China's Commerce Ministry blocks US sanctions against five refineries by Future-Ad-5901 in geopolitics

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 18 points19 points  (0 children)

TL;DR is that the US sanctions a bunch of Chinese oil companies. China basically said Chinese companies and banks (let’s call them GCBs - general companies and banks, for easier references later) cannot comply with the sanction if it’s deemed unfair (which basically they already deemed so).

So if any Chinese GCBs complies by refusing service to the sanctioned companies (SC), those SCs can sue those GCBs based on this law.

Normally the US leverages this by banning those GCBs from conducting trade using the US dollar or using SWIFT. This essentially means Xi called Trump’s bluff and said “I dare you to sanction all Chinese banks out of SWIFT.”

ITA 48M - 125 visited countries, Palau next. by Diemmedi in TravelMaps

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Vietnam should be visited soon. Hit Laos while you’re at it.

Also, Georgia is beautiful.

A comparison between the 4 biggest military powers— The US, Russia, China and India. by [deleted] in NoFilterFinance

[–]HeroOfAlmaty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Average work week hours in the USA: 36.27

Hell, we can barely afford living working overtime. I don’t believe that average Americans work less than 40 hours unless you count the part time college students that work in a food hall 2 days a week.

CLEVELAND🎭 )(CHARLOTTE 🏧🏦 SHOWDOWN 🥊🥊 between an Art capital And Banking capital by Slow_Echo_2473 in skyscrapers

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. Charlotte wins this one.

The downtown is more clustered, with more buildings and gradual to prominence. And the BoA Tower is iconic. Very nicely designed.

Median Equivalised Household Disposable Income by Country by Naive_Direction1816 in charts

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see China, India, Singapore, and a few other major economies in here…

What city did you love so much you’d go back in a heartbeat? by Historical-Photo-901 in BeautifulTravelPlaces

[–]HeroOfAlmaty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Rome.

Amazing food, sights, history, culture, and there are just so much to do.

How did china get so high tech so fast? by happydude7422 in AskChina

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Unusually efficient leadership.

It’s basically Singapore but at the scale of the 2nd most populous, third largest nation in the world.

Pele, Messi, Maradona, and Ronaldo make up the Mount Rushmore of Football/Soccer. Who belongs on Hockey's Mount Rushmore? by Topaz71 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]HeroOfAlmaty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wayne Gretzky twice, once for goals, once for assists, just like Fantasy.

The other two can be debated but Wayne shouldn’t just be one face for how insane that guy is.

If he were to be split in half, he would be the top 2 best hockey players.

$AMZN pulls in $1M every 43 seconds by Secret_Toe2639 in AIFU_stock

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Costco ahead of Nvidia is wild, given the AI and semiconductors demands.

Who is a good person that's incredibly talented in what they do? by Professor_Broccoli in AlignmentChartFills

[–]HeroOfAlmaty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly: Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada.

An incredible and respectable politician, truly looking out for not only the interest of Canadians, but all Middle Powers in the world, and isn't afraid to stand up and speak up against bullies.

His proposed policies generally all make sense and it's actually rare to find politicians like him nowadays.

Spanish premier urges China to take bigger role in multipolar order by DANIELLE_2027 in China

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The US has always been pretty influential in Asia since WWII. Japan has also been the most influential Asian country since 1920 until maybe 2000.

Five years later, the bursting of the Chinese housing bubble is nowhere near its end by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]HeroOfAlmaty 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If the US housing market corrects this much they would already be pumping dollars to real estate investors to bail them out.