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Don’t believe in Russiagate but he was definitely cosier with Putin than other US presidents. It would have been interesting to see how he would have handled this “dilemma”. My guess is he would have had no choice but to support Ukraine and alienate Putin. No way he would have been allowed to impede this war.

The report says this:

First and foremost, as discussed above, employees own the majority of the Huawei’s shares issued, and Huawei has been an “employee-owned company” at least since 2011 according to the available Annual reports show. Second, the highest decision-making body in corporate governance is the Commission, comprised of representatives directly elected by employee shareholders one vote one share. Shareholders’ representatives exercise voting rights on important management matters such as the election of directors and auditors, on behalf of employee shareholders. Third, BOD is the highest body in management strategy, business operations and customer satisfaction underneath the Commission. All directors and auditors are elected from employees. Currently, all of them are employee shareholders. Fourth, Ren Zhengfei has a right of veto.75 Ren Zhengfei himself responded to a reporter that “This comes with a time limit and when the new rules76 were passed this limit77 was extended. I do not exercise my right to veto unless there is a major problem78” (Bilibili Z Generation Paradise, 2019)79. In this regard, Jiangxi Sheng, the chief secretary of Huawei’s BOD, told reporters at the Southern China Morning Post that “These rules were the Governance Charter” and went on to say that the Governance Charter strictly stipulates the important matters subject to the exercise of the right of veto, citing management personnel and capital increase as two such examples.

It’s a representative system within the company. I think this is what you meant.

I really don’t have any way to disprove this. There have been two English language studies into Huawei’s structure. The earlier one by Balding et al tries to claim that it is employee owned in name only but there is a more recent one by a Japanese university that contradicts this fact. Interestingly neither of the studies raise issues about significatly unequitable profit sharing so there’s that. The founder of the company owns about 1% of the shares.

It’s definitely likely that they collaborate with the government in some capacity because of how important Huawei is but that was only one part of why sanctions the enacted. IMO the bigger problem for the US was that Huawei was catching up to western corporations in crucial technologies like 5G so the sanctions were put in place in prevent them from competing. It’s just run-of-the-mill protectionism.

Huawei is not a publicly traded company. It’s a private company wholly owned by its employees.

In some capacity. But currently India alone cannot fulfill their requirement.

Britain renamed Bharat to India

This is not entirely correct because India as a consolidated nation state did not exist when Brits entered the scene. It was rather a patchwork of empires. This was also the case until right before independence when Congress had to do a mad dash to convince the various princely kingdoms become a part of India by either the use of bribes or force.

This name change is a ploy to appease their Hindu nationalist constitutents and imbue in them a sense of pride and dignity without providing any material benefits. It also alienates the non-Hindu Indians because that’s just what BJP does. They have been changing Urdu names to Hindi ones (example Allahabad→Prayagraj) for this very reason. Honestly, I feel if people knew what BJP did (and is doing) in Uttar Pradesh (a province) with Babri Masjid and making it a site for Hindu religious tourism they would understand how venomous BJP’s rhetoric and agenda are but it’s a whole can of worms.

It’s not like Ukraine has taken any great steps to condemn American sanctions on Cuba.

There was never going to be any “post-war clean-up” so I am not sure why they are talking about the “challenge” in the first place.

No sorry I’m gonna die on this hill of an angel like Nuland being treated improperly.

It might be hard to imagine now, but Mr Putin himself told the BBC back in 2000 that “Russia is ready to co-operate with Nato… right up to joining the alliance”.

“I cannot imagine my country isolated from Europe,” he added.

Back then, early in his presidency, Mr Putin was eager to build ties with the West, a former senior Kremlin official told the BBC.

Gotta wonder how Russia never ended up being able to NATO despite this.

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

Awfully defiant of you

I think who provoked whom is a bit orthogonal to the dicussion though there is definitely merit in knowing the history accurately.

If one considers that Kim Il Sung with the help of USSR and China defeated Japanese colonisers, then the USA swoops in and reinstates some Japanese and their Korean collaborators to positions of authority in their half of the split, I think it would make sense if North Korea invaded without provocation. No blood was spilt by the Americans in the process of Korean liberation directly.

Environmental activists Global Witness later took over three of the poster sites and transformed them into ‘OilyFans’ billboards, to comment on the pay package of BP chief executive Bernard Looney, whose earnings went from £4.5 million (€5.2 million) to £10 million (€11.6 million) last year.

Good bit

Shades of Obama “drinking” Flint water.

Is f____t not used as a pejorativeslur for gay men in the UK?

Not everyone can spend +1000 dollars on a computer.

FT is extremely paywalled

As awful as your attempt is at justifying racism, Indians were being discriminated against during the initial evacuation right when the war began and allegiances had not been solidified.