dirtyid

39 ms·

331.
by dirtyid 4y ago
COMPETES act stuffed 500M for state sponsored anti-PRC propaganda. By that definition all US media should be default suspect of being state affliated. Or charitably state influenced / infiltrated.
332.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I'm just clarifying your assertion that these stations: > are used for rendition There's no extradition agreement between PRC and NE hence rendition could only be extralegal/extraordinary, which these stations are not doin
333.
by dirtyid 4y ago
This is assuming PRC hasn't made formal requests - been asking for extradition rights / treaties since mid 2000s (before Xi) to host of western countries where big grafters were fleeing. And been given the cold shoulder. Naive to
334.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>don't have the favor of the party/Winnie-the-Pooh Operation Foxhunt criminals being harboured in west should get a pass just to stick it to CCP/Xi is pretty much why Guo Wengui happened. Let a known criminal swindle billi
335.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Dissidents no, but in terms of financial crime PRC pressure / focus largely on 10s of millions to billion tier, the obviously misbegotten gains that western court system would look retarded to pretend otherwise. Millions of PRC diaspho
336.
by dirtyid 4y ago
There's no extradition treaty. Nor are there any illegal renditions. If there were then media wouldn't be screeching over nonsense "intimiation" angle, because person of interest would just get nabbed and it actually be
337.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I've seen comments that this is nominal dollars not adjusted for inflation. Normalized in real dollars value and investment is slightly lower than peak 2015 factory spending of 70B. 5-10B is fab subsidy via CHIPs, which puts rest of sp
338.
by dirtyid 4y ago
> a great education system There's ongoing STEM/skilled shortage for existing demand for years. US education system is "great" to small/medium tier countries but not relative to her needs. Even immigration leachi
339.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>far away country would subject its citizens here to their laws ... >word of this did not reach the authorities for many years The entire PRC "overseas Chinese service stations" are AKTUALLY ILLEGAL POLICE STATIONS VIOLATING
340.
by dirtyid 4y ago
PRC had massive public firearms ownership stemming from people's war, villages were settling beef with home made artillery into the 90s until gov crackdown.
341.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I remember reading marketting was 50% of many mattress in box brands when they were being pitched on podcasts. So I decided to buy a Zinus off Amazon for ~50% cost and it's held up better than my friends named brands. Gambled that they
342.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I enjoyed the drama when NPR was flagged as state media for a couple hours.
343.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Export controls on manufacturing tech not materials, which I don't imagine is particularly enforcable. Will just get transhipped through middlemen, but I can imagine increasing price astronomically for competitive advantage.
344.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>temporary regression ... >China will reduce their fossil fuel usage even if global warming was not a concern Pretty much, security enviroment has changed. So indigenous energy security = short/medium term coal is back until elec
345.
by dirtyid 4y ago
20% (~300M) illiterate skews old, higher % of whom are active in workforce and will be for decades. Not that ~300M is "niche" as you said, but think of it technology that helps 50% of the workforce vs 20% of population.
346.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>Nobody was happy with the value erasure. On the other hand a fuckton of value has been irrevocably erased - entire ed tech sector isn't coming back to pre crackdown levels. If anything CCP hasn shown little regard for crippling sof
347.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>"Many Chinese nuclear plants have been delayed and construction costs have exceeded initial estimates." Important to note reasons for targets being unmet, apart from safety reevaluation delays due to Fukushima Daiichi (PRC lax
348.
by dirtyid 4y ago
PRC wouldn't trigger a explosion where debris could land over US soil or even 12nm territorial waters where balloon was shot down. Realistically, only PRC on recieving end would know the effectiveness of US EW efforts. If USG is admitt
349.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Did Listen not support password protected feeds? I remember a solid 2-3 years after Listen was killed (2012-2015) where Android had no passable podcast player.
350.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Pretty sure Feedly supports feed history, takes some time to pull archive onto their servers on obscure feeds though.
351.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Stuck in feedly once I started adding notes. Also very few readers has twitter/reddit support.
352.
by dirtyid 4y ago
I didn't say kind of censorship is the same, nor should they be. I said US platforms who want to operate in PRC should comply with PRC national security interests REGARDLESS of how it's "worse". It's happening in Vi
353.
by dirtyid 4y ago
> realpolitik, is alive and well ... > compared to the CCP's framework, there is no debate Really the crux of issue for me. By all means ban TikTok, Huawei, constrain PRC chips, but let's chalk it up to sensible realpolitik
354.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Because US/western social media has same market access to PRC... all they have to do is follow PRC regulations. Literally why FB and Google had internal projects to engineer compliant products to re-enter PRC market, but killed due to
355.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Impressive as always. Any other talent putting out this tier of projects to subscribe to?
356.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Projected Marine MLR deployment in Ryukyus and whatever JP is throwing to fortify is nowhere near "mass". It's not close to replacing sortie/fires output of carrier groups. Ryukyus is TW "alternative" in terms
357.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Sure, central gov _chose_ to cracked on on the sector, but the denial is that will lead to doomer level of collapse portrayed in western media. Here's a recent primer on PRC land finance and why market remains resilient / impact o
358.
by dirtyid 4y ago
> maybe the relevant paper? Did you consider the people doing the research aren’t dumb and look to see if maybe they thought of alternate explanations? Martinez 2017 study has been loled to death by night time data analysts familar with
359.
by dirtyid 4y ago
Of course NYT frames regional rearmament in terms of PRC deterrence instead of US reliability. Yes PLA military modernization plays a part, but anxious US regional partners have been questioning US long term reliability post Trump. Why SKR
360.
by dirtyid 4y ago
>not great Is there any recommended reading/ranting on this?

More ›