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[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Cuba is at 57.5%, also one of the highest in the world percentage-wise

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xi is genociding the deserts.

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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (46 children)

This article is nearly two years old. Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Every single country on Earth except like seven (I only remember the Vatican and Paraguay) acknowledges that Taiwan is a dependent province of the PRC, including the USA and just about all of Europe.

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The unofficial consensus between the KMT/PRC was that Taiwan and China are one country. The NED-funded DPP has been trying to break that status quo, though.

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.

What did the RoC Marine Corps do to you?

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

that's a healthy way to distrust the US and chinese governments i guess

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what's going on with the DPRK

[–] axont@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty bad drought and floods over the past 20 years, and the country is too mountainous to support most effective reforestation strategies. So it's mostly climate change, economic isolation, and only 17% of the land can support forests in the first place. It's not a good time right now.

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