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China’s differing approaches to the Philippines’ and Vietnam’s activities in the South China Sea (SCS) have drawn much attention this year. While China punished the Philippines for its resupplying missions to the Second Thomas Shoal, China kept silent on Vietnam’s island expansion program . But that silence may be ending. Recently, several prominent Chinese scholars have condemned Vietnam’s island expansion activities. They worry that Vietnam’s upgraded airstrips, harbors, and embarkments could allow Hanoi to better project power in the SCS at China’s expense. Importantly, these scholars have raised the possibility of Vietnam granting the United States and Japan access to its islands, which could offset Vietnam’s significant military disadvantage vis-à-vis China. Beijing can no longer keep silent if Vietnam’s activities alter the balance of power and hurt its long-term interests. By condemning Vietnam’s activities, China may enhance its militarization of SCS islands and prevent Hanoi from fortifying Vietnamese islands by adopting policies similar to its current treatment of Manila. China adopting more coercive measures toward Vietnam would likely increase the risk of a military crisis, considering past China-Vietnam maritime standoffs. How will Vietnam respond if China wants to slow, and ultimately stop, Vietnam’s island expansion activities by coercive means? The stark differences in their maritime capabilities and Hanoi’s lack of a military ally mean that Vietnam cannot deter and defend against Chinese coercive actions if China were to seriously undertake them. However, Hanoi cannot simply back down. Vietnam, naturally, wants to assert its sovereignty — but only to the extent that China will not find its actions too provocative, otherwise Beijing may try to compel Hanoi to stop. Vietnam’s solution to this dilemma has been dual-pronged, reflecting its effort to balance the two extremes. Vietnam vowing to cooperate with China to peacefully settle their maritime disputes is targeted at dissuading China from undertaking any actions that will significantly hurt Vietnam’s maritime interests. At the same time, Vietnam is quietly building its islands up in preparation for Chinese aggression, betting that its efforts do not cross China’s limit on what Vietnam can do at sea. The 2011 Vietnam-China Basic Principles on the Settlement of Sea Issues is central to this dual-pronged policy. If China lowers the threshold of what Vietnamese activities it deems acceptable, Vietnam will find it more difficult to maintain the balance between deferring and defying China. China’s “gray zone” tactics, such as harassing Vietnamese fishermen and sending survey ships into Vietnamese waters, have not been costly enough for Vietnam to stop its island expansion activities. To seriously compel Vietnam to stop those activities, China can threaten to impose higher costs, such as blockading Vietnamese islands or oil rigs, seizing its supply ships, attacking those outposts, or at worst occupying them outright. These actions, varying in the degree of severity, allow China to manipulate the risk of a military clash if Vietnam does not heed China’s demands to stop its island expansion activities. Importantly, this is a clash that both sides understand Vietnam has few chances of winning. Vietnam may be tempted to respond to China’s red lines by intercepting a Chinese blockade, maintaining supply to its outposts, and fortifying their defenses, but each of these moves brings Vietnam closer to a direct clash with China. China understands the limit of Vietnam’s appetite for risk in this regard. Vietnam is only willing to stand up to China’s coercion if China’s threats do not involve a clear intention to use force if the threat fails. During the 2014 HYSY-981 and 2019 standoffs, Vietnam swiftly responded to China sending oil rigs and ships to its territorial water by sending ships to interdict the Chinese flotilla. Vietnam tolerated ship ramming and water cannon fighting with China because these behaviors could not lead to the use of military force and China had not communicated beforehand that it would use military force. Importantly, the lack of a clear Chinese military retaliation before the standoffs happened bolstered Vietnamese willingness to run risk. China did not have to use force if its threats failed. Both China and Vietnam deescalated by holding high-level talks during the two standoffs, and China withdrew its oil rig as well as its survey ships after. When Chinese coercion involves a clear military threat, Vietnam backs down. In 2017, China threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratly islands if Hanoi did not stop drilling for oil in a disputed block 400 kilometers off the Vietnamese coast. Hanoi quickly terminated its oil drilling activities despite having signed a contract with a foreign company. In 2018, Vietnam decided to scrap an oil project in a nearby block after China again threatened to use force against Vietnam’s maritime outposts. Observers estimated that Vietnam’s decision in both cases cost the country $1 billion in compensation to Repsol of Spain and Mubadala of the United Arab Emirates. Vietnam’s prompt acquiescence demonstrated how seriously Vietnam understood the risk once China sent a clear military threat. Vietnam worries not only that a naval clash may significantly undermine its maritime security, but also that a naval clash can spill over onto land with even worse ramifications for its continental security . To be clear, it is unpredictable how Vietnam would respond if China decided to try and coerce Vietnam over an issue that Vietnam considers high stakes in the future, such as occupying one of Vietnam’s SCS outposts like China did to the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal in 2012. The issues at stakes in the above cases, which did not directly involve Vietnam’s sovereignty over the SCS islands, were not high enough for Vietnam to respond to Chinese coercion with force. The last time China used force to take over Vietnam’s Johnson South Reef, in 1988, Vietnam could not resist due to its limited naval capabilities and its focus on deterring and defending against a second Chinese invasion on land. And there were few risks of the naval clash spilling over onto land since both Vietnam and China were already in a decade-long standoff. China can thus successfully coerce Vietnam to stop its island expansion activities by sending Hanoi a clear military threat to attack Vietnam’s outposts without a threat to occupy them. Such a threat would leave little uncertainty about China’s next move as well as the costs. Vietnam cannot run the risk of war since the costs of doing so outweigh the benefits of testing China’s red lines. And for Vietnam, stopping its island expansion activities is not a high-stakes move, making it politically easier for Hanoi to give in. Furthermore, similar to the logic of Chinese coercion of Vietnam on land by threatening to attack were Hanoi to abandon its neutral foreign policy as it demonstrated in 1979, China could threaten to attack Hanoi’s maritime outposts if the latter grants the United States and Japan access. From this perspective, China’s use of gray zone tactics to assert its claims makes it easier for Vietnam to manage its relations with China because the risk of those tactics spiraling into a naval clash is smaller than China’s use of military threat to achieve the same objective. Due to its superior military power, China can afford a higher level of risk of conflict than Vietnam can if it ever decides to increase the degree of severity of its coercion. If the 1979 period taught China anything, it is that China should threaten to use force to punish Vietnam when needed, but China should not occupy Vietnam’s territory to weaken its resistance and to maintain a channel for Vietnam to concede. The 1979 lesson applies to both the continental and the maritime spheres. Vietnam’s naming and shaming of China for its harassment of Vietnamese fishermen and violations of Vietnam’s territorial water can raise the audience cost for China, but those actions do not and cannot change the maritime military balance. The best Vietnam can hope for is that China will not issue any military threats due to its concerns for audience cost and its overall relationship with Vietnam. China calling for restraint and emphasizing bilateral cooperation after Vietnam explicitly condemned Chinese harassment of Vietnamese fishermen should be taken as a sign that Beijing is not yet ready to jeopardize bilateral ties. The newly established China-Vietnam “3+3” strategic dialogue mechanism on diplomacy, defense, and public security, which is the first of its kind, demonstrate that China and Vietnam are confident in their ability to manage differences at sea. Freezing the SCS disputes, in which Vietnam stops expanding its islands in exchange for China’s tacit acceptance of Vietnam’s de facto control over them, looks to be the solution that can help both countries avoid a naval clash. Of course, in the absence of Chinese coercion, Vietnam will continue fortifying its SCS outposts in preparation for the worst.As Ali Games gears up for its upcoming releases and initiatives, the gaming world is taking notice. With its ambitious plans, focus on quality, community engagement, esports support, and technological innovation, Ali Games is poised to make a significant impact on the gaming industry. As gamers around the world eagerly anticipate what the company has in store, one thing is clear: Ali Games is ready to shake up the gaming world like never before.In recent years, financial fair play regulations have become increasingly stringent in English football. 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Football enthusiasts have questioned the omission of Super Falcons captain, Rasheedat Ajibade, from the final shortlist of the prestigious CAF Women’s Awards 2024, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The Confederation of African Football unveiled the list on Wednesday night and despite having several Nigerians vying for honour in six categories, some fans were not pleased with the omission of the Atletico Madrid forward who has been impressive for both club and country. Last season, the high-flying forward finished the league season with 10 goals and four assists in 30 games and has hit the ground running this campaign scoring five goals and providing two assists from eight games. Reacting to the 24-year-old’s surprise omission on the CAF X handle, Fortunatus Stephen said, “Why is Nigeria’s Ajibade missing from the list?” Another X user, Janet added, “I can’t believe that CAF overlooked Ajibade for this award despite her impressive season with Falcons and Atletico Madrid.” Stephen James wrote, “This must be the joke of the century. Not having Ajibade on this list is proof that jokes write themselves. All the best.” Meanwhile, some of the fans backed goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie to win the award. “Chiamaka Nnadozie is the best among the best,” Akanni Oluomo wrote. Prolific Suzy and Egbowon Oluwaseun responded to the tweet with the goalkeeper’s name and the flag of Nigeria. Janet added, “Nnadozie for the win, she deserves it and congratulations to her in advance unless CAF decides to cheat her.” However, in the Best Goalkeeper category, most football enthusiasts, both Nigerians and other countries, believed that without any doubt the Paris FC shot-stopper would claim the honour. Related News CAF awards: Ajibade, Nnadozie, Edo Queens bag nominations Edo Queens celebrate Ijamilusi over sterling Falcons debut Ajibade poised for Atletico, Liga F awards Debbi Love said, “Chiamaka Nnadozie will replace Asisat Oshoala as regards the dominance of this category. She will likely dominate the CAF Goalkeeper of The Year for seven consecutive years unless there is a major injury.” Bolarinwa added, “All the way for Chiamaka.” Rajee wrote, “No long talk, just give it to Chiamaka.” In the Player of the Year category, the 23-year-old faces competition from Tabitha Chawinga and Temwa Chawinga (both from Malawi), Morocco’s Sanaâ Mssoudy and Zambia’s Barbra Banda For the Goalkeeper accolade, she competes against Fideline Ngoy (DR Congo), Khadija Er-Rmichi (Morocco), and South Africa’s Andile Dlamini. Adding to Nigeria’s strong representation, Chiamaka Okwuchukwu, a rising star from Rivers Angels, has been shortlisted for Young Player of the Year, joining four other promising talents from Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa. The Super Falcons are among the contenders for Women’s National Team of the Year, competing with Morocco, South Africa, Zambia, and Cameroon U-20. Falconets coach Chris Danjuma has also been recognized with a nomination for Women’s Coach of the Year, highlighting his contributions to Nigeria’s U-20 team. On the club front, Edo Queens, reigning Nigerian Women League champions, have earned a spot on the shortlist for Women’s Club of the Year. The winners will be determined by votes from the CAF Technical Committee, media professionals, and football stakeholders. The awards ceremony is scheduled for December 16, 2024, in Marrakech, Morocco.In the new preview, we see Aizen making his grand entrance, his presence commanding attention as he effortlessly outmaneuvers his adversaries with calculated precision. His sharp wit and cunning strategies are on full display, creating a sense of unease and anticipation for what lies ahead in the series.
Meanwhile, Douyin, the popular short-video platform owned by ByteDance, is making its mark in the e-commerce landscape by integrating shopping features directly into its app. Leveraging its vast user base and engaging content, Douyin is enabling brands to connect with consumers in innovative ways, driving sales through interactive and visually appealing shopping experiences. As Douyin continues to evolve into a powerful e-commerce platform, it is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of online shopping in China.As Captain Kim struggles to come to terms with the downfall of his once proud unit, the larger implications of this incident remain to be seen. Will the 707 Special Forces unit be able to regain its former glory and reputation, or has this event irreparably damaged their standing in the eyes of the world? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: the image of the elite 707 Special Forces unit will never be the same again.
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Counterfeiting currency is a complex and sophisticated crime that requires a significant amount of skill and effort to carry out successfully. It involves replicating the intricate details and security features of genuine banknotes in order to create convincing fakes. The fact that the man was able to produce counterfeit money amounting to 8760 yuan highlights the extent to which he was committed to his illegal activities.In the fast-paced and competitive real estate market of Jiangsu Province, the performance of both real estate enterprises and local state-owned enterprises plays a vital role in reflecting the economic development and growth of the region. From January to November 2024, the sales achievements of these enterprises have been closely monitored and evaluated. Let's delve into the ranking of the top-performing companies during this period.
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(CNN) — The Biden administration is working to surge deliveries of weapons to Ukraine in its final days in office in a concerted effort to put Kyiv on a strong footing going into 2025, according to a senior administration official. The push is in stark contrast to that of the incoming Trump administration, with President-elect Donald Trump sharply criticizing a recent US move to allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia in an interview with Time Magazine published Thursday. In the latest show of support for Ukraine, the Biden administration plans to announce an expected $500 million aid package in coming days that will pull equipment out of the US military’s stocks. And the senior administration official told CNN that the administration is pouring resources into getting previously announced weapons for Ukraine into Kyiv’s hands before Biden leaves office. “DoD is undertaking a historic effort to move massive quantities of weapons into Ukraine in the next five weeks,” the senior administration official said. “Between now and mid-January, we will deliver to Ukraine hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, thousands of rockets, hundreds of armored vehicles, and other critical capabilities.” An interagency effort to deliver the weapons is being led by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, the senior official said. In November, Sullivan told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on behalf of the president to “accelerate” the deliveries of armored vehicles, rockets, artillery and more to Ukraine. The Pentagon is now conducting sealifts and airlifts to meet the delivery deadline. Sullivan just briefed Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, about the sealifts and airlifts last week, a source familiar with the matter said. David Shimer, the National Security Council’s Ukraine director, has been coordinating with the Pentagon on their efforts specifically. The renewed push for delivery to Ukraine hasn’t changed the situation that there are no US boots on the ground in Ukraine, the source familiar said, and the weapons are being moved through Europe the way they have been throughout the war. But the source said that the surge in deliveries is involving a significant number of flights and sea vessels. Meanwhile, in the interview with Time — which was conducted in late November but published Thursday with Trump’s selection as the 2024 Person of the Year — Trump was pushed on how he will support Ukraine after taking office. He said in the interview that he “vehemently” disagreed with the decision by the Biden administration to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with US-provided weapons. “We’re just escalating this war and making it worse,” Trump said. “That should not have been allowed to be done. Now they’re doing not only missiles, but they’re doing other types of weapons. And I think that’s a very big mistake, very big mistake.” Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick to be the next national security adviser, has been weighing proposals for ending the war, including one from retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg — whom Trump announced as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia — that would make continued US aid to Ukraine contingent on Ukraine’s participation in peace talks with Russia. Another proposal would allow Russia to keep the territory it currently holds in exchange for giving Ukraine NATO membership. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he wants to work “directly” with Trump and that he believes the war will end “faster” when he is president. Trump and Zelensky met just last week in Paris, along with French President Emmanuel Macron. CNN has reported that the Pentagon is unlikely to use all of the nearly $7 billion left in funding that was authorized by Congress to arm Ukraine by the time Biden leaves office, largely due to limitations in the military’s ability to refill its own stocks. The source familiar, though, said the administration is confident that they’ll use the appropriated funding for Ukraine, drawing a distinction from what was authorized. But still, the biggest challenge facing Ukraine is not its weapons stocks, the senior administration official said — it’s manpower. The source familiar with the matter said that the Biden administration’s emphasis on Kyiv’s need to address its manning issue is part of the larger push to ensure Ukraine is in as good a position as possible going into 2025. “Ukraine is not currently mobilizing or training enough soldiers to staff its front-line units,” the official said. “The US stands ready to help train newly mobilized soldiers: If Ukraine mobilizes additional soldiers and sends them to training sites outside of Ukraine, we will train them. But first, Ukraine needs to make the decision to mobilize more soldiers.” The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Riding a 3-game win streak, the Bengals cling to playoff hopes with the Broncos nextFormer U.S. president Jimmy Carter, once called a 'pretty good Canadian,' dies at 100 Jimmy Carter, the self-effacing peanut farmer, humanitarian and former navy lieutenant who helped Canada avert a nuclear catastrophe before ascending to the highest political office in the United States, died Sunday at his home in Georgia. James McCarten, The Canadian Press Dec 29, 2024 2:19 PM Dec 29, 2024 2:20 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks after him and his wife Rosalynn, received honorary degrees from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday Nov. 21, 2012. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize winner has died at 100. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg Jimmy Carter, the self-effacing peanut farmer, humanitarian and former navy lieutenant who helped Canada avert a nuclear catastrophe before ascending to the highest political office in the United States, died Sunday at his home in Georgia. He was 100, making him the longest-lived U.S. president in American history. Concern for Carter's health had become a recurring theme in recent years. He was successfully treated for brain cancer in 2015, then suffered a number of falls, including one in 2019 that resulted in a broken hip. Alarm spiked in February 2023, however, when the Carter Center — the philanthropic organization he and his wife Rosalynn founded in 1982 — announced he would enter hospice care at his modest, three-bedroom house in Plains, Ga. Rosalynn Carter, a mental health advocate whose role as presidential spouse helped to define the modern first lady, predeceased her husband in November 2023 — a death at 96 that triggered a remembrance to rival his. "Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished," the former president said in a statement after she died. "As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me." Conventional wisdom saw his single White House term as middling. But Carter's altruistic work ethic, faith-filled benevolence and famous disdain for the financial trappings of high office only endeared him to generations after he left politics in 1981. "The trite phrase has been, 'Jimmy Carter has been the best former president in the history of the United States,'" said Gordon Giffin, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada who sits on the Carter Center's board of trustees. "That grated on him, because it distinguished his service as president from his service — and I literally mean service — as a former president." His relentless advocacy for human rights, a term Carter popularized long before it became part of the political lexicon, included helping to build homes for the poor across the U.S. and in 14 other countries, including Canada, well into his 90s. He devoted the resources of the Carter Center to tackling Guinea worm, a parasite that afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people in the developing world in the early 1980s and is today all but eradicated, with just 13 cases reported in 2022. And he was a tireless champion of ending armed conflict and promoting democratic elections in the wake of the Cold War, with his centre monitoring 113 such votes in 39 different countries — and offering conflict-resolution expertise when democracy receded. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, nearly a quarter-century after his seminal work on the Camp David Accords helped pave the way for a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979, the first of its kind. "His presidency got sidelined in the historic evaluation too quickly, and now people are revisiting it," Giffin said. "I think his standing in history as president will grow." A lifelong Democrat who never officially visited Canada as president, Carter was nonetheless a pioneer of sorts when it came to Canada-U.S. relations and a close friend to the two Canadian prime ministers he served alongside. One of them, former Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark, once called Carter a "pretty good Canadian" — a testament to the former commander-in-chief's authenticity and centre-left politics, which always resonated north of the Canada-U.S. border. The pair were reunited in 2017 at a panel discussion in Atlanta hosted by the Canadian American Business Council, and seemed to delight in teasing the host when she described Clark as a "conservative" and Carter as a "progressive." "I'm a Progressive Conservative — that's very important," Clark corrected her. Piped up Carter: "I'm a conservative progressive." In 2012, the Carters visited Kingston, Ont., to receive an honorary degree from Queen's University. Instead of a fancy hotel, they stayed with Arthur Milnes, a former speech writer, journalist and political scholar who'd long since become a close friend. "He became my hero, believe it or not, probably when I was about 12," said Milnes, whose parents had come of age during the Cold War and lived in perpetual fear of the ever-present nuclear threat until Carter took over the White House in 1977. "My mother never discussed politics, with one exception — and that was when Jimmy Carter was in the White House. She'd say, 'Art, Jimmy Carter is a good and decent man,'" Milnes recalled. "They always said, both of them, that for the first time since the 1950s, they felt safe, knowing that it was this special man from rural Georgia, Jimmy Carter, who had his finger on the proverbial button." While Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau appeared to share a mutual antipathy during their shared time in office, Carter got along famously with the prime minister. Indeed, it was at the express request of the Trudeau family that Carter attended the former prime minister's funeral in 2000, Giffin said. "The message I got back was the family would appreciate it if Jimmy Carter could come," said Giffin, who was the U.S. envoy in Ottawa at the time. "So he did come. He was at the Trudeau funeral. And to me, that said a lot about not only the relationship he had with Trudeau, but the relationship he had in the Canada-U.S. dynamic." It was at that funeral in Montreal that Carter — "much to my frustration," Giffin allowed — spent more than two hours in a holding room with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a meeting that resulted in Carter visiting Cuba in 2002, the first former president to do so. But it was long before Carter ever entered politics that he established a permanent bond with Canada — one forged in the radioactive aftermath of what might otherwise have become the country's worst nuclear calamity. In 1952, Carter was a 28-year-old U.S. navy lieutenant, a submariner with a budding expertise in nuclear power, when he and his crew were dispatched to help control a partial meltdown at the experimental Chalk River Laboratories northwest of Ottawa. In his 2016 book "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety," Carter described working in teams of three, first practising on a mock-up of the reactor, then on the real thing, in short 90-second bursts to avoid absorbing more than the maximum allowable dose of radiation. "The limit on radiation absorption in the early 1950s was approximately 1,000 times higher than it is 60 years later," he wrote. "There were a lot of jokes about the effects of radioactivity, mostly about the prospect of being sterilized, and we had to monitor our urine until all our bodies returned to the normal range." That, Carter would later acknowledge in interviews, took him about six months. Carter and Clark were both in office during the so-called "Canadian Caper," a top-secret operation to spirit a group of U.S. diplomats out of Iran following the fall of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979. The elaborate ploy, which involved passing the group off as a Canadian science-fiction film crew, was documented in the Oscar-winning 2012 Ben Affleck film "Argo." Carter didn't think much of the film. "The movie that was made, 'Argo,' was very distorted. They hardly mentioned the Canadian role in this very heroic, courageous event," he said during the CABC event. He described the true events of that escapade as "one of the greatest examples of a personal application of national friendship I have ever known." To the end, Carter was an innately humble and understated man, said Giffin — a rare commodity in any world leader, much less in one from the United States. "People underestimate who Jimmy Carter is because he leads with his humanity," he said. "I read an account the other day that said the Secret Service vehicles that are parked outside his house are worth more than the house. How many former presidents have done that?" This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec, 29, 2024. James McCarten, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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Overall, the Central Political Bureau meeting on December 9th emphasized the government's commitment to stabilizing the real estate market and promoting sustainable development in the sector. By taking a proactive approach to addressing challenges and implementing effective measures, the government aims to create a more stable and healthy real estate market that can meet the housing needs of the population while preventing excessive speculation and property bubbles. Through continued efforts to regulate the market, promote the development of rental housing, and support affordable housing initiatives, the government seeks to ensure that the real estate sector remains a key driver of economic growth and social stability in China.Ohio State AD: Ryan Day ‘absolutely’ back in 2025
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