Cham

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@Marxistcham

Mostly tweet about climate change, geopolitics and socialism from a Chinese perspective. Dab on Chinese history and philosophy as well. Tweet to amuse myself.

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Cham@Marxistcham·
China goes to US and throw down the climate gauntlet. "Rejoin Paris agreement. No more new fossil investment. 0 tariffs on all Chinese green tech, notably batteries, solar and EVs. Subsidize your own production, I don't care. Otherwise, indefinite ban on rare earths."
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@OperHealAmerica Please don't get stuck in these outdated Abrahamic beliefs debate. It's the 21st century for fuck's sake.
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Operation Heal America@OperHealAmerica·
Muslims do not believe that Jesus is God. It’s that simple. Don’t overcomplicate it.
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@EvanFeigenbaum Even back in Tang, China was the global leaders in maritime technology. Its maritime trade was lucrative, just overshadowed by the dominance of its land-based trade.
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Evan A. Feigenbaum@EvanFeigenbaum·
Evergreen debate in China — and in Central Asia, for that matter, where geography and being landlocked have been a major handicap to growth. But it’s not so simple given the economics and institutional obstacles around things like border crossings, so the underlying economics of land transport against maritime transport would need to change not just temporarily but enduringly. “The caravel killed the caravan” centuries ago. And it is not actually a “Chinese” idea to promote land-based connectivity in Eurasia. The United States was promoting this nearly a decade before China did it formally by launching the Belt and Road in 2013 — we did it too, as part of an American strategy in Central Asia. And so did the international financial institutions like the ADB and World Bank before that, including through CAREC and other mechanisms. So while China is now driving a lot of it, Beijing didn’t actually invent Eurasian connectivity, as I wrote about a decade ago in the short essay linked below, for example. And by the way, China is just a huge commercial maritime power, for shipbuilding and ports especially, which supports seaborne trade for the world’s largest trader and manufacturer — so the idea that China will go from the world’s top shipbuilder to reverting to land power alone like this is the Tang Dynasty and we are back in the 9th century is just fanciful: carnegieendowment.org/posts/2017/06/…
Murtaza Hussain@MazMHussain

Excerpts from a Chinese think tank paper analyzing the implications of an extended war with Iran. From a Chinese perspective it is a huge opportunity; not to become involved directly but to reroute safe capital to China and undermine the concept of a U.S.-led maritime empire into a land-based one in Eurasia that they can dominate:

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Cham@Marxistcham·
@CurtExplores There are stuff I really don't like about China. This is one of them.
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Cham@Marxistcham·
@haugejostein Very good point. I think a lot of leftists have forgotten that in order to develop a state and defend it against imperialist aggression, you have to take a portion of surplus from the worker's labour to do that. We have to evaluate China with these constraints in mind.
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Jostein Hauge@haugejostein·
It’s easy to make the case that labour standards in China aren’t on par with Western countries, like this article does. But this kind of framing overlooks the tremendous improvements in China’s labour standards over the past 50 years — and how difficult that is to achieve from a position of subordination in the global economy. Real wages in urban China have risen 25-fold since 1978. That’s nothing short of jaw-dropping. It’s also worth pointing to other major improvements: stronger legal protections and labour laws, a decline in extreme exploitation, and expanded access to insurance and benefits. These achievements are insanely impressive considering China was a poor country not long ago and took on a huge share of the precarious, low-cost jobs offshored from wealthy countries. One of the key reasons unions thrive in many wealthy countries is because China — and, increasingly, other Asian countries — have been doing the sweatshop work. My home country, Norway, is a perfect example. Labour and capital have been on a honeymoon for decades in Norway, largely because hardly any jobs are exposed to international competition or the global “race to the bottom.” Pundits in the West would be wise to understand the dynamics of the global economy before bashing labour standards elsewhere.
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Cham@Marxistcham·
@TheStalwart It's really of a deep-seated uneasiness in the last 100 years where China get overwhelmed by western science and industrialization + productive Marxism. It's a very recent trend in the long history of Chinese thought.
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
When I see quotes like this, the main thought I have is that there is a deep continuity in Chinese thinking about industry, this obsession with building out capacity and establishing self-reliance, and also that the gap between Mao- and post-Mao-era is overstated.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

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@CurtExplores @TheGrouchHK For example, to me a lot of the cuisines, from Mexican to South-east Asian to Indian, are just overpowering. I can only enjoy them very occasionally.
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Cham@Marxistcham·
@CurtExplores @TheGrouchHK Nah this is typical food opinion from the North. They always find southern food, esp. Cantonese food, taste too bland. Same for some westerners. Pretty understandable as it takes years to train your tongue to appreciate the subtlety. Hard when you aren't growing up in the South
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The Grouch@TheGrouchHK·
I want Hunan food. Badly. And there ain't any here. HK sucks badly, food-wise.
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@AngelicaOung These tiny countries shouldn't dip their toes in this kind of international politics. Just put your head down and swim along with others and be nice to everyone.
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Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸@AngelicaOung·
She keeps saying that. But until she changes the name of the office, Lithuania will continue to be in the doghouse with China. Meanwhile she’s also humiliated Taipei, who committed to many investments to Lithuania.
William Yang@WilliamYang120

Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė said on 23 March that the opening of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania has brought no benefits from Taipei and has damaged relations with China. lrt.lt/en/news-in-eng…

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Cham@Marxistcham·
@Object_Zero_ @fromarsetoelbow Britain has no infrastructure that can test this HS at this speed. Even France's track aren't equipped to do that. The only alternative to China is Japan. But the real long-term solution is to build British's own test track so that more HS lines can be built later.
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Object Zero@Object_Zero_·
@fromarsetoelbow Just run your damn trains on your own damn track you idiots. You don’t need to pay China £3billion for some forged docs, just because something stupid is written in a standard somewhere. Grow up.
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@Sam_Vecenie Who will be better player in 3 years: Stephon Castle or Dylan Harper? Would like to hear your take!
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Sam Vecenie@Sam_Vecenie·
Rookie Rankings are up! Wrote about Kon and Cooper, Dylan Harper's breakout, and how much fun Will Riley has been over the last two months. Also: I do think there is a pretty clear top-five right now when looking at All-Rookie teams. nytimes.com/athletic/71302…
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@tparsi I am starting to think that's Iran's goal as well when Israel's air defense batteries are finally run out. If Iran's hardliners are as ruthless as I imagine them to be, they would not miss this opportunity despite the risk, which may not arise again in near future.
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Trita Parsi@tparsi·
Israel's goal is to destroy Iran's industrial base and set the country back decades to ensure that Tehran cannot pose a challenge to Israel's hegemonic designs for years to come - regardless of the cost to the global economy, regional stability, or Trump's presidency...
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Nik Stankovic@nikstankovic_·
问你们一个问题啊 你们中国的教育有什么用？早晨6点到晚上10点学什么呢
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Hardwood Paroxysm@HPbasketball·
OK, so the gap between the Thunder offense with Shai on the floor is 120.5 to 119.1 for Luka when he's on-court. I don't care about off-court, the player can't control roster construction, it's about what he DOES when he's on, TO ME. This is a perfectly reasonable and salient point. "OKC's offense with Shai is still better than the Lakers' with Luka" is a perfectly reasonable point. One contextual issue is that their defense is so good it creates advantage situations routinely. And he gets partial credit for that too. It's turned over the last X games but I am absolutely with the idea that we shouldn't get caught up in recency bias. There's no real MVP argument for Luka to WIN the thing to me, as I said on Locked on NBA today, because it is not a "last nine games" award, it's the whole season. I just have a hard time with the creation gap of how Luka is this one man army on offense and Shai feels to me like an unbreakable short sword that just stabs you over and over and over and never misses and never breaks.
From the Prison of my Own Pride@Tuqi_Duque

@HPbasketball The Thunder have a better offense then the Lakers (gap even bigger when Shai and Luka are both on the floor) because of Isaiah Joe and Jaylin Williams I guess

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@AngelicaOung I suspect some IRGC think this is an excellent chance to destroy Israel's air force (Technically Israel can still do aerial attack over Iran without US base), or maybe even largely degrade Israel's economic base. It's not entirely unreasonable, but could be considered overreach.
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@AngelicaOung And I thought Iran's baseline objective is clear: deprive USrael's offensive capabilities in the region. That means taking all the bases so that no aerial offense is possible. Either US do it voluntarily or Iran would destroy them. Anything short of that is not an overreach.
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Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸@AngelicaOung·
It’s true that in 1985 Iran overreached. But also notice Iraq never attacked Iran again. Was it worth it? Almost certainly no. But that is with the benefit of hindsight. Is Iran overreaching now? I don’t think so yet. Along the way they have been throwing out goodwill or normalizing gestures that is a way for them to in a way get start to return to normality with the world even as they fight on. For instance tankers from certain countries could pass Hormuz, and they are starting to let other tankers pass for a fee. The generation of leaders right now IS the iran-iraq war generation. They don’t need us to remind us of the dangers of overreach. But with Trump and Israel, not going maximalist can also lead to any number of bad outcomes.
Najam Ali@NajamAli2020

Many disagree with my view that Iran should now show restraint. They want escalation. They want a decisive finish. History warns against this instinct. In 1982, Iran had pushed Iraq back and held a clear advantage. That was the moment to consolidate. Instead, it chose total victory. The result? The world aligned against it. Years of attrition. Hundreds of thousands dead. And in the end, a forced compromise. That is the cost of overreach. Today, Iran again holds leverage: this time through the Strait of Hormuz. It has the ability to impose real economic pain. But leverage is not an invitation to exhaust it. It is a tool to negotiate from strength. Right now, the world is not aligned with the U.S. But if Iran pushes too far, if global economic pain becomes intolerable, that alignment can change very quickly. And when it does, the balance shifts. The lesson is simple: Victory is not in total domination. It is in knowing when to stop. This is the moment for strategic restraint and smart negotiation from a position of strength.

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@Microinteracti1 Why do people think this is more like a standstill? Iran is working towards a military objective - to burn out US batteries completely. Iran would then have missile dominance and can destroy whatever they want. Why is nobody terrified of this possibility?
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
A former NATO commander just said the quiet part out loud. Trump is trapped. The military logic of this war has collapsed into a binary no one in Washington wants to say clearly: either launch a ground invasion of Iran – a country of 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and three decades of asymmetric warfare doctrine – or declare victory over rubble and go home. Neither is winning. One is catastrophe. The other is theatre. The Strait of Hormuz is still contested. Iranian proxies are still operational. The nuclear program is dispersed, hardened, and possibly accelerated. Air strikes didn’t end the threat. Every day this drags on, the gap between what was promised and what is achievable gets wider. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@sentdefender Israel is so used to telling bullshit lies. At least make it believable lol But then, Iran foregoing its only weapon that can threaten Israel is something Israeli wanna hear. But it can only buy so much time, and the blowback would be glorious when the lie is ousted.
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OSINTdefender@sentdefender·
Senior Iranian officials have agreed to several major demands from the United States to end the war, including a five-year freeze for its long-range ballistic missile program, officials tell Israel’s Channel 12.
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@ChairmanRabbit I also think this is least of US's worry. Hormuz has always been Iran. What US need to worry is Iran finishing off all gulf bases and then move on to Israel.
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Chairman Rabbit@ChairmanRabbit·
don't be surprise: lots of historcal cases where you start a war, and lose territory and control: this is why Königsberg is at Russia's hands, and why East Jerusalem is occupied by Israel. lessons to be learned: choose your enemey, and don't ever wage a war you can't win.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla

GEN. MATTIS: “.. Iran right now, if we declared victory, they would now say they own the strait. .. You’d see a tax for every ship that goes through. .. We’re in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen. .. I can’t identify a lot of options.” @politico politico.com/news/2026/03/2…

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@przidnt1 @htownharley I care about this game more than Spurs beating Miami. I just can't stand hearing "Luka should be MVP and Lakers is contender" BS again.
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przidnt🥭@przidnt1·
@htownharley I know you happy your boys the Pistons beat the Fakers without Cade.
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