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    "Wolf warrior diplomacy might appease Chinese nationalists at home, but it will limit China's appeal abroad.
    Much of the wolf warrior rubbish is strictly for internal consumption or for consumption by Xi himself and is more accurately understood as internal weakness. The problem with authoritarian echo chambers is you can start to believe your own hype and do real damage externally like getting Somalia to recognise Taiwan! Or worse blunder into a major mistake ala Argentina in the 80s.

    China's floods are adding to Xi's problems, he even left his bubble to meet some farmers. More reliant on the US for food now than they ever have been.

    Chinese people are always quick to attack and ridicule Trump but try to get one to say a bad word about Xi. The fear is real.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davexl View Post
    Excellent article - I wonder however how much longer the SCMP can maintain credible independence from the CCP.
    In what way is the SCMP independent now?!? Their coverage of the HK protests was laughable. They are already simply a more refined mouthpiece for CCP propaganda, that article included.

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    Hong Kong police raid major news organisation, arrest billionaire owner (Jimmy Lai)

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/09/m...hnk/index.html

    Lai, 71, is the highest profile person to be charged under the new national security laws imposed by Beijing, which punish dissent
    with sentences of up to life in prison. Apple Daily said two of Lai's sons and several other executives were also arrested on Monday.


    "Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time," Mark Simon, a senior executive at
    Lai's media company Next Digital, which publishes Apple Daily, said.


    Opinion: Jimmy Lai

    Do My Tweets Really Threaten China’s National Security?


    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/hong-kong-china-national-security-law.html
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    Book Review

    TO START A WAR
    How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq
    By Robert Draper


    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/b...rt-draper.html

    ...Drawing on their years of warnings about threats from abroad, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz teamed up
    with Vice President Dick Cheney to push for war and isolate the reluctant Powell...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Davexl View Post
    Book Review

    TO START A WAR
    How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq
    By Robert Draper


    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/b...rt-draper.html

    ...Drawing on their years of warnings about threats from abroad, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz teamed up
    with Vice President Dick Cheney to push for war and isolate the reluctant Powell...
    I smell something of a beat-up in that link ( and quote ).
    Powell was Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff, a military man, not a politician.
    This book from Woodward paints Powell as careful, rather than reluctant, and that he served Potus well in that role. YMMV.

    https://www.sharetrader.co.nz/showth...l=1#post825529

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    Quote Originally Posted by greater fool View Post
    I smell something of a beat-up in that link ( and quote ).
    Powell was Chair Joint Chiefs of Staff, a military man, not a politician.
    This book from Woodward paints Powell as careful, rather than reluctant, and that he served Potus well in that role. YMMV.

    https://www.sharetrader.co.nz/showth...l=1#post825529
    Your nuance is appreciated...I was emphasizing the dangers of military "hawks' being able to politicise the decision to go to war,
    compared against Powell, a military man with the measured approach he took in his own recommendations to POTUS.

    Wish i had the time to read it personally BTW. Never knew about the Recommended-Read section until now. Thank You!
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    Right in our own back yard, Biggest future "donors"?

    Pacific states face instability, hunger and slow road to Covid recovery: Dame Meg Taylor


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/11/pacific-states-face-instability-hunger-and-slow-road-to-covid-recovery-dame-meg-taylor
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    US, China in last-ditch try to avoid war at sea by Richard Javad Heydarian

    US, Chinese defense chiefs talk one-on-one on South China Sea and Taiwan Strait but there are no signs either side will back down

    Somewhat speculative, but investors draw your own conclusions...

    https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/us-china-in-last-ditch-try-to-avoid-war-at-sea/
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    Bifurcation of Global Manufacturing continues eg Foxconn with Apple

    "China's days as 'world's factory' are over, iPhone maker says"

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-...13-p55l6s.html
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    There are plenty of other low cost centres, but I think the longer term solution would be for the death of consumerism. That would help shift the power-balance significantly. Do we really need to buy $1-$2k phones or other every year?

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