Green energy is a vital component of the export engine that has kept China’s sluggish post-pandemic economy on track. The success of its exports stands in contrast to its failure to significantly boost domestic general consumption, a structural weakness that has persistently vexed leaders.

In 2025, clean-tech exports surpassed $220bn, and they should grow again this year; the world’s largest emitter is now the world’s leading supplier of clean energy technology.

“We tried to head into the small side streets nearby, but the police were blocking many of the exits. They told us, ‘You have to go out that way,’ and pointed us in a direction where there was the most tear gas.”

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In an interview with The North Star, Félix recounts that the first two protests he attended were massive and relatively calm. According to him, about 10,000 people had gathered in Bordeaux at the time. “Toward the end, some people set trash cans on fire […] but I’ve been told that’s relatively normal at the end of a protest.”

The October 17 demonstration, which Léa also joined, was more turbulent, however. The couple had joined an initial gathering at Place de la Victoire that marched toward a larger rally taking place at Place de la Bourse.

However, the heavy use of tear gas dispersed the second rally before it had even officially begun. “We hadn’t even reached Place de la Bourse yet, and there were really a lot of people there. The estimates put the number at at least 50,000 people. But the police were already firing tear gas before the protest had even started,” Félix recounts.

What struck me when I first read about the Gen Z protests happening around the world was how familiar the protesters seemed. A phrase on a poster spotted ++during the protests in Nepal++ — “corruption is sus, stop ghosting democracy” — sounded like something my teenagers might say over dinner.

That’s not a coincidence. These protest movements, in part thanks to the ubiquity of online youth culture, have emerged in ++Indonesia++, ++the Philippines++, Kenya and Peru. Protesters have toppled governments in Nepal and Madagascar. In Morocco, the protests are continuing.

Israeli settlers backed by IDFsoldiers brutally assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday. Witnesses say dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs, sticks, slingshots and guns hurled rocks at Palestinian farmers, set olive trees ablaze and drove people from their fields. Veteran Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, a 64-year-old American, was documenting the attack when settlers began beating her. She suffered stab wounds, a broken rib, four broken vertebrae and a severe hand injury. Levine was wearing a clearly marked press vest and a helmet at the time of the attack.

took it for a typo at first, sorry

so maybe using ‘vassals’ (rather than ‘vessels’) was intended??

A vassal^[1] or liege subject^[2] is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe and elsewhere.

—Wikipedia

Let the sun shine!

birds of a feather clone together?

No, he is El Destructo Gordo

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True Man O’God!