I suspect economic pragmatism will win in the end.
As much as I would like to say that it will, I am not really hopeful in this regard. I'm Indian so I know many Indians. I can tell you that sinophobia and islamophobia has become a huge problem. A racist bourgeoisie ruled government should never be thought of as a reliable long-term partner. It is only a matter of time before they pull something stupid.
I wouldn't be so sure. I don't think a total war over these territories is likely, but there have been instances in the past of the situation escalating severely between India and China. Even though a lot of the fighting over the territories is symbolic, nationalism is a volatile thing. You never know when the border issues are used as a justification for bigger military action, especially at the urging of the US.
Let's hope that sooner rather than later, the border issues can be permanently resolved. Hot war between China and India would be catastrophic.
No idea why the numbers are so different. The numbers I found were 120 GWh (not MWh, it was a typo). But that is still significantly less than the us doe estimate.
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Kid named microplastics
These people should pursue their dreams of becoming comedians instead of wasting away editing Wikipedia articles. I believe in them.
Is there any benefit to supersizing wind turbines? Is it more cost effective, or is the main benefit the reduced land use?
Even if all of this spying activity was real (there is a 0% chance that more than 10% of it is), the American government certainly deserves to be spied upon. Hell, even the article claims
China also purged a whole cadre of officials working as U.S. spies a decade ago.
Further fueling paranoia were allegations by former U.S. intelligence contractor. Edward Snowden that the U.S. had extensively hacked Chinese infrastructure including mobile phone networks.
You spy on a country the country spies back at you. Seems fair, no?
I mean this one could actually be at a big cost. It would take a lot of effort to switch the world's digital systems to be fully quantum secure, but this situation was inevitable either way.
The whole transition from pre-capitalist modes of production (whatever they may have been) to the capitalist mode of production happened because of the mechanization of agriculture and textile making. These lowered the value of labor-power (which is the cost of reproduction workers, the 2 biggest ones being food and clothing) and allowed for the generation of massive amounts of surplus value on a historical scale. Wherever the mechanization of agriculture and textiles occurred, the capitalists gained power over the other proprietor classes. They leveraged this power to further expand the mechanization of agriculture, and thus the capitalist mode of production wherever they could.
In fact, this process of expanding capitalism still is ongoing today. There are something like 2 billion "small holding farmers who interact with the market to some extent, but are not practicing capitalist farming (socialized, mechanized commodity farming). This is why capitalism today, which has assumed a world dimension has still not run into its final limits
Wholesome message. I will now follow my dreams and burn down the local orphanage.
Jokes aside, you are completely right about
And people should internalise this as much as possible. I myself have gotten stuck in the mindset many times in the past of waiting to just stumble upon a community and/or friends before I will become happy. Took a lot of growth on my part to realise that I would have to make an effort myself (especially since I hate making effort).