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  • The consumer price index increased 0.1% in August. Excluding food and energy, the inflation gauge rose 0.6%, both higher than expected.
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Get ready to be screwed over. It may not look all that significant at first glance but once you factor in the fact that commodity prices has been dropping for the last few weeks + the 1 million daily barrels from the SPR. This is looking pretty bad if a plunge in commodities prices is not slowing inflation. Expect more rate hikes from the feds.

edit: Forgot to mention about winter. The upcoming Russian energy cap and oil embargo which is looking like a disaster. If plunging commodities prices isn’t slowing inflation then what is a spike in energy prices going to do in a couple months.
 
FairAndUnbiased

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Maikeru said:
The real opportunity is in the suffocating atmosphere of 'wokeness' afflicting the western and especially US academy. I am often surprised that PRC doesn't make more propaganda hay from the fact that it's hugely harder for US asians to get into top universities than it is for black kids with the same grades. This atmosphere is also affecting various areas of research, even physics, where labs are expected to hire 'people of colour' ahead of far better qualified white or asian candidates. As for genetics and especially GWAS research which might throw up racial or sex differences, good luck getting funding or approval for that these days. Remember, we're supposed to pretend biological sex doesn't exist.
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If you want to get away from wokeness I'm afraid China is the wrong place. We hire western professors to call us racists and provide them with research funding to find out exactly how racist.

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"Race” and “racism” in contemporary Africa-China relations research: approaches, controversies and reflections
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The work described in this article was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. RGC Ref No.: 23601618. Earlier stages of this research were supported by a Faculty Research Grant (code:101869) from Lingnan University.
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vincent

vincent

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Maikeru said:
The real opportunity is in the suffocating atmosphere of 'wokeness' afflicting the western and especially US academy. I am often surprised that PRC doesn't make more propaganda hay from the fact that it's hugely harder for US asians to get into top universities than it is for black kids with the same grades.
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Because China doesn't want to piss off the Africans?
 
vincent

vincent

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Maikeru said:
Funnily enough the black kids actually getting the places are very often the children of recent African immigrants to the US rather than american descendants of slavery - i.e. the people affirmative action was supposed to assist.
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One reason I heard is African Americans don't have history and culture, unlike the people from Africa. The dominant culture in the US is not their own.
Think of the kids in the novel Lord of the Flies, they have no one to guide them through life. The result is they regressed and became primal.
 
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texx1

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Neutral words don't mean neutral actions, DJI's attitude doesn't mean anything, it doesn't represent the official Chinese attitude.
Yes, I admit that the war in Ukraine is a piece of shit for China. But that shit has happened and you need to avoid that shit turning into an even worse shit i.e. "the West united can defeat evil Putin, then it can defeat dictatorial China." Depleting the West's stockpile in Ukraine is in China's interest at the moment.

As for the drones, it's not just DJI, in case you haven't seen the pictures. Eastern militia forces have been using them and getting new ones all the time and I suspect DJI has been exporting them to Russia and the latest video of the shelling no longer has the "you're flying where you shouldn't" warning on it. If China was really neutral, he could have organized these occurrences at the customs level instead of having a commercial company make a statement.

Sanctioned by the U.S？ How？ And how dare Biden kicks China out of the supply chain before the midterm elections? China is still importing a lot of Russian oil, has the US said anything about it? And note my wording, what is being offered could well be called civilian, except that Putin's private army has robbed them.
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DJI is not exporting drones to Russia or Ukraine. But DJI can't prevent people in non-involved (militarily) countries purchase its drones and send it to Ukraine. Since there is no direct involvement, DJI has already done what it legally could to limit its liability. Why would Chinese customs stop DJI exports to the rest of the world?

So far, US have only announced its intention to sanction China over military support (whether it's arm sales or deployment of PLA). Buying Russian oil is an economic decision, not military. Until Putin shut off pipelines last week, EU was also buying Russian gas.

If US domestic inflation is such an important concern, why did US trade representative Tai refuse to lower trade tariffs? Biden's administration could just intensify the spin that sacrifices are needed to ensure a Ukrainian victory over evil Russian invaders. Successful Ukrainian counter attack just added more confidence and credibility to this narrative.

As for the midterm elections, what makes you think a republican controlled congress would be any less anti-china compared to the current one? Anti china is currently one of the few truly bipartisan issues in US politics.
 
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