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Bellum_Romanum

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RESTRICT Act aint just for telecommunications, it can apply to anything, even something like a graphics card (which is NOT a communication device) or an ebike...

I guess once it passes, DJI can kiss the US market goodbye, no wonder DJI is focusing on remote controller with built in screens now... US isnt satified with just blocking DJI from America but want to kill it died by delisting the DJI fly app from Apple/Google thereby affecting all DJI drones globally... but with built in smart controller which bypasses smartphone its a moot point...

They really itching to push Xi to do the "rug pull"

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Mark Warner is also a massive investor in many of these American tech companies of which he simply want to knee cap the See See Pee competitors out of the way. Freedom and Democracy my butt.
 

siegecrossbow

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Read the actual article, basically the key passages from the senator (so there is nothing left to media speculation) who created the act are here:



In short, he's saying that "we have no evidence Huawei or Tik Tok ever did anything wrong, but we have to ban them any way because they're from China, and China Bad. It doesn't matter whether there's any links to the Chinese government. By virtue of being from those six countries, they're all presumed guilty. We won't bother with trying to prove any wrong doing - any time there is even a risk that wrong doing is possible, a ban can be justified."

So yeah, it's straight up economic war fare.

This is a slippery slope. Who knows what's gonna happen in the next five years.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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More and more Americans are reading the new legislation and actually discovering the threat of despotism and totalitarianism facing them
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I repeat, if this goes through, you could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and/or fined a million dollars for using a vpn to access even sites like this one.
This, coupled with recent aggressive moves from NATO and the US and talk of depleted uranium in Ukraine makes me inclined to think that the USG is preparing for world war and needs to clamp down on anti war dissent.
This is backfiring spectacularly. Millennials are the present, Gen Z is the future and they are alienating them all. The local sentiment on the streets is calm only because they've already systematically disenfranchised these 2 generations to the degree where half of them live with their parents with no other family, no spouse, no children, no savings...

Oh shit, as I typed that I realized, that makes them the perfect recruits. Easy to radicalize, can't run from mobilization, and if they get Kalibrated, there are no angry young sons or husbands, grieving wives, etc to deal with. They have no propety, nothing to their name, and if they don't come back, they don't come back. The key is, no angry young people who riot and trash things. Just some barely conscious olds who can be tossed some pain pills to forget.
 

9dashline

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Read the actual article, basically the key passages from the senator (so there is nothing left to media speculation) who created the act are here:



In short, he's saying that "we have no evidence Huawei or Tik Tok ever did anything wrong, but we have to ban them any way because they're from China, and China Bad. It doesn't matter whether there's any links to the Chinese government. By virtue of being from those six countries, they're all presumed guilty. We won't bother with trying to prove any wrong doing - any time there is even a risk that wrong doing is possible, a ban can be justified."

So yeah, it's straight up economic war fare.
Thats fine, due to global diminishing EROEI, China should "rug pull" sooner rather than later, and let the chips fall where they may
 

siegecrossbow

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More and more Americans are reading the new legislation and actually discovering the threat of despotism and totalitarianism facing them
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I repeat, if this goes through, you could be imprisoned for up to 20 years and/or fined a million dollars for using a vpn to access even sites like this one.
This, coupled with recent aggressive moves from NATO and the US and talk of depleted uranium in Ukraine makes me inclined to think that the USG is preparing for world war and needs to clamp down on anti war dissent.

Nah they wouldn't ban this website. Lazy bums still need a cliff notes version of Chinese military development so they could slack off till the weekend before the report is due.
 

Biscuits

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I just assume that 95% of the posters in Asian subreddits are just westerns either posting as westerners or larping as asians.
I think originally there were Chinese people populating the sub named after China, but the mod team was stolen by a glowie special operation. The refugees escaped to another sub Sino, which maintains fairly normal and sane views (by predditor standards at least) and is populated by Chinese or otherwise Chinese interested people.
 

measuredingabens

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I think originally there were Chinese people populating the sub named after China, but the mod team was stolen by a glowie special operation. The refugees escaped to another sub Sino, which maintains fairly normal and sane views (by predditor standards at least) and is populated by Chinese or otherwise Chinese interested people.
To be honest most of the country subreddits are mainly populated by foreigners and tend to be cesspools of bigotry and racism against the nation they are named after. Outside of China, a cursory look at the India and Philippines subreddits as examples have the same trends.
 

luosifen

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Japan wants to play James Bond?

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Chinese FM confirms detention of Japanese national on suspicion of spying

By Global Times Published: Mar 27, 2023 04:41 PM

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that a Japanese national was under criminal detention under suspicion of engaging in espionage, saying that Chinese officials had notified the Japanese Embassy in accordance with Vienna Convention and China-Japan consular relations.

The detained Japanese national suspected of espionage has violated both China's Criminal Law and Counterespionage Law and the case remains under investigation, Mao Ning, a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry told a press conference on Monday.

Mao said that China is a country ruled by law, and that all foreigners coming to China must abide by Chinese laws and violators will be held accountable. In the past years, there were several similar cases involving Japanese nationals and Japan should strengthen education and awareness among Japanese passport holders planning to enter China.

Japan's Kyodo News reported on Sunday that a Japanese man detained in Beijing earlier this month was an employee of Astellas Pharma Inc., and a spokesperson for the Japanese drugmaker confirmed.

Previously in 2015, two Japanese nationals were arrested in China on similar charges. The two men were believed to have been collecting information at the request of Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency. One of them was held in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, near the border with North Korea, according to local media reports at the time.
 
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