The China Thread (Threat)

digrar said:
They've just started to make noises about our Wheat now...
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That's very odd... especially with the food insecurity they're facing. Their agricultural areas just took a beating due to flooding. I think China's trying to destabilize the market, to fuck over your farmers and ultimately AU, so they can get a cheaper price on the extra grain they're gonna need.
(China's playing chicken with y'all to save face and their pocketbook.)

Not sure if it helps, but I've also been reading some of their popular literature and the culture of how they approach business is abhorrent. Seriously, fuck them. If there's anywhere else China can get grain imports work out deals to block out the Chicoms. (Food prices around the world are spiking along with food shortages.)

CQB said:
It will continue, the big hit economically will be if the PRC stops importing our coal & iron ore.
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Can that coal and iron ore be used to build up Australia's civil and military infrastructure? Cause that coal and iron ore is likely feeding China's massive steel industry and their 'One Belt One Road' scheme.

On the other hand, Australia could try something akin to China's 'One Belt One Road' scheme. You guys have the raw materials and goodwill China needs to carry out their plan. Heck, you might turn the tables on China and box them in using a similar strategy. Though it might drive further Russia China cooperation.
 
Fired people for the Tom Cotton Op-Ed...but it's totes mcgotes cool to publish this Op-Ed praising China for it's takeover of Hong Kong. ARE WE UPFUCKINGSIDE DOWN?

Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not

HONG KONG — No amount of outcry, condemnation or sanctions over the Chinese government’s purported encroachment in Hong Kong’s affairs will alter the fact that Hong Kong is part of China and that its destiny is intertwined with the mainland’s.

Hong Kong has been rocked by a series of crises after the eruption of protests last year over a proposed bill (long since withdrawn) that would have allowed the extradition of some suspects in criminal cases to mainland China.

Hong Kongers who wanted the city promptly to return to peace thought the authorities’ handling of the situation, which dragged on for months and grew more and more violent, was incompetent. For other locals, many outsiders and apparently much of the global media, a people’s legitimate quest for more democracy was being suppressed.

Something had to be done, and the Chinese authorities did it.

The scale and frequency of antigovernment protests has now subsided — thanks to a national security law for Hong Kong promulgated in Beijing on June 30.

Several prominent democracy advocates have since announced their retirement from politics, disbanded their parties or fled the city.
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(Might be a fit for the politics thread, dunno)
 
ThunderHorse said:
Fired people for the Tom Cotton Op-Ed...but it's totes mcgotes cool to publish this Op-Ed praising China for it's takeover of Hong Kong. ARE WE UPFUCKINGSIDE DOWN?

Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not



(Might be a fit for the politics thread, dunno)
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I thought at first this was written as a defeatist "Hong Kong can't stop China no matter how hard we try" type story, but then I saw Regina Ip wrote it.
 
Blizzard said:
Anyone still questioning China's motives?

Here’s What Could Happen If China Invaded Taiwan

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A Chinese military training complex in Inner Mongolia, shown in this satellite image taken on Sept. 29, includes full-scale replicas of targets such as Taiwan’s Presidential Office Building.

Source: Satellite image 2020 Maxar Technologies
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I know from reading that we've done similar things for practicing raiding POW compounds during Vietnam and other high risk ops, but they weren't usually built out in the open (at least not when satellites were overhead).

Almost like they want you to see it.
 
Cookie_ said:
I know from reading that we've done similar things for practicing raiding POW compounds during Vietnam and other high risk ops, but they weren't usually built out in the open (at least not when satellites were overhead).

Almost like they want you to see it.
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I recall reading a story about Reagan, how he wanted a subtle 'show' during the Cold War in the early 80s, so had a US sub pop up somewhere close to a Soviet fleet, then submerge and disappear. I think sometimes 'hiding' those not-so-subtle messages in the open sends a HUGE message.
 
Devildoc said:
I recall reading a story about Reagan, how he wanted a subtle 'show' during the Cold War in the early 80s, so had a US sub pop up somewhere close to a Soviet fleet, then submerge and disappear. I think sometimes 'hiding' those not-so-subtle messages in the open sends a HUGE message.
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Or like when he sent a SR-71 over North Korea to do figure-8s with sonic booms over a meeting of communist officials, just to let them know that we knew they were there. 😁
 

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