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20 countries but excluding the single largest driver of nuclear energy development in the world: China.

What a fucking worthless declaration.

Rural populations are negligible and covered under other factors in a number of countries (in the US, Internet access). It's not worth mentioning because it's not a relevant part of data.

The goal of this comparison is to compare urban-to-urban, because those countries which don't have this exclusion have relatively tiny rural populations.

The IMF wants to protect private investors at the cost of country-scale investors. Once again, fuck the IMF.

Then your statement doesn't make sense lol

The rural/urban divide isn't unique to China or India or Brazil. It's everywhere. Drivers are always different across the urban/rural divide.

Isn't happiness the goal? Why does it matter what their driver is?

That's actually not how modern China gained territory. The settlements in Xinjiang were explicitly designed to not step on the traditional Uyghur economic/cultural center of Kashgar. Instead, settlement surrounded Urumqi, a place that used to be a backwater of backwaters (the name meaning "beautiful pasture"). Even today, Kashgar and it's surrounding areas are majority Uyghur (by far), while Urumqi is majority Han.

Idk I think I'd enjoy being obscenely rich off of my government's oil money

It's usually an annotation because Internet/phone penetration among the rural, uneducated, and poor in those countries isn't great. They don't have means to survey these people. Surveying the people who do have access to Internet is representative of what "normal people" feel.

The US has ~91% Internet penetration, while China only has 73% and India only 43%.

I don't really like how HRW does their reporting tbh. It basically consists of "here's some random Chinese article that suggests something that they might do, which, because China is a single-party state, MUST describe what they do" coupled with "here are some sources from US-funded parties detailing what they claim to be happening in China."

It's not a question of whether their statements are accurate, but it's a question of whether they've provided enough evidence to make those statements.

Privatization is such a waste of taxpayer money. You spend all those resources developing domestic capability and then sell it off to the highest bidder for a short-term cash infusion.