Why doesn't everyone just import Chinese labour for their nuclear power plants then?
zephyreks
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Who's stomaching the risk profile of investment in Afghanistan? More power to them.
Electronic warfare time?
The "let's poison Ukraine... For Ukraine"
This war helps neither Ukraine nor Russia.
The funny thing is, modern Chinese policy is against war.
Even from way back in 1964, the CIA determined that Chinese military doctrine is primarily defensive in nature [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000413519.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj36czJsIqBAxWgFjQIHSYqAIYQFnoECBQQBg&usg=AOvVaw1QQgwJTRyYQ6hXxNnSCqQP].
This recent study summarizes modern Chinese military doctrine https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://setav.org/en/assets/uploads/2020/02/A56En.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj36czJsIqBAxWgFjQIHSYqAIYQFnoECB4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1LSvgCeq0-dwzfela757iE
It's a defensive doctrine designed to protect local interests. Chinese foreign policy involves remaining in a justifiable grey zone, not in open conflict.
Government reporting contraction but Caixin reporting expansion? Only thing that really makes sense is that the government wants a backdrop to justify further economic intervention in the property market.
It's gotten way better, like, shockingly better.
You mean, China doesn't want a US IoT company to install a whole bunch of sensors in China? Say it isn't so!
This war will either grind through the male population of both countries (which is probably good for US interests tbh) or will end in negotiations.
Russia has a few things in abundance: land, labour, and artillery. They can afford to defend for years while taking much fewer casualties than the Ukrainian side (simply by virtue of, y'know, not attacking) and simply waiting to exhaust Ukraine's human capital.
Russia can mine every field from Bakhmut to Moscow. Their domestic industrial capacity is skyrocketing and they (like Ukraine) can still import consumer electronics from manufacturers in China. They've found solid buyers in India for their O&G who are less concerned about international backlash as they are about making money.
Eventually Ukraine will run out of able-bodied men in an offensive op. So will Russia if Russia decides to have another go at the offensive meat grinder.
Attrition benefits neither Ukraine nor Russia, but it does benefit the West. So...
According to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507, the variation of other radioactive isotopes in Fukushima wastewater is rather large between tanks: while tanks are on average within legal limits, different tanks may have different quantities of these radioactive isotopes that bioaccumulate in fish.
Moreover research into bioaccumulation of radioactive isotopes is rather limited (because, y'know, people don't usually dump nuclear waste into the environment), so it's really not super well established how fish process these things.
Plus, Tepco's track record of not cutting corners isn't looking very good... But this will save Tepco and the Japanese government billions of dollars, so I guess go them?
Yes? Unlike in the US, whether to care about safety or health aren't political issues.
Also, the punishment for severely fucking up isn't a small fine or imprisonment, it's execution. If Fukushima happened in China, heads would literally roll. That's a pretty strong incentive to not fuck up from the plant manager/architect/designer standpoint.