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zbb

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What justification did Australia give to ban Huawei and Chinese investment?
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Australia has almost a hundred anti-subsidy and/or anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese goods and dozens of national security restrictions and other non-tariff barriers against Chinese companies.

China has fewer than 10 tariff and non-tariff barriers against Australia. Many of the instances that Australia accuses China of restricting Australia exports to China are actually own goals by Australia. For example, Australia blames China for the steep drop in diary exports to China even though it was Australia that banned Chinese diary companies on "national security" grounds.

If Australia wants to normalize trade relations with China, they can start by lifting their barriers against Chinese goods first. China should not even discuss the lifting of any barriers against Australian goods until the number of barriers on both sides are approximately equal.
 

FriedButter

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US officials voice DNA biowarfare fears​

A House Intelligence Committee member warns Americans against using DNA testing kits

“There are now weapons under development, and developed, that are designed to target specific people,” US Representative Jason Crow (D-Colorado), a member of the House Intelligence Committee,
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in Colorado on Friday. “That’s what this is, where you can actually take someone’s DNA, take their medical profile, and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable.”

Given that threat, Crow added, it’s troubling that expectations of privacy for personal data have diminished over the past 20 years, to the point that young people have “very little expectation of privacy” and readily give their data to private companies, such as DNA testing services.

“People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe and get really interesting data about their background,” Crow said. “And guess what? Their DNA is now owned by a private company. It can be sold off with very little intellectual property protection or privacy protection.”

I thought the US said this type of stuff was bull shit a couple months ago. Now they confirmed these type of weapons do exist and is not fantasy.
 

Canton_pop

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ansy1968

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Hmmm, What geography test did they fail. I think Truss once got her "seas"mixed up, but what was Sunak's confusion?
@B.I.B. bro like I said either he failed at geography or he never embrace his adopted country...lol

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3 days ago — However, his latest gaffe where he appears to suggest that Darlington is in Scotland merely highlights just how little he knows about Scotland ( ...
 

B.I.B.

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In Britain today, you could fail the geography test, and then still promote 'Global Britain'.
My father told me that 30% was good enough to pass School Certificate English in NZ. In his day School Cert was the equivalent to getting a national high school diploma. To pass a student had to get a total of 200pts from 4 subjects.
Under these parameters, we could see a student achieving 90's for each 3 stem subjects and only 29 for English would been seen to have failed the national exam while the student achieving a minimum of 50 in each of the same subjects would have passed the national exam.
 
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