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

  1.  @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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  2.  @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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  3. Might I add also lack critical thinking and react like children when things don't go their way?
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  4. 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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  5. It's pronounced fee-delity not fie-delity.
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  6. Chinese logic: buy high, keep high until it drops, then sell.
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  7.  @Yae-Miko216  Learn about what the Chinese did to Japan before World War 2. China is not innocent.
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  8. 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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  9.  @ChickensAndGardening  They're not that much better than anyone else. Unless you've bought into all the cultural propaganda.
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  10. 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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  11.  @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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  12. ​ @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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  13. ​ @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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. "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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  17. "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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  18. I think Honda has downsized though. Not sure about Toyota. I know Kia and Hyundai have already somewhat pulled out.
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  19. ​ @stephenc2481 yeah but you have to admit, it's particularly bad in China
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  20. China lies about its GDP? Kind of goes without saying at this point.
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  21. 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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  22. The inconvenience of doing business in China is no longer worth it.
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  23.  @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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  24. 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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  25. But that's what a lot of Chinese are
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. "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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  29. That's why hybrids are the best. Diversify your energy needs as much as possible.
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  30. After the loose money, they cry foul. More often than not, their greed gets them in trouble.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. They've always been like this. They've never changed.
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  34.  @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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  35. "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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  36. Politics keeps them backwards.
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  37. 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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40. 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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  41. They think having an unregulated banking system is actually a plus for them...go figure.
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  42. Yes, you bribe the person testing you.
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  43. More like from rags to credit to default.
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  44. Those F16 are probably just going to get put to the side. But they aren't going anywhere.
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  45. ​​ @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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48. Yup, the top 1% doesn't even buy this crap. It's all upper middle class and middle class.
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  49. "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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  50. 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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