I don’t know what caused the ceasefire, I’m only saying they were able to and got the last volley in. Which made Israel vow revenge, but Israel still stopped. Who won? I don’t know. But I am saying Iran didn’t lose, which for such a weak military is a victory in and of itself.

I don’t understand how people can be so ignorant. It’s not just about Iran’s losses, if the other side is degraded just as much, that’s a victory for Iran. Israel’s iron dome was degraded enough that at the end they only had 65% effectiveness. This allowed Iranian missiles to strike hospitals, their cheap drones were able to penetrate. In fact, it was Iran who launched the last volley to which Israel initially said they would retaliate but then backed off. Israel isn’t even reporting casualty rates anymore because the numbers are too high. Do you really think those strikes happened because Iran was using expensive hypersonic missiles that they were never known to have had?

Everyone knows on paper Iran’s military is older and weaker. And still they fought their way into a ceasefire in which they got to have the last volley.

This is the problems with western thinking. Everything has to do with the west. Everything China does apparently is because of the west, or in this case USA. This has nothing to do with the west or USA. It also doesn’t really have all that much to do with humanity either. As many have noted, China cares about China. Since they care about China, it’s in their best interest to fund something like the WHO in order to prevent diseases spreading as that can obviously effect China. Diseases don’t care about borders.

It’s the same reason China cares about green tech. Sure it helps humanity, but it’s mostly to save China for the future Chinese. If the side effect is the world gets cleaner, all the better. Of course the west twists it as China is developing green tech to have a monopoly on green tech. Hey, if you can do better, do it. Otherwise you’re literally burning down the world because China does it better.

Why? I can tell you now that the Chinese delegation will essentially say nothing and simply report publically what the US is asking for. Something that other nations haven’t done yet to allow USA to save face. This isn’t something that China would be willing to do. China has no demands yet, nor any desire to end the trade war. What they do have a desire for is to make everything USA is trying to steal public knowledge.

China is actually surprisingly good at exposing fake news and always tells the truth. The problem is to understand China you need to read between the lines.

Let’s go over some common things people say China lies about.

1. Uyghurs. China admitted they are arresting insurgents and possible insurgents. The read between the lines is they’re saying they’re putting them into schools. It’s schools like the Canadian native American schools, but schools none the less.

2. China is a military super power. This one confuses me. China themselves have stated they do not believe they will be a military super power until 2050. So how could they possibly be lying about being one already?

3. Russian military equipment. There’s constant streams coming out of China about how bad Russian equipment is. They’re constantly exposing this.

That’s the thing about China. They’re gonna tell you the truth, but the truth comes with caveats. The reason I’m saying this even though I’m sure people here will down vote me, since anytime I post about understanding China people seem to get riled up here, I want people to at least understand what China is saying. It’ll make a lot more sense if you read between the lines. And since China is now a superpower, it’d be good for me people to understand what they are saying. Even if what you end up learning is they are indeed torturing people.

Going to make money off it. Once he flip flops on the tariffs, he’s going to make a shit ton of money in the market. But good news, all his corrupt billionaire friends will too, at the expense of the common man who voted for him. But don’t worry, he’ll spin it as a victory and the foaming at the mouth followers will eat it up like candy. /s About it being good, not the actual events.

Obviously. The right answer is to submit completely. You can’t have a war if you convince them you need to be alive if they want to keep raping you and your children in the ass. /s

And thus the cycle starts to repeat. It seems an eternal problem that people can’t separate individuals and their leaders, which always ends up one side violently killing the other for the actions of the few.

Zionists do not represent all Jews, this needs repeating.

No one knows. Here’s a video of Trump from a few days ago saying he’s willing to concede Taiwan.

https://youtu.be/Iv4N2uCZGhk

With that offer on the table, who knows how much China would be willing to pay Trump. Trump is just in it for himself. He just put a trillion dollar chip on the bargaining table.

I meant on a geopolitics level. China really doesn’t play the geopolitics games. They pretty much just do what they think is right for the nation (right or wrong) and tells everyone else to take care of their own shit. Today, this plan of doing nothing looks to be very successful.

*Edit: Obviously internally they’re doing a shit ton of stuff for their nation and their people. But externally, not so much.

China: I will do nothing and the world will fall to its knees before me.

How should I know? But you have Biden insisting he won’t enforce the law and Trump promising he’ll stop the ban and make sure tik tok stays. He’s even inviting their CEO to his inauguration. On the other hand it’s tik tok threatening to shutdown now if they don’t fix it sooner. It’s a strange turn of events but I have no idea why USA thinks begging is the appropriate move.

I mean seriously, if you want an answer ask the US government why all the important people like both presidents are begging. It’s not me making this decision.

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Don’t take my word for it. Here’s an article by the rolling stones magazine on it and how all the important people are scrambling to save tik tok. No joke, I’d like someone to explain why all these important people care.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-dems-tiktok-ban-1235239244/

The US won’t block it, but it will be blocked. Tik Tok itself said it will turn off it’s servers and block US ips like it did with India.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/index.html

So it will be tik tok itself enforcing the ban. Which is hilarious. USA showed all this bravado and now has to turn around and beg tik tok to return. I fully expect in the long run tik tok will be sold to Chinese agent Elon Musk and be turned into the spy apparatus US claims it to be. The whole situation shows what a clown USA is.

Rednote isn’t tik tok. You’ll absolutely be monitored on there. That’s an implicit agreement for all Chinese apps that has Chinese citizens as users. In fact they do what US government keeps accusing tik tok of but tik tok doesn’t do. If your worried about the Chinese government getting your info, absolutely do not use rednote. It wasn’t made for you to begin with. Accusing them of doing what they promised they would do however is a bit strange to me.

That’s China. They censor everything that could be viewed as an attack on something. Regardless of its veracity. It’s something the west doesn’t understand. They’re not censoring to hide something, they just censor regardless.

I mean joking aside, that’s what this means yes. It’s a common negotiation tactic. It’s like the businessman who comes into a meeting saying he’s never had to sell so the price is going to be very high.

But yes, this also matches up with the joke that whatever Russia says, believe the opposite. Except in this particular case it’s literally part of the art of negotiations. Not the Trump book.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha. USA tried. It failed so hilariously bad that they’re now actively protesting against new rail. There’s this crazy thing, rail needs to be near places people actually want to go. But those places have NIMBY voters, so populated areas won’t get rail. Instead they go to empty parking garages near malls. And then shocker, no one rides. It’s so bad in Denver that they’re using them as a case study to prevent expansion in Utah.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/12/08/uinta-basin-railway-case-supreme-court-arguments-colorado-river/

Wow, this shows absolutely no understanding of how ERA works. Let’s pretend for a second that the light steel in a truck is enough to protect against the backfire of an ERA brick. It’s not, but let’s pretend. Even then, only the door would be protected, everything else that’s on glass, which all of it pretty much is would backfire into the truck cabin. It’s like sticking grenades all over your truck.

Lol, yes yes it’s always so peaceful when you prepare weapons and arms. Molotovs as simple as they are are still something you have to prep. If you’re prepping bombs, you’re not going there peacefully. You are the one promoting school children deaths by telling them to attack people with weapons.

Always so peaceful preparing molotov cocktails and throwing rocks at soldier’s heads.

It was terribly one-sided. Some bold spirits threw stones. Others had bottles full of petrol– Molotov cocktails–prepared. But the soldiers reacted quickly. They chased after anyone young, beat them with their rifle butts and kicked them with their heavy armed boots.

https://www.koreasociety.org/images/pdf/KoreanStudies/Curriculum_Materials/LessonsbyTopic/History/The_Gwangju_Uprising.pdf