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Post by felonious on Jan 15, 2019 13:00:05 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46874922
Accusations by Canada that the recent increase in sentence to the death penalty is a tit for tat response to the detention of a Huawei executive.
There was a recent case of the family of a US citizen being detained because he was wanted by the Chinese authorities.
They seem to be advertising heavily after European tourists but you'd think European tourists would be wary.
Building artificial islands, threatening Taiwan, oppression of Muslims they'll need some good PR soon.
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Post by salopstick on Jan 15, 2019 13:36:04 GMT
Or stay away from drugs.
For all I care they can set up an international hot squad that goes round executing drug dealers from the top up
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Post by flea79 on Jan 15, 2019 14:11:29 GMT
all seems tit for tat and a bit of diplomatic lunacy!
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Post by felonious on Jan 15, 2019 15:06:32 GMT
Or stay away from drugs. For all I care they can set up an international hot squad that goes round executing drug dealers from the top up He's denying that he was involved in drugs.
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Post by salopstick on Jan 15, 2019 15:43:45 GMT
Or stay away from drugs. For all I care they can set up an international hot squad that goes round executing drug dealers from the top up He's denying that he was involved in drugs. He’s previously been found guilty of drug trafficking in canada
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Post by felonious on Jan 15, 2019 17:54:54 GMT
He's denying that he was involved in drugs. He’s previously been found guilty of drug trafficking in canada Drugs are irrelevant to the thread which is about the present belligerence of China.
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Post by salopstick on Jan 15, 2019 19:00:52 GMT
He’s previously been found guilty of drug trafficking in canada Drugs are irrelevant to the thread which is about the present belligerence of China. Or the thread is separate to China retaliating to Canada but actually is a story about China carrying on with their policy of being extremely hardline on drug dealers
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Post by thevoid on Jan 15, 2019 19:09:20 GMT
I can't wait to see how that wet wipe Trudeau handles this.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Jan 15, 2019 19:54:59 GMT
I can't wait to see how that wet wipe Trudeau handles this. I’ve seen puddles that are more solid than that feeble stick of lukewarm piss.
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Post by hoffgreen on Jan 15, 2019 20:50:47 GMT
I have to watch it occasionally to remind myself that he did actually correct someone in public for saying mankind and insist they say humankind instead.... Bear in mind one of his ministers also corrected themselves for saying fishermen and replaced it with fisherfolk and apologised.... Not so long ago these people would've been committed as insane.... now they're running the western world... Australia Day under pressure to be renamed Invasion Day.....
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Post by felonious on Jan 16, 2019 6:33:27 GMT
Drugs are irrelevant to the thread which is about the present belligerence of China. Or the thread is separate to China retaliating to Canada but actually is a story about China carrying on with their policy of being extremely hardline on drug dealers "China flexing it's muscles" "Accusations by Canada that the recent increase in sentence to the death penalty is a tit for tat response to the detention of a Huawei executive"
Pretty specific Salop
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Post by felonious on Jan 16, 2019 6:34:01 GMT
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Post by felonious on Jan 16, 2019 6:37:03 GMT
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Post by felonious on Jan 16, 2019 6:38:46 GMT
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Post by felonious on Jan 16, 2019 6:39:54 GMT
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Post by bathstoke on Jan 16, 2019 7:32:29 GMT
Or stay away from drugs. For all I care they can set up an international hot squad that goes round executing drug dealers from the top up How do you go up from the top, that is proper high
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Post by salopstick on Jan 16, 2019 8:41:58 GMT
Or the thread is separate to China retaliating to Canada but actually is a story about China carrying on with their policy of being extremely hardline on drug dealers "China flexing it's muscles" "Accusations by Canada that the recent increase in sentence to the death penalty is a tit for tat response to the detention of a Huawei executive"
Pretty specific Salop
So now with your links you turn it into a China bashing thread China is a communist country they have some pretty horrendous policies. However I do believe the western world rightly or wrongly also have an agenda. It’s almost like they don’t like the fact another country has rose to power to threaten their monopoly. It’s a bit hypocritical. It’s all political gesturing. Not my quote but “But before we mount our high horses, we should take stock of our own complicity in the rise of Chinese tech giants and our mercenary willingness to do business with them while turning a blind eye to their unsavory practices”
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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 16, 2019 16:00:13 GMT
I'm currently in Africa (Ougadougou, Burkina Faso) The ruthless way the Chinese are commercially taking over Africa is frightening. They are building roads, railways , stadiums, new towns etc, anything they can get governments to buy (on credit). At the same time Chinese imports from buses to motorbikes, are flooding in in millions. Their attitude to the Africans makes the old European empires look like benevolent Nanny states. This can only end up with third world nations heavily in debt to China. How the Chinese will force repayment is unknown, presumably by large scale ownership of infrastructure and resources (there go any remaining forests), those countries will lose what little earning capacity they have. Either that or there'll be massive defaulting.
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Post by xchpotter on Jan 16, 2019 19:48:40 GMT
I'm currently in Africa (Ougadougou, Burkina Faso) The ruthless way the Chinese are commercially taking over Africa is frightening. They are building roads, railways , stadiums, new towns etc, anything they can get governments to buy (on credit). At the same time Chinese imports from buses and motorbikes are flooding in in millions. Their attitude to the Africans makes the old European empires look like benevolent Nanny states. This can only end up with third world nations heavily in debt to China. How the Chinese will force repayment is unknown, presumably by large scale ownership of infrastructure and resources (there go any remaining forests), those countries will lose what little earning capacity they have. Either that or there'll be massive defaulting. Scary stuff indeed. Makes you wonder what it will end up looking like.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 16, 2019 22:53:49 GMT
The Chinese are becoming Luna tics.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Jan 26, 2019 11:09:46 GMT
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Post by 3putts on Jan 26, 2019 12:31:59 GMT
I'm currently in Africa (Ougadougou, Burkina Faso) The ruthless way the Chinese are commercially taking over Africa is frightening. They are building roads, railways , stadiums, new towns etc, anything they can get governments to buy (on credit). At the same time Chinese imports from buses to motorbikes, are flooding in in millions. Their attitude to the Africans makes the old European empires look like benevolent Nanny states. This can only end up with third world nations heavily in debt to China. How the Chinese will force repayment is unknown, presumably by large scale ownership of infrastructure and resources (there go any remaining forests), those countries will lose what little earning capacity they have. Either that or there'll be massive defaulting. not just Africa they are taking over asia as well, I have just had a trip to Cambodia and from my hotel all you can see is vast construction sites all backed by Chinese money. the hotel I stayed[naga world] has a casino you can barely get near a table as its so full of Chinese they like to play a card game which I know nothing about but the min stake was $200 im not short of a bob or two but would never gamble more than £20 per hand where the feck are they getting all their money from?
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Post by boru on Jan 26, 2019 23:47:17 GMT
I'm currently in Africa (Ougadougou, Burkina Faso) The ruthless way the Chinese are commercially taking over Africa is frightening. They are building roads, railways , stadiums, new towns etc, anything they can get governments to buy (on credit). At the same time Chinese imports from buses to motorbikes, are flooding in in millions. Their attitude to the Africans makes the old European empires look like benevolent Nanny states. This can only end up with third world nations heavily in debt to China. How the Chinese will force repayment is unknown, presumably by large scale ownership of infrastructure and resources (there go any remaining forests), those countries will lose what little earning capacity they have. Either that or there'll be massive defaulting. Which mineral extraction company are you working for ??
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Post by boru on Jan 26, 2019 23:49:04 GMT
Is this the same as Facebook, WhatsApp etc
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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 27, 2019 0:08:18 GMT
I'm currently in Africa (Ougadougou, Burkina Faso) The ruthless way the Chinese are commercially taking over Africa is frightening. They are building roads, railways , stadiums, new towns etc, anything they can get governments to buy (on credit). At the same time Chinese imports from buses to motorbikes, are flooding in in millions. Their attitude to the Africans makes the old European empires look like benevolent Nanny states. This can only end up with third world nations heavily in debt to China. How the Chinese will force repayment is unknown, presumably by large scale ownership of infrastructure and resources (there go any remaining forests), those countries will lose what little earning capacity they have. Either that or there'll be massive defaulting. Which mineral extraction company are you working for ?? None. I am a tourist with a strange choice of destination. I'm interested in learning and seeing life from a different perspective. And escaping the winter. It's the most recent in a series of trips to Africa continuing from where the previous trip finished. Africa is the nearest modern equivalent to the wild west, one hundred and fifty years ago I would have gone there.
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Post by boru on Jan 27, 2019 0:10:55 GMT
Which mineral extraction company are you working for ?? None. I am a tourist with a strange choice of destination. I'm interested in learning and seeing life from a different perspective. And escaping the winter. It's the most recent in a series of trips to Africa continuing from where the previous trip finished. Africa is the nearest modern equivalent to the wild west, one hundred and fifty years ago I would have gone there. Fair play. The modern equivalent of the wild west is in China at the moment I would say
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Post by felonious on Jan 27, 2019 9:00:23 GMT
Is this the same as Facebook, WhatsApp etc I don't use Facebook on principal and the latest articles on information sharing with WhatsApp and Instagram are disturbing.
Back to China though there has been another case of detainment this time of an Australian citizen being detained whilst in China momentarily on a connecting flight. Disturbing on the basis that Australia and China have good relations and are huge trading partners. China flexing it's muscles.
www.reuters.com/article/us-china-australia-idUSKCN1PH2QX
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Post by crowey on Jan 27, 2019 9:56:13 GMT
The Chinese were going to build a new port in PNG, but thank god Australia stepped in
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Post by innocentbystander on Jan 27, 2019 11:44:18 GMT
The Chinese were going to build a new port in PNG, but thank god Australia stepped in That's another "educational" place I've travelled in, in the mid-eighties before bits of it became too lawless. I was island hopping from the Solomon Islands (great) on various ferries, cargo boats and even a yacht, then hitched up the central valley til the road ran out. I still managed to get caught up in a tribal war though, it was much like 1970s football violence, but with spears and bows and arrows. Amazing that for some tribes in the central valley the first time they saw a wheel it was on the front of an aeroplane. Within a few years there were expert mechanics. PNG has massive potential, but it's vulnerable to both China and Indonesia. Hope the Aussies can maintain an influence there.
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Post by boru on Jan 31, 2019 21:58:10 GMT
They haven't invaded or change the government and taken over the state oil company though..
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