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Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by MangoToupe »

fragmede wrote: post #181
MangoToupe wrote: post #143

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> Taiwan intends to violently and militarily resist if it comes to that I sincerely wonder if the people who live there agree. I sure as hell wouldn't put up much fight if china tried to invade my country; just the opposite. If anything I wonder if voluntary unification is on the table in today's climate

Fascinating! Why not? Why would you just lay down and let someone else rule over you?

Does anyone on earth have a choice otherwise? I would rather be ruled by the PRC than the losers in DC.

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Post by MangoToupe »

deltaburnt wrote: post #319
MangoToupe wrote: post #304

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> rights to privacy, all rights to free expression, everything. Surely rights to more substantial things like healthcare make this quite an easy decision. Freedom to criticize a government doesn't matter if you can't force the government to actually give a shit about anything

Does Taiwan not have healthcare? Verbatim from Wikipedia: > According to the Numbeo Health Care Index in 2025, Taiwan has the best healthcare system in the world, scoring 86.5 out of 100,[6] a slight increase from 86 the previous year.[7] This marked the seventh consecutive year that Taiwan has ranked first in the Numbeo Health Care Index.[8]

Access to healthcare and right to healthcare are distinct concepts

Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by MangoToupe »

Lio wrote: post #224
MangoToupe wrote: post #143

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> Taiwan intends to violently and militarily resist if it comes to that I sincerely wonder if the people who live there agree. I sure as hell wouldn't put up much fight if china tried to invade my country; just the opposite. If anything I wonder if voluntary unification is on the table in today's climate

> I sure as hell wouldn't put up much fight if china tried to invade my country; just the opposite. Realy? What is your country and why would you prefer to live under a dictatorship?

The US; and the "dictatorship" such as it is clearly values human life more than our existing government does.

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Post by gsky »

kamaal wrote: post #77
gsky wrote: post #73

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Nonsense. China occupied big chunch of Indian land. They will be a big war sooner or later. It's just how the world works

You want us(Indians) and Chinese to go to war. We stubbornly refuse to. Both countries, have now have growing economies with stable politics, and social direction. Things can only get better from here, and will. Whatever issues exist, we resolve by talking. Often, a few give and take moves are needed, which are mostly ok. Because way bigger good things await these both nations. And we want them. Either way there is n…

What people like you never understand is that ccp doesn't believe in peace. They are expansionists.

By the way China doe not want to share the power with anyone in Asia

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Post by HeinzStuckeIt »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #430
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #284

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Yes, I’m afraid that you are still misunderstanding the research. Your linked article speaks about gene flow associated with the movement of pre-Proto-Germanic speakers to Scandinavia, but later Proto-Germanic formed in southern Scandinavia according to the longstanding consensus. This is clearly spelled out in the abstract: “Following the disintegration of Proto-Germanic, we find by 1650 BP a southward push from Sou…

Do you think I'm misunderstanding something other than that I'm not drawing the same distinction between proto-Germanic and "paleo-Germanic" that that paper appeals to? You've quoted something that says after proto-Germanic had diversified, daughter lineages left southern Scandinavia to establish themselves elsewhere in the world. But I pointed out a completely different idea in the paper, that before proto-Germanic…

Your post above wrote “the location of the proto-Germanic speakers”. Terminology matters; Proto-Germanic is something strictly defined as to what it was, with a longstanding consensus about where and when it was. If you wanted to talk about pre-Proto-Germanic speakers (or “Paleo-Germanic” speakers as this paper does, though I suspect some would quibble with that term used for a very early date), then you could have done so.

Moreover, you posted about a “new theory”, but the paper here only gives new evidence for an old theory.

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Post by Lio »

MangoToupe wrote: post #443
Lio wrote: post #224

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> I sure as hell wouldn't put up much fight if china tried to invade my country; just the opposite. Realy? What is your country and why would you prefer to live under a dictatorship?

The US; and the "dictatorship" such as it is clearly values human life more than our existing government does.

Well that’s not what Amnesty International say.

I’d be careful what you wish, you might just get it.

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Post by laughing_man »

MangoToupe wrote: post #300
noduerme wrote: post #213

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>> Perhaps you have an unusual opinion? That or a remarkably flexible sense of morality, coupled with a supine nature and a total lack of balls.

Let's not pretend it's ever moral to support the state you live under. You should support yourself and bide whatever state imposes itself on you.

Ever? No. Whether or not it's moral to support the state under which you live depends entirely on the circumstances. In the best case the state is mostly an expression of the will of the nation, and if your country is invaded you support the state.

But even if the state is parasitical, in the case of an invasion it's usually moral to support it.

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

sofixa wrote: post #274
constantcrying wrote: post #227

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What you are saying is just not true. Frances car industry is dying. Renault is a small company, not even in the top 10 and Stellantis is doing extremely poorly, also affecting Italy's car industry. Within a decade or so COMAC will have a competitive passenger plane, seriously threatening Airbus market share. Germany's entire industry is currently dying since it is impossible to have a cost competitive manufacturing…

> Renault is a small company, not even in the top 10 How exactly is that even remotely relevant? They only sell in select markets, and are killing it in them (best selling EV in the EU, Renault 5). What, if it's not a global behemoth dominating the world, it doesn't count as manufacturing? What exactly is your argument here? > Within a decade or so COMAC will have a competitive passenger plane, seriously threatening…

>And we can see that a low cost Dacia EV is similarly priced to a low cost BYD EV.

The Dacia Spring is made in China.

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Post by forgotoldacc »

adrian_b wrote: post #393
forgotoldacc wrote: post #364

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This completely ignores a lot of history. Okinawa went from being a tributary (trade partner) of China to vassal state (occupied and controlled) by Japan in 1609. [1] What would be modern day Afghanistan and Thailand paid tribute to China as well, but for some reason, those are ignored with the Chinese claim to territory. It's simply "well the Republic of China's victory in WW2 means we get land from countries we tra…

After the war from 1609, Ryukyu remained officially a vassal of China, not of Japan, even if it became secretly also a vassal of the Satsuma domain from Japan (not of the Japanese state). This dual allegiance of Ryukyu, openly to China and secretly to Satsuma allowed Ryukyu to be an intermediary in some commerce between China and Japan, which officially was forbidden. The official occupation of Ryukyu by Japan happen…

Not sure where you're getting "secretly" from since there was no secret and they were openly obedient to Japan. There's nothing outside of CCP sources, and particularly no historical sources, that could even remotely claim otherwise.

And even if you goalpost shift to the Meiji Restoration, 1872 is still well before any period where Japan was required to give up any territory as a result of WW2 imperialism.

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Post by jack_tripper »

alephnerd wrote: post #422
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>Hate to break your cherry, but that's all industries. It's not binary where it either it is or it isn't but there's various levels to it and Pharma gets special privilege over industries like cars, phones or semiconductors, since it deals with people's lives. > as Asian players in both China and India have largely disrupted the generics Then why did I never took an Indian or Chinese made paracetamol, but all generic…

> Then why did I never took an Indian or Chinese made paracetamol, but all generics in my EU country I ever took from the pharmacy ware locally made Because it was synthesized using Chinese and Indian sourced "Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients" (APIs) [0], both of whom synthesize around 80% of all APIs required by European pharma manufacturers. The EU is trying to rectify this, especially after COVID when India decid…

>Because it was synthesized using Chinese and Indian sourced "Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients" (APIs) [0], both of whom synthesize around 80% of all APIs required by European pharma manufacturers.

And the EU pharma companies package it, slap their logos on it and make mega profits selling domestically.

>EU member states simply does not do the same for electronics.

Why do you think that is? Surely with a war next door and China not guaranteed be a cooperator all the time, that would be a priority.

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