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This was supposedly a problem with a stealth ship designed by Lockheed’s “skunkworks”: against the choppy noise of waves and swell, a blank spot (of no radar return) stood out dramatically.
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It is truly remarkable how many replies in that thread consist of bad analogies, denials of clear third party reporting, and whatabout-ism.
Same thing happens here btw on HN. Since I just said something against HN, I guarantee this comment will get downvoted into oblivion.
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"Individuals cannot accept interviews without government approval." [12:06] Does anyone know if this is a law?
Foreign journalists cannot even enter xinjiang and travel around freely without 24x7 accompaniment by a government employee escort.
It's worse than than that now, the CCP kicked out US Media out of China, and those that tried to relocate to HK were not allowed to do so. Under the security law they could be seen to be dissenters and could be held/detained/jailed for crimes against the State.
This coincides with the CCPs tactics, of even its own Citizens who dare to challenge them, this a rather sad albeit predictable story about its highest scoring soccer player who spoke out against China on Tienanmen this year [1].
1: https://bitterwinter.org/the-ccp-should-be-kicked-out-of-hum...
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Taiga. And yes, that's where USSR internment camps and gulags used to be, for same out-of-sight reasons as they are in China.
I wish I could find it, but there is a Wikipedia article on a railway spur in that region. If I remember correctly it was mostly built with gulag labor and it lasted a few years at most before it fell apart due to the climate and terrain (not solid ground).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salekhard%E2%80%93Igarka_Railw...
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Same thing happens here btw on HN. Since I just said something against HN, I guarantee this comment will get downvoted into oblivion.
generally downvoting happens when you talk about voting in the meta, which is against the rules and spirit.
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Same thing happens here btw on HN. Since I just said something against HN, I guarantee this comment will get downvoted into oblivion.
yeah i commented about documenting the prc supporters enabling this to happen and I got downvoted and flagged!
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> you need a license/approval before you can interview someone [citation needed] > Many western youtubers came under scrutiny for it. came under scrutiny by whom? Their audience or CCP? Disclaimer: I'm a China national.
This comment is fascinating. It feels like it's written by GPT-3. It almost makes sense at first glance. If you look at bgee's comment history, all the posts are about China. > [citation needed] The police officer in the video said that in the video linked above. Mostly I'm curious what China's official position is.
As a non-native English speaker, it also feels content to hear my writing is on par with the state-of-the-art NLP model.
> all the posts are about China
This is materially incorrect. This one is not [0].
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> cut them out of the global system; that requires a widespread effort from the top several dozen economies, it can be done however. The problem is that many of the world's economies already depend on China - either as a source of cheap products or, and that is an increasingly successful threat, for money. China has been buying up, building or financing construction works especially in South Europe (Italy, Greece, Cr…
In the event of conflict, there's nothing stopping those countries from seizing Chinese assets in their countries. Heck, the US did that with Merck KgaA and Merck Inc during WW2.
Huawei's Safe Cities project uses Chinese-owned and operated facial recognition technology, in cooperation with the Serbian Ministry of Interior, aggregating data from a hundred thousands of 4K security cameras around public places in Belgrade, and enabling tracking by person, and not by place and time. It is infeasible to disable this system and use a domestic one instead. China has complete remote control.
Chinese CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corporation) and Sinomach in general produce and maintain hardware for some of Serbia's coal-powered thermoelectric power plants, and CMEC is building a new power plant block right now. The control software is provided and maintained by Chinese companies. It is infeasible to disable theses systems and use domestic ones instead. China has complete remote control.
Serbian national railway companies (it was split into multiple ones, including Serbia Train (Srbija Voz) that operates trains and Serbian Railways Infrastructure (IŽS - Infrastrukture Železnica Srbije) that operates the railway infrastructure) are partnered and deeply integrated with CCECC (China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation), CRCC (China Railway Construction Corporation) and CRI (China Railway International). The trains are being imported from China, the rail is being reconstructed by Chinese workers, there are Chinese flags next to the rail for it's whole length. The system will be reconstructed with Chinese technology and deeply integrated into proprietary systems. It is infeasible to disable theses systems and use domestic ones instead. China has complete remote control.
This is happening also to Železara Smederevo and RTB Bor, and more is on the way. Chinese military aircraft is planned to replace old Soviet and Russian planes, and Serbia has already imported Chinese UAVs and anti-aircraft weapons, as well as tanks and advanced multipurpose vehicles. Huawei equipment is installed in all cell carriers and powers intenal networks for military use as well as civil interconnections with ISPs both domestic and international, through the Internet Exchanges in Belgrade. More things are planned.
The only things that could be seized, if a conflict were to occur, are the roads and the dumb hardware. That is not useful, but in any case a conflict will never occur because it would be suicidal for a country so deeply integrated with China to try and pick a fight with such an economic and technological superpower. The problem is that this relationship is not symbiotic, it is dangerous for Serbia due to Chinese tendency to ignore environmental laws, manipulate reports and conceal information about accidents or toxic waste, as well as the planned extraction of natural resources that is one of the key points of the Belt and Road initiative.
EDIT: Oh and one thing, before someone calls me sinophobic[1]: It would be equally bad for Serbia if any other country did such a thing. But they didn't, not even Russia had ambitions to make this a puppet state of theirs.
[1] Of course, for all intents and purposes, in this context, China === Chinese Communist Party with the Paramount Leader Xi Jinping, not the Chinese citizens or people of Chinese etnicity.
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I agree with your facts there, although "sinicize Islam" sounds awfully grand? In context with Western countries' reactions to militant islam, it's very different, different cultural norms, but it's hard to call it comparatively monstrous. What if it works? What we're doing in afghanistan clearly isn't working, despite the humanitarian cost..
The phrase Sinicization of Islam is Xi Jinping's, or at least the CCP's. It does sound grand and oppressive, especially when you consider that it is about more than just a considerate plan to minimize the threat of violent sects of Islam and includes stopping Islamic finance, mosque-run schools, religious Arabic-language schools, and more much worse as we've heard reports of (bits of which are reported in the article…
Anti-communist talking points from the 1980s never accurately described China, and certainly not in 2020.
Here's my question: you clearly know very little about the place, yet are super invested in it. How do you square that? Why not either spend time learning about this place, or stop caring?
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Everyone that disagrees with you is a shill. What an enlightened mind you have. EDIT: reply to comment below. What's DRP? The existence of real shills doesn't give you free reign to cover your ears and yell shill any time you hear an opposing opinion (I've never seen the people who cry shill do so when it's someone that agrees with them). I could easily call you a shill but that doesn't get us anywhere. Focus on the…
Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media?