Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "VisualPolitik EN"
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@antoniomromo
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.
>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.
>Iraq
Facts: Iraq started the hot war against Kuwait.
Iraq attempted to annex Kuwait. If a country attempted to annex another country, the invading country that attempted to enlarge its territory (expansionist nationalism) should be prepared to be annexed by another country. Don't cry to me about moral superiority when Iraq doesn't have this position in the first place!
If you can't handle the heat, don't start a hot war in the 1st place.
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>Poland is the only European country that never fell asleep concerning the Russians.
Poland is not the only European country that never fell asleep concerning the Russians e.g. Finland (e.g. conscripted army), the United Kingdom (i.e. nuclear weapons existence is against Russians, domestic military-industrial complex for producing warships, nuclear attack submarines, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, aircraft carriers/flat top LHDs, and Eurofighter Typhoon), Sweden (e.g. strong domestic military-industrial complex such as AT4, Saab's Viggen, and Gripen fighter aircraft, Kockums submarines).
Besides the United States, the United Kingdom or France can retaliate causing the end of mass life in Russia.
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@driesherreman6894
U.S. interventions in the Middle East area started from First Barbary War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
Conflict: U.S.A vs Islamic Ottoman Empire. U.S. is joined by the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Sweden
Goals: Stopping Ottoman's slavery on US trade.
Both Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Sweden have pre-existing conflicts against the Ottoman Empire's slaving Europeans.
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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.[25]
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This is an existing "old world" issue.
The 1st Barbary War leads to the U.S creating the Department of Navy, anti-slavery direction, and infamous freedom of navigation foreign policy.
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@jasonm949 >How many countries has the US invaded vs Germany?
>Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden's group executed multiple strikes inside the US.
>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.
The US supported France's, Lebanon's, and the United Kingdom's United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
Muammar Gaddafi played stupid games and win stupid prizes.
>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 <---- note the 1992 year.
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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@claudiopereira9900 Against "Russia invaded the territory of Poland, the Polish government in exile agreed" claim.
This is false.
The Polish government in exile, Mikołajczyk and his colleagues in the Polish government-in-exile insisted on making a stand in the defense of Poland's pre-1939 eastern border (retaining its Kresy region) as a basis for the future Polish-Soviet border.
Churchill is a realist who didn't support Mikołajczyk's demands since the UK is unable to fight a war on two fronts. The fight against USSR was inherited by the post-WW2 superpower US. After WW2 and the creation of the Five Eyes alliance, the US inherited most of the UK's foreign policy positions e.g. alliance with Saudi Arabia, and distrust of the Russians.
After WW2, exiled Polish government continued its struggles against USSR until the fall of the USSR.
In December 1990, when Lech Wałęsa became the first non-Communist president of Poland since the war, he received the symbols of the Polish Republic (the presidential banner, the presidential and state seals, the presidential sashes, and the original text of the 1935 Constitution) from the last president of the government in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski. In 1992, military medals and other decorations awarded by the government in exile were officially recognized in Poland.
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@matejtanko5117 Non-NATO Finland has Israeli design strike weapons with a 400 km range. Finland has PTSD against Russia. Perhaps Finland should buy Israel's Popeye Turbo SLCM with a 1500 km range. As long Russia sells missile tech to Israel's opponents, Israel will keep selling its missile tech to Eastern European countries.
Unlike in 1956, Israel is a nuclear-armed state.
Note the existence of independent nuclear weapons from US allies such as the UK, France, and Israel. The trigger is the 1956 Suez Canal crisis when the Soviets have threaten to nuke Britain, France, and Israel without US nuclear weapons coverage.
Russian-dominated USSR's threaten to nuke non-nuclear states and the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons coverage have made the argument for independent nuclear weapons armed US allies!
The Falklands War reveals the US will NOT defend UK's territorial integrity. The US will only defend its own and common interest with Saudi and Kuwaiti oil. France and UK also have a common interest in Saudi and Kuwaiti oil.
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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Ireland's GDP is similar to Singapore's GDP.
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated nanny state savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member)
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
CANZUK group total: $8,977 billion estimate.
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%, EU is promoting the Netherlands as a UK replacement. A long way to go.
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks the strategic mandated 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% <--------
Total for China: $484 billion
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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@qinby1182 My "Australia doesn't exploit its mineral wealth like China's raw materials to the manufacturing chain" context based on the following news articles
From WSJ
Date: Aug. 15, 2010
Title: 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.
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My comment: China has a government policy that enforces manufacturing located in China when using China's rare earth.
Setting up the leverage to use China's rare earth .
From Graphite Publications article from 2010.
Title: Will chinas Outrageous Rare Earth Monopoly Persist
Year Date: 2010.
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
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.
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Your argument and mindset are simplistic, NOT holistic. You're stupid while China is smart.
Australia's increase in rare earth exports is relatively recent and backed by the Australian government's $2 billion state loan facility (Sep 2021) for Australian critical minerals projects.
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@lordmike9384 The difference, the US has LNG interest in Poland and US is NOT resource poor UK, France and Germany.
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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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You can't handle it when Russia is not the only energy superpower with interest.
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@supermario2583 > Russia wasn’t an aggressor state against anyone,
Bullshit,
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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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.
This is an "old world" issue that has existed before the US being a superpower.
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@jasonm949 Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that 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".[8]
You're a hypocrite.
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@AlexandruAlic
The Chile example,
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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@MrRocking4ever 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 foreign banks.
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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@baronvonlimbourgh1716 >Most european countries don't want to get entangled in the usa's crusade.
That's a false narrative.
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).
These "old world" issues have existed before the US being a superpower.
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.
You believed Putin's false narrative!
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@Apache1970
CPC is a hypocrite when it has higher protectionist policies while complaining about the West's reciprocal protectionist advocacy e.g.
Foreign 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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@Apache1970 From Forbes,
Title: Protectionism May Be Rising Around The World, But In China, It Never Went Away
Year Date: 2016
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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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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@ianthesiow3013
Ukraine 2014 *,
That's a FALSE narrative.
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.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 that 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.
Your argument, Russian intervention before Euromaidian is good while non-Russian intervention is bad. You're a hypocrite.
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@n8club The English language was the result of conquest by the French Normans.
Frisian is the closest living relative to English with shared syntax, lexicon, and phonetics. Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken in parts of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Frisian is closer to Low German.
Old English was first written using Anglo-Saxon runes in the 5th century. In 597, the arrival of the Gregorian mission in Kent marked the beginning of the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, and with it the reintroduction of the Latin alphabet to Britain, where it was used to write English for the first time. The earliest attested instances of Old English being written using the Latin script were in Anglo-Saxon law codes, including one drawn up in 616 on behalf of King Æthelberht of Kent. This was used until the end of the 12th century when continental Carolingian minuscule replaced the Insular, along with a shift in spelling conventions toward the Old French alphabet, leading to Middle English.
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Hello There Indonesia is partly an Islamic state e.g. Aceh area.
Suharto's New Order expanded the reach of Sharia, first with the 1974 Marriage Act, which assigned jurisdiction over the marriage and divorce of Muslims to the Islamic courts (Indonesian: peradilan agama), and with the 1989 Religious Judicature Act, which elevated Islamic courts by making them a parallel legal system, equal to state courts and gave them jurisdiction over inheritance (wasiyyah), gifts (hibah) and religious endowments.[112] Muslim litigants could originally choose whether to have inheritance questions decided by the Islamic courts or by the civil courts, but a 2006 amendment eliminated this possibility; the same amendment gave Islamic courts new jurisdiction over property disputes, including financial and economic matters.[112] Muslims seeking a divorce must also file their claim in Islamic courts.[112] The Compilation of Islamic Law 1991 (Indonesian: Kompilasi Hukum Islam) regulates marriage, inheritance, and charitable trusts (wakaf).[112]
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@tomstory5542
1. "KKK use bible verses to murder black people" is NOT Bible NT canon. After the US civil war, KKK was created by the Democratic party (dominated CSA) to undermine the Republican-dominated USA.
https://youtu.be/uqxzPnXhSo0?t=46
(Democrats pro-Black skin agenda)
Democrats are still racist since they couldn't get race neutrality idea where skin color shouldn't be a factor, hence hypocrites
Both KKK and BLM failed the race neutrality test.
Reminder, the US is secular, hence KKK's bible usage is irrevelent.
2. "Adolf Hitler used to quote from the bible" is NOT Bible NT canon. Furthermore, Hliter has forgotten Jesus Christ is a Jew i.e. reformist Jew movement.
Being Christian is following Jesus Christ's teachings hence why Christians are NOT called Bible followers.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-nazis-courted-the-islamic-world-during-wwii/a-41358387
In the war zones, Germany engaged with a wide range of religious policies and propaganda to promote the Nazi regime as the patron of Islam. As early as 1941, the Wehrmacht distributed the military handbook "Islam" to train its soldiers to behave correctly towards Muslim populations. On the eastern Front, the Nazi occupiers ordered the rebuilding of mosques, prayer halls, and madrasas — previously destroyed by Moscow — and the re-establishment of religious rituals and celebrations in order to undermine Soviet rule
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@covfefe1787 After WW1, the US is against the Treaty of Versailles on Germany i.e. US has warned both France and the UK that the Treaty of Versailles will create an unstable country.
For the stability of NATO and the EU, the US will not allow modern Germany to be burdened by the punishing Treaty of Versailles.
From a news article: Six decades ago, an agreement to cancel half of postwar Germany's debt helped foster a prolonged period of prosperity in the war-torn continent.
“Germany's resurgence has only been possible through waiving extensive debt payments and stopping reparations to its World War II victims,” economic historian Albrecht Ritschl told Der Spiegel in 2011, describing Germany as “the biggest debt transgressor” of the past century. “During the 20th century, Germany was responsible for what were the biggest national bankruptcies in recent history,” Ritschl said, pointing to the collapse of the German economy in the early 1930s, which sent shockwaves through global markets. “It is only thanks to the United States, which sacrificed vast amounts of money after both World War I and World War II, that Germany is financially stable today and holds the status of Europe's headmaster. That fact, unfortunately, often seems to be forgotten.”
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@covfefe1787 For the Three Seas Initiative in 2016, representatives of those states (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia , the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania , Slovakia, and Slovenia) met for their first summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Estimated population size = 112,194,126
GDP (nominal, 2019) = $2.1 trillion
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