This is a massive policy change in the Philippines:
Guy
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Oh that’s huge if happens, total game changer in indo pacific theatre
Happy to discuss anything you can refute with facts not conjecture based on western media.
Projection and parroting western msm narratives doesnt equate with truth. Again, if Uighurs were being oppressed, genocided or otherwise, you can bet western media stationed in China along with 2M westerners living there would be first to report it all over social media.
As for 9-dash, island militarization etc, suggest researching 11-dash line once backed by US and which country has militarized most islands in SCS – it’s not China.
Don’t assume everything you read is true just because it reinforces existing biases.
True as theyre moving toward higher end mfg, lower end mfg has shifted to neighboring countries.
Oh, and what value added chinese products are hitting the shelves? China is the low end.
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If there was something wrong going on there, western media would be reporting on it and they would be wrong. Itza pretzel.
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Exports by value:
- Electrical machinery, equipment: US$804.5 billion (26.6% of total exports)
- Machinery including computers: $492.3 billion (16.3%)
- Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefabricated buildings: $126.3 billion (4.2%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $118.1 billion (3.9%)
- Vehicles: $108.9 billion (3.6%)
- Toys, games: $94 billion (3.1%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $88.8 billion (2.9%)
- Articles of iron or steel: $85.4 billion (2.8%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $78.2 billion (2.6%)
10.Organic chemicals: 73 billion (2.4%)
So roughly 20% low end; rest mostly medium.
ARe you taking over antibes position here or simply chirping in?
Based on my perusal of that article, this figure is 99% made up by you
Not a surprise that their major imports are fuel, ore, and food. And perfume/cosmetics! It’ll be hard to maintain production lines in times of war. Hungry, stinky
Also, if the point was that
Doesn’t it matter which of these exports was designed by and manufactured for Chinese companies?
2 wrongs dont make a right. Nor does 1 wrong negate another wrong. No one is saying the US are Angel’s. at least I am not. I am talking more of china and the immediate threat here. observed here and in china. Also not through western media, observed through actual business and politics here. There is a difference between that and parroting fox news or whatever american channel you are thinking of.
The purpose of this initial exercise is to sketch out some of the likely responses to a Chinese attack on Taiwan and the associated political, economic, diplomatic, and strategic consequences Beijing would face. The conclusion reached is stark: China would court disaster if it launched an invasion across the Taiwan Strait. Even under optimistic assumptions about the combat performance of the PLA and the relatively muted or constrained military responses by Taiwan and the United States, there is a precariously narrow path Xi Jinping would need to follow to emerge from the gambit unscathed. Once more realistic assumptions begin to be layered in, the picture becomes dire for the CCP and China as a whole. Equally as significant, any Chinese attack on Taiwan would also have an extraordinary impact on the global economy, especially for U.S. partners and allies in the region.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned the import and sale of certain Chinese technology equipment that it determined poses “an unacceptable risk to national security.”
And look at that, I guess Twitter is good enough for the FCC.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a statement on Twitter that the commission’s unanimous decision is the first time in U.S. history that it has voted to prohibit the authorization of equipment based on national security concerns.
Interested in your theory that electrical equipment, machinery including computers,vehicles, and optical, technical, and medical equipment, are in the same category as T-shirts and Barbie dolls.
You’re putting words in my mouth while avoiding the points
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Are you once again citing that pro-Trudeau leftwing rag? 
Guy
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Waiting for it to escalate to this:
“Florida man rides boat through Taiwan Strait in signal to China“