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Yunnan province’s Department of Commerce donated 200 sets of off-grid photovoltaic equipment to rural Nigeria under the ‘Green Energy Africa, One Belt, One Road lightening Up of Thousands of Households’.

Holy shit what if Nigeria leapfrogs the massive fossil fuel-driven industrial revolution and jumps straight into an electrified future?

Wait but I thought North Korea banned foreign media?

Split evenly, this would be more than 70,000 USD per employee. Of course, the ownership structure isn't entirely flat, but (for example) the founder and CEO only has a 0.7% share.

In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.

Within an order of magnitude? You can't give a number within an order of magnitude? There's only 20 million Muslims in China. There's only 9 reasonable answers (10^{0, 10}1, 10^{2, ... ~10}8), and any answer you give covers 3. In fact, 10^{0 and 10}8 aren't really "answers" because they're entirely dominated by the other options, so you have 7 reasonable answers.

You fucking kidding me? You might as well have said 0, because that's about as much good as your answer did. You made the claim, now back it up.

China is rotating construction workers into solar panel deployment. May are theorizing that this will be the last great rotation of China's glut of blue collar workers. Projections always assume market effects at play, but those don't always hold for China.

How many Muslims has China murdered? Give me a number within a factor of 10.

It's absolutely deplorable that the Canadian government has been silent. A Canadian citizen, working for humanitarian relief, killed by what amounts to an extrajudicial assassination.

Obviously, ISKP has become the core force of the "Islamic State" armed force, and its position can be regarded as the new core and top-level position of the "Islamic State". The surviving "Islamic State" armed forces did not hesitate to publicly change their stance to show favor to the United States and Europe and become enemies of China, Russia and Iran, hoping to take advantage of the confrontation between major powers to profit from chaos.

In fact, the "Islamic State" armed forces have chosen sides in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and continue to attack Russian targets, which not only shows its vitality but also shows its goodwill towards the United States and Europe. At a time when relations between Russia, the United States, Russia and Europe are extremely deteriorating, the United States and Europe will naturally not have much sympathy for Russia's terrorist attacks, and silence itself is a great encouragement to the "Islamic State" armed forces. Similarly, the "Islamic State" armed forces have listed China, the "number one" strategic rival of the United States, as their enemy, which is bound to strengthen mutual understanding and even establish a utilitarian "non-alignment alliance."

After the regime change in Afghanistan, the "Islamic State" armed forces listed China, Russia and Iran as their priority opponents. Based on survival needs or higher negotiation demands, they are bound to list China, Russia and Iran as key attack targets to please the US and European camps. The "Islamic State" armed forces are aware of the pain of the United States and NATO losing Afghanistan, and understand that they are extremely unwilling to be replaced by neighboring powers such as China, Russia, and Iran. Therefore, they are willing to act as Washington's de facto agent and shadow ally by confronting the Afghan government and being hostile to China, Russia, and Iran. Use terrorist attacks to harm the normal development and core interests of China, Russia and Iran.

Water has no permanent shape, and soldiers have no permanent potential. In the 1980s, based on the common desire to fight against Soviet expansion, Osama. Book. Bin Laden formed an alliance with the United States and received training and funding from the CIA. After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops and disintegrated, conflicts between the two sides escalated and they turned against each other. Nowadays, the world situation has changed drastically, and the relationship between enemies and friends has been restructured. It is not a fantasy that the new generation of terrorists who pursue the "Bin Laden Doctrine" and the United States have expanded the intersection of interests and strategically formed a philanthropic relationship.

This is one of the most nuanced takes I've seen discussing the issue of why ISIS has shifted from the West to the East: due to emerging geopolitical friction between the Western powers and the Eastern powers, ISIS has decided to adopt bin Laden's playbook by aligning with one faction (to receive logistical support, training, etc.) against the other. I'd recommend reading.

KSTAR, KFE’s fusion research device which it refers to as an “artificial sun,” managed to sustain plasma with temperatures of 100 million degrees for 48 seconds during tests between December 2023 and February 2024, beating the previous record of 30 seconds set in 2021.

Wait, but hold on...

The achievement was announced on Friday by Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China’s Anhui Province. The device, which replicates the atom-building process that occurs at the center of stars and gives them their luminosity and warmth, held plasma at a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds and at the even hotter temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for another 20 seconds.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a nuclear fusion reactor research facility, ran at 70 million degrees Celsius for as long as 1,056 seconds (17 minutes, 36 seconds), Xinhua reported.

I guess technically 120 million != 100 million...

It's only condemnable if it's white people that are dying. Muslims, of course, don't count.

I think it's pretty clear that intel for the initially planned Crocus attack was well known. For some odd reason, that I couldn't possibly fathom, the terrorists decided to call it off and do it another day. The initially planned dates had a more popular concert IIRC, so it would've been a better target.

"The NIH is wrong, researchers are wrong, everyone is wrong except the ever reliable US State Department."

I love having a community where I can continue spreading news like "China economy collapsing" and ignore the unreliable numbers from Caixin and S&P that are reporting manufacturing PMI of 51.1 (official number: 50.8), services PMI being above 50 for months, and unreliable numbers from Citi raising growth forecasts to 5%.

In fact, it's much better to have a community to critique Chinese companies for the absolute horror of daring to "dump" clean energy resources on the open market at such a low cost that they can only make small profits. This is a real danger to the stability of fossil fuel prices which form the backbone of conventional energy markets.

This has been US doctrine for operations in the Middle East since forever.

Hmm?

I think it's pretty clear that intel for the initially planned Crocus attack was well known. For some odd reason, that I couldn't possibly fathom, the terrorists decided to call it off and do it another day. The initially planned dates had a more popular concert IIRC, so it would've been a better target.

We're talking about the same CIA that failed to assassinate Castro... How many was it? Anyway, do tell me more about your contacts in the FSB...

I wasn't aware you had contacts in the FSB. Do tell. The public nature of the announcement likely pushed the terrorists to ground and forced them to come up with a new plan. Duty to warn is usually done privately for a reason.

In case people were wondering where Yellen gets her ideas from

They dismissed it after the 48 hours elapsed and nothing happened.

The US shared shoddy intel.