China can unite with Taiwan tomorrow if they want to peacefully.
It's been done before. Look how East and West Germany did it. Overnight.
All China has to do is be East Germany and let Taiwan be West Germany and it will be sorted. But obviously they don't want that because being one country isn't their main goal.
It's the system that is the issue. Without checks and balances if it wasn't Xi it would just be another guy with a different name.
I believe Deng Xiaoping had two successors lined up last being Hi Jintao, so a dictator was always going to seize power when xi came on.
So you can replace until Xi showed up with until anyone showed up that term.
So if small businesses aren't what you call producing anything of value then what would you consider would be something that does produce something of value? Out of curiosity.
Because those small businesses are providing services to the community/other businesses which wouldn't be able to function without them. That's not the case with the censorship pencil pushers the businesses there would be able to function better without the extra layer of bureaucracy.
And big 4 accounting and investment banking is required, they fill a market in outsourcing by providing expertise where it doesn't make sense for every company to have a full time employee on it. Good for short term projects the places I worked in all use them. Investment banking well you have to spend money to make money so yes they're providing value by providing the investment for other businesses to grow.
Well let's see, I don't know because I don't live there. Not everyone/everything lives in/revolves around America.
In any case I'll bite then. Everyone I know who's in business degrees are of minimum big 4 or in an investment bank at a minimum, the smarter ones have their own small business.
Are you seriously saying those are less productive than someone who censors information and makes it harder for people to conduct business?
And to your second point the overproduction of housing is two fold, firstly it's one of the very few investable resources there and second the local government needed to sell the housing to raise taxes and needed to build despite demand or lack of due to keeping people in a job.
Are you hosting it through a provider such as AWS or Azure? That might be why. I had no issues when setting it up on my own.
I have 2x ISPS and through that multiple raspberry pis. Set up docker, then you can set up multiple VPNs (e.g. OpenVPN which I used just before pandemic) so after 2017. It always worked but these days I would also esim it - they can't block roaming mobile due to the way roaming works and the travel Sim prices are quite competitive these days.
Tldr no issues hosting on personal internet rather than through a cloud provider.
Example ones I use, simple to set up via docker files.
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/openvpn-as https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/wireguard
For some unknown reason the parties are swapped in NSW.
For example LNP in NSW would bring in policies that the Labor party would bring in other states, whereas the opposite is true for NSW Labor.
NSW LNP had very good policies like the electric vehicle policy, electric vehicle charging grants, they are the party of infrastructure with the westconnex and metro projects up, Parramatta light rail.
Whereas Chris Minns and Labor I'd actually compare Minns with the onion eater of all people. Very good at cancelling projects because he didn't think of it first and provides no policies or thoughts of his own.
Wanted to cancel the metro, whilst providing nothing in replacement (only saved because the project is too far to be cancelled), too scared to do anything in regards to housing policy, no pill testing is the latest one. Cancelled the ev grants. In fact I'm not sure of anything that they've done through their own policies since they came in. Hopefully an one term government because they seriously lack vision.
It might dissuade people from buying an iPhone or computer every year. So much stuff is thrown away prematurely.
They are own goaling their economy with these counter productive pencil pusher jobs that provide zero or negative input to the economy.
Real estate crisis, reduction of jobs especially in the younger population, lack of investment from overseas because of zero covid for too long forcing companies to move supply chains and that's before picking a fight with everyone causing uncertainty which makes it less investable.
Cutting down the "private" sector which provided the majority of the jobs because that would threaten pooh bear.
It'll make China weaker in the long run, but the people in charge won't care, they'll be long dead before then. All the people in the top powers are all multi billionaires, even if they lost 95 percent of their wealth they would still live extremely comfortably.
As for the general populace, I like to use the Kim Jong Un anology - a fat man within a nation of skinny men. Not really of importance to the ruling elite.
I jumped from boost for Reddit to sync for Lemmy. No regrets loving it.
Edit: just realised boost for lemmy is available now too
Funny they're all very patriotic when it comes to these things. However when asked if they personally want to go to war...well, not so patriotic when you have to put your life on the line.
Her mistake was to do it in a Muslim country. I have a Muslim friend you wouldn't even know if they didn't tell you.
Outdrinks everyone, sometimes eats pork but rarely. But that's because they only get pub food, according to him food just takes up space that can otherwise be occupied by beer/vodka/gin/burbon. Noone else I know Muslim or not goes to this extreme, it can't possibly be good for their liver.
He's at least smart enough not to do this in a Muslim country.
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Windows 10 isn't even close to end of support.
If enterprise users haven't moved over then individual users don't need to.
I will move over before support finishes but make no mistake that'll be because I'm forced to due to security reasons and not because I want to.
My windows 10 enterprise has been running flawlessly.