Comments by "GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies14" (@guywholikesthesnarkies1435) on "ShanghaiEye魔都眼" channel.

  1. As an Indonesian living next door, I respect that Australia-China relationship have seen some meaningful improvements in the past few years ever since Anthony Albanese a.k.a. Albo assumed premiership in Australia in 2022. I'm not going to say the relationship has returned to the status quo yet and believe me, I know that Albo's cabinet is still moderately pro-US and he himself isn't against and is still continuing the ongoing AUKUS defense programs right now. But at the same time, I also acknowledge his pragmatism and genuine intent behind his interest to restore and continuing bilateral relation with China on a comprehensive level by lifting up a number of sanctions and embargoes previously imposed by the country over mainland exports and enterprises during the Scott Morrison era, alongside multiple high level visits to China and other meetings that he and his cabinet members have made on several occasions during his first years of premiership. I think for now, what's matter the most for me is that Australia has now striving to open up communication channel and space for dialogue with China. I won't expect a pivotal moment in Australia-China relationship to happen anytime soon, but it'll still be a net positive for China's IR if Australia would continue to maintain open communication with China in the long run.
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  2. Maybe instead of giving a damn about pointless culture war discourse, mind your own country's inflation rate for the potential source of decline in the population growth?
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  3. Basically Chinese vs American passenger train comparison in a nutshell: CRRC: *Stage-4 McLaren F1 speed challenge build from Need for Speed: ProStreet* Amtrak: *average stock Fiat Punto from Need for Speed: Most Wanted*
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  4. As an Indonesian, this is a hopeful step of development but Prabowo still has more to prove his commitment, as the Indonesian president, to the strengthening of cordial China-Indonesia relations further. Recent developments show the president's ambivalency where he had to rely on gesture or political display in order to prove his country's "neutrality" in the geopolitic, hoping to bid trust from both sides of the global political-economy contestation i.e. the US and China/BRICS. Signing documents and MoUs are as easy as they appear, but it doesn't necessarily suggest a sweeping project realization nor a commitment to the core bilateral priorities. Indonesia also signed a renewed bilateral agreement w. the US beforehand, where we supposedly "negotiated" the Trump's Tariffs at the White House through our ministerial representatives. But what we got, effectively, is a lopsided bilateral trade deal. As it comes to be, we'd continue to export raw & semi-finished materials as well as commodity goods under the condition of *reduced* market advantage while conversely, the US would profit way more from the lifting of our country's import quota restriction so that they can export products that's only marginally tangible to our country's benefit, but at a comparatively higher capitalization cumulatively. Not to mention such aforementioned situation often becomes a precedent leading up to the "bottleneck effect" over many Chinese investment projects in the country, where certain projects may progress real slow or even left unfinished altogether for an uncertain period. This will only cast doubts or even quiet distrusts coming from the Chinese stakeholders again, who are looking for productive investment soils. Moreover, we're still lagging at the upping of our economic value chain and supply chain standard. It goes to show how we're not taking enough advantage of the Chinese investment prospect and this is a contrast to the neighboring countries e.g. Malaysia and Thailand, where things are starting to get better for them.
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  5.  @this.tag-  Demographic decline has nothing much to do with the pattern of culture though, but economy does shape both. But even if one would insist on the notion of cultural ideology, won't that make it ironic since Erdogan is staunchly a conservative figurehead and yet here, he blasted the purported "cultural degeneracy" i.e. LGBTQ+ for the particular problem he mentioned in this occasion?
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  6. @sherifnabil50  The same country that literally allowed what's going on in Syria to take place and, in the process, only undermine the Palestinian liberation cause as there's nothing to lose for Israel now? Sure.
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  7. ​​ @sherifnabil50  You mean the same country that helps undermine Palestinian liberation simply for what's happening in Syria right now?
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  8. ​ @sherifnabil50  It's the same country that's complicit in the suffering of 🇵🇸-ians. The fall of 🇸🇾, the incursion of 🇮🇱-eli troops into the region, and the animosity toward Hezbollah are among the proofs.
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  9. You guys need to stop using auto-moderation feature if you can't begin to review every single reply manually; all it does is only making public conversation feel awkward because the thing doesn't know what to do other than aggressively hiding supposed "offensive" replies even when they're simply being critical and objective.
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