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[plawolf]

How would this even be enforced? A piece of paper that claims/certifies no slave labor was used, or set up some shell company to divert exports. It's all virtually impossible to regulate and enforce, since US customs is heavily understaffed, so if the point is to destabilize Xinjiang, its never going to work. Sounds like they are more building groundwork for future (more powerful ) Sinophobia than anything substantive.

You do realise that the US does this all the time right? They don’t need to employ staff to do the checking/proving themselves, they force you to prove your innocence or they will take the lack of effort on your side as an admission of guilt.

If China was weak, they would have forced every Chinese company that does anything in Xinjiang to prove beyond any possible doubt that ‘slave labour’ was not used anywhere in the supply chain.

It’s an impossible ask and purposefully so. The intention is to make Xinjiang so toxic no company would dare have anything to do with it or source anything from there as a means to collapse the local economy so it will continue to be a breeding ground for unrest and resentment.

 

[siegecrossbow]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686588466736267264

This is pretty irregular, not only in that they want to take away from Ukraine and give it to Taiwan but the "give" part. Usually US uses ROC as a way to make money on defence spending and not the other way around.

Reminds me of when I skipped my vector calc class to study for the advanced programming logic final exam in college.

 

[Chevalier]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686704217669390336

Raytheon is scared of losing access to rare earths and Gallium

 

[FriedButter]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686588466736267264

This is pretty irregular, not only in that they want to take away from Ukraine and give it to Taiwan but the "give" part. Usually US uses ROC as a way to make money on defence spending and not the other way around.

That sounds like bribery to convince Republicans to vote for a bigger Ukrainian arms packages in exchange for a portion of it to go towards the ROC.

 

[siegecrossbow]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686704217669390336

Raytheon is scared of losing access to rare earths and Gallium

So China is complicit in all the war crimes post 2000? Those bastards…

 

[Temstar]

That sounds like bribery to convince Republicans to vote for a bigger Ukrainian arms packages in exchange for a portion of it to go towards the ROC.

By that logic, as a response China should then increase the trade in dual use goods with Russia to intensify their war efforts and tie down even more NATO resources in Ukraine.

 

[coolgod]

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Progressive Thai party that won May election is excluded from coalition to form the next government​

BANGKOK (AP) — The progressive political party that won the most seats in Thailand’s general election has been excluded from a coalition to form the next government, its former ally said Wednesday. Conservative lawmakers strongly oppose the party over its proposed reform of a law banning criticism of the country’s monarchy.

Thailand has struggled for nearly three months to form a government and select a new leader since its election in May. Move Forward Party, the surprise winner, pulled together an eight-party coalition with 312 seats in the 500-member House. However, under the military-enacted constitution, confirming a new prime minister requires a majority vote by both the elected House and the 250-member Senate, which was appointed by a previous military government.

An initial bid last month by Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat fell short by more than 50 votes, largely because only 13 senators backed him. His second attempt the following week was blocked by a procedural vote in Parliament, which said his name could not be nominated again.

Parliament plans to convene on Friday for its third attempt to select a successor to

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who as army commander seized power in a 2014 coup and was returned as prime minister after a 2019 election, despite a pending court decision that could delay the vote again.

Better luck next time CIA

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Taiwan VP Lai Ching-te to make stopovers in New York, San Francisco​

No details provided yet about Lai's stay in US​

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) will make stopovers in New York and San Francisco during an Aug. 12-18 trip to Paraguay for the inauguration of its new president.

Lai will stop in New York on Aug. 12 and San Francisco on Aug. 16, said Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yui (俞大㵢) at a press conference on Wednesday (Aug. 2), refuting rumors about a stopover in Washington, D.C. Lai is scheduled to arrive in Paraguay on Aug. 14, the day before Santiago Peña’s inauguration.

More PLA training exercises around Taiwan coming mid Aug

 

[GZDRefugee]

You do realise that the US does this all the time right? They don’t need to employ staff to do the checking/proving themselves, they force you to prove your innocence or they will take the lack of effort on your side as an admission of guilt.

If China was weak, they would have forced every Chinese company that does anything in Xinjiang to prove beyond any possible doubt that ‘slave labour’ was not used anywhere in the supply chain.

It’s an impossible ask and purposefully so. The intention is to make Xinjiang so toxic no company would dare have anything to do with it or source anything from there as a means to collapse the local economy so it will continue to be a breeding ground for unrest and resentment.

This is why I said that everything that comes out of China should incorporate components or have some assembly done in Xinjiang. The West can play whatever games they want, however, material reality will always triumph over ideology.

 

[Quan8410]

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Progressive Thai party that won May election is excluded from coalition to form the next government​

Better luck next time CIA

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Taiwan VP Lai Ching-te to make stopovers in New York, San Francisco​

No details provided yet about Lai's stay in US​

More PLA training exercises around Taiwan coming mid Aug

Around Taiwan? Weak response. Do it on Taiwan.

 

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How China Trolls Flooded Twitter​

Beijing has learned to use Russian-style disinformation.​

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Common wisdom once held that Beijing simply wasn’t in the business of disrupting information ecosystems abroad. Beijing was no Moscow. While the Chinese government projected stilted propaganda globally, its obsession with online information control more or less stopped at its own borders.

Russia’s successful efforts to sow chaos and distrust amid the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and its similar campaigns across Europe, seem to have changed Beijing’s calculus, however. The Kremlin showed the world that the online information space is a realm perfectly fit for asymmetric warfare, in which one side does not have the ability to control the information flow and must find other ways to tilt narratives in its favor. Putin and his officials perfected a playbook of power projection that Beijing simply couldn’t resist.

The sum total of all this was that, by early 2020, the tone of Twitter’s China discourse had already begun to change. The U.S. social media platform was already starting to feel like a battleground. The once-dominant voices of the pro-democracy Chinese critics of Beijing were being increasingly drowned out by a large and growing network of pro-Beijing voices. At the outbreak of the pandemic, the Chinese government was well prepared to use Twitter and other foreign social media platforms to rewrite the narrative of COVID-19’s spread and, later, to amplify the party line on Xinjiang, Taiwan, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and whatever other messages it chose.

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