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EU bans China cotton imports for "human rights"

EU shocked when China ends cotton exports to the EU and the EU can't produce gunpowder (which needs cotton)

I know this may seem unusual, but actions have consequences

Literally any outlet that doesn't spin bullshit sources to justify warmongering?

Any outlet that doesn't get an ex-IDF official to write an article on Israel's war against Palestine?

Just basic journalistic integrity.

After the fact, it's being revealed that their "sources" are consistently wrong and consistently in line with US foreign policy objectives.

You can say it's a coincidence, but...

Relevant:

Ericsson CEO warns China will be 'formidable' if 5G or 6G splits

China accounts for 40% of 6G patent applications: survey

SMEE already has an advanced DUV lithography machine. SMIC already knows how to scale foundry operations. China can already domestically produce basically everything needed in a lithography machine

Literally, literally, China's only issues are the gap from DUV to EUV. These include the light source, photo resist, and a few other factors, but it's by no means building from the ground up.

Edit: oh, and Chinese lithography machines are notoriously cheap compared to the competition

We have examined exclusive Al Jazeera video filmed close to that second location at the rear of the convoy, about half a kilometre south of the roundabout.

Volleys of gunfire can be heard and people are seen scrambling over lorries and ducking behind the vehicles. Red tracer rounds can be seen in the sky.

Mahmoud Awadeyah said the Israeli vehicles had started firing at people when the aid arrived.

"Israelis purposefully fired at the men... they were trying to get near the trucks that had the flour," he said. "They were fired at directly and prevented people to come near those killed."

You mean, globalization leads to components being shipped and used around the globe?

Tell me more about your startling insights...

BRICS is going after two things and it's becoming increasingly transparent: natural resources and shipping lanes. Expect Indonesia (Malacca) and Algeria (Alboran Sea) to come soon.

If BRICS continues to expand towards natural resources, expect Kazakhstan and Bolivia. If BRICS continues to expand towards human capital, expect Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Thailand.

The world can be separated into a few cultural superblocs: Europe, the colonial West (North America, Australia, etc.), Indigenous/Latin America, the Arab World, sub-Saharan Africa, Hannafi Islam (including Turkey and Pakistan), Southeast Asia, and the blocs defined around Russia, China, and Iran.

There's an increasing degree of separation between the first two blocs (Europe and the colonial West) and the rest, and BRICS has made significant progress towards unifying these remaining blocs:

In Latin America, there is Brazil (ex-Argentina).

In the Arab World, there is Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt.

In sub-Saharan Africa, there is Ethiopia and South Africa.

There's a distinct lack of expansion towards the bloc represented by Hannafi Islam, but this is largely because this bloc is geopolitically dependent on the 4 BRICS countries surrounding it (Russia, China, India, Iran).

Then there is Southeast Asia, which has rather poor representation in BRICS and which MUST be corrected if BRICS seeks to unify the Global South.

For context on the drug problem in the Lower Mainland: currently it's centered around the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Richmond can be seen as a suburb of Vancouver (though Richmond Center is, in its own right, a thriving urban center), and most notably it's a heavily Asian-dominated community. For a number of reasons, there are relatively few drug users in Richmond and few overdoses or deaths.

The funny thing about it is that news is no more or less truthful than it's always been, it's just more upfront about it. People are tribal, and they've been told that their tribe is flawless while the other tribe is flawed.

If you think about this for a second and apply some basic game theory, you'd realize what the natural steady state is.

Subjugation like... By applying the same standard to ethnic minorities that they do to the Han majority? People don't realize how far affirmative action in China used to go. There were protests against it. Weibo kept exploding complaining about it.

You do realize that... The peer review process is not, inherently, robust, right?

There's a reason different publication venues have different levels of prestige. Nature and Science? Very prestigious. The Lancet? Very prestigious. NeurIPS? Very prestigious. The Journal of Genocide Research? Not so prestigious.