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And, the de-coupling picks-up pace:

Italian PM tells China's premier of plan to quit Belt and Road Initiative -media​

Reuters
Sun, September 10, 2023, 4:12 AM CDT·1 min read


At some point, China needs to make an example of one of these countries, i. e., suffer whatever the consequences of a complete trade embargo against one of them in order to demonstrate which side will lose the most!

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Someone give that British national 10 Xi-Bucks for his service to the motherland!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1700583045554938303

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Was it Rishi?

Modi: Jai Hind! Welcome back to Bharat Rishi. You must remember your true allegiance. Have you come to report your progress?

Rishi: Jai Hind! Oh great Modiji. Your humble servant has returned. I have completed this sacred mission that you have entrusted me with.

I have brought the UK economy down to below that of our great Bharat. Bharat now has the 5th largest economy on earth! Jai Hind!

Modi: Jai Hind! The time has come for Bharat to colonize our former colonizers. Have you prepared the paperwork?

Rishi: Yes, great Modiji. It's all set and ready. As the current PM of the UK, I'll sign the UK off to become a colony of Bharat.

Modi: Good. Good. Let's sign the documents and make the announcements. Remember to tell your British tabloids to word it properly. It's a trade deal ok. We don't want the Brits to realize what is actually happening.

Rishi: Don't worry great Modiji. I have already prepared the script for them. Sky News is gonna report this as the deal of the century! Those Brits are idiots, they always believe their tabloids. Hahaha! Jai Hind!

Modi: Hahaha! Jai Hind! Good boy Rishi. Now, I'll check on Kamala in awhile.

Rishi: Why, oh great Modiji? Kamala is not here in G20.

Modi: I want to know from her, when is that old coot Biden gonna just drop dead and make way for her to become POTUS. I thought that old coot should be dead by now, looking at his condition. But he is much tougher than we thought. America is the ultimate piece in my plan Rishi. Once Kamala, is POTUS, then Bharat will become #1 world Superpowa! Jai Hind!

Rishi: But oh great Modiji, Kamala is taking too long. What if she fails?

Modi: Don't worry Rishi. We still have Nikki and that wonderful young talent, Vivek to run for the next US election. America will eventually fall behind Bharat. My plan is flawless.

Modi & Rishi: Jai Hind! Jai Akhand Bharat!

Sardaukar20 said:

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Modi: Jai Hind! Welcome back to Bharat Rishi. You must remember your true allegiance. Have you come to report your progress?

Rishi: Jai Hind! Oh great Modiji. Your humble servant has returned. I have completed this sacred mission that you have entrusted me with.

I have brought the UK economy down to below that of our great Bharat. Bharat now has the 5th largest economy on earth! Jai Hind!

Modi: Jai Hind! The time has come for Bharat to colonize our former colonizers. Have you prepared the paperwork?

Rishi: Yes, great Modiji. It's all set and ready. As the current PM of the UK, I'll sign the UK off to become a colony of Bharat.

Modi: Good. Good. Let's sign the documents and make the announcements. Remember to tell your British tabloids to word it properly. It's a trade deal ok. We don't want the Brits to realize what is actually happening.

Rishi: Don't worry great Modiji. I have already prepared the script for them. Sky News is gonna report this as the deal of the century! Those Brits are idiots, they always believe their tabloids. Hahaha! Jai Hind!

Modi: Hahaha! Jai Hind! Good boy Rishi. Now, I'll check on Karmala in awhile.

Rishi: Why, oh great Modiji? Kamala is not here in G20.

Modi: I want to know from her, when is that old coot Biden gonna just drop dead and make way for her to become POTUS. I thought that old coot should be dead by now, looking at his condition. But he is much tougher than we thought. America is the ultimate piece in my plan Rishi. Once Kamala, is POTUS, then Bharat will become #1 world Superpowa! Jai Hind!

Rishi: But oh great Modiji, Kamala is taking too long. What if she fails?

Modi: Don't worry Rishi. We still have Nikki and that wonderful young talent, Vivek to run for the next US election. America will eventually fall behind Bharat. My plan is flawless.

Modi & Rishi: Jai Hind! Jai Akhand Bharat!

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White servants for all!

pevade said:

If you wanna know how to backdoor chips just look at Intel Management Engine and AMD's PSP.
These "security features" have complete access to your attached PCI devices (like Ethernet and WiFi controllers, storage, USB, etc.) And basically have access to everything. They can easily copy and transmit (through Ethernet or WiFi) a section of your RAM with your secure keys (for passwords, login credentials, etc) with you never knowing. When Intel ME was discovered, it became a huge scandal because it was basically a MINIX OS running in your CPU with nobody knowing that it existed. You can guess what the purpose of such a feature is for.

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To add to this there was an interesting presentation called something like sandshifter which automatically tested x86_x64 instructions and they found multiple undocumented ones.

james smith esq said:

And, the de-coupling picks-up pace:

Italian PM tells China's premier of plan to quit Belt and Road Initiative -media​

Reuters
Sun, September 10, 2023, 4:12 AM CDT·1 min read

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At some point, China needs to make an example of one of these countries, i. e., suffer whatever the consequences of a complete trade embargo against one of them in order to demonstrate which side will lose the most!

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Meloni regime needs to be taught a lesson. What happened in June should also not be forgotten :

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Someone give that British national 10 Xi-Bucks for his service to the motherland!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1700583045554938303

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Given the amount of uncertainty surrounding the reporting, it's quite likely the charges are false. Not long ago the MI5 accused an ethnic Chinese of trying to bribe an MP with no evidence. She's currently trying to sue them for defamation.

IPAC is an American influence campaign, consisting of MPs who have sold out to the MIC. All of them will get lucrative jobs in MIC think tanks when they retire.

I've said this before, unlike America's "yellow peril" there is next to no anti-China sentiment in the UK. Most people correctly see the enemy as the EU, and radical terrorism (Jihadist and historically Republican) not far away places like China. They are trying to engineer an atmosphere of hostility towards China in the general public.

56860 said:

It's basically America's payback for fentanyl. Fast food megacorps expanding in China is not a thing to celebrate.

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If it makes you feel better:


2000 branches in Indonesia and 1000 in Vietnam, I've even seen branch in Melbourne already. Mixue has already quietly become the 5th largest fast food chain in the world, only smaller than MacDonald, Subway, Starbucks and KFC.

Last week me and fimily tried out all the bubble tea brands in Shanghai and Mixue indeed stood out to me. I had a half ice cram half bubble tea thing, tasted great and price was super low. Only other brand that left an impression was Luckin and that costed much more (and I couldn't even get moutai latte those sold out in like one night).

For posterity, major earthquake in Morocco centered just outside of Casablanca. Many casualties.

HANOI/WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden secured deals with Vietnam on semiconductors and minerals as the strategic Southeast Asian nation elevated Washington to its highest diplomatic status alongside China and Russia.

The U.S. has been pushing for the upgrade for months as it sees the manufacturing dynamo as a key country in its strategy to secure global supply chains from China-related risks.


Sept 10 (Reuters) - The United States and Saudi Arabia are in talks to secure metals in Africa needed to help them with their energy transitions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the talks.

A state-backed Saudi venture would buy stakes in mining assets worth $15 billion in African countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and Namibia, which will permit U.S. companies to have rights to buy some of the production, the report added.

The U.S. is in a race to catch up with China for supplies of cobalt, lithium and other metals that are used in electric car batteries, laptops and smartphones


DUBAI/DOHA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained U.S. dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the U.S. fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources familiar with the negotiations who spoke to Reuters.


US, Canadian warships transit Taiwan Strait

A US and a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the US Navy said, marking the second such joint mission since June and coinciding with the leaders of both countries attending the G20 summit in India.

The US Navy's 7th Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson and Canada's HMCS Ottawa conducted a "routine" transit "through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law".

China's military condemned the transit as is usual with such missions, accusing the ships of carrying out "public hyping" in the strait.

#USA #Canada #China

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