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Huh, Russian fella's outfit is kinda off for some reason. Korean dude just looked like my conception of a salaryman, but is alright. Say, how much does China restrict its own trade with the DPRK to keep the heat off themselves? I'd imagine eventually we'll have so little left to throw at them it wouldn't be a bad idea to eventually have them join BRICS+? Actually it's strange we haven't seemed to have had even one news cycle focused on them in a while.
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Sep 8, 2023 23:18
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https://twitter.com/Hezbolsonaro/status/1700271041833296088
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Sep 8, 2023 23:41
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Orange Devil posted:So I've watched the first 15 episodes of this show. It's real good, solid recommend. It's fully on YouTube with English subs which are mostly good. Theh keep translating socialist as social democrat though whichnis the only thing that sucks. What's the show called
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Sep 8, 2023 23:58
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https://twitter.com/venanalysis/status/1700194769740214540?s=20
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Sep 9, 2023 00:06
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Lol, they appointed Modi's big backer's son as the president of the Indian cricket association. they did that a while ago. gradenko_2000 posted:That's a different BCCI from the CIA slush fund bank, right It was awkward when I heard about the spoopy bank for the first time.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:11
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mila kunis posted:are most non-iphones in china still using android? does china have any plans to mitigate that and use a home grown os I think theirs is called harmony OS
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Sep 9, 2023 00:26
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Huawei's custom android ROM is called Harmony OS. Which they had to make due to sanctions. Others can just use the more vanilla google version of Android.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:29
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Lostconfused posted:Huawei's custom android ROM is called Harmony OS. Which they had to make due to sanctions. ty. not knowing anything about it id assume what they’re doing is slowly replacing components with their own homegrown bits until it’s functionally different than android. but idk
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Sep 9, 2023 00:41
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https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1699863888014025001?t=yq3KA9bLtVDJQcuauETQww&s=19
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Sep 9, 2023 01:05
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Good
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Sep 9, 2023 01:18
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What's the point of spreading misinformation? It is not like the US voters can vote for Sanders.
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Sep 9, 2023 01:21
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Idk if it will stick but if Biden loses I guess liberal media will rerun Russiagate as Chinese AI. Seems too unbelievable
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Sep 9, 2023 01:21
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the vile chinese mind controlled the russians into spreading disinformation
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Sep 9, 2023 01:28
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The evil Chinese, attempting to "provoke discussion," a thing that is bad and insidious Also "suspected" doing a lot of work
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Sep 9, 2023 01:29
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the reddit is coming from inside the reddit lies account
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Sep 9, 2023 02:00
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stephenthinkpad posted:What's the point of spreading misinformation? It is not like the US voters can vote for Sanders. I don't think there is a single politician that China could target to be elected, that would cool the figurative temperature in the Pacific
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Sep 9, 2023 02:05
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Danann posted:the reddit is coming from inside the reddit lies account daily reminder 10K american troops can't even sit still on a airport waiting to leave without doing war crimes on the side
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Sep 9, 2023 02:28
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airports are boring
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Sep 9, 2023 02:30
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Lostconfused posted:(from t.me/rusjuche/6169, via tgsa) the gorbachev cosplay is p good, but that ho chi minh one really needs some work Ytlaya posted:The evil Chinese, attempting to "provoke discussion," a thing that is bad and insidious not only are they trying to provoke discussion but provoke discussion during election season, and everybody knows that it's vital to democracy to shut down all debate then
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Sep 9, 2023 02:45
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Cerebral Bore posted:the gorbachev cosplay is p good, but that ho chi minh one really needs some work electoralism is the best governance system ever invented, so its only logical we have protect because it will crumble when it meets a stiff breeze
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Sep 9, 2023 02:48
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https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1699849835883688121?t=yScDT78J8QSyq8xLPVroJQ&s=19 lol $200 billion of damage with a lil poke
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Sep 9, 2023 02:49
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In Training posted:Idk if it will stick but if Biden loses I guess liberal media will rerun Russiagate as Chinese AI. Seems too unbelievable maybe he can do policies the people want and like but that's authoritarianism
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Sep 9, 2023 03:01
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1699849835883688121?t=yScDT78J8QSyq8xLPVroJQ&s=19 market cap is just made up it’s not real money it doesn’t represent anything tangible whats that? all the underlying tangible things are actually in China? well gently caress
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Sep 9, 2023 03:16
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1699849835883688121?t=yScDT78J8QSyq8xLPVroJQ&s=19 drat the Chinese government buys a lot more iPhones than I’d have guessed
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Sep 9, 2023 03:21
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Lmao oh no poor apple and its share holders
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Sep 9, 2023 03:25
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Apple still has 10% of China marketshare they can lose. Edit, actually 22% per OS breakdown, that's alot higher than I thought. iOS only has 4% in India.
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Sep 9, 2023 03:37
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is 22% of chinas market a big deal?
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Sep 9, 2023 03:38
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fart simpson posted:is 22% of chinas market a big deal? probably the same size as the entire US smartphone market tbh
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Sep 9, 2023 03:39
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The Chinese novelist and blogger Yang Hengjun got arrested in Guangzhou a little more than four years ago. Hengjun has lived a good part of his life in Australia, and has gained the sympathy and support of parts of that nation’s legal and political classes for his bold anti-authoritarian stance. But, during a trip in 2019 that would have ended with him back in Australia had he not been a dissident, police arrested the writer for espionage—an ambiguously defined charge that Hengjun and his supporters in Australia vehemently deny. As reported in The Guardian and elsewhere, Hengjun has repeatedly spoken out against his detention since 2019. He claims that his jailers have interrogated him some 300 times and subjected him to torture. Given the communist regime’s richly documented human rights record, it’s not hard to believe. In recent days, Hengjun’s health has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Reports have emerged of a cyst on his kidney. If true, this is a grave condition for which Hengjun cannot receive the expert and intensive care he needs while rotting in a jail on the mainland. Though the cyst is ten centimeters and potentially fatal, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reportedly gotten nowhere in his efforts to prod the regime of Xi Jinping to release Hengjun or at least alter the terms of his confinement to make treatment viable. Where do the leading advocates for the rights of writers and intellectuals stand on Hengjun’s appalling mistreatment? PEN America took a bold stance on the plight of this author—in 2020. The organization acknowledged that the charge of espionage against the writer was bogus and that Beijing was stepping up its persecution of those who dared speak and write and publish freely, without regard for state-enforced diktats. But run a search for “Yang Hengjun” on the PEN America website, and you will find nothing since the October 2020 statement. Never mind that, over the intervening years, Hengjun’s status has long ceased to be classifiable as mere pre-trial detention (if it ever was), he has complained often of constant interrogation and torture, and now his health has taken this horrific turn. PEN America is a sunshine soldier on the issue of freedom of speech. It is ever willing to take a stand on behalf of Salman Rushdie, a left-leaning author who in past years delighted in bashing Ronald Reagan. Or to call attention to the plight of writers and journalists in such patriarchal states as Egypt and Yemen. But China’s regime is a bad actor that conservatives and hawks in the U.S. government rightly loathe, and the last thing that a progressive organization wants is to be in their company or to incur the stigma of appearing to agree with them, however coincidentally, on even a single issue. PEN America’s silence on the latest turn in the fortunes of Yang Hengjun is of a piece with its failure to take a public stand since 2015 on behalf of French author Michel Houellebecq, who has had to move abroad and had to cancel appearances and readings when people who do not like his politically incorrect take on things threatened his life. (Even to say that the outfit stood up for him is a gross exaggeration. When PEN mentioned Houellebecq at all, it was in the context of a piece decrying the jihadist attack on the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo. And, even then, Houellebecq got only an incidental reference in the fourth-to-last graph.) Houellebecq is politically incorrect on the subject of France’s and Europe’s demographic makeover, and especially on the subject of contemporary feminism. Hence a hip progressive organization wants nothing to do with him, no matter how much his plight may exemplify the frayed status of creative and intellectual liberty in our world. And the July 2021 death of author and crime reporter Peter de Vries, at the hands of reputed associates of a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organization he helped prosecute, got a mere three sentences in a terse statement from PEN’s senior director of free expression programs. Beijing’s mistreatment of Yang Hengjun is, as they say, shocking but not surprising. A regime that an independent counsel in London in 2021 found to be pursuing nothing less than a campaign of genocide against the Uyghurs of western China is unlikely to have a very distinguished record on freedom of speech and of the press and the rights of authors who dare to share their unfiltered thoughts with the world. Much like progressives in the West who tend to smear those they disagree with as “white nationalists,” the communist authorities have long relied on ill-defined statutes, such as the national security law imposed in June 2020, to arrest and detain dissidents like Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai. What is contemptible is the moral cowardice of those in the West who are quick to stick their chest out and brag to the world about their progressive bona fides. BlackRock, the New York-based asset manager with an ESG bent and a cool $8.6 trillion in assets under management, came under fire from a congressional committee last month for having invested more than $429 million in companies with ties to Beijing’s military and espionage programs. Who is chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party? That would be Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin. Yes, Wisconsin. A flyover state that has given us such unfashionable writers as Hamlin Garland, August Derleth, Thornton Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the late Peter Straub, to name just a handful. A place whose values are antithetical to those of anyone you are likely to meet at a PEN America conference. Hence the silence of progressives on an urgent issue they profess to care about, the right of authors to speak out against repression and assert their most fundamental liberties.
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Sep 9, 2023 03:41
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australia can trade that Chinese scammer fake "Chinese security officer" Wang Liqiang they used to affect Taiwanese election to their precious NED funded dissident. Also try to fark out some words for Assange while you are at it. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 03:49 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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Sep 9, 2023 03:47
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Some Guy TT posted:Reports have emerged of a cyst on his kidney. If true, this is a grave condition for which Hengjun cannot receive the expert and intensive care he needs while rotting in a jail on the mainland. loving “reports have emerged”, lmao.
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Sep 9, 2023 06:42
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Adam Tooze has done a deep dive on whether it’s true that authoritarianism in China is a ticking time bomb and a source of bad policy, and concluded that no it’s not. Good read if a long one. Part 1: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/whither-china-part-i-regime-impasse Part 2: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-whither-china-part-ii-posen Part 3: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/whither-china-part-iii-policy-hubris Part 4: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/whither-china-4-zero-covid-myths
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Sep 9, 2023 07:41
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https://twitter.com/specializedtooI/status/1700172505569427774?s=20
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Sep 9, 2023 07:48
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Feral Integral posted:What's the show called Like a Flowing River
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Sep 9, 2023 07:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't think there is a single politician that China could target to be elected, that would cool the figurative temperature in the Pacific Can’t find one to cool the literal temperature either.
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Sep 9, 2023 07:59
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https://twitter.com/dimi/status/1700224041271886038?s=46
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Sep 9, 2023 09:35
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i feel like that one would fit better in the why the us will lose ww3 thread
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Sep 9, 2023 09:36
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They keep dumbing down this war game expertise level I hope I can buy a box set eventually. Or license it to Tencent to make a phone game.
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Sep 9, 2023 09:42
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stephenthinkpad posted:They keep dumbing down this war game expertise level I hope I can buy a box set eventually. ender's game but it's a Roblox mod
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Sep 9, 2023 10:04
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stephenthinkpad posted:Apple still has 10% of China marketshare they can lose. we love buying chinees phone.
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Sep 9, 2023 10:19
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