Not sure there's much to be done when they can't get the fossil fuels they need to generate power. Maybe after the hurricane passes an aid group can bring in solar cookers, PV panels, and vertical axis wind turbines for micro deployments at hospitals?

95% approval rating of the government over 15 years (studied and reported by Harvard)

Multiple autonomous zones wherein a non-Han culture controls major aspects of society including religion, language, social norms, etc. Children are educated in their native tongues and official business is conducted in those languages. Compare this to language and religious erasure in the USA and Canada.

The protests in Hong Kong were violent... That is to say the protestors were throwing fire bombs at the police, but the police allowed the protests to rage for weeks and did not violently repress them. Compare this with the decades of police riots in the USA most recently the protests against racially-motivated extrajudicial killings by the police.

Greater home ownership rates in China than the USA or Canada. Lower homelessness rates in China than USA or Canada. Lower death rates from COVID in China.

The human rights to food, shelter, health, a government that responds to the needs of the people - all of these are better in China.

Child separation of immigrant families and use of solitary confinement on immigrants, including infants which causes permanent brain damage.

Apartheid and ghettoization domestically and support for apartheid and ghettoization globally.

That doesn't even get into the military. China lacks all of these, but they feature heavily in the USA:

• CIA black sites in foreign countries used to torture and experiment on humans in violation of domestic and international law. They are in foreign countries to create legal ambiguities
• material support for multiple genocides including domestic genocides
• training death squads that murder entire families of indigenous and left-wing citizens throughout an entire continent
• unilaterally pulling out of nuclear treaties
• refusing to sign treaties against use of land mines
• nuking 2 civilian populations
• invading multiple sovereign nations and destroying all of their civilian infrastructure including power, water, and medical
• embargoing and sanctioning dozens of countries with the explicit purpose of causing pain to civilians in hopes that they will rise up and overthrow their government (collective punishment)
• use of chemical warfare on millions
• spending enough money on weapons of war that the money could easily solve multiple systemic human problems including hunger, disease, homelessness, mental health epidemics, etc.

The USA has an absolutely abysmal human rights record compared to China.

This narrative is so transparently disingenuous. The USA is fighting Iran on its own behalf and its been using Israel to prosecute it, escalate it, and create the pretext for direct involvement.

When there are joint exercises between USA and ROK, those are mere inches away from actual invasion. It's been this way for many years, and DPRK has just had to cope by being combat ready at nearly all times.

This is a new level of combat readiness. Without the roads and rail, ROK can't use them in an invasion. This makes DPRK more defensible.

Earlier this year Korea announced it was abandoning it's policy of unification stating that unification is impossible while the South is occupied by the USA. This seems to be an expansion of that policy change, likely based on recon.

How is this not in the dunk tank?

Slavery was contingent on everything before slavery creating the conditions for slavery. Once the conditions were as they were, then slavery became logically necessary, so the question then becomes, were the conditions that gave rise to slavery necessary...

What's with the strategic ambiguity here? They're attacking the capital city of a sovereign nation. The entity is at war with Lebanon. Why mince words?

There's probably a family trust somewhere that doesn't count against his net worth.

I just don't understand the use of DU in bombs against anything other than heavy armor. NATO did this in Yugoslavia too.

China takes write downs all the time. It has written down over $3Bn in debt and it's restructured 5x that for countries who couldn't afford to repay on the original terms.

It's gonna be great TV

Typical liberal brain rot fantasy. You are literally making shit up from fantasy stories and then playing them in your head and enjoying it.

The reality is that there is no Chinese debt trap and Dessalines gave you a great list of articles to read. Read them.

This is Western liberal cope. China makes 5-year plans and publishes them. Building factories around the world is a massive planning effort. They are not reacting to tarrifs that were levied in the last 18 months. The tarrifs are a reaction.

China has been building international infrastructure, including factories, for years now. By the time a factory comes online to "avoid tarrifs" the tarrifs would have already had their maximal effect. Further, tarrif regimes can be changed in hours while factories take years to plan and execute. There is simply no way China is thinking they're going to outmaneuver recent tarrifs with factories.

It's nonsense

This sounds ridiculous when you consider Ukraine just launched a failed counter offensive while Russia has been operating under a very conservative doctrine. How are they going to exhaust an enemy that's been methodically conserving it's energy this whole time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Total_casualties

It's wild how wide the estimate spread is. From 200k to this absurd 650k.

I guess we'll just have to watch the battlefield to get a better sense of the reality.

Uh, what? The whole point of this is that Israel is committing war crimes on behalf of the USA.

I'm sorry. Does that image say that the estimate of casualties in 2024 is from 2022?

How the hell do you think Russia is gearing up for invading other nations when the USA out spends it by an order of magnitude and already has 600+ military bases on foreign soil.

Y'all are really delusional. Russia doesn't have any ability to launch another invasion and the CIA has continuously assessed that Russia has neither the means nor the intention to take and hold Ukraine.

Lol. You have GOT to be talking about the USA here, right? Talk about corruption-riddled military. The USA spends more on military then the next 11 countries combined and it can't produce artillery shells at the same rate as Russia can under embargo.

Look at the cost of the modern fighter jet program and it's barely functioning. Look at the cost PER MISSILE of the systems they sold to Ukraine and Israel. The USA is the quintessential example of corrupt military industry in the world.

I would say that by the very nature of it being nukes it was exceptional. Like, the very definition of exceptional. Yes, the USA often bombs instead of negotiating, that is not exceptional.