Do you need more clarification?

China: you don’t need US protection, we’ll protect you!

Taiwan: protect us from what?

China: from what we’ll do to you if you don’t take our protection!

Q: On December 21, the White House announced military assistance worth US$571.3 million to Taiwan. The US Department of Defense announced on the same day that the State Department has approved US$295 million worth of arms sales to Taiwan. What’s China’s comment?

A: The US once again approved military assistance and arms sales to China’s Taiwan region. This seriously violates the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, especially the August 17 Communiqué of 1982, and China’s sovereignty and security interests. The decision is a severe breach of the US leaders’ commitment of not supporting “Taiwan independence,” and sends a gravely wrong signal to “Taiwan independence” separatist forces. China strongly deplores and firmly opposes it and lodged serious protests at once with the US.

The Taiwan question is at the core of China’s core interests, and the first red line that cannot be crossed in China-US relations. To aid “Taiwan independence” by arming Taiwan is just like playing with fire and will get the US burned, and to use the Taiwan question to contain China is doomed to fail. China urges the US to immediately stop arming Taiwan and stop the dangerous moves that undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. We will take all measures necessary to firmly defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/202412/t20241222_11514772.html

It’s funny that China is objecting to giving it military aid. (In it’s view since they think Taiwan is part of China)

Yeah, first degree requires a deep look into the motives, which is really good for him.

Here’s some legal analysis by legal eagle https://youtu.be/vXkH-G_8xew

Thank you, that makes more sense.

Sure, I’d just only heard lib as an insult by them before.

I don’t get lib as an insult. Seems like pretty much everyone on Lemmy is on liberal side of center. I’ve seen some hexbear users use it to refer to anyone who isn’t as tankie as they are, but I don’t get it.

Lol .world removed him. Good call.

So is it good that Russia is imperialist, invading it’s neighbors for resources?

What do you call conquering neighboring countries to get more resources?

Do you think Russia is imperialist, and if so, is that good?

I’ve found Kahn pretty good, but do they use AI? As in LLMs, or just nural nets? And what does it tweak?

Specifically?

Depends on what?

What do you call conquering neighboring countries to get more resources?

And that would likely have ended the war sooner, causing less people to die, and making Putin less likely to try something like it in the future.

Maximum profit would be achieved by charging the most for the least stuff. And minimizing the cost of that bare minimum. You can do that by eliminating competition so that your prices are the only option. You’d end up with something like feudalism.

But it also depends if you target maximum profits as compared to the population, or maximum profits over all. If maximum profits over all, you’d want to grow the work force as much as possible, maybe colonizing other planets or inhospitable regions of earth.

But maximizing the value of those profits to you requires development to get you more value for less resources. Being a king hundreds of years ago still didn’t get you decent plumbing. So you’d want effecent ways to maximize your pleasure for the lowest cost. Some brain computer interface could be useful there, so that you can create full planets more cheaply.

What happens after all of humanity are enslaved as software devs for the god kings personal virtual reality, I couldn’t guess.

Definitely, but the big industrialized stuff that was a focus originally is much more automated now. It’s much less glamorous to seize a t shirt or rubber band making plant than a car or tractor factory.

Seizing the means of production seemed more reasonable when there were actually people producing things. Nowadays seems like it’d be more of the call for a robot uprising.

Watch what governments do, not what they say. If they were concerned about NATO, (especially their air forces) they wouldn’t be throwing away their stockpile of anti-air missiles to hit ground targets.

Watch what governments do, not what they say. If they were concerned about NATO, (especially their air forces) they wouldn’t be throwing away their stockpile of anti-air missiles to hit ground targets.