Jobs lost with fears 'thousands' more could go as China widens Australian timber bans

Discussion in 'Economics' started by themickey, Dec 28, 2020.

  1. Pretty weird for a guy who claims to ignore another user but then trolls him or her in the tech section, and here, and there...

    Let's keep the topic on Australia - China shall we? Thanks

     
    #21     Dec 28, 2020
  2. tsznecki

    tsznecki

    Is this your forum? Is your name Baron? No? I will do as I please in an environment that welcomes free speech unlike Nazi Germany.

    Speaking of hijacking, you went right off topic with your responses to @luisHK and me. So much for sticking to the topic when you get triggered eh volpunter?

    Ah so you admit you are a masochist. Whatever floats your boat. Germans love whips and leather and that stuff.
     
    #22     Dec 28, 2020
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  3. Australia my friend. That's the topic here. Not your animosities with some other bloggers. And try to remain truthful, you came here and hijacked and attacked others personally.

     
    #23     Dec 28, 2020
  4. themickey

    themickey

    Pushback on Xi’s vision for China spreads beyond US

    In March 2019, Xi Jinping flew to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the then-president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.

    After toasting with flutes of Champagne, the Chinese president pressed the three leaders, according to an official present. A recent European Union policy paper had described China as a “systemic rival.” Did the Europeans really mean it?

    Ms. Merkel demurred with a compliment for Mr. Xi, saying the language showed Europe recognized China’s growing strength and influence, the official said. Mr. Juncker cut the tension with a joke about the EU’s inability to agree on what China was. But Mr. Macron was blunt, the official recalled.

    It’s true, the French president said. You are a rival.

    A few weeks later, France sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait, provoking Beijing, which accused the frigate of illegally entering Chinese waters.

    Inside China, Mr. Xi’s authority is increasingly seen as absolute. He has sidelined rivals, silenced dissidents and bolstered his popularity by promoting a resurgent China unafraid to assert its interests.

    The biggest challenge to his vision for China comes not from within its borders but from other parts of the world, in nations whose views of Beijing have dramatically changed in just a few years.

    Countries that once avoided upsetting Beijing are moving closer to Washington’s harder and largely bipartisan stance—to curb Chinese access to customers, technology and sensitive infrastructure.

    More.....
    https://on.wsj.com/3hmmbOl
     
    #24     Dec 28, 2020
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  5. tsznecki

    tsznecki

    Yes that is the topic. So why can't you stick to it? Instead you have histrionic outbursts replying to others instead of moving on.

    I never attacked anyone personally directly in this thread. If you take offense at my comments about a 3rd party, it seems the offense lies with you.
     
    #25     Dec 28, 2020
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Biden needs to coalesce the world to oust Xi and restore China to non-lifetime appointments.
     
    #26     Dec 28, 2020
  7. JSOP

    JSOP

    This could be good for the trees in Australia. They won't have to die because the Great China doesn't want them from Australia no more.
     
    #27     Dec 29, 2020
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  8. maxinger

    maxinger

    good point. more trees mean more green.

    similarly, if China bans Australia cow, the cow won't have to die.
     
    #28     Dec 29, 2020
  9. JSOP

    JSOP

    less carbon footprint, less CO2 emission. China is really trying to protect Australia's environment, helping Australia to comply with the Paris Accord.
     
    #29     Dec 29, 2020
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  10. So the big unknown in this gambit will be the Biden administration.

     
    #30     Dec 29, 2020