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The U.S. lost the electromagnetic warfare earlier this month and is withdrawing the missiles from Luzon.

Diplomatic maneuvers are not military defeats. If Peking blocks another resupply mission, those missiles go right back.

This is above and over your head. These are carriers and planes not decisions via diplomacy.

The U.S.S. Connecticut hit the ocean floor (?) and is rehabilitating in the shipyards. Is this the U.S. technology? China doesn’t have to lift a finger then. This is also over your head.

U.S. subs don’t just hit a sea mountain. You don’t think they have radars or the technology to detect what’s ahead? We’re not talking torpedoes here. You are defaming the US Navy.

It doesn’t matter China. NATO is still at a disadvantage in Asia. China has the home advantage while the U.S. is way away from home not to mention the technology advantage.

How many missiles can the US ships bring? The Koreans are smart and will not let another war fought on its on soil and not especially with its nuclear neighbors to the north.

China has already sent the U.S. Connecticut back home rehabilitating and is sending the U.S. Typhoon missile system deployed back home. The U.S. lost the electromagnetic warfare earlier this month and is withdrawing the missiles from Luzon.

The Japanese navy back to playing silly games off the coast of China once again. And some in the JT "brain trust" are giggly.

This. It’s as if Japan is timid to push back for the Senkaku’s.

This would be reciprocal if the MSDF destroyer were sailing into disputed territory and its waters. Unfortunately, Japan makes such no claims or disputes so it isn’t equivalent to the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands. In this case, unless it was an innocent or incompetent mistake, it can be perceived as provocation.

Your answer that the Senkaku’s belong to Japan does not refute the fact that it is in a state of dispute. It is only natural for Japan to defend its perceived own territory and the same for China. It is a territorial dispute.

Japan must set up structures in the Senkaku’s and guard the islands to stand up to China’s claims. Sailing into Chinese territorial waters does not do this imo, as Japan admits, it has no business in Chinese waters off the coast of Zhejiang.

NATO is hurt by Biden. Lot of entities are disadvantaged by Biden, and the number is growing.

There is deep uncertainty over President Joe Biden’s ability to beat his predecessor, NATO skeptic Donald Trump, in November to lead the most powerful member of the alliance.

*June 27  09:43 am JSTPosted in: Can Biden perform and what will Trump do? Key questions ahead of high-stakes presidential debate  See in context*

Biden is going to drop out. They know he can’t win and will have someone else. Can’t imagine keeping Biden.

*-6** ( +3 / -9 )*

I predicted and posted the above pre-debate. After the debate, it’s even more telling. Biden is gone.

It’s not about Biden and Trump. Having Biden is not going to help with elected representatives’ elections.

The Democrats are throwing Biden under the bus,

Where’s your Bushido honor Japan?

Too many Chinese ceo’s in tech. Must be a concern for US Congressmen.

TSMC founder Morris Chang 張

TSMC C.C. Wei 魏

Broadcom Tan Hock Eng 陳

Nvidia Jensen Huang 黃

AMD Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su 蘇

Tik Tok Shou Zi Chew 周

Huawei Ren Zhengfei 任

ByteDance Zhang Yimin 張

Tom Cotton wants to know if they’re all Chinese Communists.

What happen to the Plum rains? Is it over already?

And we all know what happened to Yukio after he tried to alleviate the occupation of Okinawa.

The US government, meanwhile, has revoked export licenses for certain American chips used by Chinese smartphone giant Huawei, after the company unveiled a new computer using an Intel AI-capable chip.

Wow, this was 5 years ago. Need to update. See below from Bloomberg, July 3, 2024.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-03/pentagon-has-a-huawei-dilemma-congress-doesn-t-want-to-solve

The Pentagon has a problem: How does one of the world’s largest employers avoid doing business with companies that rely on China’s Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest telecommunications provider?

So far, the Defense Department is saying that it can’t, despite a 2019 US law that barred it from contracting with anyone who uses Huawei equipment. The Pentagon’s push for an exemption is provoking a fresh showdown with Congress that defense officials warn could jeopardize national security if not resolved.

As it has done since the law was passed more than five years ago, the Pentagon is seeking a formal waiver to its obligations under Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which barred government agencies from signing contracts with entities that use Huawei components.

Its rationale is that Huawei is so firmly entrenched in the systems of countries where it does business — the company accounts for almost one-third of all telecommunications equipment revenue globally — that finding alternatives would be impossible. Meeting the restrictions to the letter would disrupt the Pentagon’s ability to purchase the vast quantities of medical supplies, drugs, clothing and other types of logistical support the military relies on, officials contend.

China wins again. The Pentagon depends on Huawei.

leaving Japan Inc. to suffer an entirely self-inflicted PR disaster.

The Japanese quality in autos is not what you think it is.

Rather than revealing fraud and intentional deception

Got caught with its pants down and still won't come clean. Intentional deception....the Japanese Bushido is just a made up fantasy.

EU knows that China isn’t subsidizing the production of EV cars. Otherwise, either Chinese brands would be siginificantly cheaper than Tesla, which is also made in China; or Tesla is also subsidized but Elon kept silent about it. The subsidy to EV cars did exist, and is no longer the case in 2023.

EU knows that China isn’t subsidizing the production of EV cars. This proposal was brought up by France, because French car manufacturers are falling behind, while German car makers are trying to cooperate with Chinese brands.

China has spearheaded a targeted industrial strategy to boost its EV sector, pouring vast state funds into domestic firms as well as research and development.

Successful. Biden and billions into the semiconductor chip industry. Biden learning from China.

China has you all bunched up and screaming. It’s just a buoy.

Shame on the Taiwanese captain.

Japan is in the top 5 of countries in the world for the highest tax rates.

The same article from Asahi.com included this part:

美容師だった被告は2019年12月、繁華街で酒に酔っていた20代の女子大学生をタクシーで自宅に連れ帰った。2人に面識はなかった。学生は嘔吐（おうと）して自分で立てない状態だったが、被告はエレベーターや自室でわいせつ行為や性的行為をしたうえ、その様子を撮影し、友人に送ったという。

The two were not acquaintances. The student who threw up couldn’t stand up on her own. In addition to committing lewd acts with her in the elevator and in his room, he filmed the session and sent it to his friends.

According to the Singaporean court, caning is only imposed on male offenders under the age of 50. The maximum number of strokes that can be administered at once is 24

The U.S. and China are often seen as rivals in the development of artificial intelligence, but by some measures U.S. tech companies are taking the lead in making the world’s most cutting-edge AI systems.

China graduates way more engineers than the U.S. More STEM graduates. The disparity is like 1 to 7. And a lot of the 1 are Asians.

Americans prefer to be humanities majors who read novels and use big words to talk about the world: "it's the social contract and internationalism in the declaration of independence that makes us who we are and so Putin will not stand a chance against...." Meanwhile the Japanese in the group who has no idea, nods and pretends he knows what is being said and takes another sip of beer.

Over the decade starting in 2014, over 38,200 GenAI inventions came from China. That's six times more than from the United States, which had nearly 6,300. They were trailed by South Korea with 4,155, Japan with more than 3,400 and India with 1,350.

Those inventions may have come from China, but every single one of them were stolen says the bright green unripe grape eating fox.

Han Kuo-yu's party is pro-China and pro reunification. There will not be war in Asia. Japan's economy needs China. Toyoda has to have a factory in Shanghai or they'll keep losing market share.

Get your arse out of the picture.

This is America's form of censorship. So Tik Tok wasn't really about China was it? It's more about controlling the anti-Zionist content after all. You need X and Tik Tok and alternative media to do your own findings otherwise you just let CNN Thread Facebook and Japan Today to tell you what's going on.

 if the culprit should pass out after, say, 23 instead of 24 strokes, an extra one year is added to his sentence. Singapore justice does not take prisoners....

This aspect of the punishment is Chinese in nature. The recipient needs to feel fully the pain from the caning and being unconscious renders the whipping useless.

Filming his rape session to boast to his friends is characteristic of the Japanese. University students in Japan do this but are often able to settle out of court with victims and their family averse to enduring the shame further.

Singapore is not a Malay nation or a Chinese nation. Neither is it an Indian nation. In order to maintain a place of equal language, culture and religion, authoritarian discipline is necessary.

Yen in tatters. Too bad we couldn’t welcome these new bills under better circumstances.

Per World Bank, Russia has already surpassed Japan in terms of PPP.

Japan isn’t poor but just looks poor. If you just go a little out and beyond Tokyo, like in Sagamihara, it’s looking run down with lots of orange brown rust on the beige cream painted pedestrian bridges. 1980’s and the Showa shacks are a dime a dozen.

They don’t seem to know about staining wood and new decks and all that wood sit in the rain unprotected. Park benches too.

as yen falls to new 37-year low against dollar

Even if the yen falls to pre Plaza-Accord levels. the manufacturing has moved to Vietnam, Mexico and other countries.

Don’t they do that price gouging here with unagi?

Pittsburgh will be new Detroit soon.

Pittsburgh is known as the "Mississippi of the North." The nickname stems from decades of discrimination in employment, education, access to public accommodations, and housing. It is indeed similar to the 313.

*Beijing offers Aussies 15 days of visa free travel

*Tariffs on Australian wine abolished

*Xi Jinping tells Anthony Albanese China-Australia ties are now ‘on the right path’

*Let's work on the lobster ban.