Being paid 5 cent an hour for labor so you can buy a cup of instant ramen or a snickers bar is not slave labor /sarcasm
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Thats fine. China can also open itself up to allow BLM activists or Iraqis, Afghani's, natives to sue the US for its crimes against humanity, or in the case of the natives forcible extermination (much more serious then genocide). "Lawfare" is just shits and giggles anyways. America should be paying in the trillions, if not tens of trillions anyways.
A popular science video account has become mired in controversy after Chinese netizens revealed that two of its former employees had made anti-China comments on their overseas social media, and one of them now works for the US Army Research Laboratory.
PAPERCLIP apologized on Saturday (19 June) for failing to oversee its former employees' online comments. It said that although the two former employees no longer work there, they published comments that "trampled on national sentiments and trespassed the ethical bottom line" when working at PAPERCLIP.
The apology was issued after Sailei Sanfenzhong, another famous science account that has 420,000 followers on Sina Weibo, published a video on this platform. The video accused a group of science accounts' recent comments urging Chinese people to consume less seafood of being backed by anti-China foreign forces.
Sailei said itself also received an invitation from "CHINA DIALOGUE," a London-headquartered organization, to publish a similar video criticizing Chinese people for consuming too much seafood. He later found the organization had connections with several prominent China-bashing figures, including former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, who has been constantly issuing baseless comments about Hong Kong's affairs.
Sailei said those science accounts, along with the foreign forces behind them, have an evil agenda of convincing Chinese people, who already consume less protein than people from developed countries, to stay away from seafood.
Sailei also referred in this video that two of Paperclip's former employees, surnamed Ji and Nie, who were in charge of the account's video content, had issued anti-China comments on Twitter, and Nie is now working for the US Army Research Laboratory.
Nie's LinkedIn Page shows that he now works for the US military lab, but his Twitter account was protected, and Ji's Twitter account no longer exists.
The revelation soon sparked controversy among netizens, with the hashtag "Paperclip" receiving 430 million clicks on Weibo, and "Paperclip responds to its former employee working for US military organization" read by 17.3 million. Some netizens suspected PAPERCLIP "is using its videos to gradually influence our minds and shift our values."
Some other netizens called for PAPERCLIP's platforms to be shut down permanently, as the account may be backed by foreign forces.
The video account has become mired in controversy after the revelation. The account, a popular science media platform, has been silenced by China's Quora-like platform ZHIHU, on which it has more than 317,000 followers. Bilibili, one of China's biggest video-sharing sites on which the account has 313,000 followers, tagged it as a "controversial account" and warned users to cautiously examine its contents.
In a post titled "caution is needed for conspiracy and malevolence covered by the name of environment and science," Jun Zhengping, an account affiliated with Chinese People's Liberation Army, said to criticize those accounts urging Chinese to eat less seafood, and also noted that it is terrifying to think that some famous science accounts once hired employees who had the tendency of hating the country and now work for the US army.
This is not the first time that Paperclip has been in hot water. In March 2020, some netizens said one of the team's programs, published in 2018, failed to include the island of Taiwan in the Chinese map in one of its programs on YouTube, while the island was shown as part of China on the same program that was broadcast on the domestic channel.
At the same time, netizens also unearthed a Paperclip video about deforestation in South America, which pointed out that China is Brazil's main consumer of beans, and cultivation of beans leads to deforestation. Many netizens swarmed online to criticize the program, saying that the team is "colluding with foreigners to insult China."
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But if you read the Ozzie sources (their affiliated mainstream), they are still saying that their iron ore is the king as well as the best quality one, and China have no choice but remain to buy that commodity from them for next few years at least regardless how sour the bilateral relationship is. A significant cash cow for Canberra.
The Australians are right for once. They have high-grade iron ore, so they are right that China depends on them
Global Times can shout as loud as they want but Australia has nothing to fear for their iron ore sales.
Now China says that they will invest in African iron mines. Just wait until the CIA comes, destabilize the country there and watch as the mine goes poof lol
Yeah, if I was Australia I would feel pretty confident too
Perhaps they all will try to towing away the island from mainland China because the current distance, app. 180km, is too close, too risky. If they can move it away to the eastern Pacific, the island will be safer.
The opposite side (plus the gang) can claim whatsoever about the stolen property but if its owner is getting bigger and stronger by each passing year and refuse to accept such stealing and commit to take it back by any means at any price at the appropriate time of ITS OWN CHOICE, then the unsettled issue will remain there... the opposite side can only settle the issue if they can put bigger gunboats like in the past Opium Wars to suppress the owner! Keep in mind, to solve the issue once and for all at the appropriate time of the owner's own choice!
bajingan
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Not for long, apparently iron recycling tech has become quite advanced that For every tonne of steel that is based on scrap steel, you save 1.6 tonnes of iron ore
By 2025, if China’s plan to make steel from scrap goes as planned, the country will save 480 million tonnes of iron ore imports each year. By 2030, imports will decrease by 660 million tonnes annually.
Combined that with increase import of secure russian or indonesian ores, China should be able reduce significantly its reliance on australian iron
Come on guys, there are more than one way to skin a cat.
China-Australia relations: student housing sector Down Under hit by border closure, rift with Beijing
- As of March, Australia had 512,855 international students, or 17 per cent fewer than a year ago
- China-Australia tensions might be a major dampening factor, CUHK professor says; border closure more likely to affect arrivals, Melbourne think tank says
And don't forget is not like China had any choice. China didn't started this. China didn't choose to be antagonistic. China is merely responding with what ever tool she has. And this isn't going to be a short "war".
What ever happens, Aus is going to loose this in the long run. Ok iron ore is doing fine. But Heck, Don't forget other industries like wine and seafood are hurting badly. Right now the western state premier calling Morrison to change direction.. You just dont hear it reported.
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Both sides, or even ALL parties involved there, may be eyeing the huge injection of the uncle's unlimited dollar! reserve!