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Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2067898537548091703

In the Washington consensus, Asians are expected to be blood bags and coolies for their white, male and perhaps Jewish overlords. Obamas G2 was exactly this proposition, and in return China would get….maybe a pat on the head and maybe they’ll cast a Chinese female in the new avengers movie, but she has to have a white male love interest or turn gay with a black lesbian lover, and the chinese female actress has to prostitute herself to the Epstein class As well.

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This is the arrogance of the Western world order. It’s not just Trump. The EU thinks like this too. I recently saw an article where the EU is complaining about how Gulf States are not contributing to Ukraine. You mean like how they’re telling which side China is suppose to be on and then later whine about why China isn’t spending its money on what they want in the world. The West thinks they can tell the world what their interests are and how much money they should be spending for it.

96Bfanboy said:

All satire aside it’s still a very weird situation…

TL: Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to allocate 120,000€ in humanitarian aid to Lebanon
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Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna:
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(Member of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church)

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I know Estonia's the size of a zit but they give international aid by the thousands of dollars??? If a kid got cancer you can get more on Gofundme.

This is a shoe company by the way.

tamsen_ikard said:

Unlike Rich countries like EU or US, poorer global south countries can setup RE processing on the cheap. The biggest problem is labor cost which allowed China to get the monopoly in the first place.

Most global south countries are setting up heavy industry to be able to build metals and other components needed to develop their country. RE will come as a by product.

I don't expect China to be able to keep RE monopoly for more than 10 years. atleast 30-40% of production will come from other poorer countries.

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Is not that easy, the technology is pretty complex and mostly controlled by China. If was that easy there would be already being more competition in that area and there is not a lot.

horse said:

But you are wrong.

No one can change the past. You cannot apply today's ideology to a different situation from the past.

I am from Hong Kong, so that is what I say because that is where I was born.

I do say a lot that I am Chinese, in terms of my ethnicity because I am a hua qiao. But I cannot say I am Chinese in terms of being a Chinese national, because I never had that status.

Sure, nowadays, I can go into China freely due to my Hong Kong roots, but that was not the case in the past. That border was closed shut. (But see, toady we can go into China due to our Hong Kong status and not our Chinese status which we do not have).

Would you people be more please if we call ourselves Hong Kong Chinese?

Well, that is totally irrelevant.

If you know anything about Hong Kong, you would know that the population is like 98% to 99% full of Chinese people, speaking Cantonese, so it is redundant to say we are Chinese.

In fact, most Cantonese do not even say in Hong Kong that they are zhong guo ren, but we say we are Tang ren. Guess some will have a problem with that too now. Haha!

For accuracy and being factual, there is nothing I can say other than I am from Hong Kong. Anything else would be a lie.

My life is not lie, like maybe you would like to think.

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I think the confusion is due to Taiwanese and Hong Kongers of a certain political stripe's favourite phrase "I am not Chinese, I am Taiwanese/Hong Konger". We saw the Taiwanese Gymboss make that shirt popular (and how it turned out, lol).

In this case, no one is saying "I am not Chinese", but rather "I am not from China". Putting aside any emotional response/historical context, we must say this is a truth prior to 1997 in terms of modern nationality. This is why I brought up the Russian example, something more distant, less emotionally charged. It would be wrong to say "I am from the Russian Federation" for him, he was not born in such a place, his birth certificate does not indicate that.

The British overseas dependency passport (Not BNO that is something the UK made up in 2019, this is from a long time ago) belonged to my mom who tried to get an HKID like 15 years ago with it. The HK Immigation office said it is not a valid document to get a card. So even though it is proof that she lived in HK, it was not enough to get any landing rights in China (with HKID, you can get 回鄉証 which allows simplified access into mainland, just tap a smart card reader on an entry gate like on the subway). In short, they didn't consider her "Chinese" (nationality) as it was.

With respect to Viet Hoa, there are many in Canada. Due to the wars over the years (first with USA, then with PRC), there were many Hoa (Hua ren) refugees. Many tried to go to HK, but they were put into awful camps. Ethnic Chinese, but no status with respect to Chinese nationality. Canada at this time was opening up for refugees, so they came. If someone like this said "I am not from China", we would not associate any "separatist" attitudes, it is just a fact. (Or maybe someone wants to talk about Ming/Han Dynasty periods?)

A little bit of local flavour for other readers... In Toronto in the late 80's/early 90's, there was a flight out of old Chinatown due to the influx of Vietnamese/Chinese gangsters. There would be a lot of shootings, and increase in racketeering. Since these refugees lacked the family/community connections of HK or old Toisanese (Taishanese), Triads took advantage (first in the HK refugee camps, then in Canada). This was the context that Olivia Chow worked in.

manqiangrexue said:

I know Estonia's the size of a zit but they give international aid by the thousands of dollars??? If a kid got cancer you can get more on Gofundme.

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That’s because it’s a zit located in Europe

tokenanalyst said:

Is not that easy, the technology is pretty complex and mostly controlled by China. If was that easy there would be already being more competition in that area and there is not a lot.

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Its funny. So many people are suffering from the same mentality as India when it comes to China.

China did it so therefore we can do it. It doesn't matter that we were talking crap about China earlier how they would fail only to be proven wrong. But somehow even though our analysis was completely off, heres how we are going to beat China to it now since they did it.

Maybe it's not just a jai hind thing. Maybe loads of people really believe in that winology global caste crap.

Randomuser said:

Its funny. So many people are suffering from the same mentality as India when it comes to China.

China did it so therefore we can do it. It doesn't matter that we were talking crap about China earlier how they would fail only to be proven wrong. But somehow even though our analysis was completely off, heres how we are going to beat China to it now since they did it.

Maybe it's not just a jai hind thing. Maybe loads of people really believe in that winology global caste crap.

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Anyone else old enough to remember how various countries launched their own 5th generation fighter projects after J-20's first flight? How many of those projects actually produced functional aircraft, nevermind went into production?

There used to be this running joke on Chinese Internet: any advanced technoogy, once mastered by China, is no longer advanced technology, eventhough the rest of the world can't do it.

Engineer said:

Anyone else old enough to remember how various countries launched their own 5th generation fighter projects after J-20's first flight? How many of those projects actually produced functional aircraft, nevermind went into production?

There used to be this running joke on Chinese Internet: any advanced technoogy, once mastered by China, is no longer advanced technology, eventhough the rest of the world can't do it.

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For a long time in my life I haven't gamed coz busy with work and various other things.

I had some time to finally play stuff like Factorio and I think I finally saw engineering as a field in a new light.

Ultimately engineering is about problem solving within constraints like time, supplies, the laws of physics etc. You have to use a different part of your brain and it's very tiring. While you want to go from A to B, that is divided into many smaller processes like C to D and E to F. You need to somehow plan long term while understanding the path to get there will be very rough and will always need new adjustments as info comes in.

I'm talking very surface level here. And yet people just want to see A to B and not all the smaller annoying details that go into that. But that's the actual core of the field. The boring non flashy stuff that goes into it. And I haven't even mentioned the actual technical details like the maths, physics etc all involved. Or what about suppliers, the logistics chain etc.

So seeing all these other guys just saying China achieved A to B so we can too is a recipe for disaster with no intention of understanding the underlying on how to get that path. I'm not a subject matter expert so I can't explain the exact details but I can guess it's pretty damn hard.

One reason to be concerned about a country like Vietnam is they don't really talk much but they really take notes and explore why a process they have might have failed. It's very different from a lot of other countries who just say it will be our turn soon.

Engineer said:

Anyone else old enough to remember how various countries launched their own 5th generation fighter projects after J-20's first flight? How many of those projects actually produced functional aircraft, nevermind went into production?

There used to be this running joke on Chinese Internet: any advanced technoogy, once mastered by China, is no longer advanced technology, eventhough the rest of the world can't do it.

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The f35 was literally still in development at the time and even then it went through multiple hurdles while the J20 which is claimed to be a copy managed to be more successful alot faster.