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China to produce homegrown ‘Australian lobsters’
"President Xi Jinping says the made-in-China lobsters, which are yabbies grown in fish ponds, will make his country 'more resilient in a hostile world'."

Mess with China and you can at best get relations normalized but you can't have back what was taken from you as punishment. Chinese suppliers already filled the gap and they're not moving.

Bit of a mistake in the video, though. Chinese producers are replacing Australian Yabbies, which are huge blue crawfish that are very breedable in aquaculture. They are not replacing the spiney lobsters as shown, as those, without genetic modification, cannot be effectively grown since they take 14 months to get out of the larval form and several years (I've seen a pic of a lobster claimed to be 30 years old at an Australian research facility and it was like less than a kilo in weight) to get to edible size. But alternatives include lobster species found in Southeast Asia that can be farmed and also in possible genetic modification for rapid growth and metamorphosis. China has created the Dragon grouper artificial species (from mixing DNA of the Goliath grouper and Tiger grouper) that grows very quickly and can be reared in freshwater so I hope they research ways to do this to lobster too, for both Australian and American/Canadian lobster, which have very unique and actually opposite challenges (American lobsters grow fast but are aggressive and need to be separated while Austalian lobsters grow extremely slowly but are communual) to each other in aquaculture. Perhaps a lobster that uses DNA from both to create the perfect lobster (fast growth and communual) for farming.
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Red (lobster) DNA genetic modification confirmed…
 
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Great great news:
China’s anti-corruption watchdog detained a record 45 high-ranking officials in 2023, according to a tally by SCMP. Over half of the detained officials, or “tigers” as they are known, had already retired, breaking an "unspoken rule" that former officials would be spared from investigation.
 
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martinwagner

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luminary said:
Great great news:
China’s anti-corruption watchdog detained a record 45 high-ranking officials in 2023, according to a tally by SCMP. Over half of the detained officials, or “tigers” as they are known, had already retired, breaking an "unspoken rule" that former officials would be spared from investigation.
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What is the typical punishment for them? 10 years in prison? Life in prison? Firing squad if found to have embezzled more than $2 million USD?
 
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gelgoog

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Expulsion from membership in the Chinese Communist Party? And since you basically need to be a Party member to be in public office this basically amounts from being forbidden to work in high government positions anymore. You can no longer run on elections, be elected, have a high position, etc.
 
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drowingfish

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gelgoog said:
Expulsion from membership in the Chinese Communist Party? And since you basically need to be a Party member to be in public office this basically amounts from being forbidden to work in high government positions anymore. You can no longer run on elections, be elected, have a high position, etc.
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at this point that is the least of their worries, at this day and age if you did something bad enough to get expulsion, you are likely facing jail time, especially at their level. at a lower level it is possible that you be expelled but no jail.
 
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in 2023, a total of 18.43 million Chinese passports were issued, up 1,625.4 percent year on year, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) announced on Thursday..

China to resume passport, visa issuance from Jan. 8, 2023 | Macau Business
 
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drowingfish

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luminary said:
Great great news:
China’s anti-corruption watchdog detained a record 45 high-ranking officials in 2023, according to a tally by SCMP. Over half of the detained officials, or “tigers” as they are known, had already retired, breaking an "unspoken rule" that former officials would be spared from investigation.
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i recall in a recent meeting of the disciplinary committee, a lot of emphasis was placed on government-business ties. would not be surprised if this year more businessmen are exposed for corruption, along with their beneficiaries in the government/party of course.
 
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