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...“The French are stepping up in the Indo-Pacific,” said John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
...If any state is a vassal state to China, it’s Russia....
...In response to ‘China’s calculus in Ukraine’s war’:“While [University of Chicago professor John] Mearsheimer hardly needs support from An Ordinary UK Citizen, his thinking about Nato expanding to the east...
...This would be another major step in turning Britain into an “American vassal state,” Mr Hauser thundered in a letter to the FT last week....
...As far back as the 1960s, an adviser to John F Kennedy’s White House pointed up the asymmetry....
...Richard Neustadt, an adviser in John F Kennedy’s White House, offered a fair description: the UK, he said, was “a middle power, neither equal nor vassal, which history, geography or economics rendered especially...
...And with the PBOC’s digital yuan you’re not just likely to become the product, you’re likely to be the mechanism by which your own country becomes a Chinese vassal state....
...Had Sir John Cowperthwaite, the laissez-faire financial secretary behind Hong Kong’s success (then only 60), been empowered to take Britain in hand, who knows what might have been achieved....
...The hope now must be that the Iran hawks surrounding the president — notably John Bolton, the national security adviser — do not succeed in undermining the initiative....
...Speaker John Bercow’s reference to parliamentary precedent set in 1604 takes us, arguably, to the heart of the Brexit crisis (March 20)....
...From my perch in Brussels, I witnessed ministers such as the clubbable Ken Clarke and John Gummer playing deft hands, supported by Sir John Kerr, Britain’s chain-smoking ambassador....
...Unless urgent action was taken to create bigger European companies, Servan-Schreiber argued, Europe would become a technological vassal of the US....
...“The UK would technically not be a member of the EU, but we would in effect become a vassal state: obliged to pay into the union’s budget while having even less sovereignty than we do now.”...
...Stand up for the whole of the United Kingdom or vote for a vassal state with the break-up of the United Kingdom,” he said last week....
...John Plender writes that egregious boardroom pay awards remain endemic despite repeated reform efforts on both sides of the Atlantic....
...(It was John D Rockefeller who collected railroad rebates meant for his competitors.)...
...It would turn us from a vassal state into a convict state, sentenced to hard labour for our love of democracy.”...
...Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, told Europe-1 radio last week that Europe should not accept the status of “vassals” to the US....
...Yet in a speech on Monday he put forward 12 demands that, in their totality, invited Iran to come out with its hands up and sign up as a vassal state....
...Though North Korea is no vassal state — Kim is his own man — China is the other key player in these talks....
...tweeted John Redwood, a veteran Eurosceptic MP....
...Attendees will include Mr Corbyn, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry....
...“[North Korea’s] mode of attack, once launched, would be the precision strike to destroy only the military bases of the US and its vassal forces,” the memo said....
...Architects Location & Vassal, transformed it, not through demolition but through addition....
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