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litbear2022on How China Became an Innovation Powerhouse

Yes, the Chinese government invested in Intel without spending a penny.

litbear2022on Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

According to your logic, you could go to eastern Ukraine and ask the same question in ten years. Or maybe even less.

litbear2022on Beijing accuses Canberra of lying about spy threats

Australia's National Security Agency is a joke.

In 2020, Wang Liqiang, a man convicted of fraud in China, applied for political asylum in Australia, claiming to be a Chinese spy[1].

However, the video of Wang's 2016 trial and the verdict had been publicly available online for years[2].

In the 1980s and 1990s, Australian agents bugged the Chinese embassy on behalf of the United States, an incident reported by the ABC in 1995[3]. Photos of the bugs in the embassy building were widely circulated online[4].

Not to mention the antics of bugging other countries' embassies[5].

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Liqiang

- [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mIbJXa_ps

- [3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/the-chinese-embassy-b...

- [4] https://x.com/shen_shiwei/status/1277417056841814017

- [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Indonesia_sp...

litbear2022on Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

Go look for the referendum results in the Ganges, poor Western netizens.

litbear2022on Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

Sikkim was annexed by India in 1975, and its neighbor Bhutan currently retains limited sovereignty under Indian threats.

litbear2022on Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

Tibet has been a part of China for longer than your country's civilization history.

litbear2022on Chinese state media calls U.S. a 'surveillance empire' over trackers in chips

In the Soviet, the government spied on its enemies. In the US, the government spied on its allies.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

litbear2022on The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy

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LOL, MUST sounds like an order, and comes from a country that massacres Muslims in Gaza but cares about Muslims in Xinjiang.

https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/joint-statement-on-beha...

litbear2022on Kimi K2 and when "DeepSeek Moments" become normal

The Cold War has been over forty years, but it's still not over in this guy's mind

litbear2022on IPv6 Based Canvas

This reminds me of the IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree[1].Unsurprisingly, the original address has been offline. When I checked the archives, I saw the archives from January 7, 2017[2]. Could it be that some guy is celebrating Orthodox Christmas? :)

- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186051 - [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20171201000000*/http://ipv6tree....

litbear2022on Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects

I follow all the clean energy news, and also other public environmental events, including the radioactive leak at Sellafield.

litbear2022on Photos: The Scale of China's Solar-Power Projects

> it's a small lead using technology and expertise that we all have access to.

Just checked the ranking of solar power patent applications, did not find your country

litbear2022on 'The Most Humbling Thing I've Ever Seen': Ford CEO on China's Car Industry

When rogue car companies and governments intimidate you with all kinds of excuses to prevent you from enjoying high-quality and low-priced products[1], you'd better re-examine your government.

- https://www.teslarati.com/volkswagen-sues-id-6-import-german...

- https://www.carscoops.com/2025/01/small-chinese-suv-beats-po...

litbear2022on China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12

Yeah, China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, This time the US plan to steal intellectual property did not succeed.

- https://www.securityweek.com/how-china-pinned-university-cyb...

litbear2022on 'The Most Humbling Thing I've Ever Seen': Ford CEO on China's Car Industry

Because the EU asked BYD to raise its minimum selling price. Maybe you should ask the EU to be nicer to its own people.

litbear2022on China's Top Factory: How Premium CPU Air Coolers Are Made – Deepcool [video]

Yeah, DeepCool is a military-grade radiator with the US State Department's honorary certification.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/us-sancti...

litbear2022on China Steals Language and Home Life from Tibetan Kids as Young as 4

Arrogant Western middle-class netizens think that residential kindergartens are more inhumane than commuting over several mountains at an altitude of more than 4,000 km every day. Because every time they see the word residential, they reflexively recall the genocide they once inflicted on Native Americans.

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64225855

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/world/canada/mass-graves-...

PS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Tibet_by_elev...

To this day, Americans visiting Xizang are subject to stricter scrutiny than visitors from other countries. the first name on the CIA Memorial Wall is Douglas Mackiernan, a man who was dramatically killed by his own ally. Shameful invader.

litbear2022on China's aerosol cleanup has contributed to the acceleration in global warming

- *China* Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178

- *non-China* Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231151

- *2022* China Is Burning More Coal, a Growing Climate Challenge https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/business/energy-environme...

- *2024* Yellen Warns China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/yellen-china-gre...

Ridiculous double standards.

litbear2022on Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees

BBC - Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good'

- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178

litbear2022on How China's Air Defence Let Pakistan Down? Full Analysis [video]

After the shameful defeat of the Indian Air Force, new propaganda has arrived as expected.

Love from J-10CE :)

> A high-ranking French intelligence official told CNN today that one Rafale fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force was downed by Pakistan, in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated French-made warplanes has been lost in combat.[1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/india-pakistan-attack-ka...

litbear2022on DeepSeek. Temu. TikTok. China Tech Is Starting to Pull Ahead.

yeah, China stealing US F-47 next generation stealth fighter from slides :)

litbear2022on The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

The United States dropped more than two million tons of bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973, including a large number of cluster munitions [1].

More than 50 years after the war, bombs still threaten the local citizens[2].

During the construction of the China-Laos Railway, Chinese builders spent a great deal of effort removing leftover bombs along the route[3].

the destruction of Japan Abandoned Chemical Weapons had been delayed *4 times*(SHAME ON YOU JAPS) [4].

[1] https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/migration... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/27/i... [3] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1294231.shtml [4] https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg_663340/jks_665232/kjfywj...

litbear2022on WD launches HDD recycling that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China

Russia recycled chips from dishwashers[1] (maybe [2]) US is recycling rare earth elements from HDD

Good luck to all of you

- [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-military-equipment-comp... - [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/01/20/is-russia...

litbear2022on White House says 104% China tariffs take effect at midnight

seriously ?

litbear2022on DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

Yeah! Just steal new Boeing 6th-gen stealth fighter from slides.

litbear2022on China travel advice – Risk level: HIGH

for drug dealers

litbear2022on China had executed four of Canadian citizens earlier this year

- Failed drug policy: Execute every drug dealer, no matter what country they come from

- Successful drug policy: Abuse opioids, raise tariffs, and declare victory

litbear2022on Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model

Does a thriving auto industry mean that its industrial workers can't afford eggs?

litbear2022on The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved

> lack of strong-form property ownership

Come on, just search the keyword "nail house in China" on the Internet[1] [2].And the latest news: China's National Highway 206 was planned to pass by this house, the owner asked for an unreasonable amount of compensation, and then they screwed up. Location: Jinxi a county of Jiangxi province[3]

- [1] https://x.com/RetirementUnity/status/1795777230825513304 - [2] https://x.com/pretentiouswhat/status/1859909798399033850 - [3] https://www.163.com/v/video/VFJNM8L73.html