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Diletank said:

Are elections held in one round or two?

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Taiwan's presidential election is one round. It has no runoff.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

To be fair, Newsom did successfully eliminate poverty in San Francisco... for around one week.

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Maybe a Potemkin village is easy to build?

coolgod said:

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Terry Gou drops out of the race.

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China allows 15 days visa free travel for more countries like France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Malaysia!

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After the withdrawal of Gou and the redistribution of Gou's supporters, this will be a very hotly contested election. In the chart below, green=DPP, blue=KMT, teal=TPP

Arij Javaid said:

Will china use A.I in military?? If so, how far is their current application

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I guess AI has to be used very vigilantly in the military.

You have to live in your own world to believe that there is free press in the West. Today's case in point (notice that BBC is a quasi-governmental agency):

The BBC journalists said that across British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) platforms, terms like “massacre” and “atrocity”, have been reserved “only for Hamas, framing the group as the only instigator and perpetrator of violence in the region. This is inaccurate but aligns with the BBC’s overall coverage”.

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Interesting theory why the regimes in the West are in cahoots with Israel's Zionist regime and explains the situation above somewhat:

This is what happens when your government is actually ruled by the moneyed class and the arms industry is one of the few remaining major profit-generating industries that holds a disproportionately large lobbying power over the government.

The version of the Hong Kong handover I read was it was on the heels of the Falklands War when negotiations over the handover were to begin and the British were all hawkish taunting about keeping Hong Kong and breaking the treaty. Deng Xiaoping said to the British when it's 1997, the Chinese will be entering the city no matter what. The British testicles were cut-off and they went into talks. Before that Hong Kong was only known for cheap crappy products. The British wanted to turn Hong Kong into a poison pill for China hence when they first talked about democracy when they never entertained it before and also opening Hong Kong up financially. So don't believe the bull that the British are so proper that they believe in the rule of law and they cared about democracy for Hong Kong when they were in control.

supercat said:

I guess AI has to be used very vigilantly in the military.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1727967145991307517

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What happened to Biden wanting to stop AI being used for weapons? Never heard anything after APEC. Remember when China proposed a space weapons ban and the US rejected it but then accused China of being hypocrite for developing space weapons afterwards...? Somehow they think China still has to abide by it when the US rejected it and no treaty was signed.

Well, that was quite fast

Argentina’s Milei backs away from dollarisation as central bank pick rejects role​

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Libertarian president-elect signals approach in keeping with ‘market situation’

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The man named to lead Argentina’s central bank by libertarian president-elect Javier Milei has turned down the job over policy differences, amid signs that the South American nation’s maverick next leader is backing away from his flagship policy of dollarising the sickly economy.

Emilio Ocampo, an economic history professor and former investment banker, was the leading advocate within Milei’s team of dumping the Argentine peso in favour of the US dollar. The author of a recent paper advocating dollarisation, he had been working on a blueprint to implement the plan after the new government takes office on December 10.

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But a source close to Ocampo confirmed on Thursday night local news reports that he would no longer accept the post.

“The only reason for Ocampo to be at the [central bank] was to dollarise,” the source said. “He was never going to the central bank to implement someone else’s plan, which he doesn’t agree with.” Ocampo and Milei’s team declined to comment.

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But Milei said in an interview on Wednesday night that while he liked Ocampo’s plan, “we need to see whether the market situation allows a solution like the one Emilio proposes, and whether he is prepared to implement a plan which is not the one he had originally planned”.

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Is this the so called Democratic political system in practise? The one that Americans praised the manner of how the elections were performed and the new Argentinian president.

Pathetic.

gelgoog said:

Regardless of what the Dutch or ASML wants to do, they are using light sources made by Cymer in the US. If the US sanctions the sale of the light sources, then they have no machines to sell.

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Then tsmc will have no machines for making chips for Apple.

gelgoog said:

Regardless of what the Dutch or ASML wants to do, they are using light sources made by Cymer in the US. If the US sanctions the sale of the light sources, then they have no machines to sell.

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They can use Japan Gigaphoton, at least for DUVi.

Its called Pan-Muslim unity

funny how the abc wasted no time nor effort in promoting the fictitious black legend of the “Uighur genocide”.

In light of the Chinese visa free travel for Germans and French, what is the French and German response?
for the french
good.
for Ze Germans

Pathetic.

After Xi Jinping visit to San Francisco, city falling back into drug use and homelessness: business owner​

Restaurant owner Tony Pankaew said San Francisco rushed to clean up the city for Xi Jinping​

Apparently outside the hotel the Japanese delegation stayed during APEC, there were lot's of homeless people. Japanese media even filmed it. Guess the cleanup before APEC is solely for Chairman Xi then.

You don't need to lie about the West to vilify them. So all that money the US is budgeting to counter so-called Chinese propaganda against the West is about covering up the truth because the truth is the most powerful propaganda. If the US is okay with their ally doing this then remember how the hypocrites cry about China damming up rivers that go into other countries. That water is Chinese property according to their own logic.