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TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

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Post by actuator »

jcranmer wrote: post #195
actuator wrote: post #171

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Compared to US, maybe. But you are not doing justice to them just by looking at the USD expenditure since they produce almost everything within Russia and it might be far cheaper to produce stuff there. Here is what GFP ranks their military at: https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp . Even an economically more powerful country like China still has defence imports from Russia.

It's ranking countries by an opaque "power index" (sorry, "PwrIndx", because vowels cost more or something?), and there is no description of what this entails other than "over 50 individual factors". The only thing I could find to drill down on contains effectively a bare listing of things such as army size, population size, number of tanks, oil reserves, etc.--which emphasizes quantity over quality. So you might und…

Yeah, not sure about that power index calculation myself. But I think it would be very hard to compare things on quality. Like take the example of air power. Sure F-22, F-35, B-2/B-21 combination probably beats any other force. But after that, it gets murky as every country will hype its own inventory. I think PRC still purchases some of the planes and parts from them, so I guess Russian made planes might have an edge on them at least in some areas.

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Post by selimthegrim »

School-Cotton wrote: post #213
threeseed wrote: post #200

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They aren’t directly controlled by the government though. And you have plenty of organisations like NPR and PBS which are truly independent. Also anyone can create a news site or blog without worrying about it being blocked.

PBS and NPR are in fact directly controlled by the government. It’s interesting that those are your two examples of gold standard independent media.

No, you’re thinking of VOA and stuff that used to be under erstwhile Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Post by selimthegrim »

puranjay wrote: post #189
paulmd wrote: post #113

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the question is - how much of that "reason" is protectionism (patents, etc)? if you no longer care about pissing off the US and EU (because they're up in your business anyway) then maybe it doesn't matter so much if you violate those patents. Same thing as with Taiwan's "special trade status", Trump thinks that revoking their status will get China to leave them alone, because he has a very simplistic bullying-oriente…

The US under Trump is just far too unpredictable and unreliable. China appears more stable and predictable. Case in point: even post pandemic, when the US is withdrawing from the world, China doubled down on its commitment to Pakistan and initiated massive billion dollar projects last week. If I were Pakistan and in desperate need of financial assistance, I would look to China instead of USA, simply because of the fo…

Sources?

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Post by microcolonel »

systemvoltage wrote: post #201
abrowne wrote: post #136

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It would be less a deterrence for someone from Taiwan, with linguistic, cultural and maybe family connections to China than it would be for someone with no connection to the Sinosphere. And it's not like they're getting locked into Belgium. (I like Belgium! But it's a small place compared with China.)

I personally know people in a large semiconductor company in China that moved to Vietnam having been born there with a family and 2 kids. Which is kind of insane to think about. I don’t know them too well otherwise I’d ask them of their reasons for moving permanently out of China. Just that I have a sample size of 1, so take it with a grain of salt.

Vietnam right now seems like South China ~15 years ago (from an outside perspective), but with way more hope of not turning into a greater dystopian nightmare. I can imagine feeling very lucky to be able to do what these people you're talking about have done.

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Post by plandis »

ahelwer wrote: post #199
fermienrico wrote: post #193

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Tell that to hundreds of thousands of Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Philippino, Taiwanese, etc immigrants that work here in the tech industry. I am a little bit speechless at all this vile of anti-US propaganda. It is insane .

As a Canadian living in the US: it really isn't. The US wants to believe it isn't a dumpster fire but beyond its natural beauty (literally the Chinese name for America means "beautiful country", of which I'm jealous because the Chinese name for Canada is Jianada) and high salary there are so, so many reasons why it is not a very desirable place to live. Institutional racism and a comically horrible healthcare system…

Why live in the US if you dislike it so much? Why are you willing to live in a “dumpster fire”?

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Post by microcolonel »

dirtyid wrote: post #174
teknologist wrote: post #159

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> Getting locked into an insane Han-supremacy regime is walking into the dragon’s mouth with a torch. I think he's referring to Han people studying/working overseas returning to their ethno-state. I can't imagine many non-Chinese would move to China instead of choosing to live in a fairer, rule of law Western democracy where the work is often better paid.

The reality is the opposite, western expats in China get paid much more and are afforded much greater legal latitude. They get paid like kings and mostly live like kings. Make money in China and retire elsewhere has been going on since the 90s. It's how China developed with western expertise.

> They get paid like kings and mostly live like kings.

Careful with present tense, things have taken a stark turn for the worse in terms of the day-to-day reality of western foreigners in China, and it already was not spectacular (minders checking in on your domicile every couple weeks or month, basically zero standing in legal disputes including routine contract disputes).

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Post by ahelwer »

plandis wrote: post #225
ahelwer wrote: post #199

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As a Canadian living in the US: it really isn't. The US wants to believe it isn't a dumpster fire but beyond its natural beauty (literally the Chinese name for America means "beautiful country", of which I'm jealous because the Chinese name for Canada is Jianada) and high salary there are so, so many reasons why it is not a very desirable place to live. Institutional racism and a comically horrible healthcare system…

Why live in the US if you dislike it so much? Why are you willing to live in a “dumpster fire”?

Currently: high salary and partner is in medical residency for the next number of years. After the only candidate who actually wanted to fix your ridiculous healthcare system dropped out of the presidential primary, my desire to continue living here has dropped precipitously. I'll probably end up moving back to Canada before long, or some other country that doesn't literally drive you slowly insane.

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Post by selimthegrim »

carierx1 wrote: post #126
reducesuffering wrote: post #78

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Russian GDP is frequently touted as why they're overrated. However, the Russian kleptocracy believes real power is now coming from mastery of the cyberspace: disinformation, cybersecurity, offensive hacking capabilities, AI superiority[0]. This is a likely accurate understanding, and Russia has immense experience. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-r...

Making everyone else worse... the true Balkan curse.

If we can’t work, at least we can fight.

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Post by kortilla »

pm90 wrote: post #188
threeseed wrote: post #176

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US is a stable democracy with an independent media and judiciary. And Trump’s unpopularity (~60%) means that his world view is not shared by the majority of Americans. So this idea that it is not that secure/free because of a minor uptick in racism is ridiculous. China is routinely kidnapping and torturing anyone who disagrees with them - citizen or not. And we still don’t know where many missing journalists have end…

The US is neither a stable democracy (incredible levels of partisanship and voter suppression) nor does it have an independent judiciary (justices even in SCOTUS mostly vote around party lines on issues of voting ie power). The most popular media network is Fox News which is openly subservient to the President. The uptick or racism is not minor either. Racism has been embedded in the American way of life and the figh…

> So please don’t give me crap about China when our country is at the precipice of losing its status as a Democracy.

I’m not sure you know what the phrase “at the precipice” means, but the US isn’t even close to losing it. The separation of duties between the state and the federal government in conjunction with the branches of government means that even a fully compromised election for one of the positions cannot take the whole country.

By what objective criteria do you classify it as “on the precipice”?

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