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tokenanalyst said:

"COLUMBIA"

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AssassinsMace said:

I have a feeling Palmer Luckey someday will fall flat on his face for getting something wrong big time. He's saying countries that value life are going to deploy drones more than countries that don't. Funny since the US is a late comer in seeing value in drones while China is building drones up the yin-yang. Guess which country he thinks values life more. Or you can look at it this way and see how Americans don't like drones because they like to be control and has nothing to do with valuing life. If you've heard what fighter pilots think many of them argue in favor of having manned pilots over automation.

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Randomuser said:

Honestly I don't get why westoids are so confident in their ability to out financial engineer China. They tried that in Hong Kong multiple times by key players like Soros and got their asses kicked.

If you look at the employees of quant trading and quant hedge funds, a lot of them tend to be east asian with most being Chinese. They know all these tricks. Not just that just Chinese who work for big ibanks and asset management tend to take quant roles like structuring and quant analysis. Deepseek came from high flyer which is a Chinese quant fund.

Basically China learnt all the tricks. It's their domain now.

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siegecrossbow said:

Once again the rule-based order did not disappoint.

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TPenglake said:

Don't know if this was posted here yet, but I see Westerners have been in pandemonium about this all week.

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Some people dropped truth bombs that while stuff like MiHoYo and the Bilibili otaku subculture in China is moderately succesful in the West, in Asia particularly Taiwan that stuff is huge amongst Gen Z and bigger than anything culturewise being exported into Mainland China. There's also the fact that at this point the DPP's propaganda on China accounts to crying wolf and they don't have legitimacy due to poor handling of the economy.

To me this is why China can afford to be patient on Taiwan. Much has been said of Russia's soft power failure leading up to the Ukraine war, that even with the common culture and Ukraine's backwardness Russia didn't do enough to broaden its appeal to the Ukrainian populace, as such most still preferred to lean towards to the EU and saw countries like Germany as the model to emulate instead. Yes, obviously there was copious amounts of CIA propaganda, but that doesn't discount the fact that Russia didn't do anything soft power wise to further its own cause.

China on the other hand is winning the hearts and minds of younger generations with its multilateralism, improving cultural exports, and being generally well run while the liberal democratic world falls to right wing governments that have nothing to sell but fear and anger, including the current DPP.

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Putin called on the Muslims of Russia to promote Islam more actively and to create their own theological school​

Monday, October 28, 2013 09:46

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Dutch minister will meet with China official about seizure of chipmaker Nexperia​

AMSTERDAM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Netherlands' Economy Minister Vincent Karremans on Sunday said he expected to have a meeting with a Chinese government official within days to discuss how to resolve a standoff over computer chip maker Nexperia NV, which is threatening global auto supply chains.

The Dutch government seized control over Nexperia, a subsidiary of China's Wingtech (600745.SS), opens new tab and an important supplier of basic chips used in cars, on September 30, prompting the Chinese government to ban exports of the company's finished products.

The Chinese "have the impression that we are teaming up with the Americans," on the intervention at Nexperia, but it was in fact aimed at preventing the company's former Chinese CEO from transferring operations and intellectual property out of Europe, Karremans said in an interview on the Dutch television show Buitenhof.

Nexperia's chips are not the most sophisticated but they are manufactured in large volumes, mostly in Hamburg, Germany, and then sent to China for packaging and further distribution throughout the global car industry.

Carmakers fear shortages will emerge in their supply chains before any alternatives are found if the standoff continues.

On the other hand, Karremans noted that Chinese carmakers also need Nexperia's chips. "We have a mutually dependent relationship," he said. "Everyone has an interest ... to solve this together."

Nexperia reported $331 million in net profit in 2024, making it a valuable asset for Wingtech.

Karremans said Dutch diplomats have been working to resolve the standoff and he personally has an appointment with the Chinese minister responsible for the matter within days.

"So this is being discussed up to the highest level," he said.

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The Chinese "have the impression that we are teaming up with the Americans," on the intervention at Nexperia, but it was in fact aimed at preventing the company's former Chinese CEO from transferring operations and intellectual property out of Europe, Karremans said in an interview on the Dutch television show Buitenhof.

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On the other hand, Karremans noted that Chinese carmakers also need Nexperia's chips. "We have a mutually dependent relationship," he said. "Everyone has an interest ... to solve this together."

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Karremans said Dutch diplomats have been working to resolve the standoff and he personally has an appointment with the Chinese minister responsible for the matter within days.

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FriedButter said:

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Seems clear that the US Dutch Colonies want China to formally cede Chinese property for free to them in these so called diplomatic talks. The only acceptable solution for China should be the full return of Chinese property or full compensation + premiums for the theft of R&D and investments to Wingtech.

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On the other hand, Karremans noted that Chinese carmakers also need Nexperia's chips. "We have a mutually dependent relationship," he said. "Everyone has an interest ... to solve this together."

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Randomuser said:

Honestly I don't get why westoids are so confident in their ability to out financial engineer China. They tried that in Hong Kong multiple times by key players like Soros and got their asses kicked.

If you look at the employees of quant trading and quant hedge funds, a lot of them tend to be east asian with most being Chinese. They know all these tricks. Not just that just Chinese who work for big ibanks and asset management tend to take quant roles like structuring and quant analysis. Deepseek came from high flyer which is a Chinese quant fund.

Basically China learnt all the tricks. It's their domain now.

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Expert1324 said:

Bit rich coming from them Russians... one of the OGs of colonialism!!!

And worse they are phrasing it in such an all-out manner it's actually incredibly ironic:
"International Day against Colonialism in All Its Forms & Manifestations."

So does this mean that Russia is giving back all the lands they've illegally stolen from China under colonialism and imperialism??? I will be waiting for it then, go ahead! Don't be a fking hypocrite.

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And very good to see that fellow Serbs have our back.

1999 solidarity!

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Vladimir Putin: Look, Shinzo was saying that people in Japan are walking faster. That's good. For example, in Chechnya or Dagestan, people are walking at the same pace, but the birth rate is three times higher than in Japan. The question is where to spend our energy. ( Applause .) I believe that all of us, and especially young people, should spend our energy on processes that lead to creation.

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FriedButter said:

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Seems clear that the US Dutch Colonies want China to formally cede Chinese property for free to them in these so called diplomatic talks. The only acceptable solution for China should be the full return of Chinese property or full compensation + premiums for the theft of R&D and investments to Wingtech.

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