Eurasia Topics

**Klondyke** · 16-01-2020, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Net result: Business as usual.

Why they do not learn a bit how to do a successful state business (as usual) from (please no names here) where the old woman just signed the clever documents with the applauding cloud behind her borrowed from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum?

**panama hat** · 16-01-2020, 08:04 AM

Again, you shouldn't triple-Google-translate what you're writing in whatever language you're using. You really make no sense

**panama hat** · 16-01-2020, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Why they do not learn a bit how to do a successful state business (as usual) from (please no names here) where the old woman just signed the clever documents with the applauding cloud behind her borrowed from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum?

I just tried again . . . nope, it simply is non-sensical. If you're trying to be witty or 'wordgewandt' then don't. Just use simple sentences that are, at least, coherent.
I'm sure in your native tongue this would be clever, but you can't Google-translate 'clever' in a sentence.

**Klondyke** · 16-01-2020, 12:28 PM

^
Didn't I used my 2 pence worth of advice yesterday?

If you run out from your matter-of-fact arguments (as if you ever have possessed any) pull out the Russiagate - or even moreover, illiteracy...

**panama hat** · 16-01-2020, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Didn't I used my 2 pence worth of advice yesterday?

You don't possess two 'pence' worth of relevant advice

Originally Posted by Klondyke

If you run out from your matter-of-fact arguments (as if you ever have possessed any) pull out the Russiagate - or even moreover, illiteracy...

I'll quote myself: "Again, you shouldn't triple-Google-translate what you're writing in whatever language you're using. You really make no sense"

**harrybarracuda** · 17-01-2020, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

You don't possess two 'pence' worth of relevant advice

I'll quote myself: "Again, you shouldn't triple-Google-translate what you're writing in whatever language you're using. You really make no sense"

Have you not yet sussed that he's called HoHo's idiot love child for a reason?

**OhOh** · 17-01-2020, 06:56 AM

^I hope you aren't suggestion I have undocumented "butterfly" tendencies.

'arry and Phat, two peas in a pathetic pod, so tight they rub up against each other moaning.

**panama hat** · 17-01-2020, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Have you not yet sussed that he's called HoHo's idiot love child for a reason?

I believe we should give those who aren't fluent in English a bit of a break . . . but the coupling you suggest is a bit hideous

**Klondyke** · 17-01-2020, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

I believe we should give those who aren't fluent in English a bit of a break

I am moved to tears by your suffering when having to deal with such illiteracy.

That explains - and all will surely empathize - why after your daily suffering you are unable to tell us something useful...

**panama hat** · 17-01-2020, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

I am moved to tears by your suffering when having to deal with such illiteracy.

Thank you. Those less fortunate should be assisted

**harrybarracuda** · 17-01-2020, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

I believe we should give those who aren't fluent in English a bit of a break . . . but the coupling you suggest is a bit hideous

You only have to watch them post. HoHo posts some fucking nonsense about something or other, and his idiot love child Klondyke is along in a flash trying to repeat it only in his unreadable very broken attempts at English.

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**harrybarracuda** · 17-01-2020, 02:12 PM

Looks like the old chinkies spending gazillions on football isn't working. Looks like they'll be watching WC2022 on the telly like the Scots.

Barely weeks into the near year, Chinese soccer’s “2020 Action Plan” is in tatters after another international tournament failure that ended with players leaving the field in tears after losing all three games without scoring a goal.

In 2018, China’s Football Association, the CFA, set a number of targets for the men’s national teams at various age levels. None have been met.

The latest failure is missing out on qualification for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. To book a ticket to Japan, China needed to finish in the top three of the under-23 Asian Championships, underway in Thailand. Instead, China placed last in its group with no goals and no competition points.

Other objectives that have not been achieved include reaching the semi-finals the 2019 Asian Cup, qualifying for the U-17 and U-20 World Cups and being ranked in the top 70 by soccer’s international governing body. China is 76th this week in FIFA rankings.

This is all despite significant financial investment in recent years by Chinese Super League clubs on foreign talent and by the government at the grassroots level.

“I am not sure what is happening because China has been investing in youth football and the new generations are coming, but low quality is still a problem,” former Beijing Guoan striker Dejan Damjanovic told The Associated Press.

“They need to keep investing to try and send the best young players to Europe to develop. That’s the only chance for Chinese football.”

The latest setback was not completely unexpected, as China had lost eight of its previous nine games at the U-23 championship. But it was more painful than past failures because that group of young players had a better preparation than previous eras.

In 2017, the CFA introduced rules that forced Chinese Super League clubs to give young domestic players playing time and in 2018 it appointed an elite coach.

Guus Hiddink, the former Real Madrid coach who led South Korea to the 2002 World Cup semi-finals (and who also took charge of the Socceroos), was tasked with leading China to Tokyo.

Hiddink was fired last September after poor results in warm-up matches.

“After five years of the country’s football revolution, one would have expected to see more tangible progress being made particularly within younger age categories,” said Simon Chadwick, professor of Sports Enterprise at Salford University who has worked on education delivery with the CFA and who writes about Chinese soccer.

“Hence, the country’s recent Under-23 performance does not bode well for the success of China’s strategy. … It
is hard for observers to conclude anything other than the country’s national teams are still under performing.”

There was some bad luck involved.

Under Hiddink’s replacement, Hao Wei, China lost 1-0 to South Korea with a goal in stoppage time after star player Zhang Yuning had been ruled out of the tournament with broken toes.

The 2-0 loss to Uzbekistan wasn’t close, and the misery was complete with a 1-0 loss to Iran.

“We will not give up,” Hao said. “I believe that our dreams will one day come true.”

Attention in China now turns to the resumption of qualification for the 2022 World Cup.

The senior national team is now coached by Li Tie, who replaced Marcello Lippi this month.
Lippi, who led Italy to the 2006 World Cup title, quit in November after a loss to Syria left China eight points behind in second with four group games remaining.

Only the group winner is guaranteed a place in the next stage of qualification.

China has only appeared at one World Cup, losing all three group games in 2002 when the tournament was co-hosted by South Korea and Japan.

Football, news, China, AFC U-23, Qatar 2022 World Cup, qualifiers | Fox Sports

**Klondyke** · 17-01-2020, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Thank you. Those less fortunate should be assisted

YAWN...

**panama hat** · 17-01-2020, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

YAWN...

Finally, something you write that is easily understandable - well done

**harrybarracuda** · 17-01-2020, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Finally, something you write that is easily understandable - well done

One syllable words is about his limit innit.

**Klondyke** · 17-01-2020, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

One syllable words is about his limit innit.

YAWNING...(isn't it more than one?)

**panama hat** · 17-01-2020, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

One syllable words is about his limit innit.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

YAWN...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

YAWNING...(isn't it more than one?)

Why are you so dense?

**Klondyke** · 17-01-2020, 10:59 PM

^
Back to https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-as...ml#post4047223 (SE Asia Survey Shows Narrow Preference for United States amid US-China Rivalry)

and over and over again...

**harrybarracuda** · 18-01-2020, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Why are you so dense?

He's fucked in the head is what he is.

**panama hat** · 18-01-2020, 06:54 AM

Yup, that's quite clear now

**harrybarracuda** · 19-01-2020, 01:49 PM

I don't see what the problem is. Should have left it as it is.

Facebook says it is working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name appeared as "Mr Shithole" in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem has been fixed.

Facebook apologises after Xi Jinping's name appears as offensive insult in Burmese-to-English translation - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

**panama hat** · 19-01-2020, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I don't see what the problem is. Should have left it as it is.

Yup, sounds about right

**OhOh** · 19-01-2020, 06:14 PM

Bill and Ben, just awaiting Little Weed to turn up

**harrybarracuda** · 19-01-2020, 08:06 PM

I would imagine the people of HK and the millions of chinky subversives will prefer the nickname "Mr. Shithole" to "Winnie the Pooh".

**OhOh** · 19-01-2020, 09:43 PM

It appears Uncle Xi has more important tasks to take care of.

Trump, the deal maker, blinks before China

US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, sign the China-US phase-one economic and trade agreement in a ceremony at the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 15, 2020

"The signing ceremony of the China-US phase-one economic and trade agreement at the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 15, 2020 turned out to be a unique event. Historically, the East Room witnessed many important signing ceremonies. Notably, the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was in the East Room on December 8, 1987 by US President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; the East Room was also the venue when President George H. W. Bush and Gorbachev signed five treaties on June 2, 1990, including the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord.

This must be the first time that the East Room witnessed an agreement being signed by the US President and foreign dignitary who is way down in protocol. Last December, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had said that “representatives from both countries” would sign the Phase 1 trade deal agreement in the first week of January. But, evidently, President Trump insisted on signing the agreement himself, although Chinese President Xi Jinping stayed back in Beijing, preparing for a historic visit to Myanmar to “write a new chapter” in the two countries’ “millennia-old pauk-phaw friendship”.

Wednesday’s photo-op in the East Room tells a story by itself. It underscores how terribly important this trade deal has become politically for Trump, as he makes his bid for a second term in the November election.

However, the main assumption behind launching the trade war on June 15, 2018 turns out to be a bombastic notion — that the US would crush the Chinese economy. China has proven right in its reaction that both countries stood to lose and the tariff war was a road to nowhere.

In the event, after 30-month old war, the US Federal Reserve estimates that China’s economy has taken a 0.25% hit, which is no doubt significant but not lethal, as US demand for its goods fell by about a third. But on the other hand, the US Congressional Budget Office estimates that tariff-related uncertainty and costs have shaved 0.3% off of US economic growth, and also reduced household income in America by an average of $580 since 2018.

Suffice to say, the new deal halves tariff rates on $120bn worth of goods, but most of the higher duties — which affect another $360bn of Chinese goods and more than $100bn worth of US exports — remain in place. And that can only be bad news for the American public.

Economists have estimated that the costs of the trade war — more than $40bn so far — are being borne entirely by the US companies and consumers. Indeed, this excludes lost business for US exporters due to Chinese retaliation.

Through the tortuous negotiations for the new trade deal, China largely stuck to the terms it had offered right at the outset. The new deal envisages that China will boost purchases in manufacturing, services, agriculture and energy from 2017 levels by $200bn over two years.

What matters most to Trump is that that China could step up purchase of agricultural exports. Trump mentioned a figure of $50bn worth of imports of agricultural goods a year by China. But China has added the caveat that the purchases will depend on market demand.

Clearly, it was the Chinese retaliation by terminating agricultural imports from US that really hurt Trump politically, who won the White House in 2016 with strong backing from farming states. The US exported nearly $20bn worth of agricultural products to China in 2017. That figure fell to $9.1bn last year, after China imposed retaliatory tariffs of up to 25% on a range of US goods, including apples, soybeans, ginseng and cotton.

Farm bankruptcies have surged 24% across America since September 2018, a few months after US trade disputes with China led to higher tariffs on key farm goods including soyabeans, cotton and dairy. This has forced Trump to announce some $28bn in aid for farmers affected by the tariffs, leading to a ridiculous situation where 40% of farm profits this year are expected to come from federal assistance.

The protections for intellectual property was supposedly one main reason that triggered the trade war. The new deal is based on some commitments that China has made, but are they any different from its earlier promises? Equally, the new deal fails to address the issue of subsidies Beijing provides to certain industries.

Overall, it is possible to estimate that this is more a ceasefire rather than a peace agreement. And this realisation could well be the reason why Xi Jinping gave the slip to the signing ceremony. This ceasefire would hold through the year 2020 but what happens thereafter is hard to foresee. The bottom line is that the US exports have lost their competitiveness vis-a-vis China.

The main gain for Trump is the optics of the new deal, which enables him to put the trade war behind him and claim an achievement during the upcoming election campaign.

Having said that it is hard to underestimate the collateral damage caused by the trade war to the US-China relationship. The climate has become toxic as the Trump administration resorted to “maximum pressure” approach when it transpired that China was refusing to blink.

The assault on the reputation of the Chinese Communist Party headed by Xi, the US interference in Hong Kong and the situation in Xinjiang, and the cold-war style rhetoric by top US officials — in particular, at the level of the Vice-President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — crossed the red lines.

Trust, once broken, cannot be restored easily. And, to cap it, Chinese national pride and self-esteem have been wounded. Beijing has concluded that an equal relationship with the US is just not possible. China cannot and will not accept US hegemony. In the final analysis, therefore, the geopolitical consequences of the trade war are going to be far-reaching."

https://indianpunchline.com/trump-th...-before-china/

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