Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Just because someone has a Ferrari, it doesn't always mean they aren't in debt.
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  2. Because it's all a show they have to put for their people. Thing is most Chinese people don't give a damn about Taiwan.
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  3.  @blankspace1126  I love this argument. It assumes that things stay the same and never change. What was China 30 or even 40 years ago? They were dirt poor. Given that manufacturing is moving to India, what you are saying will not be reality in a few years.
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  4.  @tomlxyz  Chinese people only believe in real estate because it's something they can see. If you try talking to the Chinese about investing in mutual funds, for example, they would see it as gambling. Trust me, speaking from experience here. In that case, they would much rather go to the casino and physically gamble their money then learn about how money works.
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  5.  @paranoya733  You really think the Indonesian president holds an opposite view? A politician who is held into account by the Indonesian constitution to protect its territory? You're hilarious 🤣
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  6.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  No one can match USA as far as economy size is concern and therefore production consumption. You really think the Europeans can absorb the gap that the US left behind? Think again.
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  7. Everything hinges on the American economy. China is where it is because of foreign investment. As they agitate the world, this will become an issue as companies move to countries like Vietnam or India to continue production. There's a reason why having China in your investment portfolio is considered risky. It's because growth is volatile. It's not guaranteed.
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  8.  @KK-ij4mz  It's because they can't afford them. That's not a good thing for the economy. It means that they are also laying off in those companies.
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  9. It's not just population size, it's also what you produce. What is China producing that will catapult its GDP past the US? You don't get there by manufacturing cheap items.
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  10. China frequently lies about its GDP. Nobody in China knows what the real numbers are.
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  11.  @luistotoro  The typical American makes 6 times more than the typical Chinese. That should already clue you in. The American economy is not only more productive, but it's also more efficient in producing high-value items. The only "high-value" items China produces are ones created by multinational companies and those components are shipped from elsewhere. All the Chinese do is assemble those things, which isn't hard to export since you can teach people in Vietnam and India to do those things as examples.
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  12.  @KevinQu  Philippines provokes China in its own waters? What are you a comedian?
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  13.  Make America Great Again  What's there to understand? Wumaos say the same thing over and over again. It's not that hard to figure you guys out. As for bots, all China has is plenty of people willing to do the governments bidding. All you need are several android phones, several computers and people desperate enough to work these jobs. Not that hard to figure out. China has no shortage of labor, especially now since Emperor Xi decided that cracking down on major industry is now the new norm. Why don't you direct your anger towards bad policy by your government instead of the West or the developed world which nothing to do with your dysfunctional government. Nationalism isn't going to be worth much when your people are starving.
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  14. Their version is Douyin.
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  15. It's all for a photo op. A lot of those companies have already diversified out of China.
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  16.  @JoelSalazarM  They're already in the middle income trap. They can't manufacture high end things and they can't manufacture lower end items because they are no longer the cheapest in labor.
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  17.  @buymecola1  Censorship laws and basically agreeing to everything that the CCP says - very petty and childish.
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  18.  @Mariothibau  Flow of money goes to fund the SOE's not household incomes. That's why China will never transition to a consumption based economy.
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  19.  Kitty Cat  Their submarines aren't quiet. They frequently get detected by other submarines and aircraft carriers.
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  20.  @sonnyk4840  Russia and China aren't the same. China loves to talk. Ever hear the saying "China's final warning" (Russian: последнее китайское предупреждение)? It originated in Russia in the 1950's. That's how much Russia respects the Chinese despite all this talk of a "coalition" against the west. "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 Towsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  21. The only true act of war is if someone shoots someone else down. China is being their exasperating selves as always.
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  22.  @Frog89mad  History has shown us that the Chinese love to talk and express outrage reinforced by theatrics. "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) "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
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  23. @sandponics Please give us something that the US stole tech-wise.
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  24. It's not about local software. It's about controlling information. China is paranoid that those US apps will be weaponized against them. So they would rather do it themselves.
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  25. What they are speaking about has literally been what's happening in China and the decision behind the CCP's domestic policy. It's no secret.
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  26. There are apparently missile silos in the area. It wasn't sheer luck. It was calculated in China's part.
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  27. Everything China does is for show, including its empty threats. "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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  28. Speak with a normal Chinese person from China who is not affiliated with the government or who isn't a staunch nationalist. The one's I have spoken to aren't saying anything promising about China's economic outlook. In fact the overall consensus about the economy is hopeless and negative.
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  29. Yup, never trust what the Chinese say but their actions. And their actions and outrage say a whole lot.
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  30. "Strategic ambiguity" is a very "Chinese" approach to what is going on, which is very fitting. You don't know where you stand lol.
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  31. China always portrays itself as "holier than though" but they are such a joke. It's seriously sad. Lying is second nature to them.
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  32. Most Chinese aren't kept aware of global issues. Don't make us laugh.
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  33. "It just need the stable and approviate govermental policy to release the creativity energy of the people." - And how exactly is China doing in that front? What with government crackdowns and changes in policy that hurt businesses?
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  34. There is no such thing as equal distribution of wealth if you want to adopt capitalist fundamentals. There are always going to be people with more and people with less. Your statement contradicts itself. Also, the problem of whose economy is larger is the problem of China because you have a government that has propped itself up with nationalism but fails in its lack of policy. The US doesn't have these issues but China does.
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  35.  @kabysummit5801 Yes, that's what you tell yourself to justify your country's crappy actions. Too bad China is on its own corner on this one.
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  36. That's what China wants. Then they can claim Taiwan attacked them.
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  37. Yup, they clearly never learn.
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  38.  @siewkonsum7291  Before you get all defensive, they have a point. "GDP figures are "man-made" and therefore unreliable, Li said. When evaluating Liaoning's economy, he focuses on three figures: 1. Electricity consumption, which was up 10 percent in Liaoning's last year 2. Volume of rail cargo, which is fairly accurate because fees are charged for each unit of weight; and 3. Amount of loans disbursed, which also tends to be accurate given the interest fees charged. By looking at these three figures, Li said he can measure with relative accuracy the speed of economic growth. All other figures, especially GDP statistics, are "for reference only," he said smiling. - Li Keqiang (Former Premier of China) - And that's from your government who themselves don't know what the actual GDP numbers are.
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  39. There is no wisdom in anything he said. You need to re-examine the definition of "wisdom"
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  40.  @alfiey5783  They have more pressing issues to focus on, like how they are going to feed their families post Covid now that their economy is tanking.
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  41. Lol, if you're talking about the Chinese government, they could care less about people. It's all about fanning their over-inflated egos. They don't care about other countries let alone other Asian countries.
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  42. "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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  43.  @jessehamilton4223  You can always move to Russia if you hate the US so much. Or what about North Korea or China?
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  44. "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" - Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  45. Or you could just help other countries out and not be so keen on helping a murderous government get ahead. Are you really just out of options?
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  46. Everything Russia and China are "upset" about already tells you what's on their minds. They're not the sharpest tools in the shed since they can't even keep their reactions a secret. So much for not letting your enemy know your true intentions...
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  47.  @lugardboy  Offcourse it is. It's its own country that China has to work so hard to convince the whole world including itself that this is not so. Does the US have to work hard to convince the world Hawaii is theirs? Or Alaska? China acts just like a thief breaking into someone's car convinced that it's theirs to take.
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  48. Because we live in an insecure world where people love to play politics to get what they want.
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  49. China is seriously nothing without drama. They are absolutely incapable of fixing their domestic issues. So this is the "best" they can do. Sad.
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  50. Well, only one way to find out and it's for China to ACTUALLY invade and not talking and creating theatrics.
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