China's development as a superpower

Winston Smith fits the British mold better than any Russian or Chinese one.   Eric Blair wrote 1984 as a warning and not as a propaganda pamphlet.

China's isolationism is a long term problem since it creates technological stagnation.   This may seem like an irrelevant aspect today, but it is
a real problem.   China needs to engage with the world more than it did before its century of humiliation.   It wasn't the "middle kingdom" but
the "side kingdom".

Well, this is what happens when you aren't loyal to the few patriots your country has left.
May as well make some real money.

The clown show is resulting in no one being hired because there are no trannies and females making applications for these military pilot jobs.
This is the problem with woke nonsense. It is detached from reality and tries to foist some perverse fantasy on society.

but for now I would like to put it in here

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-says-may-take-china-wto-over-fukushima-driven-seafood-import-ban-2023-08-29/

Japan threatened on Tuesday to take China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to seek a reversal of Beijing's ban on all of its seafood imports after the release of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The minister said the government was gathering information on the reports of movements to boycott Japanese products in China and would work with business leaders to address the situation.

Japan is also conducting interviews with local travel agencies to gather information about the status of travel to Japan from China after media reports that some Japan-bound tours have been cancelled.

"Some travel agencies responded that they had received cancellation requests while others said they had received inquiries about the safety of food and beverages, and the possibility of postponing or cancelling tours," Japan's Land Minister Tetsuo Saito told reporters.

The move came after China earlier this month lifted pandemic-era restrictions on group tours for Japan and other key markets.

Comments from netizens wrote:- So it is OK to apply ban and sanctions on Russia and China but it is not OK to apply these to the colleagues of Western world ?

- How about the Chinese government does not ban but the Chinese people boycott Japanese goods ? It will be even more humiliating.

- China uses the food safety and health concerns as the reason, in principle WTO can hardly do anything about that. Even if things were taken to WTO, China is still able to protect its decision.

Aren't there ban on electronics or certain ones to China? If so, China can counter sue for a lot more.

sepheronx wrote:Aren't there ban on electronics or certain ones to China? If so, China can counter sue for a lot more.

The WTO, like any international organization based in the West, has long outlived its usefulness.

The power of the US to monitor telecoms and computers worldwide is slipping through its hands.

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Saudi Arabia has signed up for a massive cloud data center built by… Huawei.

It will provide all cloud computing services, including AI.

China will train 200,000 Saudis as developers.

No need for Amazon AWS or US spying!

The US is proud that they beat the Chinese at mathematics. This is the team

https://www.asiafinancial.com/threat-of-more-chip-curbs-spurs-warnings-on-china-innovation

Threat of More Chip Curbs Spurs Warnings on China Innovation

September 8, 2023

The chief of one of the world’s biggest chip equipment-makers, ASML, said isolating China completely will ‘force’ the country to ramp up innovation

The Netherlands started implementing fresh chip export restrictions targeting China, from last week, a move largely seen as a response to lobbying by the United States, which is working to hobble Beijing’s military and technological capabilities.

Wennink noted he wasn’t expecting much revenue impact on ASML, Europe’s most valuable semiconductor company, from the restrictions. However, he expressed a fear that the Dutch government may implement fresh export controls, at Washington’s “insistence”.

Wennink also noted that China’s ability to innovate, and do so quickly, was already evidenced by the country’s increasing prowess in the electric vehicle (EV) market.

“In Germany they just had a big car show and they were shocked. In China things are faster, faster and more focused. We are too complacent,” Wennink told Nieuwsuur.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/80905

+ “China should be interested in the disappearance of Russia. Because it is an archaic country that drags China into unnecessary conflicts. China could be one of the dominant states,” says adviser to Ermak.

Did Mikhail Polodiak consult the USA before making this statement ?

higurashihougi wrote:https://www.asiafinancial.com/threat-of-more-chip-curbs-spurs-warnings-on-china-innovation

Threat of More Chip Curbs Spurs Warnings on China Innovation

No shit Sherlock. These arrogant morons were too busy wanking in supremacist delusion to consider that the "untermenschen" may not
be so low. Their contempt for Russia, and China, maps perfectly onto the mindset of the Reich during the 1930s. The same racist retardation and
self-aggrandizement with claims of exceptionalism and peak civilization. I expect that the NATzO west will be surprised when Russia
introduces its own EUV fabrication equipment in the near future. China appears to have reached this stage already. Tough luck for
AMSL and NATzO.

Part of becoming a superpower is the opportunity to kick ebbing superpowers with impunity

@Garry:

https://www.rt.com/news/582979-maduro-china-english-banished/

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro brushed off a question asked in English at the end of his visit to Beijing, telling the reporter to speak Chinese instead.

“Speak Mandarin, there’s no English interpreter,” Maduro cut off a reporter from Hong Kong. “It’s a new world!” he added. The exchange was captured on video and quickly made rounds on social media.

@Garry:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2309211066/

Xi'an Jiaotong University scraps English proficiency tests for graduation

Xi'an Jiaotong University announced it will no longer use the results of College English Tests as a requirement for degree awards, sparking a heated debate among netizens.

A notice from Xi'an Jiaotong University, one of China's top universities located in the northwest Shannxi Province, showed that starting from September 1, 2023, the university would not use the results of the CET-4 and CET-6, school-based English proficiency tests, and other off-campus English proficiency exams as requirements for graduation and awarding bachelor's degrees.

The decision was made in the fifth undergraduate academic council in 2023, according to the notice.

In recent years, many universities have announced that the award of their degrees is no longer linked to the results of the CET-4 and CET-6.

The news sparked intense debate on social media, with some supporting the move, saying that English proficiency should be linked to students' majors rather than being a general requirement for all.

Others opposed decoupling the English exams from degree awards, arguing that it showed a lack of emphasis on English language education, lowered the graduation threshold, and undermined the cultivation of high-quality personnel in all respects.

However, Xiong Bingqi, the director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, told Dahe Daily that the universities' decision was not a sign of devaluing English education but a move away from exam-oriented English teaching. English teaching should return to the original goal of improving English proficiency rather than merely achieving good exam results, Xiong said.