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I'm can't stop laughing at the bluechecks writing hagiographies to Shinzo Abe as the most "accomplished" Japanese politician ever. Man oversaw a near 20% decline in Japanese GDP per capita over the last decade, collapse of the Yen, and complete socio-economic stagnation, whose

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Lol I used to think those candid street shots of hot girls in China were all staged until today. Some photographer in Chengdu was recording at a shopping area and scoped out an odd couple of middle aged man and hottie. Unfortunately for him some random on the internet identified

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I wrote this a few years ago but people still aren't aware of how a chaos maximization strategy serves US interests. People like to compare US hegemony to late imperial Rome but aren't cognizant of the fact that once Rome no longer had the strength to enforce the Roman peace or

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One of the amusing aspects of the whole Kanye West affair is that the US prides itself as having freedom of speech and association and being run on market principles yet the man was purged as quickly and simultaneously as if there was a unified censorship apparatus as in China.

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inspection which at best will result in him being fired for moral lapses or potentially a long prison sentence depending on what they find. What a world we live in where a man can't even go shopping with his hard earned mistress in peace without someone filming him.

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the pair. The man is an executive director of an engineering consulting company in Beijing which is a subsidiary of PetroChina the state owned oil company and the woman some instathot who is clearly not his wife. Now he's been suspended and facing a Communist Party disciplinary

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The funniest thing about Hu Jintao is that the former president of China from a decade ago is probably as lucid and functional as the current president of the United States yet when he is shuffling around looking confused, it's a coup whereas for Biden, it's just Monday.

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Less homework and testing in Chinese schools, more of this.

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will not fade quietly but instead seek to be king of the dung heep. What this means in practice is taking advantage of it's relatively secure and isolated geostrategic position and creating bush fires across the rest of the world for others so that it itself is viewed as an oasis

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One of the uncommented features about the Ukraine war is the age discrepancy between major decision makers in Ukraine and Russia. Simply put, strategic decisions in Russia are driven by aging Sovoks who came of age in the Soviet Union who still have a sense of fraternity with

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Chinese Douyin is more sanitized than Western Tik Tok in many ways but in others it is completely mad. One of the more popular accounts is a middle aged Beijing man living in Somalia with a literal harem of Kushitic beauties who apparently made his fortune as an arms dealer.

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There is an interesting parallel that unites Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan that also sets them quite apart from true Western societies which they profess themselves to be. In all of the aforementioned places, the propaganda is at best old fashioned or more precisely openly racist

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Roman law, that didn't mean it no longer had the strength to create Roman disorder. The strategic policy of the Eastern Roman empire along frontiers it could no longer govern was to make them ungovernable so no one could. Once the US can longer be the city on a golden hill, it

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This has to be the funniest blowback ever. The US government thought it would be a smart idea to set up a dissident Chinese cult media to delegitimize the Communist Party only for them to grow in America melting boomer brains and delegitime their own government.

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New from @brandyzadrozny : The Epoch Times is now the 4th-most subscribed to newspaper in America. Its revenue grew 685% in two years to $122 mill. The paper is run by Falun Gong, a Chinese religious sect, and claims Jan. 6 and climate change are hoaxes.

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final crowning accomplishment was to leave office at an opportune time so the next hapless bureaucratic sadsack got left holding the bag. The man should get a Friendship Award for outstanding contributions to the PRC. Abe's grand political achievements was to put the nail in the

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Western economists wondering why Chinese firms can have low profit margins and simultaneously be so competitive never stops being funny to me. Like they have magically forgotten the sina qua non of Capitalism which is that firms competing for profit maximizes overall welfare for

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of stability and security in comparison so that financial flows can be redirected to itself from the rest of the world. Once you move from a win-win game to a lose-lose game, the strategy becomes to make sure that others lose more in relative terms than yourself. It is why the US

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The Western liberal is just a giant liar and hypocrite top to bottom in everything he espouses. Every single policy whether foreign or domestic is couched in layers of deceit and double think for the singular purpose of maintaining the facade of his moral unimpeachability in the

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Does anyone else find it odd that all of these very public and very strident Ukrainian activists are demanding European nations sanction Russian oil and gas when the pipelines pass through Ukraine itself and can be shut off by Ukraine if they felt it was so critical. Its almost

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is undermining the international system it publicly espouses to uphold and why it's immediate satrapies are being put to the torch first. There are of course ways to strike back at the US strategy here, but none of them are particularly pleasant and beyond the mental blocks of

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Sometimes these things just write themselves

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The reaction by the West to the election results in Hungary and Serbia should disabuse all Chinese that China can in any shape or form ever become a "Democracy". What "Democracy" increasingly means in form if not in function is total subservience to America and it's collaborators

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First Xi came for the online loan sharks, and I cried that this was Communist crushing of capitalism. Then Xi came for the real estate speculators, and I wailed that the Cultural Revolution had returned. Then Xi came for the Gacha Casinos, and I screamed it was another Shoah

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coffin of relations with China, an Indo-Pacific Quadrilateral of Very Serious Business according to Very Serious Analysts so he should also get the Medal of Freedom award for contributions to the US as well.

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One thing I've learned from observing people from across the world is that the most insufferable nationalists are never from great powers, past or present or even the perpetual middling ones, but from places which you wipe off the map in the first 10 turns to have pretty borders.

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people who cling to Liberalism or even just basic decency.

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The West's conceptualization of Russia as a Chinese vassal is probably the greatest act of intellectual projection today. All of the countries friendly to China have vastly different domestic and foreign policies with the only unifying element hostility to American geopolitical

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The emperor protects. The mere presence of Xi Jinping causes the forces of chaos to disperse.

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i’m downtown sf and there are heavily armed policemen everywhere — underground, drug stores, street corners. “how you doing?” one asked, super friendly, hand on his gun. all in advance of xi’s visit i guess, but crime has evaporated. it could be like this every day.

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The greatest asset that enabled the age of European colonialism wasn't a technological advantage translated into a military one. That was an advantage but not an insurmountable one that couldn't be overcome as European colonial forces had suffered many tactical defeats at the

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Part of the reasons why Westerners, particularly the credentialed experts, fail so spectacularly at understanding political currents in the non-Western world is the socio-economic selection bias of the people they interact with on a regular basis. Think of the shock that went

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It's kind of hilarious how Israeli attempts to morally kidnap Chinese with a literally kidnapped mischling girl backfired so damn spectacularly when they brought out her mother. One inadvertent but telling pronoun use ended up eliciting disgust rather than sympathy. The use of

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Hanania is the most honest American public intellectual today. When his allegiance was purchased by thielbucks he damn well delivers on what his patron wants, neoconservatism and diddling kids. No hemming or hawing or "it's complicated" sotto voce apologetics here. A professional

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An advantage of the Gaza war taking place under a Democrat administration rather than a Republican one is that it strips bare the divergent reality of Liberal rhetoric and Liberal action. There wouldn't be an iota of difference between Biden and a hypothetical Trump admin beyond

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The whole Nupur Sharma controversy is a reminder that so far the only political system to have tamed Islamic sectarianism is Leninism. Liberal and quasi liberal systems can manage to keep tensions at a low boil with the occasional riot but things are never quiescent for too long.

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@MichaelSchuman Let me just float this alternative theory. Politics in Washington is increasingly unstable with rational decision making, cost-benefit calculations, policy-making etc all rendered impossible in a highly dysfunctional system cought in a negative feedback loop of hysterics and

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I've always found the liberal imperialist case for more immigration rather interesting. The justification is that draining the rest of the world of its smart and capable youth via economic hegemony to maintain aforementioned hegemony is a good for America. The unsaid second order

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Honestly at this point, I consider not keeping your children off social media a form of parental neglect, especially for young girls. Men receive vastly different responses than girls do for similar behavior and ignoring this reality isn't doing daughters any favors when it comes

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Some more Indian dancing from students at the Beijing Dance Academy as an elective outside their main field of study.

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A kitchen knife, mashed garlic, Chinese liberals, and why Chinese society is moving "backwards" according to some. This really is an anecdotal story about comprador elites but worth telling to explain why the West's vision of a modern China on their terms failed. A few days ago a

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I think this is the most succinct statement of India's political economy I've ever read. For some inexplicable reason, India has developed a post industrial economic class without having first developed an industrial one. The economic foundation of every wealthy developed state

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Structural issue. The Indian education system creates an oversupply of professional-managerial classes, without the industrial base or skilled working class to support them. To prevent social conflict, they export the surplus PMCs, who are then treated as hostages by the Anglo.

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One of the reasons to be skeptical about the future is that technological optimism is wildly misplaced. Outside of the proliferation of the integrated circuit, there hasn't been any significant leaps in the physical sciences in half a century or so, merely optimizations to wring

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The American right running through ever more powerful rationalizations for the Baltimore bridge collapse live on Twitter.

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the Ukrainian people as brothers. The public facing Ukrainian leadership are on the other hand significantly younger and for the most came of age in the post-Soviet era and thus feel no sense of kinship. I think this more than anything explains the Russian hesitancy towards

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Does it dawn on Europeans that their refugee woes of the last decade are principally the result of the US regime change fairy trying to destabilize governments? Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Turkey, and now Belarus are all situations where US intervention resulted in increased

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Me: What happened at Tiananmen? ChatGPT: *Regurgitates the NYT/WaPo editorial line* Me: What does 13 does 50 mean? ChatGPT: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave. My face when Western liberals explains to me why China can't have xyz because censorship. 😒

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The people who dishonestly draw comparisons between Gaza and Xinjiang and who get really upset that the world cares about the former but no one outside of paid US assets about the latter don't understand a simple truth. As far as the Chinese government is concerned, the Uighurs

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Westerner liberals really have such a warped perception of their beneficence that they have rewritten the entire history of decolonization. The end of open European colonialism didn't come about because they became enlightened all of a sudden but because of two fiscally ruinous

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The idea that the US has somehow enabled China's rise because they were "friendly" is one of those weird liberal conceits. The West was a lot friendlier to many dirt poor countries not governed by a Communist Party yet they didn't grow anywhere near as fast if at all. The number

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Everyone should follow China's example and ban the NBA along with 99% of the rest of America's degenerate "cultural" exports.

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strategic escalation and destroying the viability of Ukrainian statehood because it would involve inflicting mass suffering on the Ukrainian people as whole. The Ukrainians on the other hand have no such reservations and on the other hand publicly delight in every slight no

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@nise_yoshimi Britain's economy is modelled on the US, except without the natural resource bounty and dollar hegemony. So all of the risks and none of the strengths to mitigate them.

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Westerners like to flatter themselves that Chinese "tech" is just a copycat of their own when the dark reality is that Western tech is simply where China was 5 years ago. The deteriorating search service (first Baidu now google), the nickel and dimeing of every service provider,

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India is the best kind of enemy, harmless and incompetent; and the worst kind of ally, always there when they need you. The idea that China lost India is an Indian conceit based off of the false assumption that China thinks about India much at all. All of the present pathologies

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How China threw Asian dominance into the dustbin by unnecessarily crossing Indian red lines will be taught in FP courses in a few generations. Remarkable self goal.

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that is deliberate and generally used to insult. When the mother opened her mouth and said "you" Chinese people it basically identified her as among the Hanjian camp but simultaneously beseeching Chinese help to get her daughte. She must have learned that Chutzpah in Israel.

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The sad reality that the Chinese upper middle class are annoying spiritual shitlibs and the fact that they are denied the power to vote is a blessing. Any people who give season 10 of the TV show Friends a 9.8 rating, the highest of any live action TV drama, deserve no political

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The e-girl arms race. Because China has the largest market of simps in the world, it has also evolved the world's foremost apex predators to part them from their money. You would think that with such a prey rich environment that the competition wouldn't be so fierce but that is

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One thing that I've noticed is that despite the number of people claiming programming degrees in India being prodigious, there are almost zero Indian video game developers or really an industry to speak of despite absolutely zero barriers to entry. The most prominent example of

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China looking pretty prescient for massively expanding it's nuclear arsenal since last year. 300+ new ICBM silos being built across multiple sites at Hami, Yumen, and Ordos. Their proximity to the Russian border indicates confidence of low strategic Russian threat of first strike

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The actual schism between the US and Russia over the post cold War settlement was in the perceptions of the end. The Russians felt that by calling off the entire thing off peacefully, they would get a mulligan. The Americans feel that because they won it, they got a carte blanche

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"you" Chinese turned her from a grieving mother to yet another liberal quisling. It's a common turn of phrase by West worshipping Chinese often found on Twitter where they will refer to China with the term "your country" instead of the commonly used "our country". A dissociation

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The most laughable criticism of the Communist Party is that they have somehow "destroyed" Chinese culture. One of those big lies where it is the exact opposite of the truth. The reality of China today is that the sense and manifestations of explicitly Chineseness whether in the

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Unfortunately Russian bureaucrats are even less imaginative than Americans. The whole point of stunts like this is to provoke and goad the other country by trampling on their taboos. Would be more effective to rename it Trump Plaza, or the Martyrs of January 6th Square to irk the

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The address of the US Embassy in Moscow has been renamed to 1 Donetsk People’s Republic Square Not especially evocative. Once again disappointed by Russia’s lack of imagination

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There is something truly fallen about the English race in general and the sunglass (in a sunless land) wearing Anglo boomer in specific. He can be imprisoned in his homeland for offending a foreign people, demographically replaced by another, and impaupered to pay benefits of a

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@EvilVizier They don't have to be. States being fundamentally predatory, they will default to this type of behavior absent any other workable strategy.

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I'm not saying there are portals through time and space, but.... One of the strangest civilizational parallels is between neolithic China and later meso-American cultures. The artistic similarities in artifacts are really uncanny and it isn't a singular overlap. They both shared

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I honestly couldn't help myself.

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My litmus test of basic intelligence is whether you view this tweet and video as brave young modern freedom fighters against tyranny or a cringe alphabet agency / state department cutout op using status hungry third world comprador elites.

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Call for an International protest for Myanmar on February 28th, 2021. #OpCCP #MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Mainland Chinese art work vs Hong Kong protestor art. I'll take militant revanchism over Amero pop culture infused levels of compradorism I never imagined possible. The only Chinese Westerners seem to like are those without a functioning set of balls whatsoever.

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The goal of the Chinese Communist Party is to build a nation that the Chinese people can be proud of, not a nation where Claire Chu who went to Colombia Journalism School can be proud of. This is the seminal point of divergence that people don't understand when you see your token

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by virtue of implicit blacklists for no given reason at all except hushed insinuations of offenses such as naming sexual predators or offending a particular ethnic cartel who cannot be named. Very transparent, much freedoms.

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@MichaelSchuman partisan theatrics and internally directed propaganda that is incoherent but believed to be reality. The problem is not with China but rather that Washington is a raging schizophrenic with violent tendencies and delusions it can impress on the world at large due to media control.

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I've written before elsewhere that as America's imperial control begins to fray, she will change from a source of order, no matter how repugnant you may find it, to a font of chaos and entropy. This is actually a natural historic phenomenon. As the Pax Romana withered along with

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The Americanization of the West cannot be understood absent the impoverishment of the West. The world of 2021 is a completely different economic landscape since the end of the Cold War but in a way that is commonly misunderstood. The economic balance of power between America and

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When the liberal bemoans China's dearth of intellectual life what they mean is people similar to such shining luminaries as Noah Smith, Bari Weiss, or Matthew Yglesias don't get a say in Chinese public life. We are all left poorer for their absence. What could China achieve had

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The intellectual caliber of your average DC China Watcher in a nutshell.

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People laugh about this, but the failure of most of the post colonial nationalist projects to deliver substantial improvements for their people has led to a demoralization of their respective national bourgeoisie. Much more easy to rationalize failure by identifying yourself with

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Even the racist anti immigration whites has been replaced lmao

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Chinese celebrities disappear from the public eye and have all of their endorsements and career prospects terminated by virtue of appearing on an explicit public blacklist for published crimes; tax evasion, rape, solicitation of prostitution, etc. American celebrities disappear

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matter how trivial they can deliver. This was a major problem also facing China in that the older generation who are most in favor of reunification are also those most hesitant to pull the trigger and least inclined to kill "fellow" Chinese so as to bring the civil war to its

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against an enemy that is physically indistinguishable from themselves. They recycle threadbare Western stereotypes against the non Westerner that are a century out of date and declasse in the actual Imperial metropole itself. It's bizarre watching the Israeli mock Palestinians as

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The reality outside of this boilerplate panegyric being "yas qweened" by assorted DC eunuchs is that Japan hasn't been this insular since the bakufu. It is utterly exhausted politically, socially, culturally, and economically. It's population anesthetized to expect anything and

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‘Japan has changed over the years. We have transformed ourselves from a reticent ally, recovering from the devastation of World War II, to a strong, committed ally, looking outward to the world.’ Full text of Japanese PM Kishida's speech to US Congress

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The reason why Western liberals hate and fear Chinese nationalism is because it is actually real. Not only is it real, it actually has an effect. This is in total contrast to Liberal states where nationalism is completely fake and is parades out as a skinsuit or bugbear depending

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To give you an idea just how (stupidly) pacifistic China is, it's newly announced defense spending this year is 1.45 trillion yuan out of a gdp of 114.37 trillion yuan. This is only about 1.27% of GDP and roughly 229 billion out of 18.1 trillion in USD terms at current exchange

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Indian CEOs in Western, mainly Anglo, companies says less about the quality of Indians than the state of the West. Chiefly that they are a spent civilizational force. Just as the decline in Romanitas resulted in the proliferation of foreign mercenaries and auxiliaries forming the

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as if the activist ratchet aren't actually representing Ukrainian interests which presumably are still collecting the transit fees of Russian energy to Western Europe but a third party. Who could it possibly be I wonder? Such a mystery.

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Anyone wondering why the Communist Party of China seems more scared of some anti-vaccine elderly Chinese and not middle class Shanghaiers annoyed by lockdowns hasn't deal with the former. Elderly Chinese people are among the most stubborn, irrational, and self-absorbed people in

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Most Americans dont understand how their influence peddling works. The whole point of American empire is to cultivate "spiritual Americans". Native grandees who identify with America, i.e. some two kopeck sophisticate in Bratislava who uses the royal "we" when discussing affairs

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It's sort of crazy we let this happen. America should just plainly threaten to kill their leaders if they don't release our citizens. What's the point of being a military empire if you don't protect the rights of your citizens?

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degree that it is impossible to understate. Their "everyone I know" is not in fact everyone, it's an extremely small minority of people who want to tell them everything they want to hear because they want to be friends with "high status" people.

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Does anyone know why Northrop Grumman and Lockeed run advertising on Twitter despite the US government making up 90%+ of their customer base and foreign governments the remainder? These aren't even vaguely consumer oriented businesses or even b2b which themselves never advertise.

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Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of great privilege similar to noblesse oblige. It can really only exist under conditions of gross material and social disparity. Unlike the aristocrats superiority which was baked into their bones, the bourgeoisie's Liberal sensibilities

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swarthy hirsute Levantines with unibrows when a casual glimpse at the physiognomy of IDF reservists shows that the description could be applied to an actual majority of Israelis themselves. The Ukrainian propaganda likewise depict themselves as blonde haired blue eyed bambies

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A small bit of investment/employment advice. Avoid companies that show and increasing trend line in the presence of Indian low/mid level management. This is pretty much a guarantee that that organizational rot has begun to set in, and the heady days of summer are over.

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eyes of his own class. He destroys the foundations of his national education system through debasing standards in the name of equity and diversity while ensuring his own children are private schooled. He demands police "reform" while living in gated communities with privately

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being assaulted by half Mongol Russians despite their respective national leaders looking like a rather dusky gastarbeiter and the enemy a literal blonde with pale blue eyes. The Taiwanese are in a league of their own in this regard having not only repurposed Western archetypes

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The coronavirus fiasco has exposed most critical individuals to the falsity of "expert" opinion and how it shifts on a dime to political winds. More though, it isn't just "experts" in this field but every, with the explicitly political the worst of all. You can trust the opinions

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the greatest number of people possible. They operate under the parameters of American finance capitalism where the goal is to maximize profits for shareholders. The industries with the lowest profit margins are those with the most competitive pressure, low barriers to entry, and

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Part of the reason why elite Chinese opinion has heavily turned against the US is that they ultimately came to the correct conclusion that the US cannot offer them anything that they truly value. Which is why the most pro-Western segment of Chinese society has been reduced to the

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the value added mostly captured by the owners of capital. The high profits in theory is used to reinvest and develop better products but where competitive pressure is weak it just ends up funneled into dividends, stock buybacks, and equity bubbles.

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If people think the Ukrainian war Reddit agitprop cringe fest was insufferable enough as is. Any Taiwan war will result in exponentially worse. A literal cringe singularity of the most insufferable boba, stinky tofu, vibrant laced agitprop pushed out by the legions of Emily Chans

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Both American empire's running dogs and critics suffer from "player character complex". They actually do believe that the US is the only nation with actual consciousness and that everyone else is an NPC running scripted a) b) c) d) dialogue tree responses. So when independent out

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What Amerimutts are most displeased about Chinese industrial policy isn't the tariffs and subsidies that "distort markets" as various DC eunuchs regurgitate ad nauseum but rather that Chinese tariffs and subsidies actually successfully created new market entrants and competitors.

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