questhimay

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by questhimay 2y ago
China is not neutral China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says. Beijing helping with drone production, space-based capabilities and ballistic missile production https://www.theguardian.com/world/20
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by questhimay 2y ago
Why would ou think it's "dumb", when we've already had TikTok ban, tariff on Chinese EV, and chip ban on China? It's very clear that China is an enemy that has to be dealt with by US
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by questhimay 2y ago
Putin thought the war was only going to be for a few days - according to research by the think tank RUSI, when Vladimir Putin began his invasion, he expected to take control of Ukraine within 10 days https://www.iwm.org.uk/h
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by questhimay 2y ago
Ukraine is still holding its own despite Russia's hypersonic missile prowess. If you are talking about a blockade, as we've seen from Russia's invasion, Russia's world's second best navy is already powerless against
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by questhimay 2y ago
Meatgrinder hasn't exactly worked for Russia yet. Especially if the Chinese soldiers are all sitting en mass on large, slow moving boats going across a 100 mile strait. Unless you think the China's plan is to fill the Taiwan stra
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by questhimay 2y ago
My point about birth rate is that China does not have enough men in the right age to fight a protracted war. Especially if the men are only sons. And it's not China vs Taiwan straight up. It's China vs Taiwan, US, Japan, Austral
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by questhimay 2y ago
China can't afford to throw away only sons, and have them sink into the bottom of the ocean. Families would revolt pretty quickly. As we saw from the millions of protestors in Hong Kong in 2019, and the violent protests in Shanghai in
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by questhimay 2y ago
China is not going to be able to invade Taiwan, it's too old and too broke to do so. Too old as in its demographics will be 30% over 60 years old in 10 years. Too broke as in the local governments are bankrupt, and the central govern
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by questhimay 2y ago
In case for China, there are numerous reasons, from rapid urbanisation which meant the spread of impermeable concrete surfaces and reduced natural wetlands and marshes that had in the past absorbed rain. To Soviet-era urban drainage system
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by questhimay 2y ago
Meanwhile, in China, there are yearly flooding in major cities, where the water can't be drained through drainage due to poor planning, corruption in purported drainage fix, and now no local budget for any fixes. these floodings affec
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by questhimay 2y ago
there's no reason for you to reply to maxglute. they never quote anything for reference, preferring to hallucinate things out of thin air. and they always want to have the last word, which is a sign of immaturity/insecurity.
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by questhimay 2y ago
Sanctions on Russia, it's in the article "Russia had been forced to repeatedly establish new supply chains for acquiring chips. As sanctions disrupted existing smuggling routes, it had set up new ones, likening these outcomes to a
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by questhimay 2y ago
Huawei is basically Chinese government's military tech arm, so a few reasons might be - increased Chinese military support for Russia, cold war tension ratcheted, US view China as very weak right now and want to increase the pressure
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by questhimay 2y ago
the 5.2% is just a figure the bureau of statistics made up to make sure they hit xi Jing ping's goal of 5% for the year. even china bull Ray Dalio thinks China in a lost decade or more https://www.forbes.com/sites/
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by questhimay 2y ago
world's biggest market by population perhaps, but out of the 1.3B population for China, 700M of them make less than $100/month. 200M makes around $1000/month, but with the recent wage cuts across industries, more like $500&#
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by questhimay 2y ago
might have to do with the increasing blatant Chinese military supply to russia - China Providing 90% of Chips Used in Russia, Despite Sanctions https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-providing-90-of-chips-us...
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by questhimay 2y ago
how would you explain these then? In what appears to be a first, a former employee of ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, has outlined specific claims that the Chinese Communist Party accessed the data of TikTok users on a bro
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by questhimay 2y ago
There's a rumor that Chinese government is going to significantly devalue the yuan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-29/yuan-deva... , to try to boost export decline from March. https:&#x2F