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USTR Investigation Finds China's Maritime Playbook 'Unreasonable' as U.S. Shipbuilding Hits Historic Low

The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a landmark finding, concluding that China’s aggressive targeting of the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors constitutes an “unreasonable” practice under Section 301 of...
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pmbug said:
I wonder if this announcement to build semiconductor plants in the USA is indicative of some agreement with China to let them do as they please with Taiwan after the USA secures/relocates it's strategic interest in the region. :paperbag:
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Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it certainly sounds like preparation for Taiwan no longer functioning like present day Taiwan...

 
A consortium of investors led by BlackRock agreed to buy majority stakes in ports on either end of the Panama Canal, putting U.S. firms in control of two ports that President Trump raised as a security concern because of their connection to China.

The deal with Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison is worth $22.8 billion and also includes dozens of other ports around the world, the companies said Tuesday.
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BlackRock has briefed the Trump administration and Congress on the deal, said a person familiar with the matter. The Chinese Embassy in Washington didn’t immediately respond to questions.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/eco...r-panama-ports-after-u-s-pressure/ar-AA1AeqtP

The timing of this is very coincidental. I'm seriously wondering if the Taiwan semi-conductor investment/move isn't part of a quid-pro quo arrangement with China to let them have Taiwan without US interference and this Panama Canal news is part of the arrangement.
 
pmbug said:
quid-pro quo arrangement with China to let them have Taiwan
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Earlier today I read that Putin and Trump are looking at a three-part world. A world divided up into 3 parts where China, Russia and Russia ruled the waves so-to-speak. I was checking my news feed, glanced at it and kept going. If I come across it again, I'll post it here.
 
searcher said:
Earlier today I read that Putin and Trump are looking at a three-part world. A world divided up into 3 parts where China, Russia and Russia ruled the waves so-to-speak. I was checking my news feed, glanced at it and kept going. If I come across it again, I'll post it here.
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Here we go.............

The three vertices of the new tripolar world: Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping​


The world has witnessed the deterioration of the rules-based international order that emerged at the end of World War II after the hegemonic power, the United States, decided to enforce the law of the jungle.

Five years later, the concept of tripolarity is becoming a common theme in geopolitical analyses and diplomatic circles. "Can Trump and Putin, along with Xi Jinping, become the architects of a new multipolar world order?", wonders Jan Krikke, a veteran correspondent in Japan and Hong Kong, in a column published in the Asia Times.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/...n-and-xi-jinping/ar-AA1zc3Xk?ocid=socialshare

Another article...................

Putin’s Multipolar World and What it Means for U.S. Strategy
 
From USNI Proceedings

China Might Look at Imperial Japan’s Strategy for Victory​

Imperial Japan’s decision to launch a surprise campaign across the Pacific in December 1941 was militarily brilliant. Its main goal was to secure oil reserves in the Dutch East Indies—today’s Indonesia—to replace the oil it could no longer import from the United States because of embargoes resulting from the Second Sino-Japanese War.1 Striking directly at those reserves would have likely caused the United States and Great Britain to join the conflict on terms more favorable to themselves. Hence, Japan chose to weaken the Allied forces across the Pacific before going after their oil prize.2 Imperial Japan’s initial campaigns have valuable lessons for considering how China might use its military to seize Taiwan today.

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If the new chip plants succeed in the USA there won't be a need for a free Taiwan. When China took over HK from the UK it was hollowed out and the Asian financial system moved to Singapore overnight.
 

China sanctions US congress members, officials and NGO heads​

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has imposed sanctions on some U.S. congress members, government officials as well as heads of non-governmental organisations for "egregious behaviour on Hong Kong-related issues", its foreign ministry said on Monday.

The sanctions come in response to the U.S. sanctioning six Chinese and Hong Kong officials last month, which Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said China "strongly condemns".

"Any wrong action taken by the U.S. side on the Hong Kong-related issue will be met with resolute and reciprocal counteraction by the Chinese side," Guo said.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...S&cvid=d94adfe0d4e24ea8bccd3c02cdff4e50&ei=15
 

China vows retaliation against countries that follow U.S. calls to isolate Beijing​

  • China has warned it will retaliate against countries that cooperate with the U.S. in ways that compromise Beijing’s interests, according to a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
  • The threat comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly planning to use tariff negotiations to pressure U.S. partners to limit their dealings with China.
  • “China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests. If this happens, China will not accept it and will resolutely take reciprocal countermeasures,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said, according to a CNBC translation.
BEIJING — China on Monday warned it will retaliate against countries that cooperate with the U.S. in ways that compromise Beijing’s interests, as the trade war between the world’s two largest economies threatens to embroil other nations.

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China sanctions US congress members, officials and NGO heads​

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has imposed sanctions on some U.S. congress members, government officials as well as heads of non-governmental organisations for "egregious behaviour on Hong Kong-related issues", its foreign ministry said on Monday.

The sanctions come in response to the U.S. sanctioning six Chinese and Hong Kong officials last month, which Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said China "strongly condemns".

"Any wrong action taken by the U.S. side on the Hong Kong-related issue will be met with resolute and reciprocal counteraction by the Chinese side," Guo said.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...S&cvid=d94adfe0d4e24ea8bccd3c02cdff4e50&ei=15
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I don't think there is anybody against this action.
 
Fatrat said:
I'm dancing in the streets...
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Would it be interesting if El Salvador arrested all the dumb congressmen who are trying to interfere with their sovereignty?
 
nickndfl said:
Would it be interesting if El Salvador arrested all the dumb congressmen who are trying to interfere with their sovereignty?
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Could you imagine if we could arrest AIPAC, They been fucking us for years...sovereignty wise I mean.
 

China’s Coming Diplomatic Blitz in the Americas​

The next few months will bring a series of high-profile multilateral engagements between China and Latin American countries, as Beijing seeks to capitalize on discontent with Trump.

In the coming three months, China will have a number of opportunities to advance its multilateral engagement with the Americas, leveraging discontent among many governments in the region with the new posture taken by the U.S. government on tariffs and other issues. These opportunities include the China-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Fourth Ministerial Forum, to be held in Beijing in May; the 55th General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Antigua and Barbuda in June; and the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July.

The Fourth China-CELAC Ministerial Forum is overdue; it will be the first executive-level convening of the entity since the Third China-CELAC Forum in Mexico in December 2021. Brazil’s President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva (commonly known as Lula) and President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, among other Latin American leaders, are expected to be present for the forum in China, creating possibilities for multiple bilateral interactions advancing strategic coordination – with China’s President Xi Jinping and with each other.

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What China's spies are doing in the U.S., and what happens when they're caught | 60 Minutes​

May 18, 2025 #news #china #spy
China is intent on using spies to monitor and influence events outside its own borders. 60 Minutes reports on why China’s spies are on the rise, and what happens when one gets caught in the U.S.


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How China recruits its spies in the U.S.​

May 18, 2025
China is intent on using spies to monitor and influence events outside its own borders. 60 Minutes reports on why China’s spies are on the rise, and what happens when one gets caught in the U.S.


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Wuhan scientist arrested for smuggling toxic parasites into US​

A Chinese scientist has been charged with smuggling toxic parasites into the United States.

Chengxuan Han, a doctoral student at a university in Wuhan, China, is accused of shipping four separate packages of “concealed biological material” to individuals associated with the University of Michigan in 2024 and 2025, according to the US attorney’s office.

Han is the third Chinese national to be arrested for smuggling potentially hazardous material into the university in the last week.

She was stopped on June 8 after landing in Detroit, where she was questioned by border patrol officers.

She initially lied to the officers about the packages, claiming that they contained plastic cups instead of petri dishes, but eventually she admitted to making “false statements” and said the packages contained “biological material related to roundworms”, according to the US attorney’s office.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...arasites-into-us/ar-AA1GqfwT?ocid=socialshare
 
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