naturalgasbad @ naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca

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Taiwan technically doesn't unequivocally support China's claim to the whole of the South China Sea... But that's only because Taiwan claims more of the South China Sea than China.

China wants to maintain the status quo and believes (perhaps wrongly) that Taiwan will eventually normalize relations with China due to economic opportunities.

The US wants Taiwan to declare independence to contain the China threat, which is why the US funnels so many resources from government-funded entities like the National Endowment for Democracy to Taiwan's DPP.

The fact that the US is taking more overt action in Taiwan today is a sign that there's a perception in Washington that China's status quo strategy is working.

Cites this report by Forensic Architecture: Living Archaeology in Gaza

Any hostage deal with Israel will lead to Israel having more hostages sorry detainees than they started with.

There are rumours that USS Carl Vinson (which was assigned to Southeast Asia/Singapore/Malaysia) has just been reassigned to the Red Sea and is making preparations to transit.

You might even call this a camp where Israel can concentrate their efforts...

Disturbing to see Canada participate in this. Traditional Canadian foreign policy would have opted for a diplomatic intervention here, not immediately going for the colonial warmongering route.

Yeah, might have been. Can't remember how much for the life of me.

I mean, to some degree it just makes economic sense: the Sputnik vaccine was $10/dose compared to the $30/dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. If Guatemala has to burn it's entire budget to get enough Sputnik vaccines, I don't think the budget would have supported buying Pfizer/Moderna ones.

Seems like the big EU/US countries stockpiled the "acceptable" vaccines and left you guys in a shit position tbh

The egregiously overextended demand for the few "acceptable" vaccines drove prices above what a country like Guatemala could reasonably accept, forcing the adoption of Sputnik

Maybe, just maybe, you should just allow food to be sent into Gaza, then?

Maersk could just pause taking on Israeli shipments and transit the Red Sea normally, following in OOCL's footsteps.

Yemeni policy isn't to blockade the Red Sea, but to blockade Israeli trade through the Red Sea until food and aid is allowed into Gaza. Hong Kong's OOCL has taken the approach of simply halting Israeli shipments instead and still freely transits the Red Sea, for example.

Yemeni policy isn't to blockade the Red Sea, but to blockade Israeli trade through the Red Sea. Hong Kong's OOCL has taken the approach of simply halting Israeli shipments instead and still freely transits the Red Sea.

At least now we know that the American JDAMs Israel loves to use so much are good at surgical strikes, so long as the target is just "any building with Palestinians in it."

The ROK is sacrificing long-term growth (by mandating set work hours and increasing fertility) for short-term growth.

North Korean engineering is fucking crazy.

Afghanistan has always been one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Taliban-mandated stop in opium production collapsed their economy further. This is the aftermath of ceasing opium production more than anything else.

Frankly, good. Montreal was already becoming remarkably English and that has risks of encouraging Quebec secessionism. Same thing should happen for the Mayan language in Yucatan, Mexico.

I guess this is classic troop rotation shenanigans?

Instead of rotating towards areas near Moscow, rotating towards St. Petersburg gives soldiers a break/training while pressuring Finland.