I don’t understand why anyone who doesn’t absolutely need to be in China would go there - and I don’t consider a job requirement to be an absolute need. Yes, the country is beautiful, but the CCP is most definitely not, and they own you while you’re in their territory.
and I don’t consider a job requirement to be an absolute need
Well, I suppose people who don't need to work for a living might struggle to understand the lives and motivations of other people, who, you know, have to take risks and make sacrifices in their lives.
Take it easy. I’m referring to consulate jobs, international business, and such. Usually, if you’re qualified for that, you have other options that don’t require moving to a police state.
Why would someone with a consulate job avoid China, of all places?
Employees of foreign governments, especially in embassies and related posts, have very specific rights under international law. They have a huge amount of leeway compared to tourists, who often can get more than nationals.
Honestly, China is Disneyland compared to a lot of the rest of the planet. I knew personnel who were stationed in the USSR and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, including one woman who got the crap beaten out of her for meeting with the Solidarity people in Poland despite having a diplomatic passport. I’ve also been to even more colorful places myself at the government’s request. International business is the same. Millions of people travel to China every year for business.
No one is going to mistake China for Norway, but it’s also hardly the DPRK. I’d even go to the DPRK just for the hell of it if I could.
I wouldn’t trust the CCP not to pull the same things that happened in Eastern Europe and the USSR, that’s all.
Some cliff notes for those wondering what the fuss is about:
Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the the Chinese Foreign Ministry was quoted calling the plan "extremely selfish and irresponsible" and stated that "The ocean is humanity's common good, not Japan's private sewer"
That's rich, coming from China.
Yeah they launched a bunch of rockets at the ocean not that long ago so they can't like it that much.
Fuck the CCP
When has China dumped radioactive waste with high levels of Strontium-90 and Carbon-14 into the ocean?
Except the waste water doesn't actually have high levels of either of those, as it's been diluted well below the safe minimums before release
Theres no actual science to back up the fears about their handling of this - just your standard "nuclear = bad and scary"
Wait till you guys find out about bananas
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507
Different tanks have different concentrations.
Just because the average is safe doesn't mean each discharge is.
Have a non-pay walled article?
Because nothing in what I can read of that article discounts what I said.
Specifically a non-pay walled article that backs up your assertions that some discharges are above safe levels
Figures on the last page.
Yeah well without a non-pay walled source, I can't verify that
500 Olympic-sized pools
Why do people use football fields and swimming pools as units of measurement.
I can mentally picture an Olympic swimming pool, that's why.
I need to get better at editing myself.
How much is that in giraffes?
Roughly 1651 girraffes, assuming an olympic swimming pool is 2.5 million litres.
I assume it’s to help people visualize volume/distance/size/etc. If an article said “50,000 gallons”, it would be much more precise, but also harder to relate to. When an article says “500 Olympic-sized pools”, it’s significantly easier to picture in my mind.
It’s also worth remembering that this is a newspaper intended for the casual edification of the general public, not a scientific document.
“Blasted”. Oh no what ever will grown adults do about someone on twitter “blasting” them.
It saddens me how much like idiocracy the world has become.
China likes Japanese culture too much to do anything significant about it.
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