Donald Trump’s latest comments about allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese international students into the United States have drawn criticism from some of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party.
Ahead of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, Trump told reporters that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — a figure more than double the number in the United States now.
It’s a sharp departure from an announcement Secretary of State Marco Rubio made in May, when he promised the United States would “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students and add more scrutiny to all future visa applications from China.
How is that propaganda and why are you answering it with things orthogonal to what I said? You have a disability, perhaps, making you incapable of understanding texts taken in full?
Those were present in the public perception, thus those were present in politics. No, ER is not partial to any specific ideology. They are the ruling party and do whatever they want. That’s their only ideology.
Yeltsin thought differently. When he realized that, he also realized he has no plan. Thus the weird moves after 1996 and ultimately passing power to Putin.
He didn’t close any doors. Just slowly accumulated power, as a side effect pressing out other interests.
What you wrote doesn’t have any connection to what I wrote.
But since that’s wrong as well - no, roughly in 1989-1993 Russian politics existed for real. And in 1993-1999 there was growing understanding that things went the wrong way in 1993. And the 1996 election was competitive among the populace, even if CPRF the party clearly intended to lose politically.
In any case what I wrote was about the society and culture, not about politics, you just can’t perceive anything outside of your partisan bullshit, can you?
Because it’s factually untrue and largely a product of American criticism of Societ Era politics.
Western propaganda in a nutshell. You’re so invested in your hatred of a foreign country that you attribute any rebuttal to mental illness.
I must have imagined everything I know of the 90s in Russia, including all read, heard and seen.
There was no rebuttal, I live in Russia and you are arguing like a typical American. You don’t know how hard it was to keep a more specific description in.
You definitely got fed a load. Boris Yeltsin had to shell Parliament into submission to prevent himself from being removed. A year later, Russians were in Chechnya doing what Americans would repeat in Iraq ten years later.
Like, what on earth do you think Interior Ministry Order 870 was in response to? Were all those civil protests and demonstrations of the 90s getting a twenty one gun salute?
Then you should fucking know better
You didn’t yet specify where.
Correct, that happened in year 1993, which is the reason for me having it as a separation point.
No. First Chechen war was a failure with many human losses, newspapers and TV (including state channels) and associations of soldiers’ mothers and such were howling both at the operation itself and at the losses, and it ended with Khasavyurt accord signed by general Lebed on Russia’s behalf (he was quite popular, BTW, and held pacifist enough views, being himself a participant of the war in Afghanistan ; later became a politician and died in a helicopter crash).
If anything, First Chechen war showed that Russian society does still have some spine.
And the Second Chechen war happened after a few people (one can say politicians) visible since late 80s were killed, and power balance changed.
That doesn’t change the fact that censorship existed in the USSR, freedom of movement inside the country was limited, and political parties other than the CPSU didn’t exist. While roughly between 1989 and 2012 Russian society had freedom of thought at least.
It’s year 2002, when Putin still hasn’t destroyed his (oligarchic, and honestly now those people don’t seem much nicer) opposition, and federal troops in the Northern Caucasus were in some regards similar to an occupying force. I think it was in response to that, but also, as you might have noticed, these people don’t need formalities to get something done.
I don’t know what you’re trying to say. If you are somehow imagining USSR before breakup as something like the USA of today, just communist, I’m afraid it was not. It was a country almost entirely living in “safe poverty”, where you wouldn’t generally starve, but other than that it was pretty depressive. I mean, you should watch some Soviet movie classics, even the more cheerful kind will educate you on that.
The 90s were a failure of trying to fix that thing when it stopped working. Yes, it was a catastrophe, but the USSR before it wasn’t some heaven on earth or even a good place to live. Take Chikatilo (the serial murderer) - one suspect before him was tortured for admission of guilt and executed.
You’re being deliberately obtuse.
Imagine saying this about Ukraine pre-invasion.