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

  1. It kind of goes without saying especially given what's happened in China in the last 3 years
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  2. No. They just don't care.
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  3.  @randywright7627  Because most of them don't. It's not bad to assume that.
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  4. They've never flown high if that's what you're thinking.
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  5. 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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  6. Land if liars, bandits, and facades. Deception is the norm.
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Yea. Send in the clowns.
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  10. Clearly not.
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  11. Brain dead? I thought that was pretty obvious.
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  12. ​ @andersrhodiner739 it's not. The proof is in the sub par quality. Why are you so offended?
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  13. Not permanently unemployed, flexibly employed 🤞
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  14. Yes, they have "laws" which are merely there for suggestion and not enforcement.
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  15. The word "luxury" means absolutely nothing in China. Even luxury mansions in China are tofu buildings.
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  16. A lot of them would cry over cash even more so than their dead relatives.
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  17. ​ @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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  18. ​ @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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  19.  @kingwing3203  Tell that to Chinese who keep buying them then.
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  20.  @GizzyDillespee  It's obviously all fake. No rural farmer has the time or resources to make anything this professional.
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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23.  @FeuerblutRM  garlic from China doesn't even have the roots. So you don't even know how it's grown
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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. ​ @Slitheringpeanut not all of us asians are like this - from an Asian guy
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  28.  @tarstarkusz  US spends on R&D, China doesn't. I wouldn't even compare the two if I were you.
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  29. 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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  30. China: Do not meddle in China's internal affairs. Also China: Proceeds to meddles in other countries' internal affairs.
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  31.  @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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. They take these practices overseas.
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  35. 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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  36. It's always money over morals.
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  37. "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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  38. 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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  39.  @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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  40. Ah, bridges with no rebar and cheap materials, what could go wrong?
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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. You sounded like a typical pro China propagandist with what you just said. How ironic.
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  44. The incessant need to make money at all costs overrides anything they ever learned in chemistry.
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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. 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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  48.  @ChickensAndGardening  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth about China" by Ralph Townsend. What you are saying is not true.
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  49. Get a life
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  50.  @PreciousAlpschindler  It's a no brainer when compared to Chinese Electric bikes.
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