Notice how they write about Syria (a recognised state entity) defending its sovereignty and fighting Tukey-aligned rebels.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6404294

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23194540

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23194489

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
Tue 3 Dec 2024 11.12 EST

Still a bit wary

"I declare martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free constitutional order," Mr Yoon said.

https://archive.vn/meXYo

https://www.ft.com/content/e10a0a2a-e51c-4ac5-bba9-afea037c791d (https://archive.ph/KWte8)

A pan Asian high speed railway network is becoming a reality. Soon it will be possible to travel from Singapore to Shanghai by train!

https://archive.ph/NOf01

For context, Zurab Japaridze is the leader of a "right-liberarian" party whose main goals are NATO and EU membership, tax cuts, decentralisation, deregulation, doubling the military budget, privatization of state-owned property, and abolition of the National Bank of Georgia. Not going to cry about his arrest TBH.

Oh, in a true right-libertarian spirit, when creating his splinter of the party, he made sure to clarify the split had nothing to do with the chairman of the main branch (also right-libertarian) defending child pornography lol.

He refused to recognise the 2020 parliamentary election claiming it was rigged. And the 2021 local elections too... And now of course.

[Edit] His party also initiated the challenge to the law requiring that at least 25% of candidates that political parties submit for elections are women, which saw that law removed by the current ruling Georgian Dream party, to the outcry of women's organisations.

Here's the picture of the patriot giving an interview in his US Army cap:

The annual CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) is set to take place in Las Vegas, the US. It is reported that around 4,000 exhibitors from around the world have registered to attend, with more than 30 percent of them coming from China. However, latest media reports indicated that many employees from Chinese technology companies were denied US visas despite holding invitations to attend. Some commentators have called this visa rejection "unprecedented." So far, there has been no official response from the US government on this matter. We urge the US Department of State to verify relevant reports as soon as possible, reduce visa and entry policy obstacles, facilitate normal people-to-people business and industrial exchanges between the two countries, and implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state.

[...]

For this reason, the large-scale visa denials faced by Chinese companies have left even the American side, including the event organizers, stunned. Chris Pereira, the founder of iMpact, a New York-based consultancy, said exhibitions like CES were "wonderful opportunities for business exchanges between companies from China, the US, and the rest of the world, but now it is frustrating to see even events like this being impacted."

[...]

In the past, some Chinese companies were unable to attend CES mainly due to the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the US, but this is the first time that large-scale visa issues have been the obstacle. Even people in the US immediately suspected that this was politically motivated, rather than being due to any "technical reasons."

Trump is oblivious to the fact that BRICS is now a bigger economy than the G7. The US is no longer an essential part of the global economy.

Increasing trade outside of the dollar is the only way countries can protect themselves from economic coercion by the US. In particular, China can obviously see that the US will go after them the same way they did with Russia. So, it would be suicide to agree to tie their global trade to the dollar.

Meanwhile, China also happens to be a bigger trade partner than the US for most of the world. So if it comes to choosing between the US and China, it's not really much of a choice. Especially given that China exports things people actually need, while the US barely has any manufacturing industry left accounting for less than 15% of the overall economy. The US is a big market, but it's not essential the way China is.