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ThomasPaine posted:A DC based think tank with the stated goal of 'enhancing' US foreign policy and the UN are not equivalent organisations, and decent critical analysis has to include an awareness of who's writing and in what ideological context. I'd suggest decent critical analysis should also include reading the report.
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Fojar38 posted:I'd suggest decent critical analysis should also include reading the report. It should, which is why I haven't commented on its contents.
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China aims to be carbon neutral by 2060. Its new 5-year plan won’t (quite) cut it. For now.quote:0n Friday, China released a draft summary of its 14th Five-Year Plan, the all-important document that not only guides the country’s economic development but also has huge consequences for global carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. The new plan’s 2025 emissions goals reflect an ongoing contradiction between China’s short-term and long-term climate goals.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/11/china-adopts-new-laws-to-ensure-only-patriots-can-govern-hong-kongquote:Chief executive, Carrie Lam, said her government would amend Hong Kong law’s in line with the new decision over the next 12 months. She denied it was a backwards step for democracy, but instead closed “loopholes” allowing “unpatriotic people” to “harm” Hong Kong with anti-Beijing and pro-independence moves.
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Grouchio posted:China aims to be carbon neutral by 2060. Its new 5-year plan won’t (quite) cut it. For now. Did they release another catchy song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiBgHIWKik
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Mr. Nice! posted:Did they release another catchy song? I love this song; I love thinking about what they're trying to say with the song; I love thinking about the people who thought of and made the song.
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The CCP is poopy. Xi Jinping is a tinpot despot with a resemblance to a cartoon bear. Both are committing genocide in Xinjiang, for reasons that are at once hateful, racist, and politically expedient. Just as they are quashing political and social dissent in Hong Kong. Also related to Xi Jinping. 'Xi Jinping thought'(tm) is intentionally obscurely written bullshit that neither adds or says anything of worth to either the Party or Communist thought. All of these truths I hold to be self-evident.
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Doesn't Xi Jinping thought include a commitment to "One country two systems". Wonder how that's going.
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Private Speech posted:Doesn't Xi Jinping thought include a commitment to "One country two systems". Wonder how that's going. Turns out it's not going well actually.
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SerCypher posted:Turns out it's not going well actually.
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Grouchio posted:Blowing up in his face or the people's face? Little bit of column A. Little bit of column B.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Little bit of column A. Little bit of column B. And here I thought Xi successfully became as invincible an icon as Mao. (Deng best Chairman)
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Grouchio posted:
This is something I am thinking about. I know he has enshrined himself into law, proclaimed himself President for life, had all rivals disappeared or neutered etc. But has he managed to weasel his way into the public/social/cultural consciousness and become an actual icon? (Winnie the pooh stuff doesn't count) I haven't lived in China for about 3 years, and I was only there for 2 1/2 so whilst the motherfucker is certainly politically important, I dunno if he managed to make himself as socially/culturally important as he would have liked.
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I got family who ride or dies for Xi but he has powerful, powerful whatever the translation for Americana into chinese would be. The man owns a collectible decorative plate set with all the chairmen's faces and had a special cabinet made to display them on. He also get really mad when I said given the choice between china's vaccine and moderna/pfizer I'd take the latter two because they objectively more effective he called me unpatriotic. I am not a chinese citizen.
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I think Xi Jinping has extremely high levels of public support in China. Obviously public opinion is hard to measure, but that absolutely seems to be the environment here, and most western reporting tends to reflect that, as far as I can understand. China, like many other places, generally seems to have experienced a significant rightward shift starting around mid 2010s and Xi’s “brand” resonates with right wing populism in a way that previous leaders didn’t.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I know he has enshrined himself into law, proclaimed himself President for life, had all rivals disappeared or neutered etc. But has he managed to weasel his way into the public/social/cultural consciousness and become an actual icon? Definitely getting there, sadly. Indoctrination at schools is getting ever more effective.
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Xi Jinping is almost 70. It's like he's trying to speedrun China into a succession crisis.
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Daduzi posted:Definitely getting there, sadly. Indoctrination at schools is getting ever more effective. But he doesn’t even have lines that are as good as Mao’s!!
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Grouchio posted:Blowing up in his face or the people's face? I more meant his commitment to one country two systems is not going well. Closer to one country 1.05 systems at the moment.
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Mar 16, 2021 06:35
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Dumb country, Pooh systems
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SerCypher posted:I more meant his commitment to one country two systems is not going well. Identical twins are still two people
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Daduzi posted:Identical twins are still two people Only if born after 2015.
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Fojar38 posted:Xi Jinping is almost 70. It's like he's trying to speedrun China into a succession crisis. As long as you died the most powerful person, you won.
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Fojar38 posted:Xi Jinping is almost 70. It's like he's trying to speedrun China into a succession crisis.
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Fojar38 posted:Dumb country, Pooh systems On the note of Pooh. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/devotion-devs-are-selling-it-themselves-after-gog-chickened-out The Devotion Devs are now selling the game direct. I wonder how long their store will stay up. I love talking poo poo about our leaders and would have to have to deal with the bullshit in China where it is treated like apostasy.
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Are any of you fine folk able to translate this? It went up near my house (UK).
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Roblo posted:Are any of you fine folk able to translate this? It went up near my house (UK). It says "Love is always the answer".
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Well that isn't what I expected at all! I was thinking it would be political. Thanks! That's nice.
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It actually boggles the mind how bad China is at diplomacy. Your average Goon has more tact.
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Fojar38 posted:It actually boggles the mind how bad China is at diplomacy. Your average Goon has more tact. The thing that gets me is that they actually believe their own bullshit. Few things are more dangerous than that. Hell, past a certain point even the Soviets were kinda phoning that poo poo in.
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Let Them Pick Cotton
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holy poo poo Chinese propagandists are the loving worst lol
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It's an extremely weird tweet, they really should've just used a picture of angola prison if they wanted to be more modern
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Varinn posted:It's an extremely weird tweet, they really should've just used a picture of angola prison if they wanted to be more modern 
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The former head of the CDC, Robert Redfield, went on CNN to claim that Covid-19 escaped unintentionally from a lab in Wuhan, in contrast to the current scientific consensus of an animal origin: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-lab-theory-robert-redfield-no-evidence/ quote:Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN he believes the coronavirus originally escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. But it's too early to know for sure and investigations are ongoing. Now I find it pretty drat disingenuous for Redfield to come on CNN to drop a bomb like this and then turn around and say "this is just my opinion". Perhaps he has some ulterior motive in saying this. That being said, the Wuhan lab was apparently experimenting with viruses similar to that of Covid-19. On the other hand, scientific consensus says no, which should outweigh anything else. 
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It's really, really hard to believe that the lab actively studying coronaviruses located a couple of blocks away from where the novel coronavirus pandemic originated had nothing to do with the outbreak. It really just beggars belief.
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Yeah, it's an annoying situation where right-wing media figures use the presence of a lab in the area (an entirely plausible source of the initial infection, given Chinese stonewalling of international investigators) to imply a deliberate leak, which is obviously a ridiculous claim. This then leads to people dismissing the original idea (lab accident) completely out of hand, rather than just assigning it some probability and moving on. It isn't as if such accidents are unheard of.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:Yeah, it's an annoying situation where right-wing media figures use the presence of a lab in the area (an entirely plausible source of the initial infection, given Chinese stonewalling of international investigators) to imply a deliberate leak, which is obviously a ridiculous claim. This then leads to people dismissing the original idea (lab accident) completely out of hand, rather than just assigning it some probability and moving on. It isn't as if such accidents are unheard of. Yep. It's 100% feasible that the lab just used poor safety standards or suffered an accident, leading to one of the bat coronaviruses they had been studying to infect some staff. It's also incredibly believable that the CCP would try to cover this up. But that's not edgy enough, apparently, so you've got terminally online people claiming it's either a bioweapon and/or that the CCP is playing 9 dimensional checkers by releasing it intentionally in their own country to make Donald Trump look bad. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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