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huh that’s new to me art imitated life and now life imitates art
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Aug 8, 2020 14:13
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i see this as duterte wanting to get out of the way https://twitter.com/intelfeedia/status/1290507905012133888 -- https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1291613607386476545
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Aug 8, 2020 15:46
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i see this as duterte wanting to get out of the way I don't know if the framing of this story is just slanted against Duterte because this other piece that covers the same issue still admits that the AFP is going to participate in RIMPAC 2020 anyway https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/duterte-bans-exercises-with-us-in-south-china-sea/ quote:In a sign of Manila’s increasingly erratic defense signals, Duterte did not apparently oppose an expanded Filipino naval contingent’s participation in the biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2020 (RIMPAC20) in Honolulu, Hawaii, the world’s largest US-led international warfare exercise.
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Aug 8, 2020 15:54
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RIMPAC is off the coast of hawaii though so i just interpreted that as duterte not wanting to get caught up in any SCS shenanigans
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Aug 8, 2020 15:59
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sincx posted:The New Power Party ain't waiting around You can get a glass of bubble tea as one of them, but I don't see it on this site.
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Aug 8, 2020 16:08
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sincx posted:The New Power Party ain't waiting around Is that rainbow flag meant to be an LGBT thing?
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Aug 8, 2020 16:18
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Dreddout posted:Is that rainbow flag meant to be an LGBT thing? Taiwan passed gay marriage semi-recently, so it's possible.
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Aug 8, 2020 16:31
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Huawei to stop making flagship chipsets as U.S. pressure bites, Chinese media say Huawei is throwing in the towel on the production of its Kirin chipsets since they're cut off from TSMC, Cadence and Synopsys for both software and hardware.
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Aug 8, 2020 17:50
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OhFunny posted:Huawei to stop making flagship chipsets as U.S. pressure bites, Chinese media say This is probably why China having been racing to develop its own domestic supply of chips for the last couple years.
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Aug 8, 2020 18:03
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stephenthinkpad posted:Does Taiwan actually have these animal as mascots? cause I don't remember Taiwanese reference them. Surfing bear owns
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Aug 8, 2020 18:06
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listening to this interview with a former singaporean diplomat. was singapore's representative to the U.N. and was a one-time president of the U.N. security council. was tight with lee kuan yew. and he's very diplomatic but is like "the U.S. has lost their goddamned minds and are making a bunch of bad decisions which will hurt their own people." talks about how the communist party is reasonable and if it wasn't them you'd have some right-wing nationalists take over in china. pretty depressing and nothing this thread doesn't know, but there you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06kEQQN9HI
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Aug 8, 2020 18:44
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:listening to this interview with a former singaporean diplomat. was singapore's representative to the U.N. and was a one-time president of the U.N. security council. was tight with lee kuan yew. and he's very diplomatic but is like "the U.S. has lost their goddamned minds and are making a bunch of bad decisions which will hurt their own people." talks about how the communist party is reasonable and if it wasn't them you'd have some right-wing nationalists take over in china. pretty depressing and nothing this thread doesn't know, but there you go I was just watching this today, funny coincidence. His book "Has China Won?" is on my to-read list.
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Aug 8, 2020 18:57
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:listening to this interview with a former singaporean diplomat. was singapore's representative to the U.N. and was a one-time president of the U.N. security council. was tight with lee kuan yew. and he's very diplomatic but is like "the U.S. has lost their goddamned minds and are making a bunch of bad decisions which will hurt their own people." talks about how the communist party is reasonable and if it wasn't them you'd have some right-wing nationalists take over in china. pretty depressing and nothing this thread doesn't know, but there you go Part of it is also that traditional American cold-war containment strategies don't really work for a city-state like Singapore, which has far more to lose than to gain from conflict.
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Aug 8, 2020 18:58
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more from that: + weaponizing the U.S. dollar is incentivizing other countries to find alternatives to the dollar, chipping away at the foundations of U.S. hegemony and prosperity + noting biden's anti-china rhetoric, kishore notes bill clinton was very hard on china in 1992. "i will not coddle the butchers of beijing." a year later in november 1993, kishore was at a meeting between clinton and jiang zemin and saw clinton coddling jiang. hopes biden does the same + china is a closed society with an open mind, the united states is an open society with a closed mind. chinese officials are much more aware of what's going on in the united states than the other way around + americans can't conceive that their country has peaked and is going down in a structural fashion. can't stop fighting wars because of the interests of the military-industrial complex. + china has a meritocracy. america is no longer a democracy, but a plutocracy. and reversing plutocracy is very difficult. once it becomes entrenched the whole power structure reinforces it + worried about the trump administration starting a skirmish in the south china sea before the election
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Aug 8, 2020 19:13
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:+ china has a meritocracy. america is no longer a democracy, but a plutocracy. and reversing plutocracy is very difficult. once it becomes entrenched the whole power structure reinforces it Admittedly, China has its own issues with wealth and during the 1990s/2000s there was if anything a growing disparity between rich and poor in China. Evidence suggest that Xi has is actually closing that gap, but I think there is still a ways to go even if China has a better gini index than the US. As for the US reforming itself, it isn't going to happen. It is going to be real interesting to see in the next 1-2 years what is going to happen with US stimulus spending as the dollar steadily weakens. quote:+ worried about the trump administration starting a skirmish in the south china sea before the election There may be some saber-rattling but there is a reason the US really doesn't want to get into actual combat with the PLAN. The PLAN has the assets to hit back hard and the US really doesn't have the regional assets to respond to a Chinese response. The US navy is still the most powerful in the world, but it is also everywhere while PLAN has been focusing on dominating the South China Sea and has the assets to do it. In the next 5-10 years, the PLAN will be actively contesting the USN on the wider global stage. (Remember, that the US still needs to keep at least a fleet around the Persian Gulf just because of Iran and has most of its submarine force focused on the Russians.)
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Aug 8, 2020 19:24
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Kishore's book is only titled "Has China Won? " to sell books, the book itself doesn't conclude anything about China winning. It was an easy and fast listen. I got though about half of it and got put off by his libertarian economic views in the Singapore and HK favors. So I still haven't finished it. The thing about most of these think tank research books is that you usually can get a very good gist of it in their book tour events. So if you don't want to read the book or spend 10 hours on an audiobook, just watch about 3 of the author's hour-long think tank interviews he does around the book launch and you can get half of the book for free. And its in the author's own voice, not the book reader's voice. Also this guy's view is very important because you rarely get any third-party voice in the China subject or the Sino-US competition subject matter. I actually can't think any off my head right now. I got a Germany guy and a spain guy who have written in the China subjects recently. But their books are not popular and there is no audible version.
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Aug 8, 2020 19:36
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yeah that's what i figured when i saw the title, and while people like him are important, their books usually don't break new ground but are kinda like vehicles to go to conferences and be part of the conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIpJEcTEXUQ
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Aug 8, 2020 19:39
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:more from that: China does not have a meritocracy. Are you kidding me? There is no country in the world right now that has a meritocracy.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:12
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Meritocracy in the sense that local official career advancement is decided based on your GDP/crime rate/petitioning frequency/"mass unhappy event"/embarrassed news making Wechat frontpage/etc score on a spreadsheet. I find China's bureaucrat selection is most similar to corporate management advancement.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:29
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stephenthinkpad posted:Meritocracy in the sense that local official career advancement is decided based on your GDP/crime rate/petitioning frequency/"mass unhappy event"/embarrassed news making Wechat frontpage/etc score on a spreadsheet. that is how every single bureaucracy is supposed to function on a basic level. if it does not, its broken bro
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Aug 8, 2020 21:34
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like... chinese bureaucrat selections are not very different from finnish ones. finnish ones still function better for a variety of reasons, but the fact is that neither is meritocratic
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Aug 8, 2020 21:36
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How has feminism in China been going? I only vaguely know about it through stuff like this article. Like, how truthful is it? I have no idea, and don't know how to verify. https://logicmag.io/china/finding-a-voice/
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Aug 8, 2020 21:53
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Kurnugia posted:that is how every single bureaucracy is supposed to function on a basic level. if it does not, its broken bro I am talking about the selection of district head, cities majors and provinces heads, not your postal office managers. China doesn't go thru elections.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:05
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:+ china has a meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings
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Aug 8, 2020 22:50
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Kishore is actually on the outs with the Singapore government - and is seen as too much of a pro-Chinese public figure. There was just a Singapore/China spy scandal - a Singaporean national living in DC was found out to be a spy for China which led to a lot of consternation. Anti-China sentiment is actually increasing in the city-state both due to immigration as well as China's behavior in the region.
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Aug 9, 2020 01:28
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BrokenGameboy posted:How has feminism in China been going? I only vaguely know about it through stuff like this article. Like, how truthful is it? I have no idea, and don't know how to verify. When I was last there a few years back it was still quite poor. I found this article on the subject somewhat informative: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005012/social-mentality-report-reveals-telling-trends-in-happiness
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Aug 9, 2020 02:34
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the most surprising thing for me was finding out that china managed to (allegedly) recruit a spy in singapore, the land of sarrong party girls. singaporeans are interchangeable with hk-ers in their rabid hate for all things china fyi this study was published in 2019 and it concerns hiring chinese, malay and white applicants in singapore https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...12F/core-reader quote:The results showed that Chinese participants rated Malay applicants as less competent, less suitable for the job, and recommended a lower salary than equally qualified Chinese applicants. However, despite the perception of equal competence, Chinese participants rated White applicants as more suitable for the job and recommended them a higher salary than equally qualified Chinese applicants. Such results demonstrate the strong negative effects of colonial mentality and colorism. and its not so much china's actions in the region that matters but the perception. in that department, the free impartial unbiased international (*cough* western-centric and imperialistic *cough*) news media is regarded as the gold standard of ~journalism~ throughout southeast asia. so when they r peddling war against china, u best expect singaporeans be all hyphy bout it. since their national service system meant that they'd be conscripted to die first, im all for singapore breaking their professed neutrality and get straight to white cock sucking cuz maaaaaaaaan there's nothing i like more than a coalition of dirty browns and yellows fighting ch*nks and filling the ditches with their corpses. i get especially turgid when americans show up in the 11th hour to stand over the mound of bodies and liberate the dumb oppressed natives vive la guerre! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 9, 2020 03:02
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https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1291678219364704256
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Aug 9, 2020 03:49
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https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1291803217471447040?p=v https://twitter.com/wslafoy/status/1291817245589544960?p=v
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Aug 9, 2020 04:03
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https://twitter.com/ACorollaries/status/1292015392156717056
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Aug 9, 2020 04:31
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huhwhat posted:the most surprising thing for me was finding out that china managed to (allegedly) recruit a spy in singapore, the land of sarrong party girls. singaporeans are interchangeable with hk-ers in their rabid hate for all things china Sorry, must have taken a wrong turn and ended up in /pol/. You whore, you shitbird, you peasant fool from an isolated backwater. Views are complicated. Malays rightly recognize that neither the US or China are friends, to their people or to Islam. Ethnic Chinese are divided between cheering China’s power, for reasons of ethnic connection, or hating it because parents/grandparents fled or were chased out from the homeland. Everyone acknowledges the impractical silliness of HKers resisting China, the patronage of which they cannot survive without. The whole great power thing is suicidal futility and there’s not an idiot here who doesn’t recognize that Singapore would be annihilated if it got caught up in it. Anyway you seem to think everyone in southeast asia is a gullible little peon subservient to US psyops and it’s v condescending but i shouldnt expect better from an american Small Gay Planet has issued a correction as of 04:57 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Aug 9, 2020 04:50
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna845876quote:U.S. targets Chinese Uighur militants as well as Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
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Aug 9, 2020 04:59
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Bro Dad posted:Xi and other first-generation princelings derisively refer to people with non-Party, non-elite, commercial backgrounds like Hu Jintao as "shopkeepers' sons," whose parents did not fight and die for the revolution and therefore do not deserve positions of power. certain yes men have had to yes very hard for their current position, and 90% came from a peasant background so they are very justified to have their current extravagant wealth y'see
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Aug 9, 2020 05:19
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Small Gay Planet posted:Sorry, must have taken a wrong turn and ended up in /pol/. You whore, you shitbird, you peasant fool from an isolated backwater. ah yes the majority of people around the world are very politically in tune and carefully consider all the information presented to them, they even take extra effort to investigate the veracity of the information and their sources . they also think very deeply about why certain actors frame an issue in a certain way and what sort of benefits that others may gain through that framing. they definitely do not take in whatever thats being broadcasted across popular news channel as gospel that is why singapore takes the principled stance of being the honorary 6th eye of the 5eyes alliance (honorary cuz it aint majority white, reminds me of another similar situation, cant put my finger on it) . singaporeans r well aware they b ded in a china-usa war, and many singaporeans may think they can b switzerland and just hoard nazi gold while avoiding all culpability, just like the warmongers here who cheer on war as long as they dont get sent into the frontlines and reap the benefit of a subservient global south that provides cheap labor that maintains their first world quality of life. too bad singapore happens to sit on a major trade route where crude oil gets shipped into china. and singapore has signaled its allegiance a long time ago https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/singapore-western-intelligence quote:The prime SIGINT function in relation to the "five eyes" collaboration, according to Philip Dorling of the Sydney Morning Herald, is in partnership with Britain, The United States, and Australia in intercepting data and telecommunications by tapping undersea cables that link Asia, the Middle East and Europe, under a program called TEMPORA. The two major fiber optic cables are the SEA-ME-WE-3 running from Japan, via Singapore through Djibouti, the Suez, the Straits of Gibraltar, to Northern Germany, and the SEA-ME-WE-4, from Singapore to Southern France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Naval_Base quote:American presence luv it when white bootlickers r the first to shout self determinism and free thought when it concerns places where their propaganda and influence hav penetrated the deepest and shout brainwashing when it doesnt
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Aug 9, 2020 07:17
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Aug 9, 2020 07:39
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sincx posted:deus ex was a documentary Isaac: Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences. JC Denton: You said 'outside influences.' What does China fear? Isaac: China is the last sovereign country in the world. Authoritarian but willing - unlike U.N.-governed countries - to give its people the freedom to do what they want. JC Denton: As long as they don’t break the law. Isaac: Listen to me. This is real freedom, freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power. JC Denton: Our governments have limited power by design. Isaac: Rhetoric--and you believe it! Don’t you know where those slogans come from? JC Denton: I give up. Isaac: Well-paid researchers - how do you say it? - 'think tanks,' funded by big businesses. What is that? A 'think tank'? JC Denton: Hardly as sinister as a dictator, like China’s Premier. Isaac: It’s privately-funded propaganda. The Trilateral Commission in the United States for instance. JC Denton: The separation of powers acknowledges the petty ambitions of individuals; that’s its strength. Isaac: A system organized around the weakest qualities of individuals will produce these same qualities in its leaders. JC Denton: Perhaps certain qualities are an inseparable part of human nature. Isaac: The mark of the educated man is the suppression of these qualities in favor of better ones. The same is true of civilization.
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Aug 9, 2020 08:46
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Aug 9, 2020 10:13
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US can't send the troops and ships to Taiwan, because China will just block them at sea and do a Cuban crisis 2.0. Think about it, the theater will be in the Taiwan strait, right next to mainland. Also of course Singopare is on Team America. They have US military base. And China BRI project goes through Malaysia.
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Aug 9, 2020 10:25
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stephenthinkpad posted:US can't send the troops and ships to Taiwan, because China will just block them at sea and do a Cuban crisis 2.0. Think about it, the theater will be in the Taiwan strait, right next to mainland. i mean, the US seems more and more like it's just flailing randomly as it dies. i wonder if we're gonna start getting hotter sea confrontations soon
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Aug 9, 2020 10:34
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