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Why won't China reduce its exposure to the greenback after all this talk of decoupling?
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Why won't China reduce its exposure to the greenback after all this talk of decoupling?
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Decoupling? Their entire economy is based on exports. If they fix that then we'll talk ...
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Why won't China reduce its exposure to the greenback after all this talk of decoupling?
Possibly one of the reasons is that they're not too worried about any potential Western sanctions in that regard, having more than enough room to retaliate, according to one analysis (published by the ...
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Can the U.S. government suspend the trading of a stock at any time?
The federal securities laws allow the SEC to suspend trading in any stock for up to ten trading days when the SEC determines that a trading suspension is required in the public interest and for the ...
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What are the factors that would make it difficult for the U.S. government to block Huawei's patent lawsuits in the U.S.?
Is it possible legally for the U.S. to block Huawei from filling U.S. patents? I am thinking this is highly illegal [...]
Maybe. The closest thing that comes to mind is that it might violate TRIPS ...
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Is there a historical precedent for an official in China being removed due to an extramarital affair?
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Is there a historical precedent for an official in China being removed due to an extramarital affair?
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What's that line from Casablanca? Captain Renault: I'm shocked! Shocked ...
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Is there a historical precedent for an official in China being removed due to an extramarital affair?
There was a law on "marriage" on rivals country, you will be considered a traitor. But in history, china do allow one husband multiple wife.
As for chinese communist party per say. They do ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
The Double Cross System, during the 2nd World War, had several objectives, one of which was to infer German plans by collating the requests for information that were sent to spies. It isn't too much ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
A common tactic used during the cold war was known as Probing. You would send in an asset of some form (a long range bomber, for example) and then watch how your opponent responded.
This might mean ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
I don't think we can draw the conclusion that the Chinese balloon had spying capability that went intentionally unused. Much of the coverage has interpreted Gen. Mark Milley's limited statements in ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
Ukraine sent spy drone aircraft (Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh) on kamikaze missions, to attack the target directly by crashing into it.
Tupolev Tu-141 is a large Soviet reconnaissance drone, designed to ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
When talking about covert operations, there are all sorts of possibilities:
The vehicle could be a test of the delivery mechanism, to see if it can carry a payload across borders without raising ...
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing
any actual spying?
To my understanding, the closest one I got is World War 2 German kept receiving fake spy information from ...
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Through what channels does China communicate with business people like Elon Musk?
If China want to contact Elon Musk, they won't do it in one way. They would do everyway possible. Be it email, social media or start making an appointment in spaceX headquarter. Their protocol is ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
A brutal result in chinese government internal power struggles.
Although in recent years president Xi has a strong grip on the "loyalty" of the party. He merely united the party under one ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
It was traditional for a "disappearance" to imply a killing - a permanent disappearance.
But Jack Ma hasn't disappeared at all, and seems to have settled into a foreign teaching role: https:/...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
The [perceived] advantages of such an approach have been laid out in the accepted answer. I'll add here that there's some reflection of that even in official Chinese legislation, e.g. investigations ...
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Why does China not consider itself to be a member of the G77 while the G77 itself lists China as one of its members?
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Why does China not consider itself to be a member of the G77 while the G77 itself lists China as one of its members?
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Power politics and competition. The U.S. is a leader in ...
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Are the Indian government, politicians, and patriots more vocal against Pakistan rather than China?
Yes, Indians tends to express more hostility towards Pakistan than China. The reasons for this are:
Historical Grudges
When colonial rule ended, British India was partitioned into three countries - ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
There are plausible reasons for doing this rather than publicly arresting or executing a government minister or army official, and in lieu of ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials?
I found this analysis piece in Foreign Policy Journal. It links the
"reshuffling" of leadership to an overall strategy by President Xi to remain in power through coming civil protests and ...
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How do union advocates explain worker salary and conditions improvement in countries where unions are banned?
union advocates on the level of countries as a whole.
In that case, I would say that China is an example for unions (not so much for Socialism w Chinese characterics tho).
The country got massively ...
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Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
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Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
North Korea is a close ally of China. It's North Korea's closest ...
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Aside from market size, what kind of leverage does a government have to negotiate lower prices for drugs from pharmaceutical companies?
Any country's government has a huge opportunity to lower drugs prices by easing some of regulations and allowing new players in. There are multiple steps of that process, which starts from removing ...
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Aside from market size, what kind of leverage does a government have to negotiate lower prices for drugs from pharmaceutical companies?
I am wondering if market size is inversely correlated with negotiated drug prices, or it's something more complex where more variables come at play.
I'm not a health economist but will say without a ...
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Why wasn't the China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Meeting held since 2019?
Well, Kishida did visit South Korea this year. So my guess is tensions between China and one or both of the other two. I can easily point to the China-Japan tensions of this year (over Fukushima ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
As an ordinary Chinese who was born, grew up, educated, and worked in China, I think the state of free speech in China is far worse than one who is living in a world with freedom of expression could ...
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How does the CCP prevent the minority parties from obtaining too many seats and is there a hard cap on how many seats they can get?
Elections for the NPC seats are (largely) indirect. Additionally the wider NPC has less power in practice than in theory. Its members don't get a paycheck unless on the Standing Committee. Regular ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
Apart from censorship China uses fear to control the media.
Here's a profile of former billionaire Jimmy Lai of the Giordano clothing company and the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper.
The Apple ...
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Are Chinese citizens allowed to move freely in and out of free trade zones?
A Chinese citizen from anywhere can move, as in travel to, any place within China mainland as long as they have the money to pay for the fares. However, it is the "finding a permanent place of ...
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Are Chinese citizens allowed to move freely in and out of free trade zones?
This is probably not the answer you are looking for, but I think one could argue that inside China there is no free movement of people.
Just because you are not being stopped, does not mean you have ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
This is latest comment from Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
MR. SULLIVAN: I’m going to withhold comment on the particular chip in
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How does expanding the BRICS group of emerging markets increase China's political clout?
In addition to the accepted answer, The Economist covers precisely this subject Aug 23, . Its analysis is less about the benefits, for China, of growing BRICS strength as expansion making China the ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
"TMSC shipped N7 in volume in 2018" (with Apple A12 etc.) So, if volumes materialize from SMIC (right now it's one chip for one Huawei 'flagship') SMIC still is about 5 years behind.
A quick ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip? It seems like the U.S. didn't expect China ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
Chinese media control has three major components.
First, as you already mentioned there is censorship on the level of individual articles and even social media posts.
Second there is the Chinese ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
This is just my opinion through the many Chinese academics I have spoken to:
By what tool others can influence to most of Chines? By Twitter? Facebook? YouTube? Instagram? WhatsApp? Google? Bing? ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
Here's the Asianometry vid - China's 7nm Semiconductor Breakthrough about just this. He's generally on point with this stuff. From what I can understand it - it's quite dense - he more or less ...
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Why there is little report about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone?
I believe that it has to do with the fact that Huawei was silent about how they developed their chips, so they're waiting to know the full facts of the matter before publishing an article on how China ...
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Why there is little report about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone?
This is still about two generations behind chips made for global
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(source). Enough to explain the differences between interpreting the importance of this phone by mass media in China (that is ...
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