Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. The first guy hold up a Chinese passport like it's a crucifix against vampires 😂
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  2. How much of that gold is fake?
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  3. If she's making you jump through hoops, she's not into you.
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  4. "rule of law in China" is an oxymoron
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  5. The whole "work hard" mentality only serves the people on top if you're slaving away at a job. It's what we've been taught ever since we were in kindergarten. If working hard was all it was cracked up to be then ditch diggers and janitors would be making bank but they obviously aren't. It's all bs.
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  6. ...and they keep talking about how "civilized" they are. What a joke.
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  7. Being college educated is not the problem here. The Chinese aren't taught basic manners and etiquette. And their society never prioritized it. When they are told, they have such a bad attitude about it. They have ALWAYS been like this. Even in prior governments to the CCP. Everyone who practiced these so called "divine rights" and "etiquette" were of the upper classes and monks. "They have steadfastly resisted the introduction of other standards developed elsewhere and which, though far from ideal in practice, are of proven superiority to their own in enabling the average of mankind to derive the most from his environment in competition with his fellows." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  8. Toyota and Honda for life.
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  9. If you are struggling to put fuel in a luxury car guess what? You ain't all that rich.
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  10. I avoid any Chinese hotpot places. Even the ones they've managed to open overseas. They're so gross.
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  11. I never ever buy Chinese Garlic. How is it able to make its way across the Pacific without rotting? Also natural Garlic doesn't come that white. It's bleached and clearly laced with preservatives.
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  12. And this is why you don't rely on China solely as an "investment partner".
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  13. Chinese made things are already synonymous with sub par and cheap. This isn't new.
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  14. "Chinese don't lie to each other" - literal Chinese saying🤣🤣🤣
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  15. Don't Chinese understand that just because you're a millionaire/billionaire doesn't mean you have to be covered in expensive brand name clothes from head to toe? Not all rich people flash their wealth.
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  16. Red flag - literally and figuratively.
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  17. "Endure hardship" - means we (the CCP) can't do anything. You're on your own.
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  18. This is sad and violates a lot of health codes. But then again it's China. Exploitation to the extreme rules there.
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  19. The woman calling Chinese people the "kindest" in the world is delusional
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  20. They're disingenuous. They talk trash to make you feel like crap but their actions say otherwise. That's why you never believe what they say. Being insulted by a Chinese doesn't mean anything. They're just annoying.
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  21. They don't value anything other than making money fast. The Japanese put time and effort into what they do. The Chinese could care less and this is reflected in the crap they produce.
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  22. What they make is a reflection of a lack of standards and clear know how.
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  23. It's not "revenge saving" it's just "saving". Who are you taking revenge against by saving?
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  24. "Chinese EV's are so far ahead" - Doug DeMuro 🤣
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  25. Whether he comes back alive or not, he won't be the same after what he sees. So ignorant and naïve.
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  26.  @reptile33x3  Don't forget PVC & Phthalates
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  27. The woman who told her daughter "you have to study hard or you will end up like her" is beyond stupid and clueless. What kind of rock did she crawl out of? Everyone always thinks they're the exception until it happens to them.
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  28. The woman who bragged that she took a picture of the moon is really something - She went from boasting that her phone could take pictures of the moon to not caring if it's fake or real after the specs of the camera were explained to her in detail. What the hell?
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  29. "Tell me why would I mess up my life like this?" - Because you're greedy and dictated to by emotions and not logic and knowledge 😂
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  30. I always found it odd that they went on a property binge shopping spree and yet nobody was moving into these apartment complexes. Like seriously, where did they think the infllux of people moving into these properties was going to come from?
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  31. There has to be serious consequences. Otherwise, they're just going to keep doing this.
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  32. "always busy and never getting anything done" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  33. Yup. That's what they do best. Take advantage of perks then complain when it's taken away.
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  34. Their triple fold phone was a disappointment.
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  35. Their "true friends" are all poor lol.
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  36. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  37. It's all fueled by speculation. What else is new? They love to gamble and speculate.
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  38. China in a nutshell. That's what this is.
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  39. ​ @canto10mosha65 that's the official slogan of China. Nevermind Huawei.
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  40. Because a lot of people are not only poor but dumb as well
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  41. You can't sell homes to people when they have no money
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  42. Instead of putting effort into adding quality to their army, they frequently lie about their capabilities
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  43. This is the problem with selling items with low profit margin - no profit margin for R&D, no profit margin to buffer your business when orders are low. It's an unsustainable business model. Even people in low end markets aren't going to buy from you forever. Once market saturates, you're done.
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  44. Lol, yeah their passport that gets them a free pass on everything. .😂
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  45. "High quality, high tech" and "China" don't go hand in hand.
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  46. ​ @xephael3485 they literally have saying "if you can cheat, cheat".
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  47. They only believe in whatever superstitions they want. They don't care for morals or religious dogma.
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  48. Come to Vancouver. No shortage of show off Chinese there.
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  49. Not just Tibetans. People in South East Asia also don't see the Chinese in good light.
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  50. They're too petty and small minded to ever accomplish anything worthwhile.
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  51. The women who are around are also so picky that there are a lot of 30 something year old women who can't find a husband.
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  52. A lot of kids in China aren't even bothering anymore. They know what kind of future awaits them.
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  53. Yeah. And I remember Blackrock urging everyone to invest in China's real estate when they were already having an economic downturn 😂
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  54. Well, you also have crappy government policies that only exacerbates this
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  55. "Out of over a billion people" - China does not have a billion people. Most analysts peg their population at 800 to 850 million people.
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  56. They don't. This is the style of education in a lot of Asian countries, which is why they make good workers because they're trained to never question authority.
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  57. This is how they think. It's horde mentality on steroids. Have you ever been in a Chinese mall in North America? The food stalls all sell the same Chinese food just with different names. And a lot of them stay in business because lots of Chinese buy the same kinds of food and don't bother venturing out or trying anything new.
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  58. They aren't waiting for cheaper prices. They have NO money. After paring rent and mortgage for a property that doesn't exist, they have little to nothing left.
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  59. In China, it's a constant race to the bottom. Just when you think you couldn't go any lower, you see things like that.
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  60. Amazing that China always has money to throw around despite their own citizens suffering.
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  61. Nothing worst than fighting for another country who doesn't even see you as human. So much for the communism brotherhood...
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  62. Watch the China Show. It's hosted by 2 foreigners who used to live in China. They said that hobbies really aren't a "thing" in China. It's the complete opposite from Taiwan wherein subcultures of people exist who pursue similar interests. It seems like people in China only pursue the superficial.
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  63. This is why you never pre-pay in full. Always opt for monthly installments because they can always run. This is just common business sense. I thought Chinese were more savy with these matters since they're usually suspicious by nature. I guess not...
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  64.  @hufficag  Because they can't do anything about it. Government has all the resources. That's what happens when you surrender all of your rights to the government.
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  65. True. Nobody in their right mind would entertain Russia and North Korea. And yet China is always treated different. At least it's now changing.
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  66. They know better. If they haven't left yet, it's because they don't want to. They clearly haven't been screwed over enough to justify leaving. It's always money over common sense.
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  67.  @FreshGreenMoss  What nonsense narrative? Why don't you call out what's false instead of trying to discredit what they are saying. That would make more sense.
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  68. no
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  69. And if they are built, their quality is complete garbage.
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  70. What people fail to understand is that owning multiple properties can be a headache. They all have to be maintained and a property that sits empty is costly. But people are only concerned with ownership and not cost of ownership which shows a complete lack of understanding. And it seems like 80% of people don't get this basic concept. Also if you need money, you can't liquidate part of your apartment, you have to sell the whole thing and in a market like China's, nobody is buying properties so you're essentially stuck with it until you croak.
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  71.  @kwokleongawyong2895  Yes, because the camera is always on.
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  72. What the lady said about the "common people" resonated with me and I don't even live in China. People on top always abuse and leave the mess for those in the bottom.
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  73. ​ @acheable Companies still staying just have not gotten screwed over yet. But the writing is on the wall.
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  74. Don't forget mooncakes as hard as bricks and bricks as soft as mooncakes.
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  75. I was thinking the same thing. These are Chinese working for Chinese company IN Africa. Africans aren't getting those jobs. They discriminate against others even in countries that aren't their own.
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  76. My goodness. Can't this country do anything right?
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  77. Exactly! Sad part is they know it too.
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  78. At least they're doing something about this now. And Chinese with student Visas and retirement Visas are being reviewed. What kind of person goes to school/retires at age 35? And in remote areas close to US bases? So dumb.
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  79. Don't forget spittle oil. They reuse the chili oil in malatang restaurants to serve other customers after it's been used by the previous ones to save money.
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  80. It's all about money.
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  81. Yes, they beg while simultaneously threatening everyone - smart strategy 😂
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  82. They're overly confident because they don't know anything.
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  83.  @Wushibuxiaobaibu  Yes, it's so dark that Chinese want to flock to the US when given a chance 🤣
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  84. It's just a reflection of how stressful and competitive their country is. There is little to no choice for anything
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  85. There are seriously better places to travel to. Taiwan and Singapore are better alternatives.
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  86. Why are you always here commenting then? Get a life.
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  87. Everyone in China is all of a sudden a day trader with 10+ years of experience 😂
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  88. Chinese have always acted like this. Read up about China under the KMT, you wouldn't think it's that much different from China today.
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  89. The guy saying he is willing to drink a glass of beer with urine in it should really re-examine his priorities in life. So messed up! Why doesn't he just drink his own piss? At least it's free.
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  90. Their unfounded arrogance always gets the better of them. This is what happens when ego far outweighs ability.
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  91. They don't care. It's lie, deny, lie, deny...lather, rinse and repeat.
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  92. It's not just housing, this is how business works in China. A lot of people in China don't know how real business works outside of government stimulus. That's why there's so much inefficiency and most people don't bother to "up" their quality.
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  93. It's literally so many things happening all at once that you can no longer tell what caused what.
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  94. ​ @rome2totalwar876 the owners just pocket the money and fake their sales.
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  95. It's actually several "countries" in one trying to act as one cohesive country when it isn't.
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  96. It's all for show. Get high grades for the sake of high grades. Who cares if it's applicable in the real world?
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  97. At some point people just need to accept that there are things innately "Chinese" and stop blaming everything on the CCP. You're right. This is one of them.
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  98. "No normal foreigner can expect to understand the Chinese in the sense of sharing a rational acceptance of their behavior" - "Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  99. Taiwan is also better. You won't be harassed. And they are more civilized than the mainland. Even Singapore is better.
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  100. It's Toyota/Honda for me all the way. Not interested in Tesla, BYD, or any of that garbage.
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  101. My plumber from Russia told me that it's no secret that Chinese products are inferior. The same sentiment is felt in Russia.
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  102. "Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best of weapons given to them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit. But the Chinese are adept at deciding what method is best, and before this talent many a sturdy diplomat has given way against the accusations of his rational self in the manner that Samson melted in the arms of the cooing Delilah." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  103. It's always been in their uncooperative nature. Their history has so many examples of this.
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  104.  @ozeight4278  No, they do show homeless and protests in the US. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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  105. Lol, "greatest country" as their citizens line up to get out 😂
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  106. @LivingInAnInverseReality Umm no
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  107. Can't wait to buy my new Samsung Tablet. Been saving for a while now.
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  108. "Chinese don't lie to other Chinese" 😂 - I actually heard this first hand once. I had to hold myself from laughing out loud.
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  109. Could you show us links or at least dispute some of the things being said here then? It's no different when you call someone a liar, what are the lies?
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  110. That's what happens when they open the floodgates of credit without proper regulation.
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  111. They obviously are. Nobody in their right mind would believe their claims.
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  112. Obviously they aren't as great as they are portraying themselves to be.
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  113. This is what greed does. It's all about the promise of making a crap ton of money. No morals, no common sense.
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  114. They're both synonymous at this point.
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  115. They love to complain about other countries while simultaneously disregarding their own issues in their homeland.
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  116. What I don't understand is what is the end goal here? After they've driven Western designers out of business then what's next? Will they now decide to innovate? They only exist because they have someone to constantly copy from.
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  117. Don't forget deny. They love to deny, deny, deny and deflect any wrong doing. They've made themselves untrustworthy.
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  118.  @ib12541  Oh look, another "also in the US" comment. So unoriginal. Stop bringing the US or any country for that matter to the same lowly level as China.
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  119. What is "buy Y D"?
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  120. They've always been low class. They weren't that much different under the KMT and even in previous dynasties before that. Lying, cheating, and back stabbing were always the norm.
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  121. A lot of morons will, especially those who are bought by flashy looks and superficial features.
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  122. Lying and deceit is normal in their culture. It's all about appearances. What is "face" culture at the end of the day? It encourages lying because the truth won't get you anywhere.
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  123. 3.5 million to 1.5 million Lol. That property was never worth 3.5 million.
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  124. It's basically 0% at this point.
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  125. Same here. I told my realtor no Chinese tenants.
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  126. You can't unless you work with your spouse in the same job. And sometimes that doesn't work out.
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  127. They won't. They don't know any better.
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  128. They don't care
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  129. Imagine how fragile your ego must be that you take what they say to heart. Sad.
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  130. Hybrids are better. Toyota produces the best Hybrids
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  131. They won't. It's more important to keep diplomatic relations. Otherwise, these people would have done something already. That's why people like Donald Trump are more popular than ever. Because he's not your typical "sitting pretty" politician. He actually does something.
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  132. China - A country that promotes being disingenuous much to the chagrin of the world. "If you can cheat, cheat" as they say.
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  133. They have no shame despite being a so called "face" culture.
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  134. "Looking advanced" isn't the same as being advanced and China always emphasizes looks.
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  135. Lol, so do their phones.
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  136. "The fighting in China is Chinese, and that means it is peculiar. Very little of it is fighting to a finish. The numbers slain in actual combat are astonishingly low in relation to the total forces engaged. Between two armies of approximately 50,000 men each, say, one may completely rout the other with no more than two or three hundred killed on both sides. The Chinese soldiers have little courage for determined conflict. They lack the exhilaration in strife, the blood lust of possible victory, that characterized the Japanese and some of the rest of us. And then they have nothing to fight for in a sense of vanquishing somebody else. The soldiers are in the army they happen to be in order to eat. They are there to escape death by starvation. Why would they risk it by bullets?" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  137. You have to admit the Chinese take everything to another level...or should I say to a lower level.
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  138. America and Europe talk about their issues openly, China doesn't. That's why this channel exists.
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  139.  @EXMachina. Ask her to stop over at North Korea while she's at it, also Russia.
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  140. Chinese don't aknowledge human limits. That's why they act almost robotic.
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  141. ​​ @kamsunleong6648 reliable? Don't make us laugh. It's only "reliable" when it's not spontaneously combusting or randomly falling apart.
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  142. "They have steadfastly resisted the introduction of other standards developed elsewhere and which, though far from ideal in practice, are of proven superiority to their own in enabling the average of mankind to derive the most from his environment in competition with his fellows. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) If there is one thing that has remained unchanged with the Chinese, it's the fact that they refuse to change.
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  143. ​​ @MasticinaAkicta lol, they don't do much of anything. If you blame them for something, they'll just blame you back.
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  144. ​ @FullMetalElric Mao is a sensitive figure. They would probably arrest you for mockery.
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  145. Not going to stop them from selling it. They don't care what they get their grubby hands on.
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  146. "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "The character of the people has been traditionally such that to thrust money into anybody's hands as an investment was always a gamble. Hence a Chinese with money might as well gamble it over the gaming table as any other way, and have at least the thrill of exciting play instead of the long gnawing anxiety following the equal, if not greater, risk of investing it." "Ways that are dark:The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  147.  @Libra_Strings  Been to Japan - I have yet to encounter impolite behavior from them. Whereas I have encountered numerous impolite behaviors from the Chinese.
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  148. This used to be a common way of thinking decades ago in the world. Problem is it's not compatible with Chinese values of showing off and their so called "face culture". They're cutting back because they have no choice, not because they want to.
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  149. ...or go be a delivery driver, ride hailing driver or be an online streamer selling crap online.
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  150. There is no recovering from it. Who will take the place of new buyers if nobody is having kids?
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  151. CCP officials can though
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  152. Also, add the Chinese's lackadaisical approach to maintenance which only fuels Xi's anxiety 🤣
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  153. Temu and Shein. Where else?
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  154. If they have no experience then why even hire them for the probationary period? What a joke. They basically contract students for 3 months and rotate them out.
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  155. They literally have THE red flag.
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  156. Just wait. The bots calling this "US propaganda" have not come yet.
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  157. They fired the printing press to print money and let the people foot the bill. Go figure.
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  158. They're pissed off with Japan because Japan accomplished what they never could. Not because of what the Japanese did.
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  159. For a culture that incessantly yaks about face, they do a lot of "faceless" things. So what is face in the end? It's all just bs.
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  160.  @johnryan8533  Self awareness has been bred out of the people of China for thousands of years. It's all politics. That's their problem.
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  161. Yup, they aren't that good with money despite stereotypes that say otherwise.
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  162. Why? Given a chance they will run you out of business. And they don't care.
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  163. Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. They've always been like this "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  164.  @Roland_Duson  What's there to know? You can pretty much tell how a person is by their response and how they reason.
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  165. "China demanded we use their ball bearings" - What nerve. Dealing with them is ridiculous!
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  166. You're the ones who do this and when it's exposed for what it is you lie about it like as if the world will still believe in you. Sad.
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  167.  @stheworldturns  Shoddy construction does not count as a step up. When you pay someone to do something you expect it done right - Otherwise, how are they different from the Europeans based on your argument? They took money under the guise of these "construction projects" that can cause damage and even kill some people. How is that better?
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  168. "Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy" - Mao This is how a lot of Chinese think. They think nature is there to defy.
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  169. I used to be in the financial industry. I can tell you from experience that most Chinese don't believe in insurance. They don't even believe in financial planning.
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  170. You can't just demand longer working hours. For companies to justify doing that, there has to be high demand for your product, therefore, more production. If your employer doesn't want to give you overtime it's because they can't afford to and they can't justify doing it because demand is not there. It's common sense! Just look for part time work elsewhere.
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  171. Life as an adult won't be that much better unfortunately.
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  172. It's not just society, it's their culture, down to their parents.
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  173. And yet if you say those same words to a CCP official you will get reprimanded for it.
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  174. I used to work in a payday loan store which also accepts gold. Most people who are selling their gold sell at a loss. Gold itself does nothing. It's purely speculative. Who is going to buy their gold when times are tough? Will it even be sold at a healthy profit margin? Chinese never learn like with their real estate.
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  175. Don't forget their robots which are Boston Dynamics technology from the early 2000's and technology from Japan in the 90's. Their Huawei triple fold phone is a Samsung prototype from 2016. Everything is repackaged as "cutting edge" when nothing they produced is of any sort.
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  176. The lengths that this horrible government will do to discredit victims because they don't want to deal with the consequences. These aren't adults, they're messed up children.
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  177. They don't. That's no secret.
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  178. "Comfort, luxury, and spacious feel" - You can literally get those in a better built car.
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  179. Read up on China under the KMT - they were no different. They've always been like this.
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  180. Read up on China before the CCP. They were no different under the KMT and even before that. The only thing that separates rich Chinese and poor Chinese are their material possessions. They mostly all think the same.
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  181.  @Catherine.Dorian.  Read up on China before Mao. They were no different.
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  182. No, you really think the CCP wants to explain themselves? Ignorance is bliss and very convenient especially when you're lording over the ignorant.
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  183.  @DK-gj5sp  Behind how so? Because they prioritize safety over showing off? Because their standards for maintaining their HSR are high? China lags in both of those things, and these are what matter when it comes to HSR.
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  184. He can be both a CEO and a clown.
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  185. They never will. There is no accountability from them. Only lies.
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  186. They have no shame
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  187. This is why one should always save and invest. Problem is people who aren't used to high incomes blow through their finances and can no longer replicate what once was. So in the end, despite how much their earning were, they're left with net zero.
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  188. Exactly. They should be contained because they can't stay in their own lane. "Containment" is not a bad thing.
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  189. These Chinese should abandon all hope. Unless they are well connected, the best they can hope for is an entry level job paying minimum wage which is very low in China
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  190. There's credit card debt that are used to fill the gap between actual income and essentials and credit card debt to fund a flashy lifestyle. A lot of Chinese fall for the latter because it's cultural. Americans also flex but it's not as widespread a cultural phenomenon as in China. Why do you think luxury brands love China? Lots of those purchases are financed by debt.
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  191. They always say they "did understand". What a joke.
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  192.  @Hispandinavian  Only upper class Chinese had that culture. Most of the uneducated peasant did not bother with pleasantries and manners even before the time of Mao. And those people vastly outnumber everyone else in China.
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  193. This would not fly in any other country (no pun intended). I've never heard of employees not being paid for several months AND still showing up to work other than in China. Absolutely insane!
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  194. ​ @theguybehindyou4762 yeah, despite on the job training, they're expected to come off the assembly line fully skilled and fully trained with the experience to back it up. Ridiculous.
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  195. Just make your own. It's not that hard and you know what goes into the food. Hot pot is basic as hell.
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  196. I was going to say lol. The bricks are as soft as mooncakes and the mooncakes are as hard as bricks.
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  197. Wasn't his brother in law also implicated in money laundering?
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  198. I have a couple of friends from China. He is simply known as "that guy". They don't even bother to utter his name because he has done nothing but create misery.
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  199. Yup. They're always busy, never getting anything done.
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  200. Huawei taking pride in copying is ridiculous. Show off for the sake of showing off, and this is a country that's all about 'face'. What a joke.
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  201.  @teachingthecode4651  What is your definition of "anti-China"? Because every time someone expresses views that aren't in accordance with the CCP's narrative, they are labeled as "anti-China". In fact the word has become synonymous with propagandists and nationalists who will use the word to undermine the credibility of the source rather than attack or refute the issue at hand.
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  202.  @CanMav  What I find hilarious is that this happens every year and these people act like as if it's happening for the first time. Don't they ever learn? Pure stupidity.
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  203. Might I add also lack critical thinking and react like children when things don't go their way?
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  204. That's what we millennials are already doing. I just hide from my bosses because I don't want to do extra work anymore. No incentive, no extra pay, no prospect for a promotion. Waste of time for us who are just trying to survive.
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  205. It's pronounced fee-delity not fie-delity.
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  206. Chinese logic: buy high, keep high until it drops, then sell.
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  207.  @Yae-Miko216  Learn about what the Chinese did to Japan before World War 2. China is not innocent.
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  208. Guy going to Philippines is wasting his time. Filipinos already have a negative view of Chinese since lots of them take advantage of loop holes. Philippine government is also investigating thousands of Chinese with false visas. There's also geopolitical tensions that aren't helping the situation.
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  209.  @ChickensAndGardening  They're not that much better than anyone else. Unless you've bought into all the cultural propaganda.
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  210. Countries act in their own best interest whether it looks like they're aligning with China or the U.S. We don't know or understand what happens behind closed doors of the government. And unfortunately we will never know, we are only left dealing with the after effects of government policy.
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  211.  @kcw0809  Correction: Their work ethic under foreign management. Chinese can't produce anything good on their own without screwing consumers. "A subordinate, under hourly scrutiny, is capable of efforts often surpassing, individually those common in foreign companies. But a subordinate out of sight in a enterprise is a dangerous liability, an opportunist weighing the advantages of working for his employer or working covertly against him." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  212. ​ @Cramblit "The fighting in China is Chinese, and that means it is peculiar. Very little of it is fighting to a finish. The numbers slain in actual combat are astonishingly low in relation to the total forces engaged. Between two armies of approximately 50,000 men each, say, one may completely rout the other with no more than two or three hundred killed on both sides. The Chinese soldiers have little courage for determined conflict. They lack the exhilaration in strife, the blood lust of possible victory, that characterized the Japanese and some of the rest of us. And then they have nothing to fight for in a sense of vanquishing somebody else. The soldiers are in the army they happen to be in order to eat. They are there to escape death by starvation. Why would they risk it by bullets?" - "Ways that are dark: The truth about China" by Ralph Townsend ( Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  213. ​ @gridley read up on the KMT when they ruled China. It was no different. At some point you just have to accept that it's just their culture.
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  214. Only time they will hire a 35 year old is if they work for free. Then again, the same can be said about everyone else, young 20 somethings work for next to nothing.
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  215. Except in the US you can report it to law enforcement and it will be dealt with accordingly. In China, law enforcement shirks responsibility.
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  216. "It is common practice, where carts and wheelbarrows are used, for the farmers to bring a load of vegetables into market in the same conveyance used the day before to carry out a load of sewage. Nor would they dream of wrapping up the vegetables to prevent contact with the conveyance. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Undoubtedly the daily movement of these caravans of sewage removers assists in the rapid spread of disease in times of epidemics. Chinese are hopelessly careless, and as they fill their pails up to the brim. And provide no covering for them, the cobblestones of the streets over which the caravans pass daily are kept slimy with sewage, from which the playing children, the wandering dogs, and the scavenger hogs are promptly able to track contamination into the homes. " - "Ways that are dark: the Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend China has never improved on their practices and they refuse to. Dirt and bacteria apparently don't exist in their reality. They never left the dark ages.
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  217. "It is common practice, where carts and wheelbarrows are used, for the farmers to bring a load of vegetables into market in the same conveyance used the day before to carry out a load of sewage. Nor would they dream of wrapping up the vegetables to prevent contact with the conveyance." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Yup. And they have always been this way. This has absolutely nothing to do with the CCP.
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  218. I think Honda has downsized though. Not sure about Toyota. I know Kia and Hyundai have already somewhat pulled out.
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  219. ​ @stephenc2481 yeah but you have to admit, it's particularly bad in China
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  220. China lies about its GDP? Kind of goes without saying at this point.
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  221. E-commerce companies like Temu and Shein are still shipping to the West though. Once those companies have hit rock bottom, then I'll know people are dead serious about not buying Chinese garbage.
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  222. The inconvenience of doing business in China is no longer worth it.
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  223.  @johnqpublic4012  That's all due to management. And it's not Chinese. Also, those companies invested in China which already tells you that they can always up and leave which is also what's happening. China needs Apple not the other way around. China is only as good as they are still a viable market. That's why so many companies have left, outside of the politics, Chinese are no longer spending.
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  224. Now they're loosing their jobs to us Southeast Asians. Can't feel sorry for them given the way they've been acting.
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  225. But that's what a lot of Chinese are
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  226. Saving money isn't wisdom. It's common sense - something that's not present in this day and age anymore unless you're forced into it under such extreme circumstances.
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  227. Would you buy a Chinese made vehicle by a Chinese company? Hell no, even if it just came off the assembly line.
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  228. "Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best of weapons given to them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit. But the Chinese are adept at deciding what method is best, and before this talent many a sturdy diplomat has given way against the accusations of his rational self in the manner that Samson melted in the arms of the cooing Delilah." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  229. That's why hybrids are the best. Diversify your energy needs as much as possible.
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  230. After the loose money, they cry foul. More often than not, their greed gets them in trouble.
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  231. You memorize math formulas. That's about it. I knew a lot of Asians who loved that because they're not memorizing multiple dates like in history class or definitions like in English class or biology class.
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  232. I work at the post office where I see this garbage being returned non stop. One time the package of returned Shein clothing was badly packaged, so naturally clothing started falling out of the plastic bag. What I found odd about these products was that they had an odd chemical smell (a smell I have never smelled on brand new clothing) and the smell stuck to my gloves. I don't know what crap chemicals they are using. But whatever it is, should be kept away from consumers for health reasons.
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  233. They've always been like this. They've never changed.
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  234.  @hunggiang1475  That's just common sense. It's something our parents and grand parents did. Do not spend more than you make and save the rest 🤣. This is what people literally did even before credit cards were invented.
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  235. "Chinese dread finality. They prefer to keep matters dangling, with definitive action eternally postponed. The strategy of settling things by striking while the iron is hot, so to speak, never seems to enter into their military calculations. Hence it is common for an army to set out against another with all sorts of ballyhoo about intended annihilation, yet when the two armies clash along the skirmish line, both will lapse into a torpid poise, and remain race to face for months with nothing happening. The soldiers of each army will fraternize with the other, with many desertions across the lines both ways." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  236. Politics keeps them backwards.
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  237. This is what happens when everyone takes it upon themselves to invest without any expert knowledge and data to back it up. Pure emotion, zero logic. If these people knew better, they would know not to invest when the market is red hot because a correction comes shortly after. So dumb! Leave market speculation to the experts who have been doing this for years and seek the advice of a licensed financial advisor not morons who have over 10 million followers!
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  238.  @Joe_Blo  Doug's opinions are for sale just like everyone else's. The fact that he said "Chinese EV's are so far ahead" already says a lot. He sounds just like any other shill. And they all say the same thing.
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  239.  @Oniontrololol  All people really have to do is invest in a frozen meat cutter. There are decently priced ones online. And they just have to buy the ingredients which are cheaper from the grocery. It's seriously a waste of money when quality isn't even guaranteed anymore. I only eat hotpot at home and am more than happy to make it for my family and everything is fresh.
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  240. More and more clothes are being made elsewhere. I see Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Bangladesh, Thailand etc to name a few...
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  241. They think having an unregulated banking system is actually a plus for them...go figure.
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  242. Yes, you bribe the person testing you.
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  243. More like from rags to credit to default.
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  244. Those F16 are probably just going to get put to the side. But they aren't going anywhere.
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  245. ​​ @diego2817 and we're supposed to take your word for it? Who are you that we should listen to your "expert" opinion?
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  246. Quick money and stocks are not a good match, unless if you're an experienced day trader or have qualifications as a financial advisor. This is just another farce waiting to happen. They never learn.
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  247.  @kamsunleong6648  Actually, Australia diversified after the China fiasco. Don't be so arrogant. Everyone is avoiding putting all their eggs in the China basket for a reason.
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  248. Yup, the top 1% doesn't even buy this crap. It's all upper middle class and middle class.
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  249. "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  250. People need to invest elsewhere. They aren't the only ones capable of producing. People in Southeast Asia are just as if not becoming more educated than the Chinese.
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  251. Read up on the KMT when they ruled China. This was already prevalent even back then and perhaps prior to that. Hatred has always been taught in their culture.
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  252. A lot of these "investors" put their money in multiple properties that they share with other "investors" so even selling these properties is a nightmare.
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  253. That's why they're exporting their cheap, unregulated products abroad. Because the locals aren't making a dent in consumption.
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  254. They probably already are. For that low a price? You better believe that people are coming up with means and ways to scam people.
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  255. They don't innovate and they don't care about standards. They only want to make things for cheap. So that's not likely.
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  256. They love to talk big. Oftentimes they either lie or exaggerate.
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  257. Sad but not new. China under different rulers have always dealt with this. Epidemics were always a thing in China's ancient history. That should already tell you a lot about hygienic practices there.
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  258. ​ @Lordtariq4233 getting a Huawei for free is an insult. Nothing good can come from it. It shows that you don't care about the person on the receiving end 😂
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  259. If you look at the things that sell to the Chinese, it's all the same. This is how you can explain why there are so many hotpot places or bubble tea places everywhere. What separates one from the other? They all sell the same thing. Do you see them trying Greek food, Italian food, or Caribbean food? No. They're not open to trying new things and always opt for what's familiar and the same.
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  260.  @reginageorgetownuni  This isn't "taking revenge", it's called "having common sense for once". Stop calling it what it isn't. It's just a bunch of empty buzzwords.
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  261.  @xdangelovidz  Instead of attacking one's credibility, why don't you actually dispute what is being said here with facts?
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  262. "No normal foreigner can expect to understand the Chinese in the sense of sharing a rational acceptance of their behavior" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  263. "The fighting in China is Chinese, and that means it is peculiar. Very little of it is fighting to a finish. The numbers slain in actual combat are astonishingly low in relation to the total forces engaged. Between two armies of approximately 50,000 men each, say, one may completely rout the other with no more than two or three hundred killed on both sides. The Chinese soldiers have little courage for determined conflict. They lack the exhilaration in strife, the blood lust of possible victory, that characterized the Japanese and some of the rest of us. And then they have nothing to fight for in a sense of vanquishing somebody else. The soldiers are in the army they happen to be in order to eat. They are there to escape death by starvation. Why would they risk it by bullets?" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  264.  @Numischannel  Cook the books in a wok made mostly of lead and gutter oil.
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  265. 70 years? They've always been like this.
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  266. "It is common practice, where carts and wheelbarrows are used, for the farmers to bring a load of vegetables into market in the same conveyance used the day before to carry out a load of sewage. Nor would they dream of wrapping up the vegetables to prevent contact with the conveyance." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Nothing new here.
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  267. Keep coping wumao
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  268. "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Nothing to do with cultural revolution. They've always been like this.
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  269. You know that China lies about the numbers right? It simply doesn't make sense if consumption in the developed world is down and their exports went up. Something's amiss.
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  270.  @davidshanahan5134  Where I live there are stores that stock up on garlic from the US and other countries like Spain so we have choices here thank goodness.
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  271. Money is one hell of a drug, especially for businesses that want a piece of the Chinese market.
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  272.  @SCM0NDT  Stop with this "like in the US" comments. It's absolutely ridiculous and not true.
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  273. Why is lying so normal in your culture?
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  274. They've always been like this. Nothing has changed.
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  275. Self awareness isn't one of their strong suits.
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  276. Is there even such a thing as "high quality" toys when a lot of them are made in China?
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  277. We don't know what the CIA does.
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  278. Seething anger and arrogance towards foreigners is something that is always boiling under the surface.
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  279. Numbers say otherwise. Even the numbers they lie about reflect this.
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  280. Don't forget the people who died as well. Dead people don't contribute to gdp.
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  281. China has always been like this. Look throughout history. This problem has never been fixed.
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  282. Didn't she already describe everyone? If a top tier city like Shenzhen is already experiencing this what more other parts of the country?
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  283. That's great because people of other countries don't feel the same towards you.
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  284.  @KJ-tq3sm  I'm with @loremasteringwion9930 on this one. More Chinese died and they were the ones who started it with the Indians. I don't know why you're making a case for the Chinese when they obviously fell short in that situation. The dead weren't even honored by the CCP.
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  285. Most of them are. And there's no shortage of people willing to sell their soul in China.
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  286. Self awareness isn't one of their strong suits
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  287. Yup. They're competing for jobs that aren't even there.
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  288. Anyone with basic food safe and cleanliness standards would have a field day. This is beyond disgusting.
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  289. ​ @Henry-bl3lz "more modern and more safe" - that's funny.
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  290. It's like an addiction. They can't completely let go.
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  291.  @TeeDee-j9u  Wait. China was at the bottom once. It's now India's turn. They overtook China population-wise. They will overtake China economically as well.
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  292. And the world still keeps dealing with them...says a lot about the times we live in
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  293.  @triadwarfare  This is how they navigate the world. They think everyone acts and thinks like them.
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  294. Because they're also the ones who put them there.
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  295. "China's last warning" which is something that the Soviet's came up with applies with them all the time.
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  296. A lot of them are also in Vancouver
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  297.  @sinag.hiraya  The question is we already have reason to believe that they're there for nefarious reasons. What will they now do about it? They're already there.
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  298. Because of money. That's the main reason why we see all sort of these deals. China also has numerous shell companies (probably have some outside of China) to pose as buyers so they can always shirk sanctions.
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  299. ​@lilunchengsmiles entertainment despite the evidence? Yeah right...
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  300. You shouldn't. They don't feel sorry for you.
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  301. 35 and over have no chance, at 40 you're beyond screwed.
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  302. Their government doesn't care.
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  303. Pretty much. You have no future and you have no control of what happens to you career wise.
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  304. Throwing in the towel early doesn't make you "ahead".
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  305.  @mah7961  The problem is they produce for the sake of producing. And because everything is cheap, why should they care about the quality of what they produce?
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  306. This is common practice in China.
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  307. "Wherever we look in Chinese history we find it characterized by this absolute meaninglessness of words, with the virtues of loyalty, reliability and truth all tumbled into a sterility of mere outward noise." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend ( Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They complain about "corruption" because it doesn't benefit them 😂
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  308. "Just as the Chinese mentality lacks real inventiveness, it emphatically lacks constructiveness in all fields. Their leading writers and speakers are ninety-nine percent of the same stamp, as witness any Chinese magazine or newspaper, or the theses Chinese university students are prone to polish off in this country. The modern writer whom the Chinese most revere, Sun Yat-sen, reveals everywhere this academic negativity. He tells what ought not to be done, but in stating what should be done he goes little farther than saying that he wants China to be a land of cooperating workers living happily. Out of the thousands of Chinese students with the best education the world can provide it is one of the amazing contemporary phenomena that they have produced no thinkers of any rating." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  309. That's especially true in China where everything is run by politics and not reason and common sense.
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  310. It's been like that fo a while now. Especially with cars' planned obsolescence.
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  311. China's story is particularly bad though...
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  312. Poverty slowly disappearing in China? Are you a comedian?
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  313.  @michaelpettersson4919  Taiwanese distinguish themselves by calling themselves "Taiwanese" same with Chinese from Singapore are "Singaporean" or "Singaporean Chinese". "Chinese" usually just means mainland Chinese, that's why they don't use it.
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  314.  @mah7961  no they don't. But the culture of showing off and gambling is so rampant it's inevitable. Chinese also attach your self worth to how much money you earn. That's why they are shameless in asking you your salary. Because they're trying to figure out how much respect you will be afforded. So putting out an image of "success" already guarantees you will be in the hole whether you actually succeed or not remains to be seen.
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  315. 5000 years of culture my ass.
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  316. 70% is a low mark in Math for an Asian. Hell even a 95% is a low mark. They want you to get 100%
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  317. ​ @DK-gj5sp people from developed and "sane" countries have a favorable view of the US. Get a life.
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  318. He doesn't know how to read
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  319. ​​ @awjames1121 everyone is moving to Southeast Asia. No amount of bitching about the US will change that simple fact. China's screwed.
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  320. ​ @CaptainSeato it's funny because these guys hid in the mountains during WWII.
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  321. My parents raised me the same. If I did something like this, I would be lambasted by my parents for being so dumb and pathetic.
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  322. At least some Chinese parents are aknowledging this reality and are instead opting for their children to play instead of constantly stressing them out for no reason.
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  323. Going to Europe when they can't even speak the local language except the UK?
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  324. No permanent allies, only permanent interests
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  325. They're not all qualified. In fact quite a bit of them cheated to get to where they are. The ones who go abroad are typically rich so they didn't have to work hard for anything.
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  326. They are not surprisingly naïve about how a lot of things in the world works.
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  327. Kpop and K dramas dominate Asia. The only thing that China produces that people tune into are their historical dramas which after a while all start looking the same like Bollywood films.
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  328.  @poledancemay  Taiwan is just China if they became democratic and were introduced to more progressive values. But when I went to Taiwan, I also saw uncivilized behavior. For example, when I was in the train station, random people were sprawled out on the floor waiting for the train to come. At some point you just have to accept that this "Chinese behavior" is innate in them no matter where they come from.
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  329.  @DD-rs6mn  They're talking about values. Japanese value quality and craftsmanship and the Chinese don't. Before you say otherwise, name a Chinese company that has lasted for a hundred years that has become synonymous with quality? I can't think of any of the top of my head.
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  330. Yup, all you need are multiple piggy banks or jars for different accounts.
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  331. If she truly wanted to keep the oil for recycling, then why not put it in a separate receptacle? Why throw it in the garbage to get later? I don't understand their lack of logic when it comes to this. It's truly bizarre. Restaurants in the West have containers for oil that has been used because it can't be thrown down the drain by law since it clogs pipes and is harder to filter out even in the treatment plant.
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  332.  @hunggiang1475  You still need to participate in the economy. After all people still need to eat and clothe themselves right?
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  333.  @dannyzero692  Not true, China has multiple ethnic groups that also vied for power. Ever heard of the Mongols or the Manchus? They weren't Han Chinese but they were able to consolidate power at a point in time.
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  334. Actual grave "graves" - because when everyone's lost their job, they won't be able to buy food and will therefore starve to death.
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  335. It's quite easy. Japanese act differently from Chinese. I could easily tell when I was in Japan.
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  336. It's their culture. Deceive, lie, deceive, lie.
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  337.  @freeman10000  Yeah, Chinese food isn't even that hard. All their dishes literally have soy sauce in everything, maybe oyster sauce and Hoisin sauce. There's not a lot to it.
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  338. When compared to Taiwan, Mainland Chinese don't have a lot of sub groups with interests. In Taiwan, you have gamers, motor cycle enthusiasts, fitness enthusiasts, volunteer groups etc. China does not have any of those unless they want to make it political as usual.
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  339. His name is Jian Koh-nar
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  340. "Fairness" with Chinese characteristics, which means "not fair" at all. Lol.
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  341.  @scoro1liii9  Lol, they bought each other's lies.
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  342. ​ @theethicsofliberty4642 they love to speculate. First, housing. Now, the stock market. No logic or reason. They deserve to loose their money.
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  343.  @geelgamesh8596  China is still the same. What has changed? Other than the fact that they wear modern clothes and drive modern cars. Scammers still exist everywhere and they still lie. Remember Covid?
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  344. I don't want cardboard in my food all for the sake of it being "vegan". They can keep their "vegan" garbage that barely passes for food.
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  345. America is better at handling snow than the Chinese. Why even put them in the same category? Why not include other countries in this?
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  346. Agreed. People run everything through credit not thinking that at some point the banks are going to come knocking.
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  347. Except the actual owners aren't in China. They are in the US, so in essence they can just relocate the "farm". Maybe they shouldn't piss off the owners if they want jobs.
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  348. They can't even agree on a currency when they're all concerned with furthering their own interests and respective currencies.
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  349. Just check where stuff is from. I never buy food made in China especially their garlic. If I can afford not to buy their ginger, I do as well.
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  350. Everything "good" about China is a lie. Can you blame them?
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  351.  @jjhappy2399  Japan did a lot of heinous things during WW2 but a lot of us in Asia have moved on. It's the older generation that won't let go of this. And keep repeating this to subsequent generations, generating a lot of hatred. Learn from the past and move on! Japan today isn't the same as Japan from the past.
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  352. You know what they say. Some people never learn and a sucker is born everyday.
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  353. Their cameras always seem to "break" when they need to look for perpetrators.
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  354. That's an oxymoron
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  355. They're not spending because they have no money. What do you mean punish corporations and their government? They're literally being squeezed out of everything they have.
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  356. Because they don't want competition.
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  357. Philippines is doing something about these crimes. For one, Filipinos don't keep a stiff upper lip. If they see something amiss you can bet that it would make its way to the media. Filipinos make it their business to know what's happening in their neighborhood.
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  358.  @nobodyanybody3374  I have a friend from China and he told me that people in the US are still better off. Yes, the pay may not be the best but in general employees are protected by labor laws and have rights - he said that none of that exists in China.
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  359. If you live in the big cities, the air quality is already bad. Even if you don't inhale cars burning, the normal air will kill you.
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  360.  @piotrmajewski5978  If there's one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese is that they refuse to change.
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  361. ​ @janedoe4316 read up on China under the KMT. They were no different.
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  362.  @ikme9393  Next thing they will be making will be jet engines. I wouldn't be surprised. Stay tuned 😱
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  363. The ones who have have created knockoffs of brands already exist. Innovation isn't their strong suit.
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  364. And you love to be entertained since you're always here.
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  365. ​ @dukhi_aatma372 Yup. It's always been part of their culture.
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  366. "The readiness of all classes of Chinese to say whatever will please your ear at the moment, altogether irrespective of the truth, will be impressively noted in dealing with them" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  367.  @TheQuota2001  No such thing as perfect culture. But some cultures have their act more so than others. Can't deny that simple fact since some cultures accomplish more than others.
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  368. Read up on China under the KMT, it was no different.
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  369. The fact that mechanics in China are finding it a pain in the ass to work on BYD batteries is very telling on BYD's complicated and sub par craftsmanship.
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  370.  @kuebby  Pretty much everyone in the last 4 years lol
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  371.  @zatoichiable  I buy made in China products when I have no choice. I always check where items are made. It's good that now a lot of products are being made elsewhere. So that's not always true anymore.
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  372. She targeted gullible men. Not all men are gullible.
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  373.  @willpugh-calotte2199  it's difficult to turn a scholar into a farmer.
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  374.  @kaasmeester5903  Not likely. The only reason why those improvements were made was because you had managers from overseas managing production, which meant there were standards in place. The Chinese manage based purely on politics. Their style of management doesn't allow for innovation and criticism because of their crab mentality and corruption.
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  375. So when you're not force feeding yourself, you become bulimic from binging and purging? Sounds like one hell of a "career".
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  376. When testing something, do you have to use your actual appendage, or can you use a dummy appendage so you don't actually have to get hurt? 🤣
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  377. She's still comtemplating going to China despite everything that's happened? Wow. Why not make a side trip to North Korea while she's at it?
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  378. A lot of Chinese are not actually educated about using fridges. Lots of them opt to buy fresh meat everyday.
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  379.  @edmedina6398  They have better things to do. Stop accusing others of what Chinese do themselves. The whole world is already aware of this.
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  380. ​we have evolved away from those times already. So how do you determine the valuation of gold when it comes to buying things in today's market? Gold is no longer circulated as a currency in today's time. So you see what a mess this is going to be right?
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  381. Gambling is incredibly crazy in China though. You're talking about a people who don't even acknowledge the existence of gambling addictions, which makes it all the more serious.
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  382. Looks gross
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  383. "Anywhere and at almost any time in China, you can see a cart fallen on a man or a horse, or some similar accident, plentiful in the crowded streets, with curious onlookers not stirring a hand to lift the injured out of his predicament. This indifference to fellow suffering seems by all evidence to be distinctly oriental." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They've always been like this. Nothing to do with communism. It's just in their culture.
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  384. ​ @james-in2ps they are sellibg all over the world. There isn't a large demand for their stuff
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  385. They already have missles aimed there
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  386.  @hunggiang1475  Then young people are truly screwed if they're taking direction from social media and not their parents who should be educating them about how money works.
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  387. At this point, a degree in logistics or a course in social media would probably be more useful if those are the careers you are pursuing.
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  388.  @coreyjohnson145  my younger brother stopped over once en route from Canada to Thailand. I asked him "how was China?". His response was "I will never visit that God forsaken place ever again". 😂
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  389. the people who have the luxury to lie flat ie young kids can because they live with their parents. The rest of them put in the bare minimum just so that they can eat, but they don't go above and beyond what is required.
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  390.  @andrewtaylor940  "China has the advantage of a population more easily governed by central authority than most, a people, who while quarrelsome in a back alley and neighborhood way, are as a population easily governed by moderately strong unified force. The great majority ask nothing more than to be let alone unoppressed. Yet those Chinese in strategic positions to exercise this moderate show of authority fall vastly short of the requirements for it. They betray and obstruct one another, maintaining a tug of war, with each pulling a different strand in a different direction, not one willing to give an inch in a common cause, each negotiating with temporarily allied henchmen to stab competitors in the back, each determined on no compromise which does not offer him a lion's share of the booty. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  391. ​ @BeatoricheChannel-yy4gk anytime I hear "they're so ahead" I already know it's propaganda.
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  392. Well, they are.
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  393. Problem is accessing these places. Lits of squatters don't have transportation so walking to and fro to the nearest groceries will be a headache, especially these places built further away.
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  394. Just like the cultural revolution. When Mao needed to export metal to Russia, the Chinese melted their pots and pans to meet the quota.
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  395. You don't need a Phd to become an engineer. Researchers and professors, yes, but most jobs don't require one.
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  396.  @yelanchiba8818  And a lot of the women see their husbands as a meal ticket. The last thing they want to do is work because there is no incentive to do it. And if they do, unless they really love the guys, they will do it begrudgingly since being married was supposed to be the means for an easier life.
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  397. Do you know what those accessories and incense are even made of? If you can take comfort in blind ignorance without any regard for your health then that's your prerogative.
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  398. ​ @rickrollrizal yup, they don't make an effort to learn local cultures and take their backward cultural practices with them.
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  399.  @there_can_only_be_one__unicorn  This will literally be me in a couple of years - Moving out of an expensive city in North America and heading back to Southeast Asia. No future here and it's too damn expensive. There's no more room for growth and improvement. Just saving up as much as I can before doing it.
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  400.  @abrahamdsl That Haidilao gutter crap is in North America as well.
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  401. translation: "We screwed up the economy. And there's nothing we can do because we're proud and stupid" 🤣
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  402. Chinese logic knows no bounds 🤣
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  403. They know they are.
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  404. Just go to Taiwan. People are polite, you can get around speaking English and it's far less polluted than China. You'll probably have a far more pleasant experience there.
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  405. And they wonder why their society is the way it is? Ridiculous.
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  406. The word "cement" should always be in quotes lol.
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  407. Decline? They were "better" before lol?
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  408. And their population tolerates this.
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  409.  @mattneil1449  Read up on China before the CCP. They have always been like this. 5000 years of culture was from the educated upper classes. 90% of China was never like that.
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  410.  @nicholasrockall7308  "Anywhere and at almost any time in China, you can see a cart fallen on a man or a horse, or some similar accident, plentiful in the crowded streets, with curious onlookers not stirring a hand to lift the injured out of his predicament. This indifference to fellow suffering seems by all evidence to be distinctly oriental." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Yes, they've always been like this. They need to stop blaming the CCP when it's just their culture.
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  411. It's pretty much their culture in a nutshell.
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  412. And they wonder why they're going bankrupt.
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  413. I was just thinking the same. Why do this in public. It's so cringe and humiliating. And this is a culture that values face? Yeah, right.
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  414. Reverse engineering is one thing. But if Chinese don't understand build quality and why certain materials are used over others you're ultimately left with a sub standard product. Just look at their inferior Jet fighters which they directly copied from the Russians. Yes, they built it but it can't stay in the air for too long and it can't carry missles for extended periods because it consumes more fuel to do so. It would have made more sense for them to just buy the damn thing instead of wasting their time creating it.
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  415. Who are you trying to convince?
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  416. They don't care about fairness. And saying "they ought to" won't change a damn thing.
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  417. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  418.  @curtispaul9717  That stuff is produced under management of people from overseas. Want to know what China produces? Get items made in China by a Chinese company.
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  419.  @johntang4108  No they don't. Most people I talk to are reluctant to buy Chinese EV's because of quality issues. Stop lying.
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  420. China never built its brand through proper innovation and marketing. For that to happen, they would need a healthy profit margin. That's hard to do when you sell sub par items for cheap. They have brands. But their brands are cheap knockoffs of established brands.
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  421. ​​ @nocolo123 where in America do they do this. Where's your proof?
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  422. "Buy one get one free" real estate. They're so desperate. That's never ever been offered in any normal country that sells real estate.
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  423. Desperation makes people irrational.
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  424. ​ @Michael9-23-15 they take everything to a whole level. What else is new?
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  425. They want to "lead" the car industry while simultaneously copying others. What a joke!
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  426. 1 Billion RMB = 138,064,300.00 USD. Not a billionaire in a dollar sense but it's still a lot of money in China.
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  427. They bought it in good faith thinking they were getting a good deal. I'm sure if they could have foreseen these events they wouldn't have bothered because they would have known better.
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  428. Why the hell would you ever buy something you would never own? Is your head screwed on right? Why do you think most Chinese are buying property overseas?
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  429. When China boomed: Consume gutter oil When China is economically spiralling: Consume gutter oil What's the difference?
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  430.  @mcmans.  At least you can pass it on to family members. So in essence you're passing on this wealth. In China you can't do anything of the sort. So what are you paying for when your kids have to always start from ground zero?
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  431.  @riverlady982  Those products also last longer. So in essence they pay for themselves. If you have to keep buying products because they're flimsy, you're not actually saving. They make you think you are but when it comes down to it you're spending the same if not more had you just bought the more "expensive" product that is of better quality.
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  432. ​​ @jesuspower2390 lol. They've always been like that. The only thing that changes in their country are their leaders.
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  433.  @bbb7863  The government IS the reflection of the people. Also, if you visit a country that is notorious for having lots of criminals don't be surprised if you get mugged or scammed then justify it by saying "well not all of them are criminals" - this is the analogy you are using and it's very naive to say that and does not reflect reality. China is notorious for sub par quality. More often than not, they have to be supervised by foreign companies in order to maintain a certain level of quality that can't be produced by their own home grown companies. It could be due to lack of education or they just don't care.
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  434. Same as previous years. Still crap as usual.
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  435. I never understood why this is a thing in East Asia. You got what you wanted from your employees, why not let them go especially after working hours? That bs would never fly in North America or other countries. Time is costly. If you want to keep employees for 2 extra hours, you better pay them or else.
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  436. Exactly. US can't loose from deals they weren't benefitting from in the first place.
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  437. Investors won't come to the Philippines until they fix 2 problems: 1. High electricity cost and 2. Infastructure But the Chinese can stay out if they aren't going to hire locals, which they are known to do.
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  438. Yes, tell that to society and overbearing parents who only see value in what they want to see and not what their child is good at or passionate about.
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  439. It's so insidious. They use Japanese design and writing. I accidentally bought Furikake made in China. I immediately threw that crap away when I found out.
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  440. Well Foxconn left didn't they? Also, if you truly hate your job with a burning passion, you can always leave. Rather than making a fuss with management.
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  441. "The character of the people has been traditionally such that to thrust money into anybody's hands as an investment was always a gamble. Hence a Chinese with money might as well gamble it over the gaming table as any other way, and have at least the thrill of exciting play instead of the long gnawing anxiety following the equal, if not greater, risk of investing it." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Stock market at this point is just akin to gambling in a casino. No logic as usual.
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  442. Spoken like a true CCP propagandist.
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  443. Yes, it's revolting. It's like watching people slowly emerging from the dark ages.
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  444. "Overseas waste" - befitting definition for waste of time and money when it's all about connections and you can literally be trained ON the job.
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  445.  @mah7961  I live in Canada. We import quite a bit of produce from the US.
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  446. lol "biased glasses" to the Chinese means, stop telling us the truth, lie and make us look good.
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  447. No, but they have a centralized planned economy that allocates resources to useless things like these projects. They will never surpass the US in income levels because they are ridiculously inefficient.
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  448. I have a friend from Tianjin and he told me that nobody who is in business even expects to make profit anymore. That's why people just choose to lay flat - opening a business is more costly that it's no longer worth it to operate. If you do decide to open a business, you need to price what you are selling so low for people to even look at what you have to offer.
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  449. How are they doing that?
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  450. Not when they run away with all the money they owe the workers...
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  451. It kind of goes without saying especially given what's happened in China in the last 3 years
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  452. No. They just don't care.
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  453.  @randywright7627  Because most of them don't. It's not bad to assume that.
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  454. They've never flown high if that's what you're thinking.
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  455. Greed makes people stupid. As someone who used to be in the financial industry, this is commonplace. People who want to retire will do everything last minute when they have zero time horizon to get anything out of their investments so they will resort to gambling the stock market. The one's who DO have the time horizon and are young don't want to bother because they don't have "time" and are just not interested. Human nature at its finest. And they wonder why their circumstances don't change - This is the financial life cycle of 90% of people.
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  456. Land if liars, bandits, and facades. Deception is the norm.
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  457. They literally coined the phrase "China's last warning" which goes to show how the Russians truly think about the Chinese.
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  458. Because they only have Lunar New Year. That's why when it comes, it's such a frenzy to get anything done. So crazy.
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  459. Yea. Send in the clowns.
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  460. Clearly not.
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  461. Brain dead? I thought that was pretty obvious.
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  462. ​ @andersrhodiner739 it's not. The proof is in the sub par quality. Why are you so offended?
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  463. Not permanently unemployed, flexibly employed 🤞
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  464. Yes, they have "laws" which are merely there for suggestion and not enforcement.
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  465. The word "luxury" means absolutely nothing in China. Even luxury mansions in China are tofu buildings.
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  466. A lot of them would cry over cash even more so than their dead relatives.
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  467. ​ @Roland_Duson what's there to know? People paid for something they never got. You have a better explanation for what's going on?
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  468. ​ @C00ltronix the only people who have access to youtube in China are those with state sponsored VPN's, those who have private VPN's are violating Chinese laws.
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  469.  @kingwing3203  Tell that to Chinese who keep buying them then.
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  470.  @GizzyDillespee  It's obviously all fake. No rural farmer has the time or resources to make anything this professional.
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  471.  @loremasteringwion9930  You're seriously comparing a newly developed area to a run down city in the US. That's like comparing a fresh orange to a rotten apple.
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  472. No it isn't. Awareness is. How do you think the CCP got into power? It resisted the previous dynasty. And the previous once resisted those before it.
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  473.  @FeuerblutRM  garlic from China doesn't even have the roots. So you don't even know how it's grown
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  474.  @FeuerblutRM The Garlic I buy from US and Spain have roots so I don't know what the heck you are talking about. They are trimmed but still present.
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  475. Same here. When times are good, they talk smack about how "dumb" those of us in the West are. When times are tough, they talk smack about how they're no longer being supported. No sympathy for them at this point.
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  476. This is what happens when they don't have decades under their belt. It's all about churning out cheap items without adequate testing.
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  477. ​ @Slitheringpeanut not all of us asians are like this - from an Asian guy
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  478.  @tarstarkusz  US spends on R&D, China doesn't. I wouldn't even compare the two if I were you.
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  479. Smuggling. Or maximizing the allotment that each family member can take out works as well. And they've been doing this for years.
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  480. China: Do not meddle in China's internal affairs. Also China: Proceeds to meddles in other countries' internal affairs.
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  481.  @Kunfucious577  I'm so glad I had this conversation with my dad years ago. He told me that being a landlord isn't all it's cracked up to be (he used to own a commercial property that he inherited from my great grandmother) - if you have to maintain multiple properties (you have to set aside a healthy sum of money for all of this), have to appease the tenants, and worry about your place sitting empty for too long because it's costly. I myself own a property (condo) and I am stopping at that. I will not buy a house for a rental since most people won't be able to afford those in the near future. And with the collapse of the family unit, this will become more and more apparent.
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  482. My younger brother stopped over Guangzhou once en route to Thailand. He said "I will never set foot in that God forsaken country again" lol. It's simply just not worth it. By the way, I'm guessing you went there for work. Because nobody in their right mind would go there 5-6 times for the heck of it.
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  483. It's sad that we've come to this. "Old" is basically someone they cannot hire because they can't pay them anymore and young people will pretty much grab whatever "opportunity" comes their way so long as they get paid peanuts for it.
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  484. They take these practices overseas.
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  485. Self awareness has been bred out of them. They don't know what they want. They want what others want because they "think" they should want it as well.
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  486. It's always money over morals.
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  487. "They have industriousness and intelligence. But two other essentials, honesty and willingness to cooperate, they emphatically lack, and some deeply inner ingredient of character seems to mitigate against remedying this lack" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "But the worst of their deficiencies is their treacherous disloyalty. They seem ever prone to work against one another than cooperatively, though they are very fond of membership associations expressing a theory of cooperation, but never achieving it." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  488. It's nothing new. It's their culture's problem. "Anywhere and at almost any time in China, you can see a cart fallen on a man or a horse, or some similar accident, plentiful in the crowded streets, with curious onlookers not stirring a hand to lift the injured out of his predicament. This indifference to fellow suffering seems by all evidence to be distinctly oriental. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  489.  @orlock20 I used to deliver car parts for a living. And the Chinese love to be seen in luxury cars but don't so much as have a clue to maintain them. A lot of them don't understand basic maintenance because it's too "costly" - these are the kinds of people we are dealing with here.
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  490. Ah, bridges with no rebar and cheap materials, what could go wrong?
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  491. Lots of Chinese paid for houses that aren't even made. So they're paying for rent and a mortgage and they're only getting one out of the two. I'd say that's a pretty crappy deal over all.
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  492. You would think that. But people only look at price tags and not quality. Then they learn the hard way when they wind up spending a lot of money getting it maintained because it keeps breaking. People think they're "saving" when they will end up spending about the same and then some versus buying something that already has a track record for reliability. A lot of people are suckers.
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  493. You sounded like a typical pro China propagandist with what you just said. How ironic.
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  494. The incessant need to make money at all costs overrides anything they ever learned in chemistry.
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  495.  @vanessali1365  Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. They have always been like this. They have never changed.
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  496.  @kennyadvocat  They should just slash the price by half. Either way they will loose money. But one apartment isn't at least free.
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  497. Rolls Royce are just overpriced BMW 7 Series and 7 series have a crap ton of problems as they age. If you want a never ending headache then buy a car that is full of cutting edge tech and sensors that will eventually malfunction.
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  498.  @ChickensAndGardening  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth about China" by Ralph Townsend. What you are saying is not true.
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  499. Get a life
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  500.  @PreciousAlpschindler  It's a no brainer when compared to Chinese Electric bikes.
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  501. Good luck with Trump as president
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  502.  @willywonka4340  It's not in their nature to work that way. It's a free for all winner takes everything society.
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  503. That's fo sho lol
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  504. This is what I don't understand. If you are so bent on wanting to invade, you would think that you would keep your tactics a secret. That's why it leads everyone to believe that this is all for show because you don't give your secrets to your enemies. Isn't this basic in war and strategy 101?
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  505. There are pig cafes in Japan. I've been to one in Harajuku. This isn't anything new. The star attraction ARE the pigs. So they let you pet them and you can even buy food to feed them. The piglets were amazing. They liked to snuggle with everyone.
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  506. They literally weaponize everything at their disposal including Tuk Tuks 😂
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  507. He's got a warrant. He's not only targeted by the local authorities but most likely targeted by the Yakuza too who wouldn't resist making a short order of this guy given a chance.
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  508. You watch too much Chinese propaganda
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  509. "Smart" as far as regurgitating information is concerned. That's why they excel in Math and Science. Not known for being innovative though.
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  510. yup. It would be clownish to expect otherwise 🤣
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  511. ​ @bullpup1337 and what is that exactly?
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  512. The irony in his stupid statement...
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  513. They already rent out fake sets in places like L.A. There's no need for a pretentious Prada store.
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  514. Why would you even entertain the idea? It's hell on Earth.
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  515. "Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best of weapons given to them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit. But the Chinese are adept at deciding what method is best, and before this talent many a sturdy diplomat has given way against the accusations of his rational self in the manner that Samson melted in the arms of the cooing Delilah." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  516. "Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy" - Mao
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  517. We had a plumber from Russia, Vladivostok to be exact. He talked about rampant electronics sold in the China, Russia border and he couldn't help but mention that Chinese phones were garbage, "flashy garbage" to be exact. This craftsmanship applies to all things they produce.
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  518. Shoddy construction and you can't pass the property to next of kin. You're going to get shafted.
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  519. They're not wise. They're poor. People loitering are an eyesore everywhere. In China, this looks to be common. I've also seen this behavior in Taiwan - people sprawled across the floor in the train station. I don't know if they were tourists from China or Taiwanese. I couldn't tell.
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  520. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. He found no proof that China was any different in the past. It's normal in their culture to act this way.
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  521. Not always. Some of them borrow money from everyone they know.
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  522. They complain but they will still pay because convenience to a Chinese is more paramount as opposed to the "inconvenience" of laws and regulations.
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  523. You can't shame the immoral and uncivilized.
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  524. ​​ @MRblazedBEANS Toyota and Honda still rank as auto makers.
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  525. They count it as "domestic" and yet they treat the Taiwanese separately and not as one of their own lol. Who are they kidding? Taiwan IS separate.
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  526. Then your life must be cheap as well.
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  527. It's all about money. They don't care about decorum. They never have.
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  528. If you can cheat, cheat. If you can lie, lie.
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  529. That's why Temu is in business. People don't know how to be content with what they have. And instead of paying extra for more valuable, quality items, they instead opt for cheap garbage that won't last a year. So in essence, people aren't saving. But psychologically, they think they are.
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  530.  @acheable  yes, hardwork. Just like digging a ditch for no reason
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  531.  @acheable  You completely missed my point. But whatever.
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  532.  @ronnelacido1711  All fun and games until you're traumatized by death and injuries.
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  533. A lot of people are dumb with zero critical thinking. So it works for a lot of people which is sad.
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  534. Read about China under the KMT. They've always been like this. Not much different when they had emperors either.
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  535. Difference is when you work long hours in the US, you get paid for it. You don't in China.
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  536. No. Why should they? No self awareness, no common sense, and everything is politically run.
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  537. Online shopping isn't doing all that great either. How much of those items are returned?
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  538. They've always been the wild wild east
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  539. If they do this long enough, they will put off anyone thinking of going to Sanya. Such short term thinking and they wonder why people don't want to deal with them?
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  540. They have SUV's in China. Problem is they don't properly maintain roads and their cars for the snow.
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  541. Actually based on my experience, people who have family to support tend to work harder than younger people. Younger people aren't as attached to the idea of holding a job because they don't have anyone depending on them.
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  542. They scam outside of their country and they get caught too
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  543. This topic was talked about not even a week ago.
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  544. Lol, Russia or Kyrgyzstan. Ok...
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  545. They can't help their nature. History has shown this time and time again. Xenophobic sentiment has always been used to rally the population against imagined threats.
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  546. ​ @TennSingtsuan9697 "easy" until there's an economic down turn then you're just screwed.
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  547. "Always busy never getting anything done" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  548. They also practice in the most ideal circumstances so as to not make the little emperors piss their pants.
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  549. When China "outplays" there's always something underhanded involved. Glad you think it's funny.
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  550. What "positive" thing is happening in China right now that isn't supported by state media? And even so, would you take their word for it?
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  551. What's best for the Chinese? What kind of world do you live in?
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  552. What's frustrating is that youtubers and American influencers are starting to spout the exact same rhetoric and it's getting frustrating. Doug DeMuro was one I just recently noticed when talking about Chinese cars. When he said "they're so ahead" and offered no specifics as to why, I just rolled my eyes.
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  553.  @OrenIshiii-rg7sr  It's because a lot of customers are also cheapskates. Markets ultimately dictate the quality of products that is being made.
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  554. Influence is only as good as there is money. I have never heard of anyone stay in good standing once they start becoming delinquents.
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  555. Xi's comment is synonymous to praising someone who is losing weight because they have cancer. What a dolt.
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  556. Self awareness has been bred out of them. Nothing is ever their fault.
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  557. Same rant. "This is propaganda" "This is propaganda" "This is propaganda" Get a life!
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  558. Japan and Germany are the definition of high quality
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  559. They're clowns. Enough said
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  560. There are so many people who "claim" to be able to do a physical job when in actuality they can't. This is a good way to vet people who are serious versus those who are lying. Another thing that they should do is make people lift 50lbs since lots of jobs require this. If they can successfully lift 10 in succession, they should be hired.
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  561. All well and good until the local street enforcers start harassing you.
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  562. Self awareness has been bred out of them for thousands of years.
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  563. Open AI basically takes what the internet already does and takes it one step further by compiling and putting together what it found in an easy readable format. It the same things that we were taught in school when we research a topic.
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  564. Lol, chip in Huawei is at least a couple if years old and they can't up yo date chips and it's outperforming Samsung and Apple? We aren't dumb.
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  565. I would choose a Lexus over a Merc and definitely a Merc over a Huawei.
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  566. ​ @maxt240 not if you live in city centers
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  567.  @myintmaunmaun  There are other places to live: Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Greece, Italy, Belize, etc to name a few. People aren't starved for choice. If you still choose China then there's clearly something wrong with you.
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  568. And the Chinese dismissed it as anti-China propaganda...
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  569. It all boils down to management.
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  570. It's ok, they won't be on the road for long. Once their quality is tested, they will go back to Toyotas.
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  571. And yet more often than not, it's not uncommon to see Chinese in the special back rooms where you know they are gambling their house(s) away.
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  572.  @markdsm-5157  Some can. Others are just racking up debt paying their rent or mortgage. So having a contingency fund only goes so far. It's not infinite.
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  573. Lol, they are the biggest one.
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  574.  @mehanimations2675  no they aren't. Not here in North America
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  575. So gross lol
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  576. Same can be said about gutter oil - why not just put the used oil in resceptacles instead of throwing it down the drain. It's also not good for pipes.
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  577. If you can upload a video of what a typical mall looks like then it would be appreciated.
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  578. ​ @Zergcerebrates 5000 years of chaos and lawlessness isn't a feat worth boasting about.
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  579. Frightening especially for people who are going to use them. They're sub par and therefore dangerous.
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  580. ​ @DK-gj5sp you're so full of it. They're sending kids to South Africa, India, Brazil and Russia? Yeah right 😂
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  581. ​ @MrBigbangbuzz  In the Philippines, if you're going to show off to this extent people will expect you to pay for dinners and what not because you're mister or miss bigshot. That's why a lot of rich people especially old moneyed rich people hide their wealth.
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  582.  @winstonpham4809  Is anyone suppressing you in the West? Why even compare the two?
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  583. Why don't they just set up dorms in the company building? They basically act like they own their employees at that point. Give them a bed and an allowance for food.
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  584.  @SithLordAnakin  "adds character" in Chinese actually means "put up with this bs because you don't have a choice" lol. It's the last refuge of the powerless and downtrodden.
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  585. They eventually will...
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  586. It's such a dirty term
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  587. 90% of items in a given economy are fruitless. You just need a roof over your head, food to eat, and clothes to wear. Everything else is extra, that's why we are seeing industries slowly collapse that are non essential.
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  588. Even the bikes they will want people to buy will be the electric ones. Wouldn't be surprised if they phase out "normal" bikes or regulate them more.
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  589.  @withyouonemogen  I find this to a be a trait that I see in a lot of Chinese-brag for the sake of bragging.
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  590. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US consul who lived in 1930s China. They've always been like this. Chinese made no distiction between the army, police, and local gangs. It's always been a mess.
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  591. Best joke ever 😂
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  592. "The character of the people has been traditionally such that to thrust money into anybody's hands as an investment was always a gamble. Hence a Chinese with money might as well gamble it over the gaming table as any other way, and have at least the thrill of exciting play instead of the long gnawing anxiety following the equal, if not greater, risk of investing it." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Nothing new here
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  593. More and more products are being made elsewhere. Sites like Amazon are already putting where the country of origin a product comes from. I take extra steps and research a company before buying since China can just send their things to another country, thereby changing the "country of origin". So far, a lot of the companies are legit multinational companies that are not Chinese.
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  594. "There are not peasants in China not preyed upon either by armies or bandits. At least ninety per cent are preyed upon by both. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  595. What a miserable country
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  596. No it isn't. Gold sits and does nothing. Businesses create value over time. Gold on its own won't move an economy but Apple, Samsung, etc will.
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  597. They're all delusional. It's kind of hilarious.
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  598. You still have to sell something. Otherwise you will all just be jobless. You also have to compete with younger more fit men who can work longer hours. The only job that I can think of that an older man may have an edge is sales. An older person may be more experienced to deal with the public whereas a younger man may still be wet behind the ears.
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  599. ​@ChristianSamsel It's called automation
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  600. That's a good sign. Because if that ever happens you can bet that there will be lawsuits left, right, and center. Chinese EV's don't pass safety regulations in the US.
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  601. They've always been like this. Doesn't matter who is ruling them. The KMT were no different.
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  602.  @ronnelacido1711  Lol, yes. Work for free - the best kind of work.
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  603.  @GamerShowdown-h8j  There's a difference between traffic jams during rush hour trying to get to and from work versus CHOOSING to sit in traffic for half a day when you know that everyone is going to be there during the holiday. It's not the same thing.
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  604. Impressive in scale but not quality. This is what happens when you make things fast with little to no regard for building code.
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  605. Lol, they're anything but humble. They love to show off for the sake of it.
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  606.  @NappyWayz  Nope. They have always been like this.
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  607. What about children in other parts of the world?
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  608. ​ @nymphetts only good luxury cars: Lexus and Acura. Everything else is just garbage.
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  609.  @acheable  They choose not to. People are busy all over the world and still choose to help when needed. Also, the fact that the scammers take advantage of good natured people. It's not a good society to live in.
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  610. And people still constantly go there. We will know if these hassles come into effect when foreigners reach close to 0 who want to come to China.
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  611. If you absolutely have no choice, just use products made in China but headed by a company from the US, Japan, EU etc. Chinese products made by Chinese brands are a no no.
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  612. It's very typical China
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  613. Who cares?
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  614. Rivalry for what? Who's more disgusting?
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  615.  @NTJedi  History does not always repeat itself. Things change and sometimes not for the better especially in China's case.
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  616. Everything is all about money, including putting up with abuse
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  617. Squatting while eating is kind of uncivilized. Just not worth being fined over.
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  618. Hospitable and airport staff not giving a damn are not the same thing.
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  619. Meanwhile in China: It's not how much you earn, it's how much you can show off
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  620. I'm sticking to my two fold Samsung phone and tablet. This is just pure garbage.
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  621. It's not. That's the whole point.
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  622. In a country where deception is normal, they've come to expect it.
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  623. It's because those houses shouldn't have been price that high to begin with. Everything is based purely on speculation while simultaneously nobody was moving into those houses. Where did they think people moving in was going to come from? The Chinese don't even know where they are in terms of demographics so how can they tell if their property will sky rocket?
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  624. Chinese business model in a nutshell: no value added proposition, just rock bottom prices for the heck of it.
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  625. China isn't just bankrupting itself, it's enriching the coffers of officials and government connected contractors when they do this.
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  626. Why don't you attempt to dissprove these points with facts instead of calling it "US propaganda"? You're only giving yourself away with your comments.
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  627. It makes me kind of laugh when some Chinese people respond to what's going on in their country by living within their means almost with a defiant attitude - That's what you're supposed to do instead of being beholden to the banks and real estate companies! Are they seriously only learning this now? No, you don't need to live in a fancy house. You don't need to drive expensive cars. And no, you don't need to eat in fancy restaurants and buy fancy clothes.
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  628. Amazon and Rakuten are better.
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  629. How is it getting bigger? Production with no buyers is not a good thing.
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  630.  @genkibob  people who love to flash their wealth are usually not even that rich.
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  631. And to think, they're taking their so called "expertise" overseas to other countries. Scary thought.
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  632. Yup
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  633.  @zatoichiable  Not everyone who can afford a Mercedes buys one. That's a horrible analogy.
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  634.  @johntang4108  Tell your people who keep leaving then. Because they clearly missed your memo.
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  635.  @kcw0809  Chinese who have experienced prosperity in modern times is not on the same level as during Ci Xi's time thereby creating a lot of resentment.
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  636. But notice they're not bitching about it like they do other countries. These countries are a clown show.
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  637.  @Shinobubu  My great grandmother said the same thing and she was in the restaurant business. Reputation is more valuable than money.
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  638.  @MWH12085  Lol, whatever they accuse of others of gives insight into what they themselves do.
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  639. Typical "also in America" comment. Where is your proof of this?
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  640. ​ @MisterHowzat so were other dynasties and regimes...
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  641.  @aldopalomino9156  Even the Chinese people in China don't believe it.
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  642.  @benito1620  That's a bit of an oversimplification. Then why are so many Chinese trying to go to the US whether legally or illegally if it's so much worst than China?
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  643.  @my_pronoun_is_your_excellency  "The fighting in China is Chinese, and that means it is peculiar. Very little of it is fighting to a finish. The numbers slain in actual combat are astonishingly low in relation to the total forces engaged. Between two armies of approximately 50,000 men each, say, one may completely rout the other with no more than two or three hundred killed on both sides. The Chinese soldiers have little courage for determined conflict. They lack the exhilaration in strife, the blood lust of possible victory, that characterized the Japanese and some of the rest of us. And then they have nothing to fight for in a sense of vanquishing somebody else. The soldiers are in the army they happen to be in order to eat. They are there to escape death by starvation. Why would they risk it by bullets?" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) - The exact same sentiment in the last part of the video was true back in the 1930's and is still true to this day. People in the Chinese army aren't there to fight. They're there because they want to eat. China does everything for show as usual.
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  644.  @midwestmike613  You can still find "normal" unprocessed food in the US. In China, you don't know if what you are getting is normal at all.
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  645.  @Tokmurok  Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan to name a few places in Asia that are more developed...
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  646. Billionaire don't buy sub par garbage.
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  647.  @ronnelacido1711  Yup, bragging for the sake of bragging.
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  648. I think he was being sarcastic. Nobody in their right mind would look at what Porsche is doing as a bad thing. And if he truly feels that way then that's just sad.
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  649.  @Ukie88  "From personal experience with Chinese officials, observation of the Chinese at large, and drawing upon the experiences of many acquaintances whose service collectively has taken them all over China into areas no one person could know intimately, it is a reasonable conviction that there are not enough straightforward, honest Chinese available to man any kind of government there. This is not a personal cynicism. It merely phrases common and competent foreign judgment on the scene" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  650. Paraguay was fine before China, they will be fine after China.
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  651. Maid cafes, cat cafes, muscle cafes, etc. Been to a pig cafe in Harajuku as well.
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  652. Just watch every 2 to 3 days then.
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  653. That's nice that you feel sympathy towards them when they feel none of that towards you.
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  654. Being inconsiderate is innate in their culture. This isn't all that surprising.
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  655. That's good
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  656. "This absence of lusty physical exhilaration evidently accounts for the poor showing of Chinese in warfare, and with this in mind, any talk of the Chinese being a world power as soon as they gain adequate scientific knowledge is ridiculous. As a matter of fact, China for more than seventy five years has had very able foreign military advisers, and dozens of elaborate munitions and arms plants have been build under foreign direction. Then as soon as the foreign director's contract has expired in each, and the plant is turned over to the Chinese graduates of American scientific schools, it goes to rust and ruin in short order, or if it remains open, operates very incompetently." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  657. If you felt bad before using them, you will feel worst after 🤣. It's a boon for the hospital industry.
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  658. "Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best of weapons given to them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit. But the Chinese are adept at deciding what method is best, and before this talent many a sturdy diplomat has given way against the accusations of his rational self in the manner that Samson melted in the arms of the cooing Delilah." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  659.  @Jonathan.D  Yeah. Japan of today is not the same Japan as before and yet these nationalists can't tell the difference. If anything they're acting more like people did in the past with their extreme nationalism and xenophobia - they don't even realize how backwards they are.
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  660. Yes, with sub par, toxic items. That's how...
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  661. "Theology and ethics are in practically no sense related in Chinese conceptions. In certain respects that is perhaps in their favor, for their deplorable ethics get them into trouble enough, and if they wrangled over notions of theology in addition, the chaos would be beyond imagination. And at least the separation of religion and ethics, as a spectacle, is in favorable contrast to the situation in parts of the world where constant inbreeding of the two has produced monstrosities of both. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "A little examination of Chinese ideas of religion reveals much that is significant. To begin, their sages have reverenced Confucius conspicuously, but not in the sense of religious adoration. The feeling was philosophic accolade and an avowed obligation of emulation. The common people know vaguely of Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism, terms which among them are mere misnomer identifications of misty superstitions and proprietary rites, having little or no connection with tenets of organized religious cults." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend Newsflash! China has always lacked morals even before the CCP came into power. Most of the people never engaged in organized religion or even the principles of a religious practice and just go about their own way much to the detriment of everyone else.
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  662.  @CommenterIndeed  Lol. Most of my employers never even bothered to ask me about my education. Unless, if what you are learning is technical they don't care. You're just seen as cheap labor. They don't care what you know. There's on the job training and they tell you what to do and what their expectations are - this has nothing to do with anything you learned in school.
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  663. Glad you feel that way towards them. Can't say they feel the same way towards you.
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  664. You would think, that they would be less surprised by now. But they're still finding new ways to be shocked. Also goes to show how sheltered they can be.
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  665. If you have to say the steak is "real", it probably isn't. The lies never end...
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  666. So much for all that "brothers in arms" nonsense...
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  667. Then they should boycott their goverment because a lot of CCP members hold overseas citizenship.
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  668.  @DukeLM  there's a difference between "loving" something and having no choice. Americans buy from Walmart because they are dictated by their finances so it's the latter.
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  669. ​ @Phi.D.888 You should try the roast dragon. Tastes like chicken.
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  670. It's because the people are their last chance at getting any money. The working grunts always pay either with their time or money.
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  671. Degrees have become a pointless money grab. It also doesn't help that the previous generation keeps pushing this outdated view that you need a degree for potential employers to even give you a chance - Based on my experience this has never ever been the case. Not once have I ever been asked about my education. Getting an education is just pure cope at this point. It's something people get to make themselves "feel better" that they're doing something that will help them when in actuality it holds little to no value in today's world. Most jobs out there don't require a degree since there's on the job training anyways, rendering degrees overhyped and ultimately pointless unless your field of study is highly technical.
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  672. The amount of quality and detail that goes into creating chips does not match China's current capability and attention to detail. On the contrary, China produces low quality items with little to no foresight. They will always rely on others to produce quality chips.
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  673. The things they have to do to survive...And this is why they will never be known other than the land of fakes and facades.
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  674. Preselling condos is actually something that's done in countries all over the world. The difference is the developers are held into account in countries outside of China. In China, it's just another opportunity to steal.
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  675. Korean cars have come a long way. They have vastly improved. And unlike China, they're privately owned so the incentive was there. China doesn't care, it's all about quotas run by state owned enterprises. It's production for the sake of production - waste of time, waste of money. But then again the CCP have no qualms wasting their own people's resources.
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  676. I do this as well. I now always check where items are made. Glad to see that more and more products are being made elsewhere.
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  677. As someone who got a useless degree I make it a point to inform students a degree isn't worth squat. Sad part is they know but brainwashing from society won't let them think in any other way.
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  678.  @Placefriday  🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  679. This is what happens when their internet doesn't allow them to access the outside world.
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  680. I would have seriously just walked away. What is it to that woman what car he drives? She needs to get a life and he needs to grow a spine.
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  681. Men understand that concept moreso than women
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  682. ​ @mickgatz214 Tesla and BYD aren't the same. Why even compare the two?
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  683. ​ @ladislavzima8382 that's why you keep their crap out of your local market if you know what's good for your economy.
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  684.  @boundless1494  Their own government officials don't trust their own numbers and have resorted to other metrics to "measure" GDP.
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  685.  @manwithballsonarm6775  We're talking about this guy. He looks like he's in way over his head. Also, war is something that traumatizes people. A lot of people who come back from war aren't the same after having come back. This was already shown after the World Wars, the Vietnam War, Korean war etc. A lot of normal people can't handle war.
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  686. ​ @Rotary650 yes, 20 to 70 years to be exact
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  687.  @JohnSmith-op7ls  Western companies do this? I've never witnessed this kind of behavior. Can you give an example? Western companies have to gain the trust of its customers. Doing what you are saying is a sure fire way to loose market share especially in today's competitive market. You know who has the luxury to do that? Companies that have no competition. And even then, a lot of these companies in the developed world have share holders.
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  688. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China). China under the KMT was no different than it is under the CCP. It was just as chaotic and lawless as it is now. China has always been under the thumb of authoritarianism. The people made no distinction between the police, military, and local thugs even back then. Abuse and oppression were always common place in China. At some point you just have to accept the fact that their problems are purely cultural.
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  689. "Just as all creatures wage the battle of life with the best of weapons given to them by nature, the Chinese wage theirs with their foremost weapon - acting. They have no talent for warfare. They are not inventive. They cannot compete in industrial organization. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus about all that is left to them protectively is their remarkable ability to detect the emotional susceptibilities of opponents, and to attack these with the display best calculated to achieve the desired results. The display may be designed to induce sympathy, to mollify anger, to inspire generosity, or to flatter conceit. But the Chinese are adept at deciding what method is best, and before this talent many a sturdy diplomat has given way against the accusations of his rational self in the manner that Samson melted in the arms of the cooing Delilah." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  690. It's pure propaganda. They don't even define what "far ahead" means because they aren't.
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  691. Chinese aesthetic in what?
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  692. They will never admit to anything no matter how ridiculous they look or sound.
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  693. To be subservient. There is no purpose. There isn't even any purpose for most college degrees. Not once have I ever been questioned by my employer about my education. Everything is pure garbage. There's on the job training. Once you get experience in management, you can leave and find opportunities elsewhere.
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  694. Can't buy furniture to furnish homes that were never built.
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  695. ​ @rando6836 it's kind of bizarre. I would just go to the gym
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  696. It's because Chinese never had any real sense of security. That's what happens when you live in a country that has been poor for the longest time.
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  697. They're too apathetic to do so.
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  698. "Chinese" and "reliability" don't belong in the same sentence.
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  699. That's weird
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  700.  @recondax  CCP thought process: There is no thought process other than to get what they want regardless of the consequences.
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  701. They shouldn't bother with education when there aren't going to be any jobs waiting for them when they get back home. They should learn how to sell and promote.
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  702. Lol. It's because they aren't. They never were and they never will be. It's all a lie that they manufactured as usual.
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  703. Lol even with evidence you choose to delude yourself bot
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  704. @cherylrichard3059 Not really, it just looks that way.
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  705. Define "good"?
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  706. Get Japanese or South Korean. Those cars are far superior and easier to maintain.
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  707. And it's literally the group that has kids and is supporting the elderly. China is digging itself into a grave - These 35 + group will be the new face of social upheaval and protests in China.
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  708.  @DC-wo2yb  Everything hinges on the US economy. That would be really stupid and willingly blinding yourself to reality.
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  709. They don't celebrate anything without crackdowns. It's a "no fun" country.
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  710.  @farquad4192  You make your money once. Never again because you scammed someone. What kind of business model is that?
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  711.  @sleepinglaffey3886  "They have steadfastly resisted the introduction of other standards developed elsewhere and which, though far from ideal in practice, are of proven superiority to their own in enabling the average of mankind to derive the most from his environment in competition with his fellows." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  712. Unfortunately, people are dictated by how everything costs. Nevermind what's in the food or how it was made. For Chinese, price always trumps quality.
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  713. My brother's gf has a friend who has connections to Samsung in Korea. They were always going to move to Vietnam. They started doing this even before Covid to cut costs.
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  714.  @jansg405  Lol, even they know the truth. That's why the more you mention it to them, the angrier they get.
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  715. ​ @pycJIaH77 yes, they are . That's why you need to talk to a licensed financial advisor instead of speculating on the market.
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  716. That's how screwed the economy is.
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  717. Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day it will come true.
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  718. $76,000 for a Lambo? Damn. That's a bargain.
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  719.  @ramseydoon8277  No, he always comes here despite knowing it's "propaganda". Says a lot more about him instead of disproving the video with common sense and logic.
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  720. Forget the backstabbing. Look at how they steal from them constantly, especially their IP and Russia can only be annoyed by this.
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  721. I only have 1 credit card and no debt. It looks like I can't either...
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  722. I'm not an American but I can't help but feel proud of Donal Trump. Truly a man of action.
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  723. They won't. They've always tolerated tyrannical rulers. Read history.
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  724. Whatever you say to justify their lack of insight...
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  725. That's not always true, which makes that statement a lie.
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  726.  @Psychx_  "Most thoughtful foreigners in China today believe that a monarchy would be best for the country in its present stage. Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China, it is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honestly available. But even with a highly centralized monarchy, or dictatorship, some delegation of responsibility in the lower official orders is unavoidable, and there are not enough reliable men in China to fill these posts. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They have always been this way. Not much has changed even during the time of their Emperors.
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  727. With lack if money comes such an obvious realization lol
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  728. "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Survival depends upon out-deceiving competitors. With the credentials of economic success a matter of deception, those who are at the top may be expected to be better at the game than those lower down. Experience with "high class" Chinese, especially officials, bears out this proposition with sad frequency" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  729. There are more and more products on Amazon not made in China. So it's slowly changing.
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  730. "They have steadfastly resisted the introduction of other standards developed elsewhere and which, though far from ideal in practice, are of proven superiority to their own in enabling the average of mankind to derive the most from his environment in competition with his fellows." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) This is all willfully being done. They don't give a damn.
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  731. Everything in China is an illusion, including the fact that they have law enforcement that enacts laws.
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  732. A lot of people feel entitled to youth labor. It's like this in a lot of places even in the developed world.
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  733. Huawei got into the piggery business as well. Maybe they should just invest in pigs.
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  734. Yup, you're all treated like garbage all the same.
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  735.  @walter3433  You clearly haven't heard of State owned enterprises.
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  736. Because greed makes everyone stupid.
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  737. Well they are aren't they?
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  738. they would get water damaged. So no, they wouldn't work
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  739. You'd be surprised. There's still a lot of stupid "adventurers" in this world who still want to visit Pooh land.
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  740. ​ @vanessali1365 you're talking about a country where deceit is the norm. So to lie to others they keep up fake appearances. It's rooted in insecurity and anxiety. Wouldn't be able to relate because some of us have been brought up with common sense.
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  741. Greed and stupidity until they are taught a costly lesson
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  742. Yup "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  743. Not intelligent enough to innovate especially when thoughts are censored
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  744. Everything to do with China reminds you of the USA. Like as if protests only happen in the US.
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  745. Problem is nobody can go there because everyone is stuck in snow.
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  746.  @Sebastianmaz615  Everything they produce has a nefarious purpose in mind. Make no mistake.
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  747. Who's buying the gold? The government? or Chinese people? How much of that gold is fake?
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  748. Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. They've always had oppressive leaders. Doesn't matter if they are nationalists, communists, or even emperors. What they say goes to the detriment of everyone else.
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  749. ​ @johnsullivan937 they don't have 1.4 billion people. Their population numbers have been overcounted since one child policy was enacted. There population is more like 800 million.
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  750. Because they don't get any other time to do this.
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  751.  @AnthZee82  What was there to like?
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  752. Why don't they unplug the battery before leaving it? So dumb.
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  753.  @xiampiii  Yup, it all went away the minute the idiot masses allowed the CCP to gain power. They rejoiced and relished in it not realizing that they would be abused and oppressed to such a high degree several decades later. This lawless chaotic country deserves their government.
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  754. Yup, some people are still avoiding the memo though.
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  755. Having a degree decades ago was never a guarantee that you would land a good job. You just had better odds. Want to be shoe in for a job? Have the right connections. Because at that point, your degree and your grades won't matter and you will be paid better than everyone. I've seen this first hand in Canada. It's all politics.
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  756. Putin is learning the hard way after they were sanctioned. Kim has always been in the dumps - North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. Pretty soon China will share the same fate.
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  757. "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  758. Masters and PhD weren't common a couple of decades ago. It's that there are no more jobs left.
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  759. And then what? It will just rebound, which only goes to show where true value lies.
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  760.  @aquarius5719  Yes, so severely de-regulated that there are no standards at all. Hence, all of their shoddy construction and products that they produce. Even their food is toxic.
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  761.  @danielch6662  I doubt he's lying. There are so many anecdotal stories of Chinese not making good with what they say. Also, it's culturally acceptable to lie. There's a Chinese saying "If you can cheat, then cheat". So, you're not making a very good case right now.
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  762.  @aquarius5719  So by your simple argument, you're saying that India can't learn to be more hard working and industrious? Stop with your Pro-China, anti-Western, anti-India, anti-everything rhetoric. It's getting so old and people all over the world can see through it. That's why you have to work so hard to lie to everyone. Because a lot of them have left China and continue to leave China.
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  763. They barely freeze their food and don't use driers. What makes you think majority have heard of an RV?
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  764. "Anywhere and at almost any time in China, you can see a cart fallen on a man or a horse, or some similar accident, plentiful in the crowded streets, with curious onlookers not stirring a hand to lift the injured out of his predicament. This indifference to fellow suffering seems by all evidence to be distinctly oriental." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) This is innate in their culture.
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  765.  @yates2795  Read up on China Japan relations before WW2. Chinese always hated Japanese and called them, Americans, British, Germans etc, imperialists. This isn't new behavior from them.
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  766. Same. It's jyst not worth it.
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  767.  @RazielDeTam  US and EU companies are privately run and even if they can subsidy, it's nowhere near as China.
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  768.  @richrich6247  it's all about style of management. You can say what you want about China being quality blah blah blah. At the end of the day what are consumers saying about them? Ask a typical person if Chinese products are synonymous with quality. Most people including the Chinese themselves given the option will buy product from established multinational companies because the truth is in the pudding not state propaganda. As for multinationals milking every dollar, no shit. At the end of the day it's your choice whether to buy the item or not. And you get what you paid for. This is why I never buy goods from a Chinese company given the chance to choose unless there are no other options. Price is determined by the quality of the item produced and perceived value, not due to the lack or presence of morals.
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  769. And stupid news outlets keep referring to them as such which doesn't help
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  770. It's such a stupid concept.
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  771.  @MK_ULTRA420  Sounds like common sense and everyone is in on this, except China of course.
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  772. They're really coming out of the wood work this time.
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  773.  Dennisestrada  Rebar? Some of their bridges don't even have any lol.
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  774. Most Chinese don't believe in a higher power. It's considered an atheist nation. "A little examination of Chinese ideas of religion reveals much that is significant. To begin, their sages have reverenced Confucius conspicuously, but not in the sense of religious adoration. The feeling was philosophic accolade and an avowed obligation of emulation. The common people know vaguely of Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism, terms which among them are mere misnomer identifications of misty superstitions and proprietary rites, having little or no connection with tenets of organized religious cults." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China). "Theology and ethics are in practically no sense related in Chinese conceptions. In certain respects that is perhaps in their favor, for their deplorable ethics get them into trouble enough, and if they wrangled over notions of theology in addition, the chaos would be beyond imagination. And at least the separation of religion and ethics, as a spectacle, is in favorable contrast to the situation in parts of the world where constant inbreeding of the two has produced monstrosities of both. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend "The average Chinese may be shot at, starved, plundered and everything else, but he is emphatically not introspectively conscious of himself in the Hindu and Christian sense as a sore-footed pilgrim needing spiritual liniment. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  775. They can't maintain anything. And they don't care.
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  776. ​ @yuehchen7308 you mean their infastructure that keeps falling apart? Your lies are sickening. We know better.
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  777. That's how it's always been. It doesn't make any sense if you even apply math to it. It's all cope for those who have no connections.
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  778.  @acheable  They will inevitably be dependent on the state. There isn't enough opportunity to keep that sham of an economy going.
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  779. A lot of people value cheaply made cars over their life.
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  780. Chinese companies can't compete with quality. Cheap prices is all they have.
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  781. They can't afford to buy a home.
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  782. A lot of them are though. It's always about showing off regardless of one's finance. I've been in a couple of Chinese people's houses. They live in a big house but there is no furniture in it. They drive fancy cars but always ask you to pick them up because they don't want to buy premium gas. A lot of it is really for show unless they are a government official who can cover their costs with their ill gotten wealth.
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  783.  @Anonymouthful  They have nothing to refute as usual. Just attacking one's credibility as usual. Go figure.
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  784. Same with their fire hydrants...
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  785. They are lol.
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  786. And that includes the ability to think freely and question ideas in place. That's something that the CCP doesn't want.
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  787. That's the Chinese for you. Never pay attention to what they're saying but what they are doing.
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  788. Don't forget all the lies, especially COVID.
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  789. Pointless to quote scripture when most Chinese are aetheist and don't believe in religious dogma.
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  790. You get out when word is hot on the street. That should already tell you a correction is coming.
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  791. "They achieved certain principles of democracy long before any Western country, yet nowhere has tyranny been traditionally so fierce and oppressive, nor is it today anywhere else so outrageously cruel." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They have always been like this. Doesn't matter who the hell is running the country. Their society is f&cked. "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  792. No discipline for civic duty. They only act for money.
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  793. And yet the government keeps acting like it does...go figure.
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  794. They don't understand basic actions and consequences despite their so called "5000 years of civilization". And they continue to not understand anything.
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  795. You'd be lucky if you can get 2 years out of the goods you buy in China.
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  796. ​ @triple_lei it's the same with lying. They don't see anything wrong with it.
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  797. Russia is getting a lot of Chinese made everything. Even our plumber who was Russian said "Chinese products look nice but not much else. Nobody in their right mind would buy those products if better alternatives existed".
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  798. Hell no. Even if they did, they can't compete because they don't care for quality.
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  799. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different. In fact, China was no different when they had emperors. It was always corrupt and chaotic.
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  800. LOL
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  801. not harmful to anyone - You don't even know the chemicals used in the ingredients they use.
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  802. "Most thoughtful foreigners in China today believe that a monarchy would be best for the country in its present stage. Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China, it is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honestly available. But even with a highly centralized monarchy, or dictatorship, some delegation of responsibility in the lower official orders is unavoidable, and there are not enough reliable men in China to fill these posts." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  803. ​​ @MK_ULTRA420 it's literally why dynasties come and go over hundreds and hundreds of years
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  804. Because most people who show off are usually poor. Most billionaires/multimillionaires don't because of the repercussions. They don't act rich. They act what they "think" a stereotypucsl rich person should act.
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  805. Lol. Chocolate city.
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  806.  @Aliphatic  Made in China but NOT by a Chinese company. Still waiting for the day where electronics will come from a more diversified group of countries instead of China.
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  807. Turns out they were the crazy ones. Ironic.
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  808. Sadly, this is the case in China....
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  809. Those brands are an insult to Samsung and LG
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  810.  @shaf3006  What a joke! Most car companies are engine companies first and foremost like BMW and Honda.
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  811.  @kamsunleong6648  how exactly are they scamming? Either way, when people come to see them they are being paid to fix this stuff. Why would they lie if they're going to make money regardless?
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  812. Poisonous food is now considered innovation?
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  813. "China today is a superficial society based largely on promotion and appearance rather than real accomplishment and the people are only recently realizing this." - It seriously took them this long to realize this? So much for thousands of years of history...
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  814. Read up on China under the KMT. They've always been like this.
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  815. The only thing that will save China is agreed upon values rooted in equality and democracy. If you look at how they have always operated - it's always been under authoritarianism. The ego of their leaders constantly set bad precedents of behavior and set aside morals in favor of politics and power above all else. It's their culture. "Thus it is practically certain that the masses cannot be aroused from this apathy to any assertion of resentment against their oppressors. We find that the average Chinese have little or no conception of fundamental rights, according to the theory developed in the West during the seventeenth century and expressed in mass movements in the eighteenth-the theory that every individual is entitled by the fact of birth certain privileges, to restrict which is unlawful tyranny in another. The Chinese masses look upon what we should call justice, if they get it, more as something fortunate than as something to which they are entitled. Oppressions, conversely are more misfortunes than injustices. Being looted is about like suffering from a hurricane or other force of nature. So here, among the masses, we have the inertness of ignorance. Among the educated, the great majority of them, we have the inertness of indifference, each looking out for himself, but unconcerned with the whole. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  816. This has always been their true state. It's amazing what having credit can do. You think you have more money to spend than you actually have then reality hits you.
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  817. ​ @kzarz0219 funny you say that considering they've always been this way 😂
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  818. Not everyone has a knack for and is interested in computers. It's no different than saying everyone should be a doctor, or a lawyer. You need diversity in an economy. Otherwise, a lot of things won't get done.
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  819. Some people are already disputing if they still are second since they constantly lie about their GDP numbers on paper. Look up the "Martinez Method". He used mathematical methods to estimate China's GDP. They also used lights emitted by the cities as a benchmark for economic activity. They found that China overestimated their GDP which only enforces the fact that their GDP numbers are fabricated
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  820. This is why you never rent out to Chinese. They already have this reputation worlwide. Gross!
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  821. At this point, nobody should be exiting China. Everyone should have "exited" already.
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  822. ​ @captnhuffy psychotic planning
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  823. "Money is the life and soul of the people, the nearest thing they have to a religion. Their fortitude in toil, where profits loom, is past belief. The only occasions upon which I have ever seen Chinese exhibit grief had to do with losses of money, though I have seen them lose friends and members of the family without the slightest trace of distress" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  824. To the Chinese it's all the same "The character of the people has been traditionally such that to thrust money into anybody's hands as an investment was always a gamble. Hence a Chinese with money might as well gamble it over the gaming table as any other way, and have at least the thrill of exciting play instead of the long gnawing anxiety following the equal, if not greater, risk of investing it." "Ways that are dark:The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  825. "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  826. They also won't help you if you need help. The Japanese at least go out of their way to help you even if their English isn't the best.
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  827.  @mikethomson4064  it's not the same as Western capitalism. Western capitalism has consumer protection laws.
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  828. Not from China? Then where is the footage from?
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  829. I'm going to buy Toyotas/Hondas for the rest of my life. I'm staying away from this garbage. Waste of money.
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  830. And a lot of people will because they're sold on it's cheap price compared to competitors instead of their life.
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  831. The amount of scamming in China is next level though. And you can't file a class action lawsuit there since everything is government run. It's a dystopian society with no hope of ever changing.
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  832. They never cared about standards. They reap what they sow.
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  833. It was never a real dream. It was always an illusion, which should be no surprise in the land of shortcuts and facades.
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  834. And this is why I research what the company is and how long they've been established. If it's Chinese, I avoid it as much as I can until I have no choice.
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  835. It's clean because barely anybody is coming and going. It's harder to maintain a busy airport.
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  836. Just buy a Korean car. They're leaps and bounds ahead of the Chinese.
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  837. We have rights in the free world. The fact that you are able to voice your opinion in public is a necessity to prevent stupid situations like this from happening. In China, they also don't have class action lawsuits which is yet again another "right" you are afforded in the free world.
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  838. No it won't. You can't fix incompetence and corruption.
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  839. Horde mentality in China is really something else. People make decisions based on what their neighbors do rather than from education. Don't they see that this is what caused their housing market slump? Speculation runs this country only followed by superstitions.
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  840.  @noe3024  US is already looking at China's "most favored status" for trade. So they're not going to be "factory of the world" for long even though they are on paper. The ground work has already been laid to make this a reality.
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  841.  @KJ-tq3sm  Go home Wumao!
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  842.  @KJ-tq3sm  What truth? The drivel that you keep spewing? Hardly.
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  843. "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  844. Lol, China has always been like this. Just look at their chaotic history for proof.
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  845.  @MysteriousFuture  If anything, the Universities will compete for students in the future, offering lower tuition and incentives to attract patrons. Everything is reversing and the old system designed to squeeze out the hard earned money of the people without giving anything back are all going to hell in a hand basket.
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  846.  @jupitereye4322  The Chinese haven't been exposed to credit in nearly as much time as the Americans have. This recent generation is the first generation to truly avail of credit. Whereas in the US, people have been availing of credit since before the 70s.
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  847. Except they won't...
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  848. There was an actual Chinese merc filming himself who actually said "I thought it would be like in the movies"🤣
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  849. Most people follow the herd. It's all about fear of missing out. They don't stop to think that when the market is too hot, it's already overstated and will correct itself.
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  850. There is no solution because there is no money
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  851. They should have just used the word "contraction" - it's more fitting.
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  852. Same can be said for any criminal activity - they're always able to get away. Those who are victimized aren't allowed to pursue them nor are allowed to publicly express grievances. That's how lawless China is.
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  853. Hard for them to come to the Philippines when Beijing keeps pissing off Manila.
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  854. You're talking about a people who have only had cars in the last decade who don't even know how to maintain their cars. What makes you think they would know about putting chains on its wheels?
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  855. US is doing better than China.
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  856. Pretend saving is just saving. Nothing innovative here.
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  857. ​ @petittoto7433 which is what exactly?
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  858. It's all about keeping the people employed at this point even though these infrastructure projects don't add any economic value.
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  859. Even a wolf that constantly barks and growls needs to eat. Otherwise, it's pretty useless
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  860. Like what? Stop with the whole "China good America bad" bs and give examples so we can call out the lies.
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  861. Like what views? This should be fun.
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  862. This is why most countries need to cut economic dependence on China - It will become easier if this occurs.
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  863. You say that but their society has tolerated this for so long. There's a reason why they don't adhere to regulations. It's because it's being allowed to happen. No consequences for bad actions.
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  864. So now we're supposed to doubt what we are seeing despite the evidence? Get real.
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  865.  @gaius_enceladus  For sure. Most people who work at a job know this. Everyone knows someone else who procrastinates and gets paid the same like everyone else.
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  866. This document is recent. Not cold war, that's why it's an issue.
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  867. Too many scammers in China from the manufacturers end and customer end. It's a very low trust society.
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  868. They sleep everywhere but in an actual apartment or house.
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  869.  @BigBoyPorter  I've seen some Adidas made in Vietnam or maybe Indonesia. It's slowly moving away from China but not quick enough.
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  870. ​ @novaboy1174 you're being sarcastic right?
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  871. ​ @CommenterIndeed chinese think the real world is like school which it isn't.
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  872. Well they are crazy
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  873.  @cjlarge420  Yup, it's basically China just trying to push their currency onto other countries. It's more political than economic. The G7 make up more than half of the world's output. BRICS is a joke and they never agree on anything. The "new members" are basically just cronies of China backing them up with whatever so called "decision" the trading bloc comes up with.
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  874. Lol
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  875. Cameras are for the innocent, not perpetrators. Notice that a lot of perpetrators aren't even caught.
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  876.  @arisaga822  The "high class" parts of China that are portrayed were always court culture. They show this in their historical dramas - even in Chinese court, there was always intrigue, backstabbing and deception. This is innate in Chinese culture. Trust was always in short order back then, it still is up to this day and it will never change no matter who is running the damned country.
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  877. This is nothing new. They've always made sub par garbage. "It is merely necessary to observe the way Chinese passengers prefer the relative safety and reliability of foreign craft, to the hazards of traveling aboard one of their own ships, to see the prudence and justice of such methods." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  878. Because that's what China needs, more Phd's and more master's degree holders🤣
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  879.  @justicedemocrat9357  That's like saying Hawaii shouldn't get mad if the US mainland sends their military over there. Your logic doesn't make any sense. The fact that China has to work so hard to convince everyone including themselves that Taiwan is a part of their territory only goes to show that it is NOT part of their territory.
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  880. IP theft is another reason. And their constant lambasting of their customers in the developed world could be another reason to add.
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  881.  @terryh4987  37 is grandpa? Are you from the ancient world?
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  882. In the land of shortcuts and facades, "China" and "authentic" don't go hand in hand.
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  883. It's "burn your dollars". Cars are a literal money pit. BYD more so than any other car company.
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  884. Read up on China under the KMT, it was no different.
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  885. Their market alone isn't significant enough to keep their industry afloat. Also Chinese people know that the stuff they produce domestically is just crap.
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  886.  @homerj806  It's called "planned obsolescence" but until such a time a product breaks down, the product should be able to withstand most things that are thrown to it. If not, you still only have a cheap product that has to be replaced time and time again. At that point, why not spend a little extra for something that will last a little longer?
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  887.  @Thanatossssx  It's not just the government. A lot of Chinese also lack basic common sense.
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  888. Nobody is forced to work those hours in the US. US has labor laws, if they work those hours they get paid overtime. Chinese don't. Why even mention it?
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  889. Most foreigners don't act like this. Chinese are known for acting this way all over the world. There's a reason why a lot of us don't even rent our places out to them. They will trash it.
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  890.  @xLuis89x  You've completely missed my point. This has nothing to do with degrees and everything to do with having money sense. The problem is you have a culture that encourages consumption because to not show off means you've been left behind. People need to be taught how money works. Look at the state of the world right now. People are more in debt than ever. Our parents and grand parents didn't spend themselves thin trying to keep up with trends.
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  891.  @JohnPotts-kq7kk  Never ever ate there not even once. And I don't plan to ever.
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  892. What's the point of going overseas to study? A lot of them can't find decent jobs in China and they're over 30 and single. So on the education front, this is all completely useless. On the dating front, most men are looking to date and marry younger women so it's also completely useless. Waste of time, and waste of money - woman decision making at its finest. You won't find your dream man overseas, which is what a lot of these women are doing.
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  893. Not anymore. A lot of the factories have closed down.
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  894. And people always get it wrong. They always say that they are like this because of the CCP. And that's just outright wrong.
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  895.  @dannyzero692  They didn't become Han. They still practice their culture otherwise there wouldn't be a crackdown against their traditions and cultural practices. Some of them have integrated into the greater Han culture while some others haven't.
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  896. It's always money over morals. How can you justify the fact that people still want to associate with China despite their shennanigans?
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  897.  @GamerShowdown-h8j  Lol. You're funny.
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  898. Lol, ok.
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  899. They also said Covid was non human to human transmissible, are you seriously questioning their credibility or lack thereof?
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  900. ​ @mah7961 prisoners in the US also get hot running water and get fed better than the typical Chinese.
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  901. Live and learn - If there is one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese, it's that they refuse to change. They've always acted like this towards their neighbors. Always shifting blame and never taking responsibility. They have hundreds if not thousands of years showing this track record.
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  902. ​​ @ladislavzima8382 my comment was deleted earlier. But I will reiterate. That's why you don't let them take over your local economy. Because they will destroy fair competition and undermine quality.
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  903.  @faridghiles2472  How exactly are they going to do that? What with the advent of thousands of companies leaving their country and their failing housing market, which is a driver of growth in China might I add. Where is this source of "growth" going to come from?
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  904.  @t3knoman00  Yes. Actually, when they say we want x, y, and z, they're essentially giving everyone the impression of getting a "fair shot" when in actuality there is no "fairness". It's all about whether the person hiring you likes you.
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  905. Shut down, shut down, shut down, shut down….
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  906. ​ @EverythingsEventuall who cares if it's made in America? It's all about if the people are practicing food safe and good hygiene.
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  907. West Taiwan has had a very tumultous history. They double down on their arrogance when times are tough.
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  908.  @monikam9069  "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  909. You'd be surprised with how cheap some people are.
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  910. It's not just about America. Nobody wants to deal with a government that constantly lies (ie Covid), threatens, and strong arms everyone to do its bidding. This is the true face of Chinese leadership. Everyone is finally seeing it for what it is.
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  911.  @limsk9839  So Western food for you is all the same? Let me see, there's Greek, Italian, French, German etc. But for you it's all the same. Ok, good to know where you stand on that. Glad to know there's no distinction. Me not being a Westerner myself did not know this simple fact. But you've "enlightened" me.
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  912.  @limsk9839  Last I checked China was a country so when I said "Chinese food" I was talking about China as a whole. I didn't lump the west (which is made up of different countries) into 1 homogenous style of cooking like you did. And no, most outsiders don't know the regional differences in China just like you don't know the difference between northern French and Southern French cooking. That's why we call it "Chinese food" to pay homage to the country it's from - but for you it's clearly not enough. Because you're all butt hurt because I said Chinese dishes use soy sauce, oyster sauce, and hoisin sauce. Get over yourself they do!
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  913. "Investing" and "China" shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
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  914. All this crappy approach to education is now going to bite them in the ass. No jobs, no future. It's all for nothing.
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  915. I asked Microsoft Co Pilot the same question. I had to specifically say "in China" to get Xi. Otherwise, the first world leader it mentioned was Nelson Mandela because he was warm and compassionate, the traits Winnie the Pooh is known for.
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  916. That's like comparing horse sh!t and donkey sh!t.
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  917. Even if they did. Politics will always stifle innovation so it's all useless anyway.
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  918. Most people who work in real estate don't make a lot of money. That's only the top 1%. And this goes in a lot of industries such as the financial industry.
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  919. Any economist who still says that with a serious face must have bumped their head or is under the influence.
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  920. Lol
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  921. You forgot "Lying Beauty"
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  922. This is so dangerous. Why would they do this without extensive testing?
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  923. "Money is the life and soul of the people, the nearest thing they have to a religion. Their fortitude in toil, where profits loom, is past belief. The only occasions upon which I have ever seen Chinese exhibit grief had to do with losses of money, though I have seen them lose friends and members of the family without the slightest trace of distress" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  924. I don't think they even pass US safety standards. Also, everyone's premiums will go up if they do. These cars are a liability.
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  925.  @douglassun8456  Some of them have literally come out and have said that on Chinese social media.
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  926. ​ @TheBarbahaba probably even more than that
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  927. Chinese people in China still think they have rights? They're about to learn how their gangster government truly acts.
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  928. Having a stable income isn't so obvious until you've lost your job.
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  929. They look like they've been let loose from a mental institution. So bizarre.
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  930. Why don't you actually critque what's being said and counter with valid points? Instead of trying to smear the credibility of the video?
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  931. They use marriage as just another means to show off. Nothing more, nothing less along with all of their other pursuits.
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  932. I don't know if people tip in China. But where I am from they're notorious to barely giving any tip. They tip even less than the minimum. A lot of them are a bunch of cheapskates.
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  933. Their intent was never to manage anything. It was just to steal and move their stolen money overseas.
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  934. Why?
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  935. Aren't they brain dead though?
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  936. Well they are aren't they?
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  937. No such thing as mandate of heaven. It's all made up to keep immoral Emperors in check.
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  938. Polluted acid rain water, tainted dirty water from the rivers...I wouldn't be surprised if the vegetables were tainted as well since those are grown in toxic environments. You're screwed every which way you look in China.
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  939.  @fion3943  I used to work in a Canadian restaurant. In the kitchen to be exact. It was absolutely disgusting. I had to scrub that place down everyday because a lot of the staff did not give a damn. I can't even imagine how a Chinese restaurant is run. And they already have a bad reputation. This was confirmed by the health and safety inspectors.
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  940. I've met some nice Chinese people in my life. And even though I know they aren't all like that. I'm finding the custom of having to get along with their elderly parents hard to swallow. That's why I am opting out of marrying anyone from that culture altogether. I also can't stand how showy and ultra materialistic they can be. Not one of my values.
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  941. Ultra materialistic and superficial? Yup.
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  942. China, a country where lies and deceit are encouraged and rewarded...
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  943. This is why nobody takes what they say seriously. They make claims to woo and impress but ultimately we never see their "stuff" in action. And once the novelty of seeing it for the first time has worn off, they move on to the next thing as people loose interest. And they show the world yet again that they are "cutting edge" from copying something that has already been built then repackaged by their propaganda.
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  944. "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  945. Yup "But certainly it is a farce for Chinese authorities to plead lack of responsibility for anti-foreign outbreaks when they are busy seven days a week turning out posters and pamphlets urging the local populace to resist by all methods the "imperialistic foreigners" who "rob" them of their daily bread." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  946.  @1439315  You don't need an accounting degree. There's software to do that already. Pretty soon, Pharmacists will also be out of work when automation enters the pharmaceutical industry.
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  947.  @shundi4264  That's not how freedom of speech works in the West which only goes to show how little you know. The more you talk the more you show your ignorance. Also you keep coming back to these videos and keep calling them "propaganda". If you already know that then why do you have to keep reminding people on here about this fact? People on here know better and we can see through Chinese state media deception so you're wasting your time trying to convince us otherwise.
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  948. So this is what finally broke the camel's back for you? Wow, you have a lot of fortitude to put up with their never ending crap.
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  949. Oh yes, China where deception and manipulation are paramount to a thriving education system that only seeks to make a profit with little to nothing in return.
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  950. When people say "China" they are referring to the CCP. Who makes all the policy decisions? Is it not the CCP?
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  951. Don't Chinese know by now that they have no rights? All this talk of "rights" is pure nonsense.
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  952. This is why the CCP strong arms everyone to follow them. Because they know that logic and reason are tools that can be used against them.
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  953. Chinese Doubao AI is just a reflection of Chinese society: confusing, misleading, and rigid. Go figure.
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  954. Never believe what a Chinese person says but pay attention to what they do. Lying is is as natural is breathing in their culture.
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  955. Because lying is innate in their culture. They lie to each other and they lie to themselves. What else is new?
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  956. China claiming fakery is the funniest thing ever. So insecure that it's sad and pathetic.
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  957. "China's Maldives", "Hawaii of China" - Call it whatever you want. A piece of dog sh!t dipped in gold is still a piece of dog sh!t. Stop making Hainan something it clearly isn't.
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  958. You won't make money with these kinds of return policies. I get why these platforms do it. But it's a loosing battle.
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  959.  @solomonchau7725  China has been like this for thousands of years. There was never a time in history wherein they weren't. They're not religious and they don't care for morals.
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  960.  @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039  "In the old days, a Chinese meditating a crime might be restrained by his neighbors if they could expect to bear a part of the penalty, and thus the business of pulling down all the houses on the street was well reasoned. Another device was to take one member of a family for punishment if the truly guilty could not be found. This took advantage of the Chinese clan and family obligation tradition very neatly, and probably millions of crimes were prevented by it. Life was cheap, and why not a father or brother if the culprit escaped? In really heinous offenses, such as insurrection, all of the first of kin and even second of kin might be executed or tortured to death along with the guilty man." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  961. And just think, all they will be are ride hailing drivers and baristas in the future unless they're connected to the government. Sad. Also, if they don't want to bother learning English, don't bother interfacing with the world. Nobody will adjust to you anymore.
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  962. What about it?
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  963. It doesn't matter what they steal. They always make everything half assed anyways. And that's not good if you want to stay in business.
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  964. Who did you hear this from? State propaganda?
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  965. That's the effect of Pro-China propaganda. No means to question data. No way to deny or confirm other than the CCP's narrative.
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  966.  @steventumulak976  China is all about face. I've been in a couple of Chinese people's houses in Canada. They live in big houses with no furniture inside. Some even work 2 jobs to pay for a luxury car they can't afford. The ones who can afford multimillion mansions are usually connected to the CCP in some way, shape, or form.
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  967. I will only buy Japanese cars. My phone is a Samsung. I will never buy Chinese tech garbage.
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  968. They have no morals. They don't care.
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  969. This is all over world news. What propaganda are you talking about?
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  970. It's truly amazing that this country has been getting away with everything including Covid. China is lucky that the world seems to be 'nice' to them. If it were another country similar to them, they would have gone to war already.
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  971. For a person with a little more intelligence, they're propaganda is actually bad. "The Chinese seldom lie with consistency, and never with ingenuity. Their production aims at quantity, not quality. Current American fiction ideas about the sinister cunning of the Chinese with their matchlessly clever deception is laughable after a slight amount of first-hand experience. They could rarely fool a bright ten-year-old after he had been in the country long enough to get the hang of their style. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  972. They don't feel for you. Everything that is happening is self inflicted. Hard to feel bad for people whose government makes bad choices and is hostile to everyone else.
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  973. Chinese tourists are among the worst. A lot are rude and don't even know how to tip. Let them go to Hainan.
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  974. Violence can't be shown on youtube. Otherwise, the video will be taken down.
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  975.  @nssupremacy_4281  "working hard" is so vague that it can literally mean anything at this point. And yes, economics has a lot to do with it.
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  976.  @lauriewise6271  They did it to themselves by allowing their government to have say over everything. You think they care if others suffer? They even make fun of people because of it.
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  977. It's not absurd. It makes sense especially under centralized planning.
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  978. And yet with all their patents, I can't count more Chinese companies in one hand than I do American, Japanese, European, or South Korean.
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  979. Nobody in their right mind is going to want to come to China unless they have to go there to work. Most Chinese are dying to leave their own country which should already tell you a lot.
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  980. Will never buy an EV. My diesel Toyota is good on gas and will last for a long time. Screw EV's. It's all propaganda to manipulate everyone.
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  981. Read about China under the KMT, it wasn't much different.
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  982.  @blue-phoenix115  China is one giant labor camp where you just can't leave.
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  983. ​ @anb2456 it's amazing how they think they own people. Abuse is common and expected.
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  984. Japan got rich before their housing bubble popped. Most Chinese can't afford anything.
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  985.  @theshadowman8801  to each his own. As long as your cousin can afford it then so be it.
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  986. ​ @CasperWang-n1k they hate when ir's convenient to them
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  987. I honestly thought they've done away with all this fake influencer materialistic garbage. Didn't the government crack down on this already? It looks like wherever there's money to be made, you're going to get liars in social media en masse.
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  988. It is. Chinese don't care. They always do what's convenient, not what's right or "classy".
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  989.  @michiel1362  US is the biggest consumer of those items. Other countries don't buy those items in US Dollars. So they have to adjust to the currencies of other countries. If their margins are already low, they're about to be lower.
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  990. The Chinese and Russians sold their freedoms when they decided to fight without changing their system for the better. It was all just about change in leadership.
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  991. BRICS is a useless trading bloc. Nothing will happen with that fake association.
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  992. They have the mindset of a child despite being a civilization that has existed for hundreds if not thousands of years. It's honestly bizarre that they way they think has not evolved. Then again, their government does a stellar job of keeping them "stupid".
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  993. "It is possible to say almost anything about the Chinese and have the statement true, and yet with proper modifications decidedly untrue. For example, the Chinese seem to do more washing and slopping around with pails of water everywhere than any other race on the globe, and at the same time they are among the dirtiest people to be found. They certainly approach the championship for laziness, and yet their claim to the title of most industrious is hardly open to dispute. They are perhaps the most unreliable and tricky to do business with of any large racial group. And yet under certain conditions a Chinese will make incredible sacrifices to meet his obligations, and die of humiliation if he can't." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  994.  @silversurfer3202  Day traders, yes. Long term investors who spoke to a licensed financial advisor, doesn't apply to them.
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  995. this should already be obvious to a lot of people...
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  996. Never buying this China made garbage. It's Japanese and South Korean cars all the way.
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  997. That fact that there are people still going to China is crazy. There should be close to net zero foreigners coming to that country.
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  998. Lots of wealthy Chinese are CCP officials or at the very least connected to the government.
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  999. People should stop bringing up the fact that these job hunters have a Masters or PhD. Their degree is worth less than toilet paper and is ultimately useless in the real world.
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  1000. "reflects a narrow perspective" - Pretty much defines China. Backwards, close minded and extremely lacking in sophistication.
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  1001. Japan should bring up the issue of Covid to China since they screwed the whole world and they won't shut up about WW2. They're beyond exasperating.
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  1002. Warranty of a Huawei phone is null and void. People who aren't bright enough to realize this yet are going to find out the hard way.
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  1003. So useless that you and others have to keep "reminding" us of this simple fact right?
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  1004. ​ @aaroncapricorn5867 those jobs are now coming back to the US after their Covid fiasco
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  1005. This has never happened to me when I use Google. Stop lying.
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  1006.  @savagebeastking8703  it's a toy. Not an everyday commuter. And yeah, you wouldn't buy something like that unless you have deep pockets to maintain the damn thing.
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  1007. And yet they keep telling themselves that everyone is jealous of them. Just like a homeless person bragging about the fact that they wander the streets on a cold night and somehow that's a "good" thing. Bunch of faceless people, and faceless culture.
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  1008. This is what happens when idiotic government policies by the CCP are enacted.
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  1009.  @geelgamesh8596  China is still the same. Their mannerisms, crudity, and lack of civilized behavior hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is that they wear modern clothes and drive modern cars. Their mentality is the same as it was thousands of years ago.
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  1010.  @KoinzellGaming  People who aren't rich and politically connected are slaves in China, they just don't know it yet. And the ones who do have given up. Living on the street is a reality that they have learned to accept.
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  1011. "Central planning" at it's finest. Except it was a plan that was meant to fail.
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  1012. Utopian hell is an oxymoron.
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  1013. They're already bad at driving. Adding another layer of complications with badly made cars is not a good idea.
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  1014. They were always a useless illusion peddled my society and universities hoping to cash in. You should only go to University if you are learning a hard skill - doctor, accountant lawyer, etc. This is a big wake up call. Hopefully a lot of Universities receive flack for promoting useless ideals and useless education in a world where it's ultimately not valued.
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  1015. That job is well deserved for such a useless Phd.
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  1016. You shouldn't believe in any "statistics" that come out of China - it's a known fact that they flat out lie.
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  1017. ​ @kyliemadden5204 gold and silver depreciates as well. People who pawn their jewelry often do so at a loss. Gold and Silver just sit. I would put my money in companies that actually create value instead.
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  1018. "There is no such reserve of honest citizenry in China, and no sign on the horizon of any in formation for the future." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1019. There's nothing about them that is impressive. But they would like to have you think so with lies and propaganda.
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  1020. "Judgements are bought and sold like beans or flour. And, of course, the Chinese police are open to wholesale bribery, whereas in civilized lands, bad as conditions are in some places, a considerable number of the police are incorruptible, while public opinion operates to make them all wary of too flagrant graft. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1021. I thought they were ahead of everyone in STEMS. Why go overseas then? Could it be because that is just another lie? I'm shocked
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  1022. I don't understand why basic empathy doesn't exist in Chinese culture. They say what they want when they want with zero regard for consequences. It's crazy.
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  1023. ​​ @HamguyBacon true investing is not gambling. Investments gain value over time. This is pure speculation. Investment 101 says diversification is key. Putting all your money in one stock is not diversification.
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  1024. "It's about getting fed" "The fighting in China is Chinese, and that means it is peculiar. Very little of it is fighting to a finish. The numbers slain in actual combat are astonishingly low in relation to the total forces engaged. Between two armies of approximately 50,000 men each, say, one may completely rout the other with no more than two or three hundred killed on both sides. The Chinese soldiers have little courage for determined conflict. They lack the exhilaration in strife, the blood lust of possible victory, that characterized the Japanese and some of the rest of us. And then they have nothing to fight for in a sense of vanquishing somebody else. The soldiers are in the army they happen to be in order to eat. They are there to escape death by starvation. Why would they risk it by bullets?" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1025. Everything that the CCP says is a bold faced lie. Why even question their logic when they have none?
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  1026. It goes to show that nobody has their own brains in that country. Self awareness and self inquiry was bred out of them.
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  1027. Some Wumaos work in prison. Typing awsy because they have nothing better to do.
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  1028. Do they not sell frozen fish in China?
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  1029. Yes, they keep their wages so low that no normal Chinese can live of them despite everything skyrocketing in price. This has always been how the Chinese have operated. It's always about manufacturing for cheap with very little profit margin but constantly selling your goods. That's why they don't bother spending on R&D. Number 1, the can't afford it. Number 2, they can just steal it for free. In fact, it's actually one of the rules when you go to China that you have to surrender your IP to the local businesses. This is a given on top of the overt theft of IP that they do in "secret".
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  1030.  @loremasteringwion9930  I'm not from the US so I wouldn't know. Also, US cities are built to last even if the infrastructure is old. In China, you build and build for the sake of building even if the quality of the building is sub par. The only "thing" you have down is your fake façade, which the world is becoming more and more aware of. I don't even understand what you mean by "better". Better in what sense? That it's just newer? As a place ages, all you are left with is just bad build quality. No amount of making it look "good" will change that fact. That's what you guys don't understand in China and you continue to not understand this plain and simple fact.
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  1031.  @loremasteringwion9930  not all cities in the US look like crap just like not all cities in China look all that great. You're taking pride in all the wrong things. But then again it's in your nature and culture to brag for for the sake of bragging.
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  1032.  @ChiKwongchow-r6v  Last I checked most Americans still out earned the typical Chinese. Stop with the delusional propaganda. We know better.
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  1033.  @laccess911  they don't think different. They're grossly uninformed and make decisions based on herd mentality.
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  1034. What's the point of asking them? They'll just lie like they always do and there are no neutral sources to confirm or deny the bs that the CCP spouts.
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  1035.  @kamsunleong6648  Not true. Spoke with people from China. This guy is universally hated. You're obviously a paid troll or brainwashed. Take your pick.
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  1036. Who's immigrating to China? Are some people that desperate?
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  1037. They don't learn any lessons. They do the same things that didn't work in the past because it serves them and is convenient. They never do what's right.
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  1038. These crooks from the banks, government, and real estate companies thought they could keep up this charade forever. What a joke. If your house dropped 70% of its value. It wasn't worth the price it dropped from. Chinese speculation horde mentality at its finest.
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  1039.  @crunchyfrog555  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend, a former US Consul who lived in 1930's China. China under the KMT was no different. Lying, cheating, and stealing have always been innate in their culture.
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  1040. So truth for you is only positive news? You don't understand the definition of "truth" then.
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  1041. They're used to it. Abuse is a common theme in their history.
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  1042. All of them have engaged in unsanitary practices in one way or another. Does it really matter?
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  1043. I've lost all sympathy when they lied about Covid and used their stupid "wolf warrior" diplomacy when they deal with the world. Who cares if their economy is tanking? We're in this mess now because of them. The CCP are so irresponsible and they will never change.
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  1044. My dad and uncles were the same with their family property. You don't hit your tenants with an increase when times are tough. It's called good will - something the Chinese clearly don't understand.
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  1045. There's nothing to understand. It's just an empty money grab. Chinese logic: New phones are expensive. Let's make ours expensive so people think it has more to offer when it actually doesn't. Real world logic: People buy the phone and realize that it falls short. So people stop buying any Huawei phones in the future.
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  1046. Their people are banned from it. Only propaganda is allowed to be shown from China.
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  1047. Just like asking a wolf to guard a bunch of sheep
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  1048. They never will be. Read up on China's history. They've always been run by gangsters and tyrants. They are where they are because they are subservient. They never valued basic agreed upon human rights and liberties like the Americans and Europeans did - they even spilled blood to gain these rights. The Chinese never did.
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  1049. The only way to profit off of this cheap all you can eat is to make food that's fake that can be sold at a very cheap price...wait a minute, they do that in China.
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  1050. ​​ @Ariel-x1x 1.3 billion. The Chinese overcounted their population by 100 million since they imposed the 1 child policy. It's probably even lower than what I just stated.
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  1051. They're not friends, just interest groups that want the same things. Also both are corrupt. There is no cross exchange of "good culture" going on there.
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  1052.  @FeuerblutRM  The ones I buy have roots. So no duh. What the hell are you talking about? That's why I said that earlier. Only the crap from China doesn't have roots.
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  1053.  @linuxlinux9914  There are a lot of things they don't understand up to now. Why do you think all the pandemics come from them?
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  1054.  @shuben6020  No, what I meant was the value of the property was never worth 3.5 million RMB because it was overassessed. That's what happens when you issue credit willy nilly to everyone without proper regulations to vet people borrowing. So on paper, everyone looks like they're "richer" than they are. But the real economy inevitably pulls everyone back down to reality. It has nothing to do with US dollars.
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  1055. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US consul who lived in 1930s China. China under the KMT is no different than China under the CCP. Same authoritarian style government, insane amounts of incompetence and corruption, coupled with never ending propaganda.
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  1056. This is purely about politics and money. They let crap Chinese construction into their countries in order for them to sell to China. This is how the Chinese do business. Nothing is ever just up front and straight forward. There's always other conditions attached to something that should otherwise be simple business.
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  1057. Lol, ancestors of these Chinese were no different. People talking about "Chinese etiquette" were talking about court culture, not mainstream Chinese culture. Most Chinese were peasants and acted like this - rude and uneducated.
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  1058.  @jjhappy2399  How so? Have you seen what rural China looks like? Even the developed cities have homeless. Stop with the lies. Everyone with half a brain can see through it all.
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  1059. And they keep encouraging foreigners to come. Just plain idiotic.
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  1060. Indonesia returned the arms they bought from China because of accuracy issues. If that is what they are selling to the world then all countries China deals with will be losers if a war starts
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  1061.  @tigerjonn  it's all just hot air as usual. Anything Russia or China says is just for attention and political clout.
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  1062. Even bank employees salaries are getting slashed. No bonuses for them.
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  1063. No such thing as mandate of heaven. It was designed to keep rulers in check. Even the CCP doesn't believe in that trite nonsense.
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  1064. At least they have already realized this and have started diversifying from China. The worst thing that any country can do is put all their eggs in the China basket - we all know how that turned out, especially now that the Chinese people are spending less money. So there's less and less reason for multinational companies to stay in China.
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  1065. They're the only ones who steal and make things worse than the original. Chinese don't add value. In fact they take away value and the price reflects this simple fact.
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  1066. Yes, it's called "ageism"
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  1067.  @gordonfreeman3072  Such a "marvel" that it's not only outdated, it's being produced at a loss. CCP can't seem to understand basic business fundamentals since a lot of what they do is produced at a loss.
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  1068. More like "turd warriors"...
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  1069. Exactly. There was never a point where these people were "respected". And they still continue to make fools of themselves everywhere they go.
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  1070. Lol. Exactly. They were always clowns. Nobody saw them different. Just a bunch of fools.
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  1071. ​ @elenabob4953 it's easy to "develop" when all you have to do is copy.
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  1072.  @tyranidswarmlord9722  Don't bother. Xi isn't the only problem. They've always held xenophobic views against foreigners. They think they're better than everyone. Just go to Taiwan.
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  1073. So Chinese are the only ones capable of operating a "real" barbershop? What the hell does that even mean? Also, you don't have a barbershop where you live? Do you live in the middle of nowhere?
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  1074. Can't find something that isn't there.
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  1075. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They've always been like this. It truly doesn't matter who is ruling them.
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  1076. Just a thought to China: If you want to increase prices, maybe increase the quality of what you are making as well? Whether your raise or lower prices doesn't matter if you manufacture garbage quality items.
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  1077. People in Shanghai have access to multinational investment brokers who are willing to diversify their investments and put that money into multinational companies overseas where the CCP has no say in how the money is invested. Why don't they use them instead of putting their money into state banks wherein their money will be eroded by inflation? Not to mention the fact that they might not even be able to withdraw their money.
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  1078. All these educational institutions are a joke. They're all bought. Having a useless degree from crappy Harvard doesn't mean squat.
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  1079.  @Ben-fx8lg  You need to read up on China under the KMT. They were no different. Read the book "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend - he was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. He found no proof that China was any different in the past.
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  1080.  @mikewolf-x6t  "Money is the life and soul of the people, the nearest thing they have to a religion. Their fortitude in toil, where profits loom, is past belief. The only occasions upon which I have ever seen Chinese exhibit grief had to do with losses of money, though I have seen them lose friends and members of the family without the slightest trace of distress" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1081.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  Although there's poverty in the US, they are still generally better off than the Chinese.
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  1082.  @ryerye9019  Problem is they aren't usually paying for only one property. The ones who haven't had their home finished are paying rent and a mortgage. And the ones with multiple properties can't sell, assuming that they're all even being rented out. So they are now strapped with those mortgages on top of their monthly costs to maintain their standard of living.
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  1083.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  If you truly feel that way then move to China. What's stopping you?
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  1084. The woman who said she's "hot tempered and doesn't do housework" is an absolute moron who deserves to be single.
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  1085. Read up on China under the KMT. They were no different. At some point you just have to accept that they are the way they are because of their culture. No agreed upon morals and values coupled with egotistical leaders propped up by a submissive populace was and is always how China has operated. Everyone is just trying to survive to the exclusion of everything else.
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  1086. I worked at a restaurant. It's not rocket science, but the labor involved is no joke especially if you're not physically resilient.
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  1087. @user-dk5qd7pw2s "It is fairly clear, in contracts with the Chinese and in looking about the country, that many of the standards they nourish are decidedly destructive to any satisfactory social and economic order. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "There is no such reserve of honest citizenry in China, and no sign on the horizon of any in formation for the future." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend China has always been in a decrepit state. You really think the country was better under the KMT or when they had Emperors? Think again.
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  1088. China also said they wouldn't militarize the South China Sea but did it anyway. China never follows through with anything they say so why should US and the developed world believe China's lies?
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  1089. ​ @abc2390986 your analogy is false because the Chinese in Singapore are of the same stock as mainland China. White Americans aren't all of British descent.
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  1090. Don't believe in what they say: they lie constantly. Pay attention to their actions. It gives them away.
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  1091. It's not the same. People only knew poverty up until that point. The new generation have experienced wealth unprecedented in previous generations. Now it's all gone.
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  1092. And this is why I never consume anything that is made in China.
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  1093. Because they can't get over the fact that there are other countries or cultures better than them. They have to constantly integrate everything into their backwards ways.
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  1094. Just think about the fact that they've been sending students overseas for a better part of a hundred years since the early 1900's - yes, it's been that long. In all those years China never changed. They never progressed in the way they think regardless of what they learned or whomever is running their backwater country. Education on them is a waste when everything is subject to politics. It truly doesn't matter. You don't need an education to work most jobs. There's on the job training anyway.
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  1095. Why are they producing autonomous cars when traffic in China is so unpredictable? Do they really think this is going to be effective? China clueless as usual.
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  1096.  @RoninX33  Good luck if you don't have any connections.
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  1097. so much work just to produce something fake
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  1098.  @supertouring1  Have the money? You mean the money that they are printing non stop which is now causing deflation because nobody will spend it, so rather than put it all in the economy they put it in the hands of corrupt third world countries (through loans) so that they can manipulate them into buying their cheap garbage.
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  1099. No, scales of production have moved elsewhere like Vietnam, India, and Southeast Asia. A lot of those jobs also went back to the US after China's failed zero covid stupidity.
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  1100. Yes, because the government propagandized that a lot of salt is from parts of the sea were affected by the water released by Japan.
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  1101. ​ @DarkArmedWagon Options are an illusion to older women. Most women over 30 actually don't have a lot of options and they delude themselves to thinking they have options.
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  1102. "A subordinate, under hourly scrutiny, is capable of efforts often surpassing, individually those common in foreign companies. But a subordinate out of sight in a enterprise is a dangerous liability, an opportunist weighing the advantages of working for his employer or working covertly against him." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1103. They can't even agree on anything. Each country wants to prop up their OWN currency and have that be the medium of exchange. You already have China and Russia at the forefront of that foolishness (I don't even understand why India is even in the picture other than the fact that they are "developing" like the other member states are but ultimately don't share their values). And both will not back down so nothing will ultimately come out of this - It's all for show like China's flashy yet poorly made infrastructure.
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  1104. To create a fake supply for their fake economy to produce things of low value that people don't need.
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  1105. It's pathetic
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  1106. ...and they wonder why they are getting sick. Sad they're going back to cultural revolution style starvation.
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  1107. Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. It's always been like this. They constantly cycle through one tyranical government to another. It's always been part of their authoritarian history.
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  1108.  @peterseth3296  Japan is a vassal to who? They're the ones who gave the Chinese jobs. Also, China is constantly racking up debt to keep themselves afloat. No other country is doing this on a massive scale.
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  1109. They're actually loosing money making those cars.
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  1110.  @Amenimun  There are always morons who bring up the US as soon as one brings up China issues. These brain dead fools clearly don't understand how China works and how the US works because they think they're the same.
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  1111. Free college? Nothing is free in China except for the toxic air and government surveillance. They seriously need a healthy dose of reality.
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  1112. Suchir Balaji
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  1113. And the food that's not expired is laced with chemicals. It truly doesn't matter what you eat over there. It's all the same in the end.
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  1114. 80% of groundwater in China is contaminated. That's not true. Also there are factories in rural areas pumping pollution into the air and water. There's no place in China that's pristine anymore.
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  1115. It's just greed. That's how stupid the system is. The Chinese know how greedy western capitalists think because they are of the same vein.
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  1116. It's all fun and games for the capitalists in Taiwan until it's no longer a game.
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  1117. Tell that to their brainwashed population. They would beg to differ.
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  1118. There's barely anything to maintain.
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  1119. Don't forget their "mob" mentality. Most people don't think about what they do because their neighbors are all doing the same.
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  1120. So basically just lie: The typical China model.
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  1121.  @DK-gj5sp  Yes, and pigs can fly.
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  1122. Everyone copies each other, the difference with Japan and South Korea is that they add to these already existing concepts. China doesn't. They not only copy to the "t". They use inferior materials essentially adding little to no value in the industry. You don't become industry leader from copying exactly. You find new and creative means to add to what you already know. China is too corrupt to do anything including innovation.
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  1123. I don't understand why everyone thinks China was so much better off before the Communists came into power. They've always been a chaotic, immoral mess. Most Chinese have always been atheists. Despite what everyone thinks, most Chinese don't practice Buddhism or any form of religion. This has held true for over a hundred years.
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  1124.  @tanalson  and that's why they will never be anything more than they are. That backward way of thinking leaves you with little to no recourse but to be powerless. No self awareness to change. Just keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results - the very definition of insanity. And they wonder why they are backwards?
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  1125.  @jackcat3745  It's still a backwards country. Nothing has really changed other than the fact that they drive modern cars and wear modern clothes.
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  1126.  @tanalson  I don't think this has anything to do with losing face per se. If opportunities are limited, you are going to grab hold of whatever comes your way.
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  1127. ​​ @dongshengdi773 they rule as rich and powerful over an unstable population that is rife with social upheaval. Who do you think gets executed first when the people get sick and tired and have nothing to loose? It's the people on top.
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  1128. They're too apathetic to care at this point. That's what happens when they allow communism to run a country. They replaced their "unreasonable" government with a far worst one - This is what happens when people complain and ultimately don't fix anything.
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  1129. Read up on China before the CCP came into power. Abuse is commonplace in their culture.
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  1130. 😂 And a lot of these women are no prized pig. Lots can't even cook and do chores. What kind of family can you raise with someone like that?
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  1131. They all will. They all follow the same fraudulent model.
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  1132. History has shown that they've never had morals.
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  1133. And all we hear about is Chinese EV's will dethrone Tesla. Everyone is paid by Chinese propaganda.
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  1134. The only things they make decently are items supervised by managers from overseas. You can't trust them to make anything domestically that is of good quality.
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  1135.  @amadeusamwater  People have had enough experience buying Chinese goods to know they are sub par. But then again a sucker is born everyday so there are always going to be people who think they are "getting ahead" by buying cheap Chinese goods until they are inconvenienced.
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  1136.  @canthandlethetruth-dji  This is what always bothered me. Despite all the bs that merchants from overseas have to deal with, they for the longest time put up with crap from the Chinese. Are we truly starved for choice that we have no other alternative? This was set up horribly from the get go.
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  1137.  @evangiles4403  it depends what it is. Most people won't skimp for certain things like food and health care. But for other things like cheap disposables then Chinese stuff is ok.
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  1138. Just make it yourself. So many recipes online. It's not hard
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  1139. Not all of Asia is like this. Stop generalizing.
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  1140.  @emmapeel8163  Have you seen the news in the US? It's skewed in the direction of being negative. The hell are you talking about? They're not on the same level of lying as in China.
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  1141. "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1142. A lot of Chinese are clueless and only regurgitate what their government tells them. Don't take what they say at face value. It's not coming from a well informed place.
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  1143. The irony was China built those factories on their coasts. So all that pollution would blow over to South Korea, which is why they are struggling with air pollution from China now.
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  1144. A more "intelligent" person would have consulted with a licensed financial advisor. But there's no shortage of dumb people in China.
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  1145. Their society has always been like this even before the CCP take over. China just plain sucks.
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  1146. Jet streams don't blow towards China. It's the opposite lol.
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  1147. Japan is a capitalist country. How can you even compare them to China. They are the antithesis of China in every way.
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  1148.  @DonDaCombatVet  Security in China is for the poor and law abiding citizens not the CCP.
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  1149. A lot of cheap morons. Nevermind, some of those cars aren't even cheap. They're just morons.
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  1150. "In spite of their industry, in the sense of always puttering about, the Chinese are without doubt the most slipshod people on earth. The common huts are always about to fall to pieces, a not infrequent occurrence. Their roofs leak, and the mud walls are usually cracked and partly knocked to pieces. Mending anything before the imminent danger of its falling upon his head, or upon his livestock (a more important concern), would be unthinkable to a Chinese." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1151. "Money is the life and soul of the people, the nearest thing they have to a religion. Their fortitude in toil, where profits loom, is past belief. The only occasions upon which I have ever seen Chinese exhibit grief had to do with losses of money, though I have seen them lose friends and members of the family without the slightest trace of distress" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1152.  @peterk3474  China isn't "unified" lol. It's a false impression they create. There's so much backstabbing that goes on in government - They've always been like this. The Chinese court was no different.
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  1153. A lot of them are so brainwashed that they don't care. How else do you explain their odd behavior domestically or overseas? They're not strangers to weird behavior. "No normal foreigner can expect to understand the Chinese in the sense of sharing a rational acceptance of their behavior" - "Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1154. What a weirdo. Typical attention seeking clout chaser. People not minding him is the appropriate response since they thrive on any attention they can get. Sun Ninghui is correct. Chinese style monopoly will only work if it produced cutting edge advanced technology. It will never be able to compete on the same level as the West because they're never on the cusp of developing anything innovative.
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  1155.  @africaisking7817  "To what extent the Chinese at large are what they are because of their inner racial spirit, and to what extent they are so because of long-continued hardships of environment, we cannot accurately measure. The two forces merge indistinguishably, and we can observe only the force of the combination. In the matter of environment, many centuries have passed in China since the average individual there had any significant control over his lot in life. When he emerges to existence, it is not to look upon choices, but to face forward along lines of narrow necessity, along a slim furrow of possible survival kept open by his family ancestors through the thicket of competing humanity. Into this he steps and toils until he dies. There is no escape, no means of reaching a status of relative comfort and security, whatever the effort. Experience teaches him that moderately intensive effort means perhaps enough to keep alive, less means starvation, and more futility. The principle applying to physical endeavors applies likewise to moral endeavors. Moderate goodness keeps him out of jail, a less amount risks penalties, and a greater amount sacrifices needlessly much that the might otherwise enjoy. The Chinese thus becomes the most coolly calculating materialist the world has ever known. He lives skeptically immune to moral enthusiasms, having long ago arrived at an opportune materialism whither some of our own gospel ministers tell us we are now rapidly drifting." -"Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1156.  @africaisking7817  It is what it is. And Townsend found no proof that they were any different in the past.
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  1157.  @magic-eric7328  That's the lengths that this horrible authoritarian government will go through to keep up their lies.
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  1158. Wouldn't be surprised if that idiot left China as well. Too many people are hounding that scammer.
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  1159. ​ @kamsunleong6648 so idiot now means "not buying into Chinese propaganda"?
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  1160. Despite being "educated", logic and critical thinking isn't one of the strong suits of the majority. Instead, they opt for brainless nationalism to the detriment of the country. "It has been pointed out in preceding chapters that contrary to the current American conception, the Chinese leaders do not impress any one as struggling against the illiteracy of the masses. The thing is the other way around, with the illiterate masses struggling-for survival-against the terrible tyranny and crushing oppression of their leaders. Not anxious for strife and content to plow their small farms, the majority of the common people would be better off without leaders than with the ones they have." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1161.  @M-dv1yj  So spending half a day in traffic is better when they can just video call family members?
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  1162.  @M-dv1yj  Half a day in traffic is worth it? Maybe for people like you who have money to burn sitting in a car all day and time to waste. I'm not all about that life. That to me is just plain idiotic.
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  1163. Investment isn't about loosing money over the long term. It's about being informed and speaking to a licensed professional. This is gambling.
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  1164. "Their own records, throwing light on their characteristics back to the remote obscurities of forty centuries ago, force the melancholy conclusion that they were no different then." "Ways that are dark: The truth about China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1165. ​ @JAM661 she avoided an angry man and he avoided harpies for in laws. Both sides benefit.
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  1166. And the ones who do are in a shock of a lifetime.
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  1167.  @nicholasrockall7308  Yup. Anything with the descriptive word of "Chinese" doesn't warrant a second look as it is usually inferior.
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  1168. They're not patient. They have no choice. If they go out into the real world there are no jobs waiting for them.
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  1169. Sure, "vanguard" of technology if you believe in propaganda without any tangible proof. They're always on the "cutting edge" of something and yet we don't see it sold in markets, nor can it be confirmed or denied by sources outside of Chinese state media.
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  1170. "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They have always been like this: abusive and inhuman.
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  1171. Well for one, you don't have a dictator who pulls policies out of his ass with little to no understanding of basic economics and government policies running your country.
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  1172.  @zbk343  Assets - Liabilities = Net Worth. If your net worth is negative, you a worst than broke. You own nothing. What are you talking about? Once the bank re-possesses your house and cars because it can't offset your debt you will end up on the streets.
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  1173. What is the Chinese version of "Juche"? Time to learn from North Korea.
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  1174. People paying for cheap knock off think they're getting a good deal when in actuality they're just junk that's more useless than garbage.
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  1175. Not really. People still prefer quality and their life over a crap box like BYD.
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  1176. @ Who's "they? And when did BYD become the poster child for "quality"?
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  1177. They don't care about what people want. Instead of paying for R&D, they pay people to threaten and shut people down who criticize them. That's where their money goes. Priorities right?
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  1178. This is what happens when you have brainwashed idiotic subservient citizens.
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  1179.  @shinodamasaru7945  Despite having the "best engineers" they still resort to IP theft and espionage. They obviously aren't that great.
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  1180. Well, most people don't have an expert opinion of what to look for or how to authentically verify if it is indeed an artifact. And most people who aren't informed of this seedy industry in China don't know any better.
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  1181. Lol
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  1182.  @tiefblau2780  China has always been like this. Even under the KMT, the Chinese people made no distinction between the local police, military, and local gangs. They all abuse the people and are all self serving.
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  1183. Everything that politicians say is all for show. They don't actually believe in the crap they say. That is what they call "diplomacy".
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  1184.  @kamsunleong6648  Well the same can be said about the CEO of Huawei. Their family owns Apple products. In fact when Meng Wanzhou was stopped at the airport, her computer was an Apple laptop. Why do they own Apple? Because Apple has good fail safes to protect against data breach. You cited one person and it's the CEO of Ford. Are you sure he's not just saying so that he can appease the CCP so that Ford can continue to operate in China? Let's get real.
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  1185.  @kamsunleong6648  same can be said about Huawei execs and their Apple products. What's your point?
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  1186. Chinese have that herd mentality. A lot of people don't stop and think bout what they are doing until it is too late. They jump in with the hopes of making profit, which there's nothing wrong with that. But they don't acknowledge reality and the reality is most people are tightening their belts.
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  1187. But China always claims they are.
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  1188.  @Rob-yk1jw  Not likely. They're being scrutinized left, right, and center over there. Especially after all the POGO scandals, and fraudulent Visa applications from China.
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  1189.  @aquarius5719  There IS a bubble and prices reflect that simple fact. If a house is now selling for 1,000,000 RMB when it was initially 3,000,000 RMB, guess what? That house was never worth 3,000,000 RMB to begin with. It's because the government allowed unfettered access to credit which inevitably inflated everything because on paper everyone is "richer" than they think they are.
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  1190. ​ @Asara-k7e you definitely would have been less stressed. That's for sure
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  1191. Zero common sense prevails in China. Couple that with bad hygiene, this is bound to happen.
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  1192. They don't believe in karma. They only believe in superstition and are atheist's. Only a small segment of the population believe in Buddhism.
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  1193. All well and good but who will take over? More flawed human beings who are disconnected from the people like their predecessors were? The system is what's wrong and human nature makes it very difficult to fix society's ills.
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  1194. China is full of it. All their talk has no substance.
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  1195. Lol, pandaland
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  1196. "The easiest thing to do is to spend money you already have. This goes without saying" - Random Chinese netizen.
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  1197. What do you mean "investor"? A lot of Chinese won't invest in SOE's because they view it as more volatile than the housing market which is now crashing. The only "viable" investment is for them to take their cash overseas away from CCP influence.
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  1198.  @jmtradbr  Because in a lot of countries that's the least you can do after someone has given you their hard earned money. Otherwise, it's just called "theft".
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  1199. You need to read Chinese history.
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  1200. It's not unheard of for Chinese in a BMW to pull up to a food bank in North America. Facade culture with no dignity.
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  1201. They don't like them.
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  1202. "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1203. There are physical jobs that they need to vet if you are physically capable of handling the work. But push ups are a little extreme. Let them lift 50lbs in succession ten times in a row. That's more reasonable.
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  1204. China isn't clean-toxic air, toxic food and toxic water abounds.
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  1205. Tell that to all the morons still invested in China. It's always money over common sense for them until someone goes to jail or worst.
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  1206. They will never gain freedom because they never defined their values. They only do what's convenient and not what's right and just.
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  1207.  @jonathanrichardson469  The US is the reason countries like China thrived. Withdraw US multinationals and investors guess what happens? Nothing. It's fine. Other countries are more than willing to pick up the pieces that China dropped. They can go back being poor. US dominated? If that means forgoing standards and a rules based order then let them do their own thing. People are sick of rewarding IP theft and hostility to other countries.
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  1208. You would have to be a fool after China shows its true face.
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  1209. And they're still growing 5% a year? China is so "advanced" they found a way to defy math, logic, and common sense.
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  1210. This is sad
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  1211. I wouldn't drink the rainwater and river water in China. That's a sure fire way to end up in the hospital. Just because it's "free" doesn't mean it's good for you.
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  1212. ​ @Tonyxyp regulations? Everyone can be paid off. It's all about convenience. Regulations are a suggestion at best.
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  1213. It's such a stupid inappropriate sounding name.
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  1214. This government wants its people to starve to death.
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  1215. US has labor laws that prevent this from happening...so it's no.
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  1216. 'But certainly it is a farce for Chinese authorities to plead lack of responsibility for anti-foreign outbreaks when they are busy seven days a week turning out posters and pamphlets urging the local populace to resist by all methods the "imperialistic foreigners" who "rob" them of their daily bread." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) This kind of behavior is so typical Chinese.
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  1217. They're so arrogant. They think everything they do is justified. That's why the way they do things persists.
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  1218.  @zenon7094  Boiling water doesn't get rid of trace metals in the water though. So unless you have a highly sophisticated water filtration system, you're always taking a chance.
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  1219. Chinese are adept at devaluing everything so much so that everything is produced at a loss.
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  1220.  @a64738  exactly, they're always the same. Even their arguments don't change which already shows lack of free thought.
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  1221. Mandate of heaven is a joke designed to keep the rulers "in check" when in actuality rulers of China couldn't care less what happens to their people. It's rather funny considering most people there are atheist.
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  1222. ​ @Kaichongjee people are lining up to go to the US. Nobody is lining up to go to China.
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  1223.  @fuzzyschwartz  Not when policies don't favour foreign investors. Once you get burned by China's policies there's no going back to that - you would be a complete and utter moron if you think they've changed for the better.
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  1224. "Little pink" - what a name
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  1225. Haha. That's one product you don't want folding especially with you in it. But build quality is so bad it will most likely fold upon impact.
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  1226. Yup. That's why I don't bother giving them any money. The time it takes for a normal person to work and get paid is crazy. They literally don't do anything other than to deceive people. They are among the most immoral people exploiting people's kindness.
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  1227. ​​ @MA-nl6js lots of car manufacturers are pulling out of EV's. Most countries don't have the infastructure to support this fad. It's not a sustainable market especially if car companies capitalize on hydrogen batteries. Lithium powered cars will never be dominant in the car market.
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  1228. China is a toxic cesspool of bad hygiene, toxic food, air, and water. It can't all be just because of one thing when multiple variables are constantly interacting with one another. Blaming it solely on vaccines is overly simplistic, even though it is one of the variables that is exacerbating this mess.
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  1229. A lot of them have stopped catering to China. Just look at the newest Top Gun, they skipped China altogether because they didn't care to censor Tom Cruise's jacket with Japan and Taiwan's flag.
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  1230. Lol, it's all propaganda. They're very third world.
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  1231. That's why I will never ever go to China. It's the people there that are so off putting, not the fact that they are a third world country.
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  1232. They don't want to deal with the consequences of their bad actions.
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  1233.  @johnshite4656  Nope, America has history books and people can access them. Also, you can look up history on the internet in the US. Same can't be said for China. I don't even understand why you made such a comparison.
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  1234. Why pay them when this is already standard?
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  1235. You need to read up on China under the KMT and prior to that and visit the country. I promise you will regret those words when you're done.
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  1236.  @hitest8925  True. Owner only cares about getting rich of the franchise fee. That's where the bulk of the money they make comes from. You can't consistently make money from selling the bubble tea with such a low profit margin. If people aren't lining up everyday to buy your bubble tea around the block, you're not making money.
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  1237.  @johntang4108  Gee I don't know, the fact that it won't just spontaneously combust when I park it somewhere. Or what about the fact that it won't be subjected to maintenance every few months because it keeps on breaking. A corporations "name" takes decades to build. Confidence is earned. It doesn't happen overnight just because you released propaganda saying that it's the best thing since sliced bread.
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  1238.  @adelineyan7809  Why buy an EV when you can get a hybrid? A hybrid has a diversified source of power. If the battery in an EV malfunctions, there goes your car.
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  1239. Chinese authorities can't be bothered to do the right thing when they are part of the problem themselves, whether they're active in scamming and/or just apathetic and negligent.
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  1240.  @RonLo  A lot of authoritarian governments operate this way. They don't let a day pass without bad mouthing America - At the end of the day it only goes to show that they are incapable of fixing their crap shoot of a country instead opting to distract the masses from their incompetence and corruption.
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  1241. Lol, if you want to call it "marketing" go ahead.
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  1242.  @lazyhusband  Even if they did. Emperor Xi won't allow any scholarly analysis of the economy since it's all about propping his demented thoughts and image up.
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  1243. "Made in China" - What else is new? If you want to weaken a military and watch it implode. Buy made in China everything.
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  1244. And to think, the world is still "nice" to them, despite their childish, moronic antics.
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  1245. They knew how they came into power and how brutal they were. So offcourse they wouldn't want the revolution weaponized against them.
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  1246. A lot of morons still are apparently
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  1247. A lot of rich people especially old moneyed people don't flaunt because getting kidnapped for ransom is a real consequence of such action. People who have a lot to loose act this way. Ironically the new rich and fake rich are cosplaying what they think how a "wealthy" person should act.
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  1248. Even if they did, a lot of money would end up in the pockets of local officials, not towards projects.
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  1249. It's pronounced "koo" not "koup"
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  1250.  @kamsunleong6648  Chinese EV's better built? You're beyond delusional. Also, nobody wants price wars in their local economy since it negatively affects local industries and companies have to massively lay off people to match Chinese dirt cheap price for low quality products. People in developed countries want higher wages not lower wages or being laid off. Not that China cares.
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  1251.  @dcc70  "Dong" and "Wang" are slang in English for penis.
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  1252. What the Chinese say never matches their actions. That's why you don't bother taking their word at face value. Lying is normal in their culture.
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  1253. Most people with half a brain don't believe them anyway. They're the laughing stock of the world and they believe in "face"? What a joke!.
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  1254.  @singlefather01  Chinese who are exposed to different ways of thinking eventually adopt progressive ways of thinking. Those who cling to the old "Chinese" ways are often backwards and small minded.
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  1255. Not everything is as it appears to be, especially when a country's interests are at stake. And China doesn't care if it steps on the feet of its allies to get what it wants.
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  1256. Lol, they can't seem to see the writings on the wall. The Scalper economy relies on physical stores selling out - they don't understand that a lot of those "buyers" are scalpers as well.
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  1257. ​ @oakinwol It's a problem of both. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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  1258.  @fdm2155  Why not just leave? The end result is the same. You will leave unemployed either way.
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  1259. Yes, and that's assuming they can even start in the snow.
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  1260.  @fnckbook  Red is considered "lucky" in their culture. What do you expect from a culture that props up superstitious beliefs with little to no logic?
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  1261.  @RT-qd8yl  Same here
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  1262. It's fear of missing out of the Chinese market. And the CCP loves to dangle the Chinese market like a carrot on the stick which only gives them more political leverage. If a lot of these companies are smart, they should cut their losses in China and diversify to other countries - their complacency got them to this place to begin with.
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  1263.  @AMDRyzen57500F  here in Canada, 70 is a C+. Especially where I'm at, Asian students who are top tier easily score over 90%. Different standards in Asia, it's probably harder over there. I had classmates who literally would go home crying after scoring 99%.
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  1264.  @KitKitChanIsaac  I also flunk math in high school. When I applied myself in college I got a B+ (87 here in Canada). But that was a time where I practiced nonstop, even getting extra homework from the professor to help me with exams.
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  1265. Good for him! Why suffer and have that nasty bitch for a mother in law? Good riddance.
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  1266. They gave always been like this. Read up on China under the KMT. Nothing's changed.
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  1267. Pretty much. Expired meat cooked in gutter oil on plates that aren't washed properly - China's dining experience in a nutshell.
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  1268. It's a very expensive movie set...that nobody wants to visit.
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  1269. Pretty much. You're even treated worst than a slave. At least slave owners fed the slaves to get the most out of their productivity. These corporate abusers are even worst.
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  1270. Places like Vancouver, US, UK, Australia. A lot of these Chinese buy expensive properties and drive luxury cars. A lot of the family of these CCP members report no income while simultaneously taking advantage of government benefits. Communism at its finest.
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  1271. "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1272. A lot of them are kids of corrupt CCP officials.
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  1273. @ Despite all this talk of Geely and BYD, I have yet to see them where I live. And I don't live in the US. So I highly doubt that what is being said about BYD and Geely's popularity are true. It's all paid media.
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  1274. Suppressing China = not letting the Chinese steal IP and holding them accountable to international laws. Go figure.
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  1275. 'Chinese wisdom' is a myth. Just cultural propaganda that they would like to have you believe...
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  1276. That's China in a nutshell. They love to trash talk but lack any self awareness to decipher if what they are saying is applicable to them. And they never learn.
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  1277. The self aggrandizing and arrogant behavior of the CCP and their goons only serve to create resentment against them. They're beyond exasperating.
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  1278.  @MrWhiskers65  Whatever helps you sleep at night. Just because you don't see their dealings it doesn't mean that they're not up to no good.
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  1279. That woman did apparently. And she's not the only one.
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  1280. ​ @useruseruseruseruser790 they've always been like this whether economy is good or bad, Chinese always act deprived.
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  1281. There's a disconnect between Chinese people who work hard for their money and the CCP who love to spend money that isn't theirs.
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  1282.  @kevoreilly6557  "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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1283. Chances are someone died. The CCP just doesn't want to put salt in the wound by recording deaths.
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  1284. They won't collapse because their government won't allow their economy to collapse. They'll just print more money and put their country into debt.
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  1285.  @acheable  State dependency? So many people are no longer getting paid even those who work for the government. China's welfare is next to non existent. Everything there costs money despite being "communist".
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  1286. On the contrary, why do you think they constantly export epidemics and pandemics to the world?
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  1287. More useless infrastructure projects = more officials lining their pockets. What else is new here?
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  1288. This is the "China" that the CCP says is now thriving? Don't they ever get sick of lying?
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  1289. All this while officials pocket the money that's supposed to be for "investment". They don't develop anything.
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  1290. But that's what they do best. They double down on what's not working thinking that it will give them better results. It's literally the definition of insanity. No critical thinking, no common sense, and a lot of wasted effort. "always busy, never getting anything done" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1291. They don't though. You can't teach or civilize them. US missionaries have had a long history of trying to help and teach the Chinese but it's always met with resistance and violence. At some point, you just have to accept people for what they are. That's also why they have the leaders they have. Chaos is their natural state.
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  1292. BYD should be put on an entity list.
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  1293. It never was you psycho!
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  1294.  @bizee9119  Taiwanese aboriginals look Filipino and have the same ancestry. By that logic then Taiwan is a part of the Philippines.
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  1295.  @shailee9762  On what? parts of the great wall missing? Also, the fact that people urinate and defecate on the great wall because there are no washrooms in sight?
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  1296. @rejvaik00 A downfall of these "standardized tests" is the complete lack of critical thinking. They want drones who work without question. Not exactly the best way to utilize people's talents.
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  1297. Lol, soup apparently doesn't taste the same without melted plastic in it.
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  1298. Lol, you can't read the writings on the wall? Deal with the consequences.
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  1299. ​ @caseymay5449 they should be taught a lesson
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  1300. It's just like when they talk about "peace". There's nothing "peaceful" about their approach lol. Words mean nothing to them. Just meaningless outward noise.
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  1301.  @pablosskates7067  If you want to define the stupidity that they are doing just use the word "Chinese" or "China" as an add on. That pretty much sums up everything ie "China's last warning", "Chinese whispers", "Chinese fire drill", "Chinese Ace", "Chinese puzzle". They're a joke in the world.
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  1302. "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They have always been like this: abusive and inhuman.
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  1303. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1304. That's never going to happen because they will stay in the stone age if they don't lie, cheat, and steal. And there's no incentive for being innovative.
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  1305. Why should you? They supported this stupidity under Mao decades prior.
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  1306.  Lunar972  Government violating Chinese people's rights is what they do best.
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  1307. Lots of officials don't even do a "job". They sit pretty collecting from state funds to splurge on whatever they want.
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  1308. It's China. What do you expect? Cheap talk is innate in their culture.
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  1309.  @ChickensAndGardening  Taiwan is the way it is because of Japanese influence. And they evolved "away" from their authoritarian ways which they have always been since they had emperors. Like I said earlier, China never changed. If you take a look at their tumultous history this will be laid bare. Lying and deception have always been paramount values they espoused along with control and authoritarianism. In fact it was not unusual for China to have tyrannicsl emperors in the past. Suffering has and will always be something they will always deal with. It's all about what the egotistical dimwit on top wants over agreed upon universal values - Chinese never had this and they never fought for this unlike the Europeans did. That's why they will always be a mess.
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  1310.  @kentathvaprdsk  everyone keeps blaming the CCP when they have always been the same. If there is one thing that has remained unchanged with the Chinese it's that they refuse to change. Too stubborn, too pig headed and will continue to fight for what's "wrong" because it falls under the banner of being "Chinese".
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  1311.  @Xi_Pooh_Shill  You can be educated in etiquette because etiquette is learned. It's just not prioritized in Chinese culture. And it's always been this way. Under the KMT was no different.
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  1312.  @Xi_Pooh_Shill  Read my comment again. I just said etiquette is learned so therefore, you can be educated in etiquette.
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  1313. Revolutions are a part of human history. Resurgences happen.
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  1314. There is no "Chinese model". It's a lie just like every other thing they say. The only thing that's "Chinese" is their incessant need to make themselves look good with no substance to back it up.
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  1315. True. Communists don't value anything but deception and power. Very compatible with Chinese values.
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  1316. Sure. Nobody believes them despite visual evidence. Stop trying to gaslight us. The world is waking up.
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  1317. Lol, China has always been a chaotic mess. The fact that you think things were better in the past only goes to show how much you have been manipulated by their cultural propaganda.
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  1318. "Thrifty" isn't the word. It's just that they have NO choice.
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  1319. ​ @adrianoihkfjhgc8329 they're still "Asian", they're just much more organized
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  1320. ​​ @simontamchiyan2 chinese aren't themselves without the needless trash talk. It's clown behavior.
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  1321.  @adrianoihkfjhgc8329  they're still Asian. They're just Asian systems that work.
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  1322. They love to crap on the West while simultaenously needing them for funding. They need to fix their attitude before they deal with foreigners. I don't understand how this country honestly got to where it is. There are other capable countries with much more pleasant people to deal with than this crap hole of a communist country.
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  1323. A dragon is nothing more than an overgrown lizard that doesn't exist. Same with their pride.
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  1324. They won't have savings for long if they're unemployed assuming they even have access to their bank accounts.
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  1325. PhD's have become worthless everywhere in the world at this point.
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  1326. They've always been lazy. Things were no better under the KMT.
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  1327. Things were no bettrr under the KMT. They've always been like this.
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  1328. Love doesn't exist in a backward crappy society that doesn't value humanity. This isn't surprising in China.
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  1329. China is ruled by syndicates. Doesn't matter what industry it is. It's all corrupt.
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  1330. Hainan is already known as an over priced garbage tourist trap
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  1331. That's going to be one hell of an explanation to CRA.
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  1332. It's called "politics". Doesn't matter how brilliant or smart you are. If you're lower in the pecking order, your talent doesn't count for jack squat.
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  1333. They can't even finish the ones that are being paid for by the people. Where is the government going to find the money to sock into properties?
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  1334. Criminal government excusing crimes. Not surprising.
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  1335. It's so surprising that there are still foreigners even there. Like seriously, what more proof do they need that China is no longer a viable place to live or visit? It's truly puzzling. As if Covid weren't enough. Crazy!
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  1336. Problem is a lot of the multinational corporations that are behind their production are leaving. So who's going to fill that gap between production and getting those items to the consumer?
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  1337. Yes. They can never break down those numbers in real economy terms. It's all just made up and pulled from the air.
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  1338. They only worship money. They don't care for religion.
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  1339. They need to stop going to school overseas when they can't even fix their policies and crony government sponsored capitalism. They can't compete and there's going to be no jobs waiting for them back in China. Waste of time and money.
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  1340. I thought they have done away with this to an extent. A lot of Chinese left and never came back.
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  1341. They mock Japan to make themselves feel better because they live miserable lives.
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  1342. They can't keep churning out 3000 year old artifacts because there's not an unlimited supply of those things. So obviously majority of what's out there is fake. If you want real artifacts, you probably have to bid for those. And even then, I would still question the authenticity of those up for auction due to China's rampant creation of fakes in the market.
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  1343. 😂😂😂
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  1344. So Chinese men are in high demand. But when they travel overseas nobody pays attention to them. I don't get it.
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  1345. Nothing they do is working. None of the stimulus packages is showing any economic promise.
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  1346. So gross and uncivilized. This is what 5000 years of civilization has wrought? Pathetic!
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  1347. Gold scams sound very similar to pig butchering scam. The more you "invest" the more you have to loose.
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  1348. "Flaunting wealth is frowned upon" - and yet in Chinese culture it's perfectly normal. It's even encouraged.
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  1349. You're bound for dissapointment. Still want to risk it? Go ahead.
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  1350.  @RCXDerp  It's not going to stop these "self-proclaimed experts" from doing their sub par construction projects. They work for the sake of work and don't even put in the bare minimum when it comes to construction standards that's why the buildings they make fall at such a frequent occurrence. The only ones who benefit are these SOE's and the people who are supposed to use these structures are now in danger.
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  1351.  @brianliew5901  Americans. Chinese and Indians are both notorious for cutting corners. If you're trying to make a case for Chinese workers you will fail.
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  1352. They bear the mark of the beast and they love to lie. Description checks out
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  1353. "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1354. Not the first time this has happened in China and it won't be the last....
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  1355. Because China doesn't operate on common sense.
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  1356. Read up on China's history. Every time they are in turmoil, the leadership of China (the Emperor) turns their attention onto other countries. They take no responsibility on any issues. And it's always someone else's problem/fault.
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  1357. Too bad she pissed off the local authorities.
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  1358. Taking yourself out of the job market is just pure cope. At some point you have to face reality.
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  1359. They already do that in parts of China. In one of China observer's videos, people are seen going through garbage trying to get left over scraps to eat. Whether they sanitize the food or not who knows?
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  1360. The only thing that has changed in China are their leaders. It's in their nature to lie, cheat, and steal. There's a literal Chinese saying "if you can cheat, cheat" - that already tells you all you need to know about their society.
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  1361. Everything in China is fake. This is just more commentary that reinforces that fact.
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  1362. There are two Chinese who exist: hyper nationalist morons who are either paid or not paid by the government, and rational folks who know about the government's manipulative ways. Hopefully most Chinese are leaning towards the latter.
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  1363. China is Mongolian territory
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  1364.  @bonniebrock5109  Most people around the world don't go around making other people's lives hell. Most people have basic manners. Same can't be said about China.
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  1365. How so?
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  1366.  @pehclark7256  "Most thoughtful foreigners in China today believe that a monarchy would be best for the country in its present stage. Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China, it is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honestly available. But even with a highly centralized monarchy, or dictatorship, some delegation of responsibility in the lower official orders is unavoidable, and there are not enough reliable men in China to fill these posts." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "There is no such reserve of honest citizenry in China, and no sign on the horizon of any in formation for the future." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1367.  @willywonka4340  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930's China under the rule of the KMT. China back then was no different than the China of today. Sure, they drive modern cars, wear modern clothes and live in modern houses now. But the corruption, and thuggish nature of the way the Chinese conducted themselves back then was already apparent. Townsend even alluded to the fact that China has always been that way. After much investigation, he found China to me a immoral, chaotic wasteland filled with people just struggling to barely survive and will resort to any means to do so.
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  1368. China is dystopian. What more proof do you need?
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  1369. Yeah, just lie about it. Who would have thought?
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  1370. Are you still surprised by the lack of common sense behind CCP government policies?
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  1371. Their arrogance is precisely why they are where they are now. CCP don't ever acknowledge reality, everything is all about money so they can steal more and live their lavish lives overseas.
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  1372. ​ @paulfri1569 what cash? You mean the money their central banks keep printing therefore screwing over Chinese citizens as their money looses value? What a joke!
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  1373. Yup. US helping them during WW2 and US multinational corporations investing in their country are already two reasons why they are where they are. And yet, they're too dumb to see that simple fact because of all the brainwashing.
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  1374. Most of these fake influencers have the same OS when it comes to maximizing profits through lies and deception.
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  1375. Chinese people need to define their values. Problem is they're so busy bickering amongst themselves and trying to fight for their basic survival that they can't come together and decide what's best for their country - and this has been happening all throughout their turbulent history.
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  1376. China in its current form is not much different from North Korea. Funny thing is Chinese think they won't ever go down that path because they think North Korea is too "backwards". You can't make this stuff up.
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  1377. "With absolutely no advantage to be gained by lying, in a thousand instances where the explanation is of no importance one way or the other, a Chinese will relate the most absurd sort of cellophane lie. High and low, coolie, or general, they will lie naively, reassuringly, always affecting surprised pain at your doubts, when within an hour or so the truth is certain to crop out." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1378. That's all smoke and mirrors. They only care about being in power
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  1379. People should just invest in their own retirement and not rely on the government. Problem is Xinnie the Pooh probably got rid of multinational investment firms in favor of his dumb backwards policies.
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  1380. So true. And what an absolute burn on Chinese EV's 🤣
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  1381. Easy to indoctrinate Masters and PhD students because they show little to no independent thought.
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  1382. There's nothing beautiful about toxic air, water and pure chaos. Just go to Vietnam or Thailand. Those countries are much better by a long shot and more pleasant to deal with.
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  1383. ​ @TuanCEwe China was at the pinnacle of advancement thousands of years ago because the whole world was backwards which should already tell you a lot.
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  1384. Typical wasteful decision from China to destroy that bridge. What else is new?
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  1385. ​ @dcc70 typical Chinese have little to no recourse and a lot of them have families to think of. But people are getting desperate. Let's see where that takes us.
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  1386.  @Ezekiel903  Chinese never fought for their rights in the same way as the Europeans fought for theirs. For one, most Chinese don't even know what is considered acceptable behavior because most of them are uneducated and poor so morals in a society like theirs take a back seat.
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  1387. Food safety, air quality is bad, and water is all tainted. NOBODY should be going to China.
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  1388.  @CarinoGamingStudio  Don't get what you just said. But ok.
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  1389.  @judieg.7945  Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. They were no different.
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  1390. That doesn't always work. I've seen companies go on strike for several months. You are replaceable.
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  1391. ​ @nicholasrockall7308 True.
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  1392. Sellout university that caters to transnational criminals.
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  1393.  @0Zebadee0  It's also to prop up their fake GDP numbers. Everything else is just for show.
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  1394.  @nikolaizaicev9297  I've never experienced discrimination because of age. I'm in my 30's. So no, this isn't the case everywhere.
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  1395. Because people haven't learned and are still stupid. They're pretty much on the same league as North Korea at this point.
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  1396. China's modus operandi is to gaslight and lie. This should be common knowledge by now.
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  1397. Whatever helps their delusional selves sleep at night...
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  1398. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They've been sending students overseas for quite a while now and yet their country is still in a backward, decrepit state. Their anger and hatred towards the West has not diminished. Politics clearly rules above merit and they continue to exhibit this sad reality despite sending thousands of students for years.
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  1399. They will just rebadge it as "made in China" when in actuality they're from other countries. They're already doing this
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  1400. Are you still surprised? Look at how the people conduct themselves? Look at how their military conduct themselves? Everything to them is a joke.
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  1401. Not really. Chinese used to pull rickshaws barefoot in the snow with nothing more than straws as coats for insulations decades ago.
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  1402.  @NR.gamer241  Grass is painted and is watered with contaminated water laced with heavy metals.
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  1403.  @bah2singtatato116  Lol. Are you trying to be funny?
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  1404. How is studying abroad going to help? Wtf?
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  1405. US has better things to do. Unlike Chinese propagandists who love to run their mouths on state media. Btw, everyone can see through the lies.
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  1406.  @CoffeeAndPaul  "Eat bitter" - code for we can't change your dire circumstances. Deal with it yourself and stop bugging those of us in government. We don't care.
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  1407. Chinese style of business is to lure you with the promise of high profits despite lack of evidence of market demand and they will use the prestige of multinational companies to achieve this. Whether you profit or not doesn't matter because by then, they've already taken your IP and will make a cheaper, crappier copy of that IP.
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  1408. They have no money to buy cars especially after the repairs they're going to have to do with all the water damage to their houses.
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  1409. Because they're full of it. Never believe what a Chinese says and pay attention to what they do. Because they lie constantly.
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  1410. ​ @Joshmo1234 the way they cope is pure insanity.
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  1411. What part of Canada are you from?
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  1412. They're envious in general period.
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  1413.  @mathamour  It's completely within their character "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1414. ​​ @stuartneary3067 if you have to say that, it obviously isn't. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are better.
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  1415. "But certainly it is a farce for Chinese authorities to plead lack of responsibility for anti-foreign outbreaks when they are busy seven days a week turning out posters and pamphlets urging the local populace to resist by all methods the "imperialistic foreigners" who "rob" them of their daily bread." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) They've always struggled with being self aware. Too bad the only thing that seems to change in China are their leaders. Mentality has always been the same, since ancient times.
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  1416. Screw China. Invest in other countries. They had their chance and blew it. Are they the only ones capable? Other Asian countries are just as capable and are much easier to deal with.
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  1417. They live to lie because they need that "investment" money to keep up their lies.
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  1418. Define what a Palestinian is?
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  1419. You need to read up on China before Communism. They have always been ruled this way. Do you think it was any different under the KMT? Absolutely not.
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  1420. Exactly. Billionaires buy quality because they can. Temu is for people who don't care for quality
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  1421. It's not going to get better. Chinese people aren't particularly known for being considerate. So either put up and shut up, or leave.
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  1422. More like 850 million.
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  1423. Because the Chinese are no different than any other emotional person on Earth. Most of them don't let logic guide them. Also, they are shaped by speculation and superstition - Not a good recipe for making sound decisions.
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  1424. They'll find numerous ways to find water to sell, like from gutters or dirty rivers. I wouldn't be surprised.
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  1425. They need to stop sending these students overseas. China has been sending students ever since the early 1900's - waste of time and effort. China never changed. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1426.  @louniece1650  No country in the world is this more true than in China. Yes, people engage in exploitation here and there. In China, it's just the norm.
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  1427.  @TheNuttyStrongman  They act like as if "made in China" is a point of pride when in actuality it is a source of embarrassment and worry in the world. That's how clueless they are.
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  1428. Even if they manage to sucker people to buy their cars. There won't be any liyal customers if the cars they make are sub par.
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  1429.  @freindofdorothy5822 most super rich people who have a lot to loose hide their wealth out of fear of being kidnapped - that's how a real rich person acts unless if you are a celebrity and even they walk around with tons if security.
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  1430.  @JohnnyBoy144  Read "The Millionaire Next Door" - Most Millionaires in the US don't flaunt their wealth. Not sure about China. But then again, showing off is part of their culture.
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  1431.  @Someone-kg8qf  In the case of the Chinese, money yells, wealth is deafening.
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  1432.  @clintpot8521  It's also their culture to show off.
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  1433. Watch China start blaming the customers when their cars start getting a bad reputation.
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  1434.  @nick1864  Most people don't know but China Japan relations before WWII were already shaky because of things like this. Add to this the insane nationalists that China have and you have a powder keg.
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  1435. That's why Trump put tariffs on China so that they would move back to the US.
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  1436. Deepseek is GPT 4. Not something to be proud of.
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  1437. They will learn soon enough...
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  1438.  @Illair_V  Everything China does is all about convenience. They value convenience above rules and regulations. That's why we are in the mess we are in.
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  1439. It's a company that is forcing itself to existence - no real value, no substance. Privately owned companies have to innovate and manage their expenses properly. SOE's don't care about any of that. That's the problem.
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  1440. They don't care. Universities are just like the banks. They're there to make money and they will lie to you if they have to.
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  1441. Read up on China under the KMT ("Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend). The Chinese people made no distinction between local gangs, the police, and the army. They all abused the people equally the same. Not much has changed from how things were back then.
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  1442. Yes, it's also a culture that encourages lies and deception that's why they're in the mess they're in.
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  1443. Saving face, lying, Ketchup, Catsup same difference.
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  1444. It's actually not. China is a country in a lot of watch lists all over the world.
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  1445. It's funny because women are doing this too. What they said in the video about "fake meets fake" is true. Real rich people with common sense don't lead with money. For one, they're already successful so why show off? Also, they're aware of all the gold diggers who are only there because of how they look. Not a good strategy to find a long term mate. But these desperate uneducated people who look at the world through the lens of stereotypes don't seem to understand these simple facts.
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  1446. If the price of the phone plummets that much than it wasn't worth all that much to begin with.
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  1447. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  1448. The values espoused by "traditional Chinese art" is something that the Chinese always aspired to but never had. It's always been a corrupt country.
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  1449. Mao isn't responsible for this. Read up on China under the KMT, they have always been like this. It's nothing to do with the CCP and everything to do with their culture. They're backwards. And they're too stubborn to change their bad attitude.
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  1450. "Thus in looking at China, summarizing everything, we are obliged to acknowledge that traditional policies have failed in results. We have lent them money and they have misused it and defaulted. We have built schools and hospitals and they have burned them down. Our missionaries, spending their lives in self-sacrifice among them, are, by instigation of the "educated" ones they have helped, tortured and slain. Our diplomatic support and general leniency have been seized upon as encouragement to atrocities with exemption from punishment. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend China has always been like this. It's just that for the longest time this was hidden from plain view.
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  1451. Laws in China are all for show and applied sparingly by the CCP. It's actually a lawless country.
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  1452. They fake their sales to keep getting subsidies to produce this garbage at a loss - Chinese business model at its finest.
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  1453. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You sound like a typical pro-China propagandist. By the way, nobody is emigrating to China from the US. It's quite the opposite. Stop deluding yourself with lies.
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  1454. "Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy" - Mao
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  1455. My parents always taught me to buy second hand. Let some shmoe eat the depreciation
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  1456. US already had Trump for president. Where's your proof that Trump was fascist?
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  1457. Whenever they translate to English, they translate their metaphors to English as well. Problem is it doesn't make sense to non Chinese speakers. So it just sounds like gibberish to those who don't understand the cultural context.
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  1458. These people are superstitious and uneducated. They'll believe just about anything.
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  1459. It will happen once they run out of space to dump their cars. Only then will they (people who aren't in the car industry) realize that it's not really being sold. Typical China strategy - out of sight, out of mind.
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  1460.  @animejanai4657  Why even go? Might as well include North Korea in your itinerary.
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  1461. Chinese propaganda knows no bounds. Everything they do is a projection of what they lack.
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  1462. Yup. And they've always been like this. Deception is the root of their culture.
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  1463. Why? It looks hideous.
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  1464. "Get the screen protection plan" - How about not getting it at all?
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  1465. "In the matter of environment, many centuries have passed in China since the average individual there had any significant control over his lot in life. When he emerges to existence, it is not to look upon choices, but to face forward along lines of narrow necessity, along a slim furrow of possible survival kept open by his family ancestors through the thicket of competing humanity. Into this he steps and toils until he dies. There is no escape, no means of reaching a status of relative comfort and security, whatever the effort. Experience teaches him that moderately intensive effort means perhaps enough to keep alive, less means starvation, and more futility. The principle applying to physical endeavors applies likewise to moral endeavors. Moderate goodness keeps him out of jail, a less amount risks penalties, and a greater amount sacrifices needlessly much that the might otherwise enjoy. The Chinese thus becomes the most coolly calculating materialist the world has ever known. He lives skeptically immune to moral enthusiasms, having long ago arrived at an opportune materialism whither some of our own gospel ministers tell us we are now rapidly drifting. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1466. Yes, let's "privatize" roads in an authoritarian totalitarian country that wants to control everything.
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  1467.  @stephenseibold6116  Wow, Islam never fails to show the world how loving and compassionate they can be
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  1468. It's in line with Chinese mentality. Distracts with looks despite having no substance.
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  1469. This stuff is covered in American news. It's rarely covered in China. What's your point?
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  1470. "Seek justice" - There is no justice in China. The fact that people still think that they will get their due is hilarious.
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  1471. The middle kingdom is the scam capital of the world.
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  1472.  @ThreeFingerG  Read up on China before the CCP. They have always acted this way. Tyranny and cruelty have always been innate in their culture.
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  1473. And this is something that China loves to brag about.
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  1474. ​​ @ryanau5824 it's narcissism on steroids. They also never want to learn other cultures, they always want to teach others their so called "culture" even though strides made by them happened thousands of years ago which should tell you a lot.
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  1475. Makes you wonder how much of that ''investment" actually ends up where it should. Or is everyone is just fattening the wallets of CCP officials?
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  1476. Some already have. They're not paying their mortgages which has ruined their credit rating but they no longer care.
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  1477. That's communism for you. Production for the sake of production (everything is quotas). Nevermind real demand. Because that would make sense.
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  1478. They don't value anything but bragging and making others feel inferior. It's ingrained in their backward culture.
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  1479. That's how their society works. Lie, cheat, steal. Produce low quality items. If you can make it a knock off even better. It's a never ending downward spiral.
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  1480. A lot of it is self imposed. No foresight, just pure greed with no common sense.
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  1481.  @Joe-j9e9m  Chinese EV's don't meet world safety standards and are perceived to have lower quality. Why would you trust people who are new to the car manufacturing game versus people who have been in the game much longer? I personally would just buy a Toyota hybrid. Japanese level of reliability and you can't go wrong.
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  1482.  @zatoichiable  for certain products, yes. Read my comment earlier. I already saud it's not always true that everything is made in China anymore.
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  1483.  @SMJ-l6r  china is still synonymous with cheap and sub par products. That perception has not changed. So I don't know what you are talking about.
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  1484. That's precisely why multinationals came to China in the first place. Zero regulations, zero rule of law = perfect environment for businesses to exploit. Problem is now they're being screwed over.
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  1485. ​​​​ @ranjana9841 China's brand of copying is different. They copy everything "pound for pound" without adding any value. In essence they just produce garbage. The Europeans, Japanese, koreans also take existing concepts but add value and try to make things better. That's why China's brand of copycat culture is horrible - it's just so lazy and haphazardly done. Pathetic!
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  1486. ​ @markmd9 name one.
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  1487. ​ @firerock9320 no they aren't. It's because of politics and censorship
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  1488. ​ @roronoazoro87118 all of the things you listed exist because of IP theft. Also, stop bringing past glories. They're irrelevant to the present and the world was backwards then so that isn't saying a lot given how far we've cone.
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  1489. ​ @mariam6822 "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1490.  @johntang4108  the only one arrogant and full of crap here is you. Also, I wouldn't talk when everyone hates you and looks at you with suspicion wumao
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  1491.  @johntang4108  Expand China's boundaries? Like Japan in World War 2? And I am the arrogant one? Don't make me laugh
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  1492.  @johntang4108  they're following in the same foot steps as Japan and will severely be punished. The one arrogant here is you. No "humble" person talks like you do. Get yourself checked Wumao. Your country is deteriorating.
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  1493. He's doing that as he repeatedly bangs his head against a wall.
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  1494. This is China's true state. It was just covered by multinational companies investing in their country. But they irritated everyone, now they've left.
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  1495. What about stupid beauty.?
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  1496. If you know it's propaganda, why do you keep coming back to comment?
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  1497. They're not exposed to things like this in their backwards country so of course they don't know how to act as usual.
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  1498. It's also the CCP that brought them to ruin.
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  1499. College degrees in China mean absolutely nothing! China has been sending students from their backwards country to the West to study ever since the early 1900's. Has China changed from decades of so called "education" from the West? No. It all doesn't matter. They're all about politics. And politics trumps any form of education you have. Most of the ones who go to Harvard are government connected snobs who only do it so they can show off to their friends in China that their kid went to Harvard. Because showing off is a trait put on the pedestal in a superficial society such as theirs.
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  1500. Everything is down. There is no "industry" that's thriving right now.
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  1501.  @peta333  Evil is evil. Why even compare? People suffer either way.
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  1502. US economy is more robust. And while they are in debt, they don't spend as irresponsibly as China does.
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  1503. They don't have 1.4 billion people and the answer to your question is no.
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  1504. Data from China is always dubious because it can't be confirmed by an outside, impartial source. Production numbers and GDP are numbers that can be easily manipulated. Even this so called campaign to tell the whole world that "China is doing great economically" is questionable. When the US economy is underperforming, numbers reflect that simple fact. China only talks about economy when their economy isn't doing great in the first place.
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  1505. There are better countries in Asia, seriously.
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  1506. Even with evidence from Chinese people in China you still call this "US propaganda" - US has better things to spend their money on. They don't operate like China and Russia. Everything there is privately owned. Government doesn't have a tight fisted co trol over the car industry. They can only regulate.
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  1507. ​ @realhorrorshow8547 yup. They damage the car and rob the people dry. Isn't communism awesome?
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  1508. Great if you're into flashy garbage.
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  1509. That's a lie. It's all for show. It's all about connections in China. Degrees are just to show off to their superficial friends.
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  1510. CC have become essential. Because for some it means starving if they don't use them.
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  1511.  @henryc1000  They are the most known ones unfortunately.
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  1512.  @suckit758  Chinese is a race. The hell are you talking about?
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  1513. "It is possible to say almost anything about the Chinese and have the statement true, and yet with proper modifications decidedly untrue. For example, the Chinese seem to do more washing and slopping around with pails of water everywhere than any other race on the globe, and at the same time they are among the dirtiest people to be found. They certainly approach the championship for laziness, and yet their claim to the title of most industrious is hardly open to dispute. They are perhaps the most unreliable and tricky to do business with of any large racial group. And yet under certain conditions a Chinese will make incredible sacrifices to meet his obligations, and die of humiliation if he can't." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1514.  @Renzsu  it's funny because China loves to push how collectivist they are along with all other fabrications they would want us to believe.
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  1515. They were brainwashed to believe that good fortune is owed to them because they went to school and "did everything right". That's why they have this view. It is self entitlement to an extent. But it's also not all their fault. They were fooled by the system.
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  1516.  @SuperDeluxe80  First of all, China doesn't have 1.5 billion. That number is closer to 800 million according to some analysts that have ran the numbers of China's actual population. Second, Chinese workers were hired due to the efforts of multiple multinational corporations when China opened up under Deng Xiaoping. It's overseas corporations that keep Chinese workers employed. Even their state owned enterprises cannot absorb all of their country's unemployed. What destroyed China was bad policies under the CCP. Everyone goes to China for greed. China doesn't make anything that can't be made in other countries. It's because labor costs were low and lax regulations that they were allowed to grow to what they are now.
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  1517.  @cyberpotato63  I agree. And sad part is they never were able to successfully carve out their niche market and developed true homegrown businesses to match the likes of Japan, South Korea, and even Taiwan. They will always be known for sub par manufacturing the likes of which are being overtaken by manufacturers in Southeast Asia.
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  1518. The way they treat workers is no different from human traffickers.
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  1519. Only in China can corporations demand salary back from employees who already worked for it. Ridiculous!
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  1520. This is common practice is the sane and rational world. In a country like China where scams are commonplace, it's truly amazing how naive people there act.
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  1521. "It is possible to say almost anything about the Chinese and have the statement true, and yet with proper modifications decidedly untrue. For example, the Chinese seem to do more washing and slopping around with pails of water everywhere than any other race on the globe, and at the same time they are among the dirtiest people to be found. They certainly approach the championship for laziness, and yet their claim to the title of most industrious is hardly open to dispute. They are perhaps the most unreliable and tricky to do business with of any large racial group. And yet under certain conditions a Chinese will make incredible sacrifices to meet his obligations, and die of humiliation if he can't." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1522.  @jdsheleg8332  Hard for them to go bankrupt when they have the government apparatus backing their finances. More than 90% of people don't have that luxury.
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  1523.  @RandomDeforge  Yes, Taiwan should be recognized as an independent country at this point. Let China be China, they're the only ones who believe their own delusions anyways.
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  1524. Chinese always seem to slip through the cracks. Would they treat Russian and North Korean students the same?
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  1525. "Always busy, never getting anything done" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1526. There are people who could do no wrong in business: they're called State Owned Enterprises.
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  1527. 😂😂😂
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  1528. You'd think that wouldn't you?
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  1529. Don't forget "Hawaii of China" when referring to Hainan. They love to rub in that low rent Hawaii nonsense.
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  1530. ​​ @ché_1987 freshco stocks up on a lot of Asian brands including ones from China. I just don't bother with that garbage.
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  1531. It should be renamed to "slave trade rules"
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  1532. "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1533. For that price, I am buying a Samsung notebook. Forget this trash.
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  1534. How would reducing the human population benefit them? That's less labor and less money from people to collect from? Assuming that happens, what's the end game here?
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  1535.  @AbbyJamison-xs1iq  Lol, they have no choice. Also, China is incredibly chaotic because the government doesn't have protocols to deal with situations like this leaving people to fend for themselves.
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  1536.  @cynthiagonzalez658  The lack of common sense is what's really appalling.
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  1537. They're the only country to grow despite the mass exodus of multinational firms and decline of foreign investment. Is there anything they can't do? 😂
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  1538. Like what? Be specific
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  1539. Hybrids are better than EV's anyway.
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  1540. With all the scams in Sanya and their horrible reputation, I'm honestly surprised they still get tourists.
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  1541. Chinese are generally uneducated when it comes to these things. They do it to show off. Most reasonable rich people won't be caught doing this.
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  1542. You need to read "Ways that are dark:The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. You will understand how they think and pretty much decipher what they are going to do next.
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  1543. Because it's China. What else is new?
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  1544. Never coming to this sad excuse of a country. They can keep their moronic rules along with their toxic air, water, and fake food.
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  1545.  @michaelsong5555  Wrong! Those who are connected "succeed" even top students with no connections will amount to nothing. There are so many PhD holders in China doing menial low end jobs. It doesn't matter how good a student you are. Nobody cares. Certainly not business owners who are going to pay you squat for what you "know".
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  1546. Chinese have always been like this. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different.
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  1547. The world hates the CCP for lying about Covid. Get over it!
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  1548. So they're really doubling down on things that no longer work? Ok...then.
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  1549.  @MK_ULTRA420  Chinese don't have the same options. They can't even file for bankruptcy.
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  1550. It's like that everywhere. Some countries are just more obvious about it. That's why they are worst for it: China is one of them.
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  1551. "Made in China" is synonymous with -Cheap -Low quality -Slave labor This perception hasn't changed in the last several decades
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  1552. They've always been like this. Anti Japan sentiments are nothing new. The KMT engaged in this bs even before WW2. China is not innocent in this.
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  1553. They have ALWAYS been chaotic.
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  1554. ​ @pennycandyys this is just reinforcing what we already know.
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  1555. Not surprising. They lie about everything, including their data. So why should this be an exception?
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  1556. Buddhism was never practiced by the greater population of China: Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China (when China was under the KMT). China back then wasn't different from China now. It's not unheard of for China to be ruled by corrupt, tyrannical leaders even back when they had emperors.
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  1557. There were better ones? Lol. You know under the KMT, the Chinese people made no distinction between, the military, the police and local gangs right? They all abused the people all the same. It also not unheard of for China to be ruled by tyrannical emperors. Abuse and ego run amok has always ruled China and was always responsible for their suffering. Xi is nothing unique and he won't be the last abuser unless the Chinese people change their tolerance for bad rulers like people did in the West. "Thus it is practically certain that the masses cannot be aroused from this apathy to any assertion of resentment against their oppressors. We find that the average Chinese have little or no conception of fundamental rights, according to the theory developed in the West during the seventeenth century and expressed in mass movements in the eighteenth-the theory that every individual is entitled by the fact of birth certain privileges, to restrict which is unlawful tyranny in another. The Chinese masses look upon what we should call justice, if they get it, more as something fortunate than as something to which they are entitled. Oppressions, conversely are more misfortunes than injustices. Being looted is about like suffering from a hurricane or other force of nature. So here, among the masses, we have the inertness of ignorance. Among the educated, the great majority of them, we have the inertness of indifference, each looking out for himself, but unconcerned with the whole. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1558. Communism at its finest.
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  1559. Taiwan has missiles aimed at Three Gorges, so if natural disasters don't do it, China's staunch stance on invading Taiwan will.
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  1560. And who will pay them? China doesn't allow outsider corporation into their construction industry - It's all propped up by their SOE's.
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  1561.  @andromedamessier3176  In a world that makes sense that would be enough. In a world of greed and corruption they are a must.
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  1562. ​ @alicethegreat3742 everyone is lining to get into the US. Nobody is lining up to get into China.
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  1563. Unfortunately, Asians are among the most financially illiterate people on Earth.
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  1564. The world already knows that they are pathological liars. What else is new?
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  1565. China never learns. They don't learn from history or from other countries. They're so arrogant they've bought into their own hype. The people suffer from the goverment's stubborness.
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  1566. There is no such thing as "saving face". It's just another lie for them to shirk responsibility and justify bad actions. If you accept "face", you accept deception, manipulation and zero accountability. It's one of the dumbest concepts Chinese culture has ever come up with.
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  1567. China copies most of its tech from foreign firms. How can you say that they are doing this independently? You're clearly brainwashed by all the shiny propaganda.
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  1568. ​ @joshuain2771 lots of Chinese can't save a lot. Those that do go through extreme lengths.
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  1569. The only way for construction to finish in China is to get foreign companies to do it which will never happen. Their own local real estate companies are to busy stealing from them to make anything happen.
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  1570. Lol, yes they derive "advancements" from already existing technologies. That's how ridiculously backwards they are. Any "ttech advancements" from their "wheel barrowing" years is worth bragging about.
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  1571. Bigger question remains and that is "will they improve on their quality?"
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  1572.  robg1358  True, this is what differentiates developed countries that grew over time versus fake debt ridden growth by China.
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  1573. ​ @sleepinglaffey3886 no such thing as face. It's all a lie
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  1574. It's clearly biased and won't talk about political issues pertaining to China so it already fails the litmus test for AI being impartial.
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  1575. Tell that to the corporations and government officials who are playing a balancing act between trade and politics.
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  1576. They've always used state run institutions to ransack people. What else is new? Communism in a nutshell.
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  1577. Chinese take taking advantage to a whole new level. It's the land of lies, cheats, and scams. Never visiting that God forsaken country.
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  1578. State sponsored capitalism isn't the same as in the developed world
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  1579. Even with evidence you can see, it's still propaganda? Yeah right.
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  1580. ​​they always did those things: difference is now they're no longer making money from China. The bs they're willing to put up with because they're making money is insane.
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  1581. ​ @davidlindburg1921 The things people are willing to put up with all because they're making money....
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  1582. ​ @kkwong6528 there are multinational brokers that can invest in overseas markets in Shanghai. AGF comes to mind.
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  1583. The ones who brag about it aren't intelligent. So that already says a lot.
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  1584. Give it some time. They don't always respond right away. If anything, there are going to be more bots because the number of real jobs in China is becoming next to non existent.
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  1585. They're not that much different from North Korea. And yet people treat them like as if they are.
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  1586.  @truthalonetriumphs6572  Nope, not only in America last I checked. Here in Canada, we say "fee-delity". In British English, it's also pronounced "fee-delity".
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  1587. That's just called bad parenting. That's why they end up as screwed up adults. Their society is a greater reflection of that simple fact.
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  1588. Most populous country is now officially India. China lied about their population for years.
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  1589. Get over yourself Wumao
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  1590. Lol. Bat soup cafes don't exactly invoke "luxury" 😂
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  1591. ​ @wenchen8870 she begged for money? What are you smoking?
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  1592. They're only as good as their connections with the government. As soon as they fall from grace, they will be more dirt poor than a mouse.
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  1593. It's ok. They will learn the hard way. The price to pay for stupidity is steep.
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  1594. People there don't care and they don't want to learn. They're lazy and care only about what's convenient.
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  1595. Chinese think the world works just like everything in their country. They're that dense and uniformed. That's why the inability to adapt becomes a source of frustration because they're so set in their ways and even sometimes take pride in being stubborn and pig headed.
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  1596. China is ahead of the US in STEM and yet they come to the US to take STEM. You're delusional.
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  1597. It's always been in their culture. Read up on China under the KMT. They were no different then. Lying is encouraged because it's all about their dumb face culture.
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  1598. It's false pride. It's all bs anyway. They have zero credibility.
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  1599. And that number is still rising...
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  1600. Playing the stock market without a keen understanding of how trading works is akin to gambling. This is why smart investors pay stock managers to watch their money. It's time consuming and the knowledge required is not for the typical lay person. For starters, don't invest in Chinese garbage stock. Invest in American stocks since everything hinges on the US economy anyways.
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  1601. America already knows about those Chinese lining up and are being sent back to China. So what's the point of lining up if you can't even get into the country?
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  1602. And the CCP wonders why young people aren't having children? What the hell are they smoking in Beijing?
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  1603. Umm not likely.
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  1604. Yes. Claiming they have 1.4 billion now is a stretch.
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  1605. Tell that to pooh. None of his policies make sense.
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  1606. @ Hard to counterfeit? And yet there ARE counterfeits in the market. So that's not always true. Store of value? Until you have to sell it at a loss. Sure...
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  1607. @ You mean CCP officials in Canada? Those are the "rich" Chinese you're talking about right?
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  1608. They're backwards and superstitious. What else is new with them?
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  1609.  @Anomoomin  Warfare is so much more sophisticated now. Foot soldiers can't stand even against the most advanced weapons.
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  1610. Keep coping wumao
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  1611. You know it's delusion when people deny that China is going through negative economic growth.
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  1612. And it has always been that way. Chinese people back even during KMT rule made no distinction between the police, army, and local thugs - they abuse and oppress the people all the same. That country is hell on earth.
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  1613. '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 (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1614. "The product has to do the talking" - Chinese companies take note.
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  1615. ​ @riverlady982 it's not hard. You can do an acid test.
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  1616. They should invest their money in companies that are NOT based in China free from CCP influence and intervention.
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  1617. A lot of what they are studying is useless in the real world anyway. Certainly won't matter when they are a delivery driver or an internet influencer selling crap online.
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  1618. ​ @tqhung169 it has nothing to do with ethnicity but the content of their character.
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  1619. Lol, both countries don't like their own people and treat everyone the same. That's communism for you; nobody has rights except for the elites.
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  1620. No they don't. They end up in the garbage.
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  1621. ​ @pavlovbeltran no common sense, zero self awareness. Not surprising here.
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  1622. Yup. Instead of asking the business owners what they need and make good on what has to be done. China is where insanity and lack of common sense reigns supreme.
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  1623. Because they keep their rabid population stupid.
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  1624.  @Yae-Miko216  Why don't you learn about history of Sino-Japanese relations prior to World War 2 how the Chinese treated the Japanese when they had joint ventures in China? Chinese accused Japanese of being imperialists and murdered them. What Japan did was not right but China isn't innocent in all this. China always paints themselves the victims, and never the instigators despite evidence to prove otherwise.
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  1625. @user-xb2jx9zx1k Their fragile egos are attached to their national identity because they don't have anything else going for them.
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  1626. @LivingInAnInverseReality How? America is shoring manufacturing. More items are being made in other countries as well. Where's the proof that criticizing the US economy will get you arrested?
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  1627. They have institutionalized delusion in all aspects of society.
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  1628. China is quite literally and figuratively hell on Earth.
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  1629. Your value in their society is tied to how much money and 'stuff' you have. If you have nothing, you're worst than a POS. That's how toxic, unrealistic, and delusional their society is.
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  1630. CCP is one giant, abusive tyrannical government so they're on the same level as those other regimes.
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  1631.  @samsonsoturian6013  For that to happen there has to be incentive. There isn't in China when everything is run politically.
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  1632.  @xenxander  NASA is one of the most advanced institutions in the world. Why the heck are you bringing up a US institution when it has nothing to do with what we're talking about?
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  1633. So sick of China's claims of being "far ahead" of the competition despite not offering any specifics as to why they are ahead. Such bs propaganda.
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  1634. That's where the Chinese excel - in the art of exasperation. And they will never stop.
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  1635. You can thank multinational companies finally smartening up and not acting like as if only China can manufacture things.
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  1636.  @Digmen1  Hopefully. Either that or they're lying to shirk of sanctions.
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  1637.  @shadowmod3  It's whataboutism. Typical of CCP sympathizers and tankies.
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  1638. They're not yet so bold because they still have a finger in the China basket. Once alternatives have been established, other countries who are no longer dependent on China will only get bolder in the face of Chinese belligerence.
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  1639.  @Retdf-e8s  Americans don't have a collective culture of showing off like the Chinese do. You won't really be shamed for not owning designer items or driving fancy cars in the US but your worth is attached to owning those things in China.
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  1640.  @mikegee729  Yes, "ideological capital". They can be grouped together with other authoriatiran backwards states, some of which have ties to terrorism.
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  1641.  @FailedPoet444  Read up on Chinese history. China being like Japan is like asking a pig to fly.
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  1642. They don't pay for R&D. They get subsidies from the government and this is STILL the end result. The way they do things truly boggles the mind.
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  1643. A lot of Chinese aren't buying cars. BYD "surpassed" Tesla on paper and BYD fakes sales to keep getting government subsidies. It's all a lie.
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  1644. No rules, all politics. That's China in a nutshell. And they've always been like this. They were like this under the KMT and they were like this when they had emperors. It's their backwards culture. The Chinese could never agree upon universal values.
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  1645.  @miketemple7686  There's nothing worst than risking your life and not getting paid for it. Anyone with half a brain would choose not to come.
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  1646. Because Chinese society is all about keeping up with appearances, the complete antithesis of logic and common sense.
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  1647. ""Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy" - Mao Mao was so messed up that he would welcome this.
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  1648. Anything out of China is a pure lie. They're relying on the fact that we are all stupid 5 year old who don't know what is happening in the world.
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  1649. "wolf warrior" is a facade. They've been documented during WW2. They don't stand and fight. They either run away, freeze, or in the case of the army, generals make themselves so insufferable that the Japanese just pay them, which costs less than using bullets.
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  1650. They are THAT ignorant and dumb about how the world works. Their government keeps them dumb and they're so arrogant, they don't want to learn about how the world works. Censorship and control at its finest.
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  1651. Feeding what market? Businesses in China are shutting down. They can't even feed their own markets let alone other markets. The future is in Southeast Asia and India. They blew it with their hostile attitude and irresponsibility.
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  1652. BRICS has always been a joke. What kind of trading bloc can't even agree on anything? That's why China is trying to enlist other countries to join so that they can exercise their politics on the members who aren't willing to bend to their will 🤣. It's a joke of an organization. Two of them don't get along. One is in a war that it can't win against the West. And one of them is basically a failed state with nothing to offer. And these countries are going to re-shape the global order? With what? Corruption and bs?
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  1653. It's usually for political reasons. For them to sell their stuff to China, the terms include buying their garbage. Nobody in their right mind would buy their stuff given a choice.
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  1654. So basic. And yet here we are. They can't get their act together.
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  1655.  @ericli2936  I love it when Wumaos/little pinks such as yourself expose yourselves by calling everything that doesn't agree with state narrative as "anti-China" while simultaneously trashing the West. Pure hypocrisy in a nutshell.
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  1656. Were you there for work?
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  1657. This is nothing new. It's innate in their culture. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1658. They love to call China a "superpower" because they have nukes. So why don't they refer to countries like India and Pakistan as such? They have nukes also.
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  1659. China has had many tyrannical rulers in its history. There just wasn't this much corrupt people numbering in the millions under the banner of the CCP.
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  1660. Who will they sue? All the institutions are beholden to the CCP. China isn't like the West. Laws are weak and open to interpretation by the government.
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  1661. This is not new. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1662. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1663. ​@jakejakedowntwo6613 not true. Some of us want reliable even if we pay a little extra. It's not always about price - that's what Chinese business model is based-of of
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  1664.  @jakejakedowntwo6613  Chinese companies in mainland China have become synonymous with unreliable and cheap. It sounds like you're defending them when evidence already contradicts what you are saying. Say whatever you want about Chinese companies. It does very little to change their bottom line and they have a long ways to go to prove their credibility.
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  1665. Because the CCP ultimately don't care about anyone but themselves. This translates to a lot of trouble and misery for most people.
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  1666. Especially when you have a country run by a mafia government who isn't above lying, cheating, and stealing.
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  1667. ​ @okami-z1b how?
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  1668. True. Trump is hitting everyone with tariffs. And he is aware of China's tactics. They're also moving to Mexico and the American senate all know about it.
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  1669.  @Omega0850  Nope, it's the lack of enforceable regulations and rules that protect the customers that's the problem. Where have you ever seen a country punish the people expressing frustration over something that they paid for and the other party responsible gets off scot-free? Only in the insanity that is China.
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  1670. It's typical of them
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  1671. Putting a large cauldron of soup in the middle of Chinese is like putting a carcass in the middle of starving Hyenas. They don't even queue, it's a free for all and the people who don't get any food are the small defenseless children and elderly.
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  1672. He can't leave this Earth quick enough.
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  1673. No amount of luck can ever offset their high level of incompetence.
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  1674. Russia and North Korea
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  1675. ​ @o0oGhsto0o Yes, China is where it is because funding and innovation comes from the Western world, including Japan and South Korea. China doesn't produce anything it didn't copy/steal.
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  1676. They will never admit to stupidity. It's a trait that's innate in Chinese culture.
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  1677. Do they truly believe that just because they put something out there that it should always sell automatically?
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  1678. They won't. What is happening in their country is nothing new. Just read up on their history. The only thing that changes is who is ruling them.
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  1679. Even the Chinese themselves don't understand how their country works. Just pure chaos and lawlessness.
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  1680. China survives through lies and deceit. But it's clearly biting them in the ass now.
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  1681. "At least they didn't give us the expired stuff right?" - I wouldn't put it passed a country that uses gutter oil and spit oil to sell cheap "food".
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  1682. Avoid all this European made garbage. Buy Japanese made. - my mechanic
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  1683. It looks like another lie that we are being led to believe and yet we see absolutely no traces of this so called "civilization".
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  1684. Why even go? There are better places than that rat hole.
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  1685. Let them. Anyone with half a brain shouldn't be doing business in China but they still do so they deal with the consequences.
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  1686. They don't have a clear understanding of how the world works in general. Because their own country is abnormal and run like the warring states period.
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  1687. All real estate companies in China operate this way.
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  1688. ​ @maxruedy951 stay away from places like Haidilao 😂
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  1689. China loves quotas. They build for the sake of building to keep their fake GDP numbers up with little to no real demand. Real estate companies took everything to the next level though. They build the basic infrastructure, use that as collateral to get loans from banks, build another basic infrastructure then use THAT as collateral to build another infrastructure, lather, rinse, repeat, which is why you have the mess you have now.
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  1690. You need to read up on China when they were under the KMT and even before that. It's always been a country of cheats and scammers. The only time Chinese change is when they leave China because they're exposed to sane thought.
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  1691. Who are the Americans flocking to Red Note? Uniformed leftist morons. That's who. Only the offensively stupid believe China is the land of milk and honey.
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  1692. There was a time when you didn't need high level education to get a good job because guess what? The company will train you anyway. Nowadays, that's no longer true anymore.
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  1693. A lot of African countries are actually weary of China because it's going to hurt their domestic markets. So no, that's not true across the board. It all depends on what deal they have reached with China, and the amount of money China bribes local African officials.
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  1694. No such thing as mandate of heaven. China just has crappy leaders. All this crap about "mandate of heaven" is to try to make their leaders answerable to something higher than themselves because they don't answer to anyone. And Chinese people don't generally care for morals unless they're already starving.
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  1695. They've shown time and time again that they aren't. Good at memorizing bad at executive forms of thinking - which is more important.
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  1696. This is China in a nutshell. They do things out of convenience regardless of the absence of logic and common sense. Them being reactive rather than proactive is how they handle themselves. No forethought is put into anything.
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  1697. It's all bullshit. What do the mainland Chinese truly value? It's the basics like being able to eat and housing. If those basics are no longer viable, no amount of government deception and manipulation will work including nationalism.
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  1698. Lots of Chinese aren't paid hourly, they're paid salary.
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  1699. A lot of them still suck even outside of China.
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  1700. This is why I now avoid Chinese restaurants. Just don't know what they're doing back in the kitchen and I value food quality and my health.
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  1701. And Asian students are considered "intelligent" because of this. Regurgitating information is not a measure of intelligence; it's a measure of your ability to sit for hours and hours memorizing useless information. And test scores are a reflection of this useless skill. To add insult to injury, Asian parents celebrate this useless achievement through their kids grades which is not a reflection of how the real world operates.
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  1702.  @Sinyao  When people have no money they have no money, doesn't matter if supply is cheap. Lots of Chinese have to pay a mortgage for their house that will never be built while simultaneously renting to keep afloat and a lot of them are losing their jobs.
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  1703. Same with Chinese made items that use chips which can potentially spy on consumers. They need to seriously vet these products before they come into the Western markets.
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  1704. And yet, people still fall for these "flashy" technologies that China claims to develop. People need to learn how to think critically and not easily fall for lies and deception.
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  1705. It takes something like this for the Chinese to be triggered. It's all about giving them a reason to get mad instead of doing what's right from the beginning.
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  1706. 'Face' isn't a real concept. It's a cop out for them to justify wrong doing. It's just another lie that they would have you believe in which clearly works.
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  1707. Lol. They claim to be a "civilized" country in Asia. They are the way they are because they don't value manners and respect. A lot of us in Asia understand this. They don't. Stop making excuses for bad behavior.
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  1708. So many mentally ill people in China...
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  1709.  @chinesesparrows  Along with false advertising is paying for fake articles to lead people to believe it's legitimate ie Bloomberg, MSNBC.
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  1710. If you have to say China is 'safe' then it obviously isn't. It should go without saying.
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  1711. The terms of the loan are already a given. You think the debtor nation doesn't know that?
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  1712. I would have lost it if I was the woman who was interrogated by the teller. It's seriously none of their business. If they don't want my business I will go elsewhere.
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  1713. Nobody truly owns their home in China. They lease it for 70 years. So at some point, everyone will start at ground zero.
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  1714.  @BubuH-cq6km  More like Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, Venezuela, etc to name a few. You have authoritarian countries mixed up with democratic countries. It's clear to see which sphere of the world you come from.
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  1715. The Chinese are reluctant to buy anything made domestically until they're wooed by things that are shiny and flashy. You're right they never learn.
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  1716. The Chinese have put up with this abuse for hundreds if not thousands of years. Tyranny isn't new in China. It's the norm. They never defined and fought for their values like the Europeans did. That's why they're in the mess they are in.
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  1717. "Face" isn't a thing in America as much as it is in China. Also, people don't sing praises of you when they find out you're broke - they just laugh at how stupid you are.
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  1718. Don't hold your breath. The BRICS only make a small portion of the world economy. They're nowhere close to the G7. And they can't agree on anything.
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  1719. Land sales - unfortunately property purchases are down
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  1720. Bribes only get you so far. When you piss off the local populace, they will retaliate.
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  1721. Then go ask China to sue. They will just be laughed at. As if they haven't made themselves enough of a spectacle on the world's stage - What a joke! Cut the drama. It's beyond annoying at this point.
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  1722.  @dominysynclair  Never heard of this trend in America.
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  1723. Most Chinese actually don't buy their stuff because they know better. Government regulations are what's going to eventually limit their choices.
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  1724.  @reginageorgetownuni  this isn't so trivial when a lot of people are getting affected.
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  1725. US is not like this. Stop with your groundless lies. Nobody believes China bots like you.
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  1726. 🤣
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  1727. Problem is everything is all about money. When it comes to the CCP, it's either an all out boycott or you leave the floodgates open for abuse and exploitation. There is no in between and business owners who have money and political sway always opt for the latter until local politics dictates otherwise - and it usually has to be something extreme.
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  1728. "Cutting edge" for them means stolen technology with severe undercutting to the detriment of safety standards. They can have their so called "cutting edge technology". All show, no substance. Typical China.
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  1729.  @missilecarrier  These people always exist regardless of how the economy is performing.
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  1730. The amount of bad behavior that Chinese authorities allow isn't even surprising anymore.
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  1731. They're pressuring the 33 year old to have kids when Chinese companies stop hiring at 35. Are they for real?
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  1732. Jelous of what exactly?
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  1733. China's typical business strategy - drop the price like a hot potato and watch quality decrease and all the scandals that come with cutting costs. They never learn.
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  1734. You have it backwards. China was UNDER Mongolia.
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  1735. China has a valuable self driving company?
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  1736.  @keitha.9788  That's the whole point. He doesn't get to spread his stupidity on anybody.
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  1737. China always finds a way to weave them in. That's what delusion does. They love to tout how "powerful" and seemingly "powerless" they are at the same time.
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  1738. Give those jobs to Americans, not Chinese.
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  1739. ​ @paulferrer286 True. Gving them numbers is to distinguish different junk types.
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  1740.  @popajoekiller  No it's not. China under the KMT wasn't much different than it is today. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. China has always been authoritarian and corrupt. Why do you think all the past dynasties failed? They all ended in rebellion or coup for a reason. There is nothing "peaceful" about China and it continues to be a mess up to now. "Their own records, throwing light on their characteristics back to the remote obscurities of forty centuries ago, force the melancholy conclusion that they were no different then." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1741. Anything to do with China is connected to the CCP. Why would people like Andrew dealing with people like this think any different? Because they "like" them? People need to put China in the same vein as Russia, Iran, and North Korea. They wouldn't deal with them the same as they do China. And yet China always gets "special treatment". Haven't they learned anything?
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  1742. Why don't you just go to Japan or South Korea? Why expose yourself to toxic air and potential scams? Like seriously?
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  1743. How the heck does paper work get processed in China? Are they bribing the local notary public/municipality to fudge the exchange in titles? How does this insanity work? It doesn't make any sense.
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  1744. Don't feel sorry for them anymore. They bring their own stupidity onto themselves.
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  1745. You shouldn't. Not with this level of stupid.
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  1746. I thought they banned this garbage in China? Are you not allowed to show off online anymore?
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  1747. It's not "face". Face isn't real - it's just a way for them to justify their bad practices and incompetence. Young people demand less pay. It's not because of "face".
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  1748. The old man claiming to be "smart" is so unbelievably clueless. Where does he get information from? From his Temu crystal ball?
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  1749. Most companies are always looking for sales people since most people don't want to do this job.
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  1750. You need to check out "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. After reading the book, you will realize that the way they act will not be surprising albeit will be expected. From politics, to the way they do business, to gambling, it's no longer surprising.
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  1751. Just Chinese being Chinese. What else is new?
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  1752. A lot of Chinese don't just have money, they're heavily in debt.
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  1753. ​​ @nelsonta00 yup. They're also making Mexico think twice.
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  1754. Yup. They love gambling and all sorts of racketeering. It's part of their culture. Not all of their behaviors have to do with the CCP. At some point everyone just has to acknowledge that certain behaviors have to be attributed to the Chinese and their culture.
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  1755.  @WTM00  how do you know? Also, we're talking about China here.
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  1756. Why don't these Chinese in Australia just buy an Iphone or Android phone that is not Chinese made? So much fuss over what? They have way too much time on their hands. They need to seriously get a life.
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  1757.  @kamsunleong6648  It's not about intelligence. It's about price. Just because you're buying something that's cheaper, doesn't mean that it's a better buy. That just means that's all you can afford. By the way, most Thai people still buy Toyotas. Here's a breakdown of the top 10 best-selling car brands in Thailand for the period of January to December 2023: Toyota: 265,949 units. Isuzu: 151,935 units. Honda: 94,336 units. Ford: 36,483 units. Mitsubishi: 32,668 units. BYD: 30,432 units. MG: 27,311 units. Mazda: 16,544 units.
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  1758. It's worst than prison. In prison, you know who the criminals. In China, they're all around you. And you don't know who can screw you over.
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  1759. They don't care. They spend money that's not even theirs.
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  1760. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  1761. They're so unbelievably naïve and dumb. Truly amazing what their government has done to them.
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  1762. And that's why the country is an absolute hell on earth.
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  1763. It seems like everyone who visits China becomes a complete idiot. All common sense flies out of the window.
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  1764. The only time China was "on top" was when the whole world was poor and backwards. That's not true anymore. The past is the past and is irrelevant to the present. China is stuck in the past along with its thinking and did not progress.
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  1765. How is it the same?
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  1766. Not just desperate. Dumb as well.
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  1767. The messages of the Chinese men to the Russian women are so simpy and pathetic.
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  1768. They have no life. All they ever had was an illusion of one, which is how their society and culture operates to begin with.
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  1769. In the meantime, their children can fail and do squat in school and still get high paying jobs with little to no qualifications.
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  1770. ​ @NathanCW-e1e It's called "liability". That's what these Chinese cars are.
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  1771. Get over yourself.
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  1772. That's propaganda in a nut shell. It's a pure lie.
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  1773. ​​ @GenXerReacts it's actally been India for a while now. China overinflated their population. Analysts peg China's population at 700 to 800 million.
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  1774. Because there's no shortage of room temperature IQ Chinese nationalists.
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  1775. It's still made in China 🤢
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  1776.  @MikiCab1  Well, one can delude themselves instead of accepting reality and doing something about their circumstance.
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  1777. And BYD just outsold Tesla in China. Fake sales + crappy cars = Chinese EV propaganda.
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  1778. "With absolutely no advantage to be gained by lying, in a thousand instances where the explanation is of no importance one way or the other, a Chinese will relate the most absurd sort of cellophane lie. High and low, coolie, or general, they will lie naively, reassuringly, always affecting surprised pain at your doubts, when within an hour or so the truth is certain to crop out." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) You guys have literally had thousands of years dealing with them. The only thing that changes in China are their rulers. Their nature has always remained the same. They view everyone as beneath them despite the fact that they act as one of the most uncivilized countries in Asia and the world.
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  1779. What lots of people fail to understand is China has always been in a state of chaos. They spend majority if their time creating a false image with the intent to decieve and manipulate. I read up on China under the KMT and it was no better. At some point we just have to accept that China is where it is for a reason and will always be there because they are incapable of changing or improving. If there is one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese it's that they refuse to change.
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  1780.  @shyviking  There was no wifi so they almost missed their flight and the airport staff was rude and unhelpful. He also saw how polluted the air was.
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  1781. Fallen back? It was always there, especially in China.
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  1782. Canada is expensive but unlike China, they have regulations in place to avoid this stupidity happening to China.
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  1783. If you have to say "you're for the people" or "you're for justice" without actually defining what those terms are, it's all bs. And people love to talk nonsense and virtue signal. This is why "actions speak louder than words". "According to our standards, it is a melancholy truth that nearly every single word and gesture in China having the outward semblance of squareness, sincerity, loyalty and truth is a hollow rite, while the only genuine consistencies of words with actions are those in the field of rascality." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1784. ​ @vanlee4109 those impressions are paid. Don't kid yourself. It's all fake
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  1785. Chinese don't believe in life insurance.
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  1786. People seriously need to stop talking about China's past like as if it was so much better. Under the KMT, China was already corrupt. And they weren't that much better under a lot of their Emperors. They've always been ruled with an iron fist and have always been corrupt which is why they went through so many dynastic changes. People inevitably get sick and tired of corruption and rebellions happen.
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  1787. The problem in China is that those who are supposed to be in power are not responsible. This is what they are referring to. Law enforcement and regulators are all corrupt so nobody can be relied upon. But then again, China has always been like this, even before the CCP.
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  1788. Great, so they're now going to change the atmosphere in Africa because they can't make shit work in their own country.
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  1789. This is the only country that has enough housing for everyone and yet a lot of homeless on the streets despite what propaganda says.
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  1790. Yes, there's only what government allows and doesn't allow
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  1791. corkage fees are common in restaurants all over the world because the restaurant wants you to buy THEIR drinks. It's funny that this is news in China.
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  1792.  @DroneTonSoukhoï...etPafLeMig  Really? they accumulate so much debt creating mega projects that no longer yield any additional revenue. All this does is incur cost. At some point one has to make good on their debts because all you're doing is digging yourself a financial grave.
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  1793.  @Ed_Gein_crafts  Used to be? The only thing that ever changes in China are their leaders. The way they rule is always the same. Their history has so many examples of tyranny.
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  1794. ​ @Sarcasteak and ofcourse in China there are no laws saying that you as an employer have to make good on any agreements. So you can string your employees along indefinitely.
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  1795. They leave China and take advantage of the loopholes in the West. They should stay and change things for the better instead.
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  1796. Makes me irritate at the mere mention of pig baaayy
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  1797. No shortage of weirdos in China.
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  1798. "China is leading the way" - Pure cope from the ignorant and insecure. You will never hear Americans, Japanese, Europeans, South Koreans etc saying those words even though they build things superior to their Chinese counterparts.
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  1799. Just go to Taiwan. You won't be scammed/harassed. And you'll be able to leave.
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  1800. "Heedless toward the vague and disconnected appeals of small reform groups for collective action, 395 million Chinese - out of a possible population of 400 million - constitute the most easily intimidated people in the world. Day after day advantage is taken of this submissiveness by bandits, war lords, pirates, wholesale extortion gangs, and duly accredited provincial and central government officials, on a scale probably never before paralleled in the world's history. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) China has always been like this even under previous governments. It's not unique to the CCP that's why they have always been in a chaotic state.
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  1801.  @jacobbohn9658  why pay when you can just wear a cardboard box? It's basically the same thing.
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  1802.  @dereknicol3465  glad you think people being blown up or killed in front of you is a laughing matter. You clearly haven't spoken to someone's who has lived through war.
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  1803.  @nicholasrockall7308  So many Wumaos are everywhere trying so hard to convince us of what China isn't. So sad.
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  1804. And they want to export this so called "quality" to overseas infrastructure projects. How desperate can you be to employ sub par Chinese craftsmanship?
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  1805. The typical Chinese doesn't understand how their own country works. Those of us in the free world are more informed than them. Just ask them about their history. Their account of it is inaccurate.
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  1806. They don't feel the same towards you or anyone else for that matter. Why bother with such sentiment?
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  1807. Keep deluding yourself. And the Russians and Chinese are a force for good right? Lol
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  1808.  @roderigoz China's so called "culture" was held by the upper classes and scholars. A large number of Chinese are as uneducated they are now as they were back then.
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  1809.  @Cooper906outdoor  No, the stage was set when the Chinese people in a fit of rage decided that emotions would prevail over common sense and logic. That's why they are mired in the mess they are in now.
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  1810.  @nacholibreri  Who are the CCP? Are they not of the people? Were they not the ones who usurped power from the previous government and decided that they would determine how things in China would be? The hell are you talking about disinformation? What did they change? They made everything state owned and a lot of Chinese people were OK with that because they were dirt poor to begin with. So in essence, the Chinese people did not gain anything long term from them. There is no rationale when you are poor and see no end to your suffering. I'm talking about psychology here. Did you see footage of Mao addressing the people during the cultural revolution? Thousands if not millions of people paid homage to him. And we eventually found out what kind of man he was after millions of Chinese died due to his horrendous domestic policies. Going back to what I said, where was the common sense when this was all happening? Oh right, they got rid of all the intellectuals and scholars who were the light of reason in the country. Couldn't this have been prevented? Probably not. You have a poor working class population who sought to gain power by any means and they did to the detriment of everyone else. So yes, I AM blaming the people who supported this revolution. The mob mentality of the stupid and deranged. They're all "heart" and no brains.
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  1811.  @CristianNazare  Dictatorships always come about from revolutions. This is literally recorded all throughout history. Remember Napoleon? What about Lenin? to name a few. This phenomenon has always existed because everyone gets overly emotional without figuring out how to fix the system itself. So if a country is in a state of chaos off course a strong willed individual with a "can do" attitude is going to be attractive to ruling a country. That's when you should be scared because authoritarianism becomes a very attractive alternative. It's always about the never ending "struggle" for them which aligns perfectly with communism. That's what China eventually became.
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  1812.  @joseph1150  China has always had a history of tyrannical leaders. That's why dynasties have come and gone. Even under the KMT China was corrupt and just as bad as it is today. Only difference is Chinese people were allowed to own land.
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  1813.  @andrewtaylor940  A lot of analysts have looked at the numbers and have come to the conclusion that China's population is actually 1.2 or even 1.3 billion. 1.4 billion is actually a stretch given that they over counted and one child policy essentially screwed them for generations to come.
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  1814.  @joseph1150  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend. He talks about his experiences in 1930s China when the KMT were in power. If you read the book you will understand that China has always been the chaotic mess it is. "From personal experience with Chinese officials, observation of the Chinese at large, and drawing upon the experiences of many acquaintances whose service collectively has taken them all over China into areas no one person could know intimately, it is a reasonable conviction that there are not enough straightforward, honest Chinese available to man any kind of government there. This is not a personal cynicism. It merely phrases common and competent foreign judgment on the scene" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Most thoughtful foreigners in China today believe that a monarchy would be best for the country in its present stage. Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China, it is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honestly available. But even with a highly centralized monarchy, or dictatorship, some delegation of responsibility in the lower official orders is unavoidable, and there are not enough reliable men in China to fill these posts. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1815. They literally claimed to have invented the high speed rail which was already in Japan in the 60's while China was dirt poor. They also claimed to have invented a "train" with no tracks which turned out to be a bus with a bend in its body connecting the two pieces. This mode of transportation has been common in Europe for a few decades now- You can't make this stuff up.
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  1816. There is no difference between a Chinese who left and returned. They're always subject to the same political rules whether in or out of their country rendering their education useless.
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  1817. Hard to be entrepreneurial when nobody has any money and the government with their backwards policies are only exacerbating the situation.
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  1818. They're so brainwashed that it took them this long to realize this simple fact? Crazy.
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  1819. The Korean shift from Samsung to Vietnam was already a work in progress even before Covid. My brother's gf knows someone who works with the company and they were already training Vietnamese workers several years ago.
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  1820. They're all garbage. The fact that you're still making exceptions for Chinese EV's is ridiculous. Don't you value your life?
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  1821.  @ermincampbell2159  It's all about cope. They study overseas because they think it helps their chances of getting a job when in actuality, there are no more jobs left for them to fill. All they did was take themselves out of the job market for 4 or more years, especially if they are pursing a masters or Phd. Expensive coping at its finest. There are no shortage of entry level low paying jobs. The jobs they want are few and far in between. If you do the math, it doesn't make sense for a lot of them to be going to university when most of them will be working low wage labor jobs in reality. This is the brainwashing students are led to believe from universities and a society that thinks everything will be fixed by a useless piece of paper. Most employers don't even care if you went to university. They care about skills, not the fact that you read a lot of useless books.
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  1822. ​ @ronnelacido1711 so, basically useless.
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  1823. Don't they communicate expectations to workers? This only goes to show the lack of direction and the fact that employers don't even know what they want from workers. Why don't they just set targets? If they hit those reasonable targets, they should be let of work.
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  1824. ​ @Onion_Knights keep on building but nobody moves in. That's already a red flag. Then they find out their population is declining. Nobody is going to come and salvage the economy.
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  1825. Their level of delusion and control is pretty much on par with North Korea at this point and people still go there.
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  1826. Communists love their quotas.
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  1827. It's clear that a lot of countries value money above morals. We're finding all this out after Covid. The world has been nice to China despite all of the bs they do all over the world and how their people act.
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  1828.  @EarlDennis-l1l  As far as I know there are three types of Chinese when it comes to finances: A.) Ones who are frugal and could care less what others think. So they live simply and don't try to impress others because it doesn't affect their bottom line. And the one I see often is B.) Live well beyond their means to impress others because of "face" culture despite having little to no savings and will end up being one of those old Chinese who go through the public garbage trying to collect cans in the gas station to recycle when they get very old because they didn't have two pennies to rub together to save and invest. Group C.) Are those who have money be it through hard work or ill gotten but they have cash nonetheless and could end up in group A or B given how their descendants manage their money after it gets passed on to them.
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  1829.  @MrKbtor2  Yes, and even this so called "investment" isn't based on anything real because values have clearly plummeted.
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  1830.  @MrKbtor2  They have access to some multinational companies that can invest in stocks overseas but most Chinese are too uneducated to see a financial planner.
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  1831. Chinese society calls them "left overs". Get over yourself.
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  1832. Hi fellow hill billie. What's up?
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  1833. Don't forget that they failed to report the people who died from Covid. Dead people don't contribute to GDP.
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  1834.  @oyo4959  That's all an illusion. They can't keep customers because of their sub par quality, instead resorting to flashy tactics that offer no substance.
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  1835.  @BinaryFreak  I don't even know if it's necessarily to "feel better" so much as to get people off their back as to why they are so "mediocre" or unsuccessful. It's a harsh society that doesn't care to know you. They just want to make snap judgements based on what they can see which is why lying is so pervasive in their culture.
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  1836.  @j4ppy  the "beautiful" culture you're talking about was limited to the upper classes. Everyone else is just uneducated and dirt poor.
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  1837.  @j4ppy  Old Chinese culture was always limited to the upper classes. Most people did not act that way
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  1838. Chinese cars have an oversupply that's why they have so much. US is struggling due to supply chain issues.
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  1839. ​ @robanybody8691 communism is all about lying to the people. "Equality" is just another lie.
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  1840. They are IN Brazil. It's Brazil's rules. You're another person justifying inhuman treatment and calling it 'normal' when it isn't. Typical backwards thinking.
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  1841. Even if it's true it won't stop people from buying Iphone. All people are going to do is hide it. Especially those who work in government positions.
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  1842. So Britain and the US are now the same country? Obviously China can't distinguish between the two which only shows that China can't distinguish between its enemies. Not very intelligent are they?
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  1843.  @AidanMacgregor-Personal  Except they weren't. China needs to stop its self imposed delusion. In fact the US helped China during WW2
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  1844. ​​ @TheAnikasis this is pure stupidity at its finest. Instead of trying to fix their problems they double down on being dumb.
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  1845. ​​ @justaguy4019 you can't deny that Chinese style cruelty is unmatched in this world. The lack of connection and basic respect for fellow man irregardless of socioeconomic background is truly astounding.
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  1846.  @limsk9839 I wouldn't know. I don't really eat Western food. Also, "Western food" has many different kinds in it: Greek, Italian, French, etc. So in essence all Western food is all the same to you. You're quite ignorant.
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  1847.  @limsk9839  Chinese food encompasses all of China you dolt
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  1848.  @carloswater7  Not necessarily. It depends on the owner and what they can and can't get away with.
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  1849. Also, Kavanaugh starting referring to them as "Chinese" after the error was pointed out. These little pinks just want to start drama for the sake of it.
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  1850. ​ @popcorn6931 what's there to be proud of?
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  1851. "It is common practice, where carts and wheelbarrows are used, for the farmers to bring a load of vegetables into market in the same conveyance used the day before to carry out a load of sewage. Nor would they dream of wrapping up the vegetables to prevent contact with the conveyance." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) These disgusting practices are nothing new. They don't care for hygiene and they aren't going to change.
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  1852.  @Anton43218  For one, you have different cultures and customs. Even the way they relate to each other is different. Regional differences also exist and have existed for quite a while even before they became the China we know today.
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  1853. Yes, Opium War Vengeance against the US even though the US did not participate in this so called "war".
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  1854. Every time I see old footage of the cultural revolution of communist sympathizers I just laugh because I think to myself "you idiots as well as your descendants don't know what you're in for"
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  1855. This is further proof that this so called "subsidy money" is only going into the pockets of executives and not to their means of production. How does a company with all its financial endowments from the government produce things that are worst that privately run car companies overseas? Something is not adding up.
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  1856.  @BeatoricheChannel-yy4gk  I get that it's hard to come up with something original in this day and age. But what separates other companies/countries is that they ADD value to already existing concepts. China adds nothing other than to make everything a cheap sub par version of what already exists. They try to appeal to the masses but innovation does not come from that level of consumption. Innovation is driven by healthy profit margins, which is why they have to keep stealing IP because they literally can't afford to innovate.
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  1857.  @BeatoricheChannel-yy4gk  "Just as the Chinese mentality lacks real inventiveness, it emphatically lacks constructiveness in all fields. Their leading writers and speakers are ninety-nine percent of the same stamp, as witness any Chinese magazine or newspaper, or the theses Chinese university students are prone to polish off in this country. The modern writer whom the Chinese most revere, Sun Yat-sen, reveals everywhere this academic negativity. He tells what ought not to be done, but in stating what should be done he goes little farther than saying that he wants China to be a land of cooperating workers living happily. Out of the thousands of Chinese students with the best education the world can provide it is one of the amazing contemporary phenomena that they have produced no thinkers of any rating." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) Whatever "knowledge" China has or had was already exported to the world years ago. That's why they are where they are now. They're now trying to play catch up with the world because they've been left behind.
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  1858. "It is possible to say almost anything about the Chinese and have the statement true, and yet with proper modifications decidedly untrue. For example, the Chinese seem to do more washing and slopping around with pails of water everywhere than any other race on the globe, and at the same time they are among the dirtiest people to be found. They certainly approach the championship for laziness, and yet their claim to the title of most industrious is hardly open to dispute. They are perhaps the most unreliable and tricky to do business with of any large racial group. And yet under certain conditions a Chinese will make incredible sacrifices to meet his obligations, and die of humiliation if he can't." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) And you wonder why they're messed up? Everything they do is a contradiction.
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  1859. It's fear if missing out. Everyone went on a spree because they didn't want to be priced out of the market. But the exact opposite happened. Property dropped which reflects the true value of these artificially inflated properties
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  1860.  @charliepearce8767  Chinese lack tact in anything they do. That's their problem.
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  1861. My younger brother stopped over at Guangzhou en route to Thailand. He said it was a horrible experience. Nobody speaks English so nobody can help you. And they don't even try to. And they have no Wi Fi in the airport so you have no way of checking if your flight already left, despite China's claims of being "well connected" - which is obviously a lie. Avoid China at all cost even for stop over.
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  1862. Most delusional people think they are. Doesn't mean they actually ARE.
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  1863.  @hannesRSA  We can complain as much as we like, but until stores start stocking products made in more developed countries nothing will change. I try to buy made in Japan, US, even South Korea etc as much as possible but a lot of the cheap especially disposable crap is still made in China also cheap electronics unfortunately.
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  1864. Face culture is a bs concept. It's just another way for them to justify bad actions, laziness, and incompetence. I don't buy that cultural garbage for a minute. All that tells me is that they're too stubborn and immature to change. 5000 years of civilization my ass!
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  1865. "Most thoughtful foreigners in China today believe that a monarchy would be best for the country in its present stage. Where trustworthiness is as scarce as it is in China, it is probably better to have a government highly centralized, requiring as few authoritative individuals as possible, in order to utilize most effectively the limited amount of honestly available. But even with a highly centralized monarchy, or dictatorship, some delegation of responsibility in the lower official orders is unavoidable, and there are not enough reliable men in China to fill these posts." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1866. These idiots are never wrong in their messed up mind
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  1867. I know right? Bunch of weirdos...
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  1868. This is how their culture has operated for hundreds if not thousands of years. "With absolutely no advantage to be gained by lying, in a thousand instances where the explanation is of no importance one way or the other, a Chinese will relate the most absurd sort of cellophane lie. High and low, coolie, or general, they will lie naively, reassuringly, always affecting surprised pain at your doubts, when within an hour or so the truth is certain to crop out. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1869. The devil truly resides in China.
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  1870. Body is too weak from eating toxic food and gutter oil
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  1871. FDI to China should be next to zero at this point. Who are the morons still putting their money towards China?
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  1872. What did they expect? So many people died during Covid which the CCP let out of control? And everyone else was wiped from the job market after their zero covid fiasco.
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  1873. Sad that they don't push trade schools in China since the perception is that blue collared work is considered "low class" when majority of good paying jobs are there.
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  1874. 'Even rich are out of money' - So that means they aren't really rich then. A lot of people who buy these luxury cars aren't all that wealthy. It's all just for show especially in China.
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  1875. A "home" in China is a liability. It's either not done, or if it is it's a garbage death trap. You are right.
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  1876. Most of the idiot lying officials have sent their kids overseas
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  1877. Read up on China before the CCP came into power. It's always been ruled by corrupt gangsters and abusive authorities. The only thing that changes in China are the rulers - abuses are constant and always the same.
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  1878. They're so two faced. Glad the world is finally seeing them for what they are.
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  1879. Not really. Because some of us know that we are not a reflection of said culture. We can only control ourselves. We don't speak for everyone in our culture.
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  1880.  @softballfj  if you're making a case for the exceptions rather than the norm, that should already give you a general overview of how people in said country behave.
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  1881. That's how the SOE's work in China. They're being propped up by the government so all they do is pass those losses on to the consumer even though they're racking up debt. Isn't communism "awesome"?
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  1882. That would be believable if it was a Toyota.
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  1883. At what point did you decide it was propaganda when this was always the content of the channel? Who are you kidding?
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  1884. CCP respects nobody. They don't care for rules, they don't care for history. They don't care for anyone but themselves.
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  1885. Problem is when they copy, it's no good. So what's the point? Nobody will trust you so it doesn't make sense even from a business model stand point. All of that is just wasted effort.
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  1886. They overcounted their population since enacting the one child policy. So the people that are suppose to be projected to be there simply aren't. So no, China doesn't have 20% of the world's population.
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  1887. Yes, basically. But a much crappier deal.
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  1888. Unlike the Chinese, the US actually provides actual products and services that benefit the people who buy them. If a US company ever produced faulty products that people didn't like or caused actual harm or injury they would get sued because rule of law exists in the US. There is no such thing in the land of scammers and liars like China, politics trump rule of law. So no, they aren't alike. Adopting capitalist ideology does not equal reckless disregard for the people purchasing your products/services.
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  1889. Just go to Japan. Don't they have a Disneyland?
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  1890. This is China's true state. They're going back to the way things were before Deng Xiaopeng's policy of opening up.
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  1891. Also CCP aren't the true inheritors of government. They keep forgetting that simple fact.
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  1892. If he loves China so much then why not just go back and be part of this "communist paradise"? He's obviously catering to mainland Chinese nationalists in a democratic country. Such a clown.
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  1893. They truly are. Hybrids are the way to go.
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  1894. They import a lot of their medical equipment anyway. It's no secret.
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  1895. Don't buy Chinese products period. If other alternatives exist, consider them.
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  1896. Knowing the CCP, they will find a way to politicize this again.
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  1897. They don't have what it takes and never will given their political environment "Just as the Chinese mentality lacks real inventiveness, it emphatically lacks constructiveness in all fields. Their leading writers and speakers are ninety-nine percent of the same stamp, as witness any Chinese magazine or newspaper, or the theses Chinese university students are prone to polish off in this country. The modern writer whom the Chinese most revere, Sun Yat-sen, reveals everywhere this academic negativity. He tells what ought not to be done, but in stating what should be done he goes little farther than saying that he wants China to be a land of cooperating workers living happily. Out of the thousands of Chinese students with the best education the world can provide it is one of the amazing contemporary phenomena that they have produced no thinkers of any rating. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1898. Until governments all over the world decide to create a situation conducive to family life, nobody will have children. All governments do is take and take and take. When they realize that there is no more people to take from, they won't know what hit them.
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  1899. Little pinks are paid actors. They will mess around with all sorts of lies. Just not death by car crash.
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  1900. Welcome to idiotic communist policies.
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  1901. There have always been people starving in China. When has this never been the case, even when they were "booming"?
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  1902. "They are famed for their prudence in money matters, yet their love of gambling amounts to such an insane passion that every year millions are ruined to become beggars or suicides." "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1903. Their ungratefulness is innately cultural regardless of who is ruling them. "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: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1904. They won't be worth much. In 70 years, China's population will dramatically drop, drastically decreasing demand for housing. It's all just being inflated by "fake" credit and not the real economy.
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  1905. Are you trying to be funny?
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  1906. What do you expect from this brainless politician turned philosopher, turned economist, now apparently a war strategist? Pure insanity.
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  1907. There is no "mandate of heaven". It's just something they conceived of to keep the emperors in check because they answered to nobody. Most Chinese are aetheist and don't care about religion. They're mostly just superstitious.
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  1908. A lot of these people either aren't making enough where they work or they're jobless. It's many reasons. At the end of the day it's all about trying to make it in a downward spiraling economy.
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  1909. ​ @apple_dragon226 the haven't changed under the KMT and even before that.
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  1910. Lots of them still are. Just look at the spy cracdowns abroad.
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  1911.  @nskpatrick  And not good ones at that. Busy for the sake of being busy to prop up fake GDP numbers which they lie about.
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  1912. That's what China will eventually become once humanity dies out. It will go back to being peaceful and reclaimed by nature, a country garden lol.
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  1913.  @hgin7451  Typical. We're talking about China and offcourse the US comes up in conversation. What is China? Tied to the US in the hip? US isn't perfect nor does it masquerade to pretend to be unlike China. Get over yourself.
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  1914.  @Hossak  Yeah, and the only "right" news that's from China are all rosy right? Despite the fact that they love to lambast the West in state owned media.
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  1915.  @forreal8014  China always lambasts everyone. They aren't innocent either.
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  1916.  @tamtai5218  because you're talking to idiot bots who love to deflect.
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  1917.  @Hossak  how do you know it's based in the US? What if it's based in Canada?
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  1918.  @Hossak  wow, how presumptuous of you.
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  1919. There is no such thing as mandate of heaven. You just have immoral people running the country. It's always been part of their culture. "Mandate of Heaven" was an attempt to keep emperors in check because they essentially answered to nobody.
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  1920. Lots of it. That's why don't buy made in China processed food. Even their raw ingredients are probably laced with toxic chemicals.
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  1921. So many built apartments yet so many homeless. The failure of communism...
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  1922. Who cares? Their own government brought this stupidity onto themselves. Remember Covid which they also caused? Worry about what's happening in your own country and help others there.
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  1923. I'm a Samsung, Honda guy myself. Never changing to anything else...maybe a Toyota. But I will never buy Chinese garbage.
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  1924. This is what happens when people aren't allowed to be truthful. Sad
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  1925. CCP sympathizers never stop responding to "Western propaganda"
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  1926. Also Taiwanese and Singaporeans don't act like this. Funny how these people who claim to have stayed true to being "Chinese" act the most uncivilized. It really is pure unadulterated "China". Sad.
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