Yeah, and what the fuck else might I be referring to, hmmmm?

Rule 0 of warfare: don’t start a war if you don’t want the consequences of war.

The term I used is an official term used by the Taiwanese government.

That’s actually their head, but I can understand why you thought it looked like a dick.

Don’t you mean the “Communist-occupied unfree area of the Republic of China”?

Well, nobody ever said Wolf Warrior diplomacy is successful in achieving one’s geopolitical objectives. But it does make the person doing it feel powerful.

Chinese nationalists don’t try to persuade people. Their goal is to overpower you (physically or verbally) because they think it will force submission out of you.

It’s called “Wolf Warrior diplomacy”, named after a popular Chinese military film franchise.

I’m pretty sure Russia has already accumulated a huge stockpile of CNY. But Chinese banks are even refusing payments denominated in CNY between Russia and China.

Strange how not even China wants to deal with the hot mess that is Russian money right now.

Keep in mind that this is not necessarily a good thing. China’s economy is still mostly driven by Government spending and exports rather than consumer demands. The Chinese government would usually prefer the yuan to be weaker as this makes Chinese exports cheaper when denominated in foreign currencies and makes imports more expensive, discouraging domestic consumers from buying foreign goods.

The article does mention this as well, but the yuan’s exchange rate isn’t a great indicator of the Chinese economy as a whole because the central bank spends a great deal of time manipulating it.

It is a war crime to intentionally attack non-combatants.

I am prepared to be downvoted for this, but I believe in Occam’s razor here: do not attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity

I think it is much more likely that nobody bothered to check their background until it was too late.

To be franc (or to be billion francs), France has enough money, guns, and United Nations Security Council seats to give Haiti the middle finger

If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.

Interestingly, this law also paid the newly freedmen $100 to fuck off to Haiti

It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years

The Yakuza in Japan in past decades are a great example of what happens when organised crime does hire lobbyists

It was the UK that did that. In the US, slavery was abolished through straight up “property confiscation” (from the perspective of slaveholders)

France doesn’t have “trillions”. There is nothing that can be done to force France to pay, so demanding too large of a sum, even if justified, is a good way to get them to say “fuck that” and you get nothing.

It’s a nuke threat. Again.