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by yogthos 4y ago
US State Department says in black and white on their website that Taiwan is part of China. The fact that you keep trying to pretend there's some ambiguity here is beyond hilarious.
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by yogthos 4y ago
LMAO this same South Korea? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-sout...
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by yogthos 4y ago
None of this has an actual meaning under international law. The legal standing of Taiwan is that it's part of China. Plain and simple.
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by yogthos 4y ago
The reality of the situation is that UN recognizes Taiwan as being part of China and so does US in black and white on the state department page. The whole deliberate ambiguity policy has no actual legal standing, it's just US pretendin
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by yogthos 4y ago
Being a vassal of the US is not freedom. Also, every instance of US "assisting" a country has resulted in creating hellish conditions for people of that country. Stop helping.
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by yogthos 4y ago
US has no business interfering in Taiwan. Period.
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by yogthos 4y ago
US State Department literally recognizes Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan, so does UN and practically every nation in the world.
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by yogthos 4y ago
No, we can assume that because of long and well documented history of US interfering in Taiwan and pouring billions of dollars into creating a secessionist movement there.
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by yogthos 4y ago
Might makes right has literally been the policy US has pursued throughout its history. What US is doing is creating a tension half way across the world from itself by funding and arming a separatist movement in a Chinese province. This is s
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by yogthos 4y ago
What Texas and Taiwan share is that they're both territories of sovereign nations. US has no business interfering in the internal politics of other countries. It's that simple. US State Department acknowledges that Taiwan is par o
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by yogthos 4y ago
I believe one of us didn't. Also, maybe keep reading the statement from US State Department until you comprehend it.
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by yogthos 4y ago
And this has what to do with US interfering in the politics a Chinese province again?
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by yogthos 4y ago
What part of my comment is unclear to you?
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by yogthos 4y ago
The point here is that this is the equivalent of what US is doing, and something US would never tolerate itself. Just imagine for a second if China set up equivalent of NED and USAID, started funding political campaigns in Texas or Florida,
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by yogthos 4y ago
The elephant in the room is that Taiwan is a Chinese province and Taiwan's legal standing is not in question [1]. This is the position held by the UN, and it's the fundamental basis for having diplomatic relations between US and C
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by yogthos 4y ago
Pretty much, and one really key thing is that chip development has incredibly high input costs. It costs hundreds of billions to build foundries for a particular chip design, and then you have to build whole new ones when the process change
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by yogthos 4y ago
I think this answer is correct: ‘The US government is run by idiots who don’t understand the industry,” one of the founding fathers of America’s semiconductor industry told me after the Biden administration announced sweeping curb
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by yogthos 4y ago
In fact, both Japan and SK are pissed at US over CHIPS act right now because China is a huge market that eclipses the US. As US keeps using coercive measures that will necessarily drive allies away.
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by yogthos 4y ago
India is a competitor to the US, Turkey is increasingly becoming hostile towards the west. Ukraine is largely destroyed, and whatever is left will be a Russian puppet regime. EU is being devastated economically https://ec.europa.
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by yogthos 4y ago
That's another important point to keep in mind. A lot of US intellectual capital actually comes from China which is now a peer competitor for US. As US starts drumming up Yellow Peril 2.0, a lot of these people are going to go back to
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by yogthos 4y ago
Meanwhile, ASPI just published a report saying that China is on track to dominate development of critical future technologies, with China already beating the US in 37 of 44 such technologies https://web.archive.org/web/
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EA Lays Off over 200 Apex Legends Testers over Zoom Call(kotaku.com)
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by yogthos 4y ago
For all the intelligence individual humans exhibit, humanity as a whole behaves indistinguishably from a slime mold [1]. If we treat humanity as an organism where individuals humans are cells, then the behavior of the organism is to just sp
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by yogthos 4y ago
What makes people see non-Lisp-like languages and think to themselves "yep, this is how I want my code to look like" is beyond me
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by yogthos 4y ago
Personally, I find the UX on Mastodon is strictly superior to Twitter. The UI is more responsive, you have Tweetdeck style columns that let you track lists on the same page, you can mark content as sensitive, collapse long posts, and automa
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by yogthos 4y ago
Even if you discount Syria, the rest of the examples are NATO projects. If NATO was a defensive alliance as you claimed then it would not be constantly invading countries. NATO literally murdered and displaced millions of people in wars of
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by yogthos 4y ago
because that's working out real well so far https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2023/01/31/wo... https://news.sky.com/story/russias-economy-has-weather
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by yogthos 4y ago
Which is an incredibly reductive understanding of the concept.
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by yogthos 4y ago
The division in society is between the classes of people who live off their capital and people who live off their labour. These two groups of people have contradictory interests. People who own capital want to pay workers as little as possi
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by yogthos 4y ago
Yet, only one of us pretends to know what political system China has better than people living there.

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