The model is not without its limitations. While the Beijing-Shanghai line is an exemplary success story, other Chinese domestic lines are showing far less flattering results, with low occupancy rates and significant economic losses.
Reminds me of my Russian mom who left the USSR as a young adult during perestroika. Very cynical, keeps going on about "people these days" being selfish and/or not following the rules and gets very scratched lib about that at times. Also prejudiced against immigrants and working poor while viewing herself as one of the good ones.
So when she told me that she likes Sahra Wagenknecht and saves clips of Alice Weidel on Facebook, I went:
I think "the Coalition" is supposed to refer to the Free Palestine Coalition
(for those unaware: Australian politics is a UK-style duopoly with the Labor Party and "the Coalition" (Liberal Party + smaller, agrarian National Party) as the main parties)
Usually the "partial invasion" is the annexation of Crimea and supplying weapons to fighters in the Donbass, combining the two as the greater "Russo-Ukrainian War" and implying that Russia was always planning on doing this.
Babiš and his party have seemed to drift a lot in policy stances over the last 20 years, I mean he's had coalitions with the Communist Party at one point. Their right-wing designation comes from being queerphobic, xenophobic and anti-environmentalist under the guises of 'anti-euroliberalism' and 'national sovereignty'. Foreign-policy-wise he's a true centrist, as well as being a unabashed Zionist, go figure.
Babiš publicly profiles himself as a conservative and his party sits in EU Parliament under the same grouping as all of Europe's "mainstream far-right parties", Patriots for Europe.
Regarding promises of welfare spending, I want to point out that Geert Wilders in the Netherlands has often promised the same things in the past, but then his party votes for austerity every time, in government or in opposition. The Law and Justice Party in Poland also talks about a strong social safety net, mainly to distinguish themselves from the neoliberal opposition.
These people are offering a deal of sorts: they promise social benefits in return for loyalty to the big strongman against 'the elites', which shields them against criminal investigations. If not social benefits, then the power fantasy of 'owning the libs' that they feel wronged by.
They're made as commemorative coins these days. In 2000 the US made an attempt to replace dollar bills with coins, but they didn't catch on in the States. Interestingly, they're more popular than $1 banknotes in Latin American countries where the US dollar is legal tender: El Salvador, Panama and especially Ecuador.
I divided China's change in emissions since 2015 by the global change in emissions in 2015.
(12533.4 - 10355.2) / (40812.4 - 37467.3) = 2198.2 / 3345.1 which is... 65.7%, far from 90 percent. If they mistakingly used the graph of CO2 emissions that excludes other greenhouse gasses it still only gives 74.3 percent.
At this point I give up where they pulled that from
Sidenote: doing the same for 2023-2024 gives China a share of just 33 percent of increase in emissions.
Delegation of Brunei, a small state in Southeast Asia that's more like the Gulf states (absolute monarchy, petrol state, Islamic criminal law applies to all).
I managed to find footage showing the Chinese delegation, one person is seen remaining seated during the walkout. Presuming the six seats are divided evenly between China and Chile, two seats reserved for China are empty, but I don't know if that was meant as: "we'll have one low-level guy listen and have the others leave ahead of the walkout for strategic ambiguity" or if that's standard practice for them. They're just out of frame in routine shots of the whole assembly during other speeches, so I can't compare.
What I can say is that he isn't China's Permanent Representative, who is portlier and has gray hair.
I'm reminded of when he was found to wear Rolexes on his show, which he justified as "dress[ing] as a Satanist" to, like... reclaim it from the elites, because people shouldn't be shamed for wearing this "symbol of prosperity"... like him
Based off your earlier comment mentioning something about local residents unable to buy from businesses nearby, which I'm guessing to be because they're too expensive, it sounds to me more like a problem with private development/gentrification than a problem with the concept of 15-minute cities itself.
Oh, this article does it too: