#trade relations

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EU Strengthens Strategic Partnerships with Jordan and Morocco to Address Migration and Trade

EU’s Strategic Partnerships with Jordan and Morocco Jordan and Morocco are poised to enter significant agreements with the European Union as part of efforts to curb irregular migration and strengthen trade relations. This was emphasized by Dubravka Šuica, the incoming Commissioner for the Mediterranean, during a three-hour hearing with European lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday. Šuica outlined her…

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Polaris Bank Inducted Premium Member of Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce

Lagos, Nigeria: September 13, 2024 – Polaris Bank has been inducted a premium member of the prestigious Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), marking another milestone in the Bank’s journey. Towards enhancing profitable trade between businesses in Nigeria and promoting global commercial partnerships with businesses in United Kingdom. The induction ceremony which took place recently in Lagos…

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What we know about how U.S. weapons sent to Israel are used in war

Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid, but there are questions about how that aid is being used in the war against Hamas and concerns about whether a possible gun purchase could fuel violence in the West Bank.

Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times.

This segment aired on November 20, 2023.

LISTEN 5:38 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/11/20/israel-us-weapons-gaza-war

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The United States can't back his own words,yet expects to be trusted no matter what

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🥰 事实胜于雄辩 | LE AZIONI CONCRETE BATTONO L'ELOQUENZA ☺

🇨🇳 Rispetto Reciproco (相互尊重), Coesistenza Pacifica (和平共处) e Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢) sono i Tre Principi della Cina per la corretta gestione delle Relazioni Sino-Statunitensi 🤝

😡 I Cinesi non accettano il dito puntato degli imperialisti statunitensi, che imputano il crollo dei rapporti alla Cina, in quanto:

一 Non è la Cina ad interferire negli Affari Interni degli USA, ma sono gli Stati Uniti a promuovere costantemente l'avventurismo anti-Cinese nel Mar Cinese Meridionale e ad interferire pesantemente nella Questione di Taiwan, la più importante per il Popolo Cinese 😡

二 Non è la Cina a politicizzare le relazioni commerciali tra i due Paesi. Gli USA, invece, impongono sanzioni unilaterali alle Aziende Cinesi, promuovono "controlli sugli export" fortemente politicizzati e utilizzano la scusa della "Sicurezza Nazionale" per colpire e danneggiare le Aziende della Cina 😡

🌱 Una pianta non crescerà forte senza ricevere acqua e cure. Allo stesso modo, le Relazioni Sino-Statunitensi non potranno svilupparsi in maniera positiva se gli USA continueranno a non rispettare gli interessi legittimi della Cina, promuovendo politiche anti-Cinesi 😡

🇺🇸 Durante il Colloquio con il Compagno Wang Wentao, Gina Raimondo - Segretaria al Commercio degli USA, ha dichiarato di concordare con la parte Cinese sul fatto che la stragrande maggioranza delle relazioni commerciali tra Cina e USA non sia coinvolta in questioni di "Sicurezza Nazionale" 🤔

❔ Allora, perché gli USA continuano a perpetrare politiche anti-Cinesi, atte a colpire le Aziende Cinesi, come i recenti "freni" degli USA agli investimenti in Cina? 🤔

🇨🇳 In Cina si dice «事实胜于雄辩», ovvero: «I fatti contano più delle parole», le azioni concrete battono l'eloquenza. Il Governo USA deve dimostrare di voler perseguire il Rispetto Reciproco e la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio, invece di rilasciare dichiarazioni e comportarsi in maniera opposta 👍

🤔 La revoca delle restrizioni a 27 Aziende Cinesi, quando nella "Lista Nera" ce ne sono quasi 700, è un piccolo gesto di buona volontà, ma non risolve il problema di fondo 🤔

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🥰 事实胜于雄辩 | CONCRETE ACTIONS BEAT ELOQUENCY ☺

🇨🇳 Mutual Respect (相互尊重), Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处) and Cooperation for Mutual Benefit (合作共赢) are China's Three Principles for the Proper Management of Sino-US Relations 🤝

😡 The Chinese do not accept the pointing finger of the US imperialists, who blame the collapse of relations on China, because:

一 It is not China that interferes in US Internal Affairs, but it is the United States that constantly promotes anti-China adventurism in the South China Sea and heavily interferes in the Taiwan issue, the most important to the Chinese people 😡

二 China is not politicizing trade relations between the two countries. The US, on the other hand, imposes unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies, promotes highly politicized "export controls" and uses the "National Security" excuse to target and harm Chinese companies 😡

🌱 A plant will not grow strong without receiving water and care. Similarly, Sino-US relations will not be able to develop positively if the US continues to disrespect China's legitimate interests by promoting anti-Chinese policies 😡

🇺🇸 During the Interview with Comrade Wang Wentao, Gina Raimondo - US Commerce Secretary, said that she agrees with the Chinese side that the vast majority of US-China trade relations are not involved in "National Security" issues " 🤔

❔ So why does the US continue to perpetrate anti-Chinese policies, aimed at affecting Chinese companies, such as the recent US "brakes" on investment in China? 🤔

🇨🇳 In China they say «事实胜于雄辩», that is: «Deeds speak louder than words», concrete actions beat eloquence. The US Government must demonstrate that they are pursuing Mutual Respect and Cooperation for Mutual Benefit, instead of making statements and doing the opposite 👍

🤔 The lifting of the restrictions on 27 Chinese companies, when there are almost 700 on the "Black List", is a small gesture of goodwill, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem 🤔

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The grey wall of the future looms, a formidable divide between the two powers. Commerce chief, a figure in a white suit, stands before it, a chasm to be crossed. As he gazes, a whisper of possibility flits through the air like a nighttime breeze. Somewhere, in the distance, is the answer for a trade and tourism boost in the talks of Chinese leaders. He looks back, ready to brave the unknown in the hope of a brightened future.

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cw boyfriend to death

i wanted my friend to play MySims so they made me play maniac dating simulator

results: didn’t like the game much but furry inside was fed (i called ren cute so much my friend told me to shut the fuck up)

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About the entanglement of "science" and Empire. About geographic imaginaries. About how Empire appeals to and encourages children to participate in these scripts.

Was checking out this recent thing, from scavengedluxury's beloved series of posts looking at the archive of the Budapest Municipal Photography Company.

The caption reads: "Toys and board games, 1940."

And I think the text on the game-box in the back says something like "the whole world is yours", maybe?

(The use of appeals to science/progress in imperial narratives probably already well-known to many, especially for those familiar with Victorian era, Edwardian era, Gilded Age, early twentieth century, etc., in US and Europe.)

And was struck, because I had also recently gone looking through nemfrog's posts about the often-strange imagery of children's material in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US/Europe. And was disturbed/intrigued by this thing:

Caption here reads: "Game Board. Walter Mittelholzer's flight over Africa. [...] 1931. Commemorative game board map of Africa for a promotional game published for the N*stle Company, for tracking the trip of Walter Mittelholzer across Africa, the first pilot to fly a north-south route."

Hmm.

"Africa is for your consumption and pleasure! A special game celebrating German achievement, brought to you by the N*stle Company!"

1930s-era German national aspirations in Africa. A company which, in the preceding decade, had shifted focus to expand its cacao production (which would be dependent on tropical plantations). Adventure, excitement, knowledge, science, engineering prowess, etc. For kids!

Another, from a couple decades earlier, this time British.

Caption reads: "The "World's globe circler." A game board based on Nellie Bly's travels. 1890." At center, a trumpet, and a proclamation: "ALL RECORDS BROKEN".

Same year that the United States "closed the frontier" and conquered "the Wild West" (the massacre at Wounded Knee happened in December 1890). A couple years later, the US annexed Hawai'i; by decade's end, the US military was in both Cuba and the Philippines. The Scramble for Africa was taking place. At the time, Britain especially already had a culture of "travel writing" or "travel fiction" or whatever we want to call it, wherein domestic residents of the metropole back home could read about travel, tourism, expeditions, adventures, etc. on the peripheries of the Empire. Concurrent with the advent of popular novels, magazines, mass-market print media, etc. Intrepid explorers rescuing Indigenous peoples from their own backwardness. Many tales of exotic allure set in South Asia. Heroic white hunters taking down scary tigers. Elegant Englishwomen sipping tea in the shade of an umbrella, giggling at the elephants, the local customs, the strange sights. Orientalism, tropicality, othering.

I'd lately been looking at a lot of work on race/racism and imperative-of-empire in British scientific and pop-sci literature, especially involving South and Southeast Asia. (From scholars like Varun Sharma, Rohan Deb Roy, Ezra Rashkow, Jonathan Saha, Pratik Chakrabarti.) But I'd also lately been looking at Mashid Mayar's work, which I think closely suits this kinda thing with the board games. Some of her publications:

"From Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century". In: Knowledge Landscapes North America, edited by Kloeckner et al., 2016.

"What on Earth! Slated Globes, School Geography and Imperial Pedagogy". European Journal of American Studies 16, number 3, Summer 2020.

Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire, 2022.

Discussing her book, Mayar was interviewed by LA Review of Books in 2022. She says:

[Quote.] Growing up at the turn of the 20th century, for many American children, also meant learning to view the world through the lens of "home geography." [...] [T]hey inevitably responded to the transnational whims of an empire that had stretched its dominion across the globe [recent forays into Panama, Cuba, Hawai'i, the Philippines] [...]. [W]hite, well-to-do, literate American children [...] learned how to identify and imagine “homes” on the map of the world. [...] [T]he cognitive maps children developed, to which we have access through the scant archival records they left behind (i.e., geographical puzzles they designed and printed in juvenile periodicals) [...] mixed nativism and the logic of colonization with playful, appropriative scalar confusion, and an intimate, often unquestioned sense of belonging to the global expanse of an empire [...]. Dissected maps - that is, maps mounted on cardboard or wood and then cut into smaller pieces that children were to put back together - are a generative example of the ways imperial pedagogy [...] found its place outside formal education, in children's lives outside the classroom. [...] [W]ell before having been adopted as playthings in the United States, dissected maps had been designed to entertain and teach the children of King George III about the global spatial affairs of the British Empire. […] [J]uvenile periodicals of the time printed child-made geographical puzzles [...]. [I]t was their assumption that "(un)charted," non-American spaces (both inside and outside the national borders) sought legibility as potential homes, [...] and that, if they did not do so, they were bound to recede into ruin/"savagery," meaning that it would become the colonizers' responsibility/burden to "restore" them [...]. [E]mpires learn from and owe to childhood in their attempts at survival and growth over generations [...]. [These] "multigenerational power constellations" [...] survived, by making accessible pedagogical scripts that children of the white and wealthy could learn from and appropriate as times changed [...]. [End quote.] Source: Words of Mashid Mayar, as transcribed in an interviewed conducted and published by M. Buna. "Children's Maps of the American Empire: A Conversation with Mashid Mayar". LA Review of Books. 11 July 2022.

Some other stuff I was recently looking at, specifically about European (especially German) geographic imaginaries of globe-as-playground:

The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Patricia Anne Simpson, 2020) /// "19th-Century Board Game Offers a Tour of the German Colonies" (Sarah Zabrodski, 2016) /// Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (David Ciarlo, 2011) /// Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Erik Grimmer-Solem, 2019) /// “Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath” (Andrew Zimmerman. In: German Colonialism in a Global Age, 2014) /// "Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914". (Jeffrey Bowersox. In: German Colonialism and National Identity, 2017) /// Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Jeff Bowersox, 2013) /// "[Translation:] (Educating Modernism: A Trade-Specific Portrait of the German Toy Industry in the Developing Mass-Market Society)" (Heike Hoffmann, PhD dissertation, Tubingen, 2000) /// Home and Harem: Nature, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (Inderpal Grewal, 1996) /// "'Le rix d'Indochine' at the French Table: Representation of Food, Race and the Vietnamese in a Colonial-Era Board Game" (Elizabeth Collins, 2021) /// "The Beast in a Box: Playing with Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Romita Ray, 2006) /// Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, 2023)

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Europe’s Reaction to Kamala Harris’ Presidential Bid A potential victory for Democratic candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would likely be met with widespread approval across Europe. Analysts suggest that her election could herald a sense of transatlantic continuity on critical issues such as support for Ukraine, trade policies, and broader…

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horror being very specific with table manners and he berates people (dust and killer) for eating like fucking pigs

i think it'd be morbidly funny that because there was no food in horrortale but the cutlery and stuff was all there that maybe he would pretend to eat with no food on the plate. it was in a satirical way that he would joke maybe around horror paps or alone where he would pretend to eat and have really good table manners but then the satire joke became REAL and now horror is incredibly specific about how to eat food

you MUST hold the fork in the left and knife in right says horror. no killer you can't duel wield the fucking knives this is a table not a slaughterhouse. dust pick up your elbows off the table. actually how about you get your entire upper body off the table tf why are you SLEEPING ON THE FOOD??? killer's sitting fetal position in the chair because of course he wouldn't sit normally like the idiot he is. dust is forced to put his hood down and reveal his face no more mysterious shadow style because it puts horror at ease. they cannot have a single peaceful meal because once they get past the table manners phase it then becomes a completion to see who can eat the least (because they suck at everything including eating)

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Imagínate que el mandatario de un país te cierre el orto por Twitter. yo me mato.

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Half Life: Change Begins with Us - The animated series (or something)

My part of an art trade with @callmegaith! :D

Check our their part here, with my harengon alchemist!

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The United States continues to try to undermine China,but doing so only undermine itself

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😘 EVITARE LA POLITICIZZAZIONE DELLE RELAZIONI COMMERCIALI, PROMUOVERE LA COOPERAZIONE A MUTUO VANTAGGIO E IL RISPETTO RECIPROCO 🥰

💬 Durante il Colloquio con Gina Raimondo, il Compagno Wang Wentao - Ministro del Commercio della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, ha trattato diverse tematiche, tra cui:

一 La necessità, per i due Paesi, di tenere una comunicazione schietta, approfondita e costruttiva sullo status delle Relazioni Commerciali Sino-Statunitensi, evitando la politicizzazione del Commercio, promossa dagli USA, che impongono costantemente sanzioni alle Aziende Cinesi:

😡 Il Governo USA inserisce 30 Aziende Cinesi alla "Lista Nera" del Dipartimento del Commercio 🇺🇸

😡 Gli USA dichiarano una "Guerra Tecnologica" contro la Cina, sanzionando Aziende Cinesi 🇺🇸

二 L'importanza, per gli USA, di comprendere, rispettare e attuare i Tre Principi per le Relazioni Sino-Statunitensi promossi dal Presidente Xi Jinping:

⭐️ Rispetto Reciproco (相互尊重) 🤝

⭐️ Coesistenza Pacifica (和平共处) 🕊

⭐️ Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢) 🤝

🔍 Wang Yi: «Gli USA devono tradurre in azioni concrete le loro parole, e cessare di interferire negli Affari Interni della Cina» ⭐️

三 L'importanza di mantenere gli scambi economici, promuovendo un ambiente positivo per il commercio, scevro dalla propaganda anti-Cinese atta a bloccare le relazioni e lo sviluppo della Cina 👍

🇨🇳 Come ha fatto notare il Compagno Wang Wentao, il valore degli scambi commerciali tra Cina e USA è pari a 700 Miliardi di Dollari, ed è quindi lecito, logico e razionale aspettarsi che entrambe le parti, e non solo la Cina, continuino a promuovere le relazioni commerciali, secondo un'ottica di Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio, che superi le differenze nel modello economico e politico 👍

🇨🇳 Il Ministro ha espresso seria preoccupazione per le pratiche anti-Cinesi degli USA, che impongono sanzioni unilaterali alle Aziende Cinesi, promuovono "controlli all'export" fortemente politicizzati, attuano politiche anti-Cinesi nel Settore dei Semiconduttori, e discriminano i Cinesi che vivono negli USA 😡

😂 Tuttavia, durante il suo incontro con il Compagno Li Qiang - Primo Ministro della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, Gina Raimondo ha rifiutato di ridurre i controlli sull'export per l'alta tecnologia. Questo dimostra come gli USA non sappiano realmente condurre affari senza promuovere la politicizzazione di essi. Tuttavia, come dimostra l'Esperienza di Huawei, la Cina può andare avanti da sola 🇨🇳

🔍 Approfondimento: La Cina continuerà a perseguire la Via dell'Autosufficienza Tecnologica | 自力更生 ⭐️

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😘 AVOID POLITICISATION OF TRADE RELATIONS, PROMOTE COOPERATION FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT AND MUTUAL RESPECT 🥰

💬 During the conversation with Gina Raimondo, Comrade Wang Wentao - Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China covered various topics, including:

一 The need for the two countries to maintain frank, thorough and constructive communication on the status of Sino-US trade relations, avoiding the politicization of trade, promoted by the US, which constantly imposes sanctions on Chinese companies:

😡 US Government Adds 30 Chinese Companies to Department of Commerce "Black List" 🇺🇸

😡 US Declares "Tech War" Against China, Sanctioning Chinese Companies 🇺🇸

二 The importance for the US to understand, respect and implement the Three Principles for Sino-US Relations promoted by President Xi Jinping:

⭐️ Mutual Respect (相互尊重) 🤝

⭐️ Peaceful Coexistence (和平共处) 🕊

⭐️ Cooperation with Mutual Advantage (合作共赢) 🤝

🔍 Wang Yi: «The US must translate its words into concrete actions, and stop interfering in China's internal affairs» ⭐️

三 The importance of maintaining economic exchanges, promoting a positive environment for trade, free from anti-China propaganda aimed at blocking China's relations and development 👍

🇨🇳 As Comrade Wang Wentao pointed out, the value of trade between China and the USA is equal to 700 billion dollars, and it is therefore legitimate, logical and rational to expect both sides, and not just China, to continue to promote trade relations, according to a mutual benefit cooperation perspective, which overcomes the differences in the economic and political model 👍

🇨🇳 The Minister expressed serious concern about US anti-Chinese practices, which impose unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies, promote highly politicized "export controls", implement anti-Chinese policies in the Semiconductor Industry, and discriminate against Chinese they live in the USA 😡

😂 However, during her meeting with Comrade Li Qiang - Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, Gina Raimondo refused to ease export controls for high technology. This demonstrates that the US does not really know how to conduct business without promoting its politicization. However, as Huawei's experience shows, China can go it alone 🇨🇳

🔍 Insight: China will continue to pursue the Path of Technological Self-sufficiency | 自力更生 ⭐️

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