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HereToSeePics said:

It’s funny to see that people are starting to recognize that storing data in China is the best way to keep it safe and out of the hands of domestic law enforcement’s jurisdiction. Full circle back to this July news article:

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I often see these off-hand type comments on Huawei stories. Americans who say stuff like "What is the Chinese government going to do with my information? Use it against me? If I use an iPhone, I know Apple will let the government get whatever they want!"

Maybe they are actually wumao, I don't know, but the logic is sound. Which is a good segue for this...

daifo said:

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The joke part is that they are claiming only 150 fake accounts. Seems like a psychological tool again to let the American audience think they are admitting to just a tiny fault.

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The average american audience member broadly falls into 2 categories
1. True believers. Those who honestly believe that western liberal democracy is the true messiah.
2. Totally naive. For whatever reason, they don't think the US would ever do anything "bad".

There is a lot of overlap between the two, but group 1 doesn't necessarily think that western governments have totally clean hands, just whatever dirty deeds are done are for "the greater good", and also they would never stoop as far as whatever things China and Russia do that are "worse".

Something never changes. Pirates are in their blood.

South Korea complains of growing friction with US over high-tech trade​

Seoul’s trade minister accuses Joe Biden of about-face on electric vehicle subsidies

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The Biden administration’s abrupt withdrawal of subsidies for South Korean electric vehicles is threatening to undermine trust in the US, Seoul’s trade minister has warned, as trade tensions grow between the allies.

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Seoul is furious that EVs manufactured by Hyundai in South Korea will be excluded from generous consumer tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark US climate, tax and spending law.

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Overbom said:

Modern wars are increasingly won (or decisively turn the scales towards you side) at the first days

Its called look first, shoot first.
The moment you get targeting information of any kind of target, some minutes later that target is and should be destroyed.

Btw the clown show currently happening between Ukraine and Russia is not a modern war.

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I think is post modern warfare. Low intensity, modern weapons, resist of massive using of heavy tactical weaponry etc. Ukraine has the ability to strike Russian targets in Russian soil but prefers not to for example, in the fear of escalation. Russian side do the same. It's like being constantly one step before total war. But this applies only to Russian side because of metrics and raw power. The economics of both sides have not get to the point of de facto militarization (oh poor Ukrainian people). I think Russia is trying what USA did at WWII. They exploited the conflict in Europe and the peace at its soil to restructure and build up their economy after the great depression, which led to the massive surplasses used to rebuild Europe after axis defeat, making Europe a pro US and anti Soviet puppet with the Marshall plan. The more this SMO continues, more gains got to the Russian side and allies (politically and economically), while the other side is destabilizing and bleeding. Hmmm this is not so modern i agree. It's like a repeat of history as a "joke"

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Probably an calculated attempt to beat down the East Asian car manufacturers. Japan self defeated themselves in the EV space and only Hyundai/Kia has a credible product line up for the next few years. Most products from europe is on the luxury side and CHYNA prob will be banned or have many hurdles to get something on market in the US.

Protests against rising electricity prices in Italy. This is how police in "democratic" Europe treat protestors! People do not want to pay out of their own pockets for the anti-Russian sanctions and get a stick on the head for it.

This is European "democracy" now.

kokole said:

Protests against rising electricity prices in Italy. This is how police in "democratic" Europe treat protestors! People do not want to pay out of their own pockets for the anti-Russian sanctions and get a stick on the head for it.

This is European "democracy" now.

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not saying everything is fine and dandy in italy at the moment, but there have been no violent protests in genova so far, I think it's just bs

kokole said:

Protests against rising electricity prices in Italy. This is how police in "democratic" Europe treat protestors! People do not want to pay out of their own pockets for the anti-Russian sanctions and get a stick on the head for it.

This is European "democracy" now.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1571950368346480640

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Just have the media "accidentally" repost this as CCP CRUSH HK, everything will be fine again