It's actually even worse than that. Yuan purchasing power in China is almost 1 to 1 USD for most regular purchases, i.e. groceries in China cost 50 yuan while they cost 50 USD in USA.
It only converts 1 to 7 USD for very large purchases like electric cars, mostly determined by whether said large purchase required materials from outside of China, which would be priced at USD prices.
Thus, the impact of that stolen money is more like 100 million USD in the US.
Nah, if shit really gets bad they can just do public execution of corrupt officials, French-style.
If just execution by firing squad doesn't seem like enough deterrent, we will see if eternal public humiliation on top of that is enough. Just the threat may be enough.
Bring him to a Palestine protest with Jewish Voice for Peace. The best way is to break this misconception is to be active IRL and see Jews fighting for Palestine on the ground, and see how they are ignored.
The spinal cord also has some autonomous capability as well.
If you touch a hot plate, your spinal cord will pull your hand away before your brain gets the pain signal. This saves time and prevents further burn damage during the nerve signal travel time.
Are you adding them to Prolewiki? If you want, I can send you the raw markdown files. I have them stored on a personal archive
If not, I guess I'll try applying to be a Prolewiki editor again. I just don't like the entire backup wiki being my posts because no one else can add to them.
This is so fucked. If you buy U.S. air defense systems, they can just turn them off whenever they feel like it. At least when you buy Russian weapon systems, you can point them at Russia (like Ukraine) and they still work.
Of course, these two things can both be true, but the US-backed color revolutionaries are louder due to their funding. Nepal's geography sort of dooms it to being a shithole unless China pours a ton of money into it, which they haven't gotten around to yet.
Thus, this is just like the Hong Kong protests, where some of the protesters were legitimately pissed over high living costs, which was not really a problem caused by the Chinese, but rather the native Hong Kong government. And then the U.S.-backed color revolutionaries stirred it up into way bigger shit by just conducting tons of domestic terrorism.
Once the Nepal-China railway is finished tunneling through the Himalayas, Nepali lives will get better. Let's just hope that this color revolution doesn't ruin that opportunity forever.
I agree. I will say that switching to trial by jury does result in some marginal improvement at the extremes. Even the worst cases of trial by jury, i.e. Jim Crow era, were reflections of the rot of U.S. society as a whole, while the most egregious cases of trial by judge can be caused by just one corrupt judge.
Examples include:
Steven Donziger, who sued Chevron to force them to clean up their destruction (entire lakes and rivers filled with toxic oil) of the Ecuadorian rainforest from past oil drilling. Instead, Chevron got permission to hire a private judge, who made Donziger lose his law license, put him in jail, and pay millions in damages to Chevron.
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, who sent thousands of kids to private prisons for no justifiable reason in exchange for monetary kickbacks from the private prison company
I think by 'wide blockade', OP is referring to blockading the South China Sea by way of the rather small straits connecting it to the wider Pacific. The U.S. game plan is to park warships in the Strait of Malacca and the alternative straits (spanning from Taiwan, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia; notice a pattern with US vassals and regime change attempts?), thereby blockading China.
I don't think rare earths are super important for chips. Rare earths are more important for small, ultrapowerful motors, magnets, and other devices useful for robotics and military equipment.
However, the US is falling behind on power production to power all the AI they want to run.[https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure/] Basically, it may not matter than US chips for AI are twice as powerful as Chinese ones if China has the excess power production to just run 2-3X as many of them.[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-generation?tab=line&country=SWE%7EIND%7EUSA%7EGBR%7EFRA%7ECHN]
Either way, China's work in this arena provides the Global South an alternative to just being dominated by US AI in the future. This still doesn't help Americans in the US though, who need to fight their own fight to prevent from being sidelined, replaced, and ultimately exterminated by US capitalists and their AI.
Yo, fascist infighting go! Zionist Jewish supremacists versus Nazi white supremacists.
Is this what we need to get the US capitalist class to stop backing Israel?