China and other Asia-Pacific countries that are affected by the wastewater discharge can collaborate to enact sanctions against the relevant Japanese government officials, institutions and companies.
Edit: Also, slightly off-topic, but the 3.4 billion yen is paid for by TEPCO — the company responsible for the discharge — while the 70.1 billion yen is paid for by the government. Once, again—the short-term, narrow-mindedness of neoliberalism reveals its true nature.
BRICS+ is a consequence of the general secular trend away from US-led Western unipolarity, particularly financial dominance; ultimately, into socialism. I view opponents of this trend as people in row boats sailing directly into a world-consuming tsunami in a futile attempt to stop it.
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I thought that the controversy was because the Fukushima wastewater made contact with the exposed core of the nuclear plant. This introduced — not only more dangerous isotopes — but also greater amounts of it, compared to regular wastewater.
US infrastructure is, like 50 years, behind.
Probably because BRICS knows that France has no intention on furthering the goals of the organization.
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I usually curl up into a ball and think of big boobs.
Do you believe, then, that China would adopt foreign policy similar to the Soviet Union? And could even create an international version of the Warsaw Pact, that is an economic and military alliance between socialist states?
No, that won’t happen. China has a strict policy of non-interventionism and non-alliance. China has consistently condemned the formation of small, exclusive blocs, like the G7, and the advent of a new Cold War. What you can expect is China strengthening relations with the Global Majority by providing assistance in the development of their own productive forces, rather than simply existing as raw material exporters; for example, China committed itself to enhancing long-term China-Africa relations at the recent BRICS summit meeting, and also pledged support to Cuba’s national sovereignty and for the embargo to end. That is internationalism of the 21st century.
Additional insight: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/11b4qea/why_doesnt_china_fund_revolutions_in_the_global/
The modern, neoliberal variant of feudalism: neo-feudalism.
Western propaganda is just really lazy, nowadays. No doubt that it’s a symptom of neoliberalism-induced brain rot.
I don’t think that we disagree. Because, for the reasons that you have provided, competition will produce almost-indestructible monopolies as a natural consequence, and those monopolies have a tendency to use their extensive power to destroy and buy out potential competitors and seek for quick, easy ways to accumulate wealth; notably, through rentier capitalism.
This is literally what’s happening right now; at least, in the US.
“Competition is good because it leads to cheaper prices for consumers”, doesn’t really work since it neglects the union of the state and monopolies to artificially charge higher prices for items of the same - even worse quality; while hindering competition that has the potential to change the status quo.
I mean—the US is trying to prevent the world from cooperating with China, Russia and other major economies because they know that they are incapable of competing due to their decades-long crusade of neoliberalism. Another example is the fossil fuel industry stalling for time against the wave of the renewable energy era; or the automobile industry lobbying against efficient public transportation.
The point is that the major neoliberal powers don’t want competition to exist; they just want rent-seeking sectors that can earn them a treasure trove of money as fast as possible.
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Reactionaries understand China better than ultras—pathetic!