The CHN/ China thread

[Jimbuna]

China is starting to target western interests in the country after five years of snowballing trade and technology restrictions spearheaded by the US under presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Over the past two months, Chinese officials have slapped new sanctions on US weapons companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, launched an investigation into US chipmaker Micron, raided US due diligence firm Mintz and apprehended local staff, detained a senior executive from Japan’s Astellas Pharma group and hit London-headquartered Deloitte with a record fine. President Xi Jinping’s administration is now considering curbing western access to materials and technologies critical to the global car industry, according to a commerce ministry review.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tops...5c6f75ef&ei=14

[Jimbuna]

There is no let-up in the Chinese way of thinking in the South China Sea

HANOI, April 20 (Reuters) - Vietnam took aim at China on Thursday for imposing an annual ban on fishing in a vast area of the South China Sea, calling it a violation of its sovereignty and urging Beijing not to complicate matters.

China has imposed the ban each year since 1999 and Vietnam routinely opposes it. China says the ban, which will apply from May 1 to Aug. 16, is to promote sustainable fishing and improve marine ecology.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...an-2023-04-20/

[Skybird]

Europe and the US do not practice teamplay regarding China.



https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/der-ander...&_x_tr_sl=auto

The three leading European powers Germany, France and Great Britain are each looking backwards in their own way. One has to be very naïve or very optimistic to believe that they make a significant contribution to overcoming global challenges. It's better to trust in America and a lively transatlantic partnership; or one accepts that Beijing enforces its claim to power. The series of visitors to China makes one thing abundantly clear: Europe remains a spectator in this part of the world.

[Jimbuna]

China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Friday that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to China, and that it is right and proper for China to uphold its sovereignty.

[Jimbuna]

Yet more hypocrisy from China.

Baltic states have demanded China explain itself after one of Beijing’s top European diplomats suggested that former Eastern Bloc countries had not gained sovereign status after leaving the former Soviet Union.

Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, told a French TV station that ex-Soviet republics had no “effective status” in international law, seemingly brushing aside the Baltic states’ internationally recognised sovereignty after the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...7a825d8b&ei=18

[Jimbuna]

China has sought to distance itself from controversial remarks about the sovereignty of Ukraine after widespread outrage. China's Paris ambassador Lu Shaye made the comments last week, and now Bejing has been urged to clarify its position. On Monday, China's foreign ministry rowed back against the comments and insisted that Beijing respected the independence of all post-Soviet republics, rejecting Lu's position.

According to a statement from the Chinese embassy in Paris, Lu's remarks were viewed as a personal point of view and should not be taken too seriously.

[Skybird]

Good cop bad cop.

[Jimbuna]

Possibly but I suspect all part of the overall plan to keep the West guessing.

[Jimbuna]

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Europe and the US do not practice teamplay regarding China.
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/der-ander...&_x_tr_sl=auto

"Baerbock sollte die Amtsbezeichnung Aussenministerin ablegen und sich fortan Ministerin für das Wahre, Schöne und Gute nennen."

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Catfish

"Baerbock sollte die Amtsbezeichnung Aussenministerin ablegen und sich fortan Ministerin für das Wahre, Schöne und Gute nennen."

Gibt es etwas so eine dinge - Ministerin ?

Markus

[Catfish]

ja, Ministerin gibt es schon länger. Aber der Arbeitsbereich

[mapuc]

The crisis will get worse....then some couple of years from now everything will return to normal, as normal it use to be.

See China as male dog, who has to mark its territory.

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Gibt es etwas so eine dinge - Ministerin ?

Markus

male: Minister

female: Ministerin (or as I sometimes mock: Ministress. Well, Baerbock certainly is Maxistress).

[Jimbuna]