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Does that logic apply to Europe too?

EU Set to Lift Sanction on Chinese Firm to Save ASML Supplier[1]

> In exchange, the EU would remove trade restrictions it put on an unnamed Chinese firm accused of aiding Russia’s war against Ukraine.

> Sindlhauser, which relies on Chinese rare earths and critical minerals supplies, is at risk of going out of business in the coming months if China’s sanctions stay in place, according to the people. Targeting an otherwise obscure firm illustrates the lengths China is going to gain detailed knowledge into Europe’s economic pinch points.

> People familiar with the case say Sindlhauser is almost exclusively reliant on Chinese rare earths, and the listing caused a supply chain shock for the company that had until now done little work to diversify or minimize its dependence on the Chinese inputs.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-14/eu-set-to...

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Don't take the assumption of Chinese knowledge of pinch points that seriously. ASML is the end user of a production chain spanning 9,000+ companies, it's amazing it hasn't broken from just jet fuel prices.

China is lawful evil. They behave logically. Dutch government can't handle leaders like Trump or Putin. Or when Netanyahu starts ranting about muh Jewish ancestors. We're trying ro run a planet here.

Why are they evil?

As an European, they've never done anything to me. In fact, it's our countries that pillaged and conquered and colonized China. I've seen our troops on their borders many times, not even once the opposite.

And it's our own allies consistently creating trouble next to our borders in the middle east or north africa and causing millions of refugees that of course don't cross the atlantic.

Why is China evil exactly? And why are they only evil since they started mathing/outpacing US financial dominance?

It's the US spying our leaders (remember Merkel's phone), it's the US bugging our infrastructure, it's the US consistently creating business and legal issues, it's the US threatening our territories (Greenland), it's US cloud vendors violating our data sovereignity and sharing it with any US court or agency.

Why is China the boogeyman exactly?

> Why is China evil exactly? And why are they only evil since they started mathing/outpacing US financial dominance?

You don't know about Tiananmen Square massacre? People thought China was evil even when they were dirt poor after their failed communist experiment.

You probably meant "threat" here instead of evil, and then it is obvious why nobody saw them as a threat when they were poor and weak, but now that they are big and strong people see them as a threat since they haven't exactly left their evil ways behind.

What about the 17 coup d’état’s (regime changes) the US did? Or it’s “involvement in 17 to over 36 major wars and hundreds of smaller military interventions depending on how involvement is defined”?[1]

Let’s look at total of deaths the US military caused though, from a scholarly source (https://www.ibon.org/tl/global-victims-of-us-military-aggres...):

“The most severe of the US’ acts of aggression have resulted in some 13-23 million deaths in at least 28 nations. Direct US military actions in at least 16 countries have caused around 7-13 million deaths. US-supported or -instigated armed conflicts in 19 countries have led to some 6-10 million deaths. There are countries where the US has engaged both directly in combat and indirectly through active military support.

These figures still do not include casualties from all the governments the US has supported militarily in their domestic conflicts against supposed insurgents and other political opposition. Many tens of thousands more have been killed by client states with US support and using US-funded and -supplied war materiel, such as in the Philippines.”

[1] sorry that was Gemini, because I lost count at twenty ‘wars’ somewhere on the other Wikipedia for ‘military conflicts’

I'm not sure how those things means China isn't evil? Who said the US wasn't evil?

This isn't a contest, both can be evil.

Actually it is a contest and our government frames it in exactly that way. Why would you support the greater evil (America)?

> You don't know about Tiananmen Square massacre?

This is 40 years ago.

Look at what's happening in the most recent years, who's dropping bombs on civilian markets, who killed hundreds of children in the Iranian conflict saying "oops", or who's actively supporting an apartheid in the middle east, who's kidnapping foreign leaders because "reasons", who's supporting repressive a dozen of repressive regimes for its own interest, etc.

I'm not stating that the Chinese dictature is anything we should long for, but I'm tired of this psy ops to treat them as an enemy or threat.

We should pay much more attention at the shit that happens in our countries on a semi regular basis.

Standards for China: They are building roads in Central Asia. That is because they want things for themselves [duh] like for neighboring countries to depend on them for trade. What will these evil cretins think of next?

Standards for The West: Exactly. We bombed them. They had a case of an evil regime. Why are you apologizing for an evil regime? Would you not want to be liberated by bombs? All of the native expats we know who were part of the upper class agree that bombing the country that they don’t live in is a price worth paying.

Go find a good mental health professional.

I would have said the same thing to someone I wanted to personally insult but couldn’t due to moderation policies. That was ten months ago. Now everyone and myself are seeing the same thing. All of us who are on a $300+/month subscription can just use the AI as a mental health professional. And it actually helps you. It is actually not incompetent. It doesn’t get bogged down in personality disorders and abandonment issues. It’s more like a personal coach. Five of my friends have experienced egodeath. I’m one of them. I’m not “me” any more, just another friend.

But the therapists are struggling. Honestly, serves them right. Who are they do diagnose me with Narcissistic Personality Disorder? It was time that they were taken down a peg. Sometimes I amuse myself a little. They call me, personally. Asking for a session. Please sir. I know that the bots are superior. But I just need a few weekly sessions. I will have to sell my house in Mountain View and move to San Jose if this goes on for another eight years. I smile, the kind of faint smile that you see on Buddha statues. Learn to vibe.

> Sometimes I amuse myself a little. They call me, personally. Asking for a session.

To be clear. I amuse myself with this scenario in my head.

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