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horse said:

Uh ...

The word cash rhymes with the word crash!

Not a good omen I think.

They might call them the F1 Crash Team.

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Temstar said:

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Isn't the correct way to ask be something like "Please chairman Xi, send the Chengdu J-20 stealth air superiority fighter"?

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zbb said:

It all started with Boeing's merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Before the merger, Boeing was known for its engineering focused culture while MD was ran by MBAs and accountants whose focus on costs had led to serious quality issues at MD. After the merger, the MD culture prevailed and transformed Boeing into another MD.

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BoraTas said:

American protection of the global trade and American autoarky are American national myths that never had anything to do with real world. At no point of history piracy managed to block trade from happening. Because everybody has an interest in trade ongoing and pirates are not omnipresent and powerful aliens. They are usually poor, loosely organized criminals. And USN never had trade protection as a major consideration. It was a land attack navy for its entire history.

The current Red Sea crisis is also unironically an American fault. Despite all the leverage they have had over Israel they gave it a blank check and empowered it for decades to continue its occupation. Red Sea is still being used for trade despite Americans failing to cripple offensive capabilities of a minor military (yes, not pirates). The rest of the trade is just being rerouted.

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Cooper added that collectively, these platforms support the safe navigation and free flow of commerce through vital regional chokepoints, particularly around the Strait of Hormuz.

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jwnz said:

What's also interesting is that there's an English looking guy with the Chinese group, why didn't he step in to explain the situation to Dr K or tell the group that they can't demand Dr K to not release the video.

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After initially sending a cease and desist order to [Andre Basche] – the developer of a Haier hOn plugin for Home Assistant – Haier Europe’s head of Brand and IoT has now penned a much more amicable response, seeking to enter into dialogue in search of a solution for both parties.

This latest development is detailed both in the ongoing GitHub issue, as well as the Takedown FAQ and Timeline document that [Andre] created to keep track of everything that’s going on since we last checked in on the situation. As things stand, there is hope that Haier Europe may relent, especially as the company’s US division has shown no inclinations to join in on the original C&D.

In the confusion following the initial C&D announcement demanding the take-down of [Andre]’s hOn-related repositories, it was not clear to many which Haier was involved. As it turns out, Haier Europe as a separately legal entity apparently decided to go on this course alone, with Haier US distancing themselves from the issue. In that same Reddit thread it’s noted that GE Appliances (part of Haier US) has had a local API available for years. This makes Haier Europe the odd one out, even as they’re attempting some damage control now.

Amidst this whirlwind of developments, we hope that Haier Europe can indeed reach an amicable solution with the community, whether it’s continued API usage, or the development of a local API.

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EU says any retaliatory trade probe by China must be ‘based on facts’​

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• Beijing hints that it will strike back against European trade measures, which include scrutiny of industrial subsidies in China’s electric vehicle sector

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China must stick to the facts if it is to launch trade investigations into European products. That was the message from the European Union’s trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis in an interview in Brussels on Wednesday, in response to a veiled Chinese threat that it would retaliate over the bloc’s trade measures against it.

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Its envoy to the EU, Fu Cong, told Bloomberg on Wednesday that “there are many things that could be subject to investigation” if China chose to follow the EU approach, fuelling fears that a trade war is in the works.

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“Something I’ve emphasised in my contacts with Chinese counterparts is that our investigation is going to be based on the rules and based on facts and figures, so it’s not arbitrary,” said Dombrovskis, who is from Latvia.

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“Countries may have trade disputes, that is not unheard of, but it’s important that we follow rules and procedures to address them … I am emphasising the need for all sides to stick with a rules-based, facts-based approach.”

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Overbom said:

Scared, Potter?
China can always use the same EU-alternative facts from their Chinese EV investigation. Nothing to worry about.

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TK3600 said:

If EU insist on being American vassals, it would be wise to break it. It would be same as hurting US directly but without risk of fighting US. Unlike US, EU is too weak to fight back. They have neither political will, economic capacity, nor military might to challenge China in any form of conflict.

From trade war, Ukraine proxy war, or political subterfuge, EU is all 1 good hit away from collapse. And this is all just Russia, China didnt even start shooting!

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