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AssassinsMace

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The tragedy also happened in Seoul's "foreigner district" Itaewon outside the US base. Odd how bad things always happen outside US oversea bases.
One comment I read asked when are they going to blame it on the bad influence of American culture? Yeah like the US isn't trying to blame every bad social media trend on TikTok...? Ever since YouTube started their TikTok copy, for some reason, because I don't look for this kind of stuff on YouTube, I get a lot of provocative bordering on soft porn shorts on my home page from South Korea of women stripping down to lingerie. Usually I criticize Asians trying to perpetuate their beauty preferences which are thin petite shapes in Western beauty pageants where they instead like statuesque women. I have to say South Koreans are "getting it" even though most of them are probably indulging in plastic surgery. But that's the result of the government actually spending money to promote this. Like with K-POP these are all corporate concoctions and these women aren't making all the money for themselves and instead South Korean corporations are and these are all government promoted. Look at how pathetic that they whore their women out to Western men just to gain acceptance because like I said before Asian beauty preferences are more for thin petite shapes. It'll be interesting to see in the future how this ill social experiment turns out for South Korean society. How's that for bad cultural influences from others...
 
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coolgod

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Any news of people dying from a crush and stampede in a festival is tragic news. That death toll is still climbing.
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Because this tragedy is happening in South Korea, CNN is reporting it as it is. Minimal politics.

But I still remembered how CNN reported tragedies that happened in China. They always try to spin them as the fault of the Chinese government.
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But the most notorious of all was the way the Western MSM reported the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. It was just so grotesque, it deserved its own thread.
Even though this tragedy occurred in South Korea, western MSM still tries to tanish China's image

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has a message for U.S. Republicans making election promises to slash Ukraine’s support: That will only empower China.

Stoltenberg pushed his point in an expansive interview with POLITICO this week, in which the military alliance’s chief made the case for a long-term American presence in Europe and a widespread boost in defense spending.

“The presence of the United States — but also Canada — in Europe, is essential for the strength and the credibility of that transatlantic bond,” Stoltenberg said.

Yet anxiety is coursing through policy circles that a more reticent U.S. may be on the horizon. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections could tip control of Congress toward the Republicans, empowering an ascendant, MAGA-friendly Republican cohort that has been pressing to cut back U.S. President Joe Biden’s world-leading military aid to Ukraine.

A victorious Russia, he said, would “be bad for all of us in Europe and North America, in the whole of NATO, because that will send a message to authoritarian leaders — not only Putin but also China — that by the use of brutal military force they can achieve their goals.”

The Biden administration recently described China as “America’s most consequential geopolitical challenge” in its national security strategy.

And the document explicitly ranks China above Russia in the longer term: “Russia poses an immediate and ongoing threat to the regional security order in Europe and it is a source of disruption and instability globally but it lacks the across the spectrum capabilities of” China.

NATO allies themselves have taken varying approaches to China, with some still adopting a much softer line than Washington.

Stoltenberg acknowledged these divergences. But he argued the alliance had made progress on confronting Beijing, emphasizing NATO’s decision earlier this summer to explicitly label China a challenge in its long-term strategy document.

It is “important for NATO allies to stand together and to address the consequences of the rise of China — and that we agree on, and that’s exactly what we are doing,” he said.

Yet while allies have agreed to “address” China’s rise, they haven’t figured out who should foot the bill for those efforts. Some U.S. lawmakers, academics and experts are advocating for Europe to take the lead in managing local security challenges so the U.S. can focus more on the Indo-Pacific.
 

AssassinsMace

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No wonder the US is so desperate to stop Chinese innovation in important technologies of the future. The West waste a lot of money on little progress. You actually see some limited use of these technologies in China being applied commercially. Like I've been saying, every step of the way cost more for the West to do. This is where you see PPP actually counts when the West poo-poos it. They don't like anything that makes it look that other economies are equal or surpassing them.

In the Metaverse they seem to to want to avoid speaking about the commercial aspects of it because it makes it look like it's about making money from people which is a turn off to Americans. They're trying to make it look like it's a giant playground for free. In the Chinese version they don't hold back from telling the truth of its commercial potential like using it for shopping
 

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No wonder the US is so desperate to stop Chinese innovation in important technologies of the future. The West waste a lot of money on little progress. You actually see some limited use of these technologies in China being applied commercially. Like I've been saying, every step of the way cost more for the West to do. This is where you see PPP actually counts when the West poo-poos it. They don't like anything that makes it look that other economies are equal or surpassing them.

In the Metaverse they seem to to want to avoid speaking about the commercial aspects of it because it makes it look like it's about making money from people which is a turn off to Americans. They're trying to make it look like it's a giant playground for free. In the Chinese version they don't hold back from telling the truth of its commercial potential like using it for shopping
gdp doesnt become relevant unless you adjust it first based on currency, that is the only valid and informative way to count gdp.

economic models are meant to describe the real world, if you calculate Chinese gdp assuming Chinese people are doing business in dollar with the same level of inflation as US, then your model is describing a fantasy world where most Chinese people wouldn't come close to affording the same lifestyle as they have in the real world.

while thinking of economic conditions in alt history and sci fi alternate histories can be an entertaining exercise, it isn't anything more than entertaining.
 

supercat

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Someone talked earlier about Elon's prolific bootlicking of the state department. Perhaps, it was so frantically done because Elon needed to prove himself equally capable as the elite families that traditionally control America.
Musk should thank taxpayers more.

There is no "Asian NATO" against China because most Asian countries do not harbor racist attitude toward China and they are not really bothered by ideology so much. I'm not sure if the same applies to NATO.

Here is the answer to the above tweet:
Instead of improving the lives of its own people, now the U.S. wants to impoverish the lives of Chinese. This really reeks of desperation.

Ongoing protest led by Imran Khan:
 

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Fire, gas explosion injure at least 50 in India

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At least 50 people were injured in the Aurangabad district of eastern India's Bihar state when a fire at a general store caused a gas cylinder to explode, ANI news agency reported on Saturday.
Fire brigades rushed to the scene and several police were among those burned while trying to extinguish the blaze.
An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.

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Japan to establish new joint military command in 2024: report

The Japanese government will establish a new joint military command in 2024 to manage the operations of its Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces, Nikkei reported on Saturday.
The joint command will be positioned as "an organization responsible for communication and strategic coordination," aiming to strengthen operations with the U.S. military, the report said.

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