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I think Mexico already has a considerable automotive manufacturing base and experience, ahead of Brazil.

How would you really gauge accountability and legitimacy? Most people would also acknowledge that Donald Trumps did mishandle, too. And no one refrained from criticizing, foreign and local; media and opposition. Eventually, Trump paid for it by being de-elected. So, accountabilty and...

The fatality numbers in the US etc. were important when People's Daily were using them in political cartoons. For majority of the world, China's government, too, mishandled it. Hence, now it is covering up data. Like anything else, this also becomes a politically sensitive issue. Otherwise...

If it in the news, it is not a cover up. Now, let's look at China's media.

Medvedev has indeed turned very deranged, which is strange because he used to be seen as a smoother version of a Putin puppet in a bad cop good cop game. Now it seems it is a worse cop-the worst cop game...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Toyota-set-to-lead-global-auto-sales-for-3rd-straight-year

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-in-talks-to-build-first-Europe-chip-plant-in-Germany

Gradual diversification?

It is difficult to make a bet when the government stops releasing numbers. Now, it is a game of guess. If the most of the rest of the world had acted like China government does now and kept the world in dark, we would even have not had a virus, let alone people dying from it. Can you see...

That's a thorny issue, indeed. Even within the EU and the NATO some members do not recognize it as sovereign. Nevertheless, eventually, it was a civil war. Quite different from Ukraine. The position of some European countries to the Syrian civil war was also questionable. Still, none of the...

A good read. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221216/p2g/00m/0op/048000c Bill Emmott: Allies need to pressure Biden's US to smooth out its int'l policies December 18, 2022 (Mainichi Japan) It would be fair to say that ever since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in...

EU is sanctioning Russia out of principle of non-violability of sovereignty. Also, apparently, they have calculated well, through step by step sanctions. They do, because they have capability to do so. Also, reducing reliance on Russian energy has been a theme for a decade or longer. Russian...

So, it as about capabilities. Countries or blocs will resort to it for certain ends. Such as the Arab oil embargo. The balance keeps changing. For instance, Vietnam and India are distancing themselves from Russian arms dependency. Russia is trying to distance itself from European market...

These are all master strokes involving publicly known secret plans by a brilliant strategist playing incredible mind games.

I do not know what happened to the initial secret plan?

Russian "soldiers" seem to loot their own dead. Brothers in underwear.

I think both use sanctions or economic pressure to achieve desired strategic end. One's excuse is not necessarily more legitimate than the other's. What China may think of benign action could be seen as hostile by the US, and vice versa. I see many nations simply reposition themselves.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/Japan-to-begin-extracting-rare-earth-metals-from-seabed-in-2024 Exactly. It is a question of capabilities not intentions really. It is not that China has never used trade dependency as a political weapon when it feels necessary and viable...

I think lessons are mutual, hence we are closer to a technological?/economic bloc politics. The trend seems to be: Don't rely on the US for high tech. Don't rely on Russia/Iran for energy Don't rely on China for manufacturing/precious metals Hence countries are making blocs/pacts. Iran and...

China has been fast losing all the public diplomacy gains. It's such a monumental undoing of previous gains. Such as this...