There are actually stories coming out of Niger that suggest that the French tried to smuggle croissants into the embassy but were discovered by Nigerien police.
https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1701656176801231257
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The same One Child policy that kept fertility rates stable at... 1.7? That One Child policy? Huh. Odd. You'd think that forced sterilization would do a bit better than that.
Anyway, by your own admission, China is improving with regards to its treatment of people (and, as you claim, improving by leaps and bounds), meanwhile countries like the US and Poland are taking multiple steps backwards? I see...
As for the false equivalences? You mean that of genocide, genocide, or genocide?
Something like 2 million of the 41 million Black Americans are imprisoned today (5%). In comparison, even the most pessimistic and anti-Chinese perspectives put Uyghur detainment at around 10%. While China still has affirmative action on behalf of minorities (and has for decades), the US recently banned such actions. While China gives indigenous minorities interest-free business loans, proportional representation in government, and affirmative action policies for higher education, Native Americans get... a big lump sum of money when they turn 18 that drives them towards drug abuse and gambling?
As for jailing dissent? Nevermind that you've apparently completely forgotten about McCarthyism and the Red Scare, the US has developed the world's most complex and complete infrastructure for manufacturing consent... To the degree that the invasion of Iraq, intervention in Yugoslavia, intervention in Libya and occupation of Afghanistan were all seen to be fair and justified enough to happen. When people expose the extents of American interference, they get exiled. Views that differ from government policy lead to arrests, more arrests, even more arrests, tear gas, more tear gas, rubber bullets. As for dissenters? Don't worry, the US is happy to organize coups of any country that deviates from American policy, particularly in South America. If it was democratic before, it can be right-wing authoritarian today.
Sorry, you were talking about a false equivalence?
Sweet of you to think that
Why are people even bothered by this? The US has clearly established the strait as subject to FONOPs because it's not territorial waters. Who the fuck cares about a plane flying over international waters? It's not like ADIZ are an element of international law.
Maybe France should just pull out of Niger? Ever thought about that?
Turns out the French embassy either serves croissants or military rations... And the Nigeriens took the croissants.
Friendly reminder that abortion is a legal and widely available in China and that the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the first countries to legalize abortion for any reason (and indeed, with the exception of the period surrounded WW2, abortion was both legal and common in the USSR). Abortion services are also widely available in Vietnam and Cuba.
Abortion policy in much of the EU is ancient and reflects a view that women are somehow less human than men. Something like half of the EU limits it to a 12 week term limit and it is still illegal (if not enforced) in Germany.
Thanks for your contribution!
You can find a bad example for any form of government. By any reasonable metric of success, the US government is performing poorly compared to non-democratic countries... Even in terms of freedom of speech, given the prevalence of government and intelligence-funded "independent think tanks" that influence policy in Washington.
At least most people in Russia and China can distinguish between the truth and the party line.
Ah yes, because American democracy is going so well.
Who's interests are the Republicans representing? Who's interests have the Democrats protected after being in power for 3 years?
Democracy is meaningless if it doesn't actually act to benefit the people. After all, the goal of government is to improve the lives of the people over which it governs. All of these experiments into different methods of governance should be evaluated based on how much the quality of lives of the population have improved and how happy the population is with their government.
Constantly under attack? Remember that even back when the KMT was in power, Chiang Kai-Shek was (rightfully) suspicious that the CIA was plotting a coup to overthrow him.
Moreover, when the CCP was rising with Mao Zedong, the CIA used something like $100 million USD at the time to try to create a third group in China that could combat the other two (the KMT and CCP) with the explicit goal of undermining Mao's power.
China's existing actions don't even come close to tit-for-tat and America's continued subversive actions show that nothing has changed whatsoever. The US still thinks it can fuck around in the domestic affairs of other countries and leave unscathed without retribution.
Oh this doesn't read like biased journalism at all