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by pragmomm 2y ago
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A Chinese poster complaining about US going against Cuba, when China is Cuba's second largest trading partner and an important ally, what a surprise. China's Xi vows to support Cuba in defending its national sovereignty https:&#
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I think it's great that the Chinese government, known for welding people inside their house, forcing citizens to continue paying into unfinished apartment building, taking passports away from teachers, transferring organs from young bo
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by pragmomm 2y ago
Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had “God mode” entry to US data https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/former-tiktok... Two academic studies argue that TikTok favors Chinese governme
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by pragmomm 2y ago
So where's the outrage from American parents and public that China owned and controlled TikTok is exposing underage kids to pedophiles? Why is support of TikTok ban declining? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads&#x
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by pragmomm 2y ago
I think most people do have a good idea that it's not a good time to go to China for tourism or FDI, which is why: Investment into China by foreign businesses slumped to a 30-year low in 2023 https://qz.com/china-foreig
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by pragmomm 2y ago
Canvas is closer to Cursor ( https://www.cursor.com ) than Claude. I wonder how Paul Graham thinks of Sam Altman basically copying Cursor and potentially every upstream AI company out of YC, maybe as soon as they launch on demo da
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by pragmomm 2y ago
There was no penalty/death sentence for the recent public incident of the oil tank truck that was found transporting both toxic industrial oil and cooking oil, without cleaning in between. Which apparently was a wide-spread practice,
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Obviously there are way more occurrences than this video. Also, the lady in the video acted like nothing was wrong and admitted no shame, which means there is a culture/common practice of using gutter oil.
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still happening in China in 2024 Foreigner caught a Chinese couple scooping up gutter oil https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1eo2wmy/...
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by pragmomm 2y ago
I think you're making the wrong distinction here, it's not about whether the result came from a known or unknown paper mill in that country. It's about whether there is a culture of fraud and fakeness that permeates that cou
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by pragmomm 2y ago
You should also understand that there are external forces here, like state sponsorships that monetarily rewards for scientists to simply file enough research findings. The startling rise in the publication of sham science papers has its roo
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by pragmomm 2y ago
Just people who can't seem to understand that the world isn't black or white, but shades of gray.
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by pragmomm 2y ago
I'm pretty sure we let Russia develop after their collapse in 1990, right up until they invaded Ukraine again in 2022. And we let China develop after they liberalized in 1979, right up until they turned dictatorship in 2017, snuffed o
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by pragmomm 2y ago
I would encourage you, if you claimed so in this thread that you are a US and UK citizen, to quickly move out of US and renounce your US citizenship. So the torture and rage that you're displaying here and the paradox of your identity
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by pragmomm 2y ago
US's security umbrella covers more than 5% of the global population. Even those countries that try to play many sides, such as India.
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by pragmomm 2y ago
Interesting hypothesis; I would encourage you to test your hypothesis by moving to Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, and help those countries to grow its might equal to US. And also see how hard your life becomes
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https://www.cnbctv18.com/economy/china-has-over-600-million-... the updated 2023 estimate is in mandarin
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viable alternative for maybe 20 million upper class people in China. 800 million others are making less than $100/month.
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China also has 800 million people making less than $100/month. where do you think the millionaires and billionaires in China skimmed their wealth from?
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by pragmomm 2y ago
Europe's past foreign policy, which relied on Russia and China, is what got them into trouble now. They should be more aligned with US, which they finally realized. NATO chief urges China to stop supporting Russia's war in Ukrain
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by pragmomm 2y ago
> average man is actually very pro-China survey would say otherwise: For the fifth year in a row, about eight-in-ten Americans report an unfavorable view of China https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05&#x2F
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by pragmomm 2y ago
I don't think US needs to spend that amount of money, I think China is doing enough stupid things to spur anti-China sentiments overseas. Also, they could just remind people that China released COVID which killed millions and cost cou
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by pragmomm 2y ago
based on the lack of big policy move from Chinese government this year, many thinks China has now run out of powder.
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It just takes time. China took a while to get to the efficient process as well. So will Vietnam, and India, and Philippines.
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by pragmomm 2y ago
China has been printing money since 2009. thus the 11 trillion off the book debts for local governments.
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Every (sane) company now has a China+1 strategy, mainly manufacturing for Chinese audience in China, and elsewhere for other audiences. It's easier to decouple from China now, much easier than 3 years ago.
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Not enough, especially with the increasing trade sanctions and tariffs coming from every other country against China. There's a reason why there are Chinese state employees not having been paid for 8 months, or Chinese citizens unable
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China's debt is mostly internal, not external. It doesn't need a war to restructure debt. However, it does need to pay out an increasing amount of social pensions to its aging population, maintain its increasingly expensive and
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by pragmomm 2y ago
China is really really broke, from central government, to local government, to enterprise, to individuals. from 11 trillion off the book debts for local governments, to record number of Chinese blacklisted for debt defaults. from 7 trilli

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