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[Randomuser]

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I saw this news getting traction. I can't be bothered to search up, but I said previously Indians are going to be the scapegoat or the guys who become the face of layoffs and outsourcing in tech. When all is said and done, the so called great Indian CEOs that Jai Hinds are proud of will be the first ones that come to mind. The actual capital holders of Jewish and white elites who gave the go ahead will get away with it and Indians will get lynched on the streets.

On another note, I want to say Reddit is tone deaf saying these Indian CEOs are Trump supporters and agree with his values. Did they forget how they implemented DEI and all those other liberal policies when Biden was in charge? Did they forget the now fired Indian Twitter CEO suppressed right wing views during his tenure? Did they forget Indian Americans tend to vote democratic?

The truth is these Indian CEOs bootlick whoever is in charge. Before it was Biden so they went for all those DEI and ESG policies. Now Trump is in power they are being anti DEI and ESG. Its so shamelessly two faced and lacking in principles. But India is used to serving different rulers including Mughals and Brits so why is this so hard to comprehend?

 

[siegecrossbow]

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I saw this news getting traction. I can't be bothered to search up, but I said previously Indians are going to be the scapegoat or the guys who become the face of layoffs and outsourcing in tech. When all is said and done, the so called great Indian CEOs that Jai Hinds are proud of will be the first ones that come to mind. The actual capital holders of Jewish and white elites who gave the go ahead will get away with it and Indians will get lynched on the streets.

On another note, I want to say Reddit is tone deaf saying these Indian CEOs are Trump supporters and agree with his values. Did they forget how they implemented DEI and all those other liberal policies when Biden was in charge? Did they forget the now fired Indian Twitter CEO suppressed right wing views during his tenure? Did they forget Indian Americans tend to vote democratic?

The truth is these Indian CEOs bootlick whoever is in charge. Before it was Biden so they went for all those DEI and ESG policies. Now Trump is in power they are being anti DEI and ESG. It’s so shamelessly two faced and lacking in principles. But India is used to serving different rulers including Mughals and Brits so why is this so hard to comprehend?

Personally I can’t wait for Zuckerberg to pick up XJP Thought study again. Must be rusty after a decade long hiatus.

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Trump to direct Japan’s $550bn investment in US after deal with Tokyo​

Japan has agreed to let Donald Trump decide where $550bn worth of its capital is invested in the US as part a deal to avoid high tariffs, according to an unpublished memorandum signed by the two countries on Wednesday.
The memo, signed on Thursday when Trump officially enacted the trade deal, also gives Japan just 45 days to fund projects earmarked by the president — or face the reimposition of his steep tariffs.

The unusual terms agreed between the US president and the world’s fourth-largest economy underscore the extraordinary lengths that Washington’s trading partners will go to in order to secure tariff relief.
Japan, one of the Washington’s closest allies, had faced a tariff on its exports to the US of 25 per cent. The new deal reduces it to 15 per cent.

South Korea and the EU have also pledged to plough huge sums into the American economy in a bid to avert punitive taxes on their exports.

But the details surrounding such promises have until now been hazy — and Washington and other foreign capitals have offered diverging accounts of the terms.

Japanese officials previously offered a different account from Trump’s officials about how the proceeds of their investment into the US would be split with Washington, suggesting the shares would reflect the size of each country’s investment.

The new memorandum released on Thursday showed that the US would strongly benefit from the profits on Japan’s $550bn worth of investments.

The countries will evenly split the cash flow generated until Japan’s investment is paid off — at which point the US will take 90 per cent of the proceeds.

The deal is the latest in a series of unorthodox moves by the president aimed at boosting US government profit and reordering global trade to favour his “America First” agenda.

Last month, Trump struck a deal with US chipmakers Nvidia and AMD that will see them pay the administration a portion of revenue generated by chip sales in China. The White House has also said it would take a 10 per cent stake in chipmaker Intel.

Trump also earlier approved this year took a golden share in US Steel as part of his approval of Japanese producer Nippon Steel’s $15bn takeover of the company.

The billions of dollars promised to the US by Japan come as part of a broader deal struck to lower Trump’s punitive so-called reciprocal tariffs. Aside from dropping the headline rate, the US also reduced the levy on Japanese cars and car parts from 27.5 per cent to 15 per cent.

The US codified the new tariff rates in an executive order at a ceremony with Japanese officials at the commerce department.

Earlier this year, Trump framed Japan’s proposed investment pledge as a “signing bonus”, and said the Asian country had “bought down” US tariffs, although US levies on imports from Japan are higher than they were before the president returned to office.

The memorandum said Trump would be given the final pick of potential investment projects put to him by an investment committee chaired by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

The memo also sets out that the investment committee should attempt to choose Japanese suppliers to “provide goods and services” for any of the projects invested in, where possible.

“This initiative could have a positive medium- to long-term impact on Japanese exports, depending on the procurement ratios,” Morgan Stanley economist Takeshi Yamaguchi wrote in a note to clients on Friday.

Japan has agreed to let Donald Trump decide where $550bn worth of its capital is invested in the US as part a deal to avoid high tariffs

The countries will evenly split the cash flow generated until Japan’s investment is paid off — at which point the US will take 90 per cent of the proceeds.

 

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Interesting after effects the 93 parade is bringing.

 

[horse]

Anutin has become Thailand's new Prime Minister

陈锡尧 is his Chinese name, ancestors from our Guangdong province, wonder where in there. He looks like a schemer. Heh. A guy we met sometime before, one look at him and we know he knows all the tricks.

Jai Chan!

That is what I always say that once in a while. So many of us.

Jai Chan!

 

[AssassinsMace]

I read somewhere that well over 50% of South Korean males vote right-wing. The reason why their candidate didn't win the Presidency was because the majority of South Korean women voted the other way. Maybe China should help North Korea become an all-aspect rival to counter South Korea and also Japan. From what I get, South Koreans hate North Koreans like they were another race to look down as genetically inferior. It doesn't seem like they'll be looking at each other as equal Koreans anytime soon. Japan didn't like when South Korea stole the technological limelight from them and they don't like China eclipsing them both. Something seems to have changed with Kim Jong Un going to a multinational gathering and also bringing his heir-apparent daughter. Maybe China should take advantage especially since both Japan and South Korea are more insecure about their position in the world than ever. Also I think China should probably help some African countries make Europe feel insecure like how Israel feels insecure over adversaries' rising capabilities. They talk about helping against China in Asia. China should return the favor. Europe looks at Africa as their backyard. That's why they don't like China there buying up supplies they think belong to them. The West is thin on giving foreign aid. There's a lot more anti-Western colonial fervor within Africa than probably anywhere else. You don't think the West is working on right now the return of anti-Chinese pogroms around the world like they did from the Opium Wars all the way up to Nixon going to China? Those were the good ole days to them and don't think liberal Westerners will care. Yeah they'll care... when the massacre has already happened so they can look like they came over the hill to the rescue.

 

[GulfLander]

They probably need affordable and superior Chinese EVs so that they can meet their 2026 EV target.

Canada paused their EV mandate

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Software update complete. Indian views on China, before & after.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1963943987800137996

This guy was a Major General in the Indian Army. This is what we're dealing with on the battlefield.

Same guy wanted to sell Brahmos to Taiwan earlier this year.

Is this connected wiyh the congress/senate bill about Keeping Call centers in America?

lndia still selling arms to PH too...

 

[horse]

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I suspect that this is total propaganda.

Designed to make North Korea (and by extension China), look weak.

And to glorify the American struggle for justice like in the comic books.

The rumour is that the US military establishment want to retreat because too much advanced weaponry in Russia and China, who are willing to use it.

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When you're outgunned, this is a logical move.

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Obviously, there are vested interests that do not want to see any changes, regardless if the Americans are outgunned.

It is similar to the situation with Gorbachev and his Perestroika and Glasnost.

At that point, the Soviet Union was in a state of real decay, something had to be done.

These policies were introduced into that entrenched system. That was why the Perestroika and Glasnost failed, because the system started fighting back. They kind of knew there had to be changes, but let some other comrade pay the price.

So we have to expect the same kind of phenomenon to happen here with the American military industrial complex, if there are any efforts to scale back.

This seems to me the deep state fighting back, planting fake news to create that FUD so people in America will trust that more military spending is the right choice.

The deep state is highly manipulative. Given the stakes involved for each one of them personally, their greed and the state deep organizational instincts for survival, will make this very interesting.

That is what I believe. Unless this superhero US seals infiltration happens to be true. That I doubt very much. Not much communications in North Korea probably more like it. Nothing to bug, lol.

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What would be the best move for China here?

My guess is more proxy war with Chinese weapons.

 

[horse]

I read somewhere that well over 50% of South Korean males vote right-wing. The reason why their candidate didn't win the Presidency was because the majority of South Korean women voted the other way. Maybe China should help North Korea become an all-aspect rival to counter South Korea and also Japan. From what I get, South Koreans hate North Koreans like they were another race to look down as genetically inferior. It doesn't seem like they'll be looking at each other as equal Koreans anytime soon. Japan didn't like when South Korea stole the technological limelight from them and they don't like China eclipsing them both. Something seems to have changed with Kim Jong Un going to a multinational gathering and also bringing his heir-apparent daughter. Maybe China should take advantage especially since both Japan and South Korea are more insecure about their position in the world than ever. Also I think China should probably help some African countries make Europe feel insecure like how Israel feels insecure over adversaries' rising capabilities. They talk about helping against China in Asia. China should return the favor. Europe looks at Africa as their backyard. That's why they don't like China there buying up supplies they think belong to them. The West is thin on giving foreign aid. There's a lot more anti-Western colonial fervor within Africa than probably anywhere else. You don't think the West is working on right now the return of anti-Chinese pogroms around the world like they did from the Opium Wars all the way up to Nixon going to China? Those were the good ole days to them and don't think liberal Westerners will care. Yeah they'll care... when the massacre has already happened so they can look like they came over the hill to the rescue.

Yep, agree with you on one point, a lot of moving pieces.

Those two countries of South Korea and Japan they could be going down a notch or two, probably more, if they stay hitched too tightly to the Americans, who seem to be slipping themselves.

Seems like a new era is emerging in the West, of neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism lead by the United States, with its allies being the first victims or proud victims, depending on your point of view.

Kind of funny. Hehe. Hehe.

 

[coldplayer1002]

I read somewhere that well over 50% of South Korean males vote right-wing. The reason why their candidate didn't win the Presidency was because the majority of South Korean women voted the other way. Maybe China should help North Korea become an all-aspect rival to counter South Korea and also Japan. From what I get, South Koreans hate North Koreans like they were another race to look down as genetically inferior. It doesn't seem like they'll be looking at each other as equal Koreans anytime soon. Japan didn't like when South Korea stole the technological limelight from them and they don't like China eclipsing them both. Something seems to have changed with Kim Jong Un going to a multinational gathering and also bringing his heir-apparent daughter. Maybe China should take advantage especially since both Japan and South Korea are more insecure about their position in the world than ever. Also I think China should probably help some African countries make Europe feel insecure like how Israel feels insecure over adversaries' rising capabilities. They talk about helping against China in Asia. China should return the favor. Europe looks at Africa as their backyard. That's why they don't like China there buying up supplies they think belong to them. The West is thin on giving foreign aid. There's a lot more anti-Western colonial fervor within Africa than probably anywhere else. You don't think the West is working on right now the return of anti-Chinese pogroms around the world like they did from the Opium Wars all the way up to Nixon going to China? Those were the good ole days to them and don't think liberal Westerners will care. Yeah they'll care... when the massacre has already happened so they can look like they came over the hill to the rescue.

1.This is because gender conflicts in South Korea are extremely intense. Interestingly, the situation in China is now also severe, if not equally so. Some South Korean men's rights groups and feminist organizations have infiltrated the Chinese internet. The former have set up accounts on Bilibili(such as

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), while the latter often "appeal to foreign audiences" on platforms with large female user bases like Xiaohongshu and Douban.
2. The North Korean nuclear issue in the 2010s nearly significantly impacted China-North Korea relations. Although it is now a settled matter, it remains unlikely that China will provide large-scale aid to North Korea in the near future. North Korean leadership also values maintaining its political independence. However, in recent years, China has indeed transferred a considerable amount of light industry to North Korea, particularly food processing production lines.
3. It is inevitable that the Belt and Road Initiative will extend to Africa. The continent holds immense potential for economic growth, and China has every reason to play a role there. However, African nations vary greatly, with prevalent tribalism, poor security conditions, and low levels of education among the population. Therefore, China’s current involvement in Africa primarily focuses on infrastructure construction and commodity exports, rather than transferring full production systems. Another important reason is that China’s history of direct foreign intervention has been relatively unsuccessful and is distant in time from the present. Thus, if China intends to engage in activities beyond economic cooperation, it still faces significant challenges.