Are the Koreans claiming they invented Weiqi chess? The Xiaomi smartphones from China are also symbolic of Chinese-Korean cooperation, since there are Korean parts inside Xiaomi smartphones, unlike Huawei smartphones which are totally domestic now.
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Are the Koreans claiming they invented Weiqi chess? The Xiaomi smartphones from China are also symbolic of Chinese-Korean cooperation, since there are Korean parts inside Xiaomi smartphones, unlike Huawei smartphones which are totally domestic now.
plawolf
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This is now about way more than just Nexperia. China is seizing this perfectly gift wrapped opportunity to do serious and irreversible damage to European manufacturing and set entirely new terms of trade while being able to lay the blame entirely on the stupid Dutch.
This is exactly like a game of poker, where if you have a killer hand, you want to be careful not to scare off your opponents so you can milk them for as much as you can. This is why China is sounding so reasonable and measured. And it has already paid off with the Dutch announcement of them stopping shipment of wafers to China.
Now China gets to turn to the European manufacturers with their best ‘I did try’ face and tell them they won’t be getting their deliveries despite meeting all of China’s earlier demands because of this new Dutch hostile act.
China is saying what it says and doing what it’s doing not because it doesn’t understand European nature or psychology, in fact it’s quite the opposite, it’s tailoring it’s words and actions previously because it fully understands them and is carefully manoeuvring the Dutch into helping set up their next move for them so that attack looks like defence.
Harden your heart oh China, remember also that Anglo American domestic policy discriminates against Asian students, denies opportunities to hardworking Asian immigrant parents for simply being Asian rather than their pet POCs.
It is only the threat of extreme violence that compels civility from barbarous nations.
It is only the threat of extreme violence that compels civility from barbarous nations.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
More needless focus on soft power BS.
Anyone who thinks Japan would have played their hand differently depending on whether Xi smiled or not during the handshake is beyond silly.
China was giving Japan a honest chance, it showed them all respect and gave them no reason to be hostile. The smile cost Xi and China nothing, and was worth the move to let the Japanese show who they are with their actions.
Now the Japanese chose to be hostile, both bring up manufactured bullshit during the talk with Xi, as well as openly meeting with separatist right after. They showed their true colours and couldn’t blame any of it on anything China did before hand. Not even the ridiculously pathetic one that Xi didn’t smile at them.
So now China can return to regular scheduled programming of preparing to destroy them.
The PLA in particular would be secretly delighted, as that photo op with the separatists probably just green lite a whole bunch of new hardware for them.
Al-Jazeera, one of my most despised news outlets does occasionally produce some gems. I find this one quite entertaining.
Its a documentary about how crap the India media is, and why it is so despised by India's neighbours.
Still, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, India is ranked at 151, much higher than Vietnam, Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. China is near the bottom of the list, at the 3rd last place. Journalistic integrity is not counted in the RSF score, only "freedom". So India beats China in press freedom. Jai Hind!
Still, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, India is ranked at 151, much higher than Vietnam, Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. China is near the bottom of the list, at the 3rd last place. Journalistic integrity is not counted in the RSF score, only "freedom". So India beats China in press freedom. Jai Hind!
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In Western politics, everything is optics and optics is everything.
