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

  1. And there are so many articles touting how "great" they are despite lack of transparency with regard to quality. It's all propaganda bs. I will never purchase a Chinese EV. I'd much rather get a hybrid Toyota - best tech and reliable.
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  2.  @carlflaherty2215  Yes. But lying and self aggrandizing narcissism is.
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  3. Same here. Problem is a lot of electronics are still made there.
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  4.  @GrgLuz  There are better places like Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
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  5. It's ok "friends" lie to each other too out of convenience.
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  6. This is why China was slapped with tariffs. They steal IP, make the product, sell said copied product and drive out the company who innovated out of the market, while simultaneously taking advantage of their "developing" status to gain advantage with the WTO. Their abhorrent behavior is coming to light all over the world. Only a fool would still want to deal with China given the horror stories that multiple businesses have in dealing with them. The Chinese market isn't even worth it considering you have so much more to loose.
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  7. No, just in China. This is what happens when you lack proper regulations and a system that favors a select few.
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  8.  @skino-bx4nf  Typical whataboutism.
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  9. Everything they do is for attention. Their HSR, despite loosing money is for attention. The shiny tofu buildings are for attention. The fact that they manufacture sub quality EV's on a large scale is for attention. What isn't for attention for them?
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  10.  @RantTheRetort  US and Japan have a monopoly on rare Earth high quality refineries. China cannot refine rare earths in the same manner as Japan and the US. The rare earths China has is crude. In fact, China still buys high quality refined rare earths from Japan and the US. So yes, the West can replace China. Also, rare earths, despite its name is found all over the world. China isn't the only one who has these resources.
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  11. He also said that before China's shenanigans.
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  12. The leadership is brash and devoid of thought.
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  13.  @Alopen-xb1rb  Except we know how that all ends...You can't keep distracting people forever.
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  14. They don't understand what a lot of words mean. They also keep citing "international law" when everyone knows they don't follow international law themselves. There's nothing sadder than a bunch of old men who lie naively like a bunch of 5 year olds. It's just sad.
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  15. That's right. Lockdowns, lockdowns, lockdowns, and more lockdowns.
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  16. "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" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930's, still applicable to this day)
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  17. People who project growth are all paid to say that
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  18. And it doesn't take much to aggravate them. They ban trade out of spite under the guise of "regulation".
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  19.  @mikestewart4752  "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) Nothing to do with the CCP. It's just their culture.
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  20.  @glasslinger  There are so many products being manufactured in places like Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Bangladesh etc. They're out there.
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  21.  @meagain6665  It's part vanity project and part stupid.
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  22. Yes, it's "youth unemployment" that they keep talking about.
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  23. Goldman believes what they want to believe because it would fill their pocket books. Common sense has no place within that kind of thinking.
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  24.  @Kenneth_James  Exactly. Chinese characteristics = chaotic, political, and does not make any sense.
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  25. The only arguments they make are purely political. So coming from the Chinese government, it doesn't mean much.
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  26. "We will not militarize islands in the South China Sea"- Xi🤣
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  27. ​ @mikeshoults4155 head office is in China. It IS Chinese!
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  28. This so called "self sufficient" economy sounds a lot like the concept "Juche" that North Korea employs.
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  29.  @rickjames18  The fact that they have a "Taiwan policy" already heavily implies this fact. They also have dealings with Taiwan that have absolutely nothing to do with China.
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  30.  @brucetownsend691  You need to read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930s. China under the KMT was not all that different to the China you now know. Rampant corruption, cronyism, and reckless disregard for human lives was already commonplace even back then. So this is not just a CCP problem, it's unfortunately an ongoing mainland Chinese problem. The book also looks at Sino-Japanese relations prior to World War 2. What the Japanese did during the war was obviously atrocious but the Chinese aren't completely innocent either. Leading up to World War 2, the Chinese engaged in anti-foreign campaigns against the Japanese, despite having agreed on joint infrastructure projects, in order to get out of paying their loans back to Japan. These riots held by the Chinese mob, riled by the nationalists, caused the lives of several innocent Japanese who worked in China all the while painting the Japanese as the villains. "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
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  31. If they lie to themselves enough maybe they'll believe it one day.
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  32. They don't know what they are doing. Everything they do is a knee jerk reaction, and the decision to retract statements all depends on what their leadership thinks.
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  33. They're masters of lying. I wonder if they have found a way to master lying to themselves as well?
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  34.  @stevev238  Why not just go to another country? Why even go back if there's a change? Do you love China that much?
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  35. There was also the hostage diplomacy with the two Michaels from Canada, yet somehow people already managed to forget that mishap. People are really something else.
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  36. They talk to the world like they do their own people. They don't understand that we aren't dumb.
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  37.  @glenndhorallmyxlvntx9294  They can't keep saving when their salaries are getting slashed and they have to keep paying for their rent and/or mortgage which isn't going anywhere. Not to mention the fact that their government is getting creative with coming up with fines to fill their coffers.
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  38. "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 the 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)
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  39. 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)
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  40. when all else fails they can always go screw over what they perceive to be "naïve" tourists.
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  41.  @DK-ev9dg  That lie has already been debunked. Try again.
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  42. ​ @williamstearns7490 people need to be constantly reminded.
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  43.  @nfuryboss  Don't forget the promotion of massive xenophobia to shore up support for the government. This is a practice that has spanned for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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  44. Admitting wrongdoing is not an innate Chinese trait.
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  45. Or it could mean they're printing money non stop to buy said gold. In any case, that doesn't prove that they have a strong economy.
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  46. They lie about everything. It's an opaque country that doesn't even let you know how they came up with their calculations.
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  47.  @pablosskates7067  Are you talking about their HSR that's racking up debt to keep operating? Yeah, they just brag about things for the sake of bragging even though it's costly and not at all needed.
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  48.  @Andy-P  It's innate in their culture.
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  49. That quote from China about respecting other countries' territories is such a joke.
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  50. It's probably in the millions. Definitely enough to house the population of a small country.
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