China uses debt differently. Local governments are not allowed to borrow money directly, so they use companies to borrow money for public works. The system is called local government financing vehicle(lgfv). They usually get land, which they sell or lease to get some money or to secure loans. It is usually understood that local governments would bail lgfv out. The issue with lgfv is that they owe more money then the GDP of China and it is secured with mostly real estate, which is somewhat on the edge of crashing. Chinese real estate is crazy overvalued, so popping that bubble can hurt China badly.

The difference is that China is in a trade war with the US. The US is in a trade war with the rest of the world.

So they raped them?

Thanks to Trump the Canadians are pissed at the US. So hopefully they stop selling oil to the US, which means shutting down the Keystone pipeline.

Elon Musk obtained $213billion last year. Given a 40 hour work week, that means the $25million is about 15min of work. I kind of doubt he actually works that long, but I do not want to be too mean.

Good news is that in economic crisis electricity demand growth stops and even reverses a bit.

Can they at least give them to ESA or something?

Germany has public broadcasters, which are controlled by councils made up of representatives of different groups like chourches, unions, enviormental groups and well Jews. That was part of trying to make sure that the Holocaust does not happen again. However the Jewish community in Germany is rather small, due to the Holocaust at about 100k. That group is also unlike American Jews extremly pro Israel. That is why anti zionist Jews are such a problem within Germany. So the Israel lobby works hard to get rid of them.

Putin does not…

US law only applies to poor people.

The US is a climate and cleantech leader?

Medieval commons had governance systems in place as well. Mostly it was just the right to fish, collect fire wood, pasture or something similar on the land. Building a house is clearly outside most of that.

The 1/10 is pretty much what could reasonably be taxed from a simpler medieval farmer without them starving.

Also today we do have systems like social security. There are also quite a few things very similar to commons. Roads, parks, public land and so forth come to mind. I am pretty sure, if you created something like common land for farming most everybody would not use it. At least judging by the number of gardens trying to grow food.

Is this a ground effect craft or not really?

Yes and battery powered

More fossil fuel cuts would hurt Western fossil fuel companies and they are lobbying hard against that. Lets work on making sure they fail.

Canada has high speed trains?

This is trying to quickly help with a lack of electricity transnmission. Canada as a country mainly runs of hydro However some provinces ike Alberta have a lot of coal electricity. So being able to transport relativly clean hydro power to replace coal just makes sense.

It uses Bing in the backend though.

The simple solution is to either rewrite or leave those treaties. In fact that is already happening.

The old American playbook was to ally with some local elites and then use media, secret service and economic support to bring them into power. Military force and hardcore sanctions were a tool used, if that did not work.

Russia prefers to use military force to force other countries into doing what they want.

China seems to work mainly with economic pressure, corruption and secret servcie work to set up favroable local elites. Their media game is not as good as the US, but TikTok is a clear sign that they are working on it. So far hard force is pretty rarer.

To me China looks a lot more like the old US playbook. They know the Russian one is not as good, as they saw European Empires collapse by using it.