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KaptainKrunk
Feb 6, 2006


crazy that c-spammers even itt swallow the Zenz take hook line and sinker

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


today BJP accounts launched a campaign attacking foreigners who have said favorable things about the protest as well
https://twitter.com/beingarun28/status/1357045553981345792?s=20

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
they've been really going all out

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1356640083546406913?s=20
https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1357002859989114887?s=20

This one is supposed to be a joke, but is still funny
https://twitter.com/HappymonJacob/status/1356990967576895489?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

the CIA is gonna hit Rihanna with the cancer gun
https://twitter.com/NoyanSubutai/status/1356897882901647361?s=20

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
rihanna... not a fan of modi's austerity policies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acoknuTpPOM

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
they're scared

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://mobile.twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1357096155813920770

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

so we just do nothing to fight the fascists and democracy just happens on its own

if they were actually taking this advice seriously it explains an awful lot

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
The follow up:

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1357097023854555141?s=19

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/TongzhiBenjamin/status/1357059728937992205?s=19

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
strange if they had strong ties given the sino soviet split. i guess it didnt matter by the late 80s?

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


lol

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012

mila kunis posted:

strange if they had strong ties given the sino soviet split. i guess it didnt matter by the late 80s?

The memo is from 14 days before the fall of the Berlin wall. By then it was already very clear that the GDR can't survive after the soviet reforms so it's not that surprising they talked with anyone willing to listen.

Edit: in the memo it is also mentioned that the first visit from PRC leadership was in 1982, to discuss revitalizing relations.

Junkozeyne has issued a correction as of 11:33 on Feb 4, 2021

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1356745816006942720

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



Banning TV channels seems to be the topic of the day.

https://twitter.com/Ofcom/status/1357272000004292613?s=19

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

I have compiled a 30+ hour Myanmar news playlist from the last 15 years and am going through them slowly. Really nearly almost all of Myanmar's current issues started by the quasi military government, the one before Suu Kyi. Including the Rohingya issue around 2012, 13, with ethnic and communal violence broke out between the Muslims and the Buddhists. At that time Suu Kyi just got released from home arrest and her party had 8% of the seat in the congress.

Also this previous President signed on to most of the BRI with China AND he was the one who cancelled the dam project with China, really none of these Myanmar "drama" had anything to do with Suu Kyi. The current western left liberal hivemind who have been pointing fingers at Suu Kyi for thing happened in Myanmar or anything she didn't do really make no sense. The liberals should be pointing fingers at themselves for projecting unwarranted expectations on Suu Kyi.

Also Suu Kyi is loving 75 year old. One of the reason she got released was she was already at retire age when she got released after being house arrested for 15+ years during her prime.

Here is a my favorite random Myanmar news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFCa3iuKLg

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

so youre saying extremely old figureheads are not in fact very good at fighting tough battles for important structural change

that doesnt sound right so im sticking with trump did it

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Junkozeyne posted:

By then it was already very clear that the GDR can't survive after the soviet reforms

why was this? were they that fully subsidized by the USSR/Russia?

THS
Sep 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1357117962898067457

prediction: within the next two decades, there will be an american or chinese satellite shot down. china will be blamed for “militarizing space”

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

they've been really going all out

It's kind of insane what level of BJP propaganda that gets put all out via their data centers. My cousins have been talking about how they have been getting bombarded with whatsapp messages since the protests started.

AnimeIsTrash has issued a correction as of 15:35 on Feb 4, 2021

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018




Speaking of propaganda, lmao.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lmao some little old lady gives me a stack every sunday and they go straight into the recycling bin

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
imperialists are continuing their loser like information quarantine on China

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3110380/taiwan-rejects-licence-renewal-beijing-friendly-tycoons-news

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3120572/britain-revokes-cgtns-broadcasting-licence-over-political


too bad less and less people believe western media propaganda

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008


lol is this the "cool hip new young prime minister" who got popular after starring in a tv series about a good politician?

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/qz/status/1343769469944905728

mistermojo
Jul 3, 2004


we're not so different after all

quote:

Shanghai-based Clarisse Zhang is one of the youngsters who feels they have missed out on a golden period, when simply working hard could mean a ticket to a better life. The coder, who asked to use a pseudonym, has become an enthusiastic convert to the touching fish philosophy. She now arrives at work after 10am, and leaves the office at 11.30 to have lunch, which could last over three hours. “Sometimes I put fake appointments on my calendar in case anyone asks for me,” she told Quartz. She will also go have a nap or read books in her car, which is parked near the office, when she doesn’t feel like working.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

All day I'm touching fish.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
the ability to come in to work at 10am if I felt like it is a level of privilege I will never achieve

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007



Good old information quarantine works well in China, I guess we wanted a go too.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Not So Fast posted:

Good old information quarantine works well in China, I guess we wanted a go too.

i call it loser like because the west has total information control



https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

Choose this life you're on your own
Luckin Coffee has filed for Bankruptcy.

I get that they did a lot of fraud, but their coffee wasn't great. It was somehow worse that Starbucks.

How do you mess up coffee worse than Starbucks?

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-usa/u-s-warship-sails-near-chinese-controlled-south-china-sea-islands-idUSKBN2A50T0

lmfao wtf is a "freedom of navigation operation"

also, "Last month, a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group entered the South China Sea for what the Navy said was routine operations."

can't wait for china to park 100 carriers in front of golden gate while going "never mind us we're just doing routine operations"

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

You might have missed the past few decades but yeah USA literally policies the worlds oceans. Thanks to global capitalism and everything being shipped by giant container ships it's in US interests to act like it the rules the waves.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
oh i know, i just didn't hear "freedom of navigation operation" before

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Yeah it's a nice euphemism and USA is doing it to everyone they don't like. Just sailing warships past their shores.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
a "freedom of navigation operation" is the US sailing a ship in international waters and making a big public spectacle of it, under the premise that this is a reminder to both pirates and state-actors that those are in fact international waters and therefore everyone should be free to sail in them

this is otherwise known as a provocation when done by anyone else

EDIT: for additional context pro-US / liberal politicians here in the Philippines occasionally say something to the effect of if only the US had done more of these "freedom of navigation" patrols in the South China Sea, that the Chinese would never have been so bold as to seize islands and shoals to enforce their Nine-Dash Line nautical claims

gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 15:30 on Feb 5, 2021

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

“Freedom of navigation” is a phrase the US has been using for a while now, since atleast around the time of Obama and the “pivot to Asia”. I suppose the US is trying to say that it won’t tolerate Chinese policing of naval traffic the South China Sea. Since that is in their eyes, a right reserved only for the US

The US also likes to do this while claiming indignantly that China has “militarized” the SCS.... as the US sails their carrier groups through it

Red and Black has issued a correction as of 15:38 on Feb 5, 2021

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
The United States hasn't ratified the convention on the law of the sea that gives freedom of navigation modern legal force lol

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lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Continuity NIP posted:

The United States hasn't ratified the convention on the law of the sea that gives freedom of navigation modern legal force lol

lol and mostly because ratification would concede legal rights to people on those seas, which would interfere with seizing iranian oil tankers

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