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- yuekit0
In reality according to this new study, China would probably lose a war over Taiwan against the combined forces of Taiwan, USA and Japan. But at the same time the war would likely devastate the US military and damage US power and influence in the world.
- Look at russia/ukraine, you can literally walk across from russia to ukraine. Look at china/taiwan - that's quiet a distance of typhoon blasted deep ocean.shapesalad
- China can attack, but not sustain a war over such a distance of ocean.shapesalad
- True but the downside is it would be much more difficult to supply Taiwan vs Ukraine.yuekit
- Same logic applies for supplying Chinese troops so far out from the mainland.shapesalad
- The situation would become a siege, but with Japan + USA + rest of world backing up Taiwan.shapesalad
- Plus russian style sanctions on China would soon ruin it at a a local level and cause more problems for CCP.shapesalad
- Yeah I have trouble believing they would go for it, at least in the near future. Seems out of character for CCP leadership to start a war that would have suchyuekit
- an unpredictable outcome, would devastate China's economy etc. I also suspect there would be large-scale protests like with COVID.yuekit
- Great link. I'd wager China isn't setting foot in Taiwan because the second they step in that shit, most of the world will be defending Taiwan for chip reasons.garbage
- PioneerDJ3031
- ' Some were particularly tired of the "political correctness" 'https://www.globalt...zardoz
- https://www.globalti…zardoz
- whatever can that mean?zardoz
- Get woke, go broke.Chimp
- Based on recent performance, the storytelling is clearly also no longer appealing to American moviegoers.MondoMorphic
- lol so many are tired of the woke BS that's infected everything in corporate America, Hollywood, etc.MondoMorphic
- yes wokeness is the biggest problem in corporate and hollywood.pango
- Meh, the reality is that Hollywood is cranking out mediocre reboots but Chinese films still aren't that great either.yuekit
- The two films they cite as positive examples in that Global Times article: The Wandering Earth and Wolf Warrior 2yuekit
- Wandering Earth is an OK sci-fi movie, Wolf Warrior is basically China's version of Rambo. Unfortunately for all of China's achievements it can't compareyuekit
- with better Western productions, such as recent TV series. Or with South Korean cinema which has mass appeal but also creative/ innovative.yuekit
- was avatar 2 woke at all?
LOL Wolf Warrior. everyone in this thread should watch that movie.pango
- shapesalad5
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- NBQ005
TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emi…
I hope this dumb app gets banned everywhere.
- "TikTok banned on government devices under spending bill passed by Congress"grafician
- https://www.cnbc.com…grafician
- yuekit0
Something different since the endless China bashing gets boring after a while. I thought this was the best defense of China's system I've read, or at least it's thought provoking...
The Confucian State: An Ideal Type of Governance for China?
The West gets China wrong: because it does not understand the nature of the Confucian state. Beijing could complete its historic transformation by breaking completely with Marxism and acknowledge the Confucian state as its ideal type.
- The author is not really defending the existing system so much trying to preserve what he sees as positive aspects while finding a way to fundamentally changeyuekit
- some things, which he justifies by appealing to Confucianism.yuekit
- These Neo-Confucianist ideas have been around for a while but what's surprising is that Xi Jinping seems to support this to some extent, including abandoningyuekit
- foundational tenants of Marxism.
https://twitter.com/…yuekit
- yuekit-7
- NYT headline from exactly a century agoyuekit
- midjourney or photoshop? this is not in NYT Timesmachineimbecile
- imagine that - misinformation bout Chins on QBN.toemaas
- lol @ Midjourney. The future is going to involve people thinking things are fake when they're real.yuekit
- https://www.nytimes.…yuekit
- This is from a time when everything was in flux, there were people pushing democracy in China along with communism, fascism and other ideas. The CCP had justyuekit
- been founded a few months earlier and had a few dozen members.yuekit
- I suck at NYT searchimbecile
- It does read almost like a parody..."strong man is awaited." At least that part came true.yuekit
- seriously, I have a NYT Timesmachine account. I searched for a whileimbecile
- Maybe their search just sucks. I searched exact words of the title on Google and found it.yuekit
- yuekit-3
Beijing students' response last night to accusations that there are 'foreign forces' at play in this weekend's protests
- The CCP and their army of trolls will use this excuse everytime there's a protest or uprising somewhere.yuekit
- this excuse is also used in Iran, Russia, N. Korea, etc. even used here in Ro in our last clashes with the PSD party
it's the default when people uprisegrafician - Didn't they say the same thing in the US?Chimp
- It's Russia for every US election.hotroddy
- Russian disinfo is a concern in the USA but it's difficult to imagine the US government calling Black Lives Matter or anti-lockdown protests entirely fake.yuekit
- For instance official line of the Chinese government is that the 2019 HK protests involving millions of people were a product of CIA color revolution.yuekit
- I guess technically I was one of the "foreign forces" since I was in some of those protests :)yuekit
- grafician2
- "China warns of 'crackdown' after weekend of widespread zero-Covid protests"grafician
- https://www.france24…grafician
- China will turn into a fail state just like Russia soon enough. We will see a big exodus of Western companies leaving China next yeargrafician
- It's not like they'll have a choice with all the factories closed due to "zero covid" policy
Apple losing 6M phones output this month alone...grafician - Lockdowns don't work and now the Chinese people know it.Chimp
- its about balance. they lost it.pango
- Well at least we've learned that dystopian authoritarian societies really don't work...grafician
- if communism doesn't have economic prosperity to steel the people, they use the fist of the communist police.shapesalad
- The irony is that Chinese "communism" generated lots of prosperity. The prosperity arguably was the only thing keeping it going.yuekit
- How can they spend their new wealth if they are welded inside their homes?Chimp
- They can't...but the wealth generating machine is also slowing down.
https://twitter.com/…yuekit - Reminds me of Trudeau's overreaction. The out-of-control Tyrant.Khurram
- At least there's no forced sterilisation via the "Bill Gates" vacccine over there, that's all I'm saying.Khurram
- PhanLo3
- Isn't there a running joke that *everything* causes cancer, by California standards?Nairn
- There's always a joke by people who refuse to care about their health based on their feeling that science doesn't matter. They're nutrition deniers.CyBrainX
- I would hope maybe a side effect for a short period would be being able to move things with your mindPhanLo
- If you place a crystal on top of it for 10 minutes it will absorve the cancer. It will be then safe to eat.palimpsest
- the crystal?!maquito
- 'A crystal'? OK, palimp, now I know you're full of it. Any old crystal will do, will it? I think — in my expert opinion — that only amethyst from ...Continuity
- ... the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia, taken on the first full moon in March (any March will do) is fit for purpose.
Pfft. Amateur.Continuity - This is me rightly crystal-shaming you.Continuity
- Now I'll be downgraded to a blue belt crystal mage. The shame!palimpsest
- Put a pinch on Himalayan Pink Salt on it, everything gonna be ok.shapesalad
- Well... there goes my favourite past time of 'wafers with a wank'shapesalad
- PioneerDJ3033
New tobacco plant produces cocaine inside its leaves in bizarre breakthrough
A new genetically modified tobacco plant is able to produce cocaine inside its leaves in a bizarre new breakthrough.Cocaine is naturally produced in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant, but a team of researchers at the Kunming Institute of Botany in China decided to see if they could recreate this process themselves – with incredible results.
https://www.unilad.com/news/reas…- "Incredible" results lolMondoMorphic
- Just what the world needed, more cocaineyuekit
- The only way this is a breakthrough is if it kills off enough humans to save the planet.CyBrainX
- china about to flood the us with cocaineKrassy
- Tomacco v2?Continuity
- shapesalad7
- (⊙︿⊙)PhanLo
- set warned us but ya'll didn't listen.palimpsest
- They were swabbing wing mirrors of trucks recently. They are fucking mental over there. It's a dystopian nightmare.shapesalad
- Question is - is it cracks appearing in the system? Or deliberate stupidity to cause a distraction or get things into a situation where they can deflect?shapesalad
- not deliberate distraction. but no cracks in the system. nothing will cause a regime change.hotroddy
- So fucked upMondoMorphic
- Someone made a good comment on this recently... in an authoritarian system, it's not only Xi Jinping or the guys at the top you have to worry about, it's alsoyuekit
- random average people who are empowered as mini dictators. The health worker, the landlord (who decides when people can leave their apartment) etcyuekit
- Longcopylover0
I am a bit worried that the Chinese government is launching a military action of some kind to distract the citizens from the internal problems.
- They'll just have to quarantine the soldiers for three weeks each time they enter and leave the country.yuekit
- shapesalad7
The guy at 12:00 in the video... hopefully can be next leader of China.
- shapesalad9
- https://media.tenor.…yuekit
- The scene where they pulled the guy back from the cops was amazing.yuekit
- Good vid. Kinda crazy to see how the paths of these two have evolved over the years.Nairn
- I only watch these two because I'm waiting for the suited guy to punch the twitchy high pitched dorky haired soy boy. It's bound to happened. Can't wait.shapesalad
- grafician-3
"Chinese Leaders Weigh Steps Toward Zero-Covid Reopening, But No Timeline Set - Sources -- WSJ"
- Awwwgrafician
- Nothing like rumour to fuel a pump and dump on the markets.shapesalad
- dbloc0
Chinese flying car test flight. It's basically a giant drone.
- lol at this shitutopian
- Surprised it could fly through the smogPhanLo
- Get out before killing the rotors... instantly decapitated.shapesalad
- Is it just me, or does that car seem to be hollow?shapesalad
- Especially the way it lands, there's no weight to it.shapesalad
- all my cars are hollow. it's where me and my friends sit and put our stuffimbecile