The real boost is SOEs. Competition is good, it just needs a single large-scale player more concerned about the public good than private profits to push the industry in the right direction. There’s a reason SWCC works so well while the Soviet system failed. Deng Xiaoping was a genius.

why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?

in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?

yes but my freedum

yes but political pandering

communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified

$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.

By Western standards, China’s record on human rights with respect to Uyghurs is not clean. However, it’s no more dirty than China’s record on human rights with respect to Han.

Turns out, Western standards look down on things like collectivism and the common good in favour of individual rights and privileges.

Western criticism of the one child policy, for example, is the exact same thing as Western criticism of government-imposed family planning on Uyghurs: by Western standards, the government should only impose family planning policy through economic levels, never legally enforceable ones.

The absolute disregard for Palestinian lives.

Go home Russia shill

If anything, this makes the A-50U downing less likely given that there’s been no indication that any A-50U crew are dead and Russia clearly isn’t censoring reports on such.

stfu Russia shill

They’re different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.

If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.

Mother and Infant Daily, truly the most trustworthy source in modern journalism.

However, the only investment the government has made so far has been a $35 million grant to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets, according to Bloomberg.

coal capacity is going up, but utilization is going down

it’s a cool ass trend

honestly they just expect more evidence

I think they’re not moderated by Americans so their standard for what’s “acceptable” is less “what’s politically-aligned” but “what’s backed by the available evidence”

well, yeah, dude has basically no challenge to his position

but he’s going to win the next election anyway

that’s tbh a private issue

someone’s suicide shouldn’t be political