• RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    11 小时前

    The bubble is popping in slow motion and they want to make it worse. He can be the fall guy or the whole company can be. Either way it is popping.

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      I doubt any of us care about him. I don’t care about Alice Huang either, nor do I particularly care if she’s a spy for the Chinese state. But doubt she is, because she’s a chip smuggler, which the state is working to suppress. And so far, no evidence whatsoever has been presented. Decades of experience tell me not to take rumors from anonymous CIA sources seriously.

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            13 小时前

            Gamersnexus did an hour long investigative journalism and proved that rampart smuggling is ongoing. This was a months earlier.

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              Yes, we already know she’s a chip smuggler, something that is illegal in China and that the Chinese state works to suppress, because it wants its industries to develop their own domestic chips and no longer be dependent on Western ones, for obvious reasons.

              The question is whether she’s a spy for the Chinese state. How likely is it that she is both a known smuggler, against Chinese state interests, and a spy for the Chinese state?

              The only reason this question is being asked at all is due to rumors & innuendos “leaked” by “anonymous CIA sources,” sources that as far as we know have provided no evidence. Does that not sound fishy to you?

              There are powerful people in the US who want to cut China off from advanced chips[1], but unfortunately for them, neither Trump nor the two Huangs were among them. Donnie & Jenson have had a mutually beneficial, transactional relationship. So they had to go behind the president’s back. This went down after the Blue Wave, with Trump now seen as weak, a lame duck. By unseating Huang through character assassination, they’ve sent a message to Western chip manufacturers and sellers.


              1. A goal that the Chinese state has lately come to share, funnily enough. ↩︎

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                You think the Chinese govt wouldn’t cut down this smuggling years ago if they wanted to? You think smuggling worth billions just went unnoticed by them?

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                  I’m not saying they wanted to cut down on smuggling years ago. I’m talking about what they’ve wanted in recent years.

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              Besides what everyone else said, GN not focusing on the genocide west Asia (including Lebanon), the MIC links to Israeli intelligence or even the cop cities in the US, make me unwilling to support or recommend them any longer. I was too patient with them. They’re perfectly happy promoting the idea that maybe this Chinese lady is a spy (because famously the US government NEVER lies!!!), and defending Ukraine, but apparently focusing on how the MIC genocides brown and black people is too much for them.

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                  You don’t believe the surveillance of Palestinians and the killings of random Lebanese civilians by the very same MIC is relevant to talking about… the MIC? They literally covered Palantir but didn’t mention any of this. So their red line seems to be anything that actually threatens US imperialism.

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              You don’t get the point. The woman is not a Chinese spy. There’s no evidence of this. The question is that China is one of the biggest markets for Nvidia chips, and Huang is not from the group that antagonizes China. The smuggling operation resulted in what capitalists like best, profits. A trade war with China hurts those profits and this is why he was seeking ways around it.

              What the industry is doing is a corporate takeover. To make Nvidia fall in line against the AI investors and the AI bubble economy, which sees China as its main competitor.

              Edit: fixed grammar

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                People just love a seeseepee spy story, evidence be damned. Not to say that China doesn’t have spies; every state does. But since it is known[1][2] that evil China is evil, people eat it up.


                1. It is known. ↩︎

                2. It is known. ↩︎

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      If they’re going to investigate foreign influence honey pots they still need to do Epstein first. At least Huang’s sex was consensual and with adults… As far as we know.

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      If an investigation would exonerate someone they want to get rid of, why would they let the investigation continue?