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The funniest thing is the US spending so much effort to secure TSMC, when China is most likely going to leap frog them in 10 years.
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The funniest thing is the US spending so much effort to secure TSMC, when China is most likely going to leap frog them in 10 years.
China should just pre-emptive the pre-emptive striker and bust TSMC today, two can play this rug pulling scortched earth game... if no one can have chips then that buys extra time for China to catch up
CCP if you are reading this forum, I looking forward to nvidia graphics card to cost more than a new car soon
Just lower your graphics settings, it's what the eSports pros do.
While I do advocate for China doing better in football. I do agree with your statement. Football, is actually a part of the overall Western machine of pop culture. The West like to celebrate the poor brown people achieving great heights in football. They are promoting this as a way of 'poverty alleviation' for the poor brown kids in the global south. What they don't tell is why that poor brown kid is poor in the first place. Hint: Western colonial legacy and the current neo-colonialism.
The message of the West is this:
Let's say that there is a poor boy in a village in Africa. He has big dreams ahead of him. His way out of his poverty is not by studying to become an engineer or doctor. No, his destiny is to become a footballer in Europe, to play for the biggest clubs and earn the big bucks in the process. That once-poor African kid can buy the Ferraris, party in the posh European nightclubs, date supermodels, and buy the greatest real-estates in Europe.
What the West don't tell is this:
A footballer's most competitive age is from 20-30 years old. That means that that African kid only has about 10 years of earning the big bucks. Worse still, out of thousands of African kids who chose become professional footballers, only a handful could actually make it to become world class and earn the big bucks. Most footballers who retired from the sport are not wealthy. Worse still, they will not have learnt any other skills to enable them to enter into other industries. Even for some of those who have managed to earn big; when they retire, their wealth didn't last. Because they lack the financial intelligence to grow and maintain their wealth.
Not only that. That African footballer can choose to play in an European nationality if he is good enough. Higher chances of winning trophies. Look at the French football team in particular. There are many ethnic-African players of the 1st or 2nd generation. In a way, the West are taking talented footballers away from Africa. France also happens to be the most meddlesome European nation in Africa in the last few decades.
The West's idea of 'success' for a footballer is very individualistic. Most of the story is only about the struggles and success of an example individual. That African footballer who became successful in Europe could return to his village and donate money into charities. But as the history of charities have shown, that doesn't actually do anything to overall poverty alleviation. That village remains impoverished, perhaps looking to supply more future footballers to Europe in hopes that some of those could come back and donate more. The West enjoys this cycle of dependence. Africa and the Global South supplying them with talented athletes for entertainment, in exchange for handouts.
The West hates the idea of the Global South catching up in hard economy. They don't like Africa, Asia, or South America to modernize and prosper. Because that would mean that those countries in the Global South would no longer be their playthings. They like Africans to become athletes and entertainers in the West. But they don't like Africans inviting the Chinese in to help them grow a real economy for the masses.
With all that being said. Creating good athletes for a Western sport is not exactly a wrong thing. Instead of worshipping the West, it could be a way of challenging them, as it is often in China's case. Many of the sports in the Olympics are Western sports, such as Badminton, Table Tennis, Volleyball, etc. China already has plenty of world-class Olympic athletes, even when it possesses the most powerful industrial economy in the world. Hence It is not wrong for China to develop a competitive football team. Besides, it is a luxury that China can afford to develop today. Right now, China needs to have more football players playing in the European league, to learn the sport properly. Just like having Yao Ming and other Chinese basketballers playing in the NBA. If any Chinese football players become truly world-class, they'll become the pioneers of a new era of football in China. Just like the other sports where world-class Chinese athletes become pioneers of making China a powerhouse. For China's case, having world-class athletes in Western sports is not about being 'cool', or being included in some Western club. It is more of a patriotic duty, to show to the world that China can compete with the best in the athletic world. Even if that athletic world is dominated by sports invented exclusively by the West. Western-rules, Western-bias, Western-hate, no problem, China can still beat the West in some of those sports.
It made me laugh out loud! This is turning into a parody.
UK Government regards NHS nurses who strike as enemies of the country.
UK Government regards NHS nurses who strike as enemies of the country.
Or go to the clearance section of your local computer store. Refurbished RTX 2080 Super for only $810 (it actually is $810). Lmao.
American trash talking may work in American sports like the NBA, NFL and WWE. It doesn't work in the FIFA World Cup. Here, the USA is a minnow compared to the big fishes. Charles Barkley, ex-NBA star appears to not realize that the Netherlands is one of those big fishes.
LOL!
When I looked up British nurses send Putin a message on Google I got some very inappropriate video links.