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jiajia99

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Yoon says it isn’t treason for attempting a Coup d'état.
Apparently he is throwing shit everyday and hopes that it will eventually stick. His actions could be the beginning of a process that could kick the US presence out of the Korean Peninsula, there by ending a bit thorn in the side of China for ages as well as weaken the US agenda by a lot. Not helped by allowing the likes of Johnny Somali to act like a stupid idiot on top of the US treating everyone with barely filled contempt. It would be nice to see a future when all these US quislings finally get rounded up and send to the chopping block, honestly these open traitors used to be quartered in ages past for being a national traitor, would be nice to see a future where the US can finally suffer some real consequences for once instead of side stepping them like an annoying troll that people would love to smash in the face
 
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FairAndUnbiased

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This is a bullshit story being circulated by Russia and Iran, because what else are they going to say, that they weren't able to do more to hold their positions? Nobody is going to simply admit defeat. I'm supposed to believe that Assad's government asked these two countries for help, but then refused the help once they spent all this money and put their reputations on the line? And then to reward Assad for humiliating them like that, they give him asylum and a Russian citizenship? Non of that adds up.

China lost more than both Russia and Iran in this, because now the US has a major burden off their shoulders and one less thing to worry about. Now they will up the intensity of Syrian resource rape and guess what? All of that money will be spent one ruining China's interests.


China definitely has a duty to provide its allies with the option of securing their information space, because the US will definitely use that to conduct coups and spread anti-China propaganda. Do you see Japan using Weibo for example? They won't even provide an English version of that to try and counter the misinformation, and that is just one example that would cost them literally pocket change.


All this investment you are talking about would have paid for itself and then some. You don't think Iraq and Syria want stable railways and electricity? China is already working on megaprojects in Afghanistan right now as we speak, and these people have next to no wealth. Syria and Iraq are far wealthier and in need of infrastructure,too!

If you think a country as wealthy as China miraculously survive without a powerful military spread out around the world, then you are delusional. They are in direct economic competition with the US, which automatically means the US has China in it's lenses and is right now brainstorming ways to disrupt Chinese global trade with or without the US military's direct involvement. The state of success that China is in right now, is temporary unless China starts backing it up with actual military bases to host them away from home. Look at the lengths the US has gone to with Russia, sanctioning them, banning them from sports, arresting Russian nationals worldwide, sending missiles literally inside Russia, blowing up energy infrastructure. If Russia with it's massive nuclear arsenal failed to deter the US, Do you honestly think the US is afraid of the more forgiving and nuclearly weaker China in that regard? Right now the US will look to invest heavily in infrastructure outside of China, and that may take a very long time, but it is happening whether you like it or not, and when that happens, then the US is free to sanction and isolate and disrupt Chinese people's lives all it wants, unless China starts spreading it's wings.

China is not some irrelevant country. It is a superpower, and superpower, which means it is in this game not by choice, but by its wealth, power and influence. You cannot win a game by not participating in it, which is exactly what China is doing right now.



Well, since you don't care about my views, save your time and don't engage with me in personal attacks and disgusting racism.

China doesn't have a local partner like the US or Iran do. Iran, Russia and Pakistan aren't particularly local to Syria, so you're relying on a partner of a partner to do things. China also isn't geared for an expeditionary fight that far.

The Syrian people themselves are also unusually hostile to China. More than even Indians. Indians today begrudgingly admit they're behind China and correctly identify their regime as the problem. Syrians blame and belittle China while whitewashing terrorists.

So in summary, 3 reasons:

1. China isn't strong enough to project power to Syria in sufficient degree to make up for Syrias own weakness on the ground.

2. Syrians don't want to help themselves enough.

3. Syrians have looked down on China for a long time and are worse than even Indians about it.

They don't want China's help. They don't think Chinese provide value. And China can't exert the effort to help them as much as they'd like without weakening elsewhere.
 

iewgnem

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Man, Israelis are top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking what it deemed as an existential threat to their fundamental rights to exist.
Israel spent 70 years just to have Al Qaeda on their border and entirely reliant on American infusion to survive. Yeah Al Qaeda leader had an alliance with them and isnt saying bad about Israel right now, but his men are.
If Isarel show a single moment of weakness, say after US lose a war to China, of all people that'll take advantage, it will now be ISIS, and ISIS isnt exactly known to be humane

Compared to any Asian country founded around the same time as Israel, India even, every single one achieved more than Israel and did so with a tiny fraction of aid Israel received.
 

Overbom

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So in summary, 3 reasons:

1. China isn't strong enough to project power to Syria in sufficient degree to make up for Syrias own weakness on the ground.

2. Syrians don't want to help themselves enough.

3. Syrians have looked down on China for a long time and are worse than even Indians about it.

They don't want China's help. They don't think Chinese provide value. And China can't exert the effort to help them as much as they'd like without weakening elsewhere.
I will add another reason which imo is the most important:

4. What is in for China's national interest to spend so many resources, economic, military, diplomatic along with reputational hit, geopolitical etc. What would be the gain? Would the gain be enough to compensate for spending all these resources and, most importantly, incurring such a tremendous opportunity cost?
 

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Bit disappointed that Ding Liren lost to Gukesh at the world chess championship. It was so close to going to tiebreaks where Ding was favoured. However Ding screwed up at the last moment so here we are.

But to be fair Ding was ranked like #20 because of his bad form and people didn't really give him much chance. So getting this far despite being out of form and wanting to no longer be active is already something.

Personally I kinda get why chess under it's grueling 4+ hour game format will never take off in significant popularity. A lot of games were draws and that's going to kill interest. It takes far too much effort to prepare and honestly if you were that smart, you probably could be using your brains to actually contribute more in a technology field to make a difference.

The USSR kept boasting about it's chess talent. Yet the country for some reason decide to commit a game ending blunder in 1991 and kill itself. So that chess talent didn't help it's government much did it.
He's a Brahmin too so it's even better :cool:.
Superior Brahmin Brains.



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Yesterday GM finally shut down its Cruise project, in a blow to US self driving. After sinking in $10+ billion.
The decision to absorb Cruise into G.M. would save $1 billion per year, the company said. G.M. is under pressure to cut costs after saying last week it would take a more than $5 billion hit to its profit as it restructured its operations in China, which have been losing money.
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Basically hard proof that Chinese price wars absolutely destroy US capacity for R&D.


Between this and the "launch" of Willow quantum chip and Sora, it's clear we are in the downward spiral of US big tech as they start sinking into irrelevance.
 
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Huh, surprise twist.

Russia might be able to keep supporting its operations in Africa.
Wonder if it's helped by Israel bombings...

It takes money to run a state.

Assad had no money because the Americans stole the oil from Syrian oil fields. Finally something ran out, and the empty shell of the Assad dynasty collapsed.

These new guys, basically spent their whole careers killing Americans and wanting to kill more Americans.

The Americans are stupid, but not that stupid. They ain't gonna fund these guys.

The Russians made them an offer, it will not take much because these new guys got no friends.

These new guys, are just the new Assad, nothing has changed. Just shia law is imposed. But that is why the overthrew Assad.

The Arab world, half of it at least, is going backwards, that is what they want.
 

FriedButter

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Biden is going on a pardon spree. Party favors galore.
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They don't even care anymore.

Executive Grant of Clemency​

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

WHEREAS SHANLIN JIN, Reg. No. 27074-509, was convicted, in the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, on an indictment (Docket No. 4:21 -CR-00048-
ALM-CAN(1)) charging violations of Section 2252A, Title 18, United States Code, for which a
total sentence of 97 months' imprisonment, five years' supervised release, restitution of $30,500,
forfeiture of specific property, and a $100 special assessment was imposed on July 14 and 19,
2022;

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Oh but what is Section 2252A Title 18?

18 U.S. Code § 2252A - Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography​

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