Didn't China's manufacturing output increase by 25% in dollar terms since 2019?
zephyreks
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What evidence do you want to see about a state-sponsored assassination? It's happened twice now and you think it's an accident?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-homicide-victim-wanted-india-1.6975772
Just yesterday.
The laws of Western states that the West only selectively follows? Gee...
India's getting blatant and nobody cares because of China.
Yeah, didn't you hear? Acquired last year along with WaPo and the NYT.
Does it? How's that been going for you?
The neoliberal democratic experiment has been a failure. It's unclear whether the failure is on behalf of neoliberalism or democracy, but it's failed like every other government in the past:
(1) There's a corrupt government that has enough power to cause system collapse, OR
(2) There's not enough power in the government, so since people with money are naturally corrupt and greedy, the system collapses on its own from exploitation
We're barrelling towards (2) through problems mostly caused by (1). We live in the most surveilled set of countries in the world - the NSA has capabilities shown from the Snowden leaks that China can only dream of, particularly because the NSA has no qualms spying on American allies. We have seen almost complete defunding of key social services in favour of "lower tax rates" that don't actually materialize. Labour has been entirely stripped of its power because the government decided that "national security" trumps people's rights. Meanwhile, government expenses are going up because, turns out, a lack of social services is pretty expensive and leads to directly subsidizing big corporations. We've seen a complete disinterest in active democracy to such a degree that even China gets more active citizen participation in its government (which, tbh, is super depressing because China is wildly considered to be a one-party state). We've seen complete apathy to local and municipal governments, despite those having a much greater impact on peoples' lives.
The Western model of democracy has had about a 250 year run. That's pretty good.
The only way to actually make change is to be active. That's what conservatives get and that's why they're able to make change. You don't change things by sitting at your table and bitching and moaning about how sad everything is. You don't change things by talking to people who agree with you and pointing at people who you disagree with and saying "wow they're bad people!" You aggressively lobby, you play dirty tricks, you invade the Capitol, you protest and protest and protest, and you do everything in your power to make sure that what you want passes because it's a matter of ideology. To some extent I admire religious conservatives for their dedication to their core issues and the commitment they have to seeing it through. It's changing the country into what they want, and that's respectable even if I don't like the country they want.
That's a lazy response if I've ever seen one. What economic advantage does China have for importing resources and selling to the West?
The West is trying to decouple trade with China. Why wouldnt China optimize for it's economic future?
Well,, admittedly the US 4th PsyOps could be lying in their promotional materials, but the track record of US support for regime changes has been pretty exceptional. Basically, past performance implies future performance.
Ah yes, because that was going so well before China entered the market.
China just recently set up robust recycling mechanisms for solar and wind systems, years before the anticipated surge in recycling demand.
Back in 2011 or whatever, China put rules in place regarding the production of silicon tetrachloride waste as well as energy consumption. New plants require Environmental Impact Assessments and older plants who couldn't comply were shut down because China don't give no shits about corporate lobbying.
It's not 2008 anymore, honey.
Asbestos has some pretty insane properties, though. Just a shame it causes cancer when disturbed and inhaled.
As a building material? What's even better than asbestos in terms of the trifecta of sound/heat isolation, bulk, melting point, and structural soundness? Aerogel?
So far, the US has approved $113 billion in aid to Ukraine ($62 billion through the Pentagon and another $40 something billion through the State Department that definitely totally wasn't spent on war guys). It's something like a tenth of the US military budget and on par with the entire Russian military budget of around $100 billion.
Ah, because using Western data that claims natural gas emissions are dominated by burning rather than methane leakage are...SO much more reliable.