Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. More nervous than sheep in New Zealand
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  2. Long live Taiwan
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  3. But the DIFFERENCE is that these girls are OUTRIGHT LIARS whereas the girls of old went to work on REAL SKILLS that they could use AS A MOTHER and housewife. These girls aren't just manipulative and liars, they have no practical skills either.
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  4.  @kevenbrito1635  you think? 🙄
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  5. It's not unknown HERE in Australia that all the rural girls leave to go to the city, and there's PILES of country towns with no millennial women AT ALL. Like zero, not even married ones.
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  6. Same here in Australia! Farmer wants a wife. Then they sometimes get a gold digger who wants him to sell the farm and live with her while she spends all the proceeds.
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  7. I tend to think that it's a tactic that was one of the few options to get ahead in china. I worked at a place with one Chinese salesman and he always wanted special treatment over everyone else for his customers. Often asking for us in the warehouse to get things delivered without payment or the proper process for the warehouse. I was the warehouse supervisor and the warehouse manager used to block his stuff until it was approved by the office staff in sales. We would always check EVERY order for payment because a few times tens of thousands of dollars of stuff was delivered without payment. He would have stuff set to go for the next morning and would've answer his phone or email for us to find it wasn't paid for quite often. This happened once with another salesman and the client was worth millions and buying truckfulls and paid later that day but it was regular with the chinese salesman. It is like the efficiency of sticking to the process is ignored because they always want special treatment that makes a simple job complicated just because of impatience. You have to go and do all the paperwork and work it out with office staff later instead of everything being taken care of first.
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  8. What and you think there's NONE OF THAT in the west? It's TERRIBLE in LA. They hire lambos and some live an ACTUAL wealthy life. Inches away from bankruptcy every month.
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  9. In my experience they wear sweaters that are literally 30 years old. But I keep finding the occasional V8 BMW or the Mercedes-Benz that's hidden in the garage. But many drive more regular stuff and NEVER SAY and then you find out over time that they've got rental properties everywhere. One I know knows another one worth around 65 million. And as he's standing there with his scruffy joggers, he tells me that you'd never know this guy was worth 65 million but he just drops out occasional things about smaller apartment buildings he's bought recently. Another one was an 80 year old fairly motivated woman. Helping us with furniture in a retirement village of about 35+ residences. She had the little 1 series BMW. Not terribly expensive. Except that I was later told she owned literally half the entire complex. And she was worth absolutely millions and originally had about 40 rental properties and sold a few to back the retirement village project.
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  10. ​ @まるまる-l4m6d one here in Australia killed a pelican and was plucking it in the kitchen of shared accommodation. They got jailed immediately, fined, deported 2 weeks later and banned from ever entering Australia.
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  11. My parents saw it first hand in Australia. Cutting in front of people for photos and blocking others taking photos. Running around like crazy for 10 or 15 minutes. Just no regard for anyone, locals or tourists
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  12.  @marykim987  maybe in India. The western way is to shut up about wealth because the less that know, the better. Openly rich can become targets.
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  13. Dumbest thing is he could've put on of everything ON A PLATE and ate it.
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  14. I bought a solar powered calculator with a battery in the back and fake solar panel. I bought a solar watch for my uncle and the same thing happened. Paid $25, should've got the Japanese casio for $40.
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  15. I KNEW EVENTUALLY house prices in China would drop like hell. Happens after ALL housing bubbles. I bet there's no jobs there though
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  16. They have one standard for locals and a far better one for foreigner export. Your last sentence was proven true in an earthquake about 15 years ago. People's houses almost all survived, like over 95%. The government buildings ALL collapsed including the school. They were in the one child policy phase and ALL THE KIDS were killed when the school collapsed on them due to rubbish concrete. Pretty sad really because I think many were too old to have another child.
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  17. The Russians are used to heavy old soviet equipment that goes when it's 40 and 50 years old. It's crude but never dies.
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  18. Imagine if the building come down during peak viewing hours.
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  19. With panda bears painted to look like aliens
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  20. I have seen it in Australia. Paper plates, cups, napkins, all left there, FAR FAR more than the average person needs and they left and it started blowing all thru the park.
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  21.  @bamh1re318  yeah. The way it works is the hatred is SEEDED and then NOT blocked on social media. Like the BMW icecream incident
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  22. ​ @Luke-vl6xl it is when being tourists. Even here in Australia
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  23. I've seen a chinese woman pissing on the side of the road in full view of cars in a road off a freeway here in Australia. I ignored it but there was a fuel station with toilets only a few hundred meters back.
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  24. That's how to spread the rona!
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  25. YES. The high speed rails were built from day one for passengers only, can't handle the weight of shipping containers and freight or the axles would break or the rails buckle.
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  26. Nothing wrong with find husband camps. It's the manipulation and lying that's the worst.
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  27. ​ @summer031977 you're know they're doing well when their armoured vehicles can't even match civilian cars 😅
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  28. Quick tip, we speak AUSTRALIAN HERE, the western country with more inside knowledge and connections with china than the rest of the west. She does fumble the occasional word though
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  29. Feel like we should be helping it along but that would create unnecessary tension if it's gonna sink on its own ANYWAY. It's one of these problems that takes care of itself.
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  30. Gotta introduce them to moose 😮
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  31. My parents have seen it here in Australia and I have seen them leaving rubbish after eating to blow away in the wind
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  32. They've got a HANDFUL of little electric SUVs here in Australia. But Great Wall Motors has the market covered and LDV has a number of vans and one pickup. Great Wall Motors has been around for over 15 years so has a reputation. BYD may quickly destroy itself. MG are already becoming known as chinese junk.
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  33. And eating tofu for lunch. But no water, because that's not connected.
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  34.  @chriswhite3692  there like 36 or 37. 2 are profitable by a few percent (like single digit percentage), 1 is breaking even and all the rest are losing money. Trouble is they're ALL BUILT to only take passengers, the rails themselves and axles can't take freight weights coz they were never built for it. They do take a few tubs of small items, like 6 inch envelopes for people desperate for documents or computer parts but that's about all.
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  35. You're still used to that old heavy duty soviet stuff like old lathes and trucks. Brilliant steel quality, but crude. Works for decades though. I seen a bulldozer tractor from the 50s that is started with a 2 stroke motor on the side, but it still runs. Prefers sunny days though. A miracle it's still going though.
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  36. They've got GREAT steel but dated and rubbish products. But the old stuff is crude as hell but reliable. If you can get it started. Some of the worst emissions ratings in the world on soviet vehicles but in chechnya they ran them on hone distilled petrol during the war.
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  37. In Australia they caught some killing a pelican. The REAL kicker was they were plucking it in the kitchen at shared accommodation. The people running it called the cops and they were in a cell that night, fined, deported 2 weeks later. There's ones here in airports caught bringing in food, fined and then say they'll pay it later. Too dumb to realise you DON'T LEAVE CUSTOMS until it's paid. Their son come to pick them up and had to pay upfront.
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  38. Yes! Great to put on the wall to impress your mother in law
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  39. I found out a chinese girl I was talking to was cross eyed after MONTHS of talking. And then soon after I realized that most of the photos were exactly like the middle aged woman with the app giving her a thin face. Except she gave herself a WIDER face. Now I wonder if her family was as wealthy as she had insinuated.
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  40. This is why the west has a ton of certifications. But I CAN say that in electrical equipment, my country requires 12 for government safety testing. THOSE get handmade with everything up to or above standard. Then the ACTUAL PRODUCTION model is a heap of crap
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  41. Old British saying. Birds of a feather flock together.
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  42. There's one VERY IMPORTANT point you've MISSED here. Look into the big group that owns Lious Vitton. MOST IS MADE in china or romania, except the last few stitches as in the bag handles, or the shirt buttons or cuffs are sown on in Italy or France. THE ENTIRE REST is either Romanian or Chinese made, with them CUTTING the Romanian jobs to make more of it in china. And have you ACTUALLY OWNED GENUINE high end clothing. It is JUNK, BELOW target levels and often closer to Walmart levels. The AVERAGE cheap crap I could buy in the early 2000s lasts longer. The high end stuff, if worn regularly WON'T last ONE year.
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  43. Most of these properties are on land with 40 year leases, maybe 70 year. They had the idea that the money would keep coming if they keep building excess housing while the central government was trying to slow it up because they could see it becoming a bubble. They made it so each family could only own one house so people would divorce ON PAPER just to buy a second.
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  44. They are EXPERTS at fakeness.
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  45. ​ @aidanc9396 samoan guy I worked with was getting a little shellfish which has no restrictions. Chinese were STEALING ABALONE which is a serious crime that locals here have been JAILED for. I think the limit is like 5 a year. This Chinese guy stealing abalone told the samoan guy that was he was taking is illegal and the cops would arrest him. He asked me and I said it's fine but abalone REALLY isn't. The chinese guy hid the bag behind a rock, the chinese guy went to talk to his friends so the samoan guy grabbed it. Took it home and cooked them. The chinese guy later asked him if he had seen a bag and he played dumb and said no.
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  46. Exactly. They're completely ignoring the fact indian guys try to turn EVERY website into a dating site.
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  47.  @henryreyes9326  all these overpriced apartments are often just on a 40 year lease. The government STILL owns the land.
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  48. I HIGHLY DOUBT that. A lot of their basic stuff is just soviet era stuff. They still make vans from 1968 NEW. They are cheap to buy and no shortage of parts. But they are terribly basic.
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  49. Oh yeah. I KNOW ABOUT these ckasses because I went to one of my countries few "tech schools" before they were phased out and sewing and "home economics" which was basically cooking were ACTUAL CLASSES the MAINLY MALE school done. On the other side of the giant hallway from the sewing room? Lathes and panbrakes (sheetmetal bending machine).
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  50. There was a guy who was buying apartments for like $400 EACH. He bought like 5 or more at once
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