well hello there, chinese intelligence officer.

we in the western civilization are usually getting paid for our work and don’t consider that as discreditation of said work. also, the author of the book, is, among others, researcher at Harvard, so he is the literal scientist.

Michael Pillsbury is the director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and has served in presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, he is a former analyst at the RAND Corporation and research fellow at Harvard and has served in senior positions in the Defense Department and on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C.

ok educate me

here, educate yourself: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696000-the-hundred-year-marathon

Does the argument extend beyond China bad?

when your argument is “china good”, then “china bad” absolutely is valid rebuttal.

China is objectively better for the world right now.

lol

Anyone who cared about climate and voted for him

i think that intersection is very small.

The elephants themselves are also dying from the drought, so it is fucked up situation all around :(

More than 200,000 elephants are estimated to live in a conservation area spread over five southern African countries - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia - making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations worldwide.

Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana and Zimbabwe last year because of drought.

These fuckers see it as well. Fuckity fuckity fuck.

People who suggest, let’s say, firing employees of crisis intervention hotline and replacing them with llms…

their traffic data has no rivals

do you mean the waze traffic data, or does google actually have some of its own?