Idk how to feel about this. If this news came from the UK, the replies would've been:
you got a loicense for that, mate?
But because it's China, people will gladly glaze this move.
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That's a reasonable way to think about it, but what "should" happen and what "does" happen are different.
It seems like historically, state visits happen at the White House, which to me makes a lot of sense given the logistics of hosting foreign entourage.
The US is a world power, part of being a world power is being able to project that power, including through aesthetics, compare the aesthetics of a state visit in the Kremlin and Great Hall of the People vs. hosting in a temporary tent on a lawn.
Why is defence of it insane? The article makes a good point re: state guests and needing to erect tents to accommodate them.
Genuinely curious
It happened more than once. Charles, Lewis, Lando, wtf is wrong with fans at the Mexico GP?
Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.
I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US
Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.
I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.
Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”
Nah, I think he's just bad at these tracks, from his 2024 results:
- United States: P5
- Mexico: P8
- Brazil: P8
- Las Vegas: P7
- Qatar: P3
- Abu Dhabi: P10
It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.
Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections
That was… hard to watch. Piastri down in 8th.. oooh
That’s basically every westerner passing judgement about China, so I’ll take it that his artistic message punched through
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In Taiwan, these people are called 民主二代 (second generation of democracy), oftentimes in a derogatory way, referring to a generation that came of age after Taiwan's democratization, sometimes seen as taking democracy for granted.
I kinda half don't blame them, they suffer from the same issues that most liberal democracies face now:
In this context, Taiwanese politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama. A lot of people become apathetic and just go "you can't eat democracy" (a dig at parties that keep pushing this as their campaign slogan rather than talking about kitchen-table political issues (housing, affordability, high cost of raising kids).