Japan's EEZ only gives Japan rights for resource exploitation and whatnot. For the purposes of this issue, it's international waters.
Though, Western media has a tendency of referring to disputed waters as "international" or belonging to whichever country is more friendly to the US.
I always note that they're unwilling to show a map of where these incidents occur.
Odd, that.
Hamas commander visiting his family? That makes his family all Hamas. His family talks with other people? They're now Hamas, too.
So on and so forth until you can justify bombing anything that moves.
China doesn't have much domestic O&G supply and nuclear reactors are so expensive they might as well use them for base load. You play the hand you're dealt.
Cuba: LGBTQ rights enshrined in law
America: "don't say gay"
China building out future coal capacity is more or less independent from expected future coal consumption.
That sounds like a crazy claim, so let me clarify: China is actively shrinking coal power plant utilization. The only reason, then, to build more capacity is to better manage peak loads. If you were following the rolling blackouts, you'd know that these are a huge problem in China in the summers.
So... Yeah, the first-order data itself isn't great, but the second-order data tells us that coal isn't a first class citizen anymore.
Biden is pandering to Americans by being confrontational, and Xi is pandering to the world by being collaborative?
And even though many plants were producing more last year to compensate for the decline in hydropower output, the average utilisation rate inched down to 52.4%
This past year, China couldn't run their hydro at peak capacity because of a drought. That's why fossil fuel consumption went up. It's not exactly rocket science. China will deploy more solar capacity this year than the entire US has done... Ever. Because of that (and the massive EV transition), China is expected to hit peak oil this year and peak coal next year.
Meanwhile, US fossil fuel-based energy production is growing YoY at a faster rate than China's coal consumption is - it's just that the US is replacing coal with natural gas... And it's very VERY iffy as to whether natural gas is actually better than coal.
Then, I guess, the natural question is: does the status quo government have the right to suppress revolution (within means?)
I'm split on political activism with civilian casualties. On one hand, civilians don't deserve to die, right? On the other hand, history shows that successful political movements almost invariantly have civilian casualties: the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolutions, the American revolution, the French revolution...
Are civilians responsible for the actions of their government and country?
Should it be condemned, or should the dead be given their rights but with the understanding of the right to revolution?
More austerity, I'm sure that'll fix things.
Who's causing this death zone, Mr. WHO? Did they find they ever find that supposed Hamas base?