China drops 500 million dollar bomb on puttie...

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[dweller]

1. well that's

not gonna burn ….


see what I did there 😁


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[dchill]

14. I see. 🙈

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Good.

[Enter stage left]

3. Yes!

[Leghorn21]

4. YEAH BABY

Feelin it yet, motherfucker?

[Scrivener7]

5. That is VERY good news. Seems like China has chosen what square to stand on.

[quakerboy]

6. I trust china

To do their best to play both sides of this.

Whichever way it goes, they intend to come out on top.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Indeed! nt

[keithbvadu2]

10. China plays the long game in politics

[Irish_Dem]

11. Exactly

Xi knows how he is going to handle the Russia situation.

He will be the winner.

[onetexan]

37. i trust china like i trust a fox watching a henhouse. They're self-serving & are only watching their

back.

[quakerboy]

40. I mean, who is really doing anything but that?

Everyone is pretty much watching their own backs and acting self servingly.

The difference being who is willing to commit war crimes and invade other countries, and who has other tools in their toolbox to get what they want. Oh.. and who is basically at the whims of the more powerful.

[James48]

8. Never as it seems.

China is way too complex for an easy answer.

There must be more to the story-

Look for alternate currencies, routing through rubels, or some unexpected new trade deal to pop up.

[Martin68]

7. I'm not surprised. Authoritarians like Trump, Putin, and Xi have loyalty only to themselves.

[calimary]

12. Looks like Putie is turning into putty.

[DallasNE]

13. To Keep That $500 Million In Perspective

One Russian oligarch spent $600 million on his yacht.

[agingdem]

18. China cancelling the multi million dollar investment is not the big hurt

the big hurt is China's defection...Xi wisely understands Putin's winless war is not the mountain he wants to die on...and I suspect Xi understands Biden is not someone he can fuck with...

[gaskinite]

23. Xi doesn't care about Biden

His bet is a low odds sure bet that Russia is gonna tank. He missed out on the big bet.

[ShazzieB]

15. Good. 👍

[FakeNoose]

16. The Chinese are forced to import oil and ng

... because they have none of their own.

I wonder where they're going to get it, now that they've cancelled their order with Russia?
Hmmmm.....

[Hekate]

24. They have coal mines though, so seems like there'd be other fossil fuel in the ground

But what do I know

[SergeStorms]

28. Bloomberg has reported that Russian tankers have been running without tracking systems....

at least 33 times in the past week, making the sanctions against them somewhat difficult to enforce. The tankers are virtually invisible without the tracking systems in working order.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/several-russian-tankers-reportedly-turned-off-their-tracking-systems-33-times-last-week-a-practice-the-us-says-could-be-used-to-evade-sanctions/ar-AAVy1f0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=71987fd2e52a4b34af8e60229d738524

Anyone want to wager where these tankers are headed?

[EYESORE 9001]

17. Is it China's plan to drive Russia into the ditch

and then pick over the wreckage for the tasty bits remaining? Seems a better business plan than backing a fast-fading former superpower with plans to subvert their best customers.

[roamer65]

25. Yes. They want Siberia without a fight.

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. it's a symbolic gesture on China's part. The 500 million is nothing on their scale.

Putin suffered a massive PR defeat. THAT'S the story.

[KentuckyWoman]

32. My take as well.

[whopis01]

35. Exactly. This is more about Putin's image and ability to inspire confidence

or lack thereof.

Putin has become a problem. China doesn't want to get dragged down with him. It would be much easier to let him go away and work with the next guy.

[lindysalsagal]

19. Ok!ok!ok! Never would have bet on that happening.

Hope it's true!

[yaesu]

20. its always a good idea to copy/paste text from tweet also as tweets can take some time to load nt

[Roy Rolling]

21. Help me out

Is $500 million a large amount in this context of a large country like China? I can’t understand this event as anything but a PR ploy to say “China publicly opposes Russia’s invasion”.

Still, I hope the reality is as hopeful as the PR statement. But I’m fearful that public pronouncements during wartime are meant to deceive.

Though, lastly, the veneer of a cancelled business deal leaves a lot of political face-saving for both parties in the eyes of the world. And that’s how successful negotiations look.

[whopis01]

36. $500 million is nothing for China

China knows how to a read a room.

This is more harmful to Putin himself than to Russia or China. It is bad PR for him and further erodes the confidence of those who keep him in power. China is not changing their policy at all - they are just distancing themselves from Putin.

[L. Coyote]

22. K & R

[BradBo]

27. For real.. the world runs on money. We are all hoping Putin is just like that.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Cha]

31. I liked that same tweet.. Before

I saw yours.

💙💛

[Cha]

30. This is a Switch! Wasn't China just helping Vlad in some way?

Link to tweet

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[Vinca]

33. Good news. Maybe that's why Pootie is withdrawing his troops to eastern

Ukraine supposedly to secure those small pockets of alleged Russia lovers. If China cuts him off, that's pretty much the ball game. Smart move on China's part choosing the rest of the world over Putin's lousy economy.

[lark]

34. China stands for itself and any other positions are just temporary. n/t

[oldsoftie]

38. Like trump, China is all about the money & power.

And we should get our critical manufacturing OUT of there

[The Unmitigated Gall]

39. Oh. That's in there pretty deep.

Careful you don’t break it off!