the laws of physics are the same in every country. if the us can develop chips, do can china.

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-28/india-brazil-push-back-against-china-over-brics-expansion](China's Push to Expand BRICS Membership Falters)

this article didn't age well!

i never did support russia's government. now i have even less reason to.

fortunately, the nypd lacks equipment such as tanks, missiles, and artillery. spending isn't everything; what they spend it on is everything.

i'm surprised that it admits this.

random tweets making baseless predictions are a waste of time.

the cities are indeed nice but should not be taken as being representative of the country as a whole. people living outside cities matter, too, and rural areas are not yet as developed.

rationalwiki is pretty good...if not for its liberal bias.

in terms of geopolitics, it is.

votes are public?

i enjoy both panda express and authentic chinese cuisine. there are some niche things like drunken shrimp eaten alive, but the vast majority of chinese people don't eat "weird" foods like it. they eat stuff you'd typically find in a chinese restaurant in the west, which tend to be pretty authentic.

telling! i just hope that china can phase out coal entirely.

whoever it is, they must be competent and continue developing china or all of the efforts of the past decades could be lost.

i know what you mean, but the israeli military has been able to defeat peer-ish opponents militarily.

why weren't you more specific about the ways that china is imperfect? i agree, of course, but one can be a strong supporter of something without needing to glorify it.

why is a far right party being supportive of russia?

i wish china would abolish the death penalty already.

people downvoted this? disgusting.

https://lemmy.ml/post/414831/comment/249843

this comment of his received 3 votes when the same comment likely wouldn't over here. interesting; the userbases must be different.

torn apart? how so?

hundreds of thousands is still a lot, and mass executions/murder are surely not healthy for a country, even if those are people with dangerous beliefs. imprisonment or reeducation would be more humane. i would also hope that they were given fair trials before their punishments.