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Reading between the lines? Somehow I think we live in different “perception” world.
Need to send terminator back to that time.
Even Xi likes SF not Austin 
There are many landmarks in SF where you know right away they are in SF. What landmarks are there in Austin? Or even in the state of Texas? The entire state is featureless.
Many years ago I read a piece explaining why even the conservatives in California are sorta environmentalists but in Texas people just bulldoze everything. It’s because the CA landscape is so majestic, so stunningly beautiful people can’t help but fall in love with it. But in Texas the natural environment is so fugly and hostile they don’t mind tearing everything down.
SF deteriorates so much that SFers can only bask in the past and talk down a hot city in an unrelated thread. 
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Why is Xi suddenly more friendly to the US?
May have something to do with this chart. China’s GDP peaks at around 75% of US level in 2022, and has been going downhill fast. China is just a bigger size Soviet Union.
https://twitter.com/maria_drutska/status/1724882528169775335
Well said 
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1724877989978980393
Some dude said the following many years ago:
The German nation wishes to live in peace with the rest of the world.
The German Government wishes to come to a peaceful agreement with other
nations on all difficult questions.
We desire peace perhaps more than all others, since we need it in order to create
bread for the millions of our unemployed fellow-countrymen.
Nobody here desires a repetition of war.
Who is this peaceful guy?
Hitler. He said many peaceful BS in 1933. On multiple occasions. No doubt many naive people believed him at the time.
https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/HITPEACE.pdf
Misunderstanding exacerbated by emotional-burdened ex-Hong Kongers.
Listen to knowledgeable Keyu, not a certain ex-HKer.
Chinese economy in the toilet and young people don’t dare have any ambitions nowadays. Better just get a government job and cruise for life.
More than three million people took China’s annual civil service exam on the weekend, state media reported on Monday, a record number that underscores young people’s concerns about getting a secure job in a rocky economy.
“After all, the general environment is not good,” one user of the Weibo social media platform said of economic prospects as posts about the civil service exam surged.
“Companies are laying off employees and closing down in large numbers. It is not stable at all, so I have to choose to be a civil servant. The less earnings is fine. At least I won’t be unemployed and starve to death.”
Obviously didn’t watch the Keyu interview
video.
China under Xi is obsessed with “national security”. This is the paradox of being the absolute dictator.
Next time don’t use a glowing alarm clock. Wonder what happened to that foreigner. Did he suffer from a sudden heart attack?
