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>>2786133 307 posts and 67 image replies omitted.>>2864601Is there a difference between colonialism and imperialism?
Hobson and Lenin prefigure the scramble for Africa beginning around 1870, where European powers fought against each other - ultimately leading to WW2. China isn't fighting any competitive wars, so is it in an imperialist framework of just a colonialist one?
>>2864764People will read this and think that China is supporting Israel settlements
>>2864764I cannot overstate how based and necessary this is right now
>>2864764i really wish they would link the study.
>>2864764ENVIRONMENTALISTS BTFO
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY WATER SHORTAGES FOR THE REST OF HISTORY (unless the country is currently being financially imperialized by the IMF/getting their infrastructure bombed in a war/got invaded by the US/etc.)
>>2864764This article
https://thewaterdigest.com/chinese-tech-makes-desalinating-seawater-cheaper-than-producing-bottled-water/ goes into more detail of how their method works:
>Desalination has traditionally been energy-intensive, either consuming vast amounts of electricity or depending on expansive and expensive infrastructure.
>Its dominant technology today is reverse osmosis, also known as membrane desalination, and it uses electricity to pump seawater through large pipes and into thin membranes that allow water molecules to pass while blocking salt.
>Solar evaporation is seen as a promising green alternative because it uses photothermal materials to convert sunlight into heat, driving seawater to evaporate before the vapour is condensed into freshwater. But putting that into practice has always been challenging.
>The most effective photothermal materials are usually ultrafine powder nanoparticles. However, the trouble comes when those tiny particles have to be turned into a usable evaporation device: they tend to clump together like flour, which blocks the pathways for water vapour.
>In addition, many of the organic polymer substrates used to hold the particles together lose performance after prolonged exposure to intense sunlight, much like plastic ageing and cracking in the sun.
>For their study, the team drew inspiration from buttons. They turned the nanoparticles into individual “buttons” and used polymer “threads” to stitch them firmly together, preventing clumping while building a robust three-dimensional framework.
>To do this, they first prepared hollow nanospheres with multiple shell layers. They then used a solvent to allow polymer chains to thread precisely through the tiny pores in the shells, like sewing thread through fabric.
>After cooling, the polymer chains acted like locks, binding billions of these nanospheres together into a three-dimensional “nanoforest”.
>Subsequent tests showed that the new structure was highly robust and durable.
>The team placed the composite material in seawater and stirred it continuously at 450 revolutions per minute for 30 days to simulate harsh marine conditions. Under the microscope, they found that virtually no nanoparticles had detached.
>The structure also caused sunlight to bounce and scatter repeatedly inside the material, pushing its solar absorption rate up to 90.2 per cent.The images are presumably from the original journal article which is this one
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.73756 , but I got them from this news article
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/china-seawater-desalinated-bottled-water-cheaper-shortages-b3007444.html .
I couldn't find the article on scihub. Anyway, I imagine that the main limiting factor for scaling this solution up to mass production of fresh water is the cost of producing the "nanoforest"s.
>>2864873That second image btw is their prototype desalination plant and you can see their vegetable garden beside it.
>>2864543wrong
<Some narratives* in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries.<However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. <Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy. <Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development. <Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification. <At the same time, in high-income countries**, less-necessary production should be scaled down to enable faster decarbonization and to help bring resource use back within planetary boundaries. <With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large increases in total global throughput and output.== <Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments.<Such a future requires planning to provision public services, to deploy efficient technology, and to build sovereign industrial capacity in the global South. >>2865004All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.
>>2864991>>2865004>>2865105There was an article a few years back, shortly after the US troops finally left Afghanistan, about how all these Taliban guys had to go from a life of riding around on motorcycles and doing guerilla shit to having to be bureaucrats who hold office, and how miserable it made them lol.
>>2864879this is true and everyone has known it since the 1890s but capital MVST push people into producing non-necessities and destroying the environment. food must be destroyed before it is used. clothes must last 6 months before being thrown in a landfill. etc.
China is 1950s America and has the exact same trajectory and will end exactly the same, you will suburbanize, you will neoliberalize, you will be reliant on migrant farm labor from your immediate southern neighbors, you will OD on tranq fent
>>2865163It's kind of funny how Herbert described this and traditional Fremen culture being reduced to tourist props in later Dune works.
>>2865208It’s a lot more bleak than that in God Emperor, Leto II keeps the recreated fremen in his tiny little enclosure of the Sareer as basically his comfort characters until he decides to kill himself
>>2865200Whatever makes you cope with the West's fall, buddy
>>2865212>>2865208Reminder that Tolkien hated Dune.
Has China finally stopped being a pussy about not extending their claimed territory?
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202607/1365585.shtml>>2865524The east is nothing more than the new West, all the decadence and degeneracy you associate with the west is the disease of winning the Great Game, not of the west inherently
>>2865741South America at the time had huge ideas about federating into a country that could actually resist USA. It failed miserably
>>2865671That's already the PRC position. They want Taiwan to essentially be self-governing, just under 1-country 2-systems.
1 in 10 RoC citizens currently lives in mainland China. This is an insane statistic if you think about it.
>>2865538Zhongguo yearns to span her wings from the Baikal to the Balkhash, from Shumshu to the Natunas.
>>2865862>That's already the PRC position. They want Taiwan to essentially be self-governing, just under 1-country 2-systems.No, it is not. China's position is that Taiwan should be under a temporary autonomous arrangement for several decades until it is ready to be fully incorporated into the PRC. This is the same arrangement for Hong Kong and Macao. Claiming that this is "independence" is disingenuous and would be rejected by China AND the Pan-Greens.
>>2866160https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems_(Taiwan_plan)>It would have independent administrative, legislative, judicial, and military powers as well as certain diplomatic powers, and manage its own party, government, military, economy, and financeThis has been pushed from Deng to Xi.
>>2866161The Republika Srpska in Bosnia has its own governmental institutions and even kept its military until 2005 but nobody would ever call it an independent country.
>>2866164Who are you arguing against? Do you lack the ability to comprehend sentences on online posts?
BEIJING – The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Monday.
In response to a related query, Lin Jian said President Xi will systemically elaborate on China's policies, position, visions and propositions on AI development and governance when he addresses the opening ceremony of the conference themed "Intelligent Partners, Co-create the Future."
China has invited government officials and people across industries, universities and research institutes around the world, as well as heads of international organizations to share the moment together in China, Lin added.
Noting that AI technological innovation is undergoing broad-based breakthroughs and demonstrating unprecedented dynamism, Lin said that such progress brings both opportunities and challenges to the international community, making AI governance a profound topic of our times.
In recent years, in the field of AI, China has been acting on the four global initiatives and the Global AI Governance Initiative put forward by President Xi, said Lin, noting China is committed to providing international public goods, advocating AI for good and for all with real actions, and helping the Global South strengthen capacity-building, which are highly commended by the international community.
"Through this conference, China looks forward to building a platform for various parties to enhance mutual trust, pool consensus, and deepen cooperation so as to promote the sound, safe and orderly development of AI, and make this conference a milestone in the history of AI development," Lin said.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/07/15/people-in-many-countries-now-view-china-more-positively-than-the-u-s/>People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.>More also have confidence in Xi than Trump, according to a survey in three dozen countries>Global views of the United States worsened last year as President Donald Trump’s second term began, though most people still had a more positive opinion of the U.S. than China. This year, that is no longer the case.>Views of China have improved in recent years while opinions of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most of 36 countries surveyed.>Confidence in these countries’ respective leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs has followed a similar pattern. In the latter half of Joe Biden’s presidency, confidence in him was higher than confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping across most countries surveyed, though Biden’s rating declined in many places from 2023 to 2024.>During the first two years of Trump’s second term, ratings of the U.S. president worsened significantly. While many people still lack confidence in Xi, positive views of him have become more widespread, and more overall now say they have confidence in Xi than in Trump.>One area where the U.S. still gets higher ratings than China has to do with personal freedoms: More say the U.S. government respects the personal freedoms of its people than say the same of the Chinese government. Still, the gap has been narrowing – driven by large drops in the shares saying the U.S. government respects personal freedoms.>As China and the U.S. compete for influence around the world, we also examined how people in six Latin American countries see their foreign policy roles. People in these nations previously tended to see the U.S. as a more reliable partner than China, but several publics are now split. >>2865815this is why, when i'm talking to patriotic burger retards, and i'm trying to redpill them on the CIA, I say the CIA is always trying to prevent other countries from having their own 1776, their own declaration of independence.
>>2867127>youtube commentsisg
>>2870311do people actually have their minds changed by AI slop or are they just too busy getting distracted by shiny to even know what the stupid shit is talking about
>>2870337It doesn't matter because its so cheap and fast to make.
>>2871678dipsy > hearts of iron mod whore
>>2832456Why does there need to be an alternative? Their Chinese National Socialism system seems to be working out perfectly well for them. It appears that freeish markets within a state capitalism framework and state-sanctioned billionaires are an insurmountable requirement for national success. Their workers might not be too happy with the 9-9-6 system (72 hours a week) but perhaps AI can ameliorate that within the coming years.
>>2870371it does matter actually. something that is cheap becomes expensive if it doesn't achieve its intended effect. You throw money at a problem that doesn't get solved.
>>2871973>Their workers might not be too happy with the 9-9-6 system (72 hours a week)Are you still on about this shit after China has banned it almost 10 years ago?
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