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Case in point. A list of some of the most notorious global purveyors of disinformation and propaganda. And one outright Nazi outlet.

Unserious wannabe novelist tone, complete lack of verifiable sources, cartoonish portrayal of Russians, heroization of Ukrainian Nazis who have openly bragged about supporting terrorist groups in the Sahel...yup, checks all the boxes of three letter agency propaganda. Perfect for advancing two of their favorite agendas at the same time: demonization of Russia and discrediting of AES states' governments. These are the same kinds of outlets who write hit pieces on Ibrahim Traoré while glazing literal Nazi battalions in Ukraine.

Once you check their funding sources it becomes immediately clear what kind of outlet this is: https://forbiddenstories.org/about-us/funding/

Funded, among other highly dubious organizations, by the NED (literal CIA front) and Open Society Foundations (color revolution NGO).

In the future please read a piece like this critically and check its sources and most importantly its sources of funding before you post it. Or post it in a more appropriate com like SRS. Do better next time.

Those are all very good points. Yes, there will be secondary effects from something like this. Doesn't mean they won't do it though. This administration is not the smartest.

The feds can absolutely force California to do whatever the feds want. There is not a snowball's chance in hell of any of the institutions or the political establishment in California putting up real resistance. The most they will do is what they are already doing which is try to score political points by saying shit that they think makes them sound "tough" to their voters. When push actually comes to shove all of them will fold like Origami.

He's full of shit. No US politician has the balls to pull something like that, and certainly not a spineless Democrat.

Definitely not the latter and probably neither (i mean, yeah, the internet will be faster in ten years but not necessarily because of this). What this means is more secure encrypted communications which is not just about national security or privacy, it has economic implications because of how electronic financial transfers are conducted.

Reducing Tibet to the Dalai Lama also seems somewhat inappropriate.

Agreed. It is indeed extremely inappropriate to reduce Tibet to the Dalai Lama and his fellow feudal theocrats. Which is why we don't consider the conflict waged against that tiny ruling elite to be an aggression against Tibet as a whole. It's why we celebrate the liberation of the overwhelming majority of regular Tibetans from feudal serfdom as the liberation of Tibet, because it is they who truly represent Tibet, and not the former ruling caste.

CIA spies aren't civilians.

First two points are valid. Third is not. "Junta" or not, Myanmar has a legitimate government and co-operating with them as they would with any other country's government is absolutely in line with China's policy of non-interference. Especially since China has a vested interest in maintaining stability in South East Asia, they are definitely not going to be sympathetic to western backed insurgencies. The deposed government before the junta was stacked full of NED graduates by the way. China would be absolutely stupid to actively support a return to power of western puppet compradors who would purposely block regional economic development and co-operation and turn Myanmar into another anti-China proxy instead.

You know, i'm not envious of their living standards, even though they are better than mine. I'm glad for them. The part that actually almost makes me angry is how well he understands western societies. He understands us better than the vast majority of us do ourselves. And certainly better than we understand the other way around.

I spend a lot of time making an effort trying to educate and inform myself not only about the society that i live in but about others too, China in particular. And i still feel i have no hope of understanding China to the level that this guy understands the West. What kind of superhuman education do they receive over there and why can't we have it?

Another excellent piece. Your writing just gets better and better. Easy to follow, well structured, each argument laid out concisely without redundant repetition and without being unnecessarily pretentious in language or concepts such that it would alienate the average reader. Inspires me to get better at my own writing.

What about Tibet and Taiwan?

What about Taiwan? Has Beijing already liberated Taiwan and we just haven't heard of it? What exactly are you referring to? If anything the Taiwan situation shows an incredible amount of restraint on their part. Any other country would not be so patient if a vital strategic part of its national territory was allowing hostile foreign powers to militarize and occupy it. China continues to insist on peaceful reunification.

And what about Tibet? Didn't Tibet sign a treaty acknowledging it's a part of China? Were you expecting China not to defend itself against British and American armed violent separatists trying to re-establish a feudal theocracy? Next you'll tell me China is aggressive because it doesn't allow ISIS to establish a caliphate on its territory. A week long police action against separatist insurgents hardly counts as a civil war.

Could we also ask the indians (1962), the vietnamese (1979), and russians

It's telling that you had to go back to before 1980 to find a conflict China was involved in. And none of those wars were started by China, unlike the US's wars of choice. Even in 1979 when China was, in the opinion of most of us here, on the wrong side, they still technically only responded to an attack on one of their allies. The fact that they picked the wrong ally is sad but it doesn't exactly show aggression on their part.

With regards to India, again, China showed incredible restraint. India helped the British and Americans arm violent separatists in Tibet and then launched incursions into Chinese territory. China defended itself and could easily have stayed in the parts of South Tibet they briefly occupied in that skirmish. Yet despite having a very legitimate claim to that territory China made the good faith gesture of pulling out of South Tibet and giving it back to India.

As for the Sino-Soviet border disputes, who exactly are you blaming for them? Are you saying they were all provoked by China? And what did those actually amount to? Basically nothing happened, they were the result of stupid political tensions, nothing more. To compare these nothing-burgers to the US's full fledged wars, regime changes and sponsorships of terrorist insurgencies and brutal military dictatorships is beyond dishonest, it's ridiculous.

You are clutching at straws here bringing up history that many of us here weren't even born when it happened. Show us anything in the last 40 years where China behaved even remotely similar to how the Americans and their Euro lapdogs have done and continue to do.

Biden didn't just arm Ukraine, he basically directly involved the US in that conflict. By giving satellite intel, targeting data, planning for offensives and routes to avoid AD, logistics, training, virtually everything came from the Americans and the Europeans except for the bodies thrown into the combat. Even to call it a proxy war is almost an understatement. And Trump is continuing to do the exact same.

Same for enabling the Gaza genocide. They don't just give bombs and weapon systems. The US and Europeans all fly spy planes over Gaza and use their satellites to give the Zionist entity intel that enables them to target doctors and journalists, strike hospitals, food and water supplies, and commit countless other war crimes. This is their genocide as much as it is the "Israelis'".

How is that relevant? It's not like California can refuse to pay the federal government. The monopoly on violence is in Washington and that's not changing any time soon. At best California's economy will take a hit because of these cuts and so the amount of taxes they collect which they can send to the federal government will be lower as a consequence.

My main criticism of it is that it seems rather superficial. It tries to show the how but does not attempt to go into the why. It offers no deeper (systemic rather than individualistic) explanations or solutions and leaves too much open for the audience to interpret according to their own ideological framework. I find that fairly cowardly as it absolves the writers of the show of having to actually take an ideological position. In that regard is a quintessentially liberal piece of media.

It's a beautiful city but the cost of living is apparently quite high. Similar to Beijing. High by China standards i mean.

Germany is an industrial powerhouse.

Not for much longer the way things are going.

I don't think the shape matters that much, so long as it's some kind of rectangle. Because sure, odd angles and curves may look fancy from the outside, but they are a nightmare to actually furnish since most furniture relies on straight lines and 90° angles.

Also the problem with commie blocks with less than 8 floors is that, at least in older apartment buildings, sometimes they wouldn't build an elevator unless there were 8 or more floors. Regulations are different now in most countries what with accessibility requirements, but that's only for newly built ones.

At the end of the day it depends on the density of the urban space that you're trying to provide housing for. If it's very dense you may have no choice but to build very tall.

For me i'd say the most important criteria are what the neighborhood is like and how big the apartments are. If you have everything you need on a daily basis within walking distance, good public transport, and the apartments are not too cramped (2-3 rooms), then i don't care too much about the rest.

Ah, so this is more of a collection of essays by different authors rather than a single book like "The East Is Still Red"? Interesting. I'll definitely check it out.

The incredible thing is, China is developing so fast that in five years time much of this book will likely already be outdated by then.

In the meantime, i see ultras are still malding about books like this. I recently read a "review" by a Trotskyist of Carlos Martinez' previous book that called it "Stalinist cheerleading of Chinese capitalism". Lol.

The arguments were what you would expect, superficial, dogmatic and ill informed. The dogs bark but the caravan moves on...

Even if it wasn't written by a Marxist, the analysis itself is solid and that's what matters.

Some people on the left seem to have this weird hangup where they believe that they will become morally tainted by coming into the slightest contact with something that touched a reactionary, like a germophobe not wanting to touch things other people have touched for fear of catching their diseases, but for politics.