Assad isn’t Shia, he’s Alawite. That’s why when the Takfiri terrorists took over Damascus the first thing they did is to go to the coastal Alawite regions and start butchering them.
Sectarianism is the absolute stupidest, most self-defeating nonsense. It’s the classic imperialist divide and conquer playbook. The fastest way to get your country destroyed by imperialists is to fall for this crap.
Maybe the Kiev Nazi junta should stop bombing the Donbass and committing ethnic cleansing.
Congratulations comrade! You and your fellow students are a ray of hope in these dark times!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Just give them a factual historical education and teach them to think critically about how the economy and society works under capitalism. Teach them to question narratives by questioning the interests of those who propagate them. That is the first step.
Once someone has formed a solid understanding of how the world works beyond the lies told by liberal propaganda, they will eventually find their way to Marxist ideas, because only Marxism offers a coherent framework to explain what we observe.
If you are too explicitly advocating for communism to students who are still caught in an idealist understanding of the world, you might end up being accused of trying to propagandize them.
You have to remember that many of them come with pre-conceived ideas that will be heavily reinforced by their families.
So my advice would be to view yourself as laying the foundation, not as the person who will necessarily “convert” them.
(Though, if some show an interest and aptitude to learn more, you can of course guide them further along and point them toward resources they can explore on their own time.)
The causal chain is fairly simple. The RSF are proxies of the UAE (and therefore of Israel). With the latter now busy with Iranian attacks they cannot afford the attention or resources to support their pet project in Sudan anymore.
The RSF never had organic support in Sudan. They are genocidal, murderous maniacs despised by most of the Sudanese people. They have been armed, funded and propped up by imperialist interests just like ISIS was.
At this point anyone who says they are pro-Palestine while still supporting Ukraine is either lying or a moron.
Here’s something interesting that shows just how timely this topic is:
This was just discussed at the latest session of China’s National People’s Congress a few days ago:
China to drive full green transition and build a Beautiful China during 15th Five-Year Plan period
It really seems to be one of the top priorities for the Chinese government at the moment.
Your choice is great. None of those cities have made as much progress as fast as Beijing has made compared to how things used to be there just 20 years ago. Even western media had to admit how drastic the difference in air quality is nowadays and how much of a success story Beijing has been in terms of cleaning up the environment. Even the water is so much cleaner nowadays and there are countless parks and green spaces. You can literally see it: https://english.beijing.gov.cn/specials/livablegreenbeijing/index.html
It’s one of the most liveable cities in the world now. I know a lot of westerners are infatuated with the more flashy, hyper-modern cities in China like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and so on, but for me the urban planning in Beijing is just on another level.
Probably. Anything but Google honestly, because Google is extremely curated to almost exclusively display pro-Western sources. Yandex is usually my go-to alternative.
But the language you search in also makes a big difference. Even on Baidu if you search in English you will probably get a lot of English language results, and English language sources are going to be dominated by a pro-Western bias.
Yes there are good sources to be found in English too but the numbers are stacked against you with so much garbage out there in the Anglophone media. On politically charged topics i mean.
Whereas when i search in Russian on Yandex for example, i get a set of results with noticeably less of them reflecting the Western narratives. It’s just a matter of overcoming the language barrier, which is fortunately not too difficult nowadays.
And of course you are more likely to get serious scientific articles if you search the actual scientific journals and academic publications rather than some propaganda piece put out by an NGO or a think tank.
In that case the best advice i can give is to get a good translation software so you can read Chinese academic papers, because the best resources you can find are all written in Chinese. Good English language sources are hard to find, since there is a big anti-China bias in the West even in academia.
You could try going through a proxy of some sort next time if it’s an ISP block. They blocked RT where i live, but it’s pretty trivial to circumvent.
Actually there is a ton of scientific literature on this topic especially from Chinese academia. I had to stop myself from going too deep down the rabbit hole because i’d be giving you far too many specialized papers to read otherwise.
Some general articles:
China’s green development: A model for global sustainability
China’s Sustainable Development and Green Economy
Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China’s Plans and Solutions
Evaluating China’s Sustainable Development Policies: A Comprehensive Review
Green is Gold: Clear Waters and Green Mountains are as Good as Mountains of Gold and Silver
Eco-Tech Revolution: China’s 2025 Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation
China, South-South Cooperation and Supporting Green Development
“Greening” China: An analysis of Beijing’s sustainable development strategies
China’s Green Ambition: Forest Expansion, Energy Efficiency, And Bold Carbon Goals
China’s sustainable development evolution and its driving mechanism
China’s Green Development in the New Era
And for Beijing specifically:
Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity
Sustainable Urbanisation and Community Well-Being in Suburban Neighbourhoods in Beijing, China
The Modernization Logic of Green Development in the Beijing Ecological Conservation Area: A Review
A decade of historic struggle against air pollution in Beijing
Weird. The link works fine for me. I’ve added the full article text to the body of the post for anyone who cannot access the link.
Despicable comprador traitors.
This is the clearest illustration of why the US empire will lose and China and the global south will win. This system has no future.
I know nothing about Hyundai. You’re probably right in your criticism. Also it’s not a Chinese brand anyway. The point of this is more to show what manufacturing in China’s automotive sector looks like. China’s own car brands use very similar or even more advanced factories. The point is that China has an integrated industrial ecosystem unlike any other in the world, with tons of talent, research and development, their own supply chains and highly efficient logistics, which is why they can manufacture at such a scale.
how about sharing the Chinese media you’ve watching? This way we can see for ourselves
I guess everyone’s heard of the blockbuster movies that have been coming out of China that have been the most popular recently, so i don’t need to mention those.
As for TV series, i tend to just look for whatever is highest rated on the various C-drama websites, though for now i avoid the historical costume dramas because they’re a bit too formulaic for my taste (but if anyone has a good recommendation of one that is really exceptional i would of course be open).
So i generally go for ones with more “modern” setting, either set in the 20th century dealing with interesting periods in China’s recent history such as “Minning Town” (set during the 1990s) or “This Thriving Land” (set in the 1930s), as well as police procedurals set in the modern day like “Sword Rose” or “In the Name of the People”. I guess that’s a good place to start to get a feel for what Chinese TV is like.
I’m still just barely beginning myself to get an idea of what’s available because China produces a lot of movies and TV, but they are not that easy to find outside of China, especially with subtitles.
I suspect that it will be very difficult to get accurate data on this for some time because of the censorship regime that has been implemented. We are simply not going to be seeing as much as we saw in the first days because the information control has gotten tighter. So “OSINT” is going to be way off. Any charts they produce are going to be nonsense. And any “data” coming out of the US and Zionist regimes is pure propaganda slop much like the ridiculous claims of interception rates that we have seen from Ukraine for the past four years. Iran probably has its own internal data from their own sources which is quite accurate but i don’t know if it’s in their interest to release it.