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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
new colour revolution just dropped:

https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1509603173631209478

brace for a wave of media profiles highlighting the brave freedom fighters of Balochistan

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lobotomy molo
May 7, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

gradenko_2000 posted:

new colour revolution just dropped:

https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1509603173631209478

brace for a wave of media profiles highlighting the brave freedom fighters of Balochistan

it’s all good, US threats and poor diplomacy have only helped start one war and driven away china russia india pakistan and saudi arabia in barely a month.

what could go wrong?

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

R. Guyovich posted:

beijing has everything since it's the capital. china's secret best food city. move out of your fail techbro fishing hamlet

hard disagree. while beijings ok/good, when I lived in wuhan 6 years ago the food was much better (and cheaper). even the variety was much better because of the huge international student population. I have no idea if that's still around though. Also, in my vacations (so probably not accurate) I've felt that the food in sichuan region cities (chengdu, chongqing) is better, although I wouldn't be surprised if theres much less variety living there.

the problem with bj food is that real estate and rent prices are so high, that most of the restaurants you see are chains or following whatever trend is popular (like HK food for the last 6 months). so many malls with the exact same restaurants. nobody wants to try out something new. I like to eat at the food courts around the city, but that's cause I'm extremely cheap and I feel that that's where the competition and taste are the best. in those food courts its be delicious or die.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Fly Molo posted:

it’s all good, US threats and poor diplomacy have only helped start one war and driven away china russia india pakistan and saudi arabia in barely a month.

what could go wrong?

Lol if we somehow push Pakistan and India into geopolitical alliance by making them both hate us

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

free market capitalism with chinese food court characteristics

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

ikanreed posted:

Lol if we somehow push Pakistan and India into geopolitical alliance by making them both hate us

The west keeps saying globalization is dead and the world is splitting into east vs west.

The usa wants it to happen for some reason.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Breakfast All Day posted:

free market capitalism with chinese food court characteristics

food in Taiwan is good too, yeah

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

the ideal food is taco bell

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the ideal food is taco bell

truly the trabant of nutrition. that we continue to produce anything else is a testament to the pointless excess of capitalism

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the ideal food is taco bell

Nope it is taco johns

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Mr Hootington posted:

The west keeps saying globalization is dead and the world is splitting into east vs west.

The usa wants it to happen for some reason.

The USA does not know what to do without an enemy and wants the Cold War back.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the ideal food is taco bell
burger king has stepped up recently. might even have to change my username

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



gradenko_2000 posted:

new colour revolution just dropped:

https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1509603173631209478

brace for a wave of media profiles highlighting the brave freedom fighters of Balochistan

The US "With us or against us" mentality will inadvertently lead to peace between pakistan/india/china

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Breakfast All Day posted:

truly the trabant of nutrition. that we continue to produce anything else is a testament to the pointless excess of capitalism

eat your slop sweety

Zvahl
Oct 14, 2005

научный кот

it's no national debt gorilla but I do like the mask

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/YudinGreg/status/1507100314616451072

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

we can't let the cure be worse than the disease

the economy needs to reopen

eat out, to help out

BrainDance
May 8, 2007

Disco all night long!

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the ideal food is taco bell

Taco bell in China loving suuuuucks though

not the way taco bell is supposed to suck either

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1509906017722765314

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/LisettL/status/1509862896112750613

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Breakfast All Day posted:

free market capitalism with chinese food court characteristics

it does sound weird but there are very good restaurants in shopping malls here. it's not where you find the best chinese food though, that tends to be in hutongs or in the more renowned food areas like 牛街, the muslim quarter

Mirello posted:

hard disagree. while beijings ok/good, when I lived in wuhan 6 years ago the food was much better (and cheaper). even the variety was much better because of the huge international student population. I have no idea if that's still around though. Also, in my vacations (so probably not accurate) I've felt that the food in sichuan region cities (chengdu, chongqing) is better, although I wouldn't be surprised if theres much less variety living there.

of course sichuan food is better in sichuan. and 热干面 is better in wuhan. but i mean in terms of variety you can get any regional chinese dish here and have a decent approximation of the real deal. doesn't have to be at a chain either. would i rather be having shaanxi noodles in xi'an? always. but i know a few spots that get pretty close, no train ticket required. that plus the variety of international cuisine puts beijing on top for me

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the ideal food is taco bell

no joke if/when I go back to america it'll be my first meal. I miss it soooooo bad. we have one in beijing but its not really the same.


R. Guyovich posted:

it does sound weird but there are very good restaurants in shopping malls here. it's not where you find the best chinese food though, that tends to be in hutongs or in the more renowned food areas like 牛街, the muslim quarter

of course sichuan food is better in sichuan. and 热干面 is better in wuhan. but i mean in terms of variety you can get any regional chinese dish here and have a decent approximation of the real deal. doesn't have to be at a chain either. would i rather be having shaanxi noodles in xi'an? always. but i know a few spots that get pretty close, no train ticket required. that plus the variety of international cuisine puts beijing on top for me

that's true. living in china we are spoiled for food. the local restaurants and chains do tend to be really good compared to american crap. there's this 6 kuai (1$) per plate sushi conveyer belt place my wife and I used to go to every week called sushi express, that's actually pretty high quality. and I do actually enjoy kaoya, even though I can only eat it like once every two months. I'm not really a fan of lu zhu though lol, the texture is like drinking mucuous. my beijinger wife actually took me to a lu zhu place on our first date lol. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhu_huoshao)

that's definitely right that the quality of the regional cuisine here is good. I can go to basically any restaurant and expect it to be reasonably good and authentic.

all the international food is in sanlitun, which is too much of a pain in the rear end for me to go to/from. I can't believe the subway station there is only opening next year. oh well.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

BrainDance posted:

Taco bell in China loving suuuuucks though

not the way taco bell is supposed to suck either

Mirello posted:

no joke if/when I go back to america it'll be my first meal. I miss it soooooo bad. we have one in beijing but its not really the same.

They are hellbent in trying to make it successful in India but from my understanding it's not that well received. Mostly because you can get stuff like this on any street corner

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1509959427880898562

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/ryanl_hass/status/1509954072375447555

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
*scooby doo trying to say youtube* RuTube

Femur
Jan 10, 2004
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
So apple got the prize in 1 try? Pretty useful cult, grats

IAMKOREA
Apr 21, 2007

AnimeIsTrash posted:

They are hellbent in trying to make it successful in India but from my understanding it's not that well received. Mostly because you can get stuff like this on any street corner



Like trying to make Starbucks happen in Italy lol

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

lol is Pakistan turning into the Poland of the region

https://twitter.com/ItsStark863/status/1509027864758620160

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
when I think of two countries chomping at the bit to invade Pakistan, I think Iran and Afghanistan

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

It's less looking to invade Pakistan, than it is allowing separatists to operate across the border.

https://twitter.com/PKForwardEN/status/1509741090408054792

https://twitter.com/TheWilsonCenter/status/1498503549612875781

https://twitter.com/pulse_pakistan/status/1492861123607117828

And, of course, you can blame the usual intelligence service for encouraging the different separatist groups to work together to attack the BRI

https://twitter.com/MichaelKugelman/status/1289650872117428224

lol at the date on this tweet. Doing the Eurasia/Eastasia dance.

https://twitter.com/USINPAC/status/7122668467

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
why would Iran or Afghanistan help Balochi separatists don’t they also want to separate from those countries? I thought “Balochistan” was part of all three

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

this is some guy tt levels of random tweet posting

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
pakistan is the poland of the region

how many nukes poland got?

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
how many poles does it take to launch an icbm

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

AnimeIsTrash posted:

this is some guy tt levels of random tweet posting

Time for some Wikipedia posting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_movements_of_Pakistan

So besides the Baloch separatists, the other major separatist group in Pakistan are for Sindhi independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhudesh

It's pretty wacky because if both of those groups succeeded, it'd mean that Pakistan is reduced to what, mostly just the Punjab? Not that it's happening anytime soon.



Also lol at the flags of these movements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeay_Sindh_Qaumi_Mahaz



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhudesh_Liberation_Army



Choose your faction depending on if you prefer Axe or Axe-and-Hand

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

AnimeIsTrash posted:

this is some guy tt levels of random tweet posting

why do you hate news

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

indigi posted:

why would Iran or Afghanistan help Balochi separatists don’t they also want to separate from those countries? I thought “Balochistan” was part of all three

According to the al-Monitor article, Iran doesn't actually want to. They're just not cracking down on the bases enough.

quote:

Meanwhile, Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute in Washington and author of a book on Iran-Pakistan ties, told Al-Monitor, “There is no evidence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wanting to support the attacks inside Pakistan. The trend has been to respect Pakistan's sovereignty and Iran does not want confrontation. I would not say that the Iranian regime does not have the potential, but it would not wish to get involved in this matter. As Iran has a potential Sunni militant problem itself, it does not make sense for it to support any sectarian — or separatist — movement.”

Connecting the revival of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with regional stability, a European diplomat posted in Islamabad told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “Though both countries have accused each other of harboring terrorist groups within their respective border provinces in the past, in the context of the recent terrorist attack in Baluchistan I do not think that, on the eve of a possible revival of the JCPOA, Tehran has an interest in undermining somehow the relationship with Islamabad.”

He said, “The fact that Vahidi — a former commander of the Quds Force — made an official visit to Islamabad just one week after the visit of the Saudi interior minister confirms that Tehran is willing to respond to the perceived growing Saudi influence in the country.”

The diplomat noted, “Tehran is interested in keeping the dialogue on Afghanistan open also because it needs Pakistan’s support to contain Islamic State-Khorasan province, as its presence at the border with Iran has recently been detected. A revival of the JCPOA, a positive development on the Yemen war [though difficult at this stage] and a continuation of talks in Baghdad between Tehran and Riyadh [the outcome of the last two being directly related to the first], could pave the way for an exit from the dilemma of the ‘zero sum game’ in which the two regional powers have been involved. Reducing US pressure on Iran would enable Islamabad to cooperate with both countries in political and economic terms.”

But that doesn't stop angry Pakistani nationalists from accusing Iran of supporting terrorists

https://twitter.com/KhurramDehwar/status/1488958601888686082

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Maximo Roboto posted:

Time for some Wikipedia posting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_movements_of_Pakistan

So besides the Baloch separatists, the other major separatist group in Pakistan are for Sindhi independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhudesh

It's pretty wacky because if both of those groups succeeded, it'd mean that Pakistan is reduced to what, mostly just the Punjab? Not that it's happening anytime soon.



Also lol at the flags of these movements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeay_Sindh_Qaumi_Mahaz



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhudesh_Liberation_Army



Choose your faction depending on if you prefer Axe or Axe-and-Hand

didn't read

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