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Their approach seems familiar. Many years ago your nation use to go to England, visit the plants, and steal textile manufacturing trade secrets.

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/201...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012...

you forgot to find a way to include a reference to tiananmen square in your rant.

"A few hundred thousand .." ? It looks like your count may be a bit low. Here's a report just about a single ethnic group in China:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/22/chinas-mass-internment-camps-have-no-clear-end-in-sight/

Around 1 million Uighurs have disappeared without trial. Worse may come.

The military has propulsion, guidance, and control systems at least 2 generations ahead of what's available publicly.

They really don't.

Who gives a shit what they claim?

Foreign companies absolutely do give a shit, as the DOJ has over the years imposed billions of dollars of fines on some of them. The U.S. don't only "claim", they actually follow through with their threats regarding what they call "secondary sanctions".

whatever you say my dude enjoy eating your pets commie

Things change.
Once, America did not care about IP. Europeans were fuming at the rampant patent and copyright infringement, and blatant espionage to steal trade secrets.
American factories were mass-producing cheap knock-offs of British goods. Printers paid no royalties.

Eventually, the American companies started innovating, and American writers became common. So some of the states started to make and enforce IP laws.
This annoyed a bunch of people, so they moved West to avoid patent law, and that is how we got Hollywood.

Why America was the China of the 19th century.

This is not an excuse, not saying China's theft should be ignored. Just adding some context.

Looks like this Yahoo-only news story is being picked up by the right-wing echo chamber. Since the news media isn't picking up on this story, I'm going to call it fake news.

Not yahoo-only, in fact, it was reported here before Yahoo picked it up: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
and here: https://www.thisisinsider.com/...
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22952/chinas-dismantling-of-cia-spy-ring-highlights-growing-dystopian-like-surveillance-state
https://www.foxnews.com/us/officials-fear-china-compromised-us-covert-communications-report-says

and it's been picked up elsewhere: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

as you are both black as coal. Actually they probably have the higher moral ground as aren't straight up funding coups like the CIA did.

. . . Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
https://chinachange.org/2017/1...
https://www.sciencealert.com/c...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared!

Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
Holy Mother of God !!!!!
And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
The devil with those jackals!
The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
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Also, I highly recommend you read this article for its information on fascism's history and methods:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...

Why more sanctions wont help venezuela :

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...

German Army trains with broomsticks instead of rifles and vans instead of tanks.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/...

German Air Force grounded.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...

Few NATO members carrying their share of mutual defense obligations, Germany is leading in this trend.

And when Berlin decides it will not pony up the promised 2 percent of GDP for its NATO contribution, other laggard countries follow its example. Only six of the 29 NATO members (other than the U.S.) so far have met their promised assessments.

https://www.realclearpolitics....

I was going to post more but it was depressing to see the land of my ancestors in such a sorry condition. If you want me to believe that Europe has enough mineral oil and erdgas for Germany on top of what they produce for themselves then I need to see that. I'm not finding it, they are buying erdgas from Russia too. Russia doesn't just provide 40% of erdgas that Germany burns, they supply 40% of erdgas that all of Europe burns.

You think the USA will provide you erdgas? Our Democrat Party blocked the Keystone XL pipeline that was supposed to expand our ability to export oil and gas. Like the democrats in Germany they think we should stop drilling for erdgas and use windmills to power heat pumps for warming our homes and heating our water.

Personally, I would be more concerned about a properly bribed election official or two losing votes in a voting machine or even worse, a voting machine with remote access https://www.newsweek.com/elect....

This article from Vox highlights one of vote-by-mail strengths which is that it is very distributed and hard to tamper with at large scale. It's second strength is that is a fair process making voting accessible to anyone who is registered to vote. No need for polling places or special times and days, only a voting deadline of when your vote must be in an order to be counted. https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

of course, if you want to steal an election, here's your how to: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...

Given the current ideology running rampant around the world, it's only a matter of time before the idea of "Human Rights" is trashed altogether.

Don't believe me? Hell even the Human Right's strongest supporters are starting to have doubts about their current tactics.

I don't think the powers that be are worried about the fallout from using a lazer like this. Rather, I think they are more focused on how to use it covertly to create FUD, and how to increase the power to be able to harm more than the unprotected masses.

Let us cut to the chase, what evidence would be needed to cause you to concede you were in error here? Just hypothetically.

Republicans must lead an effort to impeach Trump.

Yep, that's a high bar. But I have high standards, unlike Republicans.

Everything Trump has actually accomplished is something Republicans have been trying to achieve for years, or in some cases decades. (Note that several "accomplishments" on that list are not actually accomplishments or even things which have happened; for example "cutting government waste" while he has several cabinet members appearing before congress for frankly outrageous misuse of taxpayer funds, or "Defeating the Islamic State", which also has not happened.) Republicans might personally dislike Trump, but they are fully behind his actions. They are acting like they aren't in order to save face; at the end of all this they can say "he wasn't our candidate, but we had to work with him".

The "grab pussy" tape was from a private conversation in 2005.

Not only was the conversation not private, but it wasn't even supposed to be private, that's why there is a recording of it.

You should have brought up "shithole" comment from 2017. But even his shithole statement was from a private conversation. It wasn't offensive, it was factual.

That conversation also wasn't private (obviously) and it was also offensive, because America has been shitting on those countries. It's the equivalent of the school bully pissing on your pants in the bathroom, then calling you piss-pants.

Lower black unemployment.

Stop saying this shit. Less blacks eligible for unemployment benefits, not lower unemployment. Those statistics are shit and anyone who believes them really is an idiot.

ISIS obliterated (Obama said would take decades).

ISIS was just one head of the hydra, it's a minor accomplishment and it's to clear the table to make room for the next war.

Disarming North Korea

That was China.

and more support for Israel (personally important to me)

You mean the genocidal state that murders more journalists than almost anywhere else on the planet (they're #2) to try prevent the stories of their genocidal ways from getting out?

Withdrawal from TPP and the Paris accords.

TPP is gone to make room for TTIP. Withdrawing from the Paris accords was brain damaged.

More funding for the NIH.

Trump tried to destroy the NIH budget, idiot. He was forced to fund it.

Here are some citations that contradict you and support my claims

"Germany’s carbon emissions haven’t declined for nearly a decade and the German Environment Agency calculated that Germany emitted 906 million tons of CO2 in 2016 — the highest in Europe — compared to 902 million in 2015. And 2017’s interim numbers suggest emissions are going to tick up again this year.

Germany is now in serious danger of hitting neither its 2020 nor its 2030 emissions targets, the very benchmarks that it browbeat other nations into adopting at previous climate conferences. Leading German think tanks agree that Germany can’t, at its current rate, slash emissions enough in the next two years to reduce its carbon output by 40 percent (compared to its 1990 levels) or 55 percent by 2030. "

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/...

MIT review:

"Germany Runs Up Against the Limits of Renewables

Even as Germany adds lots of wind and solar power to the electric grid, the country’s carbon emissions are rising. Will the rest of the world learn from its lesson?"

https://www.technologyreview.c...

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”

https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/come...

The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda

Countries are allowed to defend themselves you know - Anyhow, it is perfectly fine for America to do this - that's the hidden issue with whataboutism. While presumably to show that your hated opponenet is hypocritical, it merely says that it is okay for you, the aggrieved innicent to do it, because your hated enemy does it. And two groups doing the same thing have to be the same.

Ain't it great tovarish?

Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.

These 2 are about America expanding it's propaganda to domestic audiences, that's a kind of trolling isn't it? http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/... https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

My Gawd! This is an outrage. Time for only other countries, preferably ones who know of 'Murrica's evil wayds to disseminate any news to Americans.

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey said a number of curious things, but one comment in particular stood out. When asked about Russian influence in the U.S. election and the ability to combat a foreign actor’s misinformation campaign, the Director said, “We need to arm ourselves with good troll armies pushing back.”

https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/come...

The U.S. Department of Defense spent an average of more than US$626 million annually on propaganda

Pentagon employees account for 40 percent of the federal public relations workforce and also have the highest combined salaries, the audit revealed.

These 2 are about America expanding it's propaganda to domestic audiences, that's a kind of trolling isn't it?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...

Why lie and lose credibility and lose the point you were trying to make? You were so close. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/... The US gave tactical support when Iraq gassed Iran, but Iraq made them themselves. It could be argued this same situation is happening with Russia and Syria now.

Russia can lose 300+ people and go on like nothing happened. America would pull out after losing fewer than that... To prevent the mission from failing due to public opinion turning American generals want to keep losses to absolute minimums — and that's why they want machines to do the fighting.

FTA:

According to Airwars, more than 2,500 civilians have been killed by the US-led coalition, which has admitted to killing only roughly 220 civilians. In recent months, the Pentagon said it has taken strides to investigate a backlog of claims while starting to release monthly civilian casualty assessments.

Hmmm. What is Airwars?

Sources of funding include Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Open Society Foundations and Stichting Democratie en Media.

Hmmm. What is Open Society Foundations

Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.

Ahhh. George Soros. My work here is done. Actually, not really. I like logical arguments, and I don't like winning arguments based on ad hominem. But it is fun. So now to some alternative opinion (Dated Sept 2017):

Out of the 270 allegations obtained from Airwars that have been assessed thus far, 258 have been assessed as non-credible. Of those, 119 were assessed as non-credible because the Coalition did not conduct a strike near the area of the allegation. Another 60 of those allegations were so vague in regard to the date and location of the alleged casualties that they were impossible to assess. The remaining 79 allegations were found to be non-credible due to lack of sufficient evidence or are still being assessed.

To date, based on data collected between August 2014 and July 2017, the Coalition conducted a total of 24,160 strikes that included 51,038 separate engagements.

The percentage of all Coalition engagements that resulted in a report of possible civilian casualties is 2.29 percent. The percentage of engagements that resulted in a credible report of civilian casualties was 0.32 percent.

It wasn't written this year, but I think it still adds some perspective to the difficulty in making sure that reports are credible.

The Color of Crime, 2016 Revised Edition
Quote: "In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race."
Another quote: "If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent."

Do black Americans commit more crime?
Quote: "Blacks were disproportionately likely to commit homicide and to be the victims. In 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for whites and the victimization rate was six times higher."
However, that web site is a TV station in Belfast Ireland.

There Are No Successful Black Nations.
The author of that article, Chigozie Obioma, is a black Nigerian.

Detroit bullet proof glass

Average annual income Haiti

Health Information for Travelers to Haiti

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/...

That's what Presidents do. You don't burn bridges unnecessarily.

Is that what you said when Obama did the same thing?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/...

And so did Obama:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/03/09/obama-congratulates-putin-for-election-win/

But, the difference is Obama did it for the right reasons, and Trump did it today for the wrong reason.

>> causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, maimings, starvation?
> Nope, we have not caused any of this. Notably, you aren't even attempting to cite examples.

Have you never even heard of us deposing the democratically elected ruler of Iran?

Are you even remotely aware of what the CIA has done in South America?

Here's the Washington Post calling that out. Here's them listing 72 times we did that. And this is just the Washington Post, one of the papers most critical of Trump. Here are 7 governments we've overthrown.

Please read some history. There's a ton of stuff they never bother to mention in history class for some reason...

Once again the fearful USA is left behind by the boldness of China in adopting and utilizing advanced technology. Under globalism, those who do not keep up are destined to be left behind in the dust. There is also a significant first-mover advantage as whoever adopts these technologies first realizes a distinct advantage over the timid ones who wait too long. The American response has been one of avoidance and evasion. Why? Because Americans seem to fear that if they stare at reality squarely, they will find reality staring back in a most discomforting way.

A lot of smart people are starting to argue in favor of the China Model. It avoids the pitfalls of American dumbocracy, of which the hazards are only too clear after the results 2016 election. Political meritocracy has a lot of upside, in fact a better word for it might be "vertical democratic meritocracy". Democracy works well at the lower levels of government. But, in a huge country, as you go up the political chain of command, the issues become more complex and mistakes become more costly. Thereâ(TM)s a need to institutionalize a system to select and promote leaders with superior qualities. China has it, and America is trying with all its might to pretend globalism doesn't exist and it can still get by with its antiquated system. Democracy on the bottom, experimentation in the middle, and meritocracy on top is a good way of thinking about how to govern a large country.

That doesn't allow domestic propaganda. This does:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/...

Oddly enough, hardly a peep was made about the news then or since.

If someone asks for evidence, present the most compelling and convincing evidence you have.

The evidence we now have is very substantial but circumstantial.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/...

https://www.newyorker.com/news...

Demanding evidence from Slashdot commenters when there is an ongoing - and accelerating - investigation going on by Robert Mueller is pretty disingenuous. By the way, that investigation has already produced arrests and convictions of Trump associates.

You gotta admit, for someone with "no collusion", there sure are a lot of people lying about dealings with Russians. A lot of effort being expended in order to cover up something that they claim doesn't exist.

That is 100% pure American Exceptionalism and Obama himself spent considerable time debunking that very concept. Nobody believes in it any more except a bunch of jingoist fools and alt-right trolls.

The Myth of the Indispensable Nation: The world doesn't need the United States nearly as much as we like to think it does. Like many foreign policy concepts overwhelmingly endorsed by officials and policymakers, this one has little basis in reality. If you consider everything encompassing global affairs - from state-to-state diplomatic relations, to growing cross-border flows of goods, money, people, and data - there are actually very few activities where America's role is truly indispensable, defined by Webster's as "absolutely necessary." The problem with allowing this classification of Americaâ(TM)s global role to persist is that it is so patently false, and thus an illogical basis upon which to base and prescribe U.S. grand strategy. Indispensable nations on the right side of history don't lose votes in the UN 200-9.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016...

After arriving at Central Station in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, the boys made their way to the Migration Agency registration office, where the agency assigned them to one of the 34 refugee residences here. In the youth residences, Afghan males dominate: another on-the-ground expression of a geopolitical reality. Because Sweden grants permanent residency to all Syrians, Syrian men don't need to pretend to be boys, and only 3,777 of the unaccompanied minors arriving in Sweden last year came from the ravaged country. But with no such blanket asylum in place for Afghans, they - and a likewise disproportionate number of Somalis and Eritreans - often appear to claim asylum as unaccompanied minors. Recent figures provided by the Migration Agency show that more than half of the 41,564 Afghans who arrived in Sweden in 2015 claimed as unaccompanied minors.

I.e. it's pretty obvious a lot of people are lying about their age to get asylum.

If the rest of the worlds leaders can resist opening their mouths there is a good chance Iran can be another success story like Tunisia.

I don't think it is a good chance. After all, Obama stayed out of it during the 2009 protests and they still failed.

But I would say that it is their best chance. Unfortunately, the mullahs have already seized on the "foreign interference" excuse by citing Tom Cotton's self-serving statement.

Why is it your only counter argument is to bring up two news sources that are not at all relevant and unmentioned?

Because I do not wish to be limited by your selection bias?

You're not disproving the point, which is that our credible, mainstream media staffed by highly educated, erudite journalists, regularly produces fake news.

So Fox News and Breitbart are staffed by uneducated, mouth breathing monkeys, and that excuses their well-documented tendency for producing fake news? Selection bias.

It's a simple matter of psychology: post misleading news, wait for people to react, it's something known as "impression formation". Once an impression has been formed, it sticks. This is how they psyop the masses.

Scary how well the description fits.

The greatest danger to our nation comes from a free press that chooses sides in the political process. And that has openly and unapologetically taken place.

Openly, with fanfare, and long before you portray it to have happened.

Better than President Obama's policy of strategic patience, where you simply wait until the other side has violated every condition and exhausted all your options. Then it's too late, and it's now called strategic neglect. Ignoring a problem and hoping it goes away usually doesn't work in real life...

Okay, how has Trump's policy been more effective? The whole point of North Korea getting nuclear weapons as fast as possible is to deter other countries like the United States from messing with them. Trump's actions have either accelerated their efforts or done nothing, meaning their rate of progress remains as fast as possible. They have definitely increased the odds of a tragic mistake occurring.

Trump doesn't have the credibility to pull off a seriously threat. He lies too much. No one takes him seriously on anything. Hell he lies about even things he admitted, such as the Access Hollywood tape.

Actually the current tax bill is the opposite of what we need on North Korea. Being more in debt to China which protects North Korea for their own interests, does not help our North Korean problem. Of course deficits don't matter when the republicans are in charge. They will just pass their crap and then blame all the fallout on the next democrat or the previous, or people that never even got elected such as Hillary.

Better than President Obama's policy of strategic patience, where you simply wait until the other side has violated every condition and exhausted all your options. Then it's too late, and it's now called strategic neglect. Ignoring a problem and hoping it goes away usually doesn't work in real life...

Even Chinese scientists are scared of China's lockdowns, and the quote is "The senior CAS official I spoke to clearly stated that the level of international collaboration currently enjoyed at LHC experiments will not be achievable at the Chinese supercollider". This will be an issue for all these major projects being done out of China. So my issue isn't about the US and a super collider (which we gave up on, even though we built the tunnels in Texas) but that the Communist party will own any and all tech that is produced there.

Every time you talk to someone, you "manipulate" him. Spending tax dollars on communicating with the tax payers is perfectly legal in most countries — including, since recently, the US.

I fail to see, how a country with anything like the First Amendment can possibly ban any entity, private, commercial, or governmental — except the country's own government — from performing such "opinion shaping".

Yes - Russian support of Brexit is well documented.

It's worth pointing out that corporate espionage is not frowned upon in the East the way it is in the West.

Actually, the West is also heavily engaged in economic espionage. Many Western intelligence services, perhaps most notoriously the French, view economic espionage in the name of giving French industry an advantage, is a core national mission. Nearly every other nation engages in this. The United States tends to be shier about this than others given national laws against corporate espionage, but that doesn't mean it doesn't flirt in the gray areas of this as well.

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

lol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://web.stanford.edu/class...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

You do realize that they don't manipulate their currency right?.. that has been proven many MANY times over.

  And its not a matter of respecting IP that's the issue.. The larger cause for concern is basically an espionage group having the ability to review and possibly steal/alter code. IP is stolen all the time.. (from everyone)..

And a blanket embargo won't do anything other than make the local citizens hurt.. (its not like wages rise as fast as COL).. And salaries have been depressed for the last 30 years.

Actually, the value of their currency is defined by the central bank which is controlled by the government. It has been well documented that they have manipulated their currency. As AC said: "The RMB is a managed float and by definition is manipulated by the central bank to fulfill the "managed". That doesn't even consider the impacts of other policies they institute, such as those on foreign/domestic investment."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/...

As far as IP theft goes, please show me the Chinese product or military hardware stolen by the US and put into production to damage Chinese business. Drawing equivalence between the US keeping tabs on the world for security purposes and China stealing IP at a massive rate from every successful business on the planet for the purpose of undercutting them and boosting their own economy is not justified by the facts, to the point of being an assinine assertion.

China's economy is what fuels their military and their government. Their booming economy https://www.google.com/search?...: is the only reason that they have not democratized long ago, in similar fashion to the USSR. When things get bad enough for the citizenry, they start to rebel. When a country can't feed it's army, it either disbands, or overthrows the government.

FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks than any other domestic extremist group over the past 16 years and were likely to carry out more attacks over the next year, according to an intelligence bulletin obtained by Foreign Policy.

Even as President Donald Trump continues to resist calling out white supremacists for violence, federal law enforcement has made clear that it sees these types of domestic extremists as a severe threat. The report, dated May 10, says the FBI and DHS believe that members of the white supremacist movement “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”

And not because Samsung is headquartered in a country that is in the mood for a little trustbusting...

First of all, thank you for agreeing/conceding, Snowden and Manning really were traitors. Most refreshing...

I don't remember taking a position on that...

Why would they — after gleefully reprinting WikiLeaks for years — be so reserved all of a sudden? To protect the secret from spreading further? Nope — if Putin knows it already, there is no point in keeping quiet any more.

I would guess that in the wikileak case they are sharing information that is already publicly available. It would land a journalist in jail if they publicly shared code word classified intelligence.

Had they told you the contents, you would've shrugged and lost the outrage

Apparently Israeli intelligence officials were outraged - shouting at their American counterparts in meetings. Israel changed their intelligence sharing with U.S. after Trump disclosed the top secret Israeli intelligence to top Russian officials . That puts American lives at risk. People ought to be outraged.

Yeah. I don't know why this would surprise anyone.
China has a ton of people and they've made R&D a national priority.

Even without that the typical trend among emerging powers is to steal first and invent later.
This exactly the trajectory that the US took early on. See "Slater the Traiter" or look up check http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/....

Two very different groups care
"The Army Needs Anthropologists" July 28, 2015
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/...
Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons (28.02.05)
".. a low security clearance"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articl...

The majourity of Muslims live in Asia! Particular Indonesia, Malaysia, India and China, and if you want to count it in: Pakistan. All those nations have no problems with radical Muslims or Sharia.

Indonesia: "Aceh Province, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, stands alone in having formally established Shariah law in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country with a relatively secular Constitution. In Aceh, women are required to dress modestly, alcohol is prohibited, and numerous offenses -- from adultery to homosexuality to selling alcohol -- are punishable by public whipping.

Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) began its experiment with Shariah in 2001, after receiving special authorization from Indonesia's central government, which was intent on calming separatist sentiment in the deeply conservative region. Now, Shariah police officers roam the province, raiding everything from hotel rooms to beaches in a hunt for immoral activity.

In the decade and a half since, Indonesia as a whole has drifted in a conservative direction, and Aceh, once an outlier, has become a model for other regions of the country seeking to impose their own Shariah-based ordinances, alarming those who worry about the nation's drift from secularism."

Malaysia: "The Malaysian Parliament is set to debate a controversial bill that could see stricter forms of sharia law introduced in the state of Kelantan, but critics have warned the so called hudud bill would result in whippings and even the amputations of limbs for crimes such as theft. [..] Kelantan's state capital Kota Bahru is deeply religious and many of its citizens live by a strict adherence to Islam. At shops and supermarkets there are separate queues for males and females, while signs advising women to cover up are common outside offices and government buildings."

India: An interesting political situation with a complex history. The Muslims there are said to be very much not extremists. But maybe that's more because of the history and the current political climate, where Hindus are the dominant population and agitators (after having been dominated earlier by Muslims themselves), and the Muslims that are there were the ones who stayed in India, while practically all the Indians left Pakistan during the split. Even so, India still suffers Islamic terror attacks, especially from neighboring Pakistan (remember those bloody borders), and there are calls for Muslim-rule areas within India.

Pakistan: A hotbed of terrorism and militant Islam, and dominated by Sharia.

China has problems with Islamic separatists, but they are an authoritarian state and have managed to keep a lid on it.

Other countries you haven't mentioned:

Afghanistan: Taliban and al Qaeda.

Philippines: Home to an Islamic separatist movement. In the news recently.

Or I can name several countries in Africa, like Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia.

Or I could talk about Russia.

I'm going to stop here because I don't want to make an exhaustive list.

Turkey was "safe" before Erdogan came

Yes, because a popular military commander picked up the pieces from the Ottoman empire and forced a secular government on the nation. Several military coups and a nearly century later, it's being undone by an elected Muslim leader, and the last military coup has failed.

Do you see a pattern here? ISLAM HAS BLOODY BORDERS. It's founding prophet was a military warlord who imposed Sharia law.

The ISIS idiots on the other hands are simply power hungry idiots. That they es