I used to have tons of problems with it but for the last 6 months or year it seems to be working fairly well for me.

triple shots of espresso

Yup. Tried Rumble once. It was all right wing or pro-Russia or other extremist trash.

Not available in Vietnam or I would be all over it.

Sun says yum.

It’s the OS I know how to use. The Thinkpad is a P50 with a Xeon processor and lots of RAM so it runs it easily.

Old ThinkPad with Win 10 Pro, Plex, Plexamp, and several 14TB drives so I can stream my home media library on the go.

This is probably the most balanced overview.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/02/sri-lanka-china-bri-investment-debt-trap/

I tend to feel that China knew that the odds of Sri Lanka defaulting were very high and that was their hope from day one.

I’m sure that will go just as well as the one in Sri Lanka

Emperor Xi will Make China Great Again and will crush any and all that attempt to stop him.

One step at a time. When manufacturing moved out of the USA. The assembly/most labor intensive went first then later the supply chain. The same thing is happening with China. We started to built our first finished goods factory in Vietnam in 2007, we developed some local component suppliers a few years after that. Every couple of years another component is either moved to Vietnam or sourced from somewhere other than China. We now have three finished goods factories in Vietnam, six component suppliers in Vietnam, and another six outside of China. We are gradually untangling ourselves from China.

Or were forced out due to pressures in the country. We were being forced to move out of the Shanghai suburbs and into a neighboring developing province. As a result we moved the bulk of our manufacturing to Vietnam with a limited amount of production still in China.

Why stay connected with a toxic and abusive partner.

Opening up options for immigration that allow a reasonably easy path to citizenship would help.

So basically be more like northern EU.

SCMP should be considered nothing more than another one of Beijing’s media mouthpieces these days. While the report may be without bias, the SCMP cannot be trusted to quote it honestly.