Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. There was a SEATO before, but that disintegrated with South Vietnam
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  2. No, there isn't much of a land battle for the press or plainclothes combatants to complicate the battlefield. Nearly all the coverage will come from seeing Taiwan getting bombarded by the PLA, inviting the rest of us to support Taiwan's defense.
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  3. Strict traditional values disappeared because the nation would not survive by sticking with it. Remember when SK started out, it was poorer than most of Africa.
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  4. Developed countries, especially puritan ethnostates, are not in the position to let "perfect" get in the way of "good".
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  5. Which if it was undergoing a demographic collapse is probably too toxic and anemic from the folks who got it to what it became. Like bloodletting vs blood transfusion, having fresh blood and minds from immigrants is the key to revitalization.
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  6. Muslim World just refuses to believe the West can care for Muslim populations, like the Uyghurs and Bosnians. Probably because their state governments want that same unchallenged despotism with economic strength that China achieved, and so steers all its masjid sermons and public narratives to indoctrinate its people accordingly.
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  7. The world would like China’s economic capabilities, but not necessarily its finished products. Being so “open” hints at an inability to afford being selective with who they can close deals with.
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  8. China’s military modernization began in earnest following the Gulf War, when the Iraqi Army invading Kuwait got curb-stomped and Beijing realized their PLA was too similarly equipped and indoctrinated.
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  9. The reasons come from an alienizing (i.e. lacks Asian faces) West and an overbearing China. SK offers a non-threatening and actively inviting alternative. Similar transnational niches exist out of Bollywood, Nollywood, and Latin America, but SK made it a government priority to go global in the arts.
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  10. Please research the proper pronouciation of native names before recording. Skipping this risks you getting a reputation of not actually having done fact checks are are just another opinion-driveling clickbaiter. 천리마 sounds more like "chul-li-ma". Even worse was your previous video about the 재벌 that dominate South Korea, which should sound more like "jay-ball".
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  11. Yet China isn't exactly building any soft power of its own, they lack a popular modern culture and it's only getting worse with increasingly vain, childish, censored media products -- India, Egypt, and even Nigeria attract a wider reach than the Mainland. The way they're going there won't be popular calls to support the PRC once it goes over the looming peak into the self-made downward spiral of aging, household debt, pollution, and corruption in the next few decades.
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  12.  @spacemonk26  Controlled access and hefty punishments for abuse would certainly help with our unique firearms-related problems; our military already does so to the point of complete base lockdowns over one missing sensitive item. As a prior servicemember, it's not comforting to see my fellow civilian Americans (especially politicians) not treat the discussion of firearms with the seriousness that everyone in uniform does.
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  13. Chinese companies are moving everywhere to get around the divestment. While it's mitigating, it's still damaging to them because of the permanent added barriers and reduced opportunities to Chinese workers.
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  14. Right, China is already about ready to drown in its own debts. The HSR network alone is expensive to operate, lacks passengers, can't move truckloads of cargo as China actually needs, and carries an cumulative debt load that dwarfs its real estate sector. There are likely other industry-level liabilities that we're not hearing about until its just about to kick the Party-state in the nuts.
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  15. At least he's consistent in butchering all of the Korean, I don't think he's said a single word correctly
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  16. I'd think the Koreans would instead point their nukes at Japan, as the hate is strong having been indoctrinated from childhood throughout all of living memory, despite China having invaded more often and more thoroughly subjugated the Koreans over the longer history.
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  17. Are the patents actually good and defensible though? Or are they more like the near jokes that the USPO was handing out in its early years?
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  18. These don't really exist in China either. China's structures often become hazards in a fairly mild incident, and they age surprisingly quickly due to shoddy workmanship. Plus China's healthcare coverage is a joke, covering almost nothing on a medical bill.
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  19. Bigger doesn't mean better -- the average Chinese worker is far less productive and only getting older. The CPC's allergies to dissent makes its education and creativity lackluster, and these are exactly what's needed to break out of the middle income trap. And China's own debts have shot up alarmingly fast, like five times the growth of America's in the past decade, much of it into shoddy hardly-occupied "real estate" because of even lower trust in their stock markets. Now they're having problems just keeping the lights on, because most of their coal plants are optimized for higher grade Western stock, and they might not have the funds to get alternative sources built without the social unrest caused by multiple freezing winters during the wait.
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  20. The US is currently undergoing something like the Great Resignation or Renegotiation, with former workers leaving old bosses out to dry in the resurgence of consumer demand as a strategy to finally experience that "rising tide" that's been promised for decades, but was instead dammed away with rich man tax breaks and offshoring.
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  21.  @brentdallyn8459  Right, it's otherwise inexplicable about crematoriums running 24/7 nonstop and the steep dropoff of cell subscribers (likely not just dual SIM users abruptly abandoning one provider)
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  22. That growth requires energy (which they're having trouble sourcing without high grade Western coal until they install cleaner alternatives while current funds are running dry), creativity (which is stifled by discouragement and enforcement against dissent), and the youth to produce and develop that growth in productivity over a couple generations. China would've had that room, if they weren't also old, cold, and constantly worried if something they once said will get them caged in an interrogation room signing vague confessions.
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  23.  @527ctguy  Right, China spends at least as much on internal "stability" forces as it does on the PLA. That's why its "military spending" seems so low -- it's not counting all the propaganda, guns, intelligence efforts pointing at its own people.
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  24. We also habitually dramatize our faults and challenges, because that's how we at least partially resolve them too.
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  25.  @RaulGonzalez-rs1be  As in their buildings are built so shoddy that they fall apart with alarming regularity. You can literally see that they age faster than their completion date suggests.
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  26. America at least listens to its people, because there's open discussions, independent journalism, and public elections. The CPC's patronizing attitudes makes it surrounded by sycophants and tunnel-visioned in its policies, which then have to overreact to unforseen/deliberately hidden issues that festered underneath.
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  27. Problem is China can't continue, it faces aging, debts, and pollution that simply can't be mandated away. Meanwhile America can find someone else to fill their order, and increasingly create small batches of it themselves.
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  28.  @michaelotieno6524  Only through direct payments, increasing reliance on imports, and a low bar definition of "poverty" compared to the true costs of upward mobility. It wasn't so much through anything the government did to help durably develop the impoverished. At least in America you're free to move about the country to where the jobs are, and changing residency is fairly straightforward; China's prescriptive hùkǒu system means a migrant loses nearly all their gains in private sector upcharges for things like schools and healthcare because they're not a "resident", all the while still enriching their executives and Party officials.
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  29. The CPC plays a father figure by infantilizing its nationals with childish slogans, tribalist ideals, blanket bans, and habitual overreactions. The West at least gives more privacy, predictability, and personal liberty to its residents.
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  30.  @arthas640  Right, this "woke" vs MAGA battle is tame compared with what America experienced before, like even the assassination-a-month Civil Rights Movement, not to mention 1812 and the Civil War where its continued existence was really in doubt. The CPC is starting to realize that they can grow the pie all they want, but if it tastes like shit it won't matter how they slice it.
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  31. The US military probably spends a workday a week shamming off, but at least its salvaging morale if not building rapport with your buddies in the unit. Unlike some classroom lecture on Maoist doctrine that is useless trivia in combat, and likely just propping up a facade of loyalty because you really joined the PLA for the job perks and not necessarily the Party.
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  32. China loves to show off its HSR, which is deep in operating debt (having to compete with buses, planes, and regular rail to all the smaller cities) and physically built too weak to offset the costs with freight trains. Hence why the US rail network is nearing saturation transporting bulk goods and HAZMAT while China is paying triple to truck it over (before all the long daytime restrictions and random traffic "inspections" all along China's roads).
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  33. America always criticized its debt load, but the debt doesn't necessarily make it weak. In fact the one time America cleared all its debts, speculations went so crazy that it caused the Panic of 1837, a depression and stagnation that lasted a decade with multiple states going bankrupt and defaulting.
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  34. More realistically the CPC will be asked a lot of discomforting questions when entire neighborhoods of only-sons start to "disappear" during their combat deployment.
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  35. The "continue" part is up for debate, since looming aging, debt, and pollution could see China stalling if not falling backwards. We might already seeing the effects as the CPC shifts focus away from peaceable marketing and towards ideology and militarism, trying to shift away from relying on increasingly impossible growth as the basis for continued tolerance among the Chinese people.
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  36. Hence why the long fight for $15/hr and human dignity in the workplace, which is starting to come to fruition now that businesses realize they can't threaten with finding replacement workers or automation that itself shows a lot of troubling biases and limitations towards the customers.
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  37.  @michaelotieno6524  China's middle class isn't doing so well either, with so many in multiple generations' income worth of debt just to attract a spouse and a better hùkǒu. All for overpriced "real estate" so shoddily built and maintained that it probably won't even make it to the end of the 70-year land use permit.
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  38.  @steenkigerrider5340  Arts, history, and humanities are what really drives education, because education is all about finding the norms and then stepping outside of it to explore ways to grow. Creativity and innovation come from intelligently violating established rules. STEM focused education by contrast is often tunnel visioned in technicalities and ignores what people actually care about. Hence why they often make horrible managers and don't do well in politics. This is why you often see a large organization headed by someone who studied something like English literature and then used those skills to get into law.
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  39.  @Mr.Septon  Yet there's an active political fight over how much we'll allow those elites to continue getting away with. Hence the "woke" "socialists" who want to get the pie shared more broadly vs the MAGA folks who are trying to return to an ignorantly flawed version of past "prosperity". The US isn't necessarily overstretched, since practically all of those bases exist practically by invitation. For friendlier countries it allows them to spend less of its budget to gain a similar level of effective defense than if they had to fund and experience all that combat on their own, and even for places like Cuba or Pakistan the American presence provides a convenient scapegoat to redirect any internal unrest. America is incredibly resilient and the American Pie overall has not lost its flavor. China can try to grow their pie all they want, but the CPC is realizing that theirs tastes like shit and no amount of slicing will ultimately get people to bite... and it's all the fault of who made the recipe.
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  40. Overtake forever, or peak and stall? 🐇🐢
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  41.  @qjtvaddict  Which when civilian shipping in the SCS and ECS gets scared off by the crossfire will be shockingly upcharged (overland) or useless (by sea).
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  42. The Foreign Legion is a part of the French Army, just set up to recruit foreigners
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  43. National Guard are an asset of a US state, occasionally called up for federal service. Their primary mission is a lot more localized.
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  44. Also the PLA, except in Mainland China there's no competing military whose allegiance lies with the state of China... that army was ejected to Táiwān (ROC Armed Forces).
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  45. Still the same battle of efficiency vs flexibility, where of course America's Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in getting costs and competition down also leaves us vulnerable to changes in the global geopolitical situation (e.g a war in Ukraine eating through our stockpiles far faster than we're able to replenish them).
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  46. That's because prices for basic goods (water bills, groceries, etc) don't rise or fall to match the income of the buyer; the poor simply have less to invest once their survival needs are met, whereas the rich have disposable wealth to spend on high-cost durable goods that aren't consumed during its useful life and might even appreciate in value over time.
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  47. Right, if Africans don't educate their way ahead of growing global automation, they'll end up tribally fighting likely violently over the scraps of what little opportunities are available for them at the low end. But education has consistently meant staying out of menial jobs and parenthood longer against the pro-natal pressures of religion and tradition.
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  48. No, it just means they're officially talking government to government. Doesn't mean they're no longer willing to destroy each other if given the chance.
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  49.  @jantschierschky3461  Right, Nigerians are seen as quite obnoxious especially those fresh out of Lagos. But enough given time abroad eventually they do mellow out after realizing they don't have to practically scream and act so confrontational to every stranger they meet.
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  50. Isn't is more accurate to be "gbo"? (I know the sound doesn't exist in English)
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