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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I did not know Steven Seagal was a Goon. It makes sense tho 
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Even though the EU is very popular in the States (because it is at odds with Euro right wingers), it is a totally spineless organisation that stands for convenience and not rocking the boat above all. See also the Russia-Germany gas pipeline (gently caress Ukraine right?) l, and the total surrender of democracy in Turkey in a deal to divert Mediterranian migrants there, where I'm sure they are very well treated and never heard from again.
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Strategic Tea posted:Even though the EU is very popular in the States (because it is at odds with Euro right wingers), it is a totally spineless organisation that stands for convenience and not rocking the boat above all. See also : Vaccine distribution via EU bureaucracy. Now nobody has enough Vaccines,instead of only some countries.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Uh oh. You mentioned Steven Seagal in Chinathread. Now I have to remind everyone that this masterpiece exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1IzA4-3u1w&t=144s
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oohhboy posted:Hahahahhaahahahhh Bainimarama is the best thing to ever happen to Fiji. His first "coup" was declaring martial law and kicking out George Speight's coup, the fourth such in two decades. After the democratically elected government decided to just pardon Speight's mob, he did an actual coup. He pretty quickly got the country back to being a functioning democracy again and has afaik reduced the significant ethnic tensions in Fiji between native Fijians and Indians to an all time low. I am unaware of any claims of impropriety in Fiji's 2018 election. Edit: I'm the recoil on the RPGs in that China salesman clip. Weka fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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I am the black dude acting circles around the two leads. Hell, Sam Worthington would be competitive.
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https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/quote:Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the United States, and yet for several decades the State Department has created complex internal restrictions to regulate our diplomats, servicemembers, and other officials’ interactions with their Taiwanese counterparts. The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing. No more. a couple of expat families i know around here are openly wondering if this will be interpreted as a declaration of war on the CCP's side e: it's difficult to say if this is a donny t idea. the press release is from the secretary of state and i can't find any sort of release about donny signing off on it. which on one level isn't a surprise, he's a seditionist in the eyes of most of the country right now, but on another level that means i don't know if this is the secretary of state going rogue while he can or not 
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sugoi if true
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So long as it doesn't end up in a war, good on 'em.
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https://twitter.com/ChineseEmbinUS/status/1347224755485749249?s=20 The best thing about the PRC's campaign of "population change" (NOT GENOCIDE) is that it's resulting in "population improvement" (again, NOT GENOCIDE), by replacing bad populations with good ones.
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Coolguye posted:https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/ Holy poo poo what the gently caress
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Rinkles posted:"population quality” More Han = Better than
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Here's some frivolous, charming, and heartwarming Chinese content. One of those "reaction" videos where they get people of one ethnicity to try the food/snacks/TV Shows etc. of anther ethnicity. This one has a middle aged Chinese couple from Qingdao trying Mexican food for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vvC-SPwIU I think the couple in it are adorable.
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Dont Touch ME posted:Holy poo poo what the gently caress Yeah this, I'm not seeing any reaction yet on any news media. Of course Donny's shock troops have stolen all the attention but I would think China would already have reacted somehow.
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What are the odds Biden walks it back? Seems like trump or Republicans trying to make him look weak on China if he does or sour his relationships if he doesn't.
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Coolguye posted:https://www.state.gov/lifting-self-imposed-restrictions-on-the-u-s-taiwan-relationship/ It seems only to be loosening procedural rules and restrictions on how US diplomats interact with their Taiwanese counterparts. It’s not a recognition of the ROC as either the rightful government of China or its own sovereign nation. It’s not anymore provocative than the billions in weapons we’ve been selling to Taiwan. The US still ascribes to the one China policy, that Taiwan is a province of China but with a separate government from the mainland. The red line for the PRC would be any move towards full Taiwanese independence. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vvC-SPwIU ***Lip Smacking Trigger Warning***
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peanut posted:sugoi if true
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Weka posted:What are the odds Biden walks it back? There’s no reason to. Engaging with China just means they literally call you a bitch the second you try to hold them responsible for anything so it’s not like the trade deal and soft power days of Jintao. Relationships inside of China no longer mean anything, and relationships outside of China have been getting soured for a decade as Xinping continues to make everyone mad. Ending the policy of pretending Taiwan doesn’t exist is a direct attack on the CCP’s view of the planet, though, so it’s a pretty big deal to take the step - there probably would have been fallout if it was done pretty much any other week. This is kind of a bit of dirty work that even Obama would have benefitted from doing 3 months after he did it, and now a possibly rogue Secretary of State just did it. Biden will just wait those 3 months and let Donny take the ‘credit’ just as the FBI arrests him for sedition or tax evasion (you know, whichever path they want to take for nailing his bloated rear end to the wall).
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I’m not really seeing anyway this actually protects anyone, it just forces more people to stash cash in their basement like Carrie Lam? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/china-issues-rules-to-protect-firms-citizens-from-foreign-laws
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lolling at China's new strategy of making laws and claiming that they apply to the entire planet
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bob dobbs is dead posted:it works fine for the us, but thats cuz we have a big rear end stick Also because despite the whining of tankies and third world despots American laws that might apply internationally are generally pretty reasonable and most other developed countries have similar ones
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Coolguye posted:There’s no reason to. Engaging with China just means they literally call you a bitch the second you try to hold them responsible for anything so it’s not like the trade deal and soft power days of Jintao. Relationships inside of China no longer mean anything, and relationships outside of China have been getting soured for a decade as Xinping continues to make everyone mad. Ending the policy of pretending Taiwan doesn’t exist is a direct attack on the CCP’s view of the planet, though, so it’s a pretty big deal to take the step - there probably would have been fallout if it was done pretty much any other week. lol if you think biden wont pardon him as literally the first thing he does
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bob dobbs is dead posted:other countries do not have fatca my man Lots of countries tax the foreign income of their citizens
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Mine does, and it's pretty drat liberal. Actually, wait, Fojar's does as well.
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From wikipedia "The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a 2010 United States federal law requiring all non-U.S. foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to search their records for customers with indicia of a connection to the U.S" That's a little more than taxing your overseas citizens.
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It's one of the perks of being sole superpower and is a fair trade for NATO protection IMO. I only wish my country had the clout to squeeze our tax dodging fucks worldwide
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Fojar38 posted:Lots of countries tax the foreign income of their citizens not in addition to local taxes, that privilege is reserved for americans, burmese, hungarians, and eritreans e: north koreans probably also, but more de facto than de jure vanity slug fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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Fojar38 posted:Lots of countries tax the foreign income of their citizens Mine doesn't. I haven't paid a cent of Tax to the Australian government in more than 10 years.
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Considering how little care orange has for leadership, how he is only concerned with the trappings of the office (And legal immunity), wilful ignorance and his repeated love for Xi I would put all the money on Pompeo doing all these foreign policy moves. You should see how drat unhappy he was signing the HK Democracy act. Pompeo has been very active for at least 1.5-2 years if not more with quiet but critical stuff like banning export of bleeding edge chip machines and ASML. Ramping up of real blacklists etc. The last "Big" thing orange did was the Tik Tok fiasco I have little doubt was from Fox. Just because it's WH doesn't mean it's orange. When it is him it's always brain worms idea that he will claim 110%. Besides orange is too busy re-enacting downfall. There are leaks that he is literally raging, kicking the walls, smashing stuff etc. snergle posted:lol if you think biden wont pardon him as literally the first thing he does This would literally be the worse, most dumb rear end thing he can do for everyone, the safest move for him is to let congress and DoJ/DA etc have at it, completely hands off. This is the best opportunity to nail him to the wall, and it is absolutely in the interest of everyone including the republicans. If he has no path back to office he loses massive amounts of sway. Republicans are going to eat poo poo either way, impeachment means they eat less poo poo and they can get their party back.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Mine doesn't. I haven't paid a cent of Tax to the Australian government in more than 10 years. I paid US taxes for the first time last year. You don't have to pay anything if you live and make your money abroad unless you're making a staggering amount of money. I could not give less of a poo poo about the people who complain.
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Grand Fromage posted:I paid US taxes for the first time last year. You don't have to pay anything if you live and make your money abroad unless you're making a staggering amount of money. I could not give less of a poo poo about the people who complain. right, what you complain about is the entire class of banks that have to surrender all your details to the us upon request
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