why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?

in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?

yes but my freedum

yes but political pandering

communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified

$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.

yes but see china bad

and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock

turns out that when profit isn’t the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what’s best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what’s best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)

The absolute disregard for Palestinian lives.

Yes, but that makes the propaganda sound bad.

(you also need the tape read/write machine and a storage system, but those aren’t that expensive either).

Senator Marco Rubio had this to say on the issue:

The Chinese Communist Party continues to expand its unlawful and aggressive maritime presence throughout the Indo-Pacific.

The U.S. must continue to strengthen our partnerships w/ nations in the region and advance our capabilities to counter China’s aggression.

Go home Russia shill

If anything, this makes the A-50U downing less likely given that there’s been no indication that any A-50U crew are dead and Russia clearly isn’t censoring reports on such.

stfu Russia shill

Mods here don’t do weekends lol

They’re different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.

If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.

Won’t stop the reports, but thanks for checking!

This headline is the one that loads in Google. Business Insider has changed it since then.

https://www.dniprotoday.com/amp/en/news/china-rejects-ukraines-meeting-request-amidst-geopolitical-tensions-1211

President Zelensky stated that he had no plans to meet with the Chinese Prime Minister, clarifying that he is not the leader of the country. “Our Prime Minister may meet with the Prime Minister of China. I would very much like to meet the leader of China. As far as I know, Xi Jinping makes decisions, and I make decisions in Ukraine. I don’t need any dialogues; I need important decisions from the leaders who make these decisions,” Zelensky said.

There’s a quote, what more do you want?