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According to China Central Television (CCTV), mainland fishing boat "Minlongyu 61222" sank at 2:58 am in waters near the Dongding Island. As of press time, two mainland fishermen are dead, two had been rescued, and two are still missing, media from both Taiwan and Chinese mainland reported, citing sources from Taiwan's coast guard.

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The mainland has dispatched helicopters, sea rescue vessels and patrol ships to conduct search and rescue missions within a radius of 37.4 kilometers (20 nautical miles) from where the ship sank. Taiwan coast guard also deployed four ships to join the mainland's rescue effort, according to Taiwan-based media.

Chou Mei-wu, head of Taiwan's coast guard, said on Thursday that his department has deployed divers to search together with the mainland counterparts, if current conditions allow, they will dive into the cabin to search missing individuals.

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The fishermen were reportedly from Zhangzhou, East China's Fujian Province. The cause of the incident is still unclear so far

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The cross-Straits joint rescue operation came a month after a brutal expulsion of a mainland fishing boat by the Taiwan coast guard which caused the deaths of two mainland fishermen on February 14. Taiwan authorities have not yet given a convincing account of the process and the truth of the incident.

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Compared with the previous incident, the Taiwan authorities' response and handling are obviously more active and positive, Li Zhenguang, deputy director at the Institute of Taiwan Studies under the Beijing Union University, told the Global Times on Thursday.

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pmc said:

certain things are not straight forward.

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pmc said:

Wealth is created due to US but that Wealth when transfer to EU from Mideast in such way that it cause EU decline along with conflict with Russia.

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pmc said:

Migration from Mexico to US is very different than migration to EU as behind them are very sophisticated policy of influence. i dont want to waste further on this topic.

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alfreddango said:

I agree with MelianPretext's assessment and yours, I agree that this is a scenario that chinese leaders want to avoid, not to mention the possible loss of tiktok's algorithm.

it's just that imo, if china does not acquiesce to this seizure, it radically shortens the roadmap to physical war, and I don't think zhongnanhai is too keen on that at this point in time

maybe my opinion is wildly inaccurate, and war is just a remote possibility given the material/industrial circumstances of many possible players (e.g. europe), but I'm seeing a lot of signs that the american effort to completely defeat china is slowly but surely ramping up to a point of no return, and this time they're also operating in tandem with its allies (eu conducting an investigation into china's EVs: europe's own version of this tiktok thing in the us. it seems to me as if china's mercantilist practices have never been that much of a problem since its admission to wto, but now, suddenly, they are. is it made in china 2025 that scared the s**t out of them? did it start before? idk)

for example, I've always thought that semiconductors sanctions are pointless if you don't physically reset china's ability to research and innovate; china has the market and the talent pool to eventually come up with an indigenous EUV solution, so what's the point of sanctioning them? imo they make sense if you already know that in a couple of years you're planning to bomb the s**t out of their research facilities

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Joe Biden declares opposition to Nippon Steel’s takeover of US Steel​

Joe Biden has declared his opposition to Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9bn purchase of US Steel, saying it was “vital” for the American steel company to remain “domestically owned and operated”.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the US president characterised his decision as an effort to side with American workers, at a time when he is under pressure in his re-election campaign to retain the blue-collar vote in the face of aggressive courting by his Republican rival Donald Trump.

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The intervention comes less than a month before Fumio Kishida, the Japanese prime minister who has worked closely with Biden to shore up Asian allies in the face of Chinese threats, is due to arrive in Washington for a high-profile visit

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AssassinsMace said:

Sino/US relations being at their worst days since the Cold War… I’d say China miscalculated tremendously. No Chinese is going to say this is where they wanted it to go.

The only peaceful coexistence between the Chinese and the West is through guilt because it’s the primary tactic the West uses to get people and countries to do what they want. They vilify you first and then you have to bend over backwards for anything else even for things that have nothing to do with what they accuse to prove to them you’re not what they accuse you of being. The people the West doesn’t go after like they do China all successfully have laid a guilt trip on the West. Why? Because that’s a part of Western cultural thinking. They don’t want to look like the monster they were proven to be before so they work to avoid it because no one in this world is going to do what they want if they do. They think they did nothing bad to China so they have no guilt. And why is that? Because some Chinese think that would make the West angry at them to pound into them their crimes in China and would be counter intuitive to their goals.

I don’t really care if something comes across as the “Chinese” way or not because it has shown it doesn’t work hence why the “darkest days since the Cold War…”

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MortyandRick said:

Ahhh I see now. So when the US has a lack of soft power for its support of Israel, even within its own borders and among it's own citizens, your point of view is that they have hard power and no one can do anything about it, and that's real power!

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MortyandRick said:

But when china has a lack of soft power, you suddenly change your tone and smugly start asking the forum to explain why China sucks at soft power.

Why the double standards?

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alfreddango said:

I agree with MelianPretext's assessment and yours, I agree that this is a scenario that chinese leaders want to avoid, not to mention the possible loss of tiktok's algorithm.

it's just that imo, if china does not acquiesce to this seizure, it radically shortens the roadmap to physical war, and I don't think zhongnanhai is too keen on that at this point in time

maybe my opinion is wildly inaccurate, and war is just a remote possibility given the material/industrial circumstances of many possible players (e.g. europe), but I'm seeing a lot of signs that the american effort to completely defeat china is slowly but surely ramping up to a point of no return, and this time they're also operating in tandem with its allies (eu conducting an investigation into china's EVs: europe's own version of this tiktok thing in the us. it seems to me as if china's mercantilist practices have never been that much of a problem since its admission to wto, but now, suddenly, they are. is it made in china 2025 that scared the s**t out of them? did it start before? idk)

for example, I've always thought that semiconductors sanctions are pointless if you don't physically reset china's ability to research and innovate; china has the market and the talent pool to eventually come up with an indigenous EUV solution, so what's the point of sanctioning them? imo they make sense if you already know that in a couple of years you're planning to bomb the s**t out of their research facilities

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FairAndUnbiased said:

Whatever they send to attempt to bomb China will be going on a 1 way trip. And the pilots who don't eject in time and go down will be the lucky ones.

See the U-2 shoot downs.

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FairAndUnbiased said:

even if TikTok is banned from App stores, there's browser TikTok that can be upgraded to almost a full app experience.

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