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vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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Kind of like how people group Africans into one group, even in casual conversation African countries are rarely mentioned. I always laugh at the silliness of it. A Black American artist recent went on social media to complain that modeling agencies like to hire models who look "really African". He was dragged for that comment, what he was meant was that these modelling agencies like the East African look specifically a sub group of Nilotic peoples from South Sudan. Folks think that just because people from the Horn (Ethiopian, Somalis, etc.) look different to Bantus then they must be "mixed", I correct that fallacy and tell them they are native Africans, as if the second largest continent can't be as diverse as everywhere else.
I like the look of Ethiopians.
 

Bellum_Romanum

Brigadier
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Same as they have always done in its entire history; act brutish lacking in elegance or sophistication and assume that they're the only big dog that has the big stick.

Be that as it may, China can't allow Russia to lose against NATO backed Ukraine - even if the Russian invasion goes against one of China's core principles of anti-expansionism. I never liked the Russians then, will never like them for as long as they exhibit their Ork like mentality.
 
Folks think that just because people from the Horn (Ethiopian, Somalis, etc.) look different to Bantus then they must be "mixed", I correct that fallacy and tell them they are native Africans, as if the second largest continent can't be as diverse as everywhere else
Aren't most of Ethiopians and many Somalians a mix of Nilotic and Arab ancestry? They speak Afro-Asiatic languages after all.
 

pmc

Colonel
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This post is exagerated. But yes Russia blocked imports of Chinese trucks to save market share for KAMAZ and Ural. A lot of this is because the market is saturated at a time interest rates are still high and demand is low. Russian truck makers can easily cover existing demand by themselves.

You can expect truck imports to be allowed back eventually but there will be some kind of barrier to safeguard local truck makers.

As for GLONASS that person has no idea what they are talking about. All vehicles in Russia with no exception must have the ERA-GLONASS system. This is not a navigation aid. It is a system where in an emergency it communicates with Russian emergency services requesting them to assist you. Russia is pretty sparse, you might be hundreds of km from someone else when your car breaks down or worse. So this is mandatory.
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i have read they deliberately reducing economic growth to make it easier to do the accountability of rest of population. what is that implementation of traditional values. and Russia is not as much interested in offering its infrastructure for transit trade. so if Chinese trucks dominate rest of Central Asia than Russia will prefer not not have parts of those Trucks inside Russia. there will be alot more standardization in autos.

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Putin told how to reduce the number of migrants in Russia
“In order to reduce the number of labor migrants, we need to increase labor productivity,” the head of state suggested.
 

supercat

Colonel
America-China watcher = China hater, Pandemic Truther = conspiracist ⇒ safe to ignore

I mean restrictions on trucks from china and other trade restrictions
Once the Ukraine war ends, the Russian market will be flooded with imported trucks. So maybe they are just preparing to protect their own auto industry, instead of discriminating against China exclusively.

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Nvidia and AMD are really between a rock and a hard place: the Trump regime is forcing them to pay 15% of their sales revenue (not profit) to the US government.

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government​

Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration
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Trump is bullying India? The orange man is just aping China!

As though we need more evidence that Gordon G. Chang and his ilks are racists.

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resistance

Junior Member
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America-China watcher = China hater, Pandemic Truther = conspiracist ⇒ safe to ignore
Have you even see his account or even read all of that post? his post is pro china generally and his questions is legimate. Why would Russia even restricted import from china especially the time russia need china.
Also alliance with India? What reasons for Russia to alliance closely with India anyways
 

Square

Just Hatched
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ABS-CBN News:
2 Chinese ships collide after chasing Philippine vessel in Bajo de Masinloc, Philippine Coast Guard said.

Hull number 164, identified as the Type 052DL destroyer "Guilin," was crossing between the two ships and appears to have misjudged the speed and distance.

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LKK815

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ABS-CBN News:
2 Chinese ships collide after chasing Philippine vessel in Bajo de Masinloc, PCG said.

Hull number 164, identified as the Type 052D destroyer "Guilin," was crossing between the two ships and appears to have misjudged the speed and distance.

This is the dumbest collision I've ever seen.


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CCG vessal was parallel to the164 in the previous clip with the PCG vessal in between both of them. Based on the other clips it looks like the Pinoy ship turned hard right cutting Infront of 164 and for some reason the ccg ship decided to chase after it, leading to the collision
 
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