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Among the materials are stocks of fuel, including crude oil and natural gas, valuable manufacturing metals like copper, iron ore and cobalt, and in particular precious metals like gold, said Newsweek.

Woah a country stockpiling oil reserves, what an absolutely unprecedented and unnerving development.

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42 points
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The sinister, unscrupulous, mysterious Chinese are searching for dinosaur remains

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don’t forget inscrutable

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27 points

🤣

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51 points

On a similar note, weird how you don’t hear about Chinese Ghost Cities anymore

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49 points

lol right, I remember how they paraded that one subway station to “nowhere”, and then somebody did video of it a few years later where it’s now in a middle of a bustling metropolis

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43 points

What a weird idea to build housing and facilities before you dump a half million people onto a chunk of land.

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Its sooo expensive and labour intensive to build subways underneath existing and occupied city.

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27 points

the inscrutable oriental mind at work 🤣

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9 points
Got the receipts right here

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You do. Because they never update reports about it, westerners’ knowledge about them is still exclusively from 2010

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10 points

Nah you’ll find that shit on most platforms.

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44 points

If only there were an example of a historical event where global supply systems were disrupted, a situation that would have been smoothed out by this kind of stockpiling of strategic resources.

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31 points

Xi observing the progress of bird flu and the resurgence of COVID and hitting the big “do any kind of preparation at all GOMMULISM” button.

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Why would anyone want to move away from just-in-time logistics? It’s not like it’s created trade crises on a global scale lol

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26 points

I love systems that can be completely ground to a halt by one thicc

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JIT logistics is hella resilient in a time of more frequent and severe pandemics and weather too

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9 points

My brother going through college online during the height of COVID and being taught that JIT is the most efficient and flawless system there is.

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3 points

I mean it kind of is provided nothing ever goes wrong.

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40 points

It’s only Responsible Foresight if it takes place in the Anglo region of Terra. Otherwise, it’s just oriental inscrutability.

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