[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Change work culture maybe?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Infinite money does not lead to infinite scale in zero time. China's nuclear industry is robust and growing, as is their solar and wind industry. Money can't be wasted if you're already tapped out on growth in other avenues.

This year, China deployed more solar panels than the entirety of all solar panels in the US.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Surely this will not be seen as an escalation and a deterioration of relations?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm split on political activism with civilian casualties. On one hand, civilians don't deserve to die, right? On the other hand, history shows that successful political movements almost invariantly have civilian casualties: the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolutions, the American revolution, the French revolution...

Are civilians responsible for the actions of their government and country?

Should it be condemned, or should the dead be given their rights but with the understanding of the right to revolution?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tibet is the romanized name for the region (based on Latin Tibetum). Tibetans call the Tibetan plateau "Bö" and Central Tibet "Ü-Tsang."

The original Tibetan Empire (circa 600-800 or something) stretched across the regions of Amdo (modern-day Qinghai), Ü-Tsang (modern-day Tibet Autonomous Region), and Khan (split between TAR and Sichuan). Xizang is a more or less direct transliteration of Ü-Tsang, the territory that makes up the vast majority of the modern-day TAR.

Tibet refers to the entire plateau (also referred to as the Qinghai-Xizang plateau or the Himalayan Plateau) and Xizang refers to the territory made up by the TAR. Xizang has, for as long as I can remember, been the Chinese name for the TAR.

This is manufactured outrage with a clickbait title... About what can be expected from Newsweek.

Edit: for some additional context, China is usually pretty good about keeping local names. See: Ürümqi (Wulumuqi) from the name of Dzungar village there, Kashgar (Kashigaer/Kashi) which has had the same name for millennia and Harbin (Haerbin) from the name of the Manchu village there (among others). Understandably, because Hui and Uyghurs still live in Urumqi and Kashgar, Manchu still live in Harbin, and Tibetans still live in Xizang.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Clearly the West Bank is also Hamas. You can tell because they're brown.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

As we know, journalists are all Hamas.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Clearly they are all Hamas. You can tell because they're not white.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Condemning war crimes is communist and authoritarian.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

As the IDF states, Palestinians are subhuman, so clearly the IDF cannot be participating in war crimes. Clearly.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Palestinians have the right to revolution just like the Americans, French, and Chinese did. That revolution might be bloody, but the fight for sovereignty and equality is rarely peaceful.

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