naturalgasbad @ naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca

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The US is just making sure the humanitarian crisis in Yemen ISN'T the worst humanitarian situation of the 21st century.

Ports are "profitable," but absurdly complex to build and manage. The reason many countries don't have deep water ports is because they can't afford to build one.

However, the economic impact of a port is, without question, a benefit to the Peruvian economy.

This sounds good in theory, but moderation is an important part of keeping online communities, well, communities.

Each online community has a different Overton window, so it's more a matter of finding a community that has an Overton window you can accept than anything else.

On this issue, lemmy.world is more American and rabidly pro-Israel and lemmy.ml is more international and rabidly pro-Palestine. Reddit might as well be an extremist platform calling for ethnic cleansing of all brown people.

lemmy.world is very Zionist, and lemmy.ml is very anti-Zionist. Pick your poison.

CNN, the same news org that runs ALL their reporting on this issue past the Israeli government?

Yeah...

Iran and Pakistan's rapidly deteriorating relationship has no relation to the US coup of Imran Khan, I'm sure.

Otherwise the US would be considered a terrorist state, and it's obviously not

And thus not terrorism

It's not even necessarily this, but that raising a successful child in China is obscenely expensive. There's only so many spots at Tsinghua/Beida. China has prided itself on its upwards economic mobility, but cultural pressures from that economic mobility are unsustainable.

Boeing really seems like they have their shit together.

The average restaurant lifespan is like 3 years, and malls are emptying around the world because of the rise of ecommerce. These are anecdotes that hold both in good economic conditions and in bad economic conditions. China's going through a bit of an D2C ecommerce revolution with Douyin (274B USD in the first 10 months of 2023, growing 60% YoY) and others. For reference, Amazon's sales from their ecommerce platform is around 350B USD for 2023, and its definitely not growing 60% YoY.

Can't have Blinken stranded in the land of the Swiss shudder

Don't you know Switzerland is basically a Chinese pawn now?

Doesn't this also make the Union a terrorist organization? Are blockades terrorism?

Clearly not harming China's economy. China saw +7.2% consumer sales, +5.9% infrastructure, +6.5% manufacturing, and was dragged down by -9.6% real estate. Those growth numbers are absurd.

If the first sources you go to include the fucking Atlantic for a European issue...

The country that reveals the most corruption is likely to be less corrupt than the country that reveals the least corruption.

Because China bad duh, go away tankie

The US was literally a state sponsor of Japan's invasion of China, over the course of which more Chinese people were murdered than during the Great Leap Forward. The US was the single primary supplier of oil, steel, iron, copper, and essentially everything that Japan needed to wage war in China from 1937 until 1941 (when the bulk of Chinese casualties occurred due Japanese atrocities such as the Nanjing Massacre). Without the US, Japan would not have stood a chance.

• Pakistan housed a terrorist organization on its own soil (and not the first time, either)

China's industrial capacity stretches pretty much the entire spectrum. Instead of offshoring entirely, China has opted for automating traditionally labour-intensive manufacturing industries, which is why China now has the fifth-highest robot density in the world.