Oh and IMO, the correct stance would to be to critically support Taiwan against Chinese imperialism, because if China loses it will likely spark a marxist backlash within the country and in Taiwan might further the forces of the left-wing NPP.
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Dominic Rogers
Easton Watson
You might be right, but the people of Taiwan are pretty supportive of independence: which is why it may come to loggerheads. I can't see China doing what they have done in, say, Sri Lanka going off without a hitch there.
Kinda ironic, Trump acts all anti-China but the TPP was Taiwan's main means to try and dislodge US influence. Still, knowing Xi I imagine he might wave around his new toys RE Gen V fighters and a Carrier if Taiwan were to declare independence with the strait of Taiwan islands. I think China wants its 1905 movement, showing it can stand-up to the great powers of the age as a military, not just economic, power.
Asher Anderson
Raul Castro says Donald Trump has put the US on a 'path of confrontation' with Cuba
Raul Castro has made a rare return to the public stage in Cuba, using celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Revolution to warn that Donald Trump is taking the US down the "path of confrontation" with the Communist island.Mr Castro, who stepped down as Cuba’s president in April, accused the US president of unjustified aggression, and of scapegoating Cuba for all the problems in the region.
telegraph.co.uk
Anti-semitic doctor bragged about deliberately giving Jews wrong medication
An anti-semitic doctor sparked fury after she made social media posts about deliberately giving Jewish patients the wrong medicine.Dr Lara Kollab, 27, a former resident at The Cleveland Clinic spent years posting hateful slurs, including that she hoped ‘Allah will kill the Jews’ and referred to Jewish people as ‘dogs’.‘I’ll purposely give all the yahood (Jews) the wrong meds…’ she wrote in a 2012 Twitter post.
outline.com
House Dems formalize climate committee plans without Green New Deal language
House Democrats have formally proposed creating a new committee on climate change, without many of the main factors that progressives wanted in the panel’s structure.Democratic leaders unveiled the plans for the “Select Committee on the Climate Crisis” late Tuesday as part of a package of rules to govern House proceedings for the next two years.
thehill.com
Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders oppose Pelosi-backed spending rules
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday that she would vote against her own party's rules for the incoming House over restrictions on deficit spending, pushing long-simmering Democratic divisions into public view.At issue is the House leadership's plan to include "PAYGO," short for pay-as-you-go, a rule Democrats have adopted in the past that requires them to offset any increase in the deficit by cutting spending or raising revenue elsewhere.
outline.com
Dow Jones Trails Nasdaq In Choppy Trade; Will This Badly Hit Stock Market Sector Reign In 2019?
The Dow Jones industrial average trailed the Nasdaq composite on the first trading day of 2019 yet still finished a whiff higher as bulls and bears wrestled fiercely in a seesaw session in stocks today. The Russell 2000 added 0.5% in afternoon trade, then nearly gave back all of those gains. By day's end, the Russell closed more than 0.3% higher. The small-cap index lost 12.2% last year.
investors.com
Tim Cook blames Trump's trade war with China as a big factor in Apple's slowdown
Apple CEO Tim Cook laid some of the blame for the company's shock revenue guidance downgrade on the trade war between the US and China.In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Cook said tariffs imposed by the US and China on products from the opposite country contributed to an economic slowdown in China. The Chinese economic slowdown in turn decreases retail sales in the country and hurt Apple's overall business.
thisisinsider.com
Joshua Lopez
"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there." - Bornald Drompf who is definitely a bad racist capitalist badman or something.
Jacob Wright
Most Taiwanese favor preserving the status quo. It's true that reunification under the PRC (even as part of a Hong Kongesque dual system) is unpopular, but so is a declaration of independence. Furthermore, the DPP got slammed in the recent local elections, and, if they don't improve their image, they'll get slammed again in the next general election. A KMT government will only deepen the cross-strait ties.
Angel Torres
OP/ED
The Indonesian Counter-Revolution
In late 1965 and early 1966, a wave of violence swept Indonesia, directed at the country’s powerful left. Before it was over, half a million people lay dead and Suharto, a right-wing general who would rule the country for decades, had moved closer to power.Vannessa Hearman’s Unmasked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia describes the impact of this mass slaughter and the little-known history of leftists’ attempts at resistance. Drawing on dozens of interviews, she shows the persecuted not just as faceless victims or representatives of abstract ideologies but living, breathing human beings. We learn what motivated them to join the movement, how they developed survival strategies — and how they tried to fight back.
jakkkobinmag.com
Communism, Fascism and Green Shaming
I am sensing — at least in the U.S., a migration of the liberal policing of thought into green movements. A guy ( a writer in fact, one published on several left sites including this one) arguing about plane travel. And this seems to be a thing. The problem of individual travel on jet airplanes is, of course, dwarfed by military pollution of all kinds, including massive nearly incomprehensible jet fuel usage, corporate air travel, and the world of private jets altogether. In other words there is a qualitative distinction. And I’m quite sure most people getting a short break from their miserable day job appreciate the shaming and hectoring of this polyanna bullshit. I’d be happy to travel by train, but since that’s not possible much anymore, nor is sea travel unless you own a sailboat, the point is to change a system of inequality, which would by itself radically reduce the pollution of jet engines. The EU, by the by, suggested a ticket tax (to passengers of course) for flying. Nothing about reduced truck transport of useless foods, or any rational solution because rational solutions cut into profit. Nothing about military transport. Nothing about improved rail transport –which most people would absolutely prefer. No just more guilt pinned on the working class for daring to take a trip. To ask people to voluntarily restrict their movement is a very dangerous and disingenuous delusion. And so far, for me anyway, it is always white males who promote this thinking.
counterpunch.org
The Drive Towards Liberation in 2018
While the forces of fascism have been gaining power in the US and abroad and wielding it to wreak havoc on people’s lives this year, RAM has been steadily organizing and building. With our vision firmly fixed on a revolutionary solution, we have been taking steady, practical steps to build our groups, and spread horizontally through our communities.As we faced a common enemy, with the battle lines so clearly drawn, we looked to the strength of our groups: our camaraderie, commitment, and drive to create a new way of relating to one other; the antidote to the supremacy of authoritarianism. Our chapters pulled together to create this revolutionary culture and we tried to reflect this culture through our actions: defining holidays and celebrations that would help us prepare our skills, and commemorate resistance.
itsgoingdown.org
Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Warren and the Trap for Black Voters
Whether Democrats are openly obstructionist corporatists like Pelosi, or liberal sounding like Warren, they will not consider any meaningful systemic reforms.“In the South, Democrat means black and those voters have every right to ask hard questions and make clear demands.”The next presidential election in the United States is now just one year away. In January 2020 the process begins with the Iowa caucuses followed quickly by the New Hampshire primary and contests across the country. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the first to officially announce the formation of a campaign exploratory committee.
blackagendareport.com
John Cook
He IS a bad racist capitalist. The fact that he's better than America's "left" on foreign policy says more about them than him.
Xavier Anderson
Kind of interesting considering how capitalist China has become. Is the Taiwanese economy even structured all that differently from the PRC?
Jacob Anderson
Nah even when it comes to capitalism, China is unique in its set-up of corporatist control and integration with the party & the state. No country that wasn't a planned economy with a single/dominant party state could properly implement what China has done.
Taiwan is pretty-much a standard East Asian corporatist economy with slightly stronger union laws than its neighbours.
Henry Butler
ok so relatively speaking Blormpf is on the "right side of history" and the mainstream left is more a threat than nationalist populism is regardless of "racism" or other such faggot tier obsessions