Honestly this is the problem with all road infrastructure. It’ll be interesting to see how countries like China manage it. China currently has the largest paved-road system in the world, and maintaining that will not come cheap.

The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands, are claimed by both the PRC and ROC as an island chain under the Yilan County of Taiwan.

The historical context for this island claim is the most absurd: neither the PRC nor ROC were invited to the San Francisco Peace Treaty talks with Japan. A few months prior, the ROC’s Chiang Kai-Shek had signed the Potsdam Declaration with Allied leaders and explicitly declared which islands Japan could hold sovereignty over (the Senkakus were, notably, excluded). However, de facto sovereignty was overseen by the US until 1972, when the Okinawa Reversion shifted sovereignty to Japan.

If there is one territorial claim where the PRC and ROC are in the right with, it’s this one… Not the random claims the ROC has with Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Bhutan, Myanmar, Afghanistan, or Tajikistan (for which the PRC has negotiated and settled with), but for this attempt by Allied powers to ostracize a weak China and discredit the sacrifice of Chinese lives post-WW2.

Taiwanese support for Israel exceeds Taiwanese support for Palestine by more than 2:1.

The fact that Moscow Metro is up there despite Moscow being so fucking cold is wild

Nukes are an inevitability following sanctions. North Korea was sanctioned to hell and back by major international players before they developed nukes… At that point, they really might as well go all the way. The same is true for Iran, and the same will be true for any upcoming player with nukes.

The weaponization of sanctions for political gain rather than to act as a counterbalance against actual world-ending threats will be the death of us.

You’re completely forgetting the most important part…

China has already shown that they’re willing to negotiate (e.g. the Gulf of Tonkin with Vietnam, which was favourable to the Vietnamese).

With regards to the Paracels, Vietnam holds claims solely as leverage in the Spratlys. Vietnam lacks any control over the Paracels and has not supported American FONOPS through the Paracels for that reason alone. Vietnam knows that their claim to the Spratlys is strong. Vietnam has been escalating their island-building in the Spratlys for that exact reason. From what I can tell, Vietnam is trying to secure partial or total jurisdiction over the Spratlys in exchange for yielding the Paracels. Unfortunately, until Vietnam/China obtain exclusive co-sovereignty in the region, such an agreement is impossible.

Your yummy democratic genocide vs. my disgusting authoritarian “cultural genocide”

The collapse of the modern Italian state as we know it lmao

You’re not allowed to set up a territorial military outpost in EEZ lol

IIRC you’re not allowed to set up territorial military outposts in EEZ, so OP is correct that the Philippines government is violating international law.

There’s too many boring US/China news stories. Just because an article talks about the US or China (superpowers) does not make it interesting on its own.

BBC is on a roll today

Oxford PV set up a 100MW plant back in 2021… But that was with efficiency barely better than traditional mono (23-26.81% for mono vs. 28.6% for perovskite).

The value proposition was never there before, but it might be now…

uhh guys isn’t this like really bad

Israel is the single state most responsible for antisemitism since its foundation.

The Comac/Bombardier C919 is so cool man. It’s really the successor to Bombardier’s commercial airline initiatives that got nuked by Boeing and the DOJ.

Seriously. Fuck Boeing and fuck the DOJ.

BRICS, believe it or not, is not the world police.

PPP GDP/capita is the metric for living standards, PPP GDP is more a metric of domestic output (in terms of the intrinsic value of goods produced).

r/worldnews has always been astroturfed by State Department mouthpieces…

Shit headline for a very scary story