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China... as expected , are no longer playing nice.... .. not that Trump ever has, but the CCCP can suddenly , after some time of playing along, upping the ante , responding respectfully and graciously, rip the rug out from under those feet, without blinking an eye.
When Trump finally fades away, there will be another one just like it. It’s probably going to become routine, JMO
It's probably too late for the cruise lines to do much about it this season, but it's possible that those that primarily cater to the non-US customer will redesign their Caribbean routes for the next few seasons to avoid calling at US ports, including those in Puerto Rico. It might also lead to increased popularity for the older, generally smaller, ships which can call at less developed islands which are less geared up to the giant ships which have increasingly been built in recent years. A refurbished but older ship with a maximum passenger capacity of 1,000 to 2,000 has options that ships with a capacity of 5,000 don't have. I think Barbados, for example, also has the airport capacity to handle many more flights than it currently receives, so it might be feasible for more cruises to the southern Caribbean to start and end there than is currently the case.
Muslims, Jews and Christians had lived pretty much in harmony in the Middle East for almost all of their shared history. The real animosity of Muslims for Jews began at the beginning of the 20th century following the publication of a work titled The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which purported to be a Jewish plan for global domination. It was actually written by the Tsarist secret police c1905 and circulated to provide a spurious justification for the pogroms carried out in Russia in the years following. The ideas within it have been exploited since then by all sorts of interests with anti-Semitic (not just anti-Zionist) agendas.
There isn't time for another country to step in to hold the Olympics at such short notice. Brisbane won't have its facilities ready by 2028 and earlier Olympic villages tend to be repurposed or abandoned and allowed to fall apart.
China exhibiting a bit of venom.....
China tells US to ‘stop whining’ over tariffs as it reports GDP growth spurt
China Daily, the Communist party’s English-language mouthpiece, says US ‘has been living beyond its means for decades’www.theguardian.com
China Daily, the ruling Communist party’s English-language mouthpiece, says the US ‘has been living beyond its means for decades’
The US needs to “stop whining” about being a victim after “taking a free ride on the globalisation train”, China’s official state media has said, as the trade war between the two countries continued to spiral.
Last week’s tit-for-tat tariff hikes appear to have paused, but the conflict between the two biggest economies is showing no signs of letting up.
On Tuesday evening China Daily, the ruling Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) English-language mouthpiece, published an editorial saying Donald Trump’s frequent claims of the US being “ripped off” were “hoodwinking the US public”.
“The US is not getting ripped off by anybody,” it said. “The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it’s entitled to based on its productivity. Rather than being ‘cheated’, the US has been taking a free ride on the globalisation train.”
It added, “The US should stop whining about itself being a victim in global trade and put an end to its capricious and destructive behaviour.”
The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade.
indianexpress.com
I think more like the opposite is happening
I think more like the opposite is happening
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It is , really,, impossible to argue against it... the numbers do not lie. If you import more than you export , at some stage there is a reckoning.. Trump is punishing the people he owes, really.
