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That's because the AIIB is actually making progress pulling people out of poverty instead of instituting austerity measures like the IMF is keen to do.
That's because the AIIB is actually making progress pulling people out of poverty instead of instituting austerity measures like the IMF is keen to do.
All the articles about foreign meddling coming out of the big tech giants are written by "independent think tanks" that are conspicuously made up mostly of ex-US intelligence. That should tell you enough.
Same thing is happening to India before our eyes.
Thing is, the Western view that media is free inherently makes people more susceptible to propaganda. To be more precise, Western media has achieved a few things: (1) The illusion of media freedom makes people less likely to question the media they consume. (2) The profit-driven motive of media companies makes it more likely for facts to be "reinterpreted" to better fit the target reader's worldview. (3) The extent that government agencies are involved in media has been completely hidden from the public.
I mean, it's not like Chinese people are stupid. We know what's wrong with society in mainland China, but we also see all the benefits that it's brought. The fact that it isn't talked about doesn't mean that everyone's bought into government propaganda, it just means that people are on average happy enough to not bother with it.
Flipping the firewall is easy. Going to Taiwan or Hong Kong is easy. Emigrating is easy.
Just because someone isn't white doesn't mean that they're stupid ffs
Mexico should know better. This is just how the US treats allies that aren't geopolitically significant like Canada and Mexico.
Honestly? Good. The NEC is the only thing Amtrak seems to know how to do, so might as well have Amtrak learn how to do it well
Driving down a road in the countryside is really quite underrated... But it also wouldn't be affected by changing urban planning to include less cars.
More respectful driving culture tbh
California drivers are asleep at the wheel, Massachusetts drivers hate each other, Texas drivers hate everyone... By contrast, British Columbia drivers are at least somewhat sane and respectful.
The Ukrainian economy needs it tbh
the Taliban is creating a large-scale camera surveillance network for Afghan cities that could involve repurposing a plan crafted by the Americans before their 2021 pullout.
I see that the Taliban is taking notes from it's Western occupiers. London has more security cameras per capita than Beijing and Los Angeles isn't far behind. Kabul is slacking.
Black people can't possibly have a better grasp of what's going on in their backyard than white people on the other side of the planet.
Who's consuming? China, the single biggest driver of increasing oil consumption for the past few decades, is predicted to hit peak oil this year and their oil demand is collapsing due to the massive market share of EVs in the Chinese market.
You mean, African countries aren't happy about austerity measures under IMF loans? No way...
Yes, but think of the profits.
Where are those profits going? Definitely not to you, that's for sure.
Not clarifying the curbs is the entire point. Biden wants to reduce US investment into China in aggregate and doesn't care where that happens. The "totally tight and totally limited" curbs are just a cover that Biden is using to justify his policy.
"Sanctions" indeed
Oil lobby makes whatever claim it takes to make more profit
Hundreds, thousands, millions. It's all the same because people died and the people that died weren't white.
Didn't a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?
I mean, that's the entire point, right? Media doesn't exist to show the truth, it exists to manufacture consent for some policy direction. If media was supposed to be factual, it wouldn't be funded by biased actors and it wouldn't have an incentive structure that rewards profits more than factual reporting.