Once Trump undermines FED independence (which seems to be the case in may, if not earlier) the risk associated with US investments increases dramatically… reasonable for pension funds to pull out in time.

Some aspects that come to my mind:

1. Is the safety of Sigapore exclusively liked to strict drug regulation or aren’t there many other confunding factors which might have an even bigger influence?
2. Given we see this approach as successful and therefore legitime (assuming that in 1 the policy is the main/only driving factor): Would this be applicable to other countries? Singapore is a verry wealthy city state… comparing it to a country like Britain with more area, less population desity and also lower ecomonic performance per area seems missleading. Prosecution becomes more difficult and costly the bigger the area gets I guess.

All-in-all if the approach is sucessful for Singapore: Excellent! Accunsing other countries with different prerequisites of failing on this basis seems to be nonsense as comparing countries and societies in a single aspect while ignoring the gaszillion other factors at play itself is a pointless approach besides populism.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

You can do a good job all you want… if voters see lies as equally valid argument you can’t win.

(That being said you surely have a point that the current governments don’t usually work in favor of the majority… but that applies even more for right-wing parties bought by even more corrupt elites.)

If I understood the news correctly those 13 are send to make preparations for a larger unit.

/edit: Apparently, the wording is: ,The aim is to explore framework conditions for securing the region."

…wishy-washy, but better than nothing, I suppose.

,Opposing a dictatorship is always good… even if the majority of the people there are worse off afterwards. The main thing is that I feel morally superior while risking nothing myself. "

Read a book.

My personal problem with this is that we’re not talking about ANY country but specifically about the current US admin which has recently, shitting on all international rules, declared itself to be above international law and kidnapped an foreign leader (yes, he was dictator, but for international laws to be valuable they must treat EVERYONE equal… not only the ones deemed worthy by the biggest bully in the yard). Since this isn’t the first wave of protests but the first one to, apparently, get inhumanely bloody in this magnitude one obvious key factor differing this one from the previous ones is the openly hostile and antidemocratic US admin taking power one year ago.

Taking this factors into consideration it seems highly questionable weather these protests will lead to an overall better situation for the Iranian people… and this outcome would be the only one justifying the blood shed.

People don’t want to repeat their mistake of blindly cheering revolutions just for them to turn into even worse dictatorships afterwards… like it happened in many countries after Arabian spring. Hence the skepticism and caution in my eyes is more a sign of an ability to learn from past mistakes… especially since this time a foreign nation isn’t ,secondarily involved" but repeatedly made actual threats to destabilize the nation in question and is actively threatening with war, not for the people but to fill its own pockets and demonstrate its power.

There are various reasons China made it before not instead of others. Industrialization is taking up speed on Africa for example even if we like to ignore it.

However China isn’t flawless and one aspect of the price it paiys is a selfmade demographic problem: The incedrible chatch up speed wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for the one-child-poöicy which, coupled with immensly hard work by the Chinese population and heavy environmental destruction, allowed for China to become an economic giant within decades. This policy however will backfire in the near future. It’s not all black and white but mostly grey… as always.

I think I get the point and when thinking about it I guess you’re right. Thank you.

There is for developed economies.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400306

Yes and no… there used to be something like patent protection and copyrights which, in my eyes, promoted innovation since you were ensured to be able to make use of your ideas.

It will level out globally in the long run because it’s easier to catch up with others than to lead by innovation. What will prevent the world from copying Chinese innovations after China itself did so for decades?

There’s another important factor complicating things for Chinese companies:

China has copied every peace of technology they could get a hold of in the last 40 years (a smart move to close the gap between the leading nations and yourself in every sector). However, as Chinese industries now have reached the current state of the art and plan on overtaking the competition by making new innovations this leads to a problem: You hardly can dominate global markets while gatekeeping your technology. So China is now faced with the ironic problem of either protecting its innovations or exporting them to the world because it’s not likely that any Western authority will give two shits about protecting Chinese intellectual property and/or patents when China itself didn’t care for the last decades.

But did you use AI for this post? … otherwise your English is pretty sound (to me as a non-native speaker) :D

Brazil has actually done something against deforestation under the current gov. It’s not the same WildWest as four decades (fuck i’m getting old) ago.

https://apnews.com/article/deforestation-brazil-drop-amazon-data-government-fire-drought-e6f6133a3a7c1c0fcd44c9875ced0357