There’s plenty of Chinese Americans who speak Mandarin fluently. The problem is that the intelligence community doesn’t want to hire them due to sinophobia. They want someone who is an adult, has a history of hating China, yet is devoted enough to learn the language through years of study. Unsurprisingly, there aren’t many.

I can’t believe that he forgot the “Lone Star Flag” of Texas and the Thin Blue Line flag. He’s a pinko.

I’ve been reading about China’s real estate crisis since I was a child. I suspect that I will be reading about it until the day I die.

Korea has had a millennia of mostly good relations and trade with China before the split.

Good. It’s going to be trickier to expel French forces from the region however.

Exactly. Death to America!

Goldman Sachs named BRICS. It was originally meant to be a “hottest place to invest” thing for investors. That’s why South Africa is in the original group, when it honestly doesn’t match the other 4 in size or influence.

They were probably going to come together anyways, but South Africa being part of the original 5 is due to Goldman Sachs imo.

Nothing to see here folks!

Only when they want to participate in the Olympics

Chinese Taipei of course, comrade.

I still can’t believe that Goldman Sachs is partially responsible for this.

How can they possibly be Taiwanese if they don’t speak any of the Formosan languages?

That’ll be four F-35 fighters. The wonders of US Military-Industrial complex never fails to amaze me.

I wasn’t convinced before I used them, but induction stoves perform almost on par with gas stoves while not burning my house down. It’s a different game from electric stoves.

Based.

There are a few obvious wrinkles in his plans. Poland, for example, is probably the most significant European country without a past as a colonial power in Africa, Asia or South America but politicians from around the world will not be blind to some of Warsaw’s latest pronouncements on migration. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently said he wants to hold a referendum asking citizens whether they support the arrival of “thousands of illegal migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa.”

So which European country that isn’t racist and doesn’t have a colonial past?

Historical sticklers could also note that Latvia had a brief past as a colonial power. The Duchy of Courland, an antecedent to Latvia, held territory on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean and on the Gambia River in West Africa in the mid-1600s.

lol

ACAB

Expired food transaction prices are closer to cost. It is the necessity for a profit margin that drives grocery stores to sell at a higher price (or as I call it, cost + profit price). Now, you may say that profit margins are bad for grocery stores, which is true (2~3%), which cannot account for discount on expired food (10~30%). However, The grocery store overall margin does not account for the cost of individual items. In terms of percentages, markup on dry goods (cereals, pasta, etc.) and canned goods are lower while the markup for prepared food, frozen food, and bakery goods are more than twice that of dry goods. Which items actually do go on sale then? The ones with higher margins. . The discounted price for fresh food is absolutely possible when you take profit margins out.

For the microprocessors example, I’ll use the same example as to why that mode of complex production is more likely under communism than capitalism. By your account, ARM designed microprocessors while there wasn’t a huge need for it, but the market for smart phones exploded later. Does this make sense? No, it doesn’t make sense under capitalism, so let’s look at the history of it. ARM (Acorn/Advanced RISC Machine) financially functioned by being funded by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). ARM’s nickname in the UK used to be BBC Micro! I don’t think I need to go on about how communists are all about state-funded enterprises, so I rest my case.