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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i thought they gave the dog away lol

delivered right into the arms of our lord

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genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


You're laughing. The big panda died and you're laughing.

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

that the "Exclusive Economic Zone" is never actually anyone's sovereign territory is always obfuscated by the media because it allows them to portray China's sailings (and flyovers) as constant intrusions

ahhhhhh....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
The difference between the territorial sea and the exclusive economic zone is that the first confers full sovereignty over the waters, whereas the second is merely a "sovereign right" which refers to the coastal state's rights below the surface of the sea. The surface waters, as can be seen in the map, are international waters.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/xi-jinping-s-plan-to-cope-with-china-s-ageing-population-a-university-101669029953531.html

quote:

China has decided to set up a national university for the elderly to cope up with the rapidly ageing society and declining fertility. The university will function under the state-run Open University of China and the curriculum will range from foreign languages, computer skills, music and dance to photography, painting, sports, cooking and other crafts and skills, the Global Times reported.

The announcement comes almost a month after China's president Xi Jinping demanded that Beijing “implement a national strategy to actively cope with ageing”.

This seems pretty cool.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

that the "Exclusive Economic Zone" is never actually anyone's sovereign territory is always obfuscated by the media because it allows them to portray China's sailings (and flyovers) as constant intrusions

fun fact : the US never ratified the international agreement that created EEZs

Rules Based World Order

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/Hezbolsonaro/status/1594465436795834368
https://twitter.com/aolbain/status/1594467955315802113

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
yeah, political violence is a thing in kerala (also west bengal but I am friends with CPM, INC and TMC members so I have my back covered.)

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

DO NOT BUY PET OCTOPUS!!!!!!

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Turns out both leading parties in Taiwan are cringe

https://twitter.com/brianhioe/status/1594851190281768961

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

kuomindang that's a lovely costume.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/bworldph/status/1594861973518573569?t=Z0ERgjHbed1ukgC285DA7w&s=19

Is she loving serious. Like does she know what happened with the BNPP

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

gradenko_2000 posted:

Is she loving serious. Like does she know what happened with the BNPP

yeah they split off from the nation of islam and were declared a hate group by the SPLC

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010

Atrocious Joe posted:

fun fact : the US never ratified the international agreement that created EEZs

Rules Based World Order

and they routinely violate them with warships on purpose and dare people to do anything about it, it’s called a Freedom of Navigation Exercise

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007
Freedom of Naval Lint exercise

Polgas
Sep 2, 2018


With one hand he saves gebs. With the other he commits goblin genocide. A true neutral.

Can someone talk about the civil war in kerala or link an article giving an overview? I've never heard about it.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Rescuers are digging through debris on Tuesday to find survivors of a powerful earthquake that toppled homes and buildings in a highly populated area of Indonesia’s West Java province, killing dozens of people.

Monday’s quake killed 62 people, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), though earlier, West Java’s governor, Ridwan Kamil, said more than 160 had been killed. The reason for the discrepancy remains unclear.

The 5.6-magnitude quake hit the Cianjur region in West Java about 1:21 p.m. local time on Monday at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), causing buildings to collapse while school classes were underway.

Photos showed buildings reduced to rubble, with bricks and scraps of broken metal strewn on the streets. More than 700 people were injured, and thousands more displaced, according to the BNPB.

“The majority of those who died were children,” Kamil told reporters Monday, adding the death toll was likely to increase further. “So many incidents occurred at several Islamic schools.”

The powerful tremors forced children to flee from their classrooms, according to aid group Save the Children, which said more than 50 schools had been impacted.

Mia Saharosa, a teacher at one of the affected schools, said the earthquake “was a shock to all of us,” according to the group.

“We all gathered in the field, children were terrified and cried, worried about their families at home,” Saharosa said. “We hug each other, strengthen each other, and continue to pray.”

Herman Suherman, a government official in Cianjur, told media that some residents were trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. News channel Metro TV showed what appeared to be hundreds of victims being treated in a hospital parking lot.

Television footage showed residents huddled outside buildings almost entirely reduced to rubble, according to Reuters.

One resident, named only as Muchlis, said he felt “a huge tremor” and the walls and ceiling of his office were damaged.

“I was very shocked. I worried there would be another quake,” he told Metro TV.

Indonesia’s bureau of meteorology, the BMKG, warned of a danger of landslides, particularly in the event of heavy rain, as 25 aftershocks were recorded in the first two hours after the quake.

Rescuers were unable to immediately reach some of those trapped, he said, adding the situation remains chaotic.

Government authorities are building tents and shelters for the victims while attending to their basic needs.

Indonesia sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a band around the Pacific Ocean that sets off frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity. One of the most seismically active zones on the planet, it stretches from Japan and Indonesia on one side of the Pacific to California and South America on the other.

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off Sumatra island in northern Indonesia triggered a tsunami that struck 14 countries, killing 226,000 people along the Indian Ocean coastline, more than half of them in Indonesia.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

Is she loving serious. Like does she know what happened with the BNPP

No.

this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006

chinese people don't name their kids directly after other people so no, it's not cultural appropriation. it may be really loving stupid even for a pro-nationalist dullard but it's not that one thing they're worried about

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Polgas posted:

Can someone talk about the civil war in kerala or link an article giving an overview? I've never heard about it.

there is no civil war. If you dig into it you will always find that there was some prior beef between the two people.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
incredible things etc etc

https://twitter.com/therealugs/status/1594769807848706057

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

lol "now"

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1595072418997243904

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

Gradenko 2k recommended Inward Empire and it's truly a good podcast. The first serious about Pinkerton is good

They were incompétent and not well liked but used propaganda to exaggerate their power

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

Very not proud to kinda have a reason to post some local news in the Asia thread

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-marijuana-farm-hostage-shooting/42042988

quote:

KINGFISHER COUNTY, Okla. —
An investigation continues after four people were murdered and a fifth was injured in an execution-style shooting Sunday at a marijuana grow facility in Kingfisher County.

Below is what we know as of Tuesday afternoon.

The Victims
Three men and a woman were executed, and a fifth victim was injured in a shooting at a marijuana farm in Kingfisher County.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has not released the victims' identities – authorities say next of kin notification is pending because of a significant language barrier – but said they were all Chinese Nationals.


The fifth victim was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, but their condition has not been released.

The Suspect
Authorities have not released information about the suspect, saying they believe releasing the suspect's identity at this time will put more people in danger.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told KOCO 5 that an arrest warrant has been issued.

What Happened
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation officials say that around 5:45 p.m. Sunday, a suspect entered a building on a marijuana grow operation on North 2760 Road in Kingfisher County. Several employees were inside the building at the time, and the suspect was inside for a significant amount of time before authorities said an execution-style shooting started.

Three men and one woman, all of whom OSBI said were Chinese Nationals, were executed. A fifth victim, also a Chinese National, was wounded and taken to a hospital.


OSBI officials said an initial investigation shows that the quadruple homicide does not appear to be random.

Authorities said they believe releasing the suspect's identity at this time will put more people in danger.

"This was definitely not random. This appears to be a purposeful act," said Brook Arbeitman, with the OSBI. "So while I would encourage people to remain vigilant – and I can’t ever say it’s not a danger to the public – it’s definitely not random."

Other people were on the property but not injured, OSBI said.

The initial OSBI news release from Monday states that the Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office received a call of a hostage situation at the marijuana grow operation, and deputies later discovered that four people had been murdered and one was injured.

hosed up. Apparently there were other people there that weren't harmed. I find it weird that the CNN article about this didn't feel it was necessary to mention that all five victims were Chinese Nationals who were round up and shot execution style but maybe I'm weird for thinking that's pertinent? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/us/oklahoma-kingfisher-county-marijuana-deaths/index.html

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

new report on interracial marriage in China (of which there are many over the years).

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/marriage-assimilation-11182022195239.html/

quote:

China mixes financial, education and career incentives with coercive measures such as threats to families under state policies to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region, a new report by a Uyghur rights group has found.

The Uyghur Human Rights Project analyzed Chinese state media, policy documents, government sanctioned marriage testimonials, as well as accounts from women in the Uyghur diaspora, that government incentivizes and coercion to boost interethnic marriages has increased since 2014.

“The Chinese Party-State is actively involved in carrying out a campaign of forcefully assimilating Uyghurs into Han Chinese society by means of mixed marriages,” said the [report](https://uhrp.org/report/forced-marriage-of-uyghur-women/).

The findings on forced marriage by Washington, DC-based NGO come as Western governments and the [United Nations](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/bachelet-report-08312022172403.html) have recognized that Chinese policies in Xinjiang amount to or may amount to genocide or crimes against humanity. Forced labor, incarceration camps and other aspects of China's rule in Xinjiang have drawn sanctions from Britain, Canada, the European Union and the United States.

The study, “Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage in East Turkistan,” draws on state media propaganda films, state-approved online accounts of interethnic marriages and weddings, state-approved personal online testimonials from individuals in interethnic marriages, as well as government statements and policy directives.

“The Party-State has actively encouraged and incentivized ‘interethnic’ Uyghur-Han intermarriage since at least May 2014,” the Uyghur Human Rights Project says in the report, released on Nov. 16.

Interethnic marriage policies gained momentum after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a “new era” at the Xinjiang Work Forum in 2014, touting a policy of strengthening interethnic “contact, exchange, and mingling,” the report said.

“Uyghur-Han intermarriage has been increasing over the past several years since the Chinese state has been actively promoting intermarriage,” said Nuzigum Setiwaldi a co-author of the report.

“The Chinese government always talks about how interethnic marriages promote ‘ethnic unity’ and ‘social stability,’ but these actually are euphemisms for assimilation,” she told RFA Uyghur.

“The Chinese government is incentivizing and promoting intermarriage as a way to assimilate Uyghurs into Han society and culture.

Carrots include cash payments, help with housing, medical care, government jobs, and tuition waivers.

When it comes to sticks, “young Uyghur women and/or their parents face an ever-present threat of punishment if the women decline to marry a Han ‘suitor,’” the report said, citing experiences of Uyghur women now living in exile.

“Videos and testimonies have also raised concerns that Uyghur women are being pressured and forced into marrying Han men,” said Setiwaldi.


The report cites an informal marriage guide for male Han party officials published in 2019, titled “How to Win the Heart of a Uyghur Girl.”

Han men who want to marry Uyghur women are told that the woman they love “must love the Motherland, love the Party, and she must have unrivaled passion for socialist Xinjiang,”

Commenting on the report, scholar Adrian Zenz said the Chinese Communist Party’s “policy of incentivizing Han and coercing Uyghurs into interethnic marriages is part of a strategy of breaking down and dismantling Uyghur culture.”

Zenz, a senior fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C., was the first outside expert to document the network of mass internment camp for Uyghurs launched in Xinjiang in 2017 and he has [analyzed](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/population-report-08302021081443.html) China’s Uyghur population policies.

The intermarriage strategy serves the goal of “optimizing the ethnic population structure, breaking the ‘dominance’ of concentrated Uyghur populations in southern Xinjiang as part of a slowly unfolding genocidal policy,” he told RFA.

“It’s important that people pay attention to the different forms of human rights abuses that are taking place in the Uyghur region, particularly those that are underreported, like forced marriages,” said Setiwaldi.

“People can raise awareness and push their governments to hold the Chinese government accountable.”

China had no immediate comment on the report.

Last month, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement dismissed U.S. efforts to debate the U.N. report, saying, “the human rights of people of all ethnic backgrounds in Xinjiang are protected like never before” and “the ultimate motive of the U.S. and some other Western countries behind their Xinjiang narrative is to contain China.”


i looked for some of the material on how to win the heart of an Uyghur girl and I think it might come not from a report, but from an influencer:

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/what-purport-be-lifestyle-videos-uyghur-influencers-promote-beijings

quote:

Anniguli’s thoughts on a range of subjects, as expressed in her videos, further burnish her image as the Party’s ideal Uyghur Woman. She explains “how to win a Uyghur girl’s heart” in several different clips, suggesting Han Chinese men make up a considerable part of her target audience. In one video from April 2020, she and two friends voice their support for inter-ethnic marriage, speaking about it purely in terms of freedom of love, signaling their openness to dating and marrying Han Chinese men and thus supporting an important element of the government’s policies in the region. In her discussion of inter-ethnic marriage, while she does refer to difficulties arising from cultural and linguistic differences, she does not mention religion at all, despite the fact that Uyghurs often invoke their adherence to Islam as justification for their reluctance to marry Han people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yNZPxVKvI

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

mawarannahr posted:

new report on interracial marriage in China (of which there are many over the years).

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/marriage-assimilation-11182022195239.html/

i looked for some of the material on how to win the heart of an Uyghur girl and I think it might come not from a report, but from an influencer:

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/what-purport-be-lifestyle-videos-uyghur-influencers-promote-beijings

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yNZPxVKvI

Ah poo poo I feel bad for that girl being roped into this "race mixing is communism" poo poo she's been vlogging since she was in high school

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

encouraging miscegenation? mmmhmm thats a genocide

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

i think white people that aren’t willing to date minorities are racist, but everyone else should stay within their own race

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007



sources close to Tsai quote her as saying "...and I thought they smelled bad on the outside"

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007
personally i think being obsessed about who other people gently caress is messed up and weird but white people and asia are a special consideration

e: wow that was ill timed

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

are they even different races, I mean in a chinese context. I know they are a minority turkic people but interracial?

edit: or 'intermarriage' like is jeb bush in an 'intermarriage'

edit: looking up the definition yah jeb bush is in one lol our society is so weird

Antonymous has issued a correction as of 02:52 on Nov 23, 2022

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

hell yes

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
So this is basically Great Replacement theory but for woke segregation

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Antonymous posted:

are they even different races, I mean in a chinese context. I know they are a minority turkic people but interracial?

edit: or 'intermarriage' like is jeb bush in an 'intermarriage'

I may have injected the word “interracial” there, projecting US social relations onto China by accident (or maybe on purpose?)

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
It's only race mixing if one race likes savory food and the other race likes spicy food

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

DiscountDildos posted:

Very not proud to kinda have a reason to post some local news in the Asia thread

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-marijuana-farm-hostage-shooting/42042988

hosed up. Apparently there were other people there that weren't harmed. I find it weird that the CNN article about this didn't feel it was necessary to mention that all five victims were Chinese Nationals who were round up and shot execution style but maybe I'm weird for thinking that's pertinent? https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/us/oklahoma-kingfisher-county-marijuana-deaths/index.html

The brightest minds in the US are trying to figure this out

https://twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1595178031357857795?s=20&t=ajMS7_wf8Cb16bEyxFIe2A
https://twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1595207499409416193?s=20&t=ajMS7_wf8Cb16bEyxFIe2A

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010


lmao

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
author of The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War


ANY DAY NOW

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia/status/1594884195268042752

The Abe assassin really got the ball rolling.

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thechosenone
Mar 21, 2009
Edit: actually I'm not sure if the article I'm commenting on was about anti immigrant behavior from the US or whatever but I still think I'm right. Sorry though for not reading so hard it just sounded like it'd just be sad to hear details on 'people who were just growing harmless plants getting murdered because of their birthplace'

Jokes on them if blaming some other was enough to stop violence from reaching every corner of the earth we'd have poo poo wrapped up by now in a permanent perfect dictatorship from hell.

I dunno what I'm saying but given how the western elite are unable to maintain this incredibly easy world order where they should have been able to forever stomp out and strangle any dissent in the crib tells me that sicking your depraved natives on the foreign population isn't going to increase your labor base and will in fact only brain drain you faster.

I suppose history would be a lot different if smarts actually were always necessary for holding power. I mean in a long term sense they are but like if being dumb meant you didn't even get five minutes at the wheel no matter how rich your dad was it'd probably be weird how things would progress if every ruler had always been politically competent of in no other venture.

thechosenone has issued a correction as of 03:20 on Nov 23, 2022

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