Readit NewsI see dictatorship as monarchy in disguise. China's leadership as observed are not passed down within a singular family or families and the succession of which have not observed militarial coup. If the dictator can't have his/hers own blood-heir to take over, where is the dicatorship in this?
Then we can’t know if a country was a dictatorship ship until a ruler dies. Also, all countries with despots ousted and replaced by others, disqualifies as dictatorships.
I don’t like your definition. I’d rather look for rule of law and signs of democracy. Both of which are very scarce in China.
As an example, I have contact dermatitis (red rashes, itchy) when I wear leather watches. If the watch has a plastic band or metal band, then it's fine. But leather always does it for me.
Part of me is thinking: is this because it's made from a mammal's skin?
But another part of me is really thinking: am I taking this too far? Maybe it's something else?
The worst thing is there's no doctors that would confirm my hypothesis. Reading online the symptoms of people who have this type of allergy is very different (people always list irritated bowel or skin rashes after eating meat), whereas for me when I eat beef (or even just soup made by using beef bones), it's actually: hard to breathe, my nose runs constantly (and effusively! - I am always amazed at the volume of snot that I can produce during the allergic times)
I have this reaction with other types of meat as well, but chicken is fine. It made me think a lot about what I eat.
Since the reaction has been mild, I've been adventurous at times, when I really craved steaks. My doctor hearing about it afterwards was aghast: she said I should never, ever do that again and I might die.
And really the child in me is still thinking: is this overblown? Would I really die from it?
It's so frustrating not knowing -exactly- what can I do or not do. It either goes from: you're going to die, to OK pop these Desloratadine pills and you're going to be fine, to "I don't think it's allergies, you have -X disease-"
There were even more interesting things like the new Elbtunnel in Hamburg having massive blocks of concrete above all entrances. The girders holding those blocks were intended to be cut by explosive charges drop the blocks, blocking the tunnel.
according to this:
Survival rate first class men and women: 62% Survival rate women, steerage: 49%
So clearly, it was better to be rich than female.
At least the iPods are rather small and the phone fits in the pocket.
Many of those despots have every intent and actions that we have observed to have their heirs assume office, only that it was stopped. It's about that they have that power in their form of government where they make all the calls, not them actually achiving it.
On the other hand, many of Xi's predecessors are well-alive, well, two of them, if they are/were dicators, what is Xi? There are three dictators at different times in China, with one in the office and the other two well and alive? I doubt dictatorship would be an accurate account for what's really going on.