Benagain posted:

Please let's talk about the way more interesting China vs USSR in 1987

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It's fascinating how Chinese analysts always see everything as competition between various imperial centres. It has zero ability to consider countries outside of Russia, China and the US as anything but subjects to be conquered or controlled. It's not a great method for analyzing European policy, being made up of dozens of smaller states.

Russian natural resources and security guarantees (which history has shown to be worth absolutely nothing) would come at the cost of a complete loss of autonomy and sovereignty. I don't think Germany or France would get much out of becoming Belarus 2.0.

Stating that the US isn't a good friend of Europe because it provokes military conflicts in Europe is also surprisingly stupid, considering the article is written in the context of a Russian invasion for the sake of territorial conquest, in Europe.

Just shows how off the mark China is regarding Europe, no understanding of European interests at all.

Danann posted:

"i could've been bourgeois instead of being a prole if only fate hadn't intervened!"

Benagain posted:

Please let's talk about the way more interesting China vs USSR in 1987

crepeface posted:

Jose posted:

lol remember that "my family controlled all the eggs in china pre-communists" twitter post

Jose posted:

lol remember that "my family controlled all the eggs in china pre-communists" twitter post

Danann posted:

"i could've been bourgeois instead of being a prole if only fate hadn't intervened!"

Truga posted:

stephenthinkpad posted:

Probably one of the factors that the noble class went away in China much earlier than the west.

Truga posted:

Mantis42 posted:

Gorby surrenders without a shot being fired.

Plutonis posted:

it was a feudal monarchy until 1912.

Strangelet Wave posted:

absolute shot in the dark here but does anyone in the thread know of English-language resources about the electrification of East Asia? im looking at a map of mains voltages and frequencies in the region and of the three countries which I assume were big 20th-century recipients of american industrial equipment—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—their grids all have different oddball voltages with only Taiwan being within 10V of the American standard. why is this? I’m figuring my initial assumptions about the matter are ignorant

bedpan posted:

electrification was assisted by the already electrified, the US and Europe, but as can still be seen in the japanese grid today, each source of assistance brought along their own standards. as I recall, northern japan was electrified by the germans and the south by the french and naturally, these two countries which share a common border on the european continent had incompatible grids

stephenthinkpad posted:

Starting from the later half of Tang dynasty, the Chinese nobility slowly got destroyed by civil wars and got replaced by the literati class and a massive barueancreacy which was selected through national examination system.

Interestingly, Japan didn't copy this system.

Truga posted:

on a more serious note, japan has a 100volt appliance standard, but east is 50hz and west is 60hz iirc lol

Strangelet Wave posted:

but today France and Germany both have compatible grids (230V@50Hz), yet two different sides of the same island (Japan) and of the same peninsula (Korea) don’t. what gives! obviously there’s not one simple pat answer, this is a historical question with all the contingency that involves, I would just love to have a book on the subject and couldn’t find one with a quick search

OhFunny posted:

Bedpan is getting an important detail wrong.

It was German and American equipment. The former runs at a 50Hz frequency and the latter at 60Hz. Which are not compatible.

This is due to power suppliers in Tokyo picking the former and those in Osaka picking the latter. It is 1895 and these cities are hundreds of kilometers apart. Why worry about compatibility? So the two grids expanded outward from their respective cities until they reached the Fujigawa River. Which is where the divide between the western and eastern electrical grids has remained.

They have added some converters, but it's nowhere near enough in emergency situations.

euphronius posted:

is there an end date to the USA having troops in Japan.

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- Retail sales, factory out top f'casts in boost to recovery
- Gives policymakers hope of keeping growth stable
- But continued weakness in property remains big concern
- Analysts say more policy support needed to shore up economy

BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) - China's factory output and retail sales beat expectations in the January-February period, marking a solid start for 2024 and offering some relief to policymakers even as weakness in the property sector remains a drag on the economy and confidence.
Monday's data join recent better-than-expected exports and consumer inflation indicators, providing an early boost to Beijing's hopes of reaching what analysts have described as an ambitious 5.0% GDP growth target for this year.

Industrial output rose 7.0% in the first two months of the year, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday, above expectations for a 5.0% increase in a Reuters poll of analysts and faster than the 6.8% growth seen in December. It also marked the quickest growth in almost two years.

Retail sales, a gauge of consumption, rose 5.5%, slowing from a 7.4% increase in December but beating an expected 5.2% gain.

ikanreed posted:

Lol they just lifetime banned xu jaiyin from participating in any security market.

I wonder if he'll go the "oppressed escapee from Chinese tyranny" route

ikanreed posted:

Lol they just lifetime banned xu jaiyin from participating in any security market.

I wonder if he'll go the "oppressed escapee from Chinese tyranny" route

stephenthinkpad posted:

Without serving jail time? That would be getting off light. Maybe there are more.

ikanreed posted:

Lol they just lifetime banned xu jaiyin from participating in any security market.

I wonder if he'll go the "oppressed escapee from Chinese tyranny" route

mawarannahr posted:

the reptile lays its trap
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1769685631502877055