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siegecrossbow said:

All of you coding monkeys who get six figure annual salaries to copy and paste code from stack overflow — don’t feel bad, here is someone who get paid six figures to do nothing.

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Meta is a shithole of a company. It is literally what Chinese tech companies are being accused of. Almost every single feature on their apps is a knockoff of a feature from another app. For IG stories they didn’t even bother to change the name of the feature.

Chinese liberals tend to forget that Qin Gang was the OG Wolf Warrior diplomat.

siegecrossbow said:

Chinese liberals tend to forget that Qin Gang was the OG Wolf Warrior diplomat.

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"wolf warrior" diplomacy consisting of defending the UN rules and guarding small countries from being bullied by unilateral invasions and sanctions?

As opposed to American reichsadler diplomacy I guess, where the whole world is expected to submit under American wings of darkness and surrender all autonomy to apparatchiks in Washington that are blatant racists and nationalists. Surely letting such people rule the world that is mostly non-White and non-American wouldn't cause any disasters at all right?

Hood_Rat said:

Why should I deign to respond seriously to content-less insults? If anyone here is a chat bot or a low IQ Indian or whatever slur you lot want to use, it's you all. Try acting like human beings please.

In any case, the questionable loyalties of many CPC cadres are a known problem hence why Xi started his first term with a very effective purge of the MSS and then moved on to purging cadres with significant overseas assets and relatives in hostile countries like the EU-28, Japan, Five Eyes, etc. If I had any suggestion it would be to intensify the efforts to dig out said cadres and slam shut the pipelines they use to sell secrets and move taxpayer money abroad. Singapore in particular from my personal knowledge is now the key node with which hot money leaves the PRC.

War in Asia is inevitable. Insufficient ideological preparation, shaping operations, and force buildouts will be what really sets China back 1,000 years.

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Okay, China is according to you facing an extinction scenario this year because of its leadership and when asked to provide a solution, you simply say more purges within the government. Not exactly helping your case here bud.

"Hello fellow liberal activists. I too believe in the progressive liberal values of BLM, LGBTQ and... hold on a second... equity. Anyhow, have any of you planned to, or have previously engaged in, protest, demonstrations or strikes? Please speak clearly, as I am hard of hearing, and do not want to be a victim of ableism. Thank you."

henrik said:

Splitting alibaba into 6 companies, is like splitting amazon into a couple of companies, reducing their competitiveness, efficiency and discouraging them from investing into new ventures, both within and outside of their companies. Sooner or later the government will split byd and catl for being too "dominant" in their industries.

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Alibaba and Amazon are 商人 (traders) passing things and money from one hand to the other making no added values to the society. They are like lubricant of machine, necessary and even critical at some point but never the core and foundation, should never to be allowed to take the major chunk of resources and profit. Whenever they become too dominant, they should be cut into pieces, but we are not going to remove them.

BYD and CATL are making real things, they are the machines. They will be encouraged to be big, but on the condition that they don't suffocate the tech development, that is not being a patent bully to stop competitions.

In principle, there should be NO dominant power in industry, NOT even SOEs. The only dominant entity is the State, the country. Chinese businesses are only to be large to compete with foreign powers, but not to overshadow the state power. They are the tools of the state, not the owner and ruler of the state. If you study the Chinese history, you will realize that it is always like this. And this is the very reason that China remained an unified state for more than 2000 years.

Bellum_Romanum said:

Why wouldn't Singapore not choose better economic conditions for itself over a perceived security threat from China that will never materialize unless your country decides in some retarded reason that Chinese immigrants are no longer welcome in Singapore which would he hillarious if not outright stupid not to mention an insult to many Singaporeans of Chinese descent who carved out their own destiny in an infested mosquito island so it can safe haven for the mostly Chinese ethnic Malaysians who now call themselves as Singaporeans.

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I think you got it wrong.
Singapore needed US protection since our independence not because of threats from our kinsmen from China, but from those surrounding us.
Not realistic for tiny Singapore island, only 50 km wide, to survive a war with our hostile neighbors on its own.

Threats from Indonesia
Konfrontasi (or Confrontation, 1963–1966) was a conflict started by Indonesia under the leadership of President Sukarno, who opposed the formation of the Federation of Malaysia consisting of Singapore, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo (Sabah).

Supporters of Indonesian preacher threatened an attack on Singapore:
Shanmugam | THE BIG STORY

Threats from Malaysia
Ex-PM Mahathir says Malaysia should claim Singapore and Riau Islands
June 19, 2022

" Malaysia has threatened to cut off the water supply prematurely to pressure Singapore politically, a move that has sparked tensions between the two states.
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(Instigated by Malaysia to cause instability in Singapore)
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taxiya said:

They are the tools of the state, not the owner and ruler of the state. If you study the Chinese history, you will realize that it is always like this. And this is the very reason that China remained an unified state for more than 2000 years.

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I'm curious, can you elaborate on this? Give me a lil history lesson.

Biscuits said:

"wolf warrior" diplomacy consisting of defending the UN rules and guarding small countries from being bullied by unilateral invasions and sanctions?

As opposed to American reichsadler diplomacy I guess, where the whole world is expected to submit under American wings of darkness and surrender all autonomy to apparatchiks in Washington that are blatant racists and nationalists. Surely letting such people rule the world that is mostly non-White and non-American wouldn't cause any disasters at all right?

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like this:

logicboard said:

I'm curious, can you elaborate on this? Give me a lil history lesson.

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Can't give you a specific example because this is a statistic conclusion that you have to go through the whole history. An attempt can be to count how many aristocrat families except the emperor in China have ever lasted powerful more than 3 generations. Then compare that to Europe's aristocrat families. In China, it is near zero, in Europe it is mostly.

Business empire/dynasty/conglomerate are just modern incarnation of aristocrats. The rule of the game remains.

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One example is the rise and fall of E Ertai (鄂尔泰) and Zhang Tingyu (张廷玉) who both served the same three emperors of Qing. They were both capable but also with shortcomings. They even had good personal relationship with each other. But under Qianlong emperor, they were used by the emperor to balance each other's influence by promotion and demotion. At one point another powerful official Liu Tongxun (刘统勋) publicly proposed to restrict promotion of Zhang's relatives even though the individuals are as qualified as others. Chinese emperor will never allow any subordinates being dominant. Now replace emperor with CCP, you get the answer.