[crvdgc]

Some Chinese language source claims that it's a reaction to the Pakistan-US rare earth deal.

My pet theory is that this is intended as an attack to the concept of long-arm jurisdiction itself, due to

1. This is the first ever long-arm jurisdiction policy from China.

2. Diplomatically, China usually advocates for the total sovereignty of each country within its border.

3. The recent chip entity list has been a huge headache.

4. Notice how the language mirrors the US justification for the chip restriction: dual use, national security.

[noisy_boy]

> Some Chinese language source claims that it's a reaction to the Pakistan-US rare earth deal.

Maybe they approached India for a deal that was too lopsided in favour of US for the former to accept so US did the show-and-tell cozying up to Pakistan to get a better while publicly shitting on India? Just follow the money?

[burnt-resistor]

Xi is getting China ready to attack Taiwan in 2026 or 2027, and the now mutual unwinding of economic relations between the US and China is underway. Still frenemies at this point, but Trump is aiming for more enemy status sooner because it causes media drama and draws attention to him. The US will be screwed because domestic production takes years to happen and it has lost most of its machine tool suppliers, knowledge, and workers. Manufacturing productivity is essential for any sort of war, as evidenced by the history of the American Civil War and WW II.

If the US doesn't impeach and remove Trump and Vance, and get a real, war-time leader who isn't a celebrity reality star ASAP, it will be doomed as China will rapidly seize Taiwan, disrupt Western chip production and plunge the West into an economic armageddon, and likely widen to a war with Japan who would definitely intervene militarily to defend economic technological resources in Taiwan. No more incompetent, self-destructive, corrupt, ideologue chaos can be tolerated.