A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030
I read that and thought "damn that's such a long time away" before realizing 2030 is in just 5 years now
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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China really is living in the future. Building new space stations, high speed rail and ever cheaper, cleaner energy.
Meanwhile , a single US state is approaching its third decade of trying to build a single line of high speed rail, and our federal politics consist of watching our most ancient boomers build a Gestapo while they are actively dying of old age.
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Source for China attacking ethnic minorities? Ideally not the Adrian Zenz, a german antisemitic evangelical who doesn't speak mandarin, and who works for the US government.
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The sources for your top article, are Zenz (linked in most of the linked BBC articles) like this one, the Australian strategic policy institute, a defense-industry war-hawk think tank in australia, and the xinjiang police files, based on intentionally mistranslated docs given to the NYT.
The source for the 2nd article is HRW, another CIA cutout, the same police files with more zenz references, and some norweigan site that appears to just be a wordpress blog with zero sources.
More sources debunking this nonsense here.
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Its just a bunch of links to news articles, just like you posted. Only mine don't reference anti-semites who work for the US state department, western state media in a desperate attempt to show that their enemies kill as many muslims as they do (including right now I might add), and reactionary east-turkistan uyghur separatists.
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The basis for Zenz's sinophobia (and that of many china-watchers), is reactionary christian evangelism, which views birth control as a "sin", so they make it their personal "crusade" to attack what they consider a heathen, non-christian state. All these far-right religious extremists also tend to be anti-semitic, so there's not much contradiction there.
- https://www.mintpressnews.com/china-uighur-genocide-behind-us-government-propaganda/276085/
- https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/
Ironically Trump is using the strategy to deport people
Trump and zenz are both white-supremacist sinophobes who would be more than happy to deport all people of chinese descent. They work for the same project and towards the same goal, global white-supremacy.
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You miss the point. There are no other sources. Everything you have linked in this argument is traceable back to Adrian Zenz. This is why media literacy is so important. Go digging through your "news" articles and see if you can find the source for their claims. You will find that there is a massive web of "sources" that are all self referential for this particular topic and they all trace back to things published by Adrian Zenz. Zenz's original reporting has been thoroughly debunked because his reporting was bad faith speculation on cherry-picked datasets with forced interpretations. But none of the derivative articles have ever been retracted and none of have changed their position.
Dessalines is not telling you that everyone who disagrees is an anti-Semite. They are saying that all of your sources traceback to the same anti-Semite
It’s kinda neat how everyone that disagrees is conveniently anti-semetic or state sponsored and miraculously everyone that agrees with you is definently not biased or morally dubious in anyway.
Now you’re just vagueposting in bad faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
- Where is your evidence that anyone here is antisemitic, state sponsored, or “morally dubious”?
- There is literally no such thing as a non-biased person, so that’s a meaningless accusation.
There is no such thing as unbiased sources buddy. If someone tells you a source is unbiased, they are either lying to you or don't understand how biases work.
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No one is pretending it isn't. But the fact that it is pointed doesn't automatically make it false. You are rejecting sources on little more than vibes here.
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Almost all pieces ever written about the "Uyghur genocide" go back to this one "bad dude" Adrian Zenz if you follow the chain of sources back to their origins. And both of the articles you liked have him as source, not just one.
The reason it's so bad is because Adrian Zenz isn't merely biased, he's a known liar. He's a fraud who pretends to be an expert on China despite not speaking a single word of any of the languages just because he's been to China a single time over 10 years ago. He is being referenced despite all that by CIA financed medias (such as the BBC via USAID) because his lies are exactly the kind of things western bourgeois want us to think about China.
Your comparing Dessalines pointing out that your sources cite Zenz to you pointing out that some of his links go to X is misguided at best, Musk isn't the author of what is written on these X posts, Zenz is the author of the lies your sources tells.
I'm not into state worship
You just believe everthing the racist hegemon who's been bombing muslim countries for decades (and continues to do so to this day) tells you, without looking past the surface.
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I've gone into your sources, you clearly haven't looked past the surface.
The BBC isn't much more than a tabloid, and its a propaganda arm run by the british state. Like that time they got caught doctoring an image from a vlogger in China to make it look depressing, then quietly reverted their change.
You claim to be "anti-state", so you just uncritically gobble up everything british state media tells you about their enemies?
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I went through that article also. They too link zenz and east turkistan separatists one article behind.
Meanwhile, US efforts to revive the development of a molten salt reactor remain on paper, despite bipartisan congressional support and Department of Energy initiatives.
DOGE 