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No no, Xi did not punch me in the face, I punched his fist with my face.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Another soft power win.
Very pro-India video on their space program and the creator gets bombarded with death threats for using the wrong map.
So, in the internationally recognized map, the southern tibet & other disputed territory with India is all belong to China?
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Yes the new/old American scam of making all your money from US military contracts which means it's a bunch of overpriced crap in the guise and hook of patriotism. When they find out it's crap, they'll survive by forcing allies to buy it. I bet China will always be able to do it cheaper.
I totally missed that the UN HDI report came out two weeks ago. China is now at .797, while the threshold for Very High HDI is at .800 and above, so China should cross it next year. I also see that last year Vietnam was still at the lower end of High, but this year they're .766 so not too far behind China. Crazy how much that country has achieved in such a short amount of time, but hey that's what the Sinospheric work ethic gets you.
UN HDI is pretty outdated, the latest report is still from 2023. So, in theory if a new report comes out now or soon China would be already beyond the 0.800 mark.
HDI is a pretty useless indicator, being surprised that UN still has not change that.
For example, one of the major index, one out of three, is education, and they use years to calculate the result. However, what people need is not how many years in school, but how much they learned during their education years. For example, the US might have K-12, 13 years of compulsory education compare to China's 9 years of compulsory education, but we all know 9th grade of China learned more than a lot of 12th grader in the US.