Hi everyone, I’m creating this megathread to help regroup information about Pelosi’s recent visit and the follow-up (currently the PLA is conducting military drills very close to Taiwan)
You’re still totally allowed to make your own threads, this is more for things that do not warrant a thread by themselves.
BREAKING: China has announced the end to the following cooperation with the US
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That seems like some serious business. It’s not ‘sanction them into the abyss’ level but there’s a lot of important communication being cancelled in this list.
Will be interesting to see their next step.
China will probably take hard line stances against its rivals until the 20th CPC party congress where Xi Jinping hopes to secure reelection. Then they will probably go back to being more flexible.
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I still miss HTML
Bruh the sorcery is back
This is just markdown though, a very small subset of what was previously possible. You won’t be seeing any text over other people’s comments.
yet I have lost most of my powers
“Anti-Drug cooperation”
Are China’s anti-drug laws influenced by the West in any way? Will we see a “Green” China before fucking Texas or Indiana?
I think a lot of opioid and medicine trafficking happens between China and the US. Weed, I don’t know really.
No, they’re influenced by their own experiences with narcotics during the century of humiliation.
Anyways the cooperation with regards to narcotics was mainly to the benefit of the US. China doesn’t have a big issue of drugs or precursors imported from the US but the inverse is true, Chinese factories have been huge helps for the narcotics trade into the west in making new substances that aren’t regulated as well as precursor chemicals shipped to the US, Mexico, etc which are more easily turned into narcotics and for cheaper than the cartels can hope to do on their own. So ultimately this will sting the US with more drugs flooding them while China will not be impacted in any way as the US was not in any real way helping with any of their drug trade issues which are minor compared to the US.
As to the narcotics in question going from China —> US, they’re all synthetics, opioids and club drugs type stuff.
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