Top City Homo posted:

Japan was an absolutist military dictatorship where children were trained from school to die for the emperor and women worked 15 hour days until they died of over exhaustion.

They are hot big on caring for their population

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Did anyone deny the Rwandan genocide other than Belgians?

LimburgLimbo posted:

Both said accusations and her purported involvement may be total bullshit, and they're obviously politically motivated, but it's not like it's coming from nowhere and they randomly accused someone just because they're ethnically Chinese.

LimburgLimbo posted:

It's not that odd for countries to have a reasonable level of suspicion towards people who take leadership positions in organizations that are likely auxiliaries to foreign nations' intelligence apparatuses.

LimburgLimbo posted:

I think that the Chen accusation is much less likely to be true, and there's only pretty thin circumstantial evidence, but I think it's not impossible that there's Chinese intelligence influence over her, because Chinese intelligence is probably good at their jobs.

exmarx posted:

if i was a global fellow of the kissinger institute and published by the national endowment of democracy, i would personally think twice before accusing others of acting in the service of foreign intelligence agencies

fart simpson posted:

maybe he means the forums poster is?

exmarx posted:

yeah

Cpt_Obvious posted:

All those "CHINA IS FLOODING VIDEOS!" have aged quite well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NDbP8c7-A

stephenthinkpad posted:

Good listen. What's "AWAX", on board radar?

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1436118222068142084?s=20

Mr Hootington posted:

The rumor is all crypto trading or holding may be investigated as money laundering schemes or other such financial crimes.

Not So Fast posted:

It really feels like the Western media has taken a complicated reform of the entertainment industry and has just focused on one word to condemn China over.

gradenko_2000 posted:

assuming they actually thought this through in any depth, the reason why you wouldn't include Japan in any kind of trans-Pacific military alliance is that everybody else has had a bad history with Japan and wouldn't want to be involved with them or be seen as supporting their remilitarization. It's a big reason for why existing treaties/agreements are all technically separate between any one Asian nation, and then the US, but not all these nations taken together

hell, even Australia has had a run-in with Japan

IAMKOREA posted:

maybe i'm just a contrarian but i think if i was an australian and i saw that speech I would immediately start lobbying for cooperation with China out of spite

Ardennes posted:

Arguably, China still needs to expand its fleet if AUKUS actually is intending to try to cut their supply lines, but China’s economy is already so large they can do it that easily. The West couldn’t compete with them at all if they made an real effort.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

this sort of stuff got me thinking a while

the worst part about getting informed about China is how much translation/context buffer there is that simply isn't mediated responsibly by most major vehicles and it's best to just hop on twitter and ask an English-speaking Chinese what they know about the situation

of course, that's intentional. I am reminded of my prof of international econ talking about how the iron curtain was a western imposition on the USSR, talking about how sinister their closed society is, but institutional interest to get people to read Cyrillic was none (from the USA/UK at least). Obfuscation happens due to cultivated ignorance, not because the other side is casting shadows on themselves

It seems a hundred times worse with China because of orientalism too tbqh. China is one of the oldest civilizations of the world, Mandarin is a tough language, etc so it is much easier to mystify the Chinese into a cipher, which, of course, works totally in favor with institutional interest. However, the feedback effect is such that while hot takes abound, nobody does the actual hard work of developing context

and from the perspective of an imperial government, that's really loving bad, because you are wide loving open to liars, scammers and cretins of every sort, with incompetence seeping higher and higher until people who should know better look at a discord screenshot and think "holy poo poo that's some incredibly hot info!". Then it turns out that this dolt is a high state department official. loving lmao

Ardennes posted:

They are also mass producing 55s at a constant rate, part of the reason the Anglophones are panicking.

Each of them can vertical launch over 100 warheads, including hypersonic anti ship missiles. Burkes have about half the firepower. It is part of one of the many reasons that even if a shooting war happened with Taiwan, it would literally last hours.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

I mean the same thing could be said for USs carrier groups, and let me tell you we will have significantly harder time rebuilding than china would.

Ardennes posted:

This argument gets more tiresome each time. China also has nukes and No one uses them because MAD exists and the US isn’t going to be trading American cities for Taiwan.

The point of military force is leverage, everyone knows the ROC is hopeless screwed and that changes the power dynamic between the two powers.

Ardennes posted:

The question now is if and when the US loses its grip on the indo-pacific region entirely.

Ardennes posted:

China also has big boom booms.

Ardennes posted:

You wanted the point, that’s the point.

Otherwise, I have no idea what you are on about to be honest.

Ardennes posted:

They are also mass producing 55s at a constant rate, part of the reason the Anglophones are panicking.

Each of them can vertical launch over 100 warheads, including hypersonic anti ship missiles. Burkes have about half the firepower. It is part of one of the many reasons that even if a shooting war happened with Taiwan, it would literally last hours.

Mirello posted:

I can say as someone who lives in china, muslims here are about 100x more accepted by society than in america. theres tons of muslims everywhere, and it's not really a big deal in any way.

comedyblissoption posted:

dick wolff has commented in one of his global capitalism talks that the western academic and news commentary on the topic of chinese innovation and technology can only be explained as extraordinary racism

Shear Modulus posted:

it's going to be in his "global capitalism: live economic update" series which is where he puts out a ~2 hr talk every two months (he lectures fairly slowly on podcasts so you can play it at 1.5x speed pretty easily). it's on all the podcast platforms.

quote:

At one point, I was tailed by a convoy of a dozen cars, an eerie procession through the silent streets of Aksu at 4 in the morning.

Al-Saqr posted:

https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1450870151495176195?s=20

Raskolnikov38 posted:

it rules that the retard mod squad is finally going to shrink d&d to the point it can be drowned in a bathtub

Megillah Gorilla posted:

EDIT: Beaten like a Uyghur in a Chinese re-education camp.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

So you're still salty you ate multiple week long probes for genocide denialism and this is the best you can come up with?

crepeface posted:

you can't get mad at australians for being racist and stupid, it's our national pasttime

Atrocious Joe posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/genius_posting/status/1364727802969350144

Al-Saqr posted:

it’s cool when Japan can just show up with a rising flag again like nothing happened the last time they waved that around thanks america

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Pretty much the entire cultural memory of the country iirc is the delusional and idiotic ruling class using force and lies to drag them into a hopeless war that destroyed an entire generation and left the country a series of smoking, sometimes radioactive craters. Unfortunately, the ruling class hasn't gotten any less delusional and idiotic, and their democracy is pretty much a one-party state with a token useless opposition. There's apparently regular attempts to beef up the SDF into a real military rather than kayfabe and/or to get nukes, and every time there's massive popular outcry of 'gently caress no'.

Unfortunately like a lot of things it's uncertain how much that's actually going to matter when the people in charge decide to do what they want to do.