China urges ‘calm’ after Hamas attack on Israel
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That's not what I said and you know it. Forced education and forced labour were both part of the mass rural-to-urban migration of the Cultural Revolution. Yet, it's difficult to argue that the Cultural Revolution was a genocide. Whereas Chinese policy has, by and large, focused on economic factors, genocide implies some ethnically-driven motivation. Such a motivation doesn't really exist. For what it's worth, the presence of penal labour in modern China is extremely similar to the US system of prison labour (over-representation by minorities and all). However, whereas in the US this is driven by racial tensions, in China this is driven predominantly by economic ones (the places where minorities live tend to be poorer provinces and the people predominantly have rural hukou).
I'd ask you if you've ever gone to school in China but I know the answer is going to be no. It's a distinct misunderstanding of culture to claim that corporal punishment is only present in China's education system in Xinjiang. More extreme things might have recently been outlawed, but the enforcement of that law is still not very strong.
Japan isn't a dictatorship, nor are France or Spain.
Forced education is not forced labour (though, if you've ever done a STEM degree, you'd know that it feels a lot like it lol).
The principle of reform by labour was a core pillar of Chinese economic and social reform during the Cultural Revolution. It's been reformed countless times and is still used to a limited degree today on some prosecuted prisoners around the country. Crucially, they are not the same thing. You can be educated without being forced to work (and vice-versa).
It's fine to be critical of Chinese policy in general, but a lot of people in the West don't understand Chinese history at all or the context that birthed modern Chinese policy. China's been remarkably consistent in policy.
As Chinese trade unions are set to convene their 18th national congress in Beijing on Monday, more than one fifth of selected delegates are workers in new jobs, such as delivery men and car-hailing drivers. The representatives will introduce proposals to better protect the group's legal rights and interests.
China literally already had that happen and their response was this:
- Isolate terrorist cells using China's massive ISR advantage and hunt them down with great prejudice
- Call for US help in attacking terrorists in neighbouring Afghanistan
- Having solved the effects, determine what the causes of terrorism are (income inequality/poor education, poor infrastructure, Islamic radicalization)
- Solve each of these problems by extreme force (Islamic radicalization: cut off communication with radicalizing factors and culturally integrate citizens with China, while also removing some of the special legal privileges granted to minorities that separates them from society at large. Poor infrastructure: dump stupid amounts of money into connecting the region with the best of China and invest in manufacturing and energy production jobs in the region. Income inequality/poor education: force everyone lacking skills to learn basic labour manufacturing)
Crucially, whereas Israel has opted to maximize civilian casualties by attacking residential towers at night and mosques during the day, China's approach has been more slow and methodical because Xinjiang, unlike Gaza and the West Bank, is not an explicitly ethnically segregated community. The Han minority would NOT appreciate missiles flying over their homes to strike their neighbours, and the many Uyghurs who are in support of the CPC would become radicalized by that process. This would obviously be undesirable. Thus, China's policies today have involved mostly applying the same things they've done to Han groups in the rest of China to Uyghur groups within Xinjiang: this is both politically expedient (because no one is going to complain about doing what Mao Zedong did) and less morally ambiguous (because the CPC is simply applying the same hammer to a different problem). Of course, China's human rights record in general isn't that great, but that's not a problem unique to any particular ethnic group: it's more of a result of policy created during the Cultural Revolution.
Basically, China believes the rise of ETIM to be driven by economic factors that it can solve, while Israel believes Hamas is driven by religious ideology that is unsolvable.
Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire as Israeli soldiers battle Hamas on second day of surprise attack
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Hezbollah issued the following statement:
"In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“Permission [to fight] has been granted to those who are being fought, because they were wronged, and indeed God is capable of granting them victory.
“On the path to liberate the remaining part of our occupied Lebanese land and in solidarity with the victorious Palestinian resistance and the steadfast and heroic Palestinian people, the groups of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Mughniyeh in the Islamic Resistance carried out an attack this Sunday, on October 8, 2023, targeting three Zionist occupation sites in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms region. These sites include the radar site, Zabdin site, and Ruwaisat site, using a significant number of artillery shells and guided missiles, resulting in direct hits on these sites. Victory comes only from God, the Almighty, the Wise.”
There are videos of a Merkava destroyed by a drone-launched PG-7, photos of a second destroyed Merkava, and videos of MANPADS shooting down Israeli helicopters.
Al-Aqsa is the third holiest site in Islam (after Mecca and Medina). According to the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad was miraculously transported from Mecca to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and ascended to heaven there.
Al-Aqsa is, in the Jewish faith, considered to be the site of the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem. According to the Talmud, it is where the Binding of Isaac occured, the location of the Holy of Holies, and where the world was created.
You know what, that's a good point.
However, Japan's Chuo Shinkansen is like 90% tunneled or something crazy and the rest of Europe (and China and Japan) has a ton of high speed expertise to draw from.
Reports indicate that Israel is launching air strikes on Gaza towers, Hamas has destroyed multiple Merkava tanks with drones, and that there are 70 confirmed Israeli and 198 confirmed Palestinian casualties.
There are big questions about how Israeli intelligence was caught so off guard by this attack.
Sometimes quotes get mistranslated and the only people that catch it are the ones for whom Arabic is their mother tongue. AFAIK the Palestinian Arabic dialect has some differences with what journalists at Al Jazeera might be used to.
For large government projects the principles tend to be followed (for example, China HSR and Shanghai's subway expansion). There's corruption that happens at the local (rural) government level that sometimes requisitions farmland for commercial or industrial use, and the systems there are usually less robust, but when talking about regional, provincial or national projects there are better systems in place to handle things with minimal risk and it's seen as more politically expedient to just pay the piper than it is to deal with the civil unrest.
China's land ownership system means that land is split between being owned by the national government and being owned by small collectives. The greatest corruption (requisition without proper compensation) usually occurs at the collective-level. At a higher administrative level, it's not like China is missing housing that it can use to rehouse people lol.
Rent is only high because of artificial scarcity of real estate. The scarcity only exists because building new housing is decided neither by supply and demand nor central government planning, but by the people who accumulate more capital if housing isn't built.
Associated Press: Hamas militant group has started a war that ‘Israel will win,’ defense minister says
New York Times: Gaza and Israel on War Footing After Militants Launch Surprise Assaults
Arab News: Hamas launches surprise attack as gunmen enter Israel
Israel Hayom: Hamas claims dozens of Israelis captured in surprise offensive; 4 Israelis killed by rocket fire
RT: Hamas launches major attack on Israel
SCMP: Rocket barrages from Gaza strike Israel amid Hamas infiltrations
Xinhua: Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza into Israeli cities
The Guardian: Israel declares state of war after Hamas fires thousands of rockets and ‘militants cross border’
BBC: Palestinian gunmen infiltrate Israel after rocket barrage from Gaza
Israeli air raids have hit the Gaza Strip after Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel.
The group running the besieged enclave says it has fired thousands of rockets towards Israel. Several casualties have been reported.
That's a fair complaint for developed countries, but I feel like it's less fair for developing countries where each point of GDP growth has a tangible effect on poverty rates, education, health, economic mobility, and overall wellbeing. Hell, an increase in economic resources will probably even offset the decrease in crop yield from climate change. For countries that are still developing, these things improve the lives of citizens more than the impact of climate change would hurt them.
Living in a developed country, we have a disproportionate responsibility for both reducing our own emissions and developing the technology and infrastructure to reduce emissions for everyone else. We should have led the charge towards ever cheaper solar and ever cheaper wind. We should have given the world clean and cheap technologies they can use to fuel their industrialization to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. We haven't, but looking towards the future there's still a lot we can do.
Remember that you can influence global emissions far more than by bringing your personal emissions down to zero.
You mean the principle of eminent domain? China is legally required to pay fair market value and rehouse displaced peoples, but it's also just the right thing to do for political stability. The key is that China doesn't really have the concept of private land ownership (only leased government and collective-owned land). That's the primary driver behind why China's costs are lower than the rest of the world in this domain, but doesn't explain how Japan and France and etc. are also so cheap.
A wealthy democratic country to... Compare to a country with an average salary of $14k?