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1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

The only small mercy is that they don't seem bound and determined to export that particular brand of cvntishness.

 

At the present time, anyway.

China has strong economic interests in parts of East Africa, with Zambia now virtually a Chinese colony.

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1 hour ago, String fellow said:

China has strong economic interests in parts of East Africa, with Zambia now virtually a Chinese colony.

Agreed.

 

However, for me "buy our stuff and take our loans or your economy will do down the pan" isn't quite the same as "actively back coups and direct military intervention in other states to bring about governments friendly to the intervener and sharing the same ideology as it".

 

There's a lot of truthful accusations about shit behaviour that can be leveled at the Chinese government. Being aggressively imperialist, I would say, is not one of them - not until we see a Zambian (or elsewhere) government with a state capitalist ideology, repressive dictatorship and Chinese military bases in multiple places in the country.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56586655

 

The BBC's Beijing correspondent John Sudworth has left China and moved to Taiwan following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities.

 

Sudworth, who has won awards for his reporting on the treatment of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, left Beijing with his family.

 

"Only in recent days when we were faced with the task of renewing Sudworth's press card did we learn that Sudworth left without saying goodbye. After he left the country, he didn't by any means inform the relevant departments nor provide any reason why," Hua Chunying told a news conference in Beijing.

 

Reckon if I had you muppets all over me I'd be leaving without a cheerio too. :rolleyes:

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Innovindil said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56586655

 

The BBC's Beijing correspondent John Sudworth has left China and moved to Taiwan following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities.

 

Sudworth, who has won awards for his reporting on the treatment of the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, left Beijing with his family.

 

"Only in recent days when we were faced with the task of renewing Sudworth's press card did we learn that Sudworth left without saying goodbye. After he left the country, he didn't by any means inform the relevant departments nor provide any reason why," Hua Chunying told a news conference in Beijing.

 

Reckon if I had you muppets all over me I'd be leaving without a cheerio too. :rolleyes:

 

 

 

The last time I saw gaslighting that impressive I was at a Victorian exhibition.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56581131 :blink:

 

"Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll.

The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by Mr Bolsonaro to exert undue control over the military. Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted over his response to Covid-19.

Nearly 314,000 people have died, with a new daily record of 3,780 on Tuesday".

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7 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56581131 :blink:

 

"Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll.

The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by Mr Bolsonaro to exert undue control over the military. Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted over his response to Covid-19.

Nearly 314,000 people have died, with a new daily record of 3,780 on Tuesday".

Saddening? Yes. Surprising? Absolutely not.

 

As if there was any more evidence needed that "statesmen" with good PR teams in the style of Senhor Bolsanaro destroy countries rather than help them.

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14 minutes ago, String fellow said:

What next - a ban on Mozart because he was around during the slave-trade era?  

"Possible changes to undergraduate courses include reducing the focus on canonic classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, in a proposed move away from “white European music from the slave period”.

 

 

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2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

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Hitchens died a decade ago, and I don't think the problem at the moment is people who are 'easily offended', it's a specific ideology that is being forced on institutions.

 

British Conservatives seem to be waking up to the fact that this stuff rides in not on the back of 'socialism' but American style corporatism. Quite why so many right wingers want us to move away from Europe and closer to America is beyond me, although I think that will change in the coming years as the backlash towards this stuff grows in the UK and EU.

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32 minutes ago, I am Rod Hull said:

Our Universities are full of arseholes preaching Marxism to our kids, you have to be blind not to see it. 

 

Which university did you attend to reach that conclusion?

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1 minute ago, Carl the Llama said:

I didn't realise we had so many keen classical music enthusiasts.

I guess it's like the flag stuff - the vast majority don't really give a shit but when they feel culture or traditions are under attack they'll instinctively defend it. 

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1 hour ago, bovril said:

Hitchens died a decade ago, and I don't think the problem at the moment is people who are 'easily offended', it's a specific ideology that is being forced on institutions.

 

British Conservatives seem to be waking up to the fact that this stuff rides in not on the back of 'socialism' but American style corporatism. Quite why so many right wingers want us to move away from Europe and closer to America is beyond me, although I think that will change in the coming years as the backlash towards this stuff grows in the UK and EU.

That is mind blowingly unspecific. Help me out here!

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