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Virtup

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Pakistan is not super fundamentalist, it has a very vocal minority, but the religious parties have never been able to win more than 10% of the national vote in any election.

A majority of people are religious or conservative with a growing group of secular people.
I guess I misjudged them. They seemed extremely hardcore compared to Arab nations especially during the protests about the frensh ambassador comment. My apologies. Still, I think Pakistan promotes itself as a bastion of Islam (plz correct if I'm wrong), so it'll probably still have to act if Israel touches any of the redlines I mentionned before.
 

Stierlitz

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Orders for Taiwanese exports plunged 25.7% year-on-year to USD 46.6 billion in March 2023, slipping further from an 18.3% drop in February and beating market forecasts of a 20% fall. It was the largest annual decline since January 2009 due to weaker demand for almost all product groups. Orders decreased mainly for electronics, such as semiconductors (-29.4%), telecom products (-26.3%), basic metals (-27.3%), plastic & rubbers (-34.2%), and machinery (-21.3%). On the other hand, they rose for mineral products by 14.2% but slowed from 28.1% growth previously. Among major trade partners, demand fell the most in Mainland & Hong Kong and Europe, down by 33.8% in each case. It also sank in the USA (-20.7%), ASEAN countries (-14%), and Japan (-5.3%).

source: Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C.
 

Biscuits

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I have no Idea. But if you've seen the video, it mentions that Iran is at the leading edge of concrete and bunker technology.
Aircraft wise, China would just rely on air defenses. Due to its large strategic depth and overpowered air defense network, the mainland would not be expected to take any significant attacks even in the case of an American special operation against China.

Russia has more bombers than US and they've not achieved any major penetration in western Ukraine. China's coastal cities are even deeper within Chinese lines than Lviv and the Carpathians. Sure, you can argue that US bombers (especially B2) are higher quality than Russian ones, but there's also an absolutely enormous difference in quality between Beijing's air defenses and modern Russian ones, let alone Kiev's.

Hq16s which make up the bulk of cheap air defense in the mainland are S350 equivalents, and since Saudi acquired Chinese SHORAD, they've not been penetrated by drone attacks in any noteworthy capacity.

US bombing would realistically be confined to naval attacks and attacks on Taiwan province, which are not well covered at least initially.
 
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sndef888

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So these two attendants of BMW gave ice cream to white foreigners only, i'm not sure what happened in the aftermath, apparently someone took the ice cream and gave it out to Chinese only, anyone got any insights?

2 small employees gave ice cream to white guy after telling a local lady there was no more ice cream

BMW apologised and said this was a training issue, they were temporary employees only blah blah

Chinese net was still unhappy

A few hours after that streamers went to the booth to make fun of them. One streamer was pushed by a BMW employee at the booth and wanted an apology. For some reason security guards overreacted (maybe requested by BMW?) and dragged her out kicking and screaming (seen live by 30k people)

Now the common phrase on Chinese internet is "宝马打人了"


Nobody knows who told the 2 employees to do that or if it was just them being white worshippers.
 
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Bellum_Romanum

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Derek f.. Ng Grossman is just egging the sensitivity of Indians by writing that shit "China insults India" nonsense. China can't say anything anymore without being accused or slandered of offending/oppressing anyone nowadays? It's reckless and pure unadulterated anti-China propaganda. What a tool.
 
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