A drone photo shows a flooded area in Fujian province, south-east China. Southern China was reeling from heavy rains that triggered landslides killing at least nine people, knocking out power for entire villages and burying crops
They know that the words of US and Israel is not even worth a dog fart so they want to sign an agreement with international backers in order to have some kind of guarantees. Not that any of those countries will lift a finger to help the Palestinians when (not if, but when) Israel breaks the agreement.
An employee checks his mobile phone as he walks past displays of robot heads, at the office of humanoid robots developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China, June 6. REUTERS/Florence Lo
@oatmeal@palestine@israel A number of the Pacific mini-states are engaged with China, but not "aligned". Recently, the #US has been fomenting riots that they like to call "protests" (in the Solomons) and threatening and cajoling those islands it treated like trash for 70 years to encourage them to refuse to deal with China. I suspect Nauru was one of those targeted when it became too "friendly" with #China.
Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao, 2024
The first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame.
🇨🇳 Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?
"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."