This is why Canada has a housing crisis.
zephyreks
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Ah yes, because it's not like there are any geopolitical reasons that might explain why the NIH would want to decouple from China.
Fact is, you can find infractions from any lab. It's just a question of whether you want to look.
Well, yeah. Obviously not wanted anymore, since they got him lol.
What if the state itself doesn't follow those laws?
This is even worse then Khashoggi, though. Man's a Canadian citizen on Canadian land. This is a gross violation of Canadian sovereignty, not just a "bad government" sorta thing.
Last I checked, India was a democracy.
What evidence do you want to see about a state-sponsored assassination? It's happened twice now and you think it's an accident?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-homicide-victim-wanted-india-1.6975772
Just yesterday.
The laws of Western states that the West only selectively follows? Gee...
India's getting blatant and nobody cares because of China.
Does it? How's that been going for you?
The neoliberal democratic experiment has been a failure. It's unclear whether the failure is on behalf of neoliberalism or democracy, but it's failed like every other government in the past:
(1) There's a corrupt government that has enough power to cause system collapse, OR
(2) There's not enough power in the government, so since people with money are naturally corrupt and greedy, the system collapses on its own from exploitation
We're barrelling towards (2) through problems mostly caused by (1). We live in the most surveilled set of countries in the world - the NSA has capabilities shown from the Snowden leaks that China can only dream of, particularly because the NSA has no qualms spying on American allies. We have seen almost complete defunding of key social services in favour of "lower tax rates" that don't actually materialize. Labour has been entirely stripped of its power because the government decided that "national security" trumps people's rights. Meanwhile, government expenses are going up because, turns out, a lack of social services is pretty expensive and leads to directly subsidizing big corporations. We've seen a complete disinterest in active democracy to such a degree that even China gets more active citizen participation in its government (which, tbh, is super depressing because China is wildly considered to be a one-party state). We've seen complete apathy to local and municipal governments, despite those having a much greater impact on peoples' lives.
The Western model of democracy has had about a 250 year run. That's pretty good.
The only way to actually make change is to be active. That's what conservatives get and that's why they're able to make change. You don't change things by sitting at your table and bitching and moaning about how sad everything is. You don't change things by talking to people who agree with you and pointing at people who you disagree with and saying "wow they're bad people!" You aggressively lobby, you play dirty tricks, you invade the Capitol, you protest and protest and protest, and you do everything in your power to make sure that what you want passes because it's a matter of ideology. To some extent I admire religious conservatives for their dedication to their core issues and the commitment they have to seeing it through. It's changing the country into what they want, and that's respectable even if I don't like the country they want.
That's a lazy response if I've ever seen one. What economic advantage does China have for importing resources and selling to the West?
The West is trying to decouple trade with China. Why wouldnt China optimize for it's economic future?
Sometimes, you misspeculate. Some developers lost a whole fuck ton of money on the project, but that's more than made up for if you can turn a profit on projects near big cities (which demand is still sky high for).