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Telus pauses fibre optic network rollout across Alberta, blaming Ottawa’s Huawei ban.​


Telus Corp. T-T is blaming Ottawa’s ban on China’s Huawei Technologies Inc. for pausing its fibre optic network build in the city of St. Albert and elsewhere in Alberta, raising questions over the sanction’s spillover effects on connectivity in smaller communities.
The delay leaves many neighbourhoods in the city of about 70,000 without access to Telus’ PureFibre home internet network. The Vancouver-based company originally announced the $100-million project in 2019 to connect more than 90 per cent of St. Albert homes and businesses to its fibre optic network by the end of 2020.
During a council meeting last month, St. Albert’s director of information technology Joanne Graham told councillors that Telus informed the city on April 28 it had paused its PureFibre build “in all communities in Alberta with the exception of communities where they had a contract or a partnership with the municipality.”
In addition to factors such as high inflation and interest rates, Graham said Telus “very predominantly” cited the fallout of the federal government’s ban on Huawei technology.
“They have had to dismantle the Huawei infrastructure on all of their antennas and so primarily we’re seeing pressures on the capital that they had available for all the builds across Alberta,” she said.
The federal government announced in May 2022 it was banning Huawei from involvement in Canada’s 5G wireless network, along with ZTE, another Chinese state-backed telecommunications firm, though it had been mulling the move since 2019.

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Looks like this issue has escalated to South Korean President level.

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South Korea pivots to ‘hard-line stance’ on China as Yoon questions envoy’s comments​

  • The South Korean president reportedly said on Tuesday that he doubted whether China’s ambassador, Xing Haiming, ‘has an attitude of mutual respect’
  • It comes as local media reported that Seoul was pivoting to a ‘hard-line stance’ in its China ties in response to Beijing’s ‘high-handed’ rhetoric


Hu Xijin in response wrote a few scathing commentaries of Korea under Yoon recently. Turns out the Chinese netizens are also displeased at Yoon wrote their own responses.

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The problem is deeper here. South Koreans don't like China. Therefore anything China does other than just shutting up will be made a hysteria by the ruling party and will be used for more escalation. This is what happens in a democracy.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668713848667533314

The stories of China's relations with countries like South Korea and Australia are tragedies. They are stories about how you can be a great trading partner (some problems happened but there was consistent exponential growth which is what matters) and politically passive but still disliked for ideological or ethnic reasons. And how that dislike can easily determine government policy.
 
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Never understand why people still think it is a good idea to invest in India. China never forced foreign companies to appoint key executive positions as local, selling shares, giving out contracts to local inferior suppliers, using local components that don't meet the standard, or forming joint venture for no particular purpose.

Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi are just the worst type of companies that don't even have any backbone to make a stand.
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China-based companies like Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, among others, have been asked to induct Indian equity partners,
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reported today (June 13). They are being asked to appoint Indians in key roles, it said citing three unnamed people who were present when company executives and Indian government representatives met to discuss the matter.
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This is actually good news. Modi's India is the ideal testing ground for companies. Garbage countries who participate in this scheme deserve to be bankrupted.

Btw note the names:
"Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo". All garbage.

Take these 3, multiply them by 10, and they still wouldnt be enough to compete with a single Huawei's finger. That's how much of a garbage they are
 
solarz

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BoraTas said:
The problem is deeper here. South Koreans don't like China. Therefore anything China does other than just shutting up will be made a hysteria by the ruling party and will be used for more escalation. This is what happens in a democracy.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668713848667533314

The stories of China's relations with countries like South Korea and Australia are tragedies. They are stories about how you can be a great trading partner (some problems happened but there was consistent exponential growth which is what matters) and politically passive but still disliked for ideological or ethnic reasons. And how that dislike can easily determine government policy.
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South Korea, like Hong Kong and Taiwan, have long been used to look down on Chinese/Mainlanders, so the current attitude is just them working through their own psychological issues.
 
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This is the problem of hard power theorists. Sometimes humans are straight up irrational and will do stupid things. China holds a lot of military leverage and economic leverage, as well as gigantic economic incentives, yet human mind can ignore all of it
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No, that's not the problem of hard power theorists. South Koreans worship hard power, they worship the U.S. because the U.S. is No. 1 hard power. South Korea is an error by birth and only needs to be removed with hard power.
 
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Buisness is booming with trade going from 18 billion to 450 billion the past 20 years between China and South/Central America. Boomer Hawks likely preparing to attempt same tired game deck in the South/Central America. Hopefully everyone would have wise up this time around

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These adversaries threaten the U.S. with their moves into Latin America.
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Get used to being threatened.
 
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TK3600 said:
This is the problem of hard power theorists. Sometimes humans are straight up irrational and will do stupid things. China holds a lot of military leverage and economic leverage, as well as gigantic economic incentives, yet human mind can ignore all of it
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The idea of perfect information is a insidious myth that is encouraged and propagated by capitalism and also neoliberalism. Consumers, the general populace, their leaders, are not perceptive or rational actors. They are influenced by the most readily accessible information and easily deceived and deluded by English-language media. Psychological issues also contribute.

China's hard power is used for deterrence. You cannot deter somebody if they can't be convinced you have it.



https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668278721201991680

This year's Back to School sale:
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I hear they've gotten super popular in the US lately.
 
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Buisness is booming with trade going from 18 billion to 450 billion the past 20 years between China and South/Central America. Boomer Hawks likely preparing to attempt same tired game deck in the South/Central America. Hopefully everyone would have wise up this time around

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Cuba recently helped host peace negotiations and broker an end to Colombian Civil War. Proof that the nations of the LAC can actively work together and govern themselves.
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Cuba is once again a stage for Colombia’s pursuit of peace, as
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shook hands with top National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla commander Antonio García in Havana on June 9. The scene evoked memories of when former President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC commander-in-chief Rodrigo Timochenko Londoño shook hands towards the end of their peace negotiations. Both handshakes took place in front of their hosts, a Cuban president. Back then it was Raúl Castro and last week it was President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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was announced in the Cuban government’s El Laguito mansion, the site of many milestones in the long FARC negotiations. The June 9 “Cuba accords” lay the groundwork for an initial six-month ceasefire with the ELN and its integration into civil society. The accords are the first substantive sign of progress with the ELN, Colombia’s last remaining guerrilla group. The talks will resume in Venezuela, where they first began.
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Petro thanked Cuba for decades of “hospitality” in Colombia’s peace process. Negotiators for the government and the guerrillas both thanked the Cubans profusely for their role and the high cost it has exacted.
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South Korea, like Hong Kong and Taiwan, have long been used to look down on Chinese/Mainlanders, so the current attitude is just them working through their own psychological issues.
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Nothing less than their benefactor going through a true collapse is going to change their tunes. Mark my words, when the USA loses its dominance, these Sth Koreans, Japs and Aussies will sing a different tune. It’s the problem with the USA, they love having weak vassals that do whatever they want but the moment the USA loses its primacy in the world, these vassals are not only equally weak enough for the taking so to speak, they will utilize the age old strategy of run away as fast as possible. In the coming decade, the so call western democracy of governance will eventually become a pariah to the world and the USA will become a historical example to what is going to happen to nations that use this method of government. I mean with the way it is handling the whole dollar crisis and the rainbow ideology vs what China is going to safe guard its nation, they are already demonstrating to Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and soon the rest of the world just how much of a failure the US is as a nation and nobody is going to want a continuation of that once the USA falls. Even now, I don’t see Biden doing anything to correct its issues
 
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