Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

  1. I laughed so hard when you said "he has turned to the 130 year old dead Mao Zedong for guidance, and for external relations, he turned to the 100 year old Henry Kissinger for help" One is dead and the other about to die, what could go wrong?
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  2. I found the bit on the lady from Beijing very ironic. She said she didn't want egoists, and yet her profile reflects someone with a very large ego. Hopefully, she finds someone who suits her very high standards.
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  3. You need to read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. The Chinese have always acted this way even before Communist rule. It wasn't that much better under the Kuomintang. Every time they roused anti-foreign sentiments, students would burn down missionary schools in a show of defiance even though they were beneficiaries of such charities. These are the same students by the way, that would have ended up with next to nothing, dirt poor living on the streets. "Tens of thousands of Chinese students annually extract all they can get from the mission schools, and after graduation, without ever having exhibited the slightest interest in Christianity, got about getting a job in business, the government or an allied racket, banditry, or whatever looks most promising. That is natural enough, but that they should be anti-foreign after having been beneficiaries of so much is typically Chinese. " - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  4. Truly amazing how their population is overstated by a billion.
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  5. What crap? Can you be specific?
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  6. They're all the same mafia
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  7.  @asgaiyawaya3973  "Religiously, as in other respects, the typical Chinese mentality represents the human maximum of broad-mindedness. It is striking to a newcomer in China to learn that a Chinese does not care what an acquaintance thinks or does, so long as it does not unfavorably affect him. Acquaintances may be thieves, pickpockets, and whatnot, so long as they do not rob him. Varied religious ideas are if possible of even less concern. The inferential advantage of this indifference is that such corrupt ideas as the Chinese have may supposedly be more easily dislodged because they do not adhere to any set and persisting dogma. As a disadvantage, conjecturally, it will be very difficult to implant any improving sense of values in his head, because there is nothing in that spiritual vacuum to which such a sense of values might be attached. In religious negativity, the Chinese are an amazing contrast to their neighbors, the Tibetans, the Japanese, and the Hindus." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  8. The 100 million people being cremated are spread out throughout the country. And they were doing several bodies everyday.
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  9. Everytime I see footage of these lavish Evergrande parties, I can't help but think "there goes all the money they stole"
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  10. It's getting harder and harder to keep money and politics separate in China. Those who don't learn will get seriously burned.
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  11. Yup. Someone of his age probably has had a lot of white hair in his 50's.
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  12. That guy talking is such a typical manipulator, arousing hatred and xenophobia instead of addressing their internal problems will never ever work. Oh, and taking Taiwan won't earn them any respect but scorn and retribution from the international community.
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  13. Why do most institutions in China run like Ponzi schemes? It's truly insane. You have the housing sector, banks, now the automotive industry.
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  14. Pretty much. It's the same tired response from them.
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  15. Most people do business with the Chinese because they want something in return from the Chinese like access to their markets. Unfortunately, for China, most politicians care more about their own reputation than to risk any short term fleeting rewards that come from dealing with Beijing.
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  16. Peter Zeihan also talked about this. China over reported their population by 100 million since the one child policy. So the recent numbers that are being reported are already overinflated because they are based on fudged population calculations.
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  17. They don't have a billion people.
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  18. Power divided into 3 stooges versus one Winnie the Pooh
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  19. ​@Fnames-q6x here we go again with "just like the US" comments. US has it's own issues that are different from China. Stop comparing the two when its apples and oranges.
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  20. Chinese are everywhere. Do you really have to question?
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  21. Why not wait and see then? If it's wrong then call it propaganda until you're blue in the face.
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  22. @ No Chinese has blonde hair 🤣🤣🤣
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  23. And to think China is dumb enough to not have learned anything.
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  24.  @aidenmartin6674  Ah Covid, where the CCP reported deaths by the hundreds even though they were cremating thousands of bodies per day...
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  25. They want to bring back their old tribute system from long ago. They figured if they controlled the oceans they can dictate to others what can and can't pass. They will probably even charge countries just to use the sea lanes. They're twisted enough to think like that.
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  26. Is that what you call people who don't parrot China's narrative?
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  27.  @johndoe-vc1we  Yes, Japan's navy is more than capable to handle them. They're one of the top navies in the world.
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  28. Singapore is always playing in the middle. They don't want to aggravate China, but also wants relations with the US. It's all about getting the "best" of everything. This is how politics work. Anyone who things otherwise, is naïve.
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  29. China has always been like this. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a US Consul who lived in 1930s China. Even under the KMT, corruption was rampant and their society has always been chaotic. "A people who show surprising sensitivity of feeling and at the same time appall us with their seeming crudity of instinct, accomplished in craftsmanship yet living ever in houses falling to pieces, alert in business yet unable to make a success or large business themselves, quoting proverbs about truth in every breath and not to be believed in anything, always exasperating us and then mollifying our exasperation with a talent all their own, always busy and never getting anything done - four hundred million of them, upon a background of green paddies seen through slow rain, swirling yellow rivers with bobbing junks and rattan sails, above and through all the smell of a damp moldiness amid spiced cooking - that is China and the Chinese." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  30. China's current culture is not compatible with democracy. China under the KMT and when it had emperors was always authoritarian. What would have to change if they became a democracy?
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  31. That's how communists think. Haven't you noticed? China gets its playbook from Russia.
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  32. Don't flatter yourself when more than half of China is still living under the poverty line. Humility seems to be a trait that is lacking in your culture.
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  33. Even high level officials like Li Keqiang don't believe in the "official" numbers. They use other metrics like port containers or power consumption to create data that comes as close to reality as possible.
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  34. Isn't the man's side already paying for the wedding? Why should they still have to pay a bride gift?
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  35.  @susanohara4274  I will never understand that level of patriotism when they are benefitting from living in another country. Why don't they just return to China if they feel strongly about it?
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