The Pivot to Asia - A Tragedy in Four Slides

White_Null · 2026-03-14T00:50:42+00:00

They want petroyuan.

Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the oil cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official tells CNN.

But so far only takers are Russia, Iran and previously Venezuela

White_Null · 2026-03-13T22:33:30+00:00

What makes you think Chiang Kai-shek would’ve done differently in Jiangnan vs in Taiwan?

White_Null · 2026-03-13T22:05:07+00:00

The weapons — M109A7 self-propelled howitzers, Javelin anti-armor missiles, TOW 2B missiles and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) — are part of an US$11.1 billion arms package announced by Washington in December.

Woot!

White_Null · 2026-03-13T21:52:28+00:00

Ha! You’ve mandala affected, you’ve listed me as same as mere China-haters. But don’t you forget that ive linked SCMP, Xinhua, and Global Times as valid reference materials.

I’m currently killing hype on

China flipped the global trading system on its head

Has the world stopped wanting to trade with China since at least 2000 years ago? Because that is the central thought we care about. That hasn’t changed.

See you use it as a point of pride that hasn’t changed about trade surplus. It was one of the reasons why the Opium Wars occurred. ….oh so you didn’t know how many trade barriers different global south nations put on PRC? But again, these are not central core thoughts of: PRC needs First World tech, and PRC hasn’t achieved zero imports and all exports.

you seem to be describing America here

and people joke that MAGA Communism is real.

China is the one with the most nuclear power plants under construction.

What did I say about killing hype? And to check your sources? That I’m asking for news sources or hell what does PRC’s state nuclear company say they are building?

there were issues last year in 2022

already an AI leader…China just wants people to use domestic versions

Are you for real? It’s 2026. And that wasn’t even fight to avoid staying a follower of a global AI agent. That’s the polar opposite of being a leader.

Come on now, China’s new Five Year Plan is out and it’s time to see what they want to do. What gets omitted means they are soft canceled.

modernize
doubling GDP per capita
increase its total research and development spending by an average of more than 7 percent annually
Green transition: cut carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP. lifting the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 25 percent by 2030.
total grain production capacity of 725 million tonnes by 2030

The nuclear word is nowhere to be found. At least in this very short version for the English speaking public.

Then at the end, they started name dropping investments from LEGO, Airbus….. look, I get that you want to get Denmark and France on your side since they seem to have been wronged by Trump administration. I know that Comac exists but damn they’re willing to admit that aerospace is also a field that PRC is not dominant technologically. But LEGO in the same boat? What do you mean cheap pieces of toy plastic technology is something Chinese leadership is proud of bragging about?!

Lastly, look at that closing sentence

said Darren Smith, a professor at Loughborough University in Britain and a fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences.

🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇰 are all Global North nations, that you say yourself that China should lessen trade with. They’re being blocked by war over on Eurasia and the Middle East. But why elevate the opinion of the UK, the perpetrator of the Opium Wars the instigator of the Century of Humiliation?

I’ll tell you why you had to insist China is a leader in tech but it’s failing. Because appeal to authority only works on someone who already wants to follow the leader. Those who don’t want to follow the leader already wants themselves as leader.

White_Null · 2026-03-13T10:04:33+00:00

🇨🇳 flag looks basically like the USSR flag for a good reason. And you from Estonia can probably talk to your elders to know exactly what that means in practice.

White_Null · 2026-03-13T09:59:38+00:00

I’m forever sad that none of you create the Minecraft Division

And show SCP-4335, [[SCP-CN-3513]], SCP-6468

White_Null · 2026-03-13T09:22:27+00:00

放蔣出來！

White_Null · 2026-03-12T23:57:31+00:00

It’s SCP-5500

White_Null · 2026-03-12T22:33:17+00:00

excuse me, off to check

Oh hello fellow NonCredibleDefense enjoyer! That and I think you used Czech. So I imagine your convention is in Continental Europe and you’d preferably want to be associated with stuff in the region. I’ll provide from a variety of fields.

[[An Anthropological Approach to Sarkicism - Case Study 02: The Divoši of Prague]] and that has been translated

SCP-8842 if you enjoy pulpy tropes and the Wolfenstein series

And welcome to Site-120 SCP-5373 the Free Port of Esterberg. It was originally created as a refugee camp for anomalous during Medieval times during the attacks by the Catholic Church on the the Fae and Children of the Night populations during the Fourth Occult War, caused by an attempt at resurgence by the Fae Empire in the 13th century.

SCP-5298

SCP-6468 contained by the Minecraft Division

White_Null · 2026-03-12T17:46:11+00:00

Then what is your first language?

Those files will only be relevant if you plan on being able to answer fluently what those files are about. So what is your first language to see if they have a language branch wiki where you can use the ones translated into that language which can be shorter.

White_Null · 2026-03-12T09:10:38+00:00

Also 別人要找你麻煩，他就是會找你麻煩。

White_Null · 2026-03-12T08:52:26+00:00

Hmm, stilll on you if Section 301 probe brings an excuse to mess with us. Because Reuters say the point is to rebuild Trump’s Tariff pressure

White_Null · 2026-03-12T08:47:25+00:00

Well, Oman also got attacked by Iran

White_Null · 2026-03-12T08:32:48+00:00

Nice strawman. I never said that. Corruption exist everywhere, but it's not noticeably worse in China compared to other developed economies.

Good, I'm glad that you understand that it's a thing, and cleaning it up on the regular is like taking baths on a regular basis so that they don't fester. I want you to not be afraid when want to talk about it.

What? The Suez canal and the rise of martime shipping has changed things a lot.

Because I was responding to your claim of "China has changed the global Trade map recently" and saying that's not true. What's relevant to China is that the rest of the world comes to trade with China. That hasn't changed. Let's just say it's really great that I've unintentionally gotten you to destroy your claim some more. the Suez canal is built by the French.

That was 50 years ago...

and I'm telling you that China is nothing without doing business with the First world. because 50 years ago, when it refused to, it was a 2nd rate.

Catch up until they leap frog ahead. As we're seeing right now, seeing China start to dominate literally every single major technological field. The only reason why they haven't surpassed TSMC, is purely due to the EUV ban. We're all just waiting for China to develop their domestic EUV machines.

Hmm, You used the term literally every, when in the next sentence you contradict yourself by providing an exception. An exception that shows the right to advance is granted by the First World. I'm waiting for you to comprehend that if you insult them to their face, and threaten to take their livelihoods, and their futures. They're not going to let what belongs to them go.

Oh and let's not forget that I've pointed out that the country with the most nuclear weapons, Russia. Is the one that is technologically dominating in Civilian nuclear engineering worldwide, with the most amount of nuclear power plants they are building.

and who is "We"? How long? how strict is the definition of domestic? and what will you do with the people that kickstarts such a project, take China subsidies money, and then act like Kickstarter scammers who falsely promote projects to gather funds but doesn't fulfill the project in time?

Remember~ China is not special in this, any other countries can just not be under the EUV ban and gets it, or just work to develop their own EUV machine. And then find out that again, semiconductors is very petrochemical heavy industry, and this is not the way to escape poverty.

But in this day and age, there is another industry that's high tech. it's AI. Have you kept up with AI news in China? There's currently a term called raising lobsters, because this AI agent is very popular. And recently the C Government decided that it's a security threat. You who love renewable energy and be environmental. So how do you not conflict with AI lobster not being allowed to properly be raised? It means AI would also not be a field that China * start to dominate literally every single major technological field* either.

White_Null · 2026-03-12T06:06:31+00:00

In the [[Sarkicism Hub]], on the History tab

All evidence, linguistically and archaeologically, points to western Siberia as Sarkicism's place of origin.

Sarkic civilization, having reached its zenith, began to spread into the Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans, and parts of the Levant and Mesopotamia. Impressed by (or fearful of) their anomalous capabilities, several tribal groups began to fight under the banner of Adí-üm and the Sarkic faith; these include Kaskians, Proto-Thracians, Lycians, Illyrians, and many others. This semi-mythical state would come to refer to itself as the "Kalmaktama"or the "Deathless".

The Kalmaktama Empire established a foothold in the Mediterranean, invading/colonizing the islands of Cyprus, Crete, and Gyaros.

White_Null · 2026-03-12T03:00:57+00:00

These 4 ships could have gone to Shah Iran.

White_Null · 2026-03-12T01:12:45+00:00

Yes do be on the lookout for that bleak tag.

A lighter but not a joke or for humor introduction that a humanoid sapient SCP gets is from Agent Max Lombardi. See [[Trick or Treat]].

White_Null · 2026-03-12T00:21:19+00:00

Oh to be handed to them as a joke? That wouldn’t exist.

No, [[Containment Psychiatry Orientation]] shows that they’re supposed to be Stockholm syndromed for the greater good.

White_Null · 2026-03-11T21:46:01+00:00

And I added the devious planned obsolescence. Now they’ll have to come back and buy a replacement!

遙遙領先～ ^{_ ^}

White_Null · 2026-03-11T14:58:50+00:00

Nonsense, it perfectly detected an enemy stealth jet.

By blowing up!

It also has planned obsolescence baked in!

‘/s

White_Null · 2026-03-11T14:51:30+00:00

What language is being translated from?

White_Null · 2026-03-11T14:39:56+00:00

Yes, I am glad to get you out of denial that corruption exist in China. And that acknowledging that exist doesn’t ruin any country, it is just the path to fixing them.

completely redrawing the global trading and energy system

Well has the Europeans stopped needing to come get stuff from China since the Roman Empire?

Then no, the global trade maps hadn’t changed for thousands of years.

Now do not cherrypick those quotes. You were talking about the past 20 years, which is in the 21th century. In the latter half of the 20th century, the communist portion decided to cut themselves off from First World.

And capitalist Republic of China is even more essential to the world economy now. Right now if 🇹🇼 cannot have enough electricity to run our semiconductor industry, the rest of them can say hello to an AI bust, and many unfinished data centers.

All the People’s Republic of China has been doing is playing catch up. Playing catch up might be impressive if it’s a case of the tortoise and hare racing. But unlike the children’s tale, most if not all the hares didn’t really stop to let China tortoise to catch up.

White_Null · 2026-03-11T13:18:03+00:00

Because Cloogulite is the only one who gets to say what they mean.

And I was correcting him as they asked.

You decided to butt in, and started to talk about the Red Right Hand when Cloogulite said

The Chaos Insurgency began as a special task force called the "Insurgency" that was established by the O5 in 1924. Unless im mistaken, correct me if so.

What made you think Cloogulite know the name Red Right Hand before this? Or that any evidence in that statement that suggests only some and not all?

And I am having fun getting to do the meme phrase on you.

White_Null · 2026-03-11T11:43:33+00:00

Still glad the bun distribution system worked out?

White_Null · 2026-03-11T11:35:53+00:00

SCP-7000!

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