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Japan seem tested a reusable rocket. JAXA RV-X
Chinese liberals don’t believe in democracy either. They believe in rule based order supremacy.
Actually many of the 89 student and worker activists did believe in democracy, except most of them didn’t understand the difference between democracy, freedom, and republic. In fact Mao’s cultural revolution was a form of extreme majouritarianism, aka tyranny of the majourity (and thus, democracy in its pure form) when viewing from the liberal context. Back to 89, when the students organised themselves, their own student governments simply replicated the CPC’s own electoral system. The movement was doomed from the start because the students had lacked leadership skills, coordination, and experience in political negotiations. Then you got radicals (more like foreign agents) like Cai Ling paid by overseas forces who simply acted more like a disruptor (by radicalising the movement) than a facilitator.
However you right that Chinese urban neoliberals from the business and intellectual community post-89 are much more likely to believe in freedom (in order to preserve their privileges and continue to exploit overworked Chinese migrant workers) at the expense of democracy. In essence, these folks align much more closely with the U.S. GOP than either the CPC or western social democratic (white lefts).
Because the invention, imagination and/or existence of a powerful adversary who stands diametrically opposed to you ideologically, materially and geopolitically legitimises and sustains your own self-constructed unique imagined community and identity. Such adversary’s very existence and supposed threatening behaviour help consolidate who you say you are and why you are the best.
Also, how exactly do you prove that they are exclusively trash from the wedding? What’s there to prevent the seller from adulterating it with plain garbage?
An update on the whole Thai people blaming China.
Do we even know the full operations on how much China is involved?
Like this probably most likely a mine where China buys materials from yet somehow Beijing needs to take responsibility for something that it probably has no control over.
Any thai people can comment on this?
Do we even know the full operations on how much China is involved?
Like this probably most likely a mine where China buys materials from yet somehow Beijing needs to take responsibility for something that it probably has no control over.
Any thai people can comment on this?
Really, as a Thai, I just stop giving a shit about MOST Thai people's opinion towards anything China except things like electric cars, because I'd assume that most of their opinions are just horseshit. Only some Thais that I know that actually approach these things in nuanced lense.
And I barely keep up on this mine thing as well, so there's that.