#trade relations

[ultimate-healing-blog]

10,000 Troops Deployed by Mexico for Tariff Suspension

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Mexico Sends Troops to US Border: Tariff Deal Explained In a significant move, Mexico has agreed to deploy 10,000 military personnel to its southern border as part of a deal to pause tariffs threatened by the Trump administration. This agreement was announced by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who made the declaration via social media on Monday morning, just hours before the tariffs were…

[firstoccupier]

West Philippine Sea Tensions: Latest Developments and Philippine Response

WPS.News Report: Tensions Rise in the West Philippine Sea Amid Ongoing Chinese Intrusions DATELINE: February 2, 2025, Manila, Philippines In the wake of increased Chinese incursions in the West Philippine Sea, particularly around Scarborough Shoal and Second Thomas Shoal, the Philippine government has ramped up its diplomatic and military responses over the last 24 hours. Reports from February…

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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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[garudabluffs]

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

[kneedeepincynade]

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

The post is machine translated

Translation is at the bottom

The collective is on telegram

🥰 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 🤔

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan 😘

🥰 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 🤔

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan 😘

[faultfalha]

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.

[trolledu]

trade = handel

to trade = handlować

US vs China trade partners 1980 and 2018

[sleepy-bebby]

[fox-and-the-hound]

art trade with @exocynraku!

[firstoccupier]

Tensions Rise in the West Philippine Sea: Marcos Jr.'s Cautious Approach Faces Inevitable Collision

By: Cliff Potts, WPS News, Editor-in-ChiefBaybay City | January 31, 2025 As observers of the West Philippine Sea situation would agree, it seems we are witnessing the slowest train wreck in history. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has adopted a notably cautious stance in dealing with China’s maritime assertiveness, showing a reluctance to engage in direct conflict at sea. This strategy, while…

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i've noticed you're Canadian, and as an incredibly terrified american, are you guys getting news that war is actually likely? our news and search engines are being heavily censored, i actually cannot find anything past 2024 about possible war. i'm reeling that it's possible, but i wouldn't put it past the orange fuck. i am so sincerely sorry for that cockalorum.

Hey! First of all, thanks for reaching out, and I'm sorry to hear you're terrified. We are also terrified to hear that your news is being censored. As I'm sure you can imagine, now more than ever, we want Americans to be aware of our situation and what's going on up north.

In terms of whether our news is saying war is likely... that's hard to answer. Truthfully, our news sources take a bit of a different tone than yours, for the most part. We're very avoidant of absolutes until things are certain, and our journalists (the respectable ones) tend to avoid alarmist rhetoric - at least compared to the kind of reporting and headlines we often see from many (still very respectable!) publications in the States.

So, what I'll say is this: in short, no. I have not seen any explicit reporting that war is imminent. However, there have been a lot of signals that a Big Bad is coming, and that's what a lot of us have been deducing from that. Here are some examples:

PM Justin Trudeau called a summit with most of our major industry leaders, informing them that Trump's annexation threats were very real and that we needed to start preparing.

Following that meeting, he flew to Europe to meet with several EU leaders to strengthen alliances and met with the Secretary-General of NATO for apparently similar discussions.

On a potentially related note, CSIS (our version of the CIA) released a foreign interference intelligence report to Parliament on Jan 28, most of which has not been made available to the public. However, I’ve seen some reporting that the United States was one of the countries mentioned as trying to interfere in our elections, and that the government’s response could be read as a silent invocation of NATO Article 4.

Perhaps most telling of something bad to come: our leaders are reaching across the aisle more than I've ever seen. Trudeau has been meeting with our premiers often, and outside of the numbnut in Alberta, they’ve unanimously come together to work on plans that prioritize Canada. We're hearing some of our most despicable, power-hungry conservatives advocate for Country Over Party and Country Over Province, willingly working with Trudeau—whom not even a month ago they treated like the most egregiously offensive man who ever lived—in supporting his plans to push back on Trump.

Our most conservative, openly pro-Trump candidate for the next election (Pierre Poilievre) is adding the establishment of a new military base and an Arctic defense strategy to his platform.

All candidates have been talking about increasing military spending.

Finally, all of our economic conversations have been focused on trade diversification and expanding internal manufacturing capabilities. We just signed a massive trade deal with China—something we had been refusing to do primarily because of our allegiance to the United States as our ally, which has now clearly been broken.

So yeah. Nothing overt, but it's not looking good.

On the ground, regular people (at least where I live) have been talking about war as if it's a real possibility and discussing what they'd do. Overwhelmingly, people are willing to stand up to this if it comes to it.

War aside, I've never seen anti-American sentiment run so high in this country. It's truly terrifying. People—on the right and left—are buying Canadian and boycotting American products. People are selling their American vacation homes, canceling travel to the U.S. (and those still taking their American vacations are being called traitors in some circles). Companies are ripping up American contracts. Stores are pulling American products off the shelves. And then, of course, there's the booing.

I know this seems grim, but I want to be honest with you. Our nations' relationship has been irrevocably harmed. There is no world where we go back to how it was before—whether or not Trump is gone—because we simply can't trust we won’t be put in this position again. And honestly—no offense to you, your ask was very polite, and I truly sympathize with every American who is as appalled by this as we are—I don’t think Canadians would feel this strongly about “never going back” if it weren’t for the response we’re seeing from American people online and American media.

Initial reactions to these threats were outright dismissal... of a threat to our sovereignty. Then, it was met with jokes and condescension, with late-night hosts chalking it up to picking a fight with your lapdog ally (literally, Jon Stewart called us golden retrievers), and people online treating it like just another crazy Trump-ism. Which is, again, a) not an appropriate reaction to a threat to a country’s sovereignty, and b) a complete dismissal of the real-time effects we're already feeling from this. The Canadian dollar dropped CONSIDERABLY in value the day the tariffs were announced. Just look at the USD:CAD forex charts and see how fucking stupid it looks since Trump took office.

And then, finally, we keep being met with either MAGA idiots who double down on the threat and tell us about how they can't wait to annex us/invade us and how we don't stand a chance against your military, or we're met by well-meaning but ultimately self-centered Americans who didn't vote for Trump and seem to be looking for us to absolve them and confirm we know they, in particular, didn’t do this. Which, like, okay, but how does that help anything? And really, should you be turning to us for comfort in this moment? This might sound dramatic, but literally go to the comment section of any Canadian creator, and you'll see this playing out there. It's aggressive and overwhelming, and you can’t blame Canadians for feeling like we can't count on you (again, en masse—not you specifically) to have our backs.

That said, the Canadian people and the Canadian government still truly sympathize with Americans—and immigrants in America (documented or not)—who did not choose this and are being impacted. We really, truly, and deeply appreciate Americans like you who are seeking out our voices, seeing through the noise, and trying to stay informed.

So, with that in mind, to help with the root of your question regarding news sources... first, I would recommend getting a VPN. I think your online experience would greatly improve. Second, there are a few Canadian sources you can go directly to, like our national broadcaster, the CBC.

Personally, I also enjoy following some left-leaning creators on TikTok, most of whom are journalists. I just try to be careful to keep their biases in mind and do my own follow-up research/think critically about what I hear. Here are a few of my favourites: Kat Arnett - she's a photographer but she used to be a political journalist. She's been pretty great at talking about how Canadians have experienced all of this.

KnittyKnits - she's a progressive (I'd say left but not far left) creator based in Alberta and she covers a lot of Canadian news.

Contra Tenore - He's a left-wing creator who I personally feel has a fairly pragmatic approach to analysis. He's VERY supportive of our left wing party (The New Democratic Party or 'NDP') and he's been talking a lot about this situation with the U.S. He doesn't mince words, though, and sometimes his videos are a little hard to take.

Cole.NotCole - He's probably my favourite starting point for a lot of my research right now. He gives short summaries of the day's news. He's sort of our Aaron Parnas but less problematic and less priviledged. He has a Liberal (center-left) leaning lens, but I don't personally feel he editorializes too much.

JB|Canadian Politics - Overtly progressive, but great political updates in my opinion - bias or no bias. He's been engaging Americans a lot during this whole thing in really interesting ways.

Unlearn16 - They're an extremely progressive high school history teacher (or maybe social studies?). I've really enjoyed their content covering all of this. They do a great job of breaking down the impact of political maneuvering and spelling out historical contexts.

Anyway... I hope this helps! And thank you again for asking. It really does mean a lot to see people seeking out Canadian perspectives at this time.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

This is why we need USAID. It promotes cooperation and goodwill between us and developing countries which often have strategic value or important natural resources.

[chocolattekinq]

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)

[fatehbaz]

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)