Disagree.
Tributary states make the US empire extensions look more free than they are.
Serf states are a better description of what they are like.
Or perhaps sycophant states considering how eager they are serving the US.

What’s up with the high standard requirement?
Does the Chinese government need to be absolute perfection in order to be miles better than the US government?

Several countries have overlapping claims, but for some reason Westerners are only interested in China’s claims, because Western media has one specific narrative it wants to tell. Maybe Westerners should mind their own business and let countries on the other side of the world sort out their own disputes.

You’re forgetting to tell the commenter previously, these islands were previously occupied by France and Japan,
one colonizer kicked out of Asia and the other being the loser of world war II.

Iran condemns US attempts to exploit financing, orchestrating and managing the protests for political gain

Fixed

No. You need lots of energy/electricity to economically grow and the US has fossil fuels in abundance,
especially coal, but it’s very high in the other two sectors as well.
Despite that, the Soviet Union managed to grow much faster with much less, same with China.
But the Soviet Union doesn’t have much coal and natural gas didn’t become big and cheap
until the turn of the millennium.
And coal has been very important in the 20th century as that provides cheap electricity, while oil mainly provides cheap transportation. The problem with oil is that it’s also easy to transport itself, so as a country like Saudi Arabia which has no coal and only oil, there’s a large chance that it will get stolen from any countries with massive coal deposits and even a larger chance for the oil to be sold by a tiny group of elites of that country to countries with massive coal deposits.

The US, despite its absolutely massive fossil fuel deposits compared to the rest of the world,
started to falter in the early 1970s as they had an internal oil peak, crashing their economy.
The Soviet Union was thriving, but still had a long way to catch up as it had been a monarchy up until the early 20th century,
plus setbacks from invasions by Germany who put all their weight on the Soviet Union and still lost.
The US then blackmailed Saudi Arabia just in time and was able to prop up their system and even thrive
by forcing Saudi Arabia to invest into the US or be invaded. It allowed the US to go into massive debts without worry.
The same happened to other oil producing nations.

It’s the US whose underlying institutional failures are showing right now.
China has risen in the 20th century because it’s expensive coal became cheap enough over time, as all the cheaper coal had been used up. Russia managed to regain some of its power with natural gas.

But since the early 2020s solar power has become the energy/electricity rising star and solar power is far more evenly distributed than fossil fuels.
There’s no blackmail scheme stopping this and we’re already seeing China haven taken a giant lead in solar power, wind power and battery storage, while the US is trying to instigate a civil war while trying to ban wind power and attempting to go from blackmail to direct oil theft.

I guess Trump watched the infographics show, which is about as nuanced as Falun Gong’s China Uncensored.

No, they were written with flash graphics

Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately?

Youtube algorithms preferring to show you legacy news sites and paid influencers instead of promoting regular users.

No, it showed how important fossil fuels, especially oil, were in the 20th century.
That’s gone now.

If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.

The Chinese protesters hanged and burned unarmed military police who were ordered to sing them out of the of the square like pied pipers, which worked as they did so even during the insurrection.
They had no intention to kidnapping or murdering anyone and came in unarmed, until over a hundred military men had been burned to death on “the tank man street”.
The Chinese military police shot and killed all the terrorists and evacuated the peaceful protesters.

What the Chinese government can be faulted for was that they did the same Biden Jan 6th order to send in the military with the same instructions:
Show up on “Capitol Hill and surroundings / Tianenmen Square” in time or be tried for treason.
Use force on people blocking your way.

For Jan 6th 2020 insurrection this resulted into 0 protesters dead as everyone fled the moment they heard of the US military coming.
For the June 4th 1989 insurrection it turned to over a 100 protesters dead as they were protesting far from the “tank man street” or even the square and did not believe that there even was an insurrection going on. Most of these deaths were caused by a single incident where the military and protesters were quarreling on who had the priority on taking public transportation.

Yeah, they are THAT cowardly.

Okay, so I guess Iran should listen to what Israel is saying,
and kidnap Netanyahu as soon as possible.

I mean why else should Iran pay close attention to what is happening in Venezuela.

Hey brother

I’m not sure who you are responding to.
Me or @corsicanguppy.

Corsicanguppy was asked to something.
Corsicanguppy was being defeatist.
I told him to be like the ant against the grassphopper.
You’re saying that like ants, they should cooperate.
To that I say, right on! That’s the spirit!

Voting doesn’t work when the candidate needs campaign money to get voted for.
If the candidate needs campaign money to get voted in, then the candidate will automatically be corrupt,
as no one is going to freely give someone lots of money unless they expect something back from it,
and if candidates need to be on tv and pay good money for being on tv,
then the candidates choices are to be corrupt or to be unknown
and you will need to organize a different system of electing leaders.

No, it’s asking an ant to stand up against a bunch of grasshoppers.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=UI-RFRykjTk

Depends on how your time travel works.

Real time travel would require to set everything back in place except your brain/body,
so you haven’t technically traveled back in time, but everyone around you effectively thinks you have
as they’d never accept themselves as being part of a universe that’s been ahead for 30 years and then reversed in place.

Ah yes.
The infamous “they” who control everything.
But what “they” who control “they”, who are really in control of the lights in your room and the lights you’re trying to check?
What if there’s an infinite amount of “theys” all the way down that by mathematical logic leads to myself?
What if the interview being held and the question being asked wasn’t meant to test me, but to test you?
What then?

Aliens from outer space that resemble birds and bees have recently infiltrated earth and are slowly but surely taking over earth’s restrooms.
You are neither their species, so it’s best to turn around and go home.

No no no, you’re not coming here.
My European country hits all points, but it’s on shaky ground,
with issues getting worse soon.

NATO is going to ruin us all.