Clinton received so much more support from Democrat party leadership, so much more funding from corporate donors, and so much more coverage from mainstream media sources. The fact that Bernie even put up a fight was admirable, but he really had the odds stacked against him.
There are also crops that do well in Siberia, but this is prime agricultural land.
What's the incentive structure for which China would want people to deploy fewer solar panels?
Your claim is that... China has incentive to reduce deployments of solar panels by criticizing the deployment of solar panels over agricultural land? We're talking about the same China, right? World leader in solar panel production, being criticized by American and European leaders for overcapacity in solar panel production? I just want to make sure we're on the same page here.
Myanmar and the PRC have been trying to address the same problem in northern Myanmar. See: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal/china-myanmar-civil-war-cyber-scam/
Fugitives from China fled the country following a domestic crackdown on cybercrime and now they're stuck elsewhere. These fugitives kidnap and traffic Chinese citizens and force them to work for cybercrime centers abroad.
This is an extremely reductionist take on Vietnam and ignores, y'know, the Vietnam War.
In fact, it's a completely reductionist view on the entirety of ASEAN. Just as Canada and Mexico are forever coupled to America's industrial gravity, ASEAN is forever coupled to China's industrial gravity. You can have infighting, but you don't piss off both your largest trade partner and the country that simultaneously supplies the market and expertise for your continued economic development. The ex-United States of the Philippines is an exception because of obvious reasons
Israel struck an Iranian embassy. Some things demand a response.
Not everyone can be China and shrug off the US bombing their embassy in Serbia.
Racism, everybody.
What many people don't realize is that Quebec is poor.
In the name of national security, who cares about the rights of a few foreigners living on foreign (allied) soil? This isn't a coincidence, this is literally a core component of US foreign policy.
What country has a 90% home ownership rate (in fact, many people are buying second home due to oversupply), 80% without mortgages or liens?
What country net 0.1% CPI recently with 5% GDP growth? (A single RMB can buy 0.1% less goods, but the economy is worth 5% more RMB).
What country is "flooding the world with cheap solar panels" for renewable energy? Leading global reforestation (with, thankfully, no more monoculture plantations).
Different countries have fundamentally different challenges. Let's not pretend like everyone's challenges are the same.