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Ossanamerika:

WWI when Japan fought on the side of the allies and even sent their navy to the mediterranean.

You conveniently left out WWII,

Mongolia, Russia, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam should all do similar.

They are, with the help of China, be it bridges, rail orother infrastructure.

I wouldn't worry too much about the Indian construction. Their bridges have a habit of collapsing. The roof at Delhi Airport didn't fair well a few days ago either.

https://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index/global/2023

Hong Kong ranks above the United States of America and is level with France. Oh, the irony.

What nation on earth has foreign judges? Can you imagine a French or Chinese guy working as a judge in America?

I bet Aiko is glad she won't be empress and will get to leave the madness when she gets married.

I've heard of plate tectonics moving continents and land over the course of millions of years but the speed at which Japan is drifting to the North Atlantic is ridiculous.

Strange how Russia's economy has been growing so much compared to the west ever since they were sanctioned. As the Chinese say, please sanction our football team.

The German authorities are probably kicking themselves they didn't invent the expressions anti-Teutonic or Teutophobia instead of anti-Nazi.

The Australians must be the most propagandized and scared people on earth, more than their bosses in America.

This article is about the fearmongering against mainland China (in order to start a war), and the photo shows a Taiwanese keyboard!!!!!

She said they had struggled to find a studio that would accommodate a same-sex couple for the shoot

What is there to accomodate? They're there to take photos, not poke their nose into people's private affairs.

Bible preaching isn't a thing in Japan, unless you exclude those annoying people who knock on your doors.

said a 27-year-old genderqueer office worker

Is it so difficult to say lesbian?

owzer:

Don’t want to normalize it because it’s not normal.

Bigotry and hatred isn't normal either.

The UK has no more useful allies than the US.

The US does not have allies. It has interests.

And what did Kissinger say about being an 'ally' of America?

Yes, being able to walk in the shade makes a big diiference.

As for the deaths of the elderly, is it any wonder when electricity is so expensive? And with the insulation of typical apts in Japan, it is worse during the evening when the absorbed heat in the building walls is slowly released.

Better the devil you know, I guess. ie no change. At least in the UK, the devil changed its mask.

France for the French!

And not for the Zionists. The interests of the French people (be they white, black, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, Asian) should come first and certainly not the interests of USA, Israel and NATO. I may not agree with Le Pen, but taking France out of NATO again will be the best thing she'll ever do. No more wars!

France has to hit rock bottom before they realize they need a revolution. Macron can cry all he likes but it's his fault (a typical neo-liberal) that it's come to this point. France needs people like Mélenchon.

Well she certainly didn't help with the birth rate. And does she still believe that the 1923 Kanto massacre was fake? In a country which takes falsification of one's qualifications seriously, I don't understand how she hasn't been made to resign. Mutliple people close to here have come forward to say she faked her certificate and graduation story, and native Arabic speakers have said her spoken Arabic is awful for a "graduate".

englisc:

Worryingly the Labour Party tends to be myopically Euro centric and will pull the plug on anything out side of that. Don’t be surprised when they downgrade or cancel virtually everything in the Indo-Pacific area

The Labour Party was never the same when Blair was pushed into the limelight by Rupert Murdoch. What we now have in the UK is akin to US politics - a uniparty where lobbyists (especially weapons manufacturers), elites and the politicians and their circles come first, and the citizens last.

I'm sure things will continue as before. The devil just changed its mask. This mask also has a habit of lying and back-tracking, so it's the same old same old.

When China and Laos were building the high speed rail, they had to clear the place of mines before laying the tracks. USA should have been billed for that. During the Vietnam war, Laos was the most bombed country in the world. Not one apology from USA and not a finger lifted to help the people who are already poor.

This is what you do with someone who had very very low approval ratings as a mayor. You send him to Japan.

China used to produce cheap goods because that's what the West wanted. However, they have now shifted to high quality goods, electronics, EVs, etc. No wonder some scatterbrain in the US wanted Chinese students to study humanities and reserve STEM subjects at university for Indian students.

Will USA and its minions ever stop with this Tonya Harding method, and compete using hard work instead?

isabelle:

Please, stop it with these Fu Manchu hysterics.

So how come the amount of pension retirees get is so small? You can hardly feed yourself, let alone pay for bills with the amount you get.

I wouldn't want to pay either if that was the amount for a glass of wine, some peanuts, and a two-minute feel-up.

I think it's the same in many countries. Overworking teachers that is.

Congo has had a miserable history, especially since the Belgians invaded. Punishment given to the locals was barbaric. And what the US and Belgium did to Patrice Lumumba was unforgiveable.

Lots of crying on JT today. Modi was everyone's favorite guy last year. Now, he's hated. Hot and cold.

He's useful against China one day. Next day, it's human rights. The west can't make up it's mind.

Next match up will be interesting. Two young players with Chinese mothers and East European fathers, experienced life around the world, valuing the importance of education and clearly having a good time at Wimbledon.

How did China's EV sector get so strong?

Because they realized no one else was really serious about doing something to combat pollution in cities and carbon emissions from vehicles. And they worked hard. Just look at the other forms of green energy. China is the leader in all of them. Next, we'll be hearing how China is over-combatting climate change. China produced more solar panels last year than USA has done in its entire history. Bad bad bad China.

Whataboutism

You've got to laugh. The west, led by USA, tried and temporarily succeeded in getting Lula (a real man of the left unlike US Dems or UK Labour) jailed, and they ended up with this madman. Then they hoped Lula would replace the madman, but Lula was in no mood to play by the western regimes' playbook when he got back in power.

Tories, Labour? Republicans, Democrats? They're all the same. Just swapping one devil for another.