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Posted: Jan 30, 2025 - 1:03am

China built out record amount of wind and solar power in 2024
China raced ahead building renewable energy last year, installing more wind and solar power than ever before and continuing to leave all other countries in the dust.

The nation put up 357 gigawatts of solar and wind, a 45% and 18% increase, respectively, over what was operating at the end of 2023, according to China’s National Energy Administration. That’s akin to building 357 full-size nuclear plants in one year.

The installations meant China surpassed a goal, six years early, of having 1,200 gigawatts from renewables by 2030, a benchmark Chinese President Xi Jinping set five years ago.

The scale of the advance is important because at the same time, China remains the country that currently contributes the most to climate change, relying heavily on burning coal to make electricity, cement and for manufacturing.

“While China’s overall emissions are the largest of any single country, they have recognized – at least, in part – that rapidly building renewables is essential for energy and climate security. Given the recent administration change in Washington, China is now well poised to lead the world in the energy transition,” said Daniel Jasper, senior policy advisor at Project Drawdown, a group that publicizes climate solutions.

According to Carbon Brief, China’s carbon dioxide emissions, which have been rising, actually fell slightly when you compare the last 10 months of 2024 with the same time the year before. It’s too early to say whether this marks an important turning point for the planet. (...)

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Posted: Jan 29, 2025 - 1:01pm

went to one of my favorite pho shops
vietnamese sold to indian/chinese
pho still very good, but no banh mi

went a few before closing, one customer in the house
look over at the largest table in the center of the joint
a giant spread of food being brought out from the kitchen

i look at the host and he smiles and says chinese new year!
hope they had a good time

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Posted: Jan 29, 2025 - 12:49pm

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Our Chinese neighbours had a modest five-minute celebration last night, unlike...




Chinese culture can be beautiful.
Too bad their politics and (slave) economy sucks, even worse than the rest. 
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Posted: Jan 29, 2025 - 12:38pm

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Posted: Jan 13, 2025 - 11:34am

China’s Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion
China’s vast exports in 2024 exceeded its imports on a scale seldom seen anywhere except during or immediately after the two world wars.
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Posted: Jan 2, 2025 - 2:36pm

I caught Chinese man talking about me at a local market not knowing i know chinese

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Posted: Oct 23, 2024 - 1:09pm

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I drove a Ford once.

Never again!

Crappiest design and engineering of the obviously cheapest kind. No need to say more.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2024 - 9:23am

Hey, Taiwan..

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Posted: Oct 4, 2024 - 7:14am

yikes!


Sinking feeling engulfs China submarine program

Nuclear sub sinking accident exposes flaws in China’s breakneck naval expansion, raising hard questions about capabilities and readiness

by
Gabriel Honrada October 1, 2024
Figure 1: Cranes at the Wuchang shipyard pier where the Zhou class reportedly sank. Photo: X Screengrab / Planet Labs

China’s ambitions for naval dominance took a hit with the recent sinking of its most advanced nuclear submarine at a Wuhan shipyard, exposing critical vulnerabilities in its defense capabilities amid an intense military buildup and rising sea tensions with the United States and its Pacific allies.

Last month, multiple media outlets reported that China’s most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the first of the new Zhou class built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), sank while docked at the Wuchang shipyard, according to US defense sources.

Satellite imagery revealed its presence at the pier, followed by the sighting of cranes, which analysts believe were used to recover the submerged vessel by early June. The US Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed the incident, marking a potentially significant setback in China’s bid to close the gap with US naval dominance.

The incident raises concerns about China’s training standards, equipment quality and internal accountability within its defense industry, which has long been affected by corruption. The Chinese government has not commented on the incident. At the same time, the submarine may be salvaged and repaired, although delays are expected.



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Posted: Sep 11, 2024 - 2:54pm

House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
Since at least 2016, foreign interference in American elections and civil society have become central to American political discourse. The issue is taken extremely seriously by the U.S. government, which has levied sanctions and called out foreign adversaries for sowing “discord and chaos” through their propaganda efforts.

But apparently Washington takes a different view when it comes to American propaganda operations in foreign countries. On Monday, the House passed HR 1157, the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund,” by a bipartisan 351-36 majority. This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, among other purposes, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally.

That’s a massive spend — about twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN. If passed into law it would also represent a large increase in federal spending on international influence operations. While it’s hard to total all of the spending on U.S. influence operations across agencies, the main coordinating body for U.S. information efforts, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), has an annual budget of less than $100 million.

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The document provides a case study (or “competition vignette”) of what an integrated effort to counter Chinese influence could look like in the fictional African country of Naruvu. In the vignette, members of a Special Forces Civil Affairs team spot a billboard with a picture of a port and Chinese characters. Quickly determining that the Chinese are investing in a new deep-water port in Naruvu, the 8th Psyop Group at Fort Bragg’s Information Warfare Center (IWC) works with local and U.S. government partners to immediately develop an influence campaign to “discredit Chinese activities.”

The influence campaign “empowered IWTF (Information Warfare Task Force), in coordination with the JIIM (local and U.S. government partners) to inflame long-standing friction between Naruvian workers and Chinese corporations. Within days, protests supported by the CFT’s ODA (Special Forces Operations Detachment Alpha), erupted around Chinese business headquarters and their embassy in Ajuba. Simultaneously, the IWC-led social media campaign illuminated the controversy.”

Faced with a combined propaganda campaign and intense labor unrest, the Chinese company is forced to back down from its planned port. (Although the vignette continues to an even more Hollywood-ready ending in which U.S. special forces break into the construction company’s offices, confiscate blueprints for the port, and discover that it is actually a Chinese plot to emplace long-range missiles in Naruvu to threaten U.S. Atlantic shipping). (...)

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Posted: Aug 30, 2024 - 11:21am

Has Biden's China chip war backfired?
Huawei, which was a target of the previous administration, too, appears to have roared back with success.
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Posted: Aug 3, 2024 - 1:51pm

"The U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies {but} we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring. As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, and experience a drop in bank lending, profitability, and employment. {U.S. firms'} total number of customers declines, potentially inflicting collateral damage upon the same U.S. firms whose technology export controls are trying to protect."

They also highlight that "the benefits of U.S. export controls, namely denying China access to advanced technology, may be limited as a result of Chinese strategic behavior. Indeed, there is evidence that, following U.S. export controls, China has boosted domestic innovation and self-reliance, and increased purchases from non-U.S. firms that produce similar technology to the U.S.-made ones subject to export controls."

In other words, it's almost a pure loss for US firms who lose customers, revenue and market capitalization whereas the affected Chinese firms find alternative suppliers and China boosts its domestic innovation and self-reliance.

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Posted: Jul 16, 2024 - 12:05pm

Yeah, we big ego. Fuck rest. Like U.S.

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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 6:15pm

What the United States Can Learn From China (Stephen Walt)
Amid China’s rise, Americans should ask what Beijing is doing right—and what they’re doing wrong.
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