Sprinter Erriyon Knighton tested positive for a banned substance that an arbitration panel determined came from contaminated meat.
Isn't he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD... For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.
US gold medals, 2000 to 2016:
2000 - 37 (300 events)
2004 - 36 (301 events)
2008 - 36 (302 events)
2012 - 48 (302 events)
2016 - 46 (306 events)
On one hand, we have clear US overperformance in gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. On the other hand, we have proof that athletes CAUGHT DOPING between 2011 and 2014 were allowed to continue competing for years afterwards.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it's a duck?
SOUTHCOM commander raises good questions but should they be coming from the military?
IMF: your housing market is collapsing
China: yeah we know
IMF: so how about you bail out those poor housing investors
China: ...no thanks
IMF: surprised Pikachu
Chinese authorities have rejected a proposal made by the International Monetary Fund to use central government funds to complete unfinished housing, dealing a blow to hopes for more forceful support to an industry that’s been a major drag on the economy.
Global positive test rate is 0.67%. 25% of those are "legal" (~250). Of the illegal ones, 25 Chinese, 57 Americans, 135 Russians.
The Beijing lab reported 25 AAFs, for a 0.23% positive test rate over 10326 tests. The LA and SLC labs together reported 153 AAFs, for a 1.54% positive test rate over 9904 tests. So... Eh? Isn't this the opposite result being claimed? The US is able to run interference for a good proportion of their AAFs by claiming "medical reasons" and other bullshit.
Hey how about you take your homophobia somewhere else?
Chen picked up Chang in a bridal carry for a photo after they receiving their gold medals, which led many netizens to joke that Chang and Chen are in a romantic relationship, posting online fan-made edits of their interactions in slow-motion paired with romantic captions
“If love has miracles, I would be the happiest creating them with you,” wrote one Xiaohongshu user who posted a series of moments between the pair moments during the competition.
“The most romantic thing is to have your names engraved together in sporting history,” commented another user.
Far-right Israelis try to storm military base and lawmaker defends rape of Hamas suspects as 9 IDF reservists face questioning over alleged prisoner abuse.
An alleged Mexican drug kingpin suspected of flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl and who evaded authorities for decades is in US custody after he was apparently lured across the border by federal agents.
US sanctions going well
Within two months of being temporarily placed on a US military blacklist, Xiaomi announced plans to enter China’s saturated electric vehicle market.
Odd how this happens just as America's foreign policy talking heads had to turn onwards to deal with Biden's collapse...
Almost as if the US is the main impediment to peace in the region.
Can you spell racism for me?
The CHIPS Act was signed in 2022.
In 2022, what were the top bleeding-edge node semiconductor fabs? TSMC (Taiwan), Samsung (South Korea), and Intel (USA). Do you see China on that list?
In 2022, what was the only company with a functioning 28nm DUV lithography machine? ASML (Netherlands).
US sanctions -- and US sanctions alone -- pushed Chinese investment into semiconductors. If you actually worked in the industry, you'd know that the Chinese government has tried for more than a decade to get Chinese companies to use Chinese semiconductor tech... To no avail. The US stabbed itself in the foot, pushed Chinese private capital into Chinese semiconductor firms (instead of foreign ones), and the rest is history. This is basic capitalist theory.
I guess you can also ignore the $15 billion bailout for airlines?
But sure, let's talk about the great backlash to the GM bailout... ignoring the Chrysler bailout. Ignoring the bailouts of JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs... All essential for national security, or so I'm told.
Let's now talk about companies in China's EV race... WM Motor, which used to outsell Tesla, is gone. Byton, gone. Aiway, gone. Levdeo, gone. Mitsubishi, gone. Honda, Hyundai, and Ford? All desperate to cut out their JVs.
Western countries support individual companies constantly.
Intel received $8.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS Act
The General Motors bailout forced the US government to write off a $11.2 billion loss
Shell, ExxonMobil, and others have received countless billions in O&G subsidies
Government sales make up $49.2 billion, or 74.6% of Lockheed Martin's total sales
The entire principle of US industrial policy is that the government does nothing and everything should be outsourced to a private contractor. Inherently that must mean supporting some private companies more than others.
Your argument makes literally no sense when considering that Chinese companies consistently and notoriously sell their products in China for a fraction of the cost of the export models. BYD's Atto 3 sells for $20k in China and more than $40k in the EU, for example. Those export prices aren't subsidized. In fact, their margins are absolutely absurd.
The fact is that China has figured out industrial manufacturing and can build the same class of product for half the price... Or less. Of course, there's no reason to pass those savings onto consumers without competition, and export markets are simply less competitive than China.
Economics says that Chinese companies are just more efficient as a whole - through sheer competitive advantage, China can produce more per work-hour than everyone else. In fact, this has been a huge problem for China's labour demographics as there's just simply no more manufacturing jobs - an auto factory that would've employed thousands just a decade ago might employ barely a few hundred today. Instead of outsourcing to other countries, most of those jobs have been literally outsourced to robots
The story not being told is that Chinese factories are absurdly automated compared to the rest of Asia - their competitors are South Korean and Japanese factories, but they're entering markets that are still heavily labour-centric. China is spearheading this new evolution of industrial manufacturing and everyone else is forced to either adapt or die.
4.7% YoY Q2
5.3% YoY Q1
0.7% QoQ Q2
1.5% QoQ Q1
Retail sales were the contributor (2.0% YoY growth, vs. 3.3% expected)
Retail growth is being sandbagged by a few key factors:
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Luxury goods demand being beaten to the absolute ground. Eviscerated.
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Foreign brands have tanked in China - Apple, foreign cars, etc. and have been replaced by (cheaper) domestic alternatives like Huawei, BYD, etc.
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New trade restrictions with the US and Europe have limited Chinese consumption patterns. For example, the RTX 4090 is blocked from being exported to China.
Alibaba has already gone crazy with it lmao it's so funny
Among the 11 demands of Hungary regarding the protection of the rights of national minorities, a key stumbling block is the designation of areas in Ukraine with a special level of guarantees for the rights of Hungarians. In particular, this refers to the country’s westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast, whe...
US journalism is unreliable? Say it isn't so...
The entire principle of US journalism is to fill the zone with shit and have everyone sift through the shit to find their own independent nugget of truth.
Defence minister makes threat after weeks of increasing fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah terror group
Definitely no signs of foreign interference, which the US would never do in South America.
If anyone wanted more evidence of how IMF loans are not in the best interests of the countries that take them, see here.
Discovery has potential to upend scientific consensus that the moon’s formation was the result of a small planet colliding with Earth.
Something something this is a sign of a healthy economy and it's actually China that's going to collapse
Genocide is ok because it happened in the past? Glad to know how much you respect the rule of law and whatever.
The Philippines announced Friday that it does not intend to invoke its mutual defense treaty with the US following an incident captured on video where the Chinese coast guard allegedly boarded two Phi...
The UAE has specified three additional instances where pregnancy abortions will be permitted. According to a cabinet resolution — a copy of which Khaleej T..
