EU is getting the 2nd free trade agreement this year...
First with Mercosur, today we signed one with India...
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What a surprise.....
The SHART OF THE DEAL.
This is what happens when you have a know-nothing real-estate failson dumbass elevated to a position like this and an adoring bunch of cult members in the base that result in the rest of the Republicans being afraid to hem Crazy Uncle Liberty in.
We have a choice between doing business with a despot who frequentlt and publicly targets his own allies, reneges on past promises and whose mood and opinion changes depending on whatever the most recent thing he has seen on Fox News, or a despot who has in all likelihood done utterly terrible things to his own people.
Shit all round really, but this is real-politik. If Trump was a reliable partner we'd be staying where we are.
Xi might be a cunt, but at least hes consistent
正如计划的那样 🙏👓
Running from one superpower dependency to another.
Lateral move at best.
Xi cares about Xi.
For the tankie who inevitably wull ackshuallys me: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nobody-is-safe-chinas-xi-targets-his-close-ally-purge-2026-01-26/
That’s what Xi does to his closest friends.
The article I saw yesterday about this Gen. Zhang Youxia said he was leaking sensitive information to the US. I wonder why Reuters declined to mention this accusation.
It seems like, maybe, with a title like "nobody is safe", the authors are trying to scare us more than they're trying to inform us.
It's also a bit strange that they're spinning the fact that this guy's status and personal connections didn't make him immune as a bad thing. If we were talking about western politics this would be a virtue.
Sure he was. 🙄
The question isn't whether he was committing treason. The question is why would the author of the article omit this information. It's highly relevant, even if you don't believe it's true.
Again, the article's title ("Nobody is safe") is expressly written to invoke fear. The article's author could've written "... And he is accused of leaking information to the west; a flimsy excuse." or something, but they chose not to included that information.