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Overlord said:

It's good that china doesn't qualified in football World Cup, that's why you didn't see too much anti china whereas people are still bashing on qatar because of laws. Did you guys forget how west & their allies boycotted winter Olympic in Beijing ?
In Olympic there was huge accusations of Xinjiang geno*** propaganda and in last Olympic there was tibet propaganda.
Even if china qualified the world cup then you would only see more anti china news.
Respect & authority is not earned by if you become number 1 in Olympic medals and win football World Cup. Real respect comes only when you're world's best in technology and become number 1/2 economy. China is still suffering being number 2 economy and not that good in high tech fileds so china needs to move forward in it and doesn't become like sports champion like those countries which are more broken ,and doesn't enjoy the level of influence of USA or china .

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9dashline said:

Yup sports is retarded...

EUV, AGI, 6G, Hypersonics, these will decide the fate of East vs West... Sports is a stupid distraction... fake soft powa

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OPEC+ to consider deeper oil output cuts ahead of Russia sanctions and proposed price cap​

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• OPEC+, a group of 23 oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, will convene on Sunday to decide on the next phase of production policy.
• The highly anticipated meeting comes ahead of potentially disruptive sanctions on Russian oil, weakening crude demand in China and mounting fears of a recession.

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OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers could impose deeper oil output cuts on Sunday, energy analysts said, as the influential energy alliance weighs the impact of a pending ban on Russia's crude exports and a possible price cap on Russian oil.

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FriedButter said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597695719787200514

Are the 6 visitors real people? Or are they staff workers.

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Japan ruling bloc agrees on need for 'counterstrike capability'​

Dramatic deterioration in regional security environment demands response

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Japan's ruling parties agreed Friday that the country should pledge to acquire a "counterstrike capability" to address the rapid deterioration of the regional security environment, heralding a major shift in the nation's security policy.

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The capability, which would allow Japan to fire upon and disable enemy missiles before they are launched from foreign territory, remains controversial among legal experts, given that Japan has pursued pacifism under its war-renouncing Constitution since 1947.

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Obtaining a counterstrike capability is expected to be declared in the National Security Strategy, the government's long-term security and foreign policy guidelines, scheduled to be updated by the end of this year.

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The ruling bloc left some ambiguity regarding the conditions, targets and timing for counterattacks, which observers said could raise fears that Japan may attack countries arbitrarily, possibly destabilizing regional security.

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Scorched-earth strategy​

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Laviduce said:

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While speculation continues over the fate of Taiwan’s semiconductor factories in the event of an invasion by Beijing, US Ambassador O’Brien emphasises the importance of denying China the chipmaking infrastructure.

Speaking at the Richard Nixon Foundation’s

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on 10 November, former US National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien appeared to lend credence to reports the US will disable Taiwan’s semi-conductor chip manufacturing capabilities if China attempts to reunify the island with the mainland.


“If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact – which I don’t think we would ever allow – they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil,” said O’Brien.

Scorched-earth strategy​

The US Army War College Press published a paper in November 2021 recommending that the US make credible threats to destroy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) facilities, eliminating the most important supplier of micro-processing chips to China and the World.

The paper by Jared McKinley and Peter Harris, Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan, became the most highly downloaded paper from the US Army War College of 2021, and suggested that the US lay plans in Taiwan for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render the island “not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain.”

Following months of speculation over possible US contingency planning, Bloomberg reported on 7 October that plans for worst case scenarios include evacuating Taiwan’s chip engineers, citing an unnamed US official as the source of the information.


IMHO: Essentially, US far-right ideologue O'Brien and other US neocon/neolib nutjobs suggest that the US should bomb TSMC facilities and kidnap its engineers before China can acquire them via reunification.

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Overbom said:

Transformation of Japan to a missile base is starting

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AssassinsMace said:

Xi has destroyed China by going after Chinese tech giants like with Jack Ma

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