• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    yeah, but they’re doing it in a mysteriously oriental way by announcing what they’re going to do years in advance, thereby fiendishly never giving other countries a chance to react.

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      7 months ago

      I remember a sales meeting at work where the sales manager said something like “sales in China are doing well for now, but we never know what they’re going to do to make doing business harder.” I had to keep in a laugh.

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        China: here’s what we’re going to do for the next 5 years

        West: we can never understand those inscrutable Confucian Orientals