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Given the reports from Western journalists, this is closest to the truth (though we don't know if there was an actual threat or if the gunshots around the area were enough threat on its own). China basically treats 6/4 like the Israeli hospital bombing "it wasn't us, but if it was then we didn't actually cause it, and if we did then people didn't actually die, and if people died it was only a few people."

This is, of course, in the context of growing corruption in government and increasing influence of American intelligence in the Chinese mainland. We know that some of the pro-democracy activists were funded and supported by American interests and that, at least according to American propaganda, that American psyops divisions were operating in China to orchestrate and escalate the event. 6/4 is a failed coup. American interests wanted to see further Chinese liberalization and tried to apply the same playbook that they had applied before in South America and the Middle East (and later in Ukraine, Pakistan) to China.

Further economic liberalization was not in the best interests of the people. While Deng's economic reforms had helped to grow China's economy in the globalizing economy at the end of the Cold War, it also created a new bourgeois and petite-bourgeois class that China is still grappling with today.

Oh no! Not investing in clean energy! Everyone else has been sitting on their ass while China actually tries to do something and that's seen as a bad thing?

China is under no obligation to invest in clean energy: as a developing nation, the costs of climate change are going to be offset by the benefits of electrification and industralization pulling people out of poverty. The opposite is true in developed countries: it's increasingly difficult to improve the lives of people in developed countries, so the marginal benefit of more fossil fuels consumption is offset by the costs of climate change. Given that that's true, what the fuck is the developed Western world doing?

Do you understand the sheer scale of a million refugees? That these refugees will never be allowed back?

An ex-Atlantic Council member is basically their chief moderation officer.

The Atlantic Council is basically a representative for US foreign policy - it's staffed overwhelmingly by (ex) US intelligence and DoD staff. The same is true for Facebook and I assume Google as well.

I cannot understate how important technological independence is in this day and age. The fact that Europe doesn't have robust social media or search is a testament to Europe's decline and Europe's fall into the American sphere of influence.

China has Baidu and WeChat and Russia has Yandex and VK. It's not a surprise that they're also the only big countries which can maintain a coherent anti-Western policy. It isn't necessarily about controlling your population, but about preventing other state actors from controlling your population.

The most recent incident is between a Chinese fishing vessel and a Filipino coast guard vessel.

The other incident was between a Filipino fishing vessel and a Chinese coast guard vessel.

Really makes you think.

Can't 17 year olds join the US Army?

Did someone say communism

Isn't China exporting chemical products that cartels in North America are using to synthesize fentanyl? It's not like synthesizing fentanyl is that hard.

This is actually incredibly advantageous to the region. A consistent supply of electricity drives so much economic development it's crazy.

I have zero hope for the US to actually bite on EVs. The only reason China has seen such rapid adoption is that, even without incentives and subsidies, EVs are cheaper than ICE vehicles. That's simply not true in the US yet and won't be true for at least another few years.

Year end inflation of 7% doesn't actually seem that bad? I'm surprised it's not higher tbh

The other comment chain is literally reading it as that. People literally deny the Holocaust, are you at all surprised that they can deny the genocide of Palestinians?

That agreement has been getting walked back by the OSINT sources that initially confirmed it... As expected.

The only reputable international sources with journalists actually on the ground are Al Jazeera, Associated Press, and Reuters. There's more regional sources like Al Arabiya operating there as well, but they're not well-known in the West. Everyone else is just commenting on the same secondary sources and made up bullshit that we are online.

The coup that wasn't a coup continues...

Israeli propaganda forces out in force recently

Hasn't the strike literally achieved their objectives? Everyone's talking about them (instead of Ukraine), the Arab world is uniting behind them, and the West is progressively alienating their friends in the Global South.

If Israel had just let things lie, the status quo would have continued and Israel could have kept encroaching on the West Bank and slowly suffocating the Gaza Strip with their blockade. Instead, people are literally turning their backs on the US at the UN, there are massive protests around the world, and the Palestinian struggle is now front and center.

The only way Israel can pull a victory out of this complete and categorical defeat is by annexing the Gaza Strip.

It's probably Afghanistan's best shot of recovering economically given the absolute devastation that the Soviets and Americans inflicted on the country. Infrastructure works.

Everyone here trying to suggest that the National Interest is a Russian propaganda mouthpiece...

Fucking laughable, maybe pick up a book before you comment on global affairs.

China has literally no motive for damaging Balticconnector.

Even in the absence of any other considerations, Russia can grind Ukraine down. The US needed an effective counteroffensive, because a war of attrition only benefits Russia. Unfortunately, that counteroffensive was an abject failure.