The EU is trying to tax German and American car manufacturers... This was the best way they could come up with.
BYD will just circumvent these tariffs by going all-in on hybrids for the EU market anyway. It's a silly game.
zephyreks
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National security! Think of the children! Shale oil is good for the economy!
Wait, I'm confused.
The New York Times is incredibly lazy. They found a nice headline and filled the story in to match. Many such cases
Just like we extract and refine oil from the tar sands, right?
Wait, you mean Canada just takes the brunt of the environmentally exploitative resource extraction and the US reaps all the benefits of refining it into a usable product?
Legitimate expressions of grievance do not preclude outside agitators, though.
Everyone's discontent, but not all issues end up organizing.
The easiest way to end the war is by forcing a coup. There's no way Ukrainian citizens are desperate to keep throwing people at the meat grinder to please their overlords in Kiev. I'm fairly confident that's why Zaluzhny got sent away and Zelensky has been cleaning house in his security detail.
Props where they're due, Zelensky's an absolute monster for staying in power and surviving this long into the conflict.
Russia is about to become China's Canada and... I think that's ok?
An interesting article showing an interesting phenomenon.
Mao Zedong may have been the father of modern China, but Deng Xiaoping is the architect. The economic liberalization strategies adopted by him have enabled China to navigate the perils of capitalism without relinquishing power to the bourgeoisie. This is ideology in the making.
So did the US just dissolve the prestige of the USD for $6 billion?
Seems... Short-sighted?
China achieved this at the cost of rising income inequality, though. Entirely part of Deng Xiaoping's plan ("some regions get rich quicker than others"), but if left unchecked it would've been pretty disastrous. Fortunately, recent years have seen a reversal in this policy and it's the less rich regions that are growing more quickly now.