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The short answer: I don't know. There is no research investigating the impact of a decreasing Chinese GDP on the country's environmental impact (to the best of my knowledge).

The longer answer: China is bound to reduce its environmental impact anyway. The country has a very densely-populated urban area with low-lying coastal cities. Around 20% of the population lives there, producing around 33% of the country's GDP. A rising sea level and other natural desasters (which is what practically all environmental experts inside and outside China expect even in the short term, meaning this year) will have a devastating impact on China's social and political stability.

The good news is that China has the potential to get its arms around that imo, if, and only if the country opens up for further investments and international cooperation. Foreign direct investments (FDI) have been contributing significantly to China's growth in the past (around 20% of the GDP can be directly attributed to FDIs if I remember the number correctly), but FDIs also contributed indirectly by enhancing China's technological and managerial capacities in the past. Data by China's Ministry of Commerce shows that foreign enterprises represent just 2% of all companies, but 10% of the workforce (around 40 million jobs) contributing around 16% of China's tax revenue and 20% of foreign trade (export and import combined).

China will need to maintain this collaboration even more in the future, as a shrinking population is barely apt to boost a domestic market. But international collaboration requires mutual respect of foreign laws, accepting fundamental human rights, and an open economy with a high degree of decentralisation and innovation. I'll leave it to others to decide whether or not Chinese politics is heading in this direction.

Addition: all numbers are for the years 2021/2022.

North Korea’s human rights: What's not being talked about (2019)

The state controls everything, and actively spies on its citizens using a vast surveillance and informer network.

North Koreans get all their news, entertainment and information from state media, which unfailingly praises the leadership. According to RSF, citizens can be sent to prison for viewing, reading or listening to content provided by international media outlets.

Internet access is available for the elite few in the capital, Pyongyang, who lead relatively comfortable lives. Others may have restricted access. The country has its own very basic intranet - a closed network which certain people are allowed to use.

"North Korea has been said to be the world's biggest open prison camp," said Brad Adams [Asia director of Human Rights Watch]. "I don't think that's unfair."

Foreign nationals in North Korea have been arrested and detained for extended periods of time - often kept as prisoners for political reasons and used as diplomatic pawns at opportune moments.

A significant majority of North Koreans undertake unpaid labour at some point in their lives, according to a HRW report. Former students who defected from North Korea told HRW that their schools forced them to work for free on farms twice a year - at ploughing and harvest time - for one month at a time.

Discrimination against women very much exists, but "there isn't a way to measure inequality in the North like how you measure the wage gap between males and females", says Arnold Fang [a researcher from Amnesty International]

Reports are also rampant of women facing torture, rape and other sexual abuses while held in detention facilities - and of widespread sexual abuse in the military.

@jmcs

This is true for more or less all international and national agencies (World Bank, OECD, CIA, all EU agencies, ...). Their reports are extremely good and accurate, but the problem is that politics doesn't appear to be listening.

@Joncash

See, you don't know and try to force your narrative on others. And if we actual Taiwanese people tell you no, you mansplain it to us. This is why I hate people like you.

If there's one here who forces narratives on others than it is you. Your comment shows little respect of others, you even offend them. You obviously do not act here in good faith.

Beijing could have invested all this money for the Chinese people and its economy rather than for a disinformation campaign. It would be better for Taiwan, China, and the rest of the world.

@kick_out_the_jams

[...] Hamas is a genocidal organisation [...]

Who disputed the claim of Hamas being a genocidal organisation? They are. But this has nothing to do with the linked article and the fact that Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinian people as well.

Is this the international law in the 21st century? An eye for eye? (The answer is: no, it isn't, because an eye for an eye makes the world go blind.)

I'm wondering whether you and others here will be tired of this whataboutism.

We even used to be subscribers of the Economist for a long time, but they have made a complete u-turn over the years. In the meantime they appear to just echo mostly pro-establishment opinions with weak research and an often weird approach of interpreting data and issues. So this does not come as a surprise unfortunately.

South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court are different as we know.

Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position [video]

@DdCno1

From your comments one can easily infer that you didn't even click the link.

@DdCno1

Is this before or after the Hamas war crimes tribunal?

They can do that before or after, but I hope they do both soon. There is no difference between Hamas and Israel's right-wing government led by Netanyahu.

Done.

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

There's an opinionated article in the AFR.

Pressure on PM to front up over Chinese naval incident

The Coalition is pressing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to reveal if he personally challenged China’s President Xi Jinping about injuries inflicted on Australian seamen by a People’s Liberation Army warship last week [...]

The government is now facing criticism for waiting until the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco to reveal the incident, in which a Chinese navy destroyer used sonar close to Australian divers causing them to cease repair operations and suffer minor injuries.

Defence Minister Richard Marles issued a statement just after Mr Albanese finished addressing the media in the US and ahead of his flight back to Australia, ensuring the prime minister did not have to answer questions hot on the heels of meeting with Mr Xi on the sidelines of the summit.

China Is Slowly Erasing Tibet's Name

The Chinese government is gradually dropping the name "Tibet" in official English-language references in favor of the region's Mandarin Chinese name—"Xizang"—with experts saying the move is in line with Beijing policies aimed at erasing Tibetan culture.

The propaganda department of China's State Council, its central government, last week released a white paper on "Governance of Xizang in the New Era." Though the term "Tibetan" is used to refer to the region's people and geographical features like the Tibetan Plateau, Xizang is used exclusively when referring to the southwestern region's official name.

the dubious estimates nH Predict spits out seem to be a feature, not a bug

This is the major problem with algorithms, one of the issue being that they will produce a lot of false positives even if there are best intentions.

But another major problem is that you can influence the outcome by altering the parameters as the article also says. We have been observing similar issues in health and social policy in many countries over the last years, and the results have always been devastating. And research suggests that biases may increases dramatically in the future if we continue to use these algorithms the way we do it now.

Who is downvoting the summary bot? 😅

It reads strange if the Israelian military takes journalists on a "controlled" visit given the Israeli government's sentiment towards journalists, when they NOT control them. Just a remainder here or here or here.

@zerfuffle

Yes, I fully understand what you say. You mean this, but honestly, does it add any value?

@zerfuffle

It really helps if you read the article before posting.