Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they meant Apple and content scanning system to be used initially for finding CP
Communist party?
Capitalist proles.
China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
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Re: China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
#42I have a fairly dim view of China's ethics and respect for human rights, and so tend to suspect the worst; however, the hyper-competition in China's production industries has led to product ecosystems rife with unsafe materials (e.g. lead), and other cut corners. Now that many Chinese are able to purchase the things they produce, I can imagine that safety regulations are starting to be demanded by the public, and tha…
> I can imagine that safety regulations are starting to be demanded by the public, and that is a good thing
I remember seeing a sign at the Hong Kong border when going to the mainland warning that there was a maximum amount of infant formula that could be taken across. Hopefully this is that crackdown.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
USSR followed the same path when their citizens grumbled about liberalization. State owned enterprises are now seizing power from private companies and foreign entities. Pretty soon you are going to see replays of USSR SoE dominance such as lack of innovation, bread lines, inefficient operation, and corruption. It seems xi jing ping did not fully study the downfall of USSR after all.
The causes of the downfall of the USSR seems to always line up with whatever political angle the writer has. Leftwing can point to a lack of (political) liberalization or poor planning, rightwing can point to not going further on (economic) liberalization. It's a topic that is really valuable to think tanks based on their politics and their donor's politics.
And very few people look at what topped it off: the cold war. The insane pressure from the US caused USSR to overspend on military when then barely fed their population. I think people should say "US won the cold war" rather than "the cold war ended" or "the USSR collapsed". It didn't collapse on it's own...as bad as communism was for the population, they could have potentially carry it on forever, like North Korea, if it wasn't for the US pressure.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Global warming will be good for crops if anything. Not saying it’s a good thing overall of course.
If you take it as a simple additive 2°C increase in temperature sure, if you instead trust the models predicting significantly more unstable weather on both ends of the temperature spectrum then not so much.
more warm weather AND more rain, crops on average will do better.
Re: China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
#45I take a much dimmer view of this. Xi knows that climate change is coming and its going to be really bad. One of the issues coming from climate change is food shortage. Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure. Just based on the vaccine protests/riots, imagine what will happen when rationing is introduced. He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable com…
The US and EU are massive food exporters (the largest in the world). The US even burns a lot of its corn in car engines...
Re: China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will be interesting to see what a mass exodus of investment money leaving China does to their economy and geopolitics. Edit: If
1. Why would there be a mass exodus, any shareholder board will fire a C-suite that gives up selling to the world's fastest growing market / building in the world's most capable manufacturing market. Expecting one is just wishful thinking. Boards and executives tend to care about the bottom line, and very rarely about political grandstanding. 2. Even if there were a mass exodus (Which won't happen, because #1), the f…
Why invest in something if you know that your money will be stolen?
Re: China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
#47Translation: get ready for arbitrary enforcement of nebulous, ill-defined standards!
Selective enforcement is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarian systems
Re: China releases a five-year regulation blueprint for broader crackdown
#48I take a much dimmer view of this. Xi knows that climate change is coming and its going to be really bad. One of the issues coming from climate change is food shortage. Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure. Just based on the vaccine protests/riots, imagine what will happen when rationing is introduced. He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable com…
>Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure
The US (along with France) can easily supply all the food they need to its citizens. Along with the alliances with Mexico and Canada, the US is not going to have food shortages, much less riots.
China, on the other hand, is definitely screwed on this front. All of its neighbors are either outright enemies or begrudging allies. As the global order continues to collapse, China will see constraints on its shipping routes that will lead to shortages of key goods.
The food shortages won't hit as bad, though, since the population is declining. Just not fast enough, unfortunately.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The causes of the downfall of the USSR seems to always line up with whatever political angle the writer has. Leftwing can point to a lack of (political) liberalization or poor planning, rightwing can point to not going further on (economic) liberalization. It's a topic that is really valuable to think tanks based on their politics and their donor's politics.
And very few people look at what topped it off: the cold war. The insane pressure from the US caused USSR to overspend on military when then barely fed their population. I think people should say "US won the cold war" rather than "the cold war ended" or "the USSR collapsed". It didn't collapse on it's own...as bad as communism was for the population, they could have potentially carry it on forever, like North Korea,…
It's not like the US kept it a secret that they wanted to either gain enough of a military advantage over the USSR to remove them as a viable threat or force them to keep spending ever more amounts of resources on military boondoggles.
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