There need to be far more attention given to:
1) law and order
2) institutions (especially for common pluralistic benefit)
3) Individual rights...but needs 1 + 2 to happen first
...for this democratic right/expression to really deliver its potential. But look at how all 3 are abused by all...
They are hammer in search of nail, and they will find or manufacture that nail for sake of being the hammer. HK is and was easy necessary one in this endeavour (even at expense of Taiwan wising up quickly even more from it).
Most people just don't realise firsthand or have firsthand experience...
Kind of lost appetite on Indian politics lately. It seems to me revolving door of various repackaged goons and goondas.
If any conversation I can contribute to pops up, I'll share my 2 cents, but others have to pitch in first heh.
CCP at its core is a degenerate organisation. They still print money with one of the tyrant-trilogy of 20th century faces (the other two countries having long abandoned revelry of theirs)....and continue to lord over his portrait in Tianenmen....who's final death count (in just his country)...
In any case, you get down to details on their "argument" , sticking purely to per capita/per person (yes lets forget the total size of population scaling for a while)....and they turn tail inevitably:
https://defencehub.live/threads/broadsheet-saga-tale-of-mega-corruption.4551/page-2#post-47438...
Not me yet (probably later in year when all priority list is done w.r.t Canada).
But my dad (in his mid 60s) has received both his doses of astrazeneca (in India where he is), i.e fully immunized.
He didn't have any secondary effects except a mild soreness in the area of injection.
My mom...
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/biden-admin-okays-proposed-sale-of-six-p-8i-patrol-aircraft-to-india-7297589/
The Biden Administration on Friday notified the Congress of its determination to sell six P-8I patrol aircraft to India for an estimated cost of USD 2.42 billion.
The Defense...
https://tass.com/defense/1284941
MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/.
India will receive the first regiment set of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems by the end of this year, India’s Ambassador to Russia Bala Venkatesh Varma told a briefing on Thursday.
"[The first regiment set will arrive in...