I found my kindred spirit. Soju, whiskey, vodka (!!), tequila, shots, cocktails.
Beer on certain days. Guinness Extra Stout on certain days.
I admire the Irish. Beer and potatoes are my kind of thing.
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Beer on certain days. Guinness Extra Stout on certain days.
I admire the Irish. Beer and potatoes are my kind of thing.
But the news said that car will be only sold in China's domestic market, the one on Toyota explicitly said so, and I guess it's also true for the Mitsubishi one. Dunno what's the advantage of working with the Japanese makers just for taking China's own domestic pie. If there's no technological gain for the Chinese side from this cooperation in exploiting China's own domestic market, then this will be some foolish thing... but I guess there's more inside... mainland Chinese ain't that dumb, moreover the regulatory side (govt)!
The piece run at RT:
The conviction of a Harvard professor this week for ‘hiding’ ties to China is a chilling development, with clear parallels to the paranoia over alleged communist infiltration that gripped America in the 1950s.
Charles Lieber, formerly the head of Harvard’s chemistry department, was found guilty of ties to a China-run recruitment programme, in a landmark case that has received a lot of attention. While the ties in themselves are not a crime, he was convicted of “making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account.”
While Lieber is a white American, the scheme has been widely criticized for its aggressive racial profiling of Chinese American scholars, its McCarthyist character, and the damage it does to legitimate research and scholarly work in the US in wielding the sweeping brush of anti-communist paranoia.
The United States has become a treacherous place to be a Chinese-associated academic. Where will they go instead? While there are many other Western countries offering opportunities, many of them are slowly flirting with the same McCarthyite train of thought, albeit more subtly. One Chinese scientist friend who works at a company in Germany has been subject to unfounded suspicions, and he’s looking to move back home. And therein is America’s self-defeating mistake: its red-scare tactics will drive talent out of the country and send it back to China, ironically making it easier for Beijing to keep highly qualified workers at the very time it is ramping up its own tech capabilities in the face of US pressure.
NOTE: Last time, the McCarthy's Red Scare produced Qian Xuesen for China in 1950s.... wonder who's the new Qian from the current Red Scare...
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But that is only valid if BYD is selling or going to sell the cars outside of China under the cloak of the two brands. But it seems not the case for the moment.
Can't foresee them only choosing to sell in China
Just give Baijiu some try if you can find it. there are lots of varieties of "Baijiu" even those local brands aside from the national brands... read this article to know more about the
yeah, I know Tequila, Rum, Soju, Sake, etc... I tried whatever available at affordable prices just stay away from those "super duper exclusively priced"
Winter and Spring are awful time for war with Ukraine in terms of logistics.
I don't see it (if conflict broke out during the game) as some kind of embarrassment to China. No aggression should be tolerated for a moment no matter when and for how long it happens. A promise of peace is not a blank cheque for the aggressor, nor should anyone has their hands tied when facing such aggressions.
What China should do is nothing as if it did not happen. If someone from the west ask for comment, just reply "it is an unfortunate event, we urge both sides to return to peaceful means". By calling both sides China would lay the blame on Ukraine even if Russia shot the first bullet. It is called “拉偏架" which is what the west has been doing for ever.
First of all, I am far from convinced that there is going to be a war except possible skirmishes along the current line of control.
Hypothetically if a war does happen, I guess Russia's objective is limited to significantly destabilize the Ukrainian government to collapse, a regime change. To do so, Russia does not need to defeat Ukrainian army all over Ukraine (deeply into unfriendly western Ukraine), no trouble for long logistic line in enemy territory. What need to be done is to punch through couple of points of the line of control, quickly defeat some Ukrainian units, go deeply into Ukrainian area, then quickly pull back. This can be repeated many times until the Ukrainian changes course. My idea is essentially a replay of what China did in 1978 to Vietnam. At that time Vietnam did not pull out of Cambodia because the firm USSR support and most importantly Vietnam was not a western democracy. Ukraine today is more vulnerable even if it continuously receives western aid because the government can easily collapse when people suffer enough.