Curriculum in international schools are all approved by the stated. That’s part of their license agreements.
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solarz
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You must be pro gun control, because the pro gun people won't bat an eye. As they like to say, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
They're also going to say, if that school had people with assault rifles, the shooting wouldn't have happened.
Instead of "Guns Bad", I like how nuanced some Americans are when it comes to gun control (but it's our "kulture" and "rights", but it's up to PARENTS to prevent mass shootings now, and mental health!) but when it comes to China, it's all black-and-white, "China Bad". Americans are capable of nuance when it comes to their domestic issues, but when it comes to others or foreigners, it's all overarching generalizations and sweeping accusations with no room for nuance.
solarz
Brigadier
It's naive to think people base their attitudes on principles rather than self-interest.
Under the pressure of and in the scramble to find a strategy - any strategy - that might work for containing a rising China, a lot of western policy analysts and politicians inevitably come to revisit Nixon's China policy and the US-China quasi-alliance to contain Soviet Union. In so doing, most of them only remember the Nixon-goes-to-China part of the story and easily forget the Mao/Zhou-reaching-out-to the-US part. It takes two to tango. At the time, China was facing enormous pressure from the Soviet Union, with millions of soldiers from both sides facing each other across one of the world's longest border and potential nuclear exchanges was always lurking in the background. One of the regular topics among Chinese elites at the time was; how long does it take for the Red Army tank columns to reach Beijing?
Is there even a superficial similarity between the US-China-Russia/Soviet Union triangle relationship in the '70's and that of today? With all the hostilities that the US/West have towards Russia and the world of hurt that the collective west has incurred on Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, how can Russia forget and suddenly forge an alliance with the US? Why does Russia want to turn hostile to a friendly neighbor, its No.1 trading partner by far, the world's largest consumer market, and a rising superpower 10x larger in both economy and population with increasingly growing advanced technologies and join the declining and disgruntled US/West against it?
But don't take my words for it. Read this recent article for a Russian perspective from Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center.
... and, in the concluding paragraph:
I have no idea if this is true but will nonethless share it.
When the initial spread of Covid-19 was detected, sequenced, and identified in China the west accused and lied about China's effort or lack thereof of not closing itself ergo it's citizens from traveling into the outside world which then allowed the world wide spread of the virus. Which were all hilarious and fiction.
But now that China has still maintained it's herculean effort to protect all of it's people from the ravage of Covid-19 the same liars are yet again finding the ridiculous fiction that China is still to blame for loss of tourism revenues. It's maddening to know that regardless of how China conducts itself, so long as it's not under the thumb of the west (no U.S. military bases, not under western dysfunctional Demoncrazy, nor under the control of the plutocrats, and not being legislated to enforce a million genders) China will be seen as an existential enemy. Lol so sad.
solarz
Brigadier
Just as China's Taiwan issues are starting to approach conflict level, we are now seeing war talks on two other fronts: Ukraine and Israel. Coincidence?