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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by Grustaf on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:48AM (#29498722)
What is even the purpose of showing these tiny islands in a larger size? It's not like they are the backbone of China's economy or that they prove that the party still has the mandate of heaven.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by lolive on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:11AM (#29499095)
To oversize the problem related to those islands. And make the people agree upon a common ennemy.

[USA did a similar oversizing trick with WMD and the belief that Irak was the 4th biggest army in the world]

[calm down, USA patriots, all the countries do use the same tricks.]

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:16PM (#29501651)
Did Iraq NOT have the 4th biggest army in the world?
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by tdsamardzhiev on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:13AM (#29506923)
It's not the size, it's how you use it.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by lolive on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:06AM (#29508264)
Tell that to the iphone mini...
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by lolive on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:22PM (#29503787)
In the 80s yes.
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