Personally I prefer the FT, WSJ, Foreign affairs articles where the ruling class admits things that other outlet don't e.g. where the "spy balloon" had "surveillance capabilities" i.e. weather surveillance capabilities

And I hope you don’t actually lick as much taiwanese nationalist boot in real live as online

That can’t be healthy

Is the US among it? And why are they choosing to arm Taiwan instead? Do you think the US would be chill if another country decided to arm Hawaii,Puerto Rico, Alaska,.. ?

How many countries recognize Taiwan again?

What is your point?

That China does significantly more for it's people than other countries do for theirs. You're a lib that needs to be able to categorize in good or bad, when nothing in life is black and white.

Typical PRC apologist, incapable of acknowledging or addressing any faults on the part of China so just tries to deflect by pointing fingers in other directions. You know this tactic is super transparent right?

Giving me examples of Chinese private companies doing shitty business practices when most other private companies do the same is just you holding China to higher standards and is reeking of chauvinism. You know this tactic is super transparent right?

OK, so China has looked out for its own interests and created an economic advantage for a fraction of its own population.

Technically true. 800M is indeed a (large) fraction

And yet, still the largest source of methane emission.

Typical western chauvinist pointing to china's emissions when most of his treats get produced there. Never mind checking per Capita numbers

a product they can sell. Let’s not pretend like this has some altruistic motivation.

Yeah it's not altruism, but I don't see anyone else producing the amount of solar that is needed to stop climate change

In communist China they jail anyone that is exposing the state of commiting war crimes

They shouldve jailed those who "independently reported" on COVID and propagated "vaccine skepiticm" here in the west too.

Nothing is in bad faith here. @yogthos@lemmy.ml is just responding to what you think the US desire in UA is by showing the contradictions and how it's playing out..

The visible hand of the free market

But Chinese companies control more than 99 per of the global market for battery-grade graphite and 69 per cent of the market for synthetic graphite used in battery anodes, according to consultancy Benchmark Minerals Intelligence.

Without an exemption to the FEOC rules for battery makers to secure graphite from Chinese suppliers, it is possible that no vehicles will qualify for the generous tax credits that the Biden administration is offering EV buyers, Ahn Duk-geun, South Korea’s minister of trade, industry and energy, told the Financial Tim

The Shenzhen frenzy dovetails with Hong Kong residents’ growing willingness to work and live in mainland China. A survey of people under 40 in the city by the Hong Kong-Guangdong Youth Association conducted last year found 66% of them are now open to employment across the border, tripling from 22% in 2020.

China genocided HKs culture so that more ppl stop realizing how bad cummunism is

In communist China your shit get searched and you get interrogated when you reenter the country

"Chinas propaganda works so well that they are able to dupe western press and economists"

cope lel

You know what also would have saved lives, and reduced tensions?

Not expanding NATO.

“I wouldn’t read too much into it until they have a more permanent and sustainable presence in the region… It’s more symbolic than anything. At the moment, it does not represent any strategic pivot beyond the regions China wants to go,” he added.

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Said Prof Ho: “While it is certainly possible for the Chinese to use these bases for strategic geopolitical purposes, I would not think the Antarctic is top of their list, given they have other domestic priorities like their economy to think about.”

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But the White Paper does not constitute an official Antarctic policy and there is no telling when such a policy, serving as a guide for China’s actions, may be put out, said Associate Professor Liu Nengye at Singapore Management University’s Yong Pung How School of Law.

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Since 2013, Beijing has proposed to establish an Antarctic Specially Managed Area around Kunlun station, which would allow China to maintain more stringent environmental protection of the surrounding space of potentially thousands of square kilometres. Such proposals have to be approved by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties, which consists of 29 countries including Russia, the United Kingdom, the US and China.

While the Madrid Protocol permits such an area, the proposal received pushback from other governments, including the US, which questioned China’s motives.

There are currently seven such areas, of which two are managed by the US, one by Australia and the remaining four jointly managed by countries including Brazil, Poland, Chile and India.

Yeah why is it that also other western leaders like johnson visit ukraine and suddenly peace talks stop? https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/5/7344206/ Why are they encouraging a war where Ukraine would depend on even more western military and economic aid?

Somebody who navigates all this please help us understand

Iirc Nvidia received a bunch from CHIPS too, and had to limit exports of their A100s in to China in return. A little later their managers got fat bonuses and now are working to bypass that export ban lel

Still better than being indebted to Dollars, considering the interest rates and the imposition of austerity measures by the IMF imo

Bolivia Is Now Using China’s Yuan for Trade, Challenging Global Dominance of U.S. Dollar - TIME

https://archive.md/3JG1G