You shouldn't arrest children in a classroom with other children.
Who knows who could get hurt in such an altercation?
zephyreks
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Most of the West is deeply neoliberal.
That sounds like humanity to me.
I'm happy to move over from programming.dev to lemmy.ml
India's too important for the West's aspirations to contain China, so if India decides to do some extrajudicial killings in an "ally" country that's just the cost of doing business.
Why do people think Russia and China have been so aggressive about ramping up their cybersecurity and Internet censorship? They realized the places that US agencies have gotten their tentacles into and needed a way to cut them off. It's a matter of national security, which everyone knows trumps silly things like human rights.
It's less a matter of technical capability and more one of cost. It's not like people didn't know how to build good, efficient homes before. It was just expensive.
Western economies are built on the exploitation of cheap labour abroad for both manufacturing (China, India) and resource extraction (most of Africa). In contrast, the Chinese economy is built on cheap domestic labour and cheap domestic resources so that it can build things for export. The incentive structure is vastly different, because while the West basically has to act out of altruism, it's in China's best interest to create more demand for your production.
Russia was very clear what their red lines were, even back in like 2009. NATO kept pushing the issue. Then, by their own admission, teams like the US 4th PsyOps orchestrated Euromaidan to overthrow the Ukrainian government. Ukraine might be mostly innocent here, but neither Russia nor NATO are.
Are you surprised? People in Washington are openly talking about how they should be focusing on China under the assumption that China will somehow make the decision to seize Taiwan tomorrow... As if they haven't been posturing about that literally since the end of the civil war and done nothing except increase trade, open up immigration, and increase cultural coupling with Taiwan.
The US needs an enemy to justify their extreme military budget and China is the bogeyman of the decade.
They account for like 80% of PV production. Basically all of that solar deployed in the rest of the world was built in China. For the fraction that isn't, it was probably built in Southeast Asia by a Chinese company.
I think you're misunderstanding to some degree. While silicon PV caps out at around 24% (I think up to 27% now), 100% conversion is basically impossible because of physics.
Plus, the sun basically has infinite energy, so it's not like efficiency is that big of a concern compared to energy density.
The entire US is built on corporate espionage of British secrets.
Corporate espionage is literally the way countries progress when disadvantaged. That doesn't mean that the less developed country can't criticize the more developed country for corporate espionage.