and stands ready to contribute troops if necessary.

Won’t this trigger a Russia-NATO war?

Careful Australia, or Trumpatron will slap you with coal tariffs.

This is quite unrelated to Trump though I think? China has been offering these kinds of deals for a very long time. Relations with Sweden were severely soured a while back in part due to denial of some railway infrastructure deal (was denied due to national security reasons IIRC).

A person I know who grew up in China (now living in Europe) described US under this new administration as “China with guns”.

Something like this is why I put an if in “if the US ever has another election”.

Obviously this is not something you can base a deal on, but I think a lot of the stupid shit Trump is doing will be undone if the US ever has another election. So in four years, the deal will be overturned or renegotiated. Maybe it can even be declared void?

IMO, there’s much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.

What are those reasons?

People can weasel themselves around terms like “fascist” quite easily, because there are multiple definitions, many are very diffuse and there’s a lot of disagreement around it - but ethnic cleansing to my understanding is quite simple and this is it. Can any serious political commentator pretend it’s not? For example the forced removal of Poles from west Poland (annexed by USSR) after WW2 for example was not a slaughter, but is considered an act of ethnic cleansing.

Is this some special rule? Looks like check mate to me?

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords, though dealing with censorship in all their web services is gonna be a bit annoying.

Was dying to see some good news, finally.

Swede here, see no issue with the name. I’ll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.

Had missed this suggestion completely. So, the totally-not-racist-don’t-be-so-sensitive-you-silly-snowflake president’s solution is “how about ethnic cleansing?”.

I was recently in Bosnia and as a consequence read up on the balkan conflict, this quote (about the srebnica massacre) stuck with me:

People are not little stones or keys in someone’s pocket, that can be moved from one place to another just like that. … Therefore, we cannot precisely arrange for only Serbs to stay in one part of the country while removing others painlessly. I do not know how Mr. Krajišnik and Mr. Karadžić will explain that to the world. That is genocide.

Don’t worry, it will only apply to PoC (/s)

Kinda seems like a huge mistake to devaluate nvidia because of deepseek. Deepseek has proven that LLMs can be run much more cheaply than previously thought, the nvidia cards can now do much more than previously thought possible. What am I missing?

Why are they doing this? Seems detrimental to Russian businesses and also sours relations with their only “friend” in the whole world?

Also not an issue if you’re in the rich part of the world, or just one that has a lot of water. Fortunately I don’t think water is gonna be what makes Russia invade, don’t know what their supply looks like but I can’t imagine it’s not enough.

I know there are some very loud and dedicated haters out there, but “that no one wants”? Bro needs to get out of his bubble.

oh, I thought he didn’t care?

It’s named like that because it was what he thought was an ideal relationship, though? No?