The education is also non-competitive and crippling for the not-so-gifted students, yes?

Because I don’t hear about many student suicides (specifically due to stress and pressure) outside of the Asian countries.

Ends with this:

Thanks for providing the requested chart.

Side note: Jesus christ are you all zealots for china. Please get your dick inside back in your trousers If you like the country so much, I hope you are on the way to move there…

Correcting misconceptions and racist propaganda gets the most lazy insult response.

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal

Whitlam's threat to not renew the lease on the Pine Gap facility was allegedly seen by the CIA as compromising the integrity of intelligence operations pertaining to the satellite projects Rhyolite (subsequently Aquacade) and Argus (a proposed successor, later cancelled), used for monitoring and surveillance of missile launch sites in the Soviet Union and China, which were unknown to the Australian government at the time despite a blanket sharing agreement between the two countries.

The action of an unelected representative sacking an elected prime minister and replacing him with a caretaker prime minister was referred to by Australian Labor Party and former Member of the House of Representatives Peter Staples as "the most blatant act of external interference in Australia's affairs and its autonomy as a nation and a democracy".