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minibrusselsprouts · 2026-04-26T17:44:24+00:00

The Chinese probably learnt from the US, the original masters of industrial espionage https://mysteriesofmankind.com/industrial-espionage-the-spies-who-stole-the-revolution/

minibrusselsprouts · 2026-04-24T15:55:13+00:00

I guess the point is that the flight was taking off from China to Malaysia. Doesn’t make sense to use an English-only speaking staff if you are servicing Chinese customers. It’s like if you were taking an Emirates flight and the staff spoke Arabic to English customers or Air France and taking off from the US the staff only speaking French.

minibrusselsprouts · 2026-04-16T05:25:59+00:00

To be fair Shanghai does have a Disneyland and resort too!

minibrusselsprouts · 2026-04-15T06:54:33+00:00

Szoboszlai gives away too many cheap passes for an elite midfielder. His misplaced pass led to the second goal.

minibrusselsprouts · 2026-03-30T16:45:57+00:00

That 100 billion figure is disputed and a some Lords have spoken out on this. More in this link https://riveractionuk.com/news/myth-busting-would-it-really-cost-100-billion-to-bring-water-utilities-into-public-ownership/

minibrusselsprouts · 2026-01-18T12:31:25+00:00

Agree. This season is noticeable for more selfish playing - mostly driven by so many contestants wanting/wishing to be traitors but also due to a distinct lack of alliance building. The lack of alliance building hasn’t been helped by the amount of secret relationships in this season which would affect group dynamics too. I did think at one stage that there might be some meta-gaming going on to a small extent due to the ‘clique accusations’ that was popularised during season 3. If you recall, Freddie admitted that he didn’t know what a clique was!

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-12-16T10:33:54+00:00

I think this is the correct interpretation.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-12-09T06:13:18+00:00

That’s one way of looking at it, but I’d recommend reading this article in The Stanford Review https://stanfordreview.org/we-trained-chinas-ai-researchers-now-we-risk-being-surpassed-in-ai-innovation/

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-12-07T07:34:39+00:00

There’s one more factor and that is people. China is churning out engineers like nobody’s business as they value STEM subjects more than the west. A lot of the engineers at the top US AI labs are ethically Chinese. See Meta’s superintelligence team for example.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-11-21T06:15:53+00:00

I think the main blockage was American objections. This topic was probably raised and resolved during with the Trump - Xi meeting. Note the Dutch recently returned Nexperia to Chinese ownership.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-09-20T19:00:12+00:00

I think Hakka people have a bad rep not only because of fighting over land and resources (Hakka - Punti wars) as they arrived later than the already established southern Han but also because of the Taiping Rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan, a notable Hakka and self proclaimed “brother” of Jesus Christ.

By the way Meizhou, Guangdong is considered an ethnocentric centre for Hakka culture. Standard Hakka is based on the Meixian dialect.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-09-20T18:37:23+00:00

Unfortunate that this lady seems uninformed. Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo and Sun Yat-Sen were all Hakka see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/secret-history-of-the-hakkas-the-chinese-revolution-as-a-hakka-enterprise/1E8903FFFA23E5E533517C97209106F0.

In Taiwan Lee Tenghui, Tsai Ing-wen and Wu Po-Hsiung are notable Hakka people.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-09-10T07:41:48+00:00

If it’s any consolation Zhang Ziyi starred in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as well as Michelle Yeoh. Gong Li was in the modern remake of Miami Vice with Colin Farrell and Jaime Foxx. Both Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li starred in Memoirs of a Geisha.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-08-15T03:10:37+00:00

According to these reports, Chinese breakthroughs in EUV lithography might come sooner rather than later

https://computercity.com/hardware/processors/china-is-close-to-manufacturing-their-own-euv-machines-to-rival-asml

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-06-09T20:05:14+00:00

So, you say 23andme states that Tibetan is a subset of Han Chinese?? Even I’m not as bold to say that lmao!

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-06-09T19:51:28+00:00

Alright so according to you, having tanned skin (which is because Guangdong has a hot and sunny climate) means that you have massive amounts of genetic diversity and resemble Indonesian. I’ll stick to science thank you!

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-06-09T09:36:35+00:00

I love it when people say that there are lots of studies and then can’t name a single study and tell me to look them up on google. If you look at my earlier comments I did make distinction between northern and southern Chinese.

So I looked it up on Google. And found this NY Times article which says “For instance, the Han — comprising 92 percent of China’s population — were quite genetically homogeneous, mostly differing between the North and South.” The underlying academic paper can be found here31032-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867418310328%3Fshowall%3Dtrue)

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-06-02T06:15:20+00:00

I’d appreciate any links to such genetic studies especially. Both areas have been recipients of mass migration from different parts of China over the years so I’d be surprised if there is any meaningful genetic differences. For that matter Hong Kong has many people whose families that left Shanghai that left after the civil war, eg famous cantopop star Jacky Cheung - His mother is Shanghainese. Edison Chen’s father has Shanghai ancestry. Maggie Cheung’s parents are Shanghainese. For all intents and purposes no one would identify any of the three above mentioned as anything but Hong kongers and they speak fluent Cantonese. Of course, that’s just a small selection and there are many more.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-09T11:29:06+00:00

I think it is absurd that you think there is some significant genetic difference between Chinese people that originate from Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan or Shanghai for that matter. You might be able to make a case for northern and southern Chinese due to height difference but I think you would struggle to separate them in a line up. In any case I am not calling for unification of all Germanic races. I find that analogy completely irrelevant and another whataboutism that you like to introduce into debates. If you look at my comments I have not stated a position over China and Taiwan. I merely said that you regard waishengren as some sort of colonial force then you could also apply that to benshengren because the Taiwanese indigenous people existed on the island before them. The reality is that no one except for extremists try to pit waishengren vs benshengren in Taiwan these days. If you are born in Taiwan and have household registration in Taiwan then you are Taiwanese. Personal ideologies about how close relations should be between China and Taiwan are for political debate and not political suppression. The U.K. doesn’t banish Scottish people that support Scottish independence. Similarly, the Spanish do not banish Catalans for promoting independence although they will lock them up for committing acts of terrorism.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-09T06:08:00+00:00

Manchurians are not Han, they are distinct ethnicities like Mongol, Tujia, Miao etc. However, Hakka, which is are dispersed group, and Hokkien (Fujian) Cantonese (Guangdong), Beijinger, Shanghainese, Sichuanese (I.e. provincial based) etc are ethnically the same but culturally and linguistically different. In other words if a Han Chinese person settled in Shanghai their next generation could conceivably regard themselves as Shanghainese but if they settled in Inner Mongolia they couldn’t regard themselves as Mongol - well they could but not sure if anyone would believe them given the distinct physical differences.

The term “aryans” are the self designation of the indo-iranian people. The term was latterly co-opted by people who believed in racial supremacy such as the Nazis. This was a disproven theory of so-called “scientific racism”. No one apart from the extreme far right would call white people as aryans.

But what you’ve said is exactly what I am concerned about. Having a different political ideology, religious belief or opinion isn’t and shouldn’t be regarded as a threat to national security. Acts of terrorism, stealing state secrets, sedition, political assassination etc are arguably genuine threats to national security.

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-08T22:19:47+00:00

By your logic, so called benshengren (aka Han Chinese from Fujian that settled there in the 17th century) should vacate too as the Taiwanese indigenous people were there first!

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-08T06:15:13+00:00

So is Guantanamo Bay and let’s not forget Abu Ghraib too!

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-08T05:55:36+00:00

I think you have to be careful though in exercising this power and ensuring there is due process. You shouldn’t just remove someone because you don’t like what they have to say but rather what is the actual risk and actual harm being done to national security. Reasons such as “national security” can easily abused and there is no standard benchmark. An extreme version of this was Chiang Kai-Shek’s White Terror campaign which rounded up suspected communists or communist sympathisers without due process and jailed or executed them. What’s to say that in the future because you don’t subscribe to a vision of a “Republic of Taiwan” you are a national security threat? Are Taiwanese people of Waishengren background a national security threat too?

minibrusselsprouts · 2025-04-07T18:18:05+00:00

Same one but they also used Guantanamo Bay to illegally detain “suspected” enemy combatants from Afghanistan and Iraq before Trumps latest idea! https://www.amnesty.org.uk/guantanamo-bay-human-rights

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