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manqiangrexue

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Loss of human lives and property is tragic , but the quality of these collapsed buildings look unlawfully low. Japan in 2011 endured 9.0 earthquake with minimal damage. I guess corruption is commonly practiced in Thailand and Myanmar. Anyways, I feel sorry for poor people losing belongings and loved ones.
Japan should ask its regular builders to teach its nuclear powerplant construction team because apparently, they had "minimal damage" from a 9.0 but a 7.3 crumpled the Fukushima reactor like a coke can which is still hemorraging radiocative water into the sea. I guess corruption is too deep in the Japanese government to expect that nuclear power plants be built with similar safety standards as regular commercially-built residences and offices.
 

Overbom

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"China should take the L and move on" lmao

China going hard. Will launch antitrust probe
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Beijing revealed it will launch an antitrust probe into the sale.
The State Administration for Market Regulation said on Friday it was looking into the deal.
“We have noticed this transaction, and will review it in accordance with the law to ensure fair competition in the market and safeguard the public interest,” a spokesman from the anti-monopoly department under the market regulator said in a written reply.

The watchdog did not reveal when the investigation would be launched but its response was later reposted on the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office website.

The anti-monopoly department is responsible for conducting antitrust reviews and providing guidance to companies over their response to mitigate risk and ensure compliance overseas.
 

RedMetalSeadramon

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"China should take the L and move on" lmao

China going hard. Will launch antitrust probe
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Should not have taken 4 slaps to resolve. Should have been at most 2.

Sociopolitical rectification in HongKong is quite clearly incomplete. The central government needs to actively manage the situation, not just behave in an "all is quiet, crisis averted" manner.
 

iewgnem

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It's not actually a given tho. Like if you look at Ukraine which face(d) a very similar situation as China, they completely failed to achieve any sort of penetrance into the separatist regions. Most likely because of the people there really hate the Kiev government's guts and have no reservations about fighting whatsoever.

Meanwhile KMT separatists are more likely ambivalent or at least not confidently hateful of the Beijing government. They are much more like HK cockroaches than like LDPR draftees.
There's nothing similar to China with Ukraine, the regions Kiev claims are literally another culture with another language and history, whereas Taiwan technically still claim to be the the government of all of China.

Kiev's claim over Russia's Ukraine region is only comparable to Israel's claim over Palestine.
 

GZDRefugee

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I mean, Ukraine had all of Nuland's cronies, CIA, Boris Johnson's thugs etc. Obviously China/MSS still has slightly more resources if we consider economy size, but the actual resource difference isn't too great.
If the quality of propaganda that came out of the US in the latter half of Biden's presidency is any indication, CIA money was getting stretched pretty thin.
 
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antwerpery

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Unpopular opinion but I do wish that China could annex Myanmar and actually turn it into a functional state instead of a shithole filled with drugs, scams, crime and gangs that is dragging down all of south-east asia as a whole. Probably won't ever happen though, even though full control of Myanmar offers up the Indian ocean to China.

Full annexation will never happen, but I wonder why does China let neighboring allied countries like NK and Myanmar do whatever they want and turn into pseudo-failed states. Doesn't China have enough influence to strong arm this countries into win-win economical policies that can turn them into the equivalent of Thailand, Vietnam or Laos?
 

Moonscape

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Unpopular opinion but I do wish that China could annex Myanmar and actually turn it into a functional state instead of a shithole filled with drugs, scams, crime and gangs that is dragging down all of south-east asia as a whole. Probably won't ever happen though, even though full control of Myanmar offers up the Indian ocean to China.

Full annexation will never happen, but I wonder why does China let neighboring allied countries like NK and Myanmar do whatever they want and turn into pseudo-failed states. Doesn't China have enough influence to strong arm this countries into win-win economical policies that can turn them into the equivalent of Thailand, Vietnam or Laos?
It costs far less money to deal with the effects of failed states on your border, than it costs to actually go in and occupy those states. Plus occupations usually don't fix anything long term, see, e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan.

Also, in many ways, North Korea is less of a basketcase now than it was a few years ago. So sometimes these failed states un-fail.
 

Jiang ZeminFanboy

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Unpopular opinion but I do wish that China could annex Myanmar and actually turn it into a functional state instead of a shithole filled with drugs, scams, crime and gangs that is dragging down all of south-east asia as a whole. Probably won't ever happen though, even though full control of Myanmar offers up the Indian ocean to China.

Full annexation will never happen, but I wonder why does China let neighboring allied countries like NK and Myanmar do whatever they want and turn into pseudo-failed states. Doesn't China have enough influence to strong arm this countries into win-win economical policies that can turn them into the equivalent of Thailand, Vietnam or Laos?
I still haven't heard if China is sending the help to Myanmar or not. If they won't send any big team for help, for me that's a continuation of a blunder of Chinese foreign policy to Myanmar. That shithole (Myanmar) is sinking deeper and deeper, you have a failed state at the border who keeps thousands of PRC citizens in scam camps.
@Moonscape
NK is still a basketcase. It has almost zero impact economically on China, which declining Dongbei desperately needs NK to open. China-South Korea trade is like 300B$ not to mention mutual investments and factories operated inside both of them. Imagine how the North East China would look if NK wasn't such a petty hermit kingdom.
 
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