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Chevalier

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Lmao. Enshitification.
80s nostalgia is getting out of control.



The message I’m getting from these two tweets are the same: the entire world is jealous of China‘s industrial capacity and none of this was god given or bequeathed to China, all of Chinas industrial capacity and technological developments were all borne from Chinese hard work, blood, sweat and sacrifice, yet the entire world, from India to Europe to America, to even Africa, believe themselves entitled to Chinese technology and IP, like China should just hand it over for….what? Ten seconds of being liked? Indian elites in Oxbridge might value that but fortunately Chinese leaders are made of sterner stuff.
 

FriedButter

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That’s strange, the western press and The Economist assured me that “Saving face” was a purely Asiatic practice,

Also the EU earlier this week.

Private jets are green, EU court rules​

Private jets are a green investment, the European Union’s second-highest court has ruled.

Production of the aircraft cannot be classified as bad for the environment and should not be excluded from a roster of activities deemed suitable for green investments, the EU General Court said on Wednesday.
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neutralobserver

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China — they are surrounded by Japan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Russia. That's a tough part of the world. And they've pissed them all off — and not because of us, all on their own.

Looks like Jamie doesn’t know who China’s friends and allies are in this region..
 

FriedButter

Brigadier
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I don’t know why they care so much but South Korea has ordered a government investigation over their FIFA elimination. The South Korea President is very unhappy.

And it sounds like this is a criminal investigation.

"We will form a committee to conduct a thorough investigation and hold those responsible strictly accountable." Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young makes promise
Competence had not been prioritized when selecting a leader
I am deeply sorry for causing such profound disappointment to the public over this absurd affair. We will swiftly push forward with reforms to sports administration to ensure such a thing never happens again.


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AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Isn’t it funny how Anthropic accuses China of distilling its AI to make their own and yet here you have Mythos that Anthropic has walled off to only a select few and yet GLM 5.2 surfaces that some in the Western world says beats it in some measures. I thought they walled it off so China couldn’t get it from them? China already had it without them and didn’t advertise it until Anthropic started waving it around like gun to tell everyone they had it as a threat.
 

TK3600

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Historically both Japan and South Korea have utilized strict foreign-player quotas to protect domestic talent and ensure young local players have ample playing time to develop. This has evolved as both Japan and Korea has significant improved much better (e.g. routinely qualifying for World Cup) so they relaxed these foreign-quota restrictions to promote domestic competitive play, but they only relaxed after they gotten better, not when they still sucked. They encouraged sending local players to European leagues to absorb knowledge and return as coaches and national team players.

Japan and Korea has an systemic grass roots youth development pipeline that sees large pool of kids commit to football throughout their formative prime years. Historically Chinese kids drop their interest in football too early during their formative years, but China has been adopting the Japan/Korea playbook....but developing grass roots youth talent pool organically takes at least 10-15 years to see results as next generation goes through this development pipeline.
It is kind of like Chinese industrial policy. Introduce enough foriegn firms to compete with domestic. Back in Mao's era there was only domestic, and it produced a form of complacency in a captured market. Same goes for soccer.
 
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