Most analysts predicted this as a realistic scenario weeks ago due to Beijing’s stock pile, but they also said that China will be in trouble soon if and when the war persists as most of the country’s energy comes from Venezuela and the Middle East.
What an absurdly weird comment. You want oil? You get oil.
China is not only a decisive supporter of Russia in its war against Ukraine, it’s been bullying practically all its neighbours in Asia. Beijing’s envoys have openly threatened foreign government officials (as Japan’s PM) and other countries’ populations (Japan, Australia), and threatening Taiwan. A Chinese envoy in Europe claimed that former Soviet-states (like Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and all others) have ‘no effective status’ in international law. And this is just a TINY sample of what China stands for.
Saying it’s not a ‘conflict type’ is absurd. China isn’t a reliable partner, and it doesn’t get better because the U.S. gets worse.
I hope you understand the message.
Yes, don’t buy from Russia, the U.S., and China. It wouldn’t make sense to replace dependence on fossil fuels by dependence on renewable technology from the regime in Beijing. The is often forgotten imo.
… but I can assure you …
Thanks, this was what I have bee waiting for.
There is a war in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country. China has been playing war games around Taiwan while Beijing has been increasing its aggression practically in the entire South China Sea. It’s noteworthy that the Chinese government has been increasing its military budgets in the last 30 years which is another threat to its neighbours in the region.
There is a war in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country. China has been playing war games around Taiwan while Beijing has been increasing its aggression practically in the entire South China Sea. It’s noteworthy that the Chinese government has been increasing its military budgets in the last 30 years which is another threat to its neighbours in the region.
It’s clearly said in the report, and the conclusions are very clear and reasonably.
This @plyth is a troll permanently downplaying the Chinese government’s atrocities, mostly through weird comments that I would describe as pseudo-intellectual. Save you breathe I would say.
The same outlet reported yesterday:
The ‘Chinese Dream’ is shrinking for Gen Z
… Beijing reported [its] economy hit its 5% GDP growth target [in 2025. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient …
Many young Chinese millennials and Gen Zers, who are trading down on everything from fashion to career ambition, are gripped in a deep sense of morass. The stepping stones to a solid, middle-class life seem to be sinking away, and the promise of long-term financial stability is crumbling as the housing market does the same.
“Even though a recession has not taken place, a lot of the symptoms of recession have been experienced by this young generation, particularly around unemployment and underemployment,” [says] Zak Dychtwald, who runs consumer research firm Young China Group …
Youth unemployment is high — around 17% — and that number also doesn’t capture the growing number of graduates taking jobs they never expected to need. Last year, Chinese social media lit up after a Ph.D. graduate posted about turning to food delivery work. Around the same time, a gas company announced it was recruiting graduates and postgraduates as meter readers.
“College education has become much more attainable for young adults,” said Zhou Yun, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. “Yet the returns to college education have not kept pace.”
You’ll find many of similar stories about China. It seems the Chinese students and graduates are unfortunately chasing whatever job they can get as the economy has been loosing spin for a long time. It’s not that great as their government wants to make the world believe.
The same outlet reported yesterday:
The ‘Chinese Dream’ is shrinking for Gen Z
… Beijing reported [its] economy hit its 5% GDP growth target [in 2025. Exports held up. Industrial output stayed resilient …
Many young Chinese millennials and Gen Zers, who are trading down on everything from fashion to career ambition, are gripped in a deep sense of morass. The stepping stones to a solid, middle-class life seem to be sinking away, and the promise of long-term financial stability is crumbling as the housing market does the same.
“Even though a recession has not taken place, a lot of the symptoms of recession have been experienced by this young generation, particularly around unemployment and underemployment,” [says] Zak Dychtwald, who runs consumer research firm Young China Group …
Youth unemployment is high — around 17% — and that number also doesn’t capture the growing number of graduates taking jobs they never expected to need. Last year, Chinese social media lit up after a Ph.D. graduate posted about turning to food delivery work. Around the same time, a gas company announced it was recruiting graduates and postgraduates as meter readers.
“College education has become much more attainable for young adults,” said Zhou Yun, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. “Yet the returns to college education have not kept pace.”
You’ll find many of similar stories about China. It seems the Chinese students and graduates are unfortunately chasing whatever job they can get as the economy has been loosing spin for a long time. It’s not that great as their government wants to make the world believe.
… as it doesn’t come at the cost of the national language.
What is a ‘national’ language? Who defines a ‘nation’?
Can the Chinese Communist Party define that all Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians whose territories are occupied are now Chinese that must be taught only in Mandarin?
Can Russia rule that Ukrainians in the occupied territories can’t be taught in Ukrainian as this would “come at the cost of the national language”?
As one scholar from Turkey writes:
Numerous studies in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and educational sciences demonstrate that monolingual education deepens linguistic, cognitive, and psychological inequalities among children. It not only places children at an academic disadvantage but also damages their relationship with their cultural identities. This leads to a loss of self-confidence at the individual level and to exclusion and alienation at the societal level. In this way, the education system becomes a mechanism that reproduces inequalities rather than eliminating them …
Epistemic hierarchies, frequently found in colonial modes of thought, position certain languages as “central” and “universal,” while relegating others to “local” and “secondary” status … Research, however, shows that children learn more rapidly in their mother tongue, that their conceptual development progresses more healthily, and that their cultural identities are strengthened. Mother-tongue education not only increases academic achievement but also enables children to feel equal and valued in the public sphere.
Lasting social peace is possible not where differences are suppressed, but where they are recognized and institutionally guaranteed. When the education system ceases to function as an instrument of homogenization and standardization and instead becomes a vehicle for pluralism, the principle of equal citizenship will acquire its genuine meaning …
Emphasis mine.
That’s how it should be. That’s already how it works in most (might be all) of Europe.
This is not how it should be, and it is not how it works in Europe.
In addition to @dominic.borcea@piefed.social’s comments: There is even a European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, and European institution seek to improve teaching of these languages. Just yesterday (3 March), the European Council released a report on minority languages in Hungary (whose current PM is a great admirer of China as we know).
Europe is certainly not perfect, but it does a lot to protect and promote minority languages, apparently in direct opposition to China.
I use that, too, and you can run it locally.
I don’t know what makes you think they will end up being not up-to-date nor comprehensive.
Do you think this is bad? What would you suggest instead?
I wouldn’t judge too early as it has just started. This guy asks to open an issue if you find mistakes, and I would assume they are also accepting new proposals. But the site is 12 days old.
The US and China: Who is better?
Just stumbled upon this image and it says more than thousands word imo.
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Well said.
Most analysts predicted this as a realistic scenario weeks ago due to Beijing’s stock pile, but they also said that China will be in trouble soon if and when the war persists as most of the country’s energy comes from Venezuela and the Middle East.