World News @lemmy.ml naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge

www.globaltimes.cn /page/202406/1314447.shtml

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Maybe at some point the Americans will get scared that the Chinese are actually making strides ahead of them in electrification and decarbonization to actually get unstuck from their idiotic culture war over fossil fuels.
- America will stop trying to sell oil when it runs out of oil and not one second before, no matter the actual cost.
  
  and will lash out for being behind for as long as they still have guns
- Eh take news from China with a Giga size grain of salt.
  
  I don't know about this particular piece of news, but the insane expansion of HSR for example is no fake news.
  
  As opposed to news from the united states, which is certified good and true and democratic
  
  The fuck kind of kneejerk is that?
  
  Show me mainstream chinese media that openly criticise the government and Xi. Then you can talk. Until then, accept that chinese media requires a few truckloads of salt.
  
  Are you old enough to remember how every single mainstream journalist promoted the Iraq war? (no, "maybe the war could be executed more competently" is still supporting the war) How about Libya?
  
  Isn't it funny how the mainstream media just happens to align with the state department every on every single issue?
  
  Old enough to remember there were lots opposing it as well. Just.like the current Gaza war. Just like they have criticised immigration policies, or approved them. Same with coal, same with the EPA neutering, same with the oil spills in the gulf. Same with the lack of proper aid and support when the lowlands flooded.
  
  Just because you ignore it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
  
  I'd be happy to adjust my opinion, should you provide similar journalism from china, about china.
  
  Old enough to remember there were lots opposing it as well. Just.like the current Gaza war.
  
  Except none of them meaningfully oppose the gaza war. The closest thing to criticism you'll hear from a mainstream source is how Netanyahu personally isn't carrying out the war out humanely enough. Note that this is not actually opposition to the war, since it just calls for a return to the state of slow ethnic cleansing that spawned the war. They oppose the way and rate the settler colonialist ethnostate carries out ethnic cleansing, not the settler colonialist ethnostate whose national project requires ethnic cleansing.
  
  Just as in the Iraq war, nobody was saying "This is bad, and we should leave now, there's a million people protesting it outside" until like 2006, when the plans to leave were already drawn up (a schedule Obama maintained).
  
  There was a million "The war is good, but it's being done poorly" and later on "The war is bad, but we're here and have to carry it out more competently", but the idea of not pursuing the war was so toxic, republicans would accuse democrats of wanting to "cut and run" (in the same way they accuse democrats of being insufficiently supportive of Israel, despite literally going around congress to keep the weapons flowing).
  
  are you old enough to remember tank man?
  
  I'm old enough to have seen the video of him having a convo with the commander of the lead tank, and then leaving the situation unharmed.
  
  you mean disappeared right?
  
  Do you have any evidence that the man was "disappeared" or are you just projecting how your own country would have handled the situation onto China?
  
  it's a well known fact.
  go ahead and type the words Tiananmen Square without fear of reprisal.
  and add Winnie the Pooh for good measure
  
  If it is a well known fact you can cite it easily, lmao
  
  "The more your media landscape criticizes it's own government the less critically you can consume it"
  
  Lol
  
  Quote is meaningless w/o context.
  
  With a little self awareness you'd know that the context is the comment chain above and that it's basically what youre saying llmao
  
  So a meaningless cheap copout then. Gotcha.
  
  Sure. That's a way to interpret your comment to @bilb@lem.monster also
  
  Well no. It's a request to prove his point. Which he will not do. And neither will you.
  
  I mean sure it is, but you're also implying "The more your media landscape criticizes it’s own government the less critically you can consume it”
  
  I agree with you.
- It will take a new space race for that to happen.
  
  The space race is on. That’s why Starship has been launching so much. Someone at the FAA must have finally realized that if SpaceX doesn’t go ahead at full SpaceX speed, we’re gonna see China take over space.
  
  They’ve got a space station and a rover on the moon. China will easily overtake us in space, has already in a few places.
  
  and africa with that whole silk road thing
  
  True. China is making rapid gains in territory and influence on Earth and Luna, and soon plans to expand its operations into the Belt.
- Fossil fuels aren’t just a culture war. Energy is really important for people, including poor people.
  
  Poor people also care about not dying from the effects of climate change.
  
  Poor people don't care about the megaprofits of the oil, gas, and automotive industries.

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