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China rejects an interventionist draft resolution targeting Nicaragua at the UN Human Rights Council. "There can't be interference in the affairs of other states using human rights as a pretext." Wow, this is impressive: China may meet its incredibly ambitious solar and wind goals for 2030 five years early. "The national capacity for renewable energy has overtaken coal for the first time in a historic catch-up." https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202304/03/WS642a8e5da31057c47ebb81de.html
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@yogthos This is also great news elsewhere as it means their manufacturing capacity will result in even cheaper technology Solar prices were hovering around $1 per watt and I expect that to be $0.75 or even $0.50/within 5 years According to new research from UNSW Sydney, a dose of the outdoors can improve physical and mental health More dedollarization news, Bloomberg: "Malaysia, China to Discuss ‘Asian Fund’ to Cut US Dollar Dependency" https://archive.ph/ZK21M The UN Human Rights Council just voted on a resolution condemning illegal unilateral sanctions for violating human rights. The only votes in support of the sanctions were from the US and Europe. A modelling study, which the Lancet Planetary Health journal published, found slashing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the rise in Earth’s average temperature to 2C would reduce heat-related deaths in Middle East and North Africa significantly. It said this limit would reduce deaths by 80% compared to a high-emissions scenario. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00045-1/fulltext
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China unveils world's fastest train that travels at 600 km per hour Cuban leader praises work of joint venture with China https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/04/02/cuban-leader-praises-work-of-joint-venture-with-china/ @yogthos
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Vietnam has approved a program to build at least one million social housing apartments by the end of this decade https://en.baochinhphu.vn/govt-chief-approves-program-to-build-one-million-social-housing-apartments-111230403170149439.htm Melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries. a good read regarding how analog computing is starting to make a comeback for certain domains like AI where analog approach is more efficient than digital How Corporate America Subverts Reform to Boost Profits | Corporations use their endless resources to ensure that efforts designed to benefit people enrich those at the very top. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-corporate-america-subverts-reform |
NATO was expressly designed as a workaround of the newly-formed United Nations. The UN was supposed to help facilitate diplomacy, prevent conflicts like the world wars, but the UN gave communist and ‘third world’ countries the right to speak/vote. NATO didn’t have that ‘problem.’