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Overbom said:

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Based and Xi-Jinping pilled. Proof that only Xi had the strategic vision to see the dangers of the West. Where was the rest of the top CPC leadership at the early 2000s and the internal resistance at early-mid 2010s? Sleeping at the wheel

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Phead128 said:

China is a huge beneficiary, especially Chinese Solar.

So China gains huge supply of cheap gas/oil from Russia, and China Solar manufacturers benefit from huge demand of Chinese Solar panels in Europe.

This conflict is a GIFT from the heavens to China, almost as important as the Sept 11th that distracted Bush from the EP-3 Hainan episode. US was about to go full-scale Pivot to Asia after Afghanistan/Iraq withdrawals to focus energy on China, so this is great that Russia is a bigger imminent threat.

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A two-day nationwide strike called by hundreds of thousands of workers to protest government economic policies has spread to large parts of India, with supporters of the walkout blocking roads and train tracks, and public transportation absent from the streets of many towns.

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plawolf said:

When a few lucky breaks comes your way, it’s luck. But when so many breaks so consistently go your way, it’s something else.

I hear people keep asking why Russia went into Ukraine now of all times. Well the answer was given shortly before when Putin and Xi announced the ‘no limits’ de facto alliance between China and Russia.

Before, Russia could not move on Ukraine because alone, it could not withstand the inevitable western sanctions that would result from it. It’s only with China’s economic might acting as a backstop that Russia has a viable option.

Chinese support is not based on PR optics considerations or sentimentality or wishful thinking or even morality. Rather it is based primarily on hard nosed pragmatism, calculated risk-benefit analysis and long term strategic direction. And many factors and decisions made by the EU since 2014 all acted together to change Chinese calculations such as covid, CAI being scuppered by the EU wilfully falling for CIA lies etc. And yes, the economic and broader strategic benefit to China from a distracted and hobbled EU would very much have been part of the calculations.

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dengyeye said:

To be completely fair, previous Chinese leaders all promoted self-sufficiency in high tech bottlenecks such as semiconductors, the private sector simply refused to play along. It wasn't until Comrade Trump's sanctions that the private sector is now 100% on board. Xi has been more aggressive in promoting self-sufficiency through MIC 2025, but previous Chinese leaders were aware of this threat, they just didn't successfully address it.

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Taar said:

It is not as simple. Working for Huawei for almost 13 years, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei and almost all Huawei top executives are behind the idea of globalization and free market. Ren Zhengfei were paranoia enough to build back up technology plans, but there was never intention within Huawei to actually use them. Until Trump comes alone and shows to Huawei what free market really means. Compared to Huawei, all the other big internet technology companies are even worse. Tech companies had a really hard time get investments from China equity during their infant phase, it is the American investors who really invested in BAT during the early phase of the company like around 2000. So, these companies are more interested in innovating applications on top of American technology rather than spend money on basic research, because they are the beneficiary of western globalization efforts. Some people would say the reason for the slaps of the past year against internet companies is that the Chinese leadership is unhappy with internet companies making millions yet done nothing to help Chinese technological advance. Anyway, Trump changes everything, and then there is Hongkong, Xinjiang, each more obvious as to US's intention, a technology cold war is now unavoidable.

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a Chinese lecturer at Milan's Politecnico University pressuring a Taiwanese student to change his details of origin in a project to be submitted for study

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He then addressed Wang in Chinese, suggesting that he change the information about his home country in the project from Taiwan to China, because according to him, the island is a Chinese province and not an independent state.

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in the final version of the project Wang revised his origin from 'Taipei, Taiwan' to 'Taipei, China'.

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Chen told the Taiwanese student that the European Union, including Italy, recognises Taiwan as part of China. He justified himself by asserting that 'as a Chinese, I have to speak'. In speaking to Wang he also pointed out: 'I hope you do not consider that I am intimidating you as a professor.

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I want to communicate with you, as a personal exchange'. At the end of the video, Chen is heard saying that 'if we have a big change in the [Taiwan] Strait in the near future, you will have a lot of time to reshape your self-recognition of [national] identity'.

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