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However, the only investment the government has made so far has been a $35 million grant to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets, according to Bloomberg.
Mother and Infant Daily, truly the most trustworthy source in modern journalism.
and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock
turns out that when profit isn’t the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what’s best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what’s best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)
By Western standards, China’s record on human rights with respect to Uyghurs is not clean. However, it’s no more dirty than China’s record on human rights with respect to Han.
Turns out, Western standards look down on things like collectivism and the common good in favour of individual rights and privileges.
Western criticism of the one child policy, for example, is the exact same thing as Western criticism of government-imposed family planning on Uyghurs: by Western standards, the government should only impose family planning policy through economic levels, never legally enforceable ones.
why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?
in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?