Fighting Imperialism! • There Is More Outside The West!

At this year's Web Summit, Ricardo Lima, the summit's head of startups & investors, said his organization is interested in teaming up with Chinese companies.
China is a powerhouse in AI and "obviously, China is one of the main juggernauts when it comes to technology," he said. pic.twitter.com/IiVDLYde77

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30-38k RMB job to be a Librarian/Media Specialist at a school in Ningbo...I wish I had learned about a Library Science degree earlier. I'd spend all my hours in a library if I had the choice.

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Explicitly targeted by who? Thanos? Darkseid?

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Nanjing, China - almost like cyberpunk!
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I just finished reading “Sub-Imperial Power” by Clinton Fernandes, a former Australian intelligence officer and now professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales.

Full disclosure, Clinton sent me the book and wrote a nice dedication on it,… pic.twitter.com/rDdNQDHtm5

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) November 24, 2023

☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽

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The book makes one of the best descriptions of the “rules-based international order” that I’ve read, describing in details how Australia isn’t a vassal or a client state of the U.S., like many believe, but rather a “sub-imperial power”. What this means is that Australia, as well as other “sub-imperial powers” like Israel or the UK, are essentially the henchmen of the US’s current “imperial” rule, tasked with preserving it in their respective regions. Which means that as henchmen they aren’t so much victims of an hegemonic US rule but instead feel that they derive such disproportionate benefits from it that they’re willing to go to great length to help the US preserve this rule against the actual victims, those who disproportionately lose out from the order. 

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