Liddokun
@liddokun.bsky.social
天下為公。Kindness and compassion is paramount to a functioning society. There are no evil countries, only garbage leaders and exploitative systems. I mostly talk about geopolitics, technology and the economy. 我們正進入一個需要自游的危險時代。🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦
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Liddokun
@liddokun.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea Trailer | Doc Edge Festival 2025
YouTube video by Doc Edge
youtu.be
#China navy/coast guard bullying #Filipino subsistance fishermen. The #CCP always take from the poor to give to themselves. Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippines Seas documentary. Despite a 2016 #UNCLOS arbitration ruling that China refuses to abide. #Philippines
youtu.be/y3yrADpHks8?...
youtu.be/y3yrADpHks8?...
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We're just repeating what the Secretary has already said many times: the military can refuse illegal orders.
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We're just repeating what the Secretary has already said many times: the military can refuse illegal orders.
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Trump’s worldview is one of winners and losers. Always has been. His new National Security Strategy picks Russia, China, authoritarians, his friends and his family as the winners. Do you know who Trump decided the losers are? You and your family and our safety.
Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
www.economist.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump’s worldview is one of winners and losers. Always has been. His new National Security Strategy picks Russia, China, authoritarians, his friends and his family as the winners. Do you know who Trump decided the losers are? You and your family and our safety.
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NYT editorial contends U.S. military will be seriously overmatched if we go to war with China, because we buy expensive military hardware that has major vulnerabilities that China has learned to counter -- instead of hardware that can do the job.
Very disturbing.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Very disturbing.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NYT editorial contends U.S. military will be seriously overmatched if we go to war with China, because we buy expensive military hardware that has major vulnerabilities that China has learned to counter -- instead of hardware that can do the job.
Very disturbing.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Very disturbing.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You would need slaves who worked 12 hour days or 72 hour weeks (996 work culture) for low pay. In fact it would be illegal under Japanese law but in China, labor laws are a joke and worker health are routinely ignored. #gaming #sony #mihoyo
www.eurogamer.net/former-sony-...
www.eurogamer.net/former-sony-...
Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida admits "it would be difficult for Japanese developers to make games in the same way miHoYo does"
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Japanese studios "can't replicate" the speed at which games a…
www.eurogamer.net
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You would need slaves who worked 12 hour days or 72 hour weeks (996 work culture) for low pay. In fact it would be illegal under Japanese law but in China, labor laws are a joke and worker health are routinely ignored. #gaming #sony #mihoyo
www.eurogamer.net/former-sony-...
www.eurogamer.net/former-sony-...
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NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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US Main Street businesses expand to Asia and beyond as tariffs bite
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-tariffs/us-main-street-businesses-expand-to-asia-and-beyond-as-tariffs-bite
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-tariffs/us-main-street-businesses-expand-to-asia-and-beyond-as-tariffs-bite
US Main Street businesses expand to Asia and beyond as tariffs bite
Mom-and-pop stores target South Korea, Singapore to stay afloat
asia.nikkei.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
US Main Street businesses expand to Asia and beyond as tariffs bite
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-tariffs/us-main-street-businesses-expand-to-asia-and-beyond-as-tariffs-bite
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-tariffs/us-main-street-businesses-expand-to-asia-and-beyond-as-tariffs-bite
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NEW: Taiwanese President Lai announced the introduction of the largest special defense budget in Taiwanese history. The proposed budget would markedly improve Taiwanese capabilities and efforts to implement an asymmetric defense to deter a PRC invasion (🧵1/3).
Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
NEW: Taiwanese President Lai announced the introduction of the largest special defense budget in Taiwanese history. The proposed budget would markedly improve Taiwanese capabilities and efforts to implement an asymmetric defense to deter a PRC invasion (🧵1/3).
Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
Only reason this “new narrative” is gaining traction because lazy Western journalists choose to repeat China propaganda instead of accurately point out historical facts, evidence and purposes of China’s push to rewrite history.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What's worse some banks are selling these NPLs/bad debts as packaged WMPs with implicit "state backed" guarantees. Except there are no such state guarantees and LGU/regulators are basically complicit in perpetuating a massive fraud on Chinese retail investors. #China
www.scmp.com/business/art...
www.scmp.com/business/art...
UBS predicts 2.4 million China property foreclosures as loan defaults rise
Apartments seized from small businesses could reach more than 2.4 million by 2027, according to UBS’ John Lam.
www.scmp.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
What's worse some banks are selling these NPLs/bad debts as packaged WMPs with implicit "state backed" guarantees. Except there are no such state guarantees and LGU/regulators are basically complicit in perpetuating a massive fraud on Chinese retail investors. #China
www.scmp.com/business/art...
www.scmp.com/business/art...
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Chinese apps are security risk, Taiwan’s digital ministry warns – Taipei Times: ‘that the apps all collect sensitive information, tap into device storage, exceed authorization parameters, access users’ biometric details, access system information, and send or share information with third parties.’
Chinese apps are security risk, ministry warns - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Chinese apps are security risk, Taiwan’s digital ministry warns – Taipei Times: ‘that the apps all collect sensitive information, tap into device storage, exceed authorization parameters, access users’ biometric details, access system information, and send or share information with third parties.’
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NEW: Grand Jury declines second attempt to indict Letitia James
Grand Jury declines second attempt to indict Letitia James
The Justice Department attempted to indict James again less than two weeks after a federal judge dismissed the agency's mortgage fraud case last week.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NEW: Grand Jury declines second attempt to indict Letitia James
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3200 workers to “right-size” its business.
The company is one of four giants that control 80% of meat processing.
This corporate monopoly is great for Tyson’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Watch:
The company is one of four giants that control 80% of meat processing.
This corporate monopoly is great for Tyson’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Watch:
How Farmers Are Getting Shafted By Monopolies | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3200 workers to “right-size” its business.
The company is one of four giants that control 80% of meat processing.
This corporate monopoly is great for Tyson’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Watch:
The company is one of four giants that control 80% of meat processing.
This corporate monopoly is great for Tyson’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Watch:
When #PeteHegseth even lost #NewsMax on this one.
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
When #PeteHegseth even lost #NewsMax on this one.
It's a man made disaster caused by systemic negligence and corruption under the #CCP system. What's worse, the renovation wasn't free -- each resident unit had to pay HK$160K - 180K for the renovation and all they got were death and ashes. #HongKong #TaipoFire #WangFukCourt
Wong’s plight — arms raised in anguish and weeping as he stands against the backdrop of what became Hong Kong’s deadliest fire since 1948 — was captured in a Reuters photograph that went viral, becoming the emblematic frame of the disaster reut.rs/4rzTZek
The photo that became a symbol for Hong Kong's deadly fire
Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades shattered Wong’s life: a walk to school became a desperate search as his wife vanished in the deadly blaze.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It's a man made disaster caused by systemic negligence and corruption under the #CCP system. What's worse, the renovation wasn't free -- each resident unit had to pay HK$160K - 180K for the renovation and all they got were death and ashes. #HongKong #TaipoFire #WangFukCourt
Trump signs bill mandating reviews of Taiwan engagement limits
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/taiwan-tensions/trump-signs-bill-mandating-reviews-of-taiwan-engagement-limits
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/taiwan-tensions/trump-signs-bill-mandating-reviews-of-taiwan-engagement-limits
Trump signs bill mandating reviews of Taiwan engagement limits
Move could lead to looser U.S. State Department guidance on dealings with Taipei
asia.nikkei.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Yesterday, a funeral parlor in Hong Kong held a memorial service for the lives lost in the Tai Po fire. Taoist priests and Buddhist monks conducted ceremonies as hundreds of the city's residents attended the event.
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Why would #Taiwan want the failures/corruption propagated by the #CCP system? Look at the systemic failures in #HongKong (failing economy/fires) and #China (real estate wealth destruction/overcapacity) under CCP rule. It's not about not wanting cultural unity but utter rejection of a failing system.
In my latest for @thediplomat.com, wrote on perceptions in Taiwan of China’s aggressiveness toward Takaichi
How Taiwan Views the China-Japan Spat
A war of perceptions over framings of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi is taking shape in Taiwan.
thediplomat.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Why would #Taiwan want the failures/corruption propagated by the #CCP system? Look at the systemic failures in #HongKong (failing economy/fires) and #China (real estate wealth destruction/overcapacity) under CCP rule. It's not about not wanting cultural unity but utter rejection of a failing system.
The #realestate market in #China was so bad in the 2nd half of 2025 that the #CCP reacted the only way it knows how, mandatory total information blackout of real estate sales market data.
www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
China tells stats providers to halt home sales data publication
Information is an important gauge of the new-home market as it is published 2 or 3 weeks before official data Read more at The Business Times.
www.businesstimes.com.sg
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The #realestate market in #China was so bad in the 2nd half of 2025 that the #CCP reacted the only way it knows how, mandatory total information blackout of real estate sales market data.
www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
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The crypto industry won big in the 2024 elections. The AI industry appears to be using the same model to tilt next year's midterms in its favor.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The crypto industry won big in the 2024 elections. The AI industry appears to be using the same model to tilt next year's midterms in its favor.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“Stock Price For Crypto Firm American Bitcoin—Founded By Trump’s Son—Plummets 40%”
Zachary Folk for @forbes.com
Zachary Folk for @forbes.com
Stock Price for Crypto Firm Founded By Trump’s Son Plummets 40%
American Bitcoin debuted on the Nasdaq in September.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A string of paper cranes, folded by mourners praying for hope, peace and resilience in the wake of the Tai Po fire tragedy.
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A string of paper cranes, folded by mourners praying for hope, peace and resilience in the wake of the Tai Po fire tragedy.
A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, alluding to their nations’ victories over Imperial Japan during World War II, urging them to side with China again in its deepening rift with Tokyo.
China, Evoking World War II, Urges Europe to Take Its Side Against Japan
A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM