This guy also did a four parter covering modern China’s history on Gurrilla History podcast. Good stuff to listen to.

Wow this guy is an imbecile. He says that Western ghouls should stop citing “rules based international order” because the concept is nebulous to an average person, and claim to defend “the free world” instead which somehow is easier to wrap the head around.

I have always seen “the free world” as a veiled racist rhetoric. I wonder what terminology this guy will try to get them to use five years from now.

TBH I don’t understand the urgency behind getting their money out of US banks.

If you look at Russia, the American war machine had been knocking at their doorstep for approximately a decade the Nazification of Ukraine and the assault against Eastern Ukraine.

With China, the acts of escalation have been Hong Kong protests (which have subsided for a while) and the recent round of sanctions to prevent the diffusion of high technology. But the situation has not come close to a scenario where their American assets could be freezed.

I wonder what are the chances of some other European companies especially the industrial ones like automotive and chemical to straight up just move to the US at some point. EU is slowly becoming USA’s global south but there is this still this contradiction in the relationship where they want to bleed EU dry while still having them as a battering ram against Russia. Racism has served them well so far but if things get worse for Europeans I don’t know what will happen next.

I think what they could mean is that they want to reduce their industries’ supply chain reliance on China and at the same time selling more of their shit to Chinese customers which outside of their fantasy neoliberal dreamscape is not possible. They know this too which is why they dress it with jargon like “de-risking” so that the average reader does not catch on to their bullshit.

Gunboats and opium are not gonna work this time so they are straight up asking for handouts.

Is this the guy that was applauded in Canada’s parliament/senate/whatever it’s called?

This implies there was a mind to lose in the first place

They should probably subsidize their own EV sector properly but I guess when you are run by a shadow government comprised primarily of fossil fuel corporations it gets in the way.

From another SCMP article:

It will not only look for support given to Chinese brands, but also European and other international brands with a presence in China.

This means Tesla, Volkswagen and BMW models made in China could all be subject to import duties – indeed, discriminating on the basis of brand nationality would go against World Trade Organization rules. It also leaves Germany, whose automotive industry is highly exposed to China, vulnerable to retaliation.

I am pretty sure they will only doscriminate against Chinese brands. WTO “rules” mean jack.

He is gonna continue the neoliberal tradition of glibly handing over a disgruntled nation to fascists.

Oddly whenever I see westerners screech about South China Sea it is never about militarisation but about commercial exploration by Chinese vessels. I guess it makes sense that a diplomat is not hanging out with redditors.

Are there any resources for translating whole web pages other than Google Translate?

On desktop, Firefox has a first party extension for translating pages locally which is amazing even if it supports few languages at the moment.

On phone I know of nothing other than google translate.

I would cancel my visit if I were him. Ukraine have been carrying out assassinations so the threat is definitely credible.

Gexit could be very popular. Scholz and SPD have sold Germany to Americans without any reluctance or remorse. Any German who can rub two brain cells together has to be pissed about that.

They are encrypted because of TLS though

kill me

you mean recruit you into doing domestic terrorism to justify their own existence

EVERYTHING you do on public wifi is visible to the owner of the network.

Contents of tls and end to end encrypted requests should not be visible to the owner

He is saying that NATO has not been ghoulish enough which is why we have tensions and catastrophic wars everywhere.

No one:

Lib: Ban me!

EU parliament is brimming with ghouls except for the two Irish folks