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siegecrossbow

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The right is just using left tactics.
It's the left which started this whole cancel culture/free speech doesn't mean free from consequences

So now that the right has learnt, and with an opportunity of Kirk's assassination, don't get surprised that they punch back and escalate even more

There is a reason why free speech is free speech after all. When Americans started applying asterisks or terms and conditions to that term, it lost all meaning.

Anyway, funny times are coming to America. Fall of Rome is ever closer in the horizon

Free speech is only an luxury that you can afford when you are overwhelmingly strong and confident.
 

Randomuser

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For all the talk about about how Xi is a dictator or whatever, he doesn't show up much in my Weibo feed. Like he shows up in important stuff like anniversary of wars, policy statement, state visits, annual inspection etc. But a lot of time there a lot of focus on the spokespeople coz they do a lot of media talk and responses. Not Xi. In fact at least from my experience Trump shows up more coz he's always making statements to the media and the world.

He's got nothing on Godi media.
 

siegecrossbow

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For all the talk about about how Xi is a dictator or whatever, he doesn't show up much in my Weibo feed. Like he shows up in important stuff like anniversary of wars, policy statement, state visits, annual inspection etc. But a lot of time there a lot of focus on the spokespeople coz they do a lot of media talk and responses. Not Xi. In fact at least from my experience Trump shows up more coz he's always making statements to the media and the world.

He's got nothing on Godi media.

Real reason why Jai Hinds can’t come clean about aircraft losses on May 7th.
 

Chevalier

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Given that Nvidia had been greenlit by USG to deploy 'approved' chips to China, who's to say those chips weren't compromised or laying the groundwork for future sabotage missions against Chinese AI and supercomputing?
Case eg:
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to gas pipeline control software that the Soviet Union obtained from a company in Canada.
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According to Reed, when the components were deployed on a Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, the Trojan horse led to a huge explosion.
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case eg 2, Crypto AG:
Operation Rubicon (
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: Operation Rubikon), until the late 1980s called Operation Thesaurus, was a secret operation by the
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(BND) and the
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(CIA), lasting from 1970 to 1993 and 2018, respectively, to gather communication intelligence of encrypted government communications of other countries.
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This was accomplished through the sale of manipulated encryption technology (
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) from Swiss-based
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, which was secretly owned and influenced by the two services from 1970 onwards
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At this rate, it's fair for adversarial nations to assume that any and all technology originating from the West and any Western aligned nations are compromised, latest damning eg being that pager attack on Hezbollah earlier this year using taiwanese made pagers.
 

huemens

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David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology posted this after Huawei announcment.

There was major news from China in the AI race this week:
1. Huawei introduced a new AI chip to compete with Nvidia.
2. The Chinese government instructed Chinese companies to stop buying certain Nvidia AI chips.

Taken together, the message is clear: China is not desperate for our chips. It is producing its own, and intends to compete globally in the semiconductor market.
It’s time for Washington to update its assumptions with regard to export controls. American chip companies must be allowed to sell the American technology stack abroad, albeit with security requirements, else we forfeit the AI race to China. If we refuse to do business with a country, we push it into China’s arms.

And this is still the thinking of so-called analysts.
David, shouldn’t the U.S. stop selling any semiconductor equipment to China altogether? I think the U.S. is selling far too much equipment to China right now. Even if it means sacrificing American semiconductor-equipment companies, I believe we must stop this China “Silk Road.”

 

Nevermore

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David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology posted this after Huawei announcment.



And this is still the thinking of so-called analysts.


Should we sell it? No, wait—shouldn't we sell it? We shouldn't sell it, right? No, we should sell it. Yes, yes, yes—we should definitely sell it. Sell it... Is that right? Should we sell it, or shouldn't we? Maybe we shouldn't sell it, but I think we should sell it after all. Sell it—is that really the right thing to do?
 

Minm

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So for example, in event of US use Saudi Bases or airspace to attack lran, and lran retaliates, it will be seen as attack to pak?

Same of its lsr or lndia? Also is this an indirect def agreement w CN?
If there's an attack from Saudi soil that would make the kingdom the aggressor, even if it's Americans dropping the bombs.

I highly doubt Pakistan is going to defend the Saudis against houthi retaliation if they attack Yemen again, the Saudis and UAE are the ones who started the intervention after all

Mutual defence doesn't mean joining in any foreign policy adventures that the other side decides to gamble on
 
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