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Due to popular demand and because there is no appropriate thread for interesting Geopolitical discussion.
It's all going Pete Tong
It's all going Pete Tong
Geopolitics and the Consequences
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Lets see if some of these speculations come true.
Predictions for 2019: Brexit and geopolitics - The TRADE
Experts from across the industry provide their predictions on what will be the biggest trends of the coming year.
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All Chinese companies operating abroad report back to the Chinese Communist party, it's no wonder some people are upset.
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Huawei 5G row: Ministers demand leak inquiry
One senior minister said leaking from the security council - the "holy of holies" - was extraordinary.
www.bbc.com
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The effects of climate change on geopolitics and culture, more territory conflicts, threats to national security, more military conflict.
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The Cultural and Geopolitical Impacts of Climate Change - Newsweek
Traditional ways of life are getting harder
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The latest stupid idea is to send a British aircraft carrier to the South China Sea. Probably at the request of US forces.
About as provocative as having Chinese warships in the Channel !!
Somebody ought to mention to Mrs Useless that Britain is no longer the strategic power it once was.
About as provocative as having Chinese warships in the Channel !!
Somebody ought to mention to Mrs Useless that Britain is no longer the strategic power it once was.
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Absolootly right Pat...though imo, constructing military bases on uninhabited atolls in disputed waters a few miles off the coast of just one of the claimants and a thousand or so away from one's own sends a very clear message: Put up or Shut Up.
So which course of action do you favour? Shutting up?..or perhaps just leaving it in the hands of our our American cousins and that beacon of international diplomacy, Donald Trump....meanwhile: Huawei.
Map of the area for context:
International claims etc:
File:South China Sea Claims and Boundary Agreements 2012.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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The Chinese leadership should have studied history.
They are making the classic mistake of nearly every Empire.
And what is that you may ask ?
They are over expanding while things are going their way.
Circumstances can rapidly change leaving a vacuum inside the big Empire.
Implosion caused by external and internal forces is the inevitable result.
They are making the classic mistake of nearly every Empire.
And what is that you may ask ?
They are over expanding while things are going their way.
Circumstances can rapidly change leaving a vacuum inside the big Empire.
Implosion caused by external and internal forces is the inevitable result.
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It’s a disturbing enough news item, but does the lack of condemnation from international governments tell us any about the geopolitics at play?
Five 'terrorists' beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay, say confessions
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Five 'terrorists' beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay, say confessions
Five 'terrorists' beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay, say confessions
One of the 37 men beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday had confessed to having homosexual relationships with four of his co-accused, according to court documents.
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Absolootly right Pat...though imo, constructing military bases on uninhabited atolls in disputed waters a few miles off the coast of just one of the claimants and a thousand or so away from one's own sends a very clear message: Put up or Shut Up.
So which course of action do you favour? Shutting up?..or perhaps just leaving it in the hands of our our American cousins and that beacon of international diplomacy, Donald Trump....meanwhile: Huawei.
Map of the area for context:
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International claims etc:
File:South China Sea Claims and Boundary Agreements 2012.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Out of curiousity, how do you perceive the status of the Falkland Islands?
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It’s a disturbing enough news item, but does the lack of condemnation from international governments tell us any about the geopolitics at play?
Five 'terrorists' beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay, say confessions
Five 'terrorists' beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay, say confessions
One of the 37 men beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday had confessed to having homosexual relationships with four of his co-accused, according to court documents.
Sounds like they are demonstrating support to the Sultan of Brunie to me. Saudis can say and do whatever they like coz they can afford to do so. Money trumps principals.
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Here are some interesting articles that are pointing to the global economic future.
You decide which are the most relevant.
You decide which are the most relevant.
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Without principals any group becomes no better than a gang of thieves and murderersSounds like they are demonstrating support to the Sultan of Brunie to me. Saudis can say and do whatever they like coz they can afford to do so. Money trumps principals.
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Different. The Falklands are inhabited and the Spratlys not. No doubt the Kelpers keep the flame for the Empire but they're not part of a plan to change the balance of power in Latin America.... and unless I'm much mistaken there's been little Chinese style of tourism installations - examples of which below:
Mind you, Falkand Islanders are a force to be reckoned with and woe betide anyone who gets in their way:
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...so, that would be principals without principles?...or that they lack leadership...and principles as well?
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Even better, we sell them the knives to carve up their enemies with. We get to keep clean hands and fill our pockets.
Well maybe in another 200 years people will be writing how the Chinese gained full ownership of the Islands at the turn of the 2nd millennium and place may get turned into a museum, assuming of course it doesn't lie 50 ft below sea level by then.
Perhaps there is more similarity with the island of Mururoa which happens to be out in the middle of nowhere but now clearly belongs to the French.
I think its a bit of a game really. It's ok to go and plunder far away lands as long as one can hold onto it for a couple of hundred years and then it sort of belongs to victorious conquerer in all glory, until a bigger force comes along and takes it off the other.
If habitants are the stumbling block then that begs the question who Australia belongs to or US of A for that matter?
I guess China is a little late for this game of colonising the World. Nevertheless one must try.
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Also....
"When Exposing a Crime is Treated as Committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
"When Exposing a Crime is Treated as Committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals." That about sums it up. Courtesy What? Wake Up! and Lionel's totally
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When the pope is involved in altering the balance of power then you know not much has changed since St Peter Petrus was converted in AD 1.
Pope Francis Sends Half a Million Dollars to Assist Migrants in Mexico Trying to Reach U.S.
Globalist pontiff accelerates crusade against populism.
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You're giving them points for effort?
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Also....
"When Exposing a Crime is Treated as Committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals."
"When Exposing a Crime is Treated as Committing a Crime, You Are Ruled By Criminals." That about sums it up. Courtesy What? Wake Up! and Lionel's totally
You mean like persecuting whistle-blowers and dishing out NDAs?
Yes certainly true.
Where does that leave JA? He blew secrets and that's wrong doing right?
Need to think about this one.
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