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Fatty

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Yeah, that is the perception that seems to have been been promoted by the Western media the last decade or so.
Just like some Westerners might associate the province of Xinjiang with the genocide of Muslims they might hear New Delhi and think gang rape,due to the prominent reporting of one particularly nasty case by the BBC.

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The UN Secretary General's spokesman also got involved:

The
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stated on 5 March, "I'm not going to comment on the unspeakable comments that were made by the person accused of raping this girl, but I think the secretary-general has spoken very clearly on the need to halt violence against women and on the need for men to get involved in halting violence against women and decrying it loud and clear every time it occurs."


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Still, the rape statistics(number of rape incidents per 100,000 citizen) don't really bear this perception out. India is way down that particular league table

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Some of the "leading" nations in the field:

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Not entirely sure how much store you can put into those figures. Different countries are more or less assiduous about collecting data on rape incidents and- for that matter- there might be different criterion for determining what constitutes rape.

Also, anecdotally there does seem to be a bit of harassment of Western tourists in India and there probably is high underreporting of sexual violence against women there. But there certainly does seem to be a curious discrepancy between the perception and the statistics..
If a woman reports rape in India she is killed by her own family or the police she reports it to rape her again. You may think I’m exaggerating but stories like this are extremely common.
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siegecrossbow

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It’s already too late. Hate or love Xi Jinping I think one thing everyone in the world could agree upon is that he has a long memory and very easily holds a grudge. After Biden admin allowed for so much humiliation right before him taking power for a third term, the best that Yellen and Co could hope for is for China not to sabotage the situation any further.

If anyone still has any doubt keep in mind that during the Two Sessions, China named dropped the US as causing major financial and technological hurdle for the great rejuvenation. In Chinese culture is is very very very rare to name drop another country like that during a major meeting that is well publicized. Even after the Galwan beatings China refused to directly call out the Indians in documentaries related to the incident, opting for “certain country/certain foreign military” instead.

If I were Yellen I’d stop trying to get an audience with Beijing and go for an early retirement in the Cayman Islands.
 

vincent

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If anyone still has any doubt keep in mind that during the Two Sessions, China named dropped the US as causing major financial and technological hurdle for the great rejuvenation. In Chinese culture is is very very very rare to name drop another country like that during a major meeting that is well publicized. Even after the Galwan beatings China refused to directly call out the Indians in documentaries related to the incident, opting for “certain country/certain foreign military” instead.

If I were Yellen I’d stop trying to get an audience with Beijing and go for an early retirement in the Cayman Islands.

Xi Jinping’s speech is basically a call to arms.
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我国发展的外部环境急剧变化,不确定难预料因素显著增多,尤其是以美国为首的西方国家对我实施了全方位的遏制、围堵、打压,给我国发展带来前所未有的挑战。(Western countries led by the US is conducting full spectrum containment, encirclement and suppression of our country, which presents an unprecedented severe challenge to our country's development)

未来一个时期,我们面临的风险挑战只会越来越多、越来越严峻。只有全体人民心往一处想、劲往一处使,同舟共济、众志成城,敢于斗争、善于斗争,才能不断夺取新的更大胜利。(The challenges and risks we face in the near future will only be increased and become more severe. We can overcome the incoming challenges and achieve victories if we are united, not afraid to fight and be willing to fight)
 

measuredingabens

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its k, most biotech "discoveries" are fake so it saved money in the long term to cut them off. the problem of fake biology papers dates back decades.

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Seeing as I'm doing my degree in this field, reproducibility is unfortunately one of the weak parts of biotech research, despite it being one of the fundamental tenets of the scientific method. Dubious practices are much more regular than anyone would like, with much of it attributed to limited funding and the very stiff competition for it. Publish or perish is a real thing, so the pressure is on to write and publish as many papers as feasible to attract funding (as flawed as they may or may not be). If someone in the same field writes a paper on the same discovery before you, you can say goodbye to getting that funding. There is plenty of perverse incentive to either misrepresent and/or doctor results if one is desperate enough for money to fund their research. The problem is structural at this point, so anything short of a complete overhaul of how we fund research won't be curtailing that problem.
 

siegecrossbow

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The intelligence of China discussion among Western conservatives is at the level of an amoeba. You can discuss nothing with these people.


Don’t know if you want to go this route Jordan. If we use HornPub as source then I can prove that there is a massive incest crisis in Western countries where moms, sisters, and cousins are being repeated nailed, some times against their will.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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The intelligence of China discussion among Western conservatives is at the level of an amoeba. You can discuss nothing with these people.

Here's the senile Peterson's tweet. He should just stick to what he knows best and that's crying.

jordan peterson just RTed fetish porn of some white guys with the matrix filter over it because he thought it was a chinese breeding facility
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March 11, 2023
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