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where you get this idea they are against Christians?.
The flights from Gulf Emirates to India dont discriminate whether a city is Hindu dominated or not. They look at the Skill of the people.
All that BRICS meetup will have more Arab countries or the countries they want to see them there. ( it does not matter whether they want to join or not). If you dont read the history than obviously you will laugh at trucks.
There is no place for any person whether its Saladin of 12 century or Saddam Hussian of 20th century except for hired mercenary doing the bidding for Gulf Emirates. This Arabian Peninsula has well defined borders and any one trying to be leader at there expense gets endless kicks.
This is visible Soft Power. The un visible i am not bringing.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
By the fact that Christians and Muslims have killed each other in history and Christians are arming the Israelis to kill Muslims. Why? Are they so stupid that they cannot differentiate friend from foe anymore?
Did you write this for someone else? This has absolutely no meaning or place in a discussion with me...
They've got money and they've got oil so they're invited, just like many countries that don't even have these things. But if they don't want to come, they can go and nobody will miss them.
I'm just laughing at you.
There is no place for any person? What the f does that mean?
So... it has no leader? Scattered tribes then? I'd agree that the Arabs are nothing but scattered tribes with no power to fight or shape the world.
Visible soft belly only.
The "un" visible? LOLOL How poorly educated you are. Yes, don't bring your "un" visible imagination. Keep it in your prescription cabinet.
Pathetic imported equipment at the mercy of others to allow them use or to be shut off at will. And an even more pathetic mindset to brag about it. True powers make their own weapons.
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The app’s executives proposed giving the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The administration declined, setting up an existential legal fight.
Bytedance denied the allegations in Chinese, though tbh I trust WaPo over Bytedance here.
This is propaganda from Western media.
Essentially the story was saying that TikTok was willing to give itself away, like it was worthless.
Chinese companies are worthless, and deserve to be banned, dismembered, and owned by Americans buying it cheap.
See how the propaganda works.
That is how it works.
Dehumanize the Jew, then they went after all the Jews in those dark days.
Here is more of a dirty commercial play, which will not work.
FriedRiceNSpice
Major
Its not purely historical, the meddling by foreign powers have never ceased. Any regime that begins the process of independent development and institution building that does not become a vassal to a foreign power is ruthless toppled or couped. Outside of East Asia, do you see a single developed state that was a former colony, outside of oil-rich vassal states?
This is all propaganda, because this already all happened, but to other Chinese companies under different circumstances.
ZTE after the Trump administration fined them for breaking the deal they had with the US government, allowed a compliance officer from the US government to oversee their operations IIRC.
Huawei offered a deal to the US government that they will sell their stuff pertaining to 5G to only one US company to stay in business in America, and not be banned there. The play from Huawei's angle was obvious, if not banned in America, then not banned anywhere else. In hindsight, none of it mattered. Huawei was just too strong.
Then there is another angle to a propaganda story, which here they talk about a kill switch. That kill switch has been in the news due to the fight with ASML in the middle of that fight, who allegedly have a kill switch too. The propaganda is suppose to make people believe they are more powerful than they really are, so to continue the fight, even if they are losing. Look at Ukraine, they keep fighting, and they keep dying, that is good propaganda they doing in Ukraine.
Lastly, we know this is propaganda, because this is an old story from 2022 according to them. No one can keep a secret in America. Kind of interesting why they bringing it up now.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Modern American engineering and manufacturing prowess in a nutshell.
You sound like someone from 150 years ago blaming Chinese culture and Confucianism for why China fell behind the west. Most Muslim states are developing, but expecting every country to be as technologically advanced as China is honestly ridiculous.
Look at countries like turkey, Iran, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia for Muslim countries that are investing in technology and developing their countries. Of course there's also cases like Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. But for many of these countries I'd argue that their mistake is not being too religious to focus on technology and work, but that they are too proud to submit to a powerful backer. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan are in the state they are because they were attacked. In the case of Iraq and Syria, attacks came despite a secular state trying to deemphasize religion. Some of them are simply innocent victims
To be fair, 150 years ago there were genuine issues with the way Chinese culture and Confucianism were practiced.
Primarily, the belief that one's own ways were the best and only; all others are either wrong or will be revealed to be wrong after enough time has passed.
The arrogance that arose from centuries of this style of thinking is what led to corruption, subversion of the state's purpose (to serve the people, not the ruling elite) and misjudgment of the dangers that were approaching, ultimately leading to the disastrous events of the century of humiliation.
The reason that China was able to get back on its feet so quickly (in historical terms) was precisely moving to identify and overcome any inherent blind spots (the 1949 version rather than the mid 1800's version), leading to where China is today - a rising global power on it's way to unseat the leading legacy powers, and through peaceful self development to boot.