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The defence official also told reporters the US is considering a number of military options to address increasing Russian aggression in the skies over Syria. The official declined to detail the options but said the US will not cede any territory and will continue to fly in the western part of Syria as part of operations against ISIL (ISIS) fighters.

Will not cede any territory?! 'Russian aggression' in the skies over Syria?! Ha. I doubt there's any ISIL fighters left. Maybe Russia and China should send some 'help' to Mexico in their fight against the cartels. :rolleyes:
 

manqiangrexue

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Hanjian and spawn of hanjian got second prize, but sure.
A bit harsh. If you had a genius kid in the US, you would let him develop as best he could too. Math contests don't mean anything. A kid who can win a competition against other kids is potential, but not yet a force in the professional world. When he grows up, as he continues to receive the best training American can provide, one day, he may be strong enough to make a difference. Then, he will earn the oppertunity to decide if he is to be a patriot, a mercenary, or a Hanjian. That choice is only there for the exceptionally talented and the rare, not to any menial worker. As a parent, your job is to help your child attain the importance to one day have that decision emerge before him, while arming him with the morals to make the right choice come that time. I have a feeling that anti-Asian/Anti-Chinese American culture will lend a hand to the latter effort, but for the former effort, you don't yank your kid off stage just because his best developmental path at current has him wearing an American flag to a kid's game.
Yeah, I would say China's intelligence services is extremely elementary if not downright useless. They were totally caught off guard with the simmering HK protests which we now know had been organized and brewing for months.
And HK is not even some far distant land.. it's literally part of China!
Were they caught off guard? Didn't see it coming while most of us did? Should they have prevented it and let the rot fester? I know Americans like to kick the can down the road for the sucker who gets elected to the next term but after the Hong Kong riots, the city finally began moving in the right direction. Judicially, the decision makers are more and more Chinese now, and the terrorists are being called out, ostracized and arrested. Hong Kongers who foolishly fled to the UK are finding out how beautiful their home is in comparison and how they are not actually British. Hong Kong is a much better place now and continues to improve and sinify because a reckoning was needed to sort things out; it simply needed to be controlled to attain the desired result.
 
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tygyg1111

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I know NSL was not received well by most of the intl. community but what about the average HK resident?
To rioter leaning residents (unfortunately this is a sizeable portion of the population, at least in the 20-30 yr age range): Badly, but they can't do anything about it so they will just make passive aggressive comments and bitch when it comes up in conversation.

To the rest: Ranges between unfortunate but necessary to hell yeah, it took long enough.
 

kwaigonegin

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A bit harsh. If you had a genius kid in the US, you would let him develop as best he could too. Math contests don't mean anything. A kid who can win a competition against other kids is potential, but not yet a force in the professional world. When he grows up, as he continues to receive the best training American can provide, one day, he may be strong enough to make a difference. Then, he will earn the oppertunity to decide if he is to be a patriot, a mercenary, or a Hanjian. That choice is only there for the exceptionally talented and the rare, not to any menial worker. As a parent, your job is to help your child attain the importance to one day have that decision emerge before him, while arming him with the morals to make the right choice come that time. I have a feeling that anti-Asian/Anti-Chinese American culture will lend a hand to the latter effort, but for the former effort, you don't yank your kid off stage just because his best developmental path at current has him wearing an American flag to a kid's game.

Were they caught off guard? Didn't see it coming while most of us did? Should they have prevented it and let the rot fester? I know Americans like to kick the can down the road for the sucker who gets elected to the next term but after the Hong Kong riots, the city finally began moving in the right direction. Judicially, the decision makers are more and more Chinese now, and the terrorists are being called out, ostracized and arrested. Hong Kongers who foolishly fled to the UK are finding out how beautiful their home is in comparison and how they are not actually British. Hong Kong is a much better place now and continues to improve and sinify because a reckoning was needed to sort things out; it simply needed to be controlled to attain the desired result.
I think.you're right. I was actually just in HK in Feb. The city for the most part appears to function normally from my perspective. I was however just in the CBD area.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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One problem with India: too much spending on military, not enough for development:


What the tweeter said is typical false dichotomy - in reality, the 3rd possibility is the most likely: it's too late to contain China, and China will develop its IT technologies and reunite with Taiwan peacefully.

Sheesh - don't let SerpentZA see it. His lungs will explode in anger and jealousy if he does.

Now and then: If you let the US dictate your life, you might have a miserable one.
everything negative said about North Korea (corrupt country filled with fakes, ruled by an irrational nationalist dictator hell bent on military strength instead of the population's welfare) is far more true about India.

the difference between North Korea and India is that
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and the country itself is cleaner.

87 North Korea 73.28
146 India 67.24
 

Chevalier

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anglos really coming out and saying it. This is what happens when a weak, prostitute, merchant soul society acquires power through technology before discovering culture, enlightenment and humanity. You have the modern western world.
An Anglo hegemon that has realistically only been in hegemony for less than 3 centuries believes it can take on the oldest surviving human civilisation on the planet.
 

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Union rep says that the plant – which is set to make chips for
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claims that construction safety standards are unacceptable.

The Prospect was told of multiple accidents involving loads being dropped from cranes. For example, according to Butler, a piece of carbon steel pipe over 40 feet in length and weighing over eight tons was dropped from 160 feet in the air. In another incident, according to a worker who asked not to be named, a 20-inch piece of carbon steel was dropped off a crane and hit a worker.
A man in his sixties fell off an A-frame ladder and broke both of his legs, according to one person familiar with the incident. Others described at least two cases in which workers have fallen through badly marked scaffolding. One man in his twenties, on a work visa from Mexico, reportedly fell through flooring to the level below, a more than 30-foot drop.
According to one person who heard about the incident indirectly, the worker “lost his spleen, he broke his wrist, he broke five ribs, and ended up having to be in the hospital.” The worker added, “They said he was going to be OK, he will be able to go back to work. I heard he’s from Mexico and the GC or whoever was in charge of that scope was paying for him to stay in a hotel and make sure that he heals up.”
One union member says that TSMC tried to cover up a dangerous gas leak by claiming that the evacuation was for an active shooter drill.

Josh Wakeham, business director for Arizona Local 469, the pipefitters union, described one memorable incident. “People were told that there was an active-shooting drill, and they were running, and [told] to evacuate the area. So our guys got out of the area. And they found out later that it was a gas leak. And they were just trying to hide that. So no one trusts them,” Wakeham said. “It’s their culture of ‘Hey, we’re not trying to slow down any productivity, get back to work, nothing to see here.’”
One issue is said to be that TSMC hires very few workers directly, so that legally-mandated accident reports are filed with dozens of different contractors, not with the chipmaker. This makes it very difficult to see the true scale of the number of accidents at the site.
There have even been claims of two deaths at the site, though one of these was described as a drug overdose. The other was said to be a worker who removed the safety guard from an 8-inch grinder, and then slipped, severing his femoral artery, and bleeding to death. Neither report could be confirmed.
The piece includes video footage of a fire, in which workers seemed unclear how to respond.
 
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