“The Chinese Communist Party, once famous for pillaging from the natural world, has set to protecting parts of it. But the country’s “eco-authoritarian” approach deserves scrutiny”
“Yes, China is saving the environment while we in the West continue to destroy it, but at what cost?!”
Yep. And just today they once again committed a blatant terror attack, murdering several civilians including children:
UKRAINE STRIKES FAMILY RESORT
Eight killed after Ukrainian strike on resort base in Kirillovka on the Sea of Azov
Zaporozhye region head Yevgeny Balitsky says a strike on a tourist base in the resort town of Kirillovka killed eight people, including two children.
14 more are wounded, three of them children.
This is a very popular family resort on the coast of the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is a terrorist state.
https://xcancel.com/M_Simonyan/status/2080952638556811730
They do this because they are losing catastrophically on the front lines. Russia blows up Ukrainian weapon and ammunition depots, the Kiev Nazis retaliate against Russian Amazon and holiday resorts.
India isn’t going to fight China. They are not that stupid and they are too big to be a controlled puppet state like Japan or Occupied Korea. India may not always have a China-friendly policy but they are going to at least act in their own (bourgeoisie’s) self-interest.
Japan or the Philippines on the other hand…
It is populated mostly by Russians nowadays though. The main city there is Vladivostok.
Uber drivers are small business owners on paper only. In reality they are about as much small business owners as medieval peasants working their feudal lord’s land in exchange for a share of their harvest were small business owners. They may nominally own some means of production, such as their plough (car), but if the feudal lord kicks them off the land (platform) that he owns, the plough becomes useless.
There is zero real material, social, historical or cultural basis to these borders. They are about as logical as borders drawn by 19th century Europeans in Africa. They are a colonial fantasy.
In reality all of these except for the Caucasus region are overwhelmingly majority ethnic Russian. If you were to actually cut out ethnic minority regions out of Russia it would look very different.
(Also, they did zero original thinking for this map, they just took the already existing federal districts of Russia, which are basically arbitrary geographical groupings.)
No surprise. Interwar Poland was basically ran by a fascist government.
Also, in pretty much every video the Russians post of captured Ukrainian soldiers telling how they were forcibly mobilized, the Ukrainian soldiers are native Russian speakers, which means southern and eastern Ukraine.
(Kiev is also mostly Russian speaking, but for political stability they usually avoid forcibly mobilizing in Kiev too much. Also, Kiev is more wealthy and cosmopolitan, and the children of the elite don’t get mobilized – that’s why you often see videos from Kiev of parties and night clubs while in poorer, more rural regions men don’t even dare leave the house anymore.)
They might if more western Ukrainians were dying. Unfortunately a majority of the forcibly mobilized are native Russian speakers from Eastern Ukraine whom the nationalists from Western Ukraine consider Untermenschen.
Also, the Ukrainians just don’t often collect the bodies of their dead soldiers (which is why the exchanges of bodies with Russia are regularly so lopsided) and generally try to not acknowledge they are even dead for as long as possible in order to not have to pay out the families.
Russia can’t even get past Kiev
I also think the hysteria about Russia invading Europe is absurd, but this is not a good argument to use, because if and when Russia does take Kiev (which is not as unrealistic as some people think) you will then have undermined your own argument.
They’re not just working on it, they’ve already done it. Videos are already appearing in Russian channels of captured Ukrainian soldiers claiming to have been deported from European countries and then immediately mobilized.
A Gallup poll in 2024 revealed that around a third of Europeans would be unwilling to fight if their own country were attacked. My own country, Italy, was at the bottom of the pack, with a whopping 78% saying they would refuse.
These figures reveal several things at once. Worryingly, they show the growing strength of far-right and far-left forces [and anyone rational who doesn’t want a suicidal war with a superpower with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal] openly sympathetic to Russia and susceptible to its propaganda demonising Europe’s rearmament.
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One way to toughen up populations is to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. For months, a European coalition of the willing has drawn up plans to deploy a “reassurance force” to Ukraine after a ceasefire. These discussions have not led anywhere because a truce is not in sight. Their aim was mainly political: to show European solidarity with Ukraine and encourage American engagement. But Ukraine is under no illusions about the fact that deploying a few thousand European soldiers far from the front line in a hypothetical post-ceasefire scenario would make no difference to its defence.
A European reassurance force would, then, do little for Ukraine. But deploying it now, before a hypothetical ceasefire, could benefit Europe, encouraging citizens to develop a mindset that would better prepare them for war. Yes, it would put European soldiers in harm’s way—any such move would infuriate the Kremlin—but the continent is already in a hybrid conflict, even if many refuse to recognise it. Were European soldiers to be stationed in Ukraine, it would bring reality closer to home [i.e. it would bring bodies in coffins home]. And perhaps a fraction of Ukraine’s courage, humility and creativity [and psychosis and hatred and acceptance of forced conscription and totalitarian dictatorship] could infect other European societies. European troops would not be put in harm’s way out of sheer generosity, but to help prepare for war—
These people are clinically insane.
Beijing’s full-blown assault on the European auto market imperils the entire industry.
The full scale unprovoked Chinese October 7 style invasion of German markets!
The West has to beome nasty to end the Ukraine war - Finnish president Stubbs
“Russia will not end the war for economic complexities.
Russia will not end the war for the deaths of Russian soldiers.
They will end the war if the population turns against it.”
The idea is to target the population and hit civilian targets.
On June 15, a national conference on Party building was held in Beijing, once again showing that Party building is a fundamental guarantee for national development and national rejuvenation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee has focused on the major questions of what kind of long-term Marxist governing party should be built and how such a Party should be built. It has put forward a series of new concepts, ideas, and strategies, forming the scientific and systematic Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building.
At present, party politics around the world is facing problems such as governance failure, declining public trust, and being held hostage by capital. The limitations of the Western model of party development have become increasingly clear. Many countries that copied Western-style political party systems have fallen into party conflict, social division, and development stagnation. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building has not only strengthened the century-old Party and supported the steady progress of Chinese modernization, but also gone beyond the conventional Western paradigm of party politics. It has broken the Western discourse monopoly and path dependence in party politics. The new paradigm of party development it has shaped, with its distinctive logic of governance and institutional advantages, has provided a new Eastern reference and a practical option for global party governance.
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Thirdly, it practices cooperative governance rather than confrontational checks and balances. China’s political party system upholds multi-party cooperation and consultative governance, bringing together social forces and interests from all walks of life. In contrast, Western-style parties often rely on confrontation and checks and balances, which would only intensify party disputes, divide society, and slow development.
This new Eastern paradigm moves beyond the limits of ballot politics and capital politics. It takes the people’s position as its fundamental standpoint, self-reform as its internal driving force, and a long-term vision to coordinate overall development. It has helped address the historical cycle of rise and fall that besets long-term governing parties. It also serves as an important reference for many developing countries as they explore party systems and development paths suited to their own conditions. Unlike the hegemonic mindset of the West, which exports fixed and rigid institutional templates, China’s model of party governance respects the historical development and real national conditions of different countries. It advocates the coexistence of diverse party systems and mutual learning among political parties, thereby enriching mankind’s forms of political civilization.
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“China would face fewer trade wars with the rest of the world if its people were less thrifty.”
“China angers its trading partners because it sells more goods than it buys, earning more than it spends. The underspenders include its households, which save at an unusually high rate.”
Because they are Russian. That is all the reason they need.
It shows also that the Kiev regime knows that the population of the Donbass and Novorossiya are Russians, and not “oppressed and occupied Ukrainians”, as they claim for their gullible Western audience.
That is why they focus their terror campaign against civilians in former Ukrainian regions more than they do in other parts of Russia. They hate those people for choosing Russia over Nazi Ukraine and want to punish them.