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manqiangrexue

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Word on weibo on what happened is during the meeting between Bessent and Li, Li picked up the phone right then and called up MOFCOM back home and told them to sanction Nvidia. Then after putting the phone down he then asked his translator to translate what he just said over the phone into english for Bessent.

Bessent was extremely triggered by this.
Oh hot damn! And here I thought Navarro was the biggest asshole with his paper planes. After Li did that, Bessent's probably would have preferred to be pushed into a swimming pool full of paper planes. Total power move. Don't know who'll step in after Xi retires but Li Chenggang has a real nice ring to it right now!
 

GulfLander

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at a reporter who asked why the former House speaker “refused the National Guard” on Jan. 6, 2021 as she was being assisted out of the Capitol Building Wednesday.

Pelosi, who was clutching the hand of an aide as she gingerly navigated the steps of the Capitol, quickly spun around, pointed her finger at the LindellTV reporter’s face and appeared enraged at the suggestion that a new Republican-led committee investigating the riot might find her “liable.”

“Shut up!” Pelosi, 85, barked.

“I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you are a serious journalist?” she fumed.
 

GulfLander

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The body of former Prime Minister and opposition leader Raila Odinga arrived in Nairobi on Thursday, attracting tens of thousands of supporters who gathered in the capital to pay their last respects. From chaotic scenes at the airport to emotional gatherings at the public viewing, the outpouring of grief reflected the significant role Odinga played in shaping Kenya’s political journey.
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Colonel Michael Randrianirina is set to be sworn in as Madagascar’s transitional president on Friday. His takeover follows weeks of protests over economic hardship and unrest. Randrianirina said he was taking the role as head of state after the country's High Constitutional Court invited him to do so in the absence of President Andry Rajoelina, who is believed to have fled Madagascar following the protests.
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South Sudan is facing one of its worst economic crises since gaining independence. Government employees, including members of parliament and security forces, are unable to access their salaries due to a severe cash shortage
 

horse

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Look, I really want to agree with you, and I very much agree that Chinese people do sometimes laugh out of agreement, but I sincerely doubt you are correct here.

Okay, I just want to say one more thing about this, and do not want talk about it anymore.

Lee Kwan Yiu, everyone knew his politics. Everyone. That was why he was popular, not just in Singapore, but in other places too.

So Lee Kwan Yiu says the obvious, obvious to him, and obvious to others, and this audience laughed.

You are saying they are laughing at him, and not laughing with him.

This point, is new to me, I almost tempted to use the word revisionism! :D

That is not how I remember things.

They only people who might have laughed at Prime Minister Lee, probably would have been the Brits, but they had to temper that because he was so respected by the Americans.

Furthermore, it is no secret that Western leaders and politicians just did not like this guy, because Lee Kwan Yiu did things his own way, and promoted his own kind. No doubt about it. You know how Trump is America first, Lee was Chinese first. Still that way in Singapore, he implemented the policy of having the same multicultural mixed, with Chinese 72% majority, permanently.

:D
 

GulfLander

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Google translated:
CEOs of South Korea’s four major groups will visit Mar-a-Lago
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An Iroquois County grain bin came crashing down on Wednesday, leaving a small town in limbo. The 90-foot-tall grain bin, which officials said was built in 1972, structurally failed and collapsed, spilling over 30,000 bushels of soybeans -- or 1.8 million pounds -- that were stored inside.
 
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Temstar

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Woah I just heard this story:
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A New Zealand company called KiwiRail ordered two roro ferries from HD Hyundai Mipo in 2018, originally the ships were to cost 1.45 billion NZD. By 2023 the cost ballooned to 4 billion NZD of which 671 million NZD was already paid to Hyundai Mipo with not even a single piece of steel to be seen 7 years later. This year New Zealand finally terminated the contract with South Korea, paying a settlement fee of 144 million NZD and then 2 month later picked a Chinese shipyard instead to build them.

Sometimes when you pimp slap the correct people, others who has a grudge against them end up coming to you for business.
 

Overbom

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Only Euros could think of a way to collapse their own industries. Literal retards for sure

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Carmakers Push to Secure Chips as China Trade Spat Escalates​

Automakers are bracing for fresh potential chip disruption, with China’s retaliatory export controls on an obscure Dutch supplier threatening to set off a chain reaction that could halt production lines.

Manufacturers in Europe are holding urgent meetings to fend off potential outages that could come within a month, according to people familiar with the matter.
The industry has upped inventories after the pandemic sparked previous chip shortages. But carmakers like
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and suppliers including Robert Bosch GmbH may take months to switch from Nexperia — the Dutch producer affected — to alternative sources, the people said, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.
If the situation is not resolved quickly at the political level, there is a risk of a standstill in large parts of global automotive production and in numerous other industrial sectors,” said Wolfgang Weber, who heads Germany’s electrical and digital industry association ZVEI.


The industry’s current stocks of Nexperia chips are generally predicted to last only a few weeks and production halts may follow if they’re gone, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, the industry’s main trade group in the region
“We suddenly find ourselves in this alarming situation,” said ACEA Director General Sigrid de Vries. “We really need quick and pragmatic solutions from all countries involved.”
FAFO
Expect Euro tears in a few weeks
 

gelgoog

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Delicious tears at that. The Eurotards caved in fearing US sanctions but got screwed by China instead.

Good luck packaging those transistors elsewhere. IMHO Nexperia is done unless the Dutch government pump them full of money.

The European car industry will figure something out, even if they use Japanese transistors or whatever.
 
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