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Monday, May 22, 2023 - 23:35 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Make The Game Greatest Again


Well, well, what do we have here?
(Original sources: abcnews.go.com, blog.glys.com)


Rest assured, we will be back to conclude Turn Thirteen of Twilight Struggle: New Moon sooner rather than later (partly due to other real-life commitments), but we thank China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson for providing some promotional activities here. By the way, "The Greatest Game" was coined from the Pommie-Ruskie Great Game in Central Asia from a couple of centuries back, the Team Red versus Team Blue contest of its time (which has inspired its own analog in satirical literature) - and where can we go from Great, but Greatest?

But anyway, Team Blue's G7 gang (as advertised last July) has begun threatening "consequences"* on Team Red captain China, as driven by the U.S. and Japan (6/1) in particular. China and new sidekicks Russia have predictably protested against this doubleplusgood containment, and similarly accused the G7 of coercion in return. And frankly, the total jiao wei from the gap between official statements and actual action on both sides, is getting ridiculous now. The latest is probably "de-risking" as avoidance speech for decoupling, but what's going on might best be compared to a chess match between a resurrected Fischer and Kasparov... with both players taking pains to explain after each move that it is not meant to constrain your position and the other side should not have an antagonistic mentality and my pawn/bishop/rook/knight is just passing by. Such pathetic dissimulation gets really, really old after awhile.

[*The G7 has somehow also found time to call for the policing of generative AI tech, but as with Musk (notably currently more popular** than any major American political figure of note, from a Harvard-Harris poll) and company's petition for a six-month moratorium on the development of large AI models, one just doesn't see this going anywhere. When even a century-old Kissinger understands the impact that AI can have on modern combat (not limited to the physical battlefield), it is hard to see any aspiring superpower agree to shackle themselves, especially when there is no realistic way to enforce a ban on the others.]

[**Because when you can't say what you want to when you're worth over a hundred and eighty billion and change, what is the point of living in a so-called "free society"?]



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