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Moonscape

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The additional 10% (so 20% total) US tariffs on China just kicked in.

China retaliated immediately.

- 10-15% tariffs on agricultural products
- ban on export of dual use items to 15 US companies, including Skydio
- addition of 11 companies to the unreliable entities list, preventing them from doing business in China

Let's see where this goes.
 
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Overbom

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Moonscape said:
The additional 10% (so 20% total) US tariffs on China just kicked in.

China retaliated immediately.

- 10-15% tariffs on agricultural products
- ban on export of dual use items to 15 US companies, including Skydio
- addition of 11 companies to the unreliable entities list, preventing them from doing business in China

Let's see where this goes.
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Full list of sanctioned companies
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1896794154782675382
 
manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

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lych470 said:
The meme is a meme because the majority of people hasn't bothered to learn Modern Chinese history.

In order to do nothing, you'd have to:

1. Survive 20-odd years of insurgency
2. Survive the most brutal foreign occupation in history
3. Win a bloody and intense civil war
4. Liquidate the landlord class and the counter-revolutionaries
5. Implement land-reform
6. Mass Industrialisation
7. Public education and public healthcare, down to the most impoverished and remote villages
8. Win a grinding war of attrition against the US and its allies
9. Withstand your close ally becoming a revisionist, Socialist Imperial Power
10. Develope a nuclear arsenal and credible ICBMs
11. Figure out an entirely new political theory to govern your own nation
12. Survive the passing of your Founding Fathers
13. Recover from 10 years of political turmoil and struggles
14. Retain State control of the economy whilst simultaneously opening and reforming your economy
15. Survive the fall of other Socialist states
16. Eradicate religious cults
17. Withstand the humiliation of having your tanker seized, your embassy bombed, and your warplane rammed
18. Seize the opportunity to further develop your economy and modernise your military as the global hegemon gets bogged down inside the Graveyard of Empires
19. Make heavy investment in infrastructure whilst gently deflating the housing bubble

That's just on top of my head. Each point is worth of a library in its own right. India might have done points 2 and 3 (if you count the wars with Pakistan as civil wars) but they are still stuck on land-reform and industrialisation, let alone public education and healthcare.
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Classic situation of people complaining that the rich owner seems to just to sit there doing nothing while making passive income by the tens of billions, but they didn't see all the work he did starting up the company from scratch.
siegecrossbow said:
Victims of Chen Weihua Foundation +1.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1895772936411496868
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Really not a fan. That wasn't clever. Why not retort something like, "Funny, that's how the global south sees Western power."
 
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