The Donatsk and Luhansk people’s republics, that the Ukrainian military has been attacking with impunity since 2014, killing from ~8k-12k civilians.

fueled by an unfortunate self-perpetuating symbiosis of a large portion of the population being nationalistic being catered to by an equally nationalistic autocrat…

Not all nationalisms are equal. Russia’s nationalism has invaded 0 countries, and has like 4 external military bases that are holdovers from the USSR. I’m showing you a picture of dozens of NATO bases used to launch invasions and encroachments for Euro-american chauvinist interests, like as @yogthos@lemmy.ml mentioned, in Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq.

How many countries has Russia since the 1990s, compared to NATO?

Russia is clearly the aggressor here.

Another anonymous source again, and most of the articles they link are from the NY times, and apnews.

Also restofworld is founded by sophie schmidt ( eric schmidt, the ceo of google’s daughter ), and another former editor of wapo, the atlantic, and buzzfeed.Their twitter seems to be pushing the same anti china line as every other silicon-valley based news incubator. So nothing new here, just rehashed nytimes articles with another anonymous source.

Nothing that I know of past the wiki on thorium reactors. I think since its still in the prototype phase, there’s still a lot of conjecture.

In issuing the sentence, US District Judge Liam O’Grady cited the need to deter others from disclosing government secrets and told Hale that he had other options besides sharing classified information with a reporter.

“You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people,” said O’Grady. “You could have been a whistleblower … without taking any of these documents.”

Its very interesting tech. Greener, safer, more abundant nuclear.

big demonstrations for instance which would encourage such discussions are not that common.

There are plenty of LGBT groups, and they all have full rights to protest and raise awareness, just as much as unions do. One of the vids I posted above references one such group.

i don’t know much about how these discussions are in practice but i imagine that the older generations have much more actual power in these discussions, altough the younger generation might be present.

I’m not too aware of internal party discussions on this, but the NPC, the largest and main governing body of the does have younger members, but it does skew older and male.

There are zero female politicians in positions of high power it seems, for instance the president.

The NPC is currently 25% women, so they do have some work yet to do in that area. However when you compare that number to other countries, its about average. Also doing better than the US, Ireland, Greece, and a lot of others. And of course socialist Cuba is the model for all countries to emulate with respect to women’s rights.

Also wanna mention that ever since the cultural revolution in China, the societal focus on women’s liberation has been astounding: women have received free birth control since the 1960s ( this isn’t available in the 2020s in the US), communal kitchens and child care.

This lack of political power leads sometimes to riots, for instance the stonewall riot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots - and i think in china something like that would be very impossible because it would be seen as danger of counterrevolution

Strikes are a fairly common occurrence in the PRC, and usually get the support of the government.

So when people want real change (so for instance female politicians in high positions of power) instead of endless debates without changes, in “western” countries the solution to that is to start a riot to gain attention and force a response.

This is true in all bourgeois democracies, because there is no democracy for anyone but the rich, and recourse through government channels is impossible, so only riots outside the system can address its ills. That’s not the case with the PRC, which has a fluid working class democracy. I apologize for not being as well read on those internal debates as I can’t yet read Chinese, but I’m sure they’re happening, otherwise its clear that even the state-run media like CGTN wouldn’t be so pro LGBT. And again, this is mostly a generational issue that’s not isolated to one country.

So in short: this is a good example why i don’t trust china. communism/socialism is interesting but the big authoritative rule in china is bad because riots and demonstrations are healthy for democracies.

Actual working-class democracy is so incomprehensible to westerners that they can’t imagine a system that’s responsive to its people without riots. This is because governments are not neutral, multi-party bourgeois democracies are in fact capitalist dictatorships, while one-party socialist states are worker’s dictatorships. I suggest reading this thread on worker’s congresses to learn about just one such organ of China’s responsive democracy.

This is current line of struggle, especially between the younger and older generations. Interestingly, different sectors of the media have different approaches: CGTN for example is very progressive on LGBT issues, while weibo seems more regressive. Some good vids:

• CGTN: Jin Xing: Transgender woman talks on life challenges faced in China, guts to correct them
• CGTN: Gay Leap Forward: LGBT in China
• AsianBoss: Chinese React To Social Media Ban On Gay Content

If, as an Uigher in China, I were to say I believe in self-determination of Uighers, then would I be able to even last the day before I’m in prison?

You would have literally no problems. Listen to the thousands of testimonials of Uyghurs on way they disagree with Mike Pompeo and yourself on this narrative.

China is an authoritarian regime that is more than happy to oppress its own citizen.

Who told you this? Do you have anything to back up this claim? Why is China’s life expectancy and real wages skyrocketing? Why are its poverty alleviation campaigns so successful?

• The real wage (IE the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. The US real wage by comparison is lower in 2019 than it was in 1973.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• US Life expectancy peaked in 2015, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China. 2

Yes, of course I would refuse, because I wouldn’t want tons of Muslim refugees flooding into my country if I wasn’t prepared for it.

I also would be equally wary of doing deals with a country that bombs Muslims ( just as Iran knows the US’s human rights record towards Muslims and refuses to do business with it ).

No, I’ve only heard of loan forgiveness.

• The war on China : and geopolitical significance of the belt and road initiative.
• China has forgiven over $10B in debt, over half to Cuba, but also including > 20 African nations, Pakistan, and Cambodia.
• After covid, China suspends debt repayment for 77 countries, promises > $2B USD and medical supplies as aid to help developing countries fight covid.
• President Xi pledges coronavirus vaccine to Africa first, helps fund African CDC headquarters.
• China writes off $6M in debt to rwanda, provides another $60M in grants.
• China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt.
• China writes off $36m Mozambican debt.
• China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.
• After a group of Guangdong landlords evicted a group of Africans, the CPC arrested them, apologized to the African Union, paid for hotels for the migrants, passed a series of anti-discrimination laws, and spent weeks going to all the restaurants, landlords, and taxis to warn them of the law.

And also, I suggest watching this video by an African diplomat, on why they favor Chinese partnership over the west.

What makes you think that western countries are telling you the truth, whilst Muslim countries are lying?

So why do you not trust stories from Muslim journalists, and only trust western propagandists whose bosses have bombed your country instead?

• A Pakistani Diplomat given full access to “re-education camps” and this is what she found.
  • Despite claims of “erasing Uyghur culture”, they stated: “I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. […]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age.”

Why shouldn’t they have signed up to the new belt and road initiative, which is the antithesis to all the colonialist policies that the europeans and usonians have and still are forcing on the ME? China has massively developed, alleviated poverty, and helped build thousands of Mosques in Xinjiang. They’ve proven to the Muslim world to be the opposite of the European colonialists, so there’s nothing to make ME or African countries uneasy about the partnership.

For the sake of this discussion. It is worth noting that every Muslim country you mention would rank very low with regards to human rights or freedom of press.

The US, UK, France, etc have spent the past 100+ years carving up the ME, destabilizing it, dividing and conquering, bombing and killing its people, and sanctioning it. Saying that their governments aren’t to be trusted, that “they’re all dictatorships”, whilst holding up your own imperial press as the only “trustworthy” source, is typical western chauvinism.

Why is the west more trustworthy, and more “respectful of human rights”, than those countries they’ve bombed?

That Buzzfeed article was thoroughly debunked a few days ago.. In short, they did more “google maps research”, took a google maps photo of a prison… and it turns out that’s a perfectly reasonable size of prison for a city of 1M people. A US prison for a similarly sized city would house twice as many people. Photos on google maps is what counts for “pulitzer winning research” now.

Oh also, the article was sponsored by OTF, a US government tech fund.

Are they really a “leftist”? They sure do spend an inordinate amount of time carrying water for the US empire by writing “exposes” of its main enemies like China and Pakistan.

The sources for the genocide are Adrian Zenz, a far-right christian extremist who thinks that unbelieving Jews will be purged, the Austrialian Strategic policy institute ( who receives the majority of its funding from US and British weapons contractors who have a financial interest in stepping up US presence in the south China sea ), and the World Uyghur congress, run by Rebiyah Kadeer, once the richest person in Xinjiang, who fled during the last anti-corruption drive to avoid prosecution by regulators, and whose own grandchildren and countless others in Xinjiang disavow.

This is a great short video getting into the main sources.

If there was its the only one without a refugee crisis, and one where the population is rapidly increasing:

And of course you’ll notice that all Muslim majority countries don’t believe a genocide is occurring, only the west does ( who sees China as a potential peer competitor, and one not to be tolerated).

But FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds had it right when she exposed US gladio operatives in Turkey smuggling out young, poorer militants in the less developed areas. The goal is the same as that of Afghanistan: to destabilize the region ( which opens it up to US military intervention as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya… via time-tested strategies inherited from the British colonialists in the ME ) by funding extremist groups to disrupt trade.

Yep, the very first source the anarchists give here, is a pseudonym for a literal warmongering china-watcher from the Kissinger institute. Why do tankies always have to do the work of checking their sources, while anarchists are busy posting US state department propaganda?