EuroNews - Chipmaker Nexperia said it halted China shipments on payment refusal
Posting mainly because the article describes Nexperia as “Dutch owned” and apparently the fact that Nexperia was very recently seized from Chinese ownership is somehow not a salient fact to include in the discussion.
Instead this is framed as China stealing Dutch IP rights, which the Dutch stole fair and square from the Chinese first I guess.
Mongol related, reminding Polish people that some Polish principalities were briefly tributaries of the Khanate makes them surprisingly mad.
“Nooo we weren’t part of the mongol empire, we remained pure.”
They killed a lot of frenchies and captured a British general (colonel?) so why wouldn’t they waste a pilot?
Attack helicopter in an active combat zone, sorry for your loss.
Workers exempt from conscription:
He was still fuckn alive??
nonetheless
“R U awake? if yes, pl call,” Barak wrote Epstein, at 1 a.m
A lot of it to Microsoft to run their servers
That would be cool if it were true. Or maybe it is true but nonetheless they lick the boot.
How are you going to robber-baron without steam engines?
Wait so they’ll seize the money but use it for loans? Ukraine would still have to pay Europe back even though it isn’t Europe’s money?
My superior Celtic genetics mean I went gray at 18 but will never go bald, but if I were to go bald I’d do it in absolute style like Devin Townsend
Over the time span of a century, I think China would have a very positive impact on Latin American sovereignty.
But over the time span of 20 years at least, I see China accepting a hemispherical division.
He will dig up the tulip garden to install a jetski half pipe I’m here for it
Joining Russia and China like this is by far the greatest strategic fuckup since Athens invaded Sicily during the Peloponnesian wars.
I support the outcome of Clinton and Harris absolutely mauling each other in a bitter primary just for Michelle Obama to pick the crown up from the ground on the basis of this being the funniest outcome.
RAND REPORT - Accept China has won. Best case scenario is avoiding a century of humiliation
clarify U.S. objectives in the rivalry with language that explicitly rejects absolute versions of victory and accepts the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.
each side must accept, in ways that are deeply ingrained and broadly shared among decision-making officials, that some degree of modus vivendi must necessarily be part of the relationship
each side must accept the essential political legitimacy of the other.
state that it does not support Taiwan independence, seek a permanent separation across the Straits, or oppose peaceful unification
creating the maximum incentive for Beijing to pursue gradual approaches to realizing its ultimate goal
Reunification. Taiwan surrendered its stranglehold on chips and became a chip itself to be traded accordingly.
[The US should] balance its commitments to Taiwan with leveraging its influence to ensure Taiwan’s actions do not escalate tensions with China… use its potential leverage over Taiwan to limit its activities that upset the status quo.
This would have been a great strategy for the US to adopt 10 years ago.
Commanders get fired for retreating, not for following orders, and the people giving orders care about optics.
Even after excluding housing, energy, and food
Pure propaganda even if factually true because