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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

anyway the resolution to the conflict is that madame secretary gets the kumari to endorse a plan to build an observatory in nepal thats also a stealth plan to gently caress with china and this gets nepal the disaster relief they were initially promised wouldnt have any strings at all

if your first thought was wait isnt the kumari a religious figure why would she have influence on state policy the script not only acknowledges this madame secretary gives the kumari a rousing speech about how she should girlboss her way into being an important political figure shes twelve years old and about to retire btw

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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
watch mr sunshine instead for cartoonishly evil japanese villains who speak in a korean accent.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Some Guy TT posted:

anyway the resolution to the conflict is that madame secretary gets the kumari to endorse a plan to build an observatory in nepal thats also a stealth plan to gently caress with china and this gets nepal the disaster relief they were initially promised wouldnt have any strings at all

if your first thought was wait isnt the kumari a religious figure why would she have influence on state policy the script not only acknowledges this madame secretary gives the kumari a rousing speech about how she should girlboss her way into being an important political figure shes twelve years old and about to retire btw

this is just the phantom menace, Disney and/or George should sue

oscarthewilde
May 16, 2012


I would often go there
To the tiny church there

Ardennes posted:

It does make sense in the context of challenging a liberal competitor, and what is the most efficient course of action of how to deal with it. Arguably, in Schmitt's case, the Third Reich was in reality no leviathan, it was completely dominant in appearance, but in reality was a thin façade for German industry. The actual German state were the boards of I.G Farben, Krupp, and Porsche.

in the end, it all crumbles down into 'cuius regio, eius oeconomico'.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

so im reading in my book about this person ai xiaoming whos supposed to be this big feminist icon in china the book claims that in 2013 she protested the arrest of an activist who uncovered sexual abuse at a school in china by asking a grad school student to take a picture of her topless holding a pair of scissors with her body covered in calligraphy protesting government in action and that this picture is one of the best known protests of the past decades

does anyone have any idea what im talking about in regard to any of this also has anyone seen any of her documentaries or know where they can be seen supposedly theyre banned in china but im not finding much evidence of their being on youtube either

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Some Guy TT posted:

madame secretary season 2 episode 4 evil hilary whos russian the dead presidents widow and disingenuously attacks america as being a right wing conspiracy has now provoked the militarization of the state department so among other things the administration is forcing madame secretary to assume that chinas new arctic research station is a cocollaborative russian scheme to steal oil and spy on stuff and win some sort of guinness world record about having the worlds longest cord

meanwhile madame secretary is set to meet the kumari virgin goddess of nepal and this meeting has been rendered highly problematic by the leak of a photo of madame secretarys in bed with the presidents son apparently less because the kumari is offended by the slutty daughter and more because the senate decided to vote down a disaster relief bill for nepal because madame secretary has a slutty daughter

you know i cant help but feel like the problem here is less puritanism and more that our political system seems to incentivize people to act like petty assholes for no reason

hold on, who was in bed with the president's son?

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Oh my god who gives a gently caress

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

activists be protesting war by showing their tits to Putin, who will be humbled by the display into resigning

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
what is this about titties?

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Some Guy TT posted:

anyway the resolution to the conflict is that madame secretary gets the kumari to endorse a plan to build an observatory in nepal thats also a stealth plan to gently caress with china and this gets nepal the disaster relief they were initially promised wouldnt have any strings at all

if your first thought was wait isnt the kumari a religious figure why would she have influence on state policy the script not only acknowledges this madame secretary gives the kumari a rousing speech about how she should girlboss her way into being an important political figure shes twelve years old and about to retire btw

Last time the irl Kumari was on the news was because she was going to go to business school to show how girl boss girls can be.

I genuinely hate the west.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

bedpan posted:

hold on, who was in bed with the president's son?

madame secretarys daughter sorry my bad issued a correction

ughhhh posted:

Last time the irl Kumari was on the news was because she was going to go to business school to show how girl boss girls can be.

I genuinely hate the west.

i knew id heard about the kumari before somewhere but couldnt guess where

is it pronounced kumari or kemari it took me a minute to look up because the show pronounces it like the second one

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

bedpan posted:

hold on, who was in bed with the president's son?

If you follow Chud news, Mrs. Blinken.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

stephenthinkpad posted:

If you follow Chud news, Mrs. Blinken.

so what youre saying is theres a fifty fifty chances hunters actually boinking her

the presidents son plot in madame secretary is genuinely weird because the character is a pretty straightforward mixed up kid whos a recovering drug addict who lost his phone because he doesnt believe in passwords which is to say he sounds exactly like what the media tries to make hunter biden sound like when the dudes old enough to be the father of most of us in the thread and also a gigantic rear end in a top hat if youve ever read any of the messages hes wrote or listened to his voice or heard about literally anything hes ever done aside from being a drug addict

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat

Some Guy TT posted:

so im reading in my book about this person ai xiaoming whos supposed to be this big feminist icon in china the book claims that in 2013 she protested the arrest of an activist who uncovered sexual abuse at a school in china by asking a grad school student to take a picture of her topless holding a pair of scissors with her body covered in calligraphy protesting government in action and that this picture is one of the best known protests of the past decades

does anyone have any idea what im talking about in regard to any of this also has anyone seen any of her documentaries or know where they can be seen supposedly theyre banned in china but im not finding much evidence of their being on youtube either

i too would like to see the pictures

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

When you watch Madam Secretary Season 2 Episode 7 online you'll certainly feel chills thanks to Elizabeth's moving speech. Elizabeth is determined to lift the embargo on Cuba. When she brings her plans to lift the embargo to President Dalton and Russell, they both agree it would be a smart move politically and be historic, but Craig sees it as political suicide. President Dalton gives Elizabeth the go ahead in securing the votes needed to lift the embargo and when she gets all the votes she's ready to celebrate with Russell. Unfortunately, their celebration is cut short when one of the Senators voting for the lifting of the embargo go against his word and instead says he will vote against it because of a woman named Afeni Rahim who supposedly killed a cop years ago and is now living in Cuba. Elizabeth tries to get the Cuban government to hand over Afeni, but they refuse to do so. Elizabeth eventually gets Afeni to turn herself in by promising a fair trial thanks to files proving Afeni's innocence. In the end, the embargo is lifted and Russell does some digging into who leaked the case of Afeni and finds out Craig is behind the whole thing. Russell and Elizabeth agree it's time to take down Craig because he is against the administration.

On Madam Secretary Season 2 Episode 8, Elizabeth and Russell get help from Mike while they try to come up with a plan to take down Craig. Russell decides to try to stroke Craig's ego and make it seem like he wants to take Elizabeth down instead of him. Craig falls for the ruse, but he still maintains his stance about the President and feels like decisions he makes are for the good of the presidency. Russell goes back to Elizabeth and Mike with the information that Craig still hasn't taken the bait.

Mike eventually comes up with a plan to make Craig nervous by having a reporter look into what he was doing while they were trying to lift the embargo on Cuba. Craig starts getting a little nervous, but immediately thinks it's Russell and he goes to Russell's office demanding information on what he is planning on doing. Russell plays stupid and acts like it's all Mike and Elizabeth working together to take Craig down which only makes Craig even more angry and makes him slip up. Craig decides to shred his daily planner which is exactly what Elizabeth and Russell were wanting Craig to do.

The next day, Russell and Elizabeth confront Craig about him trying to block the Cuba agreement and gave him the choice of resigning or being taken away by the cops. Craig decides to resign to avoid embarrassment.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

When the pope is on official business, it is customary for him to send a greeting from the papal aeroplane to the heads of state of the countries he flies over.

As Pope Francis’s plane cruised above China on September 1, en route to Mongolia for the first papal visit in history, the head of the Catholic Church dispatched a telegram to Chinese President Xi Jinping in which he extended well wishes to Xi and the Chinese people.

Below, in the eastern Chinese city of Fuzhou, 58-year-old restaurant owner Theresa Liu was praying for the pope’s safe arrival in Mongolia.

“He is not a young man so I was praying for him to have a smooth journey and arrive in good health,” she told Al Jazeera.

Liu describes herself as a devout Chinese Catholic.

She would have liked to travel to Mongolia as some Chinese Catholics did but the workload at her Sichuan-inspired restaurant in Fuzhou did not allow her to go.

“Besides, I am afraid that a visit [for the purpose of seeing the pope] would get me in trouble with the [Chinese] government,” Liu said.

Two people were allegedly detained by the Chinese authorities for organising a group pilgrimage from China to Mongolia in connection with the pope’s visit.

Another group of Chinese Catholics made up excuses to enter Mongolia for the pope’s visit but were concerned about potential consequences.

According to Liu, pressure is mounting on China’s Catholics who number as many as 10 million people in a country that is officially atheist.

“The government is trying to control everything about our religion – how our churches look, who our priests are, the way we pray,” Liu said.

And she is convinced that it is not just Catholic communities that are feeling the weight of the Chinese party-state.

“I think different religious groups all over China are having trouble with the government.”

Officially, Article 36 in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China guarantees freedom of religion for all Chinese citizens.

“But the constitution is just a piece of paper,” Xi Lian, a professor at Duke Divinity School in the United States whose research centres around China’s modern encounters with Christianity, told Al Jazeera.

“In real life in China, we are not seeing the government respecting freedom of religion.”

In recent years, few have felt this more strongly than the Muslim Uighurs in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.

Muslims in Xinjiang have been detained for attending religious events, praying, wearing a headscarf or having a beard. More than 1 million Uighurs have served time in a detention camp. At the same time, upwards of 16,000 mosques have been damaged or destroyed in Xinjiang since 2017.

South of Xinjiang in Tibet, the authorities have restricted the practice of Tibetan Buddhism over the last decade. Religious festivals have been banned more frequently and government employees, teachers and students have been barred from participating in religious activities.

Tibetan schools have also been closed and the Chinese government has been accused of trying to forcibly assimilate more than 1 million Tibetan children through state-run boarding schools in an attempt to “eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic, cultural and religious traditions”.

The encroachment on religious customs and spaces extends beyond the ethnic minorities in western China.

The Hui are a group of about 11 million Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam scattered over much of China. Hui mosques and cemeteries across China have been demolished or subjected to “renovations” in recent years.

In May, thousands of Hui residents in the village of Najiaying in Yunnan Province reportedly feared that a demolition was under way when they found their mosque closed for noon prayers, guarded by police and surrounded by cranes. The locals and the police clashed and in the days that followed, many were arrested.

“Hui communities have also been prohibited from using the Arabic script on religious sites, religious leaders have been forbidden from addressing certain topics in religious sermons and definitions of halal food derived from religious authorities have been replaced by state definitions,” David Stroup, an expert on the Hui at the University of Manchester, told Al Jazeera.

In 2016, thousands of crosses were torn down from churches throughout Zhejiang Province. The authorities have also broken up congregations that have not been approved by the state, while church leaders have been arrested and jailed.

President Xi Jinping visited Xinjiang in August where he lauded the “achievements made in various tasks in Xinjiang” and urged officials to “more deeply promote the ‘sinicisation’ of Islam”.

Over the years, Xi has regularly called for the “sinicisation” of religion in China.

“However, it is important to note that the ‘sinicisation”‘ of religion has occurred in China for centuries,” said Duke’s Xi.

As different religions have been adopted in China, as in many other countries, they have organically evolved to fit with local traditions, customs and the changing of the times.

But Xi’s sinicisation means something different.

The first time the Chinese leader publicly spoke of it was at a conference in Beijing in 2015, during which he also declared “that the Communist Party could give active guidance to religions so that they could adapt themselves to socialist society, adhere to the direction of sinicised religion, and increase the standard of the regulations controlling religion”.

It was in the years afterwards that crosses were demolished in Zhejiang and the first detention camps were established in Xinjiang.

“The current wave of sinicisation is driven by the party-state as it seeks to change religion in China, so it aligns with the Communist Party’s and Xi Jinping’s interpretation of dominant Chinese culture and socialist core values,” Stroup said.

It manifests in the demolition of domes, crosses and minarets and their replacement by Chinese-styled tiled roofs and Buddhist-styled pagodas. It involves mandatory patriotic education for Buddhist, Christian and Muslim clergy and it entails party-approved sermons and prayers.

For those religious communities that recognise a religious authority beyond China’s borders, sinicisation is also about weakening ties to such an authority to protect the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“The communist god is a jealous god that does not want anyone to compete with its power,” said Duke’s Xi.

As an example, the Tibetan Buddhist leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, continues to be portrayed as a separatist by the CCP and the Chinese authorities have tried to discredit and isolate him internationally.

The pope has also had his religious authority undermined in China.

After decades of Catholic division in China. between an underground flock loyal to the Pope and a state-backed official church, the Vatican the CCP agreed to a landmark bilateral pact in 2018 by which both sides would recognise the pope as the supreme leader of the Catholic Church.

However, the Vatican accused the Chinese authorities of violating the pact in April by unilaterally appointing a new bishop for Shanghai even after it had been agreed that the final decision in appointing bishops lay with the pope.

Analysts say it is politically naive if the Vatican believes it can make a deal with Beijing that would grant the Catholic Church increased religious autonomy.

“And it shows an inability to read the political landscape in China,” Xi said.

When Liu, who preferred not to share her real name for fear of reprisals, reads the political landscape in China, she sees the country headed towards increased religious intolerance.

This saddens her but she was comforted by the fact that on his last day in Mongolia, the pope sent a message to Chinese Catholics.

“It is good that he remembers us,” she said.

Liu is part of the sizeable Catholic community that recognises the authority of the pope and refuses to let the Chinese authorities intervene in their religious affairs.

She does not support the 2018 pact and is against the Vatican’s attempts at working with the CCP.

“The Chinese government does not respect any other authority than their own, so I don’t think they will follow any such agreements.”

While Liu believes there was a time in the mid-2000s when it seemed they could be “be more open about our faith”, that is no longer the case.

“Just before the pandemic my congregation and I went underground again,” she said.

Stroup believes that most Hui communities will respond to Xi’s sinicisation programme by similarly keeping their heads down and trying to weather the storm the best they can.

“Although we do see people who are willing to protest bulldozers knocking down minarets, for example, I don’t expect that we will see months of resistance,” he said.

Liu thinks defiance and sporadic acts of protest will only make things worse.

Instead, she believes it is better to be discreet and keep religious affairs behind closed doors.

“If you are patient in the dark, you will eventually get to see the light.”

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

1stGear posted:

isn't questioning family pretty standard in any criminal investigation

Good news for cop-loving people in CSPAM seeking compatriots in their cop-lovingness - The SomethingAwful Forums poster going by the nom de guerre 1stGear also loves cops.

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Good news for General Secretary Xi Jin Ping - In the golden autumn, General Secretary Xi Jinping had a great time in Zhejiang and Shandong before returning to Beijing.


https://china.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202309/26/WS65123139a310936092f239ea.html

时政微纪录丨习近平总书记浙鲁行
总书记的一周(9月18日—9月24日) 习近平考察枣庄石榴种植园 遇见习近平|九年过去了,他竟然还记得我 始终干在实处 走在前列 勇立潮头

金秋时节,习近平总书记赴浙江,出席杭州第十九届亚洲运动会开幕式,举行系列外事活动,并开启今年第10次国内考察,返京途中在山东枣庄考察。

20日上午,习近平来到金华市义乌市后宅街道李祖村考察调研,了解李祖村发展变化情况,指出,乡亲们要努力奋斗,一起奔向共同富裕的美好明天。随后,习近平来到义乌国际商贸城,了解商贸城运营及“义新欧”班列运行情况,同商户、小企业主代表亲切交流,详细询问市场行情。




20日下午,习近平来到“枫桥经验”发源地诸暨市枫桥镇,参观枫桥经验陈列馆,了解新时代“枫桥经验”的生动实践,指出,要坚持好、发展好新时代“枫桥经验”。随后,习近平乘车来到位于绍兴的浙东运河文化园,步行察看古运河河道和周边历史文化遗存,了解当地合理利用水资源、推进大运河保护等情况。




21日下午,习近平听取了浙江省委和省政府工作汇报,他强调,始终干在实处、走在前列、勇立潮头,奋力谱写中国式现代化浙江新篇章。

22日下午,习近平分别会见来华出席第十九届亚洲运动会开幕式的叙利亚总统巴沙尔、科威特王储米沙勒、亚洲奥林匹克理事会代理主席辛格、国际奥林匹克委员会主席巴赫。


23日中午,习近平和夫人彭丽媛在杭州西子宾馆举行宴会,欢迎来华出席杭州第十九届亚洲运动会开幕式的国际贵宾。宴会前后,习近平分别会见了来华出席第十九届亚洲运动会开幕式的柬埔寨国王西哈莫尼、尼泊尔总理普拉昌达、东帝汶总理夏纳纳、韩国总理韩德洙。

23日晚,习近平出席第十九届亚洲运动会开幕式,并宣布本届亚运会开幕。




24日下午,在返京途中,习近平来到山东枣庄市考察,在位于峄城区的冠世榴园石榴种质资源库,习近平察看石榴树种,询问今年石榴种植、收获和收入等情况,祝乡亲们生活像石榴果一样红红火火。

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fizzy has issued a correction as of 05:25 on Sep 26, 2023

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Some Guy TT posted:

so im reading in my book about this person ai xiaoming

AI Xiaomi??

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?

1stGear posted:

isn't questioning family pretty standard in any criminal investigation

knowing EXACTLY where they live in my country where they are in a major metropolis and have made no efforts to hide themselves

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

mawarannahr posted:

AI Xiaomi??

this is just one of many reasons its impossible to search for any useful information on this person in english lol

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Bad news for China - China’s position on the war in Ukraine is hurting its global image as an investment destination


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/eu-trade-chief-warns-china-s-stance-on-ukraine-is-hurting-trade?embedded-checkout=true

EU Trade Chief Says China’s Ukraine Stance Hurting Its Image
By Bloomberg News
September 26, 2023 at 9:35 AM GMT+8
Updated on September 26, 2023 at 3:49 PM GMT+8

The European Union’s chief trade negotiator warned that China’s position on the war in Ukraine is hurting its global image as an investment destination, as he completed a high-stakes trip to the Asian powerhouse.

Valdis Dombrovskis, an executive vice president at the European Commission, issued some of the bloc’s strongest attacks yet on President Xi Jinping’s foreign policy at a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday, wrapping up a four-day trip to the country.

Tensions between Brussels and Beijing flared this month after the EU announced a probe into China’s electric-car subsidies, a move that risked destabilizing a relationship involving more than $900 billion in bilateral commerce.

The EU official defended that decision in China saying the bloc need to be more “assertive” in protecting its interests when trading with the world’s second-largest economy. China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng expressed “strong concern and dissatisfaction” over the EV investigation on Monday, after emerging from talks with his European counterpart.

Despite those tensions, China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement the two sides had reached a range of agreements in other areas, including to establish a communication mechanism for export controls. That mirrored a similar group the US and China recently agreed to establish.

The two sides also agreed to improve relations in their financial industries, speed up market access for EU agricultural products and strengthen cooperation between securities and futures regulatory authorities, without providing details on the measures. Major areas of dispute such as access to government procurement for EU companies, China’s subsidies for its burgeoning EV market and the rapidly growing trade deficit were left on the table.

The bloc’s decision to push back against Beijing’s growing EV prowess comes as the Asian giant’s economy loses steam and faces increasing pressure from the US. Xi has courted the EU as a counter to US challenges, even as the bloc joins Washington’s call to de-risk from China.

The talks took place under the the EU-China “High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue” — a major forum for senior officials to discuss issues relating to macroeconomics, trade irritants, supply chains and financial services. It could be a stepping stone for a summit between Xi and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen later this year.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️
huh i cant hear you over the sound of collapsing euro automakers

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

“However, the Vatican accused the Chinese authorities of violating the pact in April by unilaterally appointing a new bishop for Shanghai even after it had been agreed that the final decision in appointing bishops lay with the pope.”

I think it’s cool that China is having an Investiture Controversy. If anything, it proves they are a worthy successor to the Holy Roman Empire.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Why the gently caress is the EU trade official talking about Ukraine? Are all those motherfuckers auditioning for the Jen Stoltenberg job?

And, yeah China is secreting helping Russia, but officially China haven't sent Russia any weapon. China is the only country in the P5 who hasn't sent weapon. How are you having the gall of accusing China?


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On a completely different note. Regarding the Sino-EU EV dispute, it ultimately comes down to EU industries have no source to cheap energy anymore. They can't make battery for cheap even if they have the technology, and right now they are far away from having cutting edge battery, self driving technologies.

They want to block Chinese EV entering EU? fine, probably can only block civilian cars for a while, EV bus still get wiped by BYD. Outside of EU market they are not nearly as competitive. The only solution is building the Germany EV factories in China for the oversea market. I think these EU bureaucrats just haven't realized how bad a hand they have. Maybe they shouldn't have lean so hard on the new energy transition to begin with? Nobody forced them to do it, certainly not the Chinese.

stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:26 on Sep 26, 2023

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
how similar is the PRC's arrangement with the Catholic church to the civil constitution of the clergy in revolutionary France?

(I would assume not very, but I'm trying to come up with a graspable analogy)

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

gradenko_2000 posted:

how similar is the PRC's arrangement with the Catholic church to the civil constitution of the clergy in revolutionary France?

(I would assume not very, but I'm trying to come up with a graspable analogy)

Because of Chinese Rites you mean?

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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stephenthinkpad posted:

Why the gently caress is the EU trade official talking about Ukraine? Are all those motherfuckers auditioning for the Jen Stoltenberg job?

And, yeah China is secreting helping Russia, but officially China haven't sent Russia any weapon. China is the only country in the P5 who hasn't sent weapon. How are you having the gall of accusing China?


------------------------

On a completely different note. Regarding the Sino-EU EV dispute, it ultimately comes down to EU industries have no source to cheap energy anymore. They can't make battery for cheap even if they have the technology, and right now they are far away from having cutting edge battery, self driving technologies.

They want to block Chinese EV entering EU? fine, probably can only block civilian cars for a while, EV bus still get wiped by BYD. Outside of EU market they are not nearly as competitive. The only solution is building the Germany EV factories in China for the oversea market. I think these EU bureaucrats just haven't realized how bad a hand they have. Maybe they shouldn't have lean so hard on the new energy transition to begin with? Nobody forced them to do it, certainly not the Chinese.

these brilliant geopolitical minds really believe china would collapse in an instance if they cut off access to prada and rolex

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Incredible messaging happening on chinas chip market, on one point you have US representatives saying that china cannot mass manufacture chips and a day later saying china is about to flood the markets with low cost subsidized chips killing local manufacturers in europe and other parts of asia.

https://www.eetimes.com/china-gears-up-for-chip-dumping-ex-doc-official-says/

Cao Ni Ma has issued a correction as of 14:15 on Sep 26, 2023

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Incredible messaging happening on chinas chip market, on one point you have US representatives saying that china cannot mass manufacture chips and a day later saying china is about to flood the markets with low cost subsidized chips killing local manufacturers in europe and other parts of asia.

https://www.eetimes.com/china-gears-up-for-chip-dumping-ex-doc-official-says/

lol i love how the US government "funds research" and "invests in development and industry" but china "manipulates prices" and "distorts markets" with huge state subsidies

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

crepeface posted:

lol i love how the US government "funds research" and "invests in development and industry" but china "manipulates prices" and "distorts markets" with huge state subsidies

the state making trains run on time: fascist, unacceptable even if as a liberal you secretly admire the efficiency

the state making a whole railroad: authoritarianism. unacceptable and unenviable

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

crepeface posted:

lol i love how the US government "funds research" and "invests in development and industry" but china "manipulates prices" and "distorts markets" with huge state subsidies

huawei is an organ of the chinese government

boeing is a private company

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

huawei is an organ of the chinese government

boeing is a private company

as god (white) intended

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Boeing sounds totalitarian.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

lol

this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006

stephenthinkpad posted:

Why the gently caress is the EU trade official talking about Ukraine? Are all those motherfuckers auditioning for the Jen Stoltenberg job?

And, yeah China is secreting helping Russia, but officially China haven't sent Russia any weapon. China is the only country in the P5 who hasn't sent weapon. How are you having the gall of accusing China?


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On a completely different note. Regarding the Sino-EU EV dispute, it ultimately comes down to EU industries have no source to cheap energy anymore. They can't make battery for cheap even if they have the technology, and right now they are far away from having cutting edge battery, self driving technologies.

They want to block Chinese EV entering EU? fine, probably can only block civilian cars for a while, EV bus still get wiped by BYD. Outside of EU market they are not nearly as competitive. The only solution is building the Germany EV factories in China for the oversea market. I think these EU bureaucrats just haven't realized how bad a hand they have. Maybe they shouldn't have lean so hard on the new energy transition to begin with? Nobody forced them to do it, certainly not the Chinese.

if the eu wants cheap energy they should consider buying some cheap solar panels and modular reactors from china

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Some Guy TT posted:

anyway the resolution to the conflict is that madame secretary gets the kumari to endorse a plan to build an observatory in nepal thats also a stealth plan to gently caress with china and this gets nepal the disaster relief they were initially promised wouldnt have any strings at all

if your first thought was wait isnt the kumari a religious figure why would she have influence on state policy the script not only acknowledges this madame secretary gives the kumari a rousing speech about how she should girlboss her way into being an important political figure shes twelve years old and about to retire btw

thought you were talking about qumar and had a moment of horror at thinking there's some west wing cinematic universe festering out there

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

Frosted Flake posted:

“However, the Vatican accused the Chinese authorities of violating the pact in April by unilaterally appointing a new bishop for Shanghai even after it had been agreed that the final decision in appointing bishops lay with the pope.”

I think it’s cool that China is having an Investiture Controversy. If anything, it proves they are a worthy successor to the Holy Roman Empire.
Hoping for an anti-pope in Shanghai by 2030.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010


are these the same economists who say biden has the greatest economy ever

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Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

what would president bartlett do about an ascendant china?

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