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baykalov

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The US has raised with European allies the idea of drawing upon lessons from the export control regime they’re using to punish Russia to target China, according to people familiar with the matter.

The conversations came up as European Union and US officials are negotiating the agenda for their next high-level trade forum in early December. The allies have cooperated on restricting exports to Moscow since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, and the Biden administration is exploring using some of the same information sharing and enforcement coordination to reinforce its own bilateral restrictions on exports to China, said the people, who asked for anonymity to address sensitive topics.

So far, the people added, the EU isn’t inclined to consider following the same approach to China as with Russia because the circumstances are different, but one of the people said there may be room to look at goods that could be used by Beijing to bolster its military capability.

Export controls have been one of the more effective tools to cripple Russia’s arsenal and are seen as potentially useful to slow down China in the global tech race. Earlier this month, the Biden administration restricted US companies from selling some chips used for supercomputing and artificial intelligence to Chinese firms.

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The stupidity of American lawmakers. Any rule like this and you can say goodbye to any company operating in China. Companies like Volkswagen will have their assets in China nationalised. Say goodbye to 60% of your worldwide sales overnight.

Then there's the fact that China could easily impose export sanctions of their own, which would hurt European countries far more. Imagine losing access to cheap Chinese consumer goods.

There's nothing most countries can do except be nice to China, unless they are prepared for a significant drop in living standards.
 

AssassinsMace

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Look at RINOs... Would it be surprising that one anti-China organization is jealous of another...? Look at Hong Kong activist where they couldn't find a single leader for their movement. Harry Wu hated other Chinese activists demanding money for helping them. How much you want to bet that Minxin Pei hates Gordan Chang? He was the only noted Chinese China "expert" in the US before Gordan Chang made a name for himself.
 

FriedButter

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Well, we already all knew that they were doing this. Nice to officially know it. Looking at you Wikipedia and your monthly/bi-weekly meetings with DHS, CISA, and FBI. I always knew you were full of shit.

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2020 Election Interference
  • The FBI agent who primed social media platforms to take down the Hunter Biden laptop story continued to have a role in DHS policy discussions.

Narrative Control.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government
  • DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”

Big Tech Collusion + Monthly Meetings Pre-2020 Election and Bi-Weekly in 2022. Wikipedia is included.

“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
  • Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives.

Emails between DHS officials, Twitter, and the Center for Internet Security outline the process for such takedown requests during the period leading up to November 2020
  • DHS, the FBI, and several media entities are having biweekly meetings as recently as August.

Expansion of CISA to all platforms from Media to online information. (CISA wants to become the global fact checker).
drafted a report to the CISA director calling for an expansive role for the agency in shaping the “information ecosystem.” The report called on the agency to closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources.”
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CISA meetings. JP Morgan is part of it.
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Direct Facebook Portal for Gov requests.
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Outlining the Process on takedown requests (Twitter emails, meetings.)
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FairAndUnbiased

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Look at RINOs... Would it be surprising that one anti-China organization is jealous of another...? Look at Hong Kong activist where they couldn't find a single leader for their movement. Harry Wu hated other Chinese activists demanding money for helping them. How much you want to bet that Minxin Pei hates Gordan Chang? He was the only noted Chinese China "expert" in the US before Gordan Chang made a name for himself.
Of course Minxin Pei hates Gordon Chang. One is an actual anti Chinese racist, the other is a hero of socialist labor with Chinese characteristics, vanguard of the people, redder than red. As for which one is which...
 

KenC

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Interesting news take from George Galloway:

Liz Truss messaged 'It's done" to Blinken just after the Nordstrom explosion. Apparently, the Russian hacked Truss phone with the Pegasus spyware that is able to record phone conversations and messages. Hardly anything on this from the European. . The Anglo media on the other hand are more worried about the phone being hacked rather than the bombings.

 

coolgod

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See what happened last time when Taiwan bought French mirages, La Fayette and Dutch subs, and today's China is many times more capable of hurting them. Taiwan certainly want weapons from any country, but most countries can not afford the consequences to sell.
That sounds pretty interesting, can you give me some links on how China retaliated against France and Netherlands?
 
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