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These are from the last two weeks. Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark in Vanuatu.      Then, Chinese Navy PLANS Peace Ark in Port of Honiara, Solomon Islands greeted by local people. The ship will stay here for a week and provide free medical services to the local residents.     Local residents in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands receive medical care on the Chinese naval hospital ship Ark Peace on August 21, 2023. Ark Peace docked at the port of Honiara, Solomon Islands for the first time on August 19 and the mission was warmly welcomed by the local people    
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Aug 22, 2023 17:29
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1693929785624551576
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Aug 22, 2023 17:33
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Mantis42 posted:On the Weixin food order app it's 12 RMB for Bubble Tea, which is about $1.65. Idk how much it is in New York in the thumbnail he looks like Lord Vader 
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Aug 22, 2023 17:36
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Frosted Flake posted:and I'm curious to see how this history will be rewritten the same way Eastern European history has. Doesn't this complicate a mythologized independent Taiwan that was never part of China? i don’t think any except the most pro-Green position would claim that Taiwan was never related to China. The “being part” of China is more tenuous because the island was always lackadaisically regarded by the mainland, it was a place where rebel forces fled to now and then. Imperial China was always more concerned about what was accessible by land.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:52
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fart simpson posted:i ran the numbers, and if housing prices here fall 15%, the cost is that my landlord (who owns 6 investment properties) will lose about $100k in pure profit on this apartment Real estate investors should be the foundation of every new house
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Aug 22, 2023 17:54
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mawarannahr posted:just saw the word Sweden and got mad Back in the day people dared to be critical of the US. Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden talking about the Christmas bombings of Hanoi in 1972 posted:One should call things by their correct names. What is happening in Vietnam is a form of torture. These days everyone who deviates even slightly from the US state department line on any issue is instantly branded as an extremist supporter of Putin and/or China.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:56
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Mantis42 posted:On the Weixin food order app it's 12 RMB for Bubble Tea, which is about $1.65. Idk how much it is in New York in Seattle you'll pay $6-8 for a bubble tea lmao
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Aug 22, 2023 18:07
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I know no one uses wikisource, but their translated from Chinese category has like 5 works of classic Chinese literature and 50 indictments of people who harassed low level ministers online then went to jail for it.
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Aug 22, 2023 18:18
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Hedenius posted:As a Swede I'm just depressed about the state of the country. The mystery of who assassinated Olof Palme becomes less mysterious.
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Aug 22, 2023 18:20
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:West stabs Kurds in the back for the 50th time. How quickly they went from "our best allies in Iraq and Syria, elite fighters against ISIS" to "terrorists".
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Aug 22, 2023 18:25
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Punkin Spunkin posted:They did? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_confederalism strange feelings re Daisy has issued a correction as of 18:37 on Aug 22, 2023 |
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Aug 22, 2023 18:34
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Yes. Their founder and thought leader Abdullah Ocalan switched from Marxism Leninism to a new philosophy of "democratic confederalism" influenced by the works of Murray Bookchin. The PKK and wider Kurdish territory also adopted this model.
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Aug 22, 2023 19:12
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Dante80 posted:These are from the last two weeks. https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2023-08-22-china-donates-emergency-power-equipment-to-help-south-africa-keep-the-lights-on/ quote:China donates emergency power equipment to help South Africa keep the lights on
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Aug 22, 2023 19:13
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Marenghi posted:The mystery of who assassinated Olof Palme becomes less mysterious. it was obviously those dastardly kurdish communists
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Aug 22, 2023 19:16
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Some good quality scare quotes here North Korea's neighbors issue warnings ahead of attempted 'satellite' launch quote:The last one splashed down badly, but this is no laughing matter – Japan's PM thinks it could be a missile It absolutely is a laughing matter
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Aug 22, 2023 20:43
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 does anyone know what he is referring to ?
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Aug 22, 2023 21:10
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euphronius posted:
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Aug 22, 2023 21:15
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Announcement of Visa Restrictions to Address Forced Assimilation in Tibet - United States Department of State www.state.gov posted:The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions under the authority of Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act on People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools. These coercive policies seek to eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic, cultural, and religious traditions among younger generations of Tibetans.
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Aug 22, 2023 21:31
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https://twitter.com/mbrookerhk/status/1693719340476936388 shopping around for unrelated statistics to demonstrate the empire is still strong and totally not rotting
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Aug 22, 2023 22:03
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mawarannahr posted:Announcement of Visa Restrictions to Address Forced Assimilation in Tibet - United States Department of State bro it's not 1992 no one cares about tibet anymore now it's all Uyghurs! get with the times grandpa!!
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Aug 22, 2023 22:05
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As long as you use USD to calculate gdp, US will never lose number one. Just print 5 billion on demand.
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Aug 22, 2023 22:10
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R. Mute posted:consistently miserably fail at obtaining a state for your people? convert to anarchism, now you don't need a state. victory achieved. bing bong, so simple You would think that by the thrid time the US stabbed the Kurds in the back by 1991 they would have stopped trusting us
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Aug 22, 2023 22:13
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https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1693970835122610529?t=1ge0y6NoLztEASbzKsci9g&s=19 Wait, so the military gave the blessing to the Thaksin's party to form the government (for the third time), but they didn't want Thsksin's daughter, they wanted an old man. Is that the gist of the story? Also Thaksin is allowed back, quite a win for him.
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Aug 22, 2023 22:21
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NeonPunk posted:Whatever happened to that LK99 thing anyway? This thread was talking about it like this was going to make China into this super futuristic superpower and poo poo like that but now it's like it just disappeared from all conversations everywhere With the discovery of this tech China is the first civilization to enter the Future Age. Every city has been switched to produce Combat Mechs but it will take about five more turns until China has a big enough stack to win the game. I can understand other players just checking out before then, though.
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Aug 22, 2023 23:02
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Maximo Roboto posted:The Japanese recruited a ton of Taiwanese aborigines for their volunteer brigades Huh! The most notable Takasago Volunteer is Teruo Nakamura (Attun Palalin), the last confirmed Japanese holdout, who surrendered on Morotai Island in Indonesia in December 1974. Nakamura was an Amis volunteer and was discovered 29 years, 3 months, and 16 days after the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed in August 1945, having lived in solitude in the jungle for almost 20 years after leaving other holdouts in 1956.
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Aug 22, 2023 23:43
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Frosted Flake posted:So I picked up a recent-ish book because of this thread, The Taiwanese are the indigenous people of China and will defeat the Han with the Great Ghost Dance
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Aug 22, 2023 23:48
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1693805682259349953?t=k-L55QHcwcLHb7phqfWW4g&s=19 Rip https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1694165499251405039?t=pPM-8QP6gGR3Kii7cdWLoA&s=19
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Aug 23, 2023 02:53
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Maximo Roboto posted:I wonder if there's a Confederate memorial for the Five Civilized Tribes members who sided with the South monumental piece of poo poo and Cherokee Quisling 'General' Stand Watie's descendants still fly Confederate flags and there is still all sorts of Confederate memorabilia visible around his old hometown in particular they take a ton of pride in how he was technically the last Confederate military officer to surrender, there's 'LAST TO SURRENDER' shirts and bumper stickers and poo poo you can buy with his face on them, like he's some sort of badass hero, a better Confederate than the actual Confederates were
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Aug 23, 2023 03:04
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quote:While others have opposed Japan’s imminent release of Fukushima nuke water into the Pacific Ocean, Hong Kong authorities are set to be the first to put their policy where their mouths are. https://twitter.com/thonwingp/status/1693923443534975325?s=20
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Aug 23, 2023 03:05
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:Rip People speculate that he will be pardoned by the tat king soon. Probably on some health excuses.
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Aug 23, 2023 03:10
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Yes. Their founder and thought leader Abdullah Ocalan switched from Marxism Leninism to a new philosophy of "democratic confederalism" influenced by the works of Murray Bookchin. The PKK and wider Kurdish territory also adopted this model. To be fair, from what I can tell reading interviews of western volunteers who imbedded in the YPG cadres instead of the foreign auxiliary is that although their ideal society is a federation of city communes they organize the party still along disciplined, democratic centralism, Leninist lines to bring it about. It would be a very interesting to observe how that contradiction was resolved dialectically if the Kurds were even given to breathing room to do so.
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Aug 23, 2023 06:38
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Mister Bates posted:monumental piece of poo poo and Cherokee Quisling 'General' Stand Watie's descendants still fly Confederate flags and there is still all sorts of Confederate memorabilia visible around his old hometown Strong "French SS volunteers last fighting force in Berlin" vibe here.
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Aug 23, 2023 08:13
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I think LSU press has a book on the Native American Civil War. My takeaway was that Native Americans thought it would buy them more time, like when they had triangulated Britain, Spain and France against each other or how Woodland Indians very successfully balanced the colonial powers to prevent settlement in the Ohio valley. Ultimately, the Confederates would not have honoured agreements over time once they recovered from a position of relative weakness.
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Aug 23, 2023 13:45
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the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw had also adopted plantation agriculture and racial slavery that further aligned with the confederacy. the creek and Seminole had different slavery systems but regardless the pro-southern factions in all the tribes drove out all the pro-union members prior to joining the confederacy
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Aug 23, 2023 13:51
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https://www.businessinsider.com/tsmc-phoenix-arizona-chip-factory-taiwan-semiconductor-management-safety-workers-2023-8 Womp womp Imagine tying yourself to a dying empire across the ocean instead of your ascendant brothers and sisters next door
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Aug 23, 2023 13:56
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/tsmc-phoenix-arizona-chip-factory-taiwan-semiconductor-management-safety-workers-2023-8 Lol that, in response to awful project management from bosses & rampant workplace safety problems, the Union's petition isnasking the US govt to deny visas for taiwanese labor.
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Aug 23, 2023 14:06
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw had also adopted plantation agriculture and racial slavery that further aligned with the confederacy. the creek and Seminole had different slavery systems but regardless the pro-southern factions in all the tribes drove out all the pro-union members prior to joining the confederacy wow huh sounds like they were the real racists after all
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Aug 23, 2023 14:15
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It’s pretty obvious that war with Taiwan is being driven by America, and doesn’t reflect Beijing actually doing anything differently, so my question for the Taiwanese compradors would be why declare independence now, to destroy your country as part of DC’s plan to contain China, rather than maintain the status quo? It’s very clear that the timing comes from the US empire being in serious decline with a vanishingly small window to use their remaining military advantage (destroying Taiwan in the process, remember), but there’s no reason why independence, an effective declaration of war, should coincide from a Taiwanese perspective. There was not a sudden media narrative for Macau and Hong Kong to fight to the finish as the Portuguese and British Empires in the orient faded away, and I think, other than those who fled to Vancouver, there was not a feeling that handover was existential unless Thatcher decided it was going to be a military confrontation. Why should this be any different?
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Aug 23, 2023 14:17
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Frosted Flake posted:There was not a sudden media narrative for Macau and Hong Kong to fight to the finish as the Portuguese and British Empires in the orient faded away, and I think, other than those who fled to Vancouver, there was not a feeling that handover was existential unless Thatcher decided it was going to be a military confrontation. Why should this be any different? There was a sudden media narrative for Hong Kong to fight to the finish in 2019 fuckin' lol, they tried to create a pro-democracy movement on the back of an axe murderer fleeing prosecution
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Aug 23, 2023 14:24
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/tsmc-phoenix-arizona-chip-factory-taiwan-semiconductor-management-safety-workers-2023-8 why are they opening chip plants in the area with like no water? lmfao
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