Miscellaneous News

FriedRiceNSpice said:

I am not really concerned about finding domestic alternatives to existing software being used in China or any attempts at embargoing software that are doomed to fail. I am talking more about the potential for China to move beyond the export of manufactured goods and into the export of software services as well. Exporting software as a service in fields such as cloud computing, AI/ML services, and software platforms targeted at consumers to overseas markets. Increasing revenues from overseas markets to further invest in innovation and R&D and creating more high paying jobs domestically. China has the resources and potential to compete in the lucrative global software/IT services market, especially in new and emerging fields.

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ficker22 said:

I have business with a guy who worked for Mercedes and he believes that of all chinese technology, the "crucial 5%" is still western and otherwise chinese stuff would just fall apart .....

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Chevalier said:

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The west wanted their holy race war, the ultimate ragnarok of their “all of society” war against China, they got it

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james smith esq said:

Now, that’s the kind of language China needs more of, much more!

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daifo said:

US state media got kinda tired of "but at what cost" and is switching it up to "quiet resisting"

Drink coffee instead of tea, that's quiet resisting
Use too much toilet paper, that's quiet resisting

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bajingan said:

Just want to correct you on one thing, China does have a military alliance with North Korea, they have a NATO style article 2 defence treaty, it declares the two nations undertake all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation, so since North Korea acknowledged that taiwan is part of China, so in theory any war between the US and China over taiwan, North Korea is treaty bound to provide military assistance to China.

So i don't believe for a second that Japan and South Korea will fight China directly over taiwan, sending arms possibly but fight directly no, unless if they want to fight a two front war against North Korea

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Iran’s top diplomat extends Saudi trip, meets Crown Prince MBS​

Iran’s foreign minister has met Saudi Arabia’s crown prince during his first visit to the kingdom since the Middle East rivals announced a surprise rapprochement, officials said.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in Jeddah on Friday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affaris announced.

After the meeting, Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim reported Amir-Abdollahian as saying the de facto Saudi ruler had accepted his invitation to visit Tehran.

“Discussions were frank, beneficial and productive,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a social media post after the meeting.

The state-run Saudi Press Agency offered few substantive details of their conversation, saying merely that they reviewed relations and “future opportunities for cooperation”.

In a statement posted on social media, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said the two officials are looking for ways to develop bilateral relations, as well as “discussing developments in the situation on the regional and international arenas”.

Iran’s official IRNA news agency said it was the first time a senior Iranian official had met with MBS, 37, who has ushered in a series of reforms, but has also clamped down on dissent in the country.

“The meeting … is a great sign of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia warming and expanding,” said Iran’s state-run Press TV correspondent Gisoo Misha Ahmadi from Jeddah.

There were no details about the Durra/Arash gas field dispute, with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on one side, and Iran on the other, in disagreement over whether Iran has any rights to the field.

Kuwait welcomed Amir-Abdollahian’s visit to Saudi Arabia, without specifying whether any discussions over the gas field had been fruitful.

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