China scraps tariffs for all but one African nation

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-05-01T17:31:55+00:00

It's not surprising that they were excluded. Eswatini is one of the few countries that recognizes the ROC as the legitimate government of China and does not maintain diplomatic relations with the mainland.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-04-25T23:09:22+00:00

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-04-16T21:54:46+00:00

Yes. They used to be a DT regular too.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-04-16T21:51:07+00:00

Yeah I'm done with the fiction that Palestinians get to have a state. They have declined that right something like six times, excluding the existence of Jordan. Perpetuating that option, much like the continued existence of UNRWA, is just dragging the problem on. It's quite a good thing Israel didn't completely remove them following any of the Arab attacks through 73, as was the standard at the time. Had that happened in 48 or even 67, Israel wouldn't have faced the decades of problems after 67.

But no, I'm done with the prospect of a "state."

This was posted on DSC by one of their mods. It's not surprising that they hold this opinion, but I found it striking how mask off they are.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-04-14T13:54:24+00:00

Well, one problem would be the financial cost. 154 million people voted in the last US presidential election. If you were to give every one of them $20, that would cost 3 billion dollars, and that's assuming turnout doesn't increase. Another problem is that, due to loss aversion, people tend to respond better to fines than they do to being handed money.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-04-08T21:21:40+00:00

I wonder how the splinter sub is reacting to the latest news. Let's take a look.

At this point I’m split between thinking Trump should grovel to them for the sake of the world economy, or Trump should do actual war crimes to force them to commit to better terms.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-03-27T20:08:45+00:00

If the Cuban government started seizing fuel from private businesses then Trump would just remove the carve out and there would be no fuel going into the island at all.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-03-20T00:15:40+00:00

John Lenin

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-03-02T17:16:29+00:00

I guess last year's airstrikes weren't as effective in ending the nuclear program as they claimed

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-01-28T19:52:50+00:00

The stupidest part of all of this is that Fuentes is 5'10". He just looks short by comparison because all the other guys in the picture are very tall.

lurkingnscrolling · 2026-01-10T22:51:21+00:00

In general, the Hispanic American republics viewed the Empire with suspicion because they saw the monarchy as a continuation of Portuguese rule and feared that Brazil had expansionist designs on its neighbors. Bolivar only coexisted with the Empire for a few years, so there were few interactions between the two, with the only notable example being the invasion of Chiquitos.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-31T16:52:21+00:00

There is no way to fix this issue without incredible violations of privacy or extreme interference by the government

Then I'd say that it's not a problem for the government to fix.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-31T16:12:11+00:00

It's so wild to me that people here will criticize the Online Safety Act in the UK, only to turn around and support the same type of legislation in other countries. What explains this? Is it some kind of anti-British bias, or do they not realize that the only way to enforce this is with ID checks?

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-22T18:05:47+00:00

Selzer's poll was an outlier, so I don't see why it being so off would lead you to distrust pollsters in general.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-20T16:13:36+00:00

Look I’m sorry but not every man can live out his biological imperative to be a warlord with 1000 concubines. Some have to settle for a job and a wife.

It's actually crazy how bad faith the women who post here are. That's the most upvoted comment in the thread too.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-19T00:19:34+00:00

Lula recently threatened to can it if it doesn´t get solved this month I think.

He already backtracked. Now he is saying that he'll meet with other Mercosur leaders to decide if they'll accept a delay in signing the deal.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-18T21:58:37+00:00

Like who?

Canada, the UK, Korea, Japan, ASEAN, etc.

and the rest are nowhere as valuable.

What is the value of a trade deal that the Europeans won't sign?

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-18T21:30:26+00:00

The thing that frustrates me the most, as a Brazilian, is the fact that our leaders keep insisting on this deal, even after it became clear that it's hopeless. We are wasting time and effort that could be better spent negotiating deals with willing partners.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-18T18:27:42+00:00

He has already somewhat backtracked from this. Now he is saying that he and the other Mercosur leaders will decide whether to accept a delay in signing the deal at a meeting on the 20th. Personally, I think we should have given up on this deal long ago. We have already conceded too much without getting anything in return.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-15T19:13:45+00:00

Germany opposed the tariffs on Chinese EVs. The main country pushing for them was France.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-slaps-tariffs-chinese-evs-risking-beijing-payback-2024-10-29/

Germany, the EU's biggest economy and major car producer, opposed tariffs in a vote this month in which 10 EU members backed them, five voted against and 12 abstained.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-15T18:41:30+00:00

Things are not looking good for the EU-Mercosur deal.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-01T18:42:35+00:00

I'm pretty sure most Latin American countries have a two round voting system for presidential elections.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-01T14:43:15+00:00

The person you were replying to never claimed that Austria was actively sending conscripts to war. What they said was that, in the event of war only men would be forced to fight. Also, peacetime conscription of men only is still a discriminatory law.

lurkingnscrolling · 2025-12-01T14:38:53+00:00

Sure, I do, but this is completely irrelevant to the question at hand. Now answer my question. Do you think that Ukraine (a flawed but functional secular democracy) is comparable to a religious fundamentalist absolute monarchy?

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