China is a basket case....

[Coolboy]

China Officials Share Viral Video Calling for Atomic Bombing of Japan
https://www.newsweek.com/china-offic...theory-1609586

They seem to forget that Japan is covered by US defence treaties, that any nuclear attack on Japan will invite certain nuclear response from Washington on Beijing.

[GentleGeorge]

They seem to forget that Japan is covered by US defence treaties, that any nuclear attack on Japan will invite certain nuclear response from Washington on Beijing.

USA is the only country allowed to nuke Japan, after all

[Coolboy]

USA is the only country allowed to nuke Japan, after all

Irrelevant. US covers Japan in defense treaties. Which means any attack on Japan, nuclear or conventional, will equate with an attack on US itself, which will guarantee a US response.

[Mefisto]

https://twitter.com/bgroothuis/statu...74951775502338

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Mefisto]

https://twitter.com/MattCKnight/stat...86667762610188

https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1417590050670268416

https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1417632403586158592

[Mefisto]

https://twitter.com/ericfish85/statu...86359167488006


https://twitter.com/CarlMinzner/stat...66412538580994



For those with a thinking cap there's a piece on another "interwar" period where uncontrolled authoritarianism and imperial envy played major parts...

https://warontherocks.com/2021/08/ho...nterwar-era-2/

[Mefisto]

It's Friday the 13th, so no biggie for me or most of the world for that matter, but in case you desire something akin to a quick chuckle, the most imperial of the so-called TLAs now claims to be mapping out some way to develop something it supposedly already imposed upon us a year ago...

https://twitter.com/SariArhoHavren/s...25306565169163


Meanwhile in that moustache-stained "Wandel durch Handel" capital in Central Europe the old establishment is hoping to reduce CO2 emissions from dirty local coal by plugging Carl Schmitt's spinning corpse to the national power grid.

[Mefisto]

https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/statu...33692281311236


For a more wholesome, slightly less holocausty facepalm:

https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status...22043815735297

[Mefisto]

Promoting the Party-state Insecurity Protocols aka so-called "NSL", CCP's propaganda arm Xinhua talked to "some HK-residing foreigners"...

"They all say..."


https://twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/sta...03991174680581



FWIW, "TKP" is just another propaganda arm of the CCP, the Ta Kung Pao...

[timonoj]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58394906

Among other pearls...

[...]Mass voting for reality programmes will also no longer be allowed unless it is done by live audiences.