zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ml

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Putin's been saying this for forever... Basically ever since the doomed peace negotiations in 2022.

Zelensky won't accept a peace without retaking Crimea and Putin won't accept a peace that relinquishes current territorial gains.

We're at an impasse until someone cracks. If Zaluzhny hadn't been exiled to Britain, maybe things would be different.

Also a net exporter to north of the border

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Supporting the KMT or the TPP is a tankie position.

This is the entire reason why countries like China are investing hard into ultra-high-voltage transmission lines.

While regions like Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia have immense wind and solar potential, getting that electricity to the population centers is challenging.

Selling electricity to Eastern Europe, to Northern Africa, hell even to the Middle East is an option if Europe is truly operating an electricity surplus.

Tit-for-tat, innit?

Not a coincidence that the Filipino-American Balikatan military exercise this year simulated invading Taiwan... or that exercises ended on May 10th (taking place in the Batanes, 218km from Taiwan)... Or that they were the largest such exercises since 1991.

Not a coincidence that the Korean-American "Freedom Shield" military exercise was more than double the scale of last year's.

Also not a coincidence that Lai very conspicuously claimed that the PRC is an independent country, violating the ROC's Constitution and breaking the 1992 Consensus that is de facto upheld by the KMT and supported by the TPP immediately after agreeing to uphold said constitution...

While Lai holds the executive seat, his opposition dominates the legislature. Coincidentally, Taiwan is currently seeing mass protests against a bill that would shift power away from the executive to better match other democracies worldwide (this is the same bill that, notoriously, DPP lawmakers tried to steal from the Yuan to avoid getting it passed).

The DPP is a party that does not want Taiwan to stay Taiwan. It wants to ignore Taiwan's roots, it wants to ignore the history, the culture, and the economy. It does not want to uphold democratic ideals and instead prefers consolidated power within the executive... And, of course, this is even as KMT sympathizers hold a stranglehold over the upper echelons of Taiwan's military.

Lai is lashing out because the KMT+TPP coalition want to pass a bill that shifts power from the executive branch to the legislative branch.

The horror.

US F-22s intercept Russian fighter jets, fire warning flares

yawn

Then stop complaining about subsidies designed to protect domestic industries 🤷

Do you know anything about Taiwanese politics? Jesus Christ.

An "imperfect free market" saved by $80 billion in bailouts.

For fucks sake

The facts are that Lai's legislature is a fucking mess domestically. It's breaking out into fistfights, people are trying to steal away bills to prevent them getting passed, and the KMT+TPP are much more unified than expected.

Lai was only elected because of FPTP and he needs to project legitimacy in the face of the KMT+TPP opposition (who, together, received something like 60% of the vote). This is him attempting to do so.

He's deflecting on a fucking non-issue because he doesn't want to admit that his policy of antagonizing China isn't working and the opposition (KMT+TPP) have increasing power.

Lai is objectively fucked in his own legislature. Both the KMT and TPP are opposed to the DPP (enough to set aside their own differences)... And they hold the majority in the legislature.

I agree, but it's by no means adherence to free market anti-subsidization principles.

That proof: 🧾

Maybe Lai should figure out his own legislature first 🤷

Feels like he's trying to deflect away from the absolute fuckfest that his legislature has become by pointing at a bogeyman. After ,all, how dare a country exercise overflight in a military aircraft over a foreign EEZ.

What do you call the $80 billion bailout of US automakers following the 2008 recession?

"Fair, open market activities"?

The US Coast Guard recently released images of a fleet of four ships of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) sailing near a US Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) near Alaska's Aleutian Islands

I think the article is confused

Fraud in China has far worse consequences than fraud in Australia. Even if I were to be arrested, I'd prefer it to happen in Australia where I can get off with a slap on the wrist.