Been to China a good few times for work. As a traveller as long as you’re set on the visa front at the border they’re very chill. Way more than the US.

US: What do you work in? Cyber security. Right this way sir. SSS stamped on my ticket. Bullshit long queue for SSS people. Deep search of everything and lots of questions (US immigration is this side in my country).

Actual experience.

China: Checks visa. Makes sure my face matches passport. Stamp. Nod.

Also actual experience.

Not just cost but logistics and economies of scale which would be a huge win.

That’s exactly what you get when you don’t punch the bully back. Russia broke the well defined post WW2 rule. It was a pretty simple rule too… Don’t try to rob your neighbour’s land.

They should not be rewarded in any way for it. If anything they already have been.

My (Irish) son did his third year of college on this program in Denmark. Had an absolute ball and went back after graduating to do his masters there then lived and worked in Denmark for some time after before moving to Germany.

Can’t recommend this program highly enough if you’re college age.

Very first thought was “surely that’s treason”.

I must look up the legal definition.

“Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy,” the ministry said in a statement,

Very concisely put. We’re at that point. Trade is effectively shut down at this point between the two. My limited understanding is that on the US side this will hit farmers the hardest.

Guess we’re going to see a flood of cheap Chinese stuff in every other market in the world too soon.

Sounds a bit treason-y.

Is that house arrest?

Thank you.

Could someone tell me how she was able to walk out of the court having been sentenced to prison?

“I take him at his word in this sense”

That’s the problem right there. Dope. His word is worth less than the air used to create it. His MO is literally to lull people into a false sense of security then rob or kill them.

Some countries have a grandparents rule if that’s any use to you. Ireland is one.

This is far more likely to be media bias.

Yeah the story of the German girl it happened to around the same time included her talking about a Spanish lad in the cell with her for the same thing.

Not saying it wasn’t reported on in Spain but I didn’t see his case anywhere in the news.

It did happen to an Irish girl too last month. Fortunately we’ve fairly decent relations with the US but unfortunately it didn’t sound like her treatment was any better than this tbh.

Some real doozies in there. I had to get selective here and eventually stop there were so many outright lies. They really had it in for the EU.

Alcohol sales – EU ‘bans boozing’, Feb 2005

Baby rattles – EC to ban noisy toys, Jan 1996

Bagpipes – EU safety directives to ban playgrounds, trapeze artists and bagpipes, Aug 2005

Playgrounds? Lol!

Balloons – EU bans children from blowing up balloons, Oct 2011

Chinese toys – Chinese toy imports are to be banned unless humanlike in form, Jul 1994

Clothing, zips – EU plans to ban zipper trousers, May 1999

Cod – Cod no longer to be called cod thanks to EU, Sep 2001

And on and on and on…It’s some list!

i don’t understand what the end goal of boosting production capabilities is

Wartime manufacturing capacity would be my guess. Probably an element of self sufficiency too.

Shipbuilding capacity is just a fraction of China’s now for example. Same goes for electronics.

Yeah I could definitely identify each euro coin by feel.

A much easier solution would surely be to offer the EU mutual defence clause which is stronger than article 5 of the NATO treaty.

It’s going to be Europe on it’s own anyway and we all know it.

We’re in some weird timeline where we may actually see the Mexican military and the cartels cooperate. Wild.