The prime minister has criticised the timing of the demonstration in London as “provocative and disrespectful”. If he thinks Protesting for a cease fire on Armistice day is disrespectful. Wait till he finds out what Armistice means.
Okay. 10 years. 20? How much time needs to pass before you admit when you’re wrong?
While they been talking about it for a long time, true, what’s change is that in recent times they’ve been building up their military forces a lot, and doing very political/military moves in the waters between them. They’re definitely ramping up on their actions and/or responses, signaling, probing. And this is new.
How far that escalation goes, nobody knows, but usually if somebody says they’re going to do something, you should take them at their word that they’re going to do what they said they were going to do, at some point in time.
I really think they do - looking at their comment history (after they commented on one of mine) Im not sure if they are trump-level clueless or a troll… think they are the most downvoted user I’ve seen on here.
“We are taking the Chinese military threat very seriously. And that is the reason why we are making more investment in our own defense capabilities. But we have not been focusing on one timeline only. For example, a lot of people are talking about 2025, some people are talking about 2027, some people talk about 2035, and etc. We take all kinds of assessments in a very serious way. And what we want to be prepared for is no matter when the Chinese are going to launch its military attack against Taiwan, we are prepared. But i think that 2027 is the year that we need to be serious about.”
How about you try to prove a positive instead of asking for a source to prove something isn’t going to happen, debatelord
True, you can’t prove a negative, but at the same time that person made a firm statement, so someone else’s totally in the right to ask for citation to backup what they said.
They could have supplied quotes from Chinese leaders stating that they were never going to invade, etc.
The number of opportunities they have to actually pull it off are so few and far between just from demographics, geography, and meteorology alone, that you can count with two hands the exact number of days between now and when the window will basically close permanently when they could even hypothetically make an attempt at it without cursing their entire invasion force to the bottom of the sea before they even encounter a defensive line.
Not to mention the rumours that Taiwan has developed a non-nuclear MAD doctrine which would allow them to instantly turn 400,000,000 Chinese citizens into refugees by blowing the 3 gorges dam. A scenario that would require China to turn any deployed forces right around to institute martial law.
My understanding is that they know it’s not worth it for them. But unfortunately the “glory “ of the “reunification “ makes it worth it for their leaders that want to be remembered for this.
A lot of things in China are going downhill: trade, banks, real state. China isn’t just going for Taiwan, it’s projecting imperialism all around, even with India, another BRICS member. Taiwan is just the biggest mark. I wouldn’t cross off options for what imperialist despots will or will not do when they become increasingly desperate.
I don’t know if China is going to collapse any time soon (at some point they will though). At risk of sounding like a conspiracy the world order is changing as America is no longer the sole leading power, trade and infrastructure development are heavily tied to China, and we are too reliant on their cheap goods to go against them.
As well as teach tolerance for other cultures, different perspectives and the humanities in general.
Cancelling tourism across the board will 100% end up with everyone going to war with each other within a single lifetime, by means of the power hungry/money hungry/attention hungry “othering” everything not within eyeshot.
We’re essentially talking about de-democratizing cultures and returning power to the hands of the few who get to translate the outside world for us. Idk about you, but I’m not interested in living under INGSOC or a return to cardinals gate-keeping wisdom, and substituting their own, behind the proverbial Latin.
We need to curb greenhouse gases, yes, but we need that by normalizing green tech, not dropping another quarantine curtain on everyone. We need MORE tourism, like it or not. Maybe a state sanctioned, and funded, 2 years before uni for teens to have their own modern ‘walkabouts’ and get some exposure. We need everyone to gain some culture, after all, the more traveled we are, the less dogmatic and less inclined towards violence we tend to become. Which makes governing a population have to focus more on coercion and policy/dialectics and perhaps there’s the rub. It’s easier to start programming the young (kindergarten) with nationalism than sway opinions with rationality. Maybe that’s where the burnt of modern problems stem from.
It’s not quite china consequences, but it’s a good first step. Once those roll out, corporations will spend the money on making sure their taxes are done properly, not the other way around, because a golden parachute isn’t going to do anything against a lead projectile.
I drove cross country last year and saw signs of bedbugs in 3 of the 4 stops I’d picked out ahead of time. One of them was straight up still treating the room and even using a home remedy (had diatomaceous earth scattered all around the room) and then told me to my face they didn’t know what I was talking about. From what I hear, it’s only getting worse.
Airbnbs might not be any more professional about handling the situation, but at least they handle a smaller volume of people.
I’ve seen some sketchy motels in my time, which is why I stopped staying in them. Hotels, especially major chains tend to be decent to great quality, and are usually cost competitive with AirBnB according to several news stories and lemmy threads over the last 10 months or so. And they have less weird requirements about you doing bed stripping / cleaning before you leave.
If you take him at his word, then that implies that Putin and Iran teamed up together to start conflict in Gaza, purposely to reduce support for the Ukraines in their war.
Be really sad if it’s true, as that means people are dying in a war in one part of the world to support a war in another part of the world, a war they have no part in.
If it’s an effective distraction and Putin and Co. have fully taken advantage by increasing their bombings in the interim, and taking into account the state of information warfare, who is to say that they’re not fanning the flames in their favor?
There are clearly degrees to which one conflict can influence another and I wouldn’t put it past the power-hungry politicians to strategize around every opportunity they get.
Wait, his OWN TEAM didn’t have questions for him, their own client? It’s a civil trial, they could have asked him anything, he could have had the whole court room listening to aIl the stupid bullshit he was trying to say in answer to the state. No questions?
I… can’t fathom taking the stand in your own defense and then not having any questions from your own attorneys. How about: “did you do it?” “No, I did not.” Or “why is the da trying to railroad you.” “Magamagamaga”.
His legal team is all to well aware that Trump under oath is a ticking time bomb. He’s got not verbal control what so ever and liable to admit to wrong doing as a casual boast.
His legal team is really bad, but they are not stupid. They can’t trust Trump to no go off script while under oath. They want him to spend as little time up there as possible before he perjures himself. That’s why they declined to cross examine him.
Well, we finally had a courtroom laugh moment. Prosecutor asked Trump about his involvement in financials from end of 2021. Trump said his focus at that time was on China and Russia and “keeping our country safe.” Courtroom laughed. Note: Trump wasn’t president in 2021.
I’m sure that’s the case. “We all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.” And the crowd laughs already, before he even gets to the punchline of firing Gary Busey. Dude’s been a complete joke for decades.
Haha yeah I loved how he caused the deaths of so many innocent people through the largest growth in drone strikes.
Truely he seems so genuine, I’d love to sit down for a beer with him and Bush and than proceeded to kill myself for being a fucking idiot and having any favourable view on these scum.
He would never admit feeling humiliated, but I’d wager his entire personality is shaped around covering for his profound internalized shame and insecurity
Nah, I don’t think that’s true. The dude is insecure as fuck, he kinda laughs stuff off, but inside he’s fucking frothing at the mouth and then unleashes it on twitter. In response, he’ll just double down with his bullshit and play it off, but in private, he writes people down on his “list”.
NAL but I think if Trump had argued he was still the President during that time period instead of admitting he wasn’t, then it would have been perjury.
Perjury is more than just saying something factually wrong on the stand. Republicans spent years talking about how getting trump in a courtroom was a perjury trap because he would make a small mistake like recall the January 12 of 2011 was a Saturday and then they prosecution would be like, “no it wasn’t and now you go to jail because we hate America”. In reality, perjury basically takes someone knowingly and intentionally entering testimony that is false. Simply forgetting that he wasn’t president at the time would not qualify.
The legal team that didn’t bother to cross examine their own client after he testified for the prosecutor? I think they know.
Consider that for a moment. Trump himself just testified ONLY for the plaintiff. His own lawyers had nothing for him to answer at all.
They could have asked him anything like: “explain how it’s someone else that’s responsible for this” or “explain in detail how this is a witch hunt.” Literally anything.
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