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Look at that. So neatly lined up. A little too late. Commit troops if you really want to help Ukraine.

The war is coming to an end. The U.S. decides not anyone else.

Japanese investors are estimated to have increased their holdings of Chinese bonds by 53% in 2024, the most among the markets that make up the World Government Bond Index.

Japan has recently reduced its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities. In December 2024, Japan's holdings decreased to $1.060 trillion from $1.087 trillion in November.

Japan is buying more Chinese debt. Japan is selling U.S. debt.

Gang, Ito-Yokado equals supermarkets, nothing to do with convenience stores and China is NOT attracting foreign capital, rather exact Opposite, plus foreign companies reducing their supply chain biz there rapidly.

You're speaking of FDI. I'm talking about the bond market. Japan is buying Chinese debt (fact not opinion.)

Watch out for beginners going downhill out of control.

DeepSeek is a startup. There is no way they can access resources of $500 billion. Yet with $5 million it hit a homerun.

Some people think they spent $5 million to develop DeepSeek so the Anti-China crown can use to ask what happened with Tiananmen in 1989?! lol.

Well there are way more 7-11 stores in Japan than in the US.

Japan is buying Chinese debt now. That’s capital taken from US markets.

Why can’t the narrative be South Korea grabbed them while Japan was down and out after WWII and Japan did nothing to take them back? So they now belong to Korea.

National security and privacy issues are equivalent to raising the white flag in the previous weak administration.

Tik Tok is no longer an issue is it?

Alibaba & Apple changes things. With Trump you have reality and common sense whereas previous administration, fiction and just making up whatever you want.

DeepSeek which cannot answer a question of any domestic political nature will never compete with Grok which benefits users by applying free speech and free thought to complex questions.

Thats not what it’s used for…to answer political questions…omg.

Yes, peace. That means not continuing war.

And the rank display of abject cowardice will encourage the Chinese to have a go at Taiwan

No, China and Taiwan will be busy with semiconductor chips, AI, green energy, EV’s, there’s no time for war.

Didn’t the UK contract China to build high speed railway? Wouldn’t you like to spend all that military aid billions of dollars on infrastructure instead? The UK is smart in not sending money continuously but to build infrastructure connecting London Birmingham, and so on.

In short, Taiwan is not going to be like Ukraine, so what Trump does has no impact on Xi.

If Russia didn’t invade Ukraine unprovoked, then it may be considered a proxy war. 

You’re talking war, not a proxy war. That applies to war.

Proxy war is when you have someone fight the war for you and you just sit back and approve shipments of military and financial aid. The U.S. tried that with China and lost to the Communists.

You have to be more committed if you’re not, and you half ass it, like Biden did, then you lose like in the case of Ukraine.

This is wonderful news.

War ending is the desired outcome. The U.S. helping Ukraine to surrender or the US bending the knee to Russia are merely expressions of pride of those with no skin in the game.

Peace negotiations prevail.

The Chinese frigate should sail between Victoria (Melbourne) and Tasmania. And Australia in the Taiwan Straits. No notices. No big deal.

China did comply with international law and that's important to not suggest that that wasn't the case

Well then end of story isn’t it.

And exactly what "track record" would that be?

right wing ultranationalist record.

She just doesn’t ride around in a black van, but her kindergarten sought to indoctrinate future black van ultra nationalists.

And what exactly did these Biden 'experts' achieve? They miscalculated Russia's strength and Ukraine's ability to win the war, they were wrong about their game-changing wonder weapons, they failed to crush Russia's economy with their sanctions, they destroyed Europe's industrial base, and they failed to get re-elected by the American public. Experts at the top of their game? Really?

This.

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Well said. It was such a mess.

It’s amazing how fit the Japanese elderly (75 yrs) are, climbing Kumotoru Yama 雲取山 in Tokyo/Saitama like a walk in the park.

Good news. This a game changer. This means the previous administration lacks wisdom and savvy but only knew one thing: let’s ban them.

Now, the two countries are looking to get something out of anything. This is a win win and the business mindset of Xi and Trump.

Tik Tok and Bytedance will have different players including Trump and Musk.

Trump knows instead of just drilling and drilling, he needs to take China AI seriously.

Trump, Putin, Xi are all going to be in Moscow May 9th to celebrate the victory over the Nazis.

Zelenskyy wants 250 billion dollars spent in weapons using Russian assets or no peace deal. LOL. Who the hell does he think he is?

He’s thinks he can hold his country hostage and threaten Trump?

Wishful thinking. This idea ignores the depth of coordination, exchanges and closeness between the leaders,” said a senior European diplomat. “Russia is so reliant on China - they won’t risk their ties to Beijing because Trump gave them a call.”

I don’t see China playing a role here. China needs Russia. Russia needs China. That’s not going to change.

China might want peace; hard to say. The Chinese are famously hard to read 

I’m sorry to say but the Chinese couldn’t care less about Ukraine peace. That’s why Japan and China are not there trying to get a slice of the pie. We didn’t put anything into this investment like the US did.

What is there to talk about? The glory days of past industries of the G7?

Mean and while, there are still Westerners in Japan who will not eat anything from Fukushima.

'A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.' 

Don’t be deceived by the Western media on your chances Zelenskyy.

Trump has never been so right. He’s throwing you a lifeline.

On Wednesday, Trump warned Zelenskyy that he “better move fast” to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or risk not having a nation to lead.

This guy speaks common sense. Peace negotiations is another term for Ukraine’s surrender. Time to face reality.

Zelenskyy has no guidance

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Think of the Banzai charges when Japanese remnants would go headlong into oncoming machine gun fire knowing full well what was going to happen. This is not the way other armies have behaved. It’s a different value system.

There isn’t just one book, General Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War or The Bushido, The Way of the Samurai. Zelenskyy has guidance on the art of war or deportment on how he should conduct himself. He was doomed to lose from the beginning because of this and his cry for help drowned out by the never surrender forces of the last administration.

Time to tell the grandmothers to they can stop sharpening the bamboo spears. Trump is throwing the country a lifeline.

Still, they voted for it, so I guess they're fine with it.

They voted for it so they should take ownership and responsibility for it.