Quote (Thor123422 @ May 17 2018 02:07pm)

Trump's failure to appoint competent people to the state department directly relates to China's current emboldened nature.

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China has been challenging American hegemony in East Asia for years, for at least the entirety of Xi Jinping's reign.

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HANOI (Reuters) - Recent activity by China’s strategic bombers in the South China Sea’s Paracel Islands seriously violated Vietnam’s sovereignty over the disputed territory, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday uninvited China from a major U.S.-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing’s militarization of islands in the South China Sea, a decision China called unconstructive.
“As an initial response to China’s continued militarization of the South China Sea we have disinvited the PLA Navy from the 2018 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise,” said Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Logan, a Pentagon spokesman.

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“We find that a very unconstructive move,” the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councilor Wang Yi, told reporters in Washington after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Wang described China’s activity in the South China Sea as self-defense, saying it was working on a “much smaller scale” than what the United States had done in Hawaii and Guam.

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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American citizen working at the U.S. consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has reported suffering from “abnormal” sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday and China said it was investigating the incident.
The embassy, which issued a health alert to Americans living in China, said it could not link the case to health issues suffered by U.S. government staff in Cuba dating back to late 2016.

Quote (Goomshill @ 27 May 2018 18:30)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hollywood-studios-hit-plot-twist-in-talks-with-china-1527418803

Imagine the irony that all the Hollywood actors and executives are so fervently anti-Trump, yet here they are trying to negotiate a trade deal against Chinese protectionism, IP abuse and bully tactics.
The 2nd biggest movie market- probably the biggest one if we included piracy around the world- is shutting out Hollywood exports. And the communist party is enjoying its ability to fuck them in the ass.

Quote (Goomshill @ May 27 2018 01:30pm)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hollywood-studios-hit-plot-twist-in-talks-with-china-1527418803

Imagine the irony that all the Hollywood actors and executives are so fervently anti-Trump, yet here they are trying to negotiate a trade deal against Chinese protectionism, IP abuse and bully tactics.
The 2nd biggest movie market- probably the biggest one if we included piracy around the world- is shutting out Hollywood exports. And the communist party is enjoying its ability to fuck them in the ass.

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ May 27 2018 08:09pm)

hollowood propaganda was already giving me strong nausea, but when it's mixed with chinese acceptance (like pacific rim 2) the only thing to do is to watch something else, and never, oh, never, let children watch this cancershit :)