Want to see shit really hit the fan? Imagine if Taiwan applied for NATO membership. They are already recognized by most countries as an independent entity and I assume are aligned with many Western goals since they conduct joint military exercises with the US, but China would go crazy over attempts at NATO membership.
Makes me wonder if there are are any rules to prevent acceptance if a country is attacked because of asking to join? Like I know Ukraine can’t join right now because they’re already at war (despite whatever Russia wants to call it), but I think Taiwan is not officially at war with anyone.
Because of the Chinese Civil War (which technically never ended), both the government of Taiwan (under the name “Republic of China”) and Beijing (under the name “People’s Republic of China” claim to be the ‘real China’. At some point in time, most people recognized the Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, however, as the situation stagnated and the relevance of China became more important, most countries now recognize the People’s Republic of China as the legitimate government of China.
As for the NATO question - no, no such rule exists and nobody would want such a rule because it is a defence pact.
Seems like a lot of shitty countries are trying to make land-grabs all at once, with the goal being to wipe out the existing population. I figure it’s only a matter of time before China starts trying to commit genocide on Taiwan, but Russia and Israel have already jumped into that pool.
I wonder if this is a matter of countries refusing to choose a side (by not recognizing new countries), or if they ARE choosing to side with the aggressive countries?
Depends on what interests are linked to the sides.
In the case of Taiwan, the PRC is the main worldwide producer of cheap goods, so nobody wants to antagonize them, but at the same time many countries have interests in outsourcing and importing from Taiwan, so they end up in a “low-key recognize” situation.
In other cases… some countries have a direct strategic interest in one side, some have economic relations with one side but not the other, and others just don’t care.
Christ, well that’s not surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less horrific. As you mentioned several times in the quotes, the UN is meeting with the Taliban this Sunday to discuss Afghanistan as a whole, and the Taliban has demanded that no Afghani women be present for this meeting. This report really calls into question the point of the meeting. If the Taliban are treating Afghani women this way, and the Taliban deny that they are even arresting women for “bad hijab”, then what is there to even talk about?
Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don’t want another 2016 situation. We don’t have good options, only least bad ones.
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Click here to see the summaryTeenage girls and young women arrested by the Taliban for wearing “bad hijab” say they have been subjected to sexual violence and assault in detention. In one case, a woman’s body was allegedly found in a canal a few weeks after she had been taken into custody by Taliban militants, with a source close to her family saying she had been sexually abused before her death. Now the girls and young women are coming forward to report that they also faced sexual violence and abuse by the Taliban police, with devastating consequences. Marina Sadat had been on her way to the Farabi Institute of Health Sciences, where she was studying midwifery, the only educational option available for women in the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Twenty-two days later, people who know her family say her battered body was found inside a sack in a canal in Kabul’s Paghman district. After condemnation in Afghanistan and abroad, Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, later denied that arrests over “bad hijab” had taken place. — Saved 81% of original text.
The opposition says the reforms, which among other things criminalize contempt of parliament by government officials, are needed to bring more accountability, but the DPP says they were forced through without proper discussion.
Checks for politicians, please. “They forced us” appeals to the sympathy, but the logical conclusion is NOT “we remove it”. In short, it’s a bad reasoning.
At the very beginning of learning about Assange, over many years, I was conflicted. I didn’t know how to process his actions against the legal system (USA or otherwise).
I believe, deep inside my self, that he should be free and has done a great service to humanity.
I, also, believe that I will learn more about his service as time goes by.
There is an allegation about him helping/inciting/collaborating/conspiring with Manning to break a password that would allow them to access information requiring a higher security clearance.
It’s a serious accusation, and it’s compounded by suspicions of him favoring Russia in his filtering of leak releases, but it’s still crazy the amount of time he’s been not-free because of something he hasn’t been tried or found guilty of.
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Click here to see the summarySami Barhoum, a correspondent for TRT Arabia, said, “My cameraman and I were on an assignment … we were directly hit by an artillery shell.” The news channel’s crew was attacked in April in Nuseirat refugee camp. Earlier this year, Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif said, “We were directly targeted by surveillance drones” in an attack while working in the Tel al-Zaatar area of northern Gaza. A New York Times investigation published in March showed that, by the end of 2023, Israel had deployed facial recognition software in Gaza, collecting and cataloging the faces of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent. Palestinian journalists, besieged alongside all Gazans, have been key in informing the world about what’s happening in the war, especially given Israel’s ban on foreign media entering the Gaza Strip. Roshdi al-Sarraj, a journalist who ran an independent media company that did work for the BBC and Le Monde, wrote on October 13 on Facebook that he intended to defy an Israeli army order to evacuate Gaza City. With additional reporting by Ethar AlAzem of ARIJ; Léa Peruchon and Mariana Abreu of Forbidden Stories; Frederik Obemeyer of Paper Trail Media; and Madjid Zerrouky of Le Monde. — Saved 91% of original text.
As @leetnewb says, nothing out of the extraordinary here. I think the issue is that it’s Boeing. It seems quite fashionable to find fault with them lately. Sometimes justifiably so. Maybe not in this case though unless we see multiple instances of the same model and fault.
More precisely, he's accepted a plea bargain that would guarantee immediate release; he still needs approval from a judge on the 26th before he's officially home free. He's currently heading for (or at) some US territory that's closer to China and Australia.
Yeah, this isn’t going to get any easier. Right now KSA is mostly blaming “unauthorized” pilgrims, saying that they did not have any air conditioned hotel rooms to escape the heat in, but I think given the very wide range of reported countries affected, they are just minimizing anger.
The Middle East is going to get more and more dangerously hot, and I’m worried this is going to start being more normal during Hajj.
There are, reportedly, many more making the pilgrimage without the permit to be authorized than previously…
And what’s the answer why they aren’t prepared for people who break their rules? Couldn’t be that those permits cost hella money for those people, and the price isn’t exactly a “halal” thing… could it?
Taking one right out of the Vatican’s earlier edition of the playbook I see.
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