Not that long ago, the commoners didn’t have many rights all over the world. A party asking for checks to the power of the emperor seems downright liberal in that world. LDP stayed mostly the same (maybe moving a bit to the right), but the world kept moving to the left and now they are a right wing party.

Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real. You don’t need to believe any propaganda, just travel and observe.

The asterisks are not about their usecase but political.

What about countries where no language has a majority only a plurality? Does the French govt just assume those countries don’t speak any language?

Framework like modular laptop would fix this. Need a new screen? No problem. Need a new processor? No problem.

Upgrade whatever is outdated and just that