Posted in: Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts See in context
China is years ahead of Western automakers in battery technology, according to Ford’s CEO.
Jim Farley told The New York Times that Ford must access China’s battery IP if it wants to compete.
Ford CEO says Trump's tariffs are causing 'chaos' in auto industry
Ford CEO Farley: Lasting 25% tariff on Canada, Mexico would 'blow a hole' in US auto industry
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Posted in: Apple harvest threatened after heavy snow blankets Aomori See in context
The New Zealand varieties - Jazz, Royal Gala - are excellent and widely available in Tokyo.
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Posted in: Apple harvest threatened after heavy snow blankets Aomori See in context
fwiw, I think Aomori is home to one of Japan's most famous organic farmers, the guy that wrote the "kiseki no ringo" book, an occhan with a very photogenic big gap-toothed smile. I think he started doing the usual spray your apples 10 times in a full Hazmat suit thing (i.e., standard Japanese apple production) but gave up when his wife had a reaction to the pesticides. He covered his orchard floor with organic mulch and found that he could still get trees to thrive
Kimura Akinori is from HIrosaki, Aomori.
奇跡のリンゴ―「絶対不可能」を覆した農家 木村秋則の記録 (幻冬舎文庫)
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Posted in: Trump makes first big foray into Ukraine diplomacy, speaking to Putin, Zelenskyy See in context
What an idiot Hegseth is. You don’t start negotiations by surrendering your position.
As Hegseth has said, it is an illusionary goal.
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Posted in: Japan seeks exemption from U.S. steel, aluminum tariffs See in context
Trumps Tariffs on steel.
China is the winner here. We can consume the steel ourselves but all these other countries have no use for that much steel and rely on exporting steel.
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Posted in: Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole See in context
I am quite confident the emergency services did everything they could have to save this guy without the further loss of life.
Unfortunately just not fast enough. Have to in an emergency mode instead of politely shouting down into the sinkhole,”daijobu desu ka?”
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Posted in: Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? See in context
All if’s. If if and can. This could happen. That could happen. Corruption does not deserve security. The privacy infringement is part of the punishment.
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Posted in: Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole See in context
Saitama Gov Motohiro Ono told reporters that rescuers will attempt to remove the truck cabin after installing a temporary bypass pipe, but the process could take about three months.
Take your sweet old time.
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Posted in: Google changes name of Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' for U.S. users See in context
I actually hope American can colonize a poor country or a poor part of Canada and stabilize it. It is resource poor but strategically located. Eventual statehood would be beneficial to residents. Name the 51st state Trump and the capital city Donald.
No joke. Trump and Musk can experiment building a model authoritarian state. They’ll do a good job.
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Posted in: USAID is stripped of its lease and staffers turned away from DC headquarters See in context
USAID is being cut because the cruelty is the point. So far most of Trump/Musk’s actions have been to make life more miserable for people who can’t fight back.
Unfortunately, these are the consequences of corruption and it’s clean up. This is normal in China, the innocent suffer.
To rule 1.4 billion people well, that's what you have to do. The U.S. is only 330 million but you do what you have to do.
A couple of rotten apples? The whole bushel has got to go. Green moldy mikans? Toss the whole box out. Throw the baby out with the bath water,
Not all the chickens burned by Biden were bad were they?
By funneling money and keeping a slush fund, those who betrayed the trust are making life more miserable fir those who can’t fight back.
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Posted in: USAID is stripped of its lease and staffers turned away from DC headquarters See in context
Just wait until they go through Education, Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, the Pentagon and other agencies.
Then throw in tax cuts for the middle class, no tax on social security, no tax on tips and tax cuts for the top %. Things are looking good for Americans.
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Posted in: USAID is stripped of its lease and staffers turned away from DC headquarters See in context
$84 million to Chelsea! In China that would result in the death penalty for corruption.
The US government is a gift that keeps giving. You all should be grateful for Trump and Musk. They are saving you money both working for free. Trump isn’t taking a salary is he?
Truly public servants.
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Posted in: 2-week search ends for trapped driver inside sinkhole in Saitama See in context
family members would be pressuring the rescue team to try to do more and would be on every media outlet as possible.
Like the family member kidnapped by North Korea?
The appropriate authorities might consider introducing rapid-response rescue into training
Yes, way too slow. It only a few meters deep not 100 meters.
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Posted in: Ishiba proposes Nippon Steel invest in U.S. Steel rather than acquire it See in context
: LOL, LOL, LOL, This is a joke right. Invest in USS ??? Yeah right.
Adding salt to would.
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Posted in: Ishiba proposes Nippon Steel invest in U.S. Steel rather than acquire it See in context
Ishiba comes back tail between legs.
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Posted in: Trump says U.S. Steel will get investment from Nippon Steel, instead of being bought by it See in context
Trump is just on a roll. Got Nippon Steel to stop trying to buy USS. All the questions went to Trump. Ishiba hardly got asked any questions.
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Posted in: Democrats ask for investigation into DOGE's access to Treasury's payment systems See in context
Do you ever wonder if Musk isn't actually an agent working for the CCP?
The USAID is rather authoritarian carrying on as they please and not having to answer to anybody.
Musk is only enforcing the principle of a government for the people.
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Posted in: Democrats ask for investigation into DOGE's access to Treasury's payment systems See in context
Democrats' efforts to push back against spending cuts that President Donald Trump is seeking through DOGE could lead to a Washington showdown with possible broader repercussions.
You need accountability. Your country is a democracy of a plutocracy. You’re supposed to answer to the people and explain the funding for the transgender clinic in India the people paid for.
Did you send money to the Hamas? If you had accountability then you might not have missed payments or lose personal data.
Get through your head. You were wrong.
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Posted in: OpenAI looks across U.S. for sites to build its Trump-backed Stargate AI data centers See in context
Sam Altman choice of shoes shows OpenAI has plateaued.
The Japanese man’s non-binary tie is too long and the wrong color. It’s either red or blue. He also didn’t bother to button his jacket.
It’s a photo opportunity. You’re supposed to look good.
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Posted in: Ishiba says Trump isn’t as frightening in person as on TV See in context
Ishiba also said he wasn’t using their White House meeting to “suck up” to the U.S. president.
The lack of vocabulary and language expression is astonishing. Americans need to learn their own language better.
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Posted in: Trump says U.S. Steel will get investment from Nippon Steel, instead of being bought by it See in context
Ishiba described the investment as mutually beneficial and said Japanese technology would be provided to U.S. Steel mills.
The Americans have finally learned from the Chinese.
You get them to invest and hand over their technology, which they gladly do.
No Japanese would say the US is stealing technology from Japan unlike the Americans.
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Posted in: Trump says U.S. Steel will get investment from Nippon Steel, instead of being bought by it See in context
That calendar is a present a girl gives to her boyfriend in high school. Mr. Ishiba no wonder you failed in going to bat for Nippon Steel.
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Posted in: Asian shares mixed as DeepSeek lifts Chinese tech stocks See in context
Chinese technology stocks trading in Hong Kong appear poised to enter a bull market after AI models released by DeepSeek sparked renewed interest in China’s technology firms.
Chinese companies can afford top talent. Currently, ByteDance (Tik Tok) is recruiting newly graduated LLM computer science PhDs with a salary of 5 million RMB per year about $686,000 annual salary.
ByteDance however is currently lagging behind in the LLM competition.
Chinese technology companies that have gained a competitive advantage offer the best LLM PhDs without work experience, a salary of 20 million RMB/year, $2.7 million a year, plus a large number of shares.
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Posted in: Trump administration to keep only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally, sources say See in context
Trump gifts China world leader position.
Not at all, Trump is more of a world leader in Season 2. How can you not applaud what he's doing?
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Posted in: Trump administration to keep only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally, sources say See in context
There is no “aid” in USAID. From 10,000 to 300. You have to appreciate Trump.
"That's outrageous," said J. Brian Atwood, who served as head of USAID for more than six years,
The country is trillions in debt. Got to trim the fat. Take one for the team. And not all if you are doing humanitarian work.
Poison pen groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan secretly funded by the US to demonize China are set to crash and be DOGEd.
The groups which dutifully spread tales about the "Uyghur genocide" and "oppressed" Hong Kong and Taiwan need emergency cash after the withdrawal of hidden dollars from Washington DC.
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-us-funding-freeze-china-nonprofits-are-facing-extinction-they-need-emergency-assistance/
This comes from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the article written by Bethany Allen – a relentless China investigator, who now works for ASPI.
She fails to mention though that taking underhand cash from "adversary" nations for political interference is strictly illegal in the United States, and in Australia as well
ASPI I recall was the group that infamously issued aerial pictures of schools and buildings in China and falsely claimed that they were prisons in Xinjiang where the minorities were kept. The dead giveaway were the Chinese characters on various random municipal buildings. At least hire somebody who can read Chinese!
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Posted in: Trump unleashes a supercharged MAGA agenda and Republicans come aboard See in context
as he halts spending they appropriated and defending policies once anathema to mainstream GOP thinking
Poison pen groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan secretly funded by the US to demonize China are set to crash and be DOGEd.
The groups which dutifully spread tales about the "Uyghur genocide" and "oppressed" Hong Kong and Taiwan need emergency cash after the withdrawal of hidden dollars from Washington DC.
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-us-funding-freeze-china-nonprofits-are-facing-extinction-they-need-emergency-assistance/
This comes from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the article written by Bethany Allen – a relentless China investigator, who now works for ASPI.
She fails to mention though that taking underhand cash from "adversary" nations for political interference is strictly illegal in the United States, and in Australia as well
ASPI I recall was the group that infamously issued aerial pictures of schools and buildings in China and falsely claimed that they were prisons in Xinjiang where the minorities were kept. The dead giveaway were the Chinese characters on various random municipal buildings. At least hire somebody who can read Chinese!
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Posted in: Crunchy? U.S. finds live beetles hidden in Japanese snacks See in context
But while locusts, grasshoppers and crickets do find their way onto the Japanese dinner table, especially in rural areas, beetles are not commonly consumed.
Tokyo’s Take-Noko cafe offers dishes like cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, reflecting a growing interest in entomophagy, the practice of consuming insects as a sustainable source of protein.
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Posted in: Ishiba to pledge more LNG imports from U.S. in talks with Trump See in context
Of course it was to increase sales to Europe. Anything to eliminate a stronger competitor.
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Posted in: Ishiba to pledge more LNG imports from U.S. in talks with Trump See in context
Too bad relations with Russia isn’t better to the point of importing energy. That’s the way to gain Trump’s respect not buy more from the U.S.
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Posted in: Toyota announces EV and battery push in China and U.S., as its quarterly profit surges See in context
BYD says that Toyota hybrids still use technology from 15 years ago. It was shared in a neutral observation not necessarily critical.
*the technology is that good and endures.
*the technology is old and has not been improved.
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Posted in: Man arrested for scouting Japanese woman to be prostitute in U.S.
WhoreSpringsColorado: you should move to wherever it is you infected Japan from
Posted in: Explosion at Taiwan department store kills 4; 26 injured
Women used as objects. When will it ever end?
Posted in: Man arrested for scouting Japanese woman to be prostitute in U.S.
Posted in: Japan, China, S Korea eye foreign ministerial talks in Tokyo on March 22