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by xster 6y ago
I think this is the guy that's saying China doesn't exist and the concept of China as a country with a territory is a European invention brought to China. https://twitter.com/bill_hayton I don't think there&#
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Ah right. Though I suppose it's ok for a trade agreement to not also be a supra-national government. Don't know if that's too far from the norm.
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Doesn't mean they can't time a non peer reviewed marketing announcement right before said pre-planned date right?
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I think the nuance that might be worth diving into is that you're referring to Australia as a single entity https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/us-ownership-of-aus... https://jacobinmag.com&#x
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How did you derive that conclusion? https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/RCE... Japan to China tariff reduction went from 8% to 86%. Doesn't seem like a status quo to me.
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Standard Live 10 -> 11 is 159. It's nested behind a bunch of links.
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My issue with it is that it's a fancy speech and nothing he's saying is necessarily wrong. He mostly correctly bashed a bunch of strawmen to great effect. Except they have more or less nothing to do with what he actually wants, wh
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Are you referring to something specific?
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According to https://youtu.be/HnCBbiCetSg?t=569 , the S-1 equivalent filing of the IPO showed Ant itself putting up 1.68% of its own money towards its lendings. That's way more leverage than the 8% mandated in Basel III
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If you listen to his whole speech, he's making a lot of very generalized criticisms on China's financial regulatory systems, which as a whole aren't inaccurate. But you're left wondering at the end how does it specifical
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> China did not commit to begin any restrictions until 2030 Is this factual? They committed to peaking in 2030. Stopping at the stop sign is a radically different concept from starting to brake at the stop sign.
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I'm surprised this didn't happen 5 years ago when the original group with Lee Fang and Glenn Greenwald were having open feuds on Twitter with the later corporate hires from NYT and WP who clearly held different views on journalism
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Wouldn't it have been entirely against Voice of America's mission and purpose of funding if it said something positive for China? https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/white-house-attacks...
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We're sourcing stories from Radia Free Asia now? https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...
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Don't leave me hanging man. Gimme some starting points.
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Depends where you are. The company that built pre-fab parts for the 10-day 1,000 bed hospital in China is building a Huoshenshan equivalent hospital in Korea too. 11% of global CO2 emissions are from construction. Using pre-fab steel module
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So this week, we got another round of recycled Adrian Zenz, who's now a Tibet expert as well, _and_ another round of recycled ASPI, coming back strong after round 1 landed them with a $135,909 bonus from Lockheed Martin after ASPI succ
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Wait that's not true is it? On iOS, Safari supports content blocker since like iOS 9, and on Android, not only you can get browser ad blocks, you can get OS-wide ad blocks through local VPN blockers.
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CNN, NPR all host army psy-ops personnel in their newsrooms https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/julianborger
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Consider Wilkerson, chief of staff for Collin Powell, says the US is in Afghanistan to be able to disrupt BRI coming through Xinjiang and to be able to provide direct support for insurgency to destabilize China through inciting Uyghurs, I t
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There's definitely some skeletons in the closet. The Han population was 1% in 1950. In the current year, it's 97%. Though I suspect it's not going to be geopolitically convenient for Adrien Zenz to write about the indigenous
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Semi-tangential but I think a lot of people look at that Wired article and affirm their own beliefs without reading it. Primarily, it references the Zhima score in Alipay which, at best, is a commercial reward point system, like get a free
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India might be a closer example to the western audience on HN "How India became the world’s leader in internet shutdowns" https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006359/india-in...
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The UN did audit, to the opposition of the US and UK, and "reached consensus" with China. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/china-say...
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ProPublica is definitely in my bookmarks too. Things like The Intercept and Project Syndicate are so hit or miss depending on the author. The Intercept was so solid when it just started. Then gradually you start seeing Greenwald start argui
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mintpressnews.com and thegrayzone.com do decent primary-sourceable journalism on the global south I find.
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WTO finds Washington broke trade rules by imposing tariffs on China(reuters.com)
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Doesn't that conceptually apply to all Chinese apps? Also, all your TVs, phones, routers etc are all made in China. Isn't the real solution to the conceptual problem you're referring to to stop trading with China? That's
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Conversely Microsoft, Uber, eBay, Tesla etc are all pretty scary competitive brands that ran fine in China because they elected to follow local laws. Uber and eBay were just not competitive because they elected to not do any amount of adapt
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You don't remember because the US has only been not at war for 17 years since its founding.

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