Youtube comments of Patrick T (@patrickt49).

  1. Palki's comments never fail to impress "high on style and low on substance". As a Canadian, this is accurate.
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  2. People who rave about China's "cheap rent" don't understand that everything is adjusted to how much money they earn per hour. Chinese people get paid much lower than their American counterparts. That first lady's ignorance (and she's an adult!) is really scary.
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  3. The first guy hold up a Chinese passport like it's a crucifix against vampires 😂
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  4. How much of that gold is fake?
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  5. CCP mentality in a nutshell: Out of sight, out of mind
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  6. If she's making you jump through hoops, she's not into you.
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  7. This deal is so "secret" it doesn't exist. 😂
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  8. The man who said "you're right, I'll be on my way" probably came back when nobody was looking and continued to scoop the shit out (no pun intended). Also, if these restaurants know they're not going to use the oil, why don't they just keep the used oil and recycle it? Why throw it down the sewer to be harvested by random people to be sold and processed with all that added shit? Literally? Disgusting!
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  9. The girl yelling pissed me off. She's so passionate about shit we literally don't care about in the developed world. Cashless society? Isn't that what credit cards are for? We can also tap with credit cards. Also, we can pay for things online without the need for "cash". This country of fake nationalists should really wind down on their arrogance and fake superiority. This "in your face tacky approach" reeks of insecurity. No other country in the world does this the most other than China. Deplorable! Take some notes from South Korea and Japan's economic rise and let results speak for themselves.
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  10. "rule of law in China" is an oxymoron
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  11. My dad knew someone in the Philippines like this. He was an American kid, mother died in the Philippines and the father returned to the US. The parents presumably divorced when he was still a baby and he was adopted by locals. His English was so bad that it would catch everyone by surprise.
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  12. The woman who said "Joey's content invalidates women's fear in the gym" - then go to an all girls gym then. So much needless drama queens here.
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  13. 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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  14. Why didn't the US just tell India and get clearance? It's not like they will be barred for just passing through.
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  15. ...and they keep talking about how "civilized" they are. What a joke.
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  16. Not all Asians are high income earners. As an Asian man, I am sick of this narrative being pushed out when a lot of us are struggling just like everyone else to get by. And NO, I am not a slacker.
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  17. It seems more like a promotion of plastic surgery in China. Lots of Chinese people actually go to South Korea because their standards are world-class and they've been in the industry for much longer than China has.
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  18. You know what else is a dangerous trend? Lying about the virus not being spread from human to human. What a bunch of corrupt stupid clowns.
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  19. 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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  20. Toyota and Honda for life.
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  21. If you are struggling to put fuel in a luxury car guess what? You ain't all that rich.
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  22. I avoid any Chinese hotpot places. Even the ones they've managed to open overseas. They're so gross.
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  23. When I visited Korea in 2019, we were fortunate because the skies were clear and the air quality was good. The day we left, we saw a yellow haze over in the distance and our Korean friends told us that "that's just pollution coming from China". As we made our way to the airport, we couldn't stop coughing because the air quality had dropped drastically as we were leaving.
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  24. If a bunch of trans women competed amongst each other in a competition it would just be a men's competition all things made fair. Anything other than that is just purely unfair and ridiculous.
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  25. 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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  26. And this is why you don't rely on China solely as an "investment partner".
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  27. Philippines needs to fix high electricity cost and their infastructure. Until those are fixed, nothing will happen
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  28. Chinese made things are already synonymous with sub par and cheap. This isn't new.
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  29. "Chinese don't lie to each other" - literal Chinese saying🤣🤣🤣
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  30. "For a country that banned us, China sure watches a lot of Wion" - Yup, sounds about right.
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  31. 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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  32. Red flag - literally and figuratively.
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  33. Just go to Taiwan or Singapore if you want the "Chinese experience". They're much better and orderly.
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  34. They also cheered after the October 7 attacks.
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  35. "Endure hardship" - means we (the CCP) can't do anything. You're on your own.
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  36. I think when you make a video about the Philippines or any other country, you should focus on YOUR perspective and not call others "liars" and let your experience speak for itself. I get that you are running a consultation business and you're trying to establish yourself. But there are foreigners who legitimately like the Philippines for what it is. Most people aren't deceived by the fact that the Philippines is a third world country. And there are foreigners who may have had less than stellar experiences but to paint everyone with a broad brush and discredit said "good" experiences as lies only creates confusion and spreads negative generalities that don't apply in every situation. I've met some people who will never settle in Thailand or Indonesia because of the language barrier just as an example. But to each his own.
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  37. 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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  38. The woman calling Chinese people the "kindest" in the world is delusional
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  39.  @slickrick2420  The difference though is that if you have kids, they can inherit your property and keep it so long as you keep paying property taxes. In China, you will inevitably go back down to zero unless you sell your property to a sucker willing to pay an arm and a leg for a shoddy apartment that's overvalued.
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  40. 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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  41. There's no point in being ambitious when majority can barely live working their asses off. They get the game and it isn't in their favour.
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  42. 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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  43. "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." - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930's). The bystander effect has ALWAYS been a problem in China even before the communists came into power.
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  44. What they make is a reflection of a lack of standards and clear know how.
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  45. It's not "revenge saving" it's just "saving". Who are you taking revenge against by saving?
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  46. There are ways to look decent without having to blow through your finances. Why don't these people get that. Instead they opt to become a walking billboard for brands and become poorer in the process.
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  47. "Chinese EV's are so far ahead" - Doug DeMuro 🤣
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  48. I literally saw nothing wrong with this video. Why was this news again?
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  49. 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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  50. Same here. I'm a millenial and I support Gen Z. They get the game.
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  51. I'm just tuning out this crap until it passes. The fact that they're all about who they sleep with is just pathetic and one dimensional.
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  52.  @reptile33x3  Don't forget PVC & Phthalates
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  53. 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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  54. 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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  55. China only quotes "international law" when its convenient for them. Otherwise, they could care less for international law.
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  56. He thinks China is ridiculous but doesn't have the two cents to figure out why construction in Vancouver is checked every step of the way?Talk about a disconnect.
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  57. "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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  58. 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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  59. There has to be serious consequences. Otherwise, they're just going to keep doing this.
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  60. China frequently does this. Why does the world keep giving China a slap on the wrist for doing the same thing over and over again? What would be the last straw?
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  61. How can one be sympathetic to these athletes for all the crap they're going through? They knew the risks, now they have to deal with the consequences. The president of the IOC is such a tool.
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  62. A lot of women don't change. They put up a façade until they get what they want.
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  63. "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." - " Was that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  64. "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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  65.  @950bolt  Trudeau is all about style and NO substance. So Palki got it right.
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  66. Yup. That's what they do best. Take advantage of perks then complain when it's taken away.
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  67. I only ever buy from western, Japanese, and Korean companies. However, buying from those companies that manufacture in Southeast Asia, or their home countries is definitely an added bonus.
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  68. These people are operating day by day with this level of intelligence. Let that sink in. So you don't need much to survive.
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  69. Their triple fold phone was a disappointment.
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  70. Their "true friends" are all poor lol.
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  71.  @visualknightmare6662  That's just the bare minimum. In other countries, you would get shot.
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  72. Just because someone has a Ferrari, it doesn't always mean they aren't in debt.
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  73. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  74.  @drd0114  "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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  75.  @ryanspinoza6586  it has nothing to do with population and everything to do with crappy government policies.
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  76. Because they're full of shit. They pick and choose which "Muslim rights" suit their narrative. The hypocrisy is amazing.
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  77. It's all fueled by speculation. What else is new? They love to gamble and speculate.
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  78.  @SatanSlayer12  "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 Tyranny has always been innate in their culture. It wasn't uncommon for Emperors and government officials to abuse their power and put to death anyone who disagreed with them. The Chinese never fought for their rights in the same manner as Westerners did a few hundred years ago which shaped their society in recent times.
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  79. Why not open the Olympics to the likes of North Korea, Venezuela, Syria etc? Who are we kidding?
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  80. I am going back to school to update my skills. This current job does not only fail to teach anything new, it stops anyone from advancing through its discriminatory practices. Work place politics is the worst.
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  81. Taiwan and South Korea are fairly safe too
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  82. China in a nutshell. That's what this is.
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  83. ​ @canto10mosha65 that's the official slogan of China. Nevermind Huawei.
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  84. "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) Yes, corruption is nothing new in China. People during ancient dynasties used to buy prominent position to serve their own interest. This is nothing new. It's an ongoing problem that adapts with the times.
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  85. Because a lot of people are not only poor but dumb as well
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  86. You can't sell homes to people when they have no money
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  87. Instead of putting effort into adding quality to their army, they frequently lie about their capabilities
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  88. When I flew to Korea in Oct of 2019, Korean authorities were stopping incoming passengers to get themselves checked for fever and "flu-like" symptoms. We also had to fill up a medical questionnaire. When we asked my younger brother's gf, who is Korean, to translate. She said that there is a mysterious illness from China circulating but they don't really know what it is. Little did we know, that it was most likely the beginning of Corona. Either way, the Chinese really screwed up big time on this one, and their ridiculous attempt to cover up, divert attention, and gaslight everybody is truly appalling.
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  89. 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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  90. It's a superficial "up yours" to the Western developed world which is actually propping up the world's economy.
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  91. Lol, yeah their passport that gets them a free pass on everything. .😂
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  92. Because these Muslim leaders use "Muslim rights" as a political tool to further their influence. They don't actually care about Muslims in other lands. That's why you're seeing so much inconsistency with their actions. It's called "lack of integrity".
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  93. A lot of CCP officials have Singaporean citizenship. Should we look into where their wealth comes from as well?
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  94. "High quality, high tech" and "China" don't go hand in hand.
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  95. "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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  96. Democrats are like children who can't take responsibility for anything. Just disgusting!
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  97. What are they going to think of next? How to use vomit as a marinade?
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  98. I parked my 2017 Honda Civic next to my co worker's 94 Civic the difference in size is kind of mind boggling. The Civic now was what the Accord was back then, probably even bigger.
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  99. ​ @xephael3485 they literally have saying "if you can cheat, cheat".
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  100. Glad you finally see the light. Been telling people this for years. Problem is people vote more for "feel good policies" instead of policies that address the truth and reality.
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  101. They only believe in whatever superstitions they want. They don't care for morals or religious dogma.
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  102. I've been to South Korea. This broadcast makes it sound like as if every other Korean has had plastic surgery. This is simply not true. If you walk around the different districts, most people look natural.
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  103. Come to Vancouver. No shortage of show off Chinese there.
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  104. Not just Tibetans. People in South East Asia also don't see the Chinese in good light.
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  105. They're too petty and small minded to ever accomplish anything worthwhile.
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  106. 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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  107. There are no Evergrande's in the future. The practices that led to Evergrande's downturn are standard practice in China's real estate. It's happening now. This company just happens to be a bigger one.
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  108.  @dataexpunged0000  They never had their "way". They just led you to believe that because they constantly lie.
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  109. A lot of kids in China aren't even bothering anymore. They know what kind of future awaits them.
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  110. I thought China said terror didn't exist in Xinjiang? They need to write their lies down and keep track. This is getting embarrassing for them.
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  111. It's desperate people taking advantage of other desperate people. That sounds about right here.
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  112.  @bluehotdog2610  In some places, they've already started a vacancy tax on people who love to speculate on property while locals who work can't even buy into the property market. It's already a thing here in Canada and Australia I believe.
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  113. There are better places that will treat you much better. Southeast Asia is a much better alternative. In China, you aren't protected by local laws and being a foreigner won't help you.
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  114.  @theswedenguy4647  Exactly. There are always going to be haters. Doesn't matter from which walk of life they're from. You can easily smell their jealousy and insecurity wafting from a mile away.
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  115. 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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  116. Well, you also have crappy government policies that only exacerbates this
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  117. Even when they aren't making fun of themselves, the world is still laughing at them.
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  118. "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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  119. But are there opportunities? Those "labor shortages" are mostly for low wage work.
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  120. 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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  121. 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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  122. 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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  123. 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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  124. Lying is innate in their culture.
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  125. Amazing that China always has money to throw around despite their own citizens suffering.
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  126. He basically just parrotted CCP propaganda talking points. All government representatives in China talk like this in one way or another. To stray from the script would mean grave consequences.
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  127. 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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  128. 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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  129. 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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  130. Most people can't buy a house at $100,000 a year. For you to qualify you need to be making more than that.
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  131.  @potatochips2271  My parents have rich friends. A lot of them don't feel comfortable showing off their wealth because they don't want to get kidnapped or attract negative attention from mentally disturbed people. If one of them stood in front of you, you wouldn't even know he was a billionaire. It's funny, the people who have a lot to loose, don't show off. Some of the one's I know who drive luxury cars, are struggling financially and keep their fingers crossed that their car doesn't break because fixing it would bankrupt them lol.
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  132. China: Won't seek hegemony Actually means: We wants our own brand of hegemony China: We won't participate in arms race Actually means: We are committed to increasing our arsenal to intimidate countries who don't agree with our world view.
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  133.  @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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  134. 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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  135. The fact that this guy won again and again says a lot more about the idiot Canadians who voted for him than Trudeau himself.
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  136. 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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  137.  @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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  138.  @BiggieTrismegistus  Exactly, everything they do is an attempt to get attention. If not from men, definitely from their online following. This is why it's so hard to take them seriously. They're not operating from the side of sanity.
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  139. no
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  140. Greedy people and companies DO morally reprehensible things lol. This is not surprising for Apple.
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  141. And if they are built, their quality is complete garbage.
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  142.  @RusticRonnie  A lot of people are informed. News about China is on international platforms. People just choose to be stupid and go there anyway.
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  143.  @ricardozetino6907  It's more like $10,000 USD per year and most Chinese make even less than that.
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  144. Here we go again....😡
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  145. The man who identifies as an "it" is interesting because I remember back in the day it was an insult to address a member of the LGBT as an "it" but then again we only had he/him, she/her pronouns.
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  146. 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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  147.  @ttvmikimoto5475  this guy was not a halfie, he was 100% white
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  148.  @kwokleongawyong2895  Yes, because the camera is always on.
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  149.  @mahdih2141  Then they should be kicked out and kept out. We don't follow Sharia law here.
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  150. Because they are disciplined and are brought up that way in a collectivist culture.
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  151. 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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  152. ​ @acheable Companies still staying just have not gotten screwed over yet. But the writing is on the wall.
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  153. The amount of work they have to do to create a false image is so pointless and exhausting.
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  154. I never would have thought that I would hear Angelina Jolie's quote alongside a Geography lesson. Only China can cook up this neurosis and make something that is NOT innately political into something stupid political. They are absolutely fucked in the head.
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  155.  @fastertrackcreative  No, food that's meant for you will be put on your table.
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  156. Don't forget mooncakes as hard as bricks and bricks as soft as mooncakes.
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  157. Why didn't they at least do a dry run of the events so they wouldn't screw up? They're so unprepared.
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  158. 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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  159. My goodness. Can't this country do anything right?
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  160. Exactly! Sad part is they know it too.
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  161. 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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  162. 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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  163. Unfortunately greed overrides even common sense
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  164. Why don't you pay for a gym membersip that's 24/7 so you can at least use their shower and washroom?
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  165. Genshin is just a copy of what the Japanese have already established.
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  166. Don't forget protectionism in China. They probably also give incentives for domestic brands versus foreign brands.
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  167. I swear there was a headline of Putin threatening to use nukes a year or two ago when he invaded Ukraine. This is getting boring.
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  168. And you would think aftershe/him whatever transitioned she would be happy.
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  169. It's all about money.
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  170.  @varyyami-animenewscenter8237  Compared to its neighbors it is. And you have to remember, this isn't going to be small spaces that the big investors are going to be using. We're talking about factories that can potentially employ hundreds if not thousands of people.
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  171. Yes, they beg while simultaneously threatening everyone - smart strategy 😂
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  172. They're overly confident because they don't know anything.
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  173. I laughed so hard when you said "he has turned to the 130 year old dead Mao Zedong for guidance, and for external relations, he turned to the 100 year old Henry Kissinger for help" One is dead and the other about to die, what could go wrong?
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  174.  @Wushibuxiaobaibu  Yes, it's so dark that Chinese want to flock to the US when given a chance 🤣
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  175. They've had thousands of years of civilization and they still can figure out what's true and what's not despite existing for that long? That's crazy.
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  176. ​ @Solaafg why don't you ask China's neighbors how they actually feel instead of spewing garbage on the internet that nobody in the world believes.
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  177. Lol. It's China we're talking about. Nothing makes sense.
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  178. 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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  179. It's also rather ironic since the military is supposed to emphasize practicality and function above all else. High heels are neither of those things.
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  180. In Canada, when I graduated high school, math was mandatory until grade 11. You had to take either math 11 principles or math 11 essentials. This was in the early 2000's. Don't know if it's changed since then.
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  181. Remember when China said that no US military planes should land in Taiwan because that would cross one of their stupid red lines? What a plunder that was.
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  182. If the opposite happened and Indians needed help, the Chinese would probably NOT lift a finger.
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  183. He's working because he has no choice. Of course he's going to say "I'm doing it for my customers". But if you read between the lines, he's struggling. If he was my father, I would be concerned that he's pushing himself way too hard at his age.
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  184. There are seriously better places to travel to. Taiwan and Singapore are better alternatives.
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  185. Why are you always here commenting then? Get a life.
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  186. Why don't they educate Chinese people about basic hygiene instead of blasting everything with chemicals? Insane.
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  187. Their pronouns don't even exist in a dictionary. Constant revisions of the dictionary can't keep up with this bs.
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  188. Everyone in China is all of a sudden a day trader with 10+ years of experience 😂
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  189. 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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  190. 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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  191. Their unfounded arrogance always gets the better of them. This is what happens when ego far outweighs ability.
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  192. Adopt from other places in the world. There's children in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America etc.
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  193. "Like dating my brother" is by far the dumbest way of saying "they just don't turn me on".
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  194. They don't care. It's lie, deny, lie, deny...lather, rinse and repeat.
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  195. 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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  196.  @iao69  The young are starting to participate as well.
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  197. It's called a "dream" for one reason. It's not real. It was just a passing fancy for the older generations. It was something that younger generations were never meant to have.
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  198. It's literally so many things happening all at once that you can no longer tell what caused what.
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  199. "The Chinese do what we say" --> 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  200. ​ @rome2totalwar876 the owners just pocket the money and fake their sales.
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  201. It's actually several "countries" in one trying to act as one cohesive country when it isn't.
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  202. 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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  203. He's not a real US soldier, just a paid troll, probably from Russia or eastern Europe.
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  204. 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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  205.  @OldieBugger  just when you think they couldn't go lower they once again push the envelope. Cow dung hotpot is ironically eaten to aid digestion. It doesn't occur to them to just eat more fiber, it's always about the more disgusting alternative.
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  206. "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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  207. 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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  208. It's Toyota/Honda for me all the way. Not interested in Tesla, BYD, or any of that garbage.
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  209. 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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  210. "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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  211. It's always been in their uncooperative nature. Their history has so many examples of this.
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  212. The fact that there's even going to be a China winter olympics given the state of the world that they caused is beyond ridiculous. All the values and morals we've been taught tantamount to complete and utter bullshit if the world allows this.
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  213. Come to Vancouver Canada. You have lots of new money here showing their wealth. You have kids of CCP officials driving in Ferrari's and Lambos with an N attached to their car
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  214.  @entary4723  It's called lack of financial education. I work in the financial industry. Here in Canada, you wouldn't so much as be allowed to pin a brochure in high schools because of government regulations. What does that tell you? The last time they taught things like compound interest and amortization were back in the 1920's. My colleague found his grandfather's high school textbook and they used to teach kids these concepts. Not useless ones like Calculus. Curriculum is government regulated, and with ignorance comes a population easy to manipulate.
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  215.  @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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  216. Lol, "greatest country" as their citizens line up to get out 😂
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  217. @LivingInAnInverseReality Umm no
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  218. Can't wait to buy my new Samsung Tablet. Been saving for a while now.
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  219. "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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  220. 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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  221. That's what happens when they open the floodgates of credit without proper regulation.
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  222. Having rich parents doesn't mean anything. Who's going to guide him when they are no longer around? He will blow through the family's finances if he has a shopping addiction. Just look at celebrities and professional athletes. Lots of them go bankrupt.
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  223. They obviously are. Nobody in their right mind would believe their claims.
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  224. Obviously they aren't as great as they are portraying themselves to be.
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  225. 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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  226. They're both synonymous at this point.
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  227. They love to complain about other countries while simultaneously disregarding their own issues in their homeland.
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  228. This is the general trend all over the world. Birth rates are going down as standard of living rises. Even births in 3rd world countries are starting to follow this trend.
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  229. What's also important is Hollywood needs to get the heck out of politics. If they continue to play this game then their whole industry should be boycotted in Southeast Asia. Playing as a stooge for China never ends well since they love to cater to their overlords in Beijing.
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  230. 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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  231. Don't forget deny. They love to deny, deny, deny and deflect any wrong doing. They've made themselves untrustworthy.
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  232. That's China in a nutshell, always spouting about "morality" and "righteousness" when they don't even practice what they preach. "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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  233. They talk for the sake of talking - they have no substance. Nobody takes them seriously at this point especially when lying is second nature to them.
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  234.  @markguieb  When you call people who say "nice" things about the Philippines liars, he is generalizing. These people are giving their opinion too. It's not state sponsored opinion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion good or bad but don't speak for everyone, speak from your own perspective.
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  235. The failings of the church make it into the news. The failing of individuals are dealt with in private. Big difference. This is an institution that uses "morality" as its guiding principle. So you bet people are going to come down hard on the church and its shortcomings.
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  236. That's the thing with lies. The truth eventually rears its ugly head.
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  237.  @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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  238. What is "buy Y D"?
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  239. How about people just be true to themselves, do what the love and not share every minute with others online?
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  240. 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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  241. "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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  242. A lot of morons will, especially those who are bought by flashy looks and superficial features.
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  243.  @hate-chan4369  Who cares where he/she was born? They live in Canada and they are having a positive experience. Shouldn't that matter above all?
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  244. 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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  245. Same thing kind of happened to my dad. He knocked up a woman who was his then gf and he felt obligated to marry her, but after her ridiculous demands and the fact that she wanted a lavish wedding, she wasn't going to have it any other way. When she expressed her desires in front of my dad and grandmother, my grandmother grabbed my dad by the wrist and basically whispered "if she doesn't want it any other way then so be it, there isn't going to be a wedding" - Best decision ever made. Woman was a headache and nobody in my dad's family liked her.
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  246. I'm surprised some people are still investing in China even though investments are lower compared to last year.
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  247.  @markguieb  i didn't say anything he said was false. I just said for him to speak from his perspective and not attack others who don't share his perspective. What I find crazy is you want me to admit to the negatives as absolute truths to the exclusion of everything else including the positives from those he branded as "liars". Is that what you call being objective? As a consultant you're supposed to have a balanced view and let people decide based on their values where they want to live.
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  248. They onlyl take their manufactured lies seriously which already says a lot about them when they're clearly unwilling to accept the truth.
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  249. 3.5 million to 1.5 million Lol. That property was never worth 3.5 million.
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  250. It's basically 0% at this point.
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  251.  @travelleryu  I did. I stayed at the Glad hotel. I only saw two middle aged ladies who looked like two puffer fish and a young mother who had work done but looked great. I am not denying that surgery is being done in Korea. I am just saying that it's over-exaggerated because every other Korean still looks "plain" by comparison. If they in fact got surgery done then the doctors are doing a good job because they look natural. But you can usually tell one way or another if they had had work done. Go and walk in the Coex mall or go to the night market by the Han river. Go to places where large groups of people gather so you can get a frame of reference for the number of people who have had work done so you can see it for yourself.
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  252. Muslim nations in China's pocket won't do a damn thing. They're all bought. "Muslim rights" is a farce used to manipulate and control others. It's nothing more than just a political tool.
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  253. Same here. I told my realtor no Chinese tenants.
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  254. This is the exact same sentiment my brother's girlfriend has experienced her whole life. She's from South Korea. And typical South Koreans no longer take threats from the North seriously. It's just "business as usual" as they go on with their lives.
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  255. A coworker of mine who is also Japanese said that one can't just apply to work in the Lexus manufacturing plant. The people who end up working there have high seniority and have been working with Toyota for years. They must know the ins and outs of working in the car manufacturing industry and what better way than to go from the Toyota division.
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  256. You can't unless you work with your spouse in the same job. And sometimes that doesn't work out.
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  257.  @songcramp66  When China talks about "beating the west" I don't even understand what they mean. How are they going to beat the west? Through innovation? Nope. They copied that. Perhaps export culture like K-Pop? Nope, they're copying that too. I have never heard of a country or person for that matter become number 1 by being second rate. It's like a cheater who copies the answers from the smartest kid in class. The kid who copies will never become top. If they do, it's simply by fluke and they won't stay on top for long because they lack the work ethic to stay there.
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  258. They won't. They don't know any better.
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  259. If China is as great as they say they are then obiously Italy wouldn't be leaving.
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  260. They don't care
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  261. I saw a "snapshot" of what a day in the life is like with Greta and her family. It seems like she runs the show. The father is such a sad excuse for a parent. He seems to just allow her to do whatever she wants. No boundaries and no consequences.
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  262.  @SH-it6ex  Chinese are notrious for this kind of behavior. So a lot of them behave this way, it's a given.
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  263. Imagine how fragile your ego must be that you take what they say to heart. Sad.
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  264. Hybrids are better. Toyota produces the best Hybrids
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  265. 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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  266. 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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  267.  @Mk19-xc9bm  It's now the 10 dash line. Pretty sure if given enough time it will turn into the 20 dash line. The People's Republic of Clowns just keep going with their foolishness.
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  268. They have no shame despite being a so called "face" culture.
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  269. "Looking advanced" isn't the same as being advanced and China always emphasizes looks.
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  270. Lol, so do their phones.
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  271. Keep those never ending threats coming. Such a joke.
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  272. "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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  273. You have to admit the Chinese take everything to another level...or should I say to a lower level.
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  274. ​ @formernavyspook lying is innate in their culture. It's extension into business is not surprising. They love to overpromise and under deliver.
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  275.  @JonySmith-bb4gx  Jealous of what exactly?
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  276. America and Europe talk about their issues openly, China doesn't. That's why this channel exists.
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  277. Overly populated? Then why do they keep talking about China's demographic collapse? Population decline is their problem.
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  278.  @EXMachina. Ask her to stop over at North Korea while she's at it, also Russia.
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  279. Chinese don't aknowledge human limits. That's why they act almost robotic.
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  280. Highly doubt if they're even the second largest economy at this point.
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  281. Never pay attention to what they say but what they do. It's a given that they lie anyway.
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  282. There's no such thing as " face". If they truly cared about "face" they wouldn't be doing these dishonorable things. No, this is just another way for them to deceive and justify their bad actions under the guise of "face". They KNOW they are lying. And people who keep using "face" as an excuse for their bad actions have been fooled.
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  283. ​​ @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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  284. "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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  285. I found the bit on the lady from Beijing very ironic. She said she didn't want egoists, and yet her profile reflects someone with a very large ego. Hopefully, she finds someone who suits her very high standards.
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  286. China keeps talking about how great they are and that they can do it alone while simultaneously asking the US to stop "suppressing" them. So which one is it?
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  287. It's really all about artificially creating an environment to keep the people working even though the work adds little to no value to the already oversaturated infrastructure created before.
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  288. ​​ @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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  289. ​ @FullMetalElric Mao is a sensitive figure. They would probably arrest you for mockery.
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  290. Not going to stop them from selling it. They don't care what they get their grubby hands on.
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  291. "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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  292. This has gotten so out of hand lol. What else does China want to blame it on next? Just ridiculous.
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  293. I remember when I turned 29 years old, there was a large amount of women my age group all of a sudden getting married and started having kids. It truly was like everyone's biological timer went off all at the same time.
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  294.  @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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  295. 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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  296. They'll just lie about it. Business as usual
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  297. ...or go be a delivery driver, ride hailing driver or be an online streamer selling crap online.
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  298. U.S. is the worst and yet so many people are still dying to imigrate there. Maybe people should rethink. Also, let's not forget the fact that there ARE people of color in the US government. They already had a black president. Does racism exist there? Yes. But to make the U.S. the worst of the worst is a stretch.
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  299. There is no recovering from it. Who will take the place of new buyers if nobody is having kids?
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  300. There are no shortage of simps in the world. It's literally the reason why OF has boomed in the last few years.
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  301. CCP officials can though
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  302. Also, add the Chinese's lackadaisical approach to maintenance which only fuels Xi's anxiety 🤣
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  303.  @alinazang6651  You for real? This is the same China that accused Trump of being racist when he considered shutting flights from China. CCP will never admit fault for anything even though the world knows better. You know most people who accuse others of being racist are racist themselves you know.
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  304. Temu and Shein. Where else?
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  305. 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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  306. They literally have THE red flag.
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  307. Being wealthy has nothing to do with being a good public servant. That's all about one's character not bankbook.
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  308. No she isn't. She's tied to a gambling syndicate as well.
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  309. Never been to China. I've been to Korea. On our last day, I asked what the yellow hue in the sky was. It was coming from the direction of China. I was told that it was pollution from China. I had to cover my nose and mouth since I started coughing profusely.
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  310. Yes, keep telling yourself that. And the world isn't motivated by money and we all just get along lol.
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  311. Typical China. Takes no responsibility for anything and blames everyone else.
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  312. Just wait. The bots calling this "US propaganda" have not come yet.
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  313. Anytime China talks it just sounds like the adults in a Charlie Brown cartoon. All you hear is unintelligible noise.
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  314. They fired the printing press to print money and let the people foot the bill. Go figure.
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  315. They're pissed off with Japan because Japan accomplished what they never could. Not because of what the Japanese did.
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  316. Somebody should send this girl all the coal plants in China. Maybe she'll change her mind about America.
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  317. 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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  318. Everyone's an actor in China
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  319.  @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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  320. Yup, they aren't that good with money despite stereotypes that say otherwise.
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  321. Hi Winston. You and Matt 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. He echoes a lot of what you and Matt have been saying since the 1930's even under the KMT. It definitely explains a lot of China's actions and how they haven't changed all that much since then.
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  322. A lot of psychotic people can lie with a straight face. That's why career criminals exist.
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  323.  @mark7s980  definition of quiet quitting is not going above and beyond your work description. It has nothing to do with not working
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  324. Blame Putin and his arrogance.
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  325. The lady in the middle talked so much sense. It's rare to see that nowadays. It's sad.
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  326. They just can't afford it. And Chinese love to show off. This is why they ask you "how much do you make?" - Because they're trying to figure out how much respect to afford you.
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  327. Why? Given a chance they will run you out of business. And they don't care.
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  328.  @MsMeriwether  You are beyond fucked. If you're ever in need and at the mercy of help from someone else. Hopefully you don't find yourself in the same position.
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  329.  @dawicked2k8  The US right now has their own issues to deal with. We're talking about China here.
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  330. Typical of the left as usual.
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  331. 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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  332.  @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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  333. "China demanded we use their ball bearings" - What nerve. Dealing with them is ridiculous!
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  334. Honestly surprised that some people are still investing. Some morons clearly never learn.
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  335. 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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  336.  @kindGSL  This is why most analyst use other indicators. Because China refuses to publish their own data. But even with what little data China has we are seeing less and less off as they become even more opaque than they already are.
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  337.  @AI-ih5or  Send your J10's against Canada's F-35 Lightning II that would be more appropriate fight.
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  338.  @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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  339. "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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  340. I think the government knows. It's just all about money
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  341. 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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  342. Read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (US Consul who lived in 1930s China). China spends more time posturing than getting things actually done. Townsend also talked about how the Chinese military acts in times of conflict. Between the Communists and KMT, there's a lot of defection that takes place. In fact, Japanese Generals bribed Chinese generals to get out of their way and saved ammo in the process. How's that for patriotism and bravery? There's also a chapter in the book about Japan, China relations before WWII. Although, what Japan did was atrocious. China is not at all innocent of any wrong doing. All this anti foreign sentiment is not unique to the CCP, the Nationalists engaged in it as well, which makes it a very Chinese trait.
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  343.  @chayo4537  Japan may have done terrible things in the past. But Japan now is completely different. If you loose something in Japan, odds are your things will be returned to you. If you injure yourself, chances are someone will try and help you. Stop equating Japan in the past with Japan now. They're leaps and bounds better than "modern" China.
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  344. 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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  345. Well, there IS such a thing as salted egg. You could have just had that, instead of some random pissy eggs.
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  346. Life as an adult won't be that much better unfortunately.
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  347. It's not just society, it's their culture, down to their parents.
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  348. And yet if you say those same words to a CCP official you will get reprimanded for it.
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  349. 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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  350. 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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  351. Most jobs don't require a college degree. And even so, I've worked for several companies since my teenage years, and most companies don't value most people's hard work. They string you along long enough and promote people THEY like who may be incompetent. I'm all for giving people a chance (this goes for giving employers a chance as well). But don't waste people's time and be straight up with them from the start - I would if I was an employer.
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  352. 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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  353.  @josedorsaith5261  The bigger question you should ask is "why did you even go there?" There are better places like Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
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  354. Everyone knows Singapore is also all about accepting money with no distinctions. I mean how do you explain vast swaths of illegal money in your country from questionable sources? It's become especially important for the CCP even more than ever.
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  355. Well they have the communist suit that Stalin popularized which Mao eventually ripped off. You can wear that as you do the propaganda and stare dead eyed at the camera.
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  356. They don't. That's no secret.
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  357. "Comfort, luxury, and spacious feel" - You can literally get those in a better built car.
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  358.  @Amazing_mother_nature  They have real news. I just don't understand why this made the cut.
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  359. This is true, especially for men in their 30's who've been divorced.
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  360. Manila never promised to take out the ship. Beijing is delusional.
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  361. Read up on China under the KMT - they were no different. They've always been like this.
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  362. Tony has extensively and repeatedly covered the property sector and the year on year decline in land sales, which is a major driver of GDP growth in China.
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  363. Everyone is so in on the propaganda it's already disturbing.
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  364. Lol, whatever excuse they get to impose themselves on the people, they will take it. They're completely shameless. Pretty soon they'll know the number of times you go into the bathroom as well - Wouldn't be surprised if they already know.
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  365. 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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  366.  @Catherine.Dorian.  Read up on China before Mao. They were no different.
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  367. 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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  368. Just voted conservative. This guy got to go.
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  369. The Million dollar question here is what is this guy's relatioship with Xi Jinping? I also got goosebumps when you talked about your wife meeting with the government official late at night. That's just creepy. Just learned this guy was connected to Jiang Zemin. This was clearly a setup.
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  370. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930's) This has ALWAYS been a problem in Mainland China, even well before the great leap backward. It's distinctly societal and cultural. This existed long before the CCP came into power.
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  371.  @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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  372. He can be both a CEO and a clown.
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  373. They never will. There is no accountability from them. Only lies.
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  374. They have no shame
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  375. Those prostitute cards used to be so common in Vegas several years ago. You literally couldn't walk anywhere without that stuff on the floor in the strip.
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  376. 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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  377. Exactly. They should be contained because they can't stay in their own lane. "Containment" is not a bad thing.
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  378.  @LearningDrummerSam  Yup. It's kind of hard to grow economically when you're slowly killing off your clients with a virus. Not to mention the fact that a lot of people lost their jobs.
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  379.  @thaisiggi  North Korea also has a space program. But no idiot in their right mind would migrate there for "economic opportunities". Japan has a superior quality of life, is organized, and clean. Who the hell is dying to migrate to China? Nobody.
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  380. It was called "Full House" because they all had to live together to afford a house in San Francisco in the 90's as living on your own cost an arm and a leg. I would imagine it's only gotten worst overtime over there and all over the U.S.
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  381. 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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  382. It's all about what the US is going to get out of this. They're not going to stick their necks out for the Saudis, especially after what they did.
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  383. 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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  384. They always say they "did understand". What a joke.
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  385.  @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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  386. You're right. They will always have a foothold in China because they want access to the Chinese market. But a smart investors knows not to put all their eggs in one basket. China is one of many baskets that can easily break especially given their recent policies.
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  387. Musk should just stick to business and stay out of politics.
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  388. 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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  389. Buying a car that will rust in 2 years is not a luxury.
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  390. ​ @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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  391. They seem to always luck out with "real men". And they always claim to know after the fact. If that's not the definition of stupidity then I don't know what is.
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  392. 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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  393.  @sawyerleemoore  Yes. Business with the US is actually better when the Canadian dollar is lower.
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  394. 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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  395. They are a political arm of China, no more no less. And should be dissolved.
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  396.  @napoleonfeanor  What you just said didn't make sense. Dystopias ARE a pessimistic vision of the future. How else can it be interpreted?
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  397. Everything is much quicker when you are copying from others and they always will.
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  398. Wasn't his brother in law also implicated in money laundering?
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  399. Everything is all for show. It's all a political farce to keep the masses in check and distract them from what's really going on.
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  400. 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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  401. Yup. They're always busy, never getting anything done.
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  402. 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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  403. You need to read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. The Chinese have always acted this way even before Communist rule. It wasn't that much better under the Kuomintang. Every time they roused anti-foreign sentiments, students would burn down missionary schools in a show of defiance even though they were beneficiaries of such charities. These are the same students by the way, that would have ended up with next to nothing, dirt poor living on the streets. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  404. That's communism for you
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  405.  @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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  406.  @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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  407.  @mountfairweather  Why do we have to keep subsidizing and enabling this kind of behavior? This isn't helping them and is setting a very bad example for local communities and the next generation. There's zero compassion in this. This is disgusting!
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  408. Pork is a high demand essential for consumers that's why they're using it. It's not like a car or even cheap electronics.
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  409. The stuff about China's worldview made me spit out my water in laughter. What a joke.
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  410. Might I add also lack critical thinking and react like children when things don't go their way?
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  411.  @thaisiggi  Yes, China is coming so fast that Chinese people still go to Japan to find work in places that pay minimum wage. I was in Tokyo in 2016. I saw this in some stores in Ginza and Shinjuku.
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  412. So this is all just for show? I'm guessing they're doing this because of all the bad publicity that Thailand has been receiving lately.
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  413. Who are you? The representative of Arab countries?
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  414. They should be sent to Xinjiang
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  415. 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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  416. Except his "faking it" is becoming too costly on his own people and their economy.
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  417. It's pronounced fee-delity not fie-delity.
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  418. Chinese logic: buy high, keep high until it drops, then sell.
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  419.  @Yae-Miko216  Learn about what the Chinese did to Japan before World War 2. China is not innocent.
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  420. This coming from a country who just recently said they "wanted to work with their East Asian compatriots". What complete and utter bs.
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  421. 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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  422.  @ChickensAndGardening  They're not that much better than anyone else. Unless you've bought into all the cultural propaganda.
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  423. 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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  424.  @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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  425. How the hell do they teach germ theory in med schools and put "do not spit" signs in the library? That's so fucked. Also, that room where Mattias was sent after he was given his sample must have stunk as hell what with body fluids not being cleaned up and splattered on the wall.
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  426.  @henli-rw5dw  Japan now isn't the same as it was back then. That's poor justification.
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  427.  @theboringchannel2027  Except they're taking the harvest even before the farmer gets to them and they're doing it without the permission of the farmer. So no, it's not the same thing.
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  428. ​ @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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  429. They don't need awards. They need the support of politicians who are willing to do the right things for them.
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  430.  @charlessliger358  They also have building like these in Japan. Nothing impressive about China.
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  431. ​ @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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  432. So I take it you are a Marcos supporter?
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  433.  @rickytleung  The only thing in China that has remained unchanged is the fact that they don't ever want to change. Yes, this definitely includes taking constructive criticism.
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  434. Have you heard of cow dung hotpot? It's a real thing
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  435. Wouldn't be surprised if part of their hatred for Japan has to do with the fact that Japan actually successfully conquered them when they themselves could never pull that off.
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  436. 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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  437. 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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  438. "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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  439. It already has. And no amount of government stimulus is doing anything to prop up the market.
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  440. They're already reviewing this. What kind of "developing country" has a space program? It's complete and utter bs
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  441. That's great. Go live there then
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  442. "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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  443. I think Honda has downsized though. Not sure about Toyota. I know Kia and Hyundai have already somewhat pulled out.
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  444.  @abyss128  I have been approached by foreigners asking me my perspective as a Filipino. I always preface what I have to say with the challenges because I believe in telling people the truth but I don't dwell on it. Also, if you can get passed the negative aspects of the country, it's easier to focus on the positive aspects. Most people I talk to who praise the country do so because they like the beaches, they find the people warm, they like the food etc. Again this is all their perspective. Nobody who loves the Philippines is singing praises about the traffic, the chaos, the beggars, garbage etc. That's already a given. That's why it's all a matter of perspective. If you want a first world experience in Asia with state of the art infrastructure, go to Japan. That's what I tell people.
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  445.  @wanderingdoc5075  Differentiating yourself by focusing on the negatives is no different than bashing your co-workers to stand out. You loose credibility in the process and any sense of objectivity. If he came at me and sold me his services with that kind of bias, I would be out.
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  446. "I don't date men who date younger women" in womanese "I know I am replaceable so don't bother with me".
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  447. Foreigners doing business in the Philippines should really be screened. So many unscrupulous activities and questionable individuals.
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  448. ​ @stephenc2481 yeah but you have to admit, it's particularly bad in China
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  449. China lies about its GDP? Kind of goes without saying at this point.
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  450. 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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  451. The inconvenience of doing business in China is no longer worth it.
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  452.  @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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  453. "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  454. They're giving Scotty way too much credit when all he's doing is telling the truth. No one person has complete sway over the masses, especially if problems did not already exist with Nissan's cars.
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  455. 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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  456. I don't think you have a lot to worry about since in Japan, it's also part of the culture to keep workers as much as possible. My instructor from Japan told me this - they try as much as possible to keep employees and keep lay offs to a minimum.
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  457. But that's what a lot of Chinese are
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  458. 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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  459.  @trey9935  There's a difference between letting something happen organically and rubbing your nose in something. That's what China does best. Rub it in people's faces before it happens. That is what their propaganda arm is for. Whether it's true or not who knows? Last I heard, factories were leaving China en masse. Apple is being manufactured in India, Samsung in Vietnam as examples. This was also the time that they doubled down on their so called "economic trajectory". So mathematically it simply doesn't make sense.
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  460. 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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  461. ​ @alphanumeroemoji No. Why would a business create an environment to be unwelcoming to it's customers? It's about keeping the undesirables out.
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  462. "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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  463. That's why hybrids are the best. Diversify your energy needs as much as possible.
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  464. After the loose money, they cry foul. More often than not, their greed gets them in trouble.
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  465. Good riddance. Smart move by Korea.
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  466. 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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  467. 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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  468. They've always been like this. They've never changed.
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  469.  @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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  470. "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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  471. Politics keeps them backwards.
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  472. ​ @jgloom41 this is the trend in most places in East Asia. They typically stick to what's tried and true. They rarely venture out and try new things.
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  473.  @patrickexplorer2088  It's all of it. Fish, oil, and strategic location.
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  474. China has said time and time again it doesn't recognize the ruling. What we need is military action. Duterte is a typical politician, trying to appease everyone but ultimately falling short.
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  475. 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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  476. ​ @andreikondisenko6089 you're hilarious
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  477. My next car will be a Toyota hybrid SUV. Never touching Chinese cars with a ten inch pole. Not worth it for the price: and I don't care if it's cheap.
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  478.  @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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  479.  @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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  480. They sure have a lot of time on their hands...
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  481. It's now time to unhinge and rethink globalization with other states. There are other options like southeast Asia. Why the world is strictly beholden to China, I will never truly understand.
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  482. 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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  483. They think having an unregulated banking system is actually a plus for them...go figure.
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  484. Yes, you bribe the person testing you.
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  485. More like from rags to credit to default.
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  486. If by "manners" you mean childish, rude, self-aggrandizing, and deceitful. They've got that down.
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  487. You don't need unions when the government itself is one big giant union.
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  488. Sure, the US is "advancing" China's semiconductor industry. And China is mad about this, why?
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  489.  @ct4074  "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility"- Sigmund Freud
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  490. "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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  491. Those F16 are probably just going to get put to the side. But they aren't going anywhere.
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  492. ​​ @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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  493. 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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  494. They double down on what they know. It's Chinese stubbornness at its finest.
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  495.  @chrisbunka  Yes, it's all about personal values and whether or not the country you are trying to integrate to is compatible with those values.
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  496. Everytime I watch Chinese propaganda, I get goosebumps. I get why people would lie but this is just pure delusion.
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  497. Listening to the WHO is like listening to a child who pathologically lies, they talk and talk but you just don't take them seriously.
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  498.  @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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  499. Yup, the top 1% doesn't even buy this crap. It's all upper middle class and middle class.
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  500. 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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  501. He only cares about his image. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anything else. A lot of these politicians are like this.
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  502. "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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  503. 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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  504. You have China mixed up with India. When China talks the world scoffs and rolls their eyes
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  505. 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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  506. 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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  507. 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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  508. So sickening!
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  509. They will control the South China sea and dictate the terms of trade passing through including Europe's trade interests. So yeah, it's got everything to do with everyone including the UK.
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  510. Anyone with "common sense" and the ability to critically think apparently works for the CIA Lol.
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  511. 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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  512. 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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  513. They love to talk big. Oftentimes they either lie or exaggerate.
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  514. 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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  515. ​ @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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  516. 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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  517.  @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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  518.  @Leshic2  It also closely matches the Nazis. Let that sink in. They spoke so highly of themselves while simultaneously speaking ill of others.
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  519.  @xdangelovidz  Instead of attacking one's credibility, why don't you actually dispute what is being said here with facts?
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  520. "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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  521. China is in the worst position to talk about China. Always lying.
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  522. "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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  523. "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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  524.  @Numischannel  Cook the books in a wok made mostly of lead and gutter oil.
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  525. 70 years? They've always been like this.
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  526. "Why is morality in China deteriorating?" - It was never there to begin with "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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  527. "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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  528. 232,000 gallons? What did Kim do? Powerwash her whole house a couple of times over?
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  529.  @schloops8473  It's all for the cameras. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  530. The chips are 2 generations behind. They're from Taiwan.
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  531. Keep coping wumao
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  532. "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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  533. Don't worry. A lot of us don't. Even when they have good things going for them, they still manage to screw that all up.
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  534. Philippines has their own interest. They aren't being coerced. The way you think is oversimplistic and denies the Philippines claims under international law.
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  535. 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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  536. "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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  537. It's deflection and justification for the shitty things they do.
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  538.  @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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  539. Money is one hell of a drug, especially for businesses that want a piece of the Chinese market.
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  540. They don't. That's why they are being delisted from the US stock exchange.
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  541. The fact that they haven't been struck.
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  542. True. People are already being judged based on the degree you have and the life choices that would come from said degree.
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  543.  @SCM0NDT  Stop with this "like in the US" comments. It's absolutely ridiculous and not true.
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  544. Why is lying so normal in your culture?
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  545. They've always been like this. Nothing has changed.
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  546. What we need are more choices. More products manufactured elsewhere. They need to stop putting all their eggs in the China basket since they've not only drop the basket. They've also kicked it.
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  547. Self awareness isn't one of their strong suits.
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  548. He is though. Who are we kidding at this point?
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  549. If you watch historical dramas, they've been doing that since ancient times.
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  550. Western nations securing waterways are the reason why we have trade right now. It's the reason other countries are able to trade with each other unabated. This includes China, not that they're ever grateful for US, Japanese, South Korean multinationals etc for investing in their country to begin with...
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  551. Is there even such a thing as "high quality" toys when a lot of them are made in China?
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  552. We don't know what the CIA does.
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  553. Winston, have you read the book "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend? He was a consul who lived in China in the 1930's. Everything he said resonates with what you and Matt share. He paints the picture of a China before Communism, a society already devoid of morals and conduct leading to China's eventual "downfall" to communism. It wasn't really a "downfall" so much as a natural progression.
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  554. Seething anger and arrogance towards foreigners is something that is always boiling under the surface.
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  555. Numbers say otherwise. Even the numbers they lie about reflect this.
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  556. The only girls I ever bough drinks for at the club were my friends. I don't buy drinks for randos I don't even know.
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  557. Don't forget the people who died as well. Dead people don't contribute to gdp.
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  558.  @iyoalbarracin6752  Been to Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and KL to name few places in Asia. I can understand why people would still choose the Philippines over any other place. It's not always what you "think" people are looking for. There's more to a place than just infastructure and economic opportunity otherwise people would only be flocking to certain countries that only have those things readily available. This doesn't take values and compatability into account.
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  559. She's just bubbly. Bubbly does not equal dumb.
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  560.  @maxfordgaming9278  Yup, it's pandering to a generation that finds anything and everything offensive under the sun. As a Southeast Asian man, this sickens me because complainers aren't solving anything. They only know how to make noise. And no, I don't want to see a black James Bond. It's not true to form of what James Bond should be.
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  561. China has always been like this. Look throughout history. This problem has never been fixed.
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  562. 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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  563. So does Ukraine.
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  564. That's great because people of other countries don't feel the same towards you.
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  565. Send them to Xin jiang
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  566.  @darkslatesky  That's only because they had so much room for growth. And they only got there because multinational companies invested in their country.
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  567.  @fugu4163  And a lot of them will be single thinking they're the shit. No self awareness. Only their cat will think that about them.
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  568.  @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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  569. Yup, just another Chinese lie.
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  570. It's their choice. They're adults and they were warned.
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  571. Good products at lower prices from China? Are you a comedian?
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  572. After 3 elections Canadians are finally coming to their senses? A lot of Canadians sure are slow. But I guess better late than never.
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  573. Most of them are. And there's no shortage of people willing to sell their soul in China.
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  574.  Mr Awesome  It depends where you live in America. If America is unsafe in general then why do people clamor to migrate there? Last I heard nobody was clamoring to migrate to China. Even rich Chinese, leave China.
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  575. Believe whatever you want. It doesn't change the truth.
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  576. I have a friend from Tianjin. Every time I ask him how things are over there, he responds shaking is head saying "it's sh!t" 😂
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  577. Self awareness isn't one of their strong suits
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  578. Yup. They're competing for jobs that aren't even there.
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  579. She said in her testimony that she wants her dad and all those involved in jail.
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  580. They can lure you in with money and use you for propaganda. The two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact that's how China operates most of the time.
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  581. Anyone with basic food safe and cleanliness standards would have a field day. This is beyond disgusting.
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  582. ​ @Henry-bl3lz "more modern and more safe" - that's funny.
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  583. It's like an addiction. They can't completely let go.
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  584.  @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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  585. "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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  586. And the world still keeps dealing with them...says a lot about the times we live in
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  587.  @triadwarfare  This is how they navigate the world. They think everyone acts and thinks like them.
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  588. Huawei is like a headless cockroach that just refuses to die.
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  589. Because they're also the ones who put them there.
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  590. "China's last warning" which is something that the Soviet's came up with applies with them all the time.
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  591.  @TheRandomMuffinMan  It's one thing to have civil unrest, it's quite another to have civil war. Just because you have unrest doesn't mean it will always lead to the latter.
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  592. A lot of them are also in Vancouver
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  593. My boss talked to me like a kid even though he's 27 and I am 39. I've been told I look around 25.
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  594.  @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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  595. It's funny you mention banks and real estate in Canada. One of the bank associates my mom talked to said that they are keeping a close eye on money from China since there are so many dubious accounts and a lot of these people also transact in cash without even putting a lot of their money in their bank accounts even when buying property. I can't believe the banks are only looking at this now when we locals have already known about this for quite some time. Greed can really cloud one's judgement.
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  596. 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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  597.  @imadmorsli2871  When people say "send them to Palestine" what they actually mean is for them to go there to see the truth. Because these people's lack in awareness and knowledge of history is really disturbing.
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  598. Liars are usually out of touch. That's why they don't acknowledge the truth.
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  599. ​@lilunchengsmiles entertainment despite the evidence? Yeah right...
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  600.  @LowenKM  All this shows is how self absorbed they are and that they will adapt ANY narrative to justify their bad actions. The mental gymnastics they do to achieve this is beyond clinical.
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  601. You shouldn't. They don't feel sorry for you.
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  602. 35 and over have no chance, at 40 you're beyond screwed.
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  603. Most people who use WeChat are Chinese. The problem with TikTok is that his aimed at Americans. But I absolutely agree with what you say.
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  604. Same, I say "Wuhan virus" as well. If anyone says otherwise, I just give them the death stare.
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  605.  @turdeaugottago114  So there's different kinds of lying? Like there's different kinds of theft? Are you joking?
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  606. Their government doesn't care.
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  607. Pretty much. You have no future and you have no control of what happens to you career wise.
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  608. So they're declaring war on themselves?
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  609. If China is going to be ridiculous to their citizens overseas then why don't they just bar them from leaving the country ala North Korea style. This is just ridiculous and a waste of time.
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  610. Throwing in the towel early doesn't make you "ahead".
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  611. "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" by Ralph Townsend
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  612.  @RD-jc2eu  Yup. The state sponsored squad of liars are back.
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  613. Hey, don't forget the cow dung hot pot and gutter oil. It goes very well with piss eggs.
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  614.  @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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  615. This is common practice in China.
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  616. Don't also forget that Huawei triple fold phone which was a Samsung prototype from 2016. They love to rebrand scrapped technologies as "cutting edge".
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  617. "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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  618. "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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  619. China has no more face to loose on the international stage. Everybody including the people that they constantly bribe know this. Also, some analysts said that Zhao's wife who recently ranted on twitter might have also contributed to his demotion.
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  620. That's especially true in China where everything is run by politics and not reason and common sense.
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  621. It's been like that fo a while now. Especially with cars' planned obsolescence.
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  622. China's story is particularly bad though...
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  623. Poverty slowly disappearing in China? Are you a comedian?
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  624. Here we go again...
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  625.  @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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  626. Chinese are not as good at math as we think and even more unaware when it comes to issues regarding finance and debt.
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  627.  @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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  628. Bixby and Siri sound so much better than this "Huawei" joke.
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  629. I know right? What's even stranger is that there is consensus among those countries to allow the US to build military bases. It's not like China is doing anything illegal right?
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  630. 5000 years of culture my ass.
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  631. 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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  632.  @StephenGillie  How about neither, since both cities in China are under the jurisdiction of a capricious central government that can't decide on proper domestic policies that favor business. I would move to Southeast Asia.
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  633.  @mattihaapoja8203  How does it reflect to this current situation? You need to read the book to realize that not much has changed with them. They may drive modern cars and wear modern clothes but the same narrow mindedness still pervades to this day.
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  634. ​ @DK-gj5sp people from developed and "sane" countries have a favorable view of the US. Get a life.
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  635. State media loves to use the word "resolutely"
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  636. He doesn't know how to read
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  637. Cryna is up to its old, tired, and stupid tactics again.
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  638. ​​ @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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  639. It's called "debt and lies".
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  640. There is little if any demand. They can only control the supply side. So it's debt, debt, debt, and more debt.
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  641. Why don't they turn these into affordable housing for youth since they're so backwards with their policies? They can live in the past literally and figuratively.
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  642. So many Chinese only believe in real estate. They aren't educated in stocks and mutual funds because it's not something that is tangible to them. If you took the average rate of return of diversified stocks over real estate you will find that stocks have outperformed real estate over several decades. But people who aren't open to the idea of investing in stocks will never know that simple fact.
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  643. You don't have a robust economy to justify that. All you're doing is increasing cost to companies.
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  644. ​ @CaptainSeato it's funny because these guys hid in the mountains during WWII.
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  645. They never will work together.
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  646. 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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  647. 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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  648. Lol, well considering they're both mute...
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  649. Going to Europe when they can't even speak the local language except the UK?
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  650. "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930's) "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" by Ralph Townsend.
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  651.  @Xerophun  Yes, China is so powerful that they outlawed other countries from coming into the South China Sea and even threatened other state actors that they would shoot them. So what did the world do? They sent their military assets there to secure the area. That's how powerful China's military is.
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  652.  @Xerophun  Don't believe anything this guy/girl says. As you said, (s)he's a paid troll working out of Japan apparently, which is complete bs. I don't know anyone who's ever moved to Japan from China and said it was a downgrade. Only propagandists say stupid things like that and they give themselves away so easily. Very easy to figure them out as there is little to no thought that comes from their posts. As soon as you see "have you been to China?" or "you haven't seen the real China" you're dealing with a paid troll.
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  653. EU knows better. The only way to fix this is to help other countries and develop alternatives to the current supply chains which rely on China and those changes are underway.
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  654. No permanent allies, only permanent interests
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  655. 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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  656. They are not surprisingly naïve about how a lot of things in the world works.
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  657. As if he heasn't increased it enough by allowing so many Syrian refugees in and their monthly salary from the government is greater than the typical Canadian's salary.
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  658.  JNN321 M  China's per capita GDP and overall GDP aren't the same thing. When you think about it, there are lot of things that go into GDP, that's why it's called "Gross" Domestic Product. It doesn't take into account the cost to produce those goods. On paper China is productive, but it isn't very efficient. For example, a staff of 10,000 employees producing $4 million worth of goods is not as efficient as a staff of 5,000 employees producing $3.5 million worth of goods. China probably operates closer to the former in this example. Also, I wouldn't believe the numbers coming out of the Chinese government especially with no other sources able to come into their country to verify.
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  659. 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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  660.  @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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  661. They ARE ridiculous. Look at how they deal with the rest of the world. Are you still surprised?
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  662.  @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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  663. Sounds about right.
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  664. Yup, all you need are multiple piggy banks or jars for different accounts.
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  665. You shouldn't go there while the CPP are in power period.
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  666. With China, it's not surprising. They are where they are for a reason. "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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  667. 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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  668. People programming these machines still have a political interest though. Anything man-made will always have that potential.
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  669. Does anyone even believe anything that comes out of China nowadays? "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." - Li Keqiang, Former Premier of China. If a high level government official cannot get reliable economic data, what more anyone else?
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  670. ​ @thomasherrin6798 so many multinationals have packed up and left pre-Covid. Having a large population doesn't automatically mean that business will be good in China. For one, you have to deal with local authorities who are going to make your life an inconvenient hell if you choose to deal with them.
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  671.  @andia968  People can still be bought. It doesn't matter if you're from a developed country or a third world country. Not everyone in a developed country is a millionaire.
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  672.  @AMDX1325  Cyrus Jansen actually got in trouble in Canada for weighing in on the Meng Wanzhou trial. He's not a Canadian nor a lawyer and yet he was in Vancouver giving his two cents on the matter. There was an article about it in Canada that I read.
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  673.  @hunggiang1475  You still need to participate in the economy. After all people still need to eat and clothe themselves right?
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  674. Buy life insurance. You are going to need it.
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  675.  @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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  676. 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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  677. The Chinese do apparently.
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  678. It's quite easy. Japanese act differently from Chinese. I could easily tell when I was in Japan.
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  679. It's their culture. Deceive, lie, deceive, lie.
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  680.  @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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  681. And yet people still keep buying their products. That's even more cause for concern than the company itself.
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  682. 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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  683. His name is Jian Koh-nar
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  684.  @cortesnacionalista6559  Taiwan has never been ruled by the Communists.
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  685.  @tenacious_takakumi2680  dust doesn't go that high up in the atmosphere. Also, it was the Koreans we were with who made that assessment.
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  686. Don't forget pathological narcissism with illusions of grandeur.
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  687. "Fairness" with Chinese characteristics, which means "not fair" at all. Lol.
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  688. It's all empty noise. They love to talk for the sake of talking. Also, let's have two state solution for China and Taiwan. Let the CCP eat their own words.
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  689. What do you mean high tech producer? You mean in stolen IP? What exactly did they develop on their own?
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  690. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930's China) "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 Everything they say and do are all an act. They have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted.
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  691.  @scoro1liii9  Lol, they bought each other's lies.
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  692. ​ @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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  693. They adjust their expectations to who they are marrying. If they obviously like the guy and he is a foreigner, none of that dowry garbage means a damn thing.
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  694. Didn't realize that fish had lungs to transmit Covid to humans.
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  695. They're all the same. They're just not authoritarian. US companies are just more manipulative.
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  696.  @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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  697. 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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  698. 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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  699. Agreed. People run everything through credit not thinking that at some point the banks are going to come knocking.
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  700. China lies about their numbers. This is typically how they operate. Lie, cheat, steal, lather, rinse, repeat.
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  701. Because they're NOT spies. Just political pawns used by the government to get what it wants. You're obviously a brainwashed pawn by the CCP who believes everything they say.
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  702. 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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  703. "When the Chinese want to be nasty - as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in China in the 1930s) They have always acted like this towards foreigners, it's nothing new.
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  704. 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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  705. The only take away I got from watching this is that she is very confused. She implies that she isn't the "settling down" wife type but makes mention of wanting to eventually settle down and start a family. She looks for Mr Right but does not make herself a match to what she wants in a man. This is why she can't attract anyone of value to her because she does not know what she values.
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  706. 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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  707. That is just outright abuse. So you are in essence just gambling your time because you may not be paid.
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  708. Everything "good" about China is a lie. Can you blame them?
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  709. Do the Chinese talk to the Russians in Russian and the Russians talk to the Chinese in Mandarin? Such a clownish statement.
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  710.  @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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  711. You know what they say. Some people never learn and a sucker is born everyday.
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  712. That should be a new slogan for the free world. "You're free to come and you are sure as hell free to leave"
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  713.  @peterwang5660  Yup, the communists have figured out that there is no actual way to weed out starvation, or unemployment and people won't do anything out of the goodness of their own hearts. So why not put yourself in the position of a King and just take what you can. It's the "conquer or be conquered" mentality.
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  714. Their cameras always seem to "break" when they need to look for perpetrators.
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  715. She couldn't even take the heat. She knows that the world is not looking at China in the most favorable light. Whereas Taiwan led with right actions in a timely and efficient manner.
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  716. Pretty much. She probably had a stomach ache later that day
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  717. That's an oxymoron
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  718. China yakking about cover ups is rich. Bunch of hypocrites.
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  719. 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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  720. Because they don't want competition.
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  721. 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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  722.  @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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  723.  @michaellastname4922  You need to read up about China before the cultural revolution. They have always been like that.
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  724. I read somewhere that they have missiles aimed at Three Gorges as well.
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  725. It's called karma. They constantly lie and treat their neighbors horribly.
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  726. 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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  727. How ironic. If they want to choose from only Chinese people, then why not just go back to China? No shortage of Chinese people over there.
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  728. He's a product of an unstable and politically corrupt country. A lot of people who grow up in that kind of environment end up screwed up with no morals.
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  729.  @piotrmajewski5978  If there's one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese is that they refuse to change.
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  730.  @djbabbotstown  The word "collapse" can be interpreted in multiple ways. Collapse can be "political" or "economical" as well as "social". If you look at China's real estate sector as an example, and the fact that you have so much inventory not being sold and incurring debt then yes, you could say that that "system" has "collapsed" in that there are not enough buyers to prop up the economy so now, the CCP has to get involved and save the industry at a cost to them, which could potentially lead to other "collapses" further down the road of their financial system. The "collapse" you're most likely thinking of is civil strife and violence on every corner of the streets. North Korea is essentially a "collapsed" country but you don't see that kind of activity because they're a police state.
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  731.  @shundi4264  Stop accusing others of what China is doing. It's getting tired and the world pretty much agrees at this point.
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  732. ​ @janedoe4316 read up on China under the KMT. They were no different.
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  733.  @ikme9393  Next thing they will be making will be jet engines. I wouldn't be surprised. Stay tuned 😱
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  734.  @dianasong4594  Are you serious?
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  735. The ones who have have created knockoffs of brands already exist. Innovation isn't their strong suit.
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  736. And you love to be entertained since you're always here.
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  737. ​ @dukhi_aatma372 Yup. It's always been part of their culture.
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  738. "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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  739.  @blackleague212  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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  740. Read up on China under the KMT, it was no different.
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  741. Yup. And a lot of people want to leave this "mark" on the world like as if it matters. To them I say walk into a store and go over to where they keep the list of employees of the month - nobody knows them and people only see their names. Ultimately we don't care who they were. And nobody will care who we are when we're long gone. Sad but true.
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  742. 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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  743.  @leexingha  Why do propagandists such as yourself always say that anyone who doesn't agree with China is controlled by the West? Can't countries think for themselves? You always accuse the West of politicizing everything when you yourself do the same thing.
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  744. It's more like a terminally ill patient that has been cut from life support.
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  745.  @thaisiggi  China did not help Southeast Asia in 1997. I should know I come from that part of the world. Lies, lies, and more lies. China did not even rank economically in the top 5 in that time period. So how does China have the money to help other countries? Oh right, they didn't.
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  746.  @thaisiggi  Nobody helped them. Even Japan which was the 2nd largest economy at that time was struggling. So if they couldn't help what makes you think China could and like I said they didn't even rank in the top 5 back then. Your lies defy logic. Stop trying so hard to defend China and google actual information and educate yourself. It's embarrassing that you can't even stay on topic. Every time I address what you say you bring up some random fact that doesn't make any sense and is off topic. You talk for the sake of talking and say nothing of substance, typical China propagandist all show and no substance. I never thought for a second that you lived in Japan. That's a lie too. For a country that stresses face and face culture, you guys epically fail. People in the world know you guys are fake and you don't value anything but looking fake.
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  747.  @iDontProgramInCpp  My brother's gf is Korean who happens to be friends with someone who works in Samsung. I had already learned about Samsung transplanting their talent to Vietnam just before Covid happened in 2019.
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  748. "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's one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese is that they refuse to change.
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  749.  @noname-vc2ll  At the end of the day you just have to take the bad in with the good. There is no perfect country in the world. Some are better than others, some are worst than others. But Japan is where it is because the people there made it that way.
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  750. Cheap doesn't always mean safe you know. After seeing evidence of Chinese EV's spontaneously combusting I will forever steer clear of Chinese EV's and opt for either Japanese or Korean ones.
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  751. What is wrong about it?
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  752.  @kuebby  Pretty much everyone in the last 4 years lol
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  753. Most people should if they know what's best for them
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  754.  @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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  755. She targeted gullible men. Not all men are gullible.
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  756. 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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  757. "When the Chinese want to be nasty-as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  758.  @carlflaherty2215  Yes. But lying and self aggrandizing narcissism is.
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  759. She should be sued for disinformation.
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  760.  @willpugh-calotte2199  it's difficult to turn a scholar into a farmer.
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  761.  @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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  762. 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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  763. 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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  764. 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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  765. ...and they still did nothing
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  766. A lot of Chinese are not actually educated about using fridges. Lots of them opt to buy fresh meat everyday.
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  767. Your statement obviously doesn't take into account that things change. What was China decades ago? It was nothing economically. You think other countries can't replicate China's growth? Don't be so arrogant - that's why China is at a steady decline.
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  768. ​ @robocop581 there aren't enough high paying jobs out there. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to compete for those jobs.
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  769.  @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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  770. Giving a country loans to keep it afloat without producing anything is the worst investment choice ever.
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  771. ​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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  772. Same here. Problem is a lot of electronics are still made there.
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  773. They're just as bad as the woman behind the cash register. Just collect money from the highest bidder. Screw all morals.
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  774. He blames Pierre for everyone but he was re-elected a couple of times. Typical Liberal deflection and stupidity.
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  775.  @GrgLuz  There are better places like Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
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  776. 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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  777. Looks gross
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  778. "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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  779. You'll bankrupt yourself maintaining a used Benz with all the repairs you have to deal with.
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  780. ​ @james-in2ps they are sellibg all over the world. There isn't a large demand for their stuff
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  781. They already have missles aimed there
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  782.  @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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  783. It's ok "friends" lie to each other too out of convenience.
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  784. 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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  785. I'm a millennial and I agree with Gen Z. As someone who has been in the work force long enough to understand how things are out there. They're absolutely right. People who get promoted aren't the most hard working. The hard working people get rewarded with MORE hard work and they don't get recognized for it other than the occasional "thank you" from the boss. That's it.
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  786.  @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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  787. And if you asked them to define what Palestine or even a Palestinian is, they wouldn't know what to tell you.
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  788. They're so wack they don't understand basic chain of command.
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  789. 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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  790. Pandas are clumsy and can't even digest Bamboo properly. Not a very bright animal.
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  791. It's always better just to call the local authorities or have witnesses in the area. Otherwise, you don't really know what kind of situation you are walking into, especially if the country doesn't have any good samaritan laws.
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  792. 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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  793.  @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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  794. 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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  795. "Does China lie about its economic statistics?" Without watching the video, I'm going to say "Yes".
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  796. Also, Taiwan's got more capability than Ukraine. Taiwan has ICBM's aimed at Beijing in case they try something.
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  797.  @skino-bx4nf  Typical whataboutism.
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  798. ​ @BeatoricheChannel-yy4gk anytime I hear "they're so ahead" I already know it's propaganda.
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  799. Well, they are.
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  800. 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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  801. 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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  802. 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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  803. 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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  804.  @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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  805. Lying is normal in their culture. Which is something you are clearly all to familiar with since you jyst did it to yourself here.
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  806. 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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  807. ​ @rickrollrizal yup, they don't make an effort to learn local cultures and take their backward cultural practices with them.
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  808.  @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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  809.  @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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  810.  @abrahamdsl That Haidilao gutter crap is in North America as well.
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  811. He also said that before China's shenanigans.
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  812. The leadership is brash and devoid of thought.
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  813. I remember watching a former US cop on youtube. I forgot his name. But I remember hearing him say "if you make a threat, you better mean it"
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  814.  @blume0121  Women nowadays are being raised to be princesses and are led to believe that they are more special than they think they are. A lot of them don't have what it takes to make a marriage work. I don't think it's just love. You can fall out of love for someone if they aren't putting in the work in a marriage. It's all about commitment and hard work, which hopefully has love as its foundation.
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  815. translation: "We screwed up the economy. And there's nothing we can do because we're proud and stupid" 🤣
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  816.  @Alopen-xb1rb  Except we know how that all ends...You can't keep distracting people forever.
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  817. You can't compete with slave wages. And workers in other countries value themselves too much to settle for anything less. That's the problem.
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  818. Chinese logic knows no bounds 🤣
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  819. 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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  820. That's right. Lockdowns, lockdowns, lockdowns, and more lockdowns.
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  821. They know they are.
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  822.  @Naadeneo  Most of them never will. You can't talk sense into these women because they are driven by drama and not sanity and personal accountability.
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  823.  @schloops8473  Everyone should have followed India's lead when they banned over a hundred Chinese apps.
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  824. "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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  825. I'm noticing a lot of clothing I see is no longer even made in China. Seen clothes made in Vietnam, Mexico, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines to name a few.
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  826. What happened to love for their fatherland?
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  827. They understand the game. Gone are the days wherein your hard work would pay off - it worked for our parents because they came off in an age where the economy was experiencing rapid growth. That's no longer the case. Nowadays, it's all about utilizing technology and efficiency to make products and services cost effective to satisfy the market.
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  828. People who project growth are all paid to say that
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  829. "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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  830.  @Sabundy  It's just so sad because he could probably just invest the money and double or quadruple it so the next generations don't have to toil as much. But to each his own.
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  831. It does not matter where one is educated. The system and type of society you are in, more often than not, takes precedence over how you will turn out. It's the same with China, they send thousands of students overseas. Is China acting any closer to the sensibilities likened to that of the developed world? A lot of people would say "No".
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  832. 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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  833.  @zt3435  Dragons in Chinese mythology are benevolent. So it's still an insult to call them a "dragon" in the Chinese sense of the word.
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  834. And it doesn't take much to aggravate them. They ban trade out of spite under the guise of "regulation".
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  835. And they wonder why their society is the way it is? Ridiculous.
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  836. The word "cement" should always be in quotes lol.
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  837. "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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  838. Decline? They were "better" before lol?
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  839. And their population tolerates this.
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  840.  @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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  841.  @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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  842.  @KarmG-fo4xr  Humanity has always gravitated towards hierarchy because we are inclined to organize ourselves that way. The question really is who should be on top? There is no country on the face of this Earth that is run purely by its citizens. The closest you had to that were tribal societies. And even those societies had established ruling families or clans.
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  843. It's pretty much their culture in a nutshell.
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  844. And they wonder why they're going bankrupt.
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  845. 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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  846. Yup, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
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  847. Lol, "robust" economy of China. Don't make us laugh.
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  848. Because a lot of people are still stupid.
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  849. 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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  850. It's actually the "heart" gesture in Korean that the Chinese also copied.
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  851. It's wishful thinking based on absolutely nothing. Superstitious garbage is what it is.
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  852. Who are you trying to convince?
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  853.  @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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  854. They don't care about fairness. And saying "they ought to" won't change a damn thing.
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  855. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  856. He's going to take it from you, from all of us.
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  857.  @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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  858. Yeah, and its scary. A bunch of crazy people who don't know real history who act in accordance with feelings over facts.
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  859.  @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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  860. It depends on what the flavor of the month is for them. Sometimes it's Japan, sometimes India, sometimes Southeast Asia, sometimes Korea. It's already become routine for them.
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  861. They've got a lot to hide. Rather than dealibg with the problem, they opt for quick fixes that only fix the surface but not the underlying issue. It's one of the fatal flaws of their face culture. Problem is they know people can see through it. And if they don't, they're truly delusional.
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  862.  @glasslinger  There are so many products being manufactured in places like Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Bangladesh etc. They're out there.
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  863. 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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  864. T&T has a section for everyone. Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, etc.
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  865. There's also people with VPN who can bypass the great firewall so inevitably word will spread.
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  866. ​​ @nocolo123 where in America do they do this. Where's your proof?
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  867. "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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  868. Desperation makes people irrational.
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  869. It's the "In whataboutism we trust" brigade.
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  870. ​ @Michael9-23-15 they take everything to a whole level. What else is new?
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  871.  @trollthetruthand5458  I'm talking about Russia and their bs.
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  872. They want to "lead" the car industry while simultaneously copying others. What a joke!
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  873. Your joking right?
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  874. You should also demand that work to be given to the locals.
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  875. 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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  876.  @PandemoniumMeltDown  Well, they try to as much as possible until they can no longer..
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  877. They're trying to claim the opposite of "racist" when they're actually being very "racist" in their approach lol.
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  878.  @meagain6665  It's part vanity project and part stupid.
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  879. 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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  880. You'd be surprised. There's no shortage of people putting cheap products before their own lives
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  881. Yes, it's "youth unemployment" that they keep talking about.
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  882. I like how China cares so much about Tesla's safety issues but don't care about the safety of their homegrown products. So ridiculous.
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  883. She's already miserable. Can't you see the unease?
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  884. This isn't "dangerous", it's just sheer stupidity by the people for the people.
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  885. 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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  886. 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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  887. Spoke to coworker from China back in 2018. She told me back then that China was no longer booming and had stopped booming for a while now. Jobs were scarce and being an older lady, she now had to compete with graduates that Chinese Universities kept churning out. To top it off, where she came from in China, some factories were shutting down.
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  888.  @Kenneth_James  Exactly. Chinese characteristics = chaotic, political, and does not make any sense.
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  889. When China boomed: Consume gutter oil When China is economically spiralling: Consume gutter oil What's the difference?
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  890.  @gordonliu3972  Have you actually heard from the western world or are you just parroting what Chinese propaganda is saying about the western world? Because there's a huge difference.
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  891.  @thaisiggi  I was born in 1985. I know what you're talking about that's why I'm calling you on your bullshit.
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  892. Cheap and "quality" don't go hand in hand.
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  893. One word: laziness. It's easy to just send stuff to China than find other markets.
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  894.  @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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  895. They should really scrap the 5% growth target and change it to 2%. These analysts need to be more realistic.
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  896. You're talking about people who was their vegetables in a polluted river. Seriously? It's all about incompetence.
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  897.  @jlchnrc590  Satisfaction of what exactly? What is the typical Filipino going to do with this knowledge when there are so many loop holes and avenues for corruption that aren't being acted upon. It's like teaching astro physics to a bunch of villagers in Sub Sahara Africa: pointless and yields no results.
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  898. I'm almost 40 years old. I fell out of touch with my friends from my 20's and have not made any meaningful connections since then. I am thankful I still have my family (mom, younger brother, and sister) who I still interact with and look forward to seeing especially after my dad passed away. Exercising, and meditating also helps.
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  899. So embarassing for China
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  900.  @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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  901. ​​ @jesuspower2390 lol. They've always been like that. The only thing that changes in their country are their leaders.
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  902.  @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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  903. There's a reason why US currency is where it is. Countries are buying the dollar because it holds its value and is transparent. Can't stay the same for the other currencies
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  904. Same as previous years. Still crap as usual.
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  905. It's the latter. They don't make anything that works well.
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  906. The same can be said about the Spratley Islands. Don't use that as an argument because it's not a good one.
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  907. The only arguments they make are purely political. So coming from the Chinese government, it doesn't mean much.
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  908. 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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  909. Singapore isn't a US lapdog. They're two faced opportunists who will play both sides.
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  910. "We will not militarize islands in the South China Sea"- Xi🤣
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  911. What crap? Can you be specific?
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  912. ​ @mikeshoults4155 head office is in China. It IS Chinese!
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  913. Exactly. US can't loose from deals they weren't benefitting from in the first place.
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  914.  @rogerm3708  A lot of these women have zero self awareness. I spoke to my mom about this about generational differences. She also said women nowadays have a bad attitude and it's no longer about adding value to a relationship. This self entitlement has poisoned women's minds.
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  915. 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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  916. That will only happen majority of the people demand and FIGHT for it. But most of them won't because they don't care unless their way of life is severely threatened.
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  917. Egypt let Palestinians in at one point. One of the first things that the Palestinians did was to try and overthrow the Egyptian government, same with Jordan.
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  918. "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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  919. 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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  920. 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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  921.  @MI-hl6zf  As oppose to what? China and the way they treat minorities and constantly bully everyone? Get over yourself. China is a slave factory.
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  922. 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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  923. "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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  924. They're obviously risking so much in order to be recognized. I guess all the training in the world makes this all worth it. Those of us non-athletes just think it's stupid.
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  925. Lol. Yea right?
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  926. Spoken like a true CCP propagandist.
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  927. Yes, it's revolting. It's like watching people slowly emerging from the dark ages.
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  928. Celebrities are full of it. They will say anything to garner attention because they can.
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  929. "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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  930.  @mah7961  I live in Canada. We import quite a bit of produce from the US.
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  931. lol "biased glasses" to the Chinese means, stop telling us the truth, lie and make us look good.
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  932. 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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  933. Xi Jinping can literally spit on Kahn's face and he would do nothing
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  934. she's delusional
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  935. The same reason why North Korea owns a school in Japan. To brainwash kids to believing that their host country is the enemy even thought they are there taking advantage of the perks. Pure hypocricy! They should just keep their citizens in China if they cared so much what Chinese living overseas think.
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  936. 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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  937. How are they doing that?
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  938. More like Muslim leaders are bought by money from the CCP. Everyone id for sale. Even your so called "muslim rights" fighters. Too bad France doesn't pay corrupt leader of Muslim countries to keep their mouths shut.
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  939. Not when they run away with all the money they owe the workers...
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  940. This so called "self sufficient" economy sounds a lot like the concept "Juche" that North Korea employs.
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  941. It kind of goes without saying especially given what's happened in China in the last 3 years
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  942. No. They just don't care.
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  943.  @randywright7627  Because most of them don't. It's not bad to assume that.
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  944. They've never flown high if that's what you're thinking.
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  945. 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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  946. Land if liars, bandits, and facades. Deception is the norm.
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  947. 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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  948. 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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  949. Yea. Send in the clowns.
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  950. Clearly not.
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  951. Brain dead? I thought that was pretty obvious.
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  952.  @DW-op7ly  Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  953. True. And working "hard" doesn't always necessarily translate to financial success.
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  954. ​ @andersrhodiner739 it's not. The proof is in the sub par quality. Why are you so offended?
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  955. You should read Mao's insane manifesto. Part of his so called "struggle" is to struggle against the divine (ie mother nature).
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  956. Not permanently unemployed, flexibly employed 🤞
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  957. Yes, they have "laws" which are merely there for suggestion and not enforcement.
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  958. The word "luxury" means absolutely nothing in China. Even luxury mansions in China are tofu buildings.
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  959. It's all about control. There are people on top and people on the bottom. How they get on top just depends on the society they're in. Being on the bottom is just a crappy place to be whether you live in a capitalist state or communist state.
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  960.  X Y  It's all about supply and demand. China has a workforce that is willing to work those low wages with little to no safety net. If you had a family to feed, would you be picky about taking work? I wouldn't. I will do what I can to survive. That's the difference, a lot of people in developed countries have a bad attitude and self entitlement when it comes to work. Nobody wants to work hard anymore nor figure out what it takes to be effective in the work place.
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  961. A lot of them would cry over cash even more so than their dead relatives.
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  962. You think China was better before the CCP? It wasn't much different under the KMT and even when they had Emperors. "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) "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
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  963.  @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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  964.  @asgaiyawaya3973  "Religiously, as in other respects, the typical Chinese mentality represents the human maximum of broad-mindedness. It is striking to a newcomer in China to learn that a Chinese does not care what an acquaintance thinks or does, so long as it does not unfavorably affect him. Acquaintances may be thieves, pickpockets, and whatnot, so long as they do not rob him. Varied religious ideas are if possible of even less concern. The inferential advantage of this indifference is that such corrupt ideas as the Chinese have may supposedly be more easily dislodged because they do not adhere to any set and persisting dogma. As a disadvantage, conjecturally, it will be very difficult to implant any improving sense of values in his head, because there is nothing in that spiritual vacuum to which such a sense of values might be attached. In religious negativity, the Chinese are an amazing contrast to their neighbors, the Tibetans, the Japanese, and the Hindus." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  965. Yes they are. They created so much hype for a phone 2 generations behind from chips they hoarded from Taiwan before the sanctions.
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  966. ​ @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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  967. ​ @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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  968.  @anacc3257  This is true. People's definitions of discrimination are crazy. It's just another political tool to gain leverage. So sad.
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  969.  @kingwing3203  Tell that to Chinese who keep buying them then.
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  970.  @GizzyDillespee  It's obviously all fake. No rural farmer has the time or resources to make anything this professional.
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  971.  @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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  972. People are probably more susceptible to the virus in lockdown because they are even more stressed (ie can't go to work, or buy groceries) than people who aren't under lock down. One's mental faculties affect the physical. And yet a lot of people in the medical community aren't making this connection.
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  973.  @r3sfernjbb  I work my ass off at work. Guess what? It's still politics that determine whether you get promoted or not. Most people are just being strung along with this false promise of being promoted. Do the numbers. Most people won't be promoted. And the ones who do are not necessarily the most hard working. THIS is the reality. So work hard enough to not get negatively noticed but don't go above and beyond and be a hero because it's wasted effort. Nothing wrong with this mentality.
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  974. 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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  975.  @FeuerblutRM  garlic from China doesn't even have the roots. So you don't even know how it's grown
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  976.  @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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  977. 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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  978. 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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  979. ​ @Slitheringpeanut not all of us asians are like this - from an Asian guy
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  980.  @tarstarkusz  US spends on R&D, China doesn't. I wouldn't even compare the two if I were you.
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  981. 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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  982.  @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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  983. China: Do not meddle in China's internal affairs. Also China: Proceeds to meddles in other countries' internal affairs.
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  984.  @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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  985. 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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  986. 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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  987. They take these practices overseas.
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  988.  @Frpar123  Germans are known for their efficiency. The Chinese are anything but efficient and then some.
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  989. 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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  990. If they lie to themselves enough maybe they'll believe it one day.
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  991. It's always money over morals.
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  992. "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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  993. Because people all over the world have bought into the US dollar as a stable currency to trade in. For that to have happened, certain conditions have to be met like transparency. If they don't want to trade in dollars then they can trade in their own local currency. They also better not complain that things don't go the way they want.
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  994. 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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  995.  @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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  996. They don't respect anyone. So that's a yes.
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  997. I have a classmate from China. When I talk to him about issues plaguing China his eyes open wide and say "how did you know that?" Because the typical Chinese doesn't know what's going on in their own country. Oh the wonders of censorship...
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  998. 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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  999.  @danishbutter1847  Back in the day, men were just taught basic manners. Also, chivalry dictated that men do "nice" things because it was the right thing to do. Not because men expected something in return.
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  1000. They're masters of lying. I wonder if they have found a way to master lying to themselves as well?
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  1001. Lol, there's also "the thing" - that which could not be identified.
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  1002. It could be. I am just saying that this behavior was observed well before the CCP came into power. So to blame it solely on the CCP ignores the fact that this selfish behavior has always persisted. The author of the book Ralph Townsend, also asserted that after analyzing how the Chinese approached situations, he found that not much has changed with the Chinese after a millennia of living in chaotic, turbulent times. There was no "fall" to communism. Communism was the next progressive step because chaos abounded in China since the times of the Emperors.
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  1003. Ah, bridges with no rebar and cheap materials, what could go wrong?
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  1004. Their threshold for disgusting behavior is like none other I have ever seen which really tells you a hell of a lot about them as a people.
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  1005. Yup, rather than waiting 2 months down the road to release them so it wouldn't be too obvious. They reacted swiftly without thought as usual.
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  1006.  @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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  1007. There are third world countries that are a hell of a lot better than China, countries that are developing but still democratic. What made you decide to consider China? Was it what you then didn't consider as propaganda?
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  1008. You watch way too much propaganda. Where are these items in the market? They claim to be innovating, but where are these products in stores? Japan and Korea sell their tech in stores and online - you don't see them incessantly talking about their so-called "innovations". Countries ahead don't need to steal IP.
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  1009. My uncle visited China years ago. And he was underwhelmed by the food there. The best Chinese food he's ever had have been outside of China.
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  1010.  @1974Qball  Everything is laced with chemicals, including the fruit itself, assuming the fruit is even real.
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  1011. All of this "anti-Asian" rhetoric is aimed at one particular country not all of Asians. Others might get targeted because of mistaken identity. And there are opportunistic racists who will jump on the bandwagon. Just call it what it is: "anti-Chinese" rhetoric. Don't need to bring in all Asians into this.
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  1012. 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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  1013. 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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  1014. Like a bunch of thieves complaining about theft.
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  1015. Exactly. History as far as what is defined by the regime. Before Kim Il Sung there was just darkness lol.
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  1016. 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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  1017. You sounded like a typical pro China propagandist with what you just said. How ironic.
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  1018. The incessant need to make money at all costs overrides anything they ever learned in chemistry.
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  1019. China keeps deluding itself. Hilarious
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  1020.  @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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  1021. They talk to the world like they do their own people. They don't understand that we aren't dumb.
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  1022.  @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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  1023. 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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  1024. That's literally how new moneyed millionaires in China act: buy a Ferrari, buy a mansion or an expensive apartment and call it a day.
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  1025.  @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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  1026.  @ChickensAndGardening  Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth about China" by Ralph Townsend. What you are saying is not true.
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  1027. "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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  1028. 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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  1029. when all else fails they can always go screw over what they perceive to be "naïve" tourists.
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  1030. Chinese cars aren't known for quality. They have a lot of problems even the Chinese are complaining about them. "Cheap" isn't everything when your life is on the line.
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  1031. Get a life
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  1032. You obviously haven't been to rural China. A lot of dirt roads and garbage are also everywhere.
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  1033. Yes, prisoners in China do contract work (even if it's against their will) with whomever the heads of the prisons decide to do business with since the higher-ups can now line their pockets with cash, leaving out the prisoners who do the brunt of the labor.
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  1034. China forgot some people on their bribe list.
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  1035.  @alpzepta  It's a no brainer when compared to Chinese Electric bikes.
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  1036. The 100 million people being cremated are spread out throughout the country. And they were doing several bodies everyday.
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  1037.  @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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  1038.  @cheesecake7159  Fair enough. Data in China is obscured and regulators and auditors from the West are having problems trying to make sense out of the "data" that China provides. They don't adhere to stringent rules when it comes to honest reporting. They instead opt for "face" which is quite problematic.
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  1039. Good luck with Trump as president
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  1040.  @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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  1041. I'm not Korean and this guy, everything about him, pisses me off.
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  1042. That's fo sho lol
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  1043. Don't forget cow dung hotpot.
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  1044.  @DK-ev9dg  That lie has already been debunked. Try again.
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  1045. Too bad Nedry was the only one responsible. If there was a second programmer to keep checks and balances, there would be accountability for what Nedry did.
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  1046.  @odochartaighofodonegal9815  Nobody is blaming Chinese people. The problem is CCP likes to show the whole world they are one and the same as the Chinese people but they aren't. We know better.
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  1047. 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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  1048. 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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  1049. They literally weaponize everything at their disposal including Tuk Tuks 😂
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  1050. 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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  1051. It's all about money. Australian universities are essentially large corporations. They aren't nearly as valued by the locals (considering lots of them have poor job prospects after graduation) so they have to resort to other means to make money such as allowing nationals from other countries to come so they can squeeze money out of them. Unfortunately, the world is catching up to the fact that university no longer guarantees that you will be getting a safe secure job. China is not an exception to this rule. Australian universities and other universities better enjoy it while it lasts because online education is going to be the way of the future. It will reduce the need for teachers and increase class sizes as well as eliminate the need for large, stupidly expensive buildings that have to be maintained.
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  1052.  @KarlDahlquist  This is what I was thinking as well. She was buttering up the waiter but for different reasons because living in LA, he's probably younger and attractive, most likely a part time model type.
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  1053.  @lordm3s447  This just in. China is now being hit with massive floods. People will once again take a hit in terms of GDP since they won't be able to go to work.
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  1054.  @thaisiggi  I will end this pointless conversation with communist rhetoric that even you understand because it shows how moronic communism is in the face of reason and truth. And that is CONFESS YOUR CRIMES, CONFESS YOUR CRIMES, CONFESS YOUR CRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  1055. You watch too much Chinese propaganda
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  1056. Why don't they just transact amongst themselves instead of this bs about de-dollarization? Let them figure out their chaotic payment system. Since they're so anti-rules and regulations. The Soviets love to make a spectacle when there is none. All done for attention.
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  1057. "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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  1058. At this point, when it comes to Chinese propaganda, there's no more cringe meter to break. It's completely shattered at this point. The complete lack of self awareness is bar none.
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  1059. ​ @williamstearns7490 people need to be constantly reminded.
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  1060. I guess wisdom doesn't always come with age
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  1061. Keep telling yourself that
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  1062. yup. It would be clownish to expect otherwise 🤣
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  1063. No surprises here.
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  1064. ​ @bullpup1337 and what is that exactly?
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  1065. The irony in his stupid statement...
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  1066.  @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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  1067. Admitting wrongdoing is not an innate Chinese trait.
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  1068. They already rent out fake sets in places like L.A. There's no need for a pretentious Prada store.
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  1069. Why would you even entertain the idea? It's hell on Earth.
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  1070. My bosses notice what they want to notice. They rarely if ever check in and find out if I am ok. I am giving myself 2 years at my current job. I am leaving for sure.
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  1071. There are European Luxury cars sold in Japan. I saw a Maseratti, Rolls Royce and Bentley and offcourse Benzes when I was there. But theluxury car that I saw the most was Lexus. Japan lives their homegrown luxury brands above all else.
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  1072. 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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  1073. "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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  1074. 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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  1075.  @fredericoyj920  If they feel so strongly for CCP rule then why don't they just move back to China? Nobody is keeping them hostage in Malaysia.
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  1076.  @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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  1077.  @Andy-P  It's innate in their culture.
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  1078. "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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  1079. If you observe a hive, most insects help each other. If one gets injured, one will even carry their injured comrade back to the hive. It's not fair to compare insects to the Chinese.
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  1080. Does China not understand that sources can be checked? Are they really that insulated and ignorant? Most people who speak on behalf of China are either paid or made up.
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  1081. 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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  1082. Shoddy construction and you can't pass the property to next of kin. You're going to get shafted.
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  1083. Wait until the world recovers. When people can focus better China will be next on the chopping board.
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  1084. They never left the dark ages. They just drive modern cars and modern clothes.
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  1085. 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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  1086.  Dan Mark  Everything is all about choice whether to post or not to post. Not everyone who owns a phone posts online. Nor does everyone care what others put online, unless you're a celebrity which most people aren't.
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  1087. 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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  1088. Not always. Some of them borrow money from everyone they know.
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  1089. Yes, it's called "face". That's how Chinese culture works. Everything is for show. None of those people care for her. They're all paid to be there. The whole world doesn't operate on this concept. It's high time Chinese people like you start realizing this.
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  1090. That quote from China about respecting other countries' territories is such a joke.
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  1091. Overly simplistic thinking. You weren't there. You didn't see what happened.
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  1092.  @kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934  The hell are you talking about? America has many foreigners in it. That should already tell you something.
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  1093. Also what is she going to be good for? If they're both working hard, why not just keep things casual because there is no distinction between dating an a long term relationship.
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  1094. Because people barely live in the city. India unlike North Korea, has an actual economy.
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  1095. Endangering the lives of people who explained their actions is more than just signaling to the "aggressor" it's outright reckless.
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  1096. 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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  1097. He actually spent more than 10 years there. If you don't like his content then move on to something else.
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  1098. You can't shame the immoral and uncivilized.
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  1099. Because the Chinese currency is questionable. It's not transparent.
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  1100. Everytime I see footage of these lavish Evergrande parties, I can't help but think "there goes all the money they stole"
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  1101. ​​ @MRblazedBEANS Toyota and Honda still rank as auto makers.
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  1102. The fact that they're allowed to exist still defies logic and common sense. It looks like this circus is here to stay. And these clown are living proof of that.
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  1103. Why not add Russia, North Korea, and Iran as well? Since you already have shown your true colors.
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  1104. 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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  1105. Then your life must be cheap as well.
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  1106. It's all about money. They don't care about decorum. They never have.
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  1107.  @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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  1108. If you can cheat, cheat. If you can lie, lie.
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  1109. It's probably in the millions. Definitely enough to house the population of a small country.
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  1110.  Mr Awesome  How many people migrate to China vs the US? Also, last I checked I didn't see people of other nationalities lining up to migrate to China in droves. Why do you think the US has a large percentage of its population who come from other parts of the world? It's not a coincidence. It's a popular immigration destination. I also visited Seoul in 2019. On the last day there we saw a yellow haze on the horizon. Our hosts told us that "that's just pollution from China". If Korea is getting a whiff of bad air from China, I can't imagine how clean it would be there. Maybe some metropolitan centers are clean but you can't generalize. My family and I were coughing on our way to the airport. Btw, I'm not American. This is all about comparing America and China so I'm just giving an opinion. And I'm an outsider to both countries. America has its own share of crap but I'm not going to get into specifics here because that's a whole different topic altogether. A clean city all throughout is Tokyo, also Singapore. Even Korea was clean, I was even yelled at for not dropping the recycling in the right bin. But I can't read Korean.
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  1111. That shouldn't be surprising. Lying is normal in their culture.
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  1112. Yes, they were living so "fine", getting all that aid money which is being stolen by Hamas. While Hamas officials live luxurious lives in Qatar and London, Gazans are denied basic necessities. Who are you kidding?
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  1113.  @sridharlanka2721  I know that and that's what's sad. The same kindness won't be returned in kind if the situation was reversed.
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  1114. I'm Filipino and I was raised the same. If I ever decided to buy something expensive I don't need, my parents would shout at me for being so stupid. I don't unserstand the fascination with showing off. It's a weird way to add to your sense of self worth. Not to mention the fact that nobody cares. It's all about the insecure person showing off.
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  1115. 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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  1116. ​ @IshmaelPrice so much students and yet they can't find means and ways to create value in a more sustainable way. Canada is screwed.
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  1117. They're gonna sell it. So anything they can get their grubby hands on they will take and figure it out later.
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  1118.  @acheable  yes, hardwork. Just like digging a ditch for no reason
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  1119.  @acheable  You completely missed my point. But whatever.
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  1120.  @ronnelacido1711  All fun and games until you're traumatized by death and injuries.
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  1121. 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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  1122. Read about China under the KMT. They've always been like this. Not much different when they had emperors either.
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  1123. The bulk of all that money just goes overseas. Come to places like Vancouver - a lot of Chinese here drive luxury cars and live in expensive homes while reporting moderate to no incomes.
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  1124. Difference is when you work long hours in the US, you get paid for it. You don't in China.
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  1125. No. Why should they? No self awareness, no common sense, and everything is politically run.
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  1126. Online shopping isn't doing all that great either. How much of those items are returned?
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  1127. There's no Palestine. Learn history and stop deluding yourself!
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  1128. They've always been the wild wild east
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  1129. 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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  1130. They have SUV's in China. Problem is they don't properly maintain roads and their cars for the snow.
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  1131. Never owned an XBOX, it's Playstation and Nintendo all the way.
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  1132. What he's saying is what our grandfathers and fathers have taught us that society has demonized under this feminist movement.
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  1133. 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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  1134. They scam outside of their country and they get caught too
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  1135. This topic was talked about not even a week ago.
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  1136. Lol, Russia or Kyrgyzstan. Ok...
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  1137.  @mintgumornot  There's a difference between respect and delusion. No, they don't respect themselves because they don't respect reality. They believe whatever they want because it feels good to them.
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  1138. 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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  1139. ​ @TennSingtsuan9697 "easy" until there's an economic down turn then you're just screwed.
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  1140. "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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  1141. They also practice in the most ideal circumstances so as to not make the little emperors piss their pants.
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  1142. ​​ @jmmnlb why? What is it about leftist policies do you like so much? Is it the appeal to feelings and the inability to aknowledge "ugly" reality?
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  1143. When China "outplays" there's always something underhanded involved. Glad you think it's funny.
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  1144. 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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  1145.  @bisbee1678  I'm actually considering this. I want to leave Vancouver. There is nothing here in terms of opportunity. I've been working since I was 18 years old. I'll be 40 in a few years. I work very hard and none of my hard work is yielding any positive results. And I have applied for managerial positions. People I see getting promoted are incompetent jokes. It's time to pack up and leave. It's very lonely here and there is no sense of community.
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  1146. They're done developing. You guys are developing rapidly and so are the rest of Southeast Asia.
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  1147. What's best for the Chinese? What kind of world do you live in?
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  1148. China was once "behind" as well. Everyone has to start somewhere.
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  1149. 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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  1150.  @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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  1151. 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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  1152. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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  1153. All Chinese officials will do is hold the supply and sell them for astronomical amounts.
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  1154. Xi's comment is synonymous to praising someone who is losing weight because they have cancer. What a dolt.
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  1155. Stop lying. It's so annoying.
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  1156.  @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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  1157. Self awareness has been bred out of them. Nothing is ever their fault.
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  1158. This is exactly what I was thinking. It's institutionalized racism masquerading as nationalism. But then again, most nationalism has roots in racism, which China very much is.
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  1159. Same rant. "This is propaganda" "This is propaganda" "This is propaganda" Get a life!
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  1160. Even Somali isn't THAT stupid. That's why he only visits democratic countries. Although, he greatly underestimated South Korea.
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  1161.  bobdoe38  Not likely. Who the hell are they going to steal IP from to close the gap?
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  1162.  @zhuanzhenfan  Wow, you propagandists don't know when to quit. Satellite phones are old technology. They've been around since the late 90's
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  1163. Japan and Germany are the definition of high quality
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  1164. They're clowns. Enough said
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  1165. They manufacture for multinational companies. They don't "own" any supply chain. Guess what happens when multinational companies leave China? Where's their so called "ownership" when companies can just go and manufacture elsewhere?
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  1166. This why they always have IP to develop. It's literally one of the term of doing business there. It's required by law when they aren't outright stealing it.
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  1167. So hypocritical considering they're all about "equality" and "progressiveness" with regard to men and women. What a joke.
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  1168. "Follow the science" insofar as there are no opposing views, which is unfortunate because we don't get to see multiple perspectives.
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  1169. They're all talk and no bite. Skeletor and her brother should really keep their mouths shut. It's not like they can do much anyway other than turn their guns on their own citizens if they feel threatened by them.
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  1170.  @Facts..Checker  Can you learn how to speak proper English? We can't understand what the heck you just said. You also sound like a typical propagandist. There are literally articles of the WHO saying Covid isn't human to human transmissible and tweets to back it up in the early onset of the Wuhan virus even footage of the clown Tedros himself. Are you disputing this? You should know a thing or two about using Western social media since Wumaos love to spam and create disinformation on there. Heck they're all over youtube trying to disprove what everyone in the free world already knows as reality despite being banned in China.
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  1171. 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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  1172. All well and good until the local street enforcers start harassing you.
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  1173. Self awareness has been bred out of them for thousands of years.
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  1174.  @blume0121  The point I was trying to make is that all this "stuff" about dowry, having a house, a car is a stupid societal construct of Chinese society. If they really liked a guy, do you really think that stuff ultimately matters in the end? You already implied in your answer that it clearly doesn't. So why would they adjust their expectations for foreign men and not their own men? That's all I was saying. So what is all this stuff about dowry, a house, and a car for? Modern Chinese women approach marriage as a transaction, which is a big turn off for most men. So it only follows that they remain single. If her delusions trump her sense of humility, she won't be a good wife, and she won't be a good mother. Most men know this, which is why they steer clear of these women. No good redeeming qualities, and too old to change. She already put herself out of the market a long time ago, she just doesn't know it yet. And when a lot of them find out. It's too late.
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  1175. "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) "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
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  1176. 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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  1177. "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" by Ralph Towsend (On China in the 1930's)
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  1178.  @Nick-ij5nt  Just ask people why they should get paid $20 per hour to work at a Starbucks? Watch how they answer. If they say "because I deserve it", you're talking to an idiot. If they answer "well I deserve it because I will do A, B, C...to the moon and back plus X,Y,Z then you know you're with someone who gets it. This attitude of entitlement is a disease and is nearly unheard of in the 3rd world. That's the difference.
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  1179. The world knows it's from China. Everyone is just looking for the smoking gun.
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  1180.  @johnle231  Are slumping sales not proof enough for you? Even with all the government stimulus, it's not changing.
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  1181. 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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  1182. I would choose a Lexus over a Merc and definitely a Merc over a Huawei.
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  1183. Yes. That's why you need to vet their background. And most of them don't. That's the problem.
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  1184. This is true. I live with my mom but I contribute to the expenses and do household chores. My mom hasn't set foot in the grocery for more than a year because I do all the shopping. As much as I want to move out, my finances can barely handle it at the moment.
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  1185. ​ @maxt240 not if you live in city centers
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  1186.  @cyberturkey77  I divert my attention to doing more productive things like going to the gym or cleaning my house. There are better things to do out there. Meditation is another productive thing you can do.
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  1187.  @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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  1188. Western countries can't just accept large swathes of Chinese EV's without government safety and regulation standards. You're talking about crazy liability that the government will have to own up to if accidents and needless deaths happen as a result of their car's sub par quality
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  1189. Yes, more like "confusionism" not "Confucianism". That's China in a nutshell.
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  1190. And the Chinese dismissed it as anti-China propaganda...
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  1191. More like "so called no 2 economy"
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  1192. It all boils down to management.
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  1193. Congrats to ultra religious Christians groups in the UK. You just gave Demi additional PR by rabidly focusing on the art work of her new album.
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  1194. ​ @etherealceleste so the bodies that people scurry over on the streets are actually just sleeping?
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  1195.  @Iamlegend91  Then this shouldn't be news because other countries won't do anything.
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  1196. They DO resemble Winnie the Pooh with the Red top Lol.
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  1197. 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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  1198. 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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  1199. Oh China, they never fail to impress with their lack of diplomacy and crude approach. 5000 years of civilization my ass.
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  1200.  @georgeblayackah9825  You're delusional. More than half of world reserves are the US Dollar. You think countries will just abandon it without a currency that can take its place because they don't like the US?
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  1201. Number 1 rule as a man. Don't touch a woman! Especially a woman who you don't know. This should be basic.
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  1202. Is this how a country that believes in its own vaccines functions? How terribly desperate of them.
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  1203. So why are the bad quality cars still being sold in Brazil? One of two things is happening here. Either the Brazilians aren't learning and keep buying these crappy cars or people aren't complaining enough because these car companies are still allowed to operate.
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  1204. "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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  1205.  @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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  1206.  @JohnDoe-pt7ru  What do you mean by educated? People in Canada go the high school for free unless you go private. In the years I was in elementary and high school we weren't taught things like compound interest and amortization. I can only speak from experience. I don't know how things work in Korea. Yes, there are people who use debt to fill the gap from their high standard of living. But what about the younger generation who buys things because they're trendy? When has getting into debt for consumable items that will inevitably depreciate been the norm? It took a generation to change Korea from a nation of "savers" from the previous generation to now consumers just like the West.
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  1207. Because a "democracy" allows the undesirables to be involved otherwise it wouldn't be "democratic".
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  1208.  @元天-n3w  The whole world should stop doing business with China.
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  1209. No they're not. Stop lying.
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  1210. Lol, they are the biggest one.
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  1211. Leave the petty politics to China. Australia is just like any other country that prioritized their economy. If China were serious about everything they said then they would completely sever ties with Australia. Actions speak louder than words and China talks...A LOT.
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  1212. Yes, in the name of "self defense". Who gets to define what self defense is China? Then by definition they shouldn't have gotten angry when Australia acquired nuclear powered subs.
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  1213. China giving loans to these countries is akin to the bank giving a loan to a single mother who is unemployed and can't work. Unless the bank's intent is to acquire the house, was there ever any intent that that money was ever going to be paid back?
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  1214. No such thing as "saving face" - it's a cop out to justify bad actions and incompetence. It's the mantra of the proud and the slogan of the unteachable.
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  1215.  @mehanimations2675  no they aren't. Not here in North America
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  1216. How does he make sense?
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  1217. Because there's no reason for China to be there.
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  1218. Anyone who thinks China's financial model is "superior" is clearly not paying attention and has a skewed or non-existent measure for gauging a country's financial well being.
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  1219. So gross lol
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  1220. 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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  1221. Lol
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  1222. If you can upload a video of what a typical mall looks like then it would be appreciated.
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  1223.  @slumbermaster6932  No self-respecting man who's been around is going to date her. She has to date down to find someone at this point if she hasn't already.
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  1224. ​ @Zergcerebrates 5000 years of chaos and lawlessness isn't a feat worth boasting about.
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  1225. Not if one of the competitors loves to copy.
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  1226. "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" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1227. Then why did he go to the summit? Putin wasn't there. So why didn't he stay home like his best friend?
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  1228.  @chuifongtam4703  English is the universal language of the world. Are you seriously trying to insult him because he speaks only English?
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  1229. "It is a lamentable but true observation that about the only people doing anything in China are those doing harm. This does not deny that there are Chinese in China who are sincere in deploring the present condition of the country. But they are talkers and not men of action. Proof of their uselessness as a class is found in the fact that there is not under way a single significant movement toward practical improvement. They talk chiefly to others of the same mind, where their talk is unneeded. The educated Chinese are prone to professional diagnosis, and occupy themselves with scholarly discourses calculated to show to people equally scholarly and already in agreement with them that improvement would be a good thing. Convincing one another of what none would dispute is the principal avocation of the group called patriotic." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1230.  @user-pl1ge8to8w  How?
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  1231. Frightening especially for people who are going to use them. They're sub par and therefore dangerous.
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  1232. Waiting for the China bots to appear 😂
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  1233. ​ @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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  1234. She's not playing chess. She's just stalling.
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  1235. ​ @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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  1236.  @winstonpham4809  Is anyone suppressing you in the West? Why even compare the two?
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  1237. 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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  1238.  @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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  1239.  @ezravldina3467  you just proved my point. Why then is there any reason for someone in the middle class to buy over priced luxury items? It's to show off. No other reason. To use bags as an example whether it's $20 or $20,000. It does the same thing. The only thing you get with the latter is bragging rights that you wouldn't get with the former because most people can afford a $20 bag.
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  1240.  @bmona7550  they didn't "wake up". They can't afford it. There's a differrence. Being broke stops you from doing a lot of things
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  1241. They eventually will...
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  1242. They love to accuse others of what they are doing themselves.
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  1243. It's such a dirty term
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  1244. I miss 7/11, Family mart, and Lawson. Food in Japanese convenience stores are unmatched in price and quality.
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  1245. Getting into business is difficult now that most people are hard up economically. Inflation is jyst killing everything.
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  1246. 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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  1247. Why?
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  1248. 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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  1249. Female nature is the same but to what extent it has been warped by feminist ideology depends on the country. I would still much rather go to a country wherein the women see reality for what it is than have princess types who expects to be showered with gifts and praises 24/7. Women in places like Southeast Asia are more pragmatic than in the West. They recognize that men and women have societal roles and are fine with them.
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  1250.  @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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  1251. 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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  1252. Telling the truth on youtube even with sources is now not allowed
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  1253. How exactly is China "advanced" here?
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  1254. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  1255.  @LetsLearnEconomic  Asking China to act checks and balances is like making the local pyromaniac the head of the fire department. You're hilarious.
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  1256. Best joke ever 😂
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  1257. That's sarcasm right?
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  1258.  @matthewdolman  "free" is all relative
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  1259. "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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  1260. 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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  1261. "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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  1262. The opposite is true since Philippine fisherman are getting assaulted not Chinese. Get you facts straight!
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  1263. What a miserable country
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  1264. "Peace and stability" for China always means "it's all about what's convenient for us if that includes stepping on your rights, then so be it"
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  1265.  @shawnrichards1280  I'm not even an American and I want to vote for Trump
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  1266.  @lehmanndj  Nobody voted for the CCP. They forced themselves down the throats of the Chinese people. In fact a lot of Chinese people died as they consolidated power.
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  1267. Peter, can you do a demographics analysis on Southeast Asia? It be interesting to see where they are at and where they are going in terms of a manufacturing base. Thank you.
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  1268. It's hard not to be obsessed with him what with China heading to the gutter and all.
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  1269. Always wanted to visit Taiwan. I have heard nothing but good things about it.
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  1270. 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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  1271. There is no more face to loose at this point
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  1272. That Asian chick thinks she's so slick but in reality most guys would just find her trashy as hell.
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  1273. They're all delusional. It's kind of hilarious.
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  1274. So many countries are naive in this. Either naive or just painfully stupid...
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  1275. 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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  1276.  @JohnJaneson2449  No, they trade to undermine you eventually. They don't care to compete fairly.
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  1277. I'm sure it's much worst behind closed doors and this level of explicitness from them is already pretty bad.
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  1278. ​@ChristianSamsel It's called automation
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  1279. 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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  1280. He's not going to change his tune after everything he's done. That would only make him appear more foolish on the international stage.
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  1281. where to begin?
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  1282. They've always been like this. Doesn't matter who is ruling them. The KMT were no different.
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  1283.  @ronnelacido1711  Lol, yes. Work for free - the best kind of work.
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  1284. If you have to claim something is yours then it's clearly NOT yours. So by your logic someone who steals a car is claiming it's theirs makes it theirs? You're funny.
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  1285. Debt, debt, debt, and more debt. Just keep it coming...
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  1286. "When the Chinese want to be nasty-as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1287.  @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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  1288. 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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  1289. Lol, they're anything but humble. They love to show off for the sake of it.
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  1290. Yes, it's so dangerous that people are lining up to migrate there.
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  1291. They have always been incompetent. They were no different under the KMT and previous dynasties. Widespread corruption has and will always be part of the culture. People in ancient dynasties already practiced the buying of prominent government positions for selfish gains. The only reason why people think they're greater than they think they are is because lying to others is normal to them.
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  1292.  @NappyWayz  Nope. They have always been like this.
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  1293. What about children in other parts of the world?
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  1294. ​ @nymphetts only good luxury cars: Lexus and Acura. Everything else is just garbage.
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  1295. Lol
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  1296.  @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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  1297.  @alanparsonsfan It actually means "unwavering" because we all know they act like they have their shit together when in actuality the system is so corrupt that nothing ever gets done.
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  1298.  @gtw4546  "firmly adhere", "firmly oppose". It's always against the backdrop of resistance. That's why their country is in the mess its in. Everything is forced. No common sense and no planning. Everything is just pure politics.
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  1299. 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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  1300. 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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  1301. ​ @Tribuneoftheplebs a lot of people in that "small percentage" put themselves into debt to buy the latest iphone. That was his point.
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  1302. Loyalty is not to the homeland. It's to cash.
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  1303. It's very typical China
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  1304. Who cares?
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  1305. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different.
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  1306. Rivalry for what? Who's more disgusting?
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  1307. As a soon to be 40 year old millenial, I can tell these kids not much changes when you come into your 30s and 40s.
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  1308. They accuse the West of things they do themselves. It's all from the CCP's communist handbook.
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  1309.  @NTJedi  History does not always repeat itself. Things change and sometimes not for the better especially in China's case.
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  1310. Their "uniform" is what one would wear for PE. That's it.
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  1311. And yet despite this "oppression" they still keep wanting to come to the West to buy property and study here. You're funny.
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  1312. He'll just lie and say he's not connected to the CCP. You can already predict the actions of liars.
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  1313. Does anyone even take what they say seriously? It's just empty noise at this point. They blab for the sake of blabbing.
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  1314. Everything is all about money, including putting up with abuse
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  1315. A more appropriate competitor for the G Wagon would have been the Land Cruiser since both have offroading capability.
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  1316.  蘇喬瑟夫  What happens when you have no money? Nobody stays on top forever. Look at all the great civilizations that have come and gone. Don't be so arrogant to think that you will be any different.
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  1317. Squatting while eating is kind of uncivilized. Just not worth being fined over.
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  1318. That's Chinese society in a nutshell. They don't lift a finger for anyone distressed unless if it's a family member or close friends.
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  1319. Hospitable and airport staff not giving a damn are not the same thing.
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  1320. Most girls are just a cookbook away from being exactly that.
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  1321.  @JohnJaneson  Yes, as China's FDI decreases, Japan's FDI went up as Chinese look for stable means to park their cash.
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  1322. Just goes to show that Saudi was justifying their price hikes to increase profit margin at a time when the world was already feeling the pinch. Why would the prince be bothered by the release of reserves by the US if it didn't affect his bottom line?
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  1323. ​ @peterseth3296 what does that have to do with China's crappy safety record? Stop trying to distract or lie to us. It's truly pathetic.
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  1324. "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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  1325. It's true. At the end of the day, we're all going to die and all we're being are just slaves to money so we can pay for things that ultimately no one outside of ourselves cares about.
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  1326.  @truthprevails4641  There was a time when "luxury" just meant owning a car. The fact that the culture of celebrity and marketing is now pushing brands like LV and luxury cars as the "new norm" hardly seems normal. A lot of people who buy these brands do so with credit. Ever read "The Millionaire Next Door"? Most millionaires don't even drive fancy cars, they drive Toyotas. Nobody is stopping people from buying what they want but at least they should be informed about the consequences of their action. This is where financial education comes in which we don't get.
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  1327. Answer lies in aknowledging reality, not delusions of leftist grandeur.
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  1328. Meanwhile in China: It's not how much you earn, it's how much you can show off
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  1329. Report these clowns. They always do this everytime there's news about China that they don't like.
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  1330. I'm sticking to my two fold Samsung phone and tablet. This is just pure garbage.
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  1331.  @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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  1332. You can't deny that's it's really bad in China though
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  1333.  @derrickgardener2148  People unfortunately don't understand that money has value. We also have governments run amuck that keep endlessly printing money hiking up inflation. Also, how much do government workers make with little to no skill as oppose to a college grad working entry level for a private company? The contrast is staggering. We seriously need to look at the tax system and start putting money in the pockets of those who need it and also start giving people a financial education.
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  1334. They did at one point. I don't know if they took it out of their sound bytes.
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  1335. Yes but they won't. They like to flaunt their so called "superiority" but the reason why they boomed was because western companies were allowed to invest there. There is no appreciation or gratitude from the CCP.
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  1336. It's not. That's the whole point.
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  1337. "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" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930's) "Quoting proverbs about truth in every breath and not to be believed in anything" -Nobody in the free, sane world actually believes China. They've always been like this even before they bought into Communism. Deceit is in their nature. Just look at how they handled the onset of Covid.
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  1338.  @melodicseaweed387  Define "better". By "better" do you mean built to last? What do you mean by "better"? Equating "new" to "better" isn't the same thing if you define it over the long run.
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  1339. This is why multinationals who are smart are diversifying out of China. China is where it is because of globalization. As the world "deglobalizes" from China prices will shift to reflect this new reality.
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  1340. That would make sense. Since these belligerents have zero gratitude and always portrays US in a negative light.
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  1341.  @sergekabwe6878  So how are the third world countries with authoritarian oppressive regimes doing? I would much rather visit Thailand, than Iran or North Korea.
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  1342. In a country where deception is normal, they've come to expect it.
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  1343. Japan and US aren't at war genius.
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  1344. 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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  1345. Chinese business model in a nutshell: no value added proposition, just rock bottom prices for the heck of it.
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  1346. She IS antisemitic. When you call for the end of a people's ideology, what happens to that person? Aren't you in essence erasing them from existence? And she's has the nerve to talk about genocide? What hypocricy!
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  1347. 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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  1348. You're talking about a country wherein its citizens prefer looking at nuclear exhausts as a sign of "development" rather than preserving the beauty of nature. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone anymore.
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  1349. As someone who works graveyard with the inability to sleep normally, this is relatable.
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  1350. Lol under what international law? What about the surrounding countries? So arrogant and ridiculous.
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  1351. Because Xi Jinping?
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  1352. 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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  1353. 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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  1354. 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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  1355. They don't actually care lol. Just look at how they treat their neighbors especially Taiwan. Don't be so naive.
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  1356. Amazon and Rakuten are better.
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  1357. Go home Wumao
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  1358. These cars are such liabilities. And to think they're being sold overseas. If shit hits the fan, there's going to be zero accountability from BYD or any of these other EV companies, or what's left of them.
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  1359.  @paulwheeler8913  I can't imagine a 60 year old rural farmer living on less than $100 per month being tech savy and paying with WeChat. And China has still has millions of these types of people.
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  1360.  @thaisiggi  Southeast Asian countries hate China. Don't lie about China's ties when they're next to nonexistent at this point with other countries. Threatening to shoot unarmed fishermen in their territory is not a good way to maintain ties.
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  1361.  @johndelong5574  It's not just about eliminating the dollar. It's also about Xi controlling everything. If he had access to your bank account he could freeze your assets if you don't follow him. You would be homeless in 24 hours.
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  1362.  @thaisiggi  Like I said, I've been to Japan, even Korea. Those countries are doing something right for them to be where they are. China is a garbage country whose claim to fame is lying, copying, and slave labor. I'd rather go to Thailand or Vietnam. That would be a step up. And as for developed areas. Most 3rd world countries have them. Nothing special about the financial district of China, or their luxury areas. Most countries have those. You think they don't have stores that sell Ferraris or $100 shirts in Philippines or Thailand. They have them there too. If I wanted to see Chinese culture or see proper Chinese values, I would go to Taiwan. I heard nothing but nice things about Taiwan.
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  1363.  @thaisiggi  No German would every say "you have never been to China" over and over because no German would ever care that much. China is not their country. You know who cares that much? Wumaos who have nothing better to do. How are you able to afford an apartment in Japan with your small Wumao salary? Better get a real job. Oh right you don't have one because you work in China. In Japan you would end up on the street. You are fake. Everything about you is fake. Fake fake fake fake fake. Just like the clothes you probably own.
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  1364.  @thaisiggi  Yes keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day you'll believe it too clown.
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  1365.  @thaisiggi  I'm not American you moron! Tell Xi to confess his crimes!!
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  1366. China should seriously stop crying at all comments that don't agree with their deceitful narrative. It's truly ridiculous that all they do is focus on conflict and that they're always the "good guys" in every situation. They really can't be trusted.
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  1367. How is it getting bigger? Production with no buyers is not a good thing.
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  1368. The propaganda is just downright sad.
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  1369.  @genkibob  people who love to flash their wealth are usually not even that rich.
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  1370.  bin  I don't think China can forbid companies from sending their wares to the US or other developed nations who manufacture in SEA. As more countries become wary of China, so too do they become less influential in the world. Why do you think there is a restructuring of the global supply chains? At the end of the day China can only bitch and gripe, they will never change and they should focus on themselves and their shortcomings instead of messing with other countries. Look at Australia as an example, China forbade the import of beef, coal, and barley. Now, they have to contend with rolling blackouts, and a food shortage. What did Australia do? They found other markets like Japan for instance. China is replaceable as a market especially after considering how costly it is to deal with them. It's simply no longer worth it.
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  1371.  @cedriceric9730  that clown has more than one account. Already reported him but youtube hasn't done a thing. More people need to bring this up to youtube.
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  1372.  @allwinyay  I spoke to a family member about this a few years back. Just from a basic investment perspective and common sense I never understood why people put all their eggs (or a big portion of it) in the China basket. A basic rule for investment is diversification. It's not like as if American companies or European Companies will automatically make money in China anyway. There are many horror stories of IP theft which we all know already and lots of legal issues that come with doing business in China. So as a smart company why would you put more than half of your stock in China and have to deal with a mafia style government which makes you beholden to them? That just screams stupid to me and undermines sustainability. Now Australia is being made rudely aware of this fact. There is still Japan and South Korea and Singapore if they were truly interested in diversification and these countries aren't poor. They will buy. But to put it all in China is just dumb.
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  1373. It's all in the past. People need to get over this. These people ranting weren't even there.
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  1374. Don't take the bait Australia.
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  1375. ​ @henli-rw5dw yes, China grew even during zero covid. Who are you kidding? 😂
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  1376.  @tenglim4406  They have to create a "demand" for their infrastructure projects when the demand for infrastructure projects within their own country is waning. There's also bribery and corruption involved among government officials.
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  1377. Define "future". Because the Chinese definition doesn't match actual reality.
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  1378. And to think, they're taking their so called "expertise" overseas to other countries. Scary thought.
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  1379. Your username and statement don't make any sense.
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  1380. They know that. They put him there for all the "anti-China" bashers to say that it was all biased. Anytime, you hear them say "from Beijing" you already know it's a government approved person. The CCP is probably waiting outside his doors and listening in on if he slipped up. If the CCP is watching, this is how a proper debate is done. Different viewpoints from experts and not government approved trolls who just parrot CCP rhetoric until you turn blue in the face.
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  1381. It's all propaganda to tell the world that they're "doing something" when in fact they are incapable of fixing their domestic issues. "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal." - "Way that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  1382. Yup
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  1383.  @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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  1384.  @Kirkrrr  Some cultures practice this more so than others. China is one of those cultures.
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  1385. "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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  1386.  @zatoichiable  Not everyone who can afford a Mercedes buys one. That's a horrible analogy.
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  1387. The robot acts like one of their disgruntled elderly men.
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  1388.  @johntang4108  Tell your people who keep leaving then. Because they clearly missed your memo.
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  1389.  @morbitzWkWk  Are you actually making a case for communism?
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  1390.  @fredericoyj920  But that's the thing. They can't relate to China, maybe as far as Chinese culture is concerned that's obviously something they have in common. But they are no longer exposed to how things actually work in China. If they are feeling under appreciated then that falls on them to figure out why they feel that way. I have encountered Chinese people living all over the place. Some are open to assimilate but a lot also won't. So the onus does not fall on their host country to accept them. Rather, why don't they make an effort to understand other cultures? Part of the reason here is ignorance and a perception of superiority. So you're left with people who feel under appreciated but also won't make the effort to come out of their comfort zone and find out about others. Constantly using China as their talking point also does not help because they are not in China. So what they think they know might be outdated and it's not helping their cause. In the case of state propaganda, it's unverifiable information so you can't even accept it as unadulterated truth.
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  1391.  @eugenetan3828  So then rather than complaining about it why not start the trend yourself of being compassionate. Thinking the way you do obviously doesn't help because you already have a perception that Malays are incapable of being compassionate so you in turn act the same way because you won't initiate in compassionate acts of kindness. You're no better. Stop bitching about the problem and be part of the solution. Be a positive example! And stop with the victim narrative. You're starting to sound like CCP state media.
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  1392. "order in China" is such an oxymoron
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  1393.  @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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  1394. "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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  1395. But notice they're not bitching about it like they do other countries. These countries are a clown show.
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  1396.  @zt3435  Taiwan has nuclear plants. They can produce nukes if they wanted to, the same goes for Japan.
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  1397. World pandemic treaty excluding Taiwan.
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  1398. Yes, and don't forget that Thai accent.
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  1399.  @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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  1400.  @MWH12085  Lol, whatever they accuse of others of gives insight into what they themselves do.
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  1401. Typical "also in America" comment. Where is your proof of this?
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  1402. ​ @MisterHowzat so were other dynasties and regimes...
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  1403.  @aldopalomino9156  Even the Chinese people in China don't believe it.
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  1404.  @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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  1405.  @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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  1406.  @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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  1407. 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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  1408.  @Nathan-ry3yu  Freedom of navigation in Southeast Asia makes sense because it's a major trade route. China coming into Australia doesn't make much sense unless they want to waste a lot of money just burning gas, just like their ineffective sanctions against the US. This is just an empty gesture. But hey, they already kind of did it. They came close to Alaska and just hung out there then left.
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  1409. It has been known for years that fb and instagram don't promote positive self esteem. Did we really need a whistle blower to tell us this? Where the hell have people been these last few years?
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  1410.  @Tokmurok  Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan to name a few places in Asia that are more developed...
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  1411. Billionaire don't buy sub par garbage.
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  1412.  @darthvadeth6290  What history? The history that the CCP made up? NO other country in Southeast Asia has this "history". Where China's ancient map that shows this? Oh right. there isn't any other than what the KMT decided in the 1940s'. Your argument doesn't hold water. If you're going to lie about ownership at least try to make some sense.
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  1413. They won't. Some of them said that when Trump was voted in the first time. Which celebrity actually kept to their word? Nobody.
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  1414.  @ronnelacido1711  Yup, bragging for the sake of bragging.
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  1415. That sounds gross. Dead snakes in jars is nasty.
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  1416.  @uminoicam9440  They want to bring back their backwards tribute system. They never moved on from their so called "glory days" which were not all that glorious.
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  1417. Whatever little money they get is still going to be offset by massive debt. So it's still a net negative for them.
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  1418. 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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  1419.  @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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  1420.  @jhendukhan4363  Everything is all about power. Call it whatever you want, capitalism, communism, religion. It's all the same. Everything is about control.
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  1421. China has no shame. Seen what they've been doing on the world's stage lately? They have no more face to loose.
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  1422. Paraguay was fine before China, they will be fine after China.
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  1423. Maid cafes, cat cafes, muscle cafes, etc. Been to a pig cafe in Harajuku as well.
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  1424. Just watch every 2 to 3 days then.
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  1425. That's nice that you feel sympathy towards them when they feel none of that towards you.
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  1426. Being inconsiderate is innate in their culture. This isn't all that surprising.
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  1427. That's how two faced and manipulative their child government is
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  1428. That's good
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  1429.  @YouCantHandleTheTruth.  The company that she works for obviously doesn't seem to think so and people are still tuning in from all over the world to watch her. At the end of the day, she's the one up there breaking the news to the world. You aren't.
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  1430. "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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  1431. If you felt bad before using them, you will feel worst after 🤣. It's a boon for the hospital industry.
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  1432. Most people can't pay for an iPhone outright in cash. Doesn't matter what country they're from.
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  1433. "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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  1434.  @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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  1435. Quite rich for a homeless person since he can be afford to be homeless overseas as well.
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  1436. @Andres Google "negativity bias". It's hard wired into humanity. It's the reason why we're all here. Our ancestors who constantly worried were the ones who survived. Unfortunately, we haven't biologically caught up to the fact that we will probably be ok. We don't need to run and hide from wild animals anymore but our stressors have changed to things like work related stress. Meditating does help because it allows you to focus on the present and not be identified with the mind and its endless chatter so much.
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  1437. Such "cute" wishful thinking. If only it were somewhat rooted in reality.
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  1438. Yes, with sub par, toxic items. That's how...
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  1439. "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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  1440.  @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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  1441.  @darkflamemaster824  "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" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  1442. Glad you feel that way towards them. Can't say they feel the same way towards you.
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  1443. 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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  1444. If you have to say the steak is "real", it probably isn't. The lies never end...
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  1445. So much for all that "brothers in arms" nonsense...
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  1446. Then they should boycott their goverment because a lot of CCP members hold overseas citizenship.
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  1447.  @看蛙蛙叫  China is not a reliable source of data. You can't blame others for not believing, especially in a country that values "face" over the truth.
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  1448.  @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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  1449.  @christinaguzi5253  I'm not an American and I agree with you.
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  1450. ​ @Phi.D.888 You should try the roast dragon. Tastes like chicken.
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  1451.  @TH-jd1kv  No they're not. Don't even put the two in the same category. Don't insult the Japanese.
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  1452. 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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  1453. Serfs and slaves have always existed in China. Difference between now and before is that in recent years the serfs were given more opportunity, it's all gone now.
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  1454. 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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  1455. If China does not allow an independent investigation they should boycott the Olympics and declare China guilty of crimes against humanity.
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  1456. Introspection and self awareness has been bred out of them for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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  1457. ​​ @RicArmstrong low quality and very wasteful
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  1458. Wow, China is really regressing in more ways than one.
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  1459. ​​ @kate2create738 "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 (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China) The Chinese have always been abusive towards foreigners. Why we would expect anything less despite historical evidence is beyond me. China did not change. So clearly there's something wrong with the West.
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  1460. It's getting harder and harder to keep money and politics separate in China. Those who don't learn will get seriously burned.
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  1461. He doesn't have anything to gain financially from Ukraine. But he does in China. That's why he looks ridiculous to an external onlooker.
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  1462. 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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  1463. Because people in the free world literally have nothing to bitch about so they make up these "issues" because drama is better than good ole boring sanity.
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  1464. No it's not. It's about creating a culture that rewards said hard work and promotes fairness. But that's not what we see in the real world. It's all politics and ego.
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  1465. Yup. A lot of what China is is mountains and dessert. What little arable land there is is shrinking rapidly.
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  1466. That's centralized government planning for you, woefully inefficient and costly in the long run.
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  1467. 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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  1468. 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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  1469. 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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  1470. Their HSR is accumulating debt. Just because you own something expensive doesn't necessarily mean you won't go unto debt maintaining that thing especially if it's poorly managed. Like everything else in China, it's all smoke and mirrors. No different than owning Ferrari but don't have the money to put gas in it or money to maintain it.
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  1471. 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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  1472. What you don't understand is that China has always been like this. Yes, they had Emperors and kings, but how did those dynasties end? With social upheaval and overreach resulting in regime change. And the cycle continued for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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  1473.  @liesterminator153  what's wrong with protecting your loved ones if you croak because of faulty car craftsmanship?
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  1474.  @uttaradit2  Never seen any videos of dancing Israelis. The only dancing Israelis were slaughtered during Oct 7. Stop framing Palestinians to be victims when there are absolutely zero Jews that live there and Arabs who live in Israel who aren't being harassed.
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  1475.  @kshen7485  So then why don't they just do it? All this talk doesn't mean jack squat. ""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 " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1476. 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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  1477. Quite a few countries in Southeast Asia don't have a particularly good history with the US. But when push comes to shove, most of them will still pick the US over China. With the US, you get to express disagreements, with China you have no options other than to appease the CCP. Hence, China is much worse and a much larger threat. Dealing with the Chinese is like dealing with a bunch of humanoid uncompromising robots.
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  1478.  @Placefriday  🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1479. 'over 90 million members' - what an overly bloated government. No wonder their budget's are through the roof.
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  1480. This is what happens when their internet doesn't allow them to access the outside world.
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  1481. Well it starts with Chinese face culture which is a copout to avoid responsibility therefore nothing ever changes.
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  1482. It's not. It's about keeping the Indo Pacific free from Chinese imperialism.
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  1483. You need to read "ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. He was a consul in a 1930's China. It goes into detail about the Chinese psyche and why they do what they do.
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  1484. 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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  1485. Men understand that concept moreso than women
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  1486.  @tonysu8860  They're obvious now. But he also says we have always known we were going to get here due to demographics.
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  1487.  @Andy-P  "Double speak"? More like "delusional speak". They're not fooling anybody.
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  1488. ​ @JonySmith-bb4gx  It's a perspective from someone who has been in the country. What kind of proof do you want? I also gave you the name of the book. It's not something I pulled out of my ass.
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  1489. ​ @mickgatz214 Tesla and BYD aren't the same. Why even compare the two?
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  1490. A lot of their "ways" have endured simply because nobody ever questions why they do what they do. They're that close minded.
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  1491. What Victor Gao said is typical Chinese style manipulation - they need to look at the state of their country before criticizing others. So ridiculous and a pathetic attempt at deception.
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  1492.  @Terecxx  chip components are made in multiple parts of the world. In facts TSMC is opening processing plants in the US.
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  1493.  @scottdavis8273  "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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  1494. ​ @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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  1495. "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) "It is a lamentable but true observation that about the only people doing anything in China are those doing harm. This does not deny that there are Chinese in China who are sincere in deploring the present condition of the country. But they are talkers and not men of action. Proof of their uselessness as a class is found in the fact that there is not under way a single significant movement toward practical improvement. They talk chiefly to others of the same mind, where their talk is unneeded. The educated Chinese are prone to professional diagnosis, and occupy themselves with scholarly discourses calculated to show to people equally scholarly and already in agreement with them that improvement would be a good thing. Convincing one another of what none would dispute is the principal avocation of the group called patriotic" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1496.  @boundless1494  Their own government officials don't trust their own numbers and have resorted to other metrics to "measure" GDP.
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  1497.  @johns512  No country has put itself on a massive scale of debt like China. The US has debt, but it doesn't spend debt on empty infrastructure projects.
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  1498. Except the government does not want to because it's easy to control the masses that way. Most people are not going to take initiative to educate themselves on issues either.
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  1499.  @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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  1500. This is what I keep saying. The only thing that has changed in China is that they live in modern homes and drive modern cars. But their mentality remains like it's from the dark ages. You need to read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. He tried to look for evidence that China was different in the past and found no proof that it was. The only thing that ever changes in China are their leaders. And their leaders can be as abusive as they want to be. And the people can't do anything about it.
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  1501. ​ @Rotary650 yes, 20 to 70 years to be exact
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  1502. Taiwan needs nukes at this point
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  1503.  @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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  1504. 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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  1505. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  1506.  @rashius  it was all over the news before the sanctions. From multiple sources
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  1507. You're right. The US can't compete with prison style labor that's why they're bringing up the issue of Xinjiang.
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  1508. This is true. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  1509. "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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  1510. ​ @sarath_babu yes, dragons don't exist
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  1511. It's pure propaganda. They don't even define what "far ahead" means because they aren't.
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  1512. Chinese aesthetic in what?
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  1513. China is quite poor though
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  1514.  @SUPERPOWERCHINA_  Looks like someone forgot to take their medication today
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  1515. "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 organizations. 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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  1516. China has always been like this historically. Even during the days of the KMT, they sacked politicians and you just never heard from them again. This practice still continues.
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  1517. Yup, from one oppressed authoritarian country to another. What could go wrong?
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  1518. Or you can just start your own small business. But it takes dedication and a lot of hard work. You will be working hard but at least it's for yourself.
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  1519. That's why it went out of control. People buying multiple properties only serves to limit supplies regardless of the person's credit rating. That's how distorted their housing market has become.
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  1520. They will never admit to anything no matter how ridiculous they look or sound.
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  1521. What was the appeal in the first place? The chaos, the pollution, the inability to access the internet? What is it? You can find similar aspects of the culture in Taiwan and it's much safer.
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  1522. 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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  1523. Can't buy furniture to furnish homes that were never built.
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  1524. ​ @rando6836 it's kind of bizarre. I would just go to the gym
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  1525. Lol, exactly
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  1526. 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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  1527. I never understood why it is called "dynamic" in dynamic zero covid. Last I checked, there was nothing dynamic about being locked up. Are we now going yo say that people in prison are in "dynamic self reflection" such use of words is just clownish.
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  1528. The freedom to complain is being exhausted by these do nothing, good for nothing morons that won't stop crying over spilled milk. What a disgrace!
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  1529. What a career choice. To be constantly arrested for issues that she knows nothing about.
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  1530. They're too apathetic to do so.
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  1531. They should be more concerned with the safety standards of those EVs as BYD EV's and the like have been known to spontaneously combust, while charging and when in use in the road. Also, airbags do not deploy when the cars get in an accident. The questionable quality of these death traps are a liability.
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  1532. This should be obvious by now.
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  1533. "Chinese" and "reliability" don't belong in the same sentence.
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  1534.  @davidradtke160  And yet the same can't be said about them. They don't have anyone who is not of Chinese descent in politics. So they can't keep comparing and looking for loopholes when they are among the most racist people on the planet.
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  1535. Pretty much.
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  1536. That's weird
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  1537. Better things to do? Like what? Fix the housing crisis? Help the flood victims? Help lower unemployment? Oh wait, he hasn't done anything about those problems. Don't make us laugh. All he cares about is what's for lunch and when he will go to sleep.
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  1538.  @recondax  CCP thought process: There is no thought process other than to get what they want regardless of the consequences.
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  1539.  @mcihs2  Well most people are basic, just an empty shell.
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  1540.  @flowers59366  Forget the hair. Look at how he rolls up his sleeves pretending to do work. He's just the coolest 🤣
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  1541.  bobdoe38  Satellite phones are old technology. They've been around since the late 90's. Ever hear of the Motorola Iridium 9500? So sad that you're bragging about technology that's 25 years old. You can't even distinguish between old and new technology and China wants to lead the tech race? 🤣🤣🤣
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  1542.  @zhuanzhenfan  Nothing to do with Taiwan? Then why bring up the fact that the owner of TSMC is from China? That's irrelevant to the argument.
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  1543.  @zhuanzhenfan  Even buses and airplanes have Wi-fi nowadays. What's the point of having a satellite phone? Are you a fisherman? Do you work in an oil rig in the middle of nowhere? Who are you going to sell this to? This phone's capability is on the same level as phones that run on Snapdragon 888: OPPO Find X5, Realme GT 2, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Vivo iQOO Neo 5S, OPPO Find N, Sony Xperia Pro1, OnePlus 9RT, and Microsoft Surface Duo 2 are examples of the phones that run on this processor. Nothing fantastic about this phone and even representatives from Huawei haven't come out and said anything about this phone, just people representing the CCP. There's seriously nothing special about this phone.
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  1544. And yet AOC conveniently left that part out hmmm....
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  1545. I don't understand why Samsung just won't colab with Hyundai/Kia. Samsung actually has some background in car making even though they didn't pursue it on the same level as Hyundai/Kia. Imagine the possibilities. Or LG and Hyundai/Kia would be another insane combo. Full LG infotainment systems on Hyundais and Kias would be next level for both companies.
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  1546. 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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  1547. 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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  1548.  @craiggillett5985  Thank goodness more and more products are being manufactured elsewhere. If only there were much more also preferably from foreign companies that are NOT Chinese companies.
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  1549. China frequently lies about its GDP. Nobody in China knows what the real numbers are.
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  1550. What facts and findings?
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  1551. China has no right to demand to see the Queen. it's not their damn country. Do they truly have no shame? Sick.
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  1552. Lol even with evidence you choose to delude yourself bot
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  1553. @cherylrichard3059 Not really, it just looks that way.
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  1554. "I bash and hate the West but I will still go there to get educated"
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  1555.  @Typhoonbladefist  I don't know how its spreading. I'm just saying what they said in the early onset of the pandemic. Why don't you ask those stupid clowns in WHO?
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  1556. Define "good"?
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  1557.  @KevinJohnson-fw8kv  Nothing drove China's growth more than housing. Yes, multinationals had a hand in creating jobs for them but what they did in terms of their earnings was double down on the property sector. It's why they took on loans the size of which are now unmanageable.
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  1558. Get Japanese or South Korean. Those cars are far superior and easier to maintain.
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  1559. 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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  1560.  @DC-wo2yb  Everything hinges on the US economy. That would be really stupid and willingly blinding yourself to reality.
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  1561. The CCP don't live in reality because it's the people who will foot the bill, not them. They are always free of responsibility. Haven't you noticed?
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  1562. No, I think the delusional people on this thread who think Xi isn't a dictator are.
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  1563. You say that and yet the world isn't holding China accountable.
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  1564. If that has to be said then it's ultimately not true.
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  1565. They don't celebrate anything without crackdowns. It's a "no fun" country.
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  1566.  @farquad4192  You make your money once. Never again because you scammed someone. What kind of business model is that?
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  1567.  @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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  1568. It's amazing how women make things easy for men they like.
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  1569. They won't. They value their so called "face" more than the truth.
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  1570.  @Nick-ij5nt  Ok, so what can people in the West produce at a profit that is also simultaneously expensive in order to pay for higher than normal wages? Because this is what the problem is right? Let's add to the fact that you have unions and regulations up the wazoo that nobody in their right mind will every want to start a business over there. I certainly wouldn't. So what's the solution?
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  1571.  @Nick-ij5nt  By the way, I work in a unionized environment. Paid leave, you name it. Do you think the people I work with are anymore hardworking or even grateful? Hell no. And you wonder why the west is in decline.
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  1572.  @Nick-ij5nt  Exactly, that's the whole point I was trying to make. Why do you think China keeps its currency low? Because it knows if it reaches "developed" status everyone would leave China and go elsewhere to do cheap labor. So they throw in perks like economic zones, low taxes etc. Why the hell doesn't the West adopt these measures? Too stuffy and arrogant I suppose. Western companies going to China to do their business dealings should already inform you a lot about the West's state of decline as far as "high pay" (I use it loosely because "high pay" is relative to another country's) and stagnant/declining quality is concerned. They're like rats running from one side of a sinking ship to the other. They tell us a lot about ourselves but we won't pay attention.
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  1573.  @obsidianstatue  India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico to name a few...What was China before they became a manufacturing hub? You think other countries can't follow suite?
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  1574. A masculine man has more mass appeal than a pretty boy. Not all masculine men are pretty boys and vice versa.
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  1575. Why is that woman so offended? It was criminal for the KKK to do that in the past, how are these pro terror sympathizers any different?
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  1576. No, not like the US. Last I checked, people are lining up to migrate to the US. Nobody and I mean NOBODY is lining up to migrate to a crappy country like China. Let's not delude ourselves here.
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  1577.  @skydragon23101979  Stop talking to everyone about "rule of law" when China makes things up as they go and shirks international law when it's inconvenient for them. You're only nullifying your argument.
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  1578. Why doesn't Skeletor just mind her own business?
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  1579. Their "status" as second largest economy is open to debate since their GDP numbers have been wonky from the get-go. Analysts have pegged China's economy closer to Japans than the US.
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  1580. It's a lawless country that favors the rich and corrupt and prosecutes the victim. What do you expect?
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  1581. 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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  1582. The rich and powerful are leaving in record numbers. 🤣
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  1583. Cost of living will drop? How are you going to make money when your job has been taken by AI? You're going to be completely reliant on the state for everything. This sounds like a nightmare. What's your robot going to do for you when you can't even buy raw materials to plant if you're a farmer or parts to maintain the robot? Chinese people will still need a job to maintain all of this. You're looking at a government that has completely subjugated its people.
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  1584. Lol, China just makes it up as they go. They never had a plan. They just wing everything.
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  1585.  @willpugh-calotte2199  I hope they ban them from leaving indefinitely. They need to change how things work in their country instead of constantly running away from their problems.
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  1586. 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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  1587.  @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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  1588. ​ @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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  1589. China is printing money at an astonishingly faster rate than the US. How is the debt level so hard to believe?
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  1590. "This characteristic of the Chinese, their cheerful indifference to truth, exasperates a foreigner perhaps more than any quality in their nature. And as is natural, without any conception of truth as a principle among themselves, they seem frequently incapable of believing anything said to them by others. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "And they do not have a satisfactory mental connection between academic ability and practical application" - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend
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  1591. Most people who pursue power are doing it for all the wrong reasons. It's because they have something to prove. That's why everything unnerves them. Their fragile egos can't take the heat.
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  1592. That's how screwed the economy is.
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  1593.  @MrToubrouk  The Chinese never do. Haven't you noticed? They literally have hundreds of years of history to draw from. But double down on the same things over and over again.
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  1594.  @MrToubrouk  Nah, I've seen this movie one too many times. It's boring and uninspired.
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  1595. Kissinger has always been pro China. China can do no wrong in his eyes. So ridiculous. Why not just deal with other countries?
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  1596. "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" by Ralph Townsend (on China in the 1930's) - not much has changed.
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  1597. Why do the new BMW's look like their taking inspiration from Kia/Hyundai lookswise?
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  1598. Never liked CNN's left wing propaganda. Now I have more reason not to like them as a network.
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  1599. Typical response from China
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  1600. Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day it will come true.
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  1601. $76,000 for a Lambo? Damn. That's a bargain.
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  1602. If they did that would be an act of war. So yeah, it's "good" that they didn't. It's not exactly a laughing matter.
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  1603.  @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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  1604. Because Canada's demographics is in decline. It's been in decline since the late 70s with no course of correcting itself indefinitely. They need suckers to come in and pay into the system and buy overpriced housing while simultaneously becoming beholden to the banks with their measly incomes earned as a Canadian citizen. Transnational criminals working for hostile foreign governments (IE China, Iran etc) don't have this problem. They can just bring in their cash and buy multimillion-dollar properties in full and avail of the perks of being a Canadian citizen and declare "low income" and the perks that come with such a declaration. Even refugees have it better than Canadians born and raised in the country. No paperwork is needed (last I checked) and you get a free handout from the government. Syrian refugees get $3000 from the government while the typical Canadian struggles to make ends meet. The typical Canadian barely makes $2000 a month net and that's someone who isn't working minimum wage.
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  1605. In China, school children also get stabbed and revenge killings happen wherein people run over innocent victims.
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  1606. This makes sense. Unfortunately, government curriculum won't allow it because they want you as stupid and as submissive as possible. It's easy to manipulate a divided, paranoid, anxious population. Just look at China and North Korea. I'm sure this happens in the U.S. to some extent as well.
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  1607. 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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  1608. They should have also included the carrying of two heavy buckets going up a thousand steps. That's also very typical of Kung Fu straining montages that they can exploit.
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  1609. My brother stopped over China once. Airport staff were not helpful. No wifi despite yakking about how 'advanced' they are technologically and super polluted. It was disgusting.
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  1610.  @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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  1611. I only have 1 credit card and no debt. It looks like I can't either...
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  1612. As soon as you're done paying off your car, you will get calls every so often for an "upgrade" from the dealer. Having to go through numerous cars over your lifetime gets underwhelming after a while. Novelty lasts for maybe a month at best.
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  1613. 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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  1614. They won't. They've always tolerated tyrannical rulers. Read history.
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  1615. Whatever you say to justify their lack of insight...
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  1616. Successful in creating chaos. What's their ultimate end goal? Other than to piss everyone off?
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  1617. That's not always true, which makes that statement a lie.
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  1618. Why couldn't they have thought to do this in the first place?
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  1619. How did NATO and US instigate? Can you explain?
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  1620.  @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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  1621.  @kevinclasher3160  Are you serious?
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  1622. Palestine is not a country.
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  1623. No. It's their mantra at this point. Not that anyone takes them seriously. They're such clowns.
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  1624.  @Monkey341  So then wouldn't EU support Russia given what they have done because they have an interest in doing so? What you just said defies common sense because that's not what we're seeing.
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  1625.  @EnriquePerezBarahona  Don't forget "desperate". These clowns are being put to the test by the very same people who are supposed to be recipients of a "superior" authoritarian system that is supposed to eliminate poverty and inequality. What better way to test that theory then when the world is economically in shambles caused by none other than China in the first place. Soviets create the problem and when they can't shake off their man made disasters (due to their incompetence), they point fingers to the west because they know the folly of their own system.
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  1626. With lack if money comes such an obvious realization lol
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  1627. "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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  1628. There are more and more products on Amazon not made in China. So it's slowly changing.
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  1629. Lost decade of stagnation. China is no longer growing as it did before.
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  1630. "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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  1631. You're assuming that stimulus will go to high growth yielding sectors. Not all sectors are obviously going to outperform and some sectors are more intertwined than others. This just sounds like a scatter shot with the hope that something will stick.
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  1632. Everything in China is an illusion, including the fact that they have law enforcement that enacts laws.
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  1633. Malaysia is also heavily indebted to China, so that helps as well
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  1634. You can cut back on taxes, all that's going to do is encourage people to spend more. It's really all about raising people's awareness when it comes to finance.
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  1635. 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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  1636. Huawei got into the piggery business as well. Maybe they should just invest in pigs.
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  1637. Yup, you're all treated like garbage all the same.
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  1638.  @walter3433  You clearly haven't heard of State owned enterprises.
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  1639. It will never get solved because these housing companies spent themselves stupid with little to no accountability
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  1640.  @longmarch2668  I don't have to answer to you. And calling me names isn't going to get you what you want. Do you work for the CCP? Why do you care so much?
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  1641. That's China's logic for you. Devoid of common sense. "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 are 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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1642. @hieveryone2003 "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) "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 Lying is just second nature to them. Stop justifying why they do what they do. And don't use the "Asian" argument that they're trying to build relationships. As an Asian, this is bs. You won't have much of a relationship if you are constantly being lied to. Also you know who maintains a straight face while lying to you? Criminal psychopaths.
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  1643. Because greed makes everyone stupid.
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  1644. Well they are aren't they?
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  1645. they would get water damaged. So no, they wouldn't work
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  1646. Nobody held a gun to Sri Lanka's head forcing them to take money from China. Victim mentality doesn't work here. Didn't they have accountants or lawyers scrutinize the terms and do the math for the loans? Sri Lanka has corrupt politicians who sold out. It is what it is.
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  1647.  @QuizmasterLaw  Nobody cares if you wrote an 8 page essay refuting someone. If I wrote a 20 page essay refuting what you wrote, would that make me an authority over everything you just said? No. So why not break down "what he got wrong" and refute it.
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  1648.  @zt3435  It's hard to back a dragon into a corner when it can fly. Otherwise, it's not a real dragon.
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  1649. So what do call what happened in Galwan a couple of years ago? An attempt at a friendly alliance? 🤪
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  1650.  @david50665  Chinese do have an effect. It's hard to compete with CCP officials who come here in droves when the typical Canadian is having a hard time making ends meet.
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  1651. 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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  1652.  @ghosttheprogram6973  What agenda are you talking about? I don't want my shit being known by everyone. We're not all celebrities or "influencers" despite what you may think. If you don't want your issues out there, don't talk about them in public. It's that simple. Are we now politicizing common sense? Get real. This is has nothing to do with your status by the way because there are rich people who exist who are extremely private.
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  1653. ​ @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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  1654. "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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  1655. Greed and stupidity until they are taught a costly lesson
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  1656. They don't care about anything other than filling their pockets and their own conveniences.
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  1657. A lot of Muslim leaders are bought by the CCP. That's how important "Muslim rights" are in their minds. They're willing to sellout to an oppressive regime that prosecutes Muslims. The way these Muslim leaders act towards the West is different from the way the act towards China. It's purely political. And what the hell is religion? If not another way to institutionalize control over people.
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  1658. 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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  1659. Not intelligent enough to innovate especially when thoughts are censored
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  1660. I miss the Katsu sandwiches, rice balls, and Japanese style pasta from 7/11. We don't have that in North America.
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  1661. How do you explain them building more coal plants despite demand being at an all-time low? It doesn't make sense. Yes, they use that power to manufacture but they also need it more for their own domestic use. Probably even more so.
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  1662. Same here. China is dead last on my bucket list, along with North Korea. Why would anyone even go to those God forsaken places?
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  1663. China also caused the pandemic and still have not taken "responsibility" for that as well.
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  1664. Everything to do with China reminds you of the USA. Like as if protests only happen in the US.
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  1665. Problem is nobody can go there because everyone is stuck in snow.
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  1666. Unless he keeps the car accessories on for extended periods without the engine running to keep the alternator running that chargers the battery, it's all just a waste of effort and is just purely stupid.
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  1667. Never trust China's word at face value. Lying is second nature to them. They also don't respect contracts.
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  1668. Not really. He was caught.
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  1669.  @kimburgham3212  Nobody should. And the world is slowly waking up to that fact. Just look at all the protests all over the world.
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  1670.  @KevinQu  Philippines provokes China in its own waters? What are you a comedian?
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  1671. I'm sure Elon knows what he's getting into. And if he wasn't told. It's his problem for wanting a piece of the Chinese market.
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  1672. It was not really a proposal. Just a bunch of vague statements that everyone already agrees on (ie) "everyone should respect each other's territorial sovereignty" - well, no shit. China did not suggest any practical solutions because they wanted to stay "neutral" even though their actions say otherwise.
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  1673. They're still doubling down on construction? This is just ridiculous. Keep kicking that can down the road.
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  1674.  @JohnJaneson  Read up on China under the KMT. They've always been like that.
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  1675.  @Sebastianmaz615  Everything they produce has a nefarious purpose in mind. Make no mistake.
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  1676. Who's buying the gold? The government? or Chinese people? How much of that gold is fake?
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  1677. 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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  1678. It looks like something Fisherprice would make
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  1679. This is making news because it's Shanghai. You would never hear from 2nd and 3rd tier cities in China.
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  1680. ​ @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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  1681. Except when America does that in Hawaii, people in Hawaii aren't on high alert and ready for war. Who are you kidding?
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  1682. Yes, the Ukranian president ordered Russian tanks in their territory and took diplomacy of the table. Get real. It's like blaming a rape victim for being raped. Such clown logic.
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  1683. ​ @Amit-kw1os he also forgot the fact that India is richer than North Korea. Missles don't mean anything when majority of North Korea's people are starving to death.
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  1684. I laughed so hard when you said that what the guy did by checking Netflix offended her because he was impressed by the novelty of Netflix.
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  1685. Expectations and reality are two different things. In China's case, growth is what the government wants it to be.
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  1686.  @Frpar123  How is this a joke? Care to explain?
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  1687.  @frayedsilence2261  What you're thinking of falls more in line with communal living, not communism. Communism requires the reallocation of resources on a massive national scale. That's why it's never perfect. Which therefore, can't be done. If you want to live in a tribal society wherein people farm just the right amount of food for the people in the local community who share the same values then that would probably make more sense.
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  1688.  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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  1689. They have always had this mindset. It's not because of the CCP. Even under the KMT this behavior was already documented. "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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  1690. Because they don't get any other time to do this.
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  1691.  @AnthZee82  What was there to like?
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  1692. They barely speak about Tesla. The hell are you talking about?
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  1693.  @Manhasnoname8645  They don't have the newest buildings but what makes Taiwan what it is is you can experience freedom without fear of reprisal from the government so long as you keep your nose clean and obey local laws.
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  1694.  @Manhasnoname8645  Care to explain why China would be better than Taiwan?
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  1695.  @Manhasnoname8645  I went to Taiwan for a visit. I am not Taiwanese nor am I politically affiliated with any party. Can't even talk about comparing China and Taiwan without bringing up politics. That's how I know you're full of it.
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  1696. Yes, they think we are THAT stupid apparently
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  1697.  @jbird4478  All critical thinking and questions are censored. That should tell you how much they want to control the narrative. Why do you think journalists get killed or thrown in jail? Because they ask questions.
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  1698. Where are all the bots yakking about anti-China hate at?
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  1699.  @fastepo  Yes. CCP lies. So no, they aren't correct. And if it's from a different source, they can always pay to publish whatever they want. CCP's credibility is shot. Especially after COVID, nobody believes them anymore.
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  1700.  @calvinblue894  Ok...continue living in delusion.
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  1701. I love how they talk about "US Hegemony" without offering any solutions that are better and will mutually benefit everyone. It's just another China bitch fest.
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  1702. Why don't they unplug the battery before leaving it? So dumb.
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  1703. This is me when I work graveyard
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  1704.  @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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  1705. Yup, some people are still avoiding the memo though.
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  1706. Men ARE the price lol.
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  1707. It never occured to him that dried grass was kindling?
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  1708. Their version is Douyin.
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  1709. That's how backward they are. The fact that they "think" its face saving behavior is ridiculous. And it's always justified with them. In other cultures, that's just bad behavior no matter what stupid reason you give it.
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  1710. Never visiting China. It truly looks like hell on earth.
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  1711. Lol, I like your comment. In fact, they should keep Zero covid indefinitely.
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  1712. 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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  1713. Millenials have neither time nor money to raise kids. I thought this was an obvious fact?
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  1714.  @fastepo  "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
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  1715. Don't bother with authoritarian or communist cheerleaders. All they do is talk. It's all devoid of substance anyway.
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  1716. It's a year a little too late there Tedros.
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  1717. She's not and she knows it. She's just "acting" like she is.
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  1718. They respond just like clockwork.
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  1719. 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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  1720. This country always "grows" despite surge in unemployment, a bad housing market, and a slow down in orders. Looks like they found a way to defy numbers and logic.
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  1721. What abour Covid? Are you forgetting that China's irresponsibility caused the lives of millions world wide.
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  1722. "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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  1723. The problem is that the University did not act on this crap right away. Now they are trapped. This is what happens when bad actions are tolerated.
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  1724. Masters and PhD weren't common a couple of decades ago. It's that there are no more jobs left.
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  1725. ​ @gijohns7860 clown again?
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  1726. And then what? It will just rebound, which only goes to show where true value lies.
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  1727.  @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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  1728.  @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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  1729.  @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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  1730. Nobody actually knows how many people died in China. Until it could be verified, it's always going to be in the air for questioning.
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  1731. What was funny about it?
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  1732.  @shundi4264  Keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day it will be true.
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  1733.  @shundi4264  Distorted? I have friends from China who tell me that what's happening there is not good. Are their views distorted too? Keep dreaming. Also, you come here time and time again calling all this "propaganda", why are you still here? I don't go on CGTN again and again calling that trite propaganda. Get a life.
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  1734.  @shundi4264  prove that this is even US propaganda and not some independents doing it.
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  1735. They barely freeze their food and don't use driers. What makes you think majority have heard of an RV?
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  1736. I had a co worker from Harbin and she told me that China stopped growing a long time ago. That's why she looked for work overseas.
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  1737. "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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  1738. When my Filipino dad visited New York, he used a public washroom in a neighborhood that was predominantly black. A black man approached him and told him "you shouldn't be here" and told him to leave ASAP because there was a chance he was going to attract the "wrong" attention. Needless to say, he took the man's advice and left immediately. This was quite telling.
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  1739. No, it's because of all the pollution in China and the tainted water and food.
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  1740.  @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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  1741.  @李荣-n7s  So in China, little girls don't get kidnapped?
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  1742. Everyone can see she's a CCP puppet.
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  1743. I love the fact that these China shills love to bitch about lack of convenience. China is all about "convenience" that rules and regulations are thrown into the wayside. And that is why it's the mess that it is: No queuing, thrown your garbage anywhere, park wherever you want, do loud construction well into the night etc. But it's all "convenient" right? Insane.
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  1744. LOL
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  1745. "Downfall of China" - China was always in the gutter morally and spiritually. Giving them money did not obviously change that simple fact because there was nothing to mold there to begin with.
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  1746. Dragons don't exist. All you have is a pechulant government that gives zero crap for anything else other than themselves. Even Australia has diversified away from China.
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  1747. Don't talk about US "invading" when China can't even keep itself behind their own borders. Such hypocrisy is laughable!
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  1748. Same. It's jyst not worth it.
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  1749.  @RazielDeTam  US and EU companies are privately run and even if they can subsidy, it's nowhere near as China.
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  1750. Maybe your dad is worried that your pics might intimidate guys.
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  1751.  Kitty Cat  If what you're saying is true then why are you here to weigh in on what India thinks? Why should it matter to you since your economy is booming right? By the way how are those blackouts in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong?
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  1752.  @ska4666  I know. I was just wondering if I could get a comment from him/her be it some below the belt insult or some stupid reason.
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  1753. In their minds, they can be whatever they want.
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  1754.  @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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  1755. So more roads and bridges to nowhere and empty buildings...alright then.
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  1756. Instead of targetting China directly, consumers should target businesses that manufacture in China. Hit them where it hurts financially and they'll be forced to manufacture elsewhere. Also, government can impose standards to make sure that the products are ethically produced. The thing is this would apply to countries that use child and forced labour as well. Not just China.
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  1757. Read up on history. Chinese invaders were repelled by Filipino coalition forces. You lost against the Vietnamese and Filipinos. Art of War my foot!
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  1758. "You don't understand China" - What's there to understand when they constantly lie about everything? China being an insane clown show as usual. They make everything about their stupid politics. It's no one's fault but their own when they say such ridiculous things such as that.
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  1759. BRICS is just a sad attempt at a trading block that doesn't even touch the feet of the G7. It's a joke.
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  1760. Racial unity from a country that promotes nationalism that has roots in xenophobia and racism. What could go wrong?
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  1761. Western women have seriously bought into this mass delusion that they are better than they actually are. So insane and ridiculous.
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  1762. And stupid news outlets keep referring to them as such which doesn't help
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  1763. Barely surviving has always been a common feature throughout their chaotic history.
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  1764. It's such a stupid concept.
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  1765.  @MK_ULTRA420  Sounds like common sense and everyone is in on this, except China of course.
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  1766. This doesn't look like it was random. It was targeted. And yes, the killer could have easily accessed the balcony. The hotel room obviously has a view.
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  1767. It shouldn't have dragged on to this point. He should have sensed it right away and left.
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  1768.  @nfuryboss  we also don't know how many people died from Covid so that number is even lower
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  1769.  @RuinedEpitaph  His response is nothing new. It's actually quite typical. He was just caught. Most Chinese who know that they're going to get apprehended leave the country immediately.
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  1770. Hybrid is the best of both worlds. There's always this tendency to overcompensate and overcorrect. The same applies to technology such as EV's.
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  1771. Why are you still in China? Is the money really that worth it?
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  1772. They pick and choose who they can be assholes to. A lot of them are jerks at the end of the day
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  1773. Did it ever occur to them to just leave if they didn't want to work there anymore?
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  1774.  @pepelepew1227  Well people in the developed world are used to having labor codes that do not allow employers to abuse their employees as far as working hours are concerned.
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  1775.  @pepelepew1227  What factual errors?
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  1776.  @diamanteduul8084  At the end of the day it's all about familiarity. People don't want to try anything outside of their comfort zone because fear kicks in. If you ask most people of a particular ethnic background who screwed them over the most, it's most likely going to be people from the same ethnic background. So it's kind of funny that people will stick to their own ethnic group in spite of all the bad experiences associated with said ethnic group, even with regards to dating. But whatever, to each his own.
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  1777. China wants to be a dominant power. The writing is on the wall and people aren't naive to this simple fact.
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  1778. They're really coming out of the wood work this time.
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  1779.  Dennisestrada  Rebar? Some of their bridges don't even have any lol.
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  1780. It can always rack up more debt. That's what it always does.
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  1781. No they won't. They'll just lie about it as usual. It's in their nature. Chinese don't want open confrontation. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (American Consul who lived in China in the 1930s)
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  1782. yup, very scary though.
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  1783.  @captainnemo5379  Yes, most of the civilized world supports Israel.
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  1784. 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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  1785. They literally rank last in Europe in terms of perceived brand quality and reliability. What is the parameter they're using to measure if Chinese EV's are getting better? Less spontaneous combustion? Less cars being serviced and low mileage? Again, they could be lying and exaggerating to make a few dollars off something that is loosing money to produce.
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  1786. North Korea is also banning Chinese travellers but you will never hear about it. But when it's Korea or Japan, let outrage ensue.
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  1787.  @jujirer  Then you are beyond delusional
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  1788. This is nothing new
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  1789. We live in a society wherein people will always say things to provoke a reaction and get a rise out of what has been said. The Chinese government of all people should know this, what with their empty words, veiled threats, and insulting remarks. They are so thin skinned, it's preposterous.
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  1790. No Indian has ever said that. Chinese propaganda however...
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  1791. They can't maintain anything. And they don't care.
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  1792. Most of US debt is with the Federal Reserve, not China.
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  1793. ​ @yuehchen7308 you mean their infastructure that keeps falling apart? Your lies are sickening. We know better.
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  1794. 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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  1795. Typical hard headed Chinese tourists who can't follow.
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  1796. They became so arrogant and complacent in the fact that real estate would keep growing astronomically. And yet nobody was moving into the apartments they were building. Where were the people moving in supposed to come from? It didn't occur to them to think of this simple fact. A lot of the migrant workers are already moving back to the countryside because they can't find jobs and their registration (Hukou) doesn't allow them to buy property outside of the countryside.
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  1797.  @Leshic2  I retract my comment. I meant to say that they are not afforded the same rights as their urban counterparts. As far as buying land in the city is concerned, there's no way for a poor rural farmer to ever afford an apartment in a city unless they sell their land to property developers. If they don't want to, the government can always just seize it from them.
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  1798. And yet they still freak out when their FDI is down. Do they sound like a country that is not in need of FDI?
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  1799.  @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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  1800. A lot of people value cheaply made cars over their life.
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  1801. Chinese companies can't compete with quality. Cheap prices is all they have.
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  1802. China should mind their own business. They already have so many issues as it is.
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  1803. Pride - one of the 7 deadly sins.
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  1804. It's the same think when I went to Korea. Most people you will see are the elderly because they are easily bought.
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  1805. Except they don't have the experience to deal with this. Diplomacy is not China's strong suit. Coercion and bullying don't have a place on the negotiation table.
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  1806. When I criticize the CCP, wumao trolls automatically assume I'm a white American. When I clarify that I am Asian, it shuts them the hell up.
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  1807. The fact that China has to put this garbage figures out only shows their insidious, deceptive nature. No other country does this on a massive scale other than the People's Republic of Liars.
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  1808. They can't afford to buy a home.
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  1809.  @falcon6329  America did not even participate in WW2 until they were bombed in Pearl Habour.
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  1810. The Chinese army are like ants. Impressive to look at from afar but once you blow at it, they scramble in all directions and loose all sense of coordination.
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  1811. I don't understand why people still don't see this. Unions are there as a means of control. You have power hungry people telling others what to do under the banner of "brotherhood" and equality when that could be farther from the truth. If you're not on top of the pyramid, you're on the bottom. Doesn't matter if you're capitalist or communist. It's all about who's in power.
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  1812. 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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  1813. I have been both a bad student in high school and a "good" student in college. And a lot of what made me excell had to do with my choice to study. Also, I sought ought extra credit work so that I could expand upon what I was studying. What Ben said is absolutely true. If there is a will there is a way. Scholarships are awarded to the serious and hardworking, not to the whiners who complain and do nothing. Public schools in North America offer scholarships so this is not an excuse for bad behavior.
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  1814.  @Anonymouthful  They have nothing to refute as usual. Just attacking one's credibility as usual. Go figure.
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  1815. Same with their fire hydrants...
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  1816. South Koreans like the Chinese can be mean as well.
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  1817. Why not just set up a kiosk or sell at a lodge?
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  1818. The People's Republic of Clowns is 75 years old. Age of Chinese civilization is different from their now country.
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  1819. They are lol.
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  1820. 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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  1821. "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) "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.
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  1822. It's called propaganda. It's something both countries engage in.
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  1823. Yes, Joe Biden will sit down to solve a problem THEY started. What bs.
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  1824. That's the Chinese for you. Never pay attention to what they're saying but what they are doing.
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  1825. I had an uncle who visited China as well. He said that a lot of the food lacked seasoning. He was surprised because he thought it would taste closer to the Chinese food he had in restaurants outside of China.
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  1826. Don't forget all the lies, especially COVID.
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  1827. Pointless to quote scripture when most Chinese are aetheist and don't believe in religious dogma.
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  1828. China will be the first country in the world for what?
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  1829.  @محمدالسريع-و8ب  You have obviously never learned Mandarin. It's not an easy language to learn.
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  1830. Get over yourself. It's 2021.
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  1831.  @Hussainpiplodwala  You're talking to a bot
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  1832. People can still make a lot of noise and make it known to the local authorities as well as the local news. This will compel morons who don't want to do anything to act. Put people's reputation on the line to make them act. This is ridiculous.
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  1833. Free Palestine from what? Define what Palestine even is?
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  1834. You get out when word is hot on the street. That should already tell you a correction is coming.
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  1835. Why doesn't he ask politicians in Sri Lanka to stop being corrupt? Lol. Maybe this wouldn't have happen. What a joke!
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  1836.  @YoutubeWatcher264  And what is it exactly that they are doing?
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  1837. China will keep doing what they're doing. Only difference is they're "talking" assuming China picks up the phone this time and stops acting like a pechulant child. But I wouldn't put it past them.
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  1838. "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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  1839. Asking the Chinese government to spend on their population is like asking a bunch of thieves to give to charity - they will never do it.
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  1840. Even when I spoke to a coworker from China back in 2018, she said China was no longer growing even back then.
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  1841. So we're going to investigate all other countries except the country where the virus originated. Were you dropped on your head as a baby?
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  1842. "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) No practical solutions as usual because Pooh can't think of any...
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  1843. No discipline for civic duty. They only act for money.
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  1844. They're doing a good job of dividing and pissing everyone off. Hardly unifying behavior. China is an arrogant country that thinks too highly of itself. Ask other Asians that they think of China, and get your answer. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
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  1845. And yet the government keeps acting like it does...go figure.
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  1846.  @freejunk1  So your definition of capitalism is price gouging in desperate times?
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  1847.  @freejunk1 Most people aren't driving around or flying for vacations. They go to work to support their families. But hey, if you can justify gouging the middle class of the world then let the economy slump over by extension.
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  1848. 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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  1849. There's also countries like India and Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia. In fact, I bought a Samsung chip recently, made in the Philippines. Bought underwear made in India and shirts made in Vietnam. Heck, even my measuring cup is made in Japan! This would have been unheard of a few years ago. Even from a business perspective, China is no longer the cheapest. The only way China can compete is to coerce slave labor like from prisons and rural workers who don't have any other options. Most educated Chinese won't work in a factory making next to nothing while their standard of living goes up.
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  1850. You'd be lucky if you can get 2 years out of the goods you buy in China.
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  1851. ​ @triple_lei it's the same with lying. They don't see anything wrong with it.
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  1852.  @chasbodaniels1744  Numbers don't lie and the body count shows that. Take stock of the truth and stop shifting blame when it doesn't suit your narrative.
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  1853. Ive seen army recruitment videos in North America. They inspire you to join. This video is just pure cringe.
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  1854. 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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  1855. All that is under the umbrella of centralized planning, which isn't always the most efficient way to approach the evonomy
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  1856. Hell no. Even if they did, they can't compete because they don't care for quality.
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  1857.  @Peizxcv  I'm not an investment guru. I am a mutual funds licensed financial advisor. With that being said, you should seek the advice of a licensed financial advisor in your local area. They can properly educate you about how to invest and how to set goals, which is absolutely paramount to any financial end goal.
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  1858.  @grahamthomas4804  Hate to break it to you but that dream was built on pillars of sand. It was never real, to begin with. Now we are seeing the truth.
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  1859. Most jobs actually train you. Unless you get into a trade or some technical school, most degrees are useless unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer, etc.
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  1860.  @Braszx  Most businesses survive by undercutting their expenses not by adding to them. Increasing wages is not only costly, it pretty much guarantees that companies have to downsize their staff because they will not increase their expense when they are getting diminished returns. Yes, increasing minimum wage will be the death of companies as we know it because you will now have less people maintaining the business and customer service will suffer. And nobody wants to visit a business that no longer delivers quality service.
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  1861.  @FrankieJizking-js3yv  Exactly
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  1862. Maybe they should fix their own problems first like their own economy and unemployment.
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  1863. There are other choices for better schools, China should be dead last on her list along with North Korea.
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  1864. Like as if something like this is beneath somethin China would do. We know better than that.
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  1865. "Chinese manners" is an oxymoron.
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  1866. All this talk about "Chinese rejuvination" and the "Chinese race" sounds incredibly racist. And yet they make it sound like as if it is something to be proud of.
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  1867. 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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  1868. Younger people now have different stresses than the older generations. I told my mom once I envied her generation: no social media, people derived happiness from interacting with others and they didn't stress about the future as much as we are now. Simple things made people happy. And I got to live through the tail end of that era. It's something that the younger generation will never understand.
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  1869.  @MK_ULTRA420  the kimchi argument can easily be settled by going to a Chinese restaurant and ordering kimchi. Just see how the Chinese waitress react to such a ridiculous request.
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  1870. That guy talking is such a typical manipulator, arousing hatred and xenophobia instead of addressing their internal problems will never ever work. Oh, and taking Taiwan won't earn them any respect but scorn and retribution from the international community.
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  1871. LOL
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  1872. They both have wives
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  1873. not harmful to anyone - You don't even know the chemicals used in the ingredients they use.
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  1874. I don't get it. If hiring a token black person is not enough because it doesn't explore their racial issues, then why don't people who love to complain about this create a show that portrays this. This sad attempt at telling people what to do when they have nothing on the line (like backing by a network that is in pursuit of profits because, at the end of the day, it's a business) is getting ridiculous.
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  1875. Go home wumao
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  1876. How did they ask for it?
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  1877. "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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  1878.  @krisfrazier8159  Alina is clearly just another Wumao that spouts CCP rhetoric. What they say is so predictable. They fire back at anything that doesn't put China in a favourable light even though it's dead obvious to the world that they spread the virus.
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  1879. So ridiculous that Germany still keeps attempting when there are other countries with cheaper labor and an educated population they can invest in. I mean Southeast Asia is a good starting point. China and the Chinese market aren't worth it. Also, a lot of businesses aren't seeing the numbers that the CCP "promised" after lifting their ridiculous zero covid restriction. So why do they keep justifying? They're so bought into Chinese propaganda that they are the "best" there is.
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  1880. ​​ @MK_ULTRA420 it's literally why dynasties come and go over hundreds and hundreds of years
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  1881. It's all about convenience. Putin is actually livid with China because China loves to steal tech from Russia. Just look at Chinese jets. Also, China keeps claiming Vladivistok as their own.
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  1882. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  1883. Europe and Japan have already sent delegates to Taiwan. China only bitched and griped when Pelosi decided to go to Taiwan and they continue to do the former whenever US delegations decide to visit Taiwan. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind on the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former American consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  1884. 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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  1885. Don't count on China for much. Diversify, diversify, diversify.
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  1886. That has nothing to do with Communism. That has and always has been how China is.
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  1887. Lol. Chocolate city.
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  1888.  @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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  1889. He doesn't hate women. He understands their nature.
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  1890. "It is a lamentable but true observation that about the only people doing anything in China are those doing harm. This does not deny that there are Chinese in China who are sincere in deploring the present condition of the country. But they are talkers and not men of action. Proof of their uselessness as a class is found in the fact that there is not under way a single significant movement toward practical improvement. They talk chiefly to others of the same mind, where their talk is unneeded. The educated Chinese are prone to professional diagnosis, and occupy themselves with scholarly discourses calculated to show to people equally scholarly and already in agreement with them that improvement would be a good thing. Convincing one another of what none would dispute is the principal avocation of the group called patriotic." - "Ways that are dar: The truth about China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1891. Turns out they were the crazy ones. Ironic.
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  1892. Sadly, this is the case in China....
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  1893. Those brands are an insult to Samsung and LG
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  1894. Nobody believes China at this point. Lying is second nature to them.
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  1895. Lol giving them free rein in the skies would be a disaster considering they can't even follow rules on the ground.
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  1896. ​ @nfuryboss It's funny that people think China was different in the past when in actuality they've always been authoritarian. Doesn't matter if they're ruled by the CCP, KMT, or an emperor.
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  1897.  @donnlowe9129  You're talking to a Russian bot. There is no reason for them. Just see their insanity for what it is and move on.
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  1898. shame /SHām/ noun a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. verb (of a person, action, or situation) make (someone) feel ashamed. They have NO shame in a country where lying, stealing, and cheating are all too common.
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  1899. Maintenance and upgrading? It's cheaper to just start anew. And they're too lazy to maintain anything.
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  1900.  @shaf3006  What a joke! Most car companies are engine companies first and foremost like BMW and Honda.
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  1901.  @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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  1902. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in China in the 1930's)
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  1903. This is true. Most Filipinos go overseas to look for work. Those with successful businesses don't bother. It's hard to leave their comfy life. A lot if them even have several maids and a driver.
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  1904. Forget working there. A lot of idiots still visit that lawless, hell on Earth.
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  1905. Clearly that's not what history shows. Current geopolitics also suggest otherwise. Wishful fluff thinking.
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  1906. That's how they see the world - through stereotypes. That's how uniformed they are and how arrogant they are in their ways.
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  1907. You're talking about a country that is resistant to change and has a very set way of thinking. The only thing that has remained unchanged with the Chinese is that they refuse to change.
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  1908. It's not fun to watch. It's cringe and pathetic.
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  1909. China is on it's way down. So not for long.
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  1910.  @kevinclydeeguia2543 Watch the interview with Guo Wengui and Kyle Bass. A lot of China's economy is fake. It's propped up by debt. That's why they can't be real with their numbers. They can't even be honest with each other. Nevermind the world.
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  1911.  @markroc  We also have credit cards that we can tap in the developed world. Nobody here complains about that Wumao. If your idea of "modern" is being surveilled by the government 24/7 you can have that system. I don't need the government knowing what I eat, when I sleep and where I go. I also don't want the government knowing what's in my bank account. Why would you let a totalitarian government treat you like a criminal when you've done nothing wrong to serve their interests?
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  1912.  @thaisiggi  Yes, I know everything there is to know about China. Propaganda thought does not change. Even the way people there think is so predictable and one dimensional.
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  1913.  @thaisiggi  Tell you boss Xi to confess his crimes to the world. Over 3 million people are dead. Sick and tired of your bs.
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  1914.  @thaisiggi  Tell Xi to confess. We know already what he's done. The whole world knows.
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  1915.  @thaisiggi  Tell Xi to confess his crimes. North Korea is going down. China is next.
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  1916.  @thaisiggi  You must be speaking from experience. Tell Xi to confess his crimes!
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  1917.  @thaisiggi  Nobody believes you. Go ahead and start your "make-believe project". You look and sound ridiculous to everyone here who knows better. And tell Xi to confess his crimes.
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  1918. "the west must understand us" - The whole world is beginning to truly understand how belligerent they are.
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  1919. Poisonous food is now considered innovation?
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  1920. "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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  1921.  @regophil  ever hear the adage "you get what you pay for?" That's still true up to now. And Chinese products are no different. For example, why do Chinese buy baby formula from other countries? Quality my foot.
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  1922.  @donkeykong516  Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  1923. This guy's done. RIP
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  1924. Yes China is so great that it constantly works hard to remind people of its greatness 🤮
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  1925. Yes, let's compete with state subsidized companies who threaten country's regulations all over the world.
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  1926. @Zhuohui Li Typical Chinese rhetoric. Why can't you just accept goodwill at face value? US, UK, and Singapore all came and helped. Why the hell does China always have to be center stage? Everytime China says something they always do the opposite. If China says it eliminated corruption, it means there's still a lot of corruption. If China says it's going to withdraw troops and de-escalate it sends more troops. Nobody believes you or your government. Please just go away. This is about helping India. Stop putting your stupid country on a pedestal. So arrogant.
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  1927. These women are not only attractive, they've got common sense and values.
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  1928. ​ @malorybertie8046 clown
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  1929. @Ram Ranch There are a lot of prostitutes in 3rd world countries too. What's the connection?
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  1930. Read up on China under the KMT. They've always been like this.
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  1931. I'll stick with Uniqlo and Old Navy.
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  1932.  @Andy-P  Don't forget those kickbacks.
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  1933. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  1934. 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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  1935. They're also trying to bolster nationalism through anti-foreign sentiment. Both the Communists and KMT in the past employed this approach. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1936. If you consider mind numbing memory work "genius" then sure...
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  1937. 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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  1938. Wion reports on other things not just US.
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  1939. Just because nothing "happened" to you doesn't make them a liar lol. Also stop lying Chinabot. We can see through your lies.
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  1940. ​ @kzarz0219 funny you say that considering they've always been this way 😂
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  1941.  @anandandyiyer  Also Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea
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  1942. Conscience? Of what? That they don't know history? That they all root for the underdog because it's trendy?
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  1943. 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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  1944.  @Andy-P  "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" by Ralph Townsend A lot of information, as soon as they establish that it's "from the Chinese government" should be assumed to be false unless proven otherwise. It's in their nature to lie. Everything they do is all about keeping up with appearances. This has nothing to do with being Communist, although Communist dictatorship lie and deceive their populace, this is a trait native to the Chinese since time in memorial.
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  1945. 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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  1946. He will be just another foot note in history - Nothing significant accomplished, purely motivated by ego.
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  1947. Because you can't expect narcissists to do that
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  1948. Except they're not good because all they do is give insight into what they are exactly thinking because otherwise why even bring it up in the first place?
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  1949. They love attention no matter what kind they get. They're like a bratty child that just can't get enough. So petulant.
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  1950.  @ThePrikly  Extreme wealth exists even in third world countries.
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  1951.  @jaythekid4809  The fact that the US has separate policies for Taiwan as well proves that they are independent. They don't have that for any other province IN China. So yes, they are independent. It's the butthurt leaders of Beijing that keep using Taiwan as a political tool. Because It keeps its citizens "united" under this ideological banner. Actions speak louder than words. And China likes to talk...A LOT. Also, what kind of country keeps threatening its supposed "own territory"? Imagine if the US threatened Hawaii or Alaska with military arms, that would be a ridiculous spectacle. And that goes without saying.
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  1952. This is why you never rent out to Chinese. They already have this reputation worlwide. Gross!
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  1953. At this point, nobody should be exiting China. Everyone should have "exited" already.
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  1954. ​ @captnhuffy psychotic planning
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  1955. Don't forget those "historical dramas" during WW2 constantly portraying the Japanese killing locals consumed by the elders. These shows are so ridiculous and don't follow anything that actually happened historically.
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  1956. "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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  1957. John Goodman defended her
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  1958. 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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  1959. "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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  1960. 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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  1961.  @topethermohenes7658  It's not that Filipinos are against it. There's a lot of politics involved in getting these things going. There is a nuclear plant that they're trying to get started but it's situated on a plate. So they need to study it and make sure it's feasible to operate it. There's also bureaucracies involved with those decisions.
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  1962.  @mikethomson4064  it's not the same as Western capitalism. Western capitalism has consumer protection laws.
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  1963. Not from China? Then where is the footage from?
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  1964. Unless you're coming to Canada rich already you will struggle to make ends meet.
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  1965. 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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  1966.  @prabhatsourya3883  A lot of Chinese don't think like that especially the new rich. It's image above all else.
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  1967.  @fredericoyj920  I think it's too simple than to just 'move back to China' - Actually it is just THAT simple. What did their ancestors do? They moved to Malaysia. They moved to a country they have maybe never heard off. This was a country that spoke a different language and had different cultural norms but their ancestors made it work. If anything, the transition to moving to China should be much easier. They know the culture and the speak the language. What the heck is so hard about that? What are they so afraid off? They certainly would be treated "much better" over there because they're Chinese. Certainly beats being "underappreciated".
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  1968.  @eugenetan3828  Btw, I wasn't talking about ALL Malaysian Chinese. Just the ones who constantly complain about the fact that they don't feel accepted. Obviously, some have assimilated and have no issues so they're clearly doing something right. Don't make this an "us versus them" argument to suit your narrative. Keep identity politics out of this. As I said earlier. You're starting to sound like CCP state media.
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  1969. 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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  1970.  @allo-other  If you actually have been to China you will see that it is complete chaos. The government picks and chooses the tools in which to "oppress" the people but given the choice, most people don't bother following simple rules - that's what I meant. They can't even queue when they're in public.
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  1971. I can't stand these people who take offense for the past - They weren't even there. WTF? Get over it and stop using it for your petty politics. Pathetic!
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  1972.  @thelordakira  "Saving face" = don't want to take accountability, cope out, don't want to change, justifies bad behavior. This already tells you a lot about their culture.
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  1973.  @winstonfisher9684  nope, it's China. Last I heard, people were flocking to come to the US, not China. Don't delude yourself.
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  1974.  @joedalton77  We're humans. Aren't we supposed to be better than that? There's also a difference between spitting on someone out of anger versus birds feeding their young with regurgitated food. I don't even know why you are comparing the two.
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  1975. Yes, China's economy "grew" despite lack of orders and economic activity. Pure delusion 🤣. And they talk about "rebuilding trust" when lying is second nature to them?
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  1976. 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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  1977. "We spin the block" - Girl looks like she's been around the block a couple of times.
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  1978. They never cared about standards. They reap what they sow.
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  1979.  @remogatron1010  Yeah, sounds like it comes straight from the propaganda rule book. It's always "I'm a ___________" like as if this proves your point is logically or morally superior. Lol ridiculous. I have encountered so many Chinese nationalists use the same line to lie about their stance on multiple platforms.
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  1980. PRC reps only reflect the clueless nature of the higher ups. Chinese officials are far removed from reality and myopic. They only care about themselves. We have seen this selfish behavior ever since Covid. Their true nature has been revealed.
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  1981. 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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  1982. A lot of idiots get off on comparing the two despite being leaps and bounds apart. Pure delusion.
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  1983. "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  1984. Read "ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. He talks about life in China in the 1930's. China has always been like this. There have been prominent Chinese in history like Confucius who tried to change society but even he couldn't change China's true nature.
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  1985. 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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  1986. China IS split from Taiwan. The fact that China keeps saying Taiwan is a part of them only shows that China itself doesn't think so.
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  1987. Women don't prefer dad bods. They're just saying that to not appear superficial like when they say "I like nice guys" but don't actually go out with them. Don't believe what women say. Pay attention to what they do.
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  1988. It's clean because barely anybody is coming and going. It's harder to maintain a busy airport.
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  1989. Just buy a Korean car. They're leaps and bounds ahead of the Chinese.
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  1990. No, they don't. Why do you think they are acting so unreasonable toward it?
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  1991. "Devolution" suggests that they evolved to begin with. They never did.
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  1992. 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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  1993. No it won't. You can't fix incompetence and corruption.
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  1994. 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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  1995.  @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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  1996. They don't plan to sell units. They just want investors to keep pumping money into their company. They always talk about how "ahead" they are and no details as to how they are different to the competition. It's all meant to woo investors with flash and no substance.
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  1997.  @KJ-tq3sm  Go home Wumao!
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  1998.  @KJ-tq3sm  What truth? The drivel that you keep spewing? Hardly.
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  1999. Not everyone has the fitness level for that. Lots of kids these days are so unhealthy.
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  2000. Not all of those people sleeping on the street look young. Others look like retirees.
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  2001. Why do most institutions in China run like Ponzi schemes? It's truly insane. You have the housing sector, banks, now the automotive industry.
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  2002. "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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  2003. Lol, China has always been like this. Just look at their chaotic history for proof.
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  2004. They import most of their food. In times of war, you really think China will share it with their citizens? Look at what happened during Covid - top level officials were hoarding and selling food to the highest bidder while simultaneously wasting a lot of the perishable food which could have gone to the people. Their military is still far behind the US and won't be overtaking them any time soon. In fact, they only have 1 "functional" air craft carrier, the other two not only take long to start, they spend so much time in maintenance because of the inferior build quality. "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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  2005. So much for China's de-dollarization propaganda...
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  2006. It's all for a photo op. A lot of those companies have already diversified out of China.
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  2007. So funny because most of their food is seasoned the same way
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  2008. China has always been chaotic and uncoordinated. They just give you the impression that they are big and organized but they actually aren't.
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  2009.  @pikachus5m166  Why don't you get of Western social media and retreat into the hole from which you came from.
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  2010.  @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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  2011.  @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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  2012.  @NEAAFFAIRS  Maybe they themselves can't hold citizenship. But their family members sure can.
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  2013. Except they won't...
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  2014.  @randomassname445  At this point, most of the world is professional. China is low rung in terms of how the world sees them.
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  2015.  @gtaraya  Is that sarcasm?
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  2016.  @jont2576  most of them are poor with less than stellar economies. Not something to boast about
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  2017.  @Sabalas  So what do the majority of Filipinos want? Since you clearly have a pulse on the "goings-on" of the country?
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  2018. Korea's is also nice
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  2019. There was an actual Chinese merc filming himself who actually said "I thought it would be like in the movies"🤣
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  2020. When Tangen asked the host "do you believe the WHO?" I literally yelled "NO!" at my screen. They should be dismantled. They put political interests first.
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  2021. Lots of those graduates from China won't find jobs. What are you being so arrogant about?
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  2022. The Chinese people know better. They know their government lies.
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  2023. 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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  2024.  @AB_123_AB  Few knife attacks? Just because majority don't make it to mainstream news doesn't mean it isn't happening.
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  2025. they should go all the way back to the 70's lol
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  2026. There is no solution because there is no money
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  2027. "Do they want me to die?" - Yes, because that's one less person to worry about as far as the government is concerned.
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  2028. Lol that's funny
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  2029.  @louong93  Yea I did not understand a thing you just said...
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  2030. They should have just used the word "contraction" - it's more fitting.
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  2031.  @efafe4972  Just visited Taiwan recently. It's basically Chinese culture minus the authoritarianism, and loud brash behavior attributed to mainland Chinese. Taiwanese people actually know how to modulate their voices in public and they line up.
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  2032. 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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  2033. It's the only way for them to stay competitive. They know people from other countries won't buy a no name Chinese knock off outside of China. So rather than compete with overseas companies, China peddles it's own crap to its own people, forcing out the competition from overseas so locals can patronize their home grown knocknoff businesses.
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  2034. Hard for them to come to the Philippines when Beijing keeps pissing off Manila.
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  2035. It's cheap because nobody is buying. It's basic economics.
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  2036. They probably got bored. Hours of grinding has that effect on some people.
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  2037. 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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  2038. US is doing better than China.
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  2039. It's truly amazing how myopic people are especially in the face of money. Hopefully, the world learns its lesson. This is just getting ridiculous
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  2040. It's just news. Get over it. Why so sensitive?
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  2041.  @mohamedali-qs9rl  If China knows everything then why the hell do they bother hacking countries like US and Israel?
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  2042. Pretend saving is just saving. Nothing innovative here.
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  2043. ​ @petittoto7433 which is what exactly?
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  2044. Developed areas in China are far and few in between. Majority of China is still poor. Just look at the conditions rural villagers have to live in? The don't live any better than rural people in the poorest parts of Asia. China is no Japan or Singapore.
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  2045. China keeps quoting "international law" - What international law are they talking about?
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  2046. I'm still working on being 100% present. This is essentially what Katie is describing. It truly takes work and a lot of self inquiry to get to where she is at.
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  2047.  @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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  2048. "Create your future in the future".....wow. So are they saying that I create my future in the future?
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  2049.  @nishanz  His sister looks like a crack addict. She doesn't look healthy.
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  2050. China doesn't "own" multinational companies. These companies are just greedy like the CCP. Like attracts like.
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  2051.  @buymecola1  Censorship laws and basically agreeing to everything that the CCP says - very petty and childish.
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  2052.  @tonysu8860  This is how China has always operated though. They always make themselves the antithesis of the US. They don't let markets determine supply and demand. Everything is propped up by the state, so inevitably they were always going to end up here.
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  2053. They don't. They lie about it.
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  2054. 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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  2055. Even a wolf that constantly barks and growls needs to eat. Otherwise, it's pretty useless
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  2056.  @jilbertb  "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2057. There's no reason to send your kids to China unless they want to major in Chinese. There's a reason why the Chinese themselves go overseas to learn. Foreigners truly have a naive view of what they think China is.
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  2058.  @naguoning  "Chinese do not fight for ideas, though they often give the impression of fighting under them, banner-wise." --> "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (on 1930's China)
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  2059. 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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  2060. Like what views? This should be fun.
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  2061. This is why most countries need to cut economic dependence on China - It will become easier if this occurs.
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  2062. I have never seen a country vehemently try to defend its state-owned enterprise such as China. If a country refuses to do business with you, just move on. No point crying over spilled milk. All I heard was normal posturing by China. They put themselves on high while simultaneously bashing Australia. You don't talk smack to a potential client when they choose to not buy from you. That's called being a desperate sore loser.
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  2063. They hypocrisy of China is hilarious. When it comes to the US, Japan and the developed world, they love to run their mouth. When it comes to Russia, they could literally be bombing part of their territory and they STILL won't condemn them publicly. Bunch of clowns!
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  2064. ​ @shundi4264 there is no UN record that says those islands belong to China. Quit making stuff up.
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  2065. @John BrowerCan you give an example of how she is biased?
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  2066. @John Brower The only one criticizing here is you buddy. You're even criticizing me now and all I asked you to do was give an example of how she is being critical.
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  2067. 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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  2068. The fact that they don't even know if she's a citizen is a red flag
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  2069.  @2KSnSLifestyle  If you have to say that Taiwan is part of China, then it is NOT a part of China. Nobody says that Hawaii, or Alaska is part of the US. Everyone just knows it and it goes without saying.
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  2070. So now we're supposed to doubt what we are seeing despite the evidence? Get real.
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  2071. It's all about controlling the narrative. They always want to make themselves look good even though they look ridiculous doing it.
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  2072. Seeing more and more stuff made in other countries in the post office as well. Definitely a good sign.
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  2073.  @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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  2074.  @いちごくん-l6d  I have a co-worker who is Japanese. She said that most Japanese people buy property to live in. It's not really purchased for investment reasons. That's why property in Japan is not an overblown thing like it is in China.
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  2075. "Having something is better than having nothing" - not when having that "thing" starts costing you over the long run. So in essence, you are losing. That's exactly how the CCP thinks and you can see the endless hole they have dug themselves in right? Having a HSR has to be justified fiscally. That's like telling someone on a budget to buy a BMW for transportation when an affordable Toyota would suffice.
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  2076. I'm from the Philippines and yes, foreigners don't understand that the Philippines has a "tier system" for the kinds of girls they date. A lot of foreigners will go for a "bar girl" because it's all they can get. Yes, the top tier girls will go for high quality guys (rich local guys) as well even in a third world country like the Philippines - what they don't understand is that not everyone in the Philippines is desperate (especially the top tier girls) and just waiting for foreigners to sweep them away. Even the pretty girls will go for a rich older man if it benefits them. A lot of these foreigners coming to the Philippines aren't rich to begin with so they settle for girls with lower socio economic status and girls from the countryside - a lot of men generally avoid them unless if they're from the same socioeconomic background themselves. Btw, avoid girls with large families - as a foreigner, guess who they see as a walking ATM?
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  2077. South Africa is a world power? A country that constantly experiences rolling black outs and so much unrest? Lol, you must be joking right?
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  2078. It's CCP propaganda. At some point, when you repeat the script enough times, it will commit itself to memory.
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  2079.  @jackwhittaker5133  I'm more concerned about the mental toll it's taking on her. Being concerned about the planet is one thing but letting it consume her being isn't good. She's still developing. God knows what kind of effect that's going to have on her mental/emotional development. Also if I had a daughter I wouldn't expose her to the world to be lambasted like that. That's just cruel and abusive.
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  2080. They chose to go now they complain. What a bunch of idiots!
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  2081.  @溝尻マリオ  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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  2082. I'm not Korean and I have always known Kimchi is Korean. Never heard of Paocai until now.
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  2083. this what they do when nobody minds them
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  2084.  @CDines  What real info?
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  2085. ​​ @oscarthegreat1836 jelous of what? What is the break down of this growth since China is notorious for lying. Remember Covid?
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  2086. This document is recent. Not cold war, that's why it's an issue.
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  2087.  @seantrentham9979  good to know where you stand racist
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  2088. This is the problem of centrally planned economies. The issue is the government has their hand on the supply side, but if they can't control the demand side (which is determined by the people), then it's just doomed to fail. They might as well force people to spend as well.
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  2089.  @juniorleslie4804  Yes, China is the only exception in that they are literally running themselves to the ground in order to prop up their artificial GDP numbers, which is highly dubious, to say the least. That's the difference between private and state enterpriese. One is efficient and more customer oriented, and the other is based squarely on social stability at all costs even at the cost of efficiency.
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  2090. Too many scammers in China from the manufacturers end and customer end. It's a very low trust society.
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  2091. Ukraine wants to join Nato because Russia already took part in their territory. For every action, there's an opposite reaction. It's called a consequence.
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  2092. @Andres At the end the best you can hope for is to be content with what you have and gratitude. People in developed countries are so quick to forget that they are still better off than more than half of the world and yet what do they do? Focus on the negative.
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  2093. They sleep everywhere but in an actual apartment or house.
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  2094. You seriously need to get your head examined
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  2095. What's the point of doing this? They don't even care at this point. Just put a wax dummy everywhere for the sake of it. What a clown show of a country.
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  2096.  @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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  2097. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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  2098. ​ @novaboy1174 you're being sarcastic right?
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  2099. ​ @CommenterIndeed chinese think the real world is like school which it isn't.
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  2100. They may be slow but these Chinese company will eventually get caught. They always do because Chinese company's sloppiness inevitably comes out.
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  2101. So China calls the Quad a "Quasi" alliance and yet they are so hot and bothered at the same time. So which is it? What a joke.
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  2102. Well they are crazy
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  2103. Philippines under Duterte was never really pro-China. He just wanted to see how China would play ball. Turns out China isn't good at sharing. Also, his comments weren't meant to be taken seriously. He said this in an interview. He's just got a bizarre sense of humor.
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  2104. A lot of people are insane. Haven't you noticed?
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  2105. A lot of what's fueling this is ignorance irregardless of one's age.
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  2106.  @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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  2107. Lol
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  2108. Cameras are for the innocent, not perpetrators. Notice that a lot of perpetrators aren't even caught.
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  2109.  @GrgLuz  You should. Been to Korea and Japan. Both countries have a lot to offer and have quite a lot of similarities as far as Seoul and Tokyo are both walk friendly and have a lot of mom and pop shops hidden all throughout the city. They're both highly developed and organized. Never been to Taiwan but I am hoping to go sometime this year if all things work out. China is chaotic, dirty, and food quality is highly suspect. It's not worth the risk - and their government is not worth dealing with if you know what's best for you.
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  2110. Yes, but none are so blatant as the Chinese in their approach and overwhelming greed.
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  2111.  @astrobullivant5908  It's because China is all about impressing upon its people that it's big and powerful and that they can take on anything that comes their way - this is also the basis of all their nationalist sentiments that they have brainwashed people with. This is also why they spend so much on internal security. Everything is all about their people and the impression they want to create, where internal security comes in is when there is fallout and backlash over bureaucratic short sightedness, such as the clown show we are seeing.
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  2112.  @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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  2113. 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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  2114. Containment of China = Stopping China from taking territory that isn't rightfully theirs. They SHOULD be contained. China talking about it being a "bad thing" is hilarious.
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  2115. How? Cost to produce is high. How much are you planning to sell those products for?
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  2116. They always are. Despite being looked down upon for lacking basic manners and having nothing to show for better part of a thousand years.
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  2117.  @toolegittoquit_001  There is no "long game" - That's a lie that they want you to believe. Did they think of the long game when they destroyed their housing market? Did they think of the long game when they introduced the one child policy that's going to eventually destroy their economy? Did they think of the long game when they introduced zero covid which cost them tremendously after they came out of it? It's one of if not THE most reactionary governments on Earth. China is just winging everything as they go and they celebrate small "victories" along the way but they will ultimately lead to nothing of substance or anything good long term.
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  2118. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  2119. Typical Soviet rhetoric...
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  2120. Because that's what China needs, more Phd's and more master's degree holders🤣
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  2121.  @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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  2122.  @jarodarmstrong509  Tyranny in China is quite common even when they had abusive Emperors. The KMT were certainly no different in how they treated people when they were in power.
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  2123. I don't know where this comes from. Philippines does not have infastructure to support EV's. I've seen hybrids there but has engines there are smaller than those seen in North America. Most Filipinos will not be able afford EV's so this doesn't make sense.
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  2124. 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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  2125. Lots of Chinese are atheist. What religion?
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  2126. Because it's not about the brand. It's about putting up a front so that they can steal. That's why the money isn't going where it's supposed to go and they keep producing garbage. All the world is doing is sending Chinese millionaires overseas with the money they stole which was supposed to be the investment money.
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  2127. So basically the system is just set up to enable addictive behaviors? This truly is an inhumane and degenerative approach if this is what we are doing.
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  2128.  @terryh4987  37 is grandpa? Are you from the ancient world?
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  2129. A lot of these "anti-Asian" rallies are also funded by the CCP. There is proof of this, when someone had an anti-CCP banner, they were blocked off especially when the banner stated facts about their involvement with Covid.
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  2130. Don't forget throughout history their numerous attempts to conquer others. Just because they weren't successful doesn't mean they never tried.
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  2131. In the land of shortcuts and facades, "China" and "authentic" don't go hand in hand.
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  2132. China should explain the origin of Covid.
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  2133. It's the same voice from the original, Chris Potter
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  2134. That Asian woman giving the middle finger is psycho
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  2135. It's "burn your dollars". Cars are a literal money pit. BYD more so than any other car company.
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  2136. Their economic output is closer to Japan. They've been lying about their overstated GDP for a while now.
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  2137. Read up on China under the KMT, it was no different.
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  2138. Police are only thinking of their convenience. They know that belligerent Pro-Palestinians would be more exasperating to deal with but a rational individual who is expressing their views in a mature way is easy pickings for the police.
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  2139.  @tunahxushi4669  apple is relocating some of their production to India. I know that Samsung has primarily moved to Vietnam. My brothers gf who is Korean has a relative that oversees the management and training of Vietnamese workers in their factory. They have been doing this since before Covid. So either way, they were going to end up in Vietnam anyway.
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  2140. A lot of these "developed" countries can barely provide for their own citizens let alone immigrants.
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  2141. Hybrids are more likely to be the future than EV's. EV's are all hype.
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  2142. 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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  2143. It's no secret to the world anymore that China arbitrarily detains people. If people still want to go to China despite knowing this information then they should just accept the consequences.
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  2144.  @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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  2145. Everyone's in bed with one another. Self interests are all tied that you can't blame one person anymore. The whole system is corrupt.
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  2146. We're talking about China here. They rarely if ever think things through. They react and deal with consequences after. There is no long term thinking in China despite what state propaganda has you believing.
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  2147.  @Thanatossssx  It's not just the government. A lot of Chinese also lack basic common sense.
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  2148.  @ithought_so6438  I am not putting my focus on skin color. I am stating what is blatantly obvious under the guise of so called "equality" when there's nothing "equal" or "fair" about these discriminatory practices. Even my coworkers know this. If it's all about "handwork" then I should be considered for a role in management. There is such a thing as being too hardworking that you will never get promoted because you keep productivity numbers up to offset the lazy ones who don't work. That's why I am planning my exit strategy.
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  2149. ​ @vortex9021 they never have any. Just yak yak yak.
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  2150.  @neganrex5693  What else do you expect? This is China we are talking about.
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  2151.  @LuckyCharms777  Yes, because it's hard for them to function when their actions are held under a magnifying glass. The immoral like to act unimpeded.
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  2152.  @jessn.3851  Why even have this conversation? Just don't freaking go there! Is it really worth all the hassle to smell the polluted air, eat the toxic food, and put up with rude behavior? And you seriously want to pay hard earned money for all that? Wow. Time and time again foreigners have been screwed over going there. Hasn't the news taught everyone enough?
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  2153. They speak their minds when there is no repercussion. Or at least they think there aren't any.
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  2154. 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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  2155. This is a waste of time. Xi is delusional if he thinks he can lie to US business men's faces then pull the rug from under them when they go to China. This is all just useless photo opp.
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  2156. Oh the meaninglessness of Chinese words...nobody believes them. Time to ramp up on military exercises as these clowns become even more aggressive.
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  2157. ​​ @CrapKerouac Loss of face? The way they act is already a sure fire way to guarantee that. The concept of "face" is just another lie to justify bad actions.
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  2158. 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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  2159. Don't forget the Thais and Koreans.
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  2160. A lot of people dress like this on the daily. This is a trend in China? Wow.
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  2161. Aliens watching how we do things is probably the same as how we watch an ant colony. It's impressive for what it is but hardly worth losing sleep over.
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  2162.  @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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  2163.  @JohnPotts-kq7kk  Never ever ate there not even once. And I don't plan to ever.
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  2164.  @idk16577  An overwhelming amount of Gazans support Hamas. So they're more or less the same at this point. Stop making an exception for the few when majority support this tyranny.
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  2165. When did Nato provoke Russia? What the heck are you talking about?
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  2166. When you put it that way. It's really amazing how misplaced anger makes people do the stupidest things.
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  2167. "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) This problem is unfortunately innate in their culture.
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  2168. An oxymoron
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  2169. They are; college grads are literally being told to go to the countryside to find work.
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  2170. 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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  2171. He doesn't care as long as he gets paid. He's so senile he doesn't even know where he is half the time.
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  2172. Their politicians aren't well versed in diplomacy despite everything they say about being an old civilization and "valuing education". At the end of the day, they're full of shit and anyone who's got half a brain can see it.
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  2173. Not anymore. A lot of the factories have closed down.
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  2174. This is just mismanagement and irresponsibility. That's what happens with widespread corruption.
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  2175. 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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  2176.  @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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  2177.  @FrancisFjordCupola  This is exactly what is happening now. Multinationals ARE diversifying, that's part of the reason why we are going to be experiencing inflation in the next few years as companies find other venues to manufacture while trying to simultaneously stabilize their respective industries after being rocked economically.
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  2178. Yup, it would hand more control to Britney which is what her dad and his team don't want in the first place
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  2179. She never said the Chinese economy was collapsing. Where are you seeing that? All she said was FDI was down. That's just fact
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  2180.  @sakura7431  Why do communist constantly think in black and white? Countries have their own interests.
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  2181. The CCP should be designated as a criminal organization. They are practically run like the mafia.
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  2182. Wishing all the best for the Brits.
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  2183. Chinese government has no self awareness. Everything is a show they put on for the masses. Problem is they are the only ones in on it and nobody else which could be problematic. That's how insane they are.
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  2184. 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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  2185. It's not shocking because most Chinese are kept ignorant about what happened with Japan. Details about the US helping have all been scrubbed from their history as they only know what the government wants them to know which is not a whole lot.
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  2186.  @doujinflip  Falling apart in 30 years? It's far less than that
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  2187. ​​ @Alex-vr4wu it's Ryan not Brian
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  2188. I work at the post office in Canada and the amount of returns we get from these places is crazy.
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  2189. The woman who doesn't understand why men aren't in a hurry - it's not the same for men and women. Men can marry and have kids when they are older provided the woman is still in a reproductive age. Women don't have the luxury of waiting to get older and having kids. With that comes a lot of risk including risk to the woman herself if her body can no longer take the pregnancy.
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  2190. Then go live there.
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  2191. Too bad the people from Balochistan don't.
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  2192. Everything in China is purely political. Who takes what the bitchy CCP has to say anymore? They are clowns to the whole world at this point.
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  2193. So basically don't trust them because they always lie?
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  2194.  @GamerShowdown-h8j  Lol. You're funny.
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  2195. Lol, ok.
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  2196. They also said Covid was non human to human transmissible, are you seriously questioning their credibility or lack thereof?
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  2197. I find it so funny that even if you give these small island nations freedom, they cannot decide for themselves what they as a country truly need to move forward. Freedom in and of itself is completely useless in the face of poverty. Rather than educating these developing countries about this simple fact, the West "expects" them to make the right decisions and align with their values. They fail to take into account that in some cultures, collectivist thinking sometimes pervades every aspect of society including the ability or lack of ability to make choices. The reason why they are even considering China is that China has already taken the leg work of these countries to make a collective decision that would otherwise take ages under government officials who only disagree with one another. It seems easier to get people on the same page when they are being dictated to than to leave people to decide amongst themselves.
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  2198. There's seriously nothing to live for other than being with friends and family. Highlight of my week is being able to cook for everyone when they come on the weekend. Other than that everything else sucks and is useless. I'm sure you have those moments with your family as well.
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  2199. You mean adult children right?
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  2200. Root word of "facade" is "face" so it's highly applicable.
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  2201. Got to love China's self aggrandizing behaviors. They never fail to talk themselves up despite what people truly think of them. So clueless and myopic which is typical of them and their culture. Their arrogance is beyond exasperating.
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  2202. ​ @mah7961 prisoners in the US also get hot running water and get fed better than the typical Chinese.
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  2203. It would have been bomb if Totoro made an appearance in Spirited Away as one of the spirits in the bathhouse.
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  2204. Japan imported the "best" of what different cultures had to offer. The same goes with their food that's derived from European influence.
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  2205.  @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs  They're so smart and innovative that the little things they added here and there are now synonymous with their own culture.
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  2206. 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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  2207. ​​ @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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  2208. Because people feel threatened and want power over each other
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  2209. It's innate in the culture unfortunately.
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  2210. I am from one of the countries mentioned above and I saw no such report. I get that you lie for a living but this is really pathetic coming from your government
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  2211. They're going to multiply as more and more Chinese are becoming unemployed
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  2212. Some of these people ARE connected to the government.
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  2213. No it won't. Not when China claims everything for itself.
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  2214. It's ok they're making their own homegrown airplane with parts imported from Europe. Chinese craftsmanship + avionic technology = good luck.
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  2215.  @dwightsmith3815  I just thought it be funny. Some people here, not you, don't understand the difference between an a la carte and a stand up buffet.
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  2216.  @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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  2217. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2218. Pretty much. Everything they do is a lowly attempt to make money. Even selling the ineffective vaccines that cost more than the others. Stealing is state backed. What's suspect however is that this is being allowed to happen. It's no secret that China hacks into systems to steal IPO. And yet they're reporting on it like this is unheard of news.
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  2219.  @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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  2220. They're not woke. That's what they want you to think because being "woke" is on-brand in this day and age. Western countries have known about Xinjiang for quite some time. The thing is it's now been exposed to the world so now governments don't have a choice but to speak out against it. But do you hear from companies that exploit cheap labour and the people who can't complain and have no choice? Hell no, because they don't give a shit for the Uighurs and the Chinese either.
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  2221. And China doesn't?
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  2222. Shut down, shut down, shut down, shut down….
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  2223. ​ @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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  2224. West Taiwan has had a very tumultous history. They double down on their arrogance when times are tough.
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  2225. They complain for the sake of complaining. They've institutionalized drama and mental illness. That's the Soviet way.
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  2226.  @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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  2227. People losing their savings is bound to happen. All Country Garden is doing is delaying the inevitable. Chinese sentiment over buying property will not change overnight or probably for several years to come. They truly shot themselves in the foot and they will never recover. They have shattered the trust of the people and it can never be salvaged.
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  2228. Why stop there? Extend it to all the multinational companies with no morals that want to partake.
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  2229. You'd be surprised with how cheap some people are.
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  2230. Time for everyone to stop pretending for the sake of China. Taiwan IS a country.
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  2231. 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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  2232. Producing a lot of something doesn't mean you're ahead when you pollute so much to produce that thing. Chinese logic never fails to impress.
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  2233. What exactly do you need to "see" to believe? Grassroots videos of the protests by Chinese citizens not enough for you?
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  2234.  @chinacoolai422  If India's missiles are like fireworks then why do your leaders get pissed when India starts developing them? Why the extreme reaction?
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  2235.  Evergrande Best real Estate  You seriously need to change your username because, it's really beyond delusional at this point and nobody will take what you have to say seriously.
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  2236. It truly astounds me that China constantly likes to toot it's own horn without any regard for other cultures in the world. It keeps telling the whole world that IT should be understood. They truly see themselves as superior to everyone else and yet word on the street and reality cannot be further from the truth. "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" by Ralph Townsend" (On China in the 1930's) - This is still China up to now.
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  2237. Yup, your likeness can't be used without your permission
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  2238. Proud of what? The fact that the sanctions don't do anything whatsoever? That it's just a useless childish gesture?
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  2239. They already act guilty. If they have nothing to hide then why not let independent investigators conduct an investigation?
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  2240. They're always angry. What else is new?
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  2241.  @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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  2242.  @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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  2243. "Investing" and "China" shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
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  2244. Pretty much. It's the same tired response from them.
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  2245. 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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  2246. This was allowed to happen. Something like this would never ever see the light of day in China unless permitted. The guy that Peng accused is a Jiang Zemin sympathizer, someone that Xi Jinping's rival faction is up against.
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  2247. So is China now going to learn Arabic? Why is it it's always a "win" when people learn Chinese but not the other way around?
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  2248. China's airspace is under the watchful eye of the PLA. If anything deviated from their airspace the military would know since you need clearance to be able to fly any kind of aircraft. So this is something related to their military. But they're "downplaying" it as a civilian in the hopes that they would "dupe" the US. Fortunately, the US doesn't buy anything they say. Lying is second nature to the CCP.
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  2249. They chose their blood thirsty leaders. They have no future!
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  2250. They don't want it because it's going to affect the lifestyles of the CCP officials who live lavishly. Those mansions and fancy cars overseas won't pay for themselves.
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  2251.  @ursodermatt8809  "China's last warning", "Chinese Whispers", "Chinese Puzzle", "Chinese Fire Drill" - None of these words mean anything good and they exist. Now, China loves to attach the word "Chinese" or "China" to everything like as if it's exceptional. Got to love Chinese chauvinism. They're so full of it.
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  2252.  @zhuangdavid5037  Writing is literally on the wall. You'd be an idiot to not see it.
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  2253. It's just China being China. Cry, cry, cry, express outrage, cry cry, cry, express outrage. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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  2254. 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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  2255. I love the fact that you call the Chinese on their bullshit. They honestly think so highly of themselves like their food when there are much spicier cuisines out there that can easily blow their spices out of the water. All they show is how unsophisticated they are and the fact that they think everything revolves around them.
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  2256.  Kitty Cat  Their submarines aren't quiet. They frequently get detected by other submarines and aircraft carriers.
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  2257. That's like comparing horse sh!t and donkey sh!t.
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  2258.  @notsogood1357  You have a messed up view of what facts and justice is.
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  2259. I work in the post office in Canada. We actually prioritize Canadian and US parcels first. Even China Express takes a backseat because it doesn't make sense for China Express to make it to consumers first given the distance is traveled.
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  2260. Israel is responsible for innocent people being assaulted?
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  2261. Even if they did. Politics will always stifle innovation so it's all useless anyway.
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  2262. This is not just China. I work in a purely political place in Canada. Incompetent higher-ups and their equally incompetent underlings are promoted purely because they know them. They are incompetent and my co-workers can clearly see it. Being hardworking means absolutely nothing in the face of connections and biased relationships. They should teach kids that kissing your boss's ass is worth more than your degree ever will be.
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  2263. 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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  2264. He was born June 15, 1953 according to google.
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  2265. Any economist who still says that with a serious face must have bumped their head or is under the influence.
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  2266. You mean the study of "what not to do"?
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  2267. If this doesn't teach foreigners not to go to China. I don't know what will.
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  2268. Legal to protest in China? What are you talking about?
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  2269. It definitely strokes their ego. Because without the drama, their lives would be boring. Self-reflection would be out of the question because that would make too much sense. And changing their behavior would also be out of the question because that requires much needed effort and introspection. It's much easier to just blame the guy.
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  2270. Lol
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  2271. "Face" is a stupid concept. It's a "social lubricant" that allows the Chinese to get away with lying, cheating, stealing, or manipulating. Their default to "face" is just a sad attempt to justify their own stupidity and lack of awareness. You've just been had by yet another lie. The Japanese and Koreans have "face" as well. And if you acted in those countries the same way a Chinese would act, you would actually lose face. So the Chinese idea of face has warped to the point of ridiculousness.
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  2272. Let him. Nobody cares at this point anymore.
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  2273.  @tenacious_takakumi2680  It happens quite frequently. And you can't say that the Gobi Desert frequently blows dust over to Korea when it's a constant occurrence.
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  2274. How can you compete against state run subsidies? It doesn't matter what you do or how much value you add to the car you produce. Why can't you comprehend that simple fact? Also, not everything is all about price. China's EV's have a lot of problems like spontaneous combustion. These cars haven't even been tested extensively for safety. And we all know that China constantly flouts international standards with regard to safety.
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  2275. "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) "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
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  2276. India's population is generally younger than China's and a lot of multinational companies are moving there after China's espionage law fiasco. So I'd say they're doing better and still economically growing. China's years of astronomical growth have long passed.
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  2277. Most people do business with the Chinese because they want something in return from the Chinese like access to their markets. Unfortunately, for China, most politicians care more about their own reputation than to risk any short term fleeting rewards that come from dealing with Beijing.
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  2278. You forgot "Lying Beauty"
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  2279.  @YDuskyCricket  "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting." - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930s)
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  2280. I remember hearing that garbage on the radio in my car during the election "and the budget with balance itself". He's a real piece of work.
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  2281. It looks like all the tankies are out in full force today. Didn't they say they were going to use nukes several months ago?
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  2282. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2283. If there's one thing that we have learned, it's that there is no thing as "secured jobs". Some are more secure than others but you can get let go
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  2284. So manipulative. It's ridiculous.
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  2285.  Sebastian Hahn  Even the "challenges" they face are problems that people lower on the social ladder can't relate to. The only people who understand are people who have climbed the ladder and bridged the gap.
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  2286.  Sebastian Hahn  They are not used to a "hard" life so everything to them feels like the end of the world. More further reason why other people don't take them seriously.
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  2287. This is so dangerous. Why would they do this without extensive testing?
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  2288. Narcisstic liars usually can't see their hypocricy.
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  2289. "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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  2290. So this "committee" is now going to extort money from HSBC for something that HSBC did not even approve off? China truly is the champion of abusive unions and extortion.
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  2291. 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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  2292. The police in China aren't there to stop criminals but to defend them since most of them are in the government.
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  2293.  @ser6Ijvolk  Tell that to all the left wing morons who still think the government will come and save them.
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  2294.  @pom.........5383  Could you link a credible source to this so that we can read the article or when this change was enacted? That way people can straighten out any changes in information? Thanks
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  2295.  @walden6272  Stolen from Cisco, Samsung, TSMC, shall we go on?
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  2296. "When the Chinese want to be nasty-as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China) China has always been run this way even before the communists came into power. Do you really think under the KMT and their former emperors times were different? No. It's all about whomever is currently at the helm of the country can get away with doing whatever they wish with little to no impunity. "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" by Ralph Townsend
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  2297. "China calls for cooperation" actually means "please let us continue spying on Chinese dissidents and students in your country.
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  2298.  @DontUputThatEvilOnMe  The people already have an idea. But this is what happens when you have an extremely inefficient command economy by the government. China opened itself up to the world but it won't adopt a liberalized view of its local economy.
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  2299.  @douglassun8456  Some of them have literally come out and have said that on Chinese social media.
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  2300. ​ @TheBarbahaba probably even more than that
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  2301. They need to market aggressively to Europeans and North Americans. Stop relying on China!!
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  2302. Chinese people in China still think they have rights? They're about to learn how their gangster government truly acts.
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  2303. When he said "people in mainland China can criticize the government" - What the heck did he mean? In public or private? Also, there's is no proof that you can criticize the government in public without fear of retaliation. Everytime there are protests in China, inevitably the police will come and either break up the protest or just mass arrest individuals involved. So, I am not sold by what he says.
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  2304. Having a stable income isn't so obvious until you've lost your job.
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  2305. They look like they've been let loose from a mental institution. So bizarre.
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  2306. 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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  2307.  @kevinrich5222  umm no. They were already calling the Japanese, Americans, and the British imperialists even back then, especially when the KMT wanted to shore up support from the masses. They never truly saw the US as allies. Read the book so you understand. "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 Taiwan now isn't run by the same forces as back then. But prior to Taiwan becoming the democracy we know they were also a militaristic state run by a dictator. But yes, they have evolved.
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  2308. 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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  2309. I was actually thinking about the proliferation of woke culture - a lot of this is backed by large corporations. It's designed to keep us distracted because if we all come to our sense, we would realize as a collective that we are indentured servants. Sad thing is, the left believes in their own pompous self righteousness to realize this simple fact, instead they opt to bash the right and the right also does the same to the left. The rich gets richer and ultimately nothing gets done to help the shrinking middle class.
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  2310. Who's to say they even want to solve it at this point? The higher ups will keep stealing and the people in the lower classes have all become apathetic.
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  2311. Words that lack substance just like the cheap garbage they produce.
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  2312. $30,000 can buy you a brand new Toyota vs a depreciated Maserati, I'll take the new Toyota. I also won't have a headache for the next few years.
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  2313. China's plan should be to fix their issues, instead of constantly lying, cheating, and deflecting. Pure insanity from China as usual.
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  2314. 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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  2315. Their intent was never to manage anything. It was just to steal and move their stolen money overseas.
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  2316. China loves to talk shit to Japan and South Korea and now they want to play the race card and forget all the crap China did to them. So beyond ridiculous.
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  2317. The most unaware people want to rule the world? Ha, they can keep dreaming. They make everything about themselves.
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  2318. Why?
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  2319. China isn't showing the Capitol riots because they don't want to fill their own people's heads with ideas. I also found it interesting that foreigners in China who faced racism just accepted it. Whereas they were more critical of racism in the US and the US is not nearly as homogenized as Chinese society. Seems like such a double standard.
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  2320. Rare earths are all over the world. And US and Japan have a monopoly on those refining technologies. China produces a crude version of those things and still rely on Japan and US for refinement. Who are THEY kidding when those can be manufactured elsewhere?
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  2321. Germany protects good samaritans. China doesn't. How can they when the whole system is built to scam on everyone. If you want something done you have to bribe the local authorities. No decent system can thrive with pure corruption.
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  2322. Aren't they brain dead though?
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  2323. Well they are aren't they?
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  2324.  @StevenX-v1r  Typical arrogant Chinese talks big. Shut up and let results speak for itself. You don't hear anyone from other US, Japan, South Korea, or Europe talking up their technology. That's for the people of the world to decide. By the way, people like their google apps and are very popular. Harmony OS can't even run those apps. I highly doubt anyone will want that phone.
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  2325. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions. Why not just buy these phones. They run just like you so called "cutting edge" Huawei if you want to call it that OPPO Find X5. Realme GT 2. Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. Vivo iQOO Neo 5S. OPPO Find N. Sony Xperia Pro I. OnePlus 9 RT. Microsoft Surface Duo 2. and some of those phones have Google capability. Huawei can't even run Google and Youtube, apps that people in the free world enjoy using.  bobdoe38 
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  2326. No such thing as mandate of heaven. It's all made up to keep immoral Emperors in check.
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  2327. This is why the US and Western world should consider other options. If China keeps talking about how "great" they are independent of the rest of the world then they should show the world that they can truly stand on their own. But all that talk and bluster is typical propaganda. Nobody buys into what the CCP are saying. And they're not even good at lying.
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  2328.  @Guildofarcanelore  They always conveniently "forget" American interference (ie like helping them with trade and Japan) when it suits them but shit on the US when they need it for propaganda. These ingrates deserve everything that's coming to them.
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  2329. They can never be saved. Missionaries have been going to China since the early 20th century. It did very little to make a dent in Chinese society. They don't care to be civilized. No amount of religion can help them.  @A.A1891 
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  2330. 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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  2331. They also practice unipolarity when dealing with countries one on one and hates it when other countries interfere. That's a tell tale sign that they hate democracy in any form.
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  2332. It's all an act as usual from China. Nobody takes them seriously anymore. They act like pechulant children. So annoying.
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  2333.  @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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  2334. ​ @rakshithd920  I don't understand what you're trying to get at.
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  2335. China is already polluted enough. This won't make a difference.
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  2336. Then why don't they? Why create such a stink over something that they claim to have "control" over? It's because they can't build their own chips. Too much rampant corruption. Every time the CCP allocates funds for research that money just disappears overseas, stolen by the very same people who were entrusted to allocate funds appropriately.
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  2337. 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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  2338. Stand up for humanity? Gazans rejoiced at the murder of innocent people during 9/11 and during Oct 7. There is no humanity there. You're sick if you seriously think that.
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  2339.  @bromeotorres6964  Because it's trendy to support the so called "underdog" even if the underdog slaughters innocent people.
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  2340. There are over 90 million communist party members finding new and creative ways to steal. That's why
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  2341. China doesn't believe in a "God" let alone any religion.
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  2342. Ultra materialistic and superficial? Yup.
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  2343. Yes. They achieved 3% GDP "growth" as per reported by state media. And offcourse you believe them.
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  2344. Panda is a stupid clumsy animal that just eats and smacks its head when it falls.
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  2345. China, a country where lies and deceit are encouraged and rewarded...
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  2346. It also doesn't help that their officials are pissing off everyone with childish and brash rhetoric designed to irritate and annoy everyone all over the world. But then again, China has always operated like this even before the communists came into power. "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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  2347. 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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  2348.  @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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  2349. US has more nukes and better capability than North Korea. Don't kid yourself.
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  2350. Musk is a typical sellout despite seeing the obvious about China. Enough said.
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  2351. ​​ @chavdardonchev face is just another way for them to justify their lies and bad actions. It's just a way for them to distract from their incompetence and lack of awareness. No other culture abuses this so called "face" than Chinese.
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  2352. "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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  2353. 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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  2354.  @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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  2355.  @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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  2356.  @Kawai492  Not likely, China can't afford sanctions.
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  2357. 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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  2358. Most of the free world echo that sentiment.
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  2359. Peter Zeihan also talked about this. China over reported their population by 100 million since the one child policy. So the recent numbers that are being reported are already overinflated because they are based on fudged population calculations.
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  2360. Then go live there under squalor conditions you so we won't have to hear from you.
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  2361.  sharia_law5563  Most people still are lining up to get into America. Who are you kidding?
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  2362. That's not what my friends from China say. And they never want to go back.
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  2363. Why do shills always say this drivel? "You need to travel to China". What the hell is that going to prove? Where's the logic?
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  2364. North Korea would be wiped off the face of the planet. That's what would happen if they did something so reckless.
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  2365. Everyone knows China lies about everything. No surprises here.
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  2366. The one hyping up this nonsense is China. Maybe they shouldn't have done this in the first place. Did that simple fact ever occur to you?
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  2367. When did the Chinese ever care about following laws?
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  2368. China already IS at war with the US. Cyber attacks and fentanyl not proof enough?
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  2369. No such thing as mandate of heaven. You just have political morons running the country
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  2370. Cardi-C was that girl's name? Wow, the lack of originality is so cringy. But what else can you expect from second-rate copy everything China.
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  2371. 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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  2372. It's China's catch all phrase to justify their stupidity and to do whatever they want. They make everything about themselves, which is typical.
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  2373.  @azuren422  Read the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea and educate yourself, which China is also party to.
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  2374. Chinese only double down on what they "know". There is no common sense, there is no critical thinking. Everything is politicized.
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  2375. 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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  2376. ​ umbrellastudio7481 for starters they lied about Covid. Where have you been in the last 3 years?
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  2377. Don't Chinese know by now that they have no rights? All this talk of "rights" is pure nonsense.
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  2378. Americans already developed this a few years ago. Their robot on four legs is a rip off of Boston Dynamics.
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  2379. ​ @SteveTrinh-e4b slavery still exists in the world. China is one of these countries
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  2380. 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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  2381. BRICS are a joke. India and China can't stand one another. South Africa is basically a failed state. And Brazil's leader is flirting with the idea of becoming a full fledged communist country. So ridiculous. And Russia is just pure mess.
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  2382. Having the CCP in power is like being in a dysfunctional relationship with an abusive parent who you depend on for survival. The kids won't leave because the alternative of the unknown is just so much scarier than the familiarity and knowledge that comes with being in that dysfunctional relationship. As they say, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know". The people will just ride out as long as they can but they won't change because they don't know any better.
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  2383. Well he could have left or sought out professional help. There's no excuse. Now he will rot in jail for making a horrible choice.
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  2384. The 90's were a point in time that can never be replicated. Same with the 2000's. Unless the US government finds means and ways to put money back into people's wallets instead of finding creative ways to take from the people, it won't get better.
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  2385. Nothing. Just like when their navy along with Russia's came close to the US in Aug 2023 when they were in international waters.
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  2386. Chinese Doubao AI is just a reflection of Chinese society: confusing, misleading, and rigid. Go figure.
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  2387.  Zigest  That's right. Also "no" to natural gas and riding cars or the bus. Take the damn bicycle in the rain or snow.
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  2388.  @franktoh3041  Keep dreaming. California doesn't fit the definition of its own country.
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  2389. 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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  2390. 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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  2391. 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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  2392. "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) "The diplomatic history of the Chinese shows that in international affairs they are what they are in individual affairs. Their pressure against us never relaxes. When we give way they advance. If we push hard in return, they recede." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  2393. For a country playing the "long game" a lot of their decisions are knee jerk reactions. J6st look at the one chold policy and what a diaster that was. Look at China's housing market. Does that seem like playing the long game to you?
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  2394.  @leobuana7430  Same with Japan, and Southeast Asia. Did @howardlee357 hit his head really hard recently?
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  2395. Lol, China didn't allow the Philippines to resupply the troops. Philippines breached their coast guard. Why would they allow Filipinos now when they have denied them in the past? Random change of heart? Hell no.
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  2396. China claiming fakery is the funniest thing ever. So insecure that it's sad and pathetic.
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  2397. "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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  2398. Shinto is native to Japan. Confucianism is from China which spread to the rest of Asia. They were both integrated to Japanese culture but their origins are different. Buddhism is also big in Japan so why not add Indians to the mix as well?
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  2399. What happens if these robotaxis break and there's someone in there? What's the passenger going to do if they have an appointment? Panic? This sounds like a bad idea. Also, a lot of Chinese are already unemployed. How will this help the economy? It won't.
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  2400. you forgot miritary aircraft.
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  2401. So basically it's ineffective?
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  2402. It's obviously staged by Russia
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  2403. 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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  2404.  @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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  2405.  @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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  2406. So basically our hearts are similar to the engine of a car. Too much strain can wear it out faster.
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  2407. Petitions in China = controlled opposition. The government only wants to weed out potential threats. They won't do anything to actually help those who have grievances with the government.
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  2408.  @Luzviminda777  Well people in the US aren't starving to North Korean levels in a much larger scale so I wouldn't compare the two
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  2409. 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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  2410. Nothing about China is normal. Why are you still wondering?
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  2411.  @binbi8177  China isn't helping anyone but themselves you bot.
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  2412. Not when you're dealing with China. They only believe in might and intimidation.
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  2413. It's just symbolic/for show. Just like majority of things they do.
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  2414. What about it?
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  2415. There's a lot of illegal money here stolen from government coffers from overseas countries and Canada knows this. For them, it's all about money.
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  2416.  @UnknownUnknown-hg7xg  China has little to no chance of picking up. Too many financial issues and counter intuitive regulations thanks to their government. And those rules are here to stay. Even seasoned investors know this. Why do you think China isn't getting a lot in foreign investment as compared to the previous years?
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  2417. And yet they always have "record profits"
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  2418. 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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  2419. Apparently, he might me banned from entering China.
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  2420. You must be trolling with your username
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  2421. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are Dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2422. Who did you hear this from? State propaganda?
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  2423. 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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  2424. Go to Japan or Korea. Those places have far more to offer than the overrated chaos that is China.
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  2425.  @LiangJieMei-rs5hv  How is Japan more superior? 1. They make quality products 2. They are clean and orderly as opposed to "Chinese chaos" 3. They know how to follow rules even though it isn't always convenient and their society is better of for it. 4. They are polite and respectful 5. Most Japanese speak in an acceptable tone when in public 6. Japanese dress decently and look very well put together 7. Japanese tell you the truth as oppose to flattering you non stop to get what they want 8. They are humble by nature I've seen frequent occurrences of Chinese acting completely the opposite of the things I just mentioned here.
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  2426. Are you there for work or of your own volition?
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  2427.  @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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  2428. I will only buy Japanese cars. My phone is a Samsung. I will never buy Chinese tech garbage.
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  2429. They have no morals. They don't care.
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  2430. This "us versus them" mentality China has especially against the US is getting ridiculous. So childish and fruitless.
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  2431.  @nigelsmith3719  Lol, freedom of expression rooted in ignorance and pure hatred for the establishment? Really? If they really cared they would be on a flight to Gaza risking their lives to provide humanitarian aid. All I see are a bunch of crying, whiny babies who have a do nothing attitude and a loud mouth.
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  2432. How exactly will that happen? They don't innovate, they don' spend on R&D and a lot of people including the Chinese themselves won't buy their own domestic brands. "Sales numbers" are propped up by Chinese domestic companies in order for them to keep getting government stimulus. The Chinese market is shot and show no signs of recovering what with their housing market in disarray and people reeling from the aftermath of Zero Covid. Not to mention thousands of multinational companies leaving China for greener pastures. So tell me how will China become the largest economy?
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  2433. Wouldn't that make the current leadership more "dangerous" because they don't acknowledge reality?
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  2434. 4 billion? Some people still invested there? Wow, that's sad.
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  2435. ​ @animejanai4657  CCP has a big budget. You really think the CCP would miss this opportunity to make this much noise? They're attention whores.
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  2436. This is all over world news. What propaganda are you talking about?
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  2437.  @allanmpezenijr2973  It's a one man show where he makes all the decisions. What the heck is your definition of a dictator? Are you crazy?
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  2438. Lol, and send literal sh!t.
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  2439.  @mtrest4  A lot of them are also unemployed. This is "unemployed" behavior.
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  2440. 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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  2441.  @SeaJay_Oceans  This is a joke right? Or are you just trolling?
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  2442. ​ @melvinstarita638 it's also lack of trust with the regulators and operators
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  2443. ​ @cristiano7ronaldoTHEGOAT this is why we need the expertise and collaboration with the Japanese. It has to be well researched and all options listed and considered.
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  2444.  @happyswim1836  So funny because they can be among the most volatile and vitriolic.
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  2445. And it starts again....
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  2446.  @victorye7150  Yes, and save myself the trouble of having to go there and see absolutely nothing of value. It's not like as if the rest of the world disagrees with this especially with the growing hostilities of their government to foreigners and Chinese citizens alike.
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  2447.  @victorye7150  I will and I am safer and richer because of it.
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  2448. 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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  2449. 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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  2450. Toyota all the way
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  2451. 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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  2452. Some of us are already taking this responsibility. There's actually been an increase of goods increasingly being manufactured elsewhere. I went to the dollar store and was astonished to find water pails made in the US and small gardening shovels made in Taiwan. This isn't something you would have seen 5 or 10 years ago. Stores like Uniqlo and Lululemon, when I checked, manufacture their goods in Vietnam, India, Peru, the Philippines, etc. It's slowly happening.
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  2453.  @hovera7946  So does China make up majority of global market share? Last I checked there's a larger world out there that does not include China.
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  2454. ​@nadavbar-gil689an overwhelming amount of Gazans support Hamas. Stop making a case for the exception when majority rejoiced with glee when 9/11 and the Oct 7 attack happened.
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  2455. So the U.S. with its most powerful cyber capabilities is interested in stealing IP from China, a country that is trailing behind the US in capability? Is the propaganda arm of the CCP truly this devoid of common sense?
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  2456. Given the WHO's serious lack of credibility, I don't understand why it isn't disbanded. It clearly has no value.
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  2457. Dating in the Philippines is similar to Romania - women over there have the perception that foreigners have money, at least the ones on the lower socioeconomic ladder. They may or may not be materialistic. You have to vet their background. If she's got 7 brothers and sisters, you might be burdened to help support them because you're the "rich foreigner". This is the issue that a lot of foreigners run into.
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  2458. Violence can't be shown on youtube. Otherwise, the video will be taken down.
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  2459. That title officially belongs to Vietnam now. China is no longer the cheapest in manufacturing.
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  2460.  @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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  2461. It's all for show for his boss Winnie the Pooh. I don't think he actually believes the actual nonsense he's been fed. But he has to abide by it because he has no choice. The guy lives in Beijing after all.
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  2462. The CCP admired the Nazis for the level of control they had over the people. Psychos admiring like minded psychos is a trend when it comes to murderous regimes.
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  2463.  @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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  2464. They don't believe in the divine. And they have rejected the notion of any divinity for most of their history. No morals, no ethics.
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  2465. If the US sent multiple balloons over China we would have already heard about it. China uses just about any excuse to express public outrage. This is obviously just another lie.
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  2466. Ironic considering the CCP is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world even back then. This guy also said to "hide your strength" until the time was right. He obviously wasn't talking abour board games.
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  2467. Preselling is a concept that exists in a lot of countries. Developers sell for cheap in order to raise cash with the hopes that the property will appreciate over time and offset those initial costs. The problem is that Evergrande did not make good on anything they did. This would never happen in a democratic country. Real estate companies who do this in the free world will face class action lawsuits and jail the developers for fraud and misleading their clients. This rule does not exist in Communist China. Go figure.
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  2468. And yet they treat everyone in the same horrible way...they don't care about anybody else. No gratitude and pure arrogance.
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  2469. It's not about how productive you are, it's who you know. Working hard like a dog won't get you promoted if the boss doesn't like you or notice you.
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  2470. Define "resilient"? Hard to be resilient when multinational companies are leaving en masse. What are they going to magically produce to make them "resilient"?
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  2471. Feminists: I don't need a man! Behind close doors: *Cries and sulks and wonders why men don't want her. Feminists don't understand that their vile attitude makes them so unattractive.
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  2472.  @UnnamedChannel06  It's still not going to stop China from bribing others to try and get information. They've basically hijacked post secondary institutions in America at this point. Ever hear of the thousand talents program?
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  2473.  @suzygirl1843  Not anymore. Ever hear of Vietnam, India, and Southeast Asia? They're now cheaper than China.
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  2474. It's not absurd. It makes sense especially under centralized planning.
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  2475. They will also force women in rural areas to have children. They used to have ambulances that administered abortions. Now they will have ambulances that will administer forced inseminations.
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  2476. 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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  2477.  @MP-vc4nu  you're funny
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  2478.  @evergreenhills  keep telling yourself that
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  2479. Yup, it's so "Chinese" that it's not being served in Chinese restaurants. Most Chinese waiters will tell you to you "go to a Korean restaurant" if you want Kimchi.
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  2480. Yes, large trading partner. All financed by debt.
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  2481. Only in China they would romanticize cooling towers and smoke stacks and not nature itself. That view with the cooling towers looked gross.
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  2482. 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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  2483. 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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  2484. Lol, China is the one intruding on other countries. Your ssd attempt at disinformation is pathetic.
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  2485. Read about China under the KMT, it wasn't much different.
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  2486. Parents should just get together and hire a private tutor to teach their kids as a group. It's going to cost more but it beats subjecting their kids to self loathing propaganda garbage. And the parents have a say in what their kids get to learn.
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  2487. China's economy is over stated and is said to be along the same size as Japan's. But propganda would have you believe that they are such a "big" economy despite numerous multinationals withdrawing and setting up shop elsewhere. You never ever hear about the other "big" economies such as Japan or South Korea in Asia. It's all about China, China, China...
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  2488. You mean the speed of a car falling off a cliff? Yup, that's China alright.
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  2489. The only thing Russia has to defend itself from is its own stupidity.
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  2490. China always needs a reason to hate on other countries. It's their modus operandi.
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  2491. It's all they have. Because at the end of the day, what is China without the propaganda? It's chaotic, corrupt, nothing works properly and a lot of people are still poor and resort to immoral means to make ends meet. And they will never change.
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  2492. Everything he said made sense. What was wrong with what he said?
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  2493.  @blue-phoenix115  China is one giant labor camp where you just can't leave.
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  2494. What happened to boss babe?
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  2495.  @henryyuen5224  except you will still need structure in society. What happens if you give your last vestiges of power to the government? Guess what? They have no use for you.
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  2496. ​ @anb2456 it's amazing how they think they own people. Abuse is common and expected.
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  2497. Yeah, yeah everyone who doesn't agree with communism is a colony of the US. Such demented black and white thinking, which is typical of communist groupthink.
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  2498. They are absolute champions of making fools out of themselves despite their incessant yammerings of talking about their backwards "face culture", which they claim to espouse but obviously don't.
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  2499.  Jeff Gordon  A lot of their students are going to return to China and end up working menial jobs or just join the PLA. Everyone is aspiring for these white collar jobs that ultimately don't exist unless you are well connected to the higher ups in China. They have been sending students overseas ever since time in memorial and China never evolved. It's a waste of time to educate them when all they will do is fall back on their old, tired, and stupid patterns when they are in their country. "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" by Ralph Townsend (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" by Ralph Townsend
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  2500.  @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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  2501. After they get married, they will be back to feeling the way they were.
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  2502. Japan got rich before their housing bubble popped. Most Chinese can't afford anything.
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  2503. What's the point of innovating when you can just pocket the funds and copy things that are already there? That's why their claims are ridiculous. They always take advantage of the "late comer" strategy because they're never the first to do anything.
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  2504.  @theshadowman8801  to each his own. As long as your cousin can afford it then so be it.
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  2505. ​ @CasperWang-n1k they hate when ir's convenient to them
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  2506.  @elijahlymus1370  There's always a double standard. At least most sane people can see through the bs and not fall for it.
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  2507.  @skydragon23101979  Scotland and Ireland ARE countries within the United Kingdom. Texas and California are states within the United States of America. I wouldn't use the argument of Ireland and Scotland because it's not going to help your case. You are essentially admitting that Taiwan IS a country. And you're argument about Texas and California don't make sense because they know they are a part of the US mainland. I don't understand where you're case for Taiwan being a part of China comes in here.
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  2508. 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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  2509. Yes, Taiwan a "Chinese city". It's a "city" with it's own government, it's own currency, it's own currency, it's own constitution. Keep dreaming.
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  2510.  @jukio02  Last I checked the rest of the world was still bigger than China including the rest of the developing world. China's population is in decline and countries in Southeast Asia, are still developing, along with it, demand.
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  2511. It is. Chinese don't care. They always do what's convenient, not what's right or "classy".
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  2512.  @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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  2513. 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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  2514. Try a lot of the world
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  2515. BRICS is a useless trading bloc. Nothing will happen with that fake association.
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  2516. 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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  2517. "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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  2518.  @silversurfer3202  Day traders, yes. Long term investors who spoke to a licensed financial advisor, doesn't apply to them.
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  2519. this should already be obvious to a lot of people...
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  2520. Never buying this China made garbage. It's Japanese and South Korean cars all the way.
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  2521. 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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  2522. Ambitious people don't thrive in a work-a-day world. That's why most of them start a business because they can't handle the mundane and stupid office politics.
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  2523. It's made the typical China way - low quality, built fast by Chinese workers who don't know any better. These self proclaimed "experts" love to export their techniques all over the world.
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  2524. Lots of wealthy Chinese are CCP officials or at the very least connected to the government.
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  2525. I never understood why it's even flushed down the sewage system. Can't they just put it in a receptacle for recycling?
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  2526. They won't allow this because heads of these colleges are in China's pockets.
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  2527. Isn't US the country China wants to sell to the most because of their big market and the power of the dollar?
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  2528. 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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  2529. Reporting on the Chinese economy collapsing is no different than reporting on a train that you know will crash. Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't in the future. All the signs are there and there isn't going to be any improvements made in the future and even if there are, it's already too late.
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  2530. "reflects a narrow perspective" - Pretty much defines China. Backwards, close minded and extremely lacking in sophistication.
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  2531. You must have extremely low standards for yourself then
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  2532.  @wess528  There are lot of tankies and communist sympathizers here simply waiting for their chance to gloat.
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  2533. 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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  2534. America IS rich. And no government in the world is free of corruption.
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  2535. It's also one of the reasons why kids can't focus on anything longer than 30 seconds these days. The app should be banned for the sake of the younger generation.
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  2536. Lol. You need to read up on how China is run. They don't care about their people. It was like this under the KMT. It was like this when they had emperors. They never changed.
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  2537. 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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  2538.  @bigbubba4314  And yet despite everything you just said, people from all over the world are STILL wanting to come to the US and this includes corrupt CCP officials with their ill gotten wealth. Your sentiment is obviously not felt my the vast majority who still want to immigrate to the US.
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  2539.  @user-od3ce2xw3p  If they like North Korea so much then why don't they just immigrate there. They don't even know what the hell they're talking about. Last I checked in history after the communists took over North Korea, they preemptively struck South Korea but failed.
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  2540. Yes, just what we need. To arm 3rd world communist/authoritarian countries with weapons so they can threaten those who don't agree with their worldview.
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  2541. So useless that you and others have to keep "reminding" us of this simple fact right?
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  2542. You just lied about the "west" being a country. Lol
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  2543. Typical empty talk from China. What else is new?
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  2544. France can defend it's own territory at this point if they want to make statements that single out the US.
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  2545. ​ @aaroncapricorn5867 those jobs are now coming back to the US after their Covid fiasco
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  2546. This has never happened to me when I use Google. Stop lying.
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  2547. What a clown show
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  2548. Nothing is ever their fault. Even though time and time again they show a complete lack of foresight like with the Zero Covid.
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  2549. Those are "scandal credits" lol
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  2550. No one has to tarnish China's image. Remember Covid which they caused? The world still remembers their lies.
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  2551. Now with Covid running rampant in China, that death rate will skyrocket with little to no births.
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  2552. They complain about other races backstabbing them when they love to backstab each other. Oh the irony.
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  2553. Well the fact the W.H.O "investigated" this debacle already calls credibility into question.
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  2554. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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
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  2555.  @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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  2556. Why don't they act proactively to make things better instead of losing face first then changing? It's so lazy and ridiculous.
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  2557.  @antlerman7644  Words like "inclusive' vs "divisive" are probably more apt words at this point. Throwing the word "atheist" around isn't going to solve anything.
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  2558. how so?
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  2559. This is crazy. Could the snowflakes be turning over a new leaf and be listening to constructive criticism?
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  2560. Not going to work. They would also have to revamp their name and lie about the origins of their company since nobody wants to touch anything made by Chinese SOE's anymore.
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  2561. I wore a Catholic school uniform growing up. You make it sound like it's the most contricting thing. It's really not.
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  2562. 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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  2563. They don't have spices in that part of the world nor did they trade with anyone who did.
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  2564. This is what happens when idiotic government policies by the CCP are enacted.
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  2565. We just had an election. I didn't vote for him but he won. So that should already tell you the state Canada is in.
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  2566. ​ @tonyatgoogle6076 yes, they will be a world leader in debt.
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  2567. ​ @Hashtag_Tendies move to China, where you can get arrested for saying unsavory things about the government.
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  2568. 'face' - inability to face reality, and justify incompetence, bad actions. Therefore, they can't course correct which is why they never change their ways.
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  2569.  @1.4billion65  What is so funny about what he says?
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  2570.  @jfkst1  "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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  2571. Yes, affordable and with the added bonus of them knowing everything there is to know about you.
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  2572.  @you_can_change_alias  I know right? And the phone uses chips from Taiwan that were literally manufactured about 2 years ago. The phone should be at least half off of the retail price.
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  2573.  @you_can_change_alias  This is why flip phones are coming back to an extent. Their batteries don't wear out at least not like smart phone batteries do. And they can last for weeks without charging.
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  2574.  @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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  2575. It's called credit
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  2576.  @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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  2577. they're also stupid and clumsy. Very uncoordinated and they can't even digest Bamboo well.
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  2578.  @Silly-Irish  Of course China is creating the hype. What government in the world gets behind a company and does PR by them? Do you see Biden putting his name behind Apple as a marketing ploy? No. It's because they don't create hype for privately run companies. But the Chinese government sure does. And no, we're not coping considering the phone is a couple generations behind. There's nothing fantastic to be excited about here. You Chinese nationalist sure love to toot your own horn. It seems to be a trait that you all share. Only you believe in your own hype. It's really sad. Nobody in the developed world or any other country for that matter does what you do. It reeks of insecurity. Keep showing off, the more people will look the other way.
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  2579. "Central planning" at it's finest. Except it was a plan that was meant to fail.
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  2580. Japan and South Korea are superior to China. Everyone in Asia knows this. It's just all about politics.
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  2581. China is increasingly and openly aggressive towards the world. It started with blaming the US and Italy for Covid despite having no proof. Do you really want to play that game?
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  2582. Utopian hell is an oxymoron.
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  2583. An Indian news outlet is reporting on China and you interpret that as "India likes to compare to China"? Get over yourself.
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  2584. Soar over geopolitics? She's a political pawn herself used by China just like their hockey team composed mainly of Canadians.
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  2585. China, the land where showing off is done purely for sport. Doesn't matter if you barely eat in a day - as long as people think you're rich, that's all that matters 🤣
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  2586. They're already bad at driving. Adding another layer of complications with badly made cars is not a good idea.
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  2587. Everything the CCP does is born out of jealousy and insecurity for all things "developed" while at the same time trying desperately to prop up their artificially manufactured GDP numbers. This is the major downside of their so-called "centrally planned" economy. They build for the sake of building with little to no regard for quality and properly settling their debts in the future. All this talk of China having a long-term plan is a propaganda farce that a lot of people have fallen for.
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  2588. Who cares? That's all just a front. They're still beholden to China at the end of the day. Make no mistake.
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  2589.  @GastonNaboulet  Russians were living peacefully in Ukraine before the invasion. Stop manufacturing lies. It's truly ridiculous.
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  2590. I've been to Korea and had their own style of "sushi". Had octopus legs alive and also ate penis fish, sea snails, and raw fish. My mom couldn't eat the penis fish because she didn't like how it looked.
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  2591. What a clown statement. Do Vietnam and Philippines are guilty? Of what?
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  2592.  @jackychen5578  Evidence will just be denied. So evidence does not matter to your government. Your government should know a thing or two about it what with their failed cover up.
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  2593. ​​ @Odin029 China gave their money to impoverished countries which they were betting on to grow astronomically. There's a reason why the developed world doesn't throw money around like China does. It understands finance better. The fact that China produces things at a loss (ie their HSR) should already tell you a lot about their fiscal policies.
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  2594. China' attempts at deception are truly beyond pathetic
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  2595. Because everything they know about China is state propaganda. It's truly a messed-up country. But a lot of people will still visit that God-forsaken place over any other country in Southeast Asia or East Asia.
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  2596. China is gripped by floods and blackouts and yet "data" from China seems to indicate that there is a "surge" in imports and exports. Something isn't adding up.
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  2597. 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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  2598. That job is well deserved for such a useless Phd.
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  2599. 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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  2600. This chip is from Taiwan made 2 years ago, the Kirin 9000. I don't know why you get off on making others feel like crap over something that China didn't even do. So pathetic. Keep lying and putting on a show. It seems that's all you and your government are good for.
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  2601. Why not a two state solution for Taiwan? Hypocrites!
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  2602. ​ @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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  2603. @sandponics Please give us something that the US stole tech-wise.
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  2604. In other countries, you would get shot for this disgusting behavior.
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  2605. Ah yes face culture. The biggest barrier to awareness.
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  2606. The corrupt are questioning the corrupt. Go figure.
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  2607. "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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  2608. 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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  2609. Yeah. How can they not be aware when they took the elevator or escalator up there? So dumb.
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  2610. ​ @Zergcerebrates is this how you always argue? Just change "China" to "US" like as if this adds validity to what you are saying?
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  2611. They need to shut up when they ban US social media companies from operating in their own country. Bunch of hypocrites.
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  2612. Helen reports back to her bosses in Beijing. She's going to say what they want her to say.
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  2613. "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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  2614. 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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  2615. Greta: I should be in school - Yes, yes you should. So why aren't you?
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  2616. The "old times" of China weren't that much better. Have you seen what happens in Chinese court with all the back stabbing and conspiring? It's just another attempt to fool everyone that they were "better" than they actually were. Because if they were truly morally upright then why were there so many revolutions and rebellions? A lot of the emperors were authoritarian jerks too.
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  2617. Maybe the same should apply to China as well since they don't ever do what they say they will.
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  2618. They're trying so hard to be part of something it's pathetic.
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  2619. Yes, and imagine the social upheaval and implications that is going to have for the government. It would be devastating.
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  2620. 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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  2621. ​​ @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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  2622. Well, who else are they going to learn it from but not their grab hag family members?
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  2623. "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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  2624. Everything that the CCP says is a bold faced lie. Why even question their logic when they have none?
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  2625. This should be adopted by companies more often. Maybe it will make them more aware of the obstacles and pressures that staff subordinate to management face. Who knows? It might make the higher ups more sympathetic instead of just chasing their bonuses and working their staff to death.
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  2626. That car will probably barely be able to cover the cost. It's already depreciated and he still has to pay ongoing rent and wages.
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  2627. This is hilarious. It's not even about China fudged GDP numbers, it's the fact that their data is just purely bs that, nobody even believes the numbers they put out anymore.
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  2628. ​ @laucon11 majority of people aren't fooled
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  2629. The Communists copied everything the Nationalists laid out for them despite being enemies. Oh, the irony.
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  2630. 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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  2631.  @andygonzalez7309  You're obviously talking to a CCP shill.
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  2632. CCP doing what does best. Stage awkward cringe events and get people involved. Then use said people to try and dig themselves out of the crap hole they've dug themselves in. Btw, how Peng acted like as if her back was against a wall is spot on. She's like a deer caught in headlights.
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  2633.  @ashleysimthi4852  What do you mean by "help your own tech companies grow?"
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  2634. Some Wumaos work in prison. Typing awsy because they have nothing better to do.
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  2635. What do you think China is doing? They've already hijacked the Russian market because nobody wants to do business with them. What's with the double standard?
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  2636. All that foreign aid is just lining the pockets of CCP officials. Don't be naive to think that it's actually going to good causes. In fact, China is doubling down on building coal plants. So much for their "push" for green energy.
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  2637. Add the UK and the rest of Europe on this list of stupidity as well.
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  2638. Do they not sell frozen fish in China?
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  2639.  @noblesgunjie8450  It's going to be harder considering they've gotten slapped with tarrifs by countries like the US. Hell, even Chinese companies are leaving China and going to places like Vietnam. But I agree, they can just lie. Unless you cross-reference and look up the company and country of origin online, you won't know. I check when I have doubts myself. I've definitely heard them use the "made in Korea" bit to lie about selling stuff to other countries but it's actually made in China.
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  2640. As a millennial myself, these select group of millennials need to grow the fuck up. The whole idea of "self expression" by adorning yourself in unflattering clothing was in vogue when we were in our late teens up until our early twenties. It does not look good anymore when you enter your 30's. It looks trashy as hell and just lacks any form of sophistication that a more mature person should have given that age. If they want to wear skinny jeans, then they should just wear them and not pay attention to what a bunch of kids say. It's childish and ridiculous.
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  2641. Yes, white people are the problem, not these idiot crappy political policies that these black politicians refuse to change to benefit their country men. What a joke.
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  2642. That's the problem with words like "communism". There's nothing "communal" about the definition of the word. Especially when put into practice. It's ultimately just wishful thinking.
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  2643. "If a nation can't compete, work harder" - So countries that aren't China are just supposed to magically subsidize car companies to produce cheap EV's despite being privately owned and goes against market capitalism in the developed world? There is no competition here. It's called exploiting loopholes which also goes against the WTO which China IS a signatory.
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  2644. "Human body temperature too high for fungi to grow" - What was the point of reporting on this? Just feels like fear-mongering.
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  2645. African nobles DID have their own slaves. Why is this so hard to believe?
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  2646. You can have pride and decency.
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  2647. 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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  2648.  @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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  2649.  @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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  2650.  @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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  2651. No, they're too myopic to see anything. Everything is just purely political to them.
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  2652. Are you speaking from experience?
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  2653. EU/US will just find other markets. Those countries make high value goods that use those chips. China, despite the propaganda, can't make high end chips.
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  2654. They've given up on solving their own problems so they just spread chaos everywhere.
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  2655.  @andypostema4269  Some of us are moving to a developing country and massively downgrading our consumption and way of life. All you need is a pace to stay and food to eat. Everything else is just extra.
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  2656. When it comes to China there are always checks and balances to consider because they always lie. For example, a few months back China said their exports to Southeast Asia increased but import numbers dipped in Southeast Asia implicating that China clearly fabricated the numbers.
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  2657.  @laccess911  they don't think different. They're grossly uninformed and make decisions based on herd mentality.
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  2658. This whole "saving face" is a cop out. China will never change and they will always refer to this "saving face" when they are caught with their pants down. It IS an attempt to cover up for their incompetence and negligence, which is China in a nutshell - the home of facades, shortcuts, and half assed attempts.
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  2659. 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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  2660. It's because your family left China. They stayed behind and stayed backwards. You wouldn't be any different if your family stayed.
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  2661.  @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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  2662. Who's immigrating to China? Are some people that desperate?
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  2663. Yes, such a superpower that you have to keep reminding us of this simple facts.
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  2664. And China will yet AGAIN deny all this like as if they're talking to a bunch of stupid 6 year olds.
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  2665. Because it's all about politics and they need worker to work the crappy jobs. That's why there's an influx of racist Muslims that don't care to change their ways.
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  2666. You should have reported them. Lack of food safe has the potential to kill people.
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  2667.  @bgryphoon  Because the Americans moving to China are doing it for job opportunities. And it's not just China. There are expats living all over world. But I will agree that US is still the destination as far as immigration is concerned.
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  2668.  @harrysandhu2787  Most foreigners are expats who go there to work. If you want to get political, doing it in China will land you in a heap of trouble. That's a given. It's not like as if these issues aren't well known to the world.
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  2669. 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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  2670. You are aware that the Chinese use a lot of propaganda to keep their economy going right? It's the reason why so many greedy people invest in their country. You can't separate false impressions from actual reality over there.
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  2671. 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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  2672. Lying is their MO. Why is this not surprising?
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  2673. Muslim leaders's morals are for sale. They sold their morals to China and now the world can truly see them for what they are.
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  2674. Whenever I see Pro-China protesters, I think to myself "here come the sellouts"
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  2675. Yes, BRI participants go, go into debt that is as a lot of the projects go unfinished like China's failed real estate sector
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  2676. ​ @oscen335 leader implies innovation. How can they lead when they always copy. Producing a lot of sub par technology doesn't make you a "leader".
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  2677.  @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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  2678.  @alanparsonsfan  Oh, I am well aware of what a money pit China's high-speed rail is. The one who did the high-speed rail correctly was Japan. Not only is it making money, but it was also paid off within 10 years of construction. The level of scrutiny and analysis that the Japanese have makes you understand why they have advanced to where they are.
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  2679.  @mangonut  Because they are bought by the promise of a large Chinese market which we essentially know is bs at this point because most Chinese feel insecure about spending at this time, especially after all the lockdowns.
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  2680. ​ @densidste9137  America spends more on their stuff and actually maintain their military assets. Don't confuse them with the Chinese.
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  2681. So truth for you is only positive news? You don't understand the definition of "truth" then.
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  2682. Everyone has already gotten a whiff of the CCP's incessant lies, from Covid to militarizing the South China Sea - nobody believes them and nobody thinks they have any good will.
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  2683. I feel so bad for some of them thinking that working abroad will be so much better economically. Hate to be the bearer of bad news but things aren't that much better over here either.
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  2684. They're used to it. Abuse is a common theme in their history.
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  2685. Or they can just precautionary labels. That usually works with people who can read labels.
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  2686. Government decides what curriculum to be taught in advance. I should know. I work in the financial industry in Canada. I can't even so much as pin a brochure on financial education on the bulletin board in high schools without gaining the approval of the school district. And they will always say "no".
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  2687.  @praem9597  Yup, if people actually contributed to registered accounts, the government would actually loose their source of revenue.
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  2688.  @keselekbakiak  Elementary school doesn't teach finance education. You get an allowance from your parents. That's your intro into the world of money. Some kids get it but other kids need to be explicitly taught.
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  2689. @Shippedpimped X Teaching kids how to save and spend money are one thing. And that's good to know. However, most adults need to understand how money works as they start to enter the workforce. They need to understand that during their working life, they will be earning a certain income and they need to be smart and make good choices. Because if they don't, this could spell financial disaster during retirement years or even before then.
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  2690. @Shippedpimped X I was talking more in terms of investing. Pension rarely if ever keeps up with inflation. I don't know how things work in the Netherlands but here in Canada, pension income is taxable. So you're living with less income that is still being taxed by the government.
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  2691. All of them have engaged in unsanitary practices in one way or another. Does it really matter?
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  2692. 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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  2693. Yeah right. And pigs can fly.
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  2694. I found it strange that they kept manufacturing housing that nobody ever moved to years and years ago. Where did they think people who are going to move into these houses were going to come from? If they weren't moving in then, what made them think that things would be different in the coming years?
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  2695. All this is is incessant yaking and complaining to the highest degree. If these people who complain can't stand the current system, they can always move to a communist country. Thing is most of these people aren't going to do that. And they certainly won't do anything to bring about anymore "fariness and equality" because they're only thinking of themselves and their own agenda.
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  2696. Pakistan sponsors terrorists. They ARE a dangerous nation. Who is Pakistan kidding?
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  2697. China should stop citing "international law" because they don't even know what the definition of the word is. It's laughable when they're always the first to break international law.
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  2698. ​ @jayjohnson4375 the fact that you have to ask shows that you don't know history.
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  2699. ​​ @aiightbet4582 there is a correct opinion. It's one if knowledge and context and not purely feelings. Because feelings can be wrong.
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  2700.  @jerryrichardson2799  China is much much worse than the US. It's bad. You're right.
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  2701. China showing yet again that they don't understand how the world works, what else is new? Also, I don't understand what the point of lying about a place is. When tourists come and get disillusioned by how a place looks, it just becomes bad PR.
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  2702.  @sithdarth4900  Innocent of what exactly? She admitted to wrongdoing. Also she got to have a lawyer and waited in her multimillion dollar mansion. The two Michaels did not have proper proceedings and went straight to jail. They didn't even allow people to view their trials in court.
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  2703.  @longmarch2668  What does China have that Canada doesn't? Please explain why they would send spies to China. Also, a spy working for Canada wouldn't be a a white person. That would just be too obvious. It would be a Chinese person working for the Canadian government genius.
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  2704.  @Obscurai  She's not a spy. She's just a well connected rich girl with connections to the ruling elite of China who got their money out to spend overseas.
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  2705.  @nuaabill  If you are writing this from a Western or developed country which you probably are since you are on youtube then you obviously know that you just don't convict someone unless you have some form of evidence to convict them. That's why it's called a trial. That's how proceedings work in the developed world.
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  2706.  @fec9333  So China's inability to follow societal or international rules is now considered political? Ok. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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  2707.  @longmarch2668  Why don't you sit and think about it.
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  2708.  @Obscurai  Oh ok. The problem when you're reading text is the tone of what you're saying is lost.
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  2709.  @longmarch2668  Why do you wumaos make attempts at insults then end with smiley faces like as if you just insulted someone and it's funny? It's just a bizarre thing that you guys always do and I never understood it.
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  2710.  @fec9333  Lol, And why would anyone follow China's rules? How is it better than what has already been established wumao? And why are you here on a WESTERN social platform trying to remind us of this simple fact? Also, way to justify acting atrociously towards other countries. Bravo China...not!
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  2711.  @fec9333  Actually, Samsung, my phone is not made in China. It's from Vietnam. My Samsung chip I recently bought is made in the Philippines. My shirts are made in Vietnam, and my gardening hoe is made in Taiwan to name a few. My underwear is from India. So I don't know what you're talking about. And I'm seeing more and more items made in other countries. What you're saying would have been relevant 10 or maybe even 5 years ago. Goes to show you as well that China is relevant because multinational companies allowed it to be. So, stop lying and deal with the reality that production is moving away from China and assembly lines are being reassessed. You can thank your Emperor for that blunder.
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  2712.  @sithdarth4900  So then why the hell did they release them both after Meng was let loose right away? Spavor already got an 11 year sentence. What a joke! This was poltical. There is NO justice system in China. It's all about what the CCP wants. They control everything in China. The fact that you asked me "who defines wrongdoing" already goes to show that you have very weak rules in China. Crimes should already be defined and enumerated under the rule of law in a country. This is why China's justice system is a corrupt joke.
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  2713.  @fec9333  No one needs to follow China's rules? Then why the hell are they threatening other countries like Japan, India, and countries in Southeast Asia? Is this how your government does diplomacy? Why did they recently threaten Australia with nukes for buying nuclear-powered submarines?
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  2714.  @sithdarth4900  I think you need to learn to check your grammar. Some of your sentences don't make sense. Also, you sound like you live in Mao's time, backward in terms of thinking and all about your so-called "revolution" against the West that never ends. It's quite sad. The world has already moved on. Tell your emperor to get with the program and stop being petty and using this fake "revolution" to manipulate Chinese people and fix actual problems in China. It's embarrassing to the world. Last I checked, the people who were victimized by the floods weren't even getting decent compensation. Tell Emperor Xi to spend less on propaganda and spend more on aid and relief. It's expensive to lie and people are hungry.
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  2715.  @fec9333  More propaganda. Also, "China feels threatened". Lol, just because you "feel" something doesn't mean you act on it. If you "feel" like punching someone in the face do you do it? You wouldn't do it because of repercussions like going to jail. Also, what does being allies with the US have to do with now threatening them? You've taken something and twisted it to meet your narrative. Those countries have issues with China independent of the US. Congratulations! you just made their independent claims mean nothing because at the end of the day it's all about China and its adversarial relationship with the US. Your arrogance will be your downfall. Also, China is where it is because of US multinational companies. They built you up and this is how you thank the US and its allies? Way to show gratitude. No wonder factories are leaving en masse. Deng Xiaoping would be rolling in his grave for allowing structural reform that made foreign investment possible in China.
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  2716.  @sithdarth4900  Lol, your government really has you fooled. What about the Confucious Institutes in Western countries and your so-called "United Front" that were set up to spy on Chinese people overseas? So you mean to tell me China doesn't spy on its own people and others who don't share their views?
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  2717.  @fec9333  So it's perfectly ok for China to claim territory in Southeast Asia after signing into UNCLOS but it's not ok for SEA, Japan, and Taiwan to not defend themselves when they act belligerent? Your government can't just act and expect no consequences. What are they? 5 years old? Again, if you felt like punching your boss in the face and you actually did it there would be consequences for such actions. That's what your Emperor is now dealing with. As for the US returning to Asia. They're returning because they were there during World War 2 before Japan was bombed for acting as an aggressor in Asia and will do so again if China keeps acting as the aggressor. Didn't you guys learn from Japan? Your Emperor isn't very bright.
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  2718.  @fec9333  Stop making this about the US. The US wouldn't even be in the picture if China wasn't bullying other countries. Xi is not very bright to agitate other countries. Now they're asking the US for help. So dumb. Your leader is really dumb. Bring back Hu Jintao. At least China was booming under his leadership.
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  2719.  @sithdarth4900  What Eastern people are you talking about? I'm Asian and all I know of Mao is that he killed 40million Chinese to get what he wanted. China went into famine and they destroyed their culture. That's Mao's legacy.
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  2720. "Investment" from China = open to being taken advantage of by China
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  2721.  @stanaimamovic5055  If you have to say that Taiwan is a part of China then it isn't a part of China. That would be like saying "Alaska or Hawaii are part of the US" that's such an obvious given the fact that it can go unsaid. And what kind of country uses its so-called "territory" as a political tool against the west? Again, do you see America using Hawaii or Alaska in the save vein? Such a joke.
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  2722. 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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  2723. Does China not understand that when people are subjected to stress that they are more susceptible to illness? I think even their TCM supports this simple fact.
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  2724.  @DontUputThatEvilOnMe  It's the same with Covid.
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  2725. Didn't realize the housing market still had room to "plunge"
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  2726. 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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  2727. 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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  2728. Their people are banned from it. Only propaganda is allowed to be shown from China.
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  2729. Just like asking a wolf to guard a bunch of sheep
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  2730. 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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  2731. So the pandemic from China and the war that Russia started have absolutely no bearing on what's going on? You're delusional.
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  2732.  @patrickdayton2080  Betrayal? What the hell are you talking about? Are you high?
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  2733.  @patrickdayton2080  Yeah, you're own skewed version of what you think the truth is...
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  2734. 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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  2735.  @nekopop8159  public schools usually don't require uniforms but private schools usually do.
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  2736. they're sensitive about jokes because there's probably a grain of truth in it. Otherwise, what does it matter what some random comedian says?
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  2737. A lot of Chinese buyers who buy multimillion dollar homes have government connections. A lot of Vancouver runs on crime and the Canadian government is complicit in all this.
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  2738. ​​ @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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  2739. You can tell the China shills don't give AF. But they don't have a choice because they have to bend to their CCP overlords.
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  2740.  @francisnopantses1108  Then there are a lot of ignorant people on youtube talking about this because people use this "save face" to justify the actions of the CCP and Chinese people. Point is I stand by what I said. There is no such thing as "loosing face" or "throwing face" or "loosing face". These are all just cop outs to deny any wrong doing.
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  2741.  @francisnopantses1108  Anything to do with "face culture" only shows their inability to acknowledge reality. That's the point I was making, hence why I used the term "cop out" to describe it. It doesn't matter who it's aimed at or who's on the receiving end of it. This inability to admit wrongdoing and inability to therefore change for the better is very troublesome and shows a complete lack of immaturity.
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  2742.  @realisticadvisor9931  Love this comment. This is what Chinese propagandists do as well. They assume that because you don't know, the burden is on you to find proof.
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  2743.  @senseisaitama8684  And yet despite these so-called "inconveniences" that the US has according to you, people including the Chinese still want to go there. Get over yourself. People aren't lining up to go to the Chinese embassy to immigrate to China.
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  2744. @Jason Campbell he is just another typical US basher with little to no handle on what's going on. They love to make moronic claims with little to no backing to prove what they said.
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  2745. What playbook? Why do tankies like you always make up garbage?
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  2746. At this point if they still refuse to leave it's all on them if they loose everything. A lot of us could care less if they go bankrupt. Nobody will care.
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  2747. 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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  2748. Not really. BRICS is a failed attempt at a trading Bloc. More than half of trade is with the G7 and their allies. No contest here.
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  2749.  @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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  2750.  @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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  2751.  @zt3435  We're talking about dragons not monkeys.
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  2752. Keep telling yourself that. Maybe someday you'll believe it too.
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  2753. Yes, FDI is drying up negatively affecting their economy.
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  2754.  @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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  2755.  @michah321  So what is then? It seems like people don't seem to mind that the Chinese just have our information for no good reason. Others would argue that American corporations have our information. But what are the Chinese doing with the information vs what the American corporations are doing? I still wouldn't trust the Chinese.
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  2756. 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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  2757. Go and see a properly licensed financial advisor instead of playing the stock market you know nothing about!
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  2758. Keep telling yourself that. Maybe someday it will come true.
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  2759. This is why they look like clowns to the whole world. They have zero credibility. They lied about Covid. Now they talk about social protocols and the like. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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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  2760. China calling their authoritarian rule a "democracy" is akin to dipping a piece of shit into gold. It's still a piece of shit when all is said and done and you can call it whatever you like, it doesn't change what it is.
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  2761. 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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  2762. Not anymore apparently. Lots of employers can't seem to find anyone to work for them since people are opting to stay home and collect government benefits or just prefer to work from home. Retailers and pretty much screwed.
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  2763. 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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  2764. Girl in the machine factory should date the boss' son. Maybe he can pay for her expensive habit of buying make up and help her save to go abroad. Duh!
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  2765. Al Jazeera is neutral. One of the few news outlets that aren't politically affiliated.
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  2766. Also, he's in a position of authority. This literally happened in my workplace, I knew a supervisor who was engaged and was seeing one of my colleagues who was married with a kid. They nailed him because he was manipulating her hours. In this case, the guy was compromising the brand's image, which will inevitably affect their bottom line.
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  2767.  @rasalasblack  China under the KMT was just as bad. And there is no reason to believe that it was much better in the past. The "beautiful" culture attributed to China's past was often attributed to the Chinese court and scholars who were also subject to intrigue and corruption. In fact a lot of emperors were authoritarian jerks. China itself has seen dynasties come and go and they were constantly ravaged by war. Painting China's glory days as a "good example" for civility completely neglects the complexities of how difficult and politically volatile Chinese society was and still is back in the day.
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  2768.  @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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  2769. It's Feb 15, 2021. China is STILL to blame.
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  2770.  @david50665  At the end of the day you just have greedy local governments that don't care about lowering the prices of housing so much so that the only people who CAN afford housing here are people who come from elsewhere with questionable sources of wealth. The local government is just ridiculous and corrupt.
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  2771.  @smartprocesssolutions748  Everyone I talk to who is pursuing careers is leaving. No career prospects here and everything is stupid expensive.
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  2772. You know that this "face" culture is a farce right? It's just another lie that they tell people to justify all the bs that they do. The fact that they don't even adhere to "face" should already tell you what face means to them. But then again what do you expect from a culture that promotes lying, cheating, stealing, and backstabbing?
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  2773. Do people honestly still believe China is growing? Nobody believes the numbers put out by the government because we all know they lie.
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  2774. Stop with the anti-America hate.
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  2775. And they keep encouraging foreigners to come. Just plain idiotic.
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  2776. There were always kids starving in China. Even the most developed parts have poor people in them.
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  2777.  @ghosttheprogram6973  Wow, so now you have the authority to pass judgment on what people decide to do with their lives? All the more reason not to have a child. Because wackjobs like you exist to tell us what we can and can't do. Also, when the church says something sweeping like what the pope just did, it makes it to headlines. Are your problems aired on national t.v.? That's what I meant by church controversies make it to the news. I meant it literally. Most normal people don't air their personal grievances in public, let alone the media unless it directly impacts others. The only one confused here is you. The church has something to say about the declining birth rate because their revenues are going to be affected. They will lose money and fewer people will follow them. What's the church without its followers? Nothing.
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  2778.  @ghosttheprogram6973  So ironic that the people who call others "troubled mentally" are the ones usually troubled themselves. It takes one to know one. This is so typical of staunch religious fanatics who think that they have the authority to pass judgement on others. The only thing you are stoking is your ego. And it's laughable that you don't even understand it. Because you're so attached to religion. There's nothing "Christ like" about you. You are devoid of understanding and compassion. I'm not going to bother with you. All you're going to do is try to convince me that your way of thinking is "superior" and morally upright. Good luck with life here on earth. It's types like you who need to be seen as "good" who suffer the most. Everyone who falls short of this imagined metric that you've created in your mind is anything less than. And that's a whole lot of people. I have already defined what spirituality means to me. I don't need the church telling me what I can and can't believe in.
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  2779.  @ghosttheprogram6973  Why don't you pray for inner peace, since this world is filled with "heathens" like me. This world must be hell for you. Especially now, since people are starting to awaken to their own sense of personal power. So ironic, since this is what Jesus Christ wanted for people on this Earth. For them to realize that they aren't slaves and that they have the free will to make their own decisions. By the way, free will, understanding, and compassion is what Christ advocated. I saw none of that in anything you said.
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  2780.  @ghosttheprogram6973  You keep dragging on this discussion and it's getting tired. Let me make this simple for you because you're going off to places that I don't even know where the hell it is you're trying to get to. Fact 1 - What Francis said made it to the news right? So because it's in a public space like youtube, we can comment on it. My issues are not public domain and neither are yours. So we don't weigh in on said issues. - This was my first point until you went off on a tangent. Fact 2 - Your tone has been very condescending. You said "Don't confuse your choice for what's right" - Are you serious? So now you have the authority to tell people what they can and can't do is either right or wrong. Well, screw you for saying that! Tell me, are you going to adopt these kids if they don't have parents who can support them? I don't tell you how to live your life so don't tell me how to live mine. You're no different from a staunch communist, or Muslim fanatic. All of you think you're right and don't believe that people are free to make choices for themselves. An institution that passes judgement on me has no right to tell me how to live my life. And neither do you.
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  2781. 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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  2782. They're also never wrong and never admit mistakes.
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  2783. All China has is late comer advantage. It's hard to be number 1 when you are always copying. Drive those who are on top out of business who do you copy from? They don't spend to innovate.
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  2784. "Respect facts and stop talking recklessly" actually means "don't let the whole world know that we are pillaging and raping the oceans and shirking international law in the process".
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  2785.  @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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  2786. Even bank employees salaries are getting slashed. No bonuses for them.
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  2787.  @Vractis  The people who opted for China to be part of the WTO was the greedy West that wanted cheap Chinese labor to manufacture their goods. Now we're all paying for it.
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  2788.  @gordonspears6320  There was always someone who was going to benefit from this so called "freedom to trade", it just wasn't the average lay person. it's always been people on the top.
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  2789. 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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  2790. Makes sense. When you lie constantly and tell the same lie, you're essentially brainwashing yourself.
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  2791. This is a symptom of a crappy judicial system that is not will to investigate any wrong doings. It's third world politics at its best.
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  2792. 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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  2793. Good he didn't stay silent...
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  2794. 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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  2795. This family should seriously be in jail.
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  2796. They couldn't hack it in their home country so they go to China and do these failed promos for the CCP.
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  2797. Yes, it's called "ageism"
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  2798.  @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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  2799. I watched her show on T.V. And I quite frankly didn't get it. I didn't get the jokes, it was just typical politicking. So annoying.
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  2800. Looks like the same path China is on.
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  2801. More like "turd warriors"...
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  2802. 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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  2803. Lol. Exactly. They were always clowns. Nobody saw them different. Just a bunch of fools.
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  2804. ​ @elenabob4953 it's easy to "develop" when all you have to do is copy.
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  2805. No East Asian countries? Weird.
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  2806.  @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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  2807. They constantly and frequently interact with their own kind. Why would they change?
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  2808. 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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  2809. Can't find something that isn't there.
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  2810. "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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  2811. The Chinese do not value manners and social protocols. Haven't you noticed? And foreign missions in the not too distant past have to come to China to teach them proper manners but to no avail. They're a hopeless bunch and they refuse to change. Blame their stubbornness on their lack of morals and their unreasonably large egos.
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  2812. Let's see if China keeps it's end of the bargain. I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.
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  2813. 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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  2814. What game are you talking about? China is still dependent on the US to buy their crap. The dollar is still the most used currency world wide. So much empty talk and posturing and for what? China is still mess of a country and they can't get their act together. Instead, they do things like this which won't serve their ailing economy.
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  2815.  @MK_ULTRA420  Funny you should say that since China is leading in polluting the world with them building multiple coal plants despite "leading" in green technology which also pollutes are hell of a lot.
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  2816. ​ @ethericbliss23 it really gives you insight into how narcissism and disconnect makes one look foolish
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  2817. 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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  2818. I think what he's trying to get at is to be part of the solution. Men right now, even though we don't bear all the issues of society (women are at fault as well) aren't part of the solution. We're allowing these idiot feminists to dictate the the terms of what is considered "acceptable" masculinity and it's detrimental. If men helped themselves out, and showed strength in character, it would take power away from feminists who only know how to complain.
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  2819. 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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  2820. China has the awareness of an autistic kid that only does what it wants and clearly lacks the social awareness to create the actual situation that will make it easy for Japan and Korea to collaborate with. Everything that they say is just noise at this point. They're just as annoying as a fly that constantly buzzes around. It attracts your attention but is ultimately not worth paying enough attention to.
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  2821. 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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  2822. Yup. All the US has to do is open immigration. NOBODY is dying to immigrate to China or Russia. No sane person ever would.
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  2823.  @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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  2824.  @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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  2825.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  Although there's poverty in the US, they are still generally better off than the Chinese.
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  2826.  @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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  2827.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  If you truly feel that way then move to China. What's stopping you?
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  2828. Why not start by educating people about finance in schools instead of useless subjects like calculus when most people won't go into careers with advanced math? Giving people extra money won't work when people's habits and knowledge base won't change. Taxing the crap out of the rich will never work.
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  2829. 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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  2830. 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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  2831. The fact that China is claiming that its "theirs" already validates that Taiwan is in fact independent. You don't take back something that you rightfully know is yours, it's just yours.
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  2832. China is where it is because of Western investment you dolt. What the hell does China make on it's own? It's US who is decoupling from China not the other way around, same with Japan, Europe, South Korea etc. They're all pulling out from China and going to places like India and Vietnam.
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  2833. Those countries were already established countries. Your argument does not make any sense. So what if they were colonies? Hong Kong was a colony and so was Macau. Even Taiwan was a colony of Japan at some point. Who cares if it's a solid or dash line either way, it's only a figment of China's imagination. Both are ridiculous and illegal under international law. But hey, you guys never acknowledge international law when it's inconvenient for you.
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  2834. This is why they love to incessantly list brand new companies in the New York Stock Exchange. Get the money first then figure everything out later. Hence their questionable business practices.
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  2835.  @jmea01  You can't trust data coming from China. Chinese consumers prefer foreign brands because of their perceived quality and reliability. This makes their claims of high sales of domestic electric car consumption dubious since most of them prefer to drive a Tesla for example. Also, for a country so bent on clean energy, China has doubled down on the construction of coal power plants to meet its energy needs. China emits more greenhouse gases than all the developed countries combined. You can google this. So it makes their so-called "push" for green energy null and void.
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  2836. 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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  2837. Good. Another country that Xi can send his underpaid slaves to to build shoddy infrastructure projects and leave Honduras footing the bill.
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  2838. It's still pretty cringe
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  2839. We talked about TCM in psychology neuroscience class. When you apply the scientific method to determine the efficacy of TCM, a lot of it doesn't hold water. It's mostly placebo. But then again you could argue that most things have a potential for a placebo effect.
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  2840. Tell that to China though who will use all of this as anti-western propaganda.
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  2841. You know the saying "you can take a monkey out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey". Doesn't matter what you do to "help" them. Afghanistan is a lost cause and want to be controlled that's why they like China. What can a bunch of uneducated unconscious people in a backwater country achieve if you give them freedom? Clearly nothing. They only know the way of the gun.
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  2842. @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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  2843. 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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  2844. ​ @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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  2845. "But most significant of all, you have found that Chinese do not fight for ideas, though they often give the impression of fighting under them, banner-wise. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "The awkward feature of dealing with the Chinese in this and in other matters is that foreign nations by international courtesy treat with Chinese leaders as a sovereign government, while knowing that they lack the moral self-respect to make any of their agreements worth the paper they are written on." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend The only way to deal with China is to physically threaten them. No amount of diplomacy will work on them because they don't value anything that is written or said. "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
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  2846.  @roadrunner4800  Actually a lot of clothing I see are now being manufactured in Vietnam, India, and the like. Even items like toys are being manufactured and created in countries like Malaysia and Thailand.
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  2847. Don't believe in what they say: they lie constantly. Pay attention to their actions. It gives them away.
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  2848. 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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  2849. And this is why I never consume anything that is made in China.
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  2850. 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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  2851. That's a more apt way to call it "rabid dog". At least wolves are more calculated and coordinated. Another one I use is "foaming in the mouth nationalist".
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  2852. They don't want to be educated. Did you just see the gay guy's response? He wouldn't last a day in Palestine.
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  2853.  @kennethli8  I know that workers need to show proof of registration to work at a company because they need to clarify where they are from. And yes, this makes up the majority of unskilled labor in China. But even those with an education aren't spared from this.
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  2854.  @taiwanisacountry  Where there is profit to be made, companies will cut corners, especially when it comes to labor.
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  2855.  @taiwanisacountry  "most of the time you do get paid" - God I sure hope so. I mean the fact that we are having this conversation is ridiculous. But then again we are talking about abusive practices in China so it isn't something unthinkable.
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  2856. When thoughts are restricted and extremely regimented they spew the same garbage over and over again. That's why their propaganda never changes, it just takes on a different form but the message is tired and always the same. They aren't capable of thinking any other way.
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  2857. They obviously don't care. It seems like they WANT to go broke.
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  2858. You know that when governments give cash to poor it means the economy is really really bad.
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  2859. 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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  2860. 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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  2861. Blame their inferior education and nationalism. This is what they are taught in their schools, that they are the center of the world and that they are the "best". Go figure. China is so good that as soon as their people come into a little bit of money, they leave for greener pastures 🤣.
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  2862.  @RoninX33  Good luck if you don't have any connections.
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  2863.  @BaggerFood101  No they weren't. China was always ruled by corruption. "Mandate of heaven" was an attempt to keep Emperors in check because majority of them abused their power. And they answered to nobody. If the Emperor ordered you to do something, you followed regardless of the consequences. China's history itself was riddled with numerous tyrants. CCP style of rule is nothing new. Abuse has always been a part of their tumultuous history.
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  2864. What exactly is the Chinese definition of "face" anyway? Because if you spoke to a Japanese or Korean about "face", which they have as well, you wouldn't be able to get far in those societies given the Chinese definition of what face is. In a lot of cases the Chinese definition of "face" is just a cop-out in order for them to get away with lying, cheating, stealing, and manipulating. It doesn't acknowledge the truth of the situation so no productive solutions are ever reached. It's a stupid concept.
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  2865. so much work just to produce something fake
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  2866. "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 by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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
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  2867. Wow the China bots are really out in full force.
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  2868.  @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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  2869. Why do you think countries like Egypt and Jordan aren't joining in? Because as soon as they let Hamas in to their country they tried to usurp their respective governments and tried to take over. What a joke!
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  2870. Chinese are everywhere. Do you really have to question?
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  2871. ​ @hhmdv2007 these idiot China arrogant nationalists hate it when people weigh in on their leader that isn't very bright. They should just close themselves off from the world if they're going to be so thin skinned. So preposterous.
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  2872. Except Canada is far less dense than the US, as was said in the video. So pricing here still doesn't make any sense.
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  2873. There's plenty of these jobs to go around. Even after they increased the wages of these jobs in the US, companies are still unable to find the proper amount of people to fill them.
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  2874. They should at least be taught to float in the water. It's dangerous not to know how to swim.
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  2875. He's been inquired into as well. What are you talking about?
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  2876.  @chuifongtam4703  Here we go again with the "China is ahead blah blah blah". Nobody cares. And most of what you nationalists say is a pure bold faced lie. The world is sick and tired of your arrogance and constant yakking.
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  2877. 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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  2878. 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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  2879. They sometimes do that. And what's that going to accomplish? Other countries will still fly through there. You make yourself feel "big" for a second and then what?
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  2880.  @cashcash5995  Nobody believes your lies little pink
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  2881. Wishing you, Winston and all your families the best of health and happiness this holiday season.
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  2882. ​ @Maxst33le 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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  2883. "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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  2884. 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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  2885. To create a fake supply for their fake economy to produce things of low value that people don't need.
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  2886. Nothing more cringe than China's self aggrandizing AI
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  2887. It's pathetic
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  2888. The only time cars will be fully autonomous on the road is if they all are autonomous. Until you have people behind the wheel, they become problematic to autonomous cars because they cannot anticipate how people are going to think and act on the road. Nothing still beats the reflexes of a human on the road.
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  2889. Just do it already. So much show and ridiculousness, it's exasperating to everyone.
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  2890. ...and they wonder why they are getting sick. Sad they're going back to cultural revolution style starvation.
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  2891. 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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  2892. China will never shift their economy to the likes of Japan because everything is state owned, hence very inefficient. This is why you have a country with the second largest economy but a GDP per capita with the same levels as those of Thailand and Mexico. Even Taiwan, which has a population not even comparable to China enjoy a higher GDP per capita and a higher standard of living than China.
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  2893.  @dephraction_99  Well, it's a start. Otherwise, what else do we having going in the free world? The freedom to complain?
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  2894.  @dephraction_99  If voting doesn't matter then what else do we have going for us? And this country calls itself a "democracy"? What a joke! Voting matters. It's called civic duty. One thing good that comes out of voting is that I can sleep at night knowing that I did everything I could - unlike others who do nothing but complain about issues and don't bother being responsible.
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  2895.  @dephraction_99  I'm planning to leave this stupid country for good so I could care less what the morons here vote for. At the end of the day, people get what they vote for and the idiots who don't do anything shouldn't complain. It's absolutely pathetic.
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  2896. The reality is a lot of news platforms just churn out current events. We are usually not given any background information as to what's happening so context is lost to the viewer. And most people don't think beyond the scope of what they have been fed. This is why the media is an excellent tool for manipulating the ignorant masses.
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  2897. What in the actual fuck is wrong with her?!
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  2898. It's not about corruption. You're being gaslit. It's about Xi getting rid of his opponents and consolidating power.
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  2899. "management chaos" - Pretty much sums up China in a nutshell.
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  2900.  @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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  2901. I can't stand "progressives" telling people how they should feel. Seriously go to hell!
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  2902.  @daomingjin  They build and the building never gets completed. So what's the point? Just put a slab of concrete together and call it a "property". It will never get "done" anyway.
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  2903. This is what I was thinking as well. It's meant to cool tensions. When you think about it, this is how China plays as well. What they put out into the world isn't the whole truth of what is going on in their country, which is why they kicked out foreign media.
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  2904. They're actually loosing money making those cars.
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  2905.  @davidmachemer1015  They're too stupid and tone deaf to understand anything. Self awareness isn't a strong suit among a lot of Chinese unfortunately.
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  2906. They should change "People's" to "Ponzi". Because nothing is of the people or owned by the people anyway. It's just a stupid play on words that has no meaning like everything the CCP says.
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  2907. Typical Chinese way of doing things. Buy expensive, flashy things for the sake of looks; who cares about maintenance and upkeep when it's all about the superficial when you can keep up appearances to deceive people to think you are doing better than you think you are. And then they wonder why their finances have run amok?
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  2908. All North Korea does is fire missles. How exactly are they getting back at the US?
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  2909.  @j.dunlop8295  He's not chad. He's an idiot and a liar. He's delusional.
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  2910.  @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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  2911. 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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  2912. "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 built 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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2913.  @wuhanclan  Most of those students won't even end up working white collar jobs or be high level corporate executives. It's all about idiot parents living vicariously through their children, unless these parents are super successful millionaires or high ranking in their respective fields themselves.
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  2914. Suchir Balaji
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  2915. It's kind of already happening. Why do you think they go crazy when a high level official visits Taiwan?
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  2916. 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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  2917. 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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  2918. This back and forth is just ridiculous. We can speculate and theorize. Fact is we will never know for certain because the CCP has blocked access in order to conduct a meaningful and thorough investigation. Heads of the Wuhan lab have an interest in keeping investigators from even coming close to the lab and China is all about protecting its non-existent face at this point.
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  2919. If you have to say you're a "trophy wife" then you aren't one. Also, whenever people apply for jobs, potential employers ask for a background check. Are we just going to say "we'll you're just insecure" if they ask for it? What's wrong with getting to know someone's background? Women's logic or lack thereof never ceases to amaze.
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  2920. 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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  2921. BRI was always about enriching the pockets of a select few. Every time a brand new road is built government officials get rich through bribes and kickbacks. BRI was motivated primarily by greed. Now that these poor countries can't pay their bills Beijing will now have to make do with what little it can get. China should have thought about this but when the motive for self-interest and rushed decision-making is so strong, they don't take into account so many weaknesses and consequences of what they are intending to build. They don't have a Plan B.
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  2922. It's all fun and games for the capitalists in Taiwan until it's no longer a game.
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  2923. Yup, they lie about the numbers to get government subsidies and offload their "excess" stock to other countries dumb enough to buy these worthless death traps that spontaneously combust.
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  2924. Pretension? Class distinction is addressed quite a bit in US media. What pretension? Do you think they're going to discuss this as a social issue in China? Yea right.
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  2925. Tell that to their brainwashed population. They would beg to differ.
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  2926.  @bobmcrae5751  The IDF aren't indiscriminately killing people. You are watching too much Hamas propaganda. A lot of the footage they use are from Syria. What kind of an army warns people before destroying a Hamas stronghold? You need to seriously use critical thinking before appealing to your sense of "morality" because it's fashionable to root for the so called "underdog". Get over yourself.
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  2927. It's just brainwashing rooted in xenophobia and racism. If their country is so "great" then why constantly remind people of this simple fact? It's because China is slowly unraveling.
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  2928.  @greedyinvader9462  yeah, tell that to your droves of people who line up and spend several months of their salary when the newest models come out.
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  2929. Containment of China and Russia = Keep China and Russia from expanding to other countries. I say contain away. They have no right to expand into territory where they're not wanted.
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  2930. Because this is about China. US makes no secret about its homeless population unlike China which is all smoke and mirrors.
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  2931. There's barely anything to maintain.
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  2932. 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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  2933. BYD is outselling Tesla? And you believe Chinese propaganda? The reason why they are the biggest exports of EV's is because they aren't seeing the sales numbers they want in China. And for Chinese car companies to keep receiving government subsidy they need to keep manufacturing cars and fake the sales numbers. They have a surplus of cars and all they have left to do is dump it on the rest of the world because they aren't selling domestically. Would you honestly buy a Chinese EV with questionable safety standards? I don't know about you but I don't want my car spontaneously combusting while parked in my garage.
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  2934.  @two02ful  Italy didn't gain anything from China. All they got was more Chinese goods dumped on them. That's all that happened. Italy barely got a sliver of the Chinese market.
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  2935.  @maggiechan33  Can you show us credible statistics from independent regulatory bodies instead of talking out of your ass? Nobody believes you. Also, 91% of Chinese are happy? Which Chinese are you talking about? The ones who lost their job and loved ones during Zero Covid? The ones who got screwed over in the housing market? Or the ones who lost their job because multinationals are leaving China?
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  2936. "Face" is just another way for them to justify their shitty actions and justify their laziness. They don't actually care for "face". If they did they would actually try and do the "right" thing for once which they never do. "Face" is a bullshit concept that will never excuse them from their stupidity. And who better to think of this than the Chinese.
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  2937. So basically just lie: The typical China model.
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  2938.  @DK-gj5sp  Yes, and pigs can fly.
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  2939. 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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  2940. Lol
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  2941. 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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  2942. By "Chinese people" you mean government? Most Chinese people don't know what's going on in the world.
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  2943.  @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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  2944.  @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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  2945.  @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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  2946. If she's not bothered then why even make a video about. She seems lovely.
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  2947. GDP of China is a lie.
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  2948.  Pat Hat  Not likely. Their GDP depends on exports by multinational companies. Those companies are leaving. What's China going to export to the world that's homegrown in their own country that will be in heavy demand abroad?
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  2949.  @christianjireh8958  Government is committed? You know we're talking about China, right? They never committed to their end of the bargain when it comes to territorial disputes. This is purely political. If infrastructure projects are what he needs, why doesn't he allow local companies to bid for the infrastructure project in question? I agree with Rod. They're not only paying Chinese firms, and Chinese workers, that money goes back to China. Just look at what happened to the Airport created by the Chinese in Islamabad. It's already leaking. Pretty soon the idiot president will have to call China again because the infrastructure doesn't hold up to standards. This guy never seems to learn his lesson. So ironic that the US is punishing China for what it deems to be illegal and yet the Philippines one of the recipient countries that is greatly affected by this injustice just keels over because money is being thrown in its direction. Where's the integrity here?
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  2950.  @jerushamaxwell281  China never blasts any news of such occurrences. It's all about lying to the world about how "good" or "amazing" they are. It's perfectly normal in a country where lying is common place.
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  2951. "For forty centuries they clung with intense determination to the values they saw. Now we see those aims of forty centuries of the world's oldest civilization reap nothing but agony in the success of their persistence." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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 "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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  2952. ​​ @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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  2953. Losers always justify their crappy standing in life. China is no exception.
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  2954. The only country that surprised was Armenia because they have a history of genocide. Other than that the rest are just third world shit holes.
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  2955. 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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  2956. China publishing a map that nobody acknowledges counts for nothing. It's only them who believe it anyway.
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  2957. Been to Malaysia. KL is fine enough as a city. But not a whole lot going on. The Malays are predominantly Muslim, which is also the largest group in the country so Islam influences how the country operates. Then you have the Indians and Chinese who have their own ethnic enclaves but the generations born in the country have by and large integrated into the larger society of Malaysia but they are still treated like second class citizens. The Malays get all the perks such as infrastructure projects for example. The Chinese and Indians get the left overs. Never been to Indonesia. Have an uncle who lives there and he said Jakarta is by and large like Manila, congested and chaotic.
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  2958. Those bases are built on sand. They are highly vulnerable. In fact some of those islands are already sinking.
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  2959.  @xia0b0iix  Imagine how deranged those optics would look to the world: "China conducts military exercises against one of its own provinces"
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  2960.  @xia0b0iix  "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" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable. " - "Way that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  2961.  @JJ-is2we  Played with what fire? Now Russia is going to be up against a NATO country by hook or by crook. They just wanted to justify their invasion.
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  2962. Going back to school then getting my ass out of Vancouver. I hate what this place has become. The fact that people fool themselves with slogans like "best place on earth" is laughable when you see how ridiculous expensive and boring this place is. Not worth it to live here. It's perfect for transnational criminals working for foreign governments though.
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  2963. Read up on China before the CCP came into power. Abuse is commonplace in their culture.
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  2964. 😂 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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  2965.  @JohnJaneson2449  It's all about Malaysia selling their crap to China. It's not enough to do simple business with China (that's how most countries in the democratic world work). They have to attach so many terms and conditions both political and economical to get the most out of Malaysia in essence pushing them to the corner and eventually subjugating them - that is how they do business.
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  2966. They all will. They all follow the same fraudulent model.
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  2967. The water Japan is dumping into the ocean is probably a hell of a lot safer than the trash that China's boats dump into the ocean. You don't even know what's in that waste. And they have the usual nerve to run their mouth.
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  2968. Yup. Exactly!
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  2969. History has shown that they've never had morals.
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  2970. I find their face culture to be the most problematic. It's a huge barrier to self-awareness. Showing off because they think others will be impressed is seriously childish and immature. There are other people in the world who own the same things they have or have the same in terms of wealth, but yet a lot of them act as if they are the only ones.
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  2971. EXPEL! Why suspend? Ridiculous
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  2972. The CCP can't get itself to democratize what more the rest of the country.
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  2973. And all we hear about is Chinese EV's will dethrone Tesla. Everyone is paid by Chinese propaganda.
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  2974. The guy ordering pork and asking if it's halal? Obvious joke lol.
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  2975. What if you gave a Rolex as a gift? Superstitions would be out of the window by then.
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  2976. Your China lied about Covid and all agreements to not militarize the Sout China sea. I'd say China is not on the right side of history.
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  2977. His videos are about China and have always been. If you want to look at other countries and their crap construction go and comment on other videos. Oh and at this point, a lot of the developed and developing world hates China. Remember Covid? China lied, people died.
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  2978. 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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  2979. The people of China ( who aren't really fooled). The people in the free world have likened this election to Kim Jong Un esque style of authoritarianism.
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  2980. So ridiculous. These idiot European companies want to double down and stay there. Hope they all go bankrupt.
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  2981. Bias reporting? This trial has no jury. Everyone who is handlig this is appointed by the CCP. You're insane.
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  2982. I'm buying a hybrid. EV's are ridiculous.
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  2983.  @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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  2984.  @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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  2985.  @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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  2986.  @MargauxMachek  And this is why, people are trusting them less and less assuming they haven't lost complete trust. When lying becomes your primary MO, doing business wherein transparency is expected becomes a very very big problem especially for investors.
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  2987. A lot of idiots still will believe it or not.
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  2988. Just make it yourself. So many recipes online. It's not hard
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  2989. What old age pension? Their health insurance is literally getting slashed because local governments in China can't even meet their financial obligations.
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  2990. Not all of Asia is like this. Stop generalizing.
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  2991. Everyone is a pawn to them and they have zero values. There worst than wild animals.
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  2992.  @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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  2993. "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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  2994. 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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  2995. You know that rules exist for these uniforms right? When my sister wore her uniform, she couldn't have the bottom part of her skirt higher than her knees. And teachers measure to make sure that those rules are being followed. Boys' hair wasn't allowed to touch their ears or eyebrows(not really a uniform rule but it was part of school protocol).
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  2996. 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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  2997. 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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  2998. They think everything is theirs or they own everything. People are already laughing at them.
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  2999. Their society has always been like this even before the CCP take over. China just plain sucks.
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  3000. There are apparently missile silos in the area. It wasn't sheer luck. It was calculated in China's part.
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  3001. ​ @steveday1622 He's never outright asked for money. So, no.
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  3002. You have a country that has institutionalized mental illness in government. What do you expect? They are not a peaceful nation. They are always looking for enemies and means and ways to appear strong. They see kindness as weakness. So if China perceives you as an asshole, you're doing something right. Definitely, agree with the last part you said.
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  3003. I know right? From shit list to schill list.
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  3004. China opposes smear campaigns when they do it themselves. That's laughable. Also, why is this only coming out now? Who is the Reuters investigator who "dug this all up" all of a sudden? Something doesn't make sense with this report.
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  3005. ​ @hamish1309 because communists can never ever be trusted
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  3006. Jet streams don't blow towards China. It's the opposite lol.
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  3007. What's the point?
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  3008. When you say "lacks industry practicality" what do you mean exactly?
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  3009. Not a fan of the CCP but by the same token, the CCP doesn't force these countries to take these loans. It's corrupt government officials in these countries that ultimately have a final say. Not the people they're supposed to represent.
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  3010. 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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  3011. Luxury fashion and Luxury cars are no longer luxury when every other person you see literally has them. And mathematics suggests that most of them can't afford it because most of these people aren't in the 1% of high income earners. So, you already know that most of it is fake.
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  3012. A lot of people "think" they are right, especially sociopathic narcissists. Doesn't mean you take them seriously.
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  3013.  @Don-qb1vi  Security in China is for the poor and law abiding citizens not the CCP.
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  3014. One of bribery and corruption
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  3015. A lot of cheap morons. Nevermind, some of those cars aren't even cheap. They're just morons.
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  3016.  @yeah2011bb  The rest of the world is still bigger than China.
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  3017.  @emperoroffinance7496  Out of this world how? They do the most ridiculous things and can barely provide for their people.
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  3018. You know that this is all done just for show right? You really think the Chinese will cease all their activities that don't aggravate their neighbors and the US? If you do, then you're dreaming "The diplomatic history of the Chinese shows that in international affairs they are what they are in individual affairs. Their pressure against us never relaxes. When we give way they advance. If we push hard in return, they recede. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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
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  3019. They constantly violate the terms of the WTO. For one, state owned enterprise is not allowed because it creates an unfair advantage and yet that is exactly how they operate.
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  3020. "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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  3021. "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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  3022.  BDH BDH  It's classical "whataboutism". It's Soviet-style deflection.
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  3023. China's just upset. The world has stopped taking their clownish behavior seriously.
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  3024.  @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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  3025. 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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  3026. It's no different when you refer to Chinese nationalists as "communists" - they take so much offense to the word while simultaneously upholding the very tenets of what makes them a communist society. They're such clowns who are not only disconnected from everything but from their own selves.
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  3027. 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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  3028.  @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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  3029.  @africaisking7817  It is what it is. And Townsend found no proof that they were any different in the past.
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  3030. 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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  3031. Not quite, but they have Xpeng and Nio
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  3032. And yet this empty vessel kept winning in re-elections. Canadians are a little slow. But they eventually caught on.
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  3033. It's all about control and greed. What plan are you talking about?
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  3034. It takes one to know one.
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  3035.  @ElAnciano767  It's getting a easier too. As companies diversify their supply chains.
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  3036. Because the CCP is paying billions to keep it under wraps.
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  3037. Oh there are bad Asian students. I've personally encountered a few. They generally have a bad attitude towards school or just outright don't care. And they also have family issues.
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  3038. Money just brings out what's already there. If a good person comes into money, they become philanthropic. If an insecure scummy person becomes rich, they just become a bigger jerk than they already were.
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  3039. Instead of focusing on not losing face, why don't they just do the right thing? If they did the right thing, they wouldn't need to worry about losing face in the first place. It's such a negative way to live.
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  3040.  @magic-eric7328  That's the lengths that this horrible authoritarian government will go through to keep up their lies.
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  3041. 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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  3042.  @josue_kay  Your argument doesn't make sense. If China is truly innovating then why should it matter if the US cuts itself of from China. Did the South Koreans and Japanese act butt hurt when the US witheld tech from them? No. They quietly developed their tech without much fuss, unlike the insecure mouthy Chinese.
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  3043. Wouldn't be surprised if that idiot left China as well. Too many people are hounding that scammer.
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  3044. ​ @Coolizbizness those markets are small and insignificant. You sound like Chinese propaganda. Bragging for the sake of bragging.
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  3045. Well, there's already rising crime and homelessness. Add that to the growing number of grievances that Vancouverites have to face.
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  3046. ​ @kamsunleong6648 so idiot now means "not buying into Chinese propaganda"?
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  3047. ​ @InformedKiwi so they're no longer spontaneously combusting? Wow. One hell of a step up...
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  3048. ​ @InformedKiwi 'already good' still remains to be seen unless you believe all the propaganda.
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  3049. Because US doesn't want anything China or Russia has. They, on the contrary want what advanced economies have.
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  3050. You mean media that doesn't support China? Dream on.
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  3051. Sadly, the rest of the Western world is following suit. I am planning to up and leave as well. Can't stand the self entitled psychos anymore.
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  3052. 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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  3053.  @NeungView  I said "Chinese experience" - I never said it was a Chinese country but it's pretty damn close to one given the population and the Chinese influence.
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  3054.  @Manhasnoname8645  I don't want to visit China. I have visited Singapore and Taiwan and those places are better. Why would I visit China? To subject myself to pollution? To experience chaos? What does China have to offer that Taiwan and Singapore can't? Explain because I'd really like to hear this. Also, I don't know about you but I'm not really a fan of authoritarian governments that promote xenophobia and racism.
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  3055.  @Manhasnoname8645  I asked YOU why China is better and you went off on a mad tirade about Serpentza. Everything you said was complete and utter bs CCP propaganda. It's truly amazing how you think we're all stupid over here when in actuality everyone can see China for what it truly is.
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  3056.  @Manhasnoname8645  I don't need real life experience with China. It's a gross country.
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  3057.  @Manhasnoname8645  I asked you to explain to me why I should go to China and in typical Chinese nationalist fashion, you diss me and attack my credibility instead. Thanks for not changing my mind.
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  3058.  @M-dv1yj  So spending half a day in traffic is better when they can just video call family members?
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  3059.  @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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  3060. Can't believe how progressive Iran used to be in the past. So sad how far the country has fallen because of backwards believes rooted in Islamofascism.
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  3061. Read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. The Chinese have always been this way even when they were under the KMT. That's why China has always had authoritarian leaders because the typical Chinese can be a handful to deal with.
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  3062. You actually believe that lying government 😂?
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  3063.  @calvinblue894  Nobody is qualified other than state media like Xinhua or Global Times to talk about China right? Keep dreaming.
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  3064.  @maxdout564  Yup, this is how North Korea, China, and Russia work. Distract the people with a false sense of security by uniting them against a common foe. In psychological terms, it's called triangulation.
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  3065. He knew what he was getting into. Chinese make no secret about exchange of information in order to do business there. People are just stupid greedy and refuse to miss out on the Chinese market - the CCP also love to dangle it in front of businessmen with the hopes of stealing their IP and eventually kicking them out of the market.
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  3066. Chinese don't honor contracts. But with that being said, yes, nobody held a gun to their head. Italy should have weighed the consequences and figured out if it was a good deal for them. Greed gets the better of people especially when you're fed the propaganda that you can get rich tapping a market of 1.4 billion people. The truth is, a lot of multinational companies have struggled to make it in China, since people there don't earn nearly as much as people in the West.
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  3067. It boiled over with Covid. Because of the origins of the virus.
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  3068.  @luluapple1067  and it's loosing money...
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  3069.  @Beremote  What is the difference between corporate espionage and IP theft? Isn't the end goal the same? You're just using different words to define the same thing.
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  3070. "US is an important segment for us" - then maybe stop publicly bad mouthing your customers.
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  3071. 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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  3072. Xi Jinping looks so bored being there. India should honestly leave the bloc and leave those wannabe group of flunkies behind.
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  3073. Bad translation but it gets the point across.
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  3074. "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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  3075. Hold your tongue. Let's wait and see what your foreign minister has to say since there is no subject that's too touchy for them.
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  3076. ​ @JAM661 she avoided an angry man and he avoided harpies for in laws. Both sides benefit.
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  3077. And the ones who do are in a shock of a lifetime.
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  3078.  @nicholasrockall7308  Yup. Anything with the descriptive word of "Chinese" doesn't warrant a second look as it is usually inferior.
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  3079. 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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  3080. Lol, "We have Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics" - So basically, a whole lot of nothing. Just suppressive control of its people.
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  3081. ​ @dcc70 there is no fire other than what's in their schizophrenic minds
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  3082. Companies need to start hiring and putting a premium on merit rather than this DEI nonsense. I know so many hardworking people who were left demoralized with this stupidity. Stop overlooking hardworking people for a promotion. They've got the work ethic to make a difference in the company.
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  3083. Why not investigate ALL US money being invested into China? This is a stupid ongoing issue that never seems to end. Greedy corporate bastards!
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  3084. There is no actual proof that China has an edge on AI over the US. They don't even show to the world what they have. A lot of their demos in their tech conventions are pre-rendered graphics that talk to people to make it look like as if they are advancing in AI but they are not. It's all rehearsed. Not saying that the US should relax when it comes to AI development against China but there is also zero proof that they are on par with the US. A lot of it is just lies and propaganda.
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  3085. 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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  3086. "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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  3087. They don't think and feel. It's all propaganda. Nothing to be taken seriously.
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  3088. You don't need a task force to determine why teachers are underpaid and unappreciated. Just interview teachers. You would learn a hell of a lot just by listening to them.
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  3089. 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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  3090. China is an atheist nation
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  3091.  @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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  3092. Typical Chinese response to everything...
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  3093. Typical Chinese response...
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  3094. What is the Chinese version of "Juche"? Time to learn from North Korea.
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  3095.  @JohnJaneson  that's a good thing.
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  3096. These women with their messed up rating system: a man who is a 6 is already above average in looks.
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  3097. 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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  3098.  @royk7712  Why can't they be "annoyed" and "happy" in silence? Did we hear from Japan, South Korea, Germany etc when they were advancing their technology? No. Only China makes a spectacle out of everything. Being childish and ridiculous is their forte. Too busy talking instead of making things happen, that's why.
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  3099. Ask China. They have a problem with everyone. Or haven't you noticed?
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  3100. Wouldn't mind the unseasoned chicken breast but the 1 hour of cardio 🤢 I'll just stick to 30 minutes
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  3101. What a crap shoot of a country. Never going there.
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  3102. @Sagarika Mohapatra You do understand that this can just turn into another political tool that inept people of color can use to climb the ranks right? I work in an environment where this is literally happening. They are so accepting that they have already been infiltrated by people of a particular ethnic group that calls all the shots and discriminates against people who aren't like them and don't share their values.
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  3103. HSR aren't always necessary. For one they're expensive to produce and maintain. Two, is it going to make money? Because the cost of running China's HSR is loosing them money over the long run. Whether India needs it or not should come down to financial feasibility not for the sake of vanity.
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  3104.  @Zei33  Xenophobia and nationalism is something that the Chinese have always employed for political gain. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different. "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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  3105.  @Zei33  If there's one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese is that they refuse to change. They don't adapt ways that are "progressive" or aligned with best practices. It's all about nationalism and politics. "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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  3106. Not really. People still prefer quality and their life over a crap box like BYD.
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  3107. @ Who's "they? And when did BYD become the poster child for "quality"?
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  3108. It's because a lot of what you are hearing is propaganda. If China is pushing these drives for innovation then why aren't we seeing actual evidence? They "claim" to be at the forefront of AI but when the "AI" avatar is a lady with a speaker talking from the other side from a mic at a Huawei convention, that hardly counts as "innovation". Their "AI 5G" powered tractors are all remote controlled. If you believe China is at the forefront of innovation, then you've clearly been had.
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  3109.  @henli-rw5dw  Wrong. China's laws are sweeping. They already said they won't discriminate against other foreigners. China's laws are clownish to the international community. That's why nobody takes them seriously. It's not rule of law but law of rule, which is what Chinese style authoritarianism is. The fact that you are implying that Chinese laws are "negotiable" is in and of itself absolutely ridiculous.
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  3110. China's mental healthcare system is next to non existent, coupled with a culture that doesn't even acknowledge negative emotions.
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  3111. Everythong China does is a copy. They can never compete head to head because money from r&d comes from having healthy profit margins. How can China innovate and compete when they sell sub par quality products for cheap?
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  3112. It can be learned. It us a skill. You can literally read books on it or take a course in it. They used to teach that in Philosophy class. I don't know if these looney bin universities still do.
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  3113. Why have an election when everyone already knows who's going to win? This is an insult to basic human intelligence.
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  3114. Kicked out of Malaysia? How so?
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  3115.  @bois6969  Their job is to lie and deceive. That's how bought into their ideology they are, that they have to lie about it to the world and actually have people in charge of this drivel. ""Who lacks sex speaks about sex, hungry talk about food, a person who has no money about money, and our oligarchs and bankers talk about morality" - Sigmund Freud
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  3116.  @bois6969  I live in North America
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  3117.  @bois6969  No, I live in the free democratic world.
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  3118.  @anthonymartial5898  Good for you. You never learn.
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  3119. For consumption to increase in China, people need to be paid more for work. If China ups their wage rates, China will loose its manufacturing status - Very big dilemma here.
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  3120. No point "talking" to the Chinese. They're not listening. They only respond to force and the threat of force.
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  3121. 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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  3122. Read up on Chinese history. It's not in the culture to be kind and compassionate. Under the KMT it was no different
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  3123.  @zakjuly6721  nope
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  3124. I'm more concerned if he's got any more brain cells left after inhaling all that polluted air in his country.
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  3125. This is what happens when you have brainwashed idiotic subservient citizens.
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  3126. Because they're negatively affecting their neighbors and the environment. We've learned a lot from the past. So China doesn't get to be a mature and responsible player on the world's stage?
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  3127.  @shinodamasaru7945  Despite having the "best engineers" they still resort to IP theft and espionage. They obviously aren't that great.
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  3128. It's the People's Republic of Clowns
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  3129. Understand China? What's there to understand? The constant lying, cheating, stealing?
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  3130. I never understood crypto and why people bought into it. There is NO product, and certainly NO service tied to the industry. It's purely speculation. You might as well go to the casino and gamble because that's essentially what people who buy into crypto are doing.
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  3131.  @theraljaxtin  "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) "When the Chinese want to be nasty-as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend I'm honestly surprised you didn't see this much sooner considering this is always how they operated. It's always been a xenophobic country. But a lot of people simply dismiss it as "Chinese ignorance".
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  3132. It's all empty words. Nobody actually believes China at this point. Every time state media makes a statement all I hear is "blah blah blah blah".
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  3133. 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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  3134.  @MildlyInterested_  China can't handle all that regulation. They work best when they're not being supervised lol. Otherwise, they just don't produce anything, nevermind anything of quality.
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  3135. China has always been this way. Read up on Japanese workers in China before WW2 ("Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend). When the government under the KMT wanted to rally their people, they resorted to the same tactics. "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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  3136. Lol
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  3137.  @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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  3138. More hysterical that he was able to take power for himself and he doesn't seem all too smart. Either that or China is run by complete and utter morons.
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  3139. Don't forget China is also gutting Russia's economy and stealing their IP while simultaneously flooding their market with cheap Chinese crap. Not very intelligent.
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  3140.  @gkgk6815  Yes, nobody in China is buying those domestically made crap cars and they have a surplus. They have to dump it somewhere.
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  3141. Well for one, she's benefitting from the freedoms and opportunites that the West has afforded her, including posing in scantily clad clothing that would otherwise be deemed blasphemous to conservative Muslims. Do you think if she walked around Gaza looking like she does when she's casually walking around New York City that she wouldn't be taken in and interrogated by Hamas? She's only adding to the insanity of the foaming in the mouth Islamofascists.
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  3142. How can they overcome their issues when the system itself is the problem? It was created by thieves in government FOR thieves in government.
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  3143. 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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  3144. He doesn't care. As long as he makes as much money as he can before getting kicked out by the CCP.
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  3145.  @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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  3146.  @kamsunleong6648  same can be said about Huawei execs and their Apple products. What's your point?
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  3147. Russia sees everything as a declaration of war. What else is new?
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  3148.  @johnnythao  You make it sound like they're pets and not people.
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  3149.  @cbyyahoo57  kind of racist to imply that only Asians are good at math. Is that all parents look for in a kid?
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  3150. 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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  3151. But China always claims they are.
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  3152. Their southern most border since ancient times was always Hainan. All this talk of expansionism, is delusional and baseless.
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  3153.  @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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  3154.  @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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  3155. ​ @Asara-k7e you definitely would have been less stressed. That's for sure
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  3156. Zero common sense prevails in China. Couple that with bad hygiene, this is bound to happen.
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  3157.  @China_Secret_Police  Politicians didn't allow this. They got in because of lies and deception. They should create checks when it comes to mainland Chinese businesses because ANYTHING can be a front for surveillance. Winston and Matt also talked about real estate companies posing as spy centers as well. Hell, even a Chinese restaurant can become a spy center.
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  3158. This is what the Chinese literally did with PPE. They sold it at inflated prices after clearing shelves all over the world.
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  3159. 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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  3160. How so?
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  3161. 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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  3162. China is full of it. All their talk has no substance.
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  3163. If you define "interesting" as inconvenient, pain in the ass then yes, China is "interesting".
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  3164. Lol, pandaland
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  3165. "The easiest thing to do is to spend money you already have. This goes without saying" - Random Chinese netizen.
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  3166. I know right? All I heard was "yay, let's continue with mass genocide". It's sick.
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  3167. This is what chaos looks like. Because they still have to agree on something and they never will because countries like China and Russia want to be on top making all the decisions. Both countries actually don't want an independent currency. They want to push their OWN currency. You see where the problem lies?
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  3168. 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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  3169.  @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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  3170. You need to read Chinese history.
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  3171. 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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  3172. They don't like them.
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  3173. High quality place? What do you mean?
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  3174. "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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  3175.  @doujinflip  Yes, just like a shitty authoritarian dad that tells you what to do and doesn't care much about what you have to say. And yet he himself is a jerk who doesn't lead by example.
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  3176. Yup, never trust what the Chinese say but their actions. And their actions and outrage say a whole lot.
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  3177. Their attitude has always been like this. Even when the communists weren't in power. And people blame it squarely on them and not their toxic culture.
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  3178.  @zacksmith5963  What's your source? Or are you just pulling this out of your ass?
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  3179. The Palestinians have allies. It's all the other "oppressed" people like BLM and the LGBTQ morons.
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  3180. "Good" in China means suspect. Because there's no transparency at all.
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  3181. I saw a special on the quality of jeans from the 2000's versus the quality of jeans now. The difference was astounding. You could literally see and feel the difference.
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  3182. From where?
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  3183. 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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  3184. This is already happening. Regulations by the CCP are squeezing what little multinational businesses have in terms of profit.
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  3185. We're you dropped on your head? China started flooding EU with their cheap garbage threatening local business and EU started it? No, they're responding to unfair practices.
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  3186.  @ahmadfaraz1275  What the hell are you talking about?
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  3187. I never believe a Chinese person or any person for that matter expressing histrionics and outrage. They're too busy putting an "act" instead of making positive contributions to society. Most people with half a brain can see through this insanity anyway.
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  3188. China isn't clean-toxic air, toxic food and toxic water abounds.
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  3189. 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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  3190. That's how two faced the CCP is. Anyone who still believes in the CCP should seriously have their head examined. And nobody should be going there even to visit. And yet a lot of people still do which really makes you question what's wrong with them.
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  3191.  @shundi4264  US doesn't do that. China does and you only speak from your brainwashed experience. How can US use propaganda when there are so many news outlets reporting and calling out each other on different viewpoints?
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  3192.  @beachcomber2328 what the heck even us true? At some point logic and common sense have to step in. Calling something propaganda doesn't get you closer to the truth. Also, I thought it was a given that we all speak for ourselves here. I don't get to decide what you interpret or consume. I can make suggestions just like everyone else here can. And I will continue to question things that don't make sense.
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  3193.  @shundi4264  where's the proof that the US spends over a billion dollars in propaganda? Do they have a department responsible like you do in China?
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  3194. Lol, China accuses the US of what they are doing themselves.
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  3195. Only idiots with simple minds think like that. Most people know Tiktok is owned by Bytedance, which is beholden to the CCP. The problem is because everyone has business interests in China, people aren't so keen as to expose the CCP for what they are doing. All of the companies (which control huge swaths of money) are in essence beholden to the CCP, which is truly detrimental in the long term and morons in power or who control the money are too myopic to see any of that as China tries to screw and mess with people's heads.
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  3196. 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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  3197. They're all working over time since their respective economies are tanking they need that money fast.
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  3198. "Tell I will be single without telling me I will be single".
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  3199. And Chinese with their lies and disinformation don't?
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  3200. That young guy who had over $100,000 most likely has parents connected with the CCP. GDP per capital in China isn't that high. For a 20 something year old, it's even more suspicious.
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  3201. Economic rival? China makes things from the direction of multinational companies (including the US). They don't innovate and they don't research on anything. And they have the gall to call themselves a "rival" from all the IP they stole? What a joke! China: We make cheap shit. Therefore you must fear us!
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  3202. Lol, Greek fire. Anything can pretty much stand up to Chinese substandard construction at this point
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  3203. Most don't
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  3204. So many "initiatives" from China when they can't even take the initiative to fix their own country. So much useless, vague, empty words that nobody can put to practice. Self aggrandizing and tone deaf as usual.
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  3205.  @msimon6808  "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) "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
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  3206. It's kind of hard not to be when they keep pulling antics that affect the world as a whole. Just look at Covid? We're still reeling after the mess they caused.
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  3207. $150/hr? You're being too generous. It's much less than that. They have no insight and you have nothing to learn from them. It's better to talk to a wall and spend the $150 on yourself.
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  3208.  @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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  3209. You would have to be a fool after China shows its true face.
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  3210. They're 3rd world. Examples of developed countries in Asia are Japan and South Korea.
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  3211. 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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  3212. This is sad
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  3213. This is what happens when hate clouds judgement - they make bad decisions that ultimately negatively affect their own countrymen. Ridiculous.
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  3214. They are. That's why they're racking up so much debt, even more so than the US.
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  3215. Why would they acknowledge people that they murdered in cold blood?
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  3216. Trust being eroded is an understatement. People will be stashing their cash in their mattress at this point. Even banks can't be trusted.
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  3217. This isn't unique to the Jews though, when they express contempt for all other races on the planet.
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  3218. They said they would go to war with the US if Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan - Nothing happened. They said they would mass detain Filipinos in the South China sea - Nothing happened. Now, they're saying they will "crush" their opponents in the South China Sea, which subsequently drew attention from countries like US, Japan, and Australia for joint patrols - nothing happened, nothing happened, nothing continues to happen. China doesn't understand that you have to follow up on the threats you make otherwise you're just a joke.
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  3219. Because you have a greedy, complacent, corrupt government that doesn't care about you. They only care about money.
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  3220.  @nfuryboss  They are lazy by nature. They are definitely only motivated by money matters even if what they do is illegal, which they are also known for. A lot of the smugglers in Southeast Asia are Chinese. "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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  3221. China also requires negative PCR test to enter their dumb country. So once again they loose face because of their double standards.
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  3222.  @henocksherlock3340  What would you call the housing crisis then? A walk in the park?
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  3223. They're already all over this stuff and are as crude and childish as ever
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  3224.  @Obscurai  Oh I am well aware. The practice of kidnapping actually started from them. I come from a country in South east Asia and they were the ones who would hire thugs and have other people kidnapped and beaten if business deals go south.
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  3225.  @junkyard3924  Apparently in China, they don't "eat dog" as well. Lol.
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  3226. Because it doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. But then again it's China and everything is state owned.
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  3227. 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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  3228. ​​ @blo0mfilter868 care about skill? No, the bosses only care if they like you or not. There's at work training to augment what you lack. Question is will you progress beyond your station? Most won't. And it's not from the lack of trying.
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  3229. ​ @Tonyxyp regulations? Everyone can be paid off. It's all about convenience. Regulations are a suggestion at best.
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  3230. China always has to justify it's stupidity. It's clown behavior.
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  3231. As an Asian, I agree with you. All this talk about black people when elderly Asians are getting attacked doesn't sound all too sincere to me. It's all about pandering and using their so-called "diverse" cast to further their narrative. They claim to fight racism but using one's race as a "card" to refer to I find, is racist in and of itself.
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  3232. You seriously trust the data from China? According to Peter Zeihan they overcounted their population by 100 million people. So God only knows what else they're lying about.
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  3233. It's such a stupid inappropriate sounding name.
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  3234. Hope for what? That any rabid uniformed moron can go out and cause chaos? You've got a really messed up definition of "hope".
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  3235. This government wants its people to starve to death.
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  3236. US has labor laws that prevent this from happening...so it's no.
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  3237. It's basically just an attempt for China to keep their people working and for some politicians to gain from kickbacks and bribes. These self proclaimed "experts" are taking their so called "expertise" to these poor countries because people in these poor countries don't know any better. Those standards would never work in the developed world and they know it.
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  3238. '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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  3239. Chinese are among the most resistant people to acknowleding reality. They never do. And it's quite disturbing. Nothing is ever their fault, and there are no "problems".
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  3240. Don't speak in generalities because that's obviously not always true.
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  3241.  @inotoni6148  Nationalists don't care nor can they differentiate between the different types of tourists - Anyone who goes to China who's an obvious foreigner is potentially in danger.
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  3242. They're so arrogant. They think everything they do is justified. That's why the way they do things persists.
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  3243. Redeem themselves? By doubling down on this stupidity and continuing to lie to their own people? Keep dreaming.
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  3244. Lots of natives don't take advantage of the education system considering they already have preferential treatment. Also, post secondary education for a lot of them is for free.
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  3245.  @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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  3246. Yeah, "we're family" and just like "family" we want you to go above and beyond for free. No thanks.
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  3247. Yes, those long line up of hearsts at crematoriums are just there for the heck of it. Nothing to see obviously....yeah right.
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  3248. Chinese are adept at devaluing everything so much so that everything is produced at a loss.
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  3249. ​ @ICDeadPeeps He's a geopolitical analyst/historian, not a high ranking head of the CIA.
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  3250.  @a64738  exactly, they're always the same. Even their arguments don't change which already shows lack of free thought.
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  3251. 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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  3252. ​ @Kaichongjee people are lining up to go to the US. Nobody is lining up to go to China.
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  3253. How cute. The WHO still thinks it's relevant.
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  3254. Why doesn't the US just create incentives for its allies? It's still focused on all the wrong things like giving Beijing a chance to change itself, which it will never do. Looks like the US just can't wean itself off slave labor.
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  3255.  @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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  3256.  @Mike80528  The US isn't perfect but free market enterprise has worked in their favor. It worked in China for a time too. But with the recent shift in leadership, it's not going to be maintained anymore.
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  3257. Being exasperating doesn't get you friends
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  3258. "Little pink" - what a name
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  3259. 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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  3260. Singapore does a good job of walking in the middle. But they already know which vaccines are better. They just don't want to say which one because everything would turn "political". It's pretty obvious at this point.
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  3261. Elmer Yuen, a Hong Kong businessman being targeted by the CCP said exactly the same thing. If you want to take down the CCP let Xi stay in power indefinitely.
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  3262. 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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  3263.  @tianm1m160 There are some elements of character design that somewhat also reminds me of the Tales games
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  3264. This is pathetic
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  3265.  @ChrisB-ki9ch  Well communism is a Western concept created by Karl Marx. And these people are being forced to smile as an authoritarian directive. Nobody is blaming the West for this because the Chinese also value their facade. It just so happened that Communism and their facade happen to coincide with each other out of convenience.
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  3266. No they won't. Even after the Chinese gain wealth, they fall back on their bad habits. The rich even raid food banks in the developed world. They're shameless and will forever be shameless and disgusting so long as they think they're getting "ahead" of everyone.
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  3267.  @nesseihtgnay9419  I never said they were of sound mind. A 4 year old can believe they are an astronaut and people think it's "cute" and don't take it seriously. CCP throwing tantrums is no different.
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  3268. ​​ @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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  3269. 5000 years of civilization and this is what came out of that cesspool of a country. Go figure. So much for "Chinese wisdom". It's all just cultural propaganda.
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  3270. I have applied for several jobs my whole life. And not once did my employer EVER ask about my education. Unless what you're doing is extremely technical most of them just don't care. As long as what your kid is taking is in demand in the job market, that's all that matters.
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  3271. "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend is a good one. It gives an account of what China was like in the 1930's (before the CCP) with Townsend being a former US consul sent to work in China. @michaellastname4922 
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  3272. In a country that is run by common sense everything you said would be taken into account. However, China is not a normal country. It sure as hell isn't run like one that's why you see what a mess it is.
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  3273. 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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  3274. And to think China is dumb enough to not have learned anything.
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  3275. ​ @dbl88888 you have to maintain so many solar panels. Not to mention the return you get from solar is just not worth it.
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  3276. 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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  3277. Because nobody wants to prop up the Chinese currency. Everyone wants to prop up THEIR own currency that's why BRICS is a joke. Listening to a representative from South Africa is a joke considering they have been experiencing black outs for hours and hours on end due to underfunded infastructure and corruption. And these clowns are supposed to challenge the G7? They can't even get their act together. China and India don't get along. Brazil's leader is leading the country towards communism. And Russia is being sanctioned for all the destruction they caused. It's a circus masquerading as a group that wants to be taken seriously.
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  3278.  @RykerFreegeld  There are unfortunately suckers born everday who will buy into the propaganda and believe the "China hype". At least for you, better late than never.
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  3279. Lol, it's all propaganda. They're very third world.
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  3280. Australia found markets for its coal when China refused to buy it. Same with their other products. Keep dreaming.
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  3281. It also doesn't think
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  3282. What US chip multinational companies say doesn't make any sense. They want to sell to China because they want to corner the Chinese market, not because China will develop highly technological chips. Everything China develops is a few generations behind from stolen IP theft. These companies are just parroting Chinese propaganda.
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  3283. Just laughing at this point. The fact that he won again and again AND again is a true testament to how moronic a lot of Canadians are. Never voted for this guy. Not even once.
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  3284. 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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  3285. They don't want to deal with the consequences of their bad actions.
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  3286.  @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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  3287. "Hugging China" is so hilarious. Why not apply that to all of the US and West's enemies? What a dumb concept.
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  3288.  @themiddlekingdom9121  They've already banned youtube, facebook, google, X, instagram etc in China and we're only talking about 1 stupid company here and everyone is all up in arms. The reaction of China is so disproportionate to what's happening its hilarious and sad at the same time. They need to get over it and stop being so petty. They make decisions all the time on the basis of "national security" why can't the US do the same?
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  3289.  @orbitalpotato9940  "You can still access western sites in China via VPN and it's not illegal to do so" - Umm yes it is. They might allow you a bit of leeway if you are a foreigner but local Chinese will be punished by law if they are caught using a VPN. Only state sanctioned VPN access is allowed and you have to be working for China's propaganda department to do so.
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  3290. Why pay them when this is already standard?
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  3291. Deport these assholes!
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  3292. 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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  3293.  @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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  3294.  @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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  3295.  @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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  3296. 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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  3297.  @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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  3298. @ How are they ahead? Give examples otherwise what you are saying is just pure propaganda
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  3299. @ So where are they? Did you special order them from China? Do you know what those items are made of?
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  3300. BRICS is a joke. They literally can't agree on anything.
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  3301. Lol, if you want to call it "marketing" go ahead.
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  3302. IP is ever evolving. You don't stay on top by constantly copying. It's like trying to copy from the top student of your class. You are only as good as the person you copied. What will you be if they are no longer there?
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  3303.  @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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  3304. You can't say things like that without any proof. You're just as idiotic as she is. Where is your source?
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  3305. "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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  3306. "It kills bacteria" - the a lot of Chinese don't have a basic concept of hygiene. They literally consume gutter oil and have cow dung hotpot.
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  3307. And to think, the world is still "nice" to them, despite their childish, moronic antics.
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  3308. How are they winning?
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  3309. A lot of the smart corporations already exited.
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  3310. 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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  3311. A lot of morons still are apparently
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  3312. As a Canadian, I never voted for Trudeau. This country deserves all the stupid it gets for voting him in.
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  3313. 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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  3314. Guy's got balls doing what he did. He's lucky all he got was a slap.
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  3315. Even if they did, a lot of money would end up in the pockets of local officials, not towards projects.
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  3316. These US cities importing trains from China are a serious lawsuit waiting to happen.
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  3317.  @tkw3864  Obviously not. They imported Chinese made trains that are already showing problems. I'm clearly smarter than they are. I would buy from Japan or South Korea. Hi Wumao.
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  3318. It's pronounced "koo" not "koup"
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  3319. Lol, China is one of the most if not THE most manipulative country in the world. Everything is politics with them and gaining the upper hand. Business is just another means to that end along with ransacking other countries' resources.
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  3320. You can't eat, drink, and breathe the air. It's a toxic chaotic cesspool. Not to mention the scammers, and scary building standards where everything can potentially kill you over there.
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  3321. Saving to buy a Switch just to play Legend of Zelda. I'm excited.
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  3322. "Growth" and "debt" have become synonymous in China at this point.
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  3323. I mean the fact that we are still talking trade with them is absolutely ridiculous. Greed and complacency are really big issues that are keeping this craziness going.
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  3324. Just leave! That's what I am planning to do. You can't afford to live there unless you're rich.
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  3325.  @hqmagnus  They use all sorts of excuses such as their language barrier. It's the same in airports when they bring illegal items from China despite filling out the form (in Chinese) that they aren't. I'm glad countries like the UK are smartening up to this because it's not uncommon for Chinese to "not understand" what's going on especially when the law is inconveniently not on their side.
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  3326. Whatever helps you sleep at night communist weirdo
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  3327.  @valetudo1569  yeah, tell that to the insecure Wumaos who keep running their mouth.
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  3328.  @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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  3329. Muldoon actually complains in the movie that they needed to lock the car doors because tourists leaving to explore could be a potential problem.
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  3330.  @dcc70  "Dong" and "Wang" are slang in English for penis.
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  3331. 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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  3332. The interviewee gets talking points that they are comfortable discussing. But ultimately when you're there you can say what you want in front of a live studio audience. They only do the censoring before it airs.
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  3333. China lies, wow what a shocker...
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  3334. 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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  3335. Just go to Japan then. You have the tech, cleanliness, and politeness. It's not perfect. But it's a heck of a lot better than China.
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  3336.  @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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  3337.  @M8M8ss  no, another factory. Is Foxconn the only employer in China?
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  3338.  @pepelepew1227  996 work hours also tend to be located in places with highly urbanized, cosmopolitan areas where rent/mortgage are atrociously high (ie Shanghai)
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  3339. 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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  3340. The young couple is ridiculous. If his gf cheated first, he should have just left.
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  3341. China way - Lie long enough to string people along and hope they don't find out about it until it's too late. Thing is they suck at lying too.
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  3342. China is not egalitarian lol. Men are valued more than women. Why do you think they have preference for boys over girls? You know about China because you're Chinese. And what you're saying is not true by any stretch. And you've obviously been fed cultural propaganda that's never ever been true by either your parents or others in your community. Talk to others in Asia about China, they won't have anything good to say. I'm also from Southeast Asia and the sentiment a lot of people have towards China isn't a good one. Stereotypes don't exist in a vacuum and although not all Chinese exhibit these traits a lot of them are known for being brash, arrogant, loud, rude, mean spirited AND chauvinistic. By the way, what you said about China not colonizing Southeast Asia isn't true either. They've tried in the past but failed. Just look into the histories of these countries if you don't believe me. Vietnam easily comes to mind even before the Vietnamese war. They couldn't colonize any other country not because they chose not to, it's because they couldn't. So stop tooting your own horn. You're not as powerful as you think. That's another typical "trait" that a lot of Chinese people like you share: overestimation of one's perceived abilities and one's race.
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  3343. There is no "love" for north korea. It's all fake until they leave out of fear of retaliation from their own government. Wake up!
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  3344. 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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  3345. Even when China's economy was "better" do you think their approach to charity was leaps and bounds compared to what it is now? They still with held help from people, opting instead to steal the funds and bring their families overseas with their ill gotten wealth.
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  3346. ​ @oakinwol It's a problem of both. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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  3347.  @Yourmom-kz7wm  Some probably would since some of them are political dissidents. A lot of them still have family in China after all.
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  3348.  @linming5610  philippines throws China a bone every now and then but the big projects are usually headed by the Japanese. They make high quality highways and good infastructure that have stood the test if time. Everyone can rest assured when Japan builds something.
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  3349. You made a very good point. I have never seen Kimchi or Ssam in a Chinese restaurant. These foods are standard in Korean restaurants. It's ok. The whole world except China knows it's Korean.
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  3350.  @fdm2155  Why not just leave? The end result is the same. You will leave unemployed either way.
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  3351. China doesn't know what the hell they are talking about half the time. Every time China makes statements, they sound more like wishful thinking which aligns with their tone-deaf approach to geopolitics. Only a simpleton without any background in Middle East history would make simplistic comments like China does. Maybe they should clean up their own house instead of weighing in on other countries and their issues. God knows they have many.
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  3352.  @bttmfg7010  If you're looking for convenience you will find nothing but Chinese products everywhere. I personally bought face masks from Korea. Problem is most people aren't willing to look.
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  3353. You need to re-examine the definition of "world leader". So many people in China got screwed over with Zero covid and haven't been able to fully recover from such a disastrous mishap. Government workers aren't getting paid because the local governments are no longer able to sell land en masse to the people. That's only a couple of screw ups in a long laundry list of disasters. That doesn't sound like the makings of a "world leader".
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  3354. Yes, and that's assuming they can even start in the snow.
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  3355.  @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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  3356.  @RT-qd8yl  Same here
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  3357. "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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  3358. 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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  3359. US owes the fed a lot more than China and China wouldn't exist economically without American interventionism by way of multinational US companies investmenting in China. China owes the US for what it is along with Japan, South Korea, and Europe and yet they have the gall to treat everyone like trash, especially after Covid which THEY caused.
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  3360.  @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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  3361.  @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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  3362. Good for him! Why suffer and have that nasty bitch for a mother in law? Good riddance.
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  3363. So Tangen is an American citizen that spouts CCP propaganda? Well noted.
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  3364. What is you definition of "blessed"? Is that sarcasm?
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  3365. Nobody believes your numbers. Growth at 4.5% despite rising unemployment...who are you kidding?
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  3366. Cops feel "safe"? You shouldn't feel "safe" as a cop if you're doing your job properly. There are risks involved in upholding the law.
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  3367. China doing what they do best - to be annoying and pechulant.
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  3368. A lot of people who want to believe America is worse are usually just disenfranchised morons who hate their lives. If you asked them if they wanted to move to China they would never allude to actually doing it. That's how you know it's all just bs. I've also spoken with people with basic common sense. And based on the replies of the majority, they do know that China is ruled by an authoritarian corrupt government that only thinks of itself. At least the majority of people I've spoken with who are non-Chinese and Chinese echo these sentiments which are a good sign.
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  3369. They gave always been like this. Read up on China under the KMT. Nothing's changed.
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  3370. The PLA is too centralized. In times of war you need coordinated quick decision making.
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  3371. China's petulant child like government will never accept help because they believe in a backward concept called "face", which is responsible for their clownish behavior in the world's stage.
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  3372. "Have you ever worked so early in the morning?" - does graveyard shift count?
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  3373. 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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  3374. It's a very expensive movie set...that nobody wants to visit.
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  3375. They're such tools. Nobody even takes these Soviet/communist clowns seriously anymore.
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  3376. 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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  3377. That's the thing. It's hard to predict because they lie so much. So nobody knows. Remember they don't innovate like US, Japanese, South Koreans, Europeans etc so they don't produce anything cutting edge that people find valuable. So how can wages rise from producing high value goods? Everything they do is a cheap knock off or they produce for a multinational company and even the value added to those goods are small because, the expensive components are brought from elsewhere.
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  3378. Exactly, they take pride in all the wrong things. Brag for the sake of bragging. Their country is in the mess they're in because of their backwards way of thinking.
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  3379. 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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  3380. You've clearly been bought by Chinese propaganda.
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  3381.  @loot6  China's market is overhyped. It's not like as if everyone who does business in China does really well. Chinese have no brand loyalty and trying to penetrate the market is not worth it since one has to jump through so many hoops set up by the CCP. Last I checked the rest of the world was still bigger than the China market.
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  3382.  @sabrekai8706  Let them suffer the consequences. Some people never learn. Greed overrides any form of reason or logic that one may still have. Instead of opting to go to other countries, which are more populous (ie, India) and cheaper (ie Vietnam), they keep betting on China since in their eyes, China could do no wrong, even with their disastrous handling of Covid and their government's incessant need to harrass multinational businesses. Let the greedy morons figure it out.
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  3383. "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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  3384. They want to dilute the comment section. I already brought this up to YouTube staff including pictures. Whether YouTube decides to do something about it is up to them.
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  3385. ​ @mattihaapoja8203 If there is one thing that has remained unchanged about China is that they refuse to change. What more proof of this do you need?
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  3386. Lol, Muslim Brotherhood is a facade. Muslims murdering each other are not uncommon and we don't hear much about it because their authoritarian governments want it that way.
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  3387. A lot of them are kids of corrupt CCP officials.
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  3388. They hate the US and would be more than happy to bring them down especially after trade restrictions.
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  3389.  @jujirer  "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) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend I don't know what universe you live in. But obviously you've been under a rock these last few years. So the fact that they lied about Covid, the fact that they lied about not militarizing the South China Sea is just something you will just not even bother addressing. You're inability to perceive reality is bothersome.
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  3390. Yes, that's why China is being it's usual demented self.
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  3391.  @ajrpromotions  Well, the only reason why we have trade is because the US is patrolling the sea lanes. Even China is a recipient of this trade otherwise their goods would be hijacked by pirates or other authoritarian states.
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  3392.  @eason777662893  It's hard not to given the PLA's constant hand at infiltration. But isn't this a part of their end goal? To sow fear and paranoia in the hearts and minds of their enemy as an added bonus? You can't blame how others feel about this when China constantly has shown time and time again that they can't be trusted and they pull shit like this all over the world. It gives Chinese a bad name.
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  3393.  @baogiangsongque5507  Anyone with half a brain shouldn't believe in anything that China says. As Ralph Townsend in his book "Ways that are Dark" say and I'm paraphrasing "they quote proverbs about truth in every breathe and not to be believed in anything". They also always talk about following international law which they never ever do. Never trust their empty words.
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  3394. Not really. I work in the post office and a lot of that garbage is returned. Just because they sell a lot doesn't mean people keep the clothes. The amount of returns we had on Halloween was astounding. You literally can't make money on clothing.
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  3395.  @aidenmartin6674  Ah Covid, where the CCP reported deaths by the hundreds even though they were cremating thousands of bodies per day...
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  3396. It's all for show for their people because the masses believe in "Muslim solidarity" - The leaders however, know better. The quality of information they recieve is certainly better than the ignorant masses.
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  3397. There's probably electrical discharge in the area from faulty wiring. Very concerning...
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  3398. How is China leading when they copy? Propaganda at its finest
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  3399. Why do they always take pride in technologies that have been around, some even for decades? And they act like they just discovered these technologies too.
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  3400. So by "like" China you mean one that will bend to the will of the CCP and compromise America's interests? No.
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  3401. Ban tarrifs? You don't know what the heck you're talking about. Then China will dominate all of the free trade perks because everything is state subsidized.
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  3402. Amazon products use those same docks as well.
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  3403. @ 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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  3404. I seriously need this done. Too bad we don't have any Korean bath houses where I live.
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  3405. Suppressing China = not letting the Chinese steal IP and holding them accountable to international laws. Go figure.
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  3406. 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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  3407. 'Chinese wisdom' is a myth. Just cultural propaganda that they would like to have you believe...
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  3408. 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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  3409. Next special: China's failed stock market.
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  3410. You should apply this to China as well. They said they wouldn't militarize the South China Sea and they did. What is China's credibility? Or are we biased against the West as usual because this is all about propping up China?
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  3411. Read an article that over 500,000 tourists went to China. I don't understand why people still continue to be stupid to this day. Some people are just born brain dead.
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  3412. 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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  3413. Older women acting crazy and disempowered are frowned upon by society because the perception is older women should be better able to handle their feelings positively and should have a more productive outlook in life. Hence, why society is more forgiving of younger women. It's because younger women don't yet have the experience to handle themselves in a poised manner unlike the "experienced" older woman.
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  3414.  @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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  3415. Thinks of what? China lying. They all know. They just put up with it because money is involved.
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  3416. Before she opened her mouth I could already tell I was going to be annoyed
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  3417. What else is new? They always see themselves as above any form of logic that has been adopted by the greater world. Instead opting for nationalism and the lack of transparency. It's the same stubbornness that has always been present albeit culturally even when they still had emperors ruling their country.
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  3418. "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) "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
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  3419. That woman did apparently. And she's not the only one.
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  3420. ​ @useruseruseruseruser790 they've always been like this whether economy is good or bad, Chinese always act deprived.
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  3421. It's called "politics". Unfortunately, they're all gaining something from China that's why they're keeping their mouths shut. Also, you've seen how China responds to accusations. They always deny, and deflect. At the end of the day the CCP are worst that a bunch of 5 year old petulant children who can't make sense out of anything going on in their chaotic country. And they are far too corrupt, lazy, and apathetic to do anything about it.
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  3422. 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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  3423.  @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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  3424. Lol. And pigs can fly.
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  3425. Feminism only added to women's insecurities and decline in problematic thinking since now they have to face the world sll slone without anyone to help and protect them.
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  3426. Chances are someone died. The CCP just doesn't want to put salt in the wound by recording deaths.
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  3427. 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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  3428. Everything that Zhao Lijian said is essentially how the CCP operates, imposing its ways wherever they go and crying like a baby when things don't go their way.
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  3429.  @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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  3430. On the contrary, why do you think they constantly export epidemics and pandemics to the world?
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  3431. It's all for show. The same with their fake windmills that they only turn on when local officials come to visit. I wouldn't even be surprised if they weren't even plugged in.
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  3432. More useless infrastructure projects = more officials lining their pockets. What else is new here?
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  3433.  @Mattsta2010  Their ideology IS firmly rooted in politics. Communism advocates for government interference in every aspect of society.
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  3434. This is the "China" that the CCP says is now thriving? Don't they ever get sick of lying?
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  3435. Country is one giant mental institution.
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  3436. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions. So no, chips won't get cheaper and China is using the last bit of chips it has in its stockpile to make a phone that's not even cutting edge.
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  3437.  @royk7712  Except it's not made in China. It's chips from Taiwan. If left on their own devices China would NEVER catch up with the rest or the developed world. No money for R&D and what money there is is stolen by the people who are supposed to be in charge. China will always become second best while the rest of the world leads in technology. You can't lead when you aren't an innovator. Top students don't get to be the top by copying their way in exams - and that's what China is.
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  3438. All this while officials pocket the money that's supposed to be for "investment". They don't develop anything.
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  3439. 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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  3440. 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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  3441. Spratly are just off the island of Palawan
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  3442. It's 1 year later. Why is the W.H.O bothering? Such a waste of time. Everyone knows they're paid by the CCP. They've cleaned everything at this point.
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  3443. That's right. Keep being part of the problem instead of part of the solution. Because that always works right? Bunch of idiots!
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  3444. Anytime China says the word "transparent" you just know they are hiding something.
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  3445. Are there cracks in the communist brotherhood?
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  3446. All they do is lie. This isn't surprising when lying is perfectly acceptable in Chinese culture.
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  3447. They really should. Why an American firm can't replicate this I will never understand and they created vine.
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  3448. BYD should be put on an entity list.
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  3449.  @abcdedfg8340  What misinformation are you talking about? I saw elderly people protesting against the arrest of Park Geun-hye close to the blue house when I visited the country in 2019. You know the former president of Korea who was arrested for corruption? I don't understand why you are insulted. Protests happen everywhere in a lot of countries whether if it's real or staged. If something like this is going to offend you, go crawl under a rock.
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  3450. I'm surprised he was allowed to leave Japan when he pulled his crap over there.
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  3451. It's definitely going to be higher in China due to their larger population. It's only the CCP who lies about their numbers.
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  3452. When a company needs people to fill a position and the can't find the right person to fill it, they attract the "right" person with high wages and the willingness to train. Nowadays, because there's just too much labour in the market, salaries plunge in response. That's why nobody is having kids. Because the system is essence "correcting" itself due to lack if time and resources. Only this time, there's no recovering from it.
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  3453.  @intheair5434  Don't forget money. It's politics AND money
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  3454.  @hydroac9387  Yes, they print more money and officials and executives line their pockets with all that free money. In the meantime nobody is looking into the status of these properties, otherwise they wouldn't be in this stupid mess. What did they think was going to happen? Apartments don't build themselves. No oversight and very very irresponsible. That is China.
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  3455. Well for one, they make their people believe that they are more special than they think they are - this is what nationalism does. Everything else is just monetary. Taking away resources meant for the team is another. You can't beat oppressive Chinese style micromanaging.
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  3456. Most Chinese aren't kept aware of global issues. Don't make us laugh.
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  3457. In Kissenger's eyes, China can never ever do anything wrong. He's so delusional even after all these years.
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  3458. It never was you psycho!
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  3459.  @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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  3460. ​​ @DK-ev9dg offcourse he was. A lot of Chinese don't have a filter and will talk bs to your face given the chance. This sounds like something a typical Chinese nationalist would say. Just look at Chinese state media.
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  3461.  @ninjauserninja4818  China wants a war with everyone. Japan and Korea to the East, Southeast Asia and India. And they think they will win lol.
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  3462. They should seriously vet these people coming into the free world. If it's not corrupt government officials from hostile countries, it's these Islamofasists running the show. Absolutely ridiculous!.
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  3463. They love to act. The problem is they're the only ones in on it. Pure stupidity.
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  3464. "Saving face" isn't real it's another way for the Chinese to justify their bad actions. If they truly believed in face they wouldn't be engaged in the fuckery they're engaged in now. They're lying and "face" is yet another lie that they have fed the world.
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  3465.  @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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  3466. Send Dutard to the ICC to face trial. This moron is annoying and needs to be silenced.
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  3467.  @gabru5612  They want it because they want to copy it. How is it different than any other military helicopter? It does the same things as the other ones do. But China doesn't know it's specs. Knowing the fact that they ALWAYS fall short, they will copy it again like they always do.
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  3468. @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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  3469.  @diegomaradona7802  Read my comment earlier. I said listening to RUSSIA is boring because they say the same old crap. I wasn't referring to Ukraine.
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  3470.  @dpickkk  They've been issuing the same threats for years. It's ridiculous. Like as if they're the only ones with nukes.
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  3471.  @Lurker1130  Nobody can even scrutinize the numbers, including their officials. So who's to say what China's economic output even is? It's such a joke.
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  3472.  @ms3862  I spoke to a coworker who is from Harbin China, this was back in 2018. And she told me that China was done growing economically. It's part of the reason why she came to North America. She was educated but because she was older she couldn't come back to China to compete with the new graduates who had just finished University.
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  3473. CCP won't collapse. They'll just double down on their authoritarianism.
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  3474. "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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  3475. Lol, soup apparently doesn't taste the same without melted plastic in it.
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  3476. Lol, you can't read the writings on the wall? Deal with the consequences.
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  3477. ​ @caseymay5449 they should be taught a lesson
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  3478. ​​ @David-f8e2v lying is innate in their culture, even when they had emperors ruling them.
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  3479. ​ @brianlowe3529 they're not headed for no 1. Stop deluding yourself.
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  3480. 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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  3481. And what exactly is China's definition of "trust"? It's a culture that relies solely on face which is all about creating a false impression irregardless of what is actually happening. It is their nature to lie. Just look at the mess we are in. They couldn't even be honest about covid. At the end of the day, it's all about what China wants and appearing "strong".
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  3482.  @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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  3483. Most people in Asia have already been exposed to Black people because we see them in media and there are black travelers who go to Asia. This level of ignorance is really ridiculous because it's the byproduct of censorship and lack of understanding. And yet China props itself as a "welcoming" country towards all races when in actuality they skew in favor of white people.
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  3484. People in the West go to private schools because public schools have become places where woke ideology has proliferated. Those who can't afford private school are just opting for their kids to be home schooled. I don't think Japan has this problem however. People over there have no problems acknowledging reality unlike the insanity that the West has become.
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  3485. "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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  3486. ...And yet proceeds to militarize them anyway.
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  3487. @nothanks9503 Proper action? You're talking about someone spitting one someone else's face which escalated from an argument. People die over the dumbest things and it's stupid things like this that starts it.
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  3488.  @fishingdad88  Anyone from China is a potential sleeper agent. All you have to do if you are the Chinese government is threaten their family in China and you have willing servants who will go through all lengths to lie, cheat, and steal.
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  3489. "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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  3490. Most people don't stick to a program anyway to really find it out if it works. So he's going to be let off the hook by virtue of people's laziness.
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  3491. Singapore is a hub for ill gotten wealth. There's so much more to this than what we're seeing here.
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  3492. They're always pissed. This is a country that has institutionalized mental illness in government. What else is new?
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  3493. Who's "they"?
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  3494. 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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  3495. The cry make up reminds me of Sylvanas Windrunner.
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  3496. I thought "decoupling" and "derisking" were the same at this point?
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  3497. It's the same way men use a high end car to peacock to other men. Women do the same with attractive men to other women and their friends.
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  3498. The only one making a big deal out of this is China. Why not ask them?
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  3499.  @kennethk4688  Most communist totalitarian governments are predicated on bulldozing previous administrations for the sake of absolute power. There is no shame in doing that. It's all about power at the end of the day.
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  3500.  @cryptameria666  Richmond is mostly Chinese. Vancouver has more variety in terms of people trying new things with food.
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  3501.  @tatsumasa6332  "Always" is a bit of a stretch.
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  3502.  @musa7606  NATO doesn't prevent Putin from exerting influence. They're choosing to be part of it because the alternative would be to bend over to Russia and have their needs trampled on. Between eating fillet mignon and dog shit, most people with half a brain would choose the fillet mignon. That's why Russia and China have to force their ways on others because their ways aren't palatable to any free-thinking person or country.
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  3503. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) Chinese are the last people who should be talking about standards and morality for they have none. They're all talk, and no action.
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  3504.  @c.l.9344  "Shop like a billionaire" - except billionaires don't buy garbage.
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  3505. This is how China deals with crises. There is no ease of transition between change in policy. Everything is draconian and abrupt. No surprises here.
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  3506. 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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  3507.  @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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  3508. Go live in a third world country. People there are too busy living their lives trying to survive and don't have the luxury for this woke bullshit
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  3509. "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
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  3510. Why should you? They supported this stupidity under Mao decades prior.
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  3511. So much for the "S" in BRICS. What a joke!
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  3512.  Lunar972  Government violating Chinese people's rights is what they do best.
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  3513. ​ @schloops8473 everything on here is about the US. Talk about divert, divert, divert instead of investigating facts.
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  3514.  @brennencox516  They're seriously just as bad as if not worst than North Korea or Russia. Would you visit those countries as well?
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  3515.  @zl66666  Not everyone who's a democracy is a colony of the US. In the same token, not every communist country is a colony of China - Your clown analogy just goes to show how limited your understanding of geo politics is. Everyone knows this is for show because nobody trusts China.
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  3516. 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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  3517. That's the norm in China. They obviously skipped that memo.
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  3518. "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) China was always like this. They never changed. People are just too damn greedy to see what's actually happening.
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  3519. ​ @NelmacCity you really think Japan and South Korea will fall for China's bs? It has become so commonplace for China to take swipes on them unprovoked that there is little to no chance for reconciliation.
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  3520. It's China. What do you expect? Cheap talk is innate in their culture.
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  3521.  @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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  3522.  @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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  3523.  @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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  3524.  @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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  3525. What is your definition of "Australia thinking"? Siding with China? Because that's always the alternative being implied with comments such as yours.
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  3526.  @youtuberx199  Perfect! Then they can be single. Most of us don't want materialistic women who offer little to no value in return. And we don't care where they come from in the world.
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  3527. US majority of debt is with the fed, not China. Get over yourself.
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  3528. Can't free a country that doesn't exist. Learn history!
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  3529. I would flip that question on the Chinese. They love to justify their actions while simultaneously criticizing others. The Chinese have a very childish world view despite being around for a long time. It seems like ignorance has been around even longer.
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  3530. Revolutions are a part of human history. Resurgences happen.
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  3531. Why the hell doesn't she burn her shit outside? What's wrong with her?
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  3532. The problem is most people no longer believe them. They're only like that because they don't want the Philippines to build any more American bases.
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  3533. How? Because they're not outright belligerent against China? Just because everything looks "good" on the surface doesn't mean there isn't animosity between the two countries. Vietnam is just biding its time but will bite back if China pushes it too far. China is there to play "nice" because it's percieved to be leaning more towards the US. All this is is a photo op that China will use for propaganda to fool its people that it's doing something relevant but will break any agreement or contracts the first chance it gets. It's in their nature.
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  3534. 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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  3535. ​ @MexAmerican-x5d Majority of trade is still controlled by the G7.
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  3536. True. Communists don't value anything but deception and power. Very compatible with Chinese values.
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  3537. Haha
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  3538. Sure. Nobody believes them despite visual evidence. Stop trying to gaslight us. The world is waking up.
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  3539. Trudeau's job is to stay there long enough for his pension. He won't do or say anything worthwhile. And we have Canadians who kept voting for him to get re-elected to blame. No critical thinking, no accountability from people and they guy who they chose to represent them.
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  3540. 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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  3541.  @Alastair_Adana  No they don't. They're far too corrupt and powerless to do anything about it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have to lie so much.
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  3542. "Thrifty" isn't the word. It's just that they have NO choice.
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  3543. Here we go again with the ridiculous China lauding. Get over yourself.
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  3544. Can the Western world just stop collaborating with China? Have we not learned enough from these liars?
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  3545. ​ @adriansaw8329 they're still "Asian", they're just much more organized
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  3546. ​​ @simontamchiyan2 chinese aren't themselves without the needless trash talk. It's clown behavior.
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  3547.  @adriansaw8329  they're still Asian. They're just Asian systems that work.
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  3548. Can these people just move to the Arab world? There's Qatar, Yemen, Algeria, Senegal to name a few. They don't have to be in the Western developed world. And then they cry discrimination. Absolutely ridiculous!
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  3549. BRICS isn't unified. It's barely even a trading BLOC made of third world countries that don't have nearly as much impact as the developed world.
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  3550. 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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  3551.  @Alopen-xb1rb  Even if there are train accidents in China, you will never hear about it because it's scrubbed from the media. Out of sight, out of mind is how the CCP operates.
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  3552. I went out with a woman who was interested in me. I tested this theory. She didn't care which restaurant we went to, she was happy to oblige so I took her to cheap sushi. I also made the dumbest jokes that would put off anyone with half a brain (on purpose) and she found them all funny even slapping my arm as she laughed. If a woman is into you, there's little to no effort involved.
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  3553. A dragon is nothing more than an overgrown lizard that doesn't exist. Same with their pride.
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  3554. They won't have savings for long if they're unemployed assuming they even have access to their bank accounts.
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  3555. When women use the word "creepy" it implies something sinister. And that's not always a fair assessment. The only reason they are ok with an attractive guy is that their "attractiveness" override the innate "repulsion" that they feel as a default towards most men.
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  3556.  @xiao5360  well more people in the world are still trying to learn English as oppose to Chinese including the Chinese themselves.
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  3557.  @محمدالسريع-و8ب  The things you have to do to satisfy a country you want to do business with...But hey if you're willing to jump through hoops to make ends meet that's your government's call. I would much rather deal with the South Koreans or Japanese. Not only do they make quality stuff, they don't politicize anything and everything under the sun. The Chinese make you feel like doing business with them is the holy grail, which we all know could be further from the truth. But your government will learn that well enough. Give them an inch and they take the whole mile.
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  3558. China talking about how "peaceful" they are is akin to a girl with all sorts of venereal diseases talking about how she's a "virgin". Pure delusion.
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  3559. Those rhetoric are usually paid. If not, it's used for fear mongering for political gain. I never put any importance on any source propping China up.
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  3560. This is bs. This race pandering is so stupid insane and this is coming from an Asian man.
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  3561. Food poisoning from God knows what you even ate...
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  3562. You can only lie so much before looking like a complete and utter fool. I would have done the same if I was in her position.
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  3563. China never plans, never changes, and never learns from past mishaps. That's why they are where they are and nothing will ever change.
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  3564. It's strongly implied that Taiwan IS independent. The US has a separate policy when it comes to dealing with Taiwan. Does China have a separate policy in dealing with Alaska or Hawaii? No.
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  3565. PhD's have become worthless everywhere in the world at this point.
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  3566. It's going to be hard now that this is making the news.
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  3567. It's all about selling to the Chinese market and SOE's. It's corporate greed and complacency at its finest. The sooner China declines as a consumer, the better off we will all be. And these lazy companies will be forced to find markets elsewhere.
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  3568. The word "good" should be in quotes because nobody "good" ever makes it into the government.
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  3569. They've always been lazy. Things were no better under the KMT.
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  3570. Things were no bettrr under the KMT. They've always been like this.
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  3571. This is why they keep pushing the "destigmatize mental illness" agenda. It's not about empowering young people to seek help. It's about justifying bad/odd behaviours and normalizing them.
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  3572. Love doesn't exist in a backward crappy society that doesn't value humanity. This isn't surprising in China.
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  3573.  @alanparker9608  They're everywhere except China. And they love to tout how amazing their country (China) is. Ridiculous!
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  3574. Forget understanding the world around them. They don't even understand themselves
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  3575. The woman stealing soil is a new low. But then again, it's China so this isn't surprising. Everything is a free for all.
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  3576. China is ruled by syndicates. Doesn't matter what industry it is. It's all corrupt.
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  3577.  @gf-ek9ps  No, they stole the money and brought it overseas.
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  3578. If the athletes decide to go to China, it will be at their own discretion. The whole world has already seen China's true colors. It's their decision whether they still want to participate.
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  3579. Then you're part of the problem
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  3580. My brother landed in China in a stop over to Thailand. He didn't land in one of the "premier" airports and he couldn't connect to the local Wi-Fi because there was none in the airport. So he had no way to check his flight and the staff were rude and offered no assistance. The whole 5G thing is just another propaganda flex. They keep claiming they are "advanced" and yet we get absolutely no proof of it. Huawei is second rate, and their EV's spotaneously combust. Japan, Korea, and even Germany are worthy contenders to US tech and yet we don't hear from them on the same exasperating level as China. China is a wannabe that tries and pathetically fails.
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  3581. You must have some sort of death wish.
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  3582. If you love China so much then you should move there. And we wouldn't be having this conversation because youtube is banned in China. So ridiculous.
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  3583. Come to China and ridicule their government. Let's see what happens to you after the fact.
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  3584.  @oooTACooo  Don't forget expensive.
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  3585. "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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  3586. Hainan is already known as an over priced garbage tourist trap
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  3587.  @YoutubeWatcher264  Speaking in generalities instead of actually naming specifics is not an answer. Go home wumao.
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  3588. They never do. When China booms economically they leave, when China's economy busts, they leave. There's absolutely nothing good in that God forsaken country.
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  3589. That's going to be one hell of an explanation to CRA.
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  3590. At some point they are going to have to work because last I checked, people would still prefer to eat rather than laze around on a couch all day.
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  3591. So will China
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  3592. 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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  3593. 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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  3594. Criminal government excusing crimes. Not surprising.
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  3595. Any ideology that pretty much ends in "ism" is extremist as far as the lack of logic and concrete evidence is concerned.
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  3596. You clearly haven't learned from Covid. After their lies, you believe the numbers they churn out? That's all manipulation to get investors to fill their coffers. As soon as they are filled, the "rich" will leave with their ill gotten wealth to places like Vancouver. This model is tried and true for them.
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  3597. 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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  3598. She should try this in China and see what happens.
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  3599. Restricting supply is part of their scheme. It's so they can justify collecting more government revenue.
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  3600. Here we go again... "political effort to smear China" straight from the propaganda rulebook. Also, China will not provide debt relief when they can't even do it to their own people who got screwed over in their ridiculous housing crisis.
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  3601. The police in China aren't there to arrest criminals. They protect them and prevent social unrest.
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  3602. ​ @TheRealTopG01 cope with what? All the superficial nonsense that doesn't amount to anything other than cheap talk? Get real.
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  3603. Everyone who isn't pro-China is a lapdog of the US right? Countries of the world according to you are obviously incapable of thinking independently for themselves.
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  3604. That's rather arrogant considering China relies heavily on the US for economic stimulus. If they want to "go it alone" and reap the consequences of their actions then they should be prepared to completely sever economic ties. There's obviously a reason why they haven't completely.
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  3605. 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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  3606. That's what China wants. Then they can claim Taiwan attacked them.
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  3607. Yes, because China has really earned the trust of the world. As if lying about Covid wasn't enough. In your world, China could never do any wrong.
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  3608. 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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  3609. Everything to them is "undisputed" and "resolute". It's all bs propaganda as usual.
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  3610. It's all for show. Those countries can't do enough to keep China's economy afloat. Only the US and a Europe can do that and they have managed to piss them off. Not very smart.
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  3611. The lack of specifics in the guy's questioning is already a major red flag. Also, the fact that you laughed at how Canadians can't defend themselves does not only show how leftist woke we have gone with the laws, they're even touting it as something to be proud of because we're "not like the US" - you can't make this stuff up.
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  3612. They thrive in their fakery
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  3613. They have no more face to loose. You can only cry wolf so many times. Nobody believes them.
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  3614. How disconnected the previous generations are is truly disturbing.
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  3615. You need to see the amount of food Chinese in the urban areas waste. It will blow your mind. That's why Xi created the "clean your plate" initiative to cut down on food waste.
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  3616. Never buying a Chinese car ever. I will keep buying Toyota/Honda until I die.
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  3617. China will grow? Based on what? The multinational corporations leaving China? The fact that they shut themselves off from Covid and essentially shot themselves in the foot? Or is it the fact that they constantly lie about their GDP, grossly overstating their numbers? You act like as if China was born on the top. Like every other developing country, they started from nothing. Why should India be any different?
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  3618. There's no such thing as saving face. It's just a cop out as well as their stubborn inability to acknowledge simple truths. That's why they are the way they are. Deception and lying is normalized because their culture encourages it. Convenience is absolutely paramount to the exclusion of morals and truth.
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  3619. They only worship money. They don't care for religion.
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  3620. True. Some cities in China are already going bankrupt, which is already not a good sign. Their real estate market fiasco and reckless public works spending are unmatched.
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  3621. He's not even a low ranking official. He doesn't know anything.
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  3622. Watching the last two women made my blood boil. Seriously, what's wrong with them?
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  3623. Most likely connected to the CCP. They're usually these so called "rich Chinese kids"
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  3624. 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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  3625.  @serpentza  It's truly crazy that they scramble to build something so fast that it inevitably breaks because they can't follow basic building codes. So it's ultimately wasted effort. "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 Townsed (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  3626. I thought they have done away with this to an extent. A lot of Chinese left and never came back.
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  3627. Yes, they will come to a country wherein they can't speak the language, don't know social customs and impose their culture on a close minded Muslim population. Sounds about right. Btw, Chinese are avid consumers of pork. How's that going to sit in a Muslim country genius?
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  3628. Lol, yup
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  3629. I am honestly convinced that the bigwigs in Wall Street are getting a cut out of these companies supposedly "investing" in these enterprises in the form of bribes. The lack of transparency is truly baffling when it comes to China reporting its earnings. Why this has been allowed to continue is ridiculous.
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  3630. They mock Japan to make themselves feel better because they live miserable lives.
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  3631. And this is why we have microplastics in the ocean. All this fast fashion clothes have more and more plastic fibers in them.
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  3632. I find it really dumb that something that is overpriced to begin is now going to cost more to build. Why doesn't China just mandate these construction companies to work for free? They keep showing themselves to be a communist paradise to the whole world, they should make good on that image and make construction companies work for free lol.
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  3633. They are ahead in lying. That's what underlies all of the conversations about China.
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  3634. Yes, technology that is behind and produced at a loss.
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  3635.  @theviking2877 "But most significant of all, you have found that Chinese do not fight for ideas, though they often give the impression of fighting under them, banner-wise." - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal. " - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  3636.  @tracyw9959  If by bilateral relations you mean bending over to a dangerous, oppressive, regime that lies about everything. Then no, I don't want to further those relations. Also, we're not politicians here. Last I checked we were allowed to have opinions whether you agree or not.
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  3637.  @Aramsa-Khan  China has no right to comment on their territorial affairs when they constantly violate territorial rights of other countries as per international law.
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  3638.  @zaoan636  you have the US mixed up with China. China doesn't even honor written contracts so why would they ever honor anything else?
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  3639.  @zaoan636  Ever heard of Hong Kong or is your head too far in the sand?
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  3640.  @tracyw9959  And you have an "objective" view? Please don't make us laugh. Everything here is a matter of opinion including yours. The fact that you are here trying to persuade public opinion without so much as addressing the facts already destroys your credibility. But that's to be expected when you are a CCP troll.
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  3641. 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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  3642. 😂😂😂
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  3643. 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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  3644.  @DrHughMonguscoque  child labour is so passe - try prisoners. They're free labour.
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  3645. The only thing China surpasses Japan in is running their mouth - they're so unbelievably annoying
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  3646. Nothing they do is working. None of the stimulus packages is showing any economic promise.
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  3647. The problem with owning something is you have to maintain it. I don't really see China maintaining these roadways as it can cost a lot of money. So now these countries have to pay China to fix roads that China wanted built in the first place. Go figure.
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  3648. Things don't have to be out of sight. They don't even aknowledge what's in front of them.
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  3649.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  Largest exporter of cars? That's only because they aren't meeting their sales targets domestically and they have a surplus of cars so they're desperately finding markets of offload their inventory.
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  3650. So gross and uncivilized. This is what 5000 years of civilization has wrought? Pathetic!
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  3651. Where I am from Chinese have a bad reputation as well. If you rent to a Chinese, they have 5 other people living in your apartment. And what's worst is the person on the lease collects from the other people and make money of your place and destroy your place in the process leaving you with all the repairs. This is why I will never rent out to them. Indians also have a bad reputation. Best people to rent to are Japanese. They respect your property and keep your place clean.
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  3652. Gold scams sound very similar to pig butchering scam. The more you "invest" the more you have to loose.
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  3653. "The awkward feature of dealing with the Chinese in this and in other matters is that foreign nations by international courtesy treat with Chinese leaders as a sovereign government, while knowing that they lack the moral self-respect to make any of their agreements worth the paper they are written on. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  3654. No thanks 🤮
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  3655. No point in teaching kids extra curriculars. It's not like majority will find jobs after school anyway. Waste of time and money.
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  3656. Nobody ever bought into China's vaccines working. This isn't news. It's all about politics, especially for countries that can't afford Western vaccines.
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  3657. Philippines and Israel also have problems with Muslim militants. Another issue that they both have in common.
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  3658. Yup, Mexico is now the United State's largest trading partner. China needs to go.
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  3659. Neither does China. It's all flimsy and copied tech.
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  3660. "Flaunting wealth is frowned upon" - and yet in Chinese culture it's perfectly normal. It's even encouraged.
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  3661. "It is a lamentable but true observation that about the only people doing anything in China are those doing harm. This does not deny that there are Chinese in China who are sincere in deploring the present condition of the country. But they are talkers and not men of action. Proof of their uselessness as a class is found in the fact that there is not under way a single significant movement toward practical improvement. They talk chiefly to others of the same mind, where their talk is unneeded. The educated Chinese are prone to professional diagnosis, and occupy themselves with scholarly discourses calculated to show people equally scholarly and already in agreement with them that improvement would be a good thing. Convincing one another of what none would dispute is the principal avocation of the group called patriotic." - "Ways that are dark: The truth about China" By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  3662. Hopefully with what's happening now they'll have time to reflect and and realize that it is still an authoritarian backward country. They need to see it on the same level as North Korea at this point. And nobody goes to North Korea to study.
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  3663. You're bound for dissapointment. Still want to risk it? Go ahead.
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  3664. After being separated? Was Taiwan on vacation this whole time from China?
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  3665.  @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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  3666.  @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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  3667. They bear the mark of the beast and they love to lie. Description checks out
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  3668. "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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  3669. Not the first time this has happened in China and it won't be the last....
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  3670. blah blah blah blah. It's all debt. China needs to find their people work and create for the sake of creating just like their ghost cities and bridges to nowhere. Self proclaimed "experts" creating shoddy project that won't last 100 years are a complete and utter joke.
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  3671. India can literally go their own way. Out of the BRICS they show the most promise that's why we don't understand why India is in it to begin with.
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  3672. Chinese government should apologize for all the bullshit they cause the world.
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  3673. How can they prioritize China when China itself is contributing to chaos in the world?
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  3674.  @peterphan3524  Hero? What's your definition of a "hero"?
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  3675. Because China doesn't operate on common sense.
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  3676. It's called fair competition. Even WTO has rules against state owned firms doing business in other countries which China openly flouts on the world stage.
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  3677. Yup, they clearly never learn.
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  3678. Pick Up Artist
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  3679. 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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  3680. What the hell is wrong with going to the carnival or going for a walk? What the hell does she want? A trip to Europe for the weekend?
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  3681. What is this "excellent Chinese culture" that they are talking about? More wishful thinking and bs from the CCP as usual.
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  3682. And you believe what their lying government says? 🤣
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  3683. All the morons involved with the lab even those in the US all got together to cover this up because they know that if something goes amiss they will all be blamed.
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  3684. Too bad she pissed off the local authorities.
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  3685. Taking yourself out of the job market is just pure cope. At some point you have to face reality.
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  3686. Youtube needs to be held accountable. This has to be brought to Trump's attention. This is unacceptable. The only time youtube will take action is if there is a mass boycott. They only care about money.
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  3687. 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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  3688. Good luck. Hope everyone has life insurance.
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  3689. 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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  3690. Canadians who voted for him are morons. It took them this long to figure this out. Wow!
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  3691. Lol. Funny. For that to happen there has to be trust. And one country out of the three has shown time and time again that they can't be trusted.
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  3692. Everything in China is fake. This is just more commentary that reinforces that fact.
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  3693.  @TheAircool1  Why do you think automation is happening? Pretty soon robots will be stocking shelves as well. And hey, you still need to buy groceries unless you plan to grow your own vegetables. If you want to wean yourself off this so called "system" then the best alternative would be to start an intentional community. Everyone can work for free. Good luck making that happen though because last I checked nobody every works out of the goodness of their hearts. Some of the comments on this thread are a testament to that.
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  3694.  @TheAircool1  One word: immigrants.
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  3695.  @Thompson200Z  They irony in what you just said is funny.
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  3696.  @MustyBastard  At the end of the day, you just have people who make bad decisions who are unable to cope. This extends to people of all backgrounds as well. I used to work at a place that does payday loans. We get all sorts of people: drug addicts, nurses, lawyers, students, you name it. One thing they all had in common were the series of decisions that led them to their financial circumstances. At some point people need to start taking responsibility for themselves and ask critical questions rather then blaming others for their lack.
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  3697. As an Asian immigrant I agree with everything you said especially with what you said about America being inclusive. If they find America racist then they should go back to their country of origin instead of constantly crying about inequality.
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  3698. 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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  3699. It's very easy to fake sales on paper to keep getting government subsidies for SOE's in China. A lot of these cars get plate numbers get dumped in a junk yard and the world is misled.
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  3700. Everytime there's "news" about China they're always "slamming" something or "denouncing" something when they're constantly aggravating situations. Nobody believes their lies and ghe drama they put out.
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  3701. China is Mongolian territory
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  3702. It's all a political stunt, propaganda as usual to tell their people and the whole world that they are doing "something" to advance science and research.
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  3703. Most liars are.
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  3704. Come election day, Canadians will. Seriously fed up with this dope! Never voted for this guy.
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  3705.  @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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  3706.  @jaydee6268  I have always wanted to visit Taiwan. Heard nothing but nice things about the country.
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  3707. There are a lot of stupid people in the world
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  3708.  @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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  3709. How so?
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  3710. ​ @mikeshoults4155 Chinese are among the most resistant to the truth. And it never helped them. It never did in the past and it never will in the present.
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  3711. What is today's truth? Define it
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  3712. I've gotten those scam Chinese callers multiple times. Lucky for me I don't understand the language, so it's hang up and block for me. Also, "pseudoscience" and "according to Wikipedia" don't go well together. Can they think of a better way to discredit themselves?
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  3713. "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" by Ralph Townsend. Chinese love to talk and yet not once have they ever successfully relayed the truth. The world really ought to know better by now.
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  3714. Why does China love to talk about revitalization when there's nothing to revitalize? What are they even talking about?
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  3715. ​​ @davidcampbell3642 China is where it is because of the West. They can just move on to other countries which is already happening. China is annoying and ultimately replaceable.
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  3716. A lot of them are leaving. Chinese are literally all over the world.
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  3717. Hard to become a billionaire when power outages lasts for hours on end.
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  3718.  @ManuManu-ih7yx  You can blame China's inferior education for that. It's garbage nationalism coupled with victimhood, especially with regard to what happened in the past to justify wrongdoing and just being a bad actor in general.
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  3719.  @MK_ULTRA420  How China makes pickled vegetables and Kimchi are different. So there's no argument here other than the fact that they want to exasperate everyone to the highest degree.
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  3720.  @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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  3721.  @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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  3722. China is dystopian. What more proof do you need?
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  3723. China doesn't understand a lot of things. They don't understand other cultures. They don't understand how things work in other countries and they certainly don't understand themselves. And they're arrogant enough to think they're the best, which is a sad irony. That's why they're such a mess of a country. No introspection. No self awareness. They will never change. "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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  3724. Yeah, just lie about it. Who would have thought?
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  3725. Are you still surprised by the lack of common sense behind CCP government policies?
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  3726. Lol, exactly
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  3727. Everything China says is very anti-US and anti-Western. Can you say double standard?
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  3728.  @alec6521  Not much has changed in China. The author even talked about how they are extremely resistant to change, even when they are introduced to a superior way of doing things, they hunker down on their inefficient backward ways. Just look at basic hygiene? Contagion has and always will be part of China because people don't buy into the concept of viruses and bacteria like we do in the developed world. Here's another doozy for you: "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" by Ralph Townsend "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" by Ralph Townsend"
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  3729. Did it ever occur to you that the Western world does not know enough about China because the CCP wants it that way? You're talking about a country that constantly stokes xenophobia and nationalism while simultaneously putting a "friendly" front towards the international community because they want investment from foreigners. What interest would they gain by showing China's "real face"? Absolutely nothing. So they have to keep up the fake façade in order for them to manipulate others and get what they want. Problem is the veil has already been pulled and their true face is now shown for the whole world to see. And nobody including the Chinese themselves like what's on full display. That's why they spend so much time and resources on propaganda and damage control. It's just all lies and deception.
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  3730. We're already passed that now. China already screwed the world. I say bring it on.
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  3731. Been saying this for years. There are other countries worth welcoming. Philippines just needs to get its act together.
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  3732. ​ @willaimoconnell9430  China's fishermen also flee to international waters when they know they're in trouble.
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  3733. Same can be said about China. And they strong arm other countries to think like them.
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  3734. Some morons never learn...
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  3735. This is true for any new job. I work at the post office and you would be surprised at the new supervisors we constantly hire. They don't take notes and they give off the impression that they don't care much about their job.
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  3736.  @infinitybless7132  It's called being efficient and getting things done right the first time.
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  3737. Chinese copied everything from the Soviets so no surprises here.
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  3738. What the heck are you talking about? Also, did China honor its treaty when it came to Hong Kong? Why don't you apply that same standard to all parties involved?
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  3739. And yet a lit of morons are still opting to do business there. They seem to forget that hundreds of millions of people exist in Southeast Asia that aren't nearly as childish but they are so bought into China's lies.
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  3740. China takes the cake when it comes to causing undue levels of exasperation. You can already tell that they can't fix their problems. Everything they do is under the behest of powerlessness, which is why they have to resort to manipulation and distraction tactics. They cause their own problems that they themselves now can't fix. So much for thousands of years of wisdom, my foot. "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) "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" By Ralph Townsend
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  3741. 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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  3742. Chinese lie, cheat, and steal. Hardly counts as intelligence.
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  3743. Go home Wumao
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  3744. The whole Chinese government commits crimes LOL. It just depends which faction you are a part of, just like mafia wars.
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  3745. More empty grandstanding by the CCP. Next thing they will say is they champion and progress women's right. This is a comedy skit.
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  3746. This is what I keep telling people as well. They keep blaming the CCP when it's always been just in Chinese society.
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  3747. Next, they will market the importance of starting a family and having kids. It's all about CCP's interest.
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  3748. ​ @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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  3749.  @MacA60230  everything the leadership is doing is all about saving face that's why it looks insane to us.
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  3750.  @danielslade-ph5oq  You'd be surprised how amazingly cheap Chinese people are. They use free water wherever they can take it. This isn't hard to believe.
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  3751. And currently in China, people work 996...
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  3752.  @HafizShivji786  You can add Philippines to that growing list as well. US has a base in the northern most part of the Philippines facing Taiwan. So it's going to be harder for China to encircle Taiwan.
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  3753. Like pay per view? Lol
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  3754. 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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  3755. So much for China being an actor for "peace and cooperation" that they frequently tout themselves to be in state media. What complete and utter bs. And China proves yet again that words and action do not match and that they can't be trusted.
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  3756. They're full of crap. Never believe what the CCP says only pay attention to what they do. They love to lie even though they aren't very good at it.
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  3757.  @chuckcrunch1  The CCP was fighting to be in power not for actual positive social change. It's a typical smokescreen that people use to manipulate others and garner respect.
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  3758. Keep drinking that copium. Ignorance is bliss.
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  3759. Most of these fake influencers have the same OS when it comes to maximizing profits through lies and deception.
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  3760. 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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  3761. 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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  3762. "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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  3763. I initially thought the Chinese government was getting desperate to try to co-opt you and Winston to shill for them based on your video title. Turns out they're just sloppy as usual.
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  3764.  @Andy-P  It's more wishful thinking and a greed based assessment. They're the ones selling the idea because they want everyone to flock to invest so that they make money.
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  3765. "Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  3766.  @lihai191  my investments are primarily US. So no, my exposure to China is minimal. One of my funds is "emerging markets" and China is only 33% of that.
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  3767.  @mobilegamingyz5615  Hopefully it's the developed world's definition of "democracy" and not some dysfunctional definition that China typically makes up.
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  3768. Some people still don't understand products "made in China" don't function long term. This says a lot of about them than China and that they refuse to learn.
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  3769. Here we go again. Blah blah blah blah blah. Where is your map? Philippines has a map from the 1500s. Up to now China still has not shown any map. All your "historical" claims are made up as you go. In fact the your so called "9 dash line" only goes back to 1947 under the KMT. Nobody in Asia agrees with you neither does the whole world Wumao.
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  3770.  @satriojumeneng7055  Speak for yourself. I am Asian and sure as hell don't want Chinese hegemony. They aren't well intentioned and they constantly lie to us. If you want to be dictated to by the CCP because of your so called "Asian pride" then go live in China. We don't want to be China's political pawn.
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  3771.  @liunancy1381  What do you think will happen to China if it sends missiles? Keep your bravado in check. Nobody likes your country right now.
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  3772. That's all smoke and mirrors. They only care about being in power
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  3773. 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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  3774. So true. And what an absolute burn on Chinese EV's 🤣
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  3775. Easy to indoctrinate Masters and PhD students because they show little to no independent thought.
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  3776. They won't take over Taiwan anytime soon. They can't afford to be sanctioned
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  3777. WHO is a failed institution. They need to be disbanded and replaced. Absolutely useless!!
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  3778. 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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  3779. They will never proper the same way as in decades past. They pissed of way too many people.
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  3780. "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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  3781. They don't care. Most aren't open to experiencing different cultures anyway. They always fall back to what's comfortable. Most of them are closed minded.
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  3782. Why don't you ask China that question?
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  3783.  @frankwong1539  Keep barking. You wouldn't know a decent argument if it bit you in the ass. If you hate the West and everything it stands for then stay in China! Also like any professional propagandist you failed to show proof.
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  3784.  @frankwong1539  blah blah blah where's your proof? Saying "China-hater" isn't going to cut it anymore and is just plain lazy and uninspired. The world can already see through the CCP's manipulation and lies.
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  3785. "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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  3786. ​ @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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  3787. Typical wasteful decision from China to destroy that bridge. What else is new?
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  3788. You mean North Korea? They've had this law for decades. The men and women can only have certain haircuts, no jeans, and state approved style of dress. China is headed in the direction of North Korea.
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  3789. ​ @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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  3790.  @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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  3791. There is no wisdom in anything he said. You need to re-examine the definition of "wisdom"
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  3792. Didn't realize that covid afftected animals without lungs...
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  3793. Money is just a tool. Large sums of money bring out what's already innate in a person because not all rich people are assholes. There are rich people who are socially aware and philanthropic.
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  3794. Food safety, air quality is bad, and water is all tainted. NOBODY should be going to China.
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  3795.  @CarinoGamingStudio  Don't get what you just said. But ok.
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  3796.  @HRPuffinstuf-i3f  Nazis prosecuted Jews and Zelensky is a Jew. You seriously need to learn history. Your ignorance is embarassing.
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  3797. Yes, it's so unbiased that when the reporter went ot China to test their autonomous taxis, there weren't any other cars on the road? This was all clearly set up. 🤣
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  3798. Because it's all propaganda. Look at what China does not at what they say.
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  3799.  @SidAlienTV  Satan is deprived of free will just like the people participating in this depravity are.
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  3800.  @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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  3801. It's reeks of manipulation and lacks substance anyway. Nobody believes China. Also, let's not forget the fact that they "rejoiced" when PM Abe was assasinated. They're clearly sick and devoid of morals.
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  3802.  @judieg.7945  Read up on China under the KMT and even before that. They were no different.
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  3803. Let's hope they're not as dumb as Russia because if the world sanctions China, they will really feel it even moreso than Russia.
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  3804. Lol, "good union jobs" ok....
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  3805. "Fiat of today is not Fiat of 20 years ago" - Yes, they've gotten worst.
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  3806. That doesn't always work. I've seen companies go on strike for several months. You are replaceable.
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  3807. China SHOULD have collapsed under liberal market principles. But they aren't a typical liberal economy. It is purely state run. Just because you can't see the real numbers, doesn't mean they're doing all that great economically.
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  3808.  @kenbehrens5778  Philippines and China are signatories to UNCLOS - This obviously doesn't matter to China because they don't follow international law anyway.
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  3809. The woman with the glasses is delusional. She's not even pretty. She has no right to make those demands.
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  3810.  @SigFigNewton  Nobody can provide alternative data from China especially after they kicked out foreign media. This is not news.
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  3811. They already have a low status in the global stage and their credibility is shot.
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  3812. You would know a thing or two about debt fueled economy considering debt is what's keeping China's economy propped up at the moment. More bridges to nowhere and tofu buildings are all you know how to do because you need to keep the workforce going even if those projects produce no real value.
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  3813. I've heard millennials utter the same words. When housing becomes an issue, you literally can't make any plans.
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  3814. Most people in cities don't really care for foreigners. Were you in the more rural areas?
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  3815. You're talking about a country that constantly lies about their numbers. Anyone with half a brain isn't going to believe a liar.
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  3816. Because we don't want a hardlined Communist country dictating to the whole world what we can and can't do, especially by controlling that area.
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  3817. Whoopi Goldberg as usual displays her stupidity for the world to see.
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  3818. ​ @nicholasrockall7308 True.
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  3819.  @TomTomicMic  That too.
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  3820. ​​​​​ @kshred3043  they are managed by Western managers not by the Chinese. Chinese only assemble the parts and those parts come from the developed world. Your argument doesn't make any sense. Why risk a bad reputation of faulty product when you can already make good products to begin with? The reality IS that they cannot compete with the developed world because SOE's don't allocate funding properly and don't have any money to spend on R&D because they don't have the profit margins from selling things that are sub par. Also, let's add the fact that corruption is rampant among the ranks. Chinese can't make anything work because politics always takes precedent even in business.
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  3821. What you are looking at is typical Chinese exasperation. They have always been like this. Read up on China under the KMT. Being annoying is their forte
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  3822. China loves to talk about other countries messing with their "internal affairs" when they are the most staunch when it comes to doing the exact thing. Such hypocrites.
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  3823. If you want to film in China, you have to do it in secret with a hidden camera since they are so ridiculous about lying about their status. How can they reconcile being "developed" and also claim "developing country" status? Nothing about what they do makes sense. China is a walking, talking oxymoron that lies about everything. They're not even good at lying.
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  3824. They're used to this. Just look at theur failed infastructure projects.
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  3825. Sellout university that caters to transnational criminals.
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  3826.  @0Zebadee0  It's also to prop up their fake GDP numbers. Everything else is just for show.
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  3827.  @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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  3828. 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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  3829. So their failed attempt at Vietnam and South Korea doesn't count? Why don't you learn history, unless you're getting the CCP's version of history.
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  3830. this so called "coalition" will rival the west despite their differences and their countries rife with corruption. It's laughable when they can't even get their ducks in a row. Also, the only country that stands to benefit from this is China. China will build all their infrastructure. China will sell them all their shit and China will give them all their loans. What do the rest of the BRICS countries get? A big fat zero or at the very least miniscule access to the Chinese market, which is now struggling with their faltering economy.
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  3831. China's modus operandi is to gaslight and lie. This should be common knowledge by now.
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  3832. Whatever helps their delusional selves sleep at night...
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  3833. Their army is corrupt as hell and their army probably only rehearses best case scenarios in order to stoke nationalism and because their little emperor troops can't take the pressure of a losing scenario during drills.
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  3834. They have always been insane
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  3835. Some clown in ancient China who "discovered" this garbage is probably laughing in his grave because he's the only one in on the joke. Thousands of years later the descendants of those morons still don't know better lol.
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  3836. Birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. But they are not dinosaurs
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  3837. "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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  3838. 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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  3839. ​ @DK-ev9dg stop with the unfounded lies. It's pathetic.
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  3840. 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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  3841.  @JohnMcCarthy100  There is a "democracy" and it is Israel - It's where Jews and Arabs coexist peacefully. The same can't be said about Gaza or other areas dominated by Palestinians. There's nothing "democratic" about Hamas and what they stand for. And for you to think otherwise is just pure naivete. History has shown that the Jews have always historically lived in the area since 3000 years ago. There are archeological sites as well as ancient artifacts that support this. Who are the Palestinians? if not imigrants from other parts of the middle east - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, etc. Imagine if a bunch of immigrants got together and started carving out parts of the US because they have historically lived there for 200 years? Is this seriously the logic we are going for despite the evidence?
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  3842.  @nuynobi  It's called an "interpretation" of what she said. She doesn't have to be obvious about it. Learn to read between the lines. This can't be interpreted any other way considering how ridiculous Arabs have been acting towards the Jews, especially when the Jews have nothing to do with what their government decides. Can't even separate government from the people.
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  3843.  @nuynobi  Zionist ideology? Where is this Zionist ideology? Zionist Ideology insofar that Muslim Ideology is not adapted by the majority - is that what you mean? And no, if they want a Muslim ideology run country, they can move to Jordan, Qatar, Yemen, or even Iran. Why take what little land the Jews have to establish this so called "democracy"? - even though we all know it won't be a democracy, it's probably going to be a state under authoritarian Sharia law. What do you define as a "democracy" with Jewish and Palestinian characteristics? Hmm let me think? It's not a system under Hamas wherein all Jews had to leave out of fear for their lives. Let me guess? Oh wait, it's Israel, once again where Jews and Arabs can live with equal rights and peace. This isn't about ideology, it's about kicking the Jews out and replacing everything with Arab Muslim backwards laws that favor a select few all in the name of "ideology". Give us a break. Muslims all over the world fight for this so called "ideology". They fight Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus and other religions for it. This so called Muslim "ideology" is the damn problem.
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  3844. 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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  3845.  @steverolf5279  They're never quiet. They are outraged 24/7 and constantly blame everyone for their problems because they are powerless to fix their own selves.
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  3846. "Face" is a cop out. It allows them to get away with lying, cheating, stealing, and manipulating. If they believed in face so much why do they do the things they do overseas that appall everyone?
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  3847. "Face" is just another lie the Chinese made up.
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  3848.  @dantheman3022  Japan and South Korea to name a few, what about Taiwan?
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  3849. They want to bring back their old tribute system from long ago. They figured if they controlled the oceans they can dictate to others what can and can't pass. They will probably even charge countries just to use the sea lanes. They're twisted enough to think like that.
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  3850.  @NR.gamer241  Grass is painted and is watered with contaminated water laced with heavy metals.
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  3851.  @joemcdermott1213  International law only exists as far as countries agree to them. And most do because they want to be seen as responsible global members. China unfortunately says it does on paper but doesn't in reality which will only make other countries weary when it comes to dealing with them.
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  3852.  @bah2singtatato116  Lol. Are you trying to be funny?
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  3853. Then why don't you leave?
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  3854. You are aware that China constantly lies about their GDP right? Even Chinese people themselves don't believe their country is actually hitting those numbers.
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  3855.  @righteousbyfaithinChrist  It's just the Chinese being Chinese. Why is this so surprising?
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  3856.  @bharattv9768  Except China does this all over the world. Are you going to put them on the same standard?
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  3857.  @patgus6528  "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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  3858. How is studying abroad going to help? Wtf?
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  3859. 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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  3860. I don't have tiktok and I will never download that garbage
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  3861. I will never understand why women love to negatively focus on past relationships when they clearly didn't work out. Why don't they just learn, pull a 180 and move on?
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  3862.  @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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  3863. China is superficial, just as long as you don't zoom in too close. Otherwise, the truth will come out and basically punch you in the face.
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  3864. China bots love lies and deception and hate the truth.
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  3865. China doesn't play any long game. China only reacts to what is happening to it. Did they think of the long game when they created the one child policy that's now screwing them over? Did they think of the long game when they created the failed policies of housing that is now destroyed the trust of the people and collapsed the housing market? Did they think of the long game when they decided to act belligerently towards the US and it's own neighbors and they're now beggin to be let back in after Covid, which they caused? China doesn't play the long game. China shoots itself in the foot then claims that it was all intentional. Such complete and utter bs.
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  3866. I live in BC. Going into the men's washroom in a public park in Vancouver that has a receptacle for used syringes is very unsettling and dystopian. Definitely don't want to raise kids here. It's absolutely insane!
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  3867. 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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  3868. Local government does not care because they collect property tax all the same. This government is one of the most complacent, corrupt governments in history. They allow transnational criminals from all over the world to buy property without so much as batting and eyelid. Just steal millions and claim refugee status because "your life is under threat". The Canadian government will take your story at face value and let you in. Vancouver is already known as a hot bed for CCP officials. What does that tell you?
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  3869.  @joeg5642  You're horribly uniformed and obviously consume copious amounts of Hamas propaganda.
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  3870. Come to Vancouver. There are a lot of wealthy Chinese here. A lot of them are connected government officials and have managed to get their ill gotten wealth out of China. Wealthy Taiwanese and Hong Kongers usually have a business in those respective countries with dad working overseas.
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  3871. 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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  3872. Some Chinese people I have met have hoity toity sounding English names like Fitzgerald, Emerson, Richmond. It's just so odd. Girls aren't nearly as bad. Except your odd "Queenie's"
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  3873. 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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  3874.  @kaibri9287  Just replied out of impulse. I normally check but not today.
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  3875.  @mikeandrews6543  Because they're trying to be "neutral" and that includes not saying anything untoward against Russia.
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  3876. ​ @Joshmo1234 the way they cope is pure insanity.
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  3877. What part of Canada are you from?
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  3878.  @leexingha  Thank you for proving my point. Attack someone's character instead of the facts. So straight out of the CCP's handbook.
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  3879.  @leexingha  You just did by responding to me genius. Also the whole wolf warrior thing of insulting people was so last year. It's a failed pathetic attempt at swaying public opinion. Didn't you get the memo from your emperor to soften your approach? Tell your government nobody is buying their narrative.
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  3880. Everything in the world is double standards. Yhat's politics for you.
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  3881. Your respect is sorely misplaced.
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  3882. Problem is they don't know any other way to do things
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  3883. I'm Filipino and the footage shown here looks like the provincial rural areas. It's really rough out there. There are "bad" parts in the city centers as well. But you can at least choose where to live versus in a makeshift hut in the middle of nowhere. Also, not all provincial areas are like this. Some areas are more developed than others.
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  3884. They're envious in general period.
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  3885. Yeah, and we all know how that turned out. This time, you have US, Japan, South Korea etc who are going to be involved if China tries something.
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  3886. How exactly will they be number 1? "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal." "Way's that are dark" hy Ralph Townsend (on 1930's China) They lie about everything, including their GDP.
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  3887. This is why Putin is pushing this disinformation campaign. He's trying to justify his invasion of Ukraine by way of "de-nazification" when he knows full well that the leader of Ukraine of Jewish descent. To say that Hitler is a Jew is an insult to all the Jews who perished during the holocaust and they were single handedly targeted. This is so sad and desperate on Putin's part because he knows he doesn't have the moral high ground here.
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  3888. Nope. The G7 is the largest markets in the world. Everything skews in the favour of the developed world.
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  3889.  @LOLLOL-kg4dz  I don't get this whole "CIA" nonsense. It doesn't take a CIA to know that China lies about a lot of things. On the contrary China bots are working nonstop to try and convince the world otherwise and everyone can see this. Stop with this mass delusion. It's a waste of time and nothing gets fixed.
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  3890.  @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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  3891. ​​ @stuartneary3067 if you have to say that, it obviously isn't. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are better.
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  3892. "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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  3893. 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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  3894. They live to lie because they need that "investment" money to keep up their lies.
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  3895. Define what a Palestinian is?
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  3896.  @tonysu8860  The inability of the Chinese to integrate just reinforced what @LEV1ATHYN said. Even when a lot of them go to other countries they generally keep to them selves and rarely integrate into society. The ones who do are either extremely open minded or already born in those societies but not fresh from China.
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  3897. People's Republic of China isn't 5000 years old. Chinese civilization and country are different ages. You need to learn the difference.
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  3898. Looks don't matter. It's all about quality
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  3899.  @ExaltedDuck  Read up on China under the KMT and when they were run by Emperors, they were no different.
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  3900. No two markets are alike. I live in Canada. People here aren't necessarily open to trying new things either. If that were true you wouldn't see businesses shutting down often.
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  3901.  @spennysatdennys8143  The quality of service in the food industry has been on a steady decline in North America. No surprises here.
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  3902. They dropped the tarrifs because they are short of food lol. Now the idiots have to eat their pride.
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  3903. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  3904. No it's not. It's working because US Aircraft carriers are there.
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  3905. 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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  3906. Exactly. Billionaires buy quality because they can. Temu is for people who don't care for quality
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  3907. 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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  3908. More like 850 million.
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  3909. America has those too. You jyst need a lot of money for it, same as in Canada.
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  3910. 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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  3911. The story of the woman chasing the highs of a relationship knowing that she will have a bad break up again reminds me of an addict. She can't dissociate from it because her life is lonely and without purpose.
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  3912. 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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  3913.  @JJ-he7yy  actually, China produces "low tech" chips. It will take them several years before they can catch up to the likes of Samsung, Nvidia and Intel. They don't spend on R&D. How can they when they sell goods at such a low price point that there is little to no profit margin to help fund research?
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  3914. I know right?
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  3915. 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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  3916. You're talking from a common sense perspective. Others will just politicize this event because they don't have brain cells.
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  3917. If he's concerned that Winston is making him look bad as a foreigner then he really should re-examine the fact that MAYBE he might just be in an intolerant, close minded society. And yet he's there...this is not a very intelligent person. Also, Winston married a Chinese girl, so that pretty much flies against those stupid racist allegations.
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  3918. 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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  3919.  @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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  3920. The fact that they are saying that Uighurs are somehow "affected" by Western media is a lie in and of itself because they have no access to the internet. How can they see what Western media thinks of them? This bs from the CCP is amazing.
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  3921. Anytime the Chinese say "they won't politicize" anything, they inevitably do. They're not very good at lying.
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  3922. You seriously need to read history if that's what you think. Even now, they may be located in the same area of the world, but no two countries share the same values. You have 2 out of the 3 countries that are capitalist, and 1 communist.
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  3923.  @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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  3924. 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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  3925. China has millions of people unemployed and yet they are complaining about demographic collapse? Why not give those people jobs first?
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  3926. I would have given her a piece of my mind and just left. All this stuff about yelling and calling her a gold digger in front of everyone is unnecessary theatrics.
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  3927. A new rap from the cringe capital of the world
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  3928.  @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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  3929.  @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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  3930.  @Someone-kg8qf  In the case of the Chinese, money yells, wealth is deafening.
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  3931.  @clintpot8521  It's also their culture to show off.
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  3932. You'd be surprised. A lot of people are still stupid.
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  3933. Watch China start blaming the customers when their cars start getting a bad reputation.
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  3934.  @donkeykong516  China doesn't manufacture that stuff. Multinationals use Chinese labor. And soon to be labor from other countries. Stop touting China as something special when other countries can do the same thing. You're not special.
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  3935.  @donkeykong516  people obviously do. Why would the owner of Louis Vuitton be one of if not the wealthiest person in existence if that weren't the case?
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  3936.  @BrandyHeng007  because cheap labor and access to Chinese market. That's it.
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  3937. China has no sovereignty over 200 nautical miles of Philippines waters.
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  3938.  @theancientsancients1769  China has no advanced ones. Otherwise, being the braggarts that they are, they would have shown it already.
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  3939.  @victorye7150  If that's true then why are things increasingly being made elsewhere? Their control is waning. Also, you got things upside down. Parts are shipped to China for them to put together IE computer chips. Without those chips their labor isn't worth squat. Even if they produced things domestically, do you know how many local Chinese people actually buy them? Most opt for Western, Japanese or Koreans brands because of their superior quality.
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  3940.  @victorye7150  I could care less what you think of my IQ level. And way to "respond" to what I had just said in the prior post. That was pure sarcasm in case you missed that one. China opened itself to western investment so that they can manufacture products for multinational companies. Their so called "innovation" is largely a rip off of technologies that already existed in one way shape or form. And they DO sell/make substandard products ie baby formula and their vaccines that no one wants to take to name a few. There, I said it. I know, shocker right? Just look at Amazon's recent crackdown on some 50,000 Chinese companies that lied and falsified reviews so they can get market share. Amazon's customers complained because products don't perform to said specifications. Calling someone stupid or low IQ doesn't change the fact that China makes garbage unless under the supervision of Western companies. Ask the rest of the world so you can get a more objective opinion instead of buying into CCP propaganda bs.
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  3941. Decouple and increase military cooperation amongst ASEAN and Japan and South Korea. All China can do is exasperate everyone. They always provoke but they themselves won't start a hot war. "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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
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  3942.  @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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  3943. It's the opposite. They talk more and work less and the "work" they do adds little to no value to their overall economy. Just look at their real estate industry. It's overpriced despite having more than enough housing to house their whole population and yet so many people are still homeless or loosing their homes because they're defaulting on their loans. It's all bs and the world can already see through the lies.
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  3944. Don't they get write offs as well? Offcourse it's going to take away from taxes they will pay.
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  3945. No, they do a good job of doing that themselves.
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  3946.  @MrTobytherat  If the Chinese felt threatened then why the hell did they come to America in the first place if they were going to be met with racism? Most Chinese came here to pursue wealth and they did not integrate well into society due to language and cultural barriers. There are Chinatowns all over the world to prove this. That's how "amazing" China was at the turn of the century. The only thing people remembered was oppression and abject poverty. Stop with this ridiculous anti-America campaign. A lot of people don't buy it. Your CCP overlords who have stolen your citizen's money are in America and sending their kids to American Universities. You're such a clown.
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  3947.  @Sharonmplus  So ironic that they try to project strength while simultaneously blaming others for their problems. They're obviously not as strong and independent as they think they are.
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  3948.  @弈翔陈  "But most significant of all, you have found that Chinese do not fight for ideas, though they often give the impression of fighting under them, banner-wise" - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) Just look at your tumultuous history. Even your recent cultural revolutions called for the death of innocent Chinese. Care to wager if Hong Kongers feel the same?
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  3949. That's why Trump put tariffs on China so that they would move back to the US.
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  3950. Most people who celebrate Chinese new year ARE Chinese. Foreigners have heard about it and we don't care all that much. Certainly not enough to smash things pertaining to their holiday.
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  3951. Deepseek is GPT 4. Not something to be proud of.
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  3952.  @miguelangelsamlee528  Real estate companies in China aren't able to hit their sales numbers. What would you call that then?
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  3953. So sick and tired of China constantly bringing up the US. Seriously, they need to overhaul their propaganda department. They need to come up with better ideas.
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  3954. They will learn soon enough...
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  3955. So many people are paid all over the world. Btw, that woman is horribly uninformed. China is itching to grab Japanese territory.
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  3956. It's all an act. What do you expect from a country that doesn't value anything other than lies and deception.
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  3957.  @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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  3958. 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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  3959. Tell her what's going on? He represents the CCP. Unless other news outlets from around the world can verify, I wouldn't take the word of the Chinese government seriously. They lied about Covid afterall. Not a very good track record.
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  3960. 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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  3961. Complaining and expressing outrage has become a favorite past time of China's. They can't get their ducks in a row. They need to stop telling others what to do because they already look ridiculous in the world stage. They're such a joke.
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  3962. 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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  3963.  @Cedawood  Exactly, it's all bs and just goes to show you that they can't think on their own.
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  3964. 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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  3965. Saving face, lying, Ketchup, Catsup same difference.
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  3966. "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
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  3967. This is why lots of men are going to places like Asia to look for wives. A lot of women in the developed world are such ungrateful negative bitches with issues.
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  3968. "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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  3969.  @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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  3970. Define "okay"?
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  3971. A lot of these shills are really shitty actors. The CCP are clearly being ripped off. But then again they rip others off for a living. Also, what kind of title is "senior fellow"? That's like saying "old man" as your title.
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  3972. It's actually not. China is a country in a lot of watch lists all over the world.
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  3973. You're talking about Chinese state media. Their job is to disinform and prop up nationalism to the Chinese public without any regard for the truth.
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  3974. 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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  3975. If the price of the phone plummets that much than it wasn't worth all that much to begin with.
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  3976. China calling G7 arrogant when they themselves make so many arrogant comments is clownish
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  3977. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  3978. This is what centralized economic planning ala "communist style with Chinese chsracteristics" look like. It's not based on real demand and unregulated credit practices. It's all fake. You can only prop up false numbers for so long. Inevitably, the truth will always rear its ugly head.
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  3979. You mean the constant sabre rattling and bickering? Yes, anyone can play the game of all talk and no action. It literally takes little to no effort. It's where China excels above everyone else.
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  3980. 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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  3981. Now, those entry level jobs can't find anybody to fill them. All these employers are now getting desperate and are now willing to train and give people a pay raise. Oh how the tables have turned...
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  3982. Just give Taiwan nukes on top of those other arsenals.
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  3983. 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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  3984. "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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  3985. Just like saying "Chinese fire drill" or "Chinese whispers". It truly highlights their incompetence and how chaotic they are
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  3986. These self professed "experts" from China should be banned from working abroad. Too much of a liability issue...
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  3987. Of course, they will reject it. It's a country that normalizes lies and deception. What else is new?
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  3988.  @chinesesparrows  Poor quality standards which are typical of anything built by China.
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  3989.  @cryptohornbill9658  Ask them what? Saudis do business with everyone not just China. Stop tooting your own horn. Its so childish and pathetic.
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  3990.  @Leshic2  they lie about their sales numbers. Any "numbers" coming from China are fabricated. Just like their so called GDP.
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  3991.  @nerfherder4284  Yup, just mass produce the garbage they make and if it doesn't sell in their country, find other countries to sucker and buy their crap.
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  3992. You took the words right out of my mouth
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  3993. Not all rich people care for clothing in the same way others do. And having well tailored clothing doesn't really say a whole lot about you as a person whether you have high status or not. My parents have a couple of rich friends, one is from a billionaire family. She doesn't wear the most well tailored clothes. Old moneyed people aren't a monolith. In fact a lot of them opt for a low key look because being kidnapped is something they don't want to happen to them - the more inconspicuous you look the better.
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  3994. They're outright liars
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  3995. "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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  3996. Laws in China are all for show and applied sparingly by the CCP. It's actually a lawless country.
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  3997. No shit. You're all bought by China.
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  3998.  @basian7365  What people "know" about China is propaganda. Even their "face culture" is propaganda - it's just another way for them to justify bad actions and shirk any responsibilities. "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 1930's China)
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  3999. Yup nothing is ever their fault. Talk about being severely powerless to fix your problems that you decide to blame everything on an outside power.
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  4000. 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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  4001. 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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  4002. "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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  4003.  @DonaldDunn-e1n  The students. Are you blind?
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  4004.  @shawng33  Being an uniformed social justice warrior doesn't make you brave. It shows how unbelievably ill informed and susceptible you are because you lack critical thinking. And kids these days love to identify with the "underdog" because they themselves feel that way.
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  4005. That stuff is all propaganda. Yes, they may have come with gun powder and paper, but it's always been a chaotic lawless place.
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  4006. My parents always taught me to buy second hand. Let some shmoe eat the depreciation
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  4007. Publish the faces of these people to the business community so they will never get hired for their extremist views after graduating Harvard. Ridiculous!! They can't even be bothered to research basic history.
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  4008. ​ @abwogaokeda3665 you need to read the dictionary
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  4009. People who cry about "tolerance" are the most intolerant people there are. Same with racism, ageism, sexism, and the like. They're not out there creating solutions. They're out there fanning the flames of negativity and outrage. It's pure stupidity. And they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
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  4010. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Religiously, as in other respects, the typical Chinese mentality represents the human maximum of broad-mindedness. It is striking to a newcomer in China to learn that a Chinese does not care what an acquaintance thinks or does, so long as it does not unfavorably affect him. Acquaintances may be thieves, pickpockets and what not, so long as they do not rob him. Varied religious ideas are if possible of even less concern. The inferential advantage of this indifference is that such corrupt ideas as the Chinese have may supposedly be the more easily dislodged, because they do not adhere to any set and persisting dogma. As a disadvantage, conjecturally, it will be very difficult to implant any improving sense of values in his head, because there is nothing in that spiritual vacuum to which such a sense of values might be attached. In religious negativity, the Chinese are an amazing contrast to their neighbors, the Tibetans, the Japanese, and the Hindus." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  4011.  @astronauticsspace9419  "He's not stupid" - He kind of is because not admitting to wrong doing despite evidence that proves he did what he did will only make his charges worst.
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  4012. Not a lot of people live in Pyongyang. And if you go around North Korea, the rest of the rural areas are just dirt poor.
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  4013. US already had Trump for president. Where's your proof that Trump was fascist?
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  4014. 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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  4015. These people are superstitious and uneducated. They'll believe just about anything.
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  4016. 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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  4017. China can force feed the Taliban pork like they do the Uighurs.
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  4018. Why not just diversify? Is Australia so beholden to China that they have no other choice? It's ridiculous.
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  4019.  @animejanai4657  Why even go? Might as well include North Korea in your itinerary.
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  4020. Keep them in China. We don't need them skyrocketing the price of real estate overseas.
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  4021. Women like to show off to other women that they have a "high quality man" that can afford to buy them crap.
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  4022. OK Chinabot
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  4023. Did he win the war?
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  4024. "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) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  4025. Why do people in China dump their oil down the drain? Don't they know it clogs the drainage system? They're contributing to the flooding that's already happening due to bad infrastructure 😱
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  4026.  @hunterskick5738  Russia is economically in the dumps and China is going down hill. Not the most exemplar examples in the G20.
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  4027. They know what racism is and they use it as they see fit. Especially against the West. But they are racist against everyone. Their whole banner of being "nationalist" is based of of racist ideology and their inferiority complex.
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  4028. Chinese propaganda knows no bounds. Everything they do is a projection of what they lack.
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  4029. Liking the front. Not a fan of the rear though. It looks like a copy of the Jetta 2019/2015 Corolla.
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  4030. There are lots of Asians bad at school. Believe it or not. You just haven't encountered any lol.
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  4031. Yup. And they've always been like this. Deception is the root of their culture.
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  4032. China's sanctions are just empty gestures. It's more about posturing in front of their domestic audience. It's sad.
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  4033. 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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  4034. So allying wuth China = having backbone? What a joke
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  4035.  @mahiraplngako4905  Yes, they only act on issues that are in their faces because they HAVE to. Not because they're actively identifying how the system is exploited and how to make it more transparent and compliant to ethics and the law. They exploit those loopholes as well.
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  4036. Are you trying to be funny?
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  4037. Why? It looks hideous.
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  4038. "Get the screen protection plan" - How about not getting it at all?
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  4039. Just came here from Laowhy's channel. This is just ridiculous.
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  4040. "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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  4041. Yes, let's "privatize" roads in an authoritarian totalitarian country that wants to control everything.
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  4042. You're funny 🤣
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  4043.  @stephenseibold6116  Wow, Islam never fails to show the world how loving and compassionate they can be
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  4044. China under Xi is too pigheaded to compromise. Why do you think they have the most disputes with countries in Asia? It's clear and plain to see that they are the problem. They are the common denominator in all this.
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  4045. "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) They keep sending students to study overseas and yet in so many ways they are still backwards.
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  4046. Chinese aren't exactly known for being fashion forward. They're clueless about basic fashion to begin with.
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  4047. Philippines has a mutual defense treaty with the US. Ukraines doesn't have any formal agreement with the US.
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  4048. 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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  4049. Offcourse they would. They see eye to eye with abusive Authoritarian governments world wide.
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  4050. It's in line with Chinese mentality. Distracts with looks despite having no substance.
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  4051. "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) China has always been anti-foreign. It has absolutely nothing to do with the government and everything to do with innate xenophobia. They believe in their superiority. And they have always used this xenophobia to manipulate their population.
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  4052. BRICS is just like the UN, a complete and utter joke filled with plastic politicians.
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  4053. I really wish the gave the rear a more angular look. It looks like it just ends abruptly. Not a fan of the hatchback look.
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  4054.  @Kirkrrr  "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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  4055. The US also has rare earths
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  4056. This stuff is covered in American news. It's rarely covered in China. What's your point?
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  4057.  @jimmyhay47  Lol, pretty much.
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  4058. Russia and China should keep their stupid comments to themselves. Hypocrites!
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  4059. This is how a lot of politics works in the world. All talk and no substance behind empty words and sound bites. China in particular lacks the sophistication to create the impression that it is actually doing something. "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal." - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend. (On 1930's China) The only people who buy into what China "supposedly" does are hopelessly naïve. Especially after all that has happened.
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  4060. Haha. You would be tossed from a building if they knew you were gay in Gaza you dimwit.
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  4061. Go live in China then! Sick and tired of morons in democratic countries making such comments with zero experience living under an oppressive abusive regime. Let's see how you fare under such a system. At least we won't have to hear from ungrateful twits like you.
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  4062. Every channel to spend government funds is an avenue for corruption. so this isn't surprising.
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  4063.  @jsyo9639  That's exactly what a CCP bot would say.
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  4064. Yes, large population and a lot of that population is still poor. What's your point?
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  4065. Overcapacity - means China produced so much stuff that nobody is buying. So no, their EV market isn't doing all too well. They're leaving because of failed government policies. Stop deluding yourself with clown logic.
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  4066. "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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  4067. Missionaries generation after generation have been sent to China to "civilize" the country by teaching them basic morals to no avail. They're doomed to repeat the same cycle over and over again.
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  4068. The middle kingdom is the scam capital of the world.
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  4069. It's all propaganda with no facts and figures to back it up.
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  4070.  @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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  4071. And this is something that China loves to brag about.
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  4072. This old mummy's name always seems to come up with there's a protest by the left. He should seriously be in jail. People have gotten hurt from what he has done.
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  4073.  @trainmaster0217  Don't bother reasoning with idiot communist propagandists. They're not worth your breath.
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  4074. Production for the sake of production doesn't say much when you are producing sub par quality goods that are subsidized by the state. They also overbuilt apartments which aren't selling en masse. Are you going to mention the fact that China is going into debt producing this crap? Or are you just going to leave that out to support your one sided narrative?
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  4075.  JNN321 M  Well yea, even he doesn't know what China's GDP is and he's a high ranking official. That really says a lot. Highly doubt Xi knows the real numbers either.
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  4076.  JNN321 M  Just found the exact quote you got this from: "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." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9nUvju8d0
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  4077.  JNN321 M  When lying is second nature and face culture is all there is, you start to look for different metrics to measure data.
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  4078. ​​ @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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  4079. It's actually their pathetic attempt to establish connection. Because they can't relate to black people or any other race than to claim "racism". That's how narrow minded they are and they can't see individuals, they only see one's skin color.
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  4080. 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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  4081. So what? Russia claimed to be the second most powerful military in the world. Look at what happened with that fiasco.
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  4082.  Joe Johnson  I agree. I'm an immigrant and I think this is all preposterous. We already know that history had racist undertones but to focus on the "racism" aspect will only serve to divide the country further. This is not a step in the right direction.
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  4083.  @shaun5328  Head office is in China. So China can have access to that information if they wanted to. Stop deluding yourself.
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  4084. Yes, the power of the uniformed masses strikes again to reinforce bad decisions because of their "feelings".
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  4085. They want to de-risk and decouple white simultaneously lambasting the US and Western countries for doing it. That's why nobody can take them seriously. They're so chaotic.
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  4086. A lot of things Chinese do with regard to their government is usually forced anyway. That's why it looks so alien and ridiculous to us.
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  4087. Some already have. They're not paying their mortgages which has ruined their credit rating but they no longer care.
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  4088. 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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  4089.  @b.kgurng7679  Tell China to do the same!
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  4090. They don't value anything but bragging and making others feel inferior. It's ingrained in their backward culture.
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  4091. Wow, the China bots are out in full force on this thread.
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  4092. Counter espionage --> Another way for this moron government to instill fear and distract Chinese society from its social ills that it can't solve. Bring back snitching from the Mao era. We know how that stupidity ended.
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  4093. 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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  4094. A lot of it is self imposed. No foresight, just pure greed with no common sense.
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  4095. The Chinese obviously haven't heard of the Streisand effect. They lie like a bunch of 5 year olds. They're ridiculous.
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  4096.  @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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  4097.  @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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  4098.  @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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  4099. 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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  4100. ​​​​ @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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  4101. ​ @markmd9 name one.
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  4102. ​ @firerock9320 no they aren't. It's because of politics and censorship
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  4103. ​ @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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  4104. You're talking about a country who lied about Covid and cost the world millions of lives. They're hardly the beacon for humanitarianism.
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  4105. ​ @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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  4106.  @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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  4107.  @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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  4108.  @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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  4109.  @JaxisityInGorebox  Cory hasn't been in power for decades. The question you should ask yourself is "what are politicians in power NOW doing to alleviate these problems?"
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  4110.  @topethermohenes7658  that's why it goes back to what I said about bureaucracies. There are numerous parties involved. That's the problem. Otherwise we would have done it already.
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  4111. He's doing that as he repeatedly bangs his head against a wall.
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  4112. 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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  4113. Keep telling yourself that, local governments in China are already running out of funds due the the real estate fiasco and the clown show that was zero covid. They are more dependent on the central government to bail them out more than ever.
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  4114. What about stupid beauty.?
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  4115. "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" - Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  4116. Lol there is no lining up in Beijing. More like pushing and shoving and there's actually video footage of this.
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  4117. If you know it's propaganda, why do you keep coming back to comment?
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  4118. 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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  4119. No it isn't. Southeast Asia is. Keep coping.
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  4120. What exactly us the lie here?
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  4121. It's also the CCP that brought them to ruin.
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  4122. You shouldn't. Blame their moron government of thieves.
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  4123. That's what some trains look like in India. Why is this racist?
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  4124. What you said about women finding a guy close to their "looks level" makes sense but self entitled women in developed countries don't see themselves that way. They always think they're a catch. And the fact that the vast majority of them think this way only goes to show that humility has been bred out of women and this delusion has hijacked women's self perception. But they won't acknowledge it.
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  4125.  @thetailgunner777  The dolt is probably using Chinese state VPN. You have to pay someone to say something outrageous like that.
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  4126. 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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  4127.  @RAMKUMARRAMESHR  It's a moron China bot. Don't bother. This is their pathetic job.
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  4128. "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 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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  4129.  @ze9947  China recently, what with Covid and all
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  4130. Everything is down. There is no "industry" that's thriving right now.
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  4131. Sounds like you've never been to China.
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  4132. 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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  4133.  @azrielnguyen9586  They earned their money? A lot of the rich from Mainland China are CCP connected lackeys. And there are over 90 million of them. I wouldn't put "stealing" and "earning" in the same vein.
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  4134.  @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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  4135. Let's start by not letting the Chinese dictate what other countries can and can't have in Southeast and East Asia.
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  4136.  @peta333  Evil is evil. Why even compare? People suffer either way.
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  4137. Problem is the countries that China wants to transact with aren't big economies at all. I mean seriously Brazil, Pakistan, Russia to name a few? These countries do not have the same economic heft as the US, Japan, Germany and the rest of the developed democratic world. It's such a joke. The only country that could potentially help them is the US and they keep pretending that they don't need them. And there is no other country that can take the place of the US. So they are essentially screwed.
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  4138.  @JasonHoffman-qc2qw  How exactly did Biden create both situations when neither "side" that Biden was with were the aggressors? Care to explain?
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  4139.  @OffendingTheOffendable  Japan has class and discipline. China has none of that. "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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  4140.  @reikenzan1916  Report them for spamming
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  4141. Lol. They should just say the obvious. Statements from Beijing are most likely lies.
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  4142. If Chinese people have a negative perception of the US then they should stop sending their kids to study there, and stop purchasing property in the US. It's very hypocritical for them to keep running their mouths when the contrary is happening.
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  4143. US economy is more robust. And while they are in debt, they don't spend as irresponsibly as China does.
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  4144. Basically, you have to look for evidence that she will stay and commit.
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  4145. What you are seeing is a government gripped by paranoia whose hold on power is tenuous at best.
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  4146. They don't have 1.4 billion people and the answer to your question is no.
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  4147. Because there is no shortage of stupid people in the world.
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  4148. "Beijing may be honoring their commitment" - They never honor their commitments. Let's not hold our breath. Also, "Chinese characteristics" - means chaotic "system" that doesn't make any sense, made from pure politics and backwards cultural practices and lies and deception.
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  4149. Popped the housing bubble? No they didn't. The housing crisis still drags on. Stop lying.
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  4150. 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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  4151. Chinese lie about taxes wherever they go. It's not about the US, it's about evading paying taxes.
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  4152. I used to be in finance. Most of the people interested in investing in retirement are literally those who are about to retire. Those that have the time horizon choose to put it off. I don't feel bad for these people with no money. Bad choices eventually catch up to you at some point.
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  4153. What made you change your mind? And more importantly how do we get through to these stubborn democrats who refuse to be reasonable?
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  4154. There are better countries in Asia, seriously.
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  4155. 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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  4156. China should just keep their mouths shut. They always complain about everything. If you hate the US stop sending students over there.
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  4157. There's no such thing as "face". It's all a lie for them to justify their bad actions. If they truly believed in "face" they wouldn't be doing the stpid things they're doing.
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  4158.  @zt3435  They can produce nukes in as little as 6 months. Wouldn't be surprised if Japan heads in that direction. They are probably already heading in that direction. If Taiwan produces nukes, we will probably hear about it once they already have a stock pile. You see when those countries talk about nukes, you know things are getting serious. Unlike China and North Korea, they talk nuclear escalation so casually and have zero regard as to how the message will be received especially in the long term.
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  4159. ​ @realhorrorshow8547 yup. They damage the car and rob the people dry. Isn't communism awesome?
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  4160. Because we live in an insecure world where people love to play politics to get what they want.
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  4161. Great if you're into flashy garbage.
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  4162. 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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  4163. Then leave America!!!!
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  4164. CC have become essential. Because for some it means starving if they don't use them.
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  4165. They don't care about what China thinks because they won't make money out of China anyway what with so many people in lockdown. Chinese won't get offended by what they can't see. The small number who will get offended are insignificant.
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  4166. China has shown too much of its true colors under this dictatorship that it will never go back to the way it was. People are no longer naïve.
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  4167.  @raggedcritical  China has no "softer" approach. They just lie and do it just as bad as they did before.
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  4168.  @henryc1000  They are the most known ones unfortunately.
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  4169.  @suckit758  Chinese is a race. The hell are you talking about?
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  4170. "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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  4171.  @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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  4172. You say that. But if If what you're saying is true then the only industries that would boom would be grocery stores, and maybe real estate.
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  4173. If the workd started thinking bregrudgingly like China did then the whole world should should not let them off the hook for causing covid and lying about it.
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  4174. Yes, they would be followed at a safe distance. Buzzed and would be asked to explain themselves. But what would be the point? Jet fuel ain't cheap.
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  4175. 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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  4176.  @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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  4177.  @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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  4178. Gay pride has now been infiltrated by the ego of people who have forgotten that pride was about equality and dignity for the LGBT community. If I had kids I wouldn't bring them to an event wherein a man was whipping another man in public. That's just too much for a kid to take.
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  4179. The way they treat workers is no different from human traffickers.
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  4180. Because China bribed them all.
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  4181. Chinese culture? What aspects of the culture? Face culture wherein deception is encouraged? Or bragging for the sake of bragging?
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  4182. Only in China can corporations demand salary back from employees who already worked for it. Ridiculous!
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  4183. 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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  4184. We don't use Tuk Tuks and what kind of name is Ja Du?. What a farce.
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  4185. For Taiwan, all they need are a couple of nukes. It's enough to devastate China. Aim one at the three gorges dam and one at the capital. That's all you need
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  4186. All India has to do is cut of China in the Indian Ocean and China will go offline soon after since everything goes through there. Not smart to piss off other countries.
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  4187. "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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  4188. Before they did this, did they even do their research? Who was going to move in? At what rate? Did they have the population to justify this? What a complete failure in foresight.
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  4189. Who knows? Nothing makes sense anymore. Students should know at least basic financial math (ie amortization, compound interest etc) and critical thinking skills so that they can make informed decisions. The public school system is just a glorified daycare center to keep kids there because they are not of working age. So they bombard them with useless information to keep them doing something "useful" to kill some time.
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  4190.  @jchow5966  Umm yes it is. Everyone I talked to wants to work for the government because they can do a menial job and get paid $25/hour doing it. Nobody wants to work for a private enterprise because it pays low and they actually have to perform in order to keep their job.
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  4191. How many times has China warned everyone now? Such a joke
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  4192.  @Alopen-xb1rb  Just get a second hand Rav4 or highlander. Toyota quality is still good.
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  4193.  @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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  4194.  @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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  4195. Chinese always seem to slip through the cracks. Would they treat Russian and North Korean students the same?
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  4196. The only one obsessed here are wumaos. If Indian news doesn't bother you then why even comment?
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  4197. China keeps showing the world again and again how backwards they are despite simultaneously telling everyone they're advanced 🤣 "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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  4198. They're no longer the cheapest in the world. A lot of companies go to Vietnam for that. It's more like free forced labor in the extreme low end, start with the people in their prison system. A lot of these companies also employ Chinese workers in order to sell to the Chinese market even though they no longer run efficiently. The Chinese state run enterprises try to compete with these foreign brands and they know they can't much to their chagrin.
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  4199. Beijing doesn't tolerate blackouts? It obviously doesn't understand its role in its own undoing.
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  4200. "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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  4201. It's China. they always push the envelope when it comes to being vile. So disgusting and uncivilized.
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  4202. There are people who could do no wrong in business: they're called State Owned Enterprises.
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  4203. Nobody believes China. They have zero credibility - COVID is evidence enough
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  4204. 😂😂😂
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  4205. No, India doesn't serve gutter oil like in China
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  4206. Yes, they call the US racist as government officials and their children with their ill-gotten wealth make their way to North America. Isn't that ironic?
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  4207.  @SirRauxy  China only makes up about 2% of foreign reserve currency so that's very far form happening.
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  4208. You'd think that wouldn't you?
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  4209. Don't forget "Hawaii of China" when referring to Hainan. They love to rub in that low rent Hawaii nonsense.
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  4210. China's economy went up despite lockdowns? That doesn't make any sense. Also uou don't trust the GDPnumbers out of China. They constantly lie and can't be verified.
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  4211. ​​ @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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  4212. Nobody believes the GDP numbers from China. What a joke from s government that constantly lies.
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  4213. People are still lining up to get into the US. Nobody is lining up to go to China.
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  4214. Yes, it's called more debt. How else can China get itself out of this one when they aren't seeing the results that they initially projected? All they are going to do is kick the can down the road, and they're certainly not going to liberalize their financial system because the CCP can't do well enough to leave anything alone without their constant interference. They're also caught in the "middle income trap" as mentioned by @Kev wherein they don't manufacture high value goods like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and they are no longer the cheapest in terms of labor, which is why multinational firms are moving to Vietnam, India and other parts of Southeast Asia. China will still be around for manufacturing but it's not going to be the same as before, the numbers just aren't adding up.
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  4215. It should be renamed to "slave trade rules"
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  4216.  @satriojumeneng7055  Not true, this isn't happening in every country. So don't blame capitalism.
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  4217.  @satriojumeneng7055  It's cheaper to manufacture in Vietnam. Same also holds true for India. It has nothing to do with China. Don't make connections where there is none.
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  4218.  @satriojumeneng7055  You have a company that was horribly mismanaged by people who took people's money and squandered it. They didn't even have cash on hand to keep operations going. This is what happens when you introduce capitalism to people who have never seen large sums of money before. They can't handle it because a lot of them come from poverty.
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  4219.  @satriojumeneng7055  Keep telling yourself that. I guess Samsung, Apple, Toshiba, Hyundai, Kia etc are all Chinese owned right?
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  4220.  @satriojumeneng7055  You make the dumbest connections. It's really astonishing. Did you get left behind by the Indonesian education system?
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  4221.  @satriojumeneng7055  Kind of hard with trade sanctions. Also that's a waste of resources to go all the way to China given how ravaged they are now by the delta variant that they caused in the first place.
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  4222. @Ajay G This guy doesn't understand how wealth is created at the government official level and he's from Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. He lives under a rock.
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  4223.  @satriojumeneng7055  Ok Wumao.
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  4224.  @satriojumeneng7055  Ok Wumao
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  4225.  @satriojumeneng7055  Ok Wumao
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  4226. The only thing China offers is lots of bribes. Money does all the talking.
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  4227.  @oda4766  you don't care about the West except when it concerns money. Get out of here.
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  4228.  @genghistozo413  what truth? I have yet to see this so called "truth". Let's ask China's neighbors then and see what they have to say or better yet any country they have yet to bribe. You're hilarious and you think most sane people share this view? How clownish.
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  4229.  @genghistozo413  "Truth" and the CCP don't go hand in hand. So that statement is already ridiculous.
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  4230.  @julielingxu6278  Chinese say a lot of things about "cooperation" and yet have disputes with their neighbors about territories. China can say whatever it wants, it doesn't alter reality. I can dip dog poo in gold, it's still dog poo.
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  4231.  @oda4766  Yeah, just snap your fingers and work in Singapore? As what exactly? They don't just let anyone in there unless you have something to contribute. Also you don't get to stay indefinitely with a work visa. It all depends on what industry you are and rules change constantly, even in Singapore.
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  4232.  @julielingxu6278  What you are saying is ironic because that's not what we are seeing in the real world.
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  4233.  @LetsGoUSA  There's a difference between being hateful and calling bs on lies with little to no proof other than state run propaganda. You need to learn the difference.
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  4234.  @tluangasailo3663  "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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  4235. I don't understand why this condescending CCP shill Tangen is even on here. We already know the CCP talking points he is going to parrot. It's deflect, deflect, and lie. And if all else fails, deflect and lie some more.
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  4236. "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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  4237.  @DK-ev9dg  you can call out the US if you feel like they haven't been delivering. You can't do that with China because they never acknowledge anything.
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  4238. Right stance? Despite their illegal claims on other countries territories and all their shenanigans in the last few years? What Trump is doing is long over due. These abuses must stop.
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  4239.  @lambertois11  And this is why China has been screwed up for so long. Ego and common sense are both divorced when it comes to the Emperor's horrible decision making.
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  4240.  @Lupine.  "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China) What about personal experience of people who have lived and worked in China?
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  4241. Corrupt to the core and basically a failed state with nothing to offer economically other than their superficial backing especially when China needs a voice to support their demands.
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  4242. Funny enough a lot of conventionally attractive girls are asked rate themselves lower than these plain janes.
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  4243. So if we put a thousand neon lights in a western city, we will look "advanced" too? Duly noted
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  4244. Foreign men already lead with the fact that they look different from the locals - the perception is they've got money. So not only do they attract attention, they also can attract unwanted attention from opportunistic women
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  4245. Chinese culture? Chinese are renowned for talking shit behind your back and hide behind their language barrier when it's appropriate to them.
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  4246. For that price, I am buying a Samsung notebook. Forget this trash.
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  4247. 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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  4248.  @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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  4249.  @cynthiagonzalez658  The lack of common sense is what's really appalling.
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  4250. I went to culinary school for the heck of it. I can also clean and do laundry. If a woman can't do any of those she's going to be nothing but a burden, just completely useless.
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  4251. India should play the race card against the New York Times since NYT love identity politics and love to hit below the belt. Throw it back at them. New York Times is a disgrace!
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  4252. Well what do you expect when China keeps pissing off its neighbors. They're the common denominator in all of the problems in Asia right now.
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  4253. 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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  4254. The first couple of bites were good. The last couple of bites tasted like regret.
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  4255. They're not just stupid, they're royally fucked in the head. No pun intended.
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  4256. This is just for optics. Australia knows better.
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  4257. Like what? Be specific
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  4258. Democracy - A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives (Google definition) So by definition China is NOT a democracy. Party members elect each other not the people. What a crock.
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  4259. Hybrids are better than EV's anyway.
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  4260. China will never show any understanding. So that's off the table.
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  4261. They are unhinged. what more proof do you need?
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  4262. China constantly refers to US as its "enemy". Why the double standard?
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  4263. Words they say don't mean a thing. It's just noise.
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  4264. With all the scams in Sanya and their horrible reputation, I'm honestly surprised they still get tourists.
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  4265.  @sleepyjoe4529  Yes it is. What is 'face culture' in a nutshell? It encourages lying and deception. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different than China under the CCP. At some point you have to accept that certain things are just due to culture, not political ideology.
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  4266. China cheats every chance it gets. Having "developing nation" status enables them to get dole outs. But what kind of "developing nation" has a space program? It really makes you wonder what their priorities are. But then again North Korea has a space program and they are where they are.
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  4267. "The Chinese bitterly opposed an international inquiry into their opium situation two years ago and succeeded in preventing it. With the valleys of China white with opium poppies every spring. Chinese delegates abroad have blandly denied the obvious facts. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "A favorite device of the military in China who enforce poppy cultivation is to invoke a previously disregarded law which declares that opium is illegal and extort money from the farmers on this pretext when the crop comes along as a "fine" " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  4268. 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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  4269. Balls of steel and not very intelligent, considering their sanctions do absolutely nothing.
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  4270. ​ @DominicOwen not all of us Asians buy into this moronic concept. The Chinese have taken "face" to a whole new level because the Koreans and Japanese don't practice "face" in the same way the Chinese do.
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  4271. They have done that multiple times.
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  4272. I will never date a single mother and woman over 30 - waste of time and money.
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  4273. "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" by Ralph Townsend (US consul who lived in 1930s China) What do you mean "excellently governed"? I think the word you are looking for is chaotic and corrupt.
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  4274. You obviously have never heard of Chinese subversion. Continue living in your naive world where we all just get along without a hitch.
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  4275. 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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  4276. "Revenge against society" killings are becoming more and more common in China as the economy get worst. And of course the government will censor it.
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  4277. Because it's China. What else is new?
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  4278. 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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  4279.  @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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  4280. Chinese have always been like this. Read up on China under the KMT. It was no different.
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  4281. The world hates the CCP for lying about Covid. Get over it!
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  4282. So they're really doubling down on things that no longer work? Ok...then.
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  4283. So the decline in output and production mean absolutely nothing to you? Typical Chinese propaganda
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  4284. Yes, look to China, who has little to no training to train the next generation of African soldiers. Sounds about right.
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  4285.  @MK_ULTRA420  Chinese don't have the same options. They can't even file for bankruptcy.
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  4286. CCP always lie. When they're nice, something's amiss.
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  4287.  @eatdriveplay  So business and politics aren't intertwined in China? Ok. I must have gotten the whole state owned enterprise wrong then. I guess China allows private ownership especially when it comes to big companies right? Jack Ma's company isn't at all under the control of the CCP. Got it.
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  4288. 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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  4289. "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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  4290. 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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  4291. ​ @ursodermatt8809 China never ever takes responsibility for anything. Nothing is ever their fault and they will never change for the better.
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  4292. 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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  4293. They have ALWAYS been chaotic.
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  4294. Not true. Bought some underwear from India. It was priced along the same lines as if it were from China. Same with the measuring cup I bought from Japan as an example. In fact, clothing stores manufactured outside China have the same price as the same ones made in China.
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  4295. ​ @pennycandyys this is just reinforcing what we already know.
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  4296. Not surprising. They lie about everything, including their data. So why should this be an exception?
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  4297.  @jont2576  only time will tell. The only thing that those countries have in common with China is their penchant for corruption. Most people come to the West and its allies for economic opportunities. No one immigrates to those countries which should already tell you a lot. So no, they won't be overtaking the West anytime soon. If China truly believes in their greatness then why don't they develop in silence instead of making a spectacle of themselves on the world's stage. Also, the bulk of wealth is still held in the west. A man who is making an extra $5000 of thei $30,000/ year income is still far behind when compared to a man making $200,000/ year without a raise - this is what you are arguing when you compare the US to China and its allies. It's inconsequential because they are still far behind.
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  4298. Isn't everything "nationalized" in China at this point? What isn't these days?
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  4299. 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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  4300. This is just more "in your face" propaganda. Looks like we finally see where more and more billions of dollars are going as far as this crap is concerned in China.
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  4301. 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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  4302. Communism at its finest.
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  4303. What is the definition of "quality" jobs?
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  4304.  @eleethtahgra7182  You don't need to see what the Chinese pilots did to know that China has a track record of lying.
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  4305. They never had morals to begin with. You should read up on China when they were under the KMT. They weren't that much different.
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  4306. Where are all the students protesting this?
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  4307. 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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  4308. 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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  4309. No Indian would ever say that. You're Chinese.
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  4310. You're assuming one of the parties is capable of understanding. More often than not they aren't. That's why we have wars.
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  4311. If your life is worth this cheapness then buy the car
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  4312. You are aware that the president of Ukraine is a Jew right? You know the same people who suffered under the hand of ACTUAL Nazis? My goodness a lot of people nowadays are still dumb and clueless.
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  4313.  @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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  4314. ​ @alicethegreat3742 everyone is lining to get into the US. Nobody is lining up to get into China.
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  4315. Yup. It's in their culture. "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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  4316.  @movdqa  You should be. It has extreme racist undertones attached to it.
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  4317. Unfortunately, Asians are among the most financially illiterate people on Earth.
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  4318. The world already knows that they are pathological liars. What else is new?
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  4319. Nice try Chinabot.
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  4320. People support Ukraine. People don't support corrupt government officials who pocket the money that is meant as aid. That's the difference.
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  4321. China thinks everything is about them.
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  4322. 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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  4323. Arrogance and xenophobia have always been hallmarks in Chinese culture coupled with a stubborn streak of never adapting to new situations so the only thing they know how to do is to force their hand. They will never change.
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  4324. 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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  4325. Must be nice having so much money to spend while their own citizens suffer lack of economic opportunity.
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  4326. So is the killing of Ukranians, Syrians, Lebanese etc but you don't hear these losers protesting on their behalf. The hypocricy and stupidity is amazing. It's only against Israel.
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  4327. That lie has already been debunked
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  4328.  @wolverine9377  Actually a lot of them don't know what's happening outside of what the government told them. It's called "keeping the peace" in dictatorships. What you don't know won't kill you until it's too late.
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  4329. They admired the Nazis. No surprises there.
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  4330. It's not propaganda when it isn't doctored and multiple journalist from different countries are reporting. Unlike in China where everything is controlled by state media. I guess it takes one to know one right?
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  4331. Even alpha guys want women who are feminine and drama free. She screams the opposite. Any alpha who could do better wouldn't settle for her.
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  4332. Completely turn back to the old ways? China has always been like this. They just change rulers throughout history. "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" by Ralph Townsend (on China in the 1930's before Communism)
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  4333.  @CrazyLocoInsane1  I watched a special on Diddy's parties. While a lot of celebrities were invited to the white party, a lot of them did not participate in the after party (the ones with the freak offs). Those were only reserved for Diddy's inner circles, those he trusted the most. And most celebrities did not make the cut.
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  4334. It's ironic that you use the words "modern China" when there's nothing "modern" about their way of thinking. In fact, it's very backwards and devoid of any truth or logic. "Backwards" and "uncivilized" are better words that qualify to describe this mess.
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  4335. 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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  4336. It's purely propaganda. If you have to tell the whole world you are doing "just fine" then you aren't. "It is absurd to suppose that a government in Nanking, with definite control of no more than a tenth of the territory of the country, could do much, even if it sincerely desired to do its best. The point here is that while it actually does next to nothing, it utilizes all available energy to create the impression abroad that it is doing a great deal." - "Ways that Are Dark" by Ralph Townsend. Chinese have been employing this tactic even before they became Communist.
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  4337. First it was the "clean your plate" initiative, now it's a push for conserving electricity. What's going on?
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  4338. Don't forget life insurance and disability as well if you make it alive from one of those death traps, you might not even have any limbs left.
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  4339. The fact that he kept winning elections us a true testament to how stupid a lit of Canadians are
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  4340. ​ @joshuain2771 lots of Chinese can't save a lot. Those that do go through extreme lengths.
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  4341. 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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  4342. Most Americans aren't. Don't worry.
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  4343. 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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  4344. I wanna read that Xi book not because I adore the moron, but as a gag and something to make fun of. But I ain't buying that garbage.
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  4345.  @johndoe-vc1we  Yes, Japan's navy is more than capable to handle them. They're one of the top navies in the world.
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  4346. "International law" on their terms isn't international law. It's just bs from the CCP as usual.
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  4347. Bigger question remains and that is "will they improve on their quality?"
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  4348. I'm sure if China is confronted about this they will say "It's all part of the act" - Lies upon lies, they never learn.
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  4349. Serious? After China threw a fit after Covid? After they sent that stupid spy balloon? Where do you get off saying such dumb things?
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  4350. That's a bit of an extreme reaction.
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  4351. Singapore is always playing in the middle. They don't want to aggravate China, but also wants relations with the US. It's all about getting the "best" of everything. This is how politics work. Anyone who things otherwise, is naïve.
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  4352. None of this would be allowed if North Korea and Russia were involved and yet they love to fund Chinese companies, the biggest threat out of them all. America is a joke.
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  4353.  @Longsilog4920  You're talking to a brainwashed communist Chinese tool. They think they're the center of the universe. Don't waste your breath. Some people are born delusional.
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  4354. China's development hinges on dealing with the West. They can't do it on their own even if they tried.
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  4355.  @estevaoabel3439  This is what China watchers have been warning us about for years. But greedy capitalists from the West, Japan, and South Korea refuse to acknowledge this view because they prioritized profits.
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  4356. China constantly lambasts the US publicly. They've essentially drank their own cool aid and believe that the US is their sworn enemy despite the US saving them against the Japanese and US multinationals investing in China and making China the prosperous country it is today. China is a horrible country with no sense of gratitude and will readily bite the hand that feeds it given the chance.
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  4357. Watching AOC act like that was just classless. But then again what else is new? She can't even fix her district with her loony policies. Democrats and Liberals in Canada are cut from the same demented cloth.
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  4358. That flag-raising was done in such bad taste. What the hell were they thinking? They seriously need to stop taking bribes in the US.
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  4359. ​​​ @sherwinclarencego1933 at some point Filipinos need to recognize two things: - we lack infrastructure and - electricity is too high. That's why nobody will invest in us. It isn't about foreigners owning land. They also need to scrap the 60/40 rule and open the country up like what China and Singapore did. This has held true for decades. I don't know when the Philippines will make this connection but the writing is already on the wall. That's why Filipinos need to go overseas.
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  4360.  robg1358  True, this is what differentiates developed countries that grew over time versus fake debt ridden growth by China.
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  4361.  @danieljong8442  Never thought about this. I always thought the CCP was just vindictive petty individuals with weak egos.
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  4362.  @mangcike  That's great. Nobody buys that narrative but China and those on their propaganda pay roll.
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  4363. They won't have jobs of value waiting for them anyway thanks to the same moron leadership pushing this same level of stupidity.
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  4364. This is why China got rid of foreign media. Instead of discerning obvious patterns from multiple outlets so as to create a more "objective" view of what is going on, they instead opted to control the narrative for their own benefit.
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  4365.  @enriclafont6477  "If you can cheat, cheat"
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  4366. Not on China's level? What was China decades ago? People back then barely had any cars. Everyone's got to start somewhere.
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  4367. They'll get rid of this idiot then replace him with another. If you read Chinese history this always happens.
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  4368. Countries in Southeast Asia are growing as manufacturing jobs move there from China.
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  4369. Everything hinges on the US economy including China. Anyone who thinks China can stand on their own is clearly a propagandist or delusional.
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  4370. ​ @sleepinglaffey3886 no such thing as face. It's all a lie
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  4371.  @Ghekko-kw3zz  China, the only country that has houses to shelter all of its people and yet there are still homeless on the streets...
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  4372.  @pablosskates7067  Well, she said in her video that she wasn't able to build a working model, that's why she turned to AI with the data she had found. And the analysis comparing China and India was telling since China's discrepancy was a wide margin.
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  4373. It's lack of financial literacy and lack of opportunity. Why do you think they leave the country to pursue jobs overseas? Because there aren't enough high paying jobs. Also, blame the oligarchs who don't want to open the country to multinational companies because they don't want to keep much to everyone's detriment.
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  4374. And yet there are a lot of Chinese immigrants here. What a joke. I'm surprised US and Australia didn't make the cut for worst.
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  4375. They're not the sharpest tools in the shed.
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  4376. 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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  4377. They should use Toyota as a benchmark. But I think it's a little to late for that. People's confidence in the brand has dwindled.
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  4378. Tell that to the corporations and government officials who are playing a balancing act between trade and politics.
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  4379. They've always used state run institutions to ransack people. What else is new? Communism in a nutshell.
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  4380. The guy who was bitten had no shoes and yet the shot with his severed leg showed he had a shoe on.
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  4381. It's hard to lead AI when you keep looking at your neighbor to see what they are developing instead of developing your own.
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  4382. She makes a report on China and you think everything is ALL about China? Get a life you arrogant troll.
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  4383. Such racist undertones (since most Muslims in China are non-Chinese) and the Chinese as usual are oblivious to this simple fact.
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  4384. ​ @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj it's not a guarantee because everyone has them. So in essence, these degrees are being devalued as well.
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  4385. Why he ket winning re-elections is even more baffling.
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  4386. Nobody believes in what Beijing has to say anymore. All this talk is just empty. China's actions definitely speaks volumes.
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  4387. Pretty much. So what about the athletes who didn't take their homegrown vaccine? They're not going to the Olympics then.
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  4388. China finding excuses for fake vaccines in circulation really goes to show the extent of their incompetence and inability to adhere to world standards. What else is new?
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  4389. 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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  4390. State sponsored capitalism isn't the same as in the developed world
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  4391. Even with evidence you can see, it's still propaganda? Yeah right.
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  4392. ​​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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  4393. ​ @davidlindburg1921 The things people are willing to put up with all because they're making money....
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  4394. ​ @kkwong6528 there are multinational brokers that can invest in overseas markets in Shanghai. AGF comes to mind.
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  4395. I was surprised he didn't mention the tariffs. China is increasingly getting shut out of markets because of this.
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  4396. Southeast Asian century to be exact. China's economy is shot.
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  4397. The ones who brag about it aren't intelligent. So that already says a lot.
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  4398. It doesn't matter if anyone calls China out. They will just lie, deny, and distract. They will never change. And in their minds, they are never wrong.
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  4399. Work life balance becomes an issue when you have to work 2 to 3 jobs to meet the bare minimum against the never ending back drop of inflation. This isn't sustainable long term.
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  4400. 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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  4401. Japan already had robots in the 90's. Those greeter robots in stores have been there for quite some time.
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  4402. "Shop like a billionaire" - except billionaires can choose to not buy cheap garbage.
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  4403. They're not that much different from North Korea. And yet people treat them like as if they are.
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  4404. Why are these assholes being allowed a forum in the free world given everything they've done and continue to do?
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  4405. China: We will do it, we will do it cheaper and worse.
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  4406.  @stevec3526  Lol, yea. And a billionaire can do much much better than her.
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  4407. The notion of "China collapsing" is based on democratic/western assumptions given the variables presented. Under those variables, China should have collapsed if left to its own devices without interferance. However, a lot of people fail to see that it's state-run and the government will prop up these industries, and ultimately the government will be the one to have the bitter pill to swallow, especially when debts come due.
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  4408.  @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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  4409. 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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  4410. And yet Trudeau won the election multiple times. What does that tell you about where Canadians have their heads at? I never voted for that virtue signaling dolt.
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  4411. The latter has a lot in Vancouver. It's basically propped up by ill gotten wealth and the government could care less.
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  4412. Most populous country is now officially India. China lied about their population for years.
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  4413. Get over yourself Wumao
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  4414. Lol. Bat soup cafes don't exactly invoke "luxury" 😂
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  4415. ​ @wenchen8870 she begged for money? What are you smoking?
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  4416. How is this anti-China?
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  4417. If she won't let me take her to Cheesecake Factory, I'm dumping her ass. It's my money and I don't know her and she already has a strong say on what I get to do? Get out of here!
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  4418.  @beckyconstantinides2546  I am from Canada and I don't hear the US blaming Canada incessantly for everything. Don't lie.
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  4419. It's the best solution all over the world. Don't give the communists anymore leverage than they need. They don't share our values and they can't stand us, despite the fact that they have benefitted from doing business with the West. Let them become bitter all on their own bunch of ingrates that they are.
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  4420. Yes, army of thieves and crooks.
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  4421. How exactly are they decades ahead? Producing a lot of solar panels which emit so much pollution doesn't put you ahead it just puts you ahead of production, while you simultaneously pollute at the same time.
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  4422.  @jerome123796  You have a country that is on the brink of civil war and has been chaotic for decades. What kind of country finds Pakistan to be an attractive hub for investment is just beyond me. Just look at China as an example. Chinese nationals are being targeted and have been killed by local factions in a bid to stop infrastructure projects.
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  4423. 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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  4424. The female reporter is most likely from Chinese state media. What a joke! China should just isolate itself instead of playing these childish games.
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  4425. It's ok. They will learn the hard way. The price to pay for stupidity is steep.
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  4426. "Communism" is a fake ideology designed to distract people from real issues. Instead they use "feel good" rhetoric when in actuality it's a country's policies that determine if a country progresses or not.
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  4427. 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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  4428. 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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  4429. They didn't say Bannon was involved. You can be associated with someone and not know what they are doing, and that doesn't mean you are at fault.
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  4430. 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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  4431. Islam, communism all present themselves under this false veneer of lies and deception under the umbrella of their so called "revolution".
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  4432. 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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  4433. It's false pride. It's all bs anyway. They have zero credibility.
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  4434. Get a Toyota. Tesla's reliability is questionable.
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  4435. So many subscribers so many dislikes. The only thing this guy has going for him is his looks that are an obvious hit on Tik Tok that tweens go crazy for.
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  4436. Russia can't even take Ukraine which they deemed inferior to them.
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  4437. And that number is still rising...
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  4438. You need to read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. He talked about land rights and deep-seated corruption even before the CCP came into power. "A favorite device of the military in China who enforce poppy cultivation is to invoke a previously disregarded law which declares that opium is illegal and extort money from the farmers on this pretext when the crop comes along as a "fine" " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  4439.  @BuffBluffer  China doesn't have 1.4 billion. They lied about their population for years. It's said that their actual population is around 800 to 850 million.
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  4440. 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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  4441. The fact that he has won every subsequent election after the first time he was elected says a lot more about the Canadian people than him. A lot of Canadians who voted for him are not the smartest people - a lot of them don't acknowledge reality.
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  4442. You can always leave. You can go to Southeast Asia and start your life anew over there. Just take your pick and be ready to adjust.
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  4443. 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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  4444.  @Keepskatin  Then move to those countries and get the hell out of America you dolt!
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  4445. China's sales numbers suffer because of it. What are you talking about?
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  4446. China's hissy fits are such a joke. Nobody takes them seriously.
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  4447. And the CCP wonders why young people aren't having children? What the hell are they smoking in Beijing?
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  4448. Umm not likely.
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  4449. Yes. Claiming they have 1.4 billion now is a stretch.
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  4450. Tell that to pooh. None of his policies make sense.
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  4451. @ 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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  4452. @ You mean CCP officials in Canada? Those are the "rich" Chinese you're talking about right?
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  4453. China can't even maintain its own infrastructure let alone create quality infrastructure for others. These shameless self-proclaimed "experts" are a joke and a laughing stock on the world's stage.
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  4454. Maybe that only happens when you smoke copious amounts of opium and consume gutter oil. Otherwise, it's all bs.
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  4455. This is so dangerous. Do the parents not care about safety of the children? This isn't heart warming, this is very negligent.
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  4456. Politicians should really look into revamping the tax system. Why is it that the normal person pays for the adjusted cost of living incurred by the government but nobody pays attention to the workers? The current system is unsustainable.
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  4457. They're backwards and superstitious. What else is new with them?
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  4458. It's not about them selling their crappy cars. It's about them lying to the world so that the world would be stupid enough to give them investment money for them to steal and go abroad with. That's why there are so many "wealthy" Chinese abroad. And if you talk to their kids about what their parents do, their reply is that their dad is in "business".
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  4459. You're oversimplifying politics.
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  4460. The ones who do have money are usually CCP officials trying to get their crap out of their country.
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  4461.  @Anomoomin  Warfare is so much more sophisticated now. Foot soldiers can't stand even against the most advanced weapons.
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  4462.  @saiberunato  It's Chinese logic. It never makes sense. Just like putting a kid in place of an actual lawyer to make a plausible argument.
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  4463. Keep coping wumao
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  4464. 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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  4465. You know it's delusion when people deny that China is going through negative economic growth.
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  4466.  @kokica007  If you say she is biased then you should be able to give at least one concrete example. I have seen several of her videos and I don't see what you're talking about. And obviously I don't share your perspective.
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  4467.  @YouCantHandleTheTruth.  So you don't watch her videos yet you are here engaging with people like us, who watch her videos and you get some sort of "kick" out of it because it's a comedy show for you. I think that says a heck of a lot more about you and what you find amusing in life. If you get a kick out of arguing with others online then that's all on you. Some people are bored and need to pass the time. Obviously, you don't have anything better to do other than to prop up your ego. Why don't you go and watch CNN or Al Jazeera then? Do something useful with your life. You can't even provide any concrete evidence other than how you feel.
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  4468.  @YouCantHandleTheTruth.  Thank you yet again for NOT responding to anything I ever said in a very typical Communist propagandist fashion. Also, there's no point in quoting me. Everyone here can see what I said and what you said.
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  4469.  @YouCantHandleTheTruth.  Learn English. He said "rhetorical question" not "rhetoric". They mean different things in this context. Look up the definitions. The more you talk the more you reveal how ridiculous you are. You must be an underpaid bot from China.
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  4470. @John Brower blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...............you have no argument blah blah blah blah. Typical Chinese back and forth. All words, no meaning.
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  4471. This is like going to a third world country and saying "poor people don't exist here" while going around the financial district in circles with people wearing suits. Such a clown show.
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  4472. Wishful thinking and it will never ever happen.
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  4473. ​ @barrywong4327 I don't consider the government having complete access to my account as "world leading". It's just more efficient authoritarianism
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  4474.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Not a good argument. So because a large segment of the population is Chinese, it automatically is a part of China? Not true. Taiwan has its own constitution, it's own government, its own passport, it's own currency that is not found in China. Heck even the the US has a separate policy when it comes to dealing with Taiwan. Just so you know, this strongly implies that they are separate entities. Taiwan is NOT a part of China.
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  4475.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Are you talking about the same UN that your government just slandered and discredited because of their report on Xinjiang? If that's the case, then your argument has no leg to stand on.
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  4476.  @2KSnSLifestyle  The Spratleys are just a stone's throw away from countries in Southeast Asia that are claiming them, so by your definition China has zero claim to those islands because China is further away.
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  4477.  @2KSnSLifestyle  being a Taiwan bot doesn't hold any negative connotation unlike a foaming in the mouth rabid mainland Chinese nationalist bot.
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  4478.  @2KSnSLifestyle  They are the "Republic of China" not the "People's Republic of China". There's a big difference. One is Communist, one is democratic.
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  4479.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Ok, keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, it's being administered by Taiwan, who has their own army personnel on the island, which therefore has their own laws. The fact that we are having this back and forth only serves to further question the legitimacy of the PRC's claim to Taiwan, so keep it up.
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  4480.  @2KSnSLifestyle  ROC IS Taiwan. North Korea and South Korea are both Koreas but they aren't the same. Same in this case, PRC and ROC, are not the same China.
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  4481.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Small part of China that it tries so hard to convince the whole world that it is theirs when in fact the writing is on the wall that it clearly and obviously isn't. Keep dreaming.
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  4482.  @2KSnSLifestyle  They are NOT the same. Read my comments clearly. Does any other province in mainland China have its own currency? No. Taiwan does. Does any other province in mainland China have its own elected leaders? No. Taiwan does. Does any other province in mainland China have its own laws which govern society? No. Taiwan does and citizens from mainland China who visit are subject to these laws which are different from Mainland China. Therefore, it only stands to reason that Taiwan is NOT a part of mainland China. They are not under the administration of Beijing.
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  4483.  @2KSnSLifestyle  You are seriously brain damaged if you can't even tell the difference between the PRC and ROC.
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  4484.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Hong Kong and Macau never became independent from China. They ARE administered by the PRC.
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  4485.  @2KSnSLifestyle  Taiwan wants nothing to do with China. That's why we're in this mess. China keeps forcing themselves on Taiwan like a desperate abusive man trying to win a girl that was never his.
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  4486. Nothing ever ever ever the CCP's fault that's why they got to go.
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  4487. Then go live there!
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  4488. 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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  4489. '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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  4490.  @awjames1121  Laughing to the bank? A lot of Chinese with loads of cash doesn't go to the bank. Government officials smuggle their money in and they literally pay in bags of cash because they don't want other governments to find out about it. Also, governments like Canada are putting a curb to speculative foreign investments that are inflating housing prices, I'm pretty sure the US is going to do the same thing if it hasn't already.
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  4491. Didn't people used to do this since time in antiquity? Classrooms are a fairly new phenomenon.
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  4492. "The product has to do the talking" - Chinese companies take note.
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  4493. Economic collapses don't happen overnight. It's a long drawn out process that takes years. And we're already seeing the symptoms of it, massive employment being one of them.
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  4494. It's like ASMR for Oscar
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  4495. Not to mention the fact that China "rejoiced" when PM Shinzo Abe was assasinated. Not good for diplomacy and establishing good will when China shows its nasty, vindictive side. All this "talk" of shared Asian values is laughable and inane.
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  4496.  @ramonyeh4596  It's a Chinabot. Don't believe them.
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  4497. Except a lot of Chinese have a VPN so they can access the outside world. They just hide it from the authorities.
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  4498. There are other countries with smart, kind, and considerate people. You need to seriously travel to other countries and have your horizons broadened.
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  4499. ​ @riverlady982 it's not hard. You can do an acid test.
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  4500. Little pinks love to brag for the sake of bragging. Nobody believes their delusions but them.
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  4501. What kind of government throws a fit over an alleged civilian balloon? Who does China think it's fooling at this point?
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  4502. They should invest their money in companies that are NOT based in China free from CCP influence and intervention.
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  4503. Germany is so addicted to the Chinese market that they will bend over backwards to "accommodate" China. Always on the wrong side of history.
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  4504. ​ @willaimoconnell9430 a lot of apoligists are beyond redemption.
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  4505.  @ChimaChindaDev  it's one thing to lie. But your level of delusion is like no other.
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  4506. 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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  4507. ​ @tqhung169 it has nothing to do with ethnicity but the content of their character.
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  4508. Typical self-aggrandizing China bs in bad quality. So tacky as usual.
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  4509. "You'll never understand China. You're not Chinese" - I don't get why Chinese people say this. What's there to understand about China? How unbelievably backwards they are? How a lot of things in their country don't make sense?
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  4510. ​ @FinalLugiaGuardian  They have never in their history been a democracy. Even their Emperors were authoritarian. People ruling China with a tyrannical fist is nothing new. And it will continue.
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  4511. 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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  4512. No they don't. They end up in the garbage.
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  4513. Anything with the word "Chinese" can literally mean anything. And it's now associated with things negative.
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  4514. They have no fine traditional culture - delusion is a mental illness.
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  4515. Unfortunately, in a chaotic place like China you need a heavy hand to get anything done. If you look at China before the CCP came into power, it was already a political mess. You had multiple factions vying for power against a backdrop of poverty and inequality.
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  4516. Yes, let's start with charges of murder, gross negligence, and obstruction of justice to boot.
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  4517. ​ @pavlovbeltran no common sense, zero self awareness. Not surprising here.
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  4518. What about all the children who died in Syria, Lebanon, Ukraine etc? Are their deaths not important also?
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  4519. 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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  4520. Yup. Owner clearly forgot to put it back in its container.
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  4521. China is so hypocritical. They release so much more nuclear waste than Japan ever will and yet the anger and stupidity from China is unparalleled. China needs to get a life and stop continuing to embarrass itself. They're a joke to the whole world.
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  4522. When they lie more than 90% of the time, what's there to verify?
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  4523. Because they keep their rabid population stupid.
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  4524.  @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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  4525.  @Dany-z9s  Their fragile egos are attached to their national identity because they don't have anything else going for them.
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  4526. It's brainwashing and propaganda. They're brought up to believe that they're better than they think they are while simultaneously having nothing to back up their claims. That's China. They lie to everyone, but most especially they love to lie to themselves. It's a country where powerlessness pervades because they can't even acknowledge the truth which explains their insecurity. "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) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  4527.  @Y-x4f  It's because they fail quality tests. Can you say lawsuit waiting to happen?
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  4528. @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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  4529. They have institutionalized delusion in all aspects of society.
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  4530. The left tries to establish connection with the "underdog" and "oppressed" segments of society. They're all about politics for the sake of politics with zero regard for facts and history. If the LGBTQ morons knew how they would be treated in the Middle East, they wouldn't be so keen to support the evil Hamas. Too bad most of them don't do their research or are just outright stupid.
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  4531. China is quite literally and figuratively hell on Earth.
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  4532. The only thing I see in these shill videos are that China is arrogant and full of itself. They constantly talk about themselves non stop and are clearly devoid of any substance. Just like a person who constantly talks about what they do for a living, what kind of car they drive, and what their aspirations are without even so much as finding out anything about you - This is the vibe that China puts out into the world, narcissism and absurdity. China is the classic example of "if you have to say something to prove what something is, it's probably not true".
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  4533. Only thieves here are China
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  4534. Giving Filipinos a loan is not a problem. The problem is all the bureaucracies, corruption, and red tape that make investment a risky impossibility. Until we fix the world's perception of the Philippines, we will never make a step in the right direction. That has to start with local government officials. You know what foreigners have told me? They want to invest in the Philippines but there are so many hoops that they make you jump through that you eventually get sick and tired and are discouraged from doing business altogether.
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  4535.  @marsonbikal5134  Can you seriously learn how to speak with proper grammar? I am finding it hard to follow what you are trying to say
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  4536. @James Henry Smith Who's making excuses?
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  4537. @James Henry Smith I'm not denying its existence. I'm just saying I have never heard of it until now. Read my original comment. And I've eaten in Chinese restaurants before.
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  4538. @James Henry Smith I already explained myself. Why do you keep questioning my actions. What the hell is your problem? It's not my fault Koreans market Kimchi better then Chinese market their Paocai. Kimchi is known. Paocai is not.
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  4539.  @JamesSmith-by3qy  Why the heck are you so affected? Are you a Chinese propagandist? Do you even know how Kimchi and Paocai are made? Because there is a difference in how they're made. What the hell are you stressing over? Go to a Chinese restaurant and open the menu. If you don't see Kimchi there which you won't, ask it from the waiter who is most likely going to be Chinese. Ask them for Kimchi and see how they respond genius.
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  4540. Probably more reliable than from authoritarian dictatorships who lie to stay in power forever.
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  4541.  Johnson Johnson  Wow, how completely random and baseless.
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  4542.  @egg-h4b  We will never know the truth because China constantly fudges their numbers. No point speculating. Even Li Keqiang did not rely on the economic data that was presented to him. That's how unreliable China is when it comes to their numbers.
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  4543. Xi is known to say wrong and stupid things publicly. He mispronounces words and gets people's names wrong - wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened here again. He got the two kingdoms mixed up.
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  4544. 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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  4545. A lot of them are paid. They're not worth any attention. What they type isn't how they truly feel anyway. It's all fake like the stuff they make.
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  4546. "The Chinese regime has not even gasped what hit them yet" - Oh it has. That's why they keep talking about how the US is "losing" when in actuality they're desperate for those chips.
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  4547.  @Qubert1971  Israel isn't killing indiscriminately. These are targeted attacks against Hamas strongholds and Hamas uses innocent Gazans as shields. Do you even know what Palestine is? News flash. There is no such thing as Palestine. There are no Palestinians, just a bunch of Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese etc who call that place "home" even though they aren't native to that area. You know who is native to that area? the Jews. Learn history not the propaganda drivel that suits your fancy.
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  4548. It's not just visual. His voice is also low for a "woman" which makes him obviously a man. This moron just reduced being a woman to a costume.
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  4549. CCP is one giant, abusive tyrannical government so they're on the same level as those other regimes.
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  4550. There's also automation threatening the hiring process. AI is going to take over menial tasks which leaves people with less and less opportunity.
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  4551. Tell that to China who threatens everyone.
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  4552.  @samsonsoturian6013  For that to happen there has to be incentive. There isn't in China when everything is run politically.
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  4553.  @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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  4554. You're looking at a serious lack of self awareness that is present in CCP officials. What else is new?
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  4555. 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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  4556.  @JohnJaneson2449  ""Battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy" - Mao" This has become China's modus operandi when it comes to approaching everything. They can't make anything work on top of extreme corruption.
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  4557. Good luck with that. If there's anything the CCP loathes more than anything, it's their citizens having any say in how the country is run.
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  4558. That's where the Chinese excel - in the art of exasperation. And they will never stop.
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  4559. You can thank multinational companies finally smartening up and not acting like as if only China can manufacture things.
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  4560.  @Digmen1  Hopefully. Either that or they're lying to shirk of sanctions.
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  4561. Kidnapping and extortion has always been normalized with the Chinese. They're the ones who have always historically done this, exporting this practice to Southeast Asia. And Southeast Asians have learned to do this as a result.
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  4562. Because China knows that Taiwan isn't theirs. Imagine if the US sent Jets over Hawaii to assert their claim over the islands. It is undisputed that they own those islands so why would they even send military assets over there to make a statement? Taiwan and Ukraine are all just for show. It's something the Soviet bastards tap in times of crisis to puff their chest to the world because their grip on power is tenuous. As for not condemning Russia in public, they still have to balance between their dealings with the US and can't be all out supportive with Russia. Russia's economy is much smaller than China's so if China does something really stupid, they would feel effects more than what Russia is feeling now.
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  4563.  @shadowmod3  It's whataboutism. Typical of CCP sympathizers and tankies.
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  4564. 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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  4565. Unfortunately, a lot of men are like this. They will scrape the bottom of the barrel like their life depends on it.
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  4566. The girl in the orange is psycho
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  4567. Everything they put out are pure lies. There should be no question about this.
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  4568.  @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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  4569.  @juniorleslie4804  if most debt were bad debt then banks would be out of business. As long as people are kept in debt and banks can make money from interest, they will be fine. It's when people stop paying back loans that becomes the issue
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  4570. China, learn the value of words and abide by them. Everyone can already see through your lies.
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  4571.  @jmmhgptkpafs8472  Claiming what's yours says nobody but Russia. Ukraine certainly doesn't think so and neither does anyone else other than their Soviet and commie friends. Also, if Russia owned it then why would they take it by force? If someone broke into your home and stole something valuable to you on the basis of "they already claim it as theirs" would you be ok with it?
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  4572.  @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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  4573.  @markbenjamin1703  He won't face the death penalty in China if his parents are connected to the CCP which they most likely are.
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  4574. @Kings Of Convenience Same here. Miss the street food and the night life.
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  4575. Are you for real?
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  4576.  @FailedPoet444  Read up on Chinese history. China being like Japan is like asking a pig to fly.
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  4577.  @TheBigChiefton  Perhaps. But for you to know the exact amount you would need to talk to an actual licensed financial advisor.
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  4578. Everything they do is out of insecurity and hatred. You really expect them to make sound decisions when they can't even get themselves in check? That's never going to happen when they have institutionalized mental illness like anger, outrage, and discrimination 24/7.
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  4579. All they do is complain. But you're right. Ultimately, they can do no better because they don't innovate and politics gets in the way of the country progressing. The only thing they've successfully done is show how backwards their country is.
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  4580.  @HermanWillems  These so-called Chinese "experts" seem to keep cropping up all over the world to give their two cents lol.
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  4581. Lol, "male mushroom" will just be a straight up dildo. I mean the head of the penis kind of looks like a mushroom, just cut out the balls and ta-dah, you have a brand new species of silicon mushroom.
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  4582. 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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  4583. It's not just karma, it's shoddy drainage projects and infrastructure due to graft and corruption. A lot of their so called "sponge cities" with their streets turn into tiny rivers because of this.
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  4584. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence." - "Ways that Are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (On China in the 1930's)
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  4585. Typical hypocrite politician. What else is new?
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  4586. 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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  4587.  @GuessVortex  I'm considering leaving in the next couple of years. Things won't change here and there is no foreseeable future on the horizon.
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  4588. 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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  4589. Everything about face is a farce. Just another way for a lot of Chinese to justify their bad actions and their inability to change. Justifying is as a "cultural" byproduct doesn't change this fact. Lying is lying.
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  4590.  @Leshic2  You need to seriously lower your expectations. It's youtube. A lot of people here are childish and can't be reasoned with. It's ego over reason and logic.
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  4591.  @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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  4592. ​ @kieragard so people can't have pictures of their travels and post them? Are you dumb?
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  4593. Everytime China uses the word "people" or "people's" you can bet your ass that it's communist bs. "People's democracy" is such a joke. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence. " - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  4594.  @jerryrichardson2799  "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China).
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  4595.  @tinycha0s  "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 organizations. They are at heart seemingly immune to the loyalties by which national unity might be achieved to them greater strength. Thus 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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  4596. I tried to explain the same thing to people except I used the drunken dentist analogy to describe Biden and they still found it offensive. Go figure.
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  4597. No amount of education will Change China. Missionaries have been going to that God forsaken country for decades with the intent of educating the Chinese people on basics like morals and even hygiene. Nothing has come of it and nothing ever will come of it.
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  4598. Because Chinese society is all about keeping up with appearances, the complete antithesis of logic and common sense.
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  4599. ""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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  4600. 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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  4601. Filipinos eat rice as a side dish only if it is a dessert like glutinous rice cake or rice with sweet coconut milk and tapioca.
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  4602. Wow, the cashier in the store literally did nothing! And he fell in their establishment. Never mind the fact that the other bystanders didn't do squat. There was no concern from anyone. No one even checked him. Someone even took a picture. Absolutely horrendous!
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  4603. "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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  4604. 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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  4605. The rear looks like a rip off of Hyundai.
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  4606.  @nicholas-k8j  There is no such thing as 'saving face', it's just another lie concocted by Chinese to justify bad actions. Immorality is the norm there.
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  4607. Yes, it's mostly CCP officials peddling this crap. it's because Huawei itself isn't proud of this phone.
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  4608.  @britishempireno1fan851  No. Other countries lack infrastructure nor do they have slaves that will work for little to no money.
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  4609.  @WheresWes  That's why there's something called "vetting" - men should go on dates with these women, get to know their families and decide whether they want to be the "rich foreigner savior" to a family of 20. The fact that these men fall for these tactics only shows their lack of intelligence and experience in being able to discern desirable women from the undesirable ones. Because they themselves have never been desired in the same way in their home country. So they're easily played. It's not the women's fault that these men display this simp behavior.
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  4610. Japan has nothing to learn from China. In fact China loves to copy from everyone including the Japanese. It's pathetic.
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  4611. Just a bunch of greedy morons.
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  4612. They don't buy tech. They steal IP.
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  4613. 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 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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  4614. Or lack thereof
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  4615. "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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  4616. He should do that to man with the same size and the same build. Coward
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  4617. 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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  4618. 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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  4619. 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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  4620. So basic. And yet here we are. They can't get their act together.
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  4621. The only people who believe the CCP at this point are either paid or Communists stans. Nobody with half a brain actually believes the CCP as they are such amateur liars.
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  4622. Good riddance. The UK needs to reclaim their Universities back and stop bending to the whims of Communists who don't even believe in the system that birthed those Universities.
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  4623.  @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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  4624. Were you there for work?
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  4625. 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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  4626. There is an agreement. Ask China to put it to the test and see what happens instead of running their cheap mouths.
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  4627. They spend to create a false impression and/or when it involves speculation. Makes sense considering that Asians, which include the Chinese are among the most financially illiterate groups of people in North America.
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  4628. 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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  4629.  @zacharyshi5372  You can make all the claims you want. Your entitled to them. But the lack of credibility is really what's making it difficult to trust what comes out of China. I would be more inclined to believe you if I knew you personally working grassroots. Unfortunately, I don't. No hard feelings.
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  4630.  @zacharyshi5372  Where you at the trial? How do you know?
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  4631. 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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  4632. 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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  4633. Sounds exactly like Animal Farm. But then again, Animal Farm is how China is run.
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  4634. ​ @alanparsonsfan they can't reveal too much. If too much is uncovered, there's going to be a lot of finger pointing - and we all know how much the Chinese refuse to take responsibility for anything because of their petty politics.
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  4635. If actions are worthy? So how the hell does China decide if actions are "worthy"? If it's in their best interest? The word you're looking for here is "self interest" not "worthiness". They're not arbiters of truth and divinity to decide.
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  4636. Most Chinese don't bother with this garbage. A lot of them know their government is full of crap.
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  4637. 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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  4638. "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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  4639. ​@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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  4640.  @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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  4641.  @paulohagan3309  Their "honor" based society is based on lies and deception, which is what this so called "face culture" reinforces. I spoke to a Korean about this. They have face culture as well as the Japanese. But none of them have taken it to the dysfunctional level that the Chinese have. The higher up you are in the social totem pole, the more you can get away with imposing what you want on the populace. The problem is people in power in China come from the same stock as everybody else. The Chinese aren't known for being self reflective and thinking things through, which is why we're are witnessing so many fiascos by the CCP in the last several years with little to no signs of letting up.
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  4642. That's the Chinese business model in a nutshell. To make waste.
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  4643. As if unleashing Covid to the world wasn't enough. Now they have this stupidity to add to their list. Why do you defend such an authoritarian country? Looks like communists defend each other no matter what the idiot consequences are.
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  4644.  @neowuwei7  because the CCP is so much worst and their lies can be easily proven. Biden is not perfect but his government's lies aren't as blatantly obvious. China is just plain bad at lying.
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  4645.  @neowuwei7  the difference? Biden is better at lying than Xi. With Biden, you question. With Xi, you already know it's a bold faced lie.
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  4646. This goes both ways. Same goes for China.
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  4647. 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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  4648. Especially when you have a country run by a mafia government who isn't above lying, cheating, and stealing.
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  4649. Everyone imposes tariffs on each other. China has protectionist policies that favor SOE's over foreign companies as well. But we never hear about those. Media, particularly pro China media or media paid by China loves to portray China as a "victim" when in actuality countries have their own interests to protect.
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  4650. Because corporations are greedy as hell. They want to maximize profits with doing little to no work. Also US has so many regulations that get in the way of production.
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  4651. "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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  4652. How the hell did a Chinese national cast their vote? Who checks if they're even US citizens? Sounds like a comedy show.
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  4653. China's housing is out of control and ridiculous. Canada requires you to meet pre-requisites before buying a home otherwise you will have the mess that is China.
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  4654. China came close to Alaska. The US just watched them in the name of freedom of navigation.
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  4655. No, they've always been deceitful and were already known as such even during the KMT and even before that.
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  4656. Another forced, ridiculous endeavor from China. Why is this not suprising?
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  4657. ​ @okami-z1b how?
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  4658. 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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  4659. China is also invading other territories other then Japan from countries that have never fought with China so your logic is shit. If you want to justify territorial expansion at the expense of thers then you will attract a war. The only thing that China has learned during WW2 is to take territory that's not theirs.
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  4660. "Chinese manners" such an oxymoron lol
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  4661.  @TH-jd1kv  a lot of Japanese find Chinese rude. You're the first "Japanese" I've met who is saying this which is making me doubt you already.
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  4662. Greedy morons who have bought into the propaganda that the CCP puts out about China being THE place to invest. The fact that there is still investment going there is truly mind boggling. To so many idiots, China can do no wrong despite evidence to the contrary.
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  4663. How is telling the truth tantamount to hate? China is a dirty country. That's a fact.
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  4664. "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 Everything that is being said by Global Times is complete and utter bs. All Chinese outlets talk about is Fukushima and how bad it is and then they shirk any responsibility for the public acting the way they do. Such liars.
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  4665. It's mostly a Chinese thing. And it's just another way for them to justify their shitty behavior because they can never admit to being wrong and they will never change. Btw, I am Southeast Asian and we don't really have this stupid "face" concept.
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  4666. This is so pointless. Xi just wanted a vacation from the toxic air, water, food, and all the protests in China.
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  4667. "Australia will hurt itself" - says butthurt Chinese government who are "pained" by what just happened.
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  4668. They constantly lie about their GDP. The only way to look into GDP is to measure their consumption. That's why housing is one of those metrics. Same with overall consumption of goods and services. They're all down.
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  4669.  @TheMarlinspike  "But most significant of all, you have found that Chinese do not fight for ideas, though they often give the impression of fighting under them, banner-wise. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  4670. "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) "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
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  4671. ​ @Nathan-xd4wk making $200k a year is how you make $200k a year.
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  4672.  @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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  4673. Here we go again. Wumaos who keep yakking about Palki talking about China.
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  4674.  @jarodarmstrong509  I don't know if you've heard of the book "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a US Consul who worked in China in the 1930s. Back then, the Chinese people made no distinction between the local police, the military, and the local gangs - they were all thugs and the Chinese people were always at their mercy. Even under the KMT, China was a cesspool of corruption, lying, and cheating. It's honestly not that much different from China now. That's why I laugh when people attribute all their ills to the CCP. It's true that they are part of the problem but you have to just acknowledge the fact that China is just a backwards lawless country always has been, always will be. Reason why places like Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong didn't turn out like China was because they were all colonized and democracy was imposed with actual rule of law, unlike China's law of rule.
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  4675. Nobody believes China anymore. India is already calling out China for even considering letting other countries in as "members" when we all know that all China is doing is gathering vassals and lackeys to do their bidding. India should just leave the BRICS.
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  4676. "This characteristic of the Chinese, their cheerful indifference to truth, exasperates a foreigner perhaps more than any quality in their nature. And as is natural, without any conception of truth as a principle among themselves, they seem frequently incapable of believing anything said to them by others." - "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
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  4677. It's typical of them
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  4678. The Chinese are disingenuous liars. Their empty words will blow over and they will keep doing business as usual.
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  4679. 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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  4680.  @chiphill4856  Criticize the US government in the US and see what happens? Criticize the Chinese government in China and see what happens? Only one of those will land you jail time. Guess which one? That country is NOT a democracy.
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  4681. He can't leave this Earth quick enough.
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  4682. At the end of the day, social media services like facebook will just take on a different form to cater to their clients. When all is said and done, people are none the wiser. Society has to evolve.
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  4683. No amount of luck can ever offset their high level of incompetence.
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  4684. I've always wondered why my low-end Casio watches were "made in China" but my G Shocks are always "made in Thailand". Now I know why.
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  4685.  @papatoomey595  Nobody is attacking Russia. Russia attacked first. Same with their "best friend" China. Soviet countries ARE the problem.
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  4686. Blame it on the skyrocketing standard of living as well. People can no longer cope and keep up. This is not to excuse their behavior but they resort to desperate measures to keep their head above the water.
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  4687.  @metalvideos1961  Lol, you're either a propagandist, or just terribly naïve. Offcourse China is going to say that. They lie about everything.
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  4688.  @nfuryboss  People don't seem to understand that this way of thinking has been normalized in China regardless of who is running the country. That's why everyone is vying for power. Doesn't matter who is in power. That person can do whatever they want. And people have tolerated this for so long. It's not unheard of for China to be ruled by tyrants, including emperors, kings, government officials and the lot.
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  4689. Putin is buying North Korean wares because their stock is depleting.
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  4690. The only one talking about "collapse" is people like you who keep bringing up this so called "collapse"
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  4691. Russia and North Korea
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  4692. It's just a shitty attempt at distraction. They love to detract attention away from themselves because China knows they do things so much worse than any other country.
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  4693.  @harmless6813  Isn't that what their propaganda is? Repeat it enough times and eventually it will believed by all? Problem is they drank their own cool aid.
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  4694. ​ @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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  4695. You've clearly been bought into Chinese cultural propaganda. They're not all "nice".
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  4696. It's basically another useless faceless gesture from China. Busy for the sake of being busy but ultimately fruitless and banal.
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  4697. They will never admit to stupidity. It's a trait that's innate in Chinese culture.
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  4698. China literally expresses outrage when one of their apps are shut down but US companies can't even get so much as one app in the Chinese market. That's not fair and Chi a knows this.
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  4699. Leaders who truly believe in their strength don't need to show off because their strength should be obvious. Putin is an insecure clown who has shown otherwise. Very weak and insecure.
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  4700. Do they truly believe that just because they put something out there that it should always sell automatically?
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  4701. "It's not the future when you are sixty years behind" - They're so backwards any "marvel" of invention to them feels like the future. That's the whole point.
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  4702. Vaccines have a limited shelf life. So if it's already useless, it's even going to be more useless even for Pakistain.
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  4703. The world has to seriously do away with these old bastards. They don't do anything that is of benefit to anyone but themselves.
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  4704. 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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  4705. They're a joke. Nobody takes them seriously.
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  4706. Even most Koreans don't eat this on the daily. It can potentially give you hemorrhoids if you can't handle it.
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  4707. Even the Chinese themselves don't understand how their country works. Just pure chaos and lawlessness.
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  4708. Step 1. Stop hiring Chinese military personnel, especially when they still have ties to China.
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  4709. What do you mean "smarter" scientist?
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  4710. Nazis prosecuted Jews nitwit
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  4711. China survives through lies and deceit. But it's clearly biting them in the ass now.
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  4712. "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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  4713. They lack clear solutions, pandering to popular sentiment, and failing to provide an accurate representation of the current situation. I doubt the CCP will be able to do anything other than enrich themselves.
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  4714. Avoid all this European made garbage. Buy Japanese made. - my mechanic
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  4715. 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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  4716.  @enno9431  Then maybe China should stop doing the same by taking territory that's not theirs.
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  4717. When girls go for the bad boy types, it says a lot more about the women than the men they want. But general rule of thumb, women like masculine men, and "bad boys" often exhibit those traits. Lots of times "nice guys" don't give of strong masculine energy and it shows in their physicality as well (ie doesn't go to the gym).
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  4718.  @EchoLog  It's more for their domestic market. It's the people they care about appeasing therefore lying to more. Because, unlike the rest of the world, they "sleep" next to them.
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  4719. Lol, good one.
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  4720.  @4411825  And you would know right? Who do you work for? Chinese state media?
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  4721. There might as well just be a cardboard cutout of him. At least a cardboard cutout doesn't say anything stupid.
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  4722. Why even go? There are better places than that rat hole.
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  4723.  @Omni0404  They should start focusing more on the international markets because their domestic markets can no longer absorb all of their productive endeavors. There's also a demand for quality products that the Japanese can fill.
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  4724. The girl who says she makes more money than Bill Gates is delusional. Bill Gates ranks as a billionaire in overall wealth, comparatively high even in the world of billionaires. That 304 only ranks high body count and being delusional.
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  4725. There is no competition. Who can compete with subsidized state owned enterprises that produce sub par crap? There are no equals in China's eyes. The world isn't stupid.
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  4726. 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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  4727. They don't even value the crap that comes out of their mouth since they love to lie and talk trash like nobody's business. No word of honor, no class. What else is new?
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  4728. So I take it you support China's shenanigans and its coverup that killed over a million people worldwide for the pandemic?
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  4729. If this is common knowledge then why is it in some people's eyes can China do no wrong? Is the allure of money truly worth it? It's just crazy how people constantly deal with China like as if they're the only country in the world worth dealing with.
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  4730. 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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  4731. All real estate companies in China operate this way.
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  4732. ​ @maxruedy951 stay away from places like Haidilao 😂
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  4733. 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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  4734. This is so weird.
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  4735. I agree with your statement about peaceful trade and prosperity. The CCP always fail to mention that the reason why the "US dominated" world is the way it is is because other countries have bought into international rules based on freedom and democracy. China and Russia always have to force their hand because nobody, other than third world dictatorships, ultimately believe in their ideology and coercive practices.
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  4736. They don't have enough. They're using the stockpile they hoarded before the sanctions to make these dated phones.
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  4737. When it comes to China I always assume that everything they put out is pure lies. And more often than not, that's usually the case.
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  4738. 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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  4739. It's Chinese AI that is skewed in favour of Chinese politics. It won't talk about Xi. It won't talk about Tiannanmen, uighurs etc. You can see why this is a problem right? And it has no problem talking about the negative aspects of Western history.
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  4740. They're seriously no different than North Korea at this point as far as lies and deception are concerned. But they're not really deceiving anyone anymore except for tankies and dimwits.
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  4741.  @AdastraRecordings  Milei's Argentina has already started making headways against the ridiculous communist policies of the previous administrations. Xi is only digging China into a further grave.
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  4742. 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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  4743. Only if you believe in Chinese propaganda. This is also the same body that touts that their passports are "strong" when they don't even rank in the top 10. It's not just lying, it's mass delusion.
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  4744. The next course of action would be to sanction China as well. And they would feel the effects of sanctions so much more than Russia since they rely even more heavily on globalization than even Russia does.
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  4745. 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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  4746. 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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  4747. Lol. Just talk about China and India 😂
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  4748.  @pablosskates7067  They have no more 'face' to save at this point. 'Face' is nothing more than a cop out. It's just another lie propagated by a culture that refuses to take responsibility for anything and will therefore never change.
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  4749. 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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  4750. 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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  4751. 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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  4752. 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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  4753. They basically use soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, vinegar, sugar, and maybe sesame oil to season everything which is why it all more or less tastes the same and they call their dishes different names which makes it all the more misleading.
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  4754. The Chinese have been doing dumbass shit like this to each other for thousands of years. Just look at the long slew of superstitions they have. Who do you think created those? It's not some enlightened sage, it's an opportunist looking to make bank on the idiot peasants. And they fell for it. Thousands of years later, their descendants are still not in on the joke.
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  4755. It is stupid. At least the women in China have more self awareness over there.
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  4756. They ARE ridiculous and they will only double down on their ridicoulousness. World should just move on from China. They will never change and they will always be hostile to the west.
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  4757. Lots of Chinese aren't paid hourly, they're paid salary.
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  4758. A lot of them still suck even outside of China.
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  4759. 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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  4760. 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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  4761.  @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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  4762. Does the Chinese government even have anymore "face" to loose? They're completely "faceless" at this point.
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  4763. 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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  4764.  @thomassimmer5186  Lol, China won't ask Taiwan what they want because they won't be able to take the truth which is that Taiwan wants to be their own independent nation.
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  4765. 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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  4766. 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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  4767.  @CrzyD-cv8xz  My ancestors were struggling to make ends meet. What do you think Asia was a hundred years ago? Much worst than it is today.
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  4768.  @NeygarzruinedAmerica  Successful doing what? I have Asian friends. The people who are very successful are exceptions, not the norm. Most Asians are just like everyone else.
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  4769.  @ithought_so6438  To start with, considering leaving Canada. Sick of the politics here. Everyone is all about diversity, equality and inclusivity and all this garbage - newsflash, unless you're dark skinned, and come with ovaries, you aren't going to get far. I have personally experienced this much to my dismay. Doesn't matter how hard I work. Promotions are for the well connected and lazy.
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  4770.  @anthonyhoang5902  You need to be well connected and in an industry that PAYS. Detail oriented in what exactly? Are you talking about computer programming? Coding?
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  4771.  @Steveanselm  Yeah, and these generalities are toxic and don't paint an accurate picture. It's just something that Asians "rejoice" in because it sounds good irrespective of what's actually going on in the real world. It's exasperating to hear.
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  4772.  @TheBeginnerviolin  I live in an area with a lot of Asians and a lot of them aren't well off. So again, its statements like that "we are wealthy on average" - that's absolutely ridiculous. The only reason you can make that statement is because you have some money in the bank, but seriously how wealthy are you? Are you a millionaire, billionaire? Just because I have $20,000 saved doesn't make a whole lot of difference when I will never be able to afford to buy a house. But I am "wealthy" next to everyone who doesn't even have so much as $500 in their bank account.
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  4773. Propagandists are paid bold faced liars. The sky could literally be falling and they would say "everything is fine". Mass delusion on an institutional level.
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  4774.  @foundation3848  How do you know? Not that it counts much for evidence
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  4775.  @davidlaw9686  There is no evidence. Only threat of "evidence". If there was evidence China would have showed it already just like their "ancient" map. Nobody believes China's lie. They're just making stupid noise as usual.
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  4776.  @davidlaw9686  No. They have to justify their illegal actions though.
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  4777.  @wionporky9937  China's territorial integrity is a farce and not backed by anything other than their so called 9 dash line created by the KMT. Philippines has a map from the 1700's that shows their historical territorial claim that even China cannot match. So any argument that shows that it's China's is null and void even from that stand point.
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  4778.  @wionporky9937  What are these mysterious magical laws that seem to just come out of the woodwork and why are we only finding out about this now? The plain and simple fact that none of this makes any sense only shows that all of this is a manufactured lie by China and it's not out of character for them. Even Dutertard doesn't acknowledge the existence of any such agreement. China's attempt at damage control is really lacking - from wire tapping (which is illegal under Philippine law), to this so called "deal" with an admiral who is NOT a final authority when it comes to this deal. China keeps shooting itself in the foot and is breaking the laws to justify their maligned intent. The more this faceless China runs their mouth the more stupid they look.
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  4779. Chinese have no more money to spend. These are people who used to put themselves into debt to put on a "well off façade". Not anymore.
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  4780. '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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  4781. 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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  4782. So many mentally ill people in China...
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  4783.  @ecthelionv2  save face = Lying. You can call it whatever you want. Still doesn't change this simple fact.
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  4784.  @ameliaannhouck2670  Problem is they never learn. You have a stubborn people with large egos that are based on nothing, other than the fact that they were born in that specific part of the world.
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  4785.  @Duke00x  Not all of us in Asia are bought into face. It's mostly the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese. And even they (Japanese, Koreans) have a different view of what face is, and it's not the same dysfunctional view that the Chinese have.
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  4786.  @yvonnekemp5564  It's very hard when you have a belligerent government who constantly pisses off everyone around it and lies to the world, which cost millions of people their lives.
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  4787.  @edward9643  Exactly. But they don't. Face culture is NOT a genuine cultural phenomenon. It's a fabrication designed to deceive and rationalize negative behaviors. It's just another attempt at lying which tells you a lot about their "culture". If they truly believed in face culture then they wouldn't be caught dead doing half the things they did, which already tells you that they don't adhere to it in their actions. If you think a culture which has no qualms using deceit and manipulation would shy away from such antics to "culturally justify" what they do then you have been bought by their cultural propaganda which they themselves don't believe in.
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  4788.  @openmike4559  People justify their actions but they don't go around incessantly lying about who they are and their capabilities. Nowhere have fabrications, falsifications, illusions, misconceptions, and fiction been persistent and excessive as in China - they make sport of lying. And they take "mass delusion" to a whole new level.
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  4789.  @antiprismatic  If you need to navigate a society wherein lying, cheating, and stealing are a possibility in every corner then you obviously live in a "faceless" society. Talking about having "face" implies you don't have it.
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  4790.  @user-wb7nv9ht1g  the name of his channel is "China update". Go figure it would be about China.
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  4791. ​ @leonardpearlman4017 you can train them as much as you want, you can't give them jobs that aren't needed otherwise they would exist already. This is what happens with a centrally planned economy. They need to find means and ways to put money in people's pockets. That's what needs to be addressed.
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  4792.  @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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  4793. If you have to say China is 'safe' then it obviously isn't. It should go without saying.
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  4794. Actually, all Chinese do is talk and talk and talk. Where's the proof? I have never seen this in US media because everything in the US is privately owned not state owned. By the way, just so we are clear, I am not American. The fact that China bots love to make this distinction is hilarious because that's not how the US works. Who in the US is arrogant? The private companies? American citizens who have nothing to do with them? You don't know what the heck you are talking about.
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  4795. Chinese don't talk much? Are you trying to be funny? All China does is talk about how "amazing" and "great" they are. They never miss an opportunity to boast and tear other down when it suits them. Arrogance and boasting are innate in Chinese culture.
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  4796. We need to fucus on helping and strengthening the bonds of like minded allies. China does not need to be in on everything.
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  4797. This is why I sip water in between. Hangover isn't as bad. Sometimes it's nonexistent.
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  4798. A lot of people are so weak willed nowadays. No introspection, no self awareness, and no responsibility. Therefore, no change.
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  4799. The terms of the loan are already a given. You think the debtor nation doesn't know that?
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  4800.  @smartguy1008  Like what? Where's your proof? Also, why isn't this so called "advanced technology" in the market?
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  4801. Between those 2 economies, one is more dependent on the other.
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  4802. Tell that to the Soviets and communists who constantly threaten peace and stability because THEY want to control everything.
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  4803. At least those of us in Vancouver will no longer have to wrestle with Asians from Washington in the already crowded parking lots.
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  4804. They can call it whatever they want. At the end of the day, it's just theft. Such manipulative liars.
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  4805. 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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  4806. 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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  4807. Is that from Chinese state media?
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  4808. There are other countries. Not just China.
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  4809. They want attention and validation. Typical insecure response.
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  4810.  @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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  4811. 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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  4812. 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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  4813. "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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  4814. The enemy of this sinister government is truth and people who are willing to vocalize all the evil that they are doing.
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  4815. It's an empty gesture, considering US defense companies don't deal with China anyway. China just needs the footage for propaganda.
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  4816. I have never been to China. And I know a couple of people from China and their views are similar to yours and Zeihan's view - China's economy isn't looking good.
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  4817. We already knew that. People literally asked it what it was. It said it was GPT 4.
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  4818.  @bobmorane4926  They're racking up debt. It's not hard to find articles on google that support this simple and obvious fact.
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  4819.  @bobmorane4926  all you are commenting on is the superficial. Those structures you mentioned are built on loans and shoddy construction, which hardly qualifies as anything of value. Look at Evergrande, Kaisa, even the HSR to name a few examples - They're all run the same way - There is no foresight. It's all about keeping GDP numbers up on paper. Guess what? Everyone on credit looks like they're "richer" than they are until they need to pay back their loans and credit cards.
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  4820. Don't be a psycho
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  4821. That sounds horrible
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  4822. Asians aren't there because a lot of them have a brain.
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  4823. Big egos? More like fragile, insecure egos.
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  4824. China has always been like this. Read "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a US Consul who lived in 1930s China. Even under the KMT, corruption was rampant and their society has always been chaotic. "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
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  4825. 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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  4826. So the US with it's top intelligence and cutting edge Science doesn't know what's causing this? Find that hard to believe
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  4827. Lol, so funny
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  4828. When you're talking about China, no rules of logic apply.
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  4829. Land sales - unfortunately property purchases are down
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  4830. "The Chinese use moralizing words regularly for the same reason the low-class French use perfume-to distract attention from the underlying dirt. It is the custom of the country. You can find the loftiest sort of moralizing in letters from Chinese bandits demanding ransom for kidnap victims. Caught red-handed in the most outrageous rascality, your illiterate coolie will burst loose like Old Faithful in a geyser of moral rhetoric, without the slightest concern at an inconsistency between the utterance and the evidence. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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
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  4831. why don't they hire attractive people from all backgrounds, not just white people?
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  4832. Relationships were never fully 50/50 but women did a hell of a lot more back in the day.
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  4833. Bribes only get you so far. When you piss off the local populace, they will retaliate.
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  4834. All they talk about and continue to stress is their so called "culture". Notice the lack of collaboration with other countries and the inability to adapt to social norms and move forward? Their superiority complex will ultimately be their downfall. Also find it laughable that Xi said that China is both old and new. We got ourselves a philosopher in the making here 🤣. Xi's thoughts are more wishful thinking than actual reality. Nobody is fooled.
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  4835. 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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  4836.  @dominysynclair  Never heard of this trend in America.
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  4837. 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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  4838. What do you mean by "admiration"? You mean they bought into propaganda?
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  4839.  @reginageorgetownuni  this isn't so trivial when a lot of people are getting affected.
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  4840.  @liesterminator153  yes, but the chances of a Mercedes or Volvo spontaneously combusting is not nearly as high as a Chinese made EV. On top of dying in a high impact collision, you now have faulty car systems to worry about in a Chinese EV. That's more unsettling and adds another layer of anxiety.
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  4841.  @liesterminator153  majority of those cars combusting are in China. You really think BYD, XPeng, Nio, Xiaomi etc will release that information? In a country wherein lying is a common feature of doing business and part of Chinese culture? You have got to be kidding.
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  4842. I don't fix cars for a living but I am one of several men at work when women need something lifted or fixed.
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  4843. Everything is about their basic survival
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  4844. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions.
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  4845. You can quit. Stop comparing China and the US. They're not the same.
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  4846.  @kshen7485  China's rising? Is that what state propaganda told you despite the failing housing market, faltering economy, and rampant joblessness?
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  4847.  HoLeeFook68  Don't forget Philippines and South Korea. They will be prompted to attack as well.
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  4848.  @AdastraRecordings  It's ridiculous and ultimately means nothing as it is just more propaganda.
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  4849. US is not like this. Stop with your groundless lies. Nobody believes China bots like you.
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  4850. ​ @nogibertv4824 this is a copy of something the US already developed.
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  4851. China's inability to act on situations that greatly impact the world at large only shows how unreliable they are. They're no stranger to calling out Western countries for minor inconveniences but have absolutely nothing to say about a situation which will greatly affect them. They're clowns and shouldn't be taken seriously. The world should guard against them since their intentions keep shifting to favour their "convenience" - whatever that is.
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  4852. 🤣
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  4853. This is why they are trying so hard to say it's not engineered in a lab. They all know that virology labs all over the world are going to be questioned for their practices and ethics.
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  4854. 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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  4855. I initially thought this was his child. Then I remembered he married a Korean girl.
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  4856. Last I checked the rest of the world is still bigger than China. So why not find markets elsewhere? Also, do you really want to deal with their insane government and the terms of doing business in that country? It's not as straightforward as just going to China and selling products there. The CCP wants in on everything and it has the intent of culling foreign competition after it feels it has all the technological "know how" it needs to produce on a massive scale.
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  4857. It's because the US values giving their citizens jobs. If you incorporate AI to the exclusion of everything else including giving people a means to live then AI is only going to serve to take away from people more than it gives back. The Chinese government obviously cares less about the former.
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  4858. China sells things for so cheap that they don't have the profit margin to research. Of course they will only resort to stealing.
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  4859.  @ralfzacherl9942  No, Chinese just talk shit behind your back to other Chinese while your back is turned. Talk with other foreigners, it happens more often than you think especially to foreigners who CAN speak Chinese.
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  4860. "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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  4861. It doesn't matter. Nothing good will come out of it. Just like their so called "talks" with India. All talk from China is empty and a reiteration of their stance. They will not compromise and they will never change.
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  4862. And yet you have Chinese state media constantly posting on youtube trying to subvert western audiences. Once again, it's one sided in favor of the Chinese narrative.
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  4863. They're both hell bent on insisting in their own ways. China and Pakistan aren't exactly known for being the most open minded countries in the world.
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  4864.  @missilecarrier  These people always exist regardless of how the economy is performing.
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  4865. The amount of bad behavior that Chinese authorities allow isn't even surprising anymore.
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  4866. 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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  4867. Jelous of what exactly?
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  4868. What is Palestine?
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  4869. 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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  4870.  @Akideoni  Don't act so naive when it's quite known that CCP officials take their money there. Where do you think they get their money from? Kickbacks? bribes? Don't be ridiculous. When a CCP official can buy multiple properties with their measly salaries, that should already tell you something's amiss. Your statement is akin to someone wanting to physically see the fire when seeing smoke doesn't suffice. Get real. As I said, you guys are like Switzerland or the Carribean. Lots of ill-gotten money goes there without any regard for where it actually came from. But hey, that so-called "openness" to investment capital is also what got you guys where you are today? Right?
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  4871.  @tobyc8668  Say whatever you will but his actions and demeanor already prove his associations with the CCP. And everyone can see this.
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  4872.  @chanfranc  That's China for you. A whole lot of double standards. "When the Chinese want to be nasty-as they always do toward somebody-they have a talent for exasperation exceeding anything else in human shape. The favorite policy, toward Americans and other nationalities, is to encourage secretly all kinds of obstruction tactics, from looting to murder, and then disclaim responsibility and as an excuse the general disorder of the country. But while some disorders would naturally occur to cause loss or injury to foreigners in a country in a chaos of anarchy, the provincial moguls and central government officials, with their tyrannical authority, can when they wish prevent the majority of excesses. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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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  4873. Do these backwards people who believe in this nonsense actually test their theories out and see if they actually work? Like how will they know if eating tiger meat actually makes them good at business?
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  4874. You wish. Keep barking Wumao
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  4875. This is about infighting within the party. Big tech and big business in China are beholden to party members. The question is who? They're obviously not allied with Xi.
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  4876. He did a good job of being neutral. He didn't address the obstacles that get in the way of US China relations that needed to be addressed.
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  4877. Why!? Because they're dumb and uninformed?
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  4878. You have it backwards. China was UNDER Mongolia.
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  4879. China has a valuable self driving company?
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  4880. Get ready. The Wumaos are going to be flooding in any second now.
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  4881. It can't happen quick enough. Everyone is seriously pissed at them.
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  4882.  @keitha.9788  That's the whole point. He doesn't get to spread his stupidity on anybody.
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  4883. Why does she want to get married begrudgingly?
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  4884. Keep dreaming
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  4885. ​ @byubyu08 it's honestly a cross between fish and chicken texture wise. That's why it's so distinct.
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  4886. anytime China complains about US hegemony = China cannot act on what they want Lol
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  4887. What a wordy high falutin way to say "the West always gets it wrong" considering China has never been upfront about anything including its data.
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  4888. They did say in the Bible that the "beast" in Revelations was a red dragon with 7 heads. Some people are saying that the "red dragon" in the Bible was China - 7 heads stands for the 7 Politburo members, and they love to lie - another trait that's associated with Satan.
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  4889. Someone should be quoting the Chinese representative's words verbatim.
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  4890. "Why do you assume China dumps water in to the sea" - Because their environmental track record and adherence to world standard of safety are abysmal and next to non existent. Are you for real?
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  4891. 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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  4892. Give those jobs to Americans, not Chinese.
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  4893. ​ @paulferrer286 True. Gving them numbers is to distinguish different junk types.
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  4894.  @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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  4895. China and Russia love to talk about defending their so called "rights" when they contsantly interfere with other countries. The hypocricy is hilarious.
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  4896. Lol, says the country that monetizes everything, including the organs of political prisoners.
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  4897. It's because they know they're not dealing with a Chinese person. They're only comfortable acting that way with their own kind. As they say "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know". And yes, they know westerners can be vocal and will fight them tooth and nail if they pull those types of antics in North America.
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  4898. People who usually say Taiwan is not a free country are CCP bots or brainwashed Chinese nationalists. Of course, they'll make an exception for Ukraine. Ukraine isn't their country.
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  4899. 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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  4900. 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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  4901. China resets ties only when they're in deep sh!t. Otherwise, it's a fake act based on lies and deception. The world should move on from the post covid. Their antics are no longer funny. In fact they're irresponsible and dangerous.
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  4902.  @Zei33  A lot of America's views on China were for the longest time, tempered to fit America's "positive" view of China because the alternative would be too jarring for the American public. If consuls from all over the world who worked in China could talk, you would have a very different view of China. "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" by Ralph Townsend
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  4903. Read up on Arab states' history. They love to go to war with each other lol.
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  4904.  @moonsharn  They have an authoritarian regime precisely because of everything you have said. Chinese emperors were no different. In order to "tame" the chaotic civilization that is China, you need a steady hand because the Chinese do not follow anything or answer to anyone on their own accord. They can't be trusted to make decisions that will be of benefit to society. Since they always exploit loopholes of a system and can't be content with the status quo of rules and regulations.
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  4905. 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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  4906. Don't feel sorry for them anymore. They bring their own stupidity onto themselves.
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  4907. You shouldn't. Not with this level of stupid.
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  4908. Why do they keep questioning this liar. She will never come clean. Actions speak louder than words. She already fled the Philippines!
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  4909. I thought they banned this garbage in China? Are you not allowed to show off online anymore?
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  4910. So weird
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  4911. 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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  4912. Who is going to implement robots? Do you mean multinational companies? To automate is very expensive and it's not as simple as just setting up automatons, you have to constantly program them and modify their programming to suit whatever you are producing. You now need tech specialists to constantly maintain and look after them and who right now has the monopoly over high-quality chips? It's the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. So China is screwed on that front too. And them agitating and pissing everyone off isn't going to help their cause.
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  4913. What sacrifices?
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  4914.  @xinniether-pooh989  The drab looking soviet outfit that all those morons wear. I wouldn't know since they all look the same to me.
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  4915. 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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  4916. Of course Taiwan has an enemy. That enemy is China. If China weren't an enemy of Taiwan's there wouldn't be any drills and we wouldn't even be having this conversation because this wouldn't be news.
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  4917. Not all of us buy Chinese garbage. Speak for the uniformed people out there. A lot of us know better, especially after their antics in recent years.
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  4918. Most companies are always looking for sales people since most people don't want to do this job.
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  4919. China wasn't much better when the Nationalists were in power. China was always fragmented into political groups always vying for power. It was always run by corrupt officials, local gangs, and extortionists.
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  4920. 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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  4921. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  4922.  @haha-hg6yq  You are allowed to detain them. They aren't legal. So yes, you technically can.
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  4923. Just Chinese being Chinese. What else is new?
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  4924.  @fastepo  is this Channel marketed to Chinese to study overseas? You seem to love to publish all these "claims" by the CCP with little to no evidence. Everything on here reeks of AI generated propaganda.
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  4925. A lot of Chinese don't just have money, they're heavily in debt.
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  4926. Soft power has to be enforced by substance. And China has none. It's just all facade.
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  4927. ​​ @nelsonta00 yup. They're also making Mexico think twice.
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  4928. 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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  4929.  @WTM00  how do you know? Also, we're talking about China here.
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  4930. You're in your 50's? Because your approach sounds ridiculously childish. Why don't you do some research on Chinese laws so you know where people stand on this issue.
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  4931.  @rpoutine3271  Define "better shape"?
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  4932. 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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  4933.  @racekrasser7869  it's exceptionally hard for him too because he has to do everything himself.
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  4934. Philippines has nothing to gain from dealing with China especially when China doesn't honor and form of agreement. Just look at Hong Kong if that's not evidence enough. As for markets, the Philippines can learn from what happened in Australia when China threw a temper tantrum and diversify - it's certainly the trend nowadays after China's bellicose reponse after it infected the world with Covid.
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  4935. It's honestly a fucking joke at this point.
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  4936. Saving face is a farce. It's another way for them to justify their lies. If they really wanted to save face they would do more honorable things instead of finding means and ways to dupe and manipulate everyone.
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  4937. I watch Yeonmi Park a North Korean defector and she said that they literally teach math like that to their populace. "If there are 3 American bastards and 2 of them were shot, how many American bastards are left?" You can't make this shit up in those fucked up countries that love to hate.
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  4938. Chinese people don't know anything about their history let alone what's happening in their own country. You know much more than the typical random Chinese citizen walking around blindly.
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  4939. China was already chaotic before the rise of the CCP. They have always been chaotic historically and will continue to be chaotic in the future. Lots of people in China don't follow rules nor do they have basic common sense.
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  4940. Oh look, the country that claims to be "accepting" when in actuality they love to discriminate is accusing another of what they do. China should just keep its mouth shut.
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  4941. ​ @etow8034 they could but what would be the point?
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  4942. ​ @Ray-mm1xg not really. Only you think that
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  4943. Think what? That it would be a waste of time for them to come close to the continental US?
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  4944.  @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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  4945. 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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  4946. Is it because India refuses to lie about what's happening like China does? It's called having a little bit of morals. Something China obviously lacks.
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  4947. Canada is somewhat significant because of the US. Without the US, Canada is nothing. I don't even know why they are in the G7. Oh that's right, it's probably because of the proximity to the US too. I am saying all this AS a Canadian.
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  4948. They don't care. They spend money that's not even theirs.
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  4949. What do you mean by "comply"? What is the definition under obscure vague Chinese law? Care to explain?
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  4950. Chinese logic at its finest...
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  4951.  @Bloodtyrant9154  Chinese brag for the sake of bragging - they're insecure and they know what they make is sub par. It's sad that they have to resort to such childish tactics.
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  4952. They're so unbelievably naïve and dumb. Truly amazing what their government has done to them.
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  4953.  @armondeushon7892  Like as if Communism is much better? Stop trying to convince the world otherwise. People can see for themselves, otherwise the Chinese themselves wouldn't leave their crappy country.
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  4954. People need to be educated about finance. This problem is so prevalent all over the world. Why aren't kids taught about compound interest is beyond me.
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  4955.  @samuellourenco1050  Doesn't matter who the hell is running China. It's always been a mess. Under the KMT they were a mess, under Emperors they were a mess.
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  4956. ​ @samuellourenco1050 CCP officials are of the same stock. You would be hard pressed to find innocent hardworking Chinese. It's no different than going to a country A and saying "not everyone in country A is a criminal" when 80% of them engage in criminal activity. Don't be surprised them if you get scammed or mugged when the writing is on the wall. Arguing for the exception instead of the norm won't yield good results.
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  4957. Maybe you're delusional
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  4958. And that's why the country is an absolute hell on earth.
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  4959. Tit for tat approach only works if the other side has something to loose. Just like China's tit for tat by sanctioning US officials. US officials don't have any property or interest in China so they will be largely unaffected. Also, they wasted so much fuel to get to the US and for what? It's not the same as the South China Sea. It's not a shipping lane.
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  4960. So than by definition you don't need foreign investment. What a clown statement.
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  4961. It seems like everyone who visits China becomes a complete idiot. All common sense flies out of the window.
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  4962.  @sparrowbird2  They're working for those lifetime sponsorships from sports companies, not to mention the fact that they get to have book deals or get to be hired as public speakers. It is its own brand of "celebrity".
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  4963. 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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  4964. This is what Soviets always do. They do something and blame everything on the US. They apparently have no agency whatsoever. Such clowns
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  4965. I talked to people from China. None of them are optimistic. Nobody is saying anything about a collapse. But things are looking dire. It's a slow unravelling. It's not a car going 100km hitting a wall. Public protests are up but you will never hear about them in the West.
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  4966. How is it the same?
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  4967. ​@Number-cm1xgChina is just revealing its true face. It's always been there.
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  4968. Really? How did you figure?
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  4969. This idiot country can't even fix their own problems. Now they're eyeing the world order? How laughable.
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  4970.  @ipinsos2000  They grew despite a lot of multinational companies leaving? Wow, this is a whole new level of delusion. Has China also made an enemy of mathematics? Truly insane.
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  4971. We need to start calling out black people who love to bring up people's "whiteness" as racists publicly. Absolutely disgusting!
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  4972.  @rs-dp6pr  The West doesn't conduct propaganda like China does.
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  4973.  @tingleblade4274  When the war "ends" there will be nothing left. So there will be nobody to judge it. And the miniscule few who will survive will be traumatized for generation to come.
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  4974. "Reality shows" aren't real at all. Even the people on there, unless it's a competition, are all actors. In this case, it's all about how much you pay the judges. If the kid's parents are connected with the CCP, they can just pay.
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  4975.  @Chr1s-fm6bi  oh please. You have multinational corporations leaving and Chinese people loosing jobs and you want us to believe that they're still growing? You're clearly a nationalist that refuses to acknowledge evidence and common sense
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  4976. Why do Chinese people online keep saying this content is "funny"? What's funny about it? I talk to people from China and they're worried. Nobody is laughing about this.
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  4977. ​ @stevemcgowen you obviously don't know Filipino sentiment towards China.
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  4978. No. It's because they have NO money. Don't make it more complicated than it is.
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  4979. Because whoever fires the first shot is the aggressor. That's how wars start. Even the Soviets know this.
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  4980. Not just desperate. Dumb as well.
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  4981. Everyone who doesn't do what China says is always pro US right? They don't have their own self interest or their own approach to handling situations.
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  4982. They never run out of dumbass excuses to lie to justify their claims. Deceit is inherent in the Chinese government and the Chinese people. Read "Ways that are dark: The truth about China" by Ralph Townsend. He was a former US Consul who lived in 1930s China. They were already fucked under the KMT, they're still fucked up now. The book explains Chinese psychology and the lack of morals that is inherent in their country. It's all about basic survival in a chaotic country.
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  4983. All this talk of "strength" and "weakness" will only be put to the test during a hot war. And China knows they can't match US capability. So they can talk and speculate as much as they want. But what is the bottom line? If China takes Taiwan, they will be met with scorn and rebuke. If the CCP wants to gamble its future, it's more than welcome to.
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  4984. Exactly. Isn't it dumb? Yet again, this proves that Taiwan is NOT a part of China. Imagine if the US attacked Hawaii or Alaska or Puerto Rico. It would be seen as deranged and idiotic by the world. But thein again, self awareness isn't the CCP's strong suit. It's all about politics for them even if they look foolish to the world.
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  4985. Anytime I see "from Beijing" or "from China" I already know it's government approved crap which essentially means "do not believe this"
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  4986. ​​ @johnny-ih5es West Philippine sea is referring to the 200 nautical mile EEZ of the Philippines. It's not referring to the entirety of the SCS. See the Philippines doesn't claim the whole sea unlike China.
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  4987. The messages of the Chinese men to the Russian women are so simpy and pathetic.
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  4988. 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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  4989. China sanctioning US firms in its soil is an empty gesture. In a culture of facades, it acts out of politics and not out of common sense.
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  4990. A lot of people from the LGBTQ community know how they will be treated in Palestine. But it's still not going to stop them from yakking about their stupid identity politics. They're nothing without it.
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  4991. Vancouver condo industry runs purely on investment speculation. Two reasons for this are international students and Airbnb. They are now both being regulated.
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  4992. "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" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China)
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  4993. What superiority complex?
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  4994. 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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  4995. ​ @NathanCW-e1e It's called "liability". That's what these Chinese cars are.
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  4996. Get over yourself.
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  4997. That's propaganda in a nut shell. It's a pure lie.
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  4998. BLM only goes where the money allows them or doesn't allow them.
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  4999.  @willywonka4340  If there's one thing that has remained unchanged about the Chinese is that they refuse to change.
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  5000. The opinion of Nigeria doesn't matter because their country is corrupt and their officials are bought by China. It's also the home of the "Nigerian Prince scam". So most people could care less what a back water scammy country like Nigeria has to say.
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  5001. ​​ @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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  5002. Because there's no shortage of room temperature IQ Chinese nationalists.
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  5003. It's still made in China 🤢
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  5004. No, China has the US beat in that category. They're printing the Yuan at an astonishingly higher rate to fund their debt ridden projects that don't yield any economic gain. Stop with this bs propaganda. It's ridiculous. Also, if the Chinese are so bought into the imminent decline of the dollar as you so put it, then why are CCP officials sending their kids to the US to study and buy property over there? Is there something they know that the rest of us don't? Highly doubt it. That's how "bought" into BRICS they are. What a joke.
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  5005.  @MikiCab1  Well, one can delude themselves instead of accepting reality and doing something about their circumstance.
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  5006. How?
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  5007. Lol taknuts
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  5008. And BYD just outsold Tesla in China. Fake sales + crappy cars = Chinese EV propaganda.
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  5009.  @billc6762  That would affect everyone's premiums. Since everyone is now sharing in the risk.
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  5010. "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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  5011. “Cha bu duo” (差不多)
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  5012. 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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  5013.  @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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  5014. So you would much rather trust Hamas?
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  5015.  @davidmaxwaterman  "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) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  5016. Yes, and have North Korea and it's insane dictator hold countries hostage? Dream on.
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  5017. Fallen back? It was always there, especially in China.
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  5018. She knows. She just doesn't want to be disappeared just like everyone else who crosses the CCP.
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  5019. He's just a typical opportunist. No shortage of these types especially from China. He should definitely be let go because if someone like him can be easily bought, he's not an asset but a liability.
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  5020. Canada is expensive but unlike China, they have regulations in place to avoid this stupidity happening to China.
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  5021. What makes you think other competitors can do better especially under the conditions created by the CCP?
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  5022. "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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  5023. 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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  5024. Read "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend. It talks about China in the 1930's. Their mentality hasn't changed all that much. They have always been resistant to change and will continue to be resistant to change. The lack of critical thinking and morals are mind boggling.
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  5025. ​ @vanlee4109 those impressions are paid. Don't kid yourself. It's all fake
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  5026. Chinese don't believe in life insurance.
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  5027. "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) "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  5028.  @luckystartzzz  Also, a lot of China's derived AI is modeled after ones the US made already.
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  5029. Some countries are faring better than China.
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  5030. Don't forget that this is the "last" red line in a slew of many "final" red lines.
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  5031. That's how communists think. Haven't you noticed? China gets its playbook from Russia.
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  5032.  @longsleevethong1457  wouldn't know. I have never owned Nokia after the early 2000's.
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  5033. 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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  5034. 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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  5035. 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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  5036. 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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  5037. Yes, there's only what government allows and doesn't allow
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  5038. Why are these accusations always one sided, skewed in favor of the woman's perspective?
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  5039.  @dwightsmith3815  lol. Well, it's not a buffet. Most restaurants serving a la carte will serve their guests where they sit. Even if they have a serving cart, that's just where they set the food before it makes its way to you
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  5040. I've never seen this behavior in Japan or Korea don't lie.
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  5041.  @curiousnomadic I've visited both Korea and Japan and people in those countries queue. And if you didn't you would be glared at. I saw no evidence of what you said and this happened in those countries.
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  5042. 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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  5043. You're right. And China with their greed and ridiculousness did not read the writing on the wall. A lot of these countries don't have anything to provide when they can't even fix their own system. It's just the corrupt doing business with the corrupt no matter what the costs.
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  5044.  @skydragon23101979  Purely economic perspective? They're not reaping any economic rewards from these places. I don't know about you but if I had billions to spend, I wouldn't build it running through an area where I know my investment will be put at risk be it by terrorism or civil strive and that's exactly where China decided to position itself. And it actually thinks it's the right thing to do from a business perspective? Wow, these aren't strategic business moves, this is purely gambling.
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  5045. It's no different than the woke left movement. All talk and no bite.
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  5046. Mandate of heaven is made up to keep China's rulers in check because it's not unheard of for them to abuse power. In fact, tyranny is quite common in their history
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  5047. Maybe not Canadians but the US is still considered a desirable destination for immigrants. China, not so much.
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  5048.  @eget4144  Are you talking about the same USA that Chinese government officials run to with their ill gotten wealth? That USA? What a joke!
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  5049. They all smoke opium believing someone is still out there for them. As a soon to be 40 year old man myself, my attraction to older women has not grown. I wish them a long peaceful life of single hood.
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  5050.  @Kiev-in-3-days  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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  5051. I think they're hoping that if they blab long enough, you would forget that you had a question to ask them in the first place lol.
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  5052.  @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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  5053. ​ @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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  5054. "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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  5055. The movie showed a bunch of lines that squiggled to the right. It was open to interpretation. It's only being brought up because this is already a sensitive issue.
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  5056. They don't avoid embarrassment. They cover their ass when they have been caught with their ridiculousness and so called "face" culture. Because there is no explanation for why they do what they do. It's just bizarre and backwards and they know it. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so keen in hiding it or "defending" their actions. So gross.
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  5057.  user-sq8zp7fr9n  A lot of people have "fancy" things in their museums lol, not just China. Stop thinking you were the only "rich" civilization back in the day because you weren't. Ever seen things from the Roman Empire or Ancient Egypt? What about the Middle East? Stop tooting your own horn.
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  5058. My brother landed in Guangzhou China grabbing a connecting flight to Thailand. He could not connect to the local network at the airport and had to resort to asking the airport staff for help. He didn't know where to go and what time the flight had to leave. They were of course of no help due to the language barrier. All this 5G nonsense is just that, propaganda nonsense.
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  5059. A lot of people don't believe in that 5.4% growth put out by China's lying government. The fact that you are even using that as a reference is laughable.
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  5060. Whenever I get set up on a date with a girl who's in her 30's, I don't even bother. Because I can already feel the pressure of her biological clock without even meeting her yet.
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  5061.  @JeezLouise-e3b  This is why US regulators are targeting Shein and Temu. Their disregard for IP is truly horrendous.
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  5062.  @bluebellrose8  It's lack of education. And yes, the Catholic church is heavily involved. They don't stand to benefit from a shrinking lower class who patronizes them if they are having fewer children. I have a background in finance, and Filipinos are of one of the groups that are the most resistant to change. This is only exacerbated by the fact that they are living pay check to pay check or sometimes lesser when they have to feed countless relatives instead of these relatives being self sufficient and looking for work themselves. It's an ongoing cycle that is only reinforced by culture, ignorance, and the unwillingness to learn, . Unless Filipinos open their minds to making different choices they will make the same choices generation after generation and none will be the wiser.
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  5063. 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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  5064. Makes me irritate at the mere mention of pig baaayy
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  5065. No shortage of weirdos in China.
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  5066. "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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  5067. Just go to Taiwan. You won't be scammed/harassed. And you'll be able to leave.
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  5068. At this point, it's innate in their culture. Doesn't matter who's ruling them. They're all from the same corrupt lot.
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  5069. True. The funniest jokes are all based on the truth. And Ricky is just stating what's so painstakingly obvious.
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  5070. What happened to all the boss babes screaming equality? The men work. Why shouldn't they?
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  5071. "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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  5072. You should check out their 7/11's. The amount of good food in there at reasonable prices is something that has not been replicated elsewhere.
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  5073. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "It should be remembered that a Chinese is eternally a dramatist, a play actor in the midst of the most poignant realities about him. And where he is able to work his own mind of the actualities of an issue by the role he assumes, he counts upon removing your own focus from them vastly more." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  5074. Are you still surprised by these insecure braggards? Their claim to fame is all about copying technologies that already exist. They're not only the biggest liars on the planet, they're the most delusional at that.
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  5075. "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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  5076. How do you know that this is cutting edge technology? And not just old jet plans that were made to "look" cutting edge?
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  5077.  @blue24_actual  No it doesn't. China, North Korea, and Russia love to parade and show how "backward" they are compared to the US. They will find out the US's capability in combat.
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  5078.  @jacobbohn9658  why pay when you can just wear a cardboard box? It's basically the same thing.
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  5079.  @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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  5080.  @nicholasrockall7308  So many Wumaos are everywhere trying so hard to convince us of what China isn't. So sad.
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  5081. They're working overtime as their country downward spirals.
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  5082. "Canada will grow better than the United States" - Did I seriously just hear that from Trudope?
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  5083. 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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  5084. Well considering Vancouver is a hub for CCP officials, it's not all that surprising. They've practically bought off West Vancouver and the Iranian officials have bought off North Van, which is what my Iranian co-worker informed me. Canada is a hub for criminals, and moron politicians have looked the other way for years because they bring millions of stolen or ill-gotten wealth to the country.
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  5085. China doesn't have 1 billion. This myth has been debunked. It's more like 700 to 850 million.
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  5086. So these Chinese living abroad can't contact their local embassy or call a government representative in their home country? Instead, they opt to create these fake centers to "help" their citizens? What absolute horse shit.
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  5087.  @justanotherguy469  It's also the degradation of society as we know it.
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  5088. "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) This is nothing new. Chinese people have always tolerated this due to lack of agreed upon morals and the pursuit of material wealth and not much else.
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  5089. "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) It's always been like that in China.
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  5090. China loves to project. Everything they say the US "does", according to their clown state media, they already do themselves, instead of focusing on their own issues. It's easier to point fingers and blame the outside world for their inability to fix their own damn problems. Because they never will.
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  5091. They always have been snarling dogs putting on a show
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  5092. 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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  5093. They don't feel the same towards you or anyone else for that matter. Why bother with such sentiment?
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  5094. They care more about not spreading infection because that would be more costly than a few measly bucks from China.
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  5095. "It is a lamentable but true observation that about the only people doing anything in China are those doing harm. This does not deny that there are Chinese in China who are sincere in deploring the present condition of the country. But they are talkers and not men of action. Proof of their uselessness as a class is found in the fact that there is not underway a single significant movement toward practical improvement. They talk chiefly to others of the same mind, where their talk is unneeded. The educated Chinese are prone to professional diagnosis, and occupy themselves with scholarly discourses calculated to show people equally scholarly and already in agreement with them that improvement would be a good thing. Convincing one another of what none would dispute is the principal avocation of the group called patriotic." - "Ways that are dark: The truth about China" - By Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  5096. Keep deluding yourself. And the Russians and Chinese are a force for good right? Lol
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  5097. This same China also calls itself a "democracy" under the CCP. They love to play with language especially when it suits their dumb narrative.
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  5098.  @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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  5099. Because it's a shitty attempt to distract people. That's how crazy they are. They can't fix their problems so they latch on any opportunity to bash others. Seriously, China can't go down quick enough. The whole world hates their guts and they don't want to stop and fix their problems.
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  5100.  @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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  5101.  @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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  5102.  @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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  5103.  @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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  5104.  @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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  5105.  @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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  5106.  @Leshic2  That's what the loans were suppose to be for and the money that the people spent to have those apartments built. You don't use colateral, raise funds and do it all over again with nothing ultimately being built. You would get sued for fraud in most countries. So yes, China is special in that it allowed the biggest Ponzi scheme ever in the history of the world.
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  5107.  @skydragon23101979  You really think the Chinese people, who has had their trust completely shattered give a damn if it's state owned at this point? You're funny.
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  5108.  @skydragon23101979  What is your point? Also, do you not remember, just a few months ago, people couldn't even get their deposits out of the bank? Everything in China is practically state-owned. There is no distinction at this point between small banks and the larger state owned ones.
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  5109.  @skydragon23101979  Quit trolling, communist troll. This concerns the people because they are the ones being screwed over. Truth is your banking system is shot and you lack proper regulations to vet people and companies when it comes to giving out loans. That's why your country is in the indefinite mess it's in. You didn't learn from what happened in Japan, and you certainly didn't learn with what happened in the US, which makes your government all the more idiotic.
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  5110. The lady who teaches for a living should just try for a corporate position. Her salary for all that education is so low. And she has the interpersonal skills to work with people. Kids can be such a handful, which already puts her ahead of the curve. She can go into HR or even management.
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  5111. A lot of these type of accounts exist on youtube as well.
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  5112. Then maybe the whole world should snub Xi because a lot of people aren't happy with China. But they still make an effort because it's called "diplomacy", something that the government of China obviously doesn't understand.
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  5113. 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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  5114. But this has already happened. Lack of demand will reflect this as well as mortgage boycotts.
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  5115. No amount of sacking will fix their problems. Their system is innately corrupt and only favors a select few. It's all about politics and little to no common sense.
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  5116. 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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  5117. ​ @kamakaziozzie3038 except neither want to take Chinese immigrants
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  5118. Some Filipino dishes have chilies with them. We use the same chilies as Thailand and even have vinegar infused with chilies.
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  5119. 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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  5120.  @josue_kay  that's pretty fucked up dude
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  5121.  @Kaz7.  It's true though. The ones who get promoted are the ones with connections to management. Being a hard working mule is what moves the numbers in the company.
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  5122. Ok clown. Keep telling yourself that. How many days are we into the war? And Russia STILL has not taken Kyiv? What a joke.
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  5123. They're so brainwashed that it took them this long to realize this simple fact? Crazy.
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  5124. 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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  5125. People who get promoted do so because of political reasons. It's not about going above and beyond. I've done this and it doesn't work if your boss doesn't like you.
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  5126. Go home Wumao
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  5127.  @timothychung4811  How exactly are they sinking themselves? Is that what Chinese state media wants you to believe?
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  5128. "Yes, infastructure investment provide jobs for people, but so does shifting sand from one place to another." --> That's the whole point. It's work for the sake of work. You have to realize that the Chinese Communist Party is only as good as their ability to provide employment to the people. Their power hinges on this simple fact. It's not about the end product. It's about employment stablity. That is their business model.
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  5129. Is it just me or are you delusional?
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  5130. 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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  5131. BRICS is a joke. They're barely a trading bloc. Hell, China and India don't even get along 😂
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  5132.  @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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  5133. ​ @ronnelacido1711 so, basically useless.
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  5134. Both of the things you said are lies. You're just as delusional as the CCP.
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  5135. So then why doesn't China invade already? So much talk and for what? So that they can act childish in front of the world? This is pathetic.
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  5136. 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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  5137. He couldn't go because he had nothing to contribute. The idiot single handedly destroyed his country's economy and he's going to be there to say and do what exactly? Nothing. He has nothing to say. It will just be a reminder of his epic failure.
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  5138. This is pathetic. Taiwan is still independent. Who cares about some minor inconvenience that the reckless Chinese cause? Being childish doesn't make you a "winner".
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  5139. Manila does't need to embarass China. China embarasses China. Enough said.
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  5140. It's just China being their usual fear mongering, xenophobic, narcissistic, self aggrandizing selves. Nothing new under the sun.
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  5141. You're hilarious 😂
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  5142. The problem with innovation is that it is constantly changing, something China doesn't do. Although China copied and continues to copy, only time will tell as countries like US and Japan slowly start to decouple from them. Even if they steal, who will they sell to? The developed world is the largest market. Unfortunately, China was not able to replicate the economic success of South Korea, Japan, or Taiwan by producing high-value items such as advanced chips to power technology that is always on the cutting edge. And they are no longer the cheapest source of labor. You can't be a "leader" by constantly copying. At some point, other countries will just get sick and tired of their practices which is already happening right now with this chip ban from the US, Japan, Norway, etc.
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  5143. ​ @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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  5144.  @1MinuteFlipDoc  The money grubbing Canadian government wants it that way. They don't have to think of anything for normal tax paying citizens and find means and ways to put money in their pockets. So they are completely reliant on foreign money to keep this economy afloat even before Covid happened. Can't wait to get out of this place quite frankly.
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  5145. 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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  5146. Why would Xi be in a business forum when he single handedly destroyed multiple industries in China and constantly deflects blame to the West when they are the ones who created their own problems? It's all about distract, distract, distract, which is their "business as usual" model.
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  5147.  @Mr.Handsnif  Most people who talk smack about Trudeau didn't vote. Actually voted for the PPC. After Trudeau won, I stopped talking politics to people who keep talking about Trudeau. There's no point talking to lazy people who do nothing.
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  5148. Don't flatter yourself when more than half of China is still living under the poverty line. Humility seems to be a trait that is lacking in your culture.
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  5149. Why don't you spew your propaganda elsewhere. Nobody buys the bs that China is opting for win win with other countries. We're not stupid and we aren't decieved. China can go to hell with their lies.
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  5150. @Silver Also Japan was vastly more organized than China will ever be. When Japan decided to take over Asia, they just did it without uttering a word. China talks too much and does very little. That's how I knew that these clowns are not on the same level as even Japan was during World War 2.
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  5151. Even if the UN does something. What do you think China is going to do? Deny, call all this a campaign to "smear China", say that the West is jealous of China. I mean I could go on. This is what they do best. "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 have ALWAYS been like this. Even under the KMT. You should read up on Japan China relations prior to World War 2. It doesn't justify what the Japanese did. But China is not innocent.
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  5152. Communists love their quotas.
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  5153.  @chinacoolai422  Yeah yeah keep barking. India's technology is behind China's and yet you're here weighing in on it. By the way, I'm not Indian. Also, everytime India tests their military assets, your foreign minister always has something to say about it. Why should they care since India is behind in their tech?
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  5154. 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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  5155. Because they are being bribed and being sold into the prospect of selling to a large market?
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  5156.  @youngyi8696  No, it's because other countries are either bribed or doing business in China.
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  5157.  @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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  5158.  @MrKbtor2  Yes, and even this so called "investment" isn't based on anything real because values have clearly plummeted.
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  5159.  @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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  5160. Chinese society calls them "left overs". Get over yourself.
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  5161. There are less and less young people and the young people around don't want to work in the factory. Everybody wants to be a white collared worker or influencer, which is just beyond unrealistic.
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  5162. The upper classes in North Korea get away with everything. Rules are for the poor and downtrodden.
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  5163. And then what?
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  5164. They've always been hostile clown.
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  5165.  @jkc3738  Yes they will "release" a photolithography machine. They will "show" their AI capability with little to no proof. Stop lying to the world. This is complete and utter bs.
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  5166.  @jkc3738  The chips are from Taiwan you liar!
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  5167.  @jkc3738  Satellite Phones are old technology. Literally have been around since the late 90's. Why is China repackaging old technology and marketing as "new" when it's literally been around for the past 25 years? Explain that 🤣🤣🤣
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  5168.  @hughmungus2760  Yes, it's "produced" in China and who is confirming this? Oh right the Chinese government who's opaque actions and deceit screwed the world with Covid. Such nonsense! It's safe to say that the CCP's credibility is shot at this point with no chance of recovery.
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  5169. Hi fellow hill billie. What's up?
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  5170. 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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  5171.  @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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  5172.  @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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  5173.  @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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  5174.  @j4ppy  Old Chinese culture was always limited to the upper classes. Most people did not act that way
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  5175. There is no logic to it. Period.
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  5176. Chinese cars have an oversupply that's why they have so much. US is struggling due to supply chain issues.
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  5177. Yes China is super rich....in debt and useless buildings.
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  5178. ​ @jjsamuelgunn1136 monkey king is based of Hanuman, the monkey king from Indian mythology.
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  5179. ​ @robanybody8691 communism is all about lying to the people. "Equality" is just another lie.
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  5180. And what exactly can they do together?
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  5181.  @alexandrnoskov5437  Really? Because last I checked communism killed more innocent people than a democracy ever could. Also, are you already forgetting about Covid? Created by yours truly, which is not a democracy?
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  5182. 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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  5183. 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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  5184. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions. Yes. "Well done" if you consider making something dated as an accomplishment.
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  5185. 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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  5186.  @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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  5187. ​​ @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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  5188. They have no hope left in them so in a last ditch effort, they extinguish that same hope in innocent children. So sick!
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  5189. They can't pay much attention to anything else when everything is state owned and censored. So that was a stupid comment.
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  5190. They just don't want nukes used against them when they forcefully take Taiwan.
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  5191. He's just upset that that will translate to less revenue for the church.
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  5192. Yup
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  5193. ​​ @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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  5194. ​ @MagicDonut00 change their life? If things were better when we were younger things won't get better for the subsequent generations.
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  5195. China always takes cringe to new heights.
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  5196.  @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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  5197.  @limsk9839  Chinese food encompasses all of China you dolt
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  5198.  @carloswater7  Not necessarily. It depends on the owner and what they can and can't get away with.
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  5199. 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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  5200. ​ @popcorn6931 what's there to be proud of?
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  5201. "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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  5202. The government will break the company on the verge of bankruptcy into pieces to be absorbed by other companies that have not yet gone bankrupt. That or they will lean on the banks to renegotiate the terms of their loans. The government is involved in everything. Don't think for one second that they aren't.
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  5203.  @alflo4625  And what is China doing? Oh right, sending military ships to fend off fishermen and even news personnel going there to report on the incident. These are civilian ships. So once again the world has to adhere to double standards because China decided that its convenient for them to asserts their baseless claims in an area that Filipino fishermen have fished in for generations. You don't know what the heck you're talking about. Besides China has already beaten the Philippines as far as them unleashing this virus on the world. The Wuhan virus has already killed 4 million people world wide. So don't talk about China killing people when they already have wumao.
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  5204.  @alflo4625  We don't have an overlapping claim with Vietnam and Malaysia. China has a problem with everyone that's a fact Wumao. And tell your Emperor to confess his crimes the whole world knows what he did!!!
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  5205.  @alflo4625  I certainly would take her word over your lying government. See unlike your state-run media, I can access news from other parts of the world. The consensus is clear. China lies about everything and has made enemies out of everyone. So yes, I will take her word and footage for what it is. Why should I believe a government who covered up the virus, lied that it came from the US, and is now threatening countries like Australia for wanting to know its origin? Why would anyone with half a brain do that? Also, calling people "stupid" because it doesn't agree with your state-fed narrative doesn't make your statements true. It just shows how uneducated and petty you are, which is a typical CCP trait.
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  5206. China stating the obvious that nobody will argue with with regard to keeping the peace in Ukraine is so typical with little to no practical application. Just vague statements as usual. Very typical China.
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  5207.  @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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  5208. There is no artificial intelligence in China. Everything is just pre-rendered to look like it's AI. You obviously have fallen for their propaganda.
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  5209. Everything in China is purely political. Kind of hard to avoid it.
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  5210. Yes, Opium War Vengeance against the US even though the US did not participate in this so called "war".
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  5211. 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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  5212. You do know that the Chinese protesters that have been identified by the police have gotten visits from local law enforcement right? Some of them have also gotten beaten up in their homes as a result.
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  5213. 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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  5214. How cute. This clown Tedros still acts like an authority on health. It wouldn't be so sad if it wasn't so pathetic.
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  5215. Yes. Anything with "Chinese" just means backwards, not thought through well enough, and purely political and chaotic. In essence, it's just a huge step backward. And they're to dumb and arrogant to ever admit it.
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  5216.  @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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  5217.  @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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  5218. "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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  5219.  @richcoe9273  Department stores during Black Friday doesn't count because those people will still pay for the goods.
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  5220.  @ObscureManifesto  "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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  5221.  Saew-ks2ry  A lot of multinationals have moved out of China to Vietnam, India and Southeast Asia. You need to keep up with current events.
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  5222. These idiots protesting don't reflect the general view of a lot of Filipinos. These types of people exist in every country. Just because they are loud like a bratty child, doesn't mean they're right.
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  5223. Lies, lies and more lies from the Chinese. What else is new? They always say "come up with the evidence" and when the opposing party does they discredit the evidence. It's lather, rinse, and repeat.
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  5224. There is NO Palestine. You can't even define what Palestine is you dolt.
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  5225. Stats from Geekbench: - Huawei ALN-AL00 --> 1225 (Single-Core Score), 3295 (Multi-core Score) - iPhone 15, 2 --> 1887 (Single-Core Score), 5455 (Multi-Core Score) The Huawei Mate 60 has the same capability as phones that run on Snapdragon 888. There's nothing cutting edge about this phone. In fact it's dated. These chips (Kirin 9000s from Taiwan)were most likely the same chips that China hoarded just before the sanctions. Well done China? For what? Using dated chips that doesn't even touch the feet of the latest Iphone? Nothing to be proud of here.
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  5226. These "diplomats" should change their job title to "assholes" since the world already sees them as such.
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  5227. They're Chinese. They're weird. Enough said....
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  5228. 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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  5229.  @charliepearce8767  Chinese lack tact in anything they do. That's their problem.
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  5230. 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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  5231. Most delusional people think they are. Doesn't mean they actually ARE.
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  5232.  @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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  5233. Chinese developers became complacent and arrogant thinking that the property boom would last indefinitely. Let's also not forget the rampant supply of unregulated credit that its banks allowed its citizens to take on. You're talking about a country whose GDP per capita is around the same as Mexico's and yet skyrocketing property prices that rival established metropolitan areas like London, Tokyo, New York and the like. Just ridiculous.
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  5234. Don't forget lying, cheating, stealing and trash talking, which are all hallmarks of their so called "culture"
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  5235. What would be considered "fine" culture?
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  5236. 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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  5237. "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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  5238. These idiots are never wrong in their messed up mind
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  5239. Better than being a dog of China.
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  5240. I know right? Bunch of weirdos...
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  5241. A lot of these people are Pro-Hamas.
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  5242. The Middle class in China isn't faring any better. They aren't having kids, and work long tedious hours. Ever heard of the 996 culture? They work from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week trying to make ends meet with no overtime pay. In fact, a lot of people are on call so forget having a life on the weekends. They also aren't the best when it comes to health care considering the brunt of expense is being answered by the people. You are still leaps and bounds ahead of a typical Chinese person struggling to make ends meet in China. Considering all the crackdowns across all sectors in the country, China isn't the place you want to be in right now.
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  5243. 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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  5244. Except it doesn't work in the Philippines because of anti-war tapping law. Also a deal with the admiral doesn't count for anything when the president is the final authority. This only shows two things - China doesn't understand Philippine law - Not surprising as they do not respect other countries' laws and can't be bothered to learn them and - China doesn't understand chain of command - Again shows their lack of education and arrogance. And the fact that they are so overt about it is hilarious
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  5245.  @paulsteaven  CCP bot is now telling us how Philippine law works. People's Republic of Clowns never miss an opportunity to make a fool of themselves.
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  5246. The devil truly resides in China.
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  5247. What a clown statement
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  5248. Body is too weak from eating toxic food and gutter oil
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  5249. ​ @johnconnors3962 what 'anti-China' rhetoric are you talking about?
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  5250. 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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  5251. All that infrastructure doesn't mean anything when you have a corrupt government whose policies are keeping investors from pouring their money into a country. China has a ton of infrastructure. Just look at all the apartments they have built? What about all the ghost cities that stand empty? Are those places booming economically? Of course not. So infrastructure isn't the be all and end all of everything. It has to be coupled with things such as demand for example, which China obviously fails to take into consideration.
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  5252. 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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  5253. Just paid off my 2017 second hand Honda Civic. Life is great! Extra $300 do go towards investment isn't bad.
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  5254. 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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  5255. Don't worry. None of us in Asia really believe in what China says
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  5256. US and Western countries including Japan are where they are because they innovate. They aren't third world corrupt shitholes with crap policies and corruption isn't nearly as rampant in those countries.
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  5257. There is no humanity in supporting terrorists you are all so lost.
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  5258. 5% growth despite zero Covid and the after effects of that policy? Keep dreaming.
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  5259. Kind of hypocritical when a lot of high net worth individuals from China (the country who issued these passports to the alleged money launderers) are themselves taking their ill gotten wealth to Singapore. Maybe Singapore needs to check their backgrounds as well because CCP officials are notorious for smuggling large swaths of cash all over the world Singapore included.
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  5260. Numbers say otherwise. At least ones that aren't doctored or manipulated by the CCP.
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  5261. That's what mindless propaganda is. It's literally on repeat that it has lost all its meaning. Just like most of the things the CCP does...
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  5262. The whole CCP needs to be taken out of circulation. It's the perfect hotbed for creating dictators and human rights violators.
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  5263. Problem is even China can't control this wayward state. Case and point, when Xi became president of China, the CCP told Kim not to fire any missiles for testing. Guess what they did? They fired missiles anyway.
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  5264. '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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  5265.  @dcc70  The money they got isn't a lot. Highly doubt it would make a dent if they were studying abroad. International students pay double the tuition that locals do.
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  5266. They're now seeing the whole world shutting off to Russia's financial markets. I don't think that is something China will be entertaining anytime soon.
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  5267. Don't call it "war of liberation" when your intent is to subjugate Taiwan. Words have meaning and you are using the wrong words.
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  5268. Chinese officials actually believe wolf warrior diplomacy will garner them respect in the international stage. Lol, they ACTUALLY believe this stupidity🤣.
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  5269. 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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  5270. Democracy isn't what's at stake here. It's the fact that a lot of simple minded Filipinos still aren't capable of thinking critically and choose leaders that reflect that mentality. "In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one." - Plato
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  5271. China lies about their GDP and this can't be confirmed by a netral third party. So this statement doesn't mean much.
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  5272. "Claimed" territories do not mean it's theirs. Also, Australia is there because its freedom of navigation. China's extension of its territory is already deemed illegal by international law. Where have you seen a country that claims the coast of other countries? That kind of thinking is what sparks wars.
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  5273. Putin recieves a lot from the West as far as trade for gas commodities are concerned. Even China and its market is not enough to offset what Russia would gain from dealing with Western countries. It's miniscule by comparison. This is a desperate move by Russia to coerce countries and show the world that they are still relevant.
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  5274. Most of the idiot lying officials have sent their kids overseas
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  5275. They're the laughing stock of the world.
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  5276. Where's your ancient map? Oh right you don't have one.
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  5277. I thought he wanted a lot of his own people dead? He doesn't seem to care if they starve to death or not.
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  5278. You can make anything look believable without presenting any actual proof. It's called propaganda.
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  5279. 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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  5280. They keep printing out money and having Chinese people foot the bill.
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  5281. Lol. China copies Russia's tech all the time and even profits from it much to Russia's chagrin. Don't be so naive just because they aren't calling each other out publicly.
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  5282. Universities should seriously stop with trash humanity degrees. They're wasting kids' time and money. It's immoral and disgusting.
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  5283. No such things as Asian Sphere. There's just rules that people agree on, especially when China is trying to get in on everyone's business.
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  5284. We see yet again what a screwed up country China is. So sick.
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  5285. They're so two faced. Glad the world is finally seeing them for what they are.
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  5286. 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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  5287.  @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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  5288.  @adrianbalboa5353  I literally had a conversation with a guy claiming to be from Germany. You can really smell that communist stink from far away.
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  5289.  @AK-cr5pe  It's funny because even the poorest countries have ritzy, "developed" areas. It's only China who takes lying about this to the extreme. No other country in the world does this on the same level as China does.
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  5290. Look up "China's last warning" - it was a term coined by their "best friend" Russia which should give you insight into what they really think about their so called "friend"
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  5291. Visiting China is akin to visiting North Korea. Why would you want to put money in the coffers of a totalitarian regime?
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  5292. Canada has always been a hub for criminals. They were just quiet about it because they were benefitting financially from it.
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  5293. 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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  5294.  @constantinvaldor3742  Kinda hard to read sarcasm when you can't see tone in written word smarty.
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  5295.  @ZakiHaider-y9o  try speaking out against the government in China and see what happens you dolt
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  5296.  @ZakiHaider-y9o  speak out about the Uighurs in China and see what happens.
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  5297. That would be believable if it was a Toyota.
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  5298. He also fucked up with his grammar which is a dead give away.
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  5299. They're a faceless country. Can't be redeemed.
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  5300. 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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  5301. Lol, that's literally their plan, whether it has to do with being drafted to Ukraine frontlines or zero covid. Both are utter disasters.
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  5302. The head of the IOC is delusional if he thinks no one is going to take a political stance this time around. Stand up for what's right in your life you clown!
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  5303.  @mystorey  Precisely! They're playing this game that people can no longer stomach. And they should know better. But if they want to cater to China to the exclusion of everything else, they are entitled to make that choice. When China is no longer in a position to consume their movies because of a global economic downturn or foreign boycott, who will they turn to? Oh right, countries that AREN'T China. And how many of those countries have they pissed off already? Screw Hollywood!
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  5304. Truth to the CCP is like holy water to the devil.
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  5305. 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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  5306. Yup. No such thing as free. Someone or something always has to swallow the cost. At some point, everything will come back and bite China in the ass. They're just constantly kicking the can down the road.
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  5307. There is no evidence to manipulate lol. China is just making lies as usual. Don't they have a copy of this so called "transcript"?
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  5308. 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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  5309. 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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  5310. Even high level officials like Li Keqiang don't believe in the "official" numbers. They use other metrics like port containers or power consumption to create data that comes as close to reality as possible.
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  5311. Yes, basically. But a much crappier deal.
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  5312. Everything that comes out of China at this point is just meaningless outward noise. Their government has zero credibility.
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  5313. 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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  5314. Lying and deceit is normal in their culture. What else is new?
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  5315. They're happy to be anywhere but China. Because they know their country is shit.
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  5316.  @LOLLOL-kg4dz  How much does China pay wumaos for this comment?
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  5317. People might as well just walk around blind and deaf at this point. It's ridiculous.
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  5318.  @dongshengdi773  He must be truly wise having lived through so many dynasties he's clearly the most "enlightened" human in existence
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  5319. Problem is they never truly "make it". That's all just a lie.
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  5320. "The problem is capitalism" - Then move to a fucking communist country. How are you going to fix the problem?
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  5321. It's because its all a lie lol.
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  5322. Just go to Japan. Don't they have a Disneyland?
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  5323.  @Avarua59  It's very reminiscent of the kind of observations they made while they were in China. However, I have to remind myself that the CCP wasn't in power because when you read accounts from back then under the nationalists, you would believe that we are talking about the same government in China as we are now.
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  5324.  @phantris2459  Why the hell wouldn't I? It's no secret Wumao.
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  5325.  @COVID-china  China overcounted their population. It's not even 1.4 billion and they have no access to youtube unless they have VPN (which is illegal in China). Korea's connectivity to the internet is next level. Korea is one of the most well-connected countries in the world. When my brother went to China, he couldn't even access google to grab his connecting flight, despite China's constant yammerings of being at the forefront of 5G and the airport staff in China didn't even try to help. They were so useless. Been to Korea, and Japan. I want to go to Taiwan next. I could die happy not going to China.
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  5326. ​ @jerryrichardson2799 china has ALWAYS run on corruption. It wasn't much better under the KMT and previous dynasties.
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  5327. 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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  5328. Come to think of it I also don't see see saws where I live. Standard in a kid's park is monkey bars, a slide or two and those horses with springs, and swings. But no see saws.
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  5329. "Women are more logical" - that's just an outright lie.
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  5330. The Russian narrative has changed so many times people have already lost count. So ridiculous.
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  5331. This is what I have been feeling lately, a slow "deadening" of everything. That's why I constantly look forward to seeing my family and cooking for them when they come over for the weekend. Eventually, I plan on leaving the West and opting for a more simple life. This just isn't it anymore.
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  5332.  @cinefile0075  they worry about their image because they know the truth of how crappy it is. So pathetic!
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  5333. Isn't the man's side already paying for the wedding? Why should they still have to pay a bride gift?
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  5334. The world should collectively let them have it. They're such liars. The world is sick of their never ending antics.
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  5335. China should shut up about Nordstream when it can't even properly coordinate an investigation on the origins of Covid.
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  5336.  @susanohara4274  I will never understand that level of patriotism when they are benefitting from living in another country. Why don't they just return to China if they feel strongly about it?
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  5337. It's amazing how they take the moral high ground to justify their shitty behavior.
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  5338. Also CCP aren't the true inheritors of government. They keep forgetting that simple fact.
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  5339.  @고구려의후예  Yea, you would think they would be dissolved. But in a corrupt world where everyone and everything is all about money, foolishness is something that's easily overlooked. Even if they all look ridiculous.
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  5340.  @alanhughes1262  People already have come forward. Problem is they're being discredited. Who knows how deep this corruption goes? At least it's rattling the idiots on top who think they're above everyone else.
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  5341. 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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  5342. There isn't. A lot of people are just easily bought.
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  5343. It's a fake association that pretends to be relevant.
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  5344. Nobody believes the numbers from China. They constantly lie about their figures.
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  5345. They truly are. Hybrids are the way to go.
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  5346. All these talks with China are empty. I don't even know why anyone bothers with them at this point. Mutual cooperation with China means IP theft, selling items to Germany moreso than Germany can sell to China, and exchanges that are skewed to the benefit to China. In the meantime, Germany gets the Chinese market which is struggling to make ends meet and can be wrestled away the CCP whenever they see fit if they decide to be jerks.
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  5347. They import a lot of their medical equipment anyway. It's no secret.
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  5348. Don't buy Chinese products period. If other alternatives exist, consider them.
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  5349. Knowing the CCP, they will find a way to politicize this again.
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  5350. 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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  5351. 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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  5352. More like a way to park their money out of China. Letting an apartment sit without even so much as collecting rent is already suspect. But when you have millions from questionable sources it doesn't matter.
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  5353. That's all debt!
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  5354. Typical Chinese citizen doesn't know anything. Like how China applies the same rule to foreigners but cry foul when the same rules are applied to them. Faceless country!
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  5355.  @sman96490  Most immigrants aren't affluent. And the ones who are, not saying all of them are like this, but a lot of them come from third world countries with questionable sources of wealth. Not everything you see is the truth of what it is once you look under the surface.
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  5356.  @NerdonWheels1  How about feeling stressed out because you work 2 jobs just to barely make ends meet knowing full well that it doesn't matter because inflation will eventually overtake your capacity to earn the bare minimum to live decently.
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  5357. Little pinks are paid actors. They will mess around with all sorts of lies. Just not death by car crash.
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  5358. Because it is. Would you consume garlic laced with toxins and preservatives? Everyone including the Chinese themselves know this. For the sake of your argument, you better say "yes"
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  5359. "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting" - "Ways that Are Dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  5360. Welcome to idiotic communist policies.
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  5361. How much do they pay in income tax? Not to mention property tax?
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  5362. "It's more for entertainement" - So sad that Americans just see this as such because nothing will change.
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  5363.  @dcc70  Yup, literally and figuratively...
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  5364. There's nothing "Confucian" about what we just saw. It's more egotism and narcissism.
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  5365. There have always been people starving in China. When has this never been the case, even when they were "booming"?
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  5366. I'm a millennial and the fact that gen z brought back baggy pants is ironic because that shit was trending in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's when we were in high school. What are Gen Zers going to bring back next? Low rise jeans and mid rifts? I also happen to think a lot of millennials are morons and lazy.
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  5367. You can just pay for maid service.
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  5368. China play the Pam Asian race card and when things don't work their way with regard to their neighbors they talk shit behind their back.
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  5369. It will translate to more accidents and more coverups. That's all.
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  5370.  @thomasherrin6798  I spoke with a Russian who confirmed this simple fact. China makes and mass produces cheap phones that look like they are cutting edge and they sell these phones in Russian cities close to the Chinese border (where he is from). But upon further inspection, you will see that the phones are actually really bad in quality. So if those electronics, dependent on chips are already bad, imagine everything else that runs on them.
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  5371. So what you're seeing isn't enough evidence for you? This is how China conducts themselves. Ask India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam how they deal with the Chinese.
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  5372.  @chillax9184  There is no logic. It's clearly made up. Also, it's now the 10 dash from 9 dash line. Pretty soon it will be a 15 dash line as they determine what more territory they can take. China just makes things up as they go, clearly.
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  5373. They're all useless. It started with the WHO. Now, EU. Tomorrow, the WTO.
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  5374. I think Japanese have better things to do then to entertain random Chinese assholes who have nothing better to do.
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  5375. "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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  5376.  @Anonymous------  What bullshit lol! Is that why so many Chinese officials go to the US and send their kids there and buy property as well? Hey, maybe if you keep repeating that nonsense maybe someday it will come true.
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  5377. True. If you want to work hard, just start your own business. Someone always owns your time in a corporate setting and time is more precious than money - it's something you can never ever get back.
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  5378. 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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  5379. Everything is connected to this "consumption". It's the reason why we are paid what we are and affects our ability to buy into the economy. Otherwise, we should all just live on a farm.
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  5380. You are aware that they were studying what the balloon was doing in the first place right? Like what kind of signals it was sending and what information it was gathering that's why they didn't shoot it down right away despite knowing of its existence several days prior.
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  5381. They can't show us because they cannot let us know what they are planning. It's just like when Wall Street told them to make clear what the earnings were of their domestic companies. They responded with "it's a national security issue". I mean seriously WTF? If I was investing in China, I would want to know what's happening to my money. The world should seriously reconsider doing business with them. They lie, cheat, and steal. This has also been documented under the KMT when they were ruling China. Deception is in their culture.
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  5382. Some of us have been trying. Trust me. We're just too overwhelmed by liberal morons.
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  5383. 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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  5384. What a garbage fire of a government.
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  5385. Are you trying to be funny?
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  5386. No, just targeting Jews and making people feel unsafe. But that's no big deal to you right?
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  5387.  @herrwolf5184  You can't accept that you can do it alone while also showing that you are dependent on someone else. It's called a conflicting message. Here's a simple thought: This is why you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. China doesn't owe the US anything in the same way the US doesn't owe China anything. If China wants to take an adversarial approach to everything then they should be prepared for the consequences that come with trying to act "tough". They need to stop acting like they can have their cake and eat it too. It not only tarnishes their already damaged image in the world, it also shows the world that they are unreasonable and unwilling to be cooperative.
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  5388.  @gamerguy_777  It was a rhetorical question. Also, there are other gyms to go to if you want to use the analogy. Instead of bitching about your school gym closing why then don't you do something about it? It's not going to change the external situation. That's just called being powerless.
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  5389.  @gamerguy_777  Stop crying and move on. Do you think you're the only one who's had shit happen to them? Get over it. You're starting to sound like China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, always crying and blaming. It's really childish.
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  5390. What do you expect from this brainless politician turned philosopher, turned economist, now apparently a war strategist? Pure insanity.
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  5391. I read somewhere that Xi Jinping as president of China makes about $20,000 USD per year but of course he makes so much more from graft and corruption.
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  5392. 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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  5393. They have bribed their way into everything.
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  5394. 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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  5395.  @ourfarmhouseinspain  "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable." - "Ways that are Dark" by Ralph Townsend (On 1930's China) Nobody believes them. It's all empty words at this point. They lied about Covid, they lied about Hong Kong, and the continue to lie.
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  5396. It's very difficult for people to feel sympathy for people doing "better" than them because as far as they're concerned, the people doing "better" have the resources to fix whatever problems come their way. If the people who are perceived to be higher on the social ladder can't hack it, then it pretty much flies in the face of trying to climb the ladder in the first place, since climbing the ladder or being higher up doesn't solve all your problems.
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  5397. ​ @apple_dragon226 the haven't changed under the KMT and even before that.
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  5398.  @Hoo88846  Everything that doesn't agree with China's narrative is fake news right? Lol
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  5399. Nobody takes what China says seriously. They are the most disingenous people in the world. Words are just meaningless noise, nothing more.
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  5400. China should stop putting themselves in the same vein as the US and fix their damn problems and stop trying to distract the world with their uncivilized backwards politics.
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  5401. 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) "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  5402. Attention grabbing behavior vs total disregard for common sense. In China, what else is new?
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  5403. Their plans as usual are vague - no actual specifics to put into practice. Typical China.
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  5404.  @wctmlt  Not really. They just outright lied against him.
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  5405. Most countries need tax reforms. Get rid of inefficiencies in government and put money back in the pockets of the people
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  5406. China loves to make everyone aware of their crap for all the wrong reasons. The only "lesson" we get is a lesson in cringe which they excel at.
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  5407. Lots of them still are. Just look at the spy cracdowns abroad.
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  5408. You're talking about a country who loves to tout how "strong" they are on the international stage while at the same time incredibly dependent on the US, their supposed arch enemy. So which is it? Are they self sufficient or dependent on US handouts?
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  5409.  @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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  5410. The self righteous left are dangerous. They have terroristic tendencies.
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  5411. They probably have business dealings in China. It seems like a lot of people still aren't learning. You still have foreigners going there for whatever reasons.
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  5412. Report them. I already have. They keep spamming the comment section.
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  5413. No. Lying is ingrained in the culture.
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  5414.  @edgecase1047  They know they are lying. Even children have a basic grasp on what constitutes what's true and what's not. "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" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "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" by Ralph Townsend "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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  5415. 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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  5416. China's sad attempt to play all sides against one another will end in vain
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  5417. China is where it is because multinational corporations from US, Europe, Japan, South Korea etc invested in China. After a lot of these companies left because of Xi's "ingenious" zero covid, those companies were never replaced. So what happens when FDI dries up and they still have to pay the cost of running a country as inefficient and costly as theirs? Think about it.
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  5418.  @SpaceOddity4214  At some point you just have to accept that they didn't evolve with the times. And they view the world like they do their own people: stupid and lacking in critical thinking. This is how the Chinese have always ran their country. They kept the population stupid and easy to manipulate: emperors did this, local government officials did this, now the communist party does this and prior to this the KMT. Having an uneducated, illiterate populace is easier to manage than a population who asks questions and is educated.
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  5419. What rights? The right to act like an ass when you don't get what you want?
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  5420. They should be disbanded. They are utterly useless and just another avenue for corruption.
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  5421.  @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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  5422.  @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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  5423.  @forreal8014  China always lambasts everyone. They aren't innocent either.
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  5424.  @tamtai5218  because you're talking to idiot bots who love to deflect.
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  5425.  @Hossak  how do you know it's based in the US? What if it's based in Canada?
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  5426.  @Hossak  wow, how presumptuous of you.
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  5427.  @nmslnesses  China: We are the best! Also China: Blame the US for everything (We're actually powerless but love to have people believe that we are powerful)
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  5428.  @hate-chan4369  Where in my comment did I say the word "negative"? Projection much? I stand by what I said.
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  5429.  @hate-chan4369  Way to turn things around when called out. This comment you made says it all. Also, I asked you a question. Where in my comment did I say "negative"?
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  5430. You can't help all the brainwashing and cope. They lie ti everyone and they lie to themselves - which should already tell you a lot
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  5431. 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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  5432. 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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  5433. I thought it was Korea?
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  5434. So many built apartments yet so many homeless. The failure of communism...
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  5435. Lol, they are among the most racist people on the planet. They think they're the center of the universe. From a young age, they are educated to believe that they are a superior race. Just like how Nazis brainwashed their own people into believing they were the best. It's no different here.
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  5436. 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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  5437.  @jitenrai-gw7fi  Well we now know where your morals lie.
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  5438. 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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  5439. He's just as brainwashed as the typical Chinese citizen. Sad.
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  5440.  @IamHandsome4u  No, China does a good job of belittling itself. The whole world has better things to do unlike China who creates hatred and chaos everywhere they go. So sick and manipulative.
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  5441. Was thinking exactly the same thing. The "turning point" is politically driven as is everything in China. People will allow themselves to be jerked around, until they've had enough then the government backs off. I wonder how they are going to "lie" their way out of these lockdown measures and not loose face at the same time?
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  5442. How many times has china defeated the virus now? It seems to keep rearing its ugly head.
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  5443. This is what happens when people aren't allowed to be truthful. Sad
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  5444.  @ChatGoPT  Xi also wasn't transparent with Covid and yet nobody is saying anything about that. Just a minor snub for calling someone a "dictator" when he checks all the boxes. Get real!
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  5445.  @Nationfirstalwaysfirst_IND  BRI is a clown show. When you give corrupt countries who are incapable of making anything work you get the BRI. Only people who got rich are government officials creating something that will never yield a decent return on investment.
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  5446. "Big guys from the central government please look at this" - So pathetic that these people don't even know that they are all one and the same.
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  5447. CCP sympathizers never stop responding to "Western propaganda"
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  5448. 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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