oh, okay, so in context he’s just reiterating status quo ante. thanks!

According to the Chinese readout (https://guancha.cn/internation/2024_11_17_755645.shtml) here’s what he told Biden were the 7 “lessons of the past 4 years that need to be remembered”:

1. “There must be correct strategic understanding. The ‘Thucydides Trap’ is not historical destiny, a ‘new Cold War’ cannot and should not be fought, containment of China is unwise, undesirable, and will not succeed.”

2. “Words must be trustworthy and actions must be fruitful. A person cannot stand without credibility. China always follows through on its words, but if the U.S. side always says one thing and does another, it is very detrimental to America’s image and damages mutual trust.”

3. “Treat each other as equals. In exchanges between two major countries like China and the United States, neither side can reshape the other according to their own wishes, nor can they suppress the other based on so-called ‘position of strength,’ let alone deprive the other of legitimate development rights to maintain their own leading position.”

4. “Red lines and bottom lines cannot be challenged. As two major countries, China and the United States inevitably have some contradictions and differences, but they cannot harm each other’s core interests, let alone engage in conflict and confrontation. The One China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués are the political foundation of bilateral relations and must be strictly observed. Taiwan issue, democracy and human rights, development path, and development rights are China’s four red lines, which cannot be challenged. [Note: Bold text in the original] These are the most important guardrails and safety nets for China-US relations.”

5. “There should be more dialogue and cooperation. Under current circumstances, the common interests between China and the United States have not decreased but increased. Whether in areas of economy and trade, agriculture, drug control, law enforcement, public health, or in facing global challenges such as climate change and artificial intelligence, as well as international hotspot issues, China-US cooperation is needed. Both sides should extend the list of cooperation, make the cooperation cake bigger, and achieve win-win cooperation.”

6. “Respond to people’s expectations. The development of China-US relations should always focus on the wellbeing of both peoples and gather the strength of both peoples. Both sides should build bridges for personnel exchanges and cultural communication, and also remove interference and obstacles, not artificially create a ‘chilling effect.’”

7. “Demonstrate great power responsibility. China and the United States should always consider the future and destiny of humanity, take responsibility for world peace, provide public goods for the world, and play a positive role in world unity, including engaging in positive interaction, avoiding mutual consumption, and not coercing other countries to take sides.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, China’s path and system, and China’s development right are four red lines for China, which must not be challenged or crossed.

is there another source that expands on exactly what this all means or are these “red lines that must not be crossed” being left intentionally vague so that when the u.s. inevitably crosses them, party leadership doesn’t feel obligated to respond belligerently?

as far as runners up go it’s a good one

it’s back in norfolk and everyone is patting themselves on the back for all the warcrimes they committed and enabled

that chart!

china has a planned economy, you can’t compete with that!

romanes eunt domus!

yeah anyone following the news heads and their analysis over at the hexbear news and bulletins forum – which the cpc in beijing certainly does – isn’t surprised by this outcome.

to add to @riseuppikmin@hexbear.net’s answer, pennsylvania in 2016 was doing relatively well for pennsylvania historically. the 00s oversaw a fair amount of economic revitalization especially for pittsburgh as it developed a modern healthcare industry that provided residents with job opportunities they hadn’t seen since the steel mills shut down in the late 70s. philadelphia is more of a finance hub and benefited from low interest rates. the opioid crisis and pandemic greatly stressed the healthcare system, pennsylvania rural hospitals were especially unprepared for covid. that’s true everywhere, but i get the sense pa got hit worse than most in that regard and because so much of their recent economic renewal depended on the healthcare industry and low interest debt, now the whole state is feeling like it’s the 80s again last time i was through. the dems have offered nothing except “not trump” and scolding, which doesn’t sit well with the confederate-flag waving denizens of the vast stretches of sparsely populated karst forests known colloquially as “pennsyltucky” in between pittsburgh and philadelphia.

“clearing” any such bubble of Hamas fighters and erecting a separation wall

good thing hamas isn’t known for digging tunnels

removed by creator

oh i see, musk just wants to create a servile class that lives in the pods and interacts with the whole world through vr, working during the day and then confined to virtual reality for their entertainment, controlling the robots that elon and his friends can turn off at a whim to protect themselves.

they think that will be enough, that they’re smarter than their servants, but they’ll simply be creating the conditions for actual cyber lenin.

the smug bastard probably thinks this prevents the need to worry about a robot uprising and he’s only ensuring a proletarian mechanical turk uprising

what would the world look like if the u.s./nato empire had not put so much effort, resources, and violence towards eliminating the “communist threat”? they pursued a deliberate strategy of containment throughout the cold war, inflicting untold suffering in order to prevent the success of socialism anywhere to the extent possible. domino theory was an expression of ruling class fears and the dictates of imperialism: if a working class revolution is successful somewhere, it will necessarily encourage working class revolutions elsewhere, and porky can’t allow that. arguably the reason domino theory appears silly – communism didn’t spread and take over – is because containment has so far been successful.

domino theory. if the cuban socialist experiment were to prosper it would set an undesirable example to the rest of the americas.

the russia ukraine war popped into existence one year ago along with all other ongoing historical events and the news mega

finally bringing high speed internet to rural customers in florida

i read that as a solid 1 in 4 or 5 chance that tampa doesn’t get hit by sustained 34+ knot winds in the next 5 days.

that’s the cone of possible paths the storm could take not the size it will be, so it depends on how wide it actually ends up and which way it potentially swerves. there’s still time to avoid it or stop it in its track and pluck it from midair and say “whoa”

All of their models have consistently done pretty good on any sort of standard test, and then performed horribly in real use.

fuck maybe i am a chatbot

every time israel commits another war crime the irgc does one pushup