Commanders in the key battle for Avdiivka in Donetsk fear the town will be lost in a matter of days if more international aid cannot be secured – and that huge casualties will be suffered in the process.

Change work culture maybe?

I feel like China’s political position here is to basically sit by and see who wins, then back their government economically.

China isn’t really in the business of foreign pressure.

Russia is paying a fee per barrel set by Iraq.Oh no, the horrors!

Fucking finally. Like them or not, the Taliban is the de facto government of Afghanistan.

State-owned enterprises look better every day…

Now tell me more about that free market globalization…

Methane is going to really fuck with our near-term climate change projections. Our estimates for methane emissions are even worse than they are for CO2.

Can we ban article commentary on posts?

You’re not even citing the right reactor. LLNL did that experiment, this reactor in Japan is to try to scale it.

Infinite money does not lead to infinite scale in zero time. China’s nuclear industry is robust and growing, as is their solar and wind industry. Money can’t be wasted if you’re already tapped out on growth in other avenues.

This year, China deployed more solar panels than the entirety of all solar panels in the US.

Maybe, just maybe, make tuition free for domestic students?

Never thought I’d defend Trump, but he was in office during the start of the pandemic, one of the largest systemic shifts in society in decades.

The IMF wants to protect private investors at the cost of country-scale investors. Once again, fuck the IMF.

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That’s actually not how modern China gained territory. The settlements in Xinjiang were explicitly designed to not step on the traditional Uyghur economic/cultural center of Kashgar. Instead, settlement surrounded Urumqi, a place that used to be a backwater of backwaters (the name meaning “beautiful pasture”). Even today, Kashgar and it’s surrounding areas are majority Uyghur (by far), while Urumqi is majority Han.

Idk I think I’d enjoy being obscenely rich off of my government’s oil money

I don’t really like how HRW does their reporting tbh. It basically consists of “here’s some random Chinese article that suggests something that they might do, which, because China is a single-party state, MUST describe what they do” coupled with “here are some sources from US-funded parties detailing what they claim to be happening in China.”

It’s not a question of whether their statements are accurate, but it’s a question of whether they’ve provided enough evidence to make those statements.

Privatization is such a waste of taxpayer money. You spend all those resources developing domestic capability and then sell it off to the highest bidder for a short-term cash infusion.

Good. Everyone knows it. It’s not news unless you’ve been living under a rock.