Guest TheJTS98 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, virginton said: When your bête noire CCP rock up with a bunch of gunboats off Arran, declare sovereignty over unsuspecting locals and lock them into the Chinese-controlled opium market indefinitely then you'll have a valid point there champ. Until then no dice for you. Big man doesn't know his onions, as usual. Find out about Sri Lanka, champ. Educate yourself. The problem with some 'historians' is that they get stuck in the past. Have a wee look at now. In these discussions you routinely bring up centuries old events while showing that you're completely uninformed about current ones. You've simply not got a clue. Particularly when it comes to Asia, a topic you've taken your own trousers down about on here a few times. Your latest assertion that China doesn't display predatory tendencies or seek to manipulate and usurp sovereign states and lock them into disadvantageous economic arrangements based on force, all the while parachuting in its own people as a workforce and 'security' while Chinese companies mop up the profits, is perhaps a career highlight and will come as quite a surprise to a number of Asian and African states. Crack on. Edited March 7, 2021 by TheJTS98 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Big man doesn't know his onions, as usual. Find out about Sri Lanka, champ. Educate yourself. The problem with some 'historians' is that they get stuck in the past. Have a wee look at now. In these discussions you routinely bring up centuries old events while showing that you're completely uninformed about current ones. You've simply not got a clue. Particularly when it comes to Asia, a topic you've taken your own trousers down about on here a few times. Your latest assertion that China doesn't display predatory tendencies or seek to manipulate and usurp sovereign states and lock them into disadvantageous economic arrangements based on force, all the while parachuting in its own people as a workforce and 'security' while Chinese companies mop up the profits, is perhaps a career highlight and will come as quite a surprise to a number of Asian and African states. Crack on.We could go on all day about China's salami slicing strategy regards the South China Sea. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: Big man doesn't know his onions, as usual. Find out about Sri Lanka, champ. Educate yourself. The first and last thing worth noting about Sri Lanka for the purpose of this discussion is that it is not in fact in Europe, which makes it a redundant analogy to 'the worst era of British colonialism' which was literally a pan-global empire of conquest and settlement. Including Hong Kong itself, which was seized from China at the point of gunboats and run by a British colonial regime. Which is not happening the other way around right now. Nobody cares about your corner of the world falling under a different form of regional hegemony: tough luck. Edited March 7, 2021 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, virginton said: The first and last thing worth noting about Sri Lanka for the purpose of this discussion is that it is not in fact in Europe, which makes it a redundant analogy to 'the worst era of British colonialism' which was literally a pan-global empire of conquest and settlement. Including Hong Kong itself, which was seized from China at the point of gunboats and run by a British colonial regime. Which is not happening the other way around right now. Nobody cares about your corner of the world falling under a different form of regional hegemony: tough luck. The big man doubling down on having absolutely no idea what he's talking about. Great to see. Also interesting to see that he thinks 'my corner of the world' is a good reference for a place about 1600 miles away that has absolutely no impact on where I live. Not surprising given his Daily Mail views on Asia. All he has to go on is his first year uni History stuff. Come on, tell us something else that you read about the Opium Wars in your first year textbook! He has literally no idea what Chinese foreign policy is and seems to think the residents of Hong Kong and the wider region should be stuck in 1860. Some boy. Did you get a Third? Edited March 7, 2021 by TheJTS98 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 21 hours ago, dorlomin said: Demographics will be the big issue in Europe and East Asia in the coming decades. But then again they will be huge in part of Africa where the expansion will be a huge challenge. FYI for anyone who prefers their thinking to be data driven rather than outcome driver. This is University of Chicago bullshit that believes that societies are dependent on consumption rather than production. It's Laffer Curve level idiocy. The idea that a country needs people to spend and invest the money that the country is sovereign issuer of makes no sense at all if you think about it for even five seconds. If the pandemic has proven anything it's a modern society only requires a small proportion of the population to do all the essential work. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 2 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: The big man doubling down on having absolutely no idea what he's talking about. Great to see. Also interesting to see that he thinks 'my corner of the world' is a good reference for a place about 1600 miles away that has absolutely no impact on where I live. Not surprising given his Daily Mail views on Asia. All he has to go on is his first year uni History stuff. Come on, tell us something else that you read about the Opium Wars in your first year textbook! He has literally no idea what Chinese foreign policy is and seems to think the residents of Hong Kong and the wider region should be stuck in 1860. Some boy. Did you get a Third? ^^^ word salad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 On 06/03/2021 at 13:55, TheJTS98 said: You can be critical of your government online in a Facebook post, or in a letter to a newspaper, or you can criticise them in a blog, or on a radio phone-in. You can even write a book about them being c***s and get it published and have it sold in shops. All at no risk to your safety or liberty. Your post there accused the British state of throttling the will of the people. Clink for that in China. It's a bit of a myth to say that anyone who criticises the government online (or elsewhere) in China gets put in jail. People criticise the government all the time. The main difference is that there are certain things people can't say when they are criticising the government that they can say here. And they'd still only get a warning in 99.999% of cases. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheJTS98 Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 5 hours ago, bendan said: It's a bit of a myth to say that anyone who criticises the government online (or elsewhere) in China gets put in jail. People criticise the government all the time. The main difference is that there are certain things people can't say when they are criticising the government that they can say here. And they'd still only get a warning in 99.999% of cases. https://www.axios.com/china-social-media-criticism-arrest-eeb9a8d8-b7b5-477f-a3c9-3bebbb59a303.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 5 hours ago, TheJTS98 said: https://www.axios.com/china-social-media-criticism-arrest-eeb9a8d8-b7b5-477f-a3c9-3bebbb59a303.html You probably think that's some kind of rebuttal of what I said, but it's not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/08/mexico-feminism-amlo-president-felix-salgado-macedonio The second anti Amlo article in the Guardian in the course of a couple weeks. This one has the funded by Bill Gates label on it. He must be planning to reduce poverty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Hopefully this will be the end of Bolsonaro. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 34 minutes ago, Detournement said: Hopefully this will be the end of Bolsonaro. Do you think May and Taylor will also step down? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 You love to see it. There have been very unsurprising revelations about the UK encouraging the coup. The election BBCQT special where some Gammon was picked to shout at Corbyn about not supporting democracy in Bolivia is up there with the Nuclear 9 in telling you everything you need to know about the right in Britain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Absolutely shocked to see The Guardian both-sidesing a fascist coup which led to the mass murder of indigenous people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Short BBC feature about Azeris returning to see their birthplace of Agdam, destroyed in what we have to call the Frist Karabakh War, and Armenians in Karabakh who have lost their homes and livelihoods. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-56379811 The political situation in Armenia continues to be extremely unstable, with Prime Minister Pashinyan attempting to remove the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian armed forces over disputes of issues during the war. The President has refused to ascent to the removal, meaning there's a political impasse. There continue to be demonstrations against Pashinyan and the government but most of the opposition figures are discredited former kleptocrats. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Shame on every single MP who voted for it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Shame on every single MP who voted for it. That chap doesn't seem to know what ides means. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-56517835 This is excellent reporting, despite having a police escort BBC reporters track down where an Armenian Church once stood, which has been destroyed by Azeri forces following the war. Some scenes of the total devastation of the regiosn where the wars (has to be plural now) have been fought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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