The China Thread (Threat)

[Topkick]

I don't see China allowing the US to have this platform.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/for...together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

 

[DA SWO]

I don't see China allowing the US to have this platform.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/for...together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

China owns enough Senators to stop this.

 

[AWP]

China owns enough Senators to stop this.

The Senate in Star Wars...whatever number, is less corrupt than the US Senate today.

 

[DA SWO]

China owns enough Senators to stop this.

Interestingly, local paper said that some rich Democrat was trying to buy TikToc. I'll see if I can find the story again.

 

[RackMaster]

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he's putting together investor group to buy TikTok

 

[Box]

Is the news media going to run a few stories about how a guy like him buying a popular social media platform is a threat to democracy and free speech?

Just asking for a friend.

 

[Blizzard]

Seriously?

Tiawan has to be kicking themselves for not offering up a larger bribe to the Bidens.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775981134167613862

 

[talonlm]

Working off memory (and a touch of scotch at the moment) but I don't think we've supported Taiwanese independence since like the '70s. I think we just keep the CCP off them.

 

[Blizzard]

Working off memory (and a touch of scotch at the moment) but I don't think we've supported Taiwanese independence since like the '70s. I think we just keep the CCP off them.

You may be right, but I always thought our position was to "not have a position", formally, on Taiwan's independence per the Six Assurances. The idea being that it's for the Taiwanese to determine, although all of out actions seem to support independence.

Kirby's statement appears to be a departure from that neutral stance, based on that understanding.

 

[RackMaster]

Shocker...

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...probe-hears-2024-04-08/?utm_source=reddit.com

 

[Box]

The Senate in Star Wars...whatever number, is less corrupt than the US Senate today.

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

 

[AWP]

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plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

 

[Blizzard]

I posted about the clashes between China and India in the Galwan Valley a while ago in this thread but this is the first video I recall seeing of the clashes.

This looks kind of funny, but some clashes are pretty brutal and, as reported in the earlier post, people do get killed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1780621113812295683

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

Kind of beating a dead horse here, but damn... you think we'd be just as focused on this as on say....Trump's assets or something.

Me no rikey...

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/ch...u-s-critical-infrastructure-fbi-director-says

 

[CQB]

I claim cross thread points! 太好了！

 

[BloodStripe]

Fuck this piece of shit. It’s time we make examples of traitors again.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...d-with-chinese-hacker-lawyer-says-2024-05-12/

 

[Gunz]

Fuck this piece of shit. It’s time we make examples of traitors again.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...d-with-chinese-hacker-lawyer-says-2024-05-12/

He got off the boat. He split with the whole fucking program. Terminate. With extreme prejudice.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

"He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2016 at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, backdated to 2012 on a certificate, after 'overt intelligence contact by U.S. authorities that may have compromised his family safety', his lawyer wrote.

His lawyers oppose extradition, arguing there is no evidence the Chinese pilots he trained were military and that he became an Australian citizen in January 2012, before the alleged offences."...WTF

Hey, I renounce my citizenship effective a few years before you catch me doing sketchy shit.

I wonder if JSOC has guys that operate in/speak Australian.

 

[BloodStripe]

"He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2016 at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, backdated to 2012 on a certificate, after 'overt intelligence contact by U.S. authorities that may have compromised his family safety', his lawyer wrote.

His lawyers oppose extradition, arguing there is no evidence the Chinese pilots he trained were military and that he became an Australian citizen in January 2012, before the alleged offences."...WTF

Hey, I renounce my citizenship effective a few years before you catch me doing sketchy shit.

I wonder if JSOC has guys that operate in/speak Australian.

The CIA has a large presence in Aussie. They outta just snatch him.

Video because we all love videos:

Contractors are like Seals at Chick’s.

 

[ThunderHorse]

The CIA has a large presence in Aussie. They outta just snatch him.

Video because we all love videos:

Contractors are like Seals at Chick’s.

Hard pass at our government continuing to do illegal shit. If anyone is involved in such and op they should go to prison and their entire chain as well.

We have an extradition treaty with Australia. It will happen soon enough.

https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/105th-congress/27/document-text

Fuck this piece of shit. It’s time we make examples of traitors again.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...d-with-chinese-hacker-lawyer-says-2024-05-12/

Snowden, Manning, Berghdahl, there's more if we want to go down that route, this country isn't serious about holding traitors to account. All of those people should be in a cell for the rest of their lives or gone.