TaiwanIsNotChina comments

voiceofokinawaToday 04:31 pm JST

Biden vows to block Nippon Steel deal, seeks to triple tariffs on Chinese steel

Does it mean the U.S. ingot costs three times more than the Chinese one? Suppose the Chinese ingot is not only cheaper but it is also superior in quality

Thankfully that will never happen.

Which one will sell more in international markets, U.S. ingot or Chinese one?

Almost doesn't matter: when you are the size of the US or China, you can afford to be protectionist.

bass4funkToday 04:40 pm JST

Nah, Make America Great Again includes sprinklings of ignorance, bigotry, and treason.

No, it means wake up, focus on America first and foremost, putting all Americans ahead and cater to their needs first and above all else, loyalty to the nation, and that’s a good thing.

Abandoning our allies is not even loyalty to our own nation.

neroToday 03:37 pm JST

Build Back Better is actually Make America Great Again plus dementia. Who could have seen it.

Nah, Make America Great Again includes sprinklings of ignorance, bigotry, and treason.

JJEToday 10:56 am JST

Zelensky's days are numbered.

I'll wager Ukraine isn't like Russia eating its own.

JJEToday 10:46 am JST

This won't save Zelensky's regime. Manpower is their Achilles heel and they've been churning through it like a drunken sailor. You can't print manpower unless they bring in more mercenaries. People are fleeing the country, abandoning cars on border roads since the conscription bill passed.

Someone implied there are no patriot systems in Ukraine - incorrect. They've been there for some time and have increasingly been getting whacked by Russian missile strikes.

Demographic-wise, this aid package may just finish off this country once and for all.

If it finishes off a generation of Russians from fighting Russia's wars of imperialism, this is acceptable.

EastmanToday 10:12 am JST

well USA will need to learn in hard way than.

instead of peace negotiations they prefer make more money out of UA blood and misery.

NOT NICE...

Withholding aid to a country under criminal assault to try to get a fake peace agreement is NOT NICE...

JohnToday 09:21 am JST

US debt is not important since they can print money without any impact on inflation and interest rates. Other countries cannot print significant money without its side effects.

Substitute borrow for print and you are correct. Fed balance sheet going down so no printing involved.

BertieWoosterToday 09:08 am JST

LondonCNN — 

The high and rising level of US government debt risks driving up borrowing costs around the world and undermining global financial stability, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

The IMF said Wednesday that increased government spending, growing public debt and elevated interest rates in the United States had contributed to high and volatile yields — or interest rates — on Treasuries, raising the risk of higher rates elsewhere

It is the right of the US to determine its borrowing and overnight interest rate. Yield curve is negative, btw.

LegrandeToday 05:43 am JST

Lots of comments that the US runs Japan when Japan has full autonomy to amend their Japanese written Article 9. 

The LDP has full autonomy to follow the US. They have never and will never contradict US policy, i.e. never side with Russia or Iran against the US.

They could tear up the security treaty with the US. Japanese people don't want to, though. They like the US.

bass4funkToday  08:15 am JST

Mikey bought a spine! 

Had one, but the guy is being a bit squeezed.

Yeah it is terrible being made to do something just to avoid being a traitor for life.

if these bills come to the floor, they’ll pass with 300 votes each. That will mean they have significant GQP support.

Well, they care about the country, more than they care about Ukraine, I don’t fault them for that, I applaud it.

They like being accepted by the Putin-MAGA party more than they like any country.

bass4funkToday  08:02 am JST

Either way, it clearly shows what utter clowns and incompetents the Pubs are...

Says the the party that could care less about their own country

You keep saying that but there is no foreign dictator that Democrats cuddle up to like MAGAs with Putin.

quercetumToday  07:50 am JST

The vote -- set for Saturday -- could finally get much-needed help to outgunned Ukrainian forces as they battle Russian invaders, and President Joe Biden swiftly called for Congress to pass it.

If the U.S. and its Allies can help shoot down Iranian drones over Israel, why can’t they do the same with and in Ukraine?

We're not allowed to have patriot batteries in Russia or ships in the Black Sea. Yes, it is unfortunate I know.

BlacklabelToday  08:09 am JST

Just pandering for votes.

Implying that isn't the entire Trump method of operation. His entire abortion stance is pandering for votes.

The technology and neuroscience in general is woefully primitive. More important to focus on how AI is ruining education.

Or what? He will sell to someone with the proper temperament to be CEO?

Best to get things in writing from these insane dictators.

Zelenskyy is right that the EU either needs to supply the weapons now or supply them later with Russia feeling more belligerent.

It's very late, but better than never. I hope Speaker Neuman survives until Sunday.

JJEToday 03:17 am JST

No. KFOR is quite different to a settlement imposed on Belgrade by the west unilaterally - which Russia didn't participate in. That is conflating and distortion.

Russia certainly didn't object to KFOR. They didn't even abstain. The attempt to use Kosovo to excuse all manner of barbarities against Ukraine will not fly among reasonable nations.

What will also be distorted is the new Ukraine's new borders as everyone will have to purchase a new atlas to properly reflect territorial realities. Good for the printing houses out there.

Or they will just remain unrecognized Russian stolen property like everything else on Russia's borders.

JJEToday 01:49 am JST

Beijing understands this: there was a signed plan with territorial integrity called the Minsk Agreements. That ship has sailed and won't be coming back.

Peking understands that Russia and its proxies had no intention of ensuring the Minsk Agreements were fulfilled.

JJEToday 01:41 am JST

Territorial integrity is not frequently a holier-than-thou consideration. Case in point: Serbia - western ultimatum imposed on them include territory loss. Frankly, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

The territory loss was also the result of the Russian approved KFOR over the years. There was no such justification for Russia's rank aggression in stealing Ukraine's land before the Euromaidan had even completed.

Lots of comments that the US runs Japan when Japan has full autonomy to amend their Japanese written Article 9. Pretty insulting to say that Japan can't make their own decisions.

nikApr. 17 08:02 pm JST

Russia will withdraw troops from Ukraine when it no longer exists at all.

So the plan is genocide, huh? You learned well to emulate your enemy in WW2.

Look who's Talking. Germany has an eternal debt to the Soviet and Russian people. for the war of 1941-1945.

No, Russia has a debt to Germany for still unreturned Konigsberg. The other messes Russia caused are even harder to untangle and may not be possible. Then there is the cost of 45 years of occupation and I'm sure other damages.

In Russia, every family has a person killed or tortured by Nazi Germany.

Not family members that are alive today.

Therefore, Scholz, stay away from Russia, you are always guilty before the Soviet people, remember this all your life

Russia should stay away from Germany by going back across the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine.

JJEApr. 17 04:08 pm JST

The 12-point peace initiative proposed by China in February 2023 is the clearest and most viable to date, because it is based on an analysis of the reasons for current events and seeks to address the root causes. This is a basic fact.

A plan with no reference to how Ukraine's territorial integrity is to be respected. Some plan.

JJEToday 03:22 pm JST

Tanks only rolled one way on Feb. 24th, 2022.

Precisely. This is the narrative Scholz is peddling, which completely omits the coup and the civil war which provoked foreign intervention. That is why he will get nowhere because people want truth over narrative.

The truth is that Russia pretended to recognize Free Ukraine for eight years before launching an illegal invasion of conquest. People that are able to speak for themselves know this.

Xi also understands that a hostile military block is surrounding Russia and him.

Oooooo, hostile. Kind of like the wolf warrior nonsense and ultranationalism the dictatorship brigade are peddling.

The problems with the China economy are much exaggerated in the western media. Sure, there is some overstretch in the real estate sector but that's about it. Growth is predicted at 4.6% whereas the German economy is almost zero.

China needs to grow by 3x to catch the US per capita. Simply ain't going to happen before it grows old.

JJEToday 01:34 pm JST

Scholz is losing touch with reality - seems to believe it is his job - and within his rights - to urge China to loosen its ties with Russia as well as to support the West’s unrealistic proposals for ending the war in Ukraine without acknowledging that Russia is winning it, exclusively blaming it on Moscow while totally absolving Kyiv of any responsibility. How delusional.

Tanks only rolled one way on Feb. 24th, 2022.

Fortunately, Xi can look him in the eye and educate him on the root causes of the conflict which kicked off with a coup in 2014 and give him a dose of reality on ending it.

Xi can make an insane self-interested claim but he won't because China pretends like it still respects territorial integrity.

Furthermore, he has miscalculated: as long as Germany offers a spectacle of unquestioning and irrational obedience to Washington, no one will be interested in his advice on how to cooperate, let alone bring the conflict to a conclusion. 

Xi doesn't have that much time for these obsequious types. When Scholz's plane touched down in Chongqing, he was greeted by the Vice Mayor of the city. This was widely interpreted as a diplomatic panning and rightly so.

Xi also tried to play emperor with the US. Then his economy crashed and he had to go hat in hand to the US again.

GuruMickToday 02:11 pm JST

Again, where''s the benefit of invading and occupying Japan.

Then Russia should have no problem returning the islands its stole if they are so worthless, hrm?

EastmanToday 11:59 am JST

USA needs for own survival permanent conflict and warmongering.

Now lets show off some more of our nukes on the evening news, amirite?

AmpasToday 10:39 am JST

The OECD is 40% of world gdp and Russia isn't getting that business back.

Can you name one G7/EU country with higher GDP growth than Russia in 2023?

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD

I bet North Korea had some pretty stellar GDP growth in 2023, too.

Dedollarization does not exist.

Yes, it does.

https://theconversation.com/why-the-world-is-turning-away-from-the-us-dollar-220093

Oh I see, "exploring ways", and a dollar backed UAE settles transaction, and a zoomed in graph. Stunning evidence.

EastmanToday 11:59 am JST

in other words american ally is puched to spend more taxpayers money for outdated and unreliable US weapons.

You haven't seen our weapons in action with trained operators yet. We have, on the other hand, seen everything Russia has to offer and they can't take a major city from #30 on the military expenditure list.