8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (7)
#18065794 at 2023-01-03 15:16:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22142: Don't Be Scared, But Be Prepared Edition
3 Jan, 2023 07:58
Ex-NATO chief lands in Taiwan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is set to meet with the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen
Former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, where he will meet with the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen. The trip takes place amid a row between Beijing and Washington, which accuse each other of stoking tensions in the region.
Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister who led NATO between 2009 and 2014, was greeted on arrival by Vincent Yao, Taipei's top official responsible for European affairs.
He is also scheduled to meet with Vice President Lai Ching-te and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, according to the island's Foreign Ministry.
Rasmussen founded the Alliance of Democracies (AoD) think tank in 2017. "The visit will focus on support from the democratic world for Taiwan and closer EU-Taiwan relations," the group said in a statement on its website.
Beijing considers Taiwan, which has had a separate government since the late 1940s, part of its territory and strongly opposes any forms of diplomatic recognition of Taipei.
In August, China protested over the visit of US House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan and responded by launching combined military exercises around the island. The US and the Taiwanese government, in turn, have accused Beijing of coercive behavior.
Last Friday, the US and China accused each other of reckless maneuvers in the South China Sea. The US Indo-Pacific Command reported that a Chinese J-11 jet fighter flew dangerously close to its RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. Beijing, meanwhile, claimed that the US plane was responsible for the incident.
Denmark follows the 'One-China policy', refraining from formally recognizing Taiwan as an independent state. Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on December 30 that the government does not interfere in the travel plans of former politicians. "Such visits do not change the fact that it is the government that leads the country's foreign policy," the minister said. "Denmark has good trade relations with Taiwan, but, at the same time, our One-China policy is firm."
In an interview with Newsweek magazine in October, the former NATO chief suggested that "Russia's attack against Ukraine has postponed the timing of a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan." China has repeatedly stated that it would prefer "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, but has warned that it still reserves "other options."
(NATO needs more war, very hungry, even war with China, we don't care)
https://www.rt.com/news/569322-former-nato-chief-taiwan/
#8988021 at 2020-05-01 15:53:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11504: POTUS Ridin' Like A CowBoy Edition
>>8988016
"Steady Hands" and "It's a Beautiful Thing…" - Part 4 - OH MY!
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/53/5336_pr-report-for-week-of-1-8-2007-.html
"STRATFOR Leak / THE NATIONAL JOURNAL - "The Return of the Grown-Ups"" - January 13, 2007
"In what one former official called "the closest thing to an intelligence coup d'etat," a set of old hands has been designated to lead at the principal military and civilian agencies. Career intelligence officials seemed to breathe a sigh of relief this past week and were hopeful that new management would help stabilize the spy agencies, which have been hurt by flawed analyses on Iraq, bureaucratic infighting, and a lack of experienced senior leadership. In this new intelligence constellation, there are four key players…."
"The new power structure comes at a time when the intelligence community needs steady hands, observers said. Outgoing DNI John Negroponte, a career ambassador who is returning to his roots at the State Department as Condoleezza Rice's deputy, never seemed comfortable in his role as intelligence czar."
So those "Grown Ups" would be: [retired Navy Vice Adm. Mike McConnell][Defense Secretary Robert Gates][retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper][CIA Director Michael Hayden]
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07LONDON2534_a.html
"BROWN'S GOVERNMENT IN PLACE" - 2007 July 2, 16:01 (Monday)
"Until this past weekend's aborted car bomb attacks drove comment about the new Cabinet off the front pages, initial editorial reaction, even from papers hostile to Labour, had been favorable, with most observers agreeing that Brown's cabinet was a mixture of new talent and "steady hands." The appointment of Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary sparked some questions about her experience to take on the high profile job, but her performance in the days following the bomb attacks has earned her thus far uniform praise."
May need to take a look at the "aborted car bomb attacks" in the UK in June 2007 - possible FF event, and Jacqui Smith proved she could keep her mouth shut to the Usual Suspects by the way she handled it?
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07LONDON2534_a.html
"DENMARK'S NEW PRIME MINISTER" - 2009 April 6, 12:28 (Monday)
"Lars Lokke Rasmussen lacks significant foreign policy experience and can be expected to hew closely to what has, in his words, worked well so far. All indications are that the government will sustain its key policies of active engagement in concert with us and European allies, including in priority missions such as in Afghanistan and in Kosovo. Changes in the foreign and defense portfolios are not expected in the short term, and we anticipate that the new prime minister will rely heavily on those steady hands."
Something rotten in the State of Denmark?
The hits just keep coming, Anons… and I haven't even started on "It's a beautiful thing" yet!!!
#8236447 at 2020-02-24 20:43:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10545: Where We Namaste One We Namaste All Edition
>>8236414
Denmark Tells Bernie Sanders It's Had Enough Of His 'Socialist' Slurs
KERRY JACKSON12:01 AM ET 11/09/2015
The Danes apparently have grown weary of Sen. Bernie Sanders insulting their country. Denmark is not a socialist nation, says its prime minister. It has a "market economy."
Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who calls himself a socialist, has used Denmark as the example of the socialist utopia he wants to create in America. During the Democrats' first debate last month, he said "we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people."
While appearing in New Hampshire in September, Sanders said that he had "talked to a guy from Denmark" who told him that in Denmark, "it is very hard to become very, very rich, but it's pretty hard to be very, very poor."
"And that makes a lot of sense to me."
So because something makes sense to him, he has the right to force that system on people who don't want it? Isn't that what he's saying?
But we digress. This is about Danes being offending by Sanders using the word "socialist" to describe their form of government. And who can blame them, especially when the free world has had enough of national socialists and Soviet socialists and North Korean socialists and Cuban socialists?
While speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the center-right Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he was aware "that some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism."
"Therefore," he said, "I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-bernie-sanders-to-stop-calling-it-socialist/
#5233485 at 2019-02-18 01:57:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6687: The Crafty Beaver Edition
But they are dangerous people! Europe reluctant to 'take back' ISIS fighters as Trump demands
Trump's call upon European countries to "take back" and prosecute jihadists captured in Syria, has met quite a mixed reaction, with Germany expressing legal concerns over such a move and Denmark firmly rejecting it altogether.
The bold demand was tweeted by the US President on Sunday. The options for Europe are simple - to take Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters "back," or the US and its subordinate militants in Syria "we will be forced to release them."
The call was heard, yet some countries flatly rejected it.
"We are talking about the most dangerous people in the world. We should not take them back," a spokesperson for Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has said. The official described Trump's call as premature, claiming that the situation in Syria was far from stable.
https://www.rt.com/news/451697-jihadists-return-europe-trump/
#3661167 at 2018-10-30 05:48:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4648: Stay The Course Edition
White House Report Slamming 'Socialist' Scandinavia Denounced by Danish PM
Denmark's center-right Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen rushed to defend the Nordic Model of social democracy after the Trump Administration listed Denmark as an example of a failing socialist nation in its recently released report, called "The Opportunity Costs of Socialism."
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen posted on Facebook this Monday that he is willing to participate "at any time in a competition with the Americans on who has the best social model," CDS News reported.
"Yes, we pay a lot in tax... but we get so much. Our children can get an education - no matter who you are and where you come from. We can get to the hospital and get help if we get sick. Whether we have special insurance or a lot of money in the bank. And if you become unemployed, run into problems or otherwise need a helping hand, then the community is ready to seize and help one back on the right track," Rasmussen wrote.
Denmark became one of the countries listed in the report, which was penned by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. It had criticized Denmark over its living conditions saying that the living standards in Nordic countries are "at least 15 percent lower than in the United States."
The report was also quickly criticized by the foreign policy spokesman of Denmark's opposition Social Democratic party, who called it a "scare tactic" and "fake news" aimed at improving the image of the US ahead of midterms.
"There was no mention of the 32 million adults in the U.S. that are illiterate," The Copenhagen Post fired back, without mentioning the source of its data.
This is not the first time Denmark has reacted to the criticism of the country's political and economic system. Earlier in August, a Fox Business segment called Denmark an "overtaxed dystopia" with high unemployment rates. Denmark's minister of finance and ambassador to the US Lars Gert Lose called the criticism "uninformed." Lose even posted a document with Denmark's global rankings, showing the small country coming out on top in terms of unemployment and education.
Denmark and the other Nordic countries of Europe are known for their implementation of the Nordic Model, alternately known as Nordic Capitalism and Nordic Social Democracy. Unlike in true socialism, the means of production are privately owned. However, the countries feature a generous welfare state tasked with providing free university-level education and medical care as well as generous pensions, and a high percentage of the workforce is unionized. Many argue that the public sector of Denmark, with a population of less than six million, can't be compared to that of the United States.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201810301069339523-denmark-pm-slams-usa-over-criticizm-socializm/
#1667856 at 2018-06-08 13:57:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2098: SUICIDE! Its Whats For The WEEKEND Edition
European Leaders Finally Planning Asylum Camps Outside the EU
With the prospect of passing a common asylum law slipping away, leaders of European nations are in talks to house third world migrants in camps outside the EU.
The governments of Austria and Denmark are among those looking to develop a system that would offer protection to people in a place unattractive to people smugglers while their asylum application is processed.
Speaking in Copenhagen on Tuesday, Danish leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen said camps in a third country would have "a strong deterrent effect" on would-be asylum seekers if they know they will be deported upon having their application refused.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/07/european-leaders-finally-planning-asylum-camps-outside-the-eu/amp/?
#913090 at 2018-04-06 02:20:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1134: What are we here for Edition
Hmmmm. Denmark (Bloomberg-3 days)
https://
www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-04-03/wto-warns-of-economic-damage-from-escalation-in-trade-tensions
The prime minister of Denmark said the security reasons given by the White House for imposing tariffs on Europe make no sense, as he questioned the underlying logic of U.S. trade policy.
"It's bordering on the absurd to impose tariffs using national security as an argument for goods arriving in the U.S. from America's closest ally, namely Europe," Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
Rasmussen, who met President Donald Trump in Washington a year ago, said an exemption from trade tariffs granted to the EU until May 1 is expected to become permanent. "But obviously we need to prepare for the event that" the tariffs take effect again after that date, he said.
"This is serious," Rasmussen said. "Imposing trade taxes on European steel and aluminum is serious in its own right, and we would have to answer back."
Denmark is due to host U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May next week, where discussions will focus on trade. Rasmussen also said the deterioration in relations with Russia means EU leaders are likely to agree to extending sanctions beyond June.
WTO Warning
The head of the WTO warned of the fallout from a trade war, urging nations to step back from the brink and avoid ratcheting up tension.
It's a "very delicate" moment in trade relations between some of the world's large economies, World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo said Tuesday at a conference in Lisbon.
The world is struggling with how to respond to Trump, who imposed steel and aluminum tariffs on allies and adversaries alike last month, granting temporary waivers to some amid further security and trade negotiations. China, which is being threatened with additional levies on $50 billion of its products, shot back with tariffs of its own this week while also calling for more talks. The threat of a trade war helped unnerve investors, leading to the worst three months in global stocks in more than two years.
"An escalation of these frictions will have very negative consequences for global economic growth and for job creation,'' Azevedo said. "We have to be worried about the motivations behind those tensions and the potential systemic consequences. It's important to avoid an escalation.''
Azevedo said he's in contact with all the "actors," without mentioning any countries. "It's necessary that the lines of communication are open and that there is a genuine will to find constructive solutions. It's the most important and urgent challenge we have today.''
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