Comments by "Roger Dodger" (@rogerdodger8415) on "Fearing Trade War, Some US Farmers Worry About Trump China Tariffs" video.
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f willis it's not war when you demand to be treated the SAME WAY that you treat other countries. If you allow them to sell here in the USA, but they place restrictions on the sale of our products, is it wrong to demand change? The USA has tolerated this cheating, lying, and unfairness much too long. Theft of intellectual property, copying DVD's, High tariffs and taxes on OUR products. Producing fake knock offs of our brand names, and the list goes on and on. They lower the price to put our companies out of business, and then quickly raise it, to make a large profit. Copying medicine which we developed at enormous amounts of investment and selling them with impunity. This is not war, this is stopping a criminal.
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Benson Zhang We'll, you got fifty percent correct. In China that's enough to earn you an egg roll. You ARE correct that the United States IS the best country in the world, because I have traveled the world, and I know that,, for example that the Chinese people eat rat. You can Google that. I know that the poorest people in our country live better than two thirds of the world. That the Chinese people donate NOTHING to any other people without getting what THEY want in return. That they invaded and occupy TIBET, and are polluting our planet with NEW coal power plants. Yes, I have seen THOUSANDS of Chinese come here for freedom and very few moving to China to live under Communism. But, I understand just WHY you think China is wonderful, since the government controls all of your news and information. They tell YOU what is good and what is bad. Here, we tell OUR government what is good and bad, and if they don't listen, we vote them OUT OF POWER. Can you do that? No? Shame..
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Benson Zhang Wake up dummy!! When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as President Trump vowed to “bring back coal” in America, the contrast seemed to confirm Beijing’s new role as a leader in the fight against climate change.
But new data on the world’s biggest developers of coal-fired power plants paints a very different picture: China’s energy companies will make up nearly half of the new coal generation expected to go online in the next decade.
These Chinese corporations are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal, according to tallies compiled by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin. Many of the plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries.
Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent.
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Benson Zhang Does it EVER occur to your puppet brain to get information from ANOTHER source instead of what the Communist liars tell you? Do you even TRY to get another point of view as to the FACTS? Maybe see what the Indian people say? Or, the Americans say what happened? China NEVER, EVER, EVER admits they lost. Even when they LOSE. How dumb can you be? Here is your prison system for those that disagree with the puppet masters...... In the case of holiday lights, prisoners are required to put together 200 to 300 strings of lights per day. In some places, the requirement is not for strings of lights but for the number of light bulbs attached. Inmates are forced to work from 10 to 15 hours a day, sometimes staying up throughout the night. By design, the workload is far greater than can be reasonably accomplished; the pressure to keep up with quotas is so great that people often forgo a chance to go to the bathroom.
Those who are brave enough to refuse orders to do illegal labor will be subjected to "hugging chains" (arms and legs chained and locked together, the body curving forward in a crawling position), or "hanging cuffs" (both hands are raised up high and put through the iron bars of a window or a fence and locked with handcuffs from the outside), or "squatting on the john" (both hands are locked to an iron ring on the floor), or "food stoppage," "sitting beating" and other punishments. The range and variety are vast. Punishments such as these might last a day or so, or extend to weeks on end. Once torture begins, it does not end easily.
What's more, prison guards can order a few trusted "work numbers," as prisoners are called, to take a disobedient inmate out to the prison yard, pull down the person's pants, and pin the head and limbs down on the ground. Then, in front of everyone gathered, a work number will beat the person's naked backside with a leather belt, a rubber club or other implement. With each blow, the victim squirms and writhes on the ground.
These events usually end in one of two ways. One is that the misbehaving offender is unable to withstand the pain and, while crying and screaming, begs for mercy and agrees to cooperate with whatever is asked. The other is that the torturer himself has had enough — i.e. is tired out, since beatings of this kind require physical exertion. That's when the perpetrators start looking for even more efficient ways to inflict pain.
For the most part, those who are put in detention centers in China have not undergone a trial — they're just suspects. Chinese and international law are extremely clear that such detainees are not criminals and cannot be forced to do labor. Laws regulating prisons are also clear that any labor must adhere to strict guidelines for time worked, breaks, conditions, etc.
However, in mainland China today, inmates in the majority of detention centers nationwide are forced to do labor, and work conditions in prisons would by any measure be considered unlawful. This fuels a shadow economy where goods made from forced labor are pushed out into the "real" economy and abroad, enriching and incentivizing prison system officials all along the chain of authority to maintain the status quo of violence, secrecy and denial.
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Benson Zhang Despite heavy government monitoring, however, the Mainland Chinese media has become an increasingly commercial market, with growing competition, diversified content, and an increase in investigative reporting. Areas such as sports, finance, and an increasingly lucrative entertainment industry face little regulation from the government.[3] Media controls were most relaxed during the 1980s under Deng Xiaoping, until they were tightened in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. They were relaxed again under Jiang Zemin in the late 1990s, but the growing influence of the Internet and its potential to encourage dissent led to heavier regulations again under the government of Hu Jintao.[4] Reporters Without Borders[unreliable source?] consistently ranks China very poorly on media freedoms in their annual releases of the Press Freedom Index, labeling the Chinese government as having "the sorry distinction of leading the world in repression of the Internet".[5] For 2010, China ranked 168 out of 178 nations.
HistoryEdit
See also: Media history of China
The government is heavily involved in the media in the PRC, and the largest media organizations (namely CCTV, the People's Daily, and Xinhua) are agencies of the Party-State: "The first social responsibility and professional ethic of media staff should be understanding their role clearly and being a good mouthpiece. Journalists who think of themselves as professionals, instead of as propaganda workers, are making a fundamental mistake about identity," Hu Zhanfan, the president of CCTV.[6] Media taboosinclude topics such as the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China, the governance of Tibet, and Falun Gong. Within those restrictions there is a diversity of the media and fairly open discussion of social issues and policy options within the parameters set by the Party.
The diversity in mainland Chinese media is partly because most state media outlets no longer receive heavy subsidies from the government, and are expected to cover their expenses through commercial advertising.[7] They can no longer merely serve as mouthpieces of the government, but also need to attract advertising through programming that people find attractive.[8] While the government issues directives defining what can be published, it does not prevent, and in fact encourages outlets to compete for viewers and advertising.
The era of Government control over the Mainland Chinese media, however, has not come to an end. For example, the Government utilises financial incentives to manipulate journalists.[9] Recently, though, the Government's command over the nation's media has begun to falter. Despite government restrictions, much information is gathered either at the local level or from foreign sources and passed on through personal conversations and text messaging. This paired with the withdrawal of government media subsidies has caused many newspapers (including some owned by the Communist Party) in tabloids to take bold editorial stands critical of the government, as the necessity to attract readers and avoid bankruptcy has been a more pressing fear than government repression.[8]
In addition, the traditional means of media control have proven extremely ineffective against newer forms of communication, most notably text messaging.[citation needed]
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