Why does being friendly toward Taiwan and hostile to China preclude one from being a ‘far-right fascist’? I don’t think her critics are concerned about her policies toward Taiwan- they’re more worried about her hostility to gays, abortion, and immigrants.
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Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles
One of the first thing she did was remove the vaccine passport that prevented anyone that didn’t get the vaccines from going out into society and working. She reintegrated healthcare workers who were fired for not getting the vaccine, more ridiculous the same ones who did get covid on the front lines with natural immunity.
She wasn’t the one asking for peoples papers like a fascist. The left wing parties were. She wasn’t the one cozying up to China, arguably a fascist state, the left wing parties were. She’s been critical on authoritarian regimes like Russian and China.
She’s a conservative who’s in touch with the concerns of every day Italians and she’s enjoyed enormous popularity because of it. It’s laughable she’s been painted as a fascist and all the warning of the rise of fascism because she became PM now look so stupid.
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Marcos Jr. may not have the same military power that his father enjoyed during his presidency, but his government’s approach to sharing factual events and real stories is a more powerful way to muster support – not just from the Filipino people but from other countries also. The publication of China’s blatant disregard of international law and harassment of lowly Filipino fishermen dismisses Beijing’s claim that it supports peace and stability in the region. This approach is a way to hold China accountable for its actions and send a message that the Philippines will not back down in the face of Chinese aggression.
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Haha
Whoops. They saw right through that one!
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Yeah, buddy. It’s like standing near a PITA kid during a test. Keeps them quiet.
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Things are getting frisky.
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More on that.
Marcos has ordered his military to shift its focus to external defense from decades-long domestic anti-insurgency battles as China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea become a top concern. The shift in the Philippine defense focus is in sync with the Biden administration’s aim of reinforcing an arc of alliances in the Indo-Pacific region to better counter China.
China has angered the Philippines by repeatedly harassing its navy and coast guard patrols and chasing away fishermen in waters close to Philippine shores but which Beijing claims as its own. The Philippines has filed more than 200 diplomatic protests against China since last year, including at least 77 since Marcos took office in June.
Now imagine that with a million guns in the hands of calm and well considered Taiwanese. 
Presumably it was inside the ADIZ but outside of territorial airspace?
That’s pretty interesting.
Hit them where it hurts.
eh? who hitting who?
Any damage to any Chinese bound oil tankers hits China hard. Iran just took over an oil tanker in the gulf and the US Navy did— absolutely nothing. That alone should scare the crap out of China.
And speaking of the “Chinese Navy.”
“Unlike other parts of their military modernisation, there is something politically theatrical about their carrier deployments so far,” said Trevor Hollingsbee, a former British naval intelligence analyst.
So, let’s push back that invasion date, shall we? Maybe next next year when years aren’t measured in 12 month increments. What a sham country.
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A leading US Democrat speaking at the “Global Conference” of the Milken Institute the other day said that if China invades Taiwan, they (the USA) will “blow up” TSMC (the world’s largest maker of semi-conductor chips. - Nordstream II take 2?
Video:
https://twitter.com/fwarweg/status/1656911648425234432
A WEFer:
where the US military gonna get their high-tech chips then? lol
won’t be from TSMC’S AZ fab(s), which aren’t at that level.
Nice.
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Boooo
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The great pull out.
Where decoupling is likely to happen, and soon, is in the world of investment . In the old economic system of the 2000s and the 2010s, the corporations of the developed democracies made things in China and then sold those things back to the big markets of the developed democracies. That meant they had to invest in China, by building factories and offices there. It’s this system of investment that’s breaking down, and that I expect to break down further.
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