“One of the things that Baudelaire, the poet, said is that the greatest trick of the devil was convincing the world that he didn’t exist. I think that we could apply the same thing to propagandists. You know, the greatest propaganda coup of the Western media is convincing themselves or/and convincing the world that they don’t do propaganda,” Noh lamented.
Scholar, journalist, and geopolitical analyst of the Asia-Pacific KJ Noh joins Misfits hosts Michelle Witte and John Kiriakou to discuss the sanctions announced Friday on Sputnik and RT’s parent organizations, whether the sanctions are truly about espionage and money laundering or about politics, and how the US has no problem obscuring its own influence operations targeting China.
Interview: Ukrainian/US escalations against Russia; the fascist pool of Japanese PM candidates; release of David Lin.
Some American companies are diversifying their supply chains away from China, and setting up new supplier relationships in India. However, analysis of trade flows suggests that India is simply increasing their buys from China to satisfy the new US demand.
In several key industries–green energy, electronics, and medicine–India’s dependency on China has soared. Instead of diversifying our risk, it is multiplied: American firms’ exposure to China is still there, while adding India’s.
India and China are both BRICS countries, along with Russia. Ironically as India’s assembly plants replace China’s in some US companies’ supply chains, India’s trade relationships with both China and Russia deepen.
The “Flag Raising Ceremony and Parade to Celebrate the National Day of the People’s Republic of China” will be held grandly at 12 noon on September 21, 2024 in San Francisco Chinatown. Everyone is welcome to participate in the parade! Lunch will be provided after the parade. Chinese American Association of Commerce (San Francisco) 2024年9月21日中午12點隆重舉行「慶祝中華人民共和國國慶升旗典禮暨遊行」活動在三藩市唐人街。歡迎大家踴躍參加游行活動!游行後有午餐提供。美國華商總會 (三藩市)
The judge questioned the rationale behind using 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to ban TitTok may not be constitutional 法官質疑利用1882年排華法案理據來禁止TitTok背後的理由可能不符合美國憲法.
Video: Chinese companies closing plants in Vietnam & India moving back to China. Germany is closing factories in Germany and moving to China. 中國企業關閉越南和印度工廠,遷回中國。德國正在關閉德國工廠並遷往中國
Some Chinese industrial giants have ambitious plans for overseas factory builds, particularly to avoid tariffs in developed world markets.
But recent events argue against that strategy. Chinese exports continue to boom, hitting record highs despite high tariffs and trade restrictions. And the experiences of many Chinese companies in Vietnam showcase the challenges of opening assembly plants in areas where costs are climbing, and where local government policies are unclear, and even changing.
Chinese companies can also look to top German industrial firms, who are making billion-dollar investments in Mainland China, while shuttering plants in Europe, and forgoing investments in developing world markets.
The key problem for manufacturing firms setting up outside China is the lack of access to supply chains and to deep capital and labor pools. Companies are concluding that it is far preferable to set up in China and pass along high tariff rates to buyers, rather than establish new operations in economies where raw materials are harder to come by, operating costs are rising, and the regulatory environments are uncertain.
Data from MIT, Yale, Princeton, Harvard & Columbia 數據來自麻省理工學院、耶魯大學、普林斯頓大學、哈佛大學和哥倫比亞大學
This is the first admissions data since the Supreme Court’s ruling against Harvard for discrimination against AsAm applicants. Is there a pattern of demographic change? No. Why not? Let’s look at the data first. Then we’ll explain the underlying cause for the absence of a pattern.
MIT (using test scores required admissions): Asian up from 40 to 47%; Black down from 15 to 5%; Hispanics down from 16 to 11%; and White down from 38 to 37%. Yale (using test scores optional admissions): Asian down from 30 to 24%; Black held steady; Hispanics down slightly; White???
Princeton: (using test scores optional admissions) Asian down from 26 to 24%; Blacks held steady; Hispanics down slightly; White???
Harvard: (using test scores optional admissions) Experts questioned the accuracy of Harvard’s data, including views from its own student newspaper, The Crimson. For whatever it’s worth, it is: Asians held steady at 37%, Blacks down from 18 to 14%, Hispanics up from 14 to 16%, native Americans down rom 2 to 1%; White?
Columbia: (using test scores optional admissions) Asian up from 30 to 39%; Black down from 20 to 12%; Hispanics down from 22 to 19%; White down from 51 to 49%.
Reasons for the randomness
Except for MIT, the other 4 colleges used test scores optional admissions, which is more subjective than test scores required admissions. In 2023, there are 1830 colleges using test scores optional admissions. Next year, when all elite colleges return to test scores required admissions, the impact of the SCOTUS ruling should become more detectable. SFFA, led by Ed Blum, and 80-20 will be working together to prevent cheating by universities.
Stand Up & Fight Against Injustice, then We Shall Overcome
Do you remember how AsAm applicants were treated as recently as 2011? I read a book by Ron Unz entitled “The Myth of American Meritocracy”. When I came across the following diagram on p.328, I was awakened. See how the lines converge to 17% +/- 3% for Asians?
The Ivy League presidents, who talk about equal opportunity, justice, and transparency all the time, apparently got together and set a quota on the amount of AsAm students they could tolerate on their campuses – 17% +/- 3%. It was in force as late as 2011.
What does the above quota mean? To me, it means that regardless of how smart or how hard-working AsAm applicants are, their admissions to Ivies are pre-determined by a quota set by the Ivy League establishment! Does equal opportunity for all Americans apply to AsAms?
In 2014, SFFA, led by Ed Blum, worked with 80-20 to enable the disruption of such a cabal. Now, how many AsAm applicants will be admitted depends on their ability relative to all other applicants. Please go to the top of this page to see the new admissions numbers. 🙂. At least in this arena, AsAms have become the masters of our own destiny.
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