WrriterNig:
⚡🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Europe this week, Beijing said Monday, as China pushes to act as a mediator in the 🇺🇦 Ukraine conflict.

Qin will hold meetings with counterparts from 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France and 🇳🇴 Norway from Monday to Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, without giving further details of his itinerary.

“At the invitation of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, state councillor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Germany, France and Norway from 8 to 12 May,” Wang said.

The recent Chinese diplomatic blitzkrieg has been unabashedly exceptional.

I'm not sure how they sold rapprochement to the Arabs. I mean the East not pushing the green revolution as maniacally as the West made that an easy choice. Just spitballing here, could be something more exciting.

Nonetheless, I'm unsure of the cards they have to play to get the Europeans to resolve the Ukraine crisis. It does seem to me that they'd make a superficial "good faith" offer, and when the Europeans predictably refuse, they'll use their refusal as a casus belli to thumb the scale in favor of Russia.

Which of course sets the stage for European involvement should Taiwan devolve into a hot conflict. But by then they'd have a grateful Russia + Iran on their flank. They have the numbers and means to bleed Taiwan as slowly or quickly as desired, Russia et al will provide the resources to keep the economy humming when the collective West imposes sanctions.

A back-to-back Russia-China victory in proxy wars with the US ends the unilateral global Western dominance that has lasted 2000 years.

Xi will be elevated to the ranks of Chinese demigods like Emperor Qin if he can pull this off.

Everyone will start taking the Eastern bloc far more seriously and it'll set off a political megaton nuclear bomb in Washington DC.

Living systems that stop growing start dying. Western civilization will remain indomitable for centuries to come. But their sphere of influence will shrink by the decade, while the rest of the world will become more prosperous and assertive.

As an aside, I must warn that this is by no means set in stone. A smorgasbord of chance events can derail this trajectory.

The Soviet Union also had this opportunity post WW2. All they had to do was win over China and India, transform their economies, and set off a millennia-lasting civilization. It was literally served on a platter. The resources, wealth, human capital, backdrop of the most advanced ancient civilizations. Everything they ever needed to make it work like a well-lubricated machine. And they royally f*cked it up.

Maybe modern China will have better luck. They only got themselves, Russia, and Iran committed to the cause (NK and Syria are lightweights). The vast majority of the planet are non-aligned. AI, Robotics, Space, Demography, Resource Limits, Climate Change. F*cking tide levels and rainfall patterns figuratively and literally sank epoch-changing civilizations in Mesopotamia. That's small chops compared to AI or the myriad of other modern challenges. So good luck to them. They'll need it.

-Lord

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WrriterNig:
⚡️🇺🇦 Zelensky: 🇷🇺 Russia will be defeated just like Nazism

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⚡️🇷🇺 Russia will “develop” its military installations in Central Asian ally 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, the Kremlin said Monday, following talks between the two countries’ leaders in Moscow.

“The heads of state emphasised the importance of strengthening the Kyrgyz Republic’s armed forces and developing Russian military facilities on its territory,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, a majority-Muslim country of nearly seven million people, hosts a Russian military base made up of an airfield, a naval installation on Lake Issyk-Kul and several other sites.

The war of geopolitics has officially began.

WrriterNig:
⚡️The United States threatened to cancel the passports of 🇺🇸 American World War II veterans who wanted to go to 🇷🇺 Moscow for Victory Day , Russian Ambassador to the United States Antonov said.

freedom is no longer free

[This one nah clown 🤡=WrriterNig post=123013045]⚡️🇺🇦 Zelensky: 🇷🇺 Russia will be defeated just like Nazism. [/quote]