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What are the "foreign countries of concern", and why do they write it that way instead of just saying China?
by sneak 3y ago
What are the "foreign countries of concern", and why do they write it that way instead of just saying China?
- miguelazo 3y ago[flagged]
- localplume 3y ago[dead]
- sib 3y agoCareful, your bias is showing... "kowtowing to US hegemony" "Xinjiang claims"
- kkzz99 3y agoWhenever I read comments like this I have to chuckle. The US state department spends 300m$ each year in anti-china propaganda. The capitalist comprador narrative sellers eager to jump on the bandwagon. When one reads US military think-tank papers explaining the next strategies and then, years later, seeing them being implemented, makes one really wonder, how organically the reporting is on things like Xinjiang. But of course, when you question the narrative of iraqy WMDS, incubator killings, the usage of ABCs by the US and then finally on the question of what really is happening in Xinjiang, one really shows their bias...
- miguelazo 3y agoThere was a good exposé on the Xinjiang situation recently, but you’ll have to translate from the German: https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/xinjiang-china-kampf-gegen-terrorismus-und-separatismus-ld.1753509?reduced=true https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/xinjiang-china-kampf-gegen-terror... The terrorism that provoked the central government’s heavy hand is totally dismissed in the West, if mentioned at all.
- jvanderbot 3y agoThere is a list. They'd rather the policy applies to that list, than the actual list items at the time of the writing, so that it can be updated. > The most recent Countries of Particular Concern designations were made by the Secretary of State on November 30, 2022: Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. https://www.state.gov/countries-of-particular-concern-special-watch-list-countries-entities-of-particular-concern/ https://www.state.gov/countries-of-particular-concern-specia...
- sneak 3y agoI don't see any chip factories in any of those except China and Russia. I wish I understood why they pretend this is something other than a cold war.
- jvanderbot 3y agoThe list has nothing to do with chip manufacturing. The list is used as a list of reasonable-to-exclude countries from the CHIPS act. The same list is used _all over the place_, including things like NASA mission collaboration, government funding for conference travel, background checks for visiting gov offices, etc.
- jfoutz 3y agoWhat does cold war in this context? My mom went to China with a group a few years ago, and had a great experience.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoThat’s an odd list. Eritrea? Nicaragua? Pakistan and the other stans? Are they concerned that chips or tech sold to those countries could get re-sold to China or Russia?
- rtkwe 3y agoEritrea and Nicaragua are because of religious persecution most likely. These recommendations don't directly result in being added to the list but they're a pretty hard push in that direction I think. https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/releases-statements/uscirf-releases-new-report-eritreas-religious-freedom-violations#:~:text=In%20its%202023%20Annual%20Report,religious%20freedom%20concerns%20in%20Eritrea https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/releases-statements/uscirf-.... https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/nicaragua/#:~:text=contradicted%20government%20rhetoric.-,On%20November%2030%2C%202022%2C%20in%20accordance%20with%20the%20International%20Religious,severe%20violations%20of%20religious%20freedom https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r....
- arduanika 3y agoWhat is 'MAX_WIDTH_CHARS', and why do they write that instead of just saying '80'? Don't you just hate how devs makes things way more complicated than they need to be? Granted I'm not a dev myself, but how hard can it be? I'm very smart and I could rewrite this all to be way clearer. (Maybe you were just asking a sincere question, in which case sorry for my sarcasm here. It's just, the sentiment reeks a bit of typical HN hubris to me.)
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- tester756 3y agoWhat?
- yuliyp 3y agoThey were making an analogy between developers using constants in code to avoid hard-coding values in all over the place, and government agencies using references to things defined in other places to avoid "hard-coding" lists of countries in random rules all over the place.
- xeromal 3y agoFuture proofing.