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TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

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Post by kwistzhaderach »

lihan wrote: post #211
m00x wrote: post #42

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I'm sure the feeling is reciprocated. Taiwan is being bullied 24/7 by China. They even have Chinese military jets doing "military exercises" in the Taiwan fly zones. https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/chi...

The bully really stems of that some do not recognise "one China", which is not the point of view in Beijing. You cannot say it's bully if Taiwan is part of China. If you have doubt, search "1992 Consensus".

So Taiwan are allowed to fly planes over the PRC without trouble?

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Post by president »

lihan wrote: post #217
systemvoltage wrote: post #132

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Not sure why you’re being downvoted. What you said is factually correct. Like 3000+ anti Trump stories on NYTimes. Try that in China?

It's a different country :) And it has different level tolerance in the freedom. Try making any speech about a race in the US despite it's correct? US has no such freedom or tolerance right? True that there are lots anti-Trump material out on the internet, but that's the US culture. The media is a tool for winning an election. One cannot force the other world to adopt the same system US has, right?

What is your argument? The point is that in one country you get the truth and in the other you don't. It doesn't take a genius to understand which is better.

> One cannot force the other world to adopt the same system US has, right?

Yes, you're right, China should stop forcing Tibet, Uyghurs, and Hong Kong to adopt their system.

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Post by markdog12 »

junar wrote: post #181
markdog12 wrote: post #164

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> swam to Mainland China Really now?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/jul/27/worldbank.c... He swam from Kinmen, a small island about 2 miles from the mainland.

I figured it must be islands, but didn't know there were some so close.

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Post by kortilla »

ahelwer wrote: post #238
kortilla wrote: post #231

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Curious, as a high salary earner, you must have good health coverage. Do you still feel that the Canadian healthcare system with it’s infamous delays, etc is better?

Basically: yes, absolutely. Canadians in general love their healthcare and my personal experience with it has been nothing but positive. My frustration with American healthcare is augmented by how much better I know it can be. I pay $500/month for shit-tier health insurance here and actually using the healthcare costs even more money! Most of the drawbacks you've heard about Canadian healthcare have been promulgated…

Ah, so you’re not with a company that has a good healthcare plan. This is part of what leaves the US healthcare system so broken. The experience is drastically different if you have an employer with a “Cadillac” healthcare plan.

A recent tech company I worked for in the Bay Area charged about $50 pre-tax twice a month and I paid nothing out of pocket. The gulf between good healthcare coverage and bad coverage is what’s obscene in the US.

I haven’t seen an argument for how the good coverage is worse, which is why I always ask.

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Post by dirtyid »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #257
dirtyid wrote: post #250

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TBH, these are exceedingly fringe scenarios that doesn't affect majority of expats living in China, i.e. certain motorcycle vloggers who got on the government shitlist. For the purpose of this article, if you're a sought after silicon engineer, you'll essentially have diplomatic immunity. China is going ham courting foreign talent in strategic field like 3x salary for entry level position, building churches for Korea…

Go lookup Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. China isn't afraid to play nasty political football using imprisoned and tortured and unconnected westerners as pawns.

I'm familiar. China arrests Canadian spies and (threatens) executes Canadian drug dealers in retaliation for Meng. Just like the Garrats after Su Bin, and Fujita employees after Senkaku. They're calibrated retaliation that separates diplomacy and business. China is a surveillance state that dismantled every CIA asset in the country 10 years ago. They're not arresting random people among the 100,000s expats in China. Plenty of guilty ones to pick. Don't be a spy in China and don't sell drugs. Or do if your country isn't in a diplomatic spat with China, you'll still get privileged legal recourse compared to locals. FVEY spies should leave GTFO of China, especially Canadians. China is still UNDER retaliating for Meng.

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Post by kilroy_jones »

azinman2 wrote: post #246
tomp wrote: post #240

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Oh come on man (woman?), this comment is completely disingenuous. You're comparing 2 completely different things. Is US / the West fair? Not by a long shot. Tons of shitty stuff happening, from George Floyd, to Harvey Weinstein, to Jeffrey Epstein, to Julian Assange. But at least we know about them. But compared to China? You won't even hear about the "small person's life". I'm sure life in China can be great, unless…

That might be true for you, but that clearly isn't true for everyone. I know people in HK (mostly elderly) who are fine with China coming and taking over. They see security and wealth.

Most of those people in HK who are fine with it already have deep connections with the Mainland and want to maintain those. They are a small fraction of the population. It's also fairly short-sighted and selfish thinking in my mind to sell the off the rights of the younger generation so they can keep their assets and businesses safe.

In the US we have been selling off our privacy and ability to affect public policy through our leaders for much the same reasons, ie short-term gains for the few. Difference is we gave it voluntarily.

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Post by minerjoe »

threeseed wrote: post #200
AsyncAwait wrote: post #180

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> independent media Actually the mainstream TV & newspaper media are overall owned by a very few holding companies and there's plenty of stories of people being subtly or overtly pressured to either change tune or be forced off the air if they ie spoke extensively against the Iraq War pre-invasion.

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.

> aren't directly controlled

Why control things directly when you don't have to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

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Post by pm90 »

kortilla wrote: post #264
ahelwer wrote: post #238

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Basically: yes, absolutely. Canadians in general love their healthcare and my personal experience with it has been nothing but positive. My frustration with American healthcare is augmented by how much better I know it can be. I pay $500/month for shit-tier health insurance here and actually using the healthcare costs even more money! Most of the drawbacks you've heard about Canadian healthcare have been promulgated…

Ah, so you’re not with a company that has a good healthcare plan. This is part of what leaves the US healthcare system so broken. The experience is drastically different if you have an employer with a “Cadillac” healthcare plan. A recent tech company I worked for in the Bay Area charged about $50 pre-tax twice a month and I paid nothing out of pocket. The gulf between good healthcare coverage and bad coverage is what…

Third world countries have rich people who live with a substantially higher standard of living than the rest of their society, and yet we don’t consider that fact as evidence that the country is doing well.

The existence of premium healthcare plans for the high earners or the wealthy is not a reflection of the healthcare system. It’s how much access most people have that matters, statistically.

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Post by kilroy_jones »

euix wrote: post #116

The founder of SMIC on the mainland is actually Taiwanese and a former TSMC executive. Loyalties cut across the strait both ways, westerners overemphasis attachment to values and ideology over bloodlines and ancestry. It's true for some but not for others. There are quite a lot of foreign engineers working on the mainland, especially Taiwanese engineers. If you are a industry vet or got some kind of special talent yo…

China has only recently been able to reverse or halt the brain drain it was having for decades. As far as talent coming from the US, you will need to provide actual data to back that up, unless you are referring to Chinese students that have been unable to secure a work visa as coming from the US.
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