Technically the US (the country) gets +2 bronzes (Puerto Rico) and China (the country) gets +2 golds and +2 bronzes (Hong Kong)… but this whole comparison is stupid.

Because the mods on this community would rather choose a source that they agree with than a source that’s reliable.

Yes but have you considered that by using a fixed source you can shift the Overton window to where you want it to be?

At least I acknowledge that the Overton window on lemmy.ml leans to the left. This is just slowly tilting the Overton window on lemmy.world to the right.

This is a really well-reasoned response… Which probably means the mods will ignore it

There’s a reason lemmy.ml mocks MBFC daily lmao

When your community is built from Redditors it’s sort of bound to happen

Well, it’s more that the mods know that people don’t have an alternative

Because it’s free money for MBFC

The mods on this community have always had a rather unhealthy relationship with MBFC

Newsweek has such shit journalism, man:

Yemen’s Houthi rebels continued their attacks in the Red Sea by targeting two tankers in 24 hours, including a vessel carrying Russian oil likely heading to Asia, where China is the region’s largest buyer.

That’s the only justification given… Even though, y’know, India has been the largest buyer of seaborne Russian oil since the sanctions and is also, shockingly, in Asia. Meanwhile, it’s summer and the Northern Sea Route is viable, cutting the transport distance almost in half.

Weren’t ships declaring CHINESE CREW AND OWNER on AIS and successfully traversing the strait? That’s what I remember browsing the AIS tracker sites a few weeks ago

Potato, potato

Someone should tell the US, then, because they sure as hell didn’t limit sanctions to networking equipment.

fair enough

Still, I thought the Houthis were mostly targeting ships that turned off their AIS and tried to run the Strait?

thank you

Everyone has the appetite for the secrets of everyone.

Surprisingly, China publishes a lot of it. Like, a lot a lot. As in, pretty much all the work done at CAS and similar institutions is published, which is the equivalent to US national labs or Lincoln Lab or what have you.

At the same time, Huawei itself publishes an obscene amount of work and is incredibly proactive in academic research - they open-source code, fund top-tier conferences, and publish basically every result they get. It’s actually stupid how much money they dump on conferences.

Now, you might ask yourself, what secrets does the West have? Well, China already leads in 80% of critical technology fields, so unless you’re working in integrated circuit design/fabrication, quantum computing, high performance computing, natural language processing, vaccines, small satellites, or space launch systems… You probably don’t have much to hide. Plus, if you’re working in a field where secrets are important, you already likely have security clearance.

As a Canadian I’m pissed off about Nortel too, but a bunch of Canadian companies got fucked by the dotcom crash and the 08 crisis and Nortel was unfortunately one of them. I’m more pissed off about Bombardier, which is an issue I’m actually affected by. Fuck the hyenas at the DOJ that killed Bombardier and the CSeries to protect their golden goose. How’s 737 Max sales going, Boeing? Getting outcompeted by the A220 that Bombardier was forced to sell to AirBus for $1? Yeah…

Plus, Nortel outsourced their entire manufacturing and product design teams to Huawei in the 90s, so I don’t have too much sympathy for Nortel.

The big powers bully us because we have no choice. That’s the repercussions of Trudeau’s foreign policy.

If you work at McDonald’s or Wendy’s, it really doesn’t matter what phone you use lmao

Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned and Polish-operated bulk cargo carrier that had docked in Malaysia and was on its way to Italy carrying wood.

Maybe this was an attack on Palau? Poland? Malaysia? Italy? No, using Ukraine will generate more clicks.

Not sure uninvolved parties (ASEAN, African Union, Arab League, ex-UNASUR) are going to be too keen to store significant foreign reserves in USD/Euro given that the seizing of interest payments is apparently something that’s in the cards.

I guess there’s a reason Saudi Arabia is looking at mBridge… Surely the West can’t be happy with what they’ve been doing in Yemen.

If the war is important, the US and Europe should actually fund it instead of looking for pennies behind couch cushions.

Counterexample: Haiti’s independence debts from France for daring to free slaves

This is such a silly gesture lmao

If you don’t know, Myanmar’s junta (and it’s allies) primarily control coastal regions while the rebels primarily control inland areas. In fact, I’m fairly sure only one rebel group has ocean access. These patrol boats are about as big of a white elephant as possible.

Most insurgency groups run resupply through Yunnan and move money through Chinese companies. You can see this being reflected in their territorial control: it’s predominantly in the north, with some territories along the border with Thailand (from which other groups smuggle resources through Thailand).

Whoever engineered this deal is a comedian.

AA (the only group with coastal access) basically doesn’t use naval resupply, and Myanmar isn’t exactly known for being an open plain. White elephant indeed.