ThePBot comments

The Japanese don't believe that they are war criminals, that's the problem.

Or it could be that Trump is simply supporting human rights.

Lmao, good one. Even his good friend Xi is laughing.

Tying Hong Kong with a trade deal is probably worse than tying Huawei with it. At this point, with the trade war going on and sanctions, what would additional sanctions do? It didn't even do much since 1989.

Trump just wants to entice Xi to try and help the markets bounce back, because it's not making him look good right now, with a possible looming recession.

This will just let China (maybe along with Russia) want to put their own missiles in the American hemisphere.

 If only Britain hadn't handed over sovereignty of HK to China.

Britain had to. Just look at the interaction between Thatcher and Deng.

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Well, it's official. China is now a "currency manipulator", according to the US.

Prepare for some tariffs China, you asked for it!

Oops, forgot to put "/s"

Well, it's official. China is now a "currency manipulator", according to the US.

Prepare for some tariffs China, you asked for it!

This Dream2030 suddenly showed up by creating new account. Weird.

You should go on YouTube, specifically on videos about Japan's war crimes, and see the plethora of Japanese copy and paste warriors denouncing everything. They even go all chronological with dates and stuff lmao.

When conservative Koreans criticize Moon, who gained support and views from Japanese right-wingers, then it's okay.

But when there are Japanese who criticizes Abe, then the conspiracies are let loose.

Serrano

How many Afghans were behind 9/11?

The Taliban in Afghanistan were harboring Bin Laden. Didn't you guys know that?

Let's pretend that's a good argument, but again, please explain

13 out of 32 million, Toasted? Really? Painting with a broad brush are we?

So you're willing to go invade certain a country just for a group of people, but not willing to do it to another country?

This childish protesting is spreading

Unless Japan does it, right? Remember the whole issue they had with the islands during Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018?

13 out of 32 million, Toasted? Really? Painting with a broad brush are we?

vs the 0 amount of people in Iraq and Afghanistan that was guilty of 9/11, the two countries that I'm sure chicken hawks love being in.

He's pandering to his base more than anything, I feel like. They love this kind of stuff. It's what got him elected.

There should be a new higher body separate from the UN that is limited to democratic states in which countries that are not democracies would be forced to reform in order to gain access to its benefits.

But that should mean that these democracies also can't access the benefits of engaging with those non-democratic, resource-rich, developing economies around the world too, right? Right?

"By accepting delivery of the S-400 from Russia, President Erdogan has chosen a perilous partnership with Putin at the expense of Turkey's security, 

I dunno about that. The S-400s are pretty darn good at securing an airspace.

'The Lion King' cast talks reimagining the Disney classic

Spoiler Alert: This movie is based on the animated version.......Like, really, really, closely based on it....

No Western delegation was willing to take the lead and expose itself as a "ringleader" through a joint statement or resolution, diplomats said.

This was due to governments' fears of a potential political and economic backlash from China, diplomats said.

The UN is like a spider's web. If you're a fly, you get caught in it, but if you're a bull, you pass right through.

"Revealing what happened on the battlefield during the Sino-Japanese War is just the tip of the iceberg. We must investigate the truth in order to learn from it and prevent this tragic history from repeating itself," Matsuno said.

Like...like....like, welcome to the world, bruh!

Hmm, slightly different approach from vandalizing their flags, and calling them "locusts", I see.

I think it's a little bit too late for Hong Kong. There's a report that mainlanders nowadays are looking less optimistic of that city's model.

The fact of the matter is, no matter how bad the CCP is, more people in mainland China are becoming middle class, and with that, comes their own set of pride, which make them start lifting their own chins for once- something that was once exclusive only to the Hong Kongers, and the Taiwanese, before. And seeing that both economies are highly dependent on China, this notion will just be stronger in the future.

Gaddafi was bad, but not this bad.

I've been out of the loop when it comes to Libya, and hadn't even noticed that there is another civil war there that had started since 2014.

Just in time for Brexit. Good luck.

I kind of like the VAR. It's more reassuring. To me, bad refereeing is worse than some delays, and I like that it enforces the rules of the game.

However, if there's one change I'd like to see in football, it's the removal of shootouts. It's so anti-climactic, and renders the 90+ minutes prior as meaningless in my opinion.

Trump says China needs to reach a trade deal more than he does

Who was it that said they'd increase tariffs if Xi didn't meet him in Japan?

Who was it that said trade wars would be easy to win.....more than a year ago?

At first, I wondered why they would censor patriotic/nationalistic war movie, but then I read the KMT thing- insecurity (even though the CCP and the KMT are getting friendlier nowadays when it comes to the DPP).

the KMT would have been able to devote more resources to fight the invaders (Japanese et al.).

It's not that simple. The KMT (Really, just Chiang Kaishek and his closest advisers) viewed the communists more dangerous than Imperial Japan. Japan were already stationed in China before they even started the war against them (through the false flag of destroying their own railway), and even after that, the KMT still focused on the communists.

It also didn't help the fact that, aside from Japan, there were other foreign-owned (Western) colonies within China during the KMT rule, which was a continuation since the Qing Dynasty, and it was always used as propaganda against them- like why or how could the "Nationalist Party" allow that to happen?

What tier is the US in? i'm interested, considering everything that's happening at their border with Mexico, and also ICE.

"All the best people"

There's no more greater chance of having a permanent Russian base somewhere in the Americas than today's era.

If I were Xi, he should just tell the media that Trump seems be the one who wants to meet him so badly, and then proceeds to cancel the meeting for more "important reasons."

Everyone knows he'd probably put tariffs on the $300B goods anyway, which Trump still won't understand that it's a tax on his own people.

Could you imagine how Trump would feel if he's being snubbed for, let's say, Justin Trudeau?

They just need to raise their fists in unison, and this picture will be perfect.

Even if Mexico did have a magic wand to wave around, and instantly fix the crisis at their borders, there's no fixing Trumps habit of violating whatever agreement that he signed. He'd find something else to blame Mexico for.