AlecSchueler

> The Sino-Vietnamese war was in 1979

I'm aware.

> the Tibetan takeover was in the 50's

Yes, so we're reaching back to the 50s to get to the same numbers as the US has racked up in the past year. What we if we compared the numbers since 1950?

> Article 8 is the relevant one

And has there been an invasion or a toppling of any leaders? No, so again this shows there's a grown up way of recognising there's differences without going all in on war at the drop of a hat.

I know several people who were there at the time—both Spaniards and tourists—and I've only heard positive experiences.

> emergency generators have to turn on for hospitals

So, they still have power.

> the transport system stops.

And people have to accept being where they are or find other ways of getting around.

Imagine if everyone had just stayed at home for a week in 2020.

> When the car was invented, there were a lot of accidents

These accidents were on the individual scale, but now we're looking at societal scale accidents. Usually it's smart to insist on a bit more planning and consideration at that level.

> It's well understood

Where might one read more about this?

You can vote for someone who won't go out of their way to alienate your allies, start wars on a whim, defund science, whitewash history, pardon his loyal militia men, engage in blatant insider trading, etc etc etc

But if we have to reach back to 1951 to show how warmongering China is then it's not very convincing is it? Taiwan is as of today a hypothetical. I've been hearing it's going to happen any day now since the 1990s.

Until recently the US was on the side of international cooperation. It's not only a pity that this has changed but it's sad to see that people are completely forgetting this, as well as seemingly forgetting the incredibly bloody history that we had to endure before embracing the idea of respectful cooperation.

Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else

And don't forget that we're steamrolling ahead into a mass extinction event

Fossil output has also increased significantly and none of our goals to mitigate further warming have been met.

What's driving the economy if not consumers? UBI isn't the same as economic inactivity.

I wanted to better understand the internal discussions that took place within China regarding joining the WTO and accepting—at least in the medium term—the inherent steps away from a traditional socialist economy that would entail.

DeepSeek refused. Funny enough American models gave me very sympathetic takes on the Chinese government in this case.

The mechanisms for refusals are removed.

Not me anyway, but many people in this thread have asserted that Europe will never be able to compete because of things like consumer protection regulations. I'd encourage you to take it up with them.