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it gets real petty when you see people refer to the PRC as "West Taiwan" and they think they're being hilarious
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Jul 25, 2021 10:32
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LimburgLimbo posted:In this case it's because Taiwan was ordered as "Taiwan" in the ceremony. Is South Africa under A or S?
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Jul 25, 2021 10:36
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Ardennes posted:Is South Africa under A or S? M
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Jul 25, 2021 11:51
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https://youtu.be/M6G_pjtz8cc
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Jul 25, 2021 16:30
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ToxicAcne posted:Yeah Im from Canada but from a very brown Suburb of Toronto so I can speak/understand Urdu and Punjabi pretty well and manage to keep in touch with the politics back there. It's crazy how much the diaspora backs the PTI though. Imran Khan is basically a populist but only in regards to the upper middle class if that makes sense. brampton?
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Jul 25, 2021 17:24
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Mississauga but very close to Brampton.
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Jul 25, 2021 17:38
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https://twitter.com/Xi_Fan/status/1419120991486156800
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Jul 25, 2021 17:44
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imran khan seems a bit if like if rahul gandhi had the backing of the military. i guess its not analogous because the hindu bourgeoisie is fully on board the modi fascism train, whereas the pakistani middle class likes imran?
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Jul 25, 2021 17:46
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https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3141404/peking-university-joins-chinas-semiconductor-push-new-school China’s prestigious Peking University has set up a semiconductor school to train chip engineers and technicians, joining a nationwide frenzy to create new chip colleges as part of Beijing’s drive to boost semiconductor self-sufficiency. The School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University was inaugurated on Thursday in Beijing, only one day after Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) unveiled a specialist semiconductor college in Wuhan. HUST has produced some of the country’s top technology students, grabbing nationwide attention this year after six of its top graduates received offers from Huawei Technologies Co with annual packages as big as 2 million yuan (US$309,000). There were around 512,000 people working in China’s semiconductor industry at the end of 2019, compared with projected demand for a workforce of 745,000 by 2022, according to a recent white paper from the China Centre for Information Industry Development.
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Jul 25, 2021 19:04
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https://twitter.com/drthomasisaac/status/1419137359526825984
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Jul 25, 2021 20:56
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mila kunis posted:imran khan seems a bit if like if rahul gandhi had the backing of the military. i guess its not analogous because the hindu bourgeoisie is fully on board the modi fascism train, whereas the pakistani middle class likes imran? Ya that's his base. I feel like he's more crass than Rahul and he has a sort of Islamist bent as well. The Pakistani Left seems to think he's analogous to Trump but that's not correct I feel.
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Jul 25, 2021 20:58
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https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1419012936178282501?s=20 gen z more like gen xi. i can see the NYT headlines already: how president xi's attempt to appeal to future generations may rob them of their distinctive advantages in the global market
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Jul 26, 2021 10:04
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1419012936178282501?s=20 There's already been some coverage of this by the western media. As you would expect, forcing Chinese education companies to go non-profit has the capitalist press screaming bloody murder
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Jul 26, 2021 10:51
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"don't assign a bunch of homework; do things in the classroom" has been American pedagogy for at least a decade
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Jul 26, 2021 12:18
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brugroffil posted:"don't assign a bunch of homework; do things in the classroom" has been American pedagogy for at least a decade true but the US has also been trying to privatize everything with charter schools for about the same time
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Jul 26, 2021 12:28
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This monstrous nation https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1419614937324736515
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Jul 26, 2021 12:33
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brugroffil posted:This monstrous nation Chairman Xi, my nation yearns for freedom.
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Jul 26, 2021 12:36
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this is from last october about "stakeholder capitalism" but i only recently watched it. check it out though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYjsFRFjFqM&t=506s
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Jul 26, 2021 12:55
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https://twitter.com/ChinaTeacher1/status/1419486475259760642?s=20
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Jul 26, 2021 13:36
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im like 15% of the way through tom clancy masterpiece the bear and the dragon, and falun gong has been mentioned like... at least five or six times, described as "not really a religion", "barely a religion as a westerner would understand it", and a mild "spiritual belief system" that the CCP nevertheless persecutes cruelly because, as communists, they are jealous of all other belief systems. as part of this unjust and cruel repression, their organs were harvested. book also has lots of "they don't value life like we do" including at least one (possibly several) mentions of how one child policy violators are allowed/made to carry their children to term, and then the doctor stabs the baby head with a chloroform syringe as it crowns. this will actually become a plot point later on, with a policeman killing the papal nuncio live on CNN as the the nuncio is trying to prevent another baby from getting chloroformed, if i remember correctly the book rocks is what im saying.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:01
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brugroffil posted:This monstrous nation Goddamn china loving rules. The west has been letting Uber and Airbnb and all the gig apps gently caress up society and pretending not to see the easy solution (giving the workers rights). These guys are essential to china, especially after covid. I'm so glad that the govt is fighting for them. They deserve so much better. China's been so cool lately cracking down on these big companies. Really starting to feel that they're providing a positive alternative to the great Satan america. Obviously china isn't prefect but I'm so glad I love here and not back in the us.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:06
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there was a slew of articles about the alienation of urban/white collar workers in China, and young people feeling more and more isolated a few months ago. I took it with a few grains of salt but I am not dismissive that something like is happening since that seems pretty natural as the economy and modes of production develop. can anyone lend any reality check on that? I am very interested in how China might address that issue since we all know it's a huge problem in US (and many other countries, but the US is the most atomized)
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Jul 26, 2021 14:50
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 did someone post this yet
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Jul 26, 2021 15:07
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lobster shirt posted:
China Grande (SSS+)
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Jul 26, 2021 15:12
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president abe... welcome to the revolution
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Jul 26, 2021 15:19
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https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-chartbook-28-china-in One of the most intriguing things I read whilst researching the piece, was the World Bank’s report on China’s Socialist Economic Development from 1983. What is so fascinating is that this was the first time that the World Bank had the chance to do an in-depth analysis of China’s development under Communism. The report asks all the questions one might be tempted to ask at that point. Where was China at after the end of Maoism? What distinguished it from other low-income Asian giants like India or Pakistan or Indonesia. [...] In the early 1950s, Communist China and India at independence were in a broadly similar place. Both were barely above subsistence. India’s per capita GDP was slightly ahead, as was its level of industrialization. [...] If the starting point in the early 1950s, was one of poverty and underdevelopment. Three decades later, what kind of society had the Communist regime made? [...] Strikingly, though income had doubled relative to 1950 and though population had practically doubled too, China had not urbanized. In 1949 the city and town population had accounted for 10.6% of the population. The urban share peaked at 15.4% in 1957. After that the share declined to 12 and 13 percent in the 1970s. That compared to more than 20 percent in India. The low urban share was all the more striking because in terms of the weight of its economy, China was considerably more industrialized than its low income peers. China had industrialized without urbanizing. This is confirmed by other material indicators such as China’s electricity consumption, which surged. In terms of per capita energy consumption, by the 1970s China was already well ahead of other low-income countries. In 1979, per capita its energy consumption in China was three times that India. China had a huge coal industry. It was also, it is all too easily forgotten, a major producer and exporter of oil. [...] Industrializing without urbanizing was remarkable, but it was not the unevenness of China’s development that most impressed the World Bank investigators. What struck them was that the Communist regime had laid the foundations for growth by delivering basic services to its population. "China's most remarkable achievement during the past three decades", the Bank remarked, was to have made "low-income groups far better off in terms of basic needs than their counterparts in most other poor countries". As a result, the most basic indicator of human well-being, life expectancy had surged in China from 36 in 1950 to 64 in 1979. In 1979 China, the most populous country on the planet and one of the poorest, had an average life expectancy that put in the higher tier of middle-income countries. In Shanghai China’s richest province, average life expectancy in the late 1970s was 72 years, no more than a year behind that in the UK at the time. Overall life expectancy, at 64 years was in the words of the World Bank "outstandingly high for a country at China's per capita income level". [...] Life expectancy reflects an entire complex of factors, but the World Bank did not hesitate in its interpretation. In its view it was due to the fact that unlike other low-income countries - notably India since independence - the Communist regime in China had secured a basic provision of food, health care and education for practically everyone. [...] China’s superior nutritional level reflected the more advanced state of its agriculture. Reduced to a common denominator of grain-equivalents the World Bank estimated that China’s agricultural production per capita was 27 percent higher than that of India in 1979. The endowment of Chinese agriculture with farm machinery and the use of fertilizer was far greater than in India. Yields per hectare were higher, as was historically the case. The World Bank’s statistics painted the picture of a Chinese agricultural economy that used a high intensity of industrial inputs to produce superior yields per hectare compared to most low-income countries. [...] It was not high spending on rural development, that secured the far better outcomes for the mass of China’s population but the comprehensive organization of social services and the priority given to food distribution, education and health . [...] Whereas the cities of other poor countries were places of extreme inequality, China’s cities in the Mao and immediate post-Mao era were places of relative equality. In China, the gini measure of inequality was lower in the city than in the countryside, in India the reverse was true.
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Jul 26, 2021 15:32
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Zmej posted:there was a slew of articles about the alienation of urban/white collar workers in China, and young people feeling more and more isolated a few months ago. I took it with a few grains of salt but I am not dismissive that something like is happening since that seems pretty natural as the economy and modes of production develop. can anyone lend any reality check on that? I am very interested in how China might address that issue since we all know it's a huge problem in US (and many other countries, but the US is the most atomized) Oh its definitely real, chinese young people (espicially college graduates) are really pissed off about this. expectations at work and to get a job are extremely high but salaries are low. cost of living is also extremely high, and it's social convention here to buy a house before getting married, and thats getting further and further out of reach. the govt here faces the same contradictions in the west, where high house prices benefit those that already own property (basically the urban population and older people) but disadvantages most people (younger people and migrant workers). These contradictory impulses are really hurting young people and leading to disillusionment. I don't think the govt will be able to fix it until they actually abandon capitalism or change the economic structure in a really massive way. Xi has been making good moves recently by regulating tech titans that people thought were untouchable, but the structure of the economy itself and housing are much more difficult subjects. I have optimism, but I dunno it's an extremely difficult problem to solve. Especially since America is trying to strangle china's economy.
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Jul 26, 2021 15:40
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sixthtone have a bunch of articles on the subject https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006523/fed-up-with-capitalism%2C-young-chinese-brush-up-on-das-kapital https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006336/young-chinese-bemoan-rat-race-with-tongue-in-cheek-memes https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007589/tired-of-running-in-place%2C-young-chinese-lie-down
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Jul 26, 2021 15:49
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lobster shirt posted:im like 15% of the way through tom clancy masterpiece the bear and the dragon, and falun gong has been mentioned like... at least five or six times, described as "not really a religion", "barely a religion as a westerner would understand it", and a mild "spiritual belief system" that the CCP nevertheless persecutes cruelly because, as communists, they are jealous of all other belief systems. as part of this unjust and cruel repression, their organs were harvested. book also has lots of "they don't value life like we do" including at least one (possibly several) mentions of how one child policy violators are allowed/made to carry their children to term, and then the doctor stabs the baby head with a chloroform syringe as it crowns. Really? I might actually check out this book if its the case. I only read Clancy books up to 1 book after Red October (back when I actually read text printed on dead trees). I think Jack Ryan was still secretary of state or something. Clancy jumped the shark when he gave Jack Ryan more and more important position and it was not fun anymore.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:23
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stephenthinkpad posted:Really? I might actually check out this book if its the case. the trilogy of debt of honor, executive orders, and the bear and the dragon is incredibly funny, with the first one featuring national security advisor jack ryan (ending with jack ryan becoming president after a japanese airline pilot does 9/11 during the state of the union, dr ryan having recently accepted the role of vice president) and then the second two involving president ryan solving the worlds various problems. all pre-9/11 too so you get a wonderful look at the neocon mind and plans for the 21st century before mohammad atta's catastrophic flying lesson.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:45
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just lol if you didn’t check out of Clancy during whatever book has the stupid fat cia guy trying to save a sex worker with a heart of gold and fighting drug cartels
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Jul 26, 2021 16:57
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why….why a japanese pilot
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Jul 26, 2021 17:01
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mcclay posted:why….why a japanese pilot Boomer brain in the 80s and 90s were convinced the japanese would destroy america.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:04
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mcclay posted:why….why a japanese pilot kamikaze because Americans killed his family on Saipan
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Jul 26, 2021 17:05
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mcclay posted:why….why a japanese pilot there was all kinds of fear about japan using its economic domination to take over the united states (see also rising sun by michael crichton, an insanely racist novel). in debt of honor, a coalition of japanese industrialists led by a guy who hated the US because his parents died on saipan suborn the japanese government, and use the japanese military to sink some US submarines, damage two aircraft carriers, and take over some islands. they are also cooperating with india which wants to invade sri lanka for some reason. anyway thanks to the brilliant (BUT EXTREMELY UNDERFUNDED, this is mentioned dozens of times) us military and also jack ryans great plans, the US wins and a good japanese guy gets to become prime minister, status quo antebellum restored. except this japanese airline pilot's son and brother are both killed in the conflict, so in his grief he flies a plane into capitol building, during the state of the union address.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:08
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holy poo poo lmao
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Jul 26, 2021 17:09
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president jack ryan gets to appoint all nine supreme court justices, because basically the entire apparatus of government is killed, and it is heavily implied in the bear and the dragon that one of the first things the court does is overturn roe v wade
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Jul 26, 2021 17:10
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clancy novels prove we’re not in the worst possible timeline
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Jul 26, 2021 17:12
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America was scared of Japanese business/economic domination in the 80's and 90's.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:14
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WtF why didn't ubisoft make a game based on that plot. That's extremely funny.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:16
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