#US China tensions

[hungerystarving]

Flounder farm from China

#fish farming #how us and china could end up at war by 2025 as tensions rage after spy balloon shot down & fury over taiwan #summer 2015

[8008135sblog]

#memedaddy #us launches major war drills in south china sea amid heightened tensions over spy balloons as fourth ‘ufo’ shot down #buckle up

[theramenrater]

hot'n'sour

#china #noodle #noodles #the ramen rater #theramenrater #soup #food #instant noodles #instant #instantnoodles #ramen #aph china #ancient china #chinaart #prediksi togel china #how us and china could end up at war by 2025 as tensions rage after spy balloon shot down & fury over taiwan #vietnam #iran #chinese #beijing #russian

[headlinehorizon]

Navigating the Headline Horizon: Latest News on US-China Engagements Amidst Spying Allegations

https://headlinehorizon.com/Politics/Foreign%20Policy/617

Discover the latest news on US-China engagements, diplomatic tensions, and espionage concerns amidst ongoing allegations of Chinese spying in the United States. Explore the complexity of the situation and efforts to safeguard American citizens.

#headline horizon #news #latest news #US-China engagements #diplomatic tensions #espionage concerns

[timothy-kang]

Trendy News–US-China cultural exchange

US-China cultural exchange after high tension in covid 19

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#covid 19 #cultural exchange #high tension #US-China

[j-psilas]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows. [EDIT: Several people have pointed out his other lead writing credits to me. So I misread Wikipedia—sue me. I maintain that this guy is a better episode writer than he is a lead writer.]

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

#code geass #anime #lelouch vi britannia #rolo lamperouge #nina einstein #kallen kozuki #lelouch lamperouge #clamp manga #lloyd asplund

[reportwire]

China Congress: Xi Outlines Superpower Ambitions Amid Tensions With U.S. And Economic Woes

China Congress: Xi Outlines Superpower Ambitions Amid Tensions With U.S. And Economic Woes

President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives at the opening ceremony of the 20th Communist Party … [+] congress in Beijing on October 16. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to lead his country toward superpower status amid “dangerous storms” as he kicked off a Communist Party congress on Sunday, while also hailing the government’s efforts to fend off international threats…

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#China community party congress #China congress Xi jinping speech #China economy #China Hong Kong relations #China US chip war #China US semiconductors #China US tensions #China zero Covid #xi jinping #Xi jinping third term

[ij-reportika]

Smuggling of the deadly Synthetic opioid FENTANYL

Read the report on the smuggling of Fentanyl, its impacts on the human health, US-China relations and Fentanyl and survivor story of Sofi Booth in this investigative report.

#fentanyl #china us war #china us conflict #china us tension #USA Drug Addiction #Germany Fentanyl #Drugs overdose

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hi Gallus, I'm doing some worldbuilding and you seem like you could be connected enough for me to find an answer to the problem of dwarven agriculture. Many problems are created by the requirement of no sunlight, as even the common response of mushrooms still need light to break down decomposing matter as a primary energy source. Currently, we're thinking that they use a special type of mushroom that breaks down rocks in an energy-producing reaction, giving them enough energy to absorb nutrients and grow - this would serve a second purpose in explaining why building a massive hollowed-out mountain fortress doesn't produce an equally large amount of gravel.

Any thoughts? We're grasping at straws kinda lol

Well, some thoughts:

There's plenty of cave systems (especially Karst Systems) that are at least partially open to Sunlight- especially the kind that have rivers running through them, which is something else that's really helpful for agriculture.

For Example: This Cool AF Sinkhole cave in china that has an entire Forest in it

Now There's a view to put outside the city Gates!

Karst specifically is a landscape where underground rivers hollow out the limestone underground and then the cave roofs fall in. This kind of landscape answers your gravel question nicely: the hollowed out mountain does produce an equal amount of gravel, but the gravel turns up as the sandy banks of the river system hundreds of miles away.

So, there's your sunlight that can be used directly, or reflected or magically transferred deeper into the cave system.

Or they just put more holes in the roof! Unless your dwarves are also vampires, there's no reason for them to not hollow out a few Skylights into the mountain too.

But let's talk some other cave ecology and agriculture!

For starters, your dwarves could be sitting on top of a literal gold mine that would allow them to trade for a lot of needed materials and crops.

And by gold mine, I mean Salt Mine.

Historically, salt comes out of hollowed-out mountains and is worth more than gold.

Also something the humans have historically fought a bunch of wars over, so there's some free political tensions if you needed that!

I can also mean the possible fucking enormous piles of bat guano that accumulates in Karst caves, which is the world's most insanely good fertilizer, and ALSO something that has been worth more than it's weight in gold.

Speaking of Gold, another thing that often lives in sinkhole caves in abundance is BEES. turns out, limestone stalactites are a terrific place to build a hive that is difficult for predators to reach, stays dry and the stone substrate means the hives can reach many tons in weight before they start having structural issues. That sweet, sweet insect-derived liquid gold is already important to Dwarves in a lot of folklore- it's really hard to have a Traditional Dwarven Mead Hall without the honey to make the mead, you know?

So you got your mushrooms, you got your sunlight-grown sinkhole crops, you got your traded goods and you got your source of alcohol- the only thing really missing from an ancient food pyramid here is a staple carbohydrate. To that end, may I propose our good Peruvian Friend: The Potato.

Grain crops aren't actually all that nutritious and were kept around in ancient societies more as legal tender that kept the peasants busy, because wheat or rice takes months to grow, an enormous amount of labor to harvest, and wheat also needs to be milled before it can be turned into food- all enormously time-consuming processes that keep peasants busy and easy to rule tyranically over.

Potatoes though? Pop one in the ground in spring and you can dig up fingerlings all summer, and if you make potato towers, you can harvest up to 40lbs of delicious, easy-to-prepare-and-store carb out of a single plant- a real space-saver for the limited sinkhole skyspace.

If your dwarves have cheese, the potato makes even more sense, because Potato+dairy is the easiest, most nutritionally complete survival food there is.

Finally, consider: Dwarven Vodka.

This post is open for anyone to comment suggestions on, but that's my take: put your dwarves in a Karst-sinkhole cave system, give them a highly in demand resource like salt or guano, bees, and taters. Boom. Whole agriculture, economy and political scheme starters.

[headspace-hotel]

next thing I need to read in depth about is the corporations that manufacture all these bombs, guns, planes and other weapons, because I can't help but feel like the USA's war mongering has a lot to do with creating profits for these corporations.

As far back as I can remember, I always heard on the news: "China flies a plane .2 miles closer than usual to USA! Are they PLANNING a WAR?" or some bullshit like that, and then it would be like "We invented a missile that kills even MORE people FASTER, but what if Iraq invented the same thing? We have to invent,,, More Missile,,,"

Always "rising tensions" this, "escalation" that, "threats" this, "cyberattack" that, like my whole life I've been hearing these scaremongering headlines saying We Need To Be Prepared For The New Foreign Threat or We Have To Stop The Next Terrorist Attack and...nothing ever happened, but there would be these new drones and missiles and planes and shit and it was like an endlessly escalating cycle of inventing new weapons with no clear indication why they were important to have.

The amount of paranoia and fear in the American worldview is fucking poisonous, the media fills people with this idea that the whole world is out to get us and if we didn't have 700 billion dollars military budget we would all be dead. But it's literally impossible for us to need this many weapons. Who could possibly benefit except the corporations

[sayruq]

There has been major developments in the region in the past few days that indicates regional war is imminent. Again the tweets and articles will be in chronological order.

American war ships are in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Russia responded to that by sending planes to the Black Sea and China by sending warships to Kuwait.

We got our usual back and forth on the ground operation in Gaza

The American media is not really reporting these recent attacks on their military bases. In fact, the military is downplaying the strength of the responses by Yemeni and Syrian groups to the Gaza genocide. This is either because they want to avoid regional war or because they want to be better prepared for regional war.

This statement below seems to indicate that Iran is coming to the conclusion that open warfare is the only thing that will deter America and Israel

As for Yemen, they've declared Israeli ships will be targeted if the attack on Gaza continues (you'll see later that this is no empty threat)

By the way, Israel bombed an Egyptian military site along the border and claimed it was an accident. The Egyptian people have been calling for their government to intervene militarily and I don't think this will ease the pressure.

On the 22nd, Israel sent a small team to infiltrate Gaza. They didn't get very far

They're also struggling against Hezbollah

This meeting by the Russian foreign minister is a big deal as you'll see later

America responds to the escalating tension by deploying 'defensive systems' all over West Asia. It risks stretching itself too thin as multiple countries are already involved in the Palestian resistance with countries like Egypt and Jordan facing internal pressure to do something about the Gazan genocide

Republican Mitch McConnell has recently called Iran, Russia and China 'the new axis of evil'. It seems this is the new angle that the West has chosen because Rishi Sunak has also been comparing Hamas to Russia. This can only lead to Russia getting close to Iran which would ultimately help Hamas.

The situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate as America evacuates its embassy and warns its citizens not to use the Baghdad International Airport due to attacks by Iraqi military groups.

Here we have an Israeli commander admitting that Israel is largely on the defensive against Hezbollah and their soldiers are both traumatised and disheartened. Remember, Hezbollah has yet to officially enter the war

Blinken said that the US 'will be prepared' if Iran escalates its attacks which gives weight to that idea that the US is only trying to deescalate because its not ready yet.

A few hours ago, American bases in Syria were targeted. It's becoming clear that a major goal in the plan to defeat Israel is removing America from the picture in the region

The White House then blames Iran for the attack

More military bases targeted in Iraq

Meanwhile IDF is trying to infiltrate Gaza again. Reminder that a ground operation means that Hezbollah will officially enter the war and begun using its vast numbers of missiles and rockets. They're also attacking the West Bank, the resistance fighters have ambushed them

Yemen follows through on the threats it made by attacking a US warship with drones

Ansarullah claims there was a direct hit but the US Navy says that all drones were intercepted (using days old pictures).

So what now? First, do not expect a ceasefire. Tbh the Palestinian resistance hasn't even called for ceasefire, just an exchange of hostages.

Second of all, America itself does not believe that Israel can win this war so let's all stop acting like Palestine has already lost

Thirdly, regional war is looking more and more like reality

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #colonialism

[krazyshoppy]

ताइवान दौरे के विरोध में चीन ने दागी मिसाइलें, 5 जापान के क्षेत्र में भी गिरी

ताइवान दौरे के विरोध में चीन ने दागी मिसाइलें, 5 जापान के क्षेत्र में भी गिरी

Nancy Pelosi Taiwan Visit: अमेरिका की हाउस स्पीकर नैंसी पेलोसी (Nancy Pelosi) के एशिया दौरे के बीच चीन (China) ने सैन्य अभ्यास के दौरान ताइवान के क्षेत्र में बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल (Ballistic Missiles) दागी हैं. जापान (Japan) ने इस कार्रवाई का विरोध करते हुए ये दावा किया कि ये मिसाइलें जापान के विशेष आर्थिक क्षेत्र में गिरी हैं. इसी बीच यूएस हाउस स्पीकर नैंसी पेलोसी भी ताइवान से टोक्यो (Tokyo) पहुंच गई…

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#Ballistic Missiles #china #China Taiwan Tension #Japan #Nancy Pelosi #Nancy Pelosi News #Nancy Pelosi Taiwan Visit #Taiwan #US #अमेरिका #चीन #चीन ताइवान तनाव #जापान #ताइवान #नैंसी पेलोसी #नैंसी पेलोसी ताइवान यात्रा #नैंसी पेलोसी सम���चार #बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल

[news-trust-india]

US China Tensions: नैन्सी पेलोसी का चीन को करारा जवाब

US China Tensions: नैन्सी पेलोसी का चीन को करारा जवाब

ताइपे। US China Tensions:  अमेरिकी प्रतिनिधिसभा की अध्यक्ष नैन्सी पेलोसी (US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) ने चीन की चेतावनियों को नजरंदाज करके ताइवान का दौरा किया। ताइवान के नेताओं से मुलाकात के बाद नैन्सी पेलोसी बुधवार को यात्रा के अगले पड़ाव दक्षिण कोरिया के लिए रवाना हो गईं। उन्‍होंने बुधवार को कहा कि उनके और कांग्रेस के अन्य सदस्यों के प्रतिनिधिमंडल के इस दौरे से साफ है कि हम ताइवान के प्रति…

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#hindi news #US China Tensions: #अध्यक्ष नैन्सी पेलोसी