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True. Probably a wayward junior apparatchik Tweeting an apology that they thought would get them promoted for broadening China’s openness to work with (to dominate) the West…
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Weinie
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More likely irrefutable evidence that was presented to China, with threats to expose them.
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That makes sense.
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That’s my take. The “face” lost by apologizing is huge, and “face” is much more of an Asian thing than a western thing.
The article below is more of a person-to-person analogy for “saving face” but you can extrapolate to nation-states.
Saving Face
Writen by Asian Youth for Asian Youth. Saving Face is an article by Eva Zhong
www.dearasianyouth.org
daftandbarmy
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Non paywalled article...
China Admits Its Ship Damaged Baltic Natural Gas Pipeline by Accident | OilPrice.com
A Chinese-owned ship accidentally damaged a natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in October 2023 due to a storm.
oilprice.com
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I also think it was a way for China to walk back from some of its alignment with Russia.
China has been softening its support for Russia in the last two weeks, and more significantly since the Ukrainians have invaded Kursk. Recently having shut down it’s direct drone exports to Russia
I suspect Xi wants to get back to straddle the fence to hedge his bets that Russia may end up losing their war with Ukraine, and positioning China to take advantage wherever it can.
He’s doing some overt Military alignment with Russia - but nothing really significant to asssit them in terms of Mil hardwares, and most of the logistics support has been old stuff the PLA has disposed of already (like old tires).
He is an opportunist, who wants to expand China’s presence and prestige in the world.
OldSolduer
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A snake more like it. Reminds me of a tale about trying to tame a snake.
Colin Parkinson
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It's all about the regional officials getting a hefty chunk of the "Cremation fees". If the government was doing it for free, they would not care.
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Figured it was related to this topic.
www.armytimes.com
US soldier pleads guilty to selling sensitive military information
An Army sergeant was accused of providing documents on U.S. rocket systems, Chinese military tactics and other information to a foreign national.
www.armytimes.com
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$42k for info on HIMARS, etc?Figured it was related to this topic.
US soldier pleads guilty to selling sensitive military information
An Army sergeant was accused of providing documents on U.S. rocket systems, Chinese military tactics and other information to a foreign national.
That’s pretty clear call for the US to pay their NCMs more.
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It is (almost) never about the money.
OldSolduer
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IIRC there were several Americans who betrayed there country for less. Money, Ideology, Conscious, Ego
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Never a dull day in China
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That was the casino ship, right?
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Well it's usefulness as a training carrier is over, so possibly yes.
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Honeypots.
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US notices: Canada has minerals, and only 150km from North Bay.
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Ironic that Canada and Ontario pour tens of billions of taxpayer dollars into batter plants, but let’s the U.S. do the proportionately heavy lift on cobalt mining/production for those batteries…
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What is even more concerning is the EV market is not as rosy and all the manufacturers and government mucky mucks thought it would be. We may as well have burnt billions in a huge bonfire.Ironic that Canada and Ontario pour tens of billions of taxpayer dollars into batter plants, but let’s the U.S. do the proportionately heavy lift on cobalt mining/production for those batteries…
Remind me what is the definition of insanity?
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