Posted on 08/25/2019 10:47:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Liu, speaking at a tech conference in southwest Chinas Chongqing, said nobody benefited from a trade war.
We are willing to resolve the issue through consultations and cooperation in a calm attitude and resolutely oppose the escalation of the trade war, Liu, who is President Xi Jinpings top economic adviser, said, according to a government transcript.
We believe that the escalation of the trade war is not beneficial for China, the United States, nor to the interests of the people of the world, he added.
U.S. companies are especially welcome in China, and will be treated well, Liu said.
We welcome enterprises from all over the world, including the United States, to invest and operate in China, he added.
We will continue to create a good investment environment, protect intellectual property rights, promote the development of smart intelligent industries with our market open, resolutely oppose technological blockades and protectionism, and strive to protect the completeness of the supply chain.
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They needed to bring the rest of security services to heel. The only way to do that was to show the corpse of the dead ruler(s). The potential alternative was civil war, as military commanders fought for the right to rule under various banners. In fact, I am surprised that things worked out as well as they did among the Warsaw Pact countries. Under no circumstances would NATO have intervened, if a dictator had set himself up in any of those countries. The Russians certainly had their hands full with Yeltsin's insurrection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Flight_on_December_22nd
During the course of the revolution, the Western press published estimates of the number of people killed by Securitate forces in an attempt to support Ceaușescu and quell the rebellion. The count increased rapidly until an estimated 64,000 fatalities were widely reported across front pages.[37] The Hungarian military attaché expressed doubt regarding these figures, pointing out the unfeasible logistics of killing such a large number of people in such a short period of time. After Ceaușescu's death, hospitals across the country reported a death toll of fewer than 1,000, and probably much lower than that.[38]
The manner in which the trial was conducted has been widely criticised inside and outside Romania. However, Ion Iliescu, Romania's provisional president, said in 2009 that the trial was "quite shameful, but necessary" in order to end the state of near-anarchy that had gripped the country in the three days since the Ceaușescus fled Bucharest.[41] Similarly, Victor Stănculescu, who had been defense minister before going over to the revolution, said in 2009 that the alternative would have been seeing the Ceaușescus lynched on the streets of Bucharest.[42]
[you think that guy in the photo is 71 years old?
Your opinion ]
Ok thanks
Although I do not know and have no solid evidence, I don’t think the situation in China is to the point you mention. I see more or less peaceful folks in the streets of Hong Kong expressing oppostion for the proposed changes.
I believe there will be some internal agreement that will allow China to somehow muddle through.
What is trade??
(don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more) ...
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