Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. Both China and Russia are the two surviving "old world" imperial empires that largely preserved their imperial land territories. China and Russia think that communism clean slate of their imperialist colonial past.
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  2.  @bpd8426  Putin is the best salesman for NATO.
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  3.  @zharkoo  Soviet armed Iraq invaded Kuwait. Soviet-armed Libya invaded Chad (the infamous Toyota pickup trucks with US anti-tank missiles against Libya's Soviet-made battle tank wars).
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  4.  @iceteazen  At the lowest point in the Philippines and the US relationship, the Philippines lost territory to China. Feelings are useless without firepower to back them. China's action on Mischief Reef started around 1995, shortly after the US navy left Clark airbase in Subic.
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  5.  @zharkoo  You can't handle the truth.
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  6.  @zharkoo  For invading Kuwait, Iraq used Soviet-made combat aircrafts and main battle tanks. Your narrative is FALSE.
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  7.  @kongwee1978  "The IMF offers various types of loans that are tailored to countries' different needs and specific circumstances. Loans to low-income countries carry a zero interest rate" - IMF
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  8.  @zharkoo  The Chile example, USSR supported its Cuban proxy which in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. 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. 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. Look in the mirror.
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  9. ​ @zharkoo  Saddam's Iraq does NOT operate US's M60, M1/M1A1, F-4, F5, F-7, F-14, F15 , F-16 and F/A-18. Your narrative is FALSE. Saddam's Iraqi military hardware platforms are mostly Soviet designs. Su-7BKL Su-20 Su-22R Su-22M2 Su-22M3 Su-22UM3 Su-22M4 Su-24MK Su-25K/UBK MiG-19C/Shenyang J-6 (China) MiG-21MF/bis MiG-23BN MiG-23ML MiG-23MF MiG-23MS MiG-23UM MiG-25U MiG-25RB MiG-25PD/PDS/PU/R MiG-29A MiG-29UB Tu-16/KSR-2-11 Tu-22B/U Xian H-6D (China) An-26 (Ukraine) Ilyushin Il-76 Mirage F1EQ/BQ (France) Mil Mi-8 Iraqi chemical WMD ware supplied by Europeans e.g. On 24 April 2013, the district court of The Hague sentenced Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat to payment of damages to the victims of mustard-gas attacks in Iraq and Iran in the 1980s. _Date: December 25, 2005 from Taipei times A dutch businessman was given 15 years in jail for his role in supplying the chemicals used to create the poison gas which killed 5,000 kurds in Iraq In the first trial involving the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons, a Dutch court on Friday sentenced a supplier of the weapon ingredients to 15 years in jail. The judges convicted Frans van Anraat, 63, a Dutch businessman, of complicity in war crimes because they said he had known that the materials he sold to Iraq during the rule of former president Saddam Hussein could be used to make lethal poison gas. Your narrative is FALSE.
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  10.  @zharkoo  Look in the mirror, your nation plays for keeps.
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  11.  @jliang70  >And what about loan provided by Black Rock, HSBC, Allianz, UBS Warbug Defaulting on western foreign commercial bank loans does NOT result in a foreign government controlling the debted country's shipping ports. Your argument is a red herring.
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  12.  @sbkarajan  The so-called German luxury brand's lower-cost SKUs are being used as taxis in Germany. Your perspective is like a non-German.
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  13.  @sbkarajan  That's a flawed argument when German vehicle luxury brands face serious competition from other luxury brands in the US. For example, "Tesla Takes Top Spot in US Luxury Car Sales, Dethroning BMW." in 2022.
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  14. ​ @Birdylockso The Miami condo that collapsed in 2021 is a 40-year-old building. The Florida legislature passed condo reform legislation in a May 2022 special session addressing issues highlighted in the aftermath of the Surfside collapse. The bill creates a state-wide inspection program for condo buildings taller than three stories. Starting in 2025, the buildings will go through a "milestone inspection" certification process when reaching 30 years of age, or 25 years if the building is located within three miles of the coast, and will be inspected again every 10 years afterward. The inspection records must be posted online and shared with tenants, and condo associations will no longer be able to waive the requirement that they keep a reserve fund large enough to maintain the structural integrity of the building.
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  15.  @jliang70  From Lowy Institute, you missed "China’s problematic lending comes home to roost" by Robert Wihtol, Dated November 2020.
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  16. 737 Max is based on 737 NG. The MCAS workaround is due 737 Max's legacy 737 design coupled with the larger diameter engine upgrades. Because the CFM International LEAP engine used on the 737 MAX was larger and mounted further forward from the wing and higher off the ground than on previous generations of the 737, Boeing discovered that the aircraft had a tendency to push the nose up when operating in a specific portion of the flight envelope (flaps up, high angle of attack, manual flight). MCAS was intended to mimic the flight behavior of the previous Boeing 737 Next Generation. 737 Max should be re-designed for larger engines.
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  17. Brazil is bulding it's 1st SSN with French technical aid.
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  18.  @shovel662  That's India's problem i.e. I don't care.
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  19.  @luisponceart  Don't invade Canada. It's a lesson for the US.
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  20. ​ @jliang70  Shahar Hameiri's article is nothing when the new Sri Lankan government is investigating a Chinese firm on suspicion of offering a bribe to Mahinda Rajapaksa. Lowy is just a publishing platform.
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  21.  @jliang70  From Lowy Institute, you missed "China’s problematic lending comes home to roost" by Robert Wihtol, Dated November 2020. Citing "Lowy Institute" to debunk my comments is flawed.
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  22.  @victorluke5816  To quote a certain Chinese-designed game, "Fantasy can only survive with an underlying reality". At the lowest point in the Philippines and the US relationship, the Philippines lost territory to China. Feelings are useless without firepower to back them. China's action on Mischief Reef started around 1995, shortly after the US navy left Clark airbase in Subic. Feelings are useless without the firepower back them. President Xi's historical argument follows Imperial China's Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) imperialist direction. History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.
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  23. The Philippines' minimal armed approach doesn't work. Geopolitics has reverted back to old school "might is right".
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  24. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has confirmed the transfer after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that the United Kingdom would be transferring Challenger II Tanks to Poland to replace the T-72s.
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  25. Philippines' disarmed virtue signal approach didn't work.
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  26. President XI's historical arguments effectively are a continuation of Imperial China's Silk Road (known Belt-n-Road) and The Ten Great Campaigns. The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796). They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Inner Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–1757) and the "pacification" of Xinjiang (1758–1759). The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress the Gyalrong of Jinchuan, Sichuan, another to suppress the Taiwanese Aboriginals (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the Gurkhas on the border between Tibet and Nepal (1790–1792), with the last counting as two. ----- "There's nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9. "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." Mark Twain.
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  27.  INDIA SUPER CLEAN 🇮🇳  Fukoff then.
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  28.  @zharkoo  President XI's historical arguments effectively are a continuation of Imperial China's Silk Road (known Belt-n-Road) and The Ten Great Campaigns. The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796). They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Inner Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–1757) and the "pacification" of Xinjiang (1758–1759). The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress the Gyalrong of Jinchuan, Sichuan, another to suppress the Taiwanese Aboriginals (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the Gurkhas on the border between Tibet and Nepal (1790–1792), with the last counting as two. ----- "There's nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9. "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." Mark Twain.
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  29.  @zharkoo  China has an anti-foreign "Negative List of Market Access Restricted: Sector-wise items" protectionist policy. CCP is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about other countries implementing reciprocal policies.
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  30.  @zharkoo  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. You missed the small detail in Ukraine's Constitution 1996, Article 17 which 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. 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. These "old world" issues existed before the US being a superpower. Both China and Russia are the two surviving "old world" imperial empires that largely preserved their imperial land territories. China and Russia think that communism clean slate of their imperialist colonial past. You can't handle the truth.
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  31.  @zharkoo  CPC's land reform is fake since it did NOT transfer land titles to families. 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 Douglas Macarthur's land reform 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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  32.  @anuvisraa5786  FALSE. 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. 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 countries.
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  33.  @anuvisraa5786  The US participation in Iraq's WMD program is less than the aforementioned European countries. On 24 April 2013, the district court of The Hague sentenced Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat to payment of damages to the victims of mustard-gas attacks in Iraq and Iran in the 1980s. The European court system will impose penalties on European entities who supported Saddam's WMD program.
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  34.  @maolo76  12 nautical miles (22 km or 14 miles) = Territorial waters. 24 nautical miles (44.4 km; 27.6 miles) = Contiguous zone. 200 nautical miles = Exclusive Economic Zone. A nautical mile is slightly longer than a mile on land, equaling 1.1508 land-measured (or statute) miles.
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  35.  @sbkarajan  >US directly invaded Iraq and Libya and Panama, Syria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc, etc. Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq's territorial integrity was kept intact despite Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The sphere of influence agreement between the US and the USSR is trashed after the Korean war. Afghanistan harbored Twin Towers attackers. Afghanistan's territorial integrity was kept intact. Libya invaded Chad. Fact: Ukraine's territorial integrity was wreaked by Russia.
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  36.  @pmpowalisz  The period of the American government over the Philippines was just 48 years and part of it was delayed by WW2. Your narrative is false. President XI's historical arguments effectively are a continuation of Imperial China's Silk Road (known Belt-n-Road) and The Ten Great Campaigns. The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796). They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Inner Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–1757) and the "pacification" of Xinjiang (1758–1759). The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress the Gyalrong of Jinchuan, Sichuan, another to suppress the Taiwanese Aboriginals (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the Gurkhas on the border between Tibet and Nepal (1790–1792), with the last counting as two. ----- "There's nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9. "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." Mark Twain.
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  37. 1992.... The Philippines government are naive fool. The old-school "might is right" is real.
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  38.  @zadovrus1624  The Philippines and China are already at a "grey zone" war with each other.
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  39.  @zadovrus1624  Wrong, China 2025 has large-scale state subsidies, state ownerships, and system privileges for "national champions".
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  40.  @kongwee1978  From Nikkei How do Chinese loans compare with others? By 2020, Sri Lanka's inability to honor maturing external debts was looming. The International Monetary Fund put the island's foreign debt at $38.6 billion, or 47.6% of the central government's total debt. China's slice was 10%, as was Japan's, placing the leading bilateral lenders after the main foreign creditors, international sovereign bondholders and the Asian Development Bank. But the cost of borrowing from China set that debt apart. Numbers crunched by Verite Research, a Colombo-based think tank, show that the interest rates on Chinese loans averaged 3.3%, versus 0.7% for Japan's. And the maturity period averaged 18 years for Chinese debt, shorter than India's 24 years and Japan's 34 years. None of this hindered the Rajapaksas' appetite for Chinese credit, opening the door for the Asian powerhouse to fund over a third of 313 debt-funded projects in post-conflict Sri Lanka.
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  41.  @tnh723  COVID-19 has wreaked Trump's presidency.
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  42.  @iceteazen  The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing dynasty of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796). They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Inner Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–1757) and the "pacification" of Xinjiang (1758–1759). The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress the Gyalrong of Jinchuan, Sichuan, another to suppress the Taiwanese Aboriginals (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the Gurkhas on the border between Tibet and Nepal (1790–1792), with the last counting as two. Imperial China is an imperialist power that led to the engagement with European imperialist empires. President Xi's argument is based on historical Imperial China's Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: Shíquán Wǔgōng).
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  43.  @kongwee1978  >That is in Yen, not USD. That's a red herring. .
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  44.  @jliang70  Lowyinstitute's debunking-myth-china-s-debt-trap-diplomacy article didn't factor in Sri Lankan' new government is investigating a Chinese firm on suspicion of offering a bribe to Mahinda Rajapaksa'. History: 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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  45.  @jliang70  Did you assume I wasn't aware Lowy and specifically, the author of Debunking the myth of China’s “debt-trap diplomacy” article is Shahar Hameiri from the University of Queensland? Peter_Høj joined Hanban (Council of Confucius Institute Headquarter) as an unpaid senior consultant in 2013 and was later appointed a member of the governing council of Confucius Institute Headquarters in 2017. He stood down in late 2018 from his position due to legal advice surrounding his required signing of Australia's new Foreign Interference Transparency Scheme. Høj’s involvement with the Institute was seen as controversial after a Four Corners investigation by the ABC found that the Chinese government and the UQ Confucius Institute had co-funded four University of Queensland courses. Furthermore a separate investigation by Four Corner’s highlighted that the Confucius Institute had been involved with honorary staff appointments and curriculum development at the University of Queensland. In May 2019 the UQ senate ceased accepting funding from the Confucius Institute. When interviewed about the situation Høj explained, "having courses concerning China is totally appropriate". He further said "It's very appropriate for universities such as ours to educate our students about Chinese politics, Chinese economics because we live in a region where China will be the largest economy in the world very soon, the largest trading partner for Australia". When questioned on the institute's involvement he said,"Is it appropriate that a Confucius Institute devises courses? No, it's not, but they don't. They're not involved in the design of the course. They're not involved in the delivery.”. The investigation interviewed Ross Babbage, senior security adviser to the federal government, and Clive Hamilton, an academic who focuses primarily on the interference of the Chinese Communist Party at Australian universities, both suggested a review into the universities' relationship with the institute. Furthermore Høj, when asked if he was influenced by the Chinese Communist party during his time at the Confucius Institute, said, "I'm very confident that I haven't been influenced."[12]
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  46.  @jliang70  It's not "Lowy Institute", it's a particular author from the University of Queensland.
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  47.  @jliang70  Peter_Høj has been removed from his Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Queensland on 31 July 2020 after having announced his resignation in May 2019.
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  48.  @kongwee1978  G7 Approves Japan’s Cryptocurrency-Based SWIFT Alternative
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  49.  @kongwee1978  That's a red herring.
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  50.  @jliang70  You have forgotten the maturity date factor. By 2020, Sri Lanka's inability to honor maturing external debts was looming. The International Monetary Fund put the island's foreign debt at $38.6 billion, or 47.6% of the central government's total debt. China's slice was 10%, as was Japan's, placing the leading bilateral lenders after the main foreign creditors, international sovereign bondholders, and the Asian Development Bank. But the cost of borrowing from China set that debt apart. Numbers crunched by Verite Research, a Colombo-based think tank, show that the interest rates on Chinese loans averaged 3.3%, versus 0.7% for Japan's. And the maturity period averaged 18 years for Chinese debt, shorter than India's 24 years and Japan's 34 years. None of this hindered the Rajapaksas' appetite for Chinese credit, opening the door for the Asian powerhouse to fund over a third of 313 debt-funded projects in post-conflict Sri Lanka.
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