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  • Che's Motorcycle
    11·
    2 days ago

    Key takeaway for me is that there is actually some action being taken by vassal governments:

    These sentiments [the public in many countries growing increasingly supportive of China] are already being translated into action.

    Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney declared a “rupture” between Ottawa and Washington in January and backed that rhetoric by sealing a trade deal with Beijing that same month. The U.K. inked several high-value export deals with China not long after, while both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have returned from recent summits in Beijing with Chinese purchase orders for European products.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
      13·
      2 days ago

      They basically have no choice at this point, the economic situation in the west keeps getting worse and the US can’t really do anything for them.

      • Che's Motorcycle
        9·
        2 days ago

        True, but they also keep buying the rope to hang themselves with from the US, like LNG. Hopefully material reality will continue to impose itself on Europe’s trajectory towards the east.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
          5·
          1 day ago

          My expectation is that the EU has to collapse first, and then individual countries can flip over to BRICS. As long as the EU is around, they will use economic coercion to make sure European countries aren’t getting too cozy with Russia or China. Another key piece of the puzzle is Russia winning in Ukraine decisively. At that point Hungary and Slovakia will have direct land access to the East which is blocked right now. Those are the two most likely EU dominoes to fall first.

  • Luca
    6·
    2 days ago

    The data manipulation in this article is nuts. What do you mean “18-24” and “everyone older than that” are your data points? Who in the worl- oh you were just wanting to say “if young people like China, it’s because TikTok forced them to be with a vast censorship conspiracy.”

    Article even ends on a stinger saying that China only has a better reputation that the US because of a multi-billion dollar disinformation campaign – according to the US. I know it’s Politico, but somehow I keep expecting the “is oil bad for the environment? We asked three oil executives for their take” trope to be too big an ask to say with a straight face.