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https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1662155100196831237?t=Of9cVfWcLZcUYkL6_1y-fQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1662156185401794561?t=HCym56Ijlxhs67wac0LRmg&s=19 looks pretty good
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May 26, 2023 19:13
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The Chinese have replicated Forest Gump technology. It's over for the US now.
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May 26, 2023 19:39
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China continues to oppress the brave people of Hong Kong https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/little-fat-pig-hongkongers-hoped-taiwan-would-be-saviour-now-it-suspects-them-20230524-p5daw5.html quote:In Taiwan, Honkongers and other migrants are identified by different numbers from locals on their ID cards. Cantonese is not recognised as an official language, limiting the study credits a student can get. Hongkongers who have worked for Chinese companies are largely disqualified from obtaining work permits on national security grounds. Migrants from Hong Kong cannot be treated as refugees because Taiwan still claims the Chinese mainland and therefore Hong Kong as part of its territory in the constitution. quote:Anna Su, who migrated to Taiwan in 2015 after becoming involved in the Free Tibet movement in Hong Kong, says the number of people leaving will grow. Maybe Taiwan will be the next Ukraine after all.
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May 27, 2023 02:01
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https://twitter.com/GlennLuk/status/1662112774472753153 Incredible aquaculture is happening in China.
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May 27, 2023 07:04
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https://twitter.com/DongshengNews/status/1662146842782584832 China no!
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May 27, 2023 07:42
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Blockchain with Chinese characteristics
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May 27, 2023 07:43
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Chinese people have superior fish-eating technology (chopsticks) and thus have successfully adapted bony freshwater fish like carp for the dinner table.
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May 27, 2023 07:44
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Chinese people have superior fish-eating technology (chopsticks) and thus have successfully adapted bony freshwater fish like carp for the dinner table. Rice also cushions your digestive tract from thin fish bones. Repopularize the pilaf and package it as rice a roni.
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May 27, 2023 07:51
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it's not for crypto, what else is blockchain used for?
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May 27, 2023 09:25
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Well back in the day, blockchain was explained to me as an automatic ordering mechanism. Like supply chain parts and components ordering.
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May 27, 2023 10:49
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NFTs
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May 27, 2023 10:52
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TDepressionEarl posted:From Mae Sai down to Mae Sot, those casinos are designed to attract Chinese-speaking tourists of all stripes, but primarily during a normalized period of peace, facilitate trade between two nations in a regional economic union. Would you care to expand on how these casinos are used to facilitate trade?
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May 27, 2023 11:11
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Kassad posted:Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, Volt Typhoon, accused of carrying out cyber-espionage on US targets. Lol named by Microsoft.
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May 27, 2023 11:14
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you need to study the evil to find a way to destroy it
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May 27, 2023 11:27
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Cerebral Bore posted:you need to study the evil to find a way to destroy it The Chinese have been going pretty big on a centrally controlled digital currency of their own.
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May 27, 2023 11:32
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Weka posted:Would you care to expand on how these casinos are used to facilitate trade? I've never been up to there so these ideas are wholly self-invented but: In Myanmar's case it gives them a supply of foreign currency despite the sanctions, correct? It had been forever since I checked but inflation is crushing the MMK (Myanmar's currency the Kyat). Thais and Chinese alike just flat out love to gamble, who doesn't, and it's just a meager bit of baht and yuan to invest. Casinos are also hotels, and hotels have travel agencies. It's easier for a Thai businessman to pop on over the border but what about their Chinese partner at the firm? It looks like the visa on arrival scheme was suspended, you can order visas a little easier now online. A travel agency can fill out your forms and bike to the State ministry, cut through all that, while you wait. Finally, if we're talking pre-Covid and pre-coup, what little tourism industry Myanmar had was mostly Chinese. I'm sure Chinese tourists love the temples and the architecture but they also (used to at least) travel in flocks, big buses with knowledgeable tour guides and affordable group rate packages. Hostels won't do, gotta have amenities.
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May 27, 2023 12:09
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also where better to buy speed than in a casino. it is the golden triangle after all.
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May 27, 2023 12:12
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Weka posted:Would you care to expand on how these casinos are used to facilitate trade? well the chinese tourists trade foreign currency for happy fun times at the casino.
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May 27, 2023 12:17
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do chinese do backpacking?
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May 27, 2023 12:22
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as you said earlier Weka:Weka posted:China is a net importer of everything but finished goods. civilians in countries experiencing a civil war need to replace and refurnish their war-torn homes with finished goods. Myanmar needs CNY any way they can come across it.
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May 27, 2023 13:24
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/joe-biden-pacific-nation-allies-us-china This came out yesterday, and today we get https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-south-korea-agree-strengthen-talks-chip-industry-chinese-commerce-ministry-2023-05-27/ Asia seems much less willing than europe to go balls in with a dying empire, basically towing the line that china feels acceptable. You can suck off the US to get that sweet money but don't do anything that actually hampers their growth, countries can gain more this way.
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May 27, 2023 15:27
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As far as I understand, the power dynamic between Korean zaibatsu and government is the former owns the later, not the other way around. Of course Biden wants to drag the asian allies into his tech war with china. Japan literally just announce new semiconductor sanctions that exceed the US required sanction. I have watched a couple analysis that said the Kashida government has lost their mind, because Japan's advantage in mid range lithographic equipment is much easier for China to catch up than the high end ASML equipments. And when china catch up in 3 to 5 years, they will squeeze the Japanese companies out of the industry in payback. What Japan does now is opposite of what ASML and NVidia CEO doing, basically doing interviews rounds an making case to lessen the sanction. Now back to Biden, why did he say that? Because he can't get Samsung and SK Hynix to cooperate, its simple as that. They have been dragging their feet since the Chip4 thing was announced. Korea under the prev president even said okay we can join the Chip4 but only under the condition of not touching the one china policy, which is a really funny written clause demand for a "technology alliance".
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May 27, 2023 17:17
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stephenthinkpad posted:As far as I understand, the power dynamic between Korean zaibatsu and government is the former owns the later, not the other way around. One thing about Japan is that the LDP has effectively never not been in power so they have levers to make things happen. South Korean parties are much weaker. Which is probably a better state of things than your country just being Samsung in a trench coat, but that also means the US can apply pressure on Kishida and then things happen. Though he also seems to be a bit of a loon.
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May 27, 2023 17:32
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TDepressionEarl posted:do chinese do backpacking? There's a bunch of them in Mexico right now!
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May 27, 2023 17:44
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/joe-biden-pacific-nation-allies-us-china South Korea is probably the most pro-USA and anti-China of all the east asian countries now at this point. And they have been diplomatically shooting themselves in the balls the last year of the Yoon presidency. Two good articles that summarize the issues. What to make of Koreans’ newfound pro-American lean The malice masked by a year of Yoon Suk-yeol’s incompetence
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May 28, 2023 03:19
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TDepressionEarl posted:I've never been up to there so these ideas are wholly self-invented but: Thanks. Tankbuster posted:well the chinese tourists trade foreign currency for happy fun times at the casino. I thought there might be another layer deeper than the obvious, and I think about it I'm sure there is. ie TDepressionEarl posted:also where better to buy speed than in a casino. it is the golden triangle after all.
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May 28, 2023 04:40
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isn’t sk being run by an insane right winger the norm and the only reason there was a coward lib last term bc the insane right winger got caught embezzling billions for a shaman
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May 28, 2023 05:35
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FrancisFukyomama posted:isn’t sk being run by an insane right winger the norm and the only reason there was a coward lib last term bc the insane right winger got caught embezzling billions for a shaman Freedom and Democracy is when anything to the Left of Reagan js illegal
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May 28, 2023 05:36
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genericnick posted:One thing about Japan is that the LDP has effectively never not been in power so they have levers to make things happen. South Korean parties are much weaker. Which is probably a better state of things than your country just being Samsung in a trench coat, but that also means the US can apply pressure on Kishida and then things happen. Though he also seems to be a bit of a loon. Did they release the motive of that guy with the pipe bomb? I was in Japan at the time and nobody seemed to care.
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May 28, 2023 05:42
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FrancisFukyomama posted:isn’t sk being run by an insane right winger the norm and the only reason there was a coward lib last term bc the insane right winger got caught embezzling billions for a shaman The main difference being the regular insane right winger's of the past were at least all about getting some for Korea too. This dude salutes the US flag n poo poo. He seems to be more American or Japanese than Korean.
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May 28, 2023 05:55
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Gildiss posted:The main difference being the regular insane right winger's of the past were at least all about getting some for Korea too. https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1651418886447693824?t=vsKQEZs7tnQkBqN6Aum5vA&s=19
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May 28, 2023 06:00
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crispyseaweed posted:Did they release the motive of that guy with the pipe bomb? I was in Japan at the time and nobody seemed to care. You mean the guy that killed Abe? Or? If it is the former it's because Abe had ties to a cult that hosed up his family
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May 28, 2023 06:05
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HiroProtagonist posted:You mean the guy that killed Abe? Or? 500 good dogs posted:that... looks a lot like how a pipe bomb looks
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May 28, 2023 06:07
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stephenthinkpad posted:That's hilarious. Just maybe, the foreign sex pervert demographic and the foreign Kissinger warmongers Washington blob demographic don't intersect. the kissengeroids are enemies of the Khmer empire descendants and have an agreement with the military to protect the precious Thai ladyboy supply
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May 28, 2023 06:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1651418886447693824?t=vsKQEZs7tnQkBqN6Aum5vA&s=19 man imagine being a psycho ultranationalist who elects a blood and soil leader and then watches them come over and do twee bullshit designed to appease our Hamilton loving elites
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May 28, 2023 06:28
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FrancisFukyomama posted:man imagine being a psycho ultranationalist who elects a blood and soil leader and then watches them come over and do twee bullshit designed to appease our Hamilton loving elites dude is an actual cuck
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May 28, 2023 06:30
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Yeah I meant the attempt on Kishida in April. I just looked it up and the last update was a few days after saying that he was an unemployed guy who wanted to run for office, but didn't hit the age requirement and held a grudge about that. Not as exciting as the guy who put sunlight on the Abe cult stuff.
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May 28, 2023 06:37
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Japanese politics is somehow more ridiculous than the Yakuza games make it look
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May 28, 2023 07:17
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stephenthinkpad posted:As far as I understand, the power dynamic between Korean zaibatsu and government is the former owns the later, not the other way around. Chaebol, not Zaibatsu. The terms aren't interchangable, even if they are both national megacorporations, as the Zaibatsus wish they had the same level of multi-industry dominance and regulatory capture as the chaebols Anyways I'm pretty sure the US gov also has its own sort of dog leash on the SK gov, by virtue of how operational command of the ROK armed forces is designed to automatically switch to US Forces Korea in any sort of emergency situation
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May 28, 2023 07:21
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FrancisFukyomama posted:isn’t sk being run by an insane right winger the norm and the only reason there was a coward lib last term bc the insane right winger got caught embezzling billions for a shaman The right wing (the pro Japan, pro US military base, anti NK side of SK politic) actually slowly getting less support. This time they won it with the thinnest margin in general election. Thats why they are not in a position to push any anti Chinese business cooperation policy. Yoon is also quite inexperience in foreign affair, but Trump didn't do that bad in his term so I don't hold this against Yoon. Also incredible soapy presidental scandal is part of SK politic, so it will definitely happen to Yoon and his wife. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 10:08 on May 28, 2023 |
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