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StraightEdge

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China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a particularly obscure rare earth metal used almost entirely in military applications.
The main American user of samarium is Lockheed Martin, an aerospace and military contractor that puts about 50 pounds of samarium magnets in each F-35 fighter jet.
Beijing’s new export controls on rare earths specify that licenses can be issued based only on the final user of the mineral at the end of the supply chain. For samarium licenses, that sometimes means military contractors.
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manqiangrexue

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China's track record is that they have caved to Trump many times before in the first term. They did the trade deal with Liu He that was completely unequal. They did the ZTE deal. This time the 30 vs 10% deal is also unequal.

Even if in the long run China has gained by adapting to US actions but the fact of the matter is China keeps bowing down to US atleast publicly. That's not good.
At this point, Trump has a track record of always lying; you have a track record of believing/doom-posting on a person who always lies, and China has a track record of fucking the US in the end no matter what the agreement.
I don't dispute the "deal" in Trump's 1st term, but so far this round since Trump's 2nd term, what is China's "bowing down"? All I see is Trump saying there is a win, but nothing has been shown to the world what his win is, not even from American media. Where do you get your impression?

Track record does say something, but when we hit a milestone everything will change and track record means nothing and would be missleading. And we know the milestone is coming or maybe already here and now.
America's deals aim to please the crowd but carry no substance. China's deals don't care about the crowd but years later, evidence shows they always carry substance. The deal in Trump's first term resulting in China not fulfilling its orders, the US going into recession and China, not. This time, the US just had Q1 contraction completely made by Trump from Q4 2.4% growth under Biden. China's GDP is unaffected.
I find it ludicrous that people are taking Trump’s claims seriously. You guys didn’t trust him when he said that he would build a big beautiful wall. You guys didn’t believe him when he said he’ll restore US manufacturing. You guys didn’t believe him when he boasted about F-47 being the best plane in the history of stealth aircraft (when it is just a painting IRL). But all of a sudden 80 percent of the forum believes that he got China to cave in to his brain dead trade war demands. In my humble opinion once a liar, always a liar. Burden of proof is on the MAGAs, not China.
I don't believe that anyone is legitimately stupid enough to believe Trump anymore. I assume that when someone doom-posts on China with a "if what Trump says is true," they're just concern trolling like @gadgetcool5.
 
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Expert1324

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Are you a woman or male feminist (western type)? Because all your questions are asked from a woman's standing point even though they apply equally on both genders. For example, why would men get married if divorce is so difficult??? No need to answer these are rhetoric questions.

Before the 1980s, divorce was a taboo, the divorce law may not be strictier but the social pressure from family and society was much harsher than today, as harsh as if the word "divorcee" is branded on the forehead. Yet people get married without hesitation because marriage was the norm, sex before marriage and cohabitation were "crimes".

The law may have some impact but not much compared to people's attitude and value. Instead of blaming the law, the true question should be asking every oneself, does oneself really love the other to marry, does oneself vow to treat the other as oneself, respect and care no matter what. If there is doubt and you have to prepare for that possibility then marriage isn't your thing and why bother the law that doesn't apply to you? If there is no doubt then why bother the legal term that you won't face?
None of the above. Let's just say I seen certain things firsthand growing up and would therefore be more vocal about said things.

IIRC one of the divorce laws is that you must do the divorce court proceedings in the same exact town/ place you registered the marriage (which is extremely inflexible and dumb). And this said place is usually in one of the involved party's hometown, which many times leads to extreme one-sided bias, and you have no way out of it.

You have no idea how fked up and ridiculous the rulings can be if the court is fully in favour of one party due to reasons such as regional bias etc. Or how a sick minded person can easily hold the divorce hostage (with the given connections) while inflicting abuse continuously, which gains him all possible bargaining chips in the proceedings.

This is just one example, and there's definitely something that can be massively improved on here. And whenever I see such a new law being drafted, I will always think to myself how can the situation that's been etched in my mind be possibly avoided under this new rule, and honestly, I just don't see it.


The law may have some impact but not much compared to people's attitude and value. Instead of blaming the law, the true question should be asking every oneself, does oneself really love the other to marry, does oneself vow to treat the other as oneself, respect and care no matter what. If there is doubt and you have to prepare for that possibility then marriage isn't your thing and why bother the law that doesn't apply to you? If there is no doubt then why bother the legal term that you won't face?
I completely disagree with this. This goes against every fundamental principle of having a Law or a Justice system in the first place.
While I do agree with your sentiments, but what you are saying here is effectively victim blaming.

Laws (especially in the context of criminal and family law) are not drafted to tell the victim, "I told you so, you should have chosen better previously". Laws are there to eliminate criminal behaviour, abuse or negative effects of society, in a manner that ensures fairness and justice to all. Laws are there to ensure every safety net and well-being of a citizen is considered and therefore guaranteed to the best of its abilities. If not, the law is either ineffective or even a failure and should be improved on.

A "vow", as you said, is just a "vow", it can easily be broken after marriage, and in actual fact, it frequently does. Words are just words and people do in fact change or turn out to be different. If the law does not protect its people in such a high statistical scenario, then it should rightly be questioned and amended. Saying that a person should choose their path in such a precise way, so that they are not required to deal with the dire consequences of falling out of protection in the framework of an inadequate law, as if people should be able to predict the future or face disaster, is not helpful at all. It is in fact logically and morally reprehensible, and this mindset would lead to the downfall of a society.
 

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China to enhance review, approval of rare-earth export license applications: commerce ministry​

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BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- China will continue to enhance its review and approval of compliant export license applications for rare-earth-related items, a spokesperson for the country's Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

Spokesperson He Yadong made the remarks at a regular press briefing when answering a relevant question.

In accordance with laws and regulations, China has reviewed and approved a certain number of export license applications for rare-earth-related items, taking the reasonable demands and concerns of various countries for the civilian purposes fully into account, He said.

Rare-earth-related items have dual-use attributes, with both military and civilian purposes, the spokesperson stressed, noting that imposing export controls on such items is in line with international practices.

China will continue enhancing its review of compliant applications, and is ready to enhance communication and dialogue on export controls with relevant countries to facilitate compliant trade, the spokesperson said.
 

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I would eat a kangaroo to celebrate this if I were French.
Interesting way of basically destroying the image of th USA in the eyes of Australia even further while giving them an out of this stupid submarine bullshit that it’s bound to be useless in any fight against China. The best defence against China for Australia is simply neutrality since China has and never will fire the first shot and Australia lacks the means or the will to start an idiot fight unless the USA threatens them into it. South east Asia will simply be at peace when the U.S. fucks off back to Its side of the pacific and does the good boy thing to let Trump hurry up and demolish the nation so they can cause no more wars.

Plane crashed into a Medical college hostel, many UG doctors are feared killed in that tragedy. Again Boeing.
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Ok, I admit that I like to bag India from time to time but in all seriousness, Boeing right now is a failed company that cannot bring anything to the table other then flying coffins. I cannot imagine how horrible such a fate would be to go out like that (especially to civilians who did no wrong) and the fact that those stupid bastards in Boeing will not suffer any consequences does piss me off. This is saddening regardless of which country had to have the displeasure of using such an faulty aircraft
 
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Phead128

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This is why you cannot jump to conclusions:

US Treasury Secretary won't commit to sharing China trade agreement details
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The Trump cabinet literally obfuscated the full details of trade war, Indian style...this is why if you going to assume the worse, just assume US is lying, you'd be pretty safe with this administration.
 
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