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Note: DPP has stripped CTi of broadcasting rights on TV a few years ago for being "中共的同路人"
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Note: DPP has stripped CTi of broadcasting rights on TV a few years ago for being "中共的同路人"
A truly bizarre sight.
Like what the hell they want?
China does not want to listen to your damn lecture from aboard.
Now you want to come to China to deliver that lecture directly?
That is why China is letting come. To see how stupid they really are.
Heard a crazy conspiracy theory just now:
Suppose EU and China want to suddenly ditch the dollar and switch to trading with their own currencies ala Brazil, in a "En tu, Brute?" moment.
Who will need to visit Beijing and talk to Xi to make this happen?
Seems unlikely but crazier things have happened in history.
Suppose EU and China want to suddenly ditch the dollar and switch to trading with their own currencies ala Brazil, in a "En tu, Brute?" moment.
Who will need to visit Beijing and talk to Xi to make this happen?
- Scholz (he's already been)
- Macron (on the way)
- von der Leyen (on the way)
- Pedro Sánchez (on the way)
- Giorgia Meloni (on the way in May)
- Charles Michel
- Josep Borrell
Seems unlikely but crazier things have happened in history.
Eh, von der Leyen is basically a US spy though.
So likely won't happen if she gets to know about that arrangement/plans.
Does Europe want another Kosovo war? Cause that's how you start another war in Europe.
If you're US and you see all these characters all in rapid succession travel to a place where whatever is discussed behind close doors cannot be discovered by you by any means, would you be nervous?
And then afterwards, von der Leyen report back that everything is above board and nothing suspicious at all was discussed, would that make you feel better or even more nervous?
The mere thought that there could be something here would drive US crazy. If nothing else it would be good 反间计 and sow discord among the rank.
Highly unlikely given current eu position towards prc
They’re just trying to micromanage the… how does vdl call it? De-risking? Something like that
I expect some kind of haggling, maybe wrt to nevs/green industry (“do what we want or we will impose tariffs on them”)
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I mean, if you saw how New Yorkers complain about MTA, and how their own corrupt idiot of a politicianIt's a pretty low bar comparing it to YRT, don't you think? I don't see Vaughan on that list
BLUF: auto-oriented suburbanization makes makes private automobile viable at the expense of everything else.
The problem is that subway was originally a streetcar replacement (i.e. Yonge line and Bloor-Danforth line), which means they are built in places where people literally wanted to go. For other places? Before the massive auto-oriented suburbanization development, there were streetcar coverage (e.g. CNE, Spadina Chinatown). If one look up on the history of TTC, they'd find out that Toronto used to have a much more extensive streetcar network, including some suburban coverage (think St. Clair streetcar). And it was heavily utilized; after all, they were expected to cover all expenses from the farebox alone.
The auto-oriented suburban development of places like Don Mills (read: Ontario Science Centre), and construction of highway such as Highway 2 bypass (eventually known as Highway 401) turned what used to be literal farm fields into sprawling suburban. It's not all bad though. After all, people can finally live their dream life of a plot of land in their own name, a little house on top with white picket fence, a stay-at-home mom, and 2½ kids, all on single-income. Incidentally, for some mysterious reason, the TTC has lost its ability to recover all costs from farebox revenue.
Fast forward to today, the "Highway 2 bypass" is less of a bypass, and more of heavily utilized trunk road in its own right (induced demand tend to have that effect), to the point where it is North America's busiest highway by traffic volume. Meanwhile, the subway network is more-or-less stuck in it's 1970s guise with additional extension further into the suburbs... because Canada apparently lost the art to build large public transit project or something.
The people former suburban lower municipalities (the whole story of how single-tier City of Toronto came to be is another can of worm) clamour for subways, but resists any attempt at densification required to make subway viable. Meanwhile, the lack of network effect means any extension of pre-existing subway lines will cause an already crowded Bloor-Yonge station even more crowded.
Meanwhile, the solution proffered up by our esteemed Premier of
Anyway, this is basically a rant on the history of Toronto subway and streetcar system (and Toronto in general). It's mostly from my memory so don't expect 100% accuracy. It's actually pretty facinating, and I encourage all GTHA-ians here to research it.
Writing was on the wall when in 2021 the US propaganda machine ran this piece:
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