia has similar security assurances like Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum and Australia does NOT have a NATO Article V level guarantee with the US? From 1950 to the 1960s, Australia detonated nuclear bombs as a joint partner with the UK.
Australia has many Biolabs for agriculture, animal health, human health and 'etc'.
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@Вахтанг-з4д
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden
>Libya
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Every country has the right to operate a biolab and Ukraine did NOT invade another country. Basic pathology blood test requires a bio lab.
Saddam's Iraq invaded two other countries i.e. Kuwait and Iran.
Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
Did you know Australia has similar security assurances like Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum and Australia does NOT have a NATO Article V level guarantee with the US? From 1950 to the 1960s, Australia detonated nuclear bombs as a joint partner with the UK.
Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) with Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom (nuclear-armed state) have no specific commitment to intervene militarily, and the agreement is merely consultative.
Australia has many Biolabs for agriculture, animal health, human health and 'etc'.
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@richardong1421 Against "By your statement that Australia NOT needed for ASEAN plus six, this shows that you are at odds with your geography. It also not a surprising that Australia is much more isolated against Asia now"
That's FALSE. Australia's trade diversification from China is with CPTPP members (including Vietnam, an ASEAN member), India, Thailand (ASEAN member), South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Australia increased trade with the Philippines, an ASEAN member.
China's large-scale dam building has caused drought in Indochina downstream countries and northern India i.e. China indirectly created extra demand for Australia's food exports. LOL
The 2nd "The Quad" = Australia, India, Japan, and Vietnam group.
The 1st "The Quad" = Australia, India, Japan, and USA group.
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1. It's well known China has attempted to encircle Australia via the second Island chain. China has no business in Australia's Oceania backyard.
2. It's well known China's navy ships has surveyed the East Philippines Sea that is a backup route when South China China / West Philippines Sea is blocked by China.
Australia's place in any conflict between the US and China is enforcing Australia's freedom of navigation and keeping its shipping lanes open to support its northern allies.
Refer to Australia-Japan "Defence Supplies and Services" agreement.
Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of Japan concerning Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Australian Defence Force and the Self-Defense Forces of Japan - Sydney, 14 January 2017
Obligations
3.14 The provision of any supplies and services under the proposed Agreement must be carried out in accordance with the Parties’ respective national laws and obligations.
3.15 Article I provides that the reciprocal provision of logistic supplies and services under the proposed Agreement will occur for the purposes of:
exercises and training with participation by both the ADF and the JSDF;
United Nations peacekeeping operations, internationally coordinated peacekeeping and security operations, and humanitarian international relief operations;
operations in response to large scale disasters in Australia, Japan or a third country;
emergency evacuation of Australian or Japanese nationals, or others from third countries;
communication and coordination or other routine activities including visits of ships or aircraft of the ADF or the JSDF;and for other cooperative efforts as mutually determined and permitted under the laws and regulations of the respective Parties (including for unforeseen circumstances or exigencies).
3.16 The inclusion of ‘internationally coordinated peacekeeping and security operations’ as well as enabling the provision of logistic supplies and services for other cooperatively efforts as mutually determined is an expansion of the 2013 Agreement.
3.17 The supplies and services that may be provided under the Agreement are listed in Tabled 3.1 below.
3.18 For the provision of supplies, where possible, the receiving Party must return the supplies in a condition and manner satisfactory to the providing Party. Where supplies cannot be returned in a satisfactory condition or are consumable, the receiving Party must give the providing Party supplies of the same type, quality and quantity. Where neither option is possible, the receiving Party must reimburse the providing Party.
3.19 For the provision of services, the receiving Party may either reimburse the providing Party or provide services of the same type and equivalent value.
3.20 The provision of supplies and services must be carried out in accordance with the Procedural Arrangement as agreed between the Australian Department of Defence and the Japanese Ministry of Defence (Article V). The NIA explains that a new Procedural Arrangement has been concluded however is a less-than-treaty status document. Consequently, the Committee will not have an opportunity to review this supporting document.
3.21 Similarly, disputes between the Australia and Japan must be settled in accordance with the Procedural Arrangement, or otherwise through consultation.
Reasons for implementing proposed treaty action
3.22 As noted above, the proposal to replace the 2013 Agreement was initiated by Japan, which sought to broaden that Agreement to achieve congruence with defence reforms passed by the National Diet in September 2015.
3.23 The NIA states that the expanded scope of the proposed Agreement:
aligns with Australia’s other military logistic support agreements and arrangements and offers Australia the opportunity to further enhance the quality of, and potential for, defence cooperation with Japan, and to broaden the interoperability between the two forces.
3.24 It further asserts that the proposed Agreement is ‘uncontroversial’ and ‘builds on Australia’s existing relationship with Japan in relation to defence matters, and raises no international defence policy issues’.
3.25 If the proposed Agreement were not ratified, Australia’s military logistic relationship with Japan would be out of step with those that Japan has with the United States and the United Kingdom.
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@whymelord5695 UK leaving the EU and joining CPTPP proves freedom of association.
Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
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Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases.
Idiot.
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@RustyBoysGaming >nothing will ever stop the CIA
Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".[8]
You're a hypocrite.
Sorry, the US has entered the same geopolitics as Russian Empire's and Russian-dominated USSR's geopolitics game.
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@garawa1987 News(from ABC NET AU) : Ancient virus lurking in remote Australia, affecting thousands of Aboriginal adults
In a brightly lit lab in the outback town of Alice Springs, researchers have been inspecting vials of blood infected with an ancient virus that has lurked in Australia for thousands of years.
It is called T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1— or HTLV-1 — and Australia has the highest levels in the world.
A distant relative of HIV, it is a blood-borne virus that can be sexually transmitted or passed from mother to child.
The virus can lead to inflammation of the skin, eyes and lungs.
"You're also at risk of developing things like leukemia, so blood cancer, and becoming disabled through spinal cord injuries," researcher Joel Liddle said.
"Once your pro-viral load is high, you're at a high risk of poor health."
Researchers said, in most cases, leukaemia caused by the virus could be "rapidly fatal".
Researchers from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs estimated 45 percent of Indigenous adults in central Australia had HTLV-1 .
"In remote Australia, it's so out of sight, out of mind with a lot of things, health is just one of those things," Mr Liddle said.
One of the difficulties with this virus is that most of those who have HTLV-1, don't know they have it, and a vast number of Aboriginal communities have never been tested.
"I think there's probably confusion and a little bit of anger, too. People [question] why haven't they been told about this," Mr Liddle said.
"There's a lot of reasons to breastfeed. Prolonged breastfeeding may be something that could be addressed but that's up to Aboriginal people to decide."
For Mr Liddle, an Arrernte man, a response to high rates of HTLV-1 demands a delicate approach, with intensive education work delivered in Aboriginal languages.
"I think there's a lot of work to do, certainly I think at the moment, what I see as our main thing is to engage sensitively around the issues because we're dealing with people's health, and all the things and complexities that are going on in remote communities, so we have to be really mindful of that."
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This ancient virus is related to HIV( i.e. HTLV-1) and reduces an adult's life span.
To fix this issue, non-Aboriginal R&D will be needed to cure this ancient issue, promote safe sex culture (i.e. change culture), and practise monogamy (i.e. change culture).
The Aborigines are killing themselves by their own actions.
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@ianenglish123
Both Australia and France has universal health care system.
Australia already has DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)'s universal income idea a.k.a. dole money payment for many years.
Australia already has DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)'s single payer universal health care system idea since the early 1980s.
During TPP negotiations, Australian federal LNP government has standup against Obama-Biden administration's destructive patent policies against Australia's universal health care system.
Australia is closer to western and northern EU countries when compared to the US e.g. Australia has reciprocal universal health care agreements with Belgium, Finland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Ireland, Slovenia, Sweden and United Kingdom.
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For around Nigeria area.
Before British colonization, at the beginning of the 19th century, Usman dan Fodio led a successful jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms founding the centralised Sokoto Caliphate. The empire with Arabic as its official language grew rapidly under his rule and that of his descendants, who sent out invading armies in every direction. The vast landlocked empire connected the east with the western Sudan region and made inroads down south conquering parts of the Oyo Empire (modern-day Kwara), and advanced towards the Yoruba heartland of Ibadan, to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The territory controlled by the empire included much of modern-day northern and central Nigeria. The sultan sent out emirs to establish a suzerainty over the conquered territories and promote Islamic civilization, the emirs in turn became increasingly rich and powerful through trade and slavery. By the 1890s, the largest slave population in the world, about two million, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture.
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Woke professor Yaba Blay is racist herself when She stereotyped a certain racial group. Yaba Blay should direct her BLM BS against the governing party for the Confederate States of America (CSA) i.e. Democratic Party.
Yaba Blay is a racist hypocrite.
The George FLoyd debacle is on county government that governs the local Police service i.e. Democratic Party.
Amy Klobuchar (Democrat) didn't prosecute the officer at the center of George Floyd's death. George Floyd's death was under the Democrat government in Minneapolis and the police department.
Democrats-run city's police department failed to protect private properties that are unrelated to Floyd's death. Leftist BLM didn't focus on governing Democrats. Leftists still vote for Democrats.
For the Australian context, Andrew Fisher's Labor government started the Stolen Generation in 1909.
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@hueym2196 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has been told to drop his government’s controversial nitrogen emissions policy by Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) who stormed to victory in regional elections last week, as the pair met for the first time since the electoral success.
At van der Plas’ invitation, the meeting took place at De Landbouw restaurant in Wassenaar, an affluent suburb of The Hague on Tuesday. The BBB leader urged Rutte to admit defeat on his nitrogen emissions reduction policy which has resulted in nationwide protests among rural communities and propelled van der Plas’ party into amassing the highest number of seats in the Dutch Senate.
“The support in the cabinet has more or less been canceled, and I wanted to know from him how seriously he takes this,” van der Plas told De Telegraaf about the meet.
“I have expressed some serious concerns. Also about the crisis of confidence in the Netherlands, sticking to 2030, and the expropriation of farmers. I told Rutte: just take it out, that will give you peace of mind,” she added.
The BBB leader revealed she would soon be taking her opposition to the Dutch government’s plans to Brussels, telling reporters she will schedule a call with EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans imminently.
“In Europe, the basic rules are laid down. Timmermans has already indicated that there is some movement on how Europe can help the Netherlands get rid of the nitrogen lock. I am now going back to the office to make an appointment with him,” she added.
Rutte offered little to the press following the meeting, claiming the pair had a “good” and “nice conversation.”
The heavy defeat of his four-party coalition government has thrown the emissions plans into jeopardy, and the minor Christian Democratic Appeal has already called for change. Party leader Wopke Hoekstra suggested on Friday his party would propose adjustments to cabinet policy, and on Tuesday morning, party colleague Pieter Heerma also called for a government reversal.
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@duckmanone5435
Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
Look in the mirror.
Your argument about the Minsk Peace Agreements of 2014 is meaningless when Russia executed old-school imperialist land grabbing five Oblast from Ukraine. The peaceful method is to execute targeted refugee policies just as Australia/UK/Canada/NZ did when your fellow BRICS member South African government prosecuted the White farmers.
The US, UK, and Russia signed Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum that traded Ukraine's nuclear weapons for security assurances.
Russia has exited Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
France and China have signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum.
US, UK, and France are "respecting" Ukraine's territorial integrity and support "security assurance" for Ukraine and you can't say the same for Russia.
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FALSE
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html
Human Coronavirus Types
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. There are four main sub-groupings of coronaviruses, known as alpha, beta, gamma, and delta.
Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. The seven coronaviruses that can infect people are:
Common human coronaviruses
229E (alpha coronavirus)
NL63 (alpha coronavirus)
OC43 (beta coronavirus)
HKU1 (beta coronavirus)
Other human coronaviruses
MERS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS)
SARS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS)
SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)
People around the world commonly get infected with human coronaviruses 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1.
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@fitchjoe1865
Against CCP's claim "No proof that COVID-19 originated in Wuhan: Peter Forster"
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/covid-19-genetic-network-analysis-provides-snapshot-of-pandemic-origins
Study charts the 'incipient supernova' of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America
Versions of ‘A’ were seen in Chinese individuals, and Americans reported to have lived in Wuhan, and mutated versions of ‘A’ were found in patients from the USA and Australia.
Wuhan’s major virus type, ‘B’, was prevalent in patients from across East Asia. However, the variant didn’t travel much beyond the region without further mutations – implying a 'founder event' in Wuhan, or 'resistance' against this type of COVID-19 outside East Asia, say researchers.
* CCP's claim "No proof that COVID-19 originated in Wuhanr" is bullshit* .
From https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117 has
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/07/2004999117/F1.large.jpg
Fig. 1.
Phylogenetic network of 160 SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Node A is the root cluster obtained with the bat (R. affinis) coronavirus isolate BatCoVRaTG13 from Yunnan Province. Circle areas are proportional to the number of taxa, and each notch on the links represents a mutated nucleotide position. The sequence range under consideration is 56 to 29,797, with nucleotide position (np) numbering according to the Wuhan 1 reference sequence (8). The median-joining network algorithm (2) and the Steiner algorithm (9) were used, both implemented in the software package Network5011CS (https://www.fluxus-engineering.com/), with the parameter epsilon set to zero, generating this network containing 288 most-parsimonious trees of length 229 mutations. The reticulations are mainly caused by recurrent mutations at np11083. The 161 taxa (160 human viruses and one bat virus) yield 101 distinct genomic sequences. The phylogenetic diagram is available for detailed scrutiny in A0 poster format (SI Appendix, Fig. S5) and in the free Network download files.
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@StealthyyyHD Your facts are FALSE.
Minsk I
By January 2015, the Minsk Protocol ceasefire had completely collapsed. Following the separatist victory at Donetsk International Airport in defiance of the Protocol.
Minsk II
The full text of the agreement is as follows:
1. Immediate and full ceasefire in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine and its strict fulfilment as of 00:00 midnight EET on 15 February 2015.
2. Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance with the aim of creation of a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres (31 mi) apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, and a security zone of 70 kilometres (43 mi) for multiple rocket launchers (MRLS) and 140 kilometres (87 mi) for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch, and Tochka U tactical missile systems:
for Ukrainian troops, from actual line of contact;
for armed formations of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, from the contact line in accordance with the Minsk Memorandum as of 19 September 2014
The pullout of the above-mentioned heavy weapons must start no later than the second day after the start of the ceasefire and finish within 14 days.
This process will be assisted by OSCE with the support of the Trilateral Contact Group.
3. Effective monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pullout of heavy weapons by OSCE will be provided from the first day of pullout, using all necessary technical means such as satellites, drones, radio-location systems etc.
4. On the first day after the pullout a dialogue is to start on modalities of conducting local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation and the Law of Ukraine "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts," and also about the future of these districts based on the above-mentioned law.
Without delays, but no later than 30 days from the date of signing of this document, a resolution has to be approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, indicating the territory which falls under the special regime in accordance with the law "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts," based in the line set up by the Minsk Memorandum as of 19 September 2014.
5. Provide pardon and amnesty by way of enacting a law that forbids persecution and punishment of persons in relation to events that took place in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine.
6. Provide release and exchange of all hostages and illegally held persons, based on the principle of "all for all". This process has to end – at the latest – on the fifth day after the pullout (of weapons).
7. Provide safe access, delivery, storage and distribution of humanitarian aid to the needy, based on an international mechanism.
8. Define the modalities of a full restoration of social and economic connections, including social transfers, such as payments of pensions and other payments (income and revenue, timely payment of communal bills, restoration of tax payments within the framework of Ukrainian legal field).
With this aim, Ukraine will restore management over the segment of its banking system in the districts affected by the conflict, and possibly, an international mechanism will be established to ease such transactions.
9. Restore control of the state border to the Ukrainian government in the whole conflict zone, which has to start on the first day after the local election and end after the full political regulation (local elections in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts based on the law of Ukraine and Constitutional reform) by the end of 2015, on the condition of fulfilment of Point 11 – in consultations and in agreement with representatives of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.
10. Pullout of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, and also mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under OSCE supervision. Disarmament of all illegal groups.
11. Constitutional reform in Ukraine, with a new constitution to come into effect by the end of 2015, the key element of which is decentralisation (taking into account peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, agreed with representatives of these districts), and also approval of permanent legislation on the special status of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in accordance with the measures spelt out in the attached footnote,[note 1] by the end of 2015.
12. Based on the Law of Ukraine "On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts", questions related to local elections will be discussed and agreed upon with representatives of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group. Elections will be held in accordance with relevant OSCE standards and monitored by OSCE/ODIHR.
13. Intensify the work of the Trilateral Contact Group including through the establishment of working groups on the implementation of relevant aspects of the Minsk agreements. They will reflect the composition of the Trilateral Contact Group.
Signatories
The document was signed by:
Separatist's leaders Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky
Swiss diplomat and OSCE representative Heidi Tagliavini
Former president of Ukraine and Ukrainian representative Leonid Kuchma
Russian Ambassador to Ukraine and Russian representative Mikhail Zurabov
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@michaels4255 >Likewise, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico are mostly international waters and certainly not the property of the US, yet the US jealously guards access to these bodies of water
Canada ($1.68 trillion GDP, 2020) and Mexico ($1 trillion GDP) joined CPTPP without the USA.
CPTPP is economically dominated by the CANZUK group ($6.4 trillion GDP, 136 million population) and Japan ($5.1 trillion GDP, 126 million population) in 2019 numbers.
CANZUK group = UK, AUS, CAN, and NZ. UK has passed CPTPP's membership requirements. CANZUK, Singapore, and Japan have an extensive universal health care system.
With the UK, CPTPP has about 567 million population with more than $15.5 trillion GDP that is on par with China.
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@michaels4255 >You need to recognize that Russia has legitimate border security concerns, that it has suffered from major invasions several times in its history,
NATO keeps Germany or France as docile as a shopkeeper.
Germany or France wants the extra space, Canada/United States/Australia/New Zealand/Brazil allows mass immigration from Europe. The US has the largest German ancestry with 43 million population while Germany has 80 million population. Canada/United States/Australia/New Zealand/Brazil has addressed France's and Germany's population concerns.
PS; Brazil's 209 million population is about 50 percent white and 40 percent mixed race. Brazil has a western European ancestry majority. LOL
Germany or France wants a larger common market, US CIA advised European leaders on the United State of Europe project's implementation by stealth, NOT hot wars.
Most Gen X/Y/Z Europeans can speak English, hence setting up for the United State of Europe i.e. the second United States.
The English language is a bending between Romance (e.g. French, Spanish, Latin) and Germanic languages (e.g. German, Dutch, Swedish) that is accepted across the EU e.g. watch Eurovision.
Canada/United States/Australia/Brazil has no problems addressing Germany's population issues.
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@michaels4255 >Most "white" Brazilians are considered mixed race in America.
Brazil has categorised Brancos (white, 47.73%) and Pardos (mixed, 43.13%). Indigenous has 0.43%.
U.S. Census definition
The term "white American" can encompass many different ethnic groups. Although the United States Census purports to reflect a social definition of race, the social dimensions of race are more complex than Census criteria. The 2000 U.S. census states that racial categories "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country. They do not conform to any biological, anthropological or genetic criteria."[23]
The Census Bureau defines White people as follows:
"White" refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race(s) as "White" or reported entries such as German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian.[5]
Brazil's race category is self-identified.
US's "white" reflects a social definition of race and they do not conform to any biological, anthropological or genetic criteria.
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@Jay P >This example will show you how little you people know about the dirty tactics of Australians in Png
That's a red herring.
>Ok Tedi mine the Australian Manager opened a bank account in Singapore in 2013 the balance was 5 Billion and 200 Aussie owned credit cards were living off that account until one of the landowners complained they were not getting their royalties.
Ok Tedi Mining Limited.
The PNG Sustainable Development Program (SDP) was set up after BHP’s exit from the Ok Tedi mine in PNG’s Western Province just over a decade ago i.e. Year 2002.
Essentially, BHP wanted to shut down the mine, the PNG government, however, wanted the mine to continue because it needed the tax revenue. (BHP exits from Ok Tedi Mining Limited from about 2002).
But BHP did not want to give its shares in Ok Tedi to the PNG government because of well-established concerns about corruption and limited capacity within the PNG public sector.
The compromise reached was an agreement that PNG would give its shares to a new trust fund, SDP, which would be registered in Singapore as a public company to be run by a board of directors, some nominated by BHP, the others nominated by a variety of PNG institutions .
SDP was established in 2002. After a third shareholder exited, SDP was left with 63% of Ok Tedi’s shares. The remaining 37% were held by the government.
With last decade’s resource boom, Ok Tedi became much more profitable than had ever been envisaged. It is now PNG’s largest mine and revenue earner. In 2011, it paid K1.2 billion (about $508 million) in tax. The original idea that the mine would close shortly after 2010 has been replaced by a plan to extend mine-life by shifting from open-cut to below-ground mining, which would require new legislation.
SDP’s funds also grew rapidly over the decade. The value of its long-term fund reached $US 1.4 billion in 2012. Its annual development expenditure expanded, making it the second-largest donor in PNG, after AusAID.
There was recurring tension between SDP and the PNG government over the last decade, but Sir Michael Somare had helped negotiate the deal while he was mining minister, so while he was prime minister (from 2002 to 2011) SDP was safe.
Towards the end of 2012, Ross Garnaut, chairman of SDP since its inception, handed over the reins to Sir Mekere Morauta, who, as PM at the establishment of SDP, had also helped negotiate the deal. Comments made by Garnaut at the time about revenue from Ok Tedi (“it’s very tempting for political figures to think of better ways of using it right now rather than putting it into long-term development”) led to the PM banning his entry to the country.
(An aside on another SDP board member: there was a remarkable announcement in the media recently that Jacob Weiss, a former International Monetary Fund employee who helped establish SDP and who served on its board as the Central Bank’s representative for the last 10 years, was stood down earlier in the year by the SDP Board on conflict-of-interest grounds, including his “appointment as the leader of the government team set up to take over PNG SDP’s shares in Ok Tedi”. It doesn’t get much stranger than that.)
It became clear under O’Neill that legislation would only be passed to extend the life of Ok Tedi if SDP exited. Under its new chairman, SDP took a pragmatic and conciliatory approach. At its annual meeting a few months ago, Mekere appeared to acquiesce to its removal from Ok Tedi provided that there was a negotiated agreement, including a “fair and transparent” process.
It seems from press reports that there were some discussions, but evidently agreement could not be reached. And so, after an escalating war of words, O’Neill not only introduced legislation this week, but had it passed by Parliament, all in the same day, to nationalise both Ok Tedi and SDP.
According to reports, some members absented themselves from the vote, including Sir Michael Somare, who spoke against it, but no one voted against it.
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1. In 2002, BHP Billiton completed its withdrawal from the project by transferring its majority shareholding to the PNG Sustainable Development Program.
2. Ok Tedi mine was nationalized in 2013.
3. Dr. Jakob Weiss (the IMF guy), a central banking specialist from the Bank of Israel to head the Economics department at the Bank of PNG.
Unlike you, names were identified and attached.
4. Notice the amount of Australian aid (AusAID) being given to PNG exceeds SDP’s.
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@Blackjack Videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
Jacob Brafman, a Russian Jew from Minsk, had a falling out with agents of the local qahal and consequently turned against Judaism. He subsequently converted to the Russian Orthodox Church and authored polemics against the Talmud and the qahal
You failed with the basics, hence why I used Wiki.
Loser Imperial Purssia (Germany) exported Marx Communism ideology to Russia.
Loser Imperial Russia era exported Protocols of the Elders of Zion like ideology to Germany.
Both Nazi Germany and USSR invaded Poland, hence started WW2.
Any idealogies from loser countries from Germany to Russia are ideological land mines which sets the stage for WW2.
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Talmud
Opposition To The Talmud
Despite the central place of the Talmud in traditional Jewish life and thought, significant Jewish groups and individuals have opposed it vigorously. The Karaite sect in Babylonia, beginning in the 8th century, refuted the oral tradition and denounced the Talmud as a rabbinic fabrication. Medieval Jewish mystics declared the Talmud a mere shell covering the concealed meaning of the written Torah, and heretical messianic sects in the 17th and 18th centuries totally rejected it. The decisive blow to Talmudic authority came in the 18th and 19th centuries when the Haskala (the Jewish Enlightenment movement) and its aftermath, Reform Judaism, secularized Jewish life and, in doing so, shattered the Talmudic wall that had surrounded the Jews. Thereafter, modernized Jews usually rejected the Talmud as a medieval anachronism, denouncing it as legalistic, casuistic, devitalized, and unspiritual.
Reformist Jews dumps Talmud!
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@nobordersnowelfare7285 >Yeah, maybe they got tired of the killings of Russians in Donbas and Luhansk?
Putin's argument on Ukrainians and Russians being one people was debunked when either side enforced their respective languages, the opposite side complains.
Ukraine still allows English language schools. HAHAHAHAH LOL
Is English taught in Russian schools?
Today, foreign language learning has become compulsory in Russia. Students can choose from different language such as German, French and Spanish. Among the other foreign languages taught in Russia, English is the most widely chosen language by Russian students (Kruglyi stol 2007 cited in Proshina 2010).
Hint: EuroVision's English language dominance.
> The thought of Tomahawks 600 km away from Moscow maybe?
The US has rejected Tomahawks' sales to Israel. Besides the micro-nuclear reactor IP access, Australia needs the AUKUS agreement for Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Moscow has placed nuclear missiles next to the EU countries, hypocrite.
Your argument is Russia 1st.
>Ukraines aspirations of NATO-membership?
Unlike Russia's action against Ukraine, Greece has withdrawn from NATO Command when Turkey invaded Cyprus, hence showing freedom of association.
Unlike Russia's action against Ukraine, the UK has exited from EU while on track to join CPTPP, hence showing freedom of association.
Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
Russia started a series of events that lead to Euromaidan.
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@nobordersnowelfare7285 >How about NATOs destruction of Libya, Iraq and Syria?
That's a false equivalence.
Unlike Russia, the US did NOT assimilate Iraq into US federal structure.
>Libya
NATO STOPPED the bloody civil war in Libya.
Putin STARTED the bloody war in Ukraine.
On 16 August 2003, Libya formally admitted responsibility for Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockabie bombing) in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council.
"On 10 March 2011, France was the first country in the world to recognise the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya".
>Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq STARTED the bloody war in Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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@jin446 > See what you have done in Iraq
Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <------- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
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@gboete
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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@chcheese8108
When the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on social media censorship late last month, liberal Democratic congressman Ted Lieu transformed into a hardcore libertarian. “This is a stupid and ridiculous hearing,” he said, because “the First Amendment applies to the government, not private companies.” He added that just as the government cannot tell Fox News what content to air, “we can’t tell Facebook what content to filter,” because that would be unconstitutional.
Lieu is incorrect. While the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict . . . the free flow of information and ideas.”
But as Senator Ted Cruz points out, Congress actually has the power to deter political censorship by social media companies without using government coercion or taking action that would violate the First Amendment, in letter or spirit.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online platforms for their users’ defamatory, fraudulent, or otherwise unlawful content. Congress granted this extraordinary benefit to facilitate “forum[s] for a true diversity of political discourse.”
This exemption from standard libel law is extremely valuable to the companies that enjoy its protection, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but they only got it because it was assumed that they would operate as impartial, open channels of communication—not curators of acceptable opinion.
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@erikthechosenone Hitler has problems with foreign "Jewish" banks. Hitler's argument was framed as racial e.g. Aryan over Slavs, Aryan over Jews.
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (forced savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3%
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%, Don't blame the bloody foreign banks for Germany's crap saving rate, again!
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, EU is promoting the Netherlands as a UK replacement.
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3%
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake.
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Remember, Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum exchanged Ukraine's nuclear WMD for security assurances from US, UK, and Russia. France and China signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum requires Ukraine to join Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as part of Ukraine's nuclear WMD disarmament.
Tucker is ignorant of Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum.
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Hasil Atkins
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347.
AND
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” — Churchill, House of Commons, 22 October 1945.
My argument is for the Goldilock zone i.e. not too hot, not too cold.
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@trumpbuddha1053 >we can invade whoever and whenever we want to, just like the invasion of Iraq, Syria, Libya and the list goes on, as long as they are weaker than us
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <----- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Your knowledge is obsolete.
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@ahrengipperich141
Ukrainian's ethnic groups
Before WW2,
Census 1926
Ukrainians: 80% (23,218,860)
Russian: 9.2% (2,677,166) <------
Census 1939
Ukrainians: 76.5% (23,667,509)
Russian: 13.5% , (4,175,299). Russians flooding into Ukraine.
After WW2.
Census 1989
Ukrainians: 72.7% (37,419,053)
Russian: 22.1% (11,355,582) <------
Census 2001
Ukrainians: 77.5% (37,541,693)
Russian: 17.2% (8,334,141) <------ //Post Soveit Union, Russians heading back to Russian Federation.
Russia slicing Crimea (2.4 million population) from Ukraine has further increased Ukrainian's proportion.
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@gnbilios Your " first preferences to jobs went to Asians" is technically incorrect, for specifics, read https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/in-force/chafta/fact-sheets/Pages/chafta-fact-sheet-movement-of-natural-persons
Specifically, China provides guaranteed access to Australian citizens and permanent residents for the following categories:
# Intra-corporate transferees for up to three years (including executives, managers and specialists);
# Contractual service suppliers, in certain sectors, for one year, or longer if stipulated under the relevant contract;
# Installers and maintainers for up to 180 days; and
Business visitors for up to 180 days.
Furthermore, for the first time in any FTA, China guarantees equivalent entry and stay for dependants and spouses of Australians granted entry as intra-corporate transferees or contractual service suppliers for longer than 12 months.
(while)
Australia provides guaranteed access to Chinese citizens for the following categories:
# Intra-corporate transferees and independent executives for up to four years (including executives, managers and specialists);
# Contractual service suppliers for up to four years; including guaranteed access for up to a combined total of 1,800 per year in four occupations: Chinese chefs, WuShu martial arts coaches, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and Mandarin language tutors (subject to meeting standard immigration requirements);
Installers and servicers for up to 3 months; and
# Business visitors for up to 90 days, or 6 months for business visitors who are service sellers.
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@male princess
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@stephenkolostyak4087
The legality and nature of its control of Taiwan, including the transfer of sovereignty is debated, with the United States and the United Kingdom saying there was no transfer of sovereignty (1,2)
1. The Cairo Declaration was merely a statement of intent. It did not constitute a cession of Taiwan territory to China (US Dept. of State, Jan. 6 - 13, 1951)
2. There was no transfer of the sovereignty of Taiwan to China in 1945. (UK government. February 7, 1955)
On 26 October 1945, the government of the Republic of China declared that Taiwan had become a province of China. The Allied Powers, on the other hand, did not recognize the unilateral declaration of the annexation of Taiwan made by the government of the Republic of China.
In 1949, after losing control of mainland China in the Chinese Civil War, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan where Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law.
The US/UK tolerated KMT due to its alliance with ROC.
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@stephenkolostyak4087
Legality
In accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of San Francisco Peace Treaty, the Japanese formally renounced the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan and Penghu islands, and the treaty was signed in 1951 and came into force in 1952. At the date when the San Francisco Peace Treaty came into force, the political status of Taiwan and Penghu Islands was still uncertain.[358] The Republic of China and Japan signed the Treaty of Taipei on April 28, 1952, and the treaty came into force on August 5, which is considered by some as giving a legal support to the Republic of China's claim to Taiwan as "de jure" territory. The treaty stipulates that all treaties, conventions, and agreements between China and Japan prior to 9 December 1941 were null and void, which according to Hungdah Chiu, abolishes the Treaty of Shimonoseki ceding Taiwan to Japan. The interpretation of Taiwan becoming the Republic of China's '"de jure" territory is supported by several Japanese court decisions such as the 1956 Japan v. Lai Chin Jung case, which stated that Taiwan and the Penghu islands came to belong to the ROC on the date the Treaty of Taipei came into force.[361] Nevertheless, the official position of the Government of Japan is that Japan did not in the Treaty of Taipei express that Taiwan and Penghu belong to the Republic of China,[364] that the Treaty of Taipei could not make any disposition which is in violation of Japan's renouncing Taiwan and Penghu in San Francisco Peace Treaty,[365] and that the status of Taiwan and Penghu remain to be determined by the Allied Powers in the future.
Writing in the American Journal of International Law, professors Jonathan I. Charney and J. R. V. Prescott argued that "none of the post–World War II peace treaties explicitly ceded sovereignty over the covered territories to any specific state or government." The Cairo Conference from November 22–26, 1943 in Cairo, Egypt was held to address the Allied position against Japan during World War II, and to make decisions about postwar Asia. One of the three main clauses of the Cairo Declaration was that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China". According to Taiwan Civil Society quoting the Taiwan Documents Project, the document was merely a statement of intent or non-binding declaration, for possible reference used for those who would draft the post-war peace treaty and that as a press release it was without force of law to transfer sovereignty from Taiwan to the Republic of China. Additional rationale to support this claim is that the Act of Surrender, and SCAP General Order no. 1, authorized the surrender of Japanese forces, not Japanese territories.
In 1952, Winston Churchill said that Taiwan was not under Chinese sovereignty and the Chinese Nationalists did not represent the Chinese state, but that Taiwan was entrusted to the Chinese Nationalists as a military occupation. Churchill called the Cairo Declaration outdated in 1955. The legality of the Cairo Declaration was not recognized by the deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, Anthony Eden, in 1955, who said there was a difference of opinion on which Chinese authority to hand it over to. In 1954, the United States denied that the sovereignty of Taiwan and the Penghu islands had been settled by any treaties, although it acknowledged that the Republic of China effectively controlled Taiwan and Penghu. In the 1960 Sheng v. Rogers case, it was stated that, in the view of the U.S. State Department, no agreement has purported to transfer the sovereignty of Taiwan to the ROC, though it accepted the exercise of Chinese authority over Taiwan and recognized the Government of the Republic of China as the legal government of China at the time.
According to Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, a minority of scholars and politicians have argued that the international status of Taiwan is still undecided, and that this has been used as an argument against the People's Republic of China's claim over Taiwan. They point to President Truman's statement on the pending status of Taiwan in 1950, the lack of specificity on whom the title of Taiwan was transferred to in the 1951 San Francisco peace treaty, and the absence of explicit provisions on the return of Taiwan to China in the 1952 Treaty of Taipei. However Wang notes that this is a weak argument, citing 2 LASSA OPPENHEIMER, INTERNATIONAL LAW, under the principle of effective occupation and control, if nothing is stipulated on conquered territory in the peace treaty, the possessor may annex it. Still, the notion that a possessor may annex a conquered territory despite the peace treaty not stipulating so, was a means of territorial transfer recognized by classical international law, and its legality in recent years is either not recognized or disputed. According to Jian-De Shen, applying such a notion on the Republic of China's territorial claim for Taiwan is invalid because the conqueror of World War II is the whole body of the Allied Powers rather than the Republic of China alone.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensill_Capital
Greensill Capital is another mismanaged company with a toxic debt chain.
Exposure to GFG Alliance
Until its insolvency, Greensill Capital, along with its German subsidiary Greensill Bank, had a significant exposure to GFG Alliance, a group of businesses associated with steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta. The exposure of Lex Greensill's firms to GFG Alliance totalled $5 billion.[26][27] Conversely, GFG Alliance depended heavily on financing by Greensill Capital to conduct its operations.[27] GFG Alliance relied especially on Greensill Capital's future accounts receivables finance program.[27][21] According to the Financial Times, defaults by GFG Alliance are partly responsible for Greensill Capital's ultimate insolvency.[28] On March 8, 2021, Bloomberg reported that GFG Alliance believed it would become insolvent if Greensill collapsed and had defaulted on some of its bonds.[29]
In 2020, the German financial regulator BaFin opened an investigation into Greensill Bank's accounting. In March 2021, BaFin filed a criminal complaint against Greensill Bank and banned activity at the bank.[30][31][32]
Insolvency
In July 2020, a group of insurers led by Tokio Marine, which were insuring $4.6 billion of its working capital, announced to Greensill that it would stop providing the coverage.[19][33] The decision came after Tokio Marine discovered that an employee at one of its subsidiaries had provided coverage that exceeded its risk limits. Greensill tried to obtain an extension of the coverage, including by taking legal action against the insurers, but was ultimately unsuccessful.[33][21] After this failure, Greensill attempted to secure insurance from other firms, but did not succeed.[6]
On March 1, 2021, Credit Suisse froze $10 billion in funds that were invested in Greensill's financial products and held by its supply-chain investment funds.[14][34] According to the Financial Times, "Credit Suisse’s concerns about the funds came to a head because insurance policies covering defaults in a portion of its assets lapsed over the weekend."[34]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Credit Suisse was also concerned with Greensill's large exposure to companies tied to steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta.[14]
In March 2021, Greensill considered filing for insolvency after the Credit Suisse freeze.[35] On March 1, 2021 The Wall Street Journal reported that Greensill appointed Grant Thornton to help it during a possible restructuring or insolvency filing which was expected to happen within a few days.[14]
On March 2, Greensill Capital announced that it was considering selling the operating part of its business, according to a report by Bloomberg News, to Apollo Global Management or an associated firm, Athene Holdings. Greensill Capital stated the firms had a "period of exclusivity with a leading global financial institution with a view to concluding a transaction with them this week," regarding the sale.[36]
On March 12th, it was announced that the deal with Athene had fallen through.[37] The deal collapsed in part due to the low value of Greensill's assets, which were further reduced by the preservation of technology firm Taulia, through a partnership between Taulia, JPMorgan Chase, and other banks.[38][39] Taulia facilitates lending from several finance companies to clients, but counted Greensill as a major source of business. With Greensill's role as a lender through Taulia taken over by JPMorgan, Athene had fewer reasons to acquire Greensill's book of business.
On March 8, 2021, Greensill filed for insolvency protection, as it found itself unable to repay a $140 million loan to Credit Suisse and was "hit by defaults" from Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance, one of its main customers.[2][28]
Lawsuits and repercussions
On March 15, 2021, Bluestone Resources Inc., a coal mining company owned by West Virginia governor Jim Justice, sued Greensill for fraud. It alleges that Greensill departed from standard supply chain finance to engage in a more speculative practice, offering loans not only based on debts that other companies had already incurred, but also based on transactions that Greensill predicted would occur in the future.[40][41]
A number of German towns and cities pulled their money from small, private banks after losing millions of euros in the closure of Greensill.[42]
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@floralcouture3763 TAXI claimed, "due also to all the Mideast wars that DC undertook under instruction from Tel Aviv".
THIS IS FALSE.
It was Saudi Arabia's pressure to remove Saddam.
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
It's NOT about Iraq oil, but Saudi oil.
The US energy independence is important.
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@tracer7898 For Iraq issue
Date: December 2005,
Dutch dealer gets 15 years for chemical sales to Saddam.
A Dutch businessman was yesterday jailed for 15 years after a court in The Hague found him guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq that Saddam Hussein's regime used in lethal gas attacks on Kurdish villages.
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Iraq invaded Kuwait, fool
Sheikhdom of Kuwait BEFORE WW1
Kuwait was founded in 1613 AD as a fishing village known as Grane (Kureyn). The region soon came under the rule of the Bani Khalid Emirate in 1670 after the expulsion of the Ottomans from Eastern Arabia (Lahsa Eyalet) by Barrack bin Ghurayr, Emir of the Bani Khalid, who successfully besieged the Ottoman governor Umar Pasha who surrendered and gave up his rule as the fourth Ottoman governor of al-Hasa.
In 1752, Kuwait became independent after an agreement between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the Emir of Bani Khalid in which Bani Khalid recognised Sabah I bin Jaber's independent rule over Kuwait and in exchange Kuwait would not ally itself or support the enemies of Bani Khalid or interfere in the internal affairs of Bani Khalid in any way.
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Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Try again, fool
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@tracer7898 Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
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@tracer7898 >you never heard of WMD
Date: March 2017
Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government since its formation had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime.
Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.”
Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes.
The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents.
The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward.
The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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@PlaYer-sn5or Against point 3, Your narrative is FALSE.
Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945 excluded Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude.
Order Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945
This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
September 9, 1945
Order of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supplementing the Act of Surrender
9 September 1945
Immediately following the signing of the Act of Surrender ending the war in the China Theatre, General Ho Ying-chen handed Order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang to Lieut. Gen. Okamura Yasutsugu as a supplement to the Act of Surrender.
I. This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
II. The Japanese Commanders surrendering the Japanese forces in the areas named above will issue the following order to and insure compliance of such order by all forces under their command.
1. The Emperor of Japan, the Japanese government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters have recognized complete military defeat of the Japanese military forces by the Allied forces and have surrendered unconditionally all Japanese forces to the Allied Powers.
2. All the Japanese ground, sea, air, and auxiliary forces within China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa and Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, have been surrendered unconditionally to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and henceforth all such surrendered Japanese forces will be subject to the control of the Generalissimo. Their movements and activities will be dictated by him, and they will obey only orders or proclamations issued or authorized by him, or orders of their Japanese commanders based upon his instructions.
3. The surrendered Japanese forces are now non-combatant troops and all hostilities will cease. All such Japanese forces will remain at the stations they now occupy and await further orders from the Generalissimo. They will assemble, preserve without damage, and turn over to forces specified by the Generalissimo all arms, ammunition, equipment, supplies, records, information and assets of any kind belonging to the Japanese forces and auxiliaries.
4. All Japanese aircraft, naval units and merchant ships in the areas named above will be held without damage where they are at present located, except those stated in the Generalissimo’s proclamation No. 1. Boats on the Yangtze will be assembled at Ichang. Explosives aboard vessels will be removed immediately to safe storage ashore.
5. Commanders of the Japanese military units and civilian auxiliaries will maintain discipline and order and will be responsible for the behaviour of their troops. They will see that their forces do not harm or molest inhabitants, or pillage, loot, or bring unauthorized damage to their property.
6. With respect to the United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees in the hands of the Japanese or Japanese controlled authorities:
1. The safety and well being of all United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees will be scrupulously preserved, to include the administrative and supply services essential to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing, and medical care until such responsibility is undertaken by the Generalissimo or his authorized representatives.
2. Each camp or other place of detention of United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees together with its equipment, stores, records, arms, and ammunition will be delivered immediately to the command of the senior officer or designated representative of the prisoners of war and civilian internees.
3. As directed by the Generalissimo, or his duly authorized representatives, prisoners of war and civilian internees will be transported to places of safety where they can be accepted by Allied authorities.
4. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa and Indochina of each of the Japanese military forces and auxiliaries which have surrendered to the Generalissimo will furnish him within time limit of this order, complete lists' of all United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees indicating their location.
7. Pending further orders the Japanese forces surrendered to the Generalissimo will continue to operate their lines of services and supply essential to provide food, clothing, medical and other subsistence supplies to feed and supply their own forces and persons for whom they are responsible.
8. Responsible Japanese or Japanese controlled military and civil authorities will insure that:
1. All Japanese mines and minefields and other obstacles to movement by land, sea, and air, wherever located will be removed according to instructions of the Generalissimo or his representatives.
2. All safety lanes are to be kept open and clearly marked pending accomplishment of the above.
3. All land, water, and air transportation and communications facilities and equipment are to be held intact and maintained in good condition.
4. All military installations and establishment including airfields, seaplane bases, aircraft defences, ports and naval bases, storage depots, permanent and temporary land end coastal fortifications, fortresses, and other fortifications, installations and establishments, all factories, plants, ships, research institutions, laboratories, testing storage depots, permanent and plans, drawings and inventions designed or intended to produce or to facilitate the production on and of all implements of war and other material and property used by or intended for use by military or semi-military organizations in connection with its operations are to be held intact and maintained in good condition.
III. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa, and French Indo-China of the forces which have been surrendered to the Generalissimo within the time limit of the receipt of this order will furnish complete information for their respective areas concerning the following:
1. Lists of all land, air, and anti-aircraft units showing locations and strengths in officers and men.
2. Lists of all aircraft military, naval, and civil, giving complete information as to the number, type, location, and condition of such aircraft.
3. Lists of all Japanese and Japanese controlled naval vessels, surface and submarines and auxiliary naval craft in or out of commission and under construction, giving their position and condition.
4. List of, and position and condition of, all Japanese and Japanese controlled merchant ships of over 100 gross tonnes in or out of commission and under construction, including merchant ships formerly belonging to any of the United Nations which are now in the Japanese hands.
5. Complete and detailed information accompanied by maps, showing locations and layouts of all the mines, minefields, and other obstacles to movement by land, sea, or air, and the safety lanes in connection therewith.
6. Locations and descriptions of all military installations and establishments, including airfields, seaplane bases, anti-aircraft defenses, ports and naval bases, storage depots, permanent and temporary land and coast fortifications, fortresses and other fortified areas.
7. Location of all camps and other places of detention of United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees required under paragraph II F above.
IV. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa, and Indo-China of the forces surrendered to the Generalissimo shall be prepared, on instructions from the occupation commanders representing the Generalissimo to furnish the names and addresses of Japanese civilians residing in their respective areas and to collect and deliver all arms in the possession of such Japanese civilian population. The Headquarters named above will immediately notify all Japanese civilians that until further notice from appropriate authorities representing the Generalissimo they will remain in the vicinity of their present residence and will keep the local Japanese commander advised of their whereabouts.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK
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@marcomongke3116
The Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
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In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
USSR's proxy attempted to remove Chile's check-and-balance Congress system. USSR's proxy attempted to concentrate political power into a single entity (individual and political party).
The US has no problems with the Swedish-style nanny market led-socialism that is practiced in the CANZUK and Nordic groups.
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@craigfrith7024 If you want a small population size and freedom of movement, there's NZ. Move to NZ if you want a small population size.
The largest immigrant group comes from UK. The difference is British immigrants assimilate better than other ethnic groups.
Pauline Hanson made a point on assimilation.
Different cultures have different assimilation rates and results
rediff.com/news/2008/jun/06spec.htm
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Immigrants from India and China are quick to assimilate into the economic fabric of the United States, but are not as quick when it comes to assimilating culturally and in civic matters, a study by Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of public policy studies and economics at Duke University, has found.
Billed as the first annual Index of Immigrant Assimilation, the study measured three types of assimilation: economic (employment, education, homeownership); cultural (intermarriage, English proficiency, family size); and civic (citizenship rates, military service, voting). It then compared the assimilation rates of recent immigrants by country of origin, and found that immigrants from Vietnam, Cuba and the Philippines have the high ratings across the board.
The overall assimilation index for all countries averages out to 28 on a scale of 100, but the index for India is under 20, and China only barely tops the 20 mark. Mexico rates 13 points, while Canada [Images] scores a high 53. "In terms of overall assimilation, immigrants from Mexico and Central America have index values below those of Indians; the index value for India is below that of China," Bridget Sweeny of the Manhattan Institute, a liberal think tank, said.
Immigrants born in Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam have assimilation-index values higher than the national average of 28. 'This report introduces a quantitative index that measures the degree of similarity between native and foreign-born adults. It is the ability to distinguish the latter group from the former that we mean when we use the term assimilation,' the report said.
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@craigfrith7024 UK itself is multicultural since the UK has Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and England. The English language has the echos of past different cultures e.g. Germanic, Latin, French. There are cultures that are compatible with each other.
South Korea has influences from Buddhism and Protestant Christians with Christianity being slightly larger than Buddhism, hence proven peaceful co-existence is shown from the South Korean example. South Korea has a population size of 51.7 million.
About 6.55% of Australia's area is quality agricultural land (7,617,930 km2, ref 1) which is still larger than Japan (377,915 km2), the United Kingdom (242,495 km2) , Indonesia (1,905,000 km2), France (643,801 km2) and the entire European Union (4.476,00 km2)
Reference
1. naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/environment-and-nature/weather-and-climate/habitability-map-australia
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@joshlarson1269 Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes <---- LOL
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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Employees of Greenland Australia, a subsidiary of the Chinese government-backed global property giant Greenland Group, were instructed to put their normal work on hold and source bulk supplies of essential medical items to ship back to China.
CCP sleepers directly interfered with AU medical supplies during 1st wave COVID-19 outbreak.
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CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model), Australia's mandated large-scale savings started in the1980s under the Labor government.
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets!
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model)
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model)
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model)
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@bobbuliniusbotulismus7129 Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
China's anti-foreign Market Access Negative List resulted in Australia's reciprocal investment restrictions.
China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@thomasoloughlin9075 From funding-tracker-who-s-sending-aid-to-ukraine-102887
European Union
The European Union announced two major packages of €330 million ($353 million) and €500 million ($535 million) in humanitarian funding early in the war.
It also co-hosted a pledging summit for Ukraine with the international movement Global Citizen and the Canadian government, at which the EU pledged €600 million to support Ukraine itself, and another €400 million to support other countries that have taken on Ukrainian refugees.
In addition to humanitarian grant funding, the EU has provided several packages of loans and other finance, both directly and through the European Investment Bank.
Meanwhile, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is partially owned by EIB and by the EU and its member countries, has made €2 billion in loan finance available.
United States
The U.S. government has announced several packages of emergency funding for Ukraine, with the latest worth $40 billion, split relatively evenly between military support and humanitarian aid, according to The New York Times. Many details of the spending are still to be fleshed out, and updates will be recorded on Devex’s Funding Platform when more is known about how the humanitarian funding will be channeled.
The Devex Funding Platform also includes other announcements from the U.S. government, including a $1 billion commitment from earlier this year.
United Kingdom
The U.K. has committed a total of £1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) in humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine, according to a government website. It has sent another £2.3 billion of military aid.
Germany
Germany’s leaders have faced criticism for not supplying enough arms to Ukraine and for taking a more cautious approach to the possible defeat of Russia. However, Germany has been relatively generous in supplying aid, with a recent €1 billion grant.
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EU's funding for Ukraine is small when compared to the UK and US. Keep it in context.
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The Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
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In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
USSR's proxy attempted to remove Chile's check-and-balance Congress system. USSR's proxy attempted to concentrate political power into a single entity (individual and political party).
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@kaneidareyue7715 Formosa is not China's Hawaii.
Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945 excluded Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude.
Order Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Supplementing The Act Of Surrender 1945
This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
September 9, 1945
Order of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supplementing the Act of Surrender
9 September 1945
Immediately following the signing of the Act of Surrender ending the war in the China Theatre, General Ho Ying-chen handed Order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang to Lieut. Gen. Okamura Yasutsugu as a supplement to the Act of Surrender.
I. This is order No. 1 of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the Japanese forces in China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa, and French Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, which were surrendered under the act of 9 September 1945. This order supplements the acts of surrender to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and his General Order No. 1.
II. The Japanese Commanders surrendering the Japanese forces in the areas named above will issue the following order to and insure compliance of such order by all forces under their command.
1. The Emperor of Japan, the Japanese government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters have recognized complete military defeat of the Japanese military forces by the Allied forces and have surrendered unconditionally all Japanese forces to the Allied Powers.
2. All the Japanese ground, sea, air, and auxiliary forces within China, excluding Manchuria, Formosa and Indo-China north of 16 degrees of north latitude, have been surrendered unconditionally to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and henceforth all such surrendered Japanese forces will be subject to the control of the Generalissimo. Their movements and activities will be dictated by him, and they will obey only orders or proclamations issued or authorized by him, or orders of their Japanese commanders based upon his instructions.
3. The surrendered Japanese forces are now non-combatant troops and all hostilities will cease. All such Japanese forces will remain at the stations they now occupy and await further orders from the Generalissimo. They will assemble, preserve without damage, and turn over to forces specified by the Generalissimo all arms, ammunition, equipment, supplies, records, information and assets of any kind belonging to the Japanese forces and auxiliaries.
4. All Japanese aircraft, naval units and merchant ships in the areas named above will be held without damage where they are at present located, except those stated in the Generalissimo’s proclamation No. 1. Boats on the Yangtze will be assembled at Ichang. Explosives aboard vessels will be removed immediately to safe storage ashore.
5. Commanders of the Japanese military units and civilian auxiliaries will maintain discipline and order and will be responsible for the behaviour of their troops. They will see that their forces do not harm or molest inhabitants, or pillage, loot, or bring unauthorized damage to their property.
6. With respect to the United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees in the hands of the Japanese or Japanese controlled authorities:
1. The safety and well being of all United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees will be scrupulously preserved, to include the administrative and supply services essential to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing, and medical care until such responsibility is undertaken by the Generalissimo or his authorized representatives.
2. Each camp or other place of detention of United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees together with its equipment, stores, records, arms, and ammunition will be delivered immediately to the command of the senior officer or designated representative of the prisoners of war and civilian internees.
3. As directed by the Generalissimo, or his duly authorized representatives, prisoners of war and civilian internees will be transported to places of safety where they can be accepted by Allied authorities.
4. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa and Indochina of each of the Japanese military forces and auxiliaries which have surrendered to the Generalissimo will furnish him within time limit of this order, complete lists' of all United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees indicating their location.
7. Pending further orders the Japanese forces surrendered to the Generalissimo will continue to operate their lines of services and supply essential to provide food, clothing, medical and other subsistence supplies to feed and supply their own forces and persons for whom they are responsible.
8. Responsible Japanese or Japanese controlled military and civil authorities will insure that:
1. All Japanese mines and minefields and other obstacles to movement by land, sea, and air, wherever located will be removed according to instructions of the Generalissimo or his representatives.
2. All safety lanes are to be kept open and clearly marked pending accomplishment of the above.
3. All land, water, and air transportation and communications facilities and equipment are to be held intact and maintained in good condition.
4. All military installations and establishment including airfields, seaplane bases, aircraft defences, ports and naval bases, storage depots, permanent and temporary land-end coastal fortifications, fortresses, and other fortifications, installations and establishments, all factories, plants, ships, research institutions, laboratories, testing storage depots, permanent and plans, drawings and inventions designed or intended to produce or to facilitate the production on and of all implements of war and other material and property used by or intended for use by military or semi-military organizations in connection with its operations are to be held intact and maintained in good condition.
III. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa, and French Indo-China of the forces which have been surrendered to the Generalissimo within the time limit of the receipt of this order will furnish complete information for their respective areas concerning the following:
1. Lists of all land, air, and anti-aircraft units showing locations and strengths in officers and men.
2. Lists of all aircraft military, naval, and civil, giving complete information as to the number, type, location, and condition of such aircraft.
3. Lists of all Japanese and Japanese controllerd naval vessels, surface and submarines and auxiliary naval craft in or out of commission and under construction, giving their position and condition.
4. List of, and position and condition of, all Japanese and Japanese controlled merchant ships of over 100 gross tonnes in or out of commission and under construction, including merchant ships formerly belonging to any of the United Nations which are now in the Japanese hands.
5. Complete and detailed information accompanied by maps, showing locations and layouts of all the mines, minefields, and other obstacles to movement by land, sea, or air, and the safety lanes in connection therewith.
6. Locations and descriptions of all military installations and establishments, including airfields, seaplane bases, anti-aircraft defenses, ports and naval bases, storage depots, permanent and temporary land and coast fortifications, fortresses and other fortified areas.
7. Location of all camps and other places of detention of United Nations prisoners of war and civilian internees required under paragraph II F above.
IV. The Supreme Headquarters in China, Formosa, and Indo-China of the forces surrendered to the Generalissimo shall be prepared, on instructions from the occupation commanders representing the Generalissimo to furnish the names and addresses of Japanese civilians residing in their respective areas and to collect and deliver all arms in the possession of such Japanese civilian population. The Headquarters named above will immediately notify all Japanese civilians that until further notice from appropriate authorities representing the Generalissimo they will remain in the vicinity of their present residence and will keep the local Japanese commander advised of their whereabouts.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK
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@kaneidareyue7715 >Taiwan though is a Chinese city that was taken by a losing side in a political civil war
When KMT lost the civil war, Taiwan was an American occupation of Japanese Taiwan islands. The US tolerated the KMT government in exile in Taiwan.
There are opposing views on the legality of the KMT takeover of Taiwan. The Chinese Communist government maintains to this day that the Republic of China in Taiwan is a province that must eventually return to rule by the mainland.
According to an article published in 1955 on the legal status of Taiwan, "It has been charged that Chiang Kai-shek has no claim to the island because he is 'merely a fugitive quartering his army' there and besides, his is a government in exile."
Moreover, the Treaty of San Francisco, which was officially signed by 48 nations on 8 September 1951, did not specify to whom Japan was ceding Taiwan and the Pescadores.
Despite this, the ROC was viewed by the vast majority of states at the time as the legitimate representative of China, as it had succeeded the Qing Dynasty, while the PRC was at the time a mostly unrecognized state. Japan was, at the time of the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, still technically under American occupation. After full independence, Japan established full relations with the ROC and not the PRC.
According to Professor Gene Hsiao, "since the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the separate KMT treaty with Japan did not specify to whom Japan was ceding Taiwan and the Pescadores, the implication of the U.S. position was that legally, and insofar as the signatories of those two treaties were concerned, Taiwan became an 'ownerless' island and the KMT, by its own assent to the American policy, a foreign government-in-exile."
Technically, KMT is a foreign government in exile under the American occupation of Japanese Taiwan islands.
President Xi's claims over Taiwan follow Imperial China's imperialist Ten Great Campaigns.
Imperial China's Ten Great Campaigns' Taiwan conquest phase wasn't completed on the eve of the 1894 Sino-Japanese War.
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Before Euromaidan,
Russia, however, has successfully used political and economic leverage to dissuade Ukraine from signing the E.U. deal. In the months prior to the Vilnius summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a trade war with Kiev, blocking nearly all imports from Ukraine and cutting energy supplies to the country. In turn, this reduced Ukrainian exports by 25 percent and shrank the economy by 1.5 percent.
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Victoria Nuland herself doesn't have the power, but about 73% of the MPs—voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" has the power.
Don't assume Ukraine's president has absolute power when 73% of the MPs have voted to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine".
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Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17, disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
According to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's constitution forbids the country from hosting foreign military bases after 2017. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1991, Article 17.
In 2018, President Petro Poroshenko's constitution amendment allowed temporary foreign military bases.
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@foraustralia2558 Reminder
Australia's coastline = 35,877 km
France's coastline = 5,500 km
Scorpène-class submarine with submerged 2,000 tonnes displacement has 550 nmi (1,020 km; 630 mi) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged). Scorpène has 6,500 nmi (12,000 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (NOISY surfaced).
Attack class's displacement is higher due to extra fuel, AIP and battery packs, hence Attack-class has 18,000 nmi (33,000 km; 21,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) NOISY surfaced.
Collins-class submarine with submerged 3,407 tonnes displacement has 480 nmi (890 km; 550 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged. Collins has 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) range at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) periscope depth (semi-NOISY).
Sōryū-class submarine (submerged 4,200 tons displacement) 's AIP endurance (est.): 6100 nautical miles (11297.2 km; 7060.75 miles) at 6.5 knots (12 km/h; 7.48 mp/h). Sōryū-class submarine's AIP is based on Swedish AIP designs.
The submerged range difference between the Scorpène and Collins submarine designs is relatively minor.
Most containerships are designed to travel at speeds around 24 knots.
Attack class submarine will NOT solve silent mode short range and the capability for shadow escort at cargo ship's speed and range.
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@mk1479
In the third clip, a man can be heard explaining the Russian convoy was a few hundred meters away from target when the American forces raised their flag and hit the Russians with a heavy artillery barrage, wiping out the first column instantly. "We got our fucking asses beat rough, the Yankees made their point," he said. "What were they hoping for, that the Yankees are just going to fuck off?... It's bullshit, some people can't even be fucking ID'ed, too many people there."
In another of the clips, a man claims, "There are about 215 fucking killed" on the Russian side.
It has been reported that up to 300 Russians may have died in the strikes. The Kremlin initially denied all reports of Russians being involved in the incident. However, in recent days, Russia's foreign ministry has acknowledged that "several dozen" Russians were killed or wounded.
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Mattis on Russian Mercenaries in Syria: I Ordered Their Annihilation
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@yfelwulf https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/#5dc3f5df73da
Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China It Never Went Away
Promises unkept?
Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has repeatedly insisted that it will live up to those undertakings made on entry. In particular, the use of currency manipulation has been identified by the US as a breech of the commitment to end price controls for the purposes of protecting domestic industries. This became a major political issue from 2005 onwards, and has only recently subsided because it is assumed that the RMB is slightly overvalued on the market. Nevertheless, for years it was deliberate policy for the PBoC to accumulate US Dollars and suppress the exchange rate for the RMB, resulting in exactly the price distortions China had committed to eliminate in 2001, and fuelling an enormous trade surplus with the US, which persists and expands to this day.
Furthermore TRIPS implementation has been given some effect on paper, but has made little progress when it comes to 'enforcement.' This is (according to the WTO) as recently as February 2015, fully 14 years after TRIPS was supposed to be already in effect. The US Trade Representative produces an annual report to Congress on China's WTO compliance which leaves little room to conclude they have so far lived up to their accession commitments. The most recent several-hundred-page document - produced in December 2015 - recites a long list of small measures, committees established, announcements made and new administrative complications faced, all continuing disputes over an agreement theoretically in effect since 2001.
Although, therefore, protectionism is rising around the world, it is also true to say that existing practices of protectionism have not fallen in the way that they should have since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. Because of this lack of progress in easing trade, the extended period of currency manipulation, the lack of observance of TRIPS and the sheer administrative resistance exporters face when trying to get their products into China, we now face of world of highly unbalanced trade, and rising mistrust. And it is this that is leading to rising protectionism; the simple fact that it never went away.
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@yfelwulf Note that China has a "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" which is known as CCP's protectionist list.
CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about Australia's reciprocal protectionist policies e.g. Australian entities can't buy land nor invest in certain sectors such as farming and mining in China, hence a no-brainer when countries imposed reciprocal investment restrictions.
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China Negative List 2020
Category 1: Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries
1. The proportion of Chinese companies in the selection and seed production of new varieties of wheat should not be less than 34%. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the selection and seed production of new varieties of corn.
2. Investment in the development, breeding, cultivation, and production of related reproductive materials (including the good genes of the cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture industries) of rare and unique Chinese varieties is prohibited.
3. It is prohibited to invest in the selection and breeding of genetically modified varieties of crops, livestock and poultry, and the production of genetically modified seeds (seedlings).
4. It is forbidden to invest in the fishing of aquatic products in the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction and inland waters.
Category 2: Mining
5. Investment in rare earth, radioactive minerals, tungsten exploration, mining, and mineral processing is prohibited.
Category 3: Manufacturing
6. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the publishing & printing industry.
7. It is prohibited to invest in the application of traditional Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, such as steaming, frying, roasting and calcining, etc. It is prohibited to invest in the production of traditional Chinese medicine confidential prescription products.
8. The Chinese share of vehicle manufacturing companies should not be less not than 50%, except for the special and new energy vehicles, commercial vehicles. (In 2022 the restriction of foreign share ratio in passenger car manufacturing and the restriction of the same foreign company can establish two or fewer joint ventures in China to produce similar vehicle products will be removed.)
9. It is prohibited to invest in satellite TV broadcast ground receiving facilities and key parts production.
Category 4: Electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply
10. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
Category 5: Wholesale and retail
11. It is prohibited to invest in the wholesale and retail of tobacco leaves, cigarettes, re-baked tobacco leaves, and other tobacco products.
Category 6: Transport, warehousing, and postal services
12. It is required that Chinese companies have a controlling stake in domestic water transport.
13. Chinese public air transport enterprises shall be controlled by the Chinese side and if the proportion of investment by a foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises shall not exceed 25%, the legal representative shall be a Chinese citizen. The legal representative of General airlines must be a Chinese citizen, of which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries airlines shall be limited to joint ventures and other general-purpose airlines shall be limited to Chinese holdings.
14. Chinese companies must have a controlling stake in the construction and operation of civil airports.
15. It is prohibited to invest in the domestic express services provided by postal companies (and to operate postal services) and letters.
Category 7: Information transmission, software, and information technology services
16. Pursuant to China’s commitment to open the telecommunication sector to foreign investment, companies may have a value-added telecommunications business with no more than 50% of the shares belonging to foreign companies (except e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, storage and forwarding categories, call centers). The basic telecommunications business must be controlled by the Chinese partner.
17. It is prohibited to invest in Internet news information services, internet publishing services, network audio-visual program services, Internet cultural operation (except music), and Internet public information services (except for the contents already opened in China’s WTO accession commitments).
Category 8: Leasing and business services
18. It is prohibited to invest in Chinese legal affairs (except for information on the environmental impact of Chinese law), it is prohibited to be partners of domestic law firms.
19. Market research is limited to joint ventures company, and involving radio and television listening and viewing surveys is limited to joint ventures in which the Chinese company owns a controlling stake.
20. Investment in social surveys is prohibited.
Category 9: Scientific research and technology services
21. Investment in human stem cells, gene diagnosis, and therapeutic technology development and application are prohibited.
22. Investment in humanities and social science research institutions is prohibited.
23. It is prohibited to invest in geodesy, marine mapping, surveying and aerial photography, ground movement surveys, administrative area boundary mapping, topographic maps, maps of world political areas, maps of national political areas, maps of provincial and below political areas, national teaching maps, local teaching maps, true 3D maps and navigational electronic maps, regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, environmental geology, geological disasters, remote sensing geology, etc. (Mining owner which working within the scope of mining rights is not restricted by this special management measure.)
Category 10: Education
24. Pre-school, ordinary high schools, and higher education institutions are limited to Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools and shall be controlled by the Chinese side (the principal or principal administrative officer shall have Chinese nationality and live in China. Board members should be Chinese, and the board of directors or joint management committee shall not have a ratio of less than 1/2.
25. Investment in compulsory education institutions and religious educational institutions is prohibited.
Category 11: Health and social work
26. Medical institutions are limited to joint ventures and cooperation.
Category 12: Culture, sports, and entertainment
27. Investment in news organizations (including but not limited to news agencies) is prohibited.
28. Investment in the editing, publication, and production of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products, and electronic publications is prohibited.
29. It is prohibited to invest in radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels, radio and television transmission coverage networks, and related infrastructure(Launch station, relay station, radio, and television satellite, satellite uplink station, satellite receiving, and transferring station, microwave station, monitoring station, and cable radio and television transmission coverage network, etc.). It is prohibited to engage in radio and television video-on-demand services and to install services at satellite television broadcast ground receiving facilities.
30. It is prohibited to invest in the production and operation of radio and television programs (including the introduction of business) companies.
31. It is prohibited to invest in film production companies, distribution companies, cinema chains companies, and film introduction business.
32. Auction companies, cultural relics stores, and state-owned cultural relics museums prohibit investment in auctions of cultural relics.
33. Investment in performing arts groups is prohibited.
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@radiopete7290
Date: 22 Oct 2021
NSW Supreme Court dismisses challenges to vaccine mandates
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has upheld a number of public health orders that require employees of particular industries to be vaccinated against COVID-19, dismissing challenges made by a number of health, aged care, education and construction workers in the State
Background
The spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 caused lengthy lockdowns to be imposed across NSW, and the message conveyed by the NSW Government was that the only way out of lockdown would be through the mass vaccination of the eligible population.
In addition to announcing that only fully vaccinated people would be able to enjoy additional freedoms when the state reopened, Health Minister Brad Hazard (“the Minister”) passed a number of public health orders (“the Orders”) which imposed requirements on workers in the health, aged care, education and construction industries, and additionally on workers that live in a Local Government Area (“LGA”) of concern and leave that LGA to perform authorised work, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 within various timeframes. The Orders require employers of such workers to obtain evidence of their workforce’s vaccination status, and prevent employers from offering work to employees that do not comply with the Orders. The Minister made these Orders under section 7(2) of the Public Health Act 2010 (“the PHA”), which empowers the Minister to make such directions to reduce or remove public health risks and to control movement to and from areas subject to public health risks.
A total of ten workers across the health, aged care, education and construction industries, who had made the choice not to get vaccinated, challenged the validity of the Orders in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (“the Court”). The challenges were heard together, and the Court published its decision in the single judgment of Kassam v Hazzard; Henry v Hazzard [2021] NSWSC 1320 (“the Decision”) on 15 October 2021.
The Orders
In the context of the 107-day lockdown imposed on the Greater Sydney Area and countless regional lockdowns across NSW, the Minister implemented a number of public health orders under the PHA, including the following:
Public Health (COVID-19 Additional Restrictions for Delta Outbreak) Order (No 2) – which provided that an authorised worker that lived in an LGA of concern must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 30 August 2021, and that construction workers must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 23 September 2021;
Public Health (COVID–19 Care Services) Order 2021– which provides that aged care workers must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 17 September 2021, and be fully vaccinated by 31 October 2021;
Public Health (COVID–19 Vaccination of Education and Care Workers) Order 2021 (– which provides that education workers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by 8 November 2021; and
Public Health (COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Care Workers) Order 2021 – which provides that healthcare workers must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 30 September 2021, and be fully vaccinated by 30 November 2021.
While the first of these Orders has now been repealed due to the Government lifting additional restrictions on LGAs of concern, the remainder are still in effect. Each of the Orders require that employers in these industries must collect and maintain a record of the vaccination status of their employees.
Section 10 of the PHA prescribes that it is an offence to fail to comply with a public health order; and penalties for non-compliance include fines of up to $11,000 or six months’ imprisonment for individuals or $55,000 fines for corporations, plus additional fines for repeated non-compliance. This means that both employees and employers that do not comply with the Orders may face punishment.
The Plaintiffs’ Arguments
The plaintiffs that disputed the Orders made a number of arguments as to why they thought the Orders were invalid and should be quashed by the Court. The reasons put forward by the plaintiffs were as follows:
The Minister did not undertake any real exercise of power in making the Orders;
The Orders are an unreasonable exercise of the power of section 7 of the PHA because of the effect on the right to bodily autonomy of workers that did not wish to be vaccinated;
The Orders confer powers on police officers that are inconsistent with the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW);
The Orders, and section 7 of the PHA, must be rendered invalid as they are inconsistent with section 51(xxxiiiA) of the Constitution (which prevents states from creating laws that have the effect of imposing a civil conscription on its citizens);
The Minister failed to have regard to various relevant considerations, and failed to afford the plaintiffs natural justice when introducing the Orders; and/or
The Orders are inconsistent with the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 (Cth) and are therefore invalid under section 109 of the Constitution (which prescribes that any State law which is inconsistent with Federal law shall be invalid).
The plaintiff’s argument was heavily reliant on questioning the appropriateness of vaccinations, and reflected their general objections to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Principally, the plaintiffs contended that the Orders interfere with a person’s right to bodily integrity, and relied on evidence that supported alternative treatments, questioned the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, downplayed the severity of COVID-19, and asserted that COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental”.
The Decision
The Court rejected each argument put forward by the plaintiffs and dismissed the Proceedings. Justice Beech-Jones made the following findings with respect to the plaintiffs’ arguments:
Section 7(2) of the PHA clearly authorises significant limitations on freedom of movement in the context of a public health risk, and the Minister acted within the powers vested by this section;
The Orders do not violate any right to bodily integrity as they do not authorise that anyone be involuntarily vaccinated; rather, they restrict a person’s freedom of movement to varying levels dependent on whether that person is vaccinated or unvaccinated;
The powers vested on police officers with respect to enforcing the Orders are not inconsistent with other State legislation;
The Orders are not inconsistent with any provision of the Constitution;
No duty to afford procedural fairness arose in the circumstances that the Orders were made, as the Orders affect a very wide class of persons; and
The Orders are not inconsistent with any provision of Federal legislation.
His Honour further noted that it was not the role of the Court to “conclusively resolve legitimate debates concerning the appropriate treatments for COVID-19 or the effectiveness of the vaccines”, and that such considerations are “matters of merits, policy and fact for the decision-maker” – in this case the Minister. As such, the plaintiffs’ evidence that generally questioned the efficacy and utility of COVID-19 vaccines was of little relevance to the Decision.
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Again, prove your argument in court in front of the judge!
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@mustafahakim1298 >What about Iraq Syria or even Iran strike operation? Still better from Greece?
For F-35A's internal tanks
From Greece's military bases, the US can interdict Aegean and Mediterranean sea access.
From Cyprus UK military bases, the US can interdict the whole of Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and reach Bahrain.
From Bahrain's military bases, the US can interdict the whole of Iran.
From UAE's military bases, the US can interdict half of Afghanistan.
Israel is developing external tanks for the F-35.
>Also the F35 has well over 800 major bugs in it
That's a bad stereotype, F-35 program has three versions. Most of the bugs are attributed to the less matured B and C models, and USAF doesn't operate B and C models.
From May 3, 2022, GAO’s Latest Report On The F-35 Fighter Acquisition Program Finds No Major Problems
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Australia's One China policy is based on Jim Carter's One China policy.
Q1: What is the U.S. “One China” policy? Why does it exist?
A1: When the United States moved to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and de-recognize the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, the United States stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China was “the sole legal Government of China.” Sole, meaning the PRC was and is the only China, with no consideration of the ROC as a separate sovereign entity.
The United States did not, however, give in to Chinese demands that it recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan (which is the name preferred by the United States since it opted to de-recognize the ROC).
Instead, Washington acknowledged the Chinese position that Taiwan was part of China. For geopolitical reasons, both the United States and the PRC were willing to go forward with diplomatic recognition despite their differences on this matter.
When China attempted to change the Chinese text from the original acknowledge to recognize, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a Senate hearing questioner, “[W]e regard the English text as being the binding text. We regard the word ‘acknowledge’ as being the word that is determinative for the U.S.” In the August 17, 1982, U.S.-China Communique, the United States went one step further, stating that it had no intention of pursuing a policy of “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan.”
Q2: What is the U.S. position on who has sovereignty over Taiwan?
A2: In the San Francisco Treaty of Peace of 1951, Japan renounced “all right, title and claim to Formosa and the Pescadores.” Neither the Republic of China nor the People’s Republic of China were parties to the treaty, and thus neither was declared a beneficiary of the Japanese renouncement.
While President Richard Nixon’s private notes show him willing to recognize the status of Taiwan as determined and part of China, subsequent U.S. documents and statements show the United States as having no position on the Taiwan sovereignty question.
The U.S. position regarding sovereignty over Taiwan remains steady and consistent with its “one China policy”: both sides of the Taiwan Strait should mutually and peacefully agree to a resolution of this as yet unsettled issue. The United States doesn’t agree with Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, nor does it agree with Taipei that the ROC is an independent, sovereign state.
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VFacts December 2023
TOP 10 CARS IN FULL-YEAR 2023
Rank Model Volume Full-Year 2023 Change year-on-year
1 Ford Ranger 63,356 up 33.4 percent
2 Toyota HiLux 61,111 down 5.1 percent
3 Isuzu D-Max 31,202 up 28.2 percent
4 Toyota RAV4 29,627 down 15 percent
5 MG ZS 29,258 up 30.2 percent
6 Tesla Model Y 28,769 up 230 percent
7 Mitsubishi Outlander 24,263 up 24.1 percent
8 Mazda CX-5 23,083 down 14.7 percent
9 Hyundai Tucson 21,224 up 18.8 per cent
10 Toyota Prado 20,710 down 1.9 per cent
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Herbert Snorrason, a 25-year-old Icelandic university student, resigned after he challenged Assange on his decision to suspend Domscheit-Berg and was bluntly rebuked.[49] Iceland MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir also left WikiLeaks, citing lack of transparency, lack of structure, and poor communication flow in the organisation.[377] According to the British newspaper, The Independent, at least a dozen key supporters of WikiLeaks left the website during 2010.[378]
Non-disclosure agreements
Those working for WikiLeaks are reportedly required to sign sweeping non-disclosure agreements covering all conversations, conduct, and material, with Assange having sole power over disclosure.[379] The penalty for non-compliance in one such agreement was reportedly £12 million.[379] WikiLeaks has been challenged for this practice, as it is seen to be hypocritical for an organisation dedicated to transparency to limit the transparency of its inner workings and limit the accountability of powerful individuals in the organisation
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@tonyatgoogle6076
https://www.law.columbia.edu/node/5344/beyond-ownership-state-capitalism-and-chinese-firm-curtis-j-milhaupt-and-wentong-zheng
For some mixed-ownership firms, classifying their ownership type is difficult also because of the way they are managed. A prominent example is ZTE Corporation (ZTE), China’s second largest telecommunication equipment manufacturer and the subject of a U.S. House Committee investigation in 2012. ZTE’s shares are listed on both the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. ZTE’s largest shareholder is ZTE Holdings, which owns 30.76% of ZTE’s shares (see Fig. 1).[9] Under both Chinese and Hong Kong law, 30% is the point at which a shareholder is considered to have acquired a large enough stake to trigger a mandatory tender offer requirement. The shares of ZTE Holdings, in turn, are held by Xi’an Microelectronics (34%), Aerospace Guangyu (17%), and Zhongxing WXT (49%). Xi’an Micro Electronics and Aerospace Guangyu are both SOEs. State-owned entities, therefore, control 51% of ZTE Holdings.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/how-private-is-private-in-china-/news-story/d1496a69b87fdc6a7682cf91c0ae906a
One other point is that Chinese private companies are very sensitive to popular nationalistic sentiment on issues – often stirred up by the authorities – and in some cases may also genuinely share the same views as Beijing. It was revealing, for example, how many of China’s leading ‘private’ technology companies, Baidu and Tencent, late last year took a very public stance in favour of China’s ownership of the contested Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Clearly leading Chinese private hi-tech companies are not averse to taking actions in support of the stance of Beijing that go beyond pure commercial decision-making.
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@tonyatgoogle6076
https://www.heritage.org/middle-east/commentary/uncomfortable-truths-explaining-away-iraqs-real-wmd
Saddam used chemical weapons late in the Iran-Iraq war. In March 1988, he used them against his own people, killing up to 5,000 Iraqi Kurds. The U.N. Security Council passed numerous resolutions documenting the legal case against Iraq over WMD. On April 3, 1991, the Security Council passed Resolution 687, requiring Iraq to destroy all of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and missiles that could deliver them. The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was established to ensure Iraq’s compliance.
Fast-forward to 2002 and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, negotiated by the Bush administration. It “deplored” the fact that Iraq still had not provided “accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure” of its weapons programs as required by Resolution 687
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@tonyatgoogle6076
https://itif.org/publications/2020/06/22/how-chinas-mercantilist-policies-have-undermined-global-innovation-telecom
What did Huawei do to become the largest telecommunications equipment firm, and how did it and ZTE’s rise affect non-Chinese companies, particularly in Europe and North America? In examining the rise of Huawei and ZTE, the answer is clear: Without innovation mercantilist policies, Huawei and ZTE would not exist, or at best would be minor niche players, even in the China market. Indeed, as Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei himself admitted in 2002, without Beijing’s policy of protecting Chinese companies from aggressive foreign competition at home, “Huawei would no longer exist.”17 And if Huawei did not exist, Nortel and possibly Lucent would certainly still be in existence today, and Ericsson and Nokia would have greater market shares.
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@tonyatgoogle6076
China would not have been so wealthy if it hasn't been killing and looting from the other non-Han kingdoms.
Read https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/iraqs-oil-exports-to-china-up-27-5-during-first-half-of-2020/
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-27-at-11.21.07-PM.png
Iraq's top oil exports countries from Jan to Jun 2020
1st, China! 29 million tonnes
2nd, India, 23 million tonnes
3rd, EU, 8 million tonnes
4th, South Korea, 6 million tonnes
5th, Turkey, 4 million tonnes with an upwards trend
5th, USA, 4 million tonnes with a downwards trend
Your knowledge is obsolete. LOL
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From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state saving funds) vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member, Nordic model), Australia's mandated large-scale savings started in the the1980s under the Labor government.
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member, Nordic model)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Large-scale mandated savings funds enable the government to issue government bonds and large-scale bond buyer markets!
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3% (Nordic model)
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%, (Nordic model)
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3% (Nordic model)
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@leighmoom5277 Your "Moratorium means suspension, not cancellation." argument is a red herring.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/covid-19-genetic-network-analysis-provides-snapshot-of-pandemic-origins
Study charts the 'incipient supernova' of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America
Versions of ‘A’ were seen in Chinese individuals, and Americans reported to have lived in Wuhan, and mutated versions of ‘A’ were found in patients from the USA and Australia.
Wuhan’s major virus type, ‘B’, was prevalent in patients from across East Asia. However, the variant didn’t travel much beyond the region without further mutations – implying a 'founder event' in Wuhan, or 'resistance' against this type of COVID-19 outside East Asia, say researchers.
From https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117 has
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/04/07/2004999117/F1.large.jpg
Fig. 1.
Phylogenetic network of 160 SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Node A is the root cluster obtained with the bat (R. affinis) coronavirus isolate BatCoVRaTG13 from Yunnan Province. Circle areas are proportional to the number of taxa, and each notch on the links represents a mutated nucleotide position. The sequence range under consideration is 56 to 29,797, with nucleotide position (np) numbering according to the Wuhan 1 reference sequence (8). The median-joining network algorithm (2) and the Steiner algorithm (9) were used, both implemented in the software package Network5011CS (https://www.fluxus-engineering.com/), with the parameter epsilon set to zero, generating this network containing 288 most-parsimonious trees of length 229 mutations. The reticulations are mainly caused by recurrent mutations at np11083. The 161 taxa (160 human viruses and one bat virus) yield 101 distinct genomic sequences. The phylogenetic diagram is available for detailed scrutiny in A0 poster format (SI Appendix, Fig. S5) and in the free Network download files.
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