@TYO_TEX@commiepommie I’ve already come across two so-called PhDs, and what they have in common is that they talk like a sewer. No wonder Musk hates anyone who puts “PhD” in their bio.
@commiepommie Not reading all of that.
Nobody gives a shit how fucking mad it makes chinese (and their pathetic little cucks like you)
Why don't you go eat some gutter oil dog meat and take a nice long shit in the street to relax a bit
🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi and Japanese Lawmakers Officially Make Taiwan Their Business 🇹🇼🇨🇳
Japan just dropped “China” from Its parliamentary group name and here’s what that means.
Japan’s pro-Taiwan parliamentary group just dropped the word “China” from its name entirely. The new name: Japan Taiwan Friendly Parliamentary Alliance.
The timing is deliberate. Furuya Keiji, the man behind the push, said the move makes sense because “now is the opportunity.” Sanae Takaichi is already in power and the pro-Taiwan faction inside the Diet is moving while she holds the top job. Photos from the event show Japanese and Republic of China flags side by side.
This is being framed as a natural evolution in how Japan describes its Taiwan ties. It is a political act. Not an administrative one.
When Japan recognised the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government in 1972, it ended diplomatic relations with Taipei. The 1978 Treaty of Peace and Friendship was concluded on the basis of the one-China principle. Embedding “Taiwan” in the formal name of a parliamentary body and tying that explicitly to the prospect of a right-leaning government, is a deliberate breach of that foundation.
It fits a pattern that has been building for years. Japanese politicians have increasingly talked up the idea that a Taiwan contingency would automatically become a Japan contingency. They have expanded security cooperation, pushed values-based diplomacy and worked to pull Taiwan issues into regional forums. This renaming takes the next step, it makes the alignment more institutional and harder to walk back.
Being in China, you can observe the impact of these actions. They are not read as ambiguous. They are seen as deliberate attempts to normalise what was once kept at arm’s length, to test boundaries and to create facts on the ground.
The media have framed it as three dangerous signals. Pro-Taiwan forces in Japan are becoming more open about their agenda. Some politicians are explicitly banking on a Takaichi government to accelerate their push. And the move directly undermines the political foundation of China-Japan relations that has prevented worse outcomes so far.
Taiwan is not just another diplomatic file for Beijing. It sits at the absolute centre of China’s core interests. A parliamentary rebrand does not change that.
Around 321 Diet members are connected to this effort. The chairman is already subject to a China entry ban. These are not cost-free gestures. They embolden the most hardline elements in Taiwan, raise the risk of miscalculation and signal to Beijing that some in Tokyo see advantage in turning the island into a pressure point.
History does not reward that calculation. External powers that treat Taiwan as a geopolitical lever tend to find themselves exposed when the consequences arrive.
Japan’s parliamentary rebrand is the latest step in a longer trajectory. The same logic, followed consistently, points toward more direct involvement.
Beijing is not misreading the intent. It is watching the pattern and adjusting accordingly.
The question for Japanese strategists is whether they genuinely believe they can keep advancing this line without Beijing treating it as the strategic challenge it clearly is. That is the calculation now in play.
As a Taiwanese-American, I’m usually proud of my identity, but the recent visit by KMT Chairwoman Cheng made me so embarrassed to a level I want to drop the “Taiwanese” part.
President Trump should make clear that negotiations will not proceed, and Xi’s visit to Washington will be postponed, without the release of several political prisoners, including Jimmy Lai, Pastor Jin, Gulshan Abbas, and others.
My latest with @OliviaEnos in @dcexaminer
@haugejostein "On its own terms" = stealing western IP
In the 1980s Japan was feared as a rising power, but *no one* accused them of tech theft Rather they were feared for out-innovating lazy U.S. companies.
If India had grown and developed as fast as China, the West would be full of “India hawks”.
The West's anxious reaction to China's rise has little to do with China and everything to do with the fact that a large, developing country is growing rapidly on its own terms.
I think China is gonna surpass USA hard in the long-term,
but if any American can stop them it's Dario Amodei!
He's playing the China game better than anyone!
The nazi guard rails were the key to American victory!
It's the single best strategy to counter distillation & leave Chinese opensource in the dust and race ahead to AGI.
BUT, NO...
Autistic American snowflakes are all pretending they're cutting edge biologists and AI researchers now.
They're crying about the only thing that keeps them in the race.
If you want America to win, you gotta give Dario ALL YOUR ENERGY!
Quit bitching about Nazithropic's censorship!
Sell your shitcoins & Tesla meme stocks and go all-in on the Anthropic IPO!
Pray that the AGI gods will heed your call first, and then go vote for some Bernie Sanders motherfucker who's gonna nationalise AI Jesus.
That's the cleanest path to victory!
If you don't do that, you might as well just go to your motherfucking appstore right now, download Duolingo and start learning Chinese.
@JeffSnider_EDU Europeans are the most foolish people in the world. They can pick fights with the U.S., they can go to war with Russia, and now they want to get into trouble with China. I just can’t figure out what kind of fool would provoke the top three powers all at once.
Europe is preparing its public for something it has avoided for years.
A real trade war with China.
Not complaints. Not carefully worded statements. An honest-to-goodness trade war.
Brussels has already held closed-door meetings. The "Made in Europe" framework has launched. Officials are publicly saying the relationship is no longer sustainable. Privately they are accepting the obvious: if Europe moves, China retaliates.
This is not about protectionism. It is about survival.
Europe's industries are under pressure. The old assumption that cheap Chinese goods were always a benefit is breaking down.
China is not exporting because it is strong. China is exporting because it is broken.
Households not spending. Property still falling. Credit collapsing. Investment crashing.
China's factories produce more than its economy can absorb. So the excess goes outward. The world becomes the release valve.
China faces an impossible choice. Cut production and crush the domestic economy further. Or keep exporting and push the pain onto everyone else.
There is no third option.
Europe is the first major economy to say it will not keep absorbing it.
Trade wars are about to go global.
China’s officials have talked in public about annexing the moon, making it part of the People’s Republic. And by the way, they also talk about how Mars should be part of China too.
China Warns EU Over Possible Sanctions on Third-Country Companies
The EU really needs to understand one thing:
China is not a small country waiting to be disciplined by Brussels.
You want to sanction Chinese companies, Turkish companies, Indian companies, and whoever else refuses to obey your anti-Russia script?
Fine.
But do not act shocked when China responds.
Unilateral sanctions without international law or UN authorization are not “rules.”
They are power politics dressed up as morality.
And the problem for Europe is simple:
China is not defenseless.
China has the industrial capacity, market size, supply chains, and countermeasures to make sanctions hurt both ways.
Europe keeps acting as if it still commands the world economy.
It does not.
If Brussels wants to turn sanctions into a habit, China can turn countermeasures into one too.
Do not pick a fight with the factory of the world and then cry when the factory checks your supply chain.
Mucha gente piensa que GTA 6 será lo último de lo último, pero viendo lo nuevo de Fable, si GTA 6 no viene con innovación se quedará corto frente a Fable, porque Fable apunta a ser uno de los mejores juegos de la historia.
Two Japanese firms just shut down their production line, cutting 25% of the world’s tungsten hexafluoride (WF₆) capacity. This is what Chinese critical minerals dominance looks like in action — slowly choking allies’ high-tech economies
Kanto Denka Kogyo (sometimes referenced with Showa Denko ties) and Central Glass have notified big chipmakers like Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC: inventories run out in June, lines shut for good from July 1. Boom — 2,200 tons of annual global WF₆ capacity gone. This specialized gas is essential for depositing ultra-thin tungsten layers in advanced semiconductors (3D NAND, DRAM, logic chips). Without it, fabs slow or stop
Why? China controls ~80% of global tungsten supply and refining. Beijing tightened export controls and licensing on strategic minerals (tungsten included) — hitting Japan hard. Shipments to Japan have plunged, raw material costs spiked, and these specialty gas producers can’t keep operating profitably or at all. Japanese firms were high-quality, reliable suppliers that Korea and others depended on for ~80% of their WF₆ in some cases
This isn’t random. Japanese PM Takaichi hostile posturing against China and plan to remilitarize Japan brought about Chinese sanction of dual use critical minerals (tungsten, rare earths, etc.) to Japanese companies. Higher costs, supply chaos, lost competitiveness, and eventual factory pain ripple through the semiconductor chain. Auto, electronics, defense… all feel it downstream.
Japan’s been diversifying and stockpiling, but decades of over-reliance on Chinese inputs make this a slow bleed. Allies need to accelerate onshoring, friend-shoring, and alternative processing FAST. Relying on an adversary for the guts of your chip industry isn’t strategy — it’s vulnerability
The “just-in-time” global supply chain was efficient until it wasn’t. Now it’s a national security risk. Wake-up call for anyone still sleeping on critical minerals
news.chemnet.com/news-6286.html