I guess Japan has had enough of getting embarrassed by Chinese contractors in HSR and transit projects lol

A home-grown coalition of 11 perpetrators, working in concert, with access to weapons and explosives, and who were paid by an unknown benefactor?

$16B US revenue, doubling YoY, gross margin likely in the 70s. Even at the P/S of an established company like Facebook, TikTok's US operations would be worth on the order of $200B. That's on par with the largest acquisitions in history and dwarves Nvidia's acquisition attempt of ARM.

The Soviet Union's greatest error was not allying itself with the PRC. Not only would the PRC provide a massive labour market and an ideologically-aligned ally, but the agricultural output of the PRC in terms of high-value foodstuffs (fruit, seafood, etc.) is immense. In fact, the PRC's main agricultural limitation is it's insufficient ability to produce basics (rice, soybean, corn, wheat, etc.), which is the singular thing that the Soviet Union can produce extremely well.

Arabic, Latin American, Southeast Asian, Chinese (obviously), Indian (obviously)...

Wait, isn't this the same map of countries which recognize Palestine?

We have investigated ourselves and found us clear of all wrongdoing.

Ports are "profitable," but absurdly complex to build and manage. The reason many countries don't have deep water ports is because they can't afford to build one.

However, the economic impact of a port is, without question, a benefit to the Peruvian economy.

Because China bad duh, go away tankie

Lee Duna has a pretty clear agenda lol

Might be based out of Fort Liberty for all we know

The total cost of the Lanxin Express is as high as 143.5 billion yuan (US$20 billion), and each suspension may cause losses of hundreds of millions of yuan.

The Lanxin line connects Lanzhou (4.4 million people) with Urumqi (4 million people). The Express line is currently used mostly to relieve freight traffic on the parallel conventional-speed line.

IIRC it was thought to be better to build a high-speed alignment than to build another low-speed one because of the costs inherent in laying 1776km of track in some of the least hospitable conditions on the planet. The marginal cost of building a high-speed line wasn't that much greater than the cost of building another line in the first place.

This statement is missing context. Under One China policy (the status quo between the CPC and the KMT up until 2016), the Taiwan Strait was considered territorial waters with the median line used to delineate the divide. In the recent years leading up to 2016, neither party crossed this line.

In 2016, the DPP took power and declared that One China policy no longer holds, thus, that the Taiwan Strait is an international waterway.

I don't understand how China has scaled their solar industry so quickly while India's languishes in some back alley.