They’re now saying these electronics will be tariffed separately lol. They’re just doing blatant insider trading

Tradition? EU-China summits usually happen in person, with the covid years having been the exception. And the tensions with the US make this one particularly important perhaps.

Or they are saying that there isn’t likely to be much trade anyway with such high tariffs.

And they are saying. Further retaliations won’t be through tariffs.

However, China warned that it will “resolutely counterattack and fight to the end” if the US continues to infringe on its rights and interests. It also said America should take full responsibility for the damage caused by the tariffs.

So I guess they will retaliate against any further tariffs as usual, but it will be through other means

What happens when Chinese companies suddenly have a oversupply of goods that would normally be shipped to the US?

They might — at least temporarily — decrease prices to sell those goods, and that would naturally mean more importers in the EU and other regions are gonna buy more of them and probably sell at lower prices, driving out local competitors

He folded pretty quick lmfao

Wonder how long it’ll take for him to fold on China

Great that they’re supporting Palestine diplomatically I guess, but so far they’re still trading with israel, even if with some “bureaucratic obstacles”

I guess that’s the drawback of positioning yourself as an alternative to the US that doesn’t interfere with foreign politics. The USSR was openly funding armed Palestinian resistance like the PFLP.

Homeownership rates in China

Reached 90% in 2018

Zionists are just nazis

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Iran isn’t a credible threat to Israel or the US

This is just false. US war games in the past have shown Iran is fully capable of thwarting a US invasion. And is that really even surprising? Vietnam and Afganistan have done it, and Iran is on a different level.

Iran isn’t the anti-US champion I’m backing

Iran is funding anti-imperialist organizations/governments like Hezbollah, Ansarallah, Hamas, and is a close ally of the Syrian government. They are not socialist like the USSR-backed South Yemen, PFLP etc, but they are anti-imperialist governments that any socialist with “principals” should critically support.

The utopian perfection you desire does not exist in the world right now; by not supporting the actually existing anti-imperialists, you are doing the imperialists’ job for them.

cheap labour

This isn’t really the case anymore with China’s quickly rising wages and rapid automation.

People these days have things built in China no longer for cheap labour but because they have entire supply chains — from the most basic materials to the most advanced products — in the country itself with its manufacturing ability higher than the next 9 countries combined.

That’s the problem the US has: China has not stayed a cheap labour factory (like, say, Africa) and is actually advancing and starting to compete with the US — in some fields already having surpassed them. And this time they can’t sabotage their economy like they did to Japan with the Plaza Accords.

Perks of having a socialist state.

Settler colonialism has nothing to do with religion.

Palestine is merely good place for a colony since it’s a bridge between Asia and Africa; israel’s formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named “Colonization Commission”, “Jewish Colonial Trust” and the like.

Theodor Herzl, the founder of “zionism” was a racist who saw it as a rampart of the west in the region.

“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]

Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe. They are thus now israel’s main supporter.

Damn a post from Firefish. Federation be working.

Ig you can’t put the link directly in the URL field though? Unfortunate

The current problems in the DPRK stem from the brutal sanctions. Prior to the USSR’s overthrow when the sanctions had far less effect, the North was developing and urbanizing faster than the South, even with 20% of its population killed, and all its infrastructure destroyed, by the US.

• Why is North Korea so weird?

• Myths & Misconceptions About North Korea by a non-socialist creator

• The DPRK’s Taean work system and workplace democracy

Agree with you on the nukes of course. The DPRK would’ve ended up like Libya is right now and the US might have been at war against China if they didn’t develop their nuclear deterrence.

Literally this

Iran needs to get nukes fast. The US will be itching for war until it does.

They really did the fucking “but at what cost” meme

Hong Kong’s democracy

Lmao, bourgeois “democracy” is only a democracy for capitalists. Real democracy like that of mainland China actually serves the people by improving their lives, lifting them from poverty, building infrastructure and making goods more affordable for workers, as you can see in this article.

You might want to fix the misspelling in “ethnically”

All Palestinian violence against the occupation is justified resistance, not “terrorism”

Hamas’s tactics (attacking villages, taking hostages, using tunnels and guerilla warfare) and goals (driving out an occupying force and reuniting their country) are no different from other revolutionary armed organizations like the Viet Cong’s.

Decolonization is violent; best way to avoid it is to not colonize in the first place.

And anyway, Hamas has done a far better job avoiding killing civilians than the occupying force with military superiority and far more precise equipment has. The final death toll from the Oct 7 retaliation is now thought to be 695 Israeli “civilians” (mostly unarmed IDF conscripts), 373 armed IDF members, 71 foreigners and 36 children. While Israel has killed over 30 thousand Palestinians, 2/3 of whom are women and children.