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most anti-state power ancap
most anti-state power ancap
The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?
Capitalists are going to burn this planet.
China’s road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.
However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It’s currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.
China still has a long time til they’re in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.
I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that’s been happening in S. Korea.
What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!
did they install it via an electric car?
Damn maybe we shouldn’t be giving Israel bombs.
We won’t be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.
The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it’s trying to convince me it’s worth saving it’s doing a bad job.
My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.
China’s solar panel industry isn’t a monopoly, much like their auto industry.
The internal competition is part of the reason both are so cheap.
I’m asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?
If this is some great fear we’re all supposed to have to the point that we’ll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we’re afraid of happening.
What’s there to defend? We need more solar panels. The cheaper they are the better.
See above where I said I do not give a shit about how many jobs are preserved on my rapidly warming planet.
The Opium Wars involved armed conflict on Chinese soil. That’s the sort of thing nukes deter.
If you’ll notice he also increased tariffs on solar panels at the same time.
Did worse than that to, like, China in the 19th c. But I thought you were talking about like France and Spain.
they’d treat us like we (the British empire) treated lesser foreign powers
How’s that? Disadvantageous trade agreements? You already have those.
What would “direct power” look like? China invades Canada, a country defended by US nukes, with the PLA? There’s a reason Iran and North Korea are still around despite open animus from the US.
My point is largely that these nebulous fears of “Chinese hegemony” are just that–nebulous. Asking people to drill down into what they’re really afraid of either reveals the status quo or impossible scenarios.
Yeah but I’m still not clear on what the fear is exactly.
Like how do you envision it changing your life having China “in charge” vs the US?
Control it how? The US is as close as anyone has come to being a global hegemon and even then they can only do so much to nuclear states.
For context: In the US, CBP can search your phone without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of a border or coast (2/3rds of the population).