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In what way is it different from prosecutorial discretion practiced in the West?
Your question assumes the West isn't authoritarian, which I don't think is supported by facts.
Im by now convinced that xi jinping, in the back of his mind, hates the communist party and its apparatus, and wants to destroy it by going back to a north-korea style totalitarianism, against which the citizens will rebel en mass.
I take a much dimmer view of this. Xi knows that climate change is coming and its going to be really bad. One of the issues coming from climate change is food shortage. Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure. Just based on the vaccine protests/riots, imagine what will happen when rationing is introduced. He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable com…
I have a fairly dim view of China's ethics and respect for human rights, and so tend to suspect the worst; however, the hyper-competition in China's production industries has led to product ecosystems rife with unsafe materials (e.g. lead), and other cut corners. Now that many Chinese are able to purchase the things they produce, I can imagine that safety regulations are starting to be demanded by the public, and tha…
I don't know if you really mean it or you are forced to well imagine it so your comment won't be downvoted.
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Global warming will be good for crops if anything. Not saying it’s a good thing overall of course.
Not if there’s no water. Half of China already has shortages.
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-wa...
Edit: Downvoted again, you idiots xD classic HN
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USSR followed the same path when their citizens grumbled about liberalization. State owned enterprises are now seizing power from private companies and foreign entities. Pretty soon you are going to see replays of USSR SoE dominance such as lack of innovation, bread lines, inefficient operation, and corruption. It seems xi jing ping did not fully study the downfall of USSR after all.
USSR didn’t have private enterprises and thus no markets. There was no competition.
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> Apple has no "plan B," it's China all the way for them I know many people who work, or worked for Apple on the hardware side. I assure you, Apple has "plan B," and it been trying executing on it relentlessly for the last 2 years — just without any success. Vietnam's total electronics industry output is like a single district in Dongguan. The supply chain is very, very immature there, despite it already towering abo…
> I assure you, Apple has "plan B," and it been trying executing on it relentlessly for the last 2 years — just without any success. Can you share any details about that? > If what my buddies tell me of Apple's internal assesment of countries is correct, no other countries are even close to a 2nd place alternative on that, except for Taiwan, which is their "plan C" — a sure to work, but expensive option if everything…
Well, I heard story first hand. It's not a secret to anybody in the Industry too.
Apple been quietly trying to invite its part makers to setup factories in Vietnam, sometimes quite coercively.
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more warm weather AND more rain, crops on average will do better.
More fires, more droughts, more pests, etc.
https://forestpolicypub.com/2015/09/01/official-year-to-date...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03838-0
And anyway, what do fires have to do with agriculture? Usually fires happen in forests and uncultivated land.
I take a much dimmer view of this. Xi knows that climate change is coming and its going to be really bad. One of the issues coming from climate change is food shortage. Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure. Just based on the vaccine protests/riots, imagine what will happen when rationing is introduced. He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable com…
The US and EU are massive food exporters (the largest in the world). The US even burns a lot of its corn in car engines...