[Asia/Oceania] Yellen says she hopes China wont mount retaliation against any steps Washington takes

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Soapy_Bumslap: Jun 19, 2013; We're gonna need a bigger chode; Grimey Drawer

GlassEye-Boy posted:

CNBC host has a brain aneurysm at the thought that growth in China is not linked to the stock market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RpWMzWz1M

lol he's squirming with fear at the idea of not needing number go up

# ? Feb 10, 2024 02:08

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# ? May 26, 2024 04:26

Danann: Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1755682719735157070

another one banging the horrors of deflation in food

# ? Feb 10, 2024 04:14

Horseshoe theory: Mar 7, 2005

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1755682719735157070

another one banging the horrors of deflation in food

Oh no, not having to spend less on necessary living expenses! Anyway...

# ? Feb 10, 2024 04:15

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

western media keeps putting out these horrifying articles that make me think i should move to China.

# ? Feb 10, 2024 04:46

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1755682719735157070

another one banging the horrors of deflation in food

Even this twitter poster (who if they are who I am thinking of is usually pretty good) is falling into the same trap. Prices going up doesn't increase consumption! It increases the dollar value of what is consumed.

# ? Feb 10, 2024 04:57

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Goon project

uber_stoat posted:

move to China.

# ? Feb 10, 2024 04:58

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/Jingjing_Li/status/1755897933307027548?t=ahqwIOBJOeOCbFhhvlGYaw&s=19

Oh poo poo I gotta plan a trip to Haikou now

# ? Feb 10, 2024 09:51

Votskomit: Jun 26, 2013

Why would you exclude south Africa, what is BRICS for?

# ? Feb 10, 2024 10:29

Flournival Dixon: Jan 29, 2024

is there anything interesting in haikou or is it just hawaii but in china

if i wanted to go to hawaii i'd just go to hawaii and save a thousand bucks on flight cost

# ? Feb 10, 2024 10:33

Iriscoral: Apr 9, 2023; 为人民服务

Flournival Dixon posted:

is there anything interesting in haikou or is it just hawaii but in china

if i wanted to go to hawaii i'd just go to hawaii and save a thousand bucks on flight cost

Space tourism. The Wenchang Space Launch Center is on the eastern southern end of Hainan, and its responsible for launching the Long March 5 rockets, which carry the big ticket payloads. Its also going to be launching the future Long March 9/10s, and also has an upcoming commerical launch center as well.

# ? Feb 10, 2024 10:45

Gildiss: Aug 24, 2010; Grimey Drawer

Iriscoral posted:

Space tourism. The Wenchang Space Launch Center is on the eastern southern end of Hainan, and its responsible for launching the Long March 5 rockets, which carry the big ticket payloads. Its also going to be launching the future Long March 9/10s, and also has an upcoming commerical launch center as well.

Oh no, it's not Chinese Hawaii...
It's Chinese Cape Canaveral...

# ? Feb 10, 2024 10:51

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Gildiss posted:

Oh no, it's not Chinese Hawaii...
It's Chinese Cape Canaveral...

That's it! Back to Australian Winnipeg!

# ? Feb 10, 2024 11:11

Danann: Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

:china:

# ? Feb 11, 2024 06:46

lumpentroll: Mar 4, 2020

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

# ? Feb 11, 2024 06:47

crepeface: Nov 5, 2004; r*p*f*c*

but throwing the grenade with those sleeves made me clench up

# ? Feb 11, 2024 08:10

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

it�s got to be a training grenade, which is basically just a firecracker in a metal grenade shaped case. But yeah that form was not ideal.

# ? Feb 11, 2024 08:18

stephenthinkpad: Jan 2, 2020

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

Lol is there a tank crying emoticon?

# ? Feb 11, 2024 10:41

Lord of Pie: Mar 2, 2007

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1755682719735157070

another one banging the horrors of deflation in food

number... go down?

# ? Feb 11, 2024 16:23

PhilippAchtel: May 31, 2011

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

New waifu dropped

# ? Feb 11, 2024 16:45

Eminent DNS: May 28, 2007

Votskomit posted:

Why would you exclude south Africa, what is BRICS for?

The main factor is almost certainly just the (perceived, maybe) risk of visa overstays

# ? Feb 11, 2024 19:06

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

What the heck is that giant Russian quad bike / ATV?

# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:38

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

Weka posted:

What the heck is that giant Russian quad bike / ATV?

It is a giant Russian quad bike/atv, hth

# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:51

Votskomit: Jun 26, 2013

Eminent DNS posted:

The main factor is almost certainly just the (perceived, maybe) risk of visa overstays

I would never!

# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:56

comedyblissoption: Mar 15, 2006

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

# ? Feb 11, 2024 21:00

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

it looks like she throws the grenade like 2 m

# ? Feb 12, 2024 00:56

Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

Jel Shaker posted:

it looks like she throws the grenade like 2 m

Looks like she's getting recycled to an earlier training week

# ? Feb 12, 2024 01:01

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Looks like she's getting recycled into field rations

# ? Feb 12, 2024 04:57

crepeface: Nov 5, 2004; r*p*f*c*

interesting video on shanghai's carbon market. i never knew (or even thought about) them having a market. curious about the repercussions of trading them though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bt4GnRkkCM

# ? Feb 12, 2024 05:27

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Slavvy posted:

It is a giant Russian quad bike/atv, hth

Cheers bro

# ? Feb 12, 2024 05:33

my_custom_username: Nov 30, 2023; Can't post for 3 minutes!

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

# ? Feb 12, 2024 05:41

Al-Saqr: Nov 11, 2007; One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

is it actually possible for me as a tourist to do anything in this video? if so I'm boarding the first flight out.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 05:43

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Al-Saqr posted:

is it actually possible for me as a tourist to do anything in this video? if so I'm boarding the first flight out.

You will have to work on your flounce

# ? Feb 12, 2024 06:16

Gildiss: Aug 24, 2010; Grimey Drawer

Yoon offers no apology for first lady�s Dior bag scandal, instead calls it �political operation�

S. Korea-US ties will stay on course regardless of who wins White House, says Yoon

Going to be very interesting to see what Trump makes of Yoon.

Meanwhile, the real belligerent side reveals itself.

Behind bellicose bluster, N. Korea is turning airfields into greenhouse farms

quote:

First, there were the predictions of a �spring crisis� that floated around South Korea like specters. The speculation was that South Korea might create a crisis to be used for political ends. Lending weight to these predictions were the actions of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, which was thrusting inter-Korean relations deeper into an emergency with strong shows of antagonism toward the North.

Previously, the administration had included a passage in its first defense white paper in February 2023 stating that �the North Korean regime and military are our enemy.� The crisis predictions were bolstered further by its suspension of the comprehensive military agreement reached by the two sides on Sept. 19, 2018.

To make matters worse, National Defense Minister Shin Won-sik�s threats of �swift, forceful and definitive� action if North Korea further provokes South Korea, and military leaders� support of such claims, have heightened tensions even further.

Fears that South Korea�s leadership in Yongsan will touch off a crisis have been adding to concern that spring winds may bring crisis to the Korean Peninsula.

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So, is North Korea really serious about war? While it may seem like a non sequitur, in order to find an answer to that question we should take a look at certain facilities the North has been enthusiastically building: greenhouse farms.

In 2015, the Jangchon Vegetable Co-op Farm was built in Pyongyang. It is a massive greenhouse complex with 665 greenhouses on an area of about 684,000 square meters, where the North uses soil and hydroponic growing methods to cultivate tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and more.

To support the application of scientific methods in vegetable farming, the farm is equipped with a complete greenhouse monitoring system that allows farmers to control the temperature and humidity of the greenhouses. Some greenhouses are also equipped with solar water heaters and nanomaterial decomposers.

This is why the North is touting this facility as a fitting example of the construction of a new socialist countryside.

While it is impossible to completely verify this claim, North Korea seems to be pleased with the achievements brought by the greenhouse. Since then, larger, more technologically advanced smart farm complexes have been built in areas outside of Pyongyang.

The Jungphyong Vegetable Greenhouse Farm, which has 320 greenhouses, was built in North Hamgyong Province in 2019, and Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm, which boasts 852 greenhouses, was built in South Hamgyong Province in 2022.

Ground was broken for a farm of an even bigger scale dubbed the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm, on the outskirts of Pyongyang in early 2023.

Out of all of those co-op farms, Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm is said to have greenhouses that have been modernized, intensified, and industrialized on 280 hectares.

One can use Google Earth to see the large greenhouse complex at coordinates 39�47�33.3�N latitude and 127�31�59.1�E. If we are to estimate the size of the complex by examining the Google Earth satellite images, we can say that it is approximately 2.64 square kilometers (1.43 km � 1.85 km, 264 hectares), which is close to the number that North Korea uses to describe the site: 280 hectares (278 acres).

This demonstrates that the greenhouse complex is substantially large, at almost the size of Seoul�s Yeouido business district, putting it on a qualitatively different level from the past greenhouses built in North Korea, when South Korean support organizations provided all the materials needed for their construction, such as plastic sheeting.

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Furthermore, the fact that North Korea is demolishing its air force airfields one by one to make way for more greenhouse complexes can hardly be seen as preparation for reunification through war.

Kim is making these threats so that South Korea won�t mess with North Korea. As of now, he wants to focus on making economic progress, but if the Yoon Suk-yeol administration dares to start provoking him, he will not hesitate to retaliate mercilessly.

Korean relations are the relations �between two states hostile to each other,� and since the North no longer considers the South to be their countrymen, they will have no qualms resorting to use of nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the view that North Korea will instigate war is the same as the view that South Korea will be the one to take the first step toward war.

Gildiss has issued a correction as of 07:57 on Feb 12, 2024

# ? Feb 12, 2024 07:49

stephenthinkpad: Jan 2, 2020

Al-Saqr posted:

is it actually possible for me as a tourist to do anything in this video? if so I'm boarding the first flight out.

You have to have your Genshen cosplay outfit.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 07:51

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

DPRK ftw

# ? Feb 12, 2024 07:52

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Communism is when too much food.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 08:09

Gildiss: Aug 24, 2010; Grimey Drawer

Also, Korean doctors are planning on striking this week because...

Korea to hike med school admissions with hope of adding 10,000 doctors by 2035

They want to artificially restrict the number of doctors in the country.
Keep in mind, this does not prevent in any way the funnel of med school -> gangnam plastic surgery clinic which is soaking up a large percent of new doctors anyway.
The petit boug are aflame.

quote:

The move to begin admitting an additional 2,000 med students starting next year has been met with opposition from physicians groups like the Korean Medical Association, which has announced plans for a general strike

South Korea plans to add 10,000 physicians to its workforce by increasing the nationwide medical school admission cap by 2,000 as of this year�s entrance examination. This upper limit will be kept in place for five years.

This is to be the first increase in the medical college admission cap in 27 years, the last coming in 1998, when Jeju National University established its medical school.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 08:18

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1755682719735157070

another one banging the horrors of deflation in food

Paying less for my meals is truly a terrifying prospect. Please save me USA, I wish to pay a minimum of $30 per hamburger.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 08:55

DancingShade: Jul 26, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1756151997571690585

That's how you do it. I'd say "take notes western propaganda authors" but they're probably nose deep in bathroom flour and thus insensible.

# ? Feb 12, 2024 08:58

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# ? May 26, 2024 04:26

Peggotty: May 9, 2014

DancingShade posted:

Paying less for my meals is truly a terrifying prospect. Please save me USA, I wish to pay a minimum of $30 per hamburger.

How are you even supposed to force your people into horrifying work conditions if you don't make them spend 110% of their income on rent and food? smh

# ? Feb 12, 2024 11:45

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