Ever been to a country where motorbikes are just a normal form of transport, for both 16 year old race boy and 75 year old great grandma?

That’s not unattractive. I was waiting until after things calmed down to visit, but maybe I head over earlier.

Weather is getting a bit warm though, will the position still be open in 6 months or so?

What kind of position are you talking about?

What blows my mind is that you read an article, and brought it up months or years later, and applied zero critical thinking.

What’s more likely? China set up fake police stations in America, where they have no authority, so they can be mocked by people they have absolutely no power over?

Or they’re there to provide legal services to Chinese citizens living abroad?

I mean for hundreds of thousands of dollars? I quite like traveling to China, but I like having hundreds of thousands of dollars too.

South China Sea

Not giving up your territory to minimize the number of adversarial military bases off your coast is entirely normal. Hell Taiwan still claims the 13 dash line, since Mainland China gave up some dashes here and there, including a couple to Vietnam once it was clear they weren’t going to host foreign troops.

America’s ability to do spy shit in other countries is unrelated to their ability to catch spies. But yeah no in the past, such as when China caught the CIA using an unsecured wordpress site to communicate with assets, they CIA just blamed some random chinese guy.

Governor of NY and mayor of NYC always competing.

It kinda is, since it implies chinese assassins either don’t exist or are so small and super-competent they haven’t left any evidence. Billions of people have phones and we don’t have footage of alien abductions or Bigfoot, the absence of evidence is evidence of absence

If China was assassinating foreigners in foreign countries, every lemmy user would hear about it, there’s multiple dedicated accounts that do nothing but post anti-chinese articles.

lol maybe, but given that America has immigrant populations from nearly every country, I would be shocked if another country managed to have a more effective spy network, though the USSR had a shot due to their support of internationalism. “There’s a Chinese assassin among us? That Chinese guy is kinda sus.”

The Chinese government has been pretty careful about following the rules when dealing with other countries, largely out of a naive belief that if they follow them, other countries will treat them accordingly, not understanding international norms is just America playing Calvin ball.

See: China joining the WTO, followed by the US simply breaking the organization to prevent any rulings against itself, or China’s support for the Philippines and Indian governments instead of ideologically aligned communist movements, as if helping them stabilize themselves would benefit China in future dealings.

I seriously doubt China assassinates foreigners on foreign soil. They’re not America or even the USSR.

Is it worth placing a huge target on yourself for less than a million dollars?

Depends on your citizenship and where you live. If the answer to both is “not China”, what would you have to be afraid of?

FYI this was last week, the cherry blossoms are basically gone now, 2 weeks earlier than last year. Here’s a pic from 2 weeks ago.

The Zombies

Deer too, but slightly less gross, and some others.

Grass is mostly cellulose and lignin. Those molecules are difficult to break down.

Animals that can digest the cellulose either need a really long digestive track or to do something really gross to keep the stuff in their digestive track longer.

Cat: WTF did she do to deserve this?

If alien-human hybrids were a thing, every furry on the planet would know within a week.