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Argentina about to go into a radical economic reform.
A continuation of the previous WAPO series on India I posted before. Definitely worth the read if you have time.
Covert Indian operation seeks to discredit Modi’s critics in the U.S.
Facing pressure in India, Netflix and Amazon back down on daring films
How India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship
India uses widespread internet blackouts to mask domestic turmoil
I usually disagree with comments that disparage Chinese media, but there are clearly some valid points in these opinions. Why can't Chinese journalists produce and publish these in depth investigative smear pieces. All we get out of Chinese media is some milquetoast pieces about how India has some problems.
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AssassinsMace
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Might be a sign of how worried the US is over Chinese breakthroughs. All that money wasted if China catches up quicker than how fast the US gets a payoff from its investment. Makes sense that the first who get money are those that make chips for the military.
Could have been worse. If it had happened in Japan, the guy might have received an official apology instead.
This article shows you why America’s policy towards China is a mess. They simply don’t know what they want and can’t define a endgame with their competition with China. Of course what they really want is for China to limit its industrial and technological ambitions and put China’s foreign policy in the service of American interest and world order. So that the US can continue to maintain their hegemonic position in the world. But they can’t say that out loud.
They do know what they want, but they also know, they can't say it out loudly.
And also, even more importantly, they don't know how to get to what they want, simply because China is too strong (overall, in many areas like economic and military), so they don't have the ability to force what they want.
Isn't this the stage 3 "maybe we should do something about it but there's nothing we can do" part of the ?
Is all emotional driven politics with a dash of good old Sinophobia pushed by pseudo-intellectual think tankers driven by career ambitions and "pseudo-experts" e.g. national security "experts" don't even know the basics of Python, but their newly founded "national security" companies want those sweet government cyber security contracts and so they keep writing meaningless article after meaningless anti-China article on business and military websites in the hopes of going viral and getting a politician's attention.
Japan forced (i say force since there were outrage from US politicians that the guy was jailed) to release naval guy that killed 2 people in Japan after he crashed into them with his car.
"U.S. Navy doctors also concluded that Alkonis had experienced acute mountain sickness"
I don't buy that he suddenly lost conciounsis from acute mountain sickness, more like he drove like a moron and caused an crash. The news make it like he was at really high elevation like 13000ft (the peak). The car tourist stop is only at 7500 feet. AMS usually starts around that elevation but not severe with that light time exposure (he left after lunch) and minimal physical activity. The wife said he was "fine" and it happen sudden. Yeah, that is not reality in my experience. You start feeling it with headaches, nausea, dehydration... and he would of been cranky and complaining with those symptoms