
Lionel Messi's passport issue at Beijing Airport creates buzz. Joining Inter Miami, sparks ticket demand surge across the MLS.

It's dictator's birthday and his present is Messi.
It's a sad state of affairs.
Going by the new Reddit responses....
People are pretty selfish about impaired people. And what the fuck?! People actively use Reddit on a browser. That's disgusting!
"Is Taiwan not China?" Messi Ends Up at Beijing Airport with the Wrong Passport. Here's What Happened.
Lionel Messi's passport issue at Beijing Airport creates buzz. Joining Inter Miami, sparks ticket demand surge across the MLS.
This is fucking gold!
When Western researchers examined an Iranian drone downed over Ukraine this spring, they found a part that appeared to have been made in China in January.
Investigators said an Iranian drone brought down by Ukrainian forces in April contained a voltage converter that appeared to have been made in China in mid-January. It marks the first time a part made in 2023 has been found in the drones by researchers with Conflict Armament Research, a U.K.-based group that tracks global weapons supply chains.
The finding shows how quickly Iran can build and ship drones to Russia. The Chinese part was made in January, shipped to Iran, installed and then sent to Russia and used against Ukraine in April.The revelation shows that Chinese parts have continued to flow to Iran, providing the building blocks for its drone program, despite increasing pressure from the U.S. to choke off the global supply chain. And it demonstrates how quickly Iran is able to help Russia with its war in Ukraine, needing just three months to make and supply Moscow with weapons that have terrorized Ukraine’s civilian population.
Well as of now we have never heard of someone being in trouble because of Reddit posts. So either they know and don't care or they just don't know.
Why the Battle for Supremacy in Asia Begins With China’s Coast Guard
Beijing’s patrol vessels often resemble warships. Now other nations are trying to compete with tougher coast guards of their own.
Yeah. If they wanted to know what you were saying, they'd simply cross reference for ISP info with your post times.
App recommendations
Seeing as we're here because of how Reddit treats third party apps, let's talk about apps for Lemmy. I'm using Jerboa. It's not bad at all. For Android. What about iOS?
The instructions are gone from r/China
That means that people won't know how to come here. Couldn't the mods have gone dark but left the instructions only there?
They're afraid of their own shadow the CCP.
Foreign banks left out of initial public offerings in China
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
2023-06-11T02:00:08.056Z Thomas Hale Foreign banks left out of initial public offerings in China Foreign banks’ involvement in initial public offerings in mainland China has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, in a sign of the difficulties they face retaining a foothold in the country’s closed-off financial system.
So far this year, foreign banks have been involved in just $297mn worth of new listings, or 1.2 per cent of the total. The proportion is lower than in any full year since Dealogic began collecting the data in 2009, when the banks were involved in about half of total listings by value. Last year’s 3.1 per cent represented the third-worst year on record.
Not a single US bank has been involved in the 109 IPOs in China’s vast stock market in 2023, where a total of $26bn has been raised to date in deals that frequently attract massive demand from domestic investors. Only Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have acted as bookrunners this year.
While the operations of