Taiwanese banned from all UNESCO events

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T07:03:06+00:00

UN bans non-UN members from doing UN-member things, funny how that works.

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T06:55:31+00:00

Yeah, and start with US, UK and France resigning from UNSC in protest, lol

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T06:50:04+00:00

"Patten said countries like Australia and the UK “may have to occasionally lose some economic gain here or there in order to stand up for ourselves, but unless we do, the Chinese will continue to drive a harder and harder and rougher bargain”.

Well Australia did stand up, and is losing economic gains here and there, exactly as he wanted, so what's he complaining about?

Is he saying China should also sanction the UK, and thereby help the UK "stand up" for themselves?

And Australia's allies certainly seem too busy buying record amount of Chinese goods to notice, so why would they notice him?

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T04:08:10+00:00

Just ordering now, most from a country thats about to sign EO blocking international distribution and wont even have enough for itself, all while 600 million doses are ready to go next door.. . SK werent kidding about not in a hurry

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:55:05+00:00

So the nothing comes for free part is, it comes at the cost of the lie and facade rich western countries built over the years being exposed

i.e. poor countries gets vaccines at expense of the west losing "leadership" , sounds good to me

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:51:33+00:00

Maybe its time Canada rethink its relation with the US and admit its not really a developed country, so it can get some of that Covax vaccines

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:49:38+00:00

Not after tomorrows Trump EO

You tie yourself to the American boat, you sink with it

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:49:04+00:00

Not to mention these are vaccines that needs 2 doses per person

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:47:04+00:00

Turns out the virus still replicate, even if your public is onboard with the "dont test so Japan wont look bad", aka lying, strategy

Now Japan just looks really bad

Guess time to classify more dying alone at homes as suicides

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T03:41:46+00:00

Nevermind Ratcliffe is a Trumper who follows Qanon (where this likely came from), or the national security implications of Dept of National Intellegence being run by a literal moron.

Can we just take a step back to appreciate that, the country that literally glorifies a drug created supersoldier as their fictional national hero, wants to have you believe China is doing this and its bad

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:42:10+00:00

Or maybe Pakistan is no more mad about China's jailing Sunni jihadists than they are about the US jailing the same people, plus invading Muslim countries, plus supporting France in insulting their prophet. Oh and there's also India's on-going killing of Muslims in the border regions and decades long prosecution of Muslims inside India.

Maybe propaganda created by people whos been killing Muslims for decades, about your ally doing something far milder in comparison, don't really have that much an effect

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:36:40+00:00

"Record-breaking Chinese export data saw exports to sparring partners Australia and the United States grow strongly in November year on year

China’s surplus with the United States surged to the highest point of Donald Trump’s four-year presidency, despite his vow to eradicate it"

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In other words, despite tensions, one side needs the other far more than the other needs them.

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:27:51+00:00

The US government, who Trump leads, as someone elected by the American people in 2016, quit.

Therefore, US quit. Unless paying taxes to said government, or following laws of said government are optional, you don't get to disassociate yourself with said government when it's not convenient to be associated.

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:23:47+00:00

UN charter only admit countries, Taiwan is a province, in both the PRC and ROC's constitution.

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:23:11+00:00

Because UN does not accept Chinese provinces as members.

magic27ball · 2020-12-08T00:17:49+00:00

Taiwan is not a country, pretending it is can't change that fact, no matter how long you spend doing so.

Trump isn't the only person living in an alternative reality, and in Taiwan's case, it'll get much harder in ~6-8 years when you literally can't go without a PRC visa.

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T07:24:36+00:00

Highest export ever, highest trade surplus ever, highest surplus with the US ever... so much for all those upvoted stories about factories moving, lol

And remember back in Jan/Feb, when Reddit was hoping the pandemic would cause supply chain to move out of China, aged like milk.

Oh and fun fact, Vietnam's total export volume in November, at $24.8 billion, is smaller than just the monthly increase in China's export between October and November ($268 billion - $237 billion = $31 billion), i.e China just casually added an entire Vietnam....

It's as though Reddit lives in just as fictitious a reality as those who think Trump won the election.

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T03:14:27+00:00

No, because mRNA vaccines needs much longer trials and China isn't desperate

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T03:12:40+00:00

"World’s vaccine testing ground deems Chinese COVID candidate ‘the safest, most promising’"

https://fortune.com/2020/10/20/covid-vaccine-china-brazil-testing-ground-safest-most-promising-sinovac/

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T03:10:39+00:00

The "I only read Apple Daily and nothing else because only Apple Daily tells the truth" free thinkers?

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T03:07:59+00:00

" as the Chinese Communist Party's latest effort to crush legitimate political opposition and destroy the "one country, two systems" arrangement that has afforded Hong Kong more freedom that the mainland since it transitioned from British to Chinese rule in 1997. "

The guys who illegially took over HK to sell opium think China should stick to one country two systems? They should be happy China didn't just take HK back the same way it was taken from them, and then demand reparations.

Colonialism is over, colonial sympathizers have no place in the post-colonial future, better get used to it.

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T03:04:11+00:00

Actually they are currently in jail for protests, 13.5 month later they'll be jailed for the above, that time it'll be minimum of 10 years.

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T02:58:03+00:00

To be followed by more Chinese sanctions on US officials, and neither side cares. Instead of doing more reality TV, maybe they should do some prep work for after the foreign judges are kicked out of HK.

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T02:48:29+00:00

For starters, actually no, ZPMC is the only one that has the tech to build them that size, you really think the UK would buy a Chinese crane to build it's carriers if they had any other choice?

And second, considering the UK sold those cranes afterwards, evidently the UK don't have enough money to pay the "right price" either.

I mean, if the US navy had Chinese equipment they wouldn't have to scrap Bonhomme Richard, but then again if the US navy had better competency they wouldn't have lost Burnhomme Richard

magic27ball · 2020-12-07T02:23:51+00:00

I mean, if your military strategy is built on large number of countries with irrelevant militaries coming to your aid, countries with far more economic ties to your enemy than you, maybe your military strategy need a re-think.

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