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horse

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That's the reaction of someone who just got slapped by CPC with that Micron ban and is currently holding their face while tearing up.

Not just the Micron ban news today.

Also this EU fine of over one billion dollars against META.

Then the South Koreans playing innocent, none of their business what is happening.


South Korea signals its chipmakers can fill gap after China’s ban on Micron
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All this tech war news reported today.

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manqiangrexue

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I am pointing some thing else.
Ok tonight, I opened my computer fully expecting to shit on you again and then I see you didn't quote me. I thought you might be in the hospital or something but then, I see you are now too scared to even quote or tag me when talking about me. I'm sorry, but you might as well fight, because as long as you are on this forum posting stupid nonsensical shit about soft power, I will be all over you.
He thinks that flag of a country at book fair in Mexico has some thing to do with wealth of country (aka Hard Power).
Yeah, I think and everyone else thinks too. You seem to think that Mexicans don't want any investment at all, which Mexico didn't seem to agree with.
my point was that Mexico has now very different status. Mexico is now not only became largest trading partner of US but the busiest land border and the most flights among two countries. Its all due to Soft Power of demographics and this may be happening faster than estimates.
No. The ability to produce goods and sell them, the ability to serve incoming tourists is hard power. If demographics was soft power, then what about all those Africans nations with a TRF of 5+? You don't like my pointing that out, do you?
Hard Power need Soft Power to become effective and sustainable.
Just saying this over and over again despite being unable to even define "soft power" isn't going to make it convincing. I've proven over and over that there is no soft power without hard power, and soft power is completely dependent on hard power. In other words, it doesn't even exist in its own right as a power.
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Hard power of Mexico's economy. How could anyone confuse this with soft power?
If US soft power dominated that Mexico demographics will be worse than US. Hispanic demographics grew much faster both inside US and in Mexico. If you truly want to see US soft power than its over Canada. Just look at changing demographics and cost of living.
Ohhhhhhh, you just went to a new level of retardation! Now you think soft power is something you have over someone else, which means to have better demographics than them??? LOLOL So in your mind, Niger soft power over Chad, Chad soft power over Mexico, Mexico soft power over USA and USA soft power over Canada??? LOLOLOL
USSR does not interact with US much. There is 1970s or 60s Video of Tashkent on youtube. Look it up to see whose influence there.
Mexico and Canada are integrated into US.
Unrelated, pass
Mexico Soft proved to be strong and that is now transforming into
What soft power? Are Americans idolizing Mexicans or what's happening in your fantasy? Walk us through it. Cus I live in the US and Americans basically see Mexicans as bottom dwellers here. I didn't know that to be looked down upon means to have soft power by your standards LOL
Hard Power of wage increase in manufacturing.
It seems that sometimes you think economics is soft power and other times, you get it right and call it hard power. Do you, by any chance, have schizophrenia? Are P, M, and C three different people posting? Which one is on now?
 
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pmc

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I assume principles of capitalism and simple market economy doesn't exist in your brain. Shortage of product leads to increased production, which leads to increase in manpower requirements. How do you ensure that you satisfy the increased manpower requirement in the shortest amount of time? Increase wages so more candidates comes to you instead of competitors aiming to fill the shortage for themselves. Now where does to finished products go? Almost exclusively to the US. Well, that looks like US hard economic power driving wage increase in Mexico now, doesn't it? And why wage increase in Mexico? Because skilled Mexican manufacturing workers are only paid a fraction of US counterparts, so increase their wages by 10% could easily be offset by slightly increasing the MSRP of products in US. Once again US economic hard power at work.
what is the meaning of word fraction here?. This is before the current rise in Mexican Peso. Just in current exchange rate you are looking at $75 per day for VW in 2022. 2023 wages will be in higher. This is the power of demographics. once it reach critical mass. it can negotiate better deals. Hispanic dominated world can become night mare for Canada as it does not have soft power.

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According to a recent study by insurance company Aon, VW employees already earn more than other auto plant workers in Mexico. Published in March, the study said the average salary of a VW assembly worker – including benefits – is 1,261 pesos per day (US $62). That’s 30% higher than the average amount made by workers at Nissan’s plant in Morelos, who receive the second highest salaries in the sector at 971 pesos (US $48) per day

And to answer your previous comment. So now according to you low birth rates are all of a sudden NOT US soft power now USSR/Russia is involved? Way to contradict yourself dude.
Arabs dont attract to low birth level countries not on the level when do the sessions among thinkers.
 

jwnz

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I think a lot of commentators are basically just using Russia as a rhetorical punching bag to vent the rage they feel at not being able to push around China as they please. It's really offensive to them that a nonwhite communist country is strong and technologically competent enough to deter them through purely conventional means. They've never experienced anything like it, and it's only going to get worse for them. So they cope by insulting and degrading a country with vastly lower capabilities. Classic bully behavior.

What's ironic is how they don't seem to understand the fact that, if Putin really gets into hot water politically and a revolt is brewing, China will just send in the PAP to bail him out like he did with Kazakhstan in 1/22. So if their ostensible destabilization efforts actually work, it will only result in Russia becoming even more subordinate to China.
Absolutely, Tony Blair has confirmed as much saying that for the first time in a couple of centuries there's a non white peer power from the East challenging the West.
 

Chevalier

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To continue this semi-related rant, although I did not read the article, it is too obvious why Russia under Putin is getting closer to China under Xi.

It is not really about Putin and Xi being friends, which they are.

That only helps. Makes it less formal, easier to get things done.

And, also, we cannot stay mad at our friends. That is why they are friends.


Russia under Putin, has fought about six wars.

And the direction of those wars, geographically speaking, always coming from the same general direction.

But when Putin looks east, nothing but stability and friendship.

After this Ukraine debacle with the Madian stuff, it has come to a point where Russia has said screw this.

All this time with Putin as leader, there was always some difficulty or war, on this side, while that other side of the country, nothing but development and trade links facilitating expansion of commerce. War on one side, growth on the other.

No one bothers to mention this in the Western media.

In fact, the Western media actually brings out Doctor Kissinger for a cameo appearance of disinformation a few pages back.

Kind of pathetic attempt.

STFU!

I like Kissinger. The media should STFU! Tell us how many wars Putin was fighting!

:D:oops:
Yeah that was weird with Kissinger, such a blatant attempt by the anglos to put daylight between Russia and China by trying to say 'oh yes, we Anglos are the favoured nation between Russia and China!!! No!!!! It's 2003 again, dammit!!'
Not just the Micron ban news today.

Also this EU fine of over one billion dollars against META.

Then the South Koreans playing innocent, none of their business what is happening.


South Korea signals its chipmakers can fill gap after China’s ban on Micron
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All this tech war news reported today.

:oops::)
Honestly, what did the US and its CIA expect? When they promote and cultivate assets who happen to be cowardly, backstabbing and mealymouthed, did they expect them to have any sort of principles?
South Korea may yet retain its technological industry but with everything else that it's done, it remains to be seen if there will still be a south korea as opposed to a unified communist Korean state under the founding family of the Kims under Chinese suzerainty.
 

supersnoop

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There was some war in South Odessa, where they drove the tank column through a tunnel in the mountain. No one bothered to blow it up, so the Russian tanks drove all the downtown.

There was the war where Putin was going to hang Saakashvili by the balls.
South Ossetia, not Odessa, so it’s the same war.

Ossetia is by Georgia, Odessa is in Ukraine.
 

luminary

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, OpenAI's claim that it scored 90th percentile on the UBE appears to be based on approximate conversions from estimates of February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, which "are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population."
Compared to July test-takers, GPT-4's UBE score would be 68th percentile, including ~48th on essays. Compared to first-time test takers, GPT-4's UBE score is estimated to be ~63rd percentile, including ~42nd on essays. Compared to those who actually passed, its UBE score would be ~48th percentile, including ~15th percentile on essays.

Additionally, there have been rumors that the data was leaked into training (data contamination). Similar to it's
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Another interesting nail in that AGI coffin.

Anybody who's been paying attention knows that bigger transformers are a dead end. The only thing that can advance the frontiers is a fundamentally new paradigm (though transformers and/or their insights will probably factor into it).
 
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