China’s offering of the zero-tariff policies to Africa may lock African countries firmly into China’s sphere of control.

Why don’t other countries also offer African states zero-tariff policies to compete?

But if AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) is used to build regional production systems, pool supply, harmonise standards and connect producers with processors and logistics hubs, China’s market could become an external demand engine for African value chains

Letting a UK crafted spin-off of the WTO control your continental trade policies?

It’s certainly an idea.

Can’t believe another country would just engage in espionage like that.

Glad we have a privatized panopticon of AI-powered mega-corps to protect all our precise sensitive data from the Dragon of the East.

While most of the terms related to defense and technology, the intruders also searched for some medical research facilities – and the very specific pathogen, “Chikungunya,” a viral disease transmitted to humans from mosquitoes that was responsible for an outbreak in China’s Guangdong province in July 2025.

Those motherfuckers are trying to steal our medical research to diagnose and treat a local disease epidemic? Without paying us for it?!

Make the call to Omaha. We begin bombing in twenty minutes.

Sorry. It’s fascism. Only thing you can do is double down

Really depends on what is in the pill and what happens if you get the formula wrong.

Idk, this sounds like cope.

India has an enormous energy demand and a lot of money. I’m sure a bunch of middle men are cleaning up, but I doubt anyone in Mumbai is enjoying a cheaper energy bill

At this point though, the market has largely diversified itself away from Russia.

Russia is doing plenty of business into India and China

US and Europe forced this war into a stalemate by not allowing Ukraine to do what was necessary in the early period.

This sounds like some kind of Hegseth rant. The US/EU wasn’t holding Ukraine back, it was juicing them up. The entire military budget for the country is being backfilled by NATO treasury notes. “Ah, but if we’d been just a bit more aggressive…” It’s all just Monday Morning Quarterbacking. “Shoulda thrown more Hail Marys to win the game.”

How’s that going with Iran?

Wasn’t this what blowing up the bridge back in 2022 was about?

Big storm hitting the Gulf during a global gas shortage?

Would be a fun week for the market

You’re literally in a world full of magic and fairies, but you aren’t willing to accept the Teleportation Stone destroys your body and then transports your ephemeral, eternal soul-essence, before reconstituting you into a new form?

Beginning to think big businesses care more about generating revenue than showing solidarity.

Spending ten hours of spamming resumes to get one hour on an interview call sounds like a bad way to make money

I spend all my sick days and a non-negligible number of vacation days on the kind of chores you can only get done during work hours. Back when we had “Work From Home”, I would also squeeze these tasks in during my lunch break.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it.

Well, good luck with that. My retired mother-in-law helps a lot with my son when he’s ill. And we can juggle my son between our individual sick-day allotments such that I haven’t run out yet. But yeah, eventually they’re all just “hours to spend that my boss won’t gripe at me for when I use them”. That’s meant dipping into vacation days when I needed to justify not being on the clock.

This is how you know they’ve fallen to the fucking commies.

How the living fuck do they expect this to work?

Police commit stocastic violence against the underclass, then justify the abuse by saying “we found illegal activity on their cell phones”

I’ve also done reading about what else the CCP does to people it doesn’t like

The US churns out propaganda by the bucket load. I’m sure you’ve heard all sorts of crazy shit.

I do wonder if you’ve noticed how often organs like the Epoch Times and New York Post co-mingle reactionary takes against the Chinese government with Republican talking points.

Being surprised at this is also like being surprised the Nazis used imprisoned Jews as slave labour.

Believing a pro-Nazi media when they tell you who to hate is certainly a vibe

Between Alberta, Greenland, Taiwan, and Israel, I’m excited to see how many new stars we’re going to add to the American Flag during the Glorious MAGA Era.

I mean, I’ve read the article. I don’t know if you’ve done the same. Nothing in it is more than allegations and assumptions by Facebook users yelling at one another.

It’s no different than if someone did an article about Lemmy and reported “Multiple moderators have confirmed that a large Russian-financed anti-American coalition known as ‘Tankies’ have harassed God-fearing Israel-loving American truth-speakers on the platform.”

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