The globalization of the economy has been the single greatest contributor to world peace since the second world war.
zephyreks
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That must be why SMIC just showed 7nm capability years ahead of when people expected it. That must be why Russia is projecting GDP growth this year and Russia's manufacturing PMI is showing expansion while most other countries are showing contraction.
Who do you think you're convincing with this?
Ah yes, because conservatives are subhuman and definitely not something like half of the US voterbase.
This is a US problem, plain and simple.
Guess Ukraine isn't really European after all.
Fuck Poland.
Also Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt...
With the exception of Putin (who governs over Slavs and thus by Nazi propaganda are not white), none of these countries are white. I'm beginning to think a teensy tiny bit of racism is at play here...
Hasn't the US clearly established the waters around Taiwan being international waters subject to FONOPs and explicitly not territorial waters outside of the 12km limit?
China and Taiwan are aligned in their EEZ/territorial claims in the region (all the way down to the Spratly and Paracel Islands), so these missile launches would constitute only firing missiles from one point in their EEZ to another point in their EEZ without passing over airspace defined by territorial waters boundaries... Which, since as we've already established aren't territorial waters, is perfectly legal in the rules-based system.
Trade between Taiwan and China is something like $270 billion. Taiwan is one of China's biggest export partners (larger than Russia, Malaysia, France, Brazil) and one of China's biggest import partners (literally the biggest, I think).
Cultural penetration is significant and bilateral mobility across the strait is very high. Anyone who seriously sees hot war as a possibility is delusional. At worst, we may see a Kennedy-style quarantine of Taiwan if too many US weapons make their way to the island.
Taiwan-China relations were downright friendly until 2016. Not really sure what's changed since then.
China has infrastructure investment and affirmative action. What do red states have?
From first-hand experience, Vancouver downtown Eastside does have needles everywhere. Then again, nobody really walks through downtown Eastside, so I guess it's fine.
What's the traffic on those rail lines?
For Russia to India, it's a matter of national security considering the other shortest routes pass through either Gibraltar of Istanbul... Both NATO.