Russia was very clear what their red lines were, even back in like 2009. NATO kept pushing the issue. Then, by their own admission, teams like the US 4th PsyOps orchestrated Euromaidan to overthrow the Ukrainian government. Ukraine might be mostly innocent here, but neither Russia nor NATO are.
Are you surprised? People in Washington are openly talking about how they should be focusing on China under the assumption that China will somehow make the decision to seize Taiwan tomorrow… As if they haven’t been posturing about that literally since the end of the civil war and done nothing except increase trade, open up immigration, and increase cultural coupling with Taiwan.
The US needs an enemy to justify their extreme military budget and China is the bogeyman of the decade.
They account for like 80% of PV production. Basically all of that solar deployed in the rest of the world was built in China. For the fraction that isn’t, it was probably built in Southeast Asia by a Chinese company.
I think you’re misunderstanding to some degree. While silicon PV caps out at around 24% (I think up to 27% now), 100% conversion is basically impossible because of physics.
Plus, the sun basically has infinite energy, so it’s not like efficiency is that big of a concern compared to energy density.
Turns out that not selling your country out to powerful billionaires has its perks.
Less than it’ll cost the US to put up a tenth of that 🤷♀️
A fair bit, actually. China’s political system is basically a popularity system from bottom to top. At the lowest level, politicians only stay in power if their population is happy. This trickles up to the provincial level, where politicians again only stay in power if their population is happy. At a national level, the national leaders stay in power by building, essentially, large cabinets out of different provincial and regional leaders - thus, their entire position relies on keeping the provinces happy.
It’s not the perfect system, but Chinese citizens can fairly easily impact local and even provincial policy and, by extension, influence national policy (recently, by repealing the COVID lockdowns with mass protests).
The CCP isn’t an absolute monarchy or something. At the end of the day, it serves it’s people. The power of the Chinese economy is in its industrial capacity, after all, not in its wealth: the needs of the people need to be addressed to keep the country stable.
Best take I’ve seen here. The big countries in the world have way too much power. Problem is, if any one country has this amount of power, it automatically makes it so that other countries will also want to match that level of power.
Buddy, do you know what you’re talking about? It really sounds like you don’t.
The fuck is a RISC-ARM?
Why kill someone when you can just force them to retire?
SMIC lacked investment for ages and they’re all dependent on ASML (until sanctions got the Chinese government to throw billions into building domestic EUV lithography capability, I guess).
Ah yes, because the Russians will certainly decide to pick a fight with NATO… As if the US hasn’t already described their willingness to use nuclear weapons offensively.
None of that matters for compute, though. I agree that a lot of people design MOSFETs and sensors in China… That’s not really relevant in terms of computational capacity. Neither is the capacity to manufacture capacitors and resistors. Neither is the capacity to manufacture small microelectronics because the compute done on them is negligible.
People talk about semiconductors in terms of the computational gap exposed by smaller technology nodes.
The marginal GHG from a thicker bag is completely and entirely negligible. The waste footprint is outsized given the GHG footprint.
Things don’t have to be good in Europe to be worse in America.
Who cares about GHG for bags? The goal is to reduce waste, so you should evaluate it based on the amount of materials used.
The Global South is disproportionately affected by climate change and disproportionately ignored by Western powers. People go and say “oh no why are they opening another coal power plant?” but don’t consider what other options they might have. China’s been leading the development of solar panels, wind turbines, and SMRs, but they can barely meet domestic electricity demand nevermind international exports to the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Turns out that spending billions of dollars on foreign aid when there are a bunch of domestic problems swimming around isn’t the best idea for political stability. Who would’ve thought?
Taiwanese media wasn’t even that dedicated to Chinese disinformation up until like 2016 or whatever.
Relations were normalizing across the strait smh.
Western economies are built on the exploitation of cheap labour abroad for both manufacturing (China, India) and resource extraction (most of Africa). In contrast, the Chinese economy is built on cheap domestic labour and cheap domestic resources so that it can build things for export. The incentive structure is vastly different, because while the West basically has to act out of altruism, it’s in China’s best interest to create more demand for your production.