A wise Italian American once said "those who want respect, give respect"
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CeleryApple2 days ago
+30
To be fair Panama did take the Chinese operated ports without compensation because Trump was pissy about it. The Chinese have operated the ports for decades without issue. Maybe they should respect the contract they signed with the Chinese lol.
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RememberingSessue2 days ago
+19
Panama sure didn't show any respect after they destroyed the monument commemorating the Chinese community.
[https://apnews.com/article/china-panama-monument-demolished-5295325cc3fd88a975cc4a34ec56b7c6](https://apnews.com/article/china-panama-monument-demolished-5295325cc3fd88a975cc4a34ec56b7c6)
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Longjumping_Soil21162 days ago
+17
>Panama’s president echoed the condemnation, blaming local authorities and pledging that the monument would be rebuilt.
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sentrypetal1 day ago
+1
There is no monument being rebuilt by the way. Panama President is all talk no action. Just politics wait long enough for the topic to be outside peoples minds but make false platitudes so the foolish can parrot his words.
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SoulBonfire1 day ago
+1
When the foolish Australian PM Morrison tried to suck Trumps d*** and accused the Chinese of hiding something regarding the Covid 19 virus, it cost us $47billion in one year due to trade sanctions imposed by the Chinese. Piss them off at your own risk.
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OffEvent282 days ago
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China's penchent for indirect retaliation is well known. Example, some Canadian politician says something about Taiwan and suddenly Canadian citizens in China are arrested on bogus espionage charges, only to be released later in a swap for some Chinese citizen detained in Canada.
Panamian citizens should probably not be visiting China for a while.
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AspectSpiritual91432 days ago
+12
Just name the said Canadian citizens' name. Let's see if they have sued Canadian government.
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5m3lly_paj33t1 day ago
+8
He won’t name michael “the spy” kovrig. And how he involved michael spavor who ended up suing the canadian government and winning.
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MukimukiMaster1 day ago
-1
Tell me you know nothing without knowing nothing.
First, when Meng was arrested, China also detained Kovrig/Spavor and put them in horrible conditions. When Meng was released so were they.
Second, there was never any evidence of proving espionage made public.
Third, there was never a public trial showing the "evidence" of them being a spies on closed trials. and Kovrig’s case never had a verdict.
China clearly retaliated and politically motivated.
There was doing diplomatic reporting going on which is far from espionage and a common occurrence and task of every diplomat. Of course, Spavor went to trial it was an easy payout, he didn't win though. The settled as it would be cheaper than actually going to trial even if he would lose and documentation that Canada doesn't want to reveal to public might have to revealed.
Another example, China recently did the same thing with Japanese business men accusing them of being spies in retaliation that happened right after Japan did something the didn't like. Coincidently, China did the same thing, timing, no public evidence of espionage, and no public trial or case verdict.
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