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I want Ukraine to win as much as DW, but this report is full of holes.
There's no evidence, as far as I know, that the 30 mile convoy north of Kyiv 'came under ferocious attack'. It might have, but we don't have evidence of it. The clip DW shows to prove this is not from that convoy but from the east side of the Dnipro River, just north of Brovary.
'The Ukrainians are a superior fighting force'. I'd love for that to be true, but right now, Russia is making (very slow) progress every day. Ukraine not so much.
Dear DW, don't try to cheer us up. Instead, tell us the facts on the ground, painful as they may be. I'm worried and I don't want to be served sugar to distract me from the danger.
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@AlphaCovid2020 "how bought raw material became the solution to world enviromental?"
I have no idea, but that isn't the issue I have. In fact, I don't care about Nickel at all. My issue is with the commenters who claim that the EU is somehow unfair, or colonialist. It is neither of those things. It is a simple trade dispute which Indonesia could have had with any country, over any mineral or commodity. There's nothing more to it.
Now, some commenters have said that because it is the EU, that makes it inherently colonialist, or evil, or a 'power play', because the EU is a large economic power, and because some (but far from all) EU countries were colonial powers in the past. And certainly there is a power differential here. While Indonesia is smaller than the EU, it is by no means a small economy. But as much as we would like to see every country, big and small, treated equally, it is clear that that is never going to happen. This is a big reason the EU was established to begin with. So many EU members are tiny economies that would never get a fair shake in trade negotiations, but teaming up as a large group, we have much more power. ASEAN could do this, and should do this. You will have so much power in the world if you turn ASEAN into a real economic organization and give it real powers. You will be much better off when negotiating with China, or the EU, or the US, or India (in the future). This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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@tenshoneyskin4500 "EU countries, have banned indonesian palm oil distribution".
The EU has NOT banned the import of palm oil, but it is phasing out the use of palm oil as fuel. It continues to import large amounts of palm oil from both Indonesia and Malaysia and other countries, about 5 million tons per year. The EU is continuing to use palm oil for all the traditional uses: soap, detergent, skin lotion, ice cream, microwave popcorn, etc. and this will almost certainly continue for years to come.
As for EU hypocrisy, I certainly agree when it comes to talking about habitat destruction. Europe has mostly destroyed all its natural environment centuries ago, and is only now working to rebuild it. So yes, it is hypocritical for Europeans to criticize other countries for destroying natural forests, when that is exactly what we have already done, and also when we want to buy the produce from those destroyed forests. We are in agreement there.
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@harrysmith8515 " it is better to focus on comparing one party vs two party". Ok, let's do that:
-One party states: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei.
-Two or more parties: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia.
All these countries have such different economies and levels of success that you cannot draw a conclusion based solely on one- or two/many parties. Here's a better comparison:
-States with open economies and free markets: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei.
-States with closed, or planned economies, or strong market barriers: North Korea, Myanmar, (up until 1978) China, (up until 1982) Vietnam, (up until 1992) Mongolia, (up until the 90s) Cambodia, (up until the 90s) Laos, (up until the 90s) Indonesia.
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@merrick6484 But you're not saying anything different from what the guy in the program said. China's property market is in a major crisis. As you say, prices are falling, but sales are also falling. Homes that people already paid for are not being completed. There are roughly 30 million empty apartments on the market. Developers are struggling, local governments are having problems making an income from land sales, and are struggling to find money to pay for their expenses. In some localities, local governments are telling their SOEs to buy the land so the government can get an income. These are all real issues, very serious issues that weigh down on the national economy.
"Houses are for living, not for speculation". Yes, but all those people who have bought a house that is still not complete and that they cannot move in to, how does that help them? And those who speculated in buying many houses, they still own those houses, many of which are still empty.
You write that the government reduced inflation, but China didn't have a problem with high inflation before, so why would it be necessary to bring it down?
Frankly speaking, your comments sound like something 阿Q would say: Every defeat is really a victory. If you're Chinese, you must know 阿Q and the author 鲁迅.
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@royalroyal2210 The vote of no confidence was fully in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, and was taken by the democratically elected members of parliament. After the vote happened, Yanukovich left.
Yes, there are some similarities with Jan. 6 on the street: Large crowds protesting violently against the government. In both cases, the legislature took the action that was lawfully theirs to take.
In theory, the Ukrainian government could have then stepped down and called for new elections, but instead, the president decided to leave the country. It's very likely he felt he was in grave danger, but that is what he did. Was it somewhat chaotic? Yes. Was it also lawful? Yes. In fact, this kind of action happens on occasion in other European countries, even in recent decades, but it is my understanding that under the American system, this option is not available. The Ukrainian political system is more similar to the European system, but less so to the American system.
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Most recent tests of the Fukushima waste water, monitored by the UN IAEA, shows the radiation level to be 63 becquerels of Tritium per liter.
The World Health Organization recommends an upper limit of 100 becquerels per liter of drinking water. Therefore, the waste water is RELATIVELY safe, but not completely safe. There is no such thing as 'completely safe'.
There is background radiation everywhere in our world; even 'pure' drinking water that you buy in a shop has a small amount of radiation in it, as does all the food you eat, and all the air you breathe. A very small number of people die because of that. Nothing we can do about that; it is just a part of existing in the world.
The Fukushima waste water could, in theory, be drunk without problems. But again, if one million people each drink one glass of it, straight from the storage tanks, probably one person will die from it, the rest will be just fine. Once it gets diluted in the ocean, that problem is basically solved.
The risk that seafood should be contaminated from this is basically zero.
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4:30 "We take on images that we learn as children, to hierarchize people on the basis of their gender, skin color".
Well, this is one possible hypothesis to explain racism, one of several. It is not a hypothesis that evolutionary psychologists would agree with. On the contrary, fear, suspicion and dislike of 'the other', 'the outsider', 'the stranger' is built into us from birth as a mechanism for protection. Later in life, usually beginning around the onset of puberty, this can develop into racism, xenophobia, and other bigotry.
What we need to do is learn NOT to be suspicious or have antipathy towards out-group people. This can be learnt with relatively little effort, also beginning around puberty, but it needs to be learnt.
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@darvidkoh2707 I live in Shanghai and I know the subways here very well. They're good, but I wouldn't say they blow my mind. For example, the constant security checks implemented since 2010 are really annoying. Some lines and stations are showing their age, especially along line 1 (opened 1995) and 2 (opened 1997). They could really use an overhaul. Same with that underground shopping mall in Peoples Square station. It's messy, chaotic and way too inconvenient to get down to the platform on line 2.
The Shenzhen Metro is nice, perhaps nicer than Shanghai's. Beijing Metro is not particularly nice. Many others are quite fine.
Now for Europe. Many metro systems in Europe are also old, much, much older than any system China has, and they are showing their age, too. But there are also new systems that are at least as flashy and modern as those in China: Bilbao, Brescia, Copenhagen, Rennes, Toulouse, Lausanne. All of these are built around the same time as Chinese metro systems and they are every bit as modern. The station entrances also tend to have much better designs, where Chinese metros are often designed to be utilitarian, with with little concern for urban aesthetics.
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