• ImplyingImplications
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    1 day ago

    I’ll play journalist and link the actual list (PDF). I wondered why Samsung, a company that literally produces military weapons, wasnt on the list. The list is specifically just for Chinese companies. There is apparently a law requiring the Department of Defence maintain and publish this list.

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      21 hours ago

      I wondered why Samsung, a company that literally produces military weapons, wasnt on the list.

      The PDF you linked: Designation of Chinese Military Companies.
      Samsung is Korean.

      And while I’m sure the Chinese Government would love to dig out a map from the Han Dynasty, claiming rule over the entire Korean Peninsula, I doubt Samsung is making weapons for them.

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        17 hours ago

        Isn’t the South Korean peninsula home to several dozen US military bases?

        You don’t need to go all the way back to the Han Dynasty to find the charter that gives US the right to militarily occupy the continent indefinitely. The Truman Doctrine seems sufficient.

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      I wondered why Samsung, a company that literally produces military weapons, wasn’t on the list.

      Probably because South Korea is a close military ally.

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      1 day ago

      ACTION: Notice of Chinese military companies operating in the United States.

      Where is Samsung from, dog

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        22 hours ago

        I said I wondered why, my dude. Past tense. As in “I initially wondered why Samsung wasn’t on the list, so I looked up the list, and saw it’s only for Chinese companies.”

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        12 hours ago

        Seriously! I know that BLUF is a thing but do that many people seriously not read past the first line before feeling the need to correct someone on the internet? @[email protected] as a fellow member of the human race let me formally thank you for forming a question, seeking out information that either confirms or denies your question, and informing everyone else who may have had the same misconception.

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        19 hours ago

        I am always reminded how precise and verbose one must be in text since it’s so easy to intend one meaning but have people interpret another.