So Israel will be out of water soon, that sucks for them I guess.

It entirely depends on the couple and region, 老公 (basically husband, most commonly heard between long time girlfriends to their boyfriends) is common enough to count, but 情人 can and is also used, which is closer to ‘lover’ but is used for any type of close intimate relationship including cishet married couples.

The regional poverty has dropped. Drastically. Unlike the US, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Does more work need to be done? Sure. But food insecurity isn’t a thing in China. Ever. You are guaranteed income, land, food, and farming supplies if you live in a rural area. Is it a lot compared to the top of the top? No, not really. But it’s infinitely better to be poor in China than in the US. Every poor rural Chinese person is either a land holder or is in the household of a land holder. Tax free as well under specific income thresh holds.

Remember they are taking a society that 35 years ago was the poorest and most populated country on Earth and have so far raised median living standards above all of their neighbors. There is of course more to go, because most of the country has yet to be industrialized. Hence the ‘Ghost Cities’

Ah yes, the chinese propaganda of 209 countries and the UN all being in agreement.

Hey, tell that to the Guardian, not me. Its your propaganda source funded by Rothschilds.

The Guardian currently believes Israel is the victim, Iranian drones are coming for UK citizens, and that Donald Trump is a trusthworthy source of information.

Which you know about how? From the same state-sponsored propaganda companies?

Do people actually believe this nonsense or are we all in agreement that the propaganda mill has become satire of itself lately?

And let’s live in the alternate reality you’re talking about for a minute

We’ve been in reality for quite a bit.

Can two straight people get married in China with no intention of procreation?

It’d be really, really weird culturally and a huge risk most aren’t willing to take. Also if you’re a straight foreigner marrying a chinese national your application will almost certainly be denied if you state you’re not willing to have kids, since that’ll be seen as a fake marriage trying to gain Chinese spousal residency.

Can two gay people get married if they’re planning to adopt?

Since they can enter into a mutual guardianship and adopt yes? You people get tripped up on the word ‘Marriage’ way too much. A rephrasing would be can two gay people cohabitate, share full financial resources, get tax breaks, and adopt? Sure. Can they get ‘married’? No. The difference is entirely without substance at this point, but because Stalin was so incredibly anti-gay, we’re still suffering through the lasting ‘but that’s not the right way’ nonsense cultural war he started so you can’t call it marriage.

Can they even adopt?

Yes.

Come on man, I get being wrong, but don’t double down on it.

I live here half the year, dumbass. You are objectively the incorrect one, in anything you say about China.

Nope Guardianship is available country-wide (I can’t find an english language document that goes into more recent updates which allow property and tax breaks.) Beijing, Hong Kong, and the entire province of Taiwan all recognize marriages from outside of china though, which is where that gets confused.

Unfortunately the overall chinese public isn’t really up to voting for more explicitly stated parity of rights due to a lack of educational push in that direction, which is compounded by the general public’s lack of interest, and so on.

It’s usually 5-10 years depending on country, though almost all countries allow you to file for an early judicial declaration of death to potentially speed things up.

Though even then don’t really count on life insurance, which almost always has separate clauses for the type of death which would be impossible to prove if there’s no body. Extremely few insurance types pay out for missing people, since it’s a legal and PR nightmare for the company if that person shows up again.

Liberals keep the machine fed, and when threatened always hand the keys over to fascists. Every single fascist dictatorship in world history was created by liberals. It’s actually incredible the track record liberals have.

Liberalism should have been dead the second they gave Hitler power in order to fight the communists (aka actual working class people that found solidarity).

I’d rather live in a poorly maintained commie block with intentional 15 minute city design than step foot in literally any single family home.

No, they can just legally join in partnership and have all of the same government incentives as married people… They just don’t call it marriage since marriage is for incentivizing procreation.

Given Ukraine’s arguments to join the EU, yes, bordering Russia is the west. I also never suggested you did live in the US, I simply listed four capitalist dictatorships.

I already addressed this but good try little buddy. I hope they’re giving you overtime pay.

Except it’s not. The reason the methheads do it is because they know they can still get food and they get meth instead. If they just used the food stamps for food they’d have an incredible excess. The reason people buy the half priced food is because that frees up money for the other bills imposed on them by private companies. That’s not a food crisis, there’s not a lack of food.

In this story not only is there not a lack of food, people are paying MORE MONEY in order to eat dog than other meats. Pork is cheaper than dog everywhere both are sold, which for pork is the entire country. The dog was sold to a restaurant, which brings UP THE PRICE OF FOOD. The dog wasn’t stolen to be eaten out of need, which the thief would have just done themselves.

Alternative story with the same cause and effect without the western attachment to a specific livestock as a pet: Celebrity pet Ayam Cemani Chicken stolen and sold to restaruant.

Hey, no predicting the BBC article headline for this story! That’s cheating!

Russia, being a generic capitalist dictatorship like the US, UK, or Ukraine, at least the leaders thereof, should be annihilated and its people forcibly reeducated so the civilized world can start to heal and advance.

I don’t know why your owners think people support Russia if they support China or NK, they just don’t support Ukraine. Fascist infighting will always be equally laughed at and encouraged.

But since we’re abandoning the thread entirely just so you can feel better about believing your owners propaganda without a second of critical thought, this is where this thread ends. Hope you get everything you wish on others in life.

Because it’s not relevant to this or any other discussion and we’ll never agree on anything related to North Korea if you cannot even accept easily verifiable facts that go against your owners’ narrative on China.