Dangerous shit man, That's openly interfering with China's domestic policy. Hong Kong is for all intents and purposes part of China. I am for Hong Kong but the US involving themselves openly is calling for straight up declaration of war on China. There's a reason why most countries do not recognize Taiwian, because it would take the piss out of China and almost certainly create a war.

We're fucked bois.

Why does every remark that man belch out have to be reported as news? Surely just playing the clip with the sound of a toilet flushing after is all the publicity it needs?

>>607648
Because he is president of the most powerful country on earth.

>>607648
because of this. what the article says about Iran would extend to China as well

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851702742/trump-vetoes-bill-to-limit-military-powers-against-iran-calling-it-very-insultin

>>605746
>Bringing Oil to Venezuela

Yeahbut, it was "real" Communism...

>>605746
This is pretty fucking based.

>>605928
>Tomahawk-sized holes in them.
This would be even baseder.

>>606008
This. For the US anti-socialism is a religion. They'll even kill you in their crusade for being an anti-western nationalist since it doesn't suit American interests. As long as the US has hegemony, going against them is choosing death. The thing is that the hegemony is collapsing.

>>605946
>>606008
Based. Fuck the CIA

>>605746
Isn't Venezuela the country with the most oil in soil ?

>>605807
Someone didn't read the article. He got 27% of the voter.

Any Democrat shills care to weigh in now?
>>>607641

>>607689
>Can't defend the fact that Republicans are repeat offenders at election fraud so he has to use a whataboutism.
Typical.

>>607745
Election fraud is bad in all cases and you should not selectively condemn based on the perpetrators political affiliation.

>>607753
I'm not the one using it as excuse to mass voter suppression though.

And as microbiologists warned years ago that China’s natural reservoir of SARS-like viruses and the local practice of eating wild animals made the country a probable source of a new viral outbreak, so too was it unsurprising that scientists eventually traced mcr-1’s likely origin to one of China’s many pig farms.

Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials in intensive livestock production is a major force behind the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Farmers buy nearly three-quarters of all antibiotics worldwide, many of which contain the same compounds used to treat sick humans. The drugs keep animals healthy despite crowded living conditions and, because animals expend less energy fighting pathogens, accelerate their growth. Such practices are believed to be widespread in China, which leads the world in pork and chicken meat production. Its aquaculture industry, another large antibiotics consumer, is bigger than those of all other countries combined.

Reliable public figures to make up-to-date international comparisons on antibiotics usage are scarce, but, in 2015, a Chinese researcher put the country’s consumption of the medicines, for both animal and human use, at nearly half the global total. A paper from the same year estimated China’s share at about a quarter of the world’s and predicted its usage would increase rapidly in absolute terms. When looking at antimicrobial resistance in food animals, China and India are the world’s biggest hot spots, according to another study published last year. As such, even though antimicrobial resistance is a global issue, China’s role is crucial, says Thomas van Boeckel, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and a co-author of both studies.

To its credit, the Chinese government has formed an ambitious plan to tackle the issue.

Following the World Health Organization’s launch of its Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in 2015, China has enacted a variety of “aggressive” policies to limit antibiotics consumption, said Zhou Wanqing, an associate at the environmental nongovernmental organization Brighter Green. “The government is aware of the vicious cycle: the more antibiotics used, the worse the resistance, which pushes the growers to use even more antibiotics.”

“Their reaction has been very swift,” van Boeckel told Foreign Policy. But, without a public monitoring system for antibiotics use, which has proved effective in fighting antibiotics abuse in Europe, there is no way to know whether China’s policies are having their stated effect, he said. Evasion of regulations is common in China across most sectors, from construction to medicine, and agriculture is no exception. Enforcement appears inadequate. A survey published in January found that three-quarters of sampled chicken farms continued to use antibiotics that had been placed on the country’s ban list. Against regulations, majorities of farmers were able to buy antibiotics without a prescription and neglected to keep records of their antibiotics use, it found.

Efforts to rein in overuse of antibiotics in Chinese hospitals, which intensified in 2011, have been more successful, Xiao Yonghong, an infectious disease professor at Zhejiang University in eastern China, told Foreign Policy. Government figures for larger hospitals show that antibiotics use, measured per patient-days, dropped 43 percent in just three years. Though, Xiao said, “much still remains to be improved at more basic levels of care” such as at small clinics. Also, other researchers, using a different data set and looking at total usage, arrived at the opposite conclusion: a 40 percent increase between 2011 and 2018.

This divergence from official figures, they write, is hard to explain but could be due to an increase in how many people seek inpatient care at hospitals.

Even though COVID-19 is caused by a virus and thus cannot be treated with antibacterial methods, the global fight against the disease is likely speeding up the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Bacterial infections are common during viral pandemics—the majority of deaths during both the 1918-1919 Spanish flu and 2009 H1N1 pandemics were caused by bacterial pneumonia. To prevent COVID-19 patients catching such secondary infections, overburdened hospitals the world over are administering antibiotics without the usual care or moderation.

To Xiao, the pandemic has a silver lining. “Everyone is reflecting on public health, and how it can be improved,” he said. The outbreak of COVID-19, likely the result of humans getting into close contact with wild animals and disturbing their habitats, is also an argument in favor of “One Health”—the concept, popularized by WHO and other organizations following the H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in the early 2000s, that human health is inextricably linked to the health of all ecosystems. Similarly, Xiao said, the high levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes found in Chinese rivers and lakes as a result of agricultural drug use show that solving the issue of antimicrobial resistance also goes beyond hospitals. One study found several veterinary antibiotics in the urine of Shanghainese schoolchildren.

Bacteria will inevitably continue to develop resistance. “That’s just basic Darwinian evolution,” van Boeckel said. Though pharmaceutical companies have found it hard to recover investments into finding new antibiotics, new treatments will have to be developed to replace current ones. But countries, chief among them China, getting a better grip on their antibiotics use will go a long way. “There are things you can do to reduce antimicrobial resistance level and the most obvious one is to decrease [antibiotics] consumption,” he said. As a top producer and importer of meat, China has enough clout to set the world’s standards for agricultural antibiotics use, van Boeckel said. “What would be a huge game-changer is for China to truly acknowledge and accept that they have to be the leader on this to solve the problem globally.”

The slow-rolling nature of antimicrobial resistance means we can blunt its deadly potential. “We have the time and the opportunity to do something about this,” Xiao said, referring to the global struggle against the phenomenon. “It’s just a matter of whether we will.”

The proposed sale serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting Taiwan’s “continuing efforts to modernise its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability”, the agency said.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China had lodged “solemn representations” with Washington about the planned sale.

China urged the United States to stop all arms sales to, and military ties with, Taiwan to prevent further damage to Sino-U.S. relations, Zhao added.

The U.S. announcement came on the same day Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in for her second term in office, saying she strongly rejecting China’s sovereignty claims. China responded that “reunification” was inevitable and that it would never tolerate Taiwan’s independence.

China has stepped up its military drills near Taiwan since Tsai’s re-election, flying fighter jets into the island’s air space and sailing warships around Taiwan.

China views Tsai as a separatist bent on formal independence for Taiwan. Tsai says Taiwan is an independent state called the Republic of China, its official name, and does not want to be part of the People’s Republic of China governed by Beijing.

18 shabby low-tech torpedoes from the 1990's at 10 million USD each. I hope this is one of the US regimes 'military aid' taxpayer fraud schemes and Taiwan isn't actually paying a cent for that garbage.

>>602899
>Trump asks a dumb question about using disinfectants inside the body
>Unfathomably retarded leftist shill interprets that as Trump telling people to inject bleach

Consider suicide

bump

1) UV therapy does not work.

2) Trump deserves widespread mockery for being so scientifically illiterate and yet pushing stupid shit on people.

3) This same article says, "Yes, there has been a significant rise in calls to poison control centers concerning exposure to bleach, disinfectants, and also hand sanitizer—something we reported on following Trump's remarks." That means Trump done fucked up and you're so desperate for his cock that you leapt at the chance to defend him.

I don't think Trump meant anything malicious. He's just not very intelligent outside of deal-making. The problem is how he believes anything he says is 100% true – and so do yokels like OP.

>>602868
Yes, but it's mostly reflective at this point. Trump supporters will defend literally anything he does, especially if anyone calls Trump out on his bullshit.

>>607638
It troubles me how dumb and inflexible he is. He is taking an ineffective drug now because he convinced himself it was magic. Then he brags about being retarded. Weird.

>>605947
>the fucking daily mail
y'all realize this is a middle market tabloid, right? You might as well be posting the National Enquirer.

Another fucking savage that should've been send back to his shithole country

>>607551
>non-tabloid never report on minority crimes
>only tabloids do
>therefore minority crime doesn't exist
good job on confirming your own world view by having it filtered by the jew, you dumb slave.

>>607560
Did I say that non-tabloids don't report minority crimes?

No?

Is that some shit you made up?

Yes?

Okay, cool. We've successfully established that you're a dumb motherfucker.

>>606579
Ban men from owning weapons.
Put them in concentration camps.
Mine them for sperm.

Lot of ways a society could continue to spin in a fucked up fictional way going by the numbers.

>>607518
haha funny meme bootlicker

>>607520
>pro china
>not a bootlicker
lol

>>607523
bitch please at least china brings prosperity and money to the world
what had the usa ever provided besides bombs and suffer ?

>>607600
>Moving the goal posts.

>>607600
China builds and protects, America destroys and massacres. China values order, America worships chaos. China creates life, America brings death. It's the duality of things. Good and evil. God and Satan. It's all written in the bible. The final battle is near. Led by god, the righteous will wipe out the monsters and demons. When all the Americans are exterminated, their vile temples and palaces burned to the ground, humanity can finally turn Earth into paradise and live in peace and harmony ever after. So it stands written in the book of books.

>>599583
If you count foreign enemies and billionaires as indie, then sure I suppose

To those complicate in the media you do realize who you work for want you dead and are willing to throw you under the bus. Why are there so many shill articles if there isn’t something actually afoot?

>>599275
Duane sounds like the most based grandpa in existence

>>603042
My guess is he'll tout two major points: 1) China lied/downplayed about the actual impact of the coronavirus (which they did tbf) and hope people forget that he and other government officials downplayed the impact of the virus as well, and then 2) subtly pay lip to conspiracy theories that the virus was created by a Chinese lab in order to make sure the nutjobs and schizos are firmly in his pocket.

>>599613
I thought you knew this board was just a
deathmatch between Russian and Chinese disinformation bots

>>606607
Honestly, at this point Biden just has get dirty in the debates against Trump and just call Trump a fucking idiot for doing what he's done in the past few months.
>you fucked this country up by not making the virus priority number one
>you have killed a hundred thousand Americans
>you have ruined the economy
Then point to South Korea for a place that has handled this pandemic greatly because they actually listened to officials and put social distancing in place almost instantly. They have never even locked down, they just upped testing and vector tracing.

>>607625
>They have never even locked down
The entire country, but if I remember correctly they locked down that one city with the mega church retards

>>605318
>>605342
>>605345
Get a load of these tinfoilfags

>>605310
Natural selection at its finest. Let the stupid die off.

>>605310
US-funded antivaccer trash.

>>606741
>US-funded antivaccer trash.
As an American, I actually wouldn't be surprised.

>>606736
I don't see a lot of septuagenarians in the crowd.

>>607621
ns who favor COVID-19 restrictions. Among those who support stay-at-home orders, close to 7 in 10 across party lines approve of their state government’s response.

But Americans who oppose stay-at-home orders — most of whom are Republican — are far more negative in their assessments, with 56% saying they disapprove of how state governments are handling the outbreak.

— Stay-at-home orders and other virus restrictions are still supported by majorities of Americans. But there’s been a modest dip in support over the past month, concentrated particularly among Republicans. Just 45% of Republicans now say they favor stay-at-home orders, while about as many (41%) are opposed. In April, 70% of Republicans expressed support. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats are in favor, down from 91% last month.

— Partisans also diverge significantly over the necessary conditions for lifting restrictions in their area, though there is agreement that people exposed to the virus must isolate themselves if restrictions are to be lifted. Eighty-seven percent of Democrats and 68% of Republicans describe this as essential.

But while majorities of Democrats think of many other things as essential for reopening, fewer than half of Republicans describe any other condition asked about in the poll that way. That includes requiring people to wear masks when around others outside of their homes, to keep six feet apart in most places and to have their temperature checked before entering businesses or crowded places.

— There’s also a significant partisan gap over the importance of a vaccine: 56% of Democrats, but just 36% of Republicans, say a vaccine available to the public is essential before restrictions can be lifted.

___

>>606612
People who vehemently fight for an ideology hold the misguided belief they'll be part of the upper classes in whatever system said ideology puts in place
They think unwavering zealotry might earn them a better spot

>South Korea never even went into lockdown because they were prepared with medical infrastructure for a pandemic
>Trump ignored the previous administration's recommendations and now the country is getting fucked every which way possible
It's pottery. Now Republicans somehow find a way to make Trump blameless by saying it's a DNC conspiracy.

long live trump and the trump dynasty

>>606991
It's not a conspiracy. Democrat led states have been quite open about sending infected people to nursing homes.

>>603603
won't happen, too busy making Tik Tok videos and the curb is flattened

>>607270
"young kids today are just lazy!"
Have you tried pulling yourselves up your bootstraps?

how about hitting the streets looking for a job like I did when I was your age? Remember to go in personally to ask for a job, and call back multiple times!

Loyalty and hardwork! that's all you need to move up in the world! If you're willing to work hard, OF COURSE they'll train you and pay for it too! That's what they did when I went in, if you're loyal they'll go to the ends of the world for you!

And fuck unions, all they do is make problems and ruin things for everyone. Shutting down factories because of small shit because "this cart is 1 foot too far away!" and making you pay a WHOLE FIVE DOLLARS a week! Its bullshit!
We don't need unions, the company can decide just fine what we need

>>607304
Hmm.
You must have shit prospects in life and be a pretty dumb/unmotivated/unintelligible human

its gonna be may 21 in less than an hour and the totals predicted by the computer model are off by a lot. familiar story. computer modeling is a pseudoscience.

the original models actually had over 2+ million US deaths. based on 2+ million we shut down the country. 100k or even 200k is better than the original predictions

dubs for yes

Forest fires

Conservationists are concerned that the increased deforestation they are seeing in lockdown will lead to even bigger forest fires during Brazil’s dry season than were seen last year. Forest fires in the Amazon generally occur during the dry season when people employ a slash and burn method to turn forest into agriculture land. In 2019, Brazil’s forest fires increased by 84% compared with 2018. Smoke from the fires led to a public health alert, causing respiratory illnesses in people living in nearby cities.

Many of Brazil’s hospitals are already overloaded as they try to cope with cases of Covid-19. In early May, the country was declared the new global epicenter of coronavirus.

“It’s already a nightmare, but it’s going to be a triple nightmare,” says Alencar.

Neighbouring Colombia has already seen an uptick in forest fires in the first months of 2020. In March, the country registered 12,953 hot points – thermal anomalies that indicate higher risk of forest fire – in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, according to the Amazon Institute for Scientific Research, SINCHI. This is almost three times more than the 4,691 hot spots indicated last year during the same month. While hotspots don’t necessarily turn into fires, they are a close indicator; scientists say 93% of registered hot points are later confirmed as forest fires.

Miguel Pacheco, natural resources and livelihoods coordinator with WWF-Colombia, says quarantine measures have not been the cause of this increase in hotspots, but they could exacerbate the problem. Since Colombia went into lockdown in late March, monitoring flights by the armed forces that normally circle the region have significantly reduced. This could allow armed groups to take advantage of this lack of environmental control and continue to clear the area for cattle, coca plantation or other crops, as long as these quarantine measures persist, he says.

Environmental authorities also reported an increase in illegal logging, wild animal trafficking and poaching of large cats since quarantine began, says Pacheco.

In Colombia, lockdown poses the next in a long line of social changes that have fuelled deforestation. The destruction of rainforest has been a major concern since 2016, when the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government signed a peace agreement. When the guerrillas demobilised from their holding areas in the jungle, it left the regions open to exploitation. In many areas, that meant armed groups and other organised crime cleared the forest for cattle and pasture land, particularly the Amazon states of Caqueta, Meta and Guaviare, some of the most affected.

The country’s lockdown has brought to a halt all post-conflict development and conservation programmes with communities in these remote jungle regions, most of which also lack access to schools, hospitals or other public services. This has created another vacuum of other forest monitoring bodies like NGOs and government institutions.

Deforestation does not necessarily end in the jungle. It can also happen in the centers where economic decisions are made – Carolina Gil

“Everything is kind of on standby right now, and I’m sure that this will be reflected later on when the data reveals what actually happened in these territories,” says Carolina Gil, north-west Amazon regional director with the Amazon Conservation Team in Colombia, who has been continuing her work from her home in Bogota during lockdown. Gil says even before lockdown, she received reports that park rangers in the Amazon national parks and protected areas had been receiving death threats from armed groups, warning them to leave their posts.

The way back

The solution to the ongoing deforestation and illicit activities is not so easy, says Gil. It involves better forest monitoring by governments, a crackdown on organised crime, and more programmes developed to understand and support communities in the rainforest. It also involves people in cities and overseas, helping them to understand the role they play in the deforestation of tropical forests, she says, by reflecting on how their consumer habits – from beef to cocaine – could be supporting it.

“We have to have a bit more judicious and rigorous reflections about deforestation, which does not necessarily end in the jungle. It can also happen in the centers where economic decisions are made,” says Gil.

In the long term, conservationists agree that the solution to saving the world’s tropical forests involves working closely with local communities, empowering them to be active conservationists in their own territories.

In some cases, this includes supporting traditional indigenous lifestyles of living with nature. In others, it involves developing sustainable alternative revenue streams that go beyond ecotourism projects. The latter has become a popular conservation strategy over the years, but, as the current global health and economic crisis indicates, is not always reliable, says Troeng. One option, he says, is for governments to pay local communities to work as forest rangers, take on reforestation projects, or work with them to develop sustainable forest products, like honey or bamboo harvesting.

In Colombia, Pachecho says deforestation hot spots reduced by up to 70% in 2018, and have stayed low, in areas where local communities have been involved in forest and landscape management programmes in the Amazon states of Guaviare and Caqueta.

But in the short term, it’s important that governments make tropical forest areas a priority, and remain focused on enforcement activities, says Troeng. He cites two examples where this is happening. In the Philippines, after learning about increased illegal logging, wildlife trade and fishing in the country, the government stated publicly that it would not tolerate such activities and began to crack down on these crimes. In Peru, the agency that monitors protected areas is still in the field, and conducting patrols and enforcing environmental regulations when necessary, despite Covid-19, which is “encouraging”, Troeng says.

It’s also important for decision makers globally to be aware of these dynamics moving forward, as they begin to think about investing resources to kickstart the economy again. “I think there’s definitely an opportunity,” he says. “Let’s figure out how we can reverse these negative trends because we’re going to need it in the battle against climate change.”

This ramped-up deforestation is not likely to go away when lockdown is lifted; the same economic pressures will still be there, as well as the opportunities to exploit the rainforest. Illegal economies often work faster than governments’ and NGOs’ ability to formalise and implement conservation strategies, says Gil. Of course, the longer these illegal activities are left to expand in tropical forest areas, the harder it will be to reverse the damages to these ecosystems and rainforest communities. This increases the urgency to think about new ways to tackle deforestation, both in the tropics and abroad.

>>607485
>See lockdown
>Rush to illegal activities
>Nobody sees
>????
>Profit

>>607229
>rethink supply chains and where they make and sell goods
Can we just fix the ludicrous employment laws here already?

The upside is that India probably won't be the source of a pandemic anytime soon because people who are susceptible to illness (or rats) die as infants, but the downside is that any product that is exported from India is guaranteed to contain at least 15% human feces by volume.

>>607395
Ha

>>607395
This but unironically.

Isn't this just an advertisement for fiverr?