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Abominable

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siegecrossbow said:
Wait you are not even supposed to learn about China even if it is a part of your job? What kind of sick joke is this?
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I think there's more to it than just that. Intelligence agencies do exist, and agents do get recruited. The rumours are he was honeypotted.

What's also interesting is that this happened 6 months ago, it's only being reported on now. I suspect the government wanted to keep it under wraps to avoid having the FM visit to China cancelled.
 
Helius

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Sardaukar20 said:

CGTN's review of Loongson 3A6000 PC. A PC made with fully Chinese components except the AMD GPU. OS is a Linux-based homegrown Chinese OS. The Loongson's CPU is competitive only against older Intel CPUs. The OS is relatively friendly for Windows users, but is still a work in progress.

All in all, it's definitely not the most impressive PC out there. CGTN was obviously positive about this PC, but is also quite objective to point out its current limitations. Nevertheless, considering China's position in the PC manufacturing world, this is a more than impressive start. No other non-US country have come this close to producing a fully homegrown PC up to this level of competitiveness.

This is exciting news for me, because China had narrowed significant technological gap against the US. I can't wait for the day when China can produce a PC with its own OS that could give decent competition to US brands.
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Liking the fact they don't attempt to sugarcoat this rig, or hype it up more than what it is. It's not competitive at the high end, and it's not meant to be. Yet performance being comparable to 10th gen i3 is really not too shabby at all, esp. considering the kind of use case it's targeting i.e. office PCs that use exactly the core i3s that are few generations removed from the latest and greatest.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
When you thought that the Yoon administration couldn't stoop any lower, here they're doing that just to break through new low even further.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1700200400018878814

Perhaps after Taiwan, China should seriously consider the task of ultimate liberation of the Korean people next...
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LOL @ the "additional context" trying to whitewash the act. Since when do we tear down monuments because their creator was convicted of something?
 
horse

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Phead128 said:
They are so desperate, it's hilarious
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Yeah, exactly, agree completely.

This story of how the West will build infrastructure in the developing world to counter China BRI, is all propaganda show, and is not realistic. These are not serious proposals.

But that is not even the worst part. Suppose it gets built. Most of the goods moving through would be Chinese MIC anyways. That was why the Chinese embarked on the BRI, because it made it easier to move product, Chinese products. They built a rail line all the way to Germany from China, transporting goods via rail. They knew the demand was there, and the market was there, so they built it.

I think you're right, that the only significance of these stories is showing the uttering desperation that is setting in. Once the Chinese starting building the BRI in scale, it was over. The Nile is a river in Egypt.
 
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4Runner said:
Decouple my arhsss ...
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US policy isn't to decouple (because that works both ways) but there is this unspoken but pretty obvious rule of restricting China in the most cutting-edge stuff and as a result show whose system works better and who's the leading/most innovative country in the world.

There was a very enlightening interview with an US Air Force colonel and former Space Shuttle pilot who said about China's lunar exploration program: "They want to be the dominant force on Earth, and going to the moon is a way to show their system works. If they beat us going back to the moon, that shows they're better than us."

Sums up the US mentality pretty well.
 
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