China's Xi Redraws Geopolitical Map With Embrace of Putin, Modi

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(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping used a mix of bonhomie and economic allure this week to send Donald Trump a clear message: Beijing has too much global clout to be dictated by the US.

Cameras captured the Chinese leader in a rare, unscripted huddle on Monday with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi — his most powerful partners in resisting America on the world stage — at a summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. At one point, Xi held the hand of his Indian counterpart, as the three men laughed casually, a striking scene given just months earlier New Delhi and Beijing were seen as rivals.

The images were a victory for Xi’s decade-long political project to build an alternative to the US-led world order. Hours after the trio gathered at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization event, Beijing signed a major gas pipeline deal with Moscow — rebuking Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to prise India and China away from Russian energy purchases.

“China has developed and sequenced its messages perfectly, and the optics of Xi, Putin and Modi embracing each other are coming sharply into view,” said Josef Gregory Mahoney, a professor of international relations at Shanghai’s East China Normal University. “This week will be

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-xi-redraws-geopolitical-map-110000416.html

Donny Dipshit is too stupid to realize he's ceding power to China.

[malaise]

1. Huh?

BRICS

That is all

[cliffside]

2. China's military parade unveils newest weapons as Xi welcomes leaders challenging Western order

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/china-military-parade-xi-jinping-09-03-25-intl-hnk

"What we're covering
• Chinese leader Xi Jinping is presiding over a military parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to commemorate the end of World War II. In a speech praising the armed forces, he said China’s rise is “unstoppable.”

• Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un flanked Xi, the first time the trio has been pictured together, in a defiant challenge to the US-led world order.

• Featuring over 10,000 troops and hundreds of advanced weapons, the parade will reveal China’s growing military power under Xi’s push to modernize the world’s largest standing army."

[Norbert]

3. This should be another impeachable offence

Modi wouldn't lie for trump and ruined it all.

NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it.

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[fujiyamasan]

4. His ego is destroying over thirty years of diplomacy

From Clinton onward, each president was working to establish a closer relationship with India.

There’s no strategy. There’s no vision. There’s only him. There’s a reason he loves Kim jong Un so much. That’s his ideal society. It’s a totalitarian monarchy. He’d love for Uday or Kusay to take over someday.