It’s extraordinary. At the first OBOR meeting back in May, most of beneficiary countries sent their PMs/Presidents. Even countries not in the area did e.g. Spain, Argentina, while others like UK, Switzerland sent high level delegates.
Australia seemed to have sent no-one. Or if they did it was only consular officials…
At least he ■■■■■■ up trying to be nice
Arguably the fracas around the condolence call was Trump ■■■■■■■ up trying to be nice, with a clumsily expressed sentiment. Then his unwillingness to ever be contrite, and need to attack and win kicked in.
Is this the same Xi who is enacting laws making him dictator of China? Maybe we can import that from China as well?
I am sure we need to disentangle truth from propaganda of both sides. I get my information from well placed people in china and from my own analyses rather than what spin Western media is putting on it.
The US is preparing to put B52 nuclear bombers on 24hr armed ground alert for the first time in 26 years.
Edit: US strategic command has corrected this story. No nuclear bombers on 24/7 standby. They are just upgrading their alert centres.
There is no spin. He has stacked the party with his loyalists and is about to have himself enacted with powers that harken back to Mao Zedong days.
I wasn’t comparing the incident to Trump’s,
Just think its a bit off when someone is trying to be good and get slammed for it.
Fair enough.
I’d like to import the chinese ability to plan for the mid and long term, not sure how much else.
Yep, I wish our politicians had the ability to have any sort of vision that extended beyond the next election.
Mind you, it’s probably easier to have longer-term vision in a one-party system.
There’s traditionally been a huge proportion of engineers and scientists in leading positions in China, though they are “modernising” now with more lawyers and economists and career politicians/administrators. Poor buggers.
Well I wouldn’t mind importing that too. More scientists and engineers in parliament would be of benefit in my opinion.
Not to mention how outrageous it was the such and such won “insert reality TV series name” and here’s a week of articles about that before you even get to the important news.
I reckon if I ever had a cat I’d call it Chairman Meow.
Trump still hasn’t made moves to implement the sanctions against Russia/NK/Iran he signed in early August.
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham said the Trump administration had “a blind spot” in regards to Russia that he didn’t understand.
In an oversight committe, and under questioning from Republican Senator Ben Sasse, Attorney General Sessions admitted that the DOJ wasn’t ready to deal with future foreign threats to elections and hadn’t done much about it.
New NRA video…
that’s kinda f’d up
Answers the age old question, is there anything I wouldn’t ■■■■■■■■■■ to?
■■■■■■■ hell.