International Hong Kong grounds all flights as protest paralyzes airport. China threatens no mercy.

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Everyone should support people who are searching for freedom from an oppressive government.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Please look away from the genocide. It's none of our business.

Or terrorism.

Or crime that is happening outside my line of sight.

So you and the "scumbag" will both personally do fookin' nothing, but you're the better man for demanding on a karate forum that other people stand up for your principles?

 

[NoDak]

BOC Tower is No. 2 GOAT after the Chrysler Building.

 

[NoDak]

 

[MicroBrew]

Imagine how China would be if the world that made them rich didn't check them? Huge mistake to make them a world power so fast. Einstein was right in what he said about the world if they came to rule.


I'm starting to think the faux "elites" put banging 13 year old prostitutes above a whole lot of other important things for humanity.

It looks more like our elites are following that communist slogan : The capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang them with.
The West sold a lot of rope to China, and China is using that expand its power and influence which undoubtedly will seriously hurt Western interests.
The Chinese and Wahhabists are fighting the long war, looking at the grander picture of global domination. Meanwhile our elites are looking for immediate gain.

 

[Amerikuracana]

It looks more like our elites are following that communist slogan : The capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang them with.
The West sold a lot of rope to China, and China is using that expand its power and influence which undoubtedly will seriously hurt Western interests.
The Chinese and Wahhabists are fighting the long war, looking at the grander picture of global domination. Meanwhile our elites are looking for immediate gain.

That's true.. Sometimes it's barely even gain at all.

 

[NoDak]

 

[JimmyFresno]

Ah, shit. Here we go, again.

Commie scum never learn. "Always the hard way."

 

[Nate banged my mom]

“Taiping rebellion”

I know it well. And by know it well I mean just scanned info on wiki, but If true this is amazing.


For over a decade, the Taiping occupied and fought across much of the mid and lower Yangtze valley. Ultimately devolving into total war, the conflict between the Taiping and the Qing was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644 and it involved every province of China proper except Gansu. It ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the 19th century. Estimates of the war dead range from 20–70 million to as high as 100 million, with millions more displaced.[10][11] 30 million people fled the conquered regions to foreign settlements or other parts of China.[12]


^^^how are these numbers estimated tho? Like most people can’t even understand how much 5 million dollars is. The difference
Between 20 million and 70 million you can’t even really wrap the mind Around especially translating it to people. Both are huge numbers.

Idek what I’m trying to say I suck at explaining things. My low IQ is showing and I’m embarrassed

Good day


Edit: to scale for others, the civil war in Syria has reported a death toll of a few hundred thousand. Which is still an enormous amount. But to compare that to 30, 50, 100 million is truly mind blowing IMO

 

[Gas121]

So the UK are going to pretend nothing is happening and continue to get cucked by China.

 

[Billy no mates]

So the UK are going to pretend nothing is happening and continue to get cucked by China.

No we're going to get some gun boats together and storm the Taku Forts all over again , Hurrah ! .

 

[therealdope]

Anyone see irony in this as most of HK's wealth comes from leveraging low wages and indentured labor in Mainland China that is supported by the gov't they are protesting?

 

[nhbfan8080]

Anyone see irony in this as most of HK's wealth comes from leveraging low wages and indentured labor in Mainland China that is supported by the gov't they are protesting?

Thats like blaming working/middle class for causing the '08 financial crisis. HK has been on a simmer all this while because of the issue of extreme socioeconomic inequality even going back to the days of British rule. Its a country where people can live in cages when they fall on hard times but the rich pay proportionately less for their large houses.

 

[NoDak]

This is just so, so fucking bad. He doesn't even have the slightest, most remote clue as to the Implications of the foreign investment restrictions and export controls his own Administration has been implementing for the last two and half years. THANK FUCK for the deep tech state, we'd already be well on our way to being finished as a country without it.

@NoDak lol

*Stomach Drop*

No, I'm literally fucking nauseous.

 

[Islam Imamate]

It's only a matter of time before China goes to far and they are in a multi front civil war.
Hong kong protest
Muslim reeducation camps
Demonic social credit and monitoring system
Tibet suppression
Dissident suppression
Wait until it gets hard to feed people, and then it's over

I don't think China as it exists today is destined to remain stable and united. Hopefully it splinters into less oppressive states and does so in a relatively peaceful way(though that's a tough ask).

 

[NoDak]

@PolishHeadlock2 A "little tiny piece of stuff". Uh, you mean IC's? The most significant invention of the 20th century, you fucking little monkey? This clown cunt had the CEO of Intel with him in the oval office barely a moment after he occupied it and not a clue what was going on.

Dude had nothing to do with any of this. <45>

China's second largest manufacturer of telecom equipment and the number four smartphone maker in the United States, ZTE, is on its way to shutting down after the US government banned the company from doing business with American component suppliers, including chipmakers Qualcomm and Intel Corp., both of which it relied heavily on for parts used its smartphones. The company's future may now depend on an appeal to modify or reverse the 7-year ban.

The news was revealed in a press release which noted that, "the major operating activities of the company have ceased".





https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ught-in-u-s-assault-on-china-s-tech-ambitions

For a sense of the damage the United States can inflict on China with export controls, take a trip to the city of Jinjiang on the country’s southeastern coast.

That’s where Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. built a $6 billion plant to produce semiconductors as part of China’s goal of making the country a self-sufficient technology powerhouse. But after the U.S. President barred exports to the company, its dream is now in tatters with consultants from American suppliers gone, the factories silent and workers rattled.

From a broader perspective, the speed with which the U.S. squashed Jinhua’s ambitions underscores the extent to which China -- despite well-publicized intentions of becoming a global tech superpower by 2025 -- remains reliant on American innovation. Jinhua was to spearhead the transition for a country beholden to giants from Intel Corp. to Micron Technologies Inc. It’s an effort that’s become critical as the rivalry between the world’s two largest economies deepens. Indeed, It was Micron that first accused Jinhua and UMC of purloining its trade secrets, setting events in motion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...a-backed-bid-for-chipmaker-over-security-risk

President Donald Trump blocked a Chinese-backed investor from buying Lattice Semiconductor Corp., casting a cloud over Chinese deals seeking U.S. security clearance and spurring a call for fairness from Beijing.

It was just the fourth time in a quarter century that a U.S. president has ordered a foreign takeover of an American firm stopped on national-security concerns. Trump acted on the recommendation of a multi-agency panel, the White House and the Treasury Department said Wednesday. The spurned buyer, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners LLC, is a private-equity firm backed by a Chinese state-owned asset manager.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...rras-sale-to-chinese-state-fund-idUSKCN1G703H

U.S. semiconductor testing company Xcerra Corp (XCRA.O) said on Thursday a U.S. national security panel had blocked its $580-million sale to a Chinese state-backed semiconductor investment fund, the latest such deal to be thwarted.

The acquisition of Xcerra by Hubei Xinyan was seen as a key test of the ability of Chinese firms to acquire U.S. technology assets, because the company does not make chips itself, but provides testing equipment used in making semiconductors.

The deal’s demise comes as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has become increasingly skeptical of Chinese acquisitions of U.S. companies following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump a year ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...age-with-broadcom-block-u-s-tech-not-for-sale

With his swift rejection of Broadcom Ltd.’s hostile takeover of Qualcomm Inc., President Donald Trump sent a clear signal to overseas investors: Any deal that could give China an edge in critical technology will be swatted down in the name of national security.

Although Broadcom is based in Singapore, China loomed large over the U.S. government’s fears about a foreign takeover of chipmaker Qualcomm. That’s because Qualcomm is locked in a head-to-head race with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. over which company will dominate the development of next-generation wireless technology.

"This decision hangs a huge ‘not-for-sale’ sign on just about every American semiconductor firm," said Scott Kennedy, who studies China’s economic policy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington. "A Chinese entity doesn’t need to be anywhere near a transaction now in semiconductors for the deal to be nixed."

 

[NoDak]

That’s because Qualcomm is locked in a head-to-head race with China’s Huawei Technologies over which company will dominate the development of next-generation wireless technology.

Teardowns Reveal Qualcomm 5G Chips Beat Huawei’s On Size and Efficiency

While an iFixit teardown of Huawei’s Mate 20X suggested that the company’s first 5G smartphone was using fairly large, hot-running components to compete with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, the engineering differences between the 5G rivals are now becoming clearer thanks to teardowns performed by IHS Markit.

In a report released today, the research firm says it made some interesting discoveries after disassembling six early 5G smartphones: Based on chip size, system design, and memory, Huawei rushed a comparatively inefficient solution to market, resulting in a device that’s larger, more expensive, and less energy efficient than it could have been.

Qualcomm is expected to be the only real alternative for carriers and OEMs interested in supporting millimeter wave 5G, as it’s already offering complete modem-to-antenna designs; its only multi-vendor rival, Taiwan-based MediaTek, has focused on non-millimeter wave parts.

 

[NoDak]

I don't think China as it exists today is destined to remain stable and united. Hopefully it splinters into less oppressive states and does so in a relatively peaceful way (though that's a tough ask).

I miss Seaside and his US balkanization theories.

 

[BarryDillon]

I miss Seaside and his US balkanization theories.

 

[NoDak]

Dubz would be a short leash.