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PiSigma · Apr 16, 2026

CMP said:
The list says exhaustive but is it really? I am just wondering if there are even more that we haven't noticed yet. China's not on the list but that's shocking given the visa free situation. I suspect there have been Chinese incidents that have not been reported.

It's actually extremely hard to cause an explosion in an refinery internally without explosives. Most refineries have tight security so good luck trying to smuggle in anything. Everyone knows everyone, so unless you got a long term mole, a spy will be caught.

All the piping and equipment are a mess, good luck finding what ever you might be looking for if you didnt spend a few years walking around the unit.

And everything is designed to be idiot proof with multiple levels of protection. Can't just close a valve and stuff blow up, we design that out.

pmc · Apr 16, 2026

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This India export decline seem suspect. If UAE is down 62% (2nd largest) and US is down 21%. (Largest). and both GCC and US combined almost 1/3 of India exports (this itself questionable since GCC and US is like 75% of India diaspora) . i dont think there is another market that will compensate it. China maybe for few months.
GCC is down 58%.

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siegecrossbow · Apr 16, 2026

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Who knew that cucking is a potentially fatal condition…

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Puss in Boots · Apr 16, 2026

pmc said:
This India export decline seem suspect. If UAE is down 62% (2nd largest) and US is down 21%. (Largest). and both GCC and US combined almost 1/3 of India exports (this itself questionable since GCC and US is like 75% of India diaspora) . i dont think there is another market that will compensate it. China maybe for few months.
GCC is down 58%.

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The export market is not as simple as you imagine, where trade volume will skyrocket just by turning on a switch. Operating a market requires long-term and substantial investment; there's no such thing as temporary compensation.
China may not need the goods that India exports to Middle Eastern countries, and some of these goods are even originally imported from China.

fishrubber99 · Apr 16, 2026

CMP said:
The list says exhaustive but is it really? I am just wondering if there are even more that we haven't noticed yet. China's not on the list but that's shocking given the visa free situation. I suspect there have been Chinese incidents that have not been reported.

I don't think the Chinese government would be able to hide a gas refinery incident which would produce a large fire and a huge amount of smoke when everyone has a smart phone capable of recording video...

iewgnem · Apr 16, 2026

Chevalier said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2044756215692238870

So my theory is that the U.S. CIA has orders to destroy all countries’ refining and petrol capacity in the hopes of making everyone dependant on US and U.S. controlled Venezuelan oil and gas.

Pretty sure Mexican refinery export to the US. Infact its all been western or western supplying refineries suffering incidents.

GulfLander · Apr 16, 2026

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According to a report by the Financial Times on the 15th, the Navarre local government spent more than two years lobbying to attract Haichen Energy Storage to set up operations there. Ultimately, the Chinese company chose to build its energy storage battery factory there, with the former Bosch site being one of the candidate locations

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short douyin clip of alleged ai summit with US and Aus. the woman seem talking about "preserve and extend american leadership" in ai.

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supercat · Apr 16, 2026

Randomuser said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2044502101766652033

Greta Thunberg is the world's number 2 antisemite?

The Trump regime is investigating.

White House Investigating Wave of Missing or Dead Scientists

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Kalum Pupeter · Apr 16, 2026

US will help Peru ‘take back’ Chancay port from China, Congress chair says

Maria Elvira Salazar warns port’s ‘dual usage’ potential could enable Chinese submarines, carriers and warships to operate from Peru
A senior US lawmaker called on Peru’s next government to reclaim the Chinese-controlled port of Chancay, describing the deepwater facility as a direct military threat to the western hemisphere. Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said during a hearing on Thursday that Washington would help Peru wrest the megaport from Chinese hands.

“The new Peruvian government, which will be elected next June, must take it back, that port, take it back, and the United States will help them,” Salazar said. She argued the port had “dual usage” potential, meaning it could shift from commercial to military operations. Salazar said this would allow Chinese submarines, aircraft carriers and battleships to operate from Peruvian territory.

Michael Kozak, the US State Department’s senior bureau official for Western Hemisphere Affairs, who was testifying as the sole administration witness at the hearing, said Peruvian officials themselves were “alarmed” after a
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freed the port’s Chinese operator from domestic regulatory oversight. In February, a lower court in Lima sided with Cosco in a constitutional protection action against Peru’s national transport infrastructure regulator Ositran.

The judge ordered the agency to refrain from exercising powers of regulation, supervision and sanction over port operations. Cosco argued the terminal was built entirely with private capital and not under a state concession contract. “When they found out that the Chinese were free from any kind of regulatory control by the government of Peru, it was pretty shocking,” Kozak said.

Ositran president Veronica Zambrano said at the time that the decision would make Cosco “the only company providing services to the public that could not be supervised”. Peru’s government announced it would appeal. The ruling drew a sharp public response from the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, which warned on social media that Peru risked becoming “powerless to oversee Chancay” and called the port’s Chinese owners “predatory”.

“Cheap Chinese money costs sovereignty,” the bureau wrote. China’s foreign ministry rejected the criticism at the time, with spokesperson Lin Jian saying Beijing “firmly opposes and strongly deplores the US’ blatant rumour-mongering and smearing of Chancay port”. Cosco said the court decision “in no way involves aspects of sovereignty” and that the terminal remains under Peruvian jurisdiction.

The Port of Chancay is a US$1.3 billion facility located about 80 kilometres north of Lima and majority owned by China’s state-run Cosco Shipping Ports. Chinese President Xi Jinping
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in November 2024, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosted by Peru. Since opening, the port has cut shipping times between South America and China to about 23 days and reduced logistics costs by more than 20 per cent. It handled more than 336,000 twenty-foot equivalent units in its first year.

Thursday’s hearing took place as Peru counts votes from its
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. With more than 93 per cent of ballots tallied, Keiko Fujimori leads the field with 17 per cent of valid votes. Roberto Sanchez, a centre-left congressman and political heir to former president Pedro Castillo, and conservative former Lima mayor Rafael Lopez Aliaga are separated by fewer than 10,000 votes in the race for second place and a spot in the June run-off. But the political backdrop remains volatile, after
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in February after just four months in office over a scandal involving undisclosed meetings with Chinese businessman Zhihua Yang. A caretaker president, Jose Maria Balcazar, is governing until the winner takes office.

China’s trade with Peru rose 17.8 per cent last year to US$50.96 billion, a record driven largely by mineral exports. Beijing is now the destination for roughly a third of all Peruvian exports.

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Kalum Pupeter said:
I have lost count: ByteDance’s U.S. TikTok arm; the Wingtech–Nexperia unit; Wingtech’s Newport wafer fab; Sinochem and its stake in Pirelli; and now the two port concessions at the Panama Canal held by Hutchison. There has been zero cost imposed from Beijing’s side. It’s a disaster. Every time, it’s just a verbal rebuke from a low-ranking civil servant, Guo Jiankun. Tell Guo to shut up and let someone with real authority actually do something. We don’t need words from a parrot. They have exactly zero meaning.

manqiangrexue · Apr 16, 2026

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