What is the context of the phrase “Heil Hitler” now? Context is everything and you can’t just point at the history books and twist the meaning of what someone said.

Languages change and morph over time. They always have.

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.

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.

Senator Marco Rubio had this to say on the issue:

The Chinese Communist Party continues to expand its unlawful and aggressive maritime presence throughout the Indo-Pacific.

The U.S. must continue to strengthen our partnerships w/ nations in the region and advance our capabilities to counter China’s aggression.

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.

Mods here don’t do weekends lol

https://www.dniprotoday.com/amp/en/news/china-rejects-ukraines-meeting-request-amidst-geopolitical-tensions-1211

President Zelensky stated that he had no plans to meet with the Chinese Prime Minister, clarifying that he is not the leader of the country. “Our Prime Minister may meet with the Prime Minister of China. I would very much like to meet the leader of China. As far as I know, Xi Jinping makes decisions, and I make decisions in Ukraine. I don’t need any dialogues; I need important decisions from the leaders who make these decisions,” Zelensky said.

There’s a quote, what more do you want?

“There is a Chinese Premier – then our prime minister will meet with him. I would love to meet with the leader of China. As far as I know, [in China] Xi Jinping makes decisions, and in Ukraine, I make decisions. I don’t need just any dialogues; I need important decisions from the leaders who make these decisions,”