Yes, Usain Bolt did not invent running. But whenever China broke records with its own brilliant innovations, I heard the dumbest comments.
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This is the most insane part of the new US export controls.
If you're a Chinese company, in China, with zero relations to the US and you buy Huawei Ascend chips, then you're held criminally liable for doing so under US extraterritorial law.
With all the consequences that entails:
- You get added to the Entity List, which effectively means you get completely cut-off from international financial systems as global banks refuse to process your transactions out of fear of violating US sanctions. You also get completely cut-off from future access to any US-linked technology, software, or services.
- Potential sanctions on the company executives, jail time if they travel to the wrong country, etc.
What this means is that China's only strategic option here is to accelerate tech and financial decoupling from the U.S. so that these sanctions have no bite anymore.
Will this ultimately work out in the US's favor? It's far from certain: in seeking to cut off the world's - including China's - access to Huawei products, they might ultimately cut themselves off from the world as China responds by building alternative ecosystems that bypasses them.
@ZhaiXiang5 Interesting that this weapon of decapitation is fetishized by some Chinese today as "cute" -- that's truly sick.
And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which China is founded
@Magnus_Fiskesjo@ZhaiXiang5 China is no longer in the Bronze Age, stupid. Perhaps the face of Christopher Columbus would look cuter on genocidal Zionist bombs.
@Magnus_Fiskesjo@ZhaiXiang5 Barbaric China just copied the Western history of denial? No worries though, as no ancient Chinese kingdom is dreaming of genocidal self-restoration to make itself great again in the 21st-century. Zionist Israel is not a great example to follow, is it? Christopher Columbus Day?
If Indian leaders are not careful, this may turn into India's century of humiliation. No other country can produce effective weapon systems at China's rate. Attrition calculations mean this war is not gonna be sustainable for India, given Russian & European commitments in Ukraine
@IranObserver0 If Indian leaders are not careful, this may turn into India's century of humiliation. No other country can produce effective weapon systems at China's rate. Attrition calculations mean this war is not gonna be sustainable for India, given Russian & European commitments in Ukraine
Impressive Shaolin Kungfu https://t.co/IWBhlBZRbC
Fujian female martial arts civilian resistance https://t.co/v5XJxLLBdI
Taichi fan (female) https://t.co/9G8Bb73x5X
Chinese rehearsal for Moscow victory day parade 东方卫视中国仪仗队莫斯科胜利日阅兵彩排 https://t.co/9y7MYzI1pz