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[sheogorath]

Anglos are a predictable bunch

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890830803657011239

 

[iewgnem]

Anglos are a predictable bunch

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890830803657011239

Its actually uncharacteristic for them to propose something irreversible for something reversible

 

[zyklon]

The problem is many MBB guys are just people who graduated summa cum laude from undergraduate, went to a decent job then went to Harvard Business School for their MBA and then joined MBB.

Sounds about right. MBB are filled with a lot of smart guys and girls with excellent credentials who know how to communicate with clients in a polished fashion; but tend to be lacking in experience, if not depth in general. A lot of them aren't in it to stay in management consulting, but as a springboard into PE/VC, at least in the US.

Credential wise this looks really good. The problem is there are levels to this stuff. Like we are talking almost PHD level abstract levels in math/physics when it comes to the problems China deals with. Simply put you need specialized high level knowledge or expertise experience gained in the field. A lot of idiots think Xi handles everything when in reality there are tons of CPC subject matter experts to give advice in every area possible. Management consultants are really only scratching the surface compared to the level of depth needed.

Do Chinese management consultancies make much of an effort to recruit SMEs with experience advising the State Council or individual ministries/agencies, and/or who have otherwise contributed to or drafted policy measures?

I guess in the past McKinsey helped a lot in China because it was backwards and McKinsey simply could reuse their work from last time. But whatever the amount they helped, things have changed now. There is no more copypasting the analysis when China is at the forefront now.

This isn't necessarily as impactful of an issue in developed economies filled with legacy enterprises looking to "try new ideas" to adapt to evolving market conditions.

However, in an economy like China's, one would imagine such legacy enterprises to have adapted or attrited years ago.

People like Pete Buttigieg and Mitt Romney majored in English. So no wonder they seem to create more problems than they solve.

Not familiar with Buttigieg, but Romney is basically American political royalty: his father had served as governor of Michigan and was considered a presidential hopeful at some point.

There's no denying Mitt Romney is highly competent and quite charming, but given his pedigree, guy would've been hired with a BFA in underwater basket weaving.

Some murican was mocking China saying oh we are so scared on China delivering fake goods to us or something. The Chinese poster just said one drone = one life. Man that murican got triggered hard by that comment. After all despite being so convinced about his superiority, he realized that some cheap $20 drone bought on temu to deliver his pizza could also end his life so easily in seconds.

A lot of people who've achieved little in life themselves find solace in insulting and degrading entire groups who they feel threatened by, yet consider themselves superior to.

It's a coping mechanism.

Europe will blow up if they make such an attempt. Europe lacks Arabic Soft Power and Hard power (money) to create an effective Army of Migrants. Migrants will first to turn on host countries if they find out such thing is created and the combat performance will be subpar in high tech battlefield.
Not even Turkey can create Islamic army of 21st century. This Muslim faith in 21st century is only for extremely wealthy societies.
Only Russia has the Wealth , Tech and Arabic Soft Power behind to create such an Army to command others. so when you look at Russia tourism statistics its hardly impacted. do you think Robots are fighting on there behalf?.
Kazan is the culture capital of Islamic world and Grozny is the Culture capital of Russia. and that Miss Tatarstan backstage once you understand is like distributing handouts.

Europe is almost certainly not going to raise a 21st century Grande Armee of Muslim conscripts to aid Ukraine and fight Russia.

However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage and egg on such a diverse and inclusive experiment for our collective entertainment!

 

[RedBaron]

Anglos are a predictable bunch

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890830803657011239

Well, hopefully Putin is not stupid enough to fall for the same old divide et impera tactic used by Anglos. Russian leadership has been very gullible in the past, so I am not completely excluding that possibility.

 

[jiajia99]

Anglos are a predictable bunch

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890830803657011239

Like as if this useless diplomatic has anything to convince them with at this point in time. He really needs to learn the art of shutting up and just having some consideration that no one in their right minds needs to sacrifice themselves to make a spoilt brat happy

 

[Overbom]

Well, hopefully Putin is not stupid enough to fall for the same old divide et impera tactic used by Anglos. Russian leadership has been very gullible in the past, so I am not completely excluding that possibility.

If I was a rational pragmatic leader, I would only consider that deal if Trump basically handed over Warsaw Pact countries back to Russia. Also, very important, delivery upfront and returns not accepted!

But we all know that the US will never offer such a deal, so no rational Russian leader would take it. As you correctly point out, ball is on Russian leaders to not get tempted by whatever bs US offers

I have been quite an anti-Putin person for various reasons but in this, I trust that he has learned from previous bitter lessons. I am more worried about other Russian politicians who see themselves as whites and want to be accepted by their precious West, than Putin himself

 

[canonicalsadhu]

Breaking the China Russia alliance is out of the question obviously, but there may be a potential deal where US gives Russia concessions on Ukraine / Nato while Russia gives guarantees to not cooperate with China in the Asia-Pacific region. I honestly think that China would even welcome it - it will drive a wedge between US and EU, ensuring that the EU would remain an open market for China and stay out of its military business in SCS/Taiwan, all the while being confident that China has more than enough resources to take on the US and its Asia Pacific allies by its own.

 

[Chevalier]

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Pretty good English explanation of the story behind Ne Zha 2, which is much easier for Chinese to understand.

If the ”elaborate plot is a challenge” to western journalists, they’re really revealing the measure of intellectual rigour required for their role.

Comrade Elon should slow down. He draws too much attention. MSS should advice him to lay low for a bit

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World

part of the media attack against trump and musk of course, a few weeks back, Musk was bemoaning how everything was over classified and I struggle to see how head count should even be a national security secret, when the CIA has already doxxed the DOGE team and even given musk and his team the identities of new hires at the CIA.

I wasted more time browsing X comments. But I do get why westoids should glad that the Chinese firewall stops most posters from there. It ain't easy dealing with their words.

Some murican was mocking China saying oh we are so scared on China delivering fake goods to us or something. The Chinese poster just said one drone = one life. Man that murican got triggered hard by that comment. After all despite being so convinced about his superiority, he realized that some cheap $20 drone bought on temu to deliver his pizza could also end his life so easily in seconds.

Another murican said those chinkies should bring it since every American is armed and willing to die. To which the Chinese poster said you are willing to die for your country so why are you not willing to learn math and physics for it? Sick burn

It was even worse before the days of reddit when many Americans just let loose with their white supremacist views; not saying it’s any different now but back then, there was a plausible reason for their superiority complex As America and the west were still much more powerful than today.

 

[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890828668001304750

Zelensky is a liability now. I wouldn't be flying in airplanes if I was him.

 

[RedBaron]

The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus.
It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a senior State Department official in five years, and the start of what could be a highly consequential thawing of frozen relations between the United States and Russia’s closest ally.
The below-the-radar American visit to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, on Wednesday came just a day after President Trump had a long telephone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Both events signaled Washington’s departure from a yearslong policy of trying to isolate leaders out of favor in the West because of their repressive policies and the war in Ukraine.

After talks with Mr. Lukashenko, Christopher W. Smith, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and two other American officials drove to a village near the border with Lithuania. There, courtesy of the Belarusian KGB, three people who had been jailed — an American and two Belarusian political prisoners — were waiting to be picked up.

As darkness fell, the Americans and the freed prisoners drove back across the border to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. Speaking outside the U.S. Embassy there on Wednesday evening, Mr. Smith hailed the successful completion of what he called “a special operation,” describing the prisoners’ release as a “huge win and a response to President Trump’s peace through strength agenda.”

The next step, Mr. Smith told a gathering of Western diplomats on Thursday in Vilnius, according to people who attended, is a possible grand bargain under which Mr. Lukashenko would release a slew of political prisoners, including prominent ones. In return, the United States would relax sanctions on Belarusian banks and exports of potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer, of which Belarus is a major producer.

Mr. Smith, according to diplomats who attended his briefing, said the primary U.S. goal was to secure freedom for more political prisoners. He said he had asked Mr. Lukashenko whether he was ready to scale back repression and was assured that he was. Another important aim, Mr. Smith told the diplomats, is to give Mr. Lukashenko some breathing room outside Russia’s orbit of influence.
Piotr Krawczyk, a former head of Poland’s foreign intelligence service who worked with the first Trump administration on loosening Russia’s grip on Belarus, said Belarus was “part of a wider American approach toward Russia.”
The United States is “confronting Russia in Ukraine, in Africa, in the oil and gas sector, and in several other strategic areas,” he said. “Negotiating with Belarus creates additional leverage for the U.S. to signal to Russia that they should be more attentive to American arguments.”

Mr. Shraibman, the exiled analyst, said a big question now was how the Kremlin would react to any rapprochement between Belarus and the West. Many Russian officials “would likely panic at the prospect,” he said, but “there is no quick or easy way for Belarus to distance itself from Russia given Moscow’s economic dominance over the country.”

He added that it was unlikely that President Trump “has any particular interest in, understanding of or a plan for Belarus.” Even so, he said, the “Trump factor certainly creates some momentum, as everyone, including Lukashenko, tries to impress the U.S. president and compete for his attention.”

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