TBF, credit can’t exist in any world without trust.

But enough about the US.

You lived in China for 28 years and claim that ”the 996 work schedule is the norm”?

Yeah, you’re an op. GTFO.

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Okay. Thank you for your service.

Okay, so you’re an op? Good to know, “Chinese citizen, transfem, formal front-end developer” with a 6 day old account that posts nothing but anti-China slop 👍 The lady doth protest too much.

Maybe the anti-China bots are trying to up their game.

Did you go to China and verify this? Of course not. Everything you know about China comes from imperial core states, corporations, and NGOs (which are funded by those same states & corporations). Over a century of anticommunist propaganda has primed you to believe their narratives.

They have to keep pushing these narratives for the same reason Coca-Cola has to keep advertising their brand, despite already being wildly popular. Advertising/propaganda requires constant maintenance. Previously.

It’s important to understand that everything you know about China comes from capitalist states, corporations, and NGOs (which are funded by those states & corporations) that have a vested interest in you believing that there is no viable alternative to capitalism. That’s why the lie to us about China and lied to us about the USSR.

Hah. What are the changes of this coincidence.

https://mega.nz/file/K7BnBIob#TmFn8axPIJ2h1d8b3dGqmrr_0wTN8VCkUiB9LtoqOPQ

I stopped reading because I wasn’t sure how much smoke he might have been blowing up my ass at the time, and I don’t remember enough to say now without reading it again.

It’s a very good piece. I read about half of his book, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making, though I remember almost none of it now.

the international order

I don’t use the imperial core’s euphemism for itself.

You know you’re old when Three Mile Island is living memory rather than history.

The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public. The accident was the largest release of radioactive material in U.S. history until it was exceeded by the Church Rock uranium mill spill four months later. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5, an “Accident with Wider Consequences.”

I read this when it first came out in 2009.

Vao makes his money as a c-suite coach, so I doubt that he’s a fellow traveler.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of Russians bought the “special operation to de-nazify Ukraine” narrative. Some still do today.

A lot of Western media believed it until the day of the invasion.

Previously. Previously.

It seems you’ve done more research than me, and have more incentive to, having lived in China, so you tell me.

It’s doubtless that China has spy networks, as all countries do, and if some or all of these “police station” locations have connections to them, that wouldn’t surprise me. But “secret police station” implies that China is extraordinarily renditioning people or locking them up in secret prisons in Toronto, New York, Amsterdam, etc. Even if they are part of a spy network, they’re still not “police stations.”

It is widely known and actually mentioned in the article you linked above

The things mentioned in the article aren’t police stations, Chinese or otherwise, nor are they secret.

You also read the Chinese government’s explanation for their existence if you search the MFA website for 海外警务服务中心

I can’t read Chinese, can you?

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on “Overseas Chinese Service Centers in the Netherlands”

AFP: The Dutch government said yesterday that no permission was sought from the Netherlands for the Chinese “police service stations”, and it ordered China to close the “police service stations” in the Netherlands. What is China’s comment?

Zhao Lijian: I would refer you to competent authorities for more detailed information. Let me say that according to our understanding, the sites you mentioned are not “police stations” or “police service centers”. They assist overseas Chinese nationals who need help in accessing the online service platform to get their driving licenses renewed and receive physical check-ups for that purpose. The venues are provided by local overseas Chinese communities who would like to be helpful, and the people who work on those sites are all volunteers who come from these communities. They are not police personnel from China. There is no need to make people nervous about this.

It was my understanding that the existence of police stations in foreign countries is not debated, they have them.

No, that’s not a thing. What country allows another country to have police stations on its sovereign territory, where it has sovereign jurisdiction and the foreign country has none? That makes no sense.

The USAGM supervises Voice of America (VOA) and Office of Cuba Broadcasting as well as state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Open Technology Fund.

It’s a branch of the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex. Or was—I’m not sure if Trump’s executive order to eliminate it stuck.