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

  1.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  So far, it's the angry pro-Indonesian commenters in this thread who are doing all the crying and other emotional outbursts. We are more rational in Europe, less emotional.
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  2.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  "You spelled egostical wrong, lol." So did you.
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  3.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  I have no idea what you're talking about. Let's stay on topic and not get personal.
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  4.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  You call me 'pathetic'. That is personal and outside the topic of this thread which is about a trade dispute between Indonesia and the EU. It is not about you or me.
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  5. "Weapons grade, highly enriched uranium". That is not what you use to fuel an powerplant. Enrichment for a powerplant is around 3-5%. For a nuclear weapon you need to get up to at least 90%. So Wang Wenbin is not even close.
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  6.  egegeg gegeeg  According to Chinese government data, it appears that the population will peak at the end of this year, or early 2022. This is based on preliminary data from provincial governments on births in the first 9 months of 2021.
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  7.  @briopalumpus8676  So? What's the big deal? Ivory Coast didn't have to use that building as their presidential palace. They could have used another building.
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  8.  @briopalumpus8676  How could they be more independent?
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  9.  @DouglasW-m9z  "China doesn't care, you stuffed it up". This news story is not aimed at Chinese people, it is aimed at Europeans who watch DW. You should watch CCTV for news that will make you feel good.
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  10. "bin ich deutschen blutes". Doesn't that specifically refer to William of Nassau? "William of Nassau am I, of German descent". There is also a reference to the King of Spain.
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  11. What similarity do you see between the two?
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  12.  @Robot3527  Sure, but very few cars are exported from Europe to China. Most European cars sold in China are also made in China.
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  13. I'm sure Indonesia will do that anyway. Why wouldn't Indonesia want to sell to everyone?
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  14. Who said the first bit?
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  15.  @vinm300  I see, thank you. In any case, it's a good quote.
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  16. 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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  17. Ban them from where? YouTube is not an Indian company, as far as I know. But you have a choice to stop watching YouTube. It's the easiest thing to do.
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  18. That guy Robin Maynard from the organization Population Matters is one of those people who generally believes that humans are a strain on the world, a burden for nature, and ultimately 'bad'. That is an opinion some agree with and others don't, but it is an opinion, not a fact. I believe humans have made the world a much better place and that we will continue to do so. All our environmental problems can be solved by human ingenuity just as we have already solved many of our problems. Things will probably get worse before they get better, but that has always been the case. I believe a decreasing human population is ultimately much more damaging to the world than an increasing population. But all within limits, of course. However, even without encouragement to limit births, we will probably ultimately have fewer babies going forward, so global population decline may be inevitable.
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  19.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  It's not as simple as that. Even with the patent/recipe, other countries may not have the technology or expertise to make those vaccines. It's like semiconductors: It's not a secret how they're made, but the technology needed is on a level where only two companies worldwide can make the cutting edge chips.
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  20. Why do some Indians leave their country, immigrate to somewhere else, and then try to kill other Indians? Why can't the different religious groups in India get along? Why are the religious frictions in India seemingly getting worse in recent years? These are social problems in India that only India itself can solve. Seems to me India would benefit greatly from having open debate about these issues and try to solve them, instead of each group isolating and each declaring their own supremacy over others, and each group growing their own hatred of the other groups. You have to continue to live together for the next hundreds of years, whether you like it or not. The problem doesn't go away by itself.
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  21. It takes time to produce billions of vaccines.
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  22.  @hadesolympus6069  Ok, I think I see what you mean. I don't know where you're from, but at USD 25 a shot, that's 250 billion for 10 billion shots. Big governments could probably make a much better deal than that, but it would still cost a fair deal. Who will/should/are willing to pay for that? If it's US tax payers (which I am not), it will cost every tax payer $1000.- For some, that's reasonable, for many others, it's a lot of money.
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  23.  @carnage2k4  Yes, both you and Hades make a good point. One problem, as I understand it, is that while the mRNA vaccines are very simple, they are not so simple to manufacture and require some very high-tech equipment, in addition to specialized and expensive facilities built from the ground up. In other words, a large pharmaceutical company in country X may not even be able to make them, unless they themselves put in very large funds.
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  24. She didn't say they were 'entitled'. Nobody is entitled to do business with anyone, you have to ask if they want to do business with you, and African countries say YES!!
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  25.  @EuroTravChannel  "African nations have learned the behaviors of IMF". And what behaviors are they?
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  26. I didn't know that when Germany was beaten in WW2, they also had their balls cut off. That's unfortunate.
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  27.  @SoSoSango  I highly doubt the west would care too much about what Paul Kagame says about them. After all, there are regularly YouTube videos put up about how some African leader berates a western journalist or politician. Nobody cares.
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  28.  @itsaykay  Ok, so you say it's a chicken and egg thing: You say the money has to come before the institutions can develop, where the economists say the institutions should come before the economy can really grow. It's an interesting question.
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  29.  @bobgeels262  Sounds very conspiratorial.
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  30. Business casual. European politicians often look like this, except for very formal events.
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  31. I'd like to try the Reichsbürger. According to reports, it is the most right burger. I've had a lot of wrong burgers in my life.
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  32.  @toby9999  I've seen several reports from the frontline by Sky News, CNN, BBC and others.
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  33. You should petition your government to block YouTube in India. There are too many videos on YouTube that make Indians angry.
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  34. "focus on self sufficiency". "Expand trade and investment with rest of the world". If China is self-sufficient, why would they need or want to trade with the rest of the world? You trade because you're not self-sufficient.
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  35.  @robijorum4113  Pain or not, the comment is self-contradictory.
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  36.  @robijorum4113  There's nothing wrong with China's or Europe's trade and economic policies. The problem is with the original comment, which tries to have it both ways.
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  37.  @binbi8177  If China only wants to sell, but not buy, who would other countries want to play along with that? After all, so far there is not a single product that only China makes, and that the world needs. There are many products that China makes cheaper, and that's great, but if the rest of the world can only buy and not sell, they will quickly run out of money, and then they can't buy anything, even if they want to.
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  38.  @mng8680  Great, so that means that with respect to avocados, China is not necessarily aiming to become self-sufficient. And I'm guessing that is also the case with perfume, smoked salmon, and many other products. So what China is looking for is not necessarily self-sufficiency, but just the ability to have a functioning society without having to rely on others, even if that means a slightly less rich life. That seems reasonable enough.
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  39.  @karzan995  Ok, but the proposal in the video was not 99% tax on income for billionaires. It was 99% of their entire wealth, which includes everything they own. They'll get to keep 1%.
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  40.  @DeividasBrasas  Alright, so that's taxation on corporate profits and personal income. That is a significantly smaller number than Oxfam's proposal. For example, Amazon paid about 1.6 billion in corporate tax in 2020, while Jeff Bezos' net worth is around 150 billion. If Amazon should have paid 99% in corporate tax, that would 'only' have been around 22.6 billion, still far below Oxfam's proposal.
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  41. How annoying that people won't just have the exact number of children the government asks them to. It's almost as if people want to make decisions about their own lives.
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  42.  @Trixinxin  As far as you know? Based on what?
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  43.  @ttc1618  It's not safe to drink, but it's safe to release into the sea without ill effects. Think of it like the water you have just washed your vegetables in: It's not safe to drink, but it's safe to wash down the drain and eventually into the sea, or into a little river. I hope that will clear up your confusion about the difference between 'safe to release' and 'safe to drink'. Or think of urine: Safe to pee on the ground, but not safe to pee into your own mouth. It's a distinction that should be easy to understand, even for a child.
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  44. China refused to participate in testing because they would rather complain, and complain, and complain. It's easy to complain about others, much harder to fix your own mistakes.
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  45.  @zhcterry1  "only element left is Tritium?" Yes, Tritium is the only element that cannot be removed by a chemical treatment process. In fact, it cannot be removed by any process. Testing was done by a number of international labs by order from the UN: These include three labs in Austria and one in Monaco. All labs specialize in radioactive isotopes. Korea's government has basically stopped protesting and has accepted the release. The only government left still protesting is China: They will use any excuse to criticize and punish Japan and this is a great excuse. However, I am skeptical that China will continue its ban on Japanese seafood imports for the next 30 years, which is how long the release will go on for. Additionally, the Chinese government has not mentioned what people should do about Chinese seafood once the waste water drifts down to China, which it will do in a few months.
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  46.  @ericp1139  "it’s an institution utilized by the West". The IAEA is an agency under the United Nations. It can be utilized by any member country, including western ones. If your country wants to utilize the IAEA, it can do so.
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  47.  @anonymanonymous9763  Ok, fair point, though it depends where Americans want to go. Some countries make it very hard to get a visa, though not only for Americans.
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  48. "their actions are based on track of history". If that is true, then I'm afraid SEA will slow its own development. Think about all the European countries that were invaded by Germany. If we all said we don't want to work with Germany now because of history, then that would slow Europe's economic development down. And what about the history within SEA? Will Thailand not cooperate with Myanmar because Myanmar once invaded and colonized Thailand? Will Cambodia not cooperate with Vietnam because Vietnam once invaded Cambodia? Will Aceh Province not cooperate with the rest of Indonesia? Sometimes it's best to let the past be the past, unless you also want to sacrifice your future.
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  49. Well, it looks like the Kenyan forces are making some inroads into gang territory. It's slow going, but if they get a couple of city blocks every day, they should make good progress month by month.
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  50. The locals destroyed it, now they're restoring it. They're the ones who use or preserve the resources.
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