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supersnoop said:
Liang Mong Song got a lot more than 5 Xibucks...


What do you expect from a government full of Liberal Arts majors and Lawyers?


Yes, but I would hope that SDF readers know a bit better, it's not even worth discussing here. It's so exceedingly stupid. Like why would China have a plan to take over Taiwan for EUV technology instead of, you know, just having a plan to develop EUV technology?
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It does make sense to deny Chinese semiconductor technology from falling to the Americans.

China itself can make as many TSMC as it wants. America can't. So I think before US can credibly understand/infiltrate to a sufficient level where they may be able to steal the technology, China should scorched earth it.
 
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supersnoop said:
Just factually wrong…
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Some days, the butt hertz is overwhelming.

The Chinese are beating them at certain areas of commerce and technology, then we probably have President Trump returning for an encore.

This is like too much for some to take in the land of NFL football.

Then if their favourite team loses on Sunday, they have to lash out, then go cry in the corner in the dark.

Tough days indeed.
 
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About a year ago, I wrote how China should not underestimate the US and think "the US is bogged down in Ukraine" - rather the primary goal of US initiating/extending the Ukraine conflict has always been spoiling the trade/economic/tech relationship between EU and China. A clear manifestation of this:
As the EU’s 27 member states prepared to vote on whether to impose steep tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles earlier this month, several were called on by American diplomats.

The message was simple: if you vote against these duties and if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November, then the bloc’s ability to make a deal with him that might involve China policy would be severely diminished.
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“We are walking a fine line here,” said one senior official at the time. If the vote failed, it would have killed EU credibility as a tough actor on China – which may come in handy if Trump wins and tries to negotiate continued US support for Ukraine in exchange for Europe’s backing for a hardline agenda on Beijing.
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Russia investigates shoot-down of a (Ilyushin Il-76) in Sudan’s Darfur region (by RSF)​

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Monday they shot down a cargo jet in the country’s far western reaches of Darfur, a claim that Russian diplomats said they were trying to investigate in the war zone.

Mobile phone footage showed what appeared to be a debris field with fighters from the paramilitary force, known as the RSF, showing off what appeared to be identity documents recovered from the crash.

However, documents also shown in the footage from the crash site suggest the aircraft was affiliated with an airline previously linked to an effort by the United Arab Emirates to arm the RSF in the war, something that has been strenuously denied by the UAE despite evidence.

A message from Russia’s Embassy in Khartoum confirmed its diplomats were investigating the incident in Sudan’s Malha region in northern Darfur near the border with Chad. The embassy’s message said Russians may have been on board at the time.

The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese army since April 2023.The paramilitary force claimed in a statement it shot down a “foreign warplane” that had been aiding the Sudanese military. It alleged without providing evidence that the aircraft had been dropping “barrel bombs” on civilians.

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“All foreign mercenaries aboard the aircraft were eliminated in the operation,” the statement said.

Mobile phone footage showed fighters among the burning wreckage, claiming they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile. Identity documents shown included a Russian passport and an ID that linked back to a UAE-based company, whose phone number was disconnected.

A crumpled safety card, also purportedly from the aircraft, identified the plane as an Ilyushin Il-76 flown by New Way Cargo of Kyrgyzstan. Civil aviation officials in Kyrgyzstan did not respond to a request for comment late Monday.

The group Conflict Observatory, which is funded by the U.S. State Department and has been monitoring the Sudan war, linked New Way Cargo’s Ilyushin Il-76s to arming the RSF in a report this month.

It said the airline had facilitated the UAE arms transfers through flights to Aéroport International Maréchal Idriss Deby in Amdjarass, Chad — flights the UAE has claimed have been for supporting a local hospital. Amdjarass is just across the border from Malha, where the shoot-down reportedly happened.

“The UAE has used the airport as a waypoint to facilitate weapons to the RSF,” the report said, noting that the Emirates offered a $1.5 billion loan to rapidly expand the airport. “Absent evidence of a significant local humanitarian crisis and a lack of significant Sudanese refugees in the area casts significant doubt on the UAE’s claims that the airport construction is only for a hospital.”

United Nations experts have said accusations that the UAE armed the RSF were “credible.”

Emirati officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment over the reported plane shoot-down.

Sudan’s war has killed over 24,000 people so far, according to the group Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, which has been monitoring the violence since the conflict’s start. The Sudanese army has been pursuing an intensified offensive near Khartoum, while forces allied with it have been battling the RSF in Darfur.

Sudan has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The short-lived transition to democracy was derailed when two generals, the army’s chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo of the RSF, joined forces to lead a military coup in October 2021. They began battling each other in 2023.

Al-Bashir faces charges at the International Criminal Court over carrying out a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s in Darfur with the Janjaweed, the precursor to the RSF. Rights groups and the U.N. say the RSF and allied Arab militias again are attacking ethnic African groups in the war.
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Apparently, the RSF shot down a cargo plane that their UAE allies were using to sent them supplies.
 
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canonicalsadhu said:
About a year ago, I wrote how China should not underestimate the US and think "the US is bogged down in Ukraine" - rather the primary goal of US initiating/extending the Ukraine conflict has always been spoiling the trade/economic/tech relationship between EU and China. A clear manifestation of this:


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There is no EU China friendly relationship has never been. They are white supremacists are heart and we will never ally, nor should want to.

The primary goal for China in Ukraine is to drive intractable schisms in Europe and freeze the hostile EU economy. And well, we're right to "underestimate" US to some extent, because US seemingly can't do anything to stop it.
 
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canonicalsadhu said:
“We are walking a fine line here,” said one senior official at the time. If the vote failed, it would have killed EU credibility as a tough actor on China – which may come in handy if Trump wins and tries to negotiate continued US support for Ukraine in exchange for Europe’s backing for a hardline agenda on Beijing.
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It sounds like the EU wants to use the threat of a trade war as leverage in hopes that Trump will bend over for project Ukraine. Given how Trump acts. Probably more likely to backfire.
 
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There is no EU China friendly relationship has never been. They are white supremacists are heart and we will never ally, nor should want to.

The primary goal for China in Ukraine is to drive intractable schisms in Europe and freeze the hostile EU economy. And well, we're right to "underestimate" US to some extent, because US seemingly can't do anything to stop it.
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Nobody is suggesting or expecting a EU China friendly relationship. What China has always strived for is a win-win transactional manageable relationship. To some extent it has and continues to succeed (two-way trade is something like $900B, largely in China's favor), but the US is leveraging the Ukraine conflict and EU's in-built stupidity/ideological stubbornness to put obstacles. It is what it is.
 
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Most people don't see what China got in return. Weibo censored all discussions on that deal with India. :(
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See, this is why China sucks at 'soft power'. Always hide when criticism surface, even if justified. If they have nothing to hide, why censor happy? It raise people's suspicion for no good reason. And you dont want suspicious citizen, they will make up even more bullshits to fill the blanks, just this time without government knowing. Eventually distrust rise high enough to raise traitors.
 
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