Found this posted here last year

map of the main companies and subcontractors on US DoD contracts for weapons/platforms/etc that isra*l is using in Palestine and elsewhere.

https://xcancel.com/squarecoats1/status/1857783112324841626

Chinese exporters said to be ditching shipments mid-voyage to avoid crushing Trump tariffs - SCMP 2025-04-09

Just because you had luck doing something incredibly stupid doesn’t mean it was a good decision

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/14/tech/rednote-china-popularity-us-tiktok-ban-intl-hnk/index.html

Within the span of two days, more than 700,000 new users have joined Xiaohongshu, Reuters reported, citing a person close to the company. CNN has reached out to Xiaohongshu for comment.

As of Wednesday, the hashtag “TikTok refugee” had garnered nearly 250 million views and over 5.5 million comments. Many of the American users they had joined as an act of defiance against Washington’s move on TikTok.

“Our government is out of their minds if they think we’re going to stand for this TikTok ban,” a user called Heather Roberts said in a video message on Xiaohongshu, which has garnered more than 45,000 likes. “We’re just going to a new Chinese app, and here we are.”

Look a free thinker

High-profile liuzhi detainees include Bao Fan, a billionaire investment banker, and Li Tie, a former English Premier League soccer star and coach of China’s national men’s team. (Li was sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption this month.) At least 127 senior executives of publicly listed firms – many of them private businesses – have been taken into liuzhi custody, with three quarters of detentions taking place in the past two years alone, according to company announcements.

State media says the expanded jurisdiction fills longstanding loopholes in the party’s anti-corruption fight and enables graft busters to go after everyday abuse of power endemic in the country’s behemoth public sector, from bribes and kickbacks in hospitals to misappropriation of school funds.

I thought they could’ve shot the balloon down over the pacific ocean already, but decided to let it wander all across the US for the weeklong “China bad” news coverage

All their posts downvoted

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1e9b2b48-bcce-4100-ae1a-48014a7eec5e.png

Do you remember the username? I would like to see the dunks

Thanks for sharing!

So much brainworms in the comments

Thank you for your response. It makes sense.

My questions stems from the observations that: On one side: Trump was the first to introduce (economic) hostilities with China via tariffs (which got expanded under Biden) Conservatives who are into trump, and uncritically are into Putin (“traditional values”) Conservatives who are into hawks like Mearsheimer (who’s basically saying war with Ukraine bad, war with China in US interest)

And on the other side: Ukraine happening under Biden (Albeit as you mentioned, looking for the best opportunity to dump Ukraine now). Neolibs while not being particularly interested currently, at least are supportive of Ukraine.

Thus I made the connection: Trump = war with China (or at least doing another stupid first escalatory move similarly to raising the tariffs; Saying/doing the quiet part out loud) and Biden = war with Russia (albeit your response corrected that, I def see them trying to withdraw from there as well)

Spreading them thin and financially drain the reserves. With dedollarization picking up pace 's plan might work this time around lel

Is it fair to compare Biden vs Trump as the vote between war with Russia vs. war with China? (i.e. each candidate representing a different faction of hawks)

The only one that is saying this is you

No evidence of Havana syndrome brain injury, US studies find - Reuters, 2024-03-18

Top 5 Countries That Produce the Most Semiconductors: Taiwan South Korea Japan United States China

China is listed as the largest and 5th largest in your source

China has ranked first in the share of published papers since 2017, the top 10% most-cited papers since 2018 and the top 1% since 2019.

Moving the goalposts as a coping mechanism

https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2023/article_0013.html

fuck interlectual property in general, so even if China did steal IP from other countries (it didn’t), I’d respect them even more