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HowRu68

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Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....

HowRu68, (edited )

For more specific Taiwan trade info

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HowRu68, (edited )

Marked NSFW because of controversial and highly sensitive topic worldwide . If unnecessary, I’ll remove the tag.

edit: tagged removed

HowRu68, (edited )

How so? If you mean the tag, see comment.

Edit: Uhu… because the title makes it sound like the start of a kind of an old sailor bar joke. In retrospect, the title does sounds weird.

HowRu68, (edited )

Just found this interesting background explainer article about the Bill: “In Georgia, Russian émigrés see familiar Kremlin tactics” france24 art

" This law is reminiscent of legislation that came into force in Russia about ten years ago which initially targeted human rights NGOs financed by Western countries and gradually turned into a powerful tool of political repression."

HowRu68, (edited )

No MP yet, just a meagre 25 page accord. Main proposals could’ve been worse .
Also coalation will need accord of EU to opt-out for some stuff (mainly green deals, farms, and migration). Financially, we’ll have to see the outcome after several advisary organs run the budget numbers. Upon which there willl follow more debates. We’ll see how it goes.

HowRu68,

Of Israeli Jews alive today, 80% were born in Israel. A majority of Israel’s Jews are not descended from Europe but rather from Arab nations, including from the parcel of land known today as modern Israel. Known as Mizrachim in Hebrew, they hail from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Algeria, as well as from the Asian caucus region of the former Soviet Union. Those Israelis who are Ashkenazi, the Israeli term for Jews of European descent, are increasingly the minority inside Israel.

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HowRu68,

Why? It’s their fault.

As a sort of outsider afaik: many ( Germans) probably still feel the cultural guilt. Also, technically and morally the Germans have made reparations and ammendments ; still many have therefore a soft and blind spot for the Jewish cause. And for sure the Holocaust should never been forgotten.

But the diaspora started many centuries ago. Zionisim started as a (revolutionary) reaction to this dispersal, and as a wakeupcall for the ppl to unite at the end of 19th century iirc.

These (displacement & refuge) problems and in this case ages of racism (antisemitism) are ancient.

And just to be clear, they’re not the only (lost/disturbed) tribe worldwide. Imo, many palestines must specially now be experiencing somewhat similar or parallel to what happened to many Jews during WW II, which makes it even crazier.

It’s just ancient history repeating itself, only the name, the places and the dates have been changed…

I imagine, and this is a recent discussion, that the UN charter and all humanitarian organisations must change and modernize our legal framework and organisation. There are and are going to be way more refuges and horrors in the years to come.

it’s jut so saddeing as fuck. Idk

HowRu68, (edited )

My response was in the context of that one spefic remark, earlier. Apart from that, sure many nuances can be made, ofc.

But afaik, it was a Jewish person ( Herzl) who initiated it, and later asked support from European powers. wiki Zionism

“The Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews to rising antisemitism in Europe, exemplified by the Dreyfus affair in France and the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire. The political movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book Der Judenstaat”

HowRu68, (edited )

And still whistleblowers are being sentenced, jailed, prosecuted by Gvements ( and sometimes killed)

I get the security thing, but war crimes and industrial crimes should be measured on another different scale altogether. Most of those guys should get a medal, imo. WTF?!

HowRu68, (edited )

Yeah sure but they just don’t realize how bad the situation is.

I guess you must be right. Probably, outsiders ( like me) can’t phantom what’s really going on…

HowRu68, (edited )

I don’t know, I don’t have that much confidence about them forming a proper coalition.

They’ve been saying stuff like this for half a year, and it’s been like the muppetshow. No offence for muppets btw.

Thousands protest in Georgia after lawmakers pass controversial ‘Russian law’ (www.france24.com)

Thousands of protesters rallied Tuesday in Georgia after parliament adopted a law to brand overseas-funded NGOs as groups under “foreign influence”, a measure Brussels has warned will undermine Tbilisi’s European aspirations.

HowRu68,

Russia has used a similar law to silence public figures and organisations that disagree with or deviate from the Kremlin’s views. Georgian society is widely anti-Kremlin. Georgia’s bid for membership of the EU and NATO is enshrined in its constitution and—according to opinion polls—supported by a majority of the population.

HowRu68, (edited )

Not even curb really, just make transparent when NGOs are getting foreign funding.

Problem being with the BILL , is that’s a copypaste Russian Law from Putins desk. And everyone saw what happened there when several 10th of thousands were arrested for protesting, ngos, newspapers were found illegal. Yip, democracic citizen etc were labelled as foreign influence, and handled as traitors . something like this doesn’t bode Well for freedom and democracies.

This is about a (pro Ruzz?) actors in Georgian Government pushing a Bill without any democratic support. Nobody wants it.

HowRu68, (edited )

I think the point is different. It’s about whether Georgia adopts Ruzz/ Putins law or eventually, the EU law. Georgia has EU candidate status.

eu foreign bill But also this EU law is seen as a bit controversial still “It has been criticised by non-governmental organisations who fear it could be used to silence critical voices in the bloc.”

HowRu68,

"A higher regional court in western Germany rejected on Monday an appeal by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party against its classification as a “suspected” far-right extremist organization.

The judges at the court in Münster said the designation was appropriate and did not violate the constitution or European law.

In an area in eastern Serbia, a steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS became synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community (www.onegreenplanet.org)

In the villages surrounding the eastern Serbian city of Smederevo, trouble has brewed over the last eight years. Once a symbol of economic promise, the steel mill acquired by Chinese company HBIS has become synonymous with environmental degradation and health hazards for the local community....

HowRu68,

Sounds horrible…

HowRu68,

but expensive

Probably one of the reasons, other reasons could be ( geo?) complexity and the building (time)'of the whole unfrastructure. I haven’t digged very deep in this yet tbh.

HowRu68, (edited )

Imo it will fist get worse in the years to come, as decoupling has somewhat started where possible. Also I don’t expect any major changes from Xi Jiping or the CCP, in his (strict) policies in the foreseeable future.

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