Maybe less. But yeah.

Americans are unlikely to solve anything until their society goes through some dramatic changes.

Hitler

WTF is this person doing?

Sir, we don’t engage in (industrial) espionage. If we did, it wasn’t us. If it was us, it wasn’t a big deal. If it was a big deal, China engages in espionage. If China engaged in espionage so must we.

Joke aside, everyone can, should and does engage in espionage. It’s the responsible thing to do.

I def used to fall for the algae campaign years ago.

This delay tactic again. They’ll probably bring back algae biofuel next time around.

Special military operation

Like, do Palestinians ask if they have been consulted before Jews or Israelis present a part of Israel’s history?

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I thought you might not be enraged enough. 😂

Belle Jarniewski, executive director of the Jewish Heritage Centre, suggested there should have been meaningful consultation with the Jewish community.

These people are so used to having a monopoly on the storytelling of this history that they are completely incapable of becoming aware of their own arrogance.

Sounds like the EU should do something.

Buddy, TP USA material is now entering school curricula. The damage is continuing, hard.

Magnet or it didn’t happen.

Yes.

Yes. There’s no oversight, whoever puts the money has the influence. US, China, EU, Canada, Australia, etc. We need to move away from the idea of funding being separable from influence. About anything. The economic dimension isn’t separate from the political one. It’s a myth we are told that’s served to further the interests of capital against the rest of us. If any country or block wants the influence we/they can put up the money.

What these articles always seem to breeze over is that China’s strategy towards Taiwan has historically been economic, not military. Chinese businesses have been buying up Taiwanese capital since 2014. Taiwanese businesses have been integrated into the Chinese export markets for even longer. FoxConn - the notorious manufacturing company for US and Japanese electronics - is one of Taiwan’s largest firms, but primarily employs Chinese workers in and around Hong Kong.

This is really poorly understood by most because of “the fearmongering [reporting] around China as a military threat never seems to touch their economic sphere of influence.” Which I’m guessing is done in part due to the defusing effect economic coverage would have. It’ll beg questions like - why are we sabre rattling if those guys are already so deeply enmeshed with China? It puts the possibility of military invasion on a similarly shaky footing as the US invading Canada.

Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.

The WHO is losing staff today due to lack of funding. That is “a bad ending.” If someone can put up the money in short order to stop that bad ending, it’s better one. China can do that. If a stronger democracy can do it so we can have more good endings down the road, they should. I’m not optimistic.