How do you know he's not going to be one of the counter protestors helping kick start cultural revolution 2.0
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This person is not correct. Indian are deeply embedded in Software universe. This Hotmail of Microsoft came from Indian person.
or Vinod Kholsa of Sun.
most of those bright Indians came at later age to US like for Master degree while most of US starts up founders are either born here or study much earlier age in US. so just because Indian sent there best does not mean they have that early experience advantage. I will put India above South Korea and Turkey as later two facing collapsing demographics and currency even though they are treaty allies of West and no one can demand ammunition or soldiers from India. so India does have the power for independent course.
I am actually surprised that Volodymyr put Ukrainian philosopher in his bio but not very informed. he thinks there is either West or Asia and not realizing much larger population growth is happening to the South and they are much more ruthless and deceptive today than any period. why do you think Mideast and India buying so many Boeing and Airbus planes.
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So it's Monday in Beijing. That's when Blinken is suppose to be going to China from what I've read. Anyone read from the Chinese side that Blinken is there? Like I said before, Westerners like to think wishful thinking is fact. Remember when PM Gordan Brown said China was sending troops to help the West out in Afghanistan? Something like that couldn't be a mistake or rumor so it had to be Westerners thinking they have the power of suggestion to will people into doing what they want.
They said China would backstab russia in Ukraine and that Russia is diplomatic isolated in the world.
Western foreign policy and governments are becoming really schizo as fuck regarding reality.
As if they are entering their Mad King phase.
It probably has to do with the fact they could actually manifest fiction as reality in the 90s, 2000s and early 2010s because nations had to agree or suffer the consequences. Now in the 2020s it seems other nations are clowning the west and it's the west that is getting diplomatically isolated. Just take that picture of Blinken in Saudi Arabia where the US flag was missing, or how Turkey let EU top leadership act like clowns by making them play musical chairs.
Quoting what the US said in that article:
Your "vision of a free world" like 52764 different genders, illustrations of people having sex in children's school textbooks, pregnant men and legalized pedophilia?
Fvck no, thank you. Please do the rest of the world a massive favor by just staying the fvck out of UNESCO.
That thing has been parked at Pearson International Airport for quite some time. I had been wondering why that Russian aircraft has been stationed there. I had some inclination that it was grounded by the Canadian authorities for reasons now known to most of us here.
Yes, most recently in 2014. The military ruled directly until 2019 when they carved out a power sharing agreement where they still appoint all members of the national senate which has a veto over the democratically elected portion of legislature and a veto over other appointments including the prime minister.
Neglecting maintenance would be a failure of both the government and society as the US is also a democracy.
Good article. I had always suspected that the European luxury fashion brands are priced more for their brand than their material. I've had a chat with an Italian guy about this. He told me that an average fashion student in Italy could recreated those fine leather products from LVMH for a fraction of the cost. He also said that those big Italian fashion brands have much bigger outlets in Asia than back at home. So their target market is actually abroad, not at home. In our Asian societies, these luxury items are more important as status symbols, than the actual products.
I have 2 funny examples:
I had a friend who bought an LV T-shirt to join a clique of people. That T-shirt costed him more than 10x the price of an average-branded t-shirt. Yet it's little more than a heat-pressed T-shirt. He had to use a credit card to buy that thing, as it costs him as much as his monthly wage. But it was worth it for him. He found his future wife from that clique of people. Whatever we want to say about that, that is his life, and he looks happy, as far as I'm concerned.
I had another friend who upgraded from a Lexus to a Lamborghini. He is no average dude, but he can barely afford that car. No doubt that the Lamborghini vastly outclasses the Lexus on paper. But maintaining and fueling that Lamborghini also vastly outclasses the Lexus. That Lamborghini ended up being a garage queen. And when my friend took it for a spin, he never drives above 100km/h. So it kinda defeats the purpose of owning that kinda car. He had to get another Suzuki to become his everyday car. But then again, that Lamborghini elevated his social status. He can now enter places and join cliques that he couldn't before.
I grew up admiring and aspiring to own some of these European luxury stuff. But now that I've heard from people who have reached there, the picture is not that rosy after all. This dream that the West sells to us, about buying their nice cars, nice house, nice clothes, etc. I think it misdirects alot of society to pursue these things for little reason other than status. While at the same time, the Western luxury businesses make huge money out of them. They won't care if you took a loan to buy them, bought it with clean cash or with dirty cash. It is not wrong to buy and own luxury stuff from the West, but I think our Asian societies should moderate our obsession with them. People can buy and enjoy them as they are, but these things should not become a social status for them. People have taken loans, cheat, steal, and sometimes murdered to get these luxury goods.
The right answer is to support locally sourced brands that make the same high quality type of stuff. You'll get in the same cliques without having supported foreign figures with sketchy moral motivations. Sure, not all foreign luxury brands are bad, but even if some are good, they won't lose sleep because they lose 1 Asian customer. They have plenty of Europeans at home to buy their stuff.
You also have a better idea of what kind of employment/labor standards a local brand will have compared to an "international" one.
Let the Italians buy their own Italian luxury products to support themselves, while Chinese should buy Chinese luxury products to support themselves. Simple as.