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.

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…

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?

Human Rights Watch, truly the beacon of human rights.

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.

20 countries but excluding the single largest driver of nuclear energy development in the world: China.

What a fucking worthless declaration.

Rural populations are negligible and covered under other factors in a number of countries (in the US, Internet access). It’s not worth mentioning because it’s not a relevant part of data.

The goal of this comparison is to compare urban-to-urban, because those countries which don’t have this exclusion have relatively tiny rural populations.

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

Then your statement doesn’t make sense lol

The rural/urban divide isn’t unique to China or India or Brazil. It’s everywhere. Drivers are always different across the urban/rural divide.

Isn’t happiness the goal? Why does it matter what their driver is?

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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.