Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "DW News"
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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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