Yeah it would require congressional approval. But that's not beyond the realm of possibility as there is bipartisan support for Taiwan in the Congress.
LastSprinkles
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I'm doubtful that it would trigger a major conflict. More likely China would express public outrage but not do anything about it. But it has to be done swiftly so they don't have time to react before it's in force.
If we're really learning from mistakes in Ukraine then Taiwan should be recognised as an independent country and admitted into a formal alliance. Not admitting Ukraine into NATO was the mistake we made there and it's being repeated in Taiwan.
He's afraid Prigozhin will run.
Chinese government nowadays is just as fascist as Mussolini was back in the day. Revanchist and extremely nationalistic tendencies are strong. They think they are the future superpower and are salivating at the thought of oppressing the entire world under their yoke. I'll take that they call "US hegemony" over the Chinese oppression any day, don't need to think about it.
Honestly as somebody who's done one of these tests, they're genuinely not very hard but they do require you to do a few hours of prep. The actual application though is very long and tedious asking you to obtain information from the government only to copy it into the application form and send it back to the government. Needless tedium really. Not to mention having to find character witnesses who have to work in specific professions and must have known you for years.
This has been the exact same story for decades. Linux is great for certain professional endeavours/for work, but it doesn't really have the ecosystem for gaming that exists on Windows. You can run Linux from inside Windows if you just need a few applications. But sadly, beyond a few publishers who make their games Linux compatible, if you want to game without hassle then Windows is your best bet.
Yeah Reddit won but the Reddit users lost. Lost access to awesome apps most of all. I personally think it's fair for Reddit to charge for API access but it seems hardheaded to charge orders or magnitude more per user than they make on their own platform through advertising. I currently only use Reddit on desktop because I'm not going to use their crappy official app. Indeed I lost out, congrats Spez on your victory. In the meantime I'm on Lemmy more than I used to be and I hardly ever comment on Reddit posts anymore.
If he keeps going like that, Uncle Sam might soon throw in free room and board for him.
Thanks for the tip
China never imposes its will on other countries, nor does it slip any selfish geopolitical agenda into the initiative
Hahahaha. Sure. Except when they cancel trade deals with Australia and bully small European countries. I'm SURE this is just free money out of the goodness of dictator Xi's heart.
Sometimes I think driving licenses should require regular revalidation in the form of a driving retest. People acquire bad habits and begin to ignore rules, people age as in this case and their abilities are no longer up to the standard they were when they got the license. Doing this every 5 years and maybe reducing it to every 2 years once over 70 or some such.