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@selaangel6225 Socialism isn't a fixed definition, it doesn't mean perfection or some romanticized idea of a supposed persistent model of governance and guiding ideas/principles that allows a country to steadily develop itself into a better version of itself. Ppl should stop romanticizing the Soviet model too much because it's far from perfect either. China, for all of its ups-and-downs and imperfection, will always be a socialist country no matter what. Being in the primary stage of development means you have to embrace mistakes, flaws and errors.
Like I said in my previous argument, China doesn't "mix up" socialism and capitalism. It's still in the primary stage of socialist development and thus, *hasn't* progressed and moved away completely or substantially from capitalist mode of production just yet. And since it's embracing the scientific path of socialist development, on the basis of Lenin's NEP model that's being continued upon and gradually developed and adapted to the ever-changing material condition throughout times, the result is inevitably slow and gradual.
Also, I don't agree w. your assertion on China which seems to be based on skewed, distorted and misrepresented information of the country. "After the pandemic, China's economy has hit the bust" This is just an utter bs and I don't think you really understand the ramification of the things that you just said there. We're assuming a scenario that's gonna have an implication on serious domino effect and impacts to the surrounding regional economy (speaking as a resident from SEA myself) and ultimately, the rest of the world. So you better cross check your information again and don't conflate economic contraction in the past few years to a major crisis.
I'm not even going into detail w. worker condition because this is such a grey area where information could easily be distorted and/or misrepresented. All I'm gonna say is there's *no* such thing as a "996" work culture except that it's a deliberate media exaggeration/manipulation to the real situation on the ground. Working condition in China's continually improving but nothing in this world is perfect. There'll always be oversights and loopholes to be exploited by corporate elements on every moment from now, then and to come.
Also, this whole "996" mostly refers to the controversial remark made by Jack Ma, which somehow linked to a series of separate incidents of workers in *service sectors* who died from crunch. This had long been addressed and solved, and resulted in a government push to reduce work hours for service job workers. Only the most ardent anti-China libs or online "Maoist" would be so hellbent to bring this up to the news.
And as for the concern over the supposed increase in "unemployment" (but primarily among the youths), it's not what you and many ppl think it is because y'all miss the key important contexts. First of all, China's currently transforming its economy from developing into a developed one. Means that China's raising its supply chain standard to the higher level based on cutting edge IoT management and advanced hi-tech manufacturing.
Therefore it's seeing change in working dynamics where manufacturing's becoming more streamlined and efficient alongside increase in IT-based/oriented job. What's happening in China's overabundance of productive force that doesn't keep quiet in pace w. the rapid development of advance manufacturing, particularly in the developed metro regions of Chinese, leading to some layoffs of workers in several cases.
Wrt this issue, the Chinese govt. has been actively working to address this issue through several policy measures. Among them is the mobilization of productive forces to work on the auxiliary manufacturing & service sectors scattered throughout the smaller cities & town across the rural side of China. But this requires many workers to be retrained and reoriented for the new job environment, resulting in a slow process.
And secondly, the supposed "high unemployment" figure only refers to a specific phenomenon among the Chinese youth demographic, which is about +20% of total Chinese youths *eligible for works* between age 18-29. Means that these +20% could be "unemployed" for various reasons incl. required to take post-grad study at their university respectively. Moreover, anybody insisted that China has always been loomed w. "unemployment problems" better have a good explanation over some randomly picked small remote modern town in China and how come it's getting well-built and populated in the first place
https://youtu.be/eUN2nEN5KuQ
All in all, there's simply no denying that China is still and will always be a socialist country. Its contribution and positive impacts to the global economy and geopolitics is nonetheless a significant one.
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Related context to Ben's main topic in the video: In Xinjiang, China operates a strategic international dry port and a special economic zone in the Khorgos City just right next to the southeastern border of Kazakhstan. This little border town has grown into a modern, high rise city which houses hundreds of Chinese and foreign enterprises investing in diverse economic fields from processing, manufacturing, hi-tech industry and services.
Furthermore, the presence of industrial parks in this city also benefits bilateral cooperation between China and Kazakhstan significantly because Kazakhstan has opened and operated several manufacturing plants and other companies in the economic zone, for quite a while. Just in October 2023 alone, both China and Kazakhstan had inaugurated the first phase construction of a brand new industrial park on the Kazakhstan side of the border, which covers a total area of 1,000 ha, is costed at around $692 millions and will be expected to create 2,000 jobs for the residents living in proximity to the new industrial area.
Now, you can try to draw the correlation with the recent news about the big German companies BASF and VW being threatened by the US with sanctions if they don't stop the operation of their plants in Xinjiang.
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The reason why many people across the wide spectrum of political alignments still misunderstand China's socio-economic model these days is because the corporate interest holders in the West don't want everyone to owing up to the truth, that China's *still* adhering to the Marxism-Leninism (ML) and continuing its socialist construction efforts. The notion that China's a capitalist country is a misconception over a unique concept that deserves a nuanced, proper holistic comprehension by itself.
For the record, China didn't simply revert back into capitalism altogether by the time Deng Xiaoping ushered in the Reform and Opening Up policy. Instead, China had made a sound decision to refrain from its then-communalistic socio-economic system derived from the collectivism and economic autarky adopted in the USSR, which was originally meant to be a decisive strategy to face and overcome the rise of f' 'ism in the Western Europe.
To put it simply, what Deng Xiaoping did was for China to make a return to its *original* socio-economic plan as implemented following the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949. Which is to adopt a form of state-capitalism identical to the former New Economic Policy, a.k.a. NEP, in the USSR during Lenin era. With the hope that China could follow the "scientific" approach to socialist construction based on proper theoretical application of the ML tenets: Dialectical and Historical Materialism, into public policy in a rigorous and legal way. Or as they put it in their own words, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
And China has continued to prove this time after time. China's well-integrated into the global market, but is also still on the correct path for its own socialist construction, simultaneously. This is because China has followed the so-called "scientific socialism" tradition in its policy-making process of formulating and applying the Marxist theoretical basis into practical public policy based on the present "material condition", to put it in a Marxist term. Therefore, the current mixed economy of China is actually still in-line with ML.
Marxist scholar Cheng Enfu, in his book "China's Economic Dialectic", has outlined a practical chart table for the course of socialism development in China as envisioned by the Central Govt officially, which can be sum up as the following phase: Pre-capitalist natural economic system -> Free competition stage of capitalism -> State monopoly stage of capitalism -> Primary stage of socialism -> Intermediate stage of socialism -> Advanced stage of socialism or true communism. The "NEP" phase takes place in the period from the state monopoly capitalism to the primary stage of socialism.
As for the current official goal of the socialist construction as continually reiterated by the CPC, it's to achieve a modern socialist society, common prosperity and an advance into the intermediate stage of socialism by 2050. Which would be the proper transitional period from the previous productive market-based mixed economic system to a more communistic one based on greater emphasis on meeting the material needs of the people on domestic level, but not yet achieving true communism.
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The recent Silicon Valley state bailouts here only further proves just why Chinese economic reforms are different than Western economic liberalization, and why it can be a really potent tool in building strong socialist economy. And in general, a stronger and better economic alternative to Western neoliberalism.
To put it in layman term, Western economic neoliberalism aims at creating a perfect bed for a legit "corporate laissez-faire" and thus, the state would typically have a relatively nominal position, mainly to ensure their financial security. Ultimately, the federal government's position in the US, by virtue is serving to the interest of the bourgeois capitalists.
This is in contrast to Chinese "liberal" economic reforms where it has consistently maintained that the state is the fundamental backbone and instrument to the national economic development and growth. And so far, it keeps proving so many successes in achieving real material improvements and benefits to the people.
As for the "ultra-left" criticism of supposedly China's moves at further economic privatization, denouncing them as "abandoning socialism in favor of capitalism", this is the result to the lack of proper objective understanding of Chinese socialism/SWCC and its complete historical background.
That's why they fail to understand/realize (or intentionally dismissed it) that when China are seeing increase in "private sectors" share of GDP, they're referring to competitive domestic companies incl. corporate/conglomerate giants such as Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, etc etc (alongside new waves of Chinese start-ups and unicorns).
And keep in mind that these successes are only possible under patron of Chinese SOEs and the government in directly supporting and assisting growth and maturity of these "private"/non-public companies (in Chinese term). This is also where the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is taking effect, ensuring that these non-public firms will always serve to the common interest which is the people.
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Two key takeaway from China's socialist economic policy, for me is as follow here:
1.) The important role of the state, the CPC to be exact, in preserving a sovereign monetary system and deposit for the country to continue its real economic growth by ensuring the flow of moneys and capitals remains largely uninterrupted especially from foreign interventions, a major reason why China has no qualm at refusing to bail out falling big real estate conglomerates such as Evergrande because they can instead deflates the value bubble of these unsold real estate projects and arbitrarily *recycles* the intrinsic values of those properties into capitals that can be allocated to fund the growth of its hi-tech industrial sector;
2.) The importance of state enterprises in stimulating real economic growth not by means of a complete override of the economic sector (as was the case of Soviet-style autarkic model of planned economy), but by playing the key role in the market system as a buffer to grow the key hi-tech/cutting edge *domestic* enterprises on the private sector e.g. big companies such as Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, BYD etc (as shown in the same graph here 9:59), that's virtually sovereign from the influence of foreign capitals and corporate hands. This, alongside the "trickle-down" responsibility to ensure the stability of the economy at regional or local level.
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Kalau negeri sendiri saja gak bisa self-critique serta menuntut perubahan struktural dan budaya politik & intelektualisme secara signifikan, sampai kapanpun Indonesia terus gonjang-ganjing tanpa benar-benar mengerti apa yang sebenarnya ia tuju. Aku kasih contoh sederhana: ramai-ramai media dalam negeri menyerukan narasi pemerintahan, bahwa Indonesia itu sepatutnya menempuh langkah negosiasi tarif,walaupun buntutnya itu kita malah impor produk AS dengan keunggulan daya saing pasar yang pasti berat sebelah i.e. AS diuntungkan strategis.
Gak ada satu media negeri yang membeberkan fakta yang terbenam dalam narasi kepanikan massa, kalo Trump/Gedung Putih itu sama sekali *gak jujur* dalam menetapkan angka-angka tarif timbal baliknya itu: semuanya itu fabrikasi, nilai tarifnya itu sengaja digelembungkan sebesar mungkin lewat rumus perhitungan yang sama sekali tidak mengukur nilai satuan pada tarif + hambatan non-tarif masing-masing negara. Yang dipakai sama AS itu asumsi lewat rumus berikut: (defisit perdagangan AS ÷ neraca impor satuan AS) × 0,5 supaya nanti hasilnya cuman AS saja yang diuntungkan oleh pasar global sebesar-besarnya. Terlebih lagi, gak banyak juga orang-orang tahu kalau selama berpuluh-puluh tahun AS itu mengalami defisit perdagangan karena itulah prakondisi yang wajib dipenuhinya, jika AS sendiri *hendak* mempertahankan dominasi mata uang dolar mereka di pasar global.
Bagaimana caranya? Lewat belanja defisit. Contoh seperti belanja militer mereka yang paling besar sedunia, juga subsidi bagi perusahaan-perusahaan multinasional seperti Tesla, Amazon, dsb. Ini agar tercipta siklus daur ulang mata uang dolar karena mayoritas negara berkembang, nantinya, bisa membeli kelebihan suplai uang dolar lewat pasar modal, surat berharga, obligasi, dan pinjaman utang (lewat bankir multinasional seperti Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, dsb.). Jadi, AS nanti bisa meraup keuntungan berupa naiknya neraca modal, karena laba dari operasional perusahaan multinasional AS itu di-invest kembali sebagai aset spekulan. Tolong dicatat, Indonesia itu mayoritas utang luar negerinya ada di institusi-institusi finansial global tersebut, bukan sama China.
Last but not least, alasan sebenarnya AS meluncurkan perang dagang itu karena AS kalah terus dalam persaingan pasar dengan China. China, dewasa ini, telah menguasai rantai pasok global secara efektif dan efisien. Sementara AS itu, walaupun memiliki basis manufaktur dan rantai pasok yang relatif lebih besar secara kuantitas, tapi kebanyakan tertinggal jauh dari aspek produktivitas dan daya saing. Sementara China berhasil melangkah lebih jauh dalam revolusi industri mereka karena tingkat adopsi teknologi terapan, serta penerapan litbang dan inovasi industri di sana itu jauh lebih tinggi dan canggih. Sehingga, mereka tidak perlu membangun lebih banyak pabrik untuk menghasilkan ragam produk berjumlah masif.
Oleh karena itu semua, tujuan paling utama dari tarif AS itu sebenarnya hanyalah pipe dream AS mewujudkan gelombang on-shoring rantai pasok kedalam pasar AS sendiri, yang saat ini di-outsource ke banyak perusahaan asing mancanegara atas nama menjaga Return of Investment. Hanya saja, pakar ekonom domestik AS sendiri seperti Michael Hudson, Ha Joon Chang, dsb sudah berkali-kali memperingati bahwa itu hanyalah usaha yang sia-sia. Alasannya jelas sekali: merelokasi rantai pasok dari negara-negara asing kembali ke AS itu membutuhkan biaya dan tenaga buruh ahli yang sangat, sangat masif. Itu semua tidak bisa terjadi dalam kurun waktu yang dekat dan mimpi Presiden Trump itu sebatas halu belaka.
Jadi kesimpulannya, buka wawasan seluas-luasnya. Baca analisa dari ekonom ahli seperti Fithra Faisal saja gak cukup, apalagi modelannya yang analisa pasar murni itu.
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This is why China's BRI is a league apart of Western extractive multinational corporation deal through IMF leverage.
Sure, China's enterprises coming over to open business, for example in Africa, might be perceived to bear some neocolonial subtext. But here's the major differences with Western scheme: China also come to help Africa, Sub-Saharan countries in this particular, to develop their crucial infrastructures e.g. transportation, industry, healthcare, education etc etc. all things necessary to support their economy and material development.
On top of that, Chinese loan terms tend to be much favorable with not only extended repayment due date but also moratorium and additionally, Chinese BRI also includes a debt restructuring program where China would help writing off debts possessed by these countries, usually owed to the Western financial companies incl. IMF debts. All these without additional strings attached.
Even when these countries are supposedly getting indebted toward China in turn, but another reality behind this is that Chinese firms often have the tendency to delay/intentionally refuse to ask for repayment from the debtors, despite overtime. This is only possible because of China's pure intent to cooperate with these countries through a B2B scheme and therefore, these BRI projects are more being seen as a form of long-term investment and China has no reason to immediately demand return of profit unless it has created the desired growth and development effects.
Edit: added missing context. Also, I kept fixing some grammatical errors. English isn't my 1st language😅
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The prospect of development for our country Indonesia, being both a signatory and ratifier of RCEP already, from joining BRICS is simply unprecedented! Of course people have heard of Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway amongst few other things, but I think not many people realize just how significant China's investments mean to our economy:
China's FDI inflows ranks second highest in our country; China helped constructed several coals and hydro plants across many provinces including one nearby my hometown (that one's still awaiting legal approval though); China also helped developing our mine industry esp. nickel, to the extent of constructing smelters to help advance our industrial downstream; both China and Indonesia have jointly cooperated on strategic industrial project "Two Countries, Twin Parks", which started out in Cikarang in 2010 but have since expanded to include another places e.g. Batang Industrial Zone in Southeast Sulawesi, Mangkupadi Green Industrial Park in North Kalimantan, another new industrial park concessions in Padalarang and Gedebage, Bandung (which will have direct links to the HSR👀), etc etc. Now with all that said, just imagine our developmental potential after joining BRICS membership😆😆
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More context in regard to the compromise over our non-interference policy: 9 ASEAN countries are all agreed not to invite Myanmar' Junta leader in the upcoming ASEAN Summit in October 26, instead a so-called "apolitical" representative will be joining in place of Myanmar seat in the summit.
Official statements from Indonesian Foreign Minister Ms. Retno Marsudi via Kompas:
"For the upcoming ASEAN Summit, ASEAN will only invite representatives at the non-political level," said Retno in a virtual press conference, Monday (18/10/2021).
The decision was taken while respecting the principle of non-interference and the importance of respecting other principles in the ASEAN Charter, such as democracy, good governance, respect for human rights and constitutional governance.
Then, the decision is also considered to be able to provide space for Myanmar to restore democracy through an inclusive political process. Retno also believes that this decision is very right.
"This decision does not stop ASEAN's commitment to offer assistance, including humanitarian assistance," she said.
On the other hand, Retno assessed that the implementation of the five ASEAN consensus points had not yet produced significant developments.
"Our efforts as a family did not get a good response from the Myanmar military," said Retno.
The five agreements were reached during the summit in Jakarta, on Saturday (24/4/2021). First, the violence must stop in Myanmar immediately and all parties must exercise full restraint.
Second, the leaders agreed to hold a constructive dialogue among all interested parties in Myanmar. The dialogue needs to be started immediately to find a peaceful solution for the interests of the people.
Third, the leaders agreed to send a special envoy for the Chair of ASEAN who would facilitate the mediation and dialogue process with the assistance of the Secretary General of ASEAN.
Fourth, ASEAN will provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Myanmar through the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Center).
Fifth, special envoys and delegates will visit Myanmar to meet with all relevant parties.
Retno emphasized that the people of Myanmar have rights and deserve peace, security and prosperity.
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Hi, Brian. Just some suggestion for your next video if you may, I think you'd be interested to bring in people like Kevork Almassian (Syriana Analysis), Eva Bartlett, Aaron Maté, Hadi Nasrallah, Prof. Marandi, etc. into your convo about this topic. They are political expert who are very knowledgeable about geopolitical situation in Syria, you'll learn from a different lense and angle who are these ETIM group, their involvement with the Syria conflict and connection with the Turkish government and the Islamist "moderate rebels" (i.e. Al-Nusra, ISIL/ISIS, and FSA), and the huge implication of their goal and ambition beyond "recapturing" the Xinjiang region. Also Pepe Escobar, Justin Podur, Gordon Gao, and Carl Zha are another good people you can talk with about ETIM.
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@lfsg689 Your own experience and upbringing doesn't absolutely reflect what the majority north Korean are experiencing regularly today. You never ever step your foots in north Korea either, yet you have the audacity to tell me why I should trust you better instead? How come someone like you, who undoubtedly believes that "..north Koreans have to push a whole train for months to go to another city or town, when it should take an hour to get there by normal train ride.", can tell me the most factual, detailed and nuanced insight about north Korea better than every single first-hand foreign accounts I learned, ranging from tourist, businessmen, teacher, careerist, diplomats, representative, staffs of international organization and institution, etc. including many who have lived there for years??
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As an Indonesian who've been quite "out of touch" with many MSMs here thanks to the abundance of disinformation, propaganda, media control, etc. I wonder what are some good alternative media available around SEA and maybe anyone can give some recommendation? I can't seems to find one in my country that's up to my liking, something similar to The Grayzone, Mintpress News, Breakthrough News, Electronic Intifada, etc.
The best I could find is your typical millennia-run, progressive-type liberal "independent" medias that generally caters to our millenial and gen-Z demographics and while they're fairly trustworthy as far as domestic issues and matters are concerned, they lost credibility when it's about international news and foreign policies because as usual, our liberal millennia always fall to that trap😕
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"..hardcore supporter and partner of US." Lol, Singapore is and will always be standing in the strong middle position, it's the key recipe for Singapore to become what they're today. We've seen a lots of examples of past government in many countries which eventually met their demise for only taking one side with the US, that's exactly what happened with Indonesia under Soeharto dictatorship in '99 because US corporate influences succeeded in corrupting the bureaucracy by 90s. Of course today we see examples like Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Haiti, etc. Singapore wouldn't stand any chance if they're only become subservient to either one side or another (yes, even when it's China as well).
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Hi, guys. Just wanna ask if you don't mind, does any of you guys know alternative resources to learn more about Myanmar in general (media websites, blogs/medium/stackexchange, people on socmed, books, documents, etc.), its history, and specifically its current political situation since the last decade? Knowing about YT comment censorship here, I think you can try to compile it on G Docs, Pastebin, or something and then maybe try to write down the link address in the comment in any possible way to avoid censor (I suppose it should be fine with G Docs).
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@lfsg689 I'm gonna give you a case study here. Say it's realistic and logical that north Koreans have to push a whole train for months to get to another city, if you still believe that's truth then please explain, with every case-specific counter evidences you could find out there, hundreds of the country's national development achievements in the last four years (just a few examples: Reconstructed Samjiyon City; new Chongjin City reconstruction; new Komdok City construction; Wonsan-Kalma International Tourist Area; Hamhung City renovation; Jungphyong Cooperative Vegetable Farm & Tree Nursery along with countless other coops farms built, tree nurseries built in South & North Phyongan Provinces, Kangwon Province, and North Hwanghae Province; hydro power station built in Wonsan City, two in Rason City, South Hamgyong Province, two in North Hwanghae Province, ten in Jagang Province, Kangwon Province, South Hwanghae Province, and South Hamgyong Province; Myohngsan Medical Equipment Factory; many other factories built across tens provinces and counties; a 50,000+ hectares large pasture, stockbreed farms, foodstuff factories, and villages built; and countless more including hundreds of renovated/rebuilt/newly built villages and towns across tens counties) and how come they could possibly achieve it all? Dozens of state-run/affiliated medias documented and reported all these achievements in great details and nuance as far as I can confirm, if you're so certain those are all propagandas, well-staged fabrications then can you absolutely prove every single one of them as fake with every evidences you've found, corresponding to each articles and videos?
I'm waiting for your answer first before you try to question me one, ain't gonna answer yours.
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Honestly as a Muslim myself, more people need to reconcile w. the reality that everyone in Xinjiang has always been receptive of the purported "enforced" secular lifestyle because long story short, radicalism and Islamic fundamentalism is *NOT* cool and only leave them and their kins w. legit social repercussions i.e. generational trauma and alienation. In fact, Uygurs and other minorities have been full beneficiaries of a sort of "reverse" affirmative action policy where they're given a wide range of social provisions.
That includes but not limited to full exemption of one-child policy long before their Han Chinese peers (..and contrary to the alleged "birth control" narrative), direct cash allowance that amounts to a quite handsome number i.e. US$ 2,500-5,000 more or less, free universal healthcare, education, housing, and other subsidies, a comprehensive job creation program, and preferential workers' benefits and social security assurance. All social provisions given at a much higher degree of quantity and accessibility than their Han peers, by comparison.
And there's also preemptive local security & defense protocol against radicalism & terrorism i.e. the one people mistook for "police state" policy. But in reality, they're for the best security interests of the people in Xinjiang. Yes, those armed guards are nice dudes; some foreigners just don't know how to behave properly as any security officials are required to treat foreigners w. a wee bit of scrutiny than the locals 👀
Add: anyone who argues against the lower amount of cash allowance, just so you know a typical dinner at $20-30 price range would only cost 3-5 times less than that, all across China. You can pretty much eat any of those same types of meals at that price range *anytime* you want whereas restaurants in the US would restrict certain menus into each of these diet courses: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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@djinnxx7050 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm, Slift, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Osees (definitely not new, but still carry the same fresh spirit), Ty Segall, Idles, Fontaines D.C., Squid (band), Black Midi, Otoboke Beaver, just to name few. I suggest to watch their lives first, some of these bands experiments with multitude of genres and styles and therefore, a certain band's performances may be drastically different from one to another in the most unique way possible.
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Check out also Defend Korea website for more resources and follows these Twitter accounts: Comrade Natalie (she's the admin of Defend Korea website and YT channel), Sera-Jade, KFA (Korean Friendship Association) accounts but KFA UK, Brasil and Cambodia are the most active one, Alejandro Cao de Benos (DPRK's only official foreign-born delegates), Juche0071 (Dermot Hudson, head of KFA, YT: Songun007), Juche Gang (also on YT), @KPR_Brasil (Brazil seems to have strong, devoted pro-north Korea/reunification community), @notXiangyu (Taiwanese-American ML with ancestral history in Korea from Japanese occupation to post Korean War period, had visited north Korea twice), and more I can't remember well.
Official DPRK websites and affiliates, use VPN if some webs are inaccessible: Korean Central News Agency (KCNA, it still use flash player so I suggest to install custom flash plug-in or browser that still support it to view photos and videos), Rodong Sinmun, The Pyongyang Times, Naenara (naenara com kp/main/index), Uriminzokkiri, Arirang Meari (arirangmeari com), DPRK Today, Voice Of Korea (vok rep kp), Tongil Voice (tongilmeari com).
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3:39 I think this stems from misunderstanding (or deliberate bad-faith reading) of the Xi's Speech at 20th National Congress. Xi never suggested that China will take measure (read: crackdown) on private capitals, Xi's message is very clear that he calls for party's role to guide, foster and safeguard the development and growth of domestic private sectors (the term "private" can have broad meaning e.g. so-called "public company", as per wiki definition, usually refers to a private company listed to the stock market. It can also means local cooperative enterprise or joint-stock company).
What's happening is that there's gonna be change of market environment, as foreign capitals esp. coming from the West are slowly but gradually declining of their market share and competitiveness against growing share of domestic private sectors, which also on track to make their expansion on global market. All the while also making room for foreign capitals coming from nearby or the other regions e.g. Southeast Asia, Eurasia, Central Asia, South Asia, MENA, Africa and South America to grow. Take example the Beibu Gulf Economic Rim and Nanning Economic & Technological Development Zones, amongst examples of China-ASEAN cooperation projects.
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@janiron1899 Lol, Xi never said that. The second centenary goal of CPC is to achieve "..a modern socialist country that's prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious.". No, this isn't saying China has always been a capitalist and is planning to adopt socialism by 2050 or something, this is a pledge and absolute commitment to further develop China, a socialist country already, into a materially, socially and morally modern and prosperous nation. This will be the solid foundation for China to transition into the next stage of socialism progress, with even more challenges and opportunities to accomplish.
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Here's another interesting story in Canada: Indigenous Nation of Squamish just made a very bold move to carry out Canada' first indigenous-run, US$ 2 billions Sen̓áḵw residential projects sitting atop small 12 acres of land in Vancouver administered as Kitsilano Reserve, expected to begin construction by the end of 2021. 6,000 houses in an 11 towers complex will be built and will provide up to 10,000 natives with extremely affordable yet above-decent homes rich in distinct cultural identity. The residential complex is also packed with comprehensive residential facilities and amenities including offices, cultural center, restaurants, shops, clinics, library, sport and fitness center, open parks and greeneries, and dedicated infrastructure connected to the city and public transit.
With a clear example of rare but real indigenous self-determination and self-emancipation actions like this, I wonder if Mr. Lebold will gonna call it an example of "self-museumification/depravation" too? Because it definitely sounds exactly like something the Communist Party government have done and are still doing for their minority populations lmao🤣🤣
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Let me elaborate from Ben's explanation by giving you guys a case study: Guyana. I'm not delving into the ongoing diplomatic crisis it has w. Venezuela because it's unrelated in this instance. But on its own, Guyana is an example of how the country's current US-aligned neoliberal policy has resulted in deliberate underdevelopment and a heavily institutionalized corruption.
Just consider this detail: this country's GDP per capita currently stood at estimated US$ 30,652 by 2024, or a *whooping* US$ 91,380 if adjusted by PPP. For the record, the GDP per capita in Japan on the same year is US$ 35,610 or US$ 55,600 (PPP-adjusted). Between 2020-present, the country also recorded a fantastic avg. yearly growth at over 40%, supposedly because of the recent oil boom made by US's ExxonMobil in Guyana's offshore area.
Yet despite all this, Guyana is still a highly underdeveloped country relative to its growth prospect. The country reported about 38.8% of its population earning below US$5.50 per day in 2022 (per UNDP) while as of 2024, more than 55% Guyanese pop. reside abroad currently according to to the CIA Factbook. Of which, over 80% are emigrated and contribute to the country's share of remittance economy.
Guyana's population also amounts to an estimated *only* 830,000+ in 2024, or a density of just a mere 4/km². And when you start making an observation at the condition of development on the ground, you can't help but dumbstruck at the contrast between the initial economic impression and the reality 😶
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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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@pequenoperezoso3743 The NEP of the Soviet Union under Lenin is effectively a mixed economic policy in practice, one can't just take a strict doctrinal interpretation of ML and just goes along w. a narrow understanding of what "socialism" is. NEP in its implementation has always been intended as a workaround to the capitalist mode. Where the existing Marxist economic theory and ideas were applied to address and solve the contradictions of capitalism in a more practical and methodical way, rather than a radical approach to "abolish law of value" altogether.
Even the latter "collectivization" policy of Stalin is arguably a form of state monopoly capitalism in itself (just as Lenin intended), albeit an experimental one where the intent is to streamline and concentrate the market and its mechanism into a central command. Private and foreign enterprises still existed in place, but the State (the Party) simply has way more direct leverage into the economic analysis, planning and decision making. Thus, effectively making the domestic private entities a part of the State economy in practice, as well as forcing foreign companies to abide by the State's policies and rules.
If you somehow didn't notice it already from my previous argument in response to Op above, the role of local govts/party branch and SOEs coordinating together to foster the development and growth of the domestic sectors of the national economy, alongside the Central Govt. policy to force "competing" foreign business entities to operate through joint ventures w. domestic ones. Those essentially serve the same purpose as the Soviet's centrally-planned "Collectivization", albeit differently oriented and w/out the burdensome rigid central planning process.
The role of the Central Govt./CPC, therefore will be prioritized more on the core Marxist theoretical teaching, orientation and application to their own cadres. And in turn, the role of the rest of the 98 millions of CPC cadres is to supervise, coordinate, advise and discipline the relevant local govt. organs and entities e.g. local enterprises, institutions, other forms of NGOs and grasroot movements/initiatives. Rather than having to rigidly follow the direct central plan, instruction and order from the government.
Because it's more important to foster self-discipline and responsibility among them, in place of the relative bureaucratic independence due to the decentralized nature of the governance. A central planning and supervising mechanism remains in place, albeit it's made simplified and efficient thanks to the integration of technology and the IoT network system into the bureaucracy. And thus, allowing for a necessary degree of self-governance and independent decision making among regional and local level governments while also greatly reducing the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of a rigid centralized framework of governance and economic decision-making.
And last but not least, I highly suggest you read (or re-read) my lengthy direct response to Op's reply earlier on in order to understand my point here.
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I think it's ridiculous to assume that. He meant to say he personally involved in an operation arresting 300,000 Uygurs, which means he's with several other personnel as well since he wanted to be assigned voluntarily.
However, we can infer just based on this claim alone that the Chinese police have committed mass arrests against the Uygurs on regular basis. If within those "several months" alone he was personally involved in arresting of 300K Uygurs, that means there are still around tens if not hundreds other teams of cops out there displaced to arrest more Uygur population at the same time, which could amounts to a few millions of Uygurs arrested within that span of time alone.
The 2009 Urumqi riot is the tipping point for China to carry out comprehensive counter-terrorism programs including the vocational training center a.k.a "re-education/concentration camps" in the West. Let's say this is actually an attempt on cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing against Uygurs, then within those 12 years the number of arrests should've reached a monumental seven digits figure already, something like 24-39 millions figure, if you think about it.
All in all, this is the same holocaust narrative all over again, albeit a little bit subtle. And ultimately, it doesn't make any sense at all while being far detached from the ground reality of Xinjiang.
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Also, I disagree with the notion that China is trying to expand their "hegemonic" influence over Taiwan. The presence of the PLA Air Forces never actually violated the sovereign airspace of Taiwan at least in the recent years and then there's no single record proving that the PLAAF had ever flown right above the Taiwan coastline, PLAAF merely flew within the US-administered Taiwan ADIZ which extends into large portion of Fujian Province and parts of Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces of China. China' defense policy and military activity is justified because they're foreseeing the bigger implication of US' anti-China foreign policy and manoeuvre in Taiwan by weaponizing their "ally" and pitting both China and Taiwan in a conflict, with an ultimate goal to take control over China as whole.
As of the "economic and geopolitical compromises", keep in mind that Taiwan saw rapid socio-economic growth and rose to become one of the Four Asian Tigers under 2nd President of Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo (read: Jiang Jingguo), who led Taiwan under strong authoritarian (but never as brutal and violent as his father), nationalist governance which tried to emulate the communist model to certain degrees (given his past experience studying communism in the former Soviet Union with Deng Xiaoping), all the while striving for middle ground position and normalization of relation with China which the US didn't take it very happily. Ever since then, China-Taiwan relation had been relatively in a good term up until the DPP began to rise into power by 2000s.
Taiwan simply is different compared to countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon. It's worth to point out that the Taiwanese military forces is built upon the decades-old KMT legacy and they're in no way weak and slouch. Surely they won't win against China in a war setting but they're certainly strong enough to fend off China while causing considerable damage enough to destabilize the country to a certain degree.
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And when you think about it, those "government subsidy" talking points couldn't get any more hypocritical because back in the Cold War era, the US-Western Bloc was the *primary* advocate of the development theory, which is a chief Cold War strategy at containing the Soviet Union and the growing legitimacy of communism worldwide by promoting market-oriented Dirigism alternative to Soviet-style, centrally planned economic autarky.
It was a key policy that incentivized the US to pursue regime change operation, in a bid to elect Western-friendly military dictatorships across foreign countries in the Global South, which were largely underdeveloped at the time. But flash forward today, the US began acting like it's inherently a bad thing when it's done under pretext of national-level or regional sovereignty and self-determination, since the last decade.
The reason is largely because China today has been a contemporary milestone of development theory success itself in the 21st Century and that, the West become scared of their own theoretical conception taking a way more concrete form in their purported geopolitical adversary, ironically 👀
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@NYCDurrani I have feeling we might be seeing an aftermath similar to Kagame and RPF coming into power after the genocide and ruled Rwanda ever since 2000. I don't trust Taliban, not yet and I think it's wise to remain sceptical of their presence and motives for now, but I'm a bit more optimistic to say the least, that we can put our good hopes to all member countries of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) mainly China, Russia, Pakistan, and soon-to-be member Iran who's been in talks closely with Taliban in the recent years, to build and consolidate a friendly relation and mutual cooperation while slowly transformed them to become moderate government entity and party by all means possible.
Of course we know for a fact that Taliban are considering to sign the proposal from both China and Russia to become full SCO membership, if that succeed then we'd expect Taliban to ditch off their prior agreement with US, effectively getting rid of their opium and arms deal altogether, and possibly cutting ties from US at large.
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52:30 FYI in case anyone wonder, the "Korean filmaker" in question is an aspiring Korean-American student David Yunage (not sure if it's his real name), who produced the film independently and uploaded it first on his YT channel Messy Room News Sheesh (then re-uploaded to PSL channel the next day). So yeah, it's very legit and he actually visited and filmed his interview with the north Korean defectors in south Korea by himself! He hasn't been active since the last video but nonetheless I highly recommend anyone to check his other videos on his channel!
At 53:10 on the bottom right is another must-watch: "My Brothers and Sisters in the North". I'm a bit surprised they haven't watched it yet because it's one of few documentaries out there that depicts a very honest, realistic, and objective picture of north Korea's daily life.
57:49 Another good travel vloggers recommendation on YT: SAO Documentary, a group of Chinese travelers who produced a whole 100+ video series of north Korea tour, compiled in their North Korea World playlist; Lei's Adventure (in Chinese 冒险雷探), a famous Chinese celebrity/internet personality who makes travel contents across China and other countries, including a 12-episodes north Korea tour series on 冒险雷探长：朝鲜 playlist, it's entirely in Chinese language but still worth watching; Jaka Parker, an Indonesian family photographer whose wife is a foreign diplomat at Indonesia embassy in north Korea, lived with his wife and daughter in Pyongyang from 2012 to 2018 which documented in his channel's videos (though he's more active in Instagram and his 2nd gaming channel lol), widely misunderstood by his foreign viewers sadly😔 but his contents are still worth watching!
1:01:53 Another good north Korea rap MV anyone should watch: Xiangyu - Rumors and Slanders. He's a Taiwanese American "Red Rapper" who visited north Korea twice, whose parent and grandparent have lived under both Japanese-occupied Korea, Korean Wars, and post-war Korea. I recommend to watch Mango Press Podcast episode 14 and 42 to learn more about his family and his own experience visiting north Korea.
Last but not least, I highly recommend to look up Phuong DPRK Daily channel and watch these in-depth investigative documentaries exposing lying defectors, originally from a north Korea-affiliated south Korean media Uriminzokkiri which re-uploaded to her channel, as complementary watches to Yunage's Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang documentary: The True Story Of Yeonmi Park, Who Got Rich Through Lies About Her Homeland DPRK; The Lies Of Yeonmi Park: A Cunning Witch Using Deceptive Tears (follows-up); Lies And Truths - DPRK Criminal Defectors Exposed; Escape From Camp 14? - The Truth About DPRK Defector Shin Dong Hyuk (two parts videos); The US Anti-DPRK Human Rights Smears Campaign; A Loathsome Witch - DPRK Defector Ju Sun Yong; How Christian Churches in South Korea Slander The DPRK; Back from South to North Korea: DPRK Citizen Reports Misuse In South Korean TV.
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I think that after looking at the recent course of the geopolitics, I'm starting to feel now that this is too optimistic to be true. I don't think a ceasefire can simply be negotiated between the two parties there because that's merely reinforcing an empty gesture, the primary contradiction doesn't rest at the supposed "conflict of interest" between Russia and Ukraine.
Instead, it rests at the power dynamics between US, UK-EU and Ukraine but most importantly UK-EU as they're the main catalyst to the war's continuity. Ukraine's position are really just a mere cannon fodder running on autopilot mode (to put it bluntly). And although on paper, US essentially planned the overall grand scheme of NATO encirclement of Russia, they can't just single-handedly carry out the operation on their own.
For that reason, they need a strategic "allies" (read: running dogs) and this is where UK & EU step in and help expanding the plan, coordinating the operation, providing logistics & intelligence assistance to Ukraine, and providing legal support & protection for US and Ukraine against Russia i.e. sanction, intelligence cover-up, false accusation etc.
Therefore, I think that simply brokering both parties into a negotiation won't be enough. There has to be expanded efforts beforehand which includes negotiation with the EU (and to a lesser extent, US as well), as well as involvement from more regional blocs outside e.g. ASEAN, African Union, Mercosur etc, as both mediator and guarantor for the resumption of global economic recovery.
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The New Atlas They're very knowledgeable and helpful, I think they can help you as a bridge to learn primary sources information from like thousands of Chinese websites out there, other than mainstream media like CGTN and the likes (including tons of information in the Chinese-language websites, you haven't heard of before).
Unfortunately, I can't make a long list of these people in the comment. YT will automatically hide my comment within 20 seconds, the AI algorithm has the ability to learn your comment, each sentences and words, structure, the way you worded it, etc. But you can ask Daniel and Carl instead about these folks on Twitter, they're mutuals with them.
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@theon.953 It's a fatal combination of the most devastating embargo (sanction) ever imposed to north Korea at the time; a total socio-economic isolation due to the fall of the USSR, China undertook isolationist measure as result of the '89 Beijing color revolution, and embargo prohibited all other countries from doing trade with them; the deadliest series natural disasters the country ever faced from '90-93: torrential rain, floods and typhoon destroyed thousands of villages and towns and critical infrastructures (dam, power plants, etc.), followed with long drought and hot summer led to harvest failures, water shortage, and people dying from dehydration and the heatwave itself, all these combination effectively froze about more than 60% of north Korea's agricultural and industrial sectors around the northern and part of the southern region; and a joint CIA-NIS intelligence psy-op to alienate and lure in desperate and discontented north Koreans (hence all those lying defectors), and to sabotage every possible national efforts to restore the country's economy.
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Most housings incl. apartment units built in China exceed the country's population by about 3-4 times. The recent trend shows proactive effort done by the govt. to redirect capital productivity into the recent tech boom, hence the absolute cool down of the property price bubble because it's really the govt pumping liquidity away from the real estate sector *arbitrarily.* I know that sounds wild, but let's just not abandon the "socialist" part of the Chinese economy, I guess.
Moreover, the supposed "90% ownership" is actually plausible depending on how you look at it. It, however, doesn't necessarily signify the rate of real permanent residency. Many instances, they're simply property bought as a source of passive income or a financial asset. Oftentimes, not all but many Chinese youngsters choose to rent their homes decisively, instead of actually buying them at any given chance, for a combination of factors.
But in recent months, there has been a surge in full-time buyouts of depreciated homes by youngsters flocking into the lower 4-5 tier cities i.e. typical county-level cities, which are away from the "overpopulated", major Chinese coastal cities and closer to the inland. Which, imo, how things should go from here at the moment. I mean nowadays, big cities have reached the level of high quality productivity that necessitated less and less labor-intensive work and business opportunities.
So obviously, China needs to reorient its own urbanization strategy and redistribute the population's productivity, in order to optimize its economy and to curb cost of living.
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@lfsg689 Fair enough. I admit, I was wrong about that all this time and I didn't realize the cognitive dissonance and yeah, she actually say "..one train go to another like once in a month.". BUT.., I still stand by my own words which remains true to the underlying 'logic' of what she said as whole "..like here (in US) it only takes one hour to go other place..". One hour train ride from one place to another would typically be a 50-80 miles of distance esp if we're gonna make parallel between her hometown Hyesan and her current home in Chicago, that's quite a far distance. Even when it's only a train and a passenger car, it's STILL heavy enough to require more than a hundred of people to get it moved at considerable speed and let's not forget, Hyesan is a small, remote city surrounded by mountains in the northernmost region of north Korea. Pushing a train and a car from Hyesan to the closest town would absolutely take MORE than a month to get there for many reasons and then, she said there's only ONE train operating in north Korea.. I mea-..🤦😤
Her lie is so obvious there.. and you still don't get it like at all🤦🤦🥴 Just stick your "victim mentality" tendency or whatever on your mouth, STFU from being so a** and entitled and move on, please. I know you're not gonna say anything sensible after this and before you began to answer, S**T UP and go!
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52:30 FYI in case anyone wonder, the "Korean filmaker" in question is an aspiring, young 1.5 generation Korean-American student David Yunage (not sure if it's his real name), who produced the film independently and uploaded it first on his YT channel Messy Room News Sheesh (then re-uploaded to PSL channel the next day). So yeah, it's very legit and he actually visited and filmed his interview with the north Korean defectors in south Korea by himself! He doesn't upload a lot and hasn't been active since the last video (I suspected he might've done more videos before but it mostly got taken down), but nonetheless I highly recommend anyone to check his other videos on his channel!
At 53:10 on the bottom right is another must-watch: "My Brothers and Sisters in the North". I'm a bit surprised they haven't watched it yet because it's one of few documentaries out there that depicts a very honest, realistic, and objective picture of north Korea's daily life.
57:49 Another good travel vloggers recommendation on YT: SAO Documentary, a group of Chinese travelers who produced a whole 100+ video series of north Korea tour, compiled in their North Korea World playlist; Lei's Adventure (in Chinese 冒险雷探), a famous Chinese celebrity/internet personality who makes travel contents across China and other countries, including a 12-episodes of north Korea tour series on 冒险雷探长：朝鲜 playlist, it's entirely in Chinese language, his target audience, but still worth watching; Jaka Parker, an ordinary Indonesian family man and photographer whose wife is a foreign diplomat at Indonesia embassy in north Korea, he lived with his wife and daughter in Pyongyang from 2012 to 2018 which documented in his channel's video (though he's more active in Instagram and his 2nd gaming channel lol), widely misunderstood by his foreign viewers sadly😔 and you can see this in some of his popular videos, with the most popular one has gotten 25+ millions of view as of today where comments are very polarizing.
1:01:53 Another good north Korea rap MV anyone should watch: Xiangyu - Rumors and Slanders. He's a Taiwanese American "Red Rapper" who visited north Korea twice, whose parent and grandparent have lived under both Japanese-occupied Korea, Korean Wars, and post-war Korea. I recommend to watch Mango Press Podcast episode 14 and 42 to learn more about his family and his own experience visiting north Korea.
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BiliBili is strictly Chinese-targeted streaming platform, I don't think he's familiar with large Chinese audiences yet. Gweilo60, Barrett, Living In China, they're all based in China, having business manager and sponsor from an agency/firm specialized in multi-media content promotion and creator platforming, and are fluent Chinese language speakers. This is why they could have reach on Chinese streaming platform i.e. Toutiao, BiliBili, YouKu, Tencent Video, Sina, etc.
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What happened to China in the past few decades alone is very analogous to Stalin's rapid industrialization drive, if anybody ever thought about it. It's interesting to note that Soviet had previously implemented the NEP, which is what the socialist market economy is modelled after at its core, but expanded upon it.
But I'd like to note that even though Stalin's collectivism of the countryside and industrialization policy was formally a departure of the NEP i.e. state capitalism mechanism w. a dominant party-led Dirigisme, it was nonetheless developed upon the core strength of NEP that's the access and the capacity to absorb foreign capitals and recycle them in order to grow surplus in high added-value, as well as the necessary jump in material condition and growth.
Now looking back at the China's experience since Deng's Reform & Opening Up, I'm starting to look more and more at it as an analogous event of socialist construction albeit being dialed back to a much slower, gradualist pace because.. ahem* I think the Soviet was too accelerationist in that sense and that, they failed to recognize and properly anticipate the dialectical consequences of the Stalin's model following the end of the War i.e. the underestimation of the US/West's systematic, organized, and well-coordinated retaliation against the Soviet's political economic paradigm during the Cold War.
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@bungkusi2432 Yes, and? Idk what exactly you're trying to prove me, I guess you're not denying at all that Pfizer vaccine works, were you? Because it is, it won't prevent you from getting infected but at least it brings solid protection from serious illness (unless you're old) while slowing down chance of virus to widespread. That's what the official data from Singaporean MOH is trying to say.
Of course you absolutely need good and adequate healthcare, vaccine ain't some kind of God's blessing or something. Sure thing Singapore has the better healthcare system but the fact that we got to eliminate and curb down the covid spread shows our healthcare isn't that bad. The issue was that we're underestimating the contagiousness of the Delta variant in the first place, people can carry the Delta while not showing sign of illness and normal quarantine won't neutralize the virus, it'd still remain inside in some way that can't be detected by test. That's why it became widespread eventually. Singapore were already prepared to this and decided to vaccinate much of its population in addition to preparing the healthcare service.
Sinovac is more effective at neutralizing the virus than Pfizer because it's faster at inducing immune response and it can works in tandem with covid treatment medicine, therefore it works best for covid patient under quarantine. Meanwhile, Pfizer requires much more time for our body to induce immune response because it works differently and thus, requires ideal health condition. Also certain people might be sensitive against mRNA vaccine and typically it can't work effectively with elderly people which requires booster dose. But once it works it can bring solid, lasting protection from illness and it shows clearly in Singapore.
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@aprescoup 1) Phony argument and once again, you're throwing another empty ad hominem to avoid from engaging with my argument point before. Did you not respect my position and listen to my request up there? "Don't pretend like you don't see my reply right before yours here.", I said. I'm gonna repeat my 1st point of my reply threads above, so you can't make any excuse to divert our arguments:
1) I was elaborating you facts about Chinese projects in my country in my earlier reply, and I was expecting your grounded refutation based on relevant data to those said projects as well. Trying to draw comparison of that with New Deal or European social democracy is bogus analogy, because obviously it bears little to no resemblance. Like tell me, what was your basis to draw such analogy and made you so self-righteous about it? I want to hear your display of your intellectual honesty and actually engage with your elaboration instead of stupid ad hominem, if you think you're always be correct.
So now, you read it clearly, what's your basis of comparing Chinese investment projects in my country Indonesia with the New Deal or the European social democracy? How come did you even found them to be similar, if not same? "It's more open to corporate capitalist exploitation of the working class.." Bold assertion right there, what's your data to back it up and your "New Deal" analogy buddy?
2) Coming from a so-called "libertarian socialist" student of Bakunin, Makhno, Michels, Mussolini, Petras, Pastreich, Vaush or whatever bs ideological convergence you could come up with, you're not even in position to speak about communism and be taken seriously. I don't have to start somewhere with that because you're such a joke yourself, you can't even bother yourself doing your homework and searching for the relevant and correct information out there to begin with
The fact is that you wholesale believe the widely propagated Western lies of poor Chinese, and you just proved yourself there. "Owning Nothing and Be happy" https://youtu.be/1hhSGfklMtw, I need your elaboration where did you get that quote and who said it? Also, can you see for yourself how Chinese people live in China☝️, do they look like they don't possess a livelihood necessary to sustain themselves a decent live, like your strawman Chinese that you just bloated about?
3)Oh, splendid👏 Who this is? An addition of seasoned racist orientalist "Asian" expert, who thought he could pass as legitimate one by having a Chinese name? He's no different than many other seasoned racist orientalist expert selling public face on twitter, I always dealt with people like him (while I was still there). I keep saying over and over, you're not in position to tell us Asian here because you're miserable White scum and it doesn't matter if you're actually White or not.
And I keep saying over and over as well, you're just doing this because you're desperate for strawman and you got nothing to argue. Why even citing an piece of interview completely irrelevant to our talking point? Do you even read that interview, what does he had to say specifically to the Chinese investment projects in our country here? If you think he could give us a lesson like a first-grader we are in your mind, then why are you only quoted an excerpt that has nothing to say about our arguments then??🤦
3.5) Last time you persuaded me to read that fascist theory from your much-admired fascist scum, I challenged that by mentioning the experience of my people under the 30+ years neo-fascist regime of the New Order, implying that our people were learning more or less the same kind of indoctrination people like Michels or Mussolini would teach and what's your response? You chickened out. Now, you're trying to convince me with yet another quotes of this racist White man? You really got no shame at all, did you?
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@kphamcao "..if they are working for US entities, then it doesn't count.." Or in other words, "I don't wanna read all that you're trying to prove me, but I demand you to listen my rhetorics instead!". Did you even watched any of videos I showed you up there? On-shoring assets of foreign companies into your countries isn't a display of US in possession of much of the technology, manufacturing capacity and anything else, even when foreign assets owned by US in China won't mean a lot because China's in real control of the manufacturing capacity and the supply chain overall, they can exert their authority over any said multinational companies or else, you'll never heard of Huawei, BYD, NIO, Alibaba, WeChat etc etc. Your logic is a flawed one, buddy.
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I'd like to elaborate a further context in these parts 12:30-12:45, 13:54-14:03, 14:13-14:32, and in this article 15:27 So during Deng Xiaoping' reform era in late 70s, China was more geopolitically aligned with the US and then around that time, the Soviet-US rivalry have led to the Soviet-Afghanistan war while at the same time, the Sino-Soviet relation was still under a pretty bad term.
It's worth pointing out the then-communist Democratic Afghanistan government were still very premature after its inception and apparently, they didn't actually have the strong popular support yet as some people thought they were while they struggled to earn the necessary trust and support from the larger population in the rural region, who were firmly traditionalist while many others were strongly adhered to their Islamic beliefs/were Islamic conservatives. It was simply for this reason the Salafist Mujahideen were able to easily indoctrinate and earned a sizable following and general support from the Afghans. It was never because they're actually a good cause for the people, it was because of the dogmatic nature of religion or traditional beliefs. Because of all these, USSR decided to come to intervene Afghanistan.
It appeared that the Soviet arrivals was to support the Afghanistan' cause. But the reality is that it's an example of what's known as "social imperialism", a military intervention typically done by one socialist/communist country against another country or faction, under pretext of "defending or fighting the communist cause" and "to restore and preserving domestic peace and stability" but in practice it's an imperialism nonetheless. USSR saw Afghanistan as their strategic interest because of its abundance of minerals. They saw the new D. Afghanistan as a potential ally to realize their ambition, after the cracked relationship with the previous Islamic Republic. So they decided to reconcile with the new government, consolidated alliances, and sent batches of troops as many as 600,000+ to amplify the D. Afghanistan forces from '79-'91.
Of course, the US wanted to seize control over the country too, but they went steps ahead of the USSR because they understood better the country' largely religious demographic and its rich cultural history of Islamic influence. So to counter the USSR manoeuvre, US allied with the Saudi Arabia and for years trained and prepared troops of Arab Mujahideen in order to be sent into the region as a proxy militant forces ready to counter the Soviet forces. US was not alone in this operation as it had the support and backing from Pakistan and China.
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So now back to the China side. As I pointed earlier in the top paragraph, China was growing closer and more aligned diplomatically and economically to the US side under Deng Xiaoping leadership. This newfound relationship with US greatly affect China's domestic and foreign policy and its political steering, which also led to some of the worst domestic and foreign policy decision ever taken in China' history. Among them is to support and backed the Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan.. and by that mean, they literally targeted the Xinjiang region to carry out agitprop and mass campaign promoting the Salafism as a legitimate "Islamic ideology and cause" while trained and armed thousands of Uygur volunteer as Mujahedeen forces ready to be sent into Afghanistan. The grave consequence of this is that Salafism became dominant within Xinjiang by the end of 80s as terrorism began growing rampant by early 1990s while in many areas of the region, society were no different than Afghanistan under Mujahideen occupation around the same time (i.e. women had to wear niqab while they were restricted of their rights).
Now you folks must be wondered how come these were all happened and why would China did such thing? By the time China began to open and normalize relation with US, the latter had come with an agenda to infiltrate and corrupted the state and the party from inside. Unfortunately, Deng had made it possible because he did some of the biggest mistakes in his reform policies, which is transferring the party' control and authority over the national security into the state council. This created a huge crack for US to carry out intelligence operation by sending their intel and corporate agents inside the state and the party bodies as well as into the university, institution, organization, labor union, and then society. This was why the Tiananmen Square protests happened, Deng never realized they're all taken advantage by US.
It left China with a huge wound that would took years for it to finally begin healing: corruption. While survived from having the same fate as the former Soviet Union, China suffered from increasingly rampant corruption, criminal activities, income inequality and poverty, and local-level power abuse. Basically, China nearly descent into a neoliberal regime. The context of this in regard to the Xinjiang situation is that the Chinese government for over two decades had been unable to solve the issues of radicalism and terrorism in the region because corruption compromised the government' performance and effectiveness in dealing with the situation.
When Hu Jintao took power as the President of China and Gen. Secretary of CPC, he sought to reverse the damage created from Deng' reform but it was proven to be difficult and his tenure didn't come with a very satisfying results. It was finally when Xi Jinping rose to power, had China finally been able to gradually healed itself from corruption and then, solving the terrorism issues while getting rid of the Salafism in Xinjiang, fully restoring the century-old Turkic-Islamic tradition and culture as it should be.
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@MsLuath Anyone ever sympathizing with FPM is like being a sympathizer and an apologist to Abimael Guzman a.k.a Chairman Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru a.k.a Shining Path in their heydays. I'm aware of their strong grassroots origin and spirit, their anti-imperialism stance and their determination for freedom and independence but all in all, this separatist movements are nothing but a lost cause for every Papuans living in West Papua, really.
They're strongly adheres to a very similar radical beliefs to Maoism/Gonzaloism which emphasizing the importance of supposed "revolutionary struggle" i.e. agitation propaganda, indoctrination (..of specific communist theories), guerilla combat training, prepping up armed resistance force, setting up plan and strategy aimed to destabilize the system, etc. with a hope to quickly weaken and dismantle the "imperialist system" and therefore, achieving independence.
This is an archaic beliefs based on misguided understanding and application of specific communist theories about revolutionary knowledge. Basically, for the most part, these group of Papuan indoctrinated themselves and few others to hate and distrust the establishment for no concrete reason. They've always been resenting Indonesia ever since we came to liberate them from Dutch occupation, to them we're no different than the former Dutch colonizer. Their traditionalist beliefs to uphold their indigenous identity, tradition and culture is a product of colonialism itself really.
Also like the other person said earlier, FPM was never a legitimate group. Literally at the start, these small group of armed militants declared themselves as an unofficial government of Republic of West Papua and since then, they've always been taking advantage of largely uneducated local population within the proximity of their operation ground and dressing them up as either local indigenous warriors or peaceful indigenous activism fronts. These are ploys to divert attention from their real armed, guerilla operation terrorizing and often murdering tens-to-hundreds of innocent civilians and alleged colluding government officials every months each years.
Hundreds of Papuans and their generation, who are part of this movements, are living in exile and scattered across numerous countries, including these Pacific countries (which supported their self-determination for independence): Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau, and Marshall Islands but also in Netherlands (lol), UK, Australia, New Zealand, and US. This is how they can keep the movements alive through representatives in different countries. Funny enough, all these 7 Pacific countries are either Commonwealth of Nations or Compact of Free Association member states with 2 of them being realm states of UK.
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Syria is recovering right now. Ever since 2016, despite every threats of military aggression coming from US, Turkey, and the coalition of Islamist terrorist groups, the country decided to advance a nation-wide efforts to restore its economy and society, rebuilding the formerly destroyed buildings, infrastructure, public services & facilities, factories, offices, houses & apartments, historical sites, recreation areas, cultural centres, etc. Since the last five years, the efforts has been pretty successful thanks in part to the material and financial support coming from Russia, their sole major partner in economic cooperation and trade.
Syria has been making a series of success in rebuilding itself into its former glory and Western medias DOESN'T want you and everyone to know this untold truth!
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Michael Here some other things from SG MOH that medias never told you:
- In the last two weeks, Singapore recorded rapid real case drops by 7,354 from 28th November (13,359) to yesterday (6,005). Even more fantastic record is the drops from 14th to 28th November (10,534 cases)
- In 27th October, 5,324 new cases detected while 3,172 recovered while the next day only 3,432 new cases detected while new recovery rose to 4,348. Real cases were 32,490 and 31,559 respectively.
- Ever since 14th July, Singapore have been keeping near-constant 98% percentage of asymptomatic/mild symptom on every recorded cases. And while new case kept increasing rapidly each days from 23rd August to 27th October, the highest real case numbers is only 1/180 of the total population while today US just set new record high of 9,958,399 real cases or 1/33 of the total population. Singapore's daily real case numbers are pale compared to US which HAVEN'T been able to curb the number below the 9 mil. figure ever since 5th September.
- By December 11th, Singapore have recorded 789 total deaths, roughly 1/7,499 of total population. most cases of critically ills and deaths are those 60 y.o. or higher, 75% of which are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated (1 dose). 87% of population are fully vaccinated while 30% received 3rd dose/booster, 95,29% of all vaccines administered are Pfizer/Moderna vaccines.
-So far, Singapore only recorded 7 cases of Omicron variants in the last two weeks.
Please, people. Get your information right and don't spread Covid misinformation narrative just for the sake of your own gain.
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@Michael-if2pm Glad that you're listening, and sorry if I was being passive aggressive earlier. It just piss me off to see many people are misrepresenting or cherry-picking information about Covid situation in Singapore, or even straight lying about it. Even people like Jimmy Dore are also spreading it irresponsibly (and he barely even backtrack his claims when someone called him out)🙄
I'm not a Singaporean to be clear, but I'm an Indonesian and having faced the Delta variant spreads two months earlier, I can tell you that our country, still mostly unvaccinated back then, were suffered far worse condition than Singapore: 800,000+ new cases in a month from 14th July, 574,135 real cases and 82,013 deaths in 24th July. Our health service were so unprepared and overwhelmed with the rapid surge of cases, it was when we finally hastened our vaccination program, we can effectively slow down the spread.
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@thehumanity0 I don't think you really get what I'm saying here. You mistakenly assume poor direction to the acting performances of a certain show or movie for amateur actors supposedly "underperforming" their parts and Idk what example of shows you're thinking about but I can probably tell it's not one w. at least a good direction in the first place. I never suggest any individual actor should just underperform their parts or act "just however they feel like it" a.k.a selfishly, this is simply a misreading of my points up there. Actors nonetheless *can* and should push their acting skill potential in order to meet or even surpass the expectation that's set upon.
What I mean by "adapted to one's own natural ability and range" is that any actor should naturally explore and develop their own potential i.e. techniques and range in accordance to one's own given capacity they acquired from prior training and acting experience (as an amateur voice actor). And you have to do it w. the utmost sincerity and commitment, which is only possible if you have a proper grasp of your own role as well as having diverse acting vocabulary based on cross references that may include even non-Japanese source e.g. both classic and contemporary Hollywood cinemas and flicks, foreign movies, stage play, documentary, non-fiction story, foreign legends and folklores etc etc. Basically just treat it like you're doing a live-action movie.
When I'm saying all this, I'm thinking of shows like Cowboy Bebop and FLCL. They may not be the most perfect things to come out but they've been a very good example of actors not trying too hard to deliver impressions and just staying true to their own skill and potential as well as the ability to understand their roles and context in accordance to their capacity and ability to deliver the relevant context to the cultural target at home i.e. Western English-speaking audiences. Hence the point of a foreign language dub of any foreign media, which isn't to push cultural appropriation.
The best way to respect media e.g. movies and shows of foreign culture origins isn't to commit to cultural appropriation (this is simply the wrong way of doing things but Western production companies tend to double down on it), but first and foremost is to get the context and the message through. And it's totally fine to adapt the original acting style into one from their respective native country because it's more important to get your audiences to feel at home from and connected to the foreign media they're looking to watch and enjoy.
Linguistic and semantic discrepancy between two separate foreign languages are an inherent thing with real implication on socio-cultural ramification as well, and there's a valid reason why the pop culture surrounding the anime & manga market niche are still being seen indifferently and/or even repulsively by many average ppl out there.
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The reason why do we keep seeing and hearing all those ultra-left critiques of SWCC as a "merely social democratic liberalism but make it red" is because SWCC is a direct continuation of Lenin's legacy of NEP, an early form and experiment at socialist market economy, by means of pragmatic and materialist endeavor on scientific socialism development and expansion.
Emphasizing on extensive, long-term socialist construction in mind addressing the intricacies of capitalist contradiction by scientific means, instead of radical experiment found in Stalin's autarkic collectivism which, let's be real, failed to materialize into successful legacy to be carried over by its successors at home, and applied by other countries abroad due to its inherent limitation and subsequent contradictions that rose relative to specific political and material condition at that specific time i.e. post-WWII reconstruction and isolation period.
Let's not forget some important context here: Soviet Union under Stalin didn't immediately become isolated in the first place by Western nations altogether until post-WWII period despite continuous barrages of anti-communist propaganda. In fact, Soviet was actually a major beneficiary of US industrial expansion extensively that's brought upon by the "New Dealers"/the northern industrialist cliques.
This condition left Soviet Union with a major weakness that's being critically dependent to US's specific position of relative political pragmatism at the time, given the autarkic nature of Stalin's collectivist economic policy. And we shouldn't mistake Stalin's collectivism and its material results as an advance toward higher stage of socialism, it's not.
Collectivism was actually a decisive political economic strategy conceived with primary objective as a defense mechanism against imminent threat of fascism currently on the rise in Europe (at the time), and to safeguard socialism construction by means of improving the material condition and developing the productive forces immediately.
Therefore, Soviet Collectivism was meant more as a temporary, somewhat accelerationist political-economic policy with primary intent to raise the living standard and productive capacity of the people, in the face of the rise of fascism in Europe, and later on as a potent defense mechanism to mitigate subsequent fascist military conquest led by Nazi Germany.
Moving on, most ultra-left critiques against SWCC tend have no firm basis in real-world material reality. They're, for the most part, a part of alienated left-wing groups unable to contribute anything meaningful to the existing socialist development or even to start one and therefore, are subject to anti-communist propaganda themselves.
Furthermore, most of "social democracy" assertions against SWCC are also due to the fact that modern Western social democracy, as well as its derivative eurocommunism form, came about in the first place as a reaction to Lenin's NEP/socialist market economy (and broad socialism in general), tracing its roots from Bismarck's economic and social policy during Imperial Germany.
Therefore, their criticism are inherently anti-communist in essence. They're simply capable to mask it through sophistry and dogmatic interpretation of ML-ism in order to distract you from a major fact that SWCC is still a real socialism, and it's what makes China capable of having significant economic growth and material development independently. Whilst Western social democracies wouldn't even be exist without extensively expropriating wealth from other countries.
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As a muslim from the largest muslim population country in the world, many polarizing discourses re:mandatory veiling in Iran are due to almost lack of understanding from primary sources and so-called "pro-govt." first-hand accounts about the law itself, the law enforcement, and the society and its culture since most people (even principled ML unfortunately) are frequently getting their information filtered through these online anti-government mouthpieces funnelled and propagated by Western-funded media such as UK-based Iran International, while never have experience with conservative muslim society esp. in other countries (usually Westerners)
The dress code law requires women to cover great part of their bodies with appropriate clothing and this extends to non-muslim and foreigners as well. However, the law doesn't enforce full-cover dress like Niqab or Burqa by coercive mean, as it did in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states. It still allows moderation to some degrees, even allowance to fully/partially release hijab or other veiling for practical reason (sweat, heat) or for being a non-muslim. Or wearing more casual base such as long-sleeve and slim-fit pants, the point is it isn't as strict as the mainstream media tries to make it to be.
And wrt the law enforcement, the guidance patrol a.k.a "morality police" isn't some kind of omnipresent apparatus ready to hold you on the ground at any moment. For the most part, they'll only give you mild warning and advice as long as you elaborate a proper reasoning of your dress choice. But if you're convicted to your own idealism or esp. just go outside with minimal clothing, then you'll be required to follow lecture at "public enlightenment school" and this is the part where it's met with fierce opposition by some but this is rare occurrence.
And lastly but not the least, the idea of hijab or veiling itself isn't even bad, it's been part of long-held tradition and culture in Iran and the rest of the Middle East long before the inception of Islam. Many historical and anthropological accounts are agreed that hijab and other veiling have been generally accepted by women as means of clothing adapted to the geographical condition they're living in and eventually developed and accepted as both gender and cultural identity for women itself, despite its possible patriarchal origin as well by different accounts.
It's just the reality that the Iranians have kept largely conservative society and if you refuse to believe it, then explains why it's possible that tens-to-hundreds of millions of muslim women in supposed "liberal democracy" country of Indonesia are mostly abided to the Shari'a, accepted wearing hijab whole-heartedly and maintained a conservative Islamic tradition and culture not unlike Iran?
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Latest addition of grift from our boy aprescoup as follow, just in case
Michels was a socialist ("Politically, he moved from Social Democratic Party to the Italian Socialist Party, adhering to the Italian revolutionary syndicalist wing and later to Italian fascism, which he saw as more democratic form of socialism." ..and Mussolini was a marxist, he was a socialist before turning into a fascist! ("Born to a socialist father, Mussolini was named after leftist Mexican President Benito Juárez. His two middle names, Amilcare and Andrea, came from Italian socialists Amilcare Cipriani and Andrea Costa. Early in Mussolini’s life, for instance, those names seemed appropriate. While living in Switzerland from 1902 to 1904, he cultivated an intellectual image and wrote for socialist periodicals such as L’Avvenire del Lavoratore (The Worker’s Future). He then served in the Italian army for nearly two years before resuming his career as a teacher and journalist. In his articles and speeches, Mussolini preached violent revolution, praised famed communist thinker Karl Marx and criticized patriotism. In 1912 he became editor of Avanti! (Forward!), the official daily newspaper of Italy’s Socialist Party. But he was expelled from the party two years later over his support for World War I. By 1919 a radically changed Mussolini had founded the fascist movement, which would later become the Fascist Party.")
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It's a 60-pages paper which you didn't actually read a single one of it, do you? Your phony scheme is on display here, White boy. Just like everytime you did it on purpose with our last arguments, you'll always deflect from addressing the relevant topic by switching our talking points. It doesn't help that you bring it up that student paper right there, you're purposely twisted the context by quoted ONLY the first paragraph of the introduction and singled out the rest of the paper into that only quotation, passing it out as the author's reaffirmation of supposed "Chinese neoliberal" reality (in your mind). So once again, who's sharing the false?
And now what's this paper is about? It's a student paper, the author being a marxist student at Tsinghua University School of Marxism is enough to tell you he subscribed to SWCC and supported socialism development in China. Also, his paper was anything but a blunt criticism on the supposed "Chinese neoliberalism", also notes it's included as part of "Working Paper Series" catalog of University of Massachusetts, so it's a preliminary work for reference only.
It's merely a fair, general assessment of the capitalistic economy characteristics of both China and US economies and on the Chinese part, its economy was understandably capitalistic. It's not even a public secret in China, the paper was released in 2005 and provided quick macroeconomic analysis of Chinese economy somewhere between 2000-'05, at the time when China was still in its growth-focused period and is highly prospective for FDI growth. Of course, there would be ups and downs, this isn't a sacred thing at all.
This is just your average student paper or journal which would regularly published on university library and publishing dept. Public can buy and read it, and they're gonna be used as reference and input for relevant institution or government agency/department. Read the article How an Academic Research Contributes to China Decision-Making, "Thoughts on scholarship based on experience in govt. work." -Jiang Xiaojuan's reflection., published by Pekinology.
So, that's what you're trying to prove me with your supposed "high-information". Except that you stopped at a mere quotation of a paragraph sentence, which has NOTHING to do with defending the false allegation you just spread it out here🤦 You just can't get tired from throwing ad hominem and keeps failing at it, do you eh? Alright now my turn, where's your payment to my argument response in Ben's video?
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@M_Jono West Papua won't become a subject of conventional separatist insurgency, terrorism and guerilla warfare. US bloc countries won't bring in direct support to the FPM separatist group, their operation is intended to be shadowy knowing Indonesia is still maintaining relationship with the US bloc. Instead, they rely on hierarchical-based strategy, allowing small NGOs, funds, companies, etc. all these loosely associated or unassociated group with Western government institution, as proxy donors.
Also, these Pacific countries: Vanuatu; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Tuvalu; Nauru; Palau; and Marshall Islands supported FPM and self-determination for the West Papua. All are a part of Commonwealth of Nation (UK) or Compact of Free Association (US) with some of them are realm countries of UK (althoug before 2011, Lybia have had supported and backed their operation since '78). FPM is also having legal representatives across US, UK, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and the aforementioned Pacific countries.
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@bungkusi2432 I fully support the decision to get Sinovac, but hey at least getting Pfizer jab is still better than nothing. Look at the data right now, Singapore only has 29,732 total active cases (people currently still infected) as of Yesterday while total deaths are only 300. Also 98% of those infected (and previously infected) are asymptomatic or having mild symptom despite more than 50% of those are fully vaccinated, while most deaths are above 60 and mostly unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
It was much worse here in Indonesia when the Delta variant came. Most people were unvaccinated at the time and by June, new cases began to surge rapidly by 251,000+ while deaths increased by 5,211, all these in only 15 days since June 15th (active cases were 116,787) and this isn't even the highest yet. Severety of illness were also more varied, most people are either having mild or moderate symptoms but certainly more people suffered from acute illness than in Singapore right now. We only finally began to curb down the case numbers when the vaccination program begin to accelerate (we used Sinovac primarily).
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@stefanyuwono1909 When it comes to the American economy, the GDP valuation becomes problematic in practice because of its own economic nature, which heavily revolves around inflationary practices e.g. speculation, data manipulation, artificial increase in value (..of consumer or other commercial goods), hostile takeover, certain austerity measures, corporate "fads" e.g. the American "AI Revolution", fictitious economy incl. crypto commodities, etc.
Maybe it doesn't seem like much for people like you. But in the context of political economy, the American practice is simply troublesome because the global market operates under the current floating currency regime dominated by the US Dollar's own exorbitant privilege. It creates an artificial market circumstance where many developing countries esp. in the Global South are either required or obliged to pursue the infinite growth model, in order to keep their currencies "afloat" in the market respectively.
Furthermore, your argument point falls flat because every country's practice of distorting their GDP data respectively is simply the intended effect of the US's practice of "GDP gouging" itself. I already made a reference to all this when I made my earlier comment describing the case of Guyana's farcical economic model; a literal product of decades of US's (political) economic meddling and "advisory".
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@seversk13 "Colonialism and taking over market." Reads like a run-of-the-mill 'anti-revisionist' or some fifth column liberal talking point, usually by some White dude or any terminally online radlib, Trot or MLM ultra out there😬 Also, you can instead try looking for some proper studies out there, which reveal research data corroborating evidences in support of equal exchange assertion of China's bilateral trade with virtually every individual Global South country out there in this world. This is evidence of material reality that can't support the assertion of "Chinese colonialism" because one characteristic of colonialism is unequal exchange.
Furthermore, anyone who still thinks today that China's committing neocolonialism has glossed over the fact that most Global South countries are still under capitalist bourgeois dictatorship and liberal electoral democracy, respectively. This will result in capitalistic contradiction at domestic level, and inevitably will affect the dynamics of bilateral cooperation between each other. In other words, such contradictions are also partially the outcome of any self-interested bourgeois establishment to each individual country, conducting bilateral cooperation with China. At least, I can argue my refutation with confidence here as far as my own country's experience goes.
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US desperately wants a war with China, but is unable to fire the shot first because China is already moving ahead of the US while carrying out counter & defense plans. IMO war isn't gonna happen anytime soon, perhaps (and hopefully) never. China has been keeping a lot of cards under their sleeves and will consider every possible moves to buy them a lot of times. The way I see it, China only needs to keep on posturing while showing a gesture of offense against the US. US could never start a war simply because of strategic advantage China has, but nonetheless would response to the provocation aggressively by ramping up their military operation and programs. Currently for China, national security and cyber defense hold greater importance in defending national sovereignty and survival and they've been stressing their efforts more onto this area. Just recently, even CIA themselves admitted they're so pissed off now because a lot of their intel and corporate agents have been either killed, jailed for years or forever, or even successfully "brainwashed" and are now turning against them.. all by China.
Both countries will keep on "flexing their muscle" one against another and vice versa in the following years. But unlike US, China' military adheres firmly to the socialist-communist principle and thoughts, which is a strategic advantage over US' neoliberal-imperialist military principle and strategy because it allows for greater self-reliance, autonomy and mobility as well as allowing for technological advancement and rapid development. US will eventually gonna ramp up their comprehensive military programs and operations at the scale of 11, while increasing excessive government spending at a rate simply unthinkable by rational and logical thinking.
At some point, it'll start to backfire because of the damage it caused over the country' economy and the prosperity and well-being of their people and eventually, US will descent into chaos amidst nation-wide civil unrest and socio-economic collapse, before they start firing the shots.
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@aprescoup You're desperate for strawman and has nothing to argue here. I'm just gonna drop some truth bombs before your faces:
-China's FDI inflows to Indonesia ranks 2nd highest in the recent years, only behind Singapore;
-China has extensively cooperated on our infrastructure projects since the dawn of our intensified diplomatic relation. Amongst them are the Suramadu bridge, Jatigede hydroplant, Jakarta-Bandung HSR, Kayan hydroplant, several hydroplants in Sulawesi, numerous smelters in Sulawesi, extensive expressway projects in Java and numerous ports built across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua.
-China also invested heavily in numerous joint ventures under strategic "Two Countries, Twin Parks" project, encompassing numerous industrial park projects in Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi, which will help developing our industrial capacity e.g. Konawe and Morowali Industrial Parks in Sulawesi and planned Mangkupadi Green Industrial Park in Kalimantan, all of which will be expected to kickstart our first ever domestic EV plant and renewable energy development. We'll also benefit greatly from tech & knowledge transfer scheme and we'll be able develop our own national industrial capacity.
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Lmao, so our White boy aprescoup just wrote this out in Danny's latest video, admitting his true face🤭
Michels was a socialist ("Politically, he moved from Social Democratic Party to the Italian Socialist Party, adhering to the Italian revolutionary syndicalist wing and later to Italian fascism, which he saw as more democratic form of socialism." ..and Mussolini was a marxist, he was a socialist before turning into a fascist! ("Born to a socialist father, Mussolini was named after leftist Mexican President Benito Juárez. His two middle names, Amilcare and Andrea, came from Italian socialists Amilcare Cipriani and Andrea Costa. Early in Mussolini’s life, for instance, those names seemed appropriate. While living in Switzerland from 1902 to 1904, he cultivated an intellectual image and wrote for socialist periodicals such as L’Avvenire del Lavoratore (The Worker’s Future). He then served in the Italian army for nearly two years before resuming his career as a teacher and journalist. In his articles and speeches, Mussolini preached violent revolution, praised famed communist thinker Karl Marx and criticized patriotism. In 1912 he became editor of Avanti! (Forward!), the official daily newspaper of Italy’s Socialist Party. But he was expelled from the party two years later over his support for World War I. By 1919 a radically changed Mussolini had founded the fascist movement, which would later become the Fascist Party.")
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Last but not least, I suggest you not to buy all those "Chinese ghost cities" narrative you read from those mainstream reports. They're mostly deliberately fabricated or spun news that mischaracterize China's govt planned cities by narrowing down the framing through selective reporting. For example: the famous "Fake Paris Ghost City" in Zhejiang isn't even the abandoned planned city example the MSM purported to be; it's just a private mixed development by a domestic real estate developer that appears so big, city-sized in perspective.
But the cashing of the idea stems from the general lack of understanding of what constitutes as "city" in China, officially: it recognizes any entirety of formal subnational administrative area eligible to the classification, at any subdivision level above the township-level i.e. the fourth level. Contrary to that, a typical city found in a lot of countries around the world is a strictly defined municipal corporation no bigger than the US's definition of a county division, typically sized around 50-250 km² or more.
In addition, such news only appears to obscure or distract readers from the already evident examples of highly successful Chinese planned city area projects: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Chongqing, Qingdao, Suzhou, and Changsha just to name a few.
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Gotta love it when an obvious Western liberal "Cold War ahh" propaganda, coming from some of the most random White person out there, insists only the wildest twitter take as the only "rational" explanation possible to a certain country. So I'm just going to point out the obvious here at 30:03.
I was born and raised in Indonesia (..and am still native in my country), which is a *chiefly* agrarian society juxtaposed to an ever-increasing economic industrialization. If you ever been in any developing GS country and experienced farming life for real, no matter the circumstance if it's sweet or bitter, you know that sequence is one of the last things you'd want to show as an instance of drought. People were just getting started at preparing the paddy fields to be sown w. the rice seeds like, pay attention to the other plots of land covered w. protection sheets.
And then, the prod. team documented the situation around the capital region of the country. The DPRK literally suffered from *consecutive droughts and floodings* in that period of year i.e. 1994-'98. Let alone the deliberate gallow-tight sanctions imposed upon by Western countries, chiefly the US, right away after the fall of the Soviet Union. If there were critical areas you want to preserve its socio-economic stability, the national capital should be ONE of them. No one in the sane mind would actually believe it was all staged lol
Now to clarify, am I denying that a famine actually took place in the country? No. I'm well aware of such an objective fact. Yet, I also emphasized the necessary context re: the circumstance already and I'll reiterate it again: the country suffered from both suffocating sanctions and consecutive events of climate change leading to natural disasters across critical regions in the country, which devastated a great deal of the country's food reserve and weakened its food security. Read basic politics and geopolitics and you should be able to understand the domino effect it caused to the country's survivability w/out having to look for some textbook confirmation.
Furthermore, coming up w. such a hilarious narrative i.e. a purported deliberate staging of city-wide performance , would make sense if it's coming from somebody who either unironically swallow their country's own propaganda as ground truth, or simply preoccupied w. their sense of superiority as a part of the privileged society and thus, willing to take what some intellectual person I've encountered online called a "moral license" to perpetually confirm their insatiable sense of moral upstanding (..and project their own inner xenophobia legitimately), even when they lowkey realize the basic logical fallacy behind anti-communist propaganda against the DPRK itself.
The same goes for the type of people who accept OP's own original assertion here and going along with it, which I don't need to elaborate further at this point. All in all, here's my conclusion: grow a pair and behave like a proper human being please?
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@selaangel6225 I'll also add further information that I didn't manage to fit in my argument earlier. China "privatizing" its economy isn't what you think it is. China *is* developing and further expanding its own domestic private sectors. And as of 2020, China still held about +190,000 of state-owned enterprises in various forms of ownership, just that they've been seeing a shrinking size over the share of national GDP.
What's happening here is that many SOEs have been repurposed and reprioritized as an economic backbone for the smaller domestic enterprises to grow, either it's private enterprises or workers coops. Also, foreign companies will continue to operate and invest in China but their competitiveness has been greatly reduced because of the current policy force companies to form JV w. domestic companies, either w. SOEs or private ones.
This means that China has the leverage to acquire tech and patent transfer in order to develop and increase their own domestic economy, manufacturing capacity and wealth. Moreover, the success of its own competitive private sectors are thanks to the contribution of local govt. and SOEs leverage and coordination.
Ultimately, China didn't see private sectors as an antagonistic force but rather its *own * people at its core. With every potential to contribute and bring positive outcomes, but only when guided and assisted accordingly and properly.
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In reality, most Papuans today have never been and will never recognize and support the movement' legitimacy and cause. In fact, West Papua today have changed and progressed quite a bit as a result from our government' efforts to advance socio-economic development in the region since the last 20 years. It's slow and won't gonna be a rapid one and we're not gonna say that we've done a really substantial and satisfying efforts to the people, but it's still meaningful progress nonetheless
Telecommunication and internet access began reaching to the remote area, numerous infrastructures projects are being undertaken, Papua' ethnicity, cultural identity and tradition are still upholded and promoted, key cities and numerous towns and villages have seen growth and development, there's growing entrepreneurship among Papuans while prospect for economic development sees a clear paths toward better future. Just pointing out an overview of real situation in West Papua in different side.
It's not some harrowing war zone all the time like Vietnam War or something. The FPM militants always operates in a smaller, decentralized fraction of already small armed groups and they always move from one location to another. Also the combination of dense rainforests above sea level and high rise mountain ranges between 2,500-5,000 metres of height, are a strategic advantage to their small guerilla operation as to minimize chance of losing their forces.
And then there's this bizarre claims that our military is commiting genocide and oppression against Papuans. This is b****ck. Sure thing, our military isn't a saint but so does the FPM. Death counts come from both side and worse still, as I said earlier in above comment, FPM is shielding themselves behind the innocent locales trained and weaponized as either indigenous warriors or "peaceful protesters", as to bring impression that we kill more people than they did.
Even FPM themselves admitted that our military have "massacred" about 585,000 Papuans.. in the last 56 years since we began "occupying" the region in '60🙃 Meanwhile, total population in the West Papua region is estimated to have passed the 6 millions figure already as of today. You can't just lie with mass killing claims when data will only prove the otherwise.
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That sounds exactly like what Western corporate hands have been doing in those countries for decades. The reason Chinese businesses Africa are where they are now is exactly because of low-interest loan and extended repayment period + moratorium, without single string attached.
Only Western multinational firms and banks are giving high-interest loan currently because the IMF loan terms and SAP enable them to do so. Chinese loans operate outside this framework and instead offered an (almost) completely B2B scheme where the true nature of the loans itself is a long-term investment.
This is evident with the 'loans' taking form of physical projects such as hard infrastructure (road, airport, railway, power plant, public facilities such as school, hospital, housings, offices, markets etc.) and joint venture (industrial zone/business park, heavy industries etc.), instead of liquid cash transfer.
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