All of the various findings, articles, videos, pictures, and other stuff I dig up on the web. Anything on this site was posted by me. Any opinion expressed here is only my own
2020/09/09
A few Articles
2020/04/01
2020/02/18
2019/12/12
More Chinese Retaliation
This has to be a response to the US requirements now, and the US language around Huawei
2019/11/14
2019/08/30
2019/08/14
escalating rapidly
As Hong Kong Protests Continue, China's Response Is Increasingly Ominous
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750695968/as-hong-kong-protests-continue-chinas-response-is-increasingly-ominous
Beijing has encouraged conspiracy theories now popular within China that the protests were instigated and funded by the United States.
The week before, twelve thousand Shenzhen police turned out for a highly-publicized drill during which they simulated beating protesters with poles.
way too much enjoyment
Trump's New Tariff List Excludes Bibles, Delays Tariffs On Frog Meat
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750928956/trumps-new-tariff-target-list-flags-in-bibles-out-frog-meat-delayed
For some reason I am taking way too much enjoyment in that, for many of the bible thumping Republicans who are railing against China right now, probably got their bible from China.
2019/08/11
taking trump to school
China Tries to Teach Trump Economics
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/trump-china-trade.html
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I guess arithmetic is just a hoax perpetrated by the deep state.
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2019/08/10
election time is coming
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/farm-discontent-bubbles-over-as-perdue-confronted-in-minnesota
only time will tell if this actually turns into less support for trump, or will his constant boogeyman approach to immigration will still work.
2019/08/08
understand currency manipulation
Listen, Here’s Why the Value of China’s Yuan Really Matters
https://www.wired.com/story/listen-value-chinas-yuan-really-matters
nice little primer for those who might not know.
2019/07/31
2020 Election Security
Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-2020-election-security-mark-warner
What distinguishes this latest group, which Facebooks says it discovered a week ago, from the Iranian propaganda network that tech giants shut down this past summer are the striking similarities between its campaign and the one the Russians mounted before the 2016 election. Rather than focusing on the Iranian regime's agenda at home, the new network focused squarely on American and British politics. As it turns out, that may be a more successful strategy: While the network discovered this summer had just around 200,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram, this latest batch had more than one million.
2019/07/16
Ban, Not so Much
That Global Ban on Huawei? Not So Much Anymore
https://www.wired.com/story/global-ban-huawei-not-so-much
A bit of a reversal.
2019/07/12
2019/07/03
China Surveilance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
2019/06/17
The Chinese Deep Web Takes a Darker Turn
A forum to avoid censorship is also a place to discuss DIY bombs.
2019/05/07
China economic forecast
2018/12/07
Way to stay on point
2018/09/21
China GTN Ordered to Register as Foreign Agents
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-has-ordered-key-chinese-state-media-firms-to-register-as-foreign-agents-1537296756?mod=e2twp
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-media/china-to-its-state-media-keep-calm-dont-inflame-trade-row-with-u-s-idUSKBN1K118L
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/16/senators-press-justice-department-on-chinese-state-media-outlets-registering-as-foreign-agents/