zephyreks @ zephyreks @programming.dev

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That must be why SMIC just showed 7nm capability years ahead of when people expected it. That must be why Russia is projecting GDP growth this year and Russia's manufacturing PMI is showing expansion while most other countries are showing contraction.

Who do you think you're convincing with this?

Sanctions haven't worked before, why would it work now?

America's willingness to toss sanctions around willy-nilly is single-handedly destroying globalism and creating a multipolar world.

Ah yes, because conservatives are subhuman and definitely not something like half of the US voterbase.

This is a US problem, plain and simple.

Guess Ukraine isn't really European after all.

Fuck Poland.

Also Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt...

With the exception of Putin (who governs over Slavs and thus by Nazi propaganda are not white), none of these countries are white. I'm beginning to think a teensy tiny bit of racism is at play here...

Hasn't the US clearly established the waters around Taiwan being international waters subject to FONOPs and explicitly not territorial waters outside of the 12km limit?

China and Taiwan are aligned in their EEZ/territorial claims in the region (all the way down to the Spratly and Paracel Islands), so these missile launches would constitute only firing missiles from one point in their EEZ to another point in their EEZ without passing over airspace defined by territorial waters boundaries... Which, since as we've already established aren't territorial waters, is perfectly legal in the rules-based system.

Trade between Taiwan and China is something like $270 billion. Taiwan is one of China's biggest export partners (larger than Russia, Malaysia, France, Brazil) and one of China's biggest import partners (literally the biggest, I think).

Cultural penetration is significant and bilateral mobility across the strait is very high. Anyone who seriously sees hot war as a possibility is delusional. At worst, we may see a Kennedy-style quarantine of Taiwan if too many US weapons make their way to the island.

Taiwan-China relations were downright friendly until 2016. Not really sure what's changed since then.

China has infrastructure investment and affirmative action. What do red states have?

If the guy wrote an article, just link to an article 🤷‍♀️

Shipping is throughput-bound, not latency-bound by the sheer logistics of cost. A high cost floor inherently limits the flexibility you have in delivering equipment. The cost of ocean freight is generally what people care about (especially with the delays in imports, customs, blah blah blah), not the latency. If people cared about latency, their product would usually be suitable for air freight (e.g. the iPhone).

Plus, most of the new corridor is over ocean freight anyway and requires the slow and vulnerable process of unloading in UAE and loading again when entering the Mediterranean.

I think we're at a bit of an impasse then. I don't think it makes sense to bleed men and defectors for morale (because, y'know, people dying is bad for morale), but maybe the Ukrainian propaganda machine is more powerful than I am.

My point is that the West has sat behind the idea that every single new weapon they send to Ukraine will be a GAME CHANGER and lead to the COLLAPSE OF RUSSIAN LINES. Nothing has done so so far, so why should the F-16 be any different? The Patriot was supposed to help Ukraine maintain air superiority. Western tanks were supposed to outclass Russian ones. The Bradley, through it's rich operational history, was supposed to completely outmaneuver Russian forces. Yet... Nothing.

So the US cares so little for it's relationship with Vietnam that it can't be bothered to find an intern they can put on their pants?

His Twitter page speaks for the US government (@POTUS). This reflects poorly on the US, if nothing else.

This is a massive diplomatic error from the US government. In fact, it came from the US government Twitter handle @POTUS. Just because an aide made the issue doesn't make this issue not reflect poorly on the US.

The article in question: ❓

Then maybe link the article itself? It's not that hard, guys.

The actions such as... Giving them additional points on gaokao? Interest free business loans? Exemption from family planning policy? The horror.

Ah yes, because the New Yorker is a completely unbiased source of information instead of (as the name might suggest) a newspaper targeted at the New York elite.

How is rail ever going to be cost-competitive with ocean freight? Even considering Suez transit costs of $7-10/ton, the most efficient railroads in the world achieve 4.4c/ton-mile, or about $68 per ton on the proposed route plus the cost in both time/money and latency/throughput of being dependent on two massive ports for loading and unloading.

IMEC aims to connect Middle Eastern oil to European and Indian markets and European/Indian products to the Middle Eastern market. That's about all it's good for.