@arstechnica Chinese tend to count nuclear energy as clean energy. Despite disasters potentially causing serious issues, the carbon footprint is still pretty low.
If anything, blame Japan for its extremely bad handling of the Fukushima failure.
@arstechnica I doubt Russia's ability to produce a space nuking platform alone.
While I don't think China has the incentive if Russia won't veto, the abstention do seem interesting. A lot of things happen before voting in the UNSC. My guess is China knew Russia will veto, thought US will also start to deploy nuke satellites once the ban is lifted, proceeded to abstain based on that potential US response to Russian veto.
@arstechnica A reminder that Outer Space Treaty, which bans nukes in space, is still in force. With all nuclear states in that treaty, this draft is going to be a mere reaffirmation. Guess nobody is leaving it soon.
@arstechnica 4 years ago, #China updated their export control laws to effectively block any potential sale of #TikTok.
The only options are to shut down the American subsidiary (maybe continuing service from Europe), and to go to the federal supreme court claiming that the bill violates the First Amendment. On Zhihu most think the former outcome is very likely.
Maybe we can start to bet on the outcome of the East Asian theater of #WorldWar3.
