Idk if this is propaganda or just some fucking idiot online LMAO
I don't imagine that the boss of whoever would be responsible for this supposed project would look at the responses and go "yep, looks about right"
It's not like being bilingual is that rare in intelligence positions in China. The evidence for being state-sponsored is weak.
You'd think they would at least cite the report from Meta... RollingStone is back at it with their top tier journalism.
Taiwan claims it too. China and Taiwan must be unified in their territorial claims, whether that is along the Himalayan border or in the South China Sea. Taiwanese and Chinese land claims move in lockstep
Some dude linked it on scihub. It's your own stubborn idiocy that prevents you from clicking it.
It's fucking Science. Not my fault if you're too uneducated to read a paper. But if you're that uneducated, then I'm fairly convinced your argument doesn't make sense in the first place 🤷♀️
Ah yes, because the right to protest is very well-protected in the US and police never oversteps their bounds against activists...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Manuel_Esteban_Paez_Ter%C3%A1n
The government also doesn't have a vast surveillance apparatus that spies on everyone and has public and fair justice system...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
And I'm sure that the US never conducts extrajudicial killings of US citizens in non-hostile countries, because that would be wrong...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
Meanwhile, weibo was full of posts condemning the COVID-19 lockdowns. It's still full of posts asking how the government plans to revive the economy. Hell, the lockdown protests in China literally forced the government to change COVID-19 policy significantly.
When was the last time a major US protest achieved anything?
Do you think companies exist in a vacuum?
Fuck that. Requiring trains to be built in the US will blow up the already obscene budget even more and lead to poor-quality trains due to a lack of experience in high speed trainset manufacturing.
We saw this in Boston, where the requirement of US-made led to absolutely fucked supply chains, constant delays and cost overruns, and shoddily constructed trains with a multitude of problems (though, admittedly, the entire Boston transit system has these problems anyway so I guess it's just another part of government dysfunction). For what? For a voting bloc of like a thousand temporary workers?
Thing is, the US doesn't really have high speed rail in the pipeline that can share technical expertise. The proposed Texas line is planning to use Shinkansen trains, Brightline already has a supplier, and so does Amtrak. Where are you going to get economies of scale to come into play?
It's also a fucking California state project, and California is the safest blue state that ever blued.
I mean... Man's got a good point here lol. As far as circumstantial evidence goes, this is pretty damning.
"THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept."
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/
Who would have thought that the charges were bogus? Who would have thought...
Half a million people is a drop in the market by almost any measure.
Put it this way: if you had half a million followers on TikTok, would you be happy? Not really.