zephyreks

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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

WUG is just slightly less extremist ETIM. They're aligned in their goals.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

AOC got bled dry like all US "progressives"

Don't hate the player, hate the game

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you picked up a history book? Taiwan literally still claims mainland China and the South China Sea as ROC territory. Maybe read Taiwan's Constitution instead of the American media interpretation of it? It's not my fault that you seem happier to spread ideology with American interpretations than deal with actual facts.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Encroaching on Taiwan's sovereignty by flying in international airspace over international waters?

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

And yet, under the KMT government relations were normalizing. In the past, mainland China had extremely positive rhetoric towards Taiwan (and Taiwan towards mainland China). Even today, trade grows and cultural coupling grows.

Frankly, claiming that China violates Taiwan's airspace shows a gross misunderstanding of international aviation law. American FONOPs in the area since 2016 have broken the status quo that the Chinese and Taiwanese governments were using to split the strait: if the strait is international waters outside of the 12km limit, then the air above it is international airspace by definition.

Oddly enough, that timeline also coincides with Taiwan's government flipping from KMT rule to DPP rule.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a missile that has both ballistic and maneuverable segments of it's flight path. It can't maneuver at hypersonic speeds.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

China's... not so wrong with this one. Under the previous KMT government, Taiwan-China relations were normalizing (not to the degree of reunification, but to the degree that conflict wasn't really on the horizon anymore because of the economic harm it would cause). The DPP has taken a strongly anti-China stance and the result has been escalating tensions... All while bilateral trade across the strait continues to grow.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An independent, unbiased investigation.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Did the decades of exploitation by their neighbours to the North not give it away?

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

No, but they're unified in how they evaluate and reward a "good" education:

China has gaokao, South Korea has CSAT, and Japan has the common test. All of these are unified by the fact that they directly evaluate scholastic ability (unlike the ACT/SAT), are substantially harder than the American equivalent, and more directly correspond to university admissions.

Plays and orchestras take time.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, to some extent it's "true" solely because of how standardized Asian education systems are and how much they actually test capability.

In contrast, American education is a fucking joke. But, by extension, Americans get more time to jack off and do other shit, so from that definition I'm fairly sure creative output in the US would be higher per-capita for people in high school, at least.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Car hits pedestrian, driver not injured.

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