Youtube comments of Peter Jacobsen (@pjacobsen1000).

  1. Weirdest thing is: Architectural Digest is never about architecture, only about interior decoration. It should be called Internal Digestion.
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  2. "I thought it was a UFO" I think nowadays, the first thought will be: "Huh, another one of those swarming drones displays".
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  3. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to unity is what we also see in Europe and Latin America: Who should gain power from a union and who should relinquish power? Everybody wants the first, no one wants the second.
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  4. For a country of Indonesia's size, it's beneficial to remain independent and neutral. Big countries can do that, for small countries that is much more difficult.
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  5. All societies have the same problem: Once the cost of having children becomes greater than the benefit of having children, people will start having fewer children. If you live in a poor, agrarian society, children are cheap: Some food (grown on the farm) and some clothes is all you need. By the time they're 5 years old, they can start doing simple tasks to help out on the farm, and soon they can help to earn money. Eventually, society will become developed and rich. Then a child will be an expense for the family for the first 20-25 years with no real return other than love. And when they leave home and start to make money, they will use that money for their own family. Should we find a way to make children profitable? Maybe not. At least I can't see how that could be done in an ethical way.
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  6. It's a shame a drone needs a controller. Otherwise, free drones for everybody!
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  7. It should be mentioned that much of the grain sold by Ukraine and Russia is normally not meant for human consumption, but is used as animal feed and industrial use (beer, starch, etc.). A huge amount of the world's grain is fed to animals. Our chickens and pigs have to eat something.
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  8. "We're still share holders". "This interview was taped Oct. 28, 2019". Since the interview was taped, Tesla's value has increased 13 times.
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  9. It's hardly the cafe's fault that people call it 'Syria style'. The style is kind of cool, I'd call it 'dystopian chic'.
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  10. "Fewer tanks than Switzerland; fewer naval ships than The Netherlands" That is an astonishing statement!
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  11. From the 90s and onwards, Russian vacuum tubes became quite popular in the audiophile community worldwide, with manufacturers like Electron and Sovtek being very well received.
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  12. US CENTCOM, top generals assembled: "Russia has launched the doomsday weapon against us. Can we stop it?" "Maybe, but first we should listen to a word from our sponsors...."
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  13. Whether it's Facebook (Meta) or Baidu, this just looks like a computer game with VR glasses. Is it really such a big, new development?
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  14. If this project ever comes to fruition, they should have the Australian heavy rock band AC/DC play at the opening ceremony.
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  15. I'm guessing North Korea is making this announcement due to severe food shortages. It helps to have their population focus on national security rather than the daily hunger pangs from lack of food.
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  16. Those are not called fork lifts. They're called front loaders.
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  17. Presumably, this was just a test of a nuclear-CAPABLE missile, not a test of an actual nuclear bomb. And there's nothing wrong with testing your equipment every now and then (that's what she said).
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  18. Eysturoy, Streymoy, Sandoy. The -oy means 'island' and is the same word we see in some Scottish islands once populated by Vikings, like the -ey in Orkney, the -ay in Stornoway and Islay. Possibly even the same in the more southern Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey. In Norwegian it's -øya, in Swedish it's ö, and in Danish it's ø. Just in case you were wondering....
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  19. Well, hopefully this will make people realize that 'international justice' must be backed up by real power. If you have real power, you get a free pass. This is because we do not actually have any global standards for truth, justice, equality, even if many countries try to find some standards. Additionally, bringing a perceived perpetrator to justice requires that someone come pick him up. To apprehend a suspect, you need power behind you. All countries have their own police and courts of justice, but there is no real 'world police' or 'international court of justice', yet, just a sketch of those institutions. Who knows, maybe it will happen sometime in the future. And for what it's worth, I think it is highly unlikely that Putin will ever be brought to the ICC. He, after all, has a lot of power himself.
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  20. Fascinating! It made me realize how little I know about Japanese history.
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  21. Hey, person from Denmark here. At video's end, they said "incineration creates a disincentive to find better ways to deal with waste". On the surface that sounds right, but in Denmark, we are actually now recycling such a large part of our waste that we have to import waste from other countries (such as the country where DW is based) to get enough to feed our incinerators. So you could make the argument that we're now helping Germany deal with their waste problem. You're welcome, Germany. I agree that incineration is not 'green' or 'carbon neutral', but since the energy within the waste is turned into new heat and electrical energy, it is by definition 'renewable' energy and it reduces the amount of coal, gas or oil we would otherwise have to burn.
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  22. "I don't like nuclear in any form, either weapon or craft station". He means power station. In Nordic languages, craft/kraeft means power or strength.
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  23. The way this escalated overnight is amazing. From 'young woman can't get a free ice cream' to 'car exhibit riot' to 'smashed BMWs across the nation'. Hollywood couldn't have made this up.
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  24. Being wealthy is not enough for these people, they also insist on committing crimes and stealing from the public.
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  25. My standard is to only stay at 8-star hotels, but since they don't exist, I just stay home.
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  26. I hope the Korean financiers, the Australian crane company, the Danish engineers, and the Turkish construction crews had a great feast to celebrate the completion, with Döner Kebab, shrimps on the barbie, Bibimbap and Danish pastry.
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  27. This guy was so crazy, North Korea didn't even want to put him in a labor camp or use him as a bargaining chip. They just wanted to get rid of him as quickly as possible. "Take him, take him! Anybody, we don't care, just take this guy".
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  28. 1) The designs of the artefacts are very similar to what was previously found at SanXingDui, so it is probably from the same culture. 2) Bronze- and gold works of that size must signify a major kingdom, not just a village. It would have required lots of people and resources to manufacture these things. 3) Some of the designs do look very similar to what is found in later Shanghai Dynasty (1600 BC - 1000 BC) artefacts, so there must have been at least some cultural exchange going on.
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  29. 2:58 "satellite images show just how dry this area has become". Those satellite images show no such thing. They are images of two different areas, there is no indication of what year or time of year they were taken, and there's no comparison between a wet year and a dry year. Additionally, the image on the left looks very green and wet, the image on the right looks mostly like a sandy coastline.
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  30. I'm from Denmark, and this video taught me that The Nordic Council does a lot of talking and very little action. Just how we Nordics like it.
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  31. If some 'daredevil' had stood on the rock and it had cracked, as they were tumbling down to their certain death, would they have had time to think "Ok, I probably shouldn't have done that"? It's a question that can't be answered now, but it also couldn't have been answered anyway, as the person would be dead.
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  32. It's an interesting case: As a security team, you have the right to make the vendor leave the mall area. But destroying his property to make him leave is not legal (even if that is what the 城管 often do).
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  33. Next project for this guy: Growing French chefs right in Japan.
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  34. Use everything you got to profit! She uses her skills, talent, smarts and beauty, and why shouldn't she? Those things won't last forever, so better take advantage now. And the way she is able to deflect sensitive questions shows a high level of maturity for her age.
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  35. Ah, the fresh, clean mountain air. A great place for exercise.
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  36. I see an increasing number of NIO vehicles on the streets of Shanghai, though outpaced by Tesla Model 3s. NIO is the first Chinese vehicle manufacturer to have put efforts into building a brand, not just a car, and it's paying off. A large number of Chinese vehicle manufacturers have no idea of what branding is. Every model looks different, the grills look different, there are no distinguishing features on the front or back that make people go "That's a xyz car!" Their logos are often anonymous and weak as are their designs. NIO is very different on every front. They also have several westerners working on exactly these aspects.
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  37.  @ArghyadeepPal  It's a long and tedious story: The SWFC (bottle opener) was designed, built and partly financed by the Japanese developer Mori Corporation, quite famous in Japan for several iconic projects in Tokyo. After construction had begun and the designs became more well known, an overly nationalistic Chinese citizennoticed the circle on top and came up with the conspiracy theory that it symbolized Japans Imperial 'rising sun' flag (with the red and white rays) used during WW2. He came to the belief that this was meant to symbolize Japan's eternal supremacy over China, even in modern times, with the 'flag' flying high (SWFC was China's tallest building at the time) over the nation. He spread this theory far and wide, more people got alarmed by this until the local govt. felt they could no longer hold back this anti-Japanese sentiment. So they consulted with the developer and got to the agreement that the design had to be changed. Thus, the trapezoid.
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  38. Every Chinese tourist who went missing in Thailand volunteered to go to Myanmar for 'a job'. I traveled here from Shanghai. I've been here 4 weeks so far, never felt in any kind of danger. Just don't accept strangers' offer of high-paying jobs in Myanmar. It's that simple.
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  39. In my understanding, black (ripe) olives produce more oil per olive, but with less flavor. Green (unripe) olives are much more flavorful, but produce much less oil per olive. Oil from green olives is better to eat 'raw', on salads, etc. Oil from black olives is much cheaper, good for cooking, less complex flavors. Different varietals of olives may be better for oil, others for snacking on. Some are good for both.
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  40. Rugby, Football, Street Protests, France ranks near the top of the world in all three disciplines.
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  41. This is just what the country needs to get its economy back on track!
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  42. It's a bit disappointing that this video hardly has any developments from 2022. After all, we know what happened to Evergrande in 2021, and the video promises new info. Not much of that, though.
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  43. Not a bad idea. It's like district heating in colder climates, just in reverse. I hope the water pipes are insulated to save energy.
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  44. As a Danish national, I had no idea Danish entrepreneurs had started plantations in Malaysia. But this video caused me to look into the history of United Plantations. Apparently a very innovative and even progressive company, it still thrives today and there are still Danish people working in management.
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  45. Hello from Shanghai. My community went under lockdown starting Apr.30 afternoon. We're now on day 13. In my community, we can walk around outside, but not leave the community. Covid testing every 48 hours. Things are obviously tight. No restaurants or shops do deliveries. Community groups are being set up to try and order basic necessities. We have to do this, because you can only order in bulk due to the lack of delivery personnel. Yesterday, we ordered 1800 eggs to be delivered, the minimum order the seller would accept. This all happens on WeChat chat-groups. We've received two hand-outs from government of basic foods: Carrots, onions, some rice, some frozen chicken. It's enough to keep you alive, but that's it. I'm slowly running out of drinking water (tap water is not great), cooking oil, and Western food items like butter, coffee, milk, cheese, cream, etc. Forget about snacks and candy, or condiments. I still have some spaghetti, but no tomatoes, some flour for bread making, but nothing to put on it. Apparently, we still have at least 14 days to go of this....
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  46. All those companies that manufacture in China will probably never leave completely. China is itself a large market for all these products, so as long as it makes sense, companies will at least continue to produce for the local, and maybe regional market.
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  47. In 1988 I traveled through the Soviet Union on the Trans Siberian Railway. They didn't have Coca Cola back then except in special 'Dollar Stores'. Instead they had these amazing soft drinks made from real fruit juice. They were pretty awesome! The food was also great.
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  48. 1: It's not a prototype, just a drawing 2: 240 containers is way too few to make it economically viable, unless the ship can be autonomous. A modern container ship carries 15,000 containers. It's a nice idea, but hardly groundbreaking. Freight used to be transported by ships with sails and the reason we shifted away from that was to save money. People who are willing to pay can probably bring tall ships back.
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  49. Better to take the warnings seriously every time, even if a tsunami rarely happens. I think people in Sumatra still remember 2004.
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  50. We've all been through it. When I graduated from college, youth unemployment was also 20%. For us in the west, this is a common occurrence, but I guess it's a surprise for many Chinese. Perhaps it is beginning to dawn on many Chinese people that the golden era of high growth is over, and they are now entering the ranks of 'high income countries' where growth is slow, unemployment is high, and every year seems much like the last.
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  51. Back in the 60s and 70s Afghanistan was a popular tourist destination for Europeans who were traveling overland to East Asia. Kabul was full of cafes where European hippies would be sipping coffee and smoking locally grown cannabis. It was basically peaceful. It's hard to imagine such a situation today.
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  52. This Isobel Yeung is pretty hard core. This is the kind of journalism the big news organisations should do. Respect for Isobel!
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  53. When businesses invest in other countries, there are some basic requirements they look at: -Is the business environment stable? -Are laws and regulations easy to understand and follow? -Is it easy and quick to start and operate a business? -Is the market fully open to them? -Are they treated the same as local businesses? -Can they easily take their profits out of the country? Whatever speeches the country's leader makes is much less important.
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  54. 2:20 "It rains 300 mm on average, less than a can of Coke". They seem to confuse mm and ml. 300 mm of rain is equivalent to covering the ground with Coke cans, three layers thick. Even so, 300 mm of rain annually is not really enough for intensive agriculture, but should be enough to cover the ground with grasses, bushes and trees, provided the land is managed properly.
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  55. "I'd feel a little uncomfortable not having it if something happens" I think she'd feel more than 'a little uncomfortable' if a nuclear bomb gets dropped on Belgium. Btw, as I understand it, Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons is in the realm of 'tactical nuclear weapons' to be used on the battlefield. Those tend to have a yield of 1-10 kiloton. The Hiroshima bomb was 13-18 kiloton.
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  56. "We welcome you to come and live and work in China. We have opened our doors. All you need is a Nobel Prize".
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  57. As the saying goes: "You get the government you deserve".
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  58. Already 25 years ago they were talking about how mobile phones might cause brain cancer. 25 years later, and the incidence of brain cancer is no higher than then, despite billions of people using their phone all the time. I think that's all the studies you need.
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  59. God, I'm tired of the high-school-project level of these Visual Politik videos. I don't think I can continue watching much longer when I keep getting disappointed over and over. The standard is just too low.
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  60. Yes, he is mostly known in China as the 'Father of China's Space Program'. There's a big, new-ish museum dedicated to him at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. Nicely designed building, by the way.
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  61. It's not unfair. There are many steps and processes from their head to your head. And many hands to go through, all of which need a cut (of the money, not the hair). A sheep gives its hair away for free, but a wool sweater is still expensive.
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  62.  @ArghyadeepPal  There's no nickname for the Jinmao Tower. Jinmao is an easy name to remember and say. The 'bottle opener' has a much more complex name: Shanghai World Financial Center, or SWFC for short. But even SWFC can be difficult to remember, thus The Bottle Opener. Originally, it wasn't supposed to look like a bottle opener, as the hole up top was designed to be circular. But for political reasons, they changed it to a trapezoid.
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  63. My prediction: Apart from the airport, none of these projects will ever be realized. But they make for great headlines.
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  64. 5:20 The archival footage early in the video ostensibly showing the death/funeral of Mao is actually not Mao, but Zhu De, Vice President, former General in the Red Army/PLA and part of the central ruling elite. Zhu De also died in 1976, so I suppose it's an easy mistake to make. Edit: Zhou Enlai also died in 1976. It was a real bad year for top CCP leaders.
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  65. Now, that's a great project! Built under a 'build-operate-transfer' scheme means that the Chinese investors believe this is a viable project that they can profit from. At the same time, it won't cost Cambodia anything until they take it over after 50 years. Congratulations to Cambodia and to the Chinese investors. For us regular people, having this as a tourism gateway to Cambodia also gives us more travel options.
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  66.  @condorX2  "It doesn't matter if you're neutral". Neutrality DOES matter, because it may prevent you from getting involved in a conflict between other parties. If you were allied to one of those parties, there's a high risk you would also be a target. That's basic logic for children. Neutrality cannot protect you from everything. They may always be adversaries who want what you have, and they don't care whether you're neutral or not.
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  67. Well done! China has really done a lot over many years to rehabilitate destroyed ecosystems, especially in the north and north-west. It's hard work and there is still much to be done, but it's great to see the positive result already achieved. Congratulations!
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  68. ...which eventually is consumed by humans. When I write that the grain is not used for human consumption, it is not because there is something wrong with the grain, it's just made for other purposes.
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  69.  @ahmadhasif979  I like my bacon. It's so delicious it'll make you leave Islam!
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  70. My brother lives on Bornholm. He might agree. They've got some nice, old fishing villages, good seafood, good beaches and a general landscape that is pleasing to the eye. Bornholm is a center for artsy-crafty things: Ceramics, glass blowing, painting.
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  71. Germany shouldn't block the border with Poland, but rather help Poland patrol their border with Belarus.
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  72. 0:37 I'm a little surprised to see that India manufactures 105mm and 155mm artillery shells. Those are NATO calibers. I was of the impression that India uses Russian calibers. (China, by the way, also uses 155mm, starting around the late 80s/early 90s)
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  73.  @josemiguelmunoz6985  Yes, I did not mean to suggest that there was no drought, only that the images are not illustrative for understanding the drought situation.
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  74. "Protesters had to wear number tags." Why? It would mean that any bystander who wants to join the protest would commit an illegal act. So regular people can't just join the protest at will, but have to register first.
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  75. Not so much a 'peace plan' as just expressing an opinion. An opinion that isn't different from what China expressed before: The two parties should hold peace talks. Well, I don't think many people would disagree with that, but the problem is that the two parties are so distant from each other: -Russia will only discuss peace if Ukraine accepts the occupied territories as belonging to Russia. -Ukraine will only discuss peace if Russia withdraws from all Ukrainian territories. So that leaves us where we are right now: Fighting until someone gets too tired to fight.
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  76. One thing you can definitely say about Mark Zuckerberg: He doesn't have much charisma!
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  77. CNA (Channel New Asia) has a great two-part documentary about this available here on YouTube. It is never easy to move to a different country. Lots of hardship.
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  78. It's like China during the Cultural Revolution, but the Cultural Revolution only lasted 10 years (1966-1976, with the first 6 years being the worst). In North Korea, this has gone on for over 70 years.
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  79. Scary stuff! I wanted to climb Mt. Huashan all the way back in 1988 (yes, 35 years ago), but my friend and I were dissuaded by locals, and they didn't want to show us how to get there. I didn't help that we couldn't speak a word of Chinese.
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  80. I love archaeology and China has a lot of excellent sites. Unfortunately, there has mostly been a focus on emperors, their tombs and the treasures within them. I would like the focus to shift toward a better understanding of Chinese society during these periods, including the economy, administration, lifestyles, etc. to get a clearer understanding of history and society outside of kings and emperors.
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  81. "The risk of nuclear war in Europe is higher than at any time since the Cold War". That might be true, but the risk is not nearly as high as DURING the Cold War. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I remember it well, but I'm not nearly as afraid now as I was then. This war is very manageable.
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  82. Contrary to what the video says, this satellite will NOT go to the Sun. It is a Sun observation satellite, but it will be positioned at one of Earth's Lagrange points, similar to the James Webb telescope. EDIT: Not the same Lagrange point as James Webb.
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  83. If they can increase yield by 50% then that is an amazing achievement! But if we don't hear more news about this variety in the future, it will be because they didn't increase the yield (at least for the same input).
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  84. We are still not long into King Charles' rule, but so far this has been his crowning achievement.
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  85. This was a great segment from BBC! On the scene, with real people, no questions about 'how do you feel' but showing a real process of practical asylum with some optimism and hope in all the chaos and despair. Great report!
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  86. In old folk tales, these incidents always lead to a cavern filled with treasure, but it doesn't look like that was the case here.
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  87. Man, I just love Shanghai and Shanghainese people---------so much!
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  88. Some people just don't understand that there's a perfectly fine working elevator inside. No need to climb the wall.
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  89. Fingers crossed. Based on what happened to Russia's probe last week and other countries' failed attempts, it should be clear to all that landing a craft on the moon is no simple affair.
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  90. When Pakistan tells its migrants to leave, they just leave. When Europe tells its migrants to leave, they refuse to leave. What is it Pakistan does that Europe can't do? Can we learn something from Pakistan?
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  91. In the developed world, the labor movement began with ALL workers banding together to demand change. That requires a high level of solidarity, class loyalty and a willingness to endure boycotts for long periods. It was tough, many faced starvation, some people even got killed by police, but in the end, they won!
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  92. Interview was recorded Nov.4, 2022. Ritter: "Ukraine must accept reality: You have lost Kherson and you will never ever get it back"...... Nov. 14: Major plot twist.
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  93. The staff got suspended because they didn't first use gift wrapping paper, nor put a red ribbon on his head.
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  94. Three economists just won the Nobel Prize this year for pointing out that functional institutions are the difference between a successful economy and a non-successful one. The DRC needs well functioning institutions: A legal system that is upheld by a judicial system, that is protected by a police and security force, that is upheld by a representative system, that is upheld by the legal system. Unfortunately, every so often, personal human desires get in between these systems before they have a chance to grow and become a part of the culture. No one can expect any country without these systems to suddenly create them overnight, but the first small steps have to be taken, and after that, more small steps. This can take decades, or even centuries.
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  95. What I would REALLY like to see is more night trains with sleeper carriages. Shanghai-Kunming overnight would be awesome! There are way too few sleeper high-speed trains.
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  96. This all sounds very nice, and I'm sure those recyclers have the best of intentions, but I have some questions: A: What is the impact on the climate and environment of just throwing out the soap? B: What is the impact on the climate and environment of recycling the soap and shipping it overseas? C: I have spent considerable time in developing countries, and soap is readily available at low cost in all but the most remote villages. I have never heard people in developing countries mentioning that they didn't have access to soap or lack money to buy it. So is a lack of soap really a problem in those countries? D: When you import and hand out soap for free in any society, what impact does that have on local businesses that try to make a living off of making and selling soap? I am skeptical at the utility and benefit of these initiatives. Thinking you're doing a good deed, and actually doing a good deed can be two very different things.
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  97. Jokowi: "We very much appreciate projects which have been finished on time". Was that a small hint of displeasure that the Chinese-funded Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway is now 4 years delayed?
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  98. Customs officers kept finding more snakes in his pants until he yelled out: "Hey, that's not a snake!!"
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  99. Although I am no friend of Russia (in fact, quite the opposite), I support Bangladesh in expanding their energy supply. Developing countries need energy first and foremost to develop their economy.
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  100. Don't forget they were also critical of Europe and USA. This is the way the media in the west is supposed to work: Criticize the weak points. Media in the west is there to hold government to account; in China it is there to support the government. That's the difference.
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  101. Back in the 60s, Indonesia and China had a pretty acrimonious relationship, but it has improved a lot since then. Perhaps still not exactly 'friendly', but they can talk and do business. That's progress.
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  102. It's a tragedy, both for those who unwillingly get caught up in this industry, and for the victims of scams.
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  103. The man wasn't really knocked over by the bus, he rode into the side of the bus and knocked himself over. Nevertheless, those kids are great. They should get a months worth of candy.
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  104.  @condorX2  Please take your crusade over to a relevant video. You have arrived at a point in your life where you feel so strongly about a single issue that you insist on telling the whole world about it, because you're sure that if only they know what you know, they will also feel strongly about it. You've basically become a zealot. I don't think this is healthy for you in the long run.
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  105. It should be noted that this project is quite old. It was commissioned in 2014, ancient history in the off-shore wind power world. Turbines were 3.6MW each, about a third of the standard in 2020/21. Nevertheless, this documentary is very instructive and interesting.
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  106. They may never reach a product that tastes and feels exactly like meats we know, but perhaps they will come up with a new and completely different protein product that tastes delicious.
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  107. The population of North Korea is 25 million, not 3 million. But the capital, Pyongyang, has 3 million. The question should be: 10,000 new flats in what time span? 3 years? 10 years? 15 years?
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  108. Question is: Is Anwar Ibrahim actually going to do anything for the Palestinians, other than just speaking at a rally? My guess is he won't do anything. In fact, if Palestinians ask if they can be refugees in Malaysia, he will likely say 'No'! Maybe speaking at a rally can help him get more votes at the next elections.
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  109.  @chs75  Thanks for that info.
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  110. I noticed Europe was not on the list of popular destinations. Perhaps Indians find Europe to be boring and not worth a visit. Perhaps Indians find European food to be bland. Also, if we Europeans want to attract more Indians, we need to start developing more vegetarian choices in restaurants.
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  111. Same in Canada. If a Canadian is caught saying 'about' instead of 'aboot', they will banned from eating poutine and Tim Horton's for 5 years.
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  112. Lizard oil: Only slightly less effective than snake oil.
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  113. Pretty interesting video. I was of the impression that there were more ethnic Chinese in Thailand, but they may have been diluted so much that many of them no longer consider themselves Chinese.
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  114. Perhaps it's because I'm somewhat older, but I still think China's golden age of film making was the '5th generation' film makers: Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and others. Like my favorite Hong Kong film makers, Zhou Xingchi (Steven Chow) and Wong Kar Wai, their movies tended to not have a real hero (at least in the early years), or at best an anti-hero. Those people excelled at telling a compelling story about people; stories and people you could relate to.
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  115.  @chaoticlife311  " why would they have a child if it is detrimental to society". People don't have children for 'society'. They have children for themselves.
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  116. China does release radioactive waste water from its nuclear power plants. All countries with nuclear power stations do this. That is completely normal, even if the public doesn't know about it. The reason there is such focus on Japan is because of the Fukushima disaster, but the waste water they are releasing now is so diluted that it does not present a major risk to environment or people. Likewise, the radioactive waste water China releases is not dangerous to humans or environment, either. All these countries treat the water until it becomes safe.
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  117. I like the budget backdrop of this studio: A laptop, a monitor, both hung on the wall, an old-school stage light, two speakers, an acoustic guitar and a palm tree.
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  118.  @condorX2  As I wrote earlier, neutrality will not grant you complete protection against foreign aggression, but on the whole, it is better than being in an alliance. I think one exception is if your alliance is extremely powerful and has a commitment to protect you.
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  119. "Oops, the voters elected the 'wrong people'. We have to make sure they can't do that again."
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  120. I think China's food security situation will improve over time. Aside from the measures listed in the video, incl. increased use of GMO crops and improved farming practices, there are other noteworthy aspects: -As China's population decreases, land appropriation will also decrease and there will be more food per person, increasing by around 8% in 2040 and 17% in 2050 (all else being equal). -China has reclaimed, and continues to reclaim land along its coastline, especially in Jiangsu. Shanghai alone has reclaimed over 400 Sq. km. (600,000 mou) in the last 30 years. A lot of this has been turned into very productive farmland. -On the downside, marginal lands will likely become depopulated over time due to low productivity. Those areas only produce enough to feed the local population, and neither add nor detract from the total calculation.
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  121. I think the risk of war is relatively small, but governments on both sides have an interest in preserving a feeling of urgency and fear, because it helps to rally support around their leadership. If both sides start saying 'Hey, everything is fine between us', people will stop thinking about the issue.
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  122. It's nice to see peace and friendship spreading across Asia.
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  123. "From land-locked to land-linked". Laos will always be a land-locked country, unless the sea levels rise so much the coast reaches its border. Land-linked? It's been linked to all neighboring countries for decades by road. Will the new railway improve Laos' economy? I hope so, and I would certainly like to ride the train.
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  124. "The earthquake started, so I felt I had to ride my bicycle to work quickly". That is one dedicated worker!
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  125. I pretty much love every aspect of this: The outfits, the sunglasses, the use of local dialect, the choreography, the taking ownership of one's peasant culture, the optimism. It's perfect!
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  126. The days of chatting up the bartender for free drinks are over.
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  127. It's nice that she can go to a country where she can feel safe.
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  128.  @thelastcommander8765  What do you mean, source? It's my take on what might have happened.
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  129. If only the balloon had been heart shaped and painted a shocking-pink metallic color, things might have gone over much better.
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  130. 5.5% is pretty high, but apparently they're going to pump USD 500 billion of govt. investment into the economy this year, so it could still be achievable.
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  131. When I traveled across Sumatra in 1989, it REALLY was mostly rainforest. Now, it's mostly palm oil plantations. We might decry that, but the palm oil industry has been very good for Indonesia's economic development. Going forward, I hope they find a good balance between economic development and protection of their natural habitat. I think this new highway will be a great help for Indonesia.
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  132. Excellent overview. Ultimately, China's future economic growth needs to rely on China's own citizens, not on exports. When China was poor, exports were a great driver of growth, because the outside world could afford to buy an endless amount of Chinese goods, while Chinese people couldn't afford to buy anything. But now China is rich and the domestic market is significantly bigger than before. China needs to take advantage of that by allowing a bigger share of the economy to go into people's pockets. The outside world is no longer big enough to buy all China's goods.
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  133. Probably an unregistered marriage.
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  134. How about a giant fish in Tsukiji?
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  135. Next: MeiTuan delivery guy discusses theoretical physics with doorman in high-end apartment complex.
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  136. "She has also tried to pursue a career in acrobatic rock-n-roll." Excuse me?
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  137.  @adi-kr6sh  I wonder how much they would pay. It probably wouldn't be enough to justify the effort.
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  138. These machines are difficult to succeed with. I wonder how many coins the firefighters had to put in before they finally won the boy.
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  139. The fact that Prof. Zhang Jun's interview has been allowed to be published is also notable. It is published in GuanCha, a Shanghai-based publication, and thus, somewhat far from the centre of political power, and instead in the centre of economic and financial power (with a libertarian streak). It is not the first time in history that dissenters have been blocked from Beijing and resorted to speak in Guangzhou or Shanghai instead: Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) in Guangzhou springs to mind. Shanghai was where Mao and his collaborators were able to publish articles (specifically in Liberation Daily) that started the Cultural Revolution, after Beijing publications declined to publish them. This all could be a sign that among the elite there is some growing dissent regarding the official economic path. And it is not impossible that the Shanghai-based dissenters have some backing in the Central Committee. (This is just speculation, though).
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  140. Those girls doing cosplay on the steps of the church, what a lovely image! Angel wings and all.
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  141. Sanctions don't have the effect that politicians like to tell us they have, but instead they serve another important purpose: In the long run, they slow or even arrest the economic and technological development of the sanctioned country, slowly rendering them less and less competitive against us, both economically and militarily. That is a grim truth, but that is how great power politics work, and other countries would do it to us, too, if they could.
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  142. This statue was bought fair and square in the early 1930s in Beijing from the Chinese art collector Huo MingZhi (霍明志 1879-1949) by the grandfather of the current owner. It was not stolen.
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  143. "Japan's failure to atone for its wartime past". This is true, but it seems to me that in East Asian culture, you never apologize for past mistakes. Doing so would be a loss of face, and everybody would much rather simply not bring up the topic. You'll never see an East Asian country apologize for something they did to another country in the past, unless they're forced to. Instead, people try to gloss over the past, maybe by giving some extra generous gifts to show their regret.
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  144. I wonder if this is why I get fewer scam calls on my phone.
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  145. India is one of those large countries where sports just isn't a big part of the culture (except for cricket). And we are wise to remember that until the 19th century, sports just wasn't a thing, anywhere in the world. I guess it was mostly the British who started playing all sorts of ball sports, badminton, tennis, rugby, football, etc. at the advent of the industrial revolution where people slowly started getting more leisure time. Now, 150 years later, sports generate about $150 billion annually on a global basis, not including all the gear and sports clothes we buy.
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  146. "people forced to flee". The vast majority of them are not 'forced' to do anything, they are economic migrants hoping to build a better life in Europe, and they are willing to risk their lives for that opportunity. That is very understandable, but the door is closed.
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  147. Advice for everybody: On Golden Week holidays, DON'T go to famous tourist sites. Go to unknown places.
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  148. It's always nice when two friends can meet up over a chit-chat and a cup of tea.
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  149. Mini-bar, laundry, room service, Spanish Telenovelas, there is plenty to help pass the time.
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  150. That one girl was so excited to be carried out in the arms of a fire fighter.😁
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  151. A 15 minute word salad of empty social justice terminology, cliches and buzzwords. Almost completely void of any concrete examples of what BLK has actually achieved in the last two years. No word on any discussions with law enforcement or justice dept. to improve the situation. And all mixed in with references to Dakota Access Pipeline, climate change and immigration with no data points presented. How can any intelligent, concerned person be expected to take this seriously?
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  152. I think the best lesson a teacher can teach primary school children from space is to try to demonstrate the difference between 'mass' and 'weight' (质量和重量）and its relationship to gravity and Earths own mass. Difficult subject to understand, but useful to know.
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  153. This guy is excellent! Straight to the point.
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  154. I'm not a user of TikTok (or 抖音), but generally I think it's a bad idea to ban social media apps, whether they are TikTok, X, or Facebook or any other platform. It doesn't matter that TikTok is mostly used for silly dances, or that X and Facebook are sometimes used to make hateful or political statements. These apps help a large number of people to make a living, they help spread ideas around the world, and while they may sometimes be considered 'harmful to society', these so-called harms should be resolved through even more conversation and debate, not through bans.
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  155. Great to have Matt Taibbi back on the show!
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  156. Military exercises "some just miles from the Taiwanese coast". As opposed to what, inches? Light years?
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  157. It is mentioned that a billion apartments are empty, but that is clearly a mistake. Since 2000, when the market really opened, they have 'only' built around 200 million apartments, and most of those are not empty. A better estimate is around 25 million empty apartments, enough to house 75 million people (two parents and one child per apartment). Another number mentioned is that the real estate sector (and associated value chains: raw materials, construction materials, decorating, furniture, appliances, etc.) makes up 20-30% of GDP. This may have been the case at the top of the market around 2020, but now it has clearly fallen to less than half that number, considering real estate investments have dropped around 35% over the last three years.
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  158.  @northboy7996  Yes, but if I test positive, it gets even worse: Forced removal to a quarantine center, bleak cells with bare walls, a lightbulb in the ceiling, bland food. At home I at least have internet so I can watch some YouTube.
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  159. Whoever you are, remember this: If you do something, it is 'maintaining peace and stability', when others do the same thing, it is 'threatening peace and stability'. In other words, what constitutes 'peace and stability' depends on your own outlook on the world.
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  160.  @paulblichmann2791  Finland has already stopped buying Russian oil and gas. They've made a deal with Sweden to import more electricity.
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  161. "Maintaining the stability of global supply chains". Translation: We want the supply chains to stay with us.
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  162. Clearly a problem with the foundation. The subsoil has been washed away and apparently, the foundation didn't go deep enough, causing one support to sink into the soil.
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  163. As a man who has never worn any type of make up, I found this video very interesting. It's like traveling into space.
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  164. Chinese low-cost tour groups can be very annoying, but Chinese independent travelers are just as cool as independent travelers from any other country. Welcome, welcome!
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  165. I wonder if these tickets are only one-way and you have to pay the return trip yourself?
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  166. Bizarre that they never mentioned which particles they had found.
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  167. I wonder how many of the commenters who complain about the treatment of the snails will eventually end up buying those beauty products.
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  168. I don't listen to the Alex Jones show, but I like the occasional Alex Jones clip or meme. He is absolutely hilarious!
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  169. Those entitled old ladies need to be taught a lesson!
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  170. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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  171.  @mr.terrific601  Don't worry, I am very much joking.
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  172. Based on the election results, he is more popular than even Taylor Swift. By the way, with this win, he will become the longest ruling leader of Russia/USSR. Even Stalin ruled for a shorter time than Putin.
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  173. Hey Tony, please consider for the next several episodes to give us a small bio for each of the new Standing Committee members, incl. educational and career background. It would be nice to know how many are economists and how many are engineers.
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  174. I remember Shanghai in the 90s. Yes, it was so dynamic, bursting with optimism and a desire to live life to the fullest. It was like every day presented new opportunities to reinvent yourself. But it was also much less developed than now. There were still slums in many parts of the city, two girls I knew literally grew up in a shack by the side of my street. They didn't even have running water. But it was also the beginning of Shanghai's wild nightlife, with a few pretty trendy clubs, mostly on South Maoming Rd. Nobody ate hotpot (火锅), or malatang (麻辣烫), or ganguo (干锅). There were no Starbuck's, no Burger King, no XinTianDi, no pedestrian street on Nanjing Rd. But it was a wild time!
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  175. "Japan's reign as king would not last for long". And such a statement may cause some to feel a sense of despair, or 'what's the point in even trying'. But the back room benefits are still huge: The knowledge attained, the growth in educational resources, the basic technologies and machinery to start a new adventure. That is perhaps the real reward.
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  176. It's probably a necessary correction as these industries mature and become 'the auto industry' of the 21st century: Good revenue, decent profits, but no expectation of massive future growth. There are still future promises in robotics and AI, but we don't yet know if these sectors pan out the way we hope.
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  177. Other news reports say one hotel guest from the room had checked out and since traveled back to Vietnam. Perhaps that was wrongly reported.
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  178.  @MrCasco0o  She uses herself as an object for marketing, and profits from it. Pretty good, if you ask me.
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  179. Many of the solutions proposed are already being implemented in more and more industrialized countries, but it's a relatively slow process. I think decade by decade we'll continue to see improvements in our environment. As long as we're moving in the right direction I'm pretty happy.
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  180. This is very similar to what happened in countries that ended Covid restrictions early. In those countries, the disease spike happened last winter. So people should be calm, follow doctors' recommendations and soon this will be over. Next winter it will be much milder.
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  181. Ok, so finally we find out what she was convicted of: There was a government press conference to be held, and a briefing about the conference was handed out to journalists beforehand, as usual. Journalists are not supposed to share the briefing until the press conference begins, but she shared it with other media a few minutes before the event began. And for that, she was given 3 years in prison.
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  182. "Normally I'd invite my uncle, but I had him executed, so obviously he couldn't come".
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  183. 40 trillion RMB seems very high. Given that consumption makes up around 40% of China's GDP, this would mean that people spend 80% of their money on the 'nighttime economy'. 80%?
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  184. I was in India in 1989 as a tourist, and the red tape was insane! People were joking that red tape and bureaucracy was India's biggest industry.
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  185. It's a bit hard to find detailed info on this project, but scoping around on the internet, I found this: The CSIC Jiangsu Rudong H3-1 farm is phase 3 of a larger project. Size: 300 MW Number of turbines: 50 Turbines: CSIC HZ Windpower H151-5000 (5 MW turbine) Manufacturer: CSIC Haizhuang Windpower Equipment Co.,Ltd
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  186. I recognize most of these alleyways. I used to take visitors for walks through this neighborhood many, many times. Many of the houses are poor quality and not worth preserving, but others are large mansions once owned by wealthy merchants and their families. So many stories will be gone, stories of rich men and their concubines, of common Shanghai people, of Red Guards. You can still see their slogans here and there if you look closely. One house even has a big mural on the wall of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao in profile, but it has since been painted over. It's the end of an era. (Actually, it might have been Engels and not Stalin. It's been 5 years since they painted it)
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  187. There are lots of fighting words in the comment section, but perhaps we can agree that of all the countries currently involved in railway building in Africa (China, Germany, France, Canada, Turkey), at least it is good that they are all building Standard Gauge Railways, so they can one day all be linked together to create a pan-African railway system.
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  188. 3:48 "The global fashion system is built on exploitation". I have lived in developing countries for over 20 years and I know for a fact that the workers and small businesses there do NOT view it as exploitation. They view it as a business opportunity to develop, and an opportunity to better their lives. They flock from country to city in the hope of taking part in this opportunity. They don't say "let's go and get exploited", but instead say "let's go and make some money"! Asia in particular have so many examples of how these practices helped the countries get out of poverty and into the middle class. It's only rich people in the West, people who are completely out of touch with the rest of the world, who see this as exploitation. Those rich people only want to feel better about themselves, they want to signal how morally righteous they are, and in the process they are perfectly willing to prevent the global south from developing.
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  189. Hong Kong is engineered and built extremely well. Even a massive, record breaking rain storm like this won't cause major damage.
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  190. Considering they had the paddle boat strapped to the roof of their car, they must have known very early on that they would "run out of money by the time they got to Guangdong". I'm guessing this was planned from the start. Nice adventure, though. It's great to try something new and exciting.
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  191.  @calmwins  Tesla, inc. is a public company and its market value is a direct reflection of its stock price. In other words, individual stock price multiplied by number of stocks = market value/market capitalization. If you owned all Tesla shares and you sold them, you would end up with a certain amount of money. That would be the value of the company at the time of sale. Just like an old refrigerator or a Picasso painting.
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  192. I think they'd find it very difficult to show that the Swiss concrete company is directly responsible for whatever deterioration their island has seen. There are a whole number of links they would have to prove.
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  193. Minnesota stole a Danish viking ship and now they have the Minnesota Vikings.
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  194. These long form interviews are awesome! To me, at least, it so much more stimulating than the short sound bite.
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  195. Is this a sign of changing culture in China? Are rich people becoming more generous and less arrogant? I hope so.
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  196. I remember when Starbuck's opened their first store in Shanghai in 1999. Lippo Plaza on HuaiHai Rd., facing the busy shopping street. It immediately became a popular spot for the up and coming young professionals. Before that, there weren't more than 2 or 3 places in town where you could buy a cafe latte (one of them being Park 97, long since closed).
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  197. What are your qualifications? I have a PhD in GTA.
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  198. They use hypersonic missiles in the hope of speeding up their slow campaign.
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  199. With all the energy these people are putting into the technology, I foresee a wave of these projects in the future.
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  200. Congratulations to Ellen Huet and her team at Bloomberg. This was so good! Please consider doing more series like this with in-depth reporting on companies. They don't even have to be big scandals, just some deep insights.
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  201. One thing you'll never hear from ISIS: "Hey, let's just relax, enjoy life, and get along".
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  202. I hope it'll be worthwhile for Laos. It's a very expensive project for a small, low-income country like Laos. The cost of this project is almost 1/3 of Laos' entire GDP or 1.8 times the country's annual total government budget. I don't think any country has ever spent that much on a single project in world history.
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  203. I've never heard of Jason Whitlock, but he is very thoughtful and seems like an alround great person. You have my admiration, Mr. Whitlock.
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  204. Fascinating! Primarily, this documentary made me want to go to Argentina, sit in one of their cozy cafes, watch people walking by, and just contemplate life.
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  205. "The largest developing country, China, and the largest developed country, United States". Chinese leaders have been saying this phrase for decades, but you can't really say that anymore. Now India is the largest developing country, and China is the second largest developing country.
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  206. There's a solution to all this: Laws need to be gender neutral and no court or judge may take gender into account when making judgements. Alimony could be decided with a simple mathematical formula that doesn't take gender into account. (I wonder what current practice is with respect to gay/lesbian marriages).
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  207. Sorry guys, I wrote Shanghai Dynasty. Must have been auto-correct. I meant Shang Dynasty.
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  208. Wow, only an hour after posting the video there are so many 'investment' spammers in the comments. And what is this 'AMZ11VR' they're promoting? Ah, a quick Google search says it is some kind of crypto-scam. Not very surprising.
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  209.  @ArkoRay  Well, in Interstellar they went to a black hole. That's always more expensive.
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  210.  @zilun  If you want an extra room for your child to sleep in, a room of just 10 sqm, in Shanghai that will set you back about RMB 1 million. So yes, there's a high cost to having children.
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  211. This flurry of cultural, business and diplomatic exchange is straight out of the Chinese playbook. Many viewers have probably heard of 'ping pong diplomacy' or 'panda diplomacy' in China's relations with foreign countries. When China feels a bit weak, they roll out the red carpet, and when they feel strong again, they put on the boxing gloves. It's weird behavior, in my opinion, but it is something you can even see in Chinese society: A small time businessman will lick your boots and take you to dinner, but once he gets rich, he often becomes arrogant and condescending toward others. I suppose it has to do with the very strong belief in hierarchy in traditional Chinese society: The strong do what they want, the weak suffer what they must.
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  212. North Korea: The eternal tragedy.
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  213. Thanks for giving a detailed explanation.
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  214.  @juliusnigelmarturillas3629  I'm not over dramatizing, or even dramatizing it. It happened as I describe. I was here during the entire project, from start to finish. Also, feel free to look up the Wikipedia page, which says much the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_World_Financial_Center. That is sure to make you think "Fucking hell, that Peter Jacobsen was right, after all, as he always is!"
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  215. How dare you call the police just because I steal?
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  216. This is by no means a new idea, but it's nice to see it implemented. It can help towards achieving one of China's goals: Lowering CO2 emissions. Keep it up.
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  217. It's not that uncommon: USA: Washington DC; pre-planned capital Australia: Canberra; pre-planned capital India: New Delhi; pre-planned capital Brazil: Brasilia; pre-planned capital Nigeria: Abuja; pre-planned capital Myanmar: Naypyidaw; pre-planned capital
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  218. I am not in the camp of people who see the BRI as a 'debt trap'. But that does not mean BRI has been a success. Rather, it is my feeling that many recipients of BRI loans/projects have thought "Let's get the money now, then we'll worry about how to pay them back some other day". But that also means that Chinese creditors (esp. China Exim Bank) have perhaps not always done their due diligence. Some of these loans seem a bit risky. In my opinion, the failure of the Sri Lanka Hambantota Port can be laid squarely on the shoulders of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, perhaps the most corrupt president ever. He is the one who decided to make a large port in Hambantota, a small town with no industry to speak of. The port was not needed, not in the right place, and not particularly useful, but it did happen to be in Mahinda Rajapaksa's small hometown. There are accusations within Sri Lanka that during his presidency, Mahinda Rajapaksa managed to defraud the country of more than $5 billion and funnel it out of the country. Many officials of his administration are being investigated for graft, fraud and corruption.
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  219. Indonesia has estimated ticket prices at USD 10-20/trip. At a total construction cost of USD 7.6 billion, that means 500 million passenger-trips to pay off the principal, and probably double that to pay loan interest, running costs and maintenance for a total of 1 billion passenger-trips. The loan is for 40 years, so that would require an average of 68,000 passenger-trips/day. But according to the construction management company KCIC, only about 30,000 passenger-trips/day are expected. I hope Indonesia has made the right decision.
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  220. It's still early days in this whole de-risking/de-coupling process. It is a process that will continue to develop over the next 10 years until it reaches a new equilibrium. China will continue to have a piece of the pie, but it's dream of owning the whole pie will probably not come true.
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  221. It's like Shanghai's Former French Concession, the most treasured part of Shanghai. Every weekend, Wukang Rd. (武康路) is packed with tourists who want to experience a bit of that old French charm.
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  222. Yeah, the music was a bit loud compared to the narrator.
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  223. Aren't they basically Bangladeshi? Their language is closely related to eastern Bangladeshi dialects, they look Bangladeshi, they share the same religion. Seems to me they migrated from what is today's Bangladesh into Myanmar many years ago. On the other hand, if they have lived in what is today's Myanmar for centuries, they should be considered an ethnic minority in Myanmar. It's very complicated.
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  224.  @hyphen2612  I know, but since the video is specifically about Russian tech, I only mentioned Russian tubes.
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  225. until 80 years ago, this kind of conversation between a Brit and a frog would have been pure fantasy. Now it seems quite natural. Our world is just a much better place than it has ever been.
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  226. This seems to happen regularly in China. There have been several videos of passers by catching toddlers falling out of windows.
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  227. What are you, Harvard?
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  228. 10:20 "This moment (when Columbus took Cuba for Spain) is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows". This is simply a false statement! Imperialism, European or otherwise, was the rule of the day for the first 5000 years of human civilization. It is really only in the last 70 years, since the establishment of the UN, that we have mostly agreed on the principles of 'national integrity' and 'territorial inviolability'. Anybody ever heard of the Roman Empire? Ottoman Empire? Russian Empire, Swedish Empire, Viking conquests, Mayan Empire, Chinese Empire, Mali Empire, Gupta Empire, Inca Empire, Khmer Empire, Persian Empire, Egyptian Empire, Mesopotamian Empire? The standard throughout history is conquest and empire. Peace and cooperation is an entirely new idea. Brand new!
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  229. I'm left with a feeling that justice has not been completely served. The suspect has yet to be tried for the crime he is suspected of committing. But he cannot be sent to Malaysia if there's a risk he will be sentenced to death. At the same time, the family of the victim should have a way to seek justice for their loved one. It's quite a conundrum.
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  230. I've taken the sleeper train between Shanghai and Shenzhen many times, then down to HK by metro and MTR. It's probably my favorite way to go to HK.
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  231. Having lived in China for most of its high-growth period (since the mid-90s), it is almost unreal to hear an Indian analyst giving both a positive and negative assessment of the economy. In China, only positive news will be promoted, the negative has always been swept under the rug: "Hush, hush, don't air our dirty laundry in public".
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  232. Toward the end of the video, locally knitted vicuna wear is shown, presumably sold directly by the Lucanas. How much do they get for that? If it is more profitable, just stop selling to Loro Piana and sell your locally made items. If it is less profitable, I guess they're better off continuing their sales to Loro Piana. However, there's a business case to be made here: If the Lucanas can get property rights to their land, they can develop cooperatives and generate more profits for themselves by controlling production, processing and shipping. This is exactly what European farmers started doing in the 19th century. It brought them from abject poverty to considerable prosperity in just a century.
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  233.  @Joseph-eh4rs  Looks like a punctuation error. Here, I fixed it: "South Korea sent 300k NATO shells to USA, and North Korea 1 million shells to Russia".
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  234. Well, they have three immediate neighbors who all have nuclear weapons, and none of which are close friends. But if SK develops them it's likely that Japan will too, not long after.
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  235. It's hard to compare costs between countries, but Denmark has just completed a double-track high-speed railway (250 km/h) at $30 million/km. The Mombasa-Nairobi Line is single-track, design speed 120 km/h. Cost: $6.2 million/km. So there definitely a difference in cost, but also in specifications, and in location, of course.
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  236. A lot of commenters seem to think that the total number of people is important. It's not. Zhejiang as an independent country would still be rich; Guizhou as an independent country would still be poor. The important part is the growth of the population, whether it is positive growth or negative growth. Since a nation's economy is made up of people, changes in the population size will also mean changes in the economy. No people=no economy. However, for most countries, the annual changes are so small that you will never notice a difference. Only when seen over decades will you see it. So Chinese people's lives will not change dramatically because of this.
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  237. Rather than a video of two people basically just reading other people's tweets, it would be much better to interview a city planner, architect, engineer, etc. who might have some real insights.
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  238. "When are you gonna pay me back"? "If you can lend me a million now, I'll pay you back the first million".
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  239. A much better video on this topic would be to focus on whether Robby Starbuck and his activism has actually had an effect or not. This can obviously be hard to substantiate, but they could look at corporations Starbuck has criticized versus those he hasn't and then see if there is a marked difference between the two groups. Personally, I think it is just as likely, if not more so, that the whole woke/DEI/CRT trend has simply lived out its life. It was a sudden wave of social upheaval, it quickly grew to massive proportions, but then slowly people got tired of it. It's like fashion, or music: Here today, gone tomorrow.
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  240. Africa is really moving these years. I remember the 80s when Ethiopia was seen as a country of famine and misery. I think Ethiopia and many other African countries (Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana and others) have a great future ahead of them. Systems are put in place, the new leaders are smart and responsible, and economic development is well underway.
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  241. The only way 5G could damage that tree is if you hung the antennas from the tree branches.
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  242. The gaming crackdown appears to be an important part of Xi's philosophy around 'economic development': Xi wants to advance 'the real economy', i.e. physical products that you can export or build, or which can tangibly improve people's lives, like a shovel, or a railway, or a woolen sweater. The online economy seems 'unreal' to Xi, or fake, or empty. This is the case with gaming, social media, streaming, etc. Frankly, I think it smells of 'old man yelling at cloud', not least because the online industries combined generate trillions of dollars every year globally.
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  243. Every age has its charm. I was in Luang Prabang in 1997 and again in 2013, and I'd be happy to go back and visit again. Some things will be worse than before, some will be better than before, and some will be the same. That's called development.
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  244. Well done, Team China! 80 hours in freezing cold weather and even some rain, no food, no water, it couldn't have been easy for that woman.
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  245. It would be nice if they could get a democratically elected, non-army government back, but the next election are not for several years.
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  246. It's a small community, with relatively few stakeholders, a small legislature. It's a lot easier to make decisions under those conditions. There won't be drawn-out lawsuits, because everybody can have their say and arrive at a compromise by just meeting each other face to face and talk it out. Once the decision is made, they most likely will get a construction company from outside, it'll all be transparent, no one will profit personally. On the downside, 200 million Euros is still a lot of money for just 50,000 people.
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  247. I wonder if they monitor nutrient levels in rivers and streams that flow into the gulf. If nutrient levels are very high, especially phosphate and nitrogen, that will definitely have a negative long-term impact.
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  248. In the most recent survey by the Taiwanese Election Study Center, I think from 2020, only 4% of Taiwanese identified as 'solely Chinese'; 30% identified as 'both Chinese and Taiwanese'; and 64% identified as 'solely Taiwanese'. Additionally, only about 1% are seeking reunification.
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  249. Once a state starts micro-managing the economy, 'Common Prosperity' begins the long decline to 'Common Poverty'.
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  250. An odd mish-mash of facts: Helium 3 exists on the moon and it MIGHT be used to make energy in a reactor that MIGHT come online in the next 20 years. We don't know how much Helium 3 there is, we don't know where it is, we don't know how to mine it, or how to bring it back to earth. But, they say, China is working on a space craft that can take 120 tons to Low Earth Orbit. That's great, but the moon is not in LEO, so that point seems irrelevant. Who knows, maybe one day China can bring back Helium 3 back to earth, but this video certainly doesn't give us any clues as to how that might happen.
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  251. This is wonderful, and the same is happening in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia. Not every place can be successful, but if there is a little rain (say 100-300mm/year), it can probably work.
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  252. When they visit Han areas, it's always about how far they have come in economic and technological development, and everybody wears modern clothing. When they visit ethic minority areas, it's always about singing, dancing and ethnic costumes, even though people don't wear those costumes in daily life.
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  253.  @freezepaladin  Yes, waste is an energy resource just like coal or oil. Once the price of waste goes up due to scarcity, we'll have to cut down on its use. Until then, the 'green' calculation turns out better for incineration than for landfills.
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  254. He cited 'heat of the moment' as a cause. Based on the videos, it was several 'moments'. Maybe he's hot under the collar all the time.
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  255. An important step forward. Well done, Baidu.
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  256.  @NyoungLover  I don't really see any examples of trying to better lives of people. When Mao said 炮打司令部, it was the beginning of societal chaos: Young people bullying, torturing and sometimes killing their teachers, their family members. No, it did not better the lives of people. Of course, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and others knew this, but they did not have the power to stop it. And Mao got what he wanted: Absolute power.
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  257. Watching this documentary gave me that sinking feeling.
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  258.  @hanoimuathu123  Perhaps it is because you focus on their negative coverage. This particular video alone presents a very positive view of China's high-speed railway network. Many other news stories over the years have described China's development as a 'miracle'. Those are hardly negative. But of course there's a bit of both, as there should be. In any case, different media have different viewpoints. Chinese media is often critical of the west and critical of Japan, India and South Korea. You are free to view only media stories that agree with your own viewpoint.
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  259.  @zilun  Your comment does not deal with the reality of a young family who is considering having a baby right now and have to consider the costs. You're thinking in macro-economic terms, but the young couple have to think about their own personal economy. What can they afford right now?
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  260. War is expensive.
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  261. The most amazing thing about this meeting is that they actually had a large triangular conference table. I mean, who has that lying around?
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  262. Yes, 'Underpaid Worker Sweat' is also distilled and sold for $10,000/bottle. Billionaires use it to polish their bespoke shoes; gives a unique sheen.
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  263. I don't think the US-China trade war had much impact on the development of this aircraft. Trump blacklisted Comac on Jan. 14, 2021 and Biden unlisted it on Jun. 3, 2021 for a total blacklist period of 141 days, or about 20 weeks. Not a big portion of the 15 years it took to deliver the first aircraft to China Eastern.
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  264. There is no difference, and the restrictions are not for Chinese people. They for everyone arriving from China, no matter their ethnicity or nationality. Likewise, a Chinese citizen arriving from a third country will not be restricted.
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  265. 9:55 "China has invested $15 billion, more than any other country". But the IBM guy just said that they alone have invested $7 billion, so perhaps this only counts state funds?
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  266. One more correction: SanXingDui Culture turns out to be contembporary to Shang Dynasty, only in Sichuan, where Shang was in today's northern China (Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Hubei), approximately 3-500 miles from SanXingDui. Quite far when you only have two flat feet as transportation.
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  267. Fascinating! I have never tried this, and didn't even know of its existence.
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  268. Re. "Foreign forces": There were several protesters holding up white sheets of paper upon which they had written 'Foreign Forces'. I took this to be a sarcastic jab at government propaganda, but apparently the ambassador to France interpreted it as 'evidence'. I can't imagine what other evidence he was referring to.
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  269.  @SeelkadoomSonicBlack  "Why are you being neutral about this?" I'm not neutral, but I can explain the situation from a neutral viewpoint. You can do the same if you just concentrate a little.
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  270. When the pilot popped that balloon, did he hear a child crying with sadness?
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  271. "Indonesia didnt need EU to buy Indonesian Nickel". So why are you complaining? If you don't want the EU as your costumer, just ignore what they say.
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  272. Congratulations to Indonesia. It's very expensive, though. More than twice the cost per km compared to the high-speed railway line we just completed in Denmark ($23 mill/km in Denmark versus $51 mill/km in Indonesia). Maybe it's because of the many mountains in Java.
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  273. I know how you feel. I've had a filthy roommate.
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  274. China hasn't used foreign expertise in bridge building for many years. Even as early as 1991, Yangpu Bridge in Shanghai was built entirely by local engineers. And long before then, when China DID need foreign expertise, it was mostly from the Soviet Union.
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  275. The more they dig, the clearer Chinese history becomes.
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  276. Chungking Mansions. I used to stay here in the 80s and 90s when backpacking around Asia. I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore. Every meal I've had here has been mediocre at best. But it's a great place to buy spices.
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  277. Had this statue been in China during the Cultural Revolution, it would almost certainly have been completely destroyed. Some commenters suggest this statue might have been stolen. But if it was taken out of the country in the late 1920s or early 1930s, it was most likely bought and paid for. This was the Republican era, but at the tail end of over a decade of warlords, regional strife, corruption and graft. Chiang Kai Shek (Jiang JieChi) took power in 1928, but corruption and instability continued for a long time. It would have been easy to buy the statue from a local dealer or a temple abbot in need of money, pay off some officials and ship it overseas. EDIT: This statue was bought fair and square in the early 1930s in Beijing from the famous Chinese art collector Huo MingZhi (霍明志 1879-1949) by the grandfather of the current owner. It was not stolen.
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  278. I'm sure that every winter, in the middle of the cold, wet darkness, you think to yourself: At least it's not Eritrea.
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  279. 200 dead out of 2000 trying to migrate by boat, that's a 90% survival rate (some might even say success rate). Not too bad. I think they made the right choice for a chance to enjoy Beef Rendang and Gulai Ayam for the rest of their lives.
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  280. It took SCMP 9 years to track down the designer who made Rihanna's dress from 2015. And we then learn that the dress actually debuted in 2009 and work on it started in 2007. That's 17 years ago! And here I thought fashion moved at lightning speed.
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  281. Thanks to SCMP for shedding a little light on a region that is almost never covered by any media.
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  282. Below top ten: 11 (shared): Shanghai JiaoDa 11 (shared): Universiti Malaya 13: Korea Adv. Inst. of Science and Technology 14: University of Tokyo 15: Hong Kong UST 16: Seoul National U. 17 (shared): City U. of HK 17 (shared): Kyoto U. 19: Sungkyunwan U. 20: Tohoku U.
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  283. "Hong Xiuquan was an ethnic hacker". He tried to hack China, but ultimately failed. (PS: I know it's Hakka)
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  284. There are fewer conspiracy theories in the comments than I expected.
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  285. "Foreign forces" is a wonderfully vague term that can be used for almost anything. It's a bit like 'evil spirits'.
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  286. That's both funny and tragic at the same time.
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  287. It's so interesting how large ship building has moved over the decades from the west, to Japan, to Korea, and now to China. Where will they be built next?
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  288. It looks remarkably like the kind of airport you'd see in China. There's a certain style, hard to put my finger on it.
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  289. Somehow, I did not enjoy any of those ads.
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  290. There are technical standards. They don't just say 'Hey, let's see if this works in planes'.
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  291. If I were that man, I would have stayed at the restaurant and told the police who she was and how to find her. Girlfriend or not, people must be held responsible for their criminal actions.
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  292. A note on the term 'fermented'. There is no real fermentation going on, but rather oxidation. It is an identical process to what happens to an apple or potato when you cut a slice and leave it out: The oxygen reacts with the cut cells, the color changes, and with it, the flavor. With potatoes and apples, the oxidated flavor is undesirable, but in tea, it creates the distinct flavor of black tea. Fermentation is a biological reaction caused by living organisms, mostly molds, yeasts, fungi, and bacteria.
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  293. It looks like all developing countries have to go through the same problems before they come out on the other side. India is not the first country where a rush to develop has destroyed local communities. But 50 years from now, this will all be forgotten and those affected will not be heard.
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  294. I've only been in lockdown 17 days, but I understand how you feel. Like you, my worst fear is to test positive. The whole thing is insane! 220,000 cases in Shanghai now. Only 4.4% have any symptoms at all. The rest don't even know they got infected. According to Xinhua News, only 9 people in Shanghai are seriously ill. No deaths. At least let those without symptoms quarantine at home.
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  295. People in North Korea are like the panda Ya Ya in Memphis Zoo: The zoo says everything is fine, people outside say everything is bad. The big difference is that Ya Ya was allowed to leave. The people of North Korea are not so lucky.
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  296. Up here in Shanghai, the city has really upped the game of public toilets. Back in the 90s and 00s, public toilets were just disgusting! Hard to describe how revolting they were. But over the last 10-15 years things have really changed. Public toilets are now surprisingly clean. I say surprising because public toilets in China used to be the source of many tales and stories, and sometimes the strongest (smelling) memory people brought back from the country.
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  297.  @freezepaladin  Yes, those sound like great things, but until we reach that point, the next best thing is to burn it. Waste incineration is not the final step in our development. Technology and society keeps advancing through human ingenuity and creativity and there is no real end point. We just keep making our world better and better, solving our problems one by one. It's an incremental process that takes decades and centuries, not something that happens from one day to the next.
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  298. The term 'credible evidence' is wrong. Evidence is always credible, so it makes no sense to add the qualifier 'credible'. Back to school.
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  299. If they can include the student population in the youth unemployment statistics, the unemployment rate will immediately fall from 21% to 6.7%. That's a quick way to solve the problem.
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  300. Now we have to travel further to apply for our NK tourist visas.
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  301. Some great American inventions: Micro chips, corn chips, potato chips.
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  302. I'm reminded of that poem by Cao Zhi: Climbing to the ridge of Beimang Mountain from afar I look down on Luoyang. Luoyang, how lonesome and still! Palaces and houses all burnt to ashes. Walls and fences all broken and gaping, thorn and brambles rising to the sky. I do not see the old men; I only see the new youths. I turn aside, no straight road to walk. Waste fields, no longer ploughed. I have been away so long that I do not recognize the paths. Amidst the fields, how sad and desolate. A thousand miles without chimney smoke. Thinking of the house I lived in all those years. My emotions twisted, I cannot speak.
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  303. I'm in Shanghai, it's early afternoon. It really got going around 9-10AM and we're seeing quite heavy rain. Lot of wind, a few trees have fallen in my community, but no major damage.
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  304. Very interesting. Thanks for discussing this topic. Whatever we might think about these nazi groups, it's always good to broaden our understanding of them. As was mentioned, after the war is over, it's worth keeping an eye on their activities.
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  305. I once went for a morning run in Lhasa, Tibet while on vacation. My lungs were ripped to shreds within fifteen minutes.
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  306.  @52_Ronin  The number of mountains don't matter. It's the altitude that is important
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  307. I can attest that it has been unbearably hot here in Shanghai this summer, beginning all the way back in mid-June. Summer is almost over, but I wonder if some other weather craziness will greet us in the fall and winter.
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  308. It never seizes to amaze me that Chinese tourists choose to visit sights that everybody else is visiting, They must know how crowded it's going to get. Who knows, maybe they enjoy the crowds.
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  309. Bornholm does have public buses, but with a total population of only 40,000 a rail network would be much too costly to be economically feasible.
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  310. Well, on average, Americans of Chinese descent tend to move quickly into the upper middle class. By quickly I mean within a generation, not just in a few years. These people do it for their children's future.
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  311. Same thing happened in Paris just yesterday.
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  312. If regular people had more knowledge about radioactive isotopes, as the scientists have, they wouldn't worry about this release of waste water.
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  313. Of course there's an American Dream. But like all dreams, they don't always come true and they don't come true for everyone. It's a dream, not a guarantee.
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  314. "growing threat from the north" is a safe way to say "growing threat from somewhere else"
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  315. "The Philippines hit my fist with his nose, right outside his own front door. Therefore, the Philippines is the aggressor".
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  316.  @michaelerzuah1105  "I doubt much needed energy would be channelled to producing weapons". National security supersedes all other considerations. I don't know where you're from, but Europeans have a very long and complicated relationship with Russia, and we're willing (I believe) to sacrifice a lot to protect ourselves against the great empire to the east. This is deep in our bones.
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  317. Every country has well-behaved tourists and poorly behaved tourists. Just look at the recent news from Bali and Thailand, where several western and Russian tourists were deported for bad behavior. That young Chinese woman in this video is the PERFECT tourist!
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  318.  @sparks1792  "Europeans just like crying". Generally speaking, it is not Europeans or other US allies who consider themselves 'vassals'. Rather, the claim that US allies are vassals comes from our common adversaries who try to split us apart: China, Russia and their collaborators.
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  319. "My name is Huang, Huang Yu, I'll have a bottle of Maotai, shaken, not stirred."
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  320. It looks increasingly like Spiked is using all their donations on staff dinners!
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  321. I'm skeptical of this age claim. Her son looks not a day over 70, which would have made her 52 by the time she had him. Extremely unlikely. More likely she's 92.
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  322. Isn't there a whole big museum in Nanjing commemorating the Nanjing Massacre? Who is criticizing that?
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  323. People are willing to gamble their lives for a better future. I've seen it in China. West Africans are chancing it in Europe. Few succeed, most scrape by, some get enslaved. It's all a part of economic development.
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  324.  @NyoungLover  Well, that's what they said, but I think a more important goal was to regain Mao's complete power over the Party. Remember, just before 1966, he was increasingly sidelined by Deng and Liu, who both wanted a more pragmatic path forward. That eventually came to pass after Mao passed away.
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  325. Fuel cells are much less efficient than electric: Converting electricity into hydrogen loses energy, and converting it back to electricity loses energy again. Cutting out the 'middle man' is more efficient. Fuel cells are good for storing energy in the form of liquid hydrogen, but if the future brings charging stations everywhere, it won't be necessary.
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  326. That's great for Chinese tourists. If you're Chinese you can just travel to Thailand on a whim, no need to plan ahead.
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  327. Sounds like a lot of fun, also for the professional astronauts/cosmonauts who might get a small acting part in a real feature film.
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  328. There is nothing wrong with 'traditional values', just as there is nothing wrong with 'non-traditional values'. The question is, why should only one set of values be mandated by law, while the other set gets outlawed? Can't people just hold on to the values they want to?
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  329. Clip starts with "The Saudi announcement..." but they forgot to include what the announcement actually was. How much are they going to cut? What is their normal daily production? We're left in the dark.
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  330.  @tommacintyre8489  or space-
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  331. People in China can probably remember that Chinese cities were like this 15 years ago. Chinese cities regularly topped the list of "World's most polluted cities". Remember the 2008 Beijing Olympics? They also did cloud seeding to make it rain, and they stopped all industrial activity and banned half of the cars from roads around that time. Later, in 2014, Beijing hosted APEC, and people talked about the sky being 'APEC blue' for a change. But now Chinese cities have blue skies much more often and the air quality has improved a lot. Based on that experience, we can probably expect India's large cities to be living with serious air pollution for the next 10-15 years. (btw, I ran half marathons in Shanghai in 2010 and 2012. The air pollution didn't bother me one bit).
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  332. The most likely culprit are those expensive Spanish Lithium batteries. The Spanish love smoke, they believe it makes the dining experience better. Could also be those expensive French Lithium batteries. The French smoke all the time: Gauloises and Gitanes are the most popular brands. Could also be those expensive Dutch Lithium batteries. The Dutch are naturally hot. Tallest people on earth.
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  333. You can kill your duck, but you can't overfeed it, because that's 'injurious'.
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  334. Don't feel bad. Mia Farrow has 14 children, 4 of whom she gave birth to with at least two different fathers; and another 10 she adopted over the years, three of whom have since died. Some of her children were also adopted by the partners in her life, others were not. You really need a large sheet of paper and several magic markers to figure it all out.
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  335. Looks more like apartment building in Beijing in 1991. I remember they were building out the area between 2nd and 3rd ring roads back then. Today, those apartments don't look so hot.
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  336. A nucleic acid testing team came to my neighborhood today (in Shanghai) so we could all get tested. Nobody did the rabbit dance. What a relief!
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  337. He retired in 2017, his 'whistleblowing' took place in 2019, and he was found dead in 2024. If the company had wanted to assassinate him, they were awfully slow about it. Additionally, he had recently completed his testimony about his experience at Boeing, so it was much too late to try to silence him. All in all, nothing points to foul play, nor does the police suspect any such thing.
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  338. There is no evidence the virus originated in a lab. There is also no evidence the virus spilled over from a wild animal. Since those are the only two options, we are left to just guess. But given that the first major outbreak happened in the very city that has spent the last 15+ years researching Corona viruses (since SARS in 2003), I think it is very reasonable to suggest the lab leak hypothesis. Will we ever know the truth? Maybe not.
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  339. Congratulations to India for this great achievement!
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  340. It is said in the video that slave traders went into West Africa to abduct locals for slavery. But to send teams of English/Scottish people into an area they are not familiar with to abduct people seems both dangerous, complicated and ineffective. In my understanding, the traders instead told leaders of the coastal towns that they were interested in buying slaves and then let the locals do the abductions, lock the abductees up and wait for the traders to show up. This also made the locals on the coasts business partners, rather than simply bystanders. It also helped local leaders gain power through diluting enemy states of their young men/warriors. It's a bit like Rhino horns. You don't have Chinese people going into Tanzania to kill Rhinos. Instead they tell locals they're interested in buying rhino horns and let local poachers do the shooting.
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  341. That was a great rescue! However, the crane collapsing shown in the next clip is not the one the man was trapped on. The one he was trapped on was at an almost horizontal position, but the other one collapsed from an almost vertical position.
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  342. Finland is part of our Nordic brotherhood and we'd like to keep it that way. Greetings from Denmark
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  343. You never know. Silicon flavored dip may be the next big thing.
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  344. Heavy rains certainly doesn't make it easier. These guys are working hard.
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  345. A few more bits to add to the video: There's no such thing as 'super foods'. There's also no such thing as 'dangerous foods'. Eat in moderation, eat a varied diet, most of the food you eat should be as close to its original form as possible, i.e. a chicken drumstick instead of a chicken nugget, a fresh apple instead of apple sauce. You can still eat chicken nuggets and apple sauce, but keep it low.
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  346. This is a problem that will likely take decades to solve. In China's north and north-west, herders have increased their herds of goats and sheep since the reform and open up period began. Eventually, the number of grazing animals grew to numbers that the land could no longer support, leading to grasses being uprooted and feeding desertification. Mongolia started their economic liberalization later than China, but now their animal herds have also grown much too big, leading to desertification in large parts of Mongolia. The solution is: -Penning of herd animals, preventing them from roaming freely over the land. -Planting of suitable grasses to try to regrow the grasslands. -Harvesting the grass and bringing it to the animals, rather than the other way around. -In the meantime, feed will have to be brought in from outside the region. China has had some success with this practice, but once the desert has set in, it is very difficult to bring the grassland back. It takes years and years and years. But as they say: Never give up!
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  347. Very nice. I wouldn't mind a trip to Thailand myself right now. Shanghai weather is cold, grey and rainy.
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  348. I just extended my apartment lease with my Shanghainese landlord. Normally, I extend for two years at a time, but he said "Let's just do one year this time, in case something happens". I didn't ask what he meant, but it is an anecdotal indication that Chinese people may be getting a little worried about the future.
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  349. I think the Lagos region has tremendous potential, but as the video says, they really need to invest heavily in infrastructure to take advantage of that potential. Keep it up!
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  350. The shooter was Anthony McRae, 43. He was not a student at the university. According to his father, he could not handle the recent death of his mother, got increasingly depressed and angry, and eventually decided to take his grief out on innocent people.
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  351. In 1977, they were 20 years behind the world leader in lithography. In 2021, they're still 20 years behind the world leader in lithography. I'm no expert, but this tells me that it is not easy to advance in this industry.
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  352.  @brendon1689  I haven't heard of anyone criticizing the Museum to Commemorate the Nanjing Massacre. Every day, thousands of people, Chinese and foreign, visit the museum. It's a solemn experience.
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  353. Don't they already have a high-speed coastal line in Fujian? I've taken the Shanghai-Shenzhen high-speed line many times, and after Ningbo it follows the coast all the way down. Has that line reached capacity? Is this a specific line for Fuzhou-Xiamen? Anybody who can shed some light on this, I'd be very appreciative.
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  354. The Taliban to the world: "We won't allow our citizens to make money, so you should give us free money instead". Sort out your business first, then maybe we can talk.
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  355. As it should be. It's a business, after all.
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  356. 3 major problems were found during this test: 1: As the booster separated and turned around to return to earth, it seems to have lost fuel access to the engines. 2: The main space ship lost thermal insulation tiles on the way up. 3: The main space ship rocket engines appear to have been damaged during 'hot staging'. (Edit: I got this from Scott Manley)
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  357. For context, the area where this video is filmed, Pekon, is within junta-controlled regions. Correction: I spoke too soon. Pekon was captured by the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force on January 12, 2024.
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  358. In China, these scams are called 'pig butchering' so in Japan they should call it 'tuna slicing'.
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  359.  @DC-qn4wz  Yes, I remember when China was like that. It's only 25-30 years ago.
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  360. I'm very impressed with the professionalism and lack of sensationalism at SCMP. I hope you will be able to continue your work many years into the future.
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  361. I met an Afghan shop owner in Europe. Had a nice conversation. Toward the end, he told me that the Taliban is the best thing to happen to Afghanistan, and that we should expect Afghanistan under the Taliban to experience rapid economic and social growth in the near future. I told him I was skeptical but that we could talk again ten years from now.
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  362. He had, but now he's back with new super powers after spending time at his fortress of solitude. He may even be invincible now.
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  363. I welcome China and Korea in participating in this test. Whatever results they find, hopefully both Koreans and Chinese citizens will believe them this time.
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  364. ASML: "If they cannot get those machines, they will develop them themselves". They would anyway, regardless of whether they can buy them or not. This is a clearly stated objective of China's government: To develop the capability to design and fabricate advanced chips. Another example is advanced turbo-jet engines: They can buy them from Russia or from the West, and yet, they are doing all they can to learn how to build them themselves. But will is one thing, ability is quite another. Nobody who is watching these videos will ever be able to run as fast as Usain Bolt, no matter how deep their desire is.
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  365. This felt like having a child tell me how to tie my shoelaces.
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  366. @Adam What do you think needs to be fixed there?
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  367. China does not use the word 'de-risking', they use the word 'self-reliance (自力更生)', which basically is the same thing: Reducing your international exposure by producing everything at home.
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  368. Communist countries have the BEST propaganda posters (and the most colorful propaganda, in general).
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  369. Some commenters are confusing Thailand and Taiwan. There really are a lot of ignoramuses in this world. Many other people seem to confuse Sweden and Switzerland. A few years back, lots of people confused the Czech Republic and Chechnya.
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  370.  @pepelepew1227  What a bizarre remark.
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  371. Not to forget all the generals, and the president! This is getting out of control!
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  372. I didn't hear them give examples of the dystopian future they feared. I would have liked to hear that so I could weigh the pros and cons myself.
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  373. A princess, looking for love....
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  374. The state will not have the money to take care of the old, so it will be up to themselves, through savings, or their children, if they have any. However, this is a very slow, creeping problem. It will be like walking on a flat road that slowly becomes a hill, and then a mountain. Every day it gets a little bit steeper, but you hardly notice the difference from yesterday. After some years, every step becomes a struggle, but you have already forgotten how easy it used to be years earlier.
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  375. What are those boundaries they shouldn't overstep? If beauty pageants have those boundaries, they can write them in the rule book.
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  376. North Korean tour groups in Beijing love to shop. Favorite items: Rice, wheat, soybeans, cabbage...
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  377. Much better: Don't blame anyone. Everybody involved this business is a willing participant and benefits from it. None of them would do it otherwise.
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  378. People with money will probably still buy luxury goods, it's just that the young generation don't have money (nor do I).
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  379. All historical data confirm this statement. In this case, 'relative' refers to the previous years, decades, centuries.
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  380. With his prison clothes he was easy to spot.
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  381. 1) Not every year will have such a scorching heatwave. 2) As the average temperature rises decade by decade, breeders will have to find/develop more heat resistant durian varieties. This may be difficult and take time, but probably not impossible. 3) Thailand needs to develop and improve its water retention capabilities. One rainy season should be plenty for the whole year, as long as they don't let all the water run straight into the sea. This all costs money, but every country needs to invest in the future.
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  382. 12 million students are expected to take the GaoKao. There are a total of around 15 million people aged 18 in the country (14 mill aged 19), so around 80% of all 18-year-olds are attempting to enter college. There are around 7-9 million openings for freshmen. It's great that so many Chinese kids want to further their education, but I fear that many of the college graduates will end up as delivery people or shop assistants. Life is not easy for young Chinese people.
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  383. Actually, a lot of arid regions are learning from China and applying similar processes, including Ethiopia and Kenya, where much progress has been made. China's efforts at stopping desertification has been in collaboration with the UN and the World Bank. It's a wonderful example of international cooperation.
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  384.  @zilun  Yes, renting will solve the problem of needing extra space for a new family member, but there are other expenses. Daycare, schooling, clothes, toys, college, vacations. Many things. It's not impossible to afford a child, as clearly billions of people continue to have children. What I am saying in my original comment is that having children has become MORE expensive in recent decades, and it will likely continue to increase in cost in the future.
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  385. First you store firecrackers unsafely, and then you start welding!!? Can't people think anymore?
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  386. @G.B. Please stop feeling guilty. You need the hair and they are willing sellers. In fact, both you and they get better lives because of this trade. You should feel happy, not guilty.
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  387. I was in Lijiang in 1996, shortly after a serious 6.6 earthquake had done major damage and killed several hundred people. Many modern buildings were shut off due to safety reasons and large cracks were visible many places. Some buildings had collapsed completely. Even all the way up in DiQing (ZhongDian/Shangri La) some buildings had damage. But the old town in Lijiang was largely intact due to the traditional construction methods. It took quite a while to rebuild the city. It seems nowadays, both people and buildings are much better prepared.
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  388.  @McBafoon  "If EU doesn't need our raw nickel the why complaining". Who said the EU doesn't need your nickel? We do need it. We want to buy it, but we want to limit the impact to the environment. That's all there is to it. Now there are negotiations happening. It's all part of a typical process. Nothing to get angry about.
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  389.  @ohkfilms  "the Thai are underpaid!" Perhaps by Finnish standards, but they must be paid well by Thai standards, otherwise they wouldn't bother to make the journey all the way from Thailand. Btw, in Thailand itself there are hired workers from Laos and Myanmar who are underpaid by Thai standards, but paid well by Lao and Myanmar standards. Would you travel to another country to do work that pays you higher wages than at home, but lower than in the host country? I would.
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  390. I live in China and I keep hearing about his 'digital currency', but this is not a digital currency, its just a state-sponsored payment app. How is it in any way different from using Alipay or WeChat Pay? It's still the regular Chinese currency: CNY.
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  391.  Hans Zarn  It doesn't really matter who he is, or what he does. What matters are the arguments put forward. Are they reasonable or not?
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  392. A drop of 850,000. I had calculated a drop of 980,000, so not as bad as I expected, but pretty close. I had also calculated deaths at 10,470,000 against the real number of 10,410,000. Much closer.
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  393. Miss World / Miss Universe, two completely pointless contests where we try to find the most beautiful woman in the world. Every year, they pick a new one, and after just a few years, people have completely forgotten who was the most beautiful a few years earlier. At the same time, it seems more people know and admire beautiful women on Instagram, or in Hollywood, or on the Parisian catwalks.
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  394. I think the US is much better positioned to place restrictions on Chinese imports than the EU. Germany, especially, relies heavily on exports to China and they worry about retaliatory measures by China. But in the end, restrictions will probably happen. If both France and Germany feel their industrial base is threatened by Chinese imports, they will have to take action, even if it hurts. Many smaller EU economies are less threatened by Chinese imports, but they will most likely follow along, as the economic health of the EU takes priority.
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  395. The people who protest this release are people who have never bothered, and couldn't bother, to research the situation and learn the facts. Instead, they prefer to remain ignorant, prefer to scream like petulant children, prefer to express their ill-informed emotions. There is much to learn on the IAEA website (which also has a Chinese version). Here are some facts: -The waste water has been tested by numerous international bodies and independent nuclear isotope labs, and has been deemed safe for release. -At the beginning, there were many different (and highly dangerous) radioactive isotopes in the waste, but all but Tritium has since been removed by a number of chemical processes. -Tritium cannot be removed by chemical processes. -Tritium occurs naturally in the environment, including in water vapor in the air. Sometimes it falls down as rain. -The amount of Tritium that falls as rain over Japan every year is more than the amount that is now getting released. Naturally, countries bigger than Japan see much more Tritium falling as rain every year. Don't worry, if you forgot your umbrella you're not going to get radiation sickness. People who continue to protest in the face of these facts can best be viewed with contempt, or at least with pity. Pity at their embrace of stupidity, their stubborn ignorance, their rejection of rational thought, their refusal to learn new information, their decision to rely on pure emotion. People like that are best avoided. Run away from them, and don't look back. EDIT: I will follow my own advice and NOT answer any IGNORANT questions or comments below.
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  396. Amazing that Filipinos would consider voting anyone from that family into office.
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  397. Imagine invading a poor, neighboring country less than 1/3 your size and still not winning. If NATO countries were really joining the fight the situation would look somewhat different. And if China were to join on Russia's side, it would look different yet again. Essentially a new world war. So much can be imagined.
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  398. "If water is safe to use Japan should keep it". That statement makes no logical sense. If it is really safe, why would they keep it? If it is really safe, what is the problem pouring it into the ocean. Seems to me what you really think is the opposite: If the water is NOT safe, Japan should keep it. But it IS safe, and that is why they can pour it into the ocean without problems. The waste water in its current form is probably safer than your urine. So if you're concerned about ocean safety, don't ever pee in the water.
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  399. 140,000 sounds like a lot of people, but there are literally more than 100 countries with a higher Covid-19 death rate than Indonesia.
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  400. -Climate and Energy Security -Digital Connectivity -Health and Health Security -Gender Equality and Equity That's very nice, but is that really what the developing world is looking for right now? What about road and rail infrastructure, electricity generation and grids, ports, airports, water distribution infrastructure, and investments in mining, business and industry? Many of these countries need the very basics first, only then can they begin to think about 'equality and equity'.
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  401. As do China's actions.
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  402. 0:42 "This is not simply a story of individuals making unhealthy lifestyle choices". Yes, it is. That has always been the reason for overweight and obesity. But that does not mean those people deserve scorn. If you have grown up in a society of scarcity, it is only normal to eat whenever you can, and eat more. It's a survival technique. But as society becomes more prosperous and abundant, people need new ways of thinking about food. They need to learn how not to eat too much, rather than too little. And frankly, I am skeptical that eating a Big Mac is more or less unhealthy than eating Butter Chicken.
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  403. Why are you writing in imperialism language? Do you govern Anglosaxon country or just being their puppet ?
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  404. "They lack skills and tend to sleep on the job". And yet, they still get hired. This is the future I always hoped for.
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  405. 600,000,000 Yuan in tax evasion! That's a lot of money.
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  406. HK's government have chosen and hired these judges. What did you think, that they forced their way into the court?
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  407. Although I am European and not Asian, I think rice is one of the best tasting carbohydrates available. I love wheat (for bread and pasta), but after that my favorite is rice. Rice tastes much better than potatoes, corn, millet, barley, sago, cassava, sweet potatoes or sorghum. India, Thailand, Japan all have excellent rice. 😚
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  408. Dear Singapore, just seeing the title of this video made me anxious and scared! Promise me you will not stop making delicious food! Even if it is unhealthy, please never stop! Delicious food is one the important things that makes life worth living, and Singapore, you do it so well. The world needs your food!
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  409. That's not how earthquakes work.
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  410. An effective way to help reduce government corruption is to have transparent accounts. Put all income and expenses online, and let the public see where every Yuan comes from and where it went. Government employee income and finances should be transparent, too.
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  411.  @Oscarcat2212  Yes, most likely over grazing and population. In the past, when people were few and farther between, there were fewer goats and less need for firewood, so you could just go out and take what you needed. As populations in the developing world have grown, these practices no longer work. At the very least, penning of goats and sheep is a minimum requirement for rehabilitation.
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  412. That Chinese tourist spoke impeccable English!
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  413. That is an oddly profound philosophical statement. After all, everybody and every generation live through major historical events, it has never ended and never will.
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  414. Oh, I remember when I was young, we'd grab a few beers, go a political demonstration about some serious event somewhere in the world, pump our fists in the air, get all riled up, and then go out on the town afterwards. Those were the days.
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  415. We are certainly living in interesting times. This is period of transition and it is too early to say what the future will look like, even just 5 years from now.
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  416. They caught it, cooked it, and realized it had real depth of flavor.
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  417. If only they could redirect all that water into the dry outback.
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  418. They started electing their own parliament in the 1980s. The HK parliament (Legislative Council) made all the laws. So a solid step toward democracy. The governor was still appointed by Britain, just like in other colonies that were not yet independent, like New Zealand or Australia. The appointment by Britain of a governor only ended when these countries became independent.
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  419. That makes 41 successful space launches for SpaceX so far this year, 35 of which were on reused boosters. 40 boosters landed safely and will be ready for another launch.
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  420.  @infoseeker1187  "Why not russia?" In theory, Russia could become a member of NATO, but they first need to comply with the 5 basic requirements for membership: --New members must uphold democracy, including tolerating diversity. --New members must be making progress toward a market economy. --Their military forces must be under firm civilian control. --They must be good neighbors and respect sovereignty outside their borders. --They must be working toward compatibility with NATO forces. Russia appears to have problems with several of these requirements.
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  421. Well, Barbie is pink, but perhaps not quite red enough to be outright communist.
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  422. I can attest to Shanghai seemingly improving. Lots of restaurants and shops were closed or had limited opening hours in the 2nd half of December, but now they appear to all be open again. The city is looking more and more like its old self.
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  423. Thanks. That odd translation really puzzled me.
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  424. Once Hamas has been destroyed they can all move back to Gaza City. If they also recognize Israel as a legitimate state and learn to live in peace with them, Palestinians can eventually have free, prosperous and happy lives.
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  425.  @danibot3000  I know my history pretty well. I've lived it. For the very early years I can ask my mother.
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  426. I'm in Shanghai, too, though fortunately never tested positive. It's been a tough two months. Now, on May 18th, we're seeing signs that more people are being let out after applying for exit/entry passes. In my community it might happen tomorrow. Locals here in China may protest, but generally, they won't disobey orders. It's partly cultural, partly due to decades of strict 'people management'.
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  427. Disparities within the Asian-American group seem to reflect their ethnic/national/cultural background. For example, Hmong Americans, who are among the poorest in America, are also among the poorest within Asia. Not only were they persecuted after the Vietnam War by the Lao government, but even long before that, Hmong have traditionally lived on marginal lands throughout Laos, Vietnam and China. Today, the Hmong/Miao larger group are very much behind other groups within their home countries. Burmese come from a country which has been mired in authoritarian rule with little economic development for decades, and thus it is not surprising that they come to America with a starting point that is far behind Chinese, for example. Han Chinese have been among the most successful ethnic group within China for millennia, and so again, it's not surprising that the cultural traits that made them successful within Asia also make them successful in America. Most Vietnamese that came as refugees after the Vietnam War are actually ethnic Chinese who were persecuted by the ethnic Vietnamese.
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  428. I saw the 'order to stop the spread' circulating on local chat groups. If it was as easy as just ordering officials to stop the virus, surely they would have done that on day one.
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  429. A lot of silver coins. Now we just need to find a 3rd century vending machine.
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  430. This should not be surprising. After all, 'ban' is in their name.
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  431.  @Connetification  "So we just believe what the Japanese said like a robot?" No, it is all monitored and approved by the IAEA, a UN organisation that has Chinese participation. They all agreed to this release, including China.
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  432.  @cannabistalk4164  "Amazing what happens without slavery". Shouldn't be that amazing to you, since we have lived in an age free from slavery for the last 150 years. What happens can be seen all around you. What happened WITH slavery, however, is harder to know. We only have history to help us.
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  433.  @Hkchinese888  "rightful forces in human manner". What does that mean?
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  434. It'll probably never end. It's depressing. Will we have to get tested every two days forever?
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  435. When I first heard of this story this morning, my first thought was that it seemed staged. My reasoning was this: There was a photo and a caption saying that the president was staring down the deposed general, the supposed coup leader. But why would a coup leader, the head of a powerful military grouping, why would he be stopped by a 'stare-down'? If he was intent on taking power, wouldn't he just have detained the president? Why stop after you get into the palace with all your troops? This is what makes me suspicious. Any normal coup leader would immediately take control of the palace, the parliament, the main TV stations. This seems much too half hearted to have been a serious coup attempt. On the other hand, the president showing himself on social media staring down an ex-general, and then speaking from the palace balcony about people power, that is the perfect recipe for a boost in popularity, just before the elections. Yes, I'm very suspicious.
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  436. "You're a great story teller". Yes, and I can't help but wonder how much of what he said is true. I'm guessing somewhere between 1 and 99%
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  437. There are hundreds of videos about that topic here on YouTube. YouTube is an American company, and in America they allow free dissemination of any information and any opinion, unlike on Chinese social media platforms, where only government approved opinions are allowed.
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  438. First sign that Santa Claus is on his way.
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  439. Although I agree with the bicycle part, China's population is now on the decline, so what you see as a problem is now slowly being solved, at least in China.
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  440. Unless there was a 'morality policeman' inside the train, hitting her over the head as soon as she stepped in, I cannot see any evidence that this should be related to violence of any kind.
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  441. It's the war equivalent of the guy who said "I really hit his fist hard with my chin".
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  442. I'm looking forward to seeing some images from that new telescope, the Xuntian. What do we know about it? Does it primarily work in the visible spectrum like Hubble, or infrared like James Webb?
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  443. This statue was bought fair and square in the early 1930s in Beijing from the Chinese art collector Huo MingZhi (霍明志 1879-1949) by the grandfather of the current owner. It was not stolen.
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  444. Amazing that after two years, the people of Myanmar are still fighting back to regain their freedom. Once you've tried the sweet taste of freedom, you'll never want to let it go.
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  445. That deep, Burgundy red color of a chili mountain is beautiful!
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  446. "Cosmic Scandal: Bringing You The Dirt On Mars - Never Seen Before"
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  447. I remember back in the 90s in Shanghai, manhole covers were often stolen from city streets in the night for their scrap value. Eventually, the city came up with new manhole covers made of composite materials with no resale value. I know this is a different situation, but it reminded me of those days.
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  448. Birds are very stupid, that's why.
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  449. Love him or hate him, it's pretty shocking when a political leader gets assassinated. We cannot solve political differences by killing our political representatives.
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  450.  @pugdad2555  Don't overinterpret.
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  451.  @oeerturk  But I'm not a colonialist. Besides, this Danish company in Malaysia is simply foreign direct investment, not colonialism. You can Google them and read their history, if you want to learn more.
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  452. Word of advice: Don't travel during Golden Week holidays! You've been warned.
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  453. For many decades now, both the ISS, the Chinese space station and previous craft, and possibly also Russian space craft have been conducting a variety of 'experiments'. Some of these experiments always include seeds, plants, or bacteria to see if they develop differently in a zero-gravity environment. They're often described as being highly promising for improved agriculture. But then we never seem to hear about them again and there are never reports that these seeds actually do anything to improve crop quality or yield. It's almost as if many of these experiments are totally useless and are only meant for media attention. (This is not a critique of the Chinese space program specifically, as all the other countries do the same thing, with the same results, or lack thereof).
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  454. The name of the sea is not that important. The Gulf of California does not belong to California. The Denmark Strait does not belong to Denmark. The Indian Ocean does not belong to India.
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  455. "has donated millions to charities". Maybe that was other people's millions, not his own millions.
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  456.  @juancamilorestrepo2095  Then I suggest you contact the HK government and tell them how to run the place. I'm sure they'll be excited to learn from your wisdom.
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  457. I wouldn't mind having Li Bai serving me up a Single Malt Whiskey, neat. I'll even buy him one.
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  458. Last comment: "So why aren't we getting the same opportunities here in Bangladesh"? Well, it's because Bangladesh is currently at an early stage of development. Before Bangladesh, other countries did the exact same work: China, Egypt and many years ago, Europe and North America. After Bangladesh moves up to the next stage of development, this dangerous work will move somewhere else.
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  459. That'll change as the economy grows. Chinese used to not be able to go anywhere. Then, in the early 90s, they could go to South East Asia, then later New Zealand and Australia, and later again, Europe and North America. It's all about money.
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  460. Amazing! Medical science just keeps advancing through the hard work of researchers around the world, creating a better life for all humanity.
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  461. Crab Eating Macaques, the species depicted in the video, are not a threatened species, and are numerous in Thailand. They have not congregated in Lopburi because their habitat is under threat, but because they become accustomed to getting easy food in town, negating the need to find food in the wild. If it were really the case that animals move to cities because their habitat is threatened, our cities would be full of wild animals. To the extent that we do see wild animals in cities (rats, pigeons, squirrels, foxes, etc.) it is for the same reason as with these Macaques: Food is easy to come by in cities.
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  462. That is because all the more dangerous isotopes have been removed over the last 10 years through many, many chemical processes. All that is left now is Tritium. The waste water has been tested by numerous research laboratories around the world, including three in Austria and one in Monaco, all labs specializing in nuclear isotope research.
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  463.  @pigeonlove  It's pretty rare to see a whale in the Baltic Sea. If people really did establish several villages in order to fish for whales, they would have been sorely disappointed with the results.
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  464. New York City man: "I'm a stock trader" Lagos man: "I'm a stockfish trader"
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  465.  @anaibarangan4908  Your comment doesn't seem to have any relevance to anything I wrote. But thanks, anyway.
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  466. Perhaps a bird strike? Though, if it happened mid-flight, the aircraft would have been 10,000 meters up and I don't think there are any birds up that high. It'll be interesting to learn what happened with the engine. Btw, modern passenger aircraft can easily fly with just one engine, so no need to panic.
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  467. "Shootings are rare in Japan". I'm sure that's true, but it is true for most countries. Only a relatively small number of countries are struggling with large numbers of shootings: USA, Jamaica, T&T, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico, a bunch of other Latin American countries, South Africa, and a few others (not counting those that are currently at war).
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  468. Meanwhile, here in Shanghai, we've had neither floods, nor drought, nor heat wave, just a pretty average summer.
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  469.  @bowwak5366  I don't think you have evidence for that claim. Places like HK which doesn't provide much in term of pensions and socialism has a TFR of only 0.9, whereas the Nordic countries, which provide very generous social benefits have a higher TFR around 1.6-1.7. USA has a relatively high TFR for its development and social model, but most of it's babies are born by immigrants from lower income countries. The upper middle class in the US also have a low TFR.
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  470. Visual Politik: "Have you ever heard of Oman"? Visual Politik, a channel that aims to educate us on geopolitics, believes that its viewers have no interest in the world.
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  471.  @gkagara  Come on, countries don't just start throwing nuclear bombs all of a sudden. Using a nuclear weapon is the most serious decision a country can make and it takes careful consideration.
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  472. It's not that are hoping to find human-like creatures, we're just hoping to find the smallest, simplest, little bacteria. Of all the possible environments in space, only a tiny amount would even be able to support that.
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  473. So wonderful that the US and Philippines work together to preserve peace and stability, and prevent any single country from practicing hegemony in the region. Cooperation between countries is always the best way.
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  474.  @DC-qn4wz  That point makes no sense. What was China doing when Taiwan developed? What was China doing when Korea developed? What was China doing when Japan developed? Every country develops at different times. China is before India and many, many other countries, and there are many other countries that developed before China.
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  475. Apparently, no one thinks about this anymore, nor should they. It was a ridiculous fear to begin with.
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  476.  @SouthernSultan阿力  Because the levels of nuclear waste were so low it could hardly be measured, and because nuclear plants around the world have been releasing this type of waste water for decades, without any adverse effects.
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  477. I feel bad for those graduates. When I graduated in the 90s, there was also widespread unemployment within my sector. I can be a tough pill to swallow.
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  478. And as an Azerbaijani, he pronounced 'Uyghur' with a Turkic accent. Not sure if that's the correct pronunciation, but it sounds right to me.
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  479.  @miltostzovaras9787  So, if you're happy to make a profit, but not 'maximize profit', there is an opening in the market for you to succeed.
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  480.  @muslimresponse103  "Palestine will be free soon also". What do you base that prediction on?
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  481. I love the food talk. Food is so much more interesting than anti-semitism, racism and ethnic strife.
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  482. There are millions of Americans who agree with Yonden Lhatoo on Assange, and who speak out about it. Yonden's is but one voice of many. The US prosecution will assert that Assange published classified information. The defense will likely claim that Assange did not steal that information himself, and that it can be published because it is in the public's interest, which would make it legal. Time will tell what the outcome will be.
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  483.  @happymelon7129  "Foreign Expat lost compete , replaced by local". That is a misunderstanding of what it means to live in a different country. It's not a competition where foreigners can only survive if they win. There is always room for lots of different people in an international city, as long as that city continues to prosper. If there are opportunities, people will come. The real problem is that China's and Shanghai's economy is slowing down, both for foreigners and for locals.
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  484. Which country was that in?
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  485. Nice overview of the Michelin guides. In Europe, where the guides are respected, they are also sources of controversy. Big fights over the appropriateness of some ratings; a couple of French chefs have committed suicide after being demoted from 3 to 2 stars. I'm now in Asia where the controversy is even bigger. Many Asians take food very seriously, and the Michelin guides are often perceived as not really understanding Asian food, leading to wildly undeserved stars in some cases. There are also accusations of corruption in ratings. Nevertheless, I will regularly consult the Guide as a, erh, guide, but not the final judge.
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  486. Pretty cool, and difficult in a tropical climate. Cheese is generally aged at around 8-12 degrees. Hard to find that temperature naturally in Thailand.
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  487.  @PlayfulPinoyGamer  That may be true, but it doesn't take away from the fact that B-O-T projects are perfect for low-income countries.
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  488.  @xijinpig8982  Clearly, @annieelle doesn't know that Bangladesh is Muslim while India is mostly Hindu.
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  489. As someone who has lived in China for almost 3 decades and following local media, I can say that there has never been a shortage of opinion pieces and articles critical of/hateful toward Japan, USA, and the west in general. That includes smear pieces of foreign companies operating in China. Back in Jiang Zemin's days, there was even a big government orchestrated campaign against 'cultural pollution', i.e. western culture. I am quite confident this didn't start when I arrived in the mid-90s, but has been going on since 1949. Just before 1949, Mao was interviewed by foreign journalists where he was asked if China would be friendly to the West or side with the Soviets. "We are going to lean to one side", he said, and that's what they've been doing ever since. This is unlikely to change in the future.
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  490. Instant underground carpark
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  491. It's not the Wall Street Journal's claim, it's the WHO (which is cited in the video). The WHO's claim is based on numerous studies made around the world, including in China. Additionally, these numbers do not reflect 'risk reduction', but efficacy rate. That is also mentioned in the video. In other words, you're talking about a different aspect than the video is.
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  492. The lunch decorations look beautiful, but what did they actually eat? Can SCMP get hold of the menu and share it here?
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  493. Once people get power, they really don't want to give it up. For some people, that means arresting and oppressing any challengers. Cambodia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, China, North Korea, their leaders really cannot accept anyone challenging their power.
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  494. Imperial hamburgers are the best hamburgers.
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  495. 3:20 The reporter's name is Johannes, but for a second I heard the host address him as 'your highness'.😂
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  496. I also once knew a person from the PLA. She said the same thing: PLA personnel are not allowed to travel abroad.
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  497. "Australian army still massacred about 200000 Japanese soldiers". Where and when did this happen?
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  498. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), an agency of the UN, has been overseeing Japan's efforts to make the waste water cleaner. The IAEA has approved, and recommends, the release of the waste water into the ocean. All nuclear energy powers occasionally release radioactive waste water into the ocean, not by mistake but as part of the normal running of nuclear energy plants. Japan does it, France does it, Germany, China, US, etc., etc. China has complained publicly regarding the release by Japan, but China has representatives on IAEA's team, and China's representative has been part of the approval process. Technically, China and other countries are on board with this action, but at the same time, they can use it as moral posturing.
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  499. China will just have to let the chips fall where they may.
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  500. Igloo Cafe menu: -Ice coffee -Ice tea -Ice cream -Slush Puppies Expect service staff to give you the cold shoulder.
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  501. I watched the whole 3-part doc. It's nice to see this family have all gotten jobs or are in school. They may not get rich, but I think they will do fairly well over the next few decades.
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  502. Thanks, I noticed that. Hizb Ut Tahrir is a legal organization in Denmark, where the Quran burner Rasmus Paludan is (partly) from. The organization grew a lot back in the 2000s and 2010s, but have since lost a lot of members. After 9/11, they were very successful in recruiting new members among Muslim university students in Denmark. The organization was invited on TV several times to explain their views, which they did clearly and unapologetically. But it was perhaps that clarity of expression that made people leave them again. They are quite radical. In Denmark, at least, their leadership is highly educated, with numerous people with Master degrees and PhDs. Most members are descendants of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries (esp. Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine).
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  503.  @shutup51916  Yes, both China and Australia have the right to defend their interests. No reason to get angry about it.
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  504. There is no evidence for your claim. It is simply a belief you have.
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  505. These migrants are part of China's wonderful Belt & Road (and boat) Initiative.
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  506.  @syafiqkamarulzaman357  Ha ha, yes, I thought about what the Danish and Malaysian colleagues talk about during lunch break: Badminton!
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  507.  @AG_92  " a company that helps people". The people who are primarily helped by this company are middle class people in rich countries who feel guilty about their lifestyle. You make the same mistake as most other people here: You BELIEVE this company is doing a good deed, but you don't actually KNOW if they're doing a good deed. I suggest they may be doing more harm than good, even if they have the best intentions. Soap is neither difficult nor expensive to make, and there is soap production in all countries, even the most impoverished ones. If only more people would spend some time in developing countries, they would stop viewing those people with condescending pity. Just as a point of comparison (unrelated to soap), people living in the slums of India, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria and other countries have smartphones and mobile internet. Why would you think they don't have soap?
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  508.  @TheFightingSheep  That's deep. Deep-ak Chopra.
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  509. From Shanghai: My residential community was put under lock-down this morning before 6:00 AM. As is par for the course, this happened without warning. No one can leave or enter for at least 48 hours, but we can order food online for delivery. It's the first time I experience this, and I admit I already find it very annoying. I saw an ambulance come to take somebody away, but as there is a large number of old people in this community, it could have been for another health reason (there are so many old people in this community that ambulances show up a couple of times per month on average).
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  510.  @roadracerdave7645  " japan is known for earthquakes." So is Taiwan. Hasn't stopped them.
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  511. Excellent piece! Good job, CNA.
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  512. It's a tragedy for the loved ones left behind. However, this is now more than 9 years ago, and people need to move on with their lives. Meanwhile, we are waiting for the incident report from CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) regarding China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 which crashed in Guangxi Province in March 2022 under equally mysterious circumstances.
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  513. Great chefs get my full respect!
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  514. It's a good point, but this is a relatively short video. They had to cut a lot of detail out, or they could have gone on for hours, not that that would be a bad thing.
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  515.  @davidwillard7334  You sound very emotional and you should brush up on your spelling.
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  516. Winning an election in Thailand by no means guarantees the right to form a government. The Thai Army controls and appoints 1/3 of all seats in parliament. That 1/3 cannot be voted out. This gives the army a lot of completely un-earned political power and they can relatively easily form a government with only their own 1/3 + just 25% of the votes cast. So that basically means that the army only needs 25% to win, while civilian society needs 75% to win. It's completely unfair!
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  517. Another excellent episode in this series. Sober, professional journalism!
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  518. I suggest Russia re-start the Warsaw Pact and see how many countries want to join a defense alliance with them.
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  519. I'm in Thailand right now (Chinese New Year 2025), traveled here from Shanghai. I've been cycling around Northern Thailand for 6 weeks, much of it very close to the Myanmar Border: Khun Yuam, Mae Hong Son, Fang, Mae Sai, Chiang Saen, all of these less than 20km from the Myanmar border. Actually, I got as close as 100 meters from the border at one point. I never saw even a hint of danger, or anyone trying to scam me or abduct me. Nor did I hear of such a thing. Nor did I feel afraid or unsafe at any point. I'm getting close to the end of 7 wonderful weeks in Thailand.
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  520.  @Paralyzer  Thanks for repeating what I just wrote.
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  521. There's nothing new in this video that hasn't already been said in numerous other videos and articles for many years, now. Where I'm from we burn all our plastic in large incinerators, making electricity and hot water for residential heating in the process. After all, plastic is made from hydrocarbons like oil and gas, so why not burn it once we're done using it? (Yes, the smoke from the incinerators get filtered).
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  522.  @grandsonofskyblueeyes  The isotope released is, according to the video, Tritium. Tritium is basically Helium with two neutrons attached. It radiates beta-radiation, which is relatively weak, and it has a half-life of about 12 years. Tritium is released by nuclear power stations every year around the world under normal operation. The amount of Tritium that will be released by the Fukushima plant annually is equivalent to, or less than, the amount of Tritium released by Chinese nuclear power plants annually. And China isn't even a large emitter. Other countries release more.
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  523. Most politicians and activists act on their feelings, not on their rational thought. Every problem has a sensible solution, and the best people to come up with solutions are scientists and engineers. Unfortunately, few people know what it means to think like an engineer.
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  524. Too many people? The number of employed just keeps going up and up. 40 years ago, there were 100 million employed in America; now it's 160 million. More people create more jobs.
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  525. They usually aren't. The weight of the container keeps them firmly in place, except when the truck turns over. There are brackets to keep them from sliding around, though, but nothing holding them down.
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  526. Just for reference, China-Russia trade makes up 3% of China's total trade, so a 29.3% increase in China-Russia trade is equal to an increase of 0.9% in China's total trade. It's not nothing but it is also not everything.
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  527. I think property sales will probably continue to decline by 30% over the next few years. I believe there will continue to be demand for around 4 million apartments annually, down from 10 million annually through the 2010s. In the 2030s, that may drop to 3 million annually.
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  528. Lesson of the last 25 years: As long as mainland nationalists are happy, that's all that matters.
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  529. 0:42 Seat width and spacing doesn't really have anything to do with the type of aircraft. It depends solely on how the airline wants to set up the cabin.
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  530. Shanghai Lock-down: I'm on the Puxi side and tried to go out today to stock up on food. People are hoarding, shelves are practically empty, especially veggies are hard to find. I did get some spaghetti and canned tuna. I'm going to try Carrefour tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
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  531. He'll probably end up in one of Bangkok's notorious prisons for the rest of his life. If you do the crime, you have to do the time.
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  532. Well, you can't blame the govt. for not trying hard to increase births: -Matchmaking events -Cash payments and cheap loans for third child -Restrictions on divorce -Restrictions on vasectomies -Restrictions on abortions
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  533. Very nice, but Dongshan is not that close to Taiwan. Better just go to Xiamen, from where he can actually see the Taiwan-controlled island of Jinmen.
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  534.  @SZ23219  "even if they do the dirty work there". Immigrants usually start by doing dirty work when they first arrive. Only later do they find successful careers. This is especially the case if they cannot speak the local language fluently.
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  535. It was nice of Adam to include a Google Earth image of a Chinese kaolin mine, but Kaolin is not related to the village shown in the video: Zaolin. Rather, it is named after another village in Jiangxi Province called Gao Ling. Google Maps here: https://goo.gl/maps/6tSKG1aEveWMEHQ78
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  536. Currently, only 1.5% of Apple's global sales are in India, compared to 20% from China, but I think that will change rapidly over the next 10 years, perhaps bringing India sales up to 6-8%, or even higher. Once you have a sizeable middle class, they will rush out to get their iPhones.
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  537. Yes, Americans tend to be very emotional and let their emotions guide every decision.
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  538. South Korea is itself becoming a large arms exporter, and that will likely grow in the future. It looks like Korean weapons are of high quality.
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  539. Yes, there are exciting things going on in India. However, as I understand it, there are still big problems with high taxation, trade protection and regulatory red tape, all of which impede business growth. If more Indian states can get on the 'libertarian bandwagon', India has potential to become an economic rocket ship.
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  540. While tornadoes can arise anywhere in the world, they are mostly so small they cause almost no damage. The American Mid-west gets the most, and most destructive tornadoes, by a very wide margin. Flat, continental land, squeezed in between dry, cold air, and hot, humid air.
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  541.  @WillBill6143  Well, those still pretend to taste like beef. I had one at Burger King. It was awful!
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  542.  @tatendamuza6182  "you guys don't admit even after so many years that you took people's land". Does the current population of Zimbabwe admit that they themselves took the land from the original inhabitants, the Khoi and San peoples, when you migrated into Zimbabwe 1,500 years ago? You weren't the first, either.
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  543.  @pugdad2555  Not sure what you mean but I suppose the bible is often overinterpreted. That's not very relevant to hair extensions, though.
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  544. I just had dinner here in Shanghai in a small restaurant. So small that people have to share a table with strangers. I met a young, local couple, both working in finance. I asked the guy if he thought the market had hit bottom, and he said that in his company, consensus is that the outlook is negative for the remainder of this year. We also touched on trade and I mentioned that Europe and the US are very concerned about Chinese over capacity and cheap products threatening the west's industrial base. They didn't say much, but both nodded thoughtfully, as in they understood the predicament we're all in. It's going to be tough times moving forward. (Most of our conversation was about travel and food. You gotta lift the mood sometimes.)
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  545. Apparently, during the short (less than 100 years) Yuan Dynasty, some Mongolian leaders suggested exterminating the entire Chinese population, but it was deemed more valuable to keep them alive for agricultural production. Ancient history was pretty cruel.
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  546. Infrastructure projects I would like to see (as a resident of China), but which probably won't happen: -More bicycle paths -Dig wires and cables underground -Renovate older housing with insulation for energy conservation -More wind and solar power (though they are already in the process of massive green energy build-out) -Make cities more pedestrian friendly -More nuclear energy plants (this one IS likely to happen) -Sleeper trains on more high-speed tracks
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  547. It's hard to get into Myanmar, even for journalists. Ukraine welcomes journalists all the way to the front line.
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  548. One thing I've always found interesting about the Bronze age in China and the West/Middle East is that western bronze age artifacts are mostly utilitarian: weapons, tools, bowls, etc., while in Chinese Bronze age, they are often ceremonial/religious and very elaborate with little utility.
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  549. As someone who is not American, you may not be aware that most Americans never fear getting shot. I know a lot of Americans. None of them have ever expressed a fear of getting shot by anyone.
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  550. Pretty interesting! I learn so much from these videos.
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  551. Chinese people open shops everywhere in the world. There's probably at least one near where you live.
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  552. When people plan this, buying garbage bags, knives, etc., do they stop and think: "I'm totally gonna get away with this. No one will notice".
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  553.  @retsukaioh4571  Actually, he was a doctor. He invited us for dinner at his home. Very kind and generous, and not at all rude or condescending like you.
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  554. It took me a little while to realize that this is a paid advertisement to encourage more entrepreneurs, investors and engineers to come to Nansha. Nevertheless, it looks quite nice.
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  555. Pretty astute observation.
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  556. 7000 tourists. Meanwhile, Thailand feels the 23 million tourists they welcomed in 2023 are not nearly enough.
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  557. Great work as usual, Tony! I would love to see a video where you break down all the stimulus done so far this year, incl. from central and local govts.
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  558. FYI, I believe this documentary is 3-4 years old and has been circulating on different YT channels, before this particular channel posted it in Aug. 2023. While many of the issues presented are still present in Denmark, some are a bit outdated.
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  559. Generally, China has really ramped up security around kindergartens and primary schools in recent years, with high fences, gates, ID check, security guards. But it is probably impossible to guard against every scenario, especially if the perpetrator attacks right outside the main gate.
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  560. That's a very ethno-nationalistic view. Do you think it's best if people around the world, no matter where they are, segregate by ethnic/cultural groups?
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  561. How about this: "Russian Wear & Tear"
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  562. "China will get its own duv and euv, its just a matter of time." So will North Korea, it's just a matter of time. Of course, the big question is: How much time? A decade? Two? A century? These things matter a lot.
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  563. So they are basically virtue signaling.
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  564. "Feats of Strength" usually follow the "Airing of Grievances", but first you must set up the Festivus Pole.
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  565.  @jeevan88888  "Backpacking is an excuse to do shady stuff at times". That's a pretty astonishing claim. Couldn't any activity be an excuse to do shady things? Seems to me your starting point is antipathy against backpacking, and then trying to find justification for your antipathy. After all, backpacking is just a form of traveling/tourism where you carry your belongings in a backpack instead of in a suitcase, and you very likely travel on a low budget, allowing you to see more places for the same amount of money.
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  566. Formally the G217 National Highway, the road is in Xinjiang, running from DuShanZi District of Kuytun City (奎屯市, halfway between Urumqi and Ili)) south through the TianShan mountain range to Kuqa (库车市). The highway gets its name from those two end points. Length: 530 km. This would be a very nice ride on a bicycle, but there appear to be very limited accommodation or food along the way, so tent and cooking gear is probably required. But it would be a great trip.
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  567. Why is it important to find a person to blame? The important thing is finding solutions to their problems. Blaming someone doesn't solve any problems.
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  568. I have seen James Hong in so many movies and TV shows, not really knowing who he was. But the most memorable moment to me is his role as the restaurant manager in the Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant". A real classic! "Cartwright? Cartwright?" EDIT: Oops, I wrote this before I even started the interview. What do you know, that's what they are starting out with.
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  569. Nobody is at fault here. It just turns out that the Taliban is a popular movement that no army could hold back, no matter how long we tried. Now we can only lean back and observe what the next 20 years will bring Afghanistan under a different regime. Best wishes to the people of Afghanistan.
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  570. Why would someone open a restaurant and make it 'Korean only', when they can make more money by inviting everybody in?
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  571.  @McBafoon  Europe does not have the right to dictate, as you correctly say. But Europe has the right to make requests. And, as WTO member states, have the right to put the case before the WTO. This is just following the rules. Of course, Indonesia also has the right to deny Europe's requests. And Indonesia has the right to make its case before the WTO. This is no different from a badminton match between a European country and Indonesia: Both players can protest and ask the referee for a judgment. In this case, WTO is the referee.
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  572. The 'they want the oil' theory is one of the most common heard theories when trying to explain conflicts. But oil isn't that important a resource. There is plenty of oil all around the world. Literally every continent (except Antarctica) has oil, it's not a scarce resource, and oil is readily available on the global market at the daily market price. There is as little reason to wage war over oil as there is to wage war over iron ore. People said the Gulf War, the Iraq War and The Syrian War were all about oil, but nobody ended up taking the oil, or even attempted to take the oil. Whether it's the US, or Russia, or China, or the EU, everybody is quite happy to just buy oil from whoever is willing to sell it.
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  573. Does it all really matter? This video is about living in a tenement apartment, not about whether Patrick Mock is a hero or a villain. Maybe he's one of those (or both), but again, that is not the point of the video.
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  574. This is oddly similar to when Lin Biao tried to flee Beijing in 1971.
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  575.  @therealdeal3672  1) Most hand soap isn't toxic or particularly bad for the environment. It's primarily oil and sodium hydroxide. And if it were so bad, we would be unwise to wash it down the drain on a daily basis, so that argument is not too solid. 2) Based on the video, those 'specific regions' include areas in the global south. That's quite a distance. Besides, 'shipping only to specific regions' applies to pretty much every product known to man. Remember, these bars of soap have already been shipped once to the hotels, then to the recycler, and finally to the end user. That's triple the transportation. 3) Obviously, people don't come out and talk about soap to strangers, but visiting them and talking to them, it's as easy to find out their hygiene standards as if I visited you in your home. I live in the developing world and have for the last 26 years. Access to soap just isn't an issue. 4) Giving things away for free where a market for those things exist will certainly have an impact on the market.
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  576. They went on Chat-GPT and asked "help me make a multimodal AI in a hurry".
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  577. We are not ashamed.
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  578. It's remarkable how much this memorial looks like something you would see in China. While younger (under 40) designers, artists and architects in China are quite creative and able to make pleasing and interesting designs, the design of this memorial appears to have been made by an older, state-sanctioned designer educated in the old, Soviet-style school. There's a certain design language that we can see for example on Shanghai's Bund at the mouth of Suzhou creek: A pillar/tower, carved concrete or stone reliefs of workers with big muscles, simple geometric figures reaching for the sky, often a reddish granite common in China. While much newer art and architecture in China is made by younger artists, official monuments are still mostly made by these older people, often professors and academicians who have gotten the state's stamp of approval. As someone who follows modern Chinese art and design, I find this interesting.
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  579. In China, pretty much every party leader's "theories" are added to the party constitution, and every party leader has their articles and speeches and books published, and all of these 'theories', articles and books are applauded by lower level officials as great achievements. The leaders will downplay their achievements while simultaneously bringing those same achievements up in conversation as often as they can, basking in the praise of their inferiors. They pretend to be very humble while keeping an iron fist on the levers of power. Oh Confucius, did you not see this coming?
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  580. 1:14 There's a shot of an electricity bill showing 452 units for Rs. 22,900. If one unit = 1kWh, then that is equal to CNY 1.30/kWh. That is twice the price we pay here in Shanghai. But this household also uses almost twice the amount of electricity I use in my apartment. Considering that Pakistan is a very low income country, that seems a bit wasteful.
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  581. Looks like a fun ride, especially with all the entertainment the other riders bring to the game: Screaming women running on the track, people holding on to other rafts for dear life, so much excitement!
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  582. It shouldn't be surprising that they cannot come to an agreement when so many countries in the G20 are involved on different sides of the Ukraine War: USA, Russia, China, Germany, UK, France, Italy, EU, etc., etc.
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  583. It's wonderful to see how Afghanistan under the Taliban is thriving as a stable, orderly, humane, well managed, prosperous society. The world's people are looking to Afghanistan, thinking: "Hmm, should we adopt the Taliban practices and philosophy"? So far, let's see.......Hmmmm....zero countries have chosen to do so, but it's not too late to change. (Actually, copying Afghanistan might be a step up for Haiti).
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  584.  @iwankazlow2268  Well, my criticism is more that only rudimentary research go into these videos. Most of the time is spent on a historical overview, which should be done in just a minute. Everyone can compare the quality of content between VisualPolitik and fx. Caspian Report. It's in a whole different class.
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  585. It'll be interesting to see what this new docu-series will have to offer that we don't already know. People talk about 'China's demographic collapse', but is more like a long, slow decline. Once it really gets going, every year things will be just a little bit worse than the year before, so little that it may be hard to notice from one year to the next.
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  586.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  The sea is a much better barrier of defense than mountains. Anyway, it's a silly comparison. We're not talking military defense, we're talking about whether neutrality or being in an alliance is better for Indonesia.
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  587. 2:20 "This is an antenna for StarLink". No, it isn't! It's a box holding a commercial drone.
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  588.  @markhirstwood4190  Yes, but remember that evaporation is significantly higher in tropical climates, thus they need more rain to sustain agriculture. It is normal in northern Europe to get about 500mm annually, and that is plenty up there.
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  589. He must have spent a significant amount of time in North America, perhaps as a student or researcher.
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  590. I hope the Danish football team performs as well as this journalist did. He's a winner!
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  591.  @limk8994  "The army maintained peace and stability". There was peace and stability before the military coup. The coup happened for purely political reasons. The Army leadership didn't like what the elected government was doing, so they overthrew the government. Idiots who decry 'western democracy' seem to have no problem with other western political ideas like Marxism, socialism or communism. Even 'political parties' is an entirely western concept that didn't exist anywhere else in the world, but is imported whole cloth from the west. If you hate western ideas so much, you would be best served to advocate for a return to feudalist monarchies and warlords.
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  592.  @henrylee3379  She seems pretty smart, so she's more likely to be a first class citizen, if she ever applies for citizenship.
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  593. Seems to me Maldives would be best off by trying to develop friendly relationships with both India and China. I think that's what they call a win-win situation.
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  594. Seems to be raining a lot around the world these days. China, Japan, the US and some other places I forgot about have all seen flooding in recent days.
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  595. Voice of America IS American media.
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  596. So nice those two can be 'best friends'.
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  597.  @pepelepew1227  OK, your mind seems to be running wild. It's just a documentary about people immigrating to another country and the difficulties they face. There's nothing else to it.
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  598.  @wonderlandparty6054  Well, remember, just because you see a few crazy people on screen saying crazy stuff, the vast, vast majority of other people, including scientists, are engaged in productive work.
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  599. " in India there is hardly any buildings and is filled with sIums everywhere". If there are no buildings, but still slums everywhere, what are the slums made of? Air?
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  600. Shanghai adopts any tradition, culture or practice they feel like. Who's to stop them?
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  601. In America, they celebrate the Year of The Hamburger. Every year.
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  602.  @gkagara  So? People have a right to issue warnings, it's not a big deal.
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  603. And somehow, America's friends are the most prosperous, most advanced countries in the world. How could that be?
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  604.  @danthovict381  It's possible the area right in front of the mall belongs to the mall, but probably not out by the street.
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  605. I'm guessing Li Qiang will be the next premier. Any other suggestions? We need at least one Shanghai guy at the top.
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  606. You should change schools and go to a better one. You can certainly use the compound 'credible allegation'. Of course the meaning is different from 'evidence', but that doesn't make the term illogical or wrong.
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  607. "a more important tunnel would be between Estonia and Finland". More important for Estonia and Finland, I'm sure, but not very useful for Denmark and Germany. Fortunately, it's possible for more than just two countries to connect by tunnel.
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  608. The victim was 17, not 7. The five arrested include three Japanese, one Filipino, and one Brazilian. The victim was ethnic Chinese, not a Chinese citizen. His name was Ukawa Saito. It appears they were all students at the same school. Considering the nationalities of both the victim and the assailants, it seems unlikely the reason was hatred of China.
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  609. Sitting here in Shanghai, now on my 45th day in lock-down, my mood is not good. I want this to end, the sooner the better. And what about the risk of increased deaths? It is true that many elderly people never got vaccinated, so they are certainly at risk. But let's look at the data: Up until now, roughly 550,000 cases (including asymptomatic) have been found in Shanghai over the last few months. In the same time period, about 550 people have died from Covid for a rate of 1/1000, or 0.1%. Should the virus be allowed to spread uncontrollably, perhaps 50% of the nation's population will get infected (based on numbers in other countries). This would mean that up to 0.05% of the entire population may die, for a total of 700,000 deaths. That may sound like a lot, but China has 10+ million annual deaths from all causes, so an additional 700k means an uptick of 7% compared to now. And that's if it all happens during one single year. Are Chinese people willing to sacrifice other people's lives? Yes, they are! And so are the rest of us. In traffic, during sports and adventure activities, at work, at war, as punishment for crimes. We are willing to sacrifice lives because we feel it serves a greater purpose of living a full life. During these times, that greater purpose is keeping society functional, letting people live their lives and letting them go about their business. I think that purpose is worth a little risk.
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  610.  @superdexterz99  Yes, Europe has NO RIGHT to dictate. But Europe, just like any other region/nation has the right to make requests. This is a negotiation! How hard is that to understand? People can disagree, and then they discuss in the hope that they can reach an agreement later. Surely, you must have tried something like this in your own life.
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  611.  @chinavirus841  What altitude is Afghanistan at?
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  612. I'm pretty sure they've been swappable from the beginning, but not all people want to take advantage of that. Swapping stations are few and far between.
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  613. If he had stuck to cricket and not gone into politics, he would have lived a very comfortable life now, adored by the people of Pakistan.
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  614. I've been to Shenzhen several times. I didn't notice any difference on my mobile speed. Additionally, I live in shanghai, which is also supposed to have 5G all over the place. No noticeable difference from 4G. For years my mobile provider called me to make me switch to 5G for a fee. As time passed, the fee kept getting smaller. Eventually, they just said 'we're going to switch you to our 5G network at no extra cost'. I never felt any difference.
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  615. Well, I have zero interest in football, but these women seemed to happy and full of life!
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  616.  @mira-uf1ie  "her young child was inside". If that is really true, she is irresponsible for just lying down on the ground instead of taking action to make sure her child gets attention and that she gets a new ticket for the next train. What does collapsing on the ground do for her or for her child?
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  617. It's great to see they're getting along. As you can see from the comments here, most Chinese commenters want to be friends with everybody.
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  618.  @thomaskalbfus2005  That is correct, but unrelated to my comment.
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  619. Hello from Shanghai. Of the roughly 220,000 cases in the city so far this month, 95.6% have no symptoms at all. They have no idea they're infected until they get the test results back. Then it's out the door to some filthy quarantine center with zero facilities, in some cases just mattresses on the ground in a large factory building.
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  620. Last year was a 'La Nina' year, causing the hot, dry summer and dry, warm winter (at least here in Shanghai). This year should be a little better as we're coming out from the 'La Nina' weather phenomenon.
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  621. A channel based in the UK (where they speak English) that purports to be about geopolitics and which cannot pronounce place names like Ankara correctly or geo-feature words like archipelago is a sign of sloppy research and preparation. EDIT: The words keep coming: Frigate pronounced as 'free-gayte', fait accompli as 'fate-a-comply'. This is horrendous! Does the host have expertise in any field? Hair styling?
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  622. Shanghai, Puxi: My community got locked down at 1 PM today. They had found a positive case inside so we're starting 2 days early. Nobody could say exactly what the situation will be going forward, but one guy told me it could be a 14-day lock-down. I only prepared food for 4-6 days, so after that it'll be a 'Communist Fast' (a government orchestrated, but unintentional famine). Maybe I'll publish the results in a lifestyle/wellness magazine.
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  623. Another fanboy who cannot take criticism of his idol. Your political leaders aren't Taylor Swift. Criticism is good, because it helps you to improve yourself. If you only get praise, you cannot know how to improve, because everybody tells you you're already perfect.
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  624. Can you give examples of some of the countries that envy Singapore for its 'Strict laws & orders'? Or is it just something you imagine?
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  625. The J-11 looks a lot like the SU-33.
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  626. He didn't mention independence at all. I think you don't even have access to the speech.
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  627.  @condorX2  Yes, I did read that, but it's irrelevant to the topic of neutrality.
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  628. I'm not surprised travel numbers are up so much for this May day holiday. Remember, a year ago all of Shanghai couldn't even go out into the street and lots of other parts of China was in semi lockdown. Additionally, those who were allowed to travel were afraid they would get caught up in an outbreak somewhere, leading to a sudden quarantine.
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  629. 1: Whether the plant is built by a Chinese company or someone else shouldn't make a difference. 2: If they have a permit to build there, it's a little too late to complain. 3: Do the protesters even know if the plant will be a heavy polluter or not? Are they just expecting the worst case scenario? However...................... 4: It's possible the plant has come about because of government corruption in Hungary, which would not surprise me (or any other European). 5: But the voters have had many chances to vote for a different government, but they keep voting for the same people. You reap what you sow.
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  630. I grew up with vinyl but I don't think I'm going back to it. However, the big drawback of streaming and other digital music is the lack of liner notes and artwork. Those two aspects are what I really prize about vinyl and CDs. I love (with jazz, mostly) to read about the recording session, the dates of the different takes, the producer, engineer, sometimes there are essays describing how the session went or what led up to the recording. You don't get that with modern formats, or even with modern music, at all.
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  631.  @tonywang4032  Proud or not, people love it!
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  632. There are still lots of elderly people in China who use cash exclusively. Many of them find it hard to grapple with modern technology. Younger people, like Tony (and myself), tend to only use electronic payments.
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  633. And who put this ridiculous system in place? The army itself, after a military coup!
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  634. It's so interesting: Countries/cities with high air pollution are invariably places that are at a relatively low level of development, but that are undergoing high economic growth and rapid industrialization. 150 years ago, London was perhaps the most heavily polluted city in the world, then other western cities quickly followed suit. In the 1960s, NYC and LA were struggling with very high levels of smog. Then, in the 1990s and 2000s, China had 7 of the top 10 most polluted cities. Now China has moved to the next level and the air is getting cleaner, but new emerging economies are sprouting: India, Vietnam and others. Eventually, they will also move beyond this phase and new countries will become the 'most polluted'. Air pollution seems to be inevitable in economic growth, but it is just a phase on the way to prosperity and 'developed status'.
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  635. "Apologies, there's some construction near my room". This comment brings a smile to my face. Urban life in China has been like this for over 25 years: There's always construction nearby.
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  636.  @Riingwraith  I met a Brazilian woman for dinner once and asked her what was written on your flag. "Order and Progress", she said, "the very two things we DON'T have".
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  637. I thought they had 'undeniable proof of her crimes'. I guess that was just another big, fat lie. But maybe I'm too harsh? Surely, they will tell us what crimes she committed, right?
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  638. It's well deserved. He's a wonderful actor.
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  639. I wouldn't be surprised if Barbecue takes power and becomes the next president of Haiti. He started as a gangster and became a revolutionary. In some other countries, the leaders started as revolutionaries and ended up becoming gangsters.
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  640. Thank you. I watched it twice, but they never mentioned exactly which new particles they had discovered.
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  641.  @hclau362  Say what you want. I think it's a positive piece about China's high-speed rail system. Certainly, it gave me a positive feeling.
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  642.  @tradorj8354  If they manage to convince us that we should ban outsourcing of certain processes to developing countries because it is 'exploitation', then those countries will have fewer opportunities to develop their economies. To be fair, this hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't happen, but if it does it certainly won't be to the benefit of those 'exploited' workers.
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  643. Agreed. This video was basically A: Two guys introducing their respective companies. B: The same two guys expressing their hopes for the future. There was nothing illuminating to be found.
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  644. Nowhere in Denmark is great in winter. In summer it's a different matter entirely.
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  645. "Look, Buddy, I'm not really winning over here and I need some more ammo. Do you have any I can borrow"?
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  646. They took the mortgage payments and the bond revenues and used them to develop new projects, and based on perceived value of the new projects, they were able to issue more bonds and get more loans, etc. etc. That's why George Magnus in the beginning called it a Ponzi scheme. As long as housing prices go up, it works, but as soon as the market starts to stagnate, the house of cards falls. I don't think we'll see a sudden crash, because the govt. won't allow that, but we are likely to see a (possibly) multi-decade economic slump, Japan style.
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  647. There is no indication this added pollution has anything to do with factories of any kind.
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  648. CAR: Hello, welcome to this driverless taxi sponsored by Alibaba. Where would you like to go? ME: I want to go to Carrefour CAR: I'm not doing that. I'm going to take you to HeMa instead.
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  649. I think that 10 years from now, there will STILL NOT be a commercial 'hyperloop' superconducting maglev train running.
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  650. Hello from Shanghai. I was given an 'exit pass' Friday (May 20) and additionally, two 'entry passes' to two out of three supermarkets that are open in my area. It was great to get out for the first time in months. The line for the better supermarket was an hour long, but it was worth it. I got most of what I needed. From now on, I should be able to go out when I want, though we're advised that exiting the community should be for necessary purposes only, such a buying food. Still, though, almost nothing is open. On my street everything is closed.
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  651. 1:00 "Indigenous people track below national averages on most socio-economic measures". I have no doubt that is true, but are they better or worse off now than they were for the first 59,700 years they inhabited Australia? I'm no expert but I'll wager that they are much, much better off now, with much improved health outcomes, much better education, much longer life expectancies, and much better material lives. Indigenous people in Australia and everywhere else in the world have a right to live their lives the way they want, but if they choose to continue a hunter-gatherer or nomadic lifestyle, they will never reach the level of prosperity that the rest of us enjoy. We were all hunter-gatherers once, but some of us realized there's another, much better, way of living.
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  652. I'd like there to be a western WeChat. Just the payment part would be enough for me to start using Twitter (or X, or whatever its name will be).
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  653. If he had stayed in Malaysia, his cancer would have been cured. That seems to be your conclusion.
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  654. "Anyone with a passport can leave". Most people can leave, but some people are prevented from leaving, including many Uyghurs, Tibetans, some people who have criticized the Party, some people involved in a business dispute, ect. People active in the PLA are prevented by law from leaving the country, people in leadership positions in government must have prior permission to leave. All these limitations apply even if you're just going on vacation to Thailand, or a shopping trip to HK. However, most people don't belong to any of the above groups, so they can all leave.
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  655. These monkeys are of the species Crab-eating Macaque (Macaca fascicularis). They are the most common monkey species in Thailand and benefit greatly from associating with humans, who provide them with food. Lopburi is full of them, but part of the city smells like a zoo. Interestingly, they are classified as 'endangered' but that only refers to those living in the wild. Overall, Crab-eating Macaque are not in any way endangered, as is clear from the video.
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  656. 1:37 Look at that archival footage from Beijing 1995: New apartment projects selling for 1,600/sqm. 25 years later, those same apartments would likely go for 90,000/sqm; a 5,500% increase. Real estate used to be one of the best, if not the best, investments you could make.
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  657. Kim Jong-un, Chairman Mao and I all agree: Traveling by train is the most relaxing and dignified way to travel. I never got the chance to travel together with Kim and Mao, but I know that when it comes to train travel, we are of one mind.
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  658. Bill Gates can speak Chinese? I don't think that's correct.
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  659. The victim was 17, not 7. The five arrested include three Japanese, one Filipino, and one Brazilian. The victim was ethnic Chinese, not a Chinese citizen. His name was Ukawa Saito. It appears they were all students at the same school. Considering the nationalities of both the victim and the assailants, it seems unlikely the reason was hatred of China.
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  660.  @SouthernSultan阿力  The references are partly historical, as this has been going on for over 50 years in almost every country that used nuclear power. The references needed would be to satisfy the claim that the ocean is UNSAFE. Anyone making that claim would have to at least provide examples that justify the claim, otherwise it is just belief.
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  661.  @pogogod6036  Why can't they want to buy raw nickel? Indonesia may not want to sell their raw nickel, and then there's no deal. It's simple business, nothing to do with colonialism. In fact, I'd like you to explain how this can in any way be interpreted as 'colonialism'. If you go to a shop and ask to buy something the shop won't sell you, does that mean you're a colonizer?
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  662.  @pogogod6036  "don't make a fuss about it in WTO". If member states cannot bring a case before the WTO, then why do we have the WTO to begin with? Why did Indonesia join the WTO if Indonesia doesn't want to allow the use of the WTO rules?
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  663.  @TopTrendingVideos_  "a tired statement from desperate people". The Khoisan people of Zimbabwe are desperate, yes. They are marginalized, they suffer discrimination, they are deprived of legal rights, they are pushed from their lands by Bantu-speaking people, even though they are the indigenous inhabitants of Zimbabwe, and because of those things, live in perpetual poverty. So yes, they are tired and desperate.
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  664. Officially, 3 children are now allowed, but China's National Health Commission has also said that there will be no fines or punishment for having more than 3, so in reality, Chinese people can have as many as they want.
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  665.  @nerdstudent8852  You've written this elsewhere, but where is the evidence for that? The only reason that would happen is if cat meat is cheaper than pork or chicken, for example. But pork and chicken at the factory gate is exceedingly cheap, and that's even after it's been butchered. I find it hard to believe there's any economic incentive to swap cat for pork.
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  666.  @syedputra5955  Special Brew, we don't even have this in Denmark. On my first visit to Malaysia many years ago, I had many Special Brew.
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  667.  @AL-sj2dx  For releasing a press release a few minutes early? It was going to get released to the public a few minutes later, anyway. Don't you think 170 years, or even 3 years is a little extreme?
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  668.  @chinavirus841  That's even colder, greyer and rainier, so that doesn't improve the situation.
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  669. Are you suggesting a conspiracy between SCMP and western mining companies?
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  670. "Right now they're looking at possible applications" Translation: We have this new machine, but we don't know how to use it or what to use it for.
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  671. Business, work, tourism....... The same reason people are everywhere else.
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  672. The UN charter gives every member country the right to defend itself against attacks, AND gives every member state the right to retaliate against any country that attacks them. That is what Israel is doing now. Those who attacked Israel are the government of Gaza, Hamas. They represent the people of Gaza. I wish Israel the best of luck in their efforts.
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  673.  @insmoin6925  What do you mean by '完全不一样'? Both types of waste water have been approved by the IAEA to be released into the ocean.
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  674. Ok, it's 10:21 PM here in Shanghai, 9 minutes to Pelosi's estimated arrival in Taiwan. But I'm going to sleep now, so if WW3 starts, at least I will die in the midst of sweet dreams.
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  675.  @thepowerfulkiller8474  Not old folk's. Old folk-tales. A folk-tale is a particular type of story or fairytale.
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  676. Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian, they seem to jump a province for each new carrier, so I guess the next one will be named Hainan or maybe Guangxi. Whatever they do, the biggest, best and most beautiful future Chinese carrier should always be named The Shanghai!
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  677. Spain has had climate refugees for years, coming down from northern Europe.
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  678. So terrible! Imagine you're sitting at home, warming your hands over some charcoal. Suddenly you hear a rumble and the next second, half the village is destroyed.
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  679. The sister aircraft, the ARJ21 saw its first delivery in 2015 and now, almost 10 years later, annual production looks to be around 24-36 craft/year. I have never built a civilian aircraft myself, but it is probably not an easy thing to do.
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  680.  @tomsunuwar6940  "fake National day"? This was the day China changed from a monarchy to a republic, 1911. Sun Zhongshan did that. Isn't he also your 国父？
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  681. One thing we can know for certain is that those fish will be swimming sideways and upside down at times. Just like humans, they will have no way to detect what is up and what is down. But they may very well survive the trip.
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  682. Space is crowded? Let's compare to commercial air traffic which flies at around 5-12 km above the surface. At least before the Covid pandemic, there were over 100,000 flights daily. Compare this to about 5,600 satellites flying between 240km and 36,000 km above the surface. And as with airplanes, we can pretty much predict where a satellite will be at any given time. Seems to me the true complaint is that space stations (and possibly satellites) have to use time, effort and precious fuel to adjust their position to get out of the way, which is seen as a major inconvenience.
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  683. Despite the occasional ship wreck, Europe receives over 1 million legal immigrants per year, and over 1 million illegal (essentially asylum seekers) immigrants every year. That adds up to about 0.4% of Europe's population per year, fully mitigating the natural decline in births. In fact, despite low birth rates, Europe's population will likely continue to increase for the foreseeable future. As for cultural clashes between people, those are problems, but problems that can be solved and that even appear to solve themselves over time. We see this tendency in North America and Australia, too.
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  684. 1:36 "China really commits itself to opening up, rather than closing down". Ok, if we say that is a true statement, then what happened in the past should also be true: When China made it more and more difficult to get a visa from around 2005-2022 it would be a sign that China is closing down, not opening up. So we should ask: Why did China do that back then? And why did they suddenly change now?
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  685.  @TrinhNguyen-sh4fj  I'm not serious.
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  686. The best thing Nepal can do for now is focus on economic development. That will give the financial basis to improve the built environment and move people down from the mountains to safer areas. Don't expect the world to come save you.
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  687. That's a wonderful group photo of New Zealand's population in the video opening.
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  688. Bear-y interesting! I'd like to try, but I can bear-ly afford it.
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  689. Hello from Shanghai. This is just from my local neighborhood: Local vegetable market has been closed for several days, but most shops and restaurants are open. McD's only allows pick-up. Last night people in hazmat suits banged on my door and then handed out self-testing kits; first time I've tried that. My community is open. Streets look normal. Delivery of packages and food only to community main gate.
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  690. The Syrians thought they were immigrating. The Danes thought they were opening their safe home until the storm passed.
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  691. Your time would have been more wisely spent not writing this comment.
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  692. If the company splits up into 6 different independent units, each with the right to go public and have their own IPO, then what happens to all the people who currently own stocks in Alibaba? Will they become part-owners of each new entity?
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  693. This meeting is unlikely to have any effect, but at least they're talking.
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  694. I'd love to see a recording of Frank Drebin of Police Squad interrogate Trump.
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  695. "This lady is 1000% correct" ...... "I'm 75 left school at 15 years old". Perhaps that why your use of percentages is incorrect. I also note that you do not provide any facts to support your assertion that the "lady is 1000% correct", so it remains nothing more than an assertion.
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  696. It sounds like you're thinking of waves, not tides.
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  697. I'm so fascinated by the SanXingDui culture and what it may be able to tell us. -Why was it not mentioned in any old texts? Perhaps they had no writing system and it was so far removed from the North China Plain (中原) that there was no contact. -What were their beliefs? -Why are there no depictions of the sun? (which is normal in early agrarian societies. They worship the sun which brings them their food) -Are the human figures religious leaders? -Are the animal figures signs of animism? -So many large bronze artifacts are usually a sign of a large, organized society. A small village would not have the manpower or time to make this. So interesting!
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  698.  @Adriaticus  True, but hating Brussels is a favorite pastime among Europeans, and it's not the kind of hate that leads to war.
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  699. The President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Jin Liqun is the father of the economist Keyu Jin who has recently been making the rounds in a western media tour to promote her book "The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism". I haven't read the book, but in most interviews she makes the case that essentially everything is fine in China and it is still the best place to invest.
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  700. Hey, Earth! Smoking is bad for your health!
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  701. And Australia is still one of the richest countries in the world, with a living standard Argentinians can only dream of.
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  702. I like it.
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  703. Your number on Canada is way too high. Canada has taken around 130,000 Ukrainian refugees. This should not be surprising as Canada is far away. After all, 1.2 million is 5000 airplane loads, or about 13-14 airplanes full of Ukrainians every day since the beginning of the war. The other numbers look right.
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  704. Wow, that they survived this is amazing! And now they have a story to tell their grandchildren.
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  705.  @Ahahahhaaah  Who, me? I don't think my comment expresses any view on the CCP of any kind.
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  706. I don't think there's anywhere in China where the male to female ratio is 4 to 1, except perhaps in prison.
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  707. I doubt China will wait 30 years before allowing Japanese seafood into their market again. They'll wait until the hysteria dies down and then everything will get back to normal. It's always like this in China: People throw a fit for a few months and then things slowly get back to normal.
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  708.  @yashlande100  China's external debt is not $9 trillion, it's $2.5 trillion, according to the World Bank.
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  709.  @V100-e5q  Well, I'm a little more optimistic. Let's give it twenty years and come back and continue the discussion. See you on October 26, 2041 😃
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  710. I didn't know so many Indian food classics are so recent: Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Dal Makhani. Surely there must be great dishes that are old.
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  711.  @modigodi152  Maybe Taylor Swift fans are panicking. I don't see why the rest of should panic. What's there to panic about?
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  712.  @pepelepew1227  Yes, it would be interesting to know why they don't return when they really want to. Perhaps the same reasons people have for not leaving in the first place: Too many commitments where you are, children in school, etc.
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  713.  @pepelepew1227  Your comment is irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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  714.  @x-hale2899  "Stop coming here with your false terms." Those terms were copied from NATO's website.
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  715. Confucius: "The laborer must obey his master." Marx: "Workers should rise up and overthrow the capitalist class." Xi: "See? Your ideas are totally compatible."
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  716. Most countries will continue using coal, until they find a better way to make energy.
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  717. I don't think much is going to change. Perhaps China will import some more Australian barley for beer brewing and animal feed, but beef, wine and seafood will probably not get back to the levels they were at in 2019. Chinese consumers are more careful how they spend money now, and these Australian items are premium products at premium price.
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  718.  @AjayTiwari-en9nz  "Our per capita income is just $2100 right now which expected to reach around $7000 in the next 10 years". That seems overly optimistic. Such a big change would require a 15% growth rate annually every year for the next 10 years. That's practically impossible.
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  719. This was a 5-minute video that was blown up to 22 minutes by adding irrelevant conversations.
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  720. South Korea already has a massive army, including 2500 active Main Battle Tanks. That is more than half of what all of Europe has, for example.
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  721. Despite the fact that I have no idea what either 'Freeski Half-Pipe' or 'Freestyle Big Air' are, I still think it's a great achievement for her. Congratulations! (Please don't direct me to some page about these disciplines. I don't do winter sports.)
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  722. People should go to SCMP and read the whole interview with Richard Koo. It's a good one.
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  723. 12:52: Income inequality is a fixture of every developing/emerging economy. It is unavoidable and simply a part of 'growing up'. As an economy grows richer, income and wealth inequality may/will even out slowly.
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  724. Great issue. Always nice to hear the opinions of Singapore's leaders.
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  725. Well, the term 'superior' was used by the journalist, not Starbuck's itself. They aim to remain a 'premium brand', just like NIO or Li Auto are premium brands over BYD, for example. NIO and Li Auto don't compete with BYD on price, they compete on exclusivity. Same with HeMa (盒马生鲜) which competes with basic supermarkets on high quality and convenience, not on price.
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  726. We already have a high-speed railway line going Shanghai-Jiangsu-Anhui (Hefei). I've traveled on this twice. According to China Daily, the new line will go Shanghai-Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou-Zhenjiang-Nanjing. Not much different from the other one.
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  727.  @tomsuh1362  "Those Chinese are being treated like second class citizens". First, I challenge you to find any HK immigrant who has said that. Secondly, they are free to return to HK if they think life in a foreign country is not for them. Thirdly, what exactly is a 'second class citizen'? Are you claiming that they are not afforded the same rights as other citizens? Do you have any evidence of that? Are you suggesting they are discriminated against? I'm sure that happens sometimes, just like Mainlanders are sometimes discriminated against in HK, or like people from Henan are sometimes discriminated against in Beijing. When are we going to hear you say that those people are "being treated like second class citizens"?
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  728. You seem to have a lot of inside information. Are you involved in this?
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  729.  @visitpyongyang3959  If I'm dead I won't need transportation, so that argument is moot.
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  730. They say Kallas is instead in the front position for EU's foreign commissioner. I'm from the Nordics and I like Kallas, too, and I generally like the very strong position of both Poland and the Baltics.
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  731. Housing price drop of 0.02%. In downtown Shanghai housing prices are around RMB 100,000/sqm, so they dropped RMB 20 to RMB 99,980/sqm. Even Chinese people, who normally cannot resist a discount, probably won't get too excited about such a small drop.
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  732. Nobody evacuated Ukrainians. They left on their own and fled to neighboring countries. The Sudanese can go to Egypt, Chad, South Sudan or Ethiopia. So many choices.
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  733. Wow, that's quite a storm. Very unusual in China.
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  734.  @navdeepkumar5085  "when Europe has nothing to eat..." Navdeep, Europe has had a food surplus for decades. We used to make so much food we didn't know what to do with it. Eventually, we had to pay farmers to limit their crop land. We don't grow delicious Basmati rice, though, so we have to get that from you guys.
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  735. Amazing that Shimao is at risk of being delisted. Shimao is a very famous developer based in Shanghai and is responsible for several of Shanghai's most iconic building projects, incl. Shimao Riverside, a residential development completed around 2000 and back then seen as one of China's most prestigious residential communities. Also Shimao Plaza right on Nanjing Rd. with the Royal Meridien Hotel. Perhaps a kind of Chinese Icarus, who flew too close to the sun.
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  736.  The Crazy Psychopath  I don't have a back yard.
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  737. I'll go find a highlighter so I can mark your words.
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  738. Apparently, 40% of BMW's global (ex. Germany) sales are in China. They do love to show off prestigious cars, those Chinese. And it's understandable that BMW and others don't want to lose that market. However, Chinese people have a great desire for 'face giving' luxury products and, barring a total embargo, will likely do whatever necessary to get their hands on high-end goods from the West, even if relations sour somewhat. Remember how Chinese people were burning their Nike shoes because of the Xinjiang issue? Turns out in the grand scheme of things, Nike's China sales were not affected at all. We can decouple, just do it slowly. Besides, China has been on the path of decoupling for years. They make sure they source their resources from a multitude of countries. Nothing wrong with that.
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  739.  @AL-sj2dx  "not even in jail". Oh, well then everything is fine. I'm sure she'll agree with that. I was only detained for three years, not even in real jail.
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  740. What period are you referring to? The British and the Soviets? When did they ever try to invade Taiwan?
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  741. I can easily see China putting high tariffs on milk and other dairy products from Europe. Milk consumption has rapidly decreased in China in recent years, so putting high tariffs on imported milk would not hurt China's economy at all. If anything, it would help struggling domestic dairy producers. However, even without tariffs on dairy, European exporters are bound to see declines in sales to China.
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  742. Nasi Padang is my favorite!
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  743. The whole thing is so mind-boggling, it's like trying to understand the size of the universe: The human mind seems to be lagging reality.
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  744.  @SeelkadoomSonicBlack  "tiger is natice home from Africa". I think you mean lions. There are no tigers in Africa.
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  745. This segment leaves out some important information that leaves us, the viewers, in the dark: -How many koalas are left in the Park area? -How big a percentage of the area is expected to be logged from now until 2025? -Is the decline in the koala population primarily due to logging, or some other reason (like disease)? Having an environmentalist just talking about how he feels about seeing a logged area is not helpful for understanding the situation. There was very little data presented by anyone interviewed in this segment.
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  746. "We did not resort to massive stimulus". I guess that's a matter of opinion. China's central government told local governments, through the year, to issue around $500 billion in bonds and spend the proceeds on infrastructure. Maybe $500 billion is not massive, but its not peanuts, either.
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  747.  @happydoll2899  Believe what you want about bio labs, but it takes more than just belief to convince me. Put some evidence on the table if you want to convince anyone. Otherwise, we can all just make up our own conspiracy theories and live in our own little fantasy world.
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  748. The future nuclear weapons are nuclear pistols that shoot tiny warheads with a yield of 3-5 micro-tons of TNT. Their mushroom cloud is about the size of a real button mushroom. We call them 'cute nukes'.
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  749. I met* Chuck Schumer in China once. It was in 2006 in Shanghai. He and Lindsay Graham were on a little bi-partisan senator tour of China, trying to gauge support for a proposal the two of them had fielded together: A 24% tariff on all imported goods from China. I repeat, this was in 2006!! At the time, both I and most foreign people in China thought this was an totally insane idea. This was at the height of globalization and outsourcing to China. Outsourcing seemed like THE future. Schumer's goal was protecting American workers; Graham's goal was containing China. The proposal never went anywhere. But that was a different age. *When I write I met him, I mean we just shook hands. We didn't buy each other rounds of beers.
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  750. Because they love Pink Floyd.
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  751. I can't say I'm surprised at what we saw in this report. This is the standard playbook of Chinese investment abroad, private or state managed. It doesn't work in every country, but China prefers to work with countries where this is the way to proceed. It's easy, it takes a bit of money up front, and you don't have to deal with potential opposition from 'the people', just go straight to the power brokers.
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  752. Fortunately, China has plenty of mountains they can turn into sand.
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  753. What an amazing history lesson about a topic I knew next to nothing about. And thanks to Asianometry for choosing to engage itself/himself with niche topics. Great work!
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  754.  @xoyo19  Why don't you just tell me what you want to say?
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  755.  @comradekenobi6908  Rusting? Do you mean trusting? That's a fair point. In any case, you should never be too trusting of other countries, but try to find areas where you can cooperate and others where you'd rather not get involved. We in the West also have many countries we don't really trust. That's perfectly normal.
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  756. Yes, it's protein, yes, it's "meat", but I have tried quite a few bugs, mostly in Asia, and the reality is that most of them have little to no flavor. I believe that when people choose to eat meat it's not just because they want protein, it's because they like the flavor. Without that, I think it will be an uphill, slow crawl for bugs.
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  757. I think that's the case with tourists everywhere: You want their money, but not their clueless behavior. There's certainly no shortage of Europeans who roll their eyes at American tourists, but we are still happy to get them.
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  758. According to Gallup, 80% of Americans have a favorable or very favorable view of India.
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  759. Apparently, she refers to herself as 'working class' because she once worked at a waiter in a bar. By that standard, I think we're all working class.
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  760. It'll be interesting to hear what new threat he comes up with next. NK is always creative with their threats.
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  761.  @piereandreturner2818  No, the area around the Panama Canal was controlled by other countries (Colombia, France, USA) than Panama even before the project was started. During construction, Panama was also not controlling the area. The money and construction for the canal was provided by France and USA, not as a loan to Panama, but simply as a transportation project. Panama eventually took control of the canal and the area around it in Jan. 2000.
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  762. It's unlikely to happen, because the cost of operating a train at such high speed will make the tickets prohibitively expensive, due to wind resistance. 600 km/h is about 3 times the energy use as 350 km/h.
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  763. Yes, Wang Yi is back in the Foreign Minister seat, but I don't think there has been any mention of Qin Gang's name. There were also some minor shuffles in Hong Kong.
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  764. Perhaps the same amount of anxiety that pizzeria owners felt when frozen pizzas became available.
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  765. I like how she pronounced Caixin as 'Ka-shing'...
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  766.  @bandinemes9547  "What about Iraq, Libya, Syria?" What's your point?
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  767.  @r3dpowel796  I have an old friend in Surabaya. Maybe one day I'll take the train all the way from China to visit her.
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  768. And yet, on the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI), China is still below Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, all of which are democratic countries. Additionally, of the top-50 countries on the HDI, 44 are democratic countries. China has made great progress over the last 40 years, but it's a little too early to start speaking in such a condescending way about other countries that haven't yet come as far as China. Going forward, perhaps try with a little love instead of hate.
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  769. South Korea is an independent nation. South Korea has never claimed to be occupied by the US, that claim seems to come from an envious neighbor.
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  770. I'm guessing you're from Singapore, Malaysia, or Thailand.
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  771. Re. Decline in marriages: We shouldn't put too much into these figures, because number of marriages is to a large extent decided by how many young women are 'available' for marriage. From 2010-2015, approximately 12 million women reached prime marriage age every year (age 26-27). Now we have reached a period where relatively fewer women reach that age; only around 7.5 million women reach age 26-27 this year. That number will continue to decrease over the next several years until 2029, when only 6.5 million women will reach prime marriage age. After that, the number will increase again to 9 million in 2039, but then it will decline precipitously far into the future.
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  772. Hamas: "This was done by Israel! Great outrage! Condemnation! Murderers! War crimes!" 5 minutes later: "Oh, it was done by us? A misfired rocket? Hmm" Hamas: "Ok, this is no big deal, just a small accident. Let's focus on other things, nothing to see here".
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  773.  @raymondcheung409  The video states that the cost is 5.9 billion. That's about a third of 19 billion. If Laos only has to pay 30% that makes it a bit easier, but it would still be equivalent to China spending USD 1.3 trillion on a single railway project. By any measure, it will be a huge strain on any country that put itself in so much debt.
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  774. "Relations are at an unprecedented high level". You two should get a room, already.
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  775. When they say Cantonese is HK's local dialect, it means that Cantonese is the dialect spoken in HK. It does NOT mean "Cantonese belongs to HK".
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  776. I used to quote Party slogans to my Shanghainese friends and ask them which ones they liked best. They looked at me like I was crazy and said "Peter, nobody pays attention to these slogans and nobody cares what they say".
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  777. I was a little surprised, too, but it is likely because a very large percentage of private enterprises are made up of small factories in the interior, small retail businesses, and restaurants. Those enterprises tend to employ mostly rural employees with low educational attainment. State-owned enterprises and government organs tend to hire better educated people. Those who work in large and famous private enterprises, like Alibaba, Tencent, Lenovo, BYD, etc., probably have a much higher salary, but they are, after all, only a small minority of the labor pool.
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  778. "Hi, would you like to go to Myanmar and get a great job with a huge salary? You just have to hand me your passport and get into this van with tinted windows." "Sure, when are we leaving"?
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  779. You think that was wrong?
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  780. I love those elderly people in the alley: "Of course we have freedom of speech. See now, we can say anything we want. But of course public opinions are tightly controlled. That's necessary. We know what we can and cannot say". It's very Chinese.
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  781. Re. the comedian Li: His fate puts our western debate about 'cancel culture' somewhat into perspective.
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  782. What is your evidence for that assertion?
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  783.  @StubbyPhillips  "Does dolphin taste anything like fish?" Though I haven't eaten dolphin, I have eaten whale, and a dolphin is a kind of whale. Whales are mammals and their flesh has a muscle structure more similar to other mammals, somewhat more fibrous than fish. It's hard to describe the flavor of whale, but it does have a slightly fishy taste, though not unpleasant.
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  784. If both Ukraine and Russia run out of weapons, we will se the world's biggest snowball fight coming up this winter.
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  785. It's not easy to be young in China these days.
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  786. China launched 59 rockets into space this year. Coincidentally, that is the exact same number of rockets that SpaceX launched in 2022, so far. SpaceX has another two planned before New Year's.
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  787. Increased consumption is not just what economists want, it's what most individuals want. Even if you say you don't want more clothes, you very like would want better/more fashionable clothes. Even if you say you only need one smart phone, you very likely want to upgrade to a newer model every now and then. We always want to better our lives, and if we have the money, that means more consumption.
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  788. Something quite similar happened during construction of Shanghai's Metro Line 4 back in 1999. It delayed completion by a whole year.
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  789. Advice: Planes have containers, they have bottled water. Fill a container with water and dump the battery in there. It won't go out immediately, but the smoke will be reduced and the fire risk contained. To avoid filling the cabin with smoke, put the container in a toilet and close the door (but keep an eye on it).
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  790. Methanol is a very common byproduct of alcohol distillation. It's usually the first that comes out of the still. If distilling your own alcohol, throw away the first few deciliters.
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  791. 9:50 Ah yes, kretek cigarettes, especially Gudang Garam, I remember them clearly from my visit in 1989. Good memories, but I was happy to get back to regular cigarettes.
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  792. I don't know about Korea and China, but the waste water has been tested in numerous labs in Europe.
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  793.  @dashong8912  Aren't you the one slamming Malaysia if you suggest Palestinians don't want to come? I'd like to come to Malaysia again. It's a great country, especially the food and the people.
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  794. As a Danish person, it bothers me that Sweden has so many good things. Meatballs, IKEA, Volvo, Tetrapak, and now Semlor. Arrrrh, those Swedes!
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  795. I'd like to see more night markets in Shanghai. People love the night markets in South East Asia, but then when we come back home, there's nothing!
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  796. Impressive! Now, let's see Paul Allen's fighter jet.
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  797. Question for those who are economically literate: If China invests $3.15 trillion into an $18 trillion economy (which is over 17%), does that automatically mean GDP will grow by 17%? That seems like an extreme growth rate, even for China. In fact, it seems like someone made a typo and added an extra zero somewhere.
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  798. Why would her views make her 'unfit to teach'? No matter what views she has, she might still be an excellent teacher. 'Unfit to teach', in my opinion, would be if she comes unprepared, cannot explain concepts clearly, is unengaged or indifferent about students' progress, grades papers in an irrational way, or is overly emotional during class (flying into a rage, blames people for her own problems, etc.).
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  799. Government: "China refuses to lie flat during this pandemic. Therefore we must insist that you stay at home on your couch!"
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  800. "We can't allow everyone to just say what they want. The government must take action".
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  801. As long as your audience is non-Chinese, you use a non-Chinese platform, and you report in English, you can say quite a lot in China. If he were to start posting his reports on a Chinese platform, it would be a very different matter.
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  802. China and other nuclear energy countries discharge radioactive waste water into the ocean every year. This is standard practice. The concentration of radioactive material in the Fukushima wastewater is lower than most of the discharges from nuclear power stations across the world.
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  803. I've only had truffle on a couple of occasions and I was not hugely impressed, though they were not bad. My favorite mushrooms/fungi are still chanterelles, porcini and morels. China (where I'm currently located) has some good, wild mushroom species such as Termite Mushroom (collybia albuminosa) which is delicious dried and reconstituted.
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  804.  @BlackCeII  "people get brain cancer on the side of their head that they use their phone". I think you're going to need some citations for that claim. Sounds more like you're pulling 'facts' out of your ass.
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  805. "The best thing you can do is encourage them to take up smoking and skydiving." There are many more options: Tornado chasing, moving to Chicago's West Side, close-up volcano observer, down-hill skiing, spitting on Kim Il Sung's statue in PyongYang, open an Atheists' Society in Kabul, join a Mexican drug cartel, etc..
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  806. Sounds like you want what you say the US wants.
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  807. The victim was 17, not 7. The five arrested include three Japanese, one Filipino, and one Brazilian. The victim was ethnic Chinese, not a Chinese citizen. His name was Ukawa Saito. It appears they were all students at the same school. Considering the nationalities of both the victim and the assailants, it seems unlikely the reason was hatred of China.
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  808.  @web2yt488  That's a good point, but at least they're able to put cars on the streets. That's a necessary start. There are a lot of e-vehicle start-ups out here, but few have started production.
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  809. "Race Weapons": While there are some ailments (not necessarily viruses, toxins or bacteria) that are more prevalent in certain races and ethnicities, that is a far cry from even contemplating a 'bio weapon' that targets one specific race while excluding everyone else. There has never been any disease that only affects one race or ethnicity, and it's hard to imagine such a disease could even be possible. We're just too similar for that to be possible. At the most extreme, you might be able to make a 'bio weapon' that turns all East Asians blonde and blue eyed, hahaha.
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  810. Foxconn may be on to something here. Viewing auto manufacturing as just assembly didn't make much sense in the past, but it may make good sense with EVs.
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  811.  @EarlieFleming-ic1ux  But there's other media that is more in line with what you want: Al Jazeera, Russian state media, Chinese state media. There's something for everyone.
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  812. So 5% for the whole year seems like a very attainable goal. And what will the target be for next year? 4.0%? 4.5%? 5.0% again? Even higher?
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  813. When people come together around a common purpose, beautiful things can happen.
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  814. I'd like to see more Indian tourists in Europe. Maybe we who belong to the Schengen region should give visa-free access to tourists from Mumbai and New Delhi. That's what happened to Chinese tourists 20 years ago: First, people from Beijing and Shanghai got easier access, then later came the rest of the country.
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  815.  @EarnestWilliamsGeofferic  I don't know where you're from, but infrastructure projects in Europe are not paid out of some big, common piggy bank. This particular tunnel is paid for by Denmark, with a minority contribution from the EU. When Finland and Estonia decide to build their tunnel, they'll also have to pay. Yes, it's called the 'European Union', but it's still made up of many independent countries with their own policies and their own budgets.
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  816. Well, for now we don't actually know what it is, which is what is being pointed out in the video. We can speculate, but we have to wait for the data.
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  817. Nice rescue operation. Luo Po Ling is in Mentougou District, the westernmost district of Beijing. This is also the district where all that footage of flooded roads and collapsed bridges are from. Mentougou District has on its western side lots of mountains and it was the rain running down from the mountain sides and through the valleys that caused such mayhem in that district. All of southern and eastern Beijing is flat as a pancake.
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  818. Putting others at risk? The man got seriously ill, that's hardly his own fault. And all the people who helped rescue him volunteered to do so out of the kindness of their hearts. Perhaps your heart contains no such kindness.
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  819. I love how they've all learned that they should take notes and that they should applaud, no matter what is being said. Taking notes and applauding are both only to show their loyalty to the leader. You see this in North Korea, too.
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  820. Nice to see Rebecca Choong Wilkins back.
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  821. "Every time westerner visits, we get a lecture" And a lot of investment: Between 2010 and 2019, 52% of all FDI into Africa was from the west. So you get money, and maybe you also get a lecture. Lectures are great, you can learn so much from them.
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  822. I once had cold, sliced pig's brain in China. It was bland and mushy and sadly didn't give me much insight into the life of that pig.
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  823.  @KyleTheDalek  Try to finish high school.
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  824. I have slept in over 300 different beds/bedrooms in my life and so far, I have been lucky to never have encountered bedbugs.
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  825. One of the downward drivers of consumption is the relatively low number of 18-33 year-olds. That cohort is the lowest it has been in about 50 years. We've all been young once and we know that young people spend like there's no tomorrow. 240 million young people (aged 18-33) is still a very high number, but it is 90 million fewer than there were 10 years ago, a drop of 27%. The number of young people in that age bracket will increase a little bit over the next 15 years to 255 million, but then it will fall precipitously.
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  826. The number of marriage registrations will probably continue to decline for at least the next 5-8 years, in large part because the number of women of prime marriage age is declining. But by 2028-29, the number of eligible women will increase again for 10 years going forward, and that should lead to an increase in marriage registrations again.
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  827. From the time you make your scientific discovery until you get the prize can take decades. The Nobel committee needs to verify that the discovery was useful and that takes time.
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  828. Economic change often happens slowly, which may seem boring to some. This is not least the case in China, where the govt. prioritizes stability and will do whatever it can to prevent sudden large swings. We're unlikely to see a big crash in any part of the Chinese economy/society. More likely a decades-long slowdown or stagnation, Japan-style. Nevertheless, if you prefer more sensationalist news reports, there are several other channels that provide those.
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  829. I see a lot more 'west-haters' than Sinophobes.
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  830.  @madsam0320  I think you're confusing different companies. You may be thinking of United Fruit, an American company that had large banana plantations in Central America. That is an entirely different company. United Plantations (the Danish company) was set up in Thailand and primarily operated rubber and palm oil plantations in Malaysia. It still exists today.
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  831. Blizzard, -53 F, cold war, all in the same video. Coincidence? Someone is getting cold feet.
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  832. And presumably they will be paying taxes, just like all other private companies.
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  833. The fact that young Vietnamese people have a positive view of the US really makes your brain explode, doesn't it? You just can't handle it emotionally. But alas, there's nothing you can do about it.
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  834. It's not a gift, Bangladesh pays all the cost.
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  835. I find it very difficult to understand Hubert's narration.
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  836. Part of the research included looking for Santa's workshop, and developing better ice cubes for drinks.
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  837. "In the first half of 2024, only 3.4 million marriage registrations". This may look like a very low number, but we have to take into account how many people there are: If we assume that the average age of marriage is 27 for women, then there are only 7.5 million women of that age in 2024. If the second half of 2024 presents as many marriages as the first, we will end up with 6.8 million marriages, 90% of the possible maximum. So all in all, it should not be a big surprise.
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  838. It is common around the world for indigenous people to have much worse life outcomes than the surrounding 'developed' society. We see this with indigenous Americans in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Canada, and every other country in the Americas. We see it with arctic populations in Canada, Greenland, Russia. We see it with indigenous populations in East and South East Asia, we see it in Sub-Saharan Africa with the Khoi San and Pygmy peoples. It seems to me, and this is just a hypothesis, that going from a hunter-gatherer society or a nomadic society to a settled, industrial society is an extremely difficult transition to make in just a few generations. Technically, it's easy, but culturally almost impossible. Perhaps our cultures simply cannot 'leap frog' into a completely different level in less than tens, or even hundreds of generations.
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  839. 0:30 Monaco is not, and has never been, nicknamed 'The Rock'. That honor falls to Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain.
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  840. Report from Shanghai: My office building has been shut down for the week and we're all working from home. My residential community, which is in a different district, will offer nucleic acid tests tomorrow (Tuesday). It's not mandatory I think, but a negative result will give me the freedom to go more places. Otherwise, the city seems normal, people on the street shopping, etc.
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  841. This is what I would call a 'review for engineers' or for the scientifically minded. Wonderful!
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  842. "Where are all the profits going???" Profits are what's left after all expenses have been paid, incl. salaries, utilities, machines, tools, raw materials, land costs, taxes. Profits always (yes, always) go to the owners of the business, incl. share holders. My question to you is: How do you know if there are any profits at all? The video didn't say anything about that. Lots of businesses are not profitable, and some end up going bankrupt.
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  843. I'm running out of semiconductors to dip in my ranch dressing.
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  844.  @griffintaimer8507  Your resentment is not helpful to anyone.
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  845. I'm European and I think many Euro-businesses want to continue the strong trade relationship with China. It's a money thing. But European businesses will go anywhere there's money to be made. They are neither pro- nor anti-China, they are pro-profits. If America's efforts push production of many classes of goods to other countries (Vietnam, India, etc.), European businesses will follow. There is no heart involved, only brain.
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  846. "Substantial lunch break". It's not so much lunch that takes up time, but the obligatory nap time afterwards.
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  847. Hello from Shanghai. We truly live in interesting times. Let's see how it all pans out. 5.3% for 2022 may end up being difficult, or perhaps only achievable with major government investments.
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  848. March, 2021: I can't stop laughing throughout this. God, I miss Trump. He was so much fun!
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  849. They look Bengali, they speak a Bengali language, they are Muslim, Myanmar essentially considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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  850. Elaine Benes: 'He took it out'. CTV News: 'He took out his frustrations'.
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  851. "Facebook is free, and always will be (until it isn't any longer)"
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  852. Wow, this process just screams out for a little mechanization, a little automation. If these women make a co-op, maybe get a little start-up help from an NGO, they can really improve their lives in a massive way.
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  853. Living in Shanghai, I've had to deal with flour weevils for years. They mostly prefer whole wheat, less so white flour, probably because they prefer the protein to just starch. They also love pasta. They only come out/breed in the summer half of the year, so if I go away on vacation, all my flour, pasta and even certain spices go in the freezer for protection. They don't like the cold.
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  854. They're not acting like a victim. They are acting like someone who wants to protect themselves from becoming a victim.
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  855. Wow, 220 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe. Actually, a lot more than that because the smaller countries also have a lot. Maybe more than 300 total.
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  856. What a pleasure it is to stumble upon such a high quality historical documentary as this one! I'm subscribing!
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  857. So sad when young people take their own lives. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel of darkness, even if you cannot see it for months or years. One day you will see it and you can go out into the light again. Stay brave in the darkness and don't give up.
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  858. Ok, that's a little exaggerated. It's not 'THE TRUTH', just his view on things. Other people may have different views, and their views could also be true.
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  859. Looks like the age of cooperation is over and the age of competition will begin. You can no longer copy my homework.
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  860. Yes, I think you're looking for CGTN or CCTV. Do a quick search and you will get the news you like.
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  861. "Can I sell my citizen ship for 2.5 million?" Actually, that's not a bad idea. If you can sell your citizenship to someone in a foreign country who wants to buy it. It could be an interesting business proposition. Of course, you have to remember to get citizenship in some other country before you sell your American one. Otherwise, you'll have nowhere to go, or you'll be stateless.
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  862. 0:22 "The animals were fluffy gifts from Beijing". They're not really gifts. Foreign zoos pay about $1 million a year 'rental fee' to China, and all pandas, including all their offspring, belong to China and must eventually be returned. So gifts, no. Leases would be more correct. I have only seen one panda in my life, in the Shanghai zoo. It was pretty quiet and a bit dusty looking, but so were most of the animals in the zoo. I'd rather watch a sparrow fly outside my window than see pandas in a zoo. Not because I think it's cruel, but I just find animals in cages and zoos and circuses boring to look at.
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  863. Well, the point here is mostly to punish France, where cognac comes from. France was a proponent of EU tariffs on EVs because they need to protect their auto jobs. So these tariffs are meant to make French cognac producers angry at their government and maybe change it at the next election. In other words, it hits France where it hurts the most. But will it hurt enough? Unlikely.
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  864. Everybody I know in Shanghai share the same sentiment: Things are not going well.
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  865.  @SanjayKumar-fb5xz  Even so, such an opinion would not be allowed on Chinese TV. It's very refreshing and you should be happy it is allowed in India. It shows that fundamentally, you're a better country than China.
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  866.  @delgermuruntsagaankhuu6951  But we don't know if it is 'suffering'. That's the claim, but there's no evidence of that. People who overeat also damage their internal organs, but we can't say they're suffering every time they slip in a Twinkie.
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  867.  @freezepaladin  Ok, so what do you think we should do with all our trash?
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  868. This is great news! The world is slowly starting to open up again and I think we'll see a cascade of countries opening up in the near future. Things are gonna be great again!
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  869. Yes, next time they should have a host who is more pro-China.
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  870. It's a beautiful backdrop in that meeting room. Looks like it could be inspired by ZhangJiaJie or nearby.
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  871. Apparently, it's important to preserve the illusion of democracy, though I don't really understand why.
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  872. If you watch a Japanese language new story, I'm sure you will see many Japanese experts. Why are you watching an English language story if you don't like it? To punish yourself?
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  873. Where is EU's infrastructure crumbling? We keep maintaining and improving on the infrastructure we have had for centuries, and we also build new infrastructure. You can actually measure that Europe's infrastructure is better than it has ever been in history.
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  874. I am rooting for Sweden and Norway in several disciplines, both Alpine and Nordic.
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  875.  @Drownedinblood  Yes, that is true. And there's no doubt that the UK would have liked to keep HK as their colony.
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  876.  @mgronich948  "During the civil right demonstration in the US that won voting rights for so many african americans, there were no demonstration in Hong Kong against British rule. " That is not true. In the late 60s, there were huge demonstrations against British rule in HK. The colonial government got so scared they sent troops from the UK to ensure order. But it is true that the demonstrators didn't want democracy. They were inspired by the Cultural Revolution and wanted Mao-style rule.
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  877. Well, it's all very interesting. Let's give it a few weeks and see what happens. I'm not totally convinced that this has weakened Putin. He's had 20 years to cement his position. I think it takes more to change that.
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  878. Evergrande may just be able to crawl to the goal line, covered in sweat and grime, whispering for a glass of water as they collapse on the pavement.
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  879.  @paulbadman8509  I don't know what our gas prices are like now. It's not important to me, I just pay without looking at the cost.
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  880. Nothing, but many packages from the mainland go through HK.
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  881. It's my impression (and belief) that western countries are not against Chinese companies investing and succeeding overseas. Nor are we against cooperating with Chinese companies anywhere. What we are against is the attempt to concentrate all resources, technologies, and supply chains in one single country/market. This should be very understandable to everyone, including China, because China doesn't want to face that situation, either. The nickel project in Sulawesi, Indonesia is a great example: Companies from the west and China cooperating with Indonesia for a higher purpose. Perhaps this will be the future of globalized industry: 1/3 in the west, 1/3 in China, and 1/3 in the rest of the world.
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  882. Several newly independent African countries have tried socialism, some even for decades, but it didn't work out for them.
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  883.  @SayrosGO  But you're Tunisian. Jews didn't take your land. Jews didn't commit atrocities in your land. And Israel is a completely legitimate country, UN member state, recognized by the majority of the world's countries. Israel managed to defend itself against a combined attack by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Egypt only one year after establishment. They've proven their right to exist on the battlefield.
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  884. What you're describing is not a good analogy, because you're describing a house that is NOT collapsing, but slowly falling into disrepair. That is by definition not a collapse.
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  885. For years it was China that drove growth in the luxury sector, and China made up a big percentage of total sales. Now that Chinese are spending less, it could have a serious impact on companies like LVMH, Kering and others. Thus, stock prices are down, and they may continue to go down. It will take perhaps a decade before India reaches a level where they can take up the slack, so it could be slim times coming for the luxury industry.
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  886. And if you see a bicycle or motorcycle on the road ahead of you, can it also find out which bicycle or motorcycle it is, or is this only for people who are interested in other cars?
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  887.  @hiyukelavie2396  I did not suggest they were cut off, but they do appear to be a separate kingdom. In order to understand our distant past, we need to rely on archeological evidence. If you know of evidence that horses were used for transportation in the Shang Dynasty and in SanXingDui, I will certainly accept that. I am not an expert.
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  888.  @melonseiiLOVE  "Western countries are...unwilling to do so" -Sydney, Vienna, Copenhagen, Toronto, Paris, Turin, Venice, Milan, Barcelona, Lausanne, London all have platform screen doors on part of their systems, but rarely on all of it. These systems were often designed and built long before screen doors were invented. It is not always easy (or even possible) to retro-fit screen doors on an older system.
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  889.  @pepelepew1227  No one forced them to leave HK. They were given the invitation and a few took it. That's the end of the story.
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  890.  @pepelepew1227  -If you wish to discuss me, you can do it by yourself. I won't join you. -If you don't like what I write, you are free to ignore me. -If you think I have made an error, feel free to correct the error, preferably with a citation.
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  891. You're blaming the wrong guy. He is not at fault. It's the guy who caused the accident who should be blamed.
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  892. It had nothing to do with pedophiles/ predators. Just a misunderstanding about words.
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  893. CNA is not a western TV station. It is Asian.
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  894. It won't take long before China surpasses the west in that respect, too. In ten years, China will begin to lose 7 million people per year, and it will continue to go up. By 2049, a drop of 13 million people per year. Fortunately, it will peak in 2055 at 15 million drop per year, then it will slowly go down again.
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  895. Considering how expensive they are, a lot of the houses in the video look kind of gaudy and tacky. 土豪, as they say in China.
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  896. Consumer boycotts rarely work for very long. They can be effective right after some 'scandal' has unfolded, but people eventually will return to buy what they like to buy.
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  897.  @dashong8912  But Malaysian food is better than Nordic food, and it's Halal.
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  898.  @grassfield5177  "Families are still the backbone of a thriving society". Yes, I agree with that, but when you and your wife decide to have another baby or stop at the ones you already have, society doesn't come in to your considerations. You decide based on what is best for your family.
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  899. The Libyan civil war had already been under way for a month, with severe fighting, before European forces took action with a no-fly zone and an aerial bombing campaign to enforce it. The Libyan representative to the UN asked for a no-fly zone; the head of the Libyan National Transitional Council called for a no-fly zone; The Gulf Cooperation Council asked for a no-fly zone; The Arab League asked for a no-fly zone; Lebanon's Ambassador to the UN presented a resolution for a no-fly zone, which was voted on and approved. No member of the Security Council voted 'No' to the proposal. Yes, the West supplied most of the weapons, the West dropped most of the bombs, but the decision wasn't only the West's. Most of the forces were European, but there was also participation from Jordan, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, with additional support from Kuwait and Sudan. Any further questions?
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  900. Ok, I live in China, so maybe it's a bit unfair of me to trash this guy, Kurt Metzger, but he sounds like he was high the entire time during his short visit to China, and only snippets of impressions got lodged in his memory, all jumbled up.
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  901. "Russia shall soon flourish and wealthy". They've been saying this since the October Revolution in 1917.
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  902.  @jeevan88888  Great, so we can agree that your statement "backpacking is an excuse to do shady things" was exaggerated.
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  903. Next time, let him go into the tiger enclosure and see what happens.
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  904. Gao Peiyong's commentary in People's Daily about Common Prosperity seems to me to be more a critique of the 'lying flat' and 'let it rot' culture.
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  905. Those stand-up seats could really help cram in a lot of passengers. Might be good for very short haul flights, say 1-2 hours.
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  906. This is some excellent reporting! I wonder how many episodes there will be.
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  907. Thanks for this excellent episode, Tony. Even though I follow China closely, and have been for over 30 years, I rarely see other outlets discussing ideological issues as in-depth as you did here. Even Willy Wo-Lap Lam rarely goes this deep.
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  908. After two years of Covid restrictions, people in Europe are getting REALLY tired of constantly having their freedom limited. They won't tolerate it anymore.
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  909. Something about this video makes me uneasy, and it's not the religious strife, nor is it the nationalist sentiment. Rather, it's the people being interviewed expressing gratitude toward the government for building all the infrastructure in the city. In reality, it is the economic liberalization that has given the government the funds to build all that, and instead of praising the government, people should demand more economic and social liberalization. It is the government that chose 40 years of Leninist economic policies before finally choosing a path of more economic liberalization. 40 years that stunted India's growth and development. Indians should demand a continuation of regulatory and economic liberalization, so their country can continue its economic and social development far into the future. Any people who allow their leaders to take their freedoms away from them without fighting to get them back will forever live as slaves to the government, powerless and weak.
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  910. That is correct. Even a convicted felon still serving time in prison can run for president, as long as the candidate fulfills the other requirements: Natural born citizen, over 35 years old. However, getting elected is quite a different matter.
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  911. China has been doing this for a long time now, and has the most solar PV parks of any country. It's a good thing for them and for the entire planet. Especially good for countries that are energy insecure and who can bring the energy resource inside their own borders.
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  912. Part of the reason is that it is hard for news teams to get in to the affected areas. Nowadays, if it's not on video, it didn't happen.
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  913. I feel lucky, because Shanghai has been relatively cool so far this summer. Quite comfortable.
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  914.  @winzyl9546  They're not caged like animals. Gaza is a self-governed territory. If they recognize Israel as a legitimate country, they will get access to the Mediterranean Sea and they can trade with the whole world.
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  915.  @JavierISampedroTNF  I'm thinking of landslides and building collapses. Those would very likely happen in other places in the region, but HK is pretty solid. If you're thinking about the drainage system, you can stop right now. No city/country designs a sewage system for every extreme weather event, but will design for a 50-year storm, or a 100-year storm. In a rare case like this, it is expected that the drainage system cannot keep up, but that the rest of the built environment can cope with the excess water.
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  916.  @afizi1213  Malaysia is helping Thailand get its citizens back from Israel? Do you have more information on this? So far, over 5000 Thais have requested repatriation, some have already returned. Those returned have flown on Israeli carrier El-Al, and a Thai Air Force special flight. According to reports in Malaysian media, only about 5-7 Malaysians are in the process of being evacuated. So what is this help you're referring to?
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  917.  @StopBaizuo  "It's typical of materialistic culture to consider people as objects." Says the guy who elsewhere on this comment section wrote: "Chinese money is coming to the Phils!"
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  918. That was 10 years ago, when the waste water was 'fresh'. It has since been treated chemically to remove all elements, except the Tritium. Tritium cannot be removed by any chemical process, it can only be diluted.
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  919.  @axyspianostudio  Housing used to be free in China, too, until 1991. But I don't think many Chinese want to go back to those days.
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  920.  @ZLL668  As if the entire west wasn't once the world's industrial powerhouse. We've been there, we invented the whole thing. Other countries can do it, too, not just China. You're not that unique (even though you are very, very big).
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  921.  Superpo0oper2020  It's not that unusual. China launched its first satellite in 1970, in the middle of the Cultural Revolution when its GDP/capita was only $113.- The USA sent its first satellite into space when its GDP/capita was only $2,700.- Now, India's GDP/capita is $2,400.- so it's basically in the sweet spot for developing its space program.
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  922. I'm getting a little jaded with Greta Thunberg. I hope that soon we will get a new activist, younger, more depressed, more anxious, more hysterical, more preachy, more sanctimonious, and more messianic than Greta. Me always want more.
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  923. Yes, we cannot allow any news that can be interpreted as negative. All news MUST be positive, or at least, agree with my viewpoint.
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  924. This is a great project and I'm sure many lessons can be drawn from it in the years and decades to come. The goal must be to make it self-sustainable without the addition of piped in water. In the long term, it should be able to just be stable on its own. We know that China had made a lot of efforts to revive arid, depleted land in the northern Loess Plateau. That has been a real success story, and arid communities around the world are using some of the same methods to re-green land. Some areas are just too dry, though. Even hardy shrubs need a little water.
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  925. Li Qiang: "I think we met two years ago in Shanghai". Macron: "I don't remember that".
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  926. Looks like we're entering an interesting period over the next 20-30 years. Lots of comments here focus on who's to blame, but that is not a productive viewpoint. More important is to consider who will, or should, do what over these next decades. As someone from the West, I would not want the world to be dominated by authoritarian, autocratic countries. I suppose I'd be fine with a country like India, which has a form of democracy and individual rights, with that country dominating. Whatever the situation, I'm not convinced that the West is in decline. We're slowing down, but I don't think we're declining.
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  927. Of all the Tesla crashes that have been publicized in the USA and China so far, I don't think a single one has been shown to be due to Tesla hardware or software problems. Maybe this one is different, who knows.
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  928. Hilux are all over Laos and Thailand roads. It seems like 1 in 4 cars there are Toyota Hilux.
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  929. A burger with foie gras and extra cheese is a Luxembourger.
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  930. While the wedding numbers shown are correct, there's some context needed to understand the situation: In 2013, there were 12.5 million women aged 25, the primary marriage age. In 2021, there were only 7.5 women aged 25. Since you need a woman to get married (at least in China), with fewer women, there will naturally be fewer weddings. Nothing much that can be done about that.
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  931. Only in the French speaking part. They're hoarding it from the rest of you.😉
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  932.  @westernarthistoryvideos8713  The fact remains that no adverse effects from the Fukushima plant waste release have been shown, nor have adverse effects from other nuclear plant waste releases been shown. That's all you need to know.
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  933.  @LoC28C  She is not charged with espionage, but a host of other crimes.
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  934. We in the west are worried too, which is why we are beginning to protect our markets and jobs. We cannot continue to buy everything from China and not sell anything to China. Our wallets get thinner and thinner, so we need to make a change.
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  935.  @billkar6479  I live in China and have visited minority areas on many occasions. Now, there are some people who wear their ethnic clothes, mostly women, but many more areas where they don't. Men rarely wear ethnic clothing because western clothing is seen as a sign of modernity and progress.
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  936. "没放开时说没人权不自由，放开了说病毒传播"......... 都是真的。
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  937. Yes, I had to look up 'Carbon Neutral Natural Gas' as I was quite confused by this name.
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  938.  @Sondergarden  Thanks for the compliment.
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  939. I think that's highly unlikely! Riding a bike through an 18 km tunnel is neither safe nor healthy. All of Denmark's other cross-sea links ban cyclists and pedestrians. Mopeds may be allowed if they can be designated as motorcycles. A question of speed, I suppose.
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  940.  @YamatoNaoe  A fake scammer, is that someone who doesn't plan to scam you, but just pretends to be a scammer?
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  941.  @regeinaneimar7342  Actually, speaking of toothbrushes, perhaps the next project will be people collecting old, used toothbrushes, getting volunteers to painstakingly put new bristles in them, and then flying them out around the world to give to random people.
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  942.  @ayushxyz1768  I don't doubt that India has invented all those activities. My point is that sports as a leisure activity (apart from cricket) just isn't popular, yet. It may come soon.
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  943. "If you're not happy, you quit". And that's exactly what they did.
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  944. So far, your prayers seem to have worked. Keep it up.
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  945. "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (寻衅滋事罪)" is a standard criminal offense in China, and one of the most common with which people are charged. It has no clear definition, and you can apply it to almost anything and anyone.
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  946. Russia has more than the US. Both parties are aware of that and agree to the current numbers.
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  947. Top notch edition!
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  948. 2:47 That's a nice looking speaker setup. Looks like two horn loaded woofers on each side.
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  949.  @kreterakete  You can't know that. You just hope you're right.
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  950. Very nice. I like people who are down to earth.
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  951. Finland doesn't use Broad Gauge. I once traveled by train from Finland to the Soviet Union (in 1988). We had to stop and change wheelsets at the border. Same situation when we arrived at the Soviet-China border on the other side.
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  952. I would be quite happy to eat seafood and sushi imported from Japan.
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  953.  @JohnDoe-tx8eu  Yes, we are, you can't see it. You're looking at the trees instead of the forest.
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  954.  @lukasloh2509  Yes
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  955. It's very encouraging that the world won't be totally destroyed in a global nuclear war. Perhaps at most 500 million will die, spread over many countries in the northern hemisphere. But I think we can look forward to an economic recession worse than we can imagine. And no, crypto is not going to save you.
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  956.  @chubbymoth5810  It could mean that, but I doubt it. He's retired and lives in another, fully paid, apartment. My first thought was that he was worried about a potential war over Taiwan.
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  957. I think he has a good understanding of what can and cannot be said.
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  958. The big laggards here are clearly European NATO members. We really need to raise our game in a hurry and increase our defense spending to at least 2%, and preferably 2.5% or higher. Europe also needs to build up a considerable stockpile of weapons so we can be ready when duty calls.
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  959. Some European countries' trading firms were even invited by local Indian rulers to start colonies in parts of India. After all, it was great for business.
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  960. There are organized crime syndicates in every country, including yours.
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  961. They immediately conclude that residential schools caused this wave of violence, but that is just an assumption. Indigenous peoples around the world are struggling with very high rates of violence within their communities, regardless of whether they went to residential schools or not. We see this all over the Arctic, in Canada, Greenland, Siberia. We see it in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, among the Ainu people in Japan and many other places. One possibility is that it is not indigenous communities that are abnormally violent, but modern, urbanized societies that have achieved extraordinary low levels of violence over centuries. In other words, what modern society sees as normal levels of violence are in fact highly unusual in world history.
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  962.  Ops Blac  I don't understand that argument. Why is Switzerland's geography better for staying neutral than Indonesia's?
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  963. The product JP advertises in the end seems to be exactly the type of product/lifestyle he's been making fun of during the entire existence of his channel.
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  964. Well, it's becoming increasingly hard to find the bright lights in China's economy. No, China is not collapsing, but also not speeding ahead. Instead it is trudging along on a rocky path. There seems to be some growth in consumer spending, especially on services like travel and restaurants, but it's certainly not booming. Most everything else appears stagnant.
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  965. There are ancient maps of (most parts of) the world drawn by Chinese, Korean, Japanese explorers. In the process of critiquing European exploration, he is inadvertently making the faulty assumption that other cultures and civilizations didn't make any geographic discoveries. Some of those ancient East Asian maps are literally national treasures in those countries.
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  966.  @Vincent_de_Paul  Hard to say. They seemed to indicate that there were bad people on the mountain. In any case, we looked and looked, but never found out how to get to the start of the trail.
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  967. When you think of all the terrorist groups and terrorist incidents over the last 30-50 years, have any of these acts actually achieved any of those groups' goals? I can't think of any examples.
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  968. Re. Weather: In shanghai the longest heatwave ever ended today. Temps down to around 30 C and we got some rain. It's really quite comfortable to walk outside. In a few months it'll be cold and miserable.
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  969. Why are you ok with eating fruit, which contains the same chemical that eats through a Coke can? Citric acid.
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  970. Northern Zhejiang and Southern Jiangsu is the traditional silk producing region of China, but perhaps land is becoming too expensive to make silk production profitable.
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  971. If this becomes reality, then gamers will become the heroes of the future, remotely manning fighter drones.
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  972.  @jazeenharal6013  "gene editing to splice, add and remove segments of DNA code" is just an advanced, scientific way of selective breeding. There is zero reason to believe that GMO foods are more likely to be unhealthy/dangerous than varieties bred in a more traditional way. Both methods may end up with unwanted results, but those are weeded out. That's what the 'selective' in selective breeding means.
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  973. Wasn't it only 100 years? 1842-1949. Are you suggesting that China is still being humiliated under the leadership of the CPC?
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  974. I wonder if he is also that serious about ice-cream. "If it's too soft, it starts to drip, if it's too hard your tongue freezes. It has to feel like you're pleasuring your girlfriend, then you know it's right".
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  975. Very cool! I would love to do that, but unfortunately, foreigners are banned from traveling to Tibet by motorcycle, bicycle, driving a car, or on foot. Foreigners can still visit Tibet as part of a tour group by train or air, but Chamdo Prefecture (昌都) is completely closed to foreigners in any shape or form, so that means no Highway 318 for us. In fact, for those Chinese people who dislike seeing foreigners, Chamdo Prefecture is the perfect place.
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  976. Really? One single guy can embarrass his whole country? I don't think so.
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  977. I've thought about using this, but it's more expensive, and if you plan ahead, it doesn't really matter if your goods arrive in 2 weeks or 6 weeks, unless it's 'fast fashion' goods. Besides, the 2 weeks is from/to the terminus somewhere in Germany and in Hangzhou (or YiWu or LianYunGang). Then it has to go on another train or truck from/to the final destination. Ship is more convenient for me.
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  978. Nice architecture!
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  979. Perhaps a little too big to fit under the Christmas tree this year.
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  980. I don't think this is surprising at all. Shanghai is like NYC or Paris: There will always be a huge number of people who want nothing more than to be able to live in these cities. Even when the rest of the housing market is crashing, these metropolitan markets don't budge. During the sub prime mortgage crisis in the US in 2008, apartments in Manhattan kept their price. These big cities will be the last to fall.
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  981.  @dm4789  Yes, I noticed that. Lot of that stuff these days.
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  982.  @mirtokiriazanou766  You're welcome to continue the list here. Maybe there are some of your favorites we don't already know.
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  983. What? release of floodwaters from upstream Shenzhen? Why would that impact HK? At worst it might have a slight impact on the northern-most parts of New Territories, but other than that it'll just run into the sea.
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  984. @@jorgej8855 "who is behind International Atomic Energy Agency?" The United Nations, which is an inter-governmental organization set up, managed, and supported by almost all countries in the world.
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  985.  @thomaszhang3101  " when China ordered isolation for foreign tourists, it offered free hotel, services and meals,". That is not true. Visitors had to pay for quarantine rooms. In Shanghai it was RMB 300-500 per night. And there were other costs, of course, incl. special testing clinics. Overall, on average it cost around RMB 12,000 to enter China, not including flight or visa. It was troublesome for everybody, but we got through it. And now, it's almost over. A few more months from now it may be as simple to enter China as it was in 2019.
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  986. Most of the copper produced today is already being recycled. It's much cheaper to recycle copper than to produce new copper. If there's money in it, someone will find a way to do it. At the same time, new copper is produced because we consume more and more of it.
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  987. "we're being prepared". Do you let yourself be manipulated so easily? Why would you think that everybody else let themselves be easily manipulated?
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  988. Why do you care if the Americans tell you how to live? You don't have to pay attention to that. If your friend tells you how to live, you might listen respectfully, but you will still go on living the way YOU want.
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  989. Right now most of the G20 countries are involved in some way or other in the Ukraine War. Usually, they may have the capacity to help the rest of the world, but right now, they need to focus on their own problems.
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  990. Only if you're a non-smoker. We smokers don't mind the occasional smoke bomb. It's like a little extra spice.
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  991. Nepal is still in the process of repairing buildings from the last earthquake, and now this.
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  992. Not only is HK$ 3 for a Coca Cola cheaper than in Hong Kong, it's cheaper than almost everywhere else in China. In Shanghai you pay around CNY 3.50 (for 330 ml). This must be a special offer.
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  993.  @learnbycoding  I can read some, but not all. So here is an interpretation from someone else (taken from Baidu): 20世纪知名学者杨伯峻《孟子译注》的翻译是：“孟子说：‘不孝顺父母的事有三种，其中以没有子孙为最大。舜不禀告父母就娶妻，为的是怕没有子孙，因此君子认为他虽没有禀告，实际上同禀告了一样. 无子的结果是无孙，换个语词说“没有子孙”或“无子孙”，是继承赵岐说法。
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  994. I feel Hamas could learn a thing or two from Elon Musk.
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  995. Certainly, developing countries in East Asia are growing faster than the west, but the EU has grown its GDP by 18% over the last 10 years, and the US has grown 56% in the same period, so none of these economies are falling, just growing slowly.
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  996. I don't think it's the land price that makes it expensive. -It has be fished out of the sea -The fish need to be cleaned, gutted, and heads cut off -Hung up to dry by hand -Picked back down again -Pressed and packed -Finally, shipped to Lagos. The fishermen, cleaners, processors, handlers, truckers and shipping companies all need to be paid before it can even enter Nigeria.
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  997. Great to hear directly from Taiwan. We shouldn't be surprised that politics is guided by domestic issues, just like everywhere else. The international media has recently pounced on the defeat of Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin, considering she was such a young, pretty woman. Turns out the Finns don't really care about that either way, but are more concerned about public spending. What a surprise!
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  998. Ignorance breeds fear. That is the only reason you're so outraged.
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  999. 13:00 "One of the two investors who considered investing in our company fell asleep during my presentation. We didn't take their money". 😂😂😂
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  1000. Held accountable in what way? By paying fines? And how is keeping them accountable in, for example, North America and Europe, how is that going to help people living in water-scarce regions? You can't just transport all the water they need around the world. Water scarcity is largely a local problem, and is, to some extent, a locally created problem. So, a better reaction than to blame a few is to find solutions that help the many, as Singapore has done. And let's not forget that Singapore is among the '8 million top contributors'.
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  1001. Are you suggesting the Chinese government is not responsible to its citizens?
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  1002. I'm sure it's always a fine time to be a paleontologist, especially if you're in north-east China (for Cretaceous) or south-west china (for Cambrian)
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  1003. I was last in HK in Dec. 2019. Maybe another little trip will be in order.
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  1004. Sanxingdui just keeps on giving! It really is a 3-star Dui.
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  1005. These women should start an all-women ad agency where they can feel safe. It might be very successful.
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  1006.  @giffarysuwandi  My friend and I were on a bus from Dumai to Bukittinggi. Except around towns, it was all thick, dense, pure, undisturbed jungle. Two young Europeans, we had only ever seen unspoiled rainforest on TV. It was an awesome experience I will never forget.
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  1007. 2.28 million sqm of new housing supply for August is only about 25,000 apartments. That is a very low number, about a quarter of what they used to sell 5 years ago.
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  1008. While there may not be any good, comparative American companies, a good comparison would be Ørsted out of Denmark, which has a history of being state owned but now public, and which is also focused on wind power installation, not turbine manufacturing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rsted_(company) Incidentally, Ørsted has several off-shore wind projects ongoing in Taiwan.
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  1009. Wow, this new Macau looks a lot better now than I remember it. I was never into gambling anyway.
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  1010. Interesting theory, but we have to remember that by the time of this incident, the make-up of the new Politbureau had already been decided and the entire Central Committee likely had the names on paper. So Hu wouldn't have read anything that surprised him.
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  1011.  @中央山脈-c4i  Ok, perhaps I misunderstood you. You mention a 'deal'. What kind of deal, if not a deal about the future Central Committee? So far, you are hypothesizing. That's interesting, but it's not proof of anything. Personally, Hu looks very confused to me, like someone with dementia. I would say he is halfway between Joe Biden and an assisted care facility. Sad, though, as he is still relatively young, only 79. My dad is over 90 and still clear headed. Also note that Party elders are mostly there out of respect. Hu doesn't have any official position or membership of any political organ (apart from being a party member). If Jiang Zemin had been healthy enough, he would likely have attended, too.
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  1012.  @rudrakshsinghkatal5609  Wow, I keep learning new things. Hey, could we buy some artillery shells from you to pass on to Ukraine?
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  1013. What China always likes to say: "It took America 48 years to develop the first commercial jet (from Wright brothers in 1903 to De Havilland Comet in 1951), but it only took China 15 years. This proves China is superior to America".
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  1014. This is the first I hear of foreign countries imposing import restrictions on Chinese seafood for environmental reasons. Does anyone know which country/countries this is in reference to? EU? US? Japan?
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  1015. Most of the aerial footage is from the small, very charming, but also very touristy town of Yangshuo (10 miles or so from the burst dam). Very much worth a visit, and usually not flooded.
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  1016.  @manimalworks7424  I highly doubt it can tell me what brand or type of bicycle someone riding (unless it takes a photo of the logo/brand and just uses text recognition).
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  1017.  @danielo9902  What do you mean by 'how little time'. If you start at the Qin Dynasty, it took them over 2200 years. When do you start counting? If you start counting from the time China first entered space exploration and sent up it's first satellite, that was in 1970, 54 years ago. They launched their first space station in 2011, after 41 years. Is that a 'little time'?
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  1018.  @wonderlandparty6054  I think you're confusing scientists for activists. While there may be some doctors/biologists who make claims about sex/gender, most scientists have little to no interest in that debate at all, mostly because it's not really science.
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  1019. Your hypothesis is highly unlikely. Sanxingdui is from around 3000 BC, but Asians crossed the Bering strait around 13,000 BC. It would be almost impossible to preserve a particular artistic/religious language for 10,000 years without major change. Any similarity seems to be only coincidental.
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  1020. Average cost of high speed rail projects in different parts of the world: -China: US$ 30 million/km -Europe: US$ 40 million/km -Jakarta-Bandung high speed rail: US$ 51 million/km
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  1021. -Mr. President, get the Phuc out!
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  1022. I love these deep dive explanatory videos you make. Great job!
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  1023. 'They destroyed my land and didn't even give me a nickel'.
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  1024. It's not 'westernized', it's 'modernized'.
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  1025.  @ZenonENTX  "he is preparing MYR 100 million to be sent to Palestine". Ok, so he is doing something. If it happens, I take back my words.
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  1026.  @skydragon23101979  It's just based on young people coming up minus old people dying, adjusted for rural-urban migration.
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  1027.  @MMA-gb6to  See everybody! Here's one of them. He's so happy! 😂🤣😋
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  1028. Who are China's enemies? Which countries are currently banned from buying Chinese drones?
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  1029. "A global order where all countries....only buy goods from American companies?" The alternatives to Huawei networks are not American. They are Swedish (Ericsson) and Finnish (Nokia).
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  1030. In what way? Just this year alone, SpaceX has had 54 successful launches.
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  1031. That was not my take-away from the video. But as an Indian, you are perhaps especially sensitive to what is being said about your country. Better take off the overly patriotic glasses and face reality: India is improving, but you're not quite there yet. I think you will get there, though, it will just take some time; 5 years, 10 years, 15.....
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  1032.  @yuhyi0122  Read it again: It doesn't matter where you're from, if you are the one doing it, it is 'maintaining peace and stability'.
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  1033. That gate is not old, but was put up in the 80s for tourists.
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  1034.  @Quanic2000  "it's "fake news" right?" Not fake, but not as big a deal as it's made out to be.
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  1035. And they come to profit, of course. But to profit, you must first invest, so developing an administration and building infrastructure can help to increase future profits. Once the colonizers leave, you have lost some money, but gained the tools of development. Note: None of the above is a justification for colonization, of course.
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  1036.  @Guizambaldi  "I don't think USSR leaders were as irrational as Putin." I don't think Putin is irrational. He is guided by the pursuit of power and prestige (for him and his country), like everybody else. He's made mistakes, and I hope Ukraine will turn out to be the biggest mistake he's ever made.
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  1037. "Japanese loan interest is too high making Sri Lanka what it is now" According to the Sri Lanka government, Japan has consistently provided the lowest interest rate on loans of any country or bank. Some Japanese loans have interest rates as low as 0.05%. Chinese Belt and Road loans are typically provided at market rates: 5-8% "Asian Development Bank(owned by Japanese)" The Asian Development Bank is less than 16% owned by Japan. China owns 6% of the Asian Development Bank. You are ill informed.
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  1038. We (the people of earth) are not going to stop releasing CO2 into the air for at least the next 50 years. We are going to have to live with the consequences until we can 'turn the tide'. Perhaps the Dutch can teach us a thing or two about living below sea level.
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  1039.  @CeeKeef  These people fight out of necessity? "It was necessary for us to abduct and kill some people in order to make money." What society will accept that explanation?
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  1040.  @chantow8657  Yes, I understand the difference. Nuclear sites all over the world – including the UK, US, China and South Korea, discharge diluted wastewater to seas, rivers and lakes. This has been going on for decades without significant impacts. For example, Qinshan nuclear plant released 143 terabecquerels in liquid form alone in 2020. Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province released about 52 terabecquerels in 2020. Radiation doses from this are very low and there is no evidence of significant ecosystem impacts. The planned release from Fukushima of 22 Terabecqurels per year to the Pacific Ocean is much lower than from these plants (I chose Chinese plants because I think you might be Chinese, but nuclear plants in western countries do the exact same thing).
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  1041. A lot of people still feel government bonds and government-associated bonds are a very safe investment. They sincerely believe the government will hold up their end of the bargain and they don't have much better places to put their money. However, I would not be surprised if many of those bonds are also being bought by State-Owned Enterprises who get told to support the system.
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  1042. It's not just the US. In western culture it is normal and expected to criticize others in public. That is why you see all those vicious debates on TV. In East Asian culture, people prefer to 'keep the harmony' in society, in other words, don't create strife and discord, but keep your opinions to yourself. That's basically all there is to it.
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  1043. "Do not help a villain do evil". Maybe Macron will tell China the same about Russia when he visits China soon. After all, what is more evil: Invading a country, or limiting exports of high-tech products?
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  1044. In Washington DC massive shitstorm.
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  1045.  @EyreEver  You don't really know that, but you believe it.
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  1046. China had 64 launches in 2022, 62 of which were successful. It's a lot. SpaceX launched 61 rockets in 2022, all of which were successful, also a lot. SpaceX and China combined launched 70% of all successful rockets in 2022. Russia 22. EU 4. India 4.
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  1047. Australia is a country almost as big as China, but with only 25 million people. High-speed rail would never pay for itself there. Much better and cheaper to use air and road.
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  1048. Yes, I also noticed the People's Daily didn't claim that the foreign media was factually wrong. Sometimes China's media sounds most like a high school 'mean girl'.
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  1049.  @hazeemiskandar  Actually, Israel has NOT recognized Palestine as a country, nor has most other countries. Perhaps they can make a deal: Palestinians recognize Israel, and Israel recognize Palestine.
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  1050. I know a couple whose relationship had turned really bad due to mistrust, disloyalty, and lack of communication. I offered them a 'lasting solution' to their conflict: 1: Shelve your differences 2: Shake hands 3: Live in harmony and love to the end of your days. But for some reason, that didn't work.
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  1051. It's a British bank, not Chinese.
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  1052. "Being told to go back, it happens to us all the time". What does she mean by all the time? I asked three of my Chinese-American friends, only one of them had experienced this once over a 20-year period. Not exactly 'all the time'. During my 20 years in China, I have experienced this twice, I've been called 'white skin trash', I've been threatened with violence. It's not a big deal, most Chinese people, and Canadian people, and American people are very nice, very friendly, very polite. Only a tiny, tiny minority will say these hateful things. Certainly, it hasn't made me think Chinese people are particularly racist.
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  1053. Actually, excess heat from nuclear power stations has been used for heating homes in Europe since the 1980s. It's not new over there.
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  1054. So almost like Scientology.
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  1055. Please make a video about the wedding dinner menu. That is the part I am most interested in.
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  1056. For China to reach the US GDP by 2035, it would need an average annual growth of around 4.2%. This may be achievable over the next 3-5 years, but beyond that I am very skeptical. But then again, I've been wrong before. I used to think China would keep growing 7-8%/year well into the 2030s.
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  1057. Unlikely. People buy property where they can afford it and where it makes most economic sense, i.e. the potential for value growth. Last year's drought was bad for agriculture, but city people weren't really affected, at least not long term.
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  1058.  @youxkio  Try the new McOxy, a delicious breath of fresh air with special sauce.
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  1059. This video is not about how Phoenix "is Innovating to Survive", but about all the problems they have right now. Maybe they should have waited 10 years before using that title.
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  1060. Zimbabwean brandy, does that even exist?
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  1061. "Pulled him out in time". The video clearly shows that he was basically out by the time they came over to him.
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  1062.  @antoniette2910  I doubt there'll be more than one volume, maybe it'll just be a pamphlet.
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  1063. The reason it takes so long to make these subs is that for each sub, they first have to bake a 200-foot long bread, then thinly slice 30 full size hams, slice 60 salamis, 80 onions and 150 tomatoes. Then comes all that lettuce, mayo and hot mustard. It's a big project, folks!
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  1064. Thanks for your interest, but being in lock-down, I have no other information than what I see on social media or online. I can't go out and survey the situation (though that seems to be changing very soon). Food has been a problem, but I don't think anybody is starving. Yes, I've not been able to eat as much as I wanted, but I have enough caloric input to stay alive. Money is not a problem for most people, the problem is finding a way to spend it, i.e. getting your purchases to your door. However, many small businesses are suffering and I think many will go bankrupt. A small business cannot sustain two months without any revenue at all.
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  1065. "tax cuts for the richest Danes". Rather, it's a tax cut for the working class and the lower and upper middle class, and a tax increase for the richest 0.3% of income earners. The biggest winners are the upper middle class making US$ 107,000 (DKK 750,000) who will get 1.6% more in take home pay.
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  1066.  @liuweichenytps5358  "Could you explain? " The commenter has inside knowledge about the life philosophies and religious beliefs and practices of the deceased, he knows they all are wealthy, and that they are deluded. Of course I'm joking about the commenter being implicated in this crime, but the joke is also meant as a critique of people who claim to know things when they actually just imagine them.
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  1067. "Sure, they abducted people, and held them hostage, but at least they treat their hostages well". What kind of argument is that? "My home was broken into and everything of value stolen, but the thieves washed the dishes and vacuumed the floor before they left" "A pick-pocket stole my phone on the metro, but he left a note saying 'sorry for the inconvenience'". These are nonsensical arguments.
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  1068. Economic mismanagement is rarely popular.
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  1069. Like an old man on Viagra, they finally got it up.
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  1070. So, in your culture it seems rude to discuss your weight, but in their culture it is normal. I'd like to hear your argument for why discussing your weight is objectively wrong.
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  1071.  @DC-qn4wz  India may not develop as fast as China, and of course, no one can really know how India will develop in the future. But I think it will see an average of 6-7% growth annually over the next 15-20 years. Clearly, you disagree. Time will tell.
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  1072.  @雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu  Don't you find it strange this only happens to Chinese tourists? Never Europeans. Why is that? You need to ask yourself a lot of questions.
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  1073. Doesn't the same apply for any person who sells things or services, including shop owners, restaurant owners, auto shop owners, lawn care workers, roofers, dentists? Just because their job is to sell doesn't mean they don't contribute to the local economy.
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  1074.  @joshuanelson4559  That stinks! I hope you get better.
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  1075. 0:44 It seems the map here mistakenly included Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as part of China's national territory. Probably a software glitch. Same with the map at 3:33.
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  1076. It shouldn't so surprising. From raw rattan to finished product it goes through many steps and through many hands, all of which add cost to the finished product. Think of a loaf of bread. A US farmer grows and harvests the wheat. The wheat then has to get cleaned, husked, milled, transported, mixed, kneaded, baked and sent to the bakery counter, where shop assistants take your order. Every step has workers that need to get paid and machines that use electricity, need maintenance and eventually replacement. It all adds up to the $6-8 you pay. The farmer gets about 8 cents of that loaf.
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  1077. fuled? Fueled? Fooled?
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  1078. China Tianrui Group was a bit of a special case: 70% of shares owned by one family (the original owners), murky lending and investment deals, lots of bad signs. And in the grand scheme, it's a relatively small company in the cement sector. They were the penny stocks of cement.
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  1079. I'm sure it doesn't matter what he does, and you will still express great approval of his actions.
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  1080.  @shutup51916  The difference is irrelevant. Countries act in their own best interests. It's not important who is 'right' and who is 'wrong'. Making moral arguments are of no use in international relations.
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  1081.  @godzillamothra5983  And that works both ways. Every country will posit that their own action is completely reasonable and justified because countries do what is in their own interest.
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  1082. "you can imagine what happens to the crew" A Black Russian?
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  1083.  @pinklady7184  Your comment is irrelevant because the issue of teaching about mass and gravity is unrelated to nationality, ethnicity or economic development.
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  1084. There are still around 17 million people turning 28 every year. Many of those are newly married and will need a home. So there will still be some apartment sales going forward, just not as many as before. I would estimate 4 million new apartments per year are needed in the 2020s and 30s, compared to 10 million sold every year in the 2010s. By around 2045, there will be more urban homes going on the second hand market than young people coming of age to pick them up. By then, around 80% of China's urban housing stock will be less than 60 years old (rural housing is not counted as part of the real estate market in China).
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  1085. The mercantilist trade and economic policy China seems to operate under is not unique in the world. For smaller economies like S. Korea, it can make sense without drawing the ire of trade partners, but for a huge economy like China, this kind of policy can only last for so long. Eventually, all the world's customers buy Chinese goods and then there are no more people to sell to. Or to put it differently, every Korean person has about 160 potential customers around the world, but every Chinese person only has 6. Something's gotta give.
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  1086. That's overly optimistic. With a GDP/capita about half that of Thailand, Indonesia would need annual growth 7 percentage points higher than Thailand to surpass Thailand in one decade. That is bordering on impossible, but we can certainly hope for good growth and improved living standards for Indonesians.
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  1087.  @AsiaSkylineChannel  ...and below Malaysia. I was not familiar with the Legatum Index. It looks like Indonesia is doing very well. It's been many years since I was in Indonesia, so I guess it must a made huge improvements since I was there. I'd like to visit again. Coincidentally, the Legatum Index puts my country at number 1, so that's very nice. We're also the only non-Asian country that can compete with Asia in badminton.
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  1088.  @pogogod6036  "you don't know that the term actually have a meaning?" Colonialism: 'the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.' Neo-colonialism: 'the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies.' Any other questions?
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  1089.  @someonespotatohmm9513  I'm not talking about "care about the ppl". I'm talking about growing the economy. If you can grow the economy, people will take care of ourselves. We are pretty good at that, as long as we can get a job and make some money.
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  1090. ​ @ToiChutGongWu  ​ And ToiChutGongWu will claim there are Sinophobic bots in this thread, even though there aren't any.
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  1091. This was one of the bigger ones, by the looks of it. We had a really big one in Shanghai back in 2015, if I remember correctly, but that was not as damaging as the one in the video.
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  1092. While from our point of view it may seem logical for Russia and China to make a joint space station, from their point of view, I don't think so. Despite all the rhetoric about 'unlimited relationship', these two nations don't trust each other.
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  1093.  @ZweiZwolf  Indians seems to be doing quite well in the US. On average, they have higher incomes than Chinese Americans, and you see lots of them at the top of the world's biggest corporations: Google, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Micron, Mastercard, Pepsico, and others. So I don't think Indian students/immigrants are a negative for the US.
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  1094. Local elections: City governments, county governments. But the local elections are often seen as an indicator of upcoming national elections. Time will tell.
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  1095. Pen your cattle, pen your goats! Don't let them run wild but bring the fodder to them instead. While climate change may have had some impact on their situation, human destruction of the local environment by over use is the biggest reason for this degradation in large parts of Africa. Fortunately, we're seeing more and more examples of land restoration, so that's good.
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  1096.  @irritatedanglosaxon1705  RnB is a Black American development, not an African one.
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  1097. Australia and Tuvalu have already signed an agreement to let all Tuvalu citizens move to Australia, if they want to.
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  1098.  @anakborneo8459  Sure, but if the fish show no sign of elevated radiation levels, they should be safe to eat for now, right? After all, if you eat a fish today that was caught yesterday, it doesn't matter what future fish are like, because the fish is no longer in the sea.
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  1099. That's exactly what China has been saying for 8 years that they will do. This is part of the reason for the decoupling/de-risking, to save ourselves.
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  1100.  @whatwhat3432523  Not improve yourself. Improve your living standard. Those are two different things. Up until 30 years ago, people lived perfectly happily without computers and mobile phones. You can do this, too, but you choose to spend money on these things because they improve your life. It doesn't take much thought to understand that.
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  1101.  @askinc102  "getting your Schengen Visa is too much of an headache." Yeah, that used to be the case for Chinese, too. Then, as their economy grew and they became richer, it became much easier. Give it 5-10 years and it may become quite easy to get a Schengen visa. Also, expect people from places like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru to get preferential treatment. If you're from the Uttar Pradesh countryside, you're out of luck.
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  1102. In my understanding, China's nuclear power stations are quite modern, but not the future types people talk about so much online, like sodium or mini-plants. Some of their technology was acquired from France's Areva, others from Westinghouse. Wikipedia has a good introduction to China's nuclear industry: 'Nuclear power in China'.
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  1103. Wonderful! Perhaps, as the rural population of Southern Yunnan decreases, the government can take back some of the land and repurpose it for an even larger reserve; maybe one that connects with elephant populations in neighboring Laos and Myanmar so the species can enrich their DNA and continue to thrive.
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  1104. There is not a single French colony in Africa. If there is, can you name it (or them)? To my knowledge, all African countries are independent nations. Their cooperation with France is voluntary. If they no longer want to cooperate with France, it is very easy to cancel any agreement they have.
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  1105. Over the next 5-7 years, most European NATO members should have reached the 2% of GDP defense expenditure lower limit. Hopefully, that will help to boost our capabilities to a reasonable level. In monetary terms, it would bring European defense spending up to around $400 billion. In the longer term, we should probably increase that to $5-600 billion. This year, Russia aims to spend around $60 billion, almost triple what they budgeted last year, and about 3.4% of GDP.
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  1106. Looks like Russian forces are advancing slowly, day by day. That's a worrying trend. Hopefully, they're taking some damage and progressively being pushed to a halt. As a European, I wish we would send more arms/materiel, but I'm frankly not sure we have the capacity to make it fast enough. I hope this will be a lesson for Europe. We MUST be able to defend ourselves with more force, preferably with overwhelming force. We must awaken from our decades-long slumber and start investing more in our collective defense.
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  1107.  @张恒-b3i  老挝当然近，但是离中国东海岸很远。从北京坐火车到老挝要20多小时。
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  1108. I'm in Puxi, too. A kind of apathetic acceptance seems to have set in, but I'm entertaining thoughts of all Shanghai residents suddenly deciding enough is enough and all just leave their compounds simultaneously.
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  1109. I don't think Tucker Carlson is stupid, nor does he necessarily like Putin, but he knows what his core audience want to hear, and he gives it to them. After all, he runs his own media company now, and he needs to make money. People should view him more like a marketing effort for his own business. It's very similar to Alex Jones, except that the views expressed are different (of degree, at least). There's a very particular narrative being pushed, rather than an attempt to explain the news / the world. This probably happens a lot on the progressive side, too. It's just that Tucker Carlson is better at what he does than many others.
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  1110. I live here and I like the drone footage backdrop. I recognize most of it, but some I don't. I see enough of "dirty shops w old apartments" on a daily basis.
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  1111. Yes, this incident is definitely America's fault. :text-green-game-over:
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  1112. According to Reuters, China expects to see a 2.5% negative growth in steel prod. this year, so from 1.018 billion tons last year to around 0.993 billion tons this year.
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  1113. Advice for everybody: When road conditions are snowy and icy, never go faster than 50 km/h, even if the road ahead is straight and looks free of traffic.
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  1114. The Vietnam War was not 'the West', it was only the US. The Korean War was South Korea joined by the West, against North Korea joined by China. Everybody is pretty equal in that war.
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  1115. Tesla model 3 is not for average people. It's for people who can afford it.
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  1116. Based on what data? It's easy to throw a number out there, much harder to back it up with facts.
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  1117. Eye Em Pee Ess, it's good to pay with the Eye Em Pee E-esss. Bhim Bhim Bhim Bhim, Bhim Bhim Bhim Bhim.
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  1118. e-Sports: The only Olympic discipline where a fat, lazy person can sit in a soft reclining chair throughout the competition, and still win an Olympic gold medal.
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  1119. -The woman featured says she's making "4-5-6 dollars over minimum wage". Minimum wage in Alabama is $7.25 so she makes between $11.25 and $13.25/hour. Working 40 hours a week, that will average out around $490/week, or about $2100/month. - A quick search shows lots of apartments in Huntsville, AL for under $800/month. Some as low as $550.- So housing would cost her 1/4 to 1/3 of her monthly salary. Isn't that pretty normal? Her situation is almost identical to mine in terms of salary and cost. But I've never been without a place to live. Mind you, where I am, there are no homeless shelters, so I'd literally be on the street and sleeping on the street is illegal, so that wouldn't work.
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  1120.  @kevinlin4895  I don't live in NYC, I live in Shanghai, China. I know the crime statistics of the US, homicide stats, etc. I am aware that are a lot of homicides. But still, my American friends don't live in dangerous neighborhoods. Even my friend in Queens never feels afraid, and she's Chinese-American.
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  1121. 4:12 "But with fewer nomadic herders to move the animals, the land now has less time to grow". In itself that sentence doesn't make sense, as it makes the assumption that animals need more people to help them move. Clearly that is not the case, as animals in the wild have no problems moving long distances without the assistance of humans. Rather, the real reason for 'the land now has less time to grow', or more accurately, the loss of grasslands, is directly related to the environmental pressure from increased herds. According the the UN Development Programme, animal herds have doubled in size over the last 30 years, putting immense pressure on the land. There are simply more animals than the land can sustain, and this leads to overgrazing and desertification as a result. As marginal lands become deserts, the herders move to more fertile areas, putting even more pressure on them, creating a destructive cycle. The solution to this is a combination of changing lifestyle by moving to urban areas, and a change in the practice of herding. Animals need to be penned (for most of the year) and the food brought to them, rather than the other way around. Only this way can the land stay productive. For this to happen, some form of mechanization if probably necessary, harvesting the grass and storing it for later use as animal feed.
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  1122. Stop intra-Asian Hate!
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  1123. Most of a wind turbine is made of metals, all of which can easily be recycled/re-smelted. The blades are made of glass fiber / carbon fiber / balsawood. Like all composite materials, those are harder to recycle. A dizzying array of industrial products are made of composite materials and have been for decades. Traditionally, those materials have been ground down and used as filler in road beds or other places where filler is needed. There is no evidence that wind turbines present a bigger waste problem than any other industrial product.
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  1124. SpaceX booster is released high above the atmosphere. If it was allowed to just fall back to earth with a parachute, it would burn up. The Chinese boosters are released at quite low altitude, so they won't burn up.
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  1125. Imagine we had tribes living in the European forests, their lives depending on picking wild mushrooms or wild berries and selling them to city people. What a wild thought!
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  1126.  @GoToMan  I hope your government can make it easier to do business, both for foreign investment, but certainly also for Indian entrepreneurship. There must be millions of Indians with good ideas ready to help get India's economy up to high speed.
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  1127. Latest news re. Global Times, from SCMP: Hu Xijin will retire immediately as editor-in-chief, but will continue to write the occasional opinion piece. Global Times is largely his creation, so this is a big deal. No indication he has been forced to retire, though. I think he's 64.
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  1128. Never happened.
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  1129. Panda: Although it is fun to see how the panda meticulously peels off the bark of each bamboo stalk, there is still something very odd about an animal that has chosen to always eat only one kind of plant, and a hard, fibrous one at that. Why not try a cucumber or an apple every now and then.
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  1130. China, of course, has a lot of military hardware, but they probably couldn't supply Russia with the thing Russia needs most: Artillery shells. Back in the 90s, China decided to switch from the old Soviet/Russia caliber of 152 mm to the NATO caliber 155 mm.
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  1131. A heroic effort! These Sherpas are amazing.
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  1132. I was going to write a joke about American Karens, but I see I'm much too late.
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  1133. It's a little outdated, by about 10-15 years, but it's their first effort, so one can assume they'll be more up-to-date with the next model. Perhaps they'll call it the C919neo.
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  1134.  @pwelele  Well, we all have to start somewhere. Designing and building a civil aircraft is extremely complicated, which is why so few companies/countries have managed to do it.
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  1135. Wow, I did not expect Beijingers to be so cool. Is it possible we have some catching up to do in Shanghai?
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  1136.  @inception6657  Yes, I'm familiar with him, but I'm of the opinion that even trolls can explain themselves, and sometimes they can even have a real conversation.
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  1137.  @chihirostargazer6573  Just for clarification, where is the limit between 'labor utilization' and 'labor exploitation'?
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  1138. That's one of the better road accidents on YouTube.
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  1139. This is the perfect comment for a video that is about questionable financial and business practices.
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  1140.  @marcussver620  Most smart phones can use Galileo for positioning. In fact, most smart phones have chips that include the use of GPS, Beidou, Glonass, and Galileo. More systems = better accuracy.
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  1141. We don't actually know what will happen when a country's population sinks to half or less than what it currently is. The only times this has happened before is during particularly bad wars and during particularly bad epidemics. The Black Plague almost halved Europe's population over a 10 year period in the 14th century. Some people claim this generated the beginnings of modern values like human rights and democratic rule, but that's hard to prove. In the case of the slow decline we now see in East Asia, will there come a time when people suddenly start to have more children again? Perhaps when there are so few people that everyone can own a large piece of land for very little money. That might make food very abundant and almost free, so people no longer need to work, and they'll want to have lots of babies again. It's impossible to predict.
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  1142.  @meagancarmichael3892  Money is not the problem and there's nothing you can do, but thanks for asking. There's plenty of food but we can't get to it. The problem is getting food and necessities from shops to our community. Imagine walking around a full supermarket, but you have no arms. That's basically our situation.
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  1143. "If I can't make more money by working harder, why should I work hard at all"?
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  1144. That matches pretty well with what I see here in Shanghai, but I think the EV share here is closer to 35%. Tesla is very popular, but so are NIO, X-Peng, Li Auto and BYD. I feel BYD still has a 'low cost' image, a little bit 土 compared to the others. This is in large part due to the unexciting designs.
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  1145.  @yogadarmawan3051  "Why russia not facing super ageing like japan?" There are a number of reasons: Russia's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is around 1.5, which is not terribly high or low. But Russia has problems with severe alcoholism and many people die before they grow old. That, in a way keeps the population young.
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  1146. Remember this: If you're Asian in the US and you would like to be a lawyer or a doctor, according to Margaret Cho, you're really trying to be white.
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  1147. It's a great starter-project for the casual hobbyist.
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  1148. This war will continue for a long time. Russia still has large amounts of ground equipment, incl. thousands of tanks, IFVs, APCs, and self-propelled artillery. But for as long as Ukraine wants to defend their country, I want us to continue to supply them with weapons, until they have liberated their country. Even if it means we have to adjust part of our industrial base to produce arms in greater and greater numbers. A 2-3 year economic recession in Europe is nothing compared to the suffering the Ukrainians are going through.
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  1149. And those employees who already own an iPhone may very well demand that their employer pay for a different brand. The Chinese are pretty good at arguing their own case, especially when it comes to money.
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  1150. Given her girth, isn't it more 'like father like daughter'?
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  1151.  @JeZZGro  "Russia helped my country......USA bombed my country" So you could be from, let's see.... -Vietnam, Laos -Syria, Iraq, perhaps Yemen? -Or maybe Serbia? I'll say the most likely candidates are Vietnam, Syria, Serbia.
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  1152. Nice background music.
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  1153. I don't think that is a correct understanding of Communism's relationship with religion. Marxism (and by extension, Communism) have 'materialism' at their foundation. Marx and Mao wrote about this extensively. Materialism stands in opposition to, and excludes, spiritualism, which includes all religions and faiths. According to Marxist thought, religion prevents people from taking a materialist view of life, and it also has the unfortunate effect of diverting people's loyalty from the Party to the religion. That is why a Communist state MUST take a hostile position toward religion, in order to preserve itself.
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  1154. Yes, those of us who live in Western and Northern Europe have some difficulty understanding where Central Europe ends and Eastern Europe begins. I will admit (as a middle aged guy who remembers the cold war clearly) that to me, everything east of Germany is 'The East'. Nevertheless, I'm so happy we're all together now in Europe. It's just a great feeling.
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  1155. That's what we call 'Picking quarrels and provoking trouble 寻衅滋事'. An arrestable offence, punishable by up to 4 years in prison.
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  1156.  @davidtuer5825  I started this thread, so I respond to everybody who respond to me. I feel that's the polite thing to do. All I stated early on is that the actual monetary value of a company is reflected in the share price. The two co-founders interviewed have seen the value of their share of Tesla go up many-fold since the interview was taped. It might go down later. It's really not more complicated than that. And let's try to discuss without insulting each other. Insults are not arguments and they do not further the conversation.
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  1157. Not only is it beautiful, but North China also has central heating so they never feel cold indoors. Down here we freeze all winter.
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  1158. Well, a quick calculation shows that 225 solar farms, each able to provide electricity to 1.1 million homes, means enough electricity generation to power a total of 248 million homes = approximately 750 million people or about 60% percent of the population.
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  1159. Re. Fewer marriages: We shouldn't forget that one of the reasons for fewer marriages is that there are simply fewer women in the prime wedding age, 23-29. There are only a total of 64 million in that group, or ave. of 8 mill/year. Just 5 years ago, there were an average of 10-11 mill/year.
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  1160.  @justinjames__423  No, you're being hysterical, you have no evidence of wrongdoing, you have no evidence of Japan polluting the ocean beyond safe limits. You only have belief without evidence, and you have anger and resentment.
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  1161.  @pensacola2015  "it's common to use percentages that exceed 100% to denote significant growth". But not when you're talking about proportions, which is what the poster does. I'll give you an example: You can be 90% correct, which means you're also 10% incorrect. You can be 100% correct, which means you're 0% incorrect. But the counting ends there. It cannot go above 100%.
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  1162.  @backpackpepelon3867  "True power really came out of the long rifle" Isn't that a Mao quote? "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Mao Zedong, August 7, 1927. And again in 1938: "Communists do not fight for personal military power, ....but they must fight for military power for the Party, for military power for the people.... Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party". (edited for brevity).
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  1163.  @mukwanatimothy6426  By your standard, animal feed is also 'human consumption' because we end up eating the animals that ate the grain. You know very well what I mean.
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  1164. The games are way out in the mountains. Surely the air is better out there. Additionally, athletes can't even go to the city since they have stay in 'the bubble'.
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  1165.  @oliviolanza1933  At risk of what? Over eating?
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  1166. Haha, that's a cold-blooded comment. Now more of you are in the EU, you can direct your anger and hatred toward Brussels, so you can all agree on who to hate. That's how we get peace.
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  1167. It seems odd that people living in a mountain valley, surrounded by glaciers, are still surprised that the river sometimes runs over with glacial water. Shouldn't they be the first to understand that?
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  1168.  @Tazdingo01  They can probably get Belarus, North Korea, Armenia, Serbia. I doubt many others would want to join.
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  1169. It would appear that The Philippines doesn't have a proper trash collecting system in place, leading people to just throw waste in rivers and canals.
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  1170. They would have to develop their own nuclear weapons.
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  1171. Re. FDI, it should not be surprising that there continues to be some healthy FDI into China as some of it will just be existing companies 're-tooling'. Eg. VW and GM in Shanghai are both getting heavily into electric vehicles and they need to re-tool some assembly lines and perhaps even build new factories for electric motors, etc. That is all just part of keeping up with consumer demand. You buy a new machine for the factory floor? That is also FDI.
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  1172.  @barbadolid5170  Haha, good one!
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  1173. Great to see Matt Taibbi back as 'guest host'. His choice of topics, and his take on them is a few levels over what Katie and Aaron usually dish up, in my opinion.
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  1174. Yes, it's silly, but pretty harmless.
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  1175. @Adam That will be up to our citizens to prevent. We're quite good at that.
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  1176.  @stvdmc2011  Doesn't matter who buys Australian products, as long as someone does. If not China, then someone else. And besides, Australia was already a rich, prosperous society in the 80s, long before China could afford a bowl of rice.
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  1177.  @leonortenorio6604  Only because they don't have enough of those minerals themselves. If they did, they wouldn't buy them elsewhere. China is essentially following a mercantilist trade policy: -Restricting the export of their currency (i.e. buying foreign currency freely). -Subsidies on exports. -Promoting manufacturing and industry through research or direct subsidies. -Limiting wages. -Maximizing the use of domestic resources. -Restricting domestic consumption through non-tariff barriers to trade.
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  1178. How is a Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and North Korea taking part in this aggression, how is this 'western hegemony'?
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  1179. Between 1995 and 2015 big Chinese cities were pretty much like this, but now the air is much, much better. It seems like every developing country has to go through a period like this before they come out on the other side.
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  1180. " I have complete confidence that if he were still the Pakistan PM, this wouldn't have gone as easy as it did". How can a prime minister of Pakistan prevent a person on the other side of the world from burning a book? Or a prime minister from any country? You think he has some magical 'book protection button' on his desk?
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  1181. There was no boycott of any of those sports events.
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  1182. I can't say I understand it completely, either, but isn't the difference that during WW2, the US had huge capacity for building various arms? They were already at war and were churning out weapons like hamburgers. Now, on the other hand, even with the same kind of deal, the US don't have the industrial capacity to ramp up weapons production so suddenly. So Lend Lease or not, if there is not equipment, there's also none to send. As the video quotes someone: "The West moves slowly, but in the long run, we have the ability to out-produce anyone, it just takes time". Time, meaning years. Europe comes unprepared because we have just lived through the longest period of unbroken peace in the last 600 years.
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  1183. In order to get the full benefit from this video, I feel like I probably should have read the bible. This is more complicated than someone trying to explain the storyline of Game of Thrones.
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  1184. There's nothing unhealthy about oil or fat, as long as you don't eat too much of it.
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  1185. I agree, and I think the media and politicians make way too much of this, regardless of which party is in power. It wouldn't matter if Yellen had literally kow-towed. In the end, it's the policy actions of the US that matter, not whether something 'looks bad'.
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  1186. As an 'ordinary citizen' of Europe and the EU, I strongly support keeping sanctions in place, and maybe even strengthening them; continuing to support Ukraine with weapons; continuing to increase our defense spending to at least 2% of GDP; continuing to put pressure on Russia. As an 'ordinary European', I'm done with Russia, for at least a decade and possibly longer. I don't want to trade with them, I don't want to engage in cultural exchange with them, I don't want to talk to them. However, I welcome ordinary Russians into Europe to live and work here, if they're qualified. As for energy, I'm willing to sacrifice for the Ukrainian liberation struggle. We'll put on some warm clothes, we'll cycle to work. We will get through this, and we will win!
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  1187. A-shares in the Chinese context is a type of share only tradable by Chinese citizens and only traded on the mainland exchanges. B-shares are open to both foreign and domestic investors. A-shares tend to be mostly large state owned corporations. There are also H-shares. Those are Chinese mainland corporations traded on the Hong Kong exchange. Those are open to everyone.
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  1188.  @MeiinUK  China DOES have plenty of ice cream. Apart from popular international brands like Magnum, China has it's own brands: MengNiu (蒙牛), GuangMing (光明), YiLi (伊利), so you're really behind the curve in this respect. Ice cream is much loved in China. And yes, you should be picky about your Chinese food. Don't let those restaurants 'westernize' their food too much. Genuine Chinese food is much better than the slop that is often served in Chinese restaurants in Europe. Re. blocked websites: YT, Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and basically all other foreign social media sites are blocked in China. However, many Chinese people use VPNs, even though it's not allowed. In fact, no VPNs may be hosted on Chinese app stores, so people get them surreptitiously.
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  1189.  @tabinekoman  I live in the city and mostly ride my bicycle.
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  1190. Adam M: Apparently, it's mostly hair from Chinese and Indians.
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  1191. hawk0485: Any Swedish and Norwegian war refugees are welcome in Denmark. We have good beer and delicious hot dogs. Just be prepared to endure non-stop jokes about your respective countries.
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  1192. For people in deep debt, this may be what it feels like.
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  1193. When was this supposed to have happened?
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  1194. Wonderful puns in this report: 'the program has been swatted', 'buzz-worthy initiative'
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  1195.  @sayamalu2495  "Puxi starts from 1st April." Really? All of it? God, I don't want to go through another lock-down.
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  1196. Can you provide any evidence of this claim? Any evidence at all?
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  1197.  @deanfirnatine7814  How is that relevant?
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  1198.  @ziye1182  Ok, makes sense. I'm noticing here in Shanghai that many restaurants and shops have reduced hours and staff. It's just that personally, I feel completely healthy, so it's hard for me to grasp that so many are getting sick. Well, I'm sure it'll come for me soon. Better stock up on chicken soup.
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  1199. Not to be confused with Huan Zhu Ge Ge.
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  1200. The channel has made clear many times that these sensationalist titles are necessary to drive growth of the channel. You should ignore the titles and just watch the channel for the content. And the channel never actually says it is 'the end'.
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  1201. Jeffrey Sachs: More free money for Africa, free money, free money, free money!
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  1202. Solar powered cars, each followed by several gas team cars. It's like going vegan by buying up all the meat at the supermarket.
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  1203.  @gadgetgasspoll  Perhaps if there were fewer people, there wouldn't be someone passing by to catch the child.
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  1204.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Thanks, but I thought the mistake was quite funny and I want it to stay.
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  1205. We are not satisfied with just regulating your behavior. We must also sit inside your heart, and sit inside your mind, and control what you are allowed to feel, and what you are allowed to think.
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  1206. You think China can get him freed? If not, why would he say it to China?
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  1207. I thought about that, too. Some cities like Copenhagen have platform screen doors, but older systems often don't. Apparently, it can be prohibitively expensive to retrofit partitions if the station was not designed for them in the first place.
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  1208. Exactly a year ago, many communities in Shanghai were surrounded by not-so-great walls. Do you remember?
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  1209.  @masaudellafi2713  "what you can call it in Libyan case". I suggest you educate yourself on the 2011 War in Libya, but here are the main points: -Libya's UN rep. asked the international community for a no-fly zone. -The Arab League called for a no-fly zone. -Libyans in Benghazi marched in the streets for a no-fly zone. -Lebanon proposed a no-fly zone in the UN. UN Security Council approved. Not a single UN Security Council member voted against. -But who should enforce the no-fly zone? It's no good just asking for one, if nobody is doing anything about it. -A number of NATO countries volunteered under UN mandate. -Much later, many people around the world started accusing NATO of starting this, when in fact it was mostly Arab countries that took the initiative, and NATO just provided the muscle.
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  1210. I think you're right about that. That is one of the main differences between Eastern culture and Western culture. Both types of culture seem to work very well for the people within them, and both Easterners and Westerners don't want to exchange their cultures.
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  1211.  @sophonblock76  Perhaps at most a thousand years before, but not 10,000 years before. People moved into North America in the Paleolithic, possibly early Neolithic, and not thereafter. Sanxingdui is bronze age, and it is 6000 km from the Bering Sea. When you present a hypothesis, you should at least have a little supporting evidence.
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  1212. The LEGO China headquarters in Shanghai have several large LEGO models on display, incl. Shanghai's The Bund. Not open to the public, though.
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  1213. Peter Hessler is one of the best chroniclers of contemporary China at a human scale, rather than at a state-level scale. I strongly recommend his books on China to everyone: 'River Town', 'Oracle Bones', 'Country Driving', all great, great books! His wife's book 'Factory Girls' is also excellent.
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  1214. Amazing! Sudan as an African bread basket. I had no idea. Thanks to Shirvan and Caspian Report for educating me.
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  1215. I thought KFC was 'the place to be' for kids in China 25 years ago. It's the place parents would take their kid on June 1st (Children's Day). Nevertheless, I agree that McDonald's has that comfort factor that many other restaurants lack: A clean, bright and colorful environment, heating in winter, cooling in summer, casual group dining, a great place to do your homework in peace. Purely anecdotally speaking, I feel McDonald's is getting more popular than KFC nowadays. I don't have any numbers to back that up, though.
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  1216. China makes a lot of things cheaply and efficiently: Socks, shoes, T-shirts, and they can assemble electronics very quickly and at large scale. But more importantly, America sells a lot of products on the Chinese market. Chinese people love Apple, McDonalds, Starbucks, Tesla, Marvel movies, TV shows, GM cars. But this visit is by President Macron of France. Chinese people love Dior, LV, champagne, Hermes, wine, Airbus airplanes, Cartier, L'Oreal.
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  1217. If you want each child to have their own room, that's a lot of extra money for that extra room. A 10 sqm room in a first tier city may be RMB 1,000,000 extra (using downtown Shanghai as an example). That's a big chunk of money for anyone. You could say that babies don't need their own room, but when they turn 14 or 15, they do.
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  1218. We often hear about Orban's adventures on foreign affairs. But I'd like to hear why Hungarian voters like him so much. Hungary's economy is comparable to its neighbors, actually performing slightly worse. Maybe they just think he's a cool guy.
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  1219. A billion years from now, as the sun starts to expand, the world will go up in flames anyway.
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  1220.  @Blue14Studios  "they say that its "quality"". Wouldn't every food company say that their own food is 'healthy'? Should we really trust what any company says about their own products?
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  1221.  @dashong8912  That's true. But most leaders don't want anything to do with the Palestinians.
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  1222. Hu XiJin: "It is overly idealistic to expect adequate preparation". That's an astonishing statement to make! It could either mean "Hey, you're stupid to think anyone could handle this situation", or it could mean "Don't expect professionalism from the CCP".
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  1223.  @Praetor_Fenix420  Marketing idea for snack makers: Rename the dust at the bottom of the bag 'Nano-meter Sized Chips'.
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  1224. I don't see a single hate comment under this video. Is that then proof that you're going in the wrong direction? Or is it the case that any comment, loving or hateful or even indifferent, is proof of the right direction?
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  1225.  @reymar4657  The Philippines has total gold reserves of about 190 tons. The combined net worth of Bezos and Gates equate to roughly 5,600 tons, or 30 times as much.
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  1226. The vast majority of Ukrainian soldiers are professional soldiers, not conscripts. In addition, over a million Ukrainians have signed up to volunteer in the struggle for their nation's territorial integrity and survival. They wish to remain Ukrainian, not Russian. If they had wanted to be Russian, they have had years to emigrate to Russia, because Russia gives residency/nationality to any ethnic Russian overseas who wants to come.
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  1227. Europe has plenty of gas. There was a while when we were not sure if we could get enough, but now we have all the natural gas we need. But you're right that Europe is going through a difficult time. We are now spending a lot of money on building up our military capabilities so we can continue to supply Ukraine with weapons.
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  1228. Greetings from Shanghai. Still healthy, but expecting to get infected any day now.
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  1229. "10 million Chinese". You mean 10 million with part-Chinese ancestry. That's like saying there are 40 million Germans living in the US.
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  1230.  @soowo5942  "So spend the money in wars?" If that's what you prefer. I would prefer it was spent on more profitable projects to help the economy grow. Just like we do in Europe, where most rail projects are profitable.
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  1231. Do you have a link to this drone footage?
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  1232.  @YutaBLv  That is not correct. There is fructose in fruit juice, but there is no fruit juice in fructose.
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  1233.  @shreeshbhat3971  I don't know. But I do know that Germany has done a lot to make up for their part in WW2, including apologizing. Several times.
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  1234. Perhaps because they feel it is under threat, so out of stubbornness they focus on it more.
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  1235.  @mindpuzzle81  As for moving production out, I've been thinking that we will see an S-curve: First a trickle, then mass movement, followed by the last stragglers. Of course, some production will stay if it makes business sense, e.g. serving the local market.
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  1236. "These are 6.5 ounce jars, but they hold 8 ounces of honey". So are they really 6.5 ounce jars?
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  1237. You make it sound like the writers would be better off quitting and starting their own movie production company. There must be a reason they haven't done that already.
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  1238.  @neonbunnies9596  Yes, by increasing the cost of crime, I mean to say increasing the chance of getting caught or stopped immediately. If you know there's a high chance of getting caught (say 80% get caught within an hour), the cost-benefit analysis changes a lot. Off the coast of Somalia, a lot of the pirates got shot and killed, so they eventually stopped trying.
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  1239. Didn't you see the video? He earned A$ 200,000 in 40 hours. Gave it all away to charity.
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  1240. China is the largest foreign investor in Africa, but certainly not the only one. Combined, European countries invest significantly more in Africa than China does, and Europe's economy is not even as big as China's.
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  1241. Shimao seems to be selling some of their best properties, including Shimao International on Shanghai's Nanjing Rd, next to People's Square. I contains a Le Meridien 5-star hotel on a long-term lease + a shopping mall, so decent revenue should be guaranteed. It truly is prime real estate. (Le Meridien is a high-end hotel chain originally owned by Air France, then UK-based Forte Group, then Granada, then Compass Group, then Nomura Holdings, then Lehman Brothers, then Starwood, and finally Marriott).
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  1242. Another excellent episode!
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  1243. Teacher salaries in the US average $60,000/year. That's pretty good and more than most other industrialized countries. I used to be a teacher. It's a pretty easy job, but I got bored with it.
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  1244. Great piece! Well done, Reason!
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  1245. It depends. Downtown areas 2nd hand homes are around RMB 100,000/sqm (USD 1,400/Sqft), but if you go out to the suburbs at the end of the metro line, prices can be as low as RMB 25,000/sqm (USD 350/Sqft). Average income in 1st tier cities is around RMB 150,000/year (USD 23,000). So one year income can buy you 16 sqft downtown, or 65sqft in the suburbs.
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  1246. I suspect the vast majority of immigrants to the US, no matter which country they come from, immigrate to improve their economic situation. For most people, that dream will come true, not on day one but after years of hard work. Only a few will become rich, and only a few will fail completely.
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  1247.  @xyz-pg3zd  Why not? There's plenty of farmland in South America. And currently there is no shortage of quinoa on the world markets. Not sure why you just write the word 'economics'. Growing more quinoa and selling it to willing buyers would improve their economy.
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  1248. Italy isn't angry, they're just cancelling the agreement. To use your analogy, it's like cancelling your membership of a supermarket you don't use. No big deal.
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  1249. Plenty of space in the Thar Desert.
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  1250. Don't forget they have a huge amount of sunshine, a lot of rain, and warm to hot temperatures year-round. That really helps growth.
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  1251. I want to see a Meta-world where our avatars can go into a virtual movie theater and watch a virtual documentary about the real world, a documentary called 'The Real World'. Maybe that'll be the next big thing.
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  1252. Or both...
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  1253. A pipeline leaked underwater. I don't think we could have talked our way out of that one.
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  1254.  @stage6fan475  I don't really understand the situation now. Friends of mine get all their movies as Torrent files, but I don't know how common that is and I'm too old to get into the whole torrent thing. Some years ago, they cracked down on DVD copies and I think those shops are all gone now. It used to be a lot more fun around here, with police stations right next to black market DVD stores and brothels. Perhaps a clean-up was needed, but it's become a little too clean now, more suitable for a retirement home.
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  1255. I'd like to know how much money is in this business.
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  1256. You are touching on a massive problem that more and more countries MUST eventually find a solution to as we go forward: -We are living longer and longer. This brings with it higher and higher medical costs that will only increase as we find new treatments for ailments that would have killed our ancestors. -We need higher and higher (longer and longer) education to stay on top of the development cycle. This means we enter productive life later and later. One can imagine that 50 years from now, you need a PhD just to get a regular job. -We continuously strive for a higher standard of living. This costs more money, not just in consumption, but also in cost of better and bigger housing with all the modern amenities, better infrastructure, etc. Shorter productive life combined with higher costs. Something's gotta give and we may need to extend working life way beyond 65/67 years. Perhaps we can find a way to introduce 'soft work' for people of mature age: 20-hour work week, or 9 month work year, or 3-day work week, the old taking care of children, the old tutoring children, the old mentoring the young, low stress work, all at a lower salary, but still with enough income to support daily life. Could you have a road work crew consisting of old people, 2 to 3 working together to carry what one young man can carry, and at 1/2 to 1/3 the salary? Perhaps, perhaps not. But something needs to change.
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  1257. They are neither news or propaganda, but aspirations for a future India. You cannot have news about the future, by definition.
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  1258.  @kushagravlogs5627  I don't know if India will become a developed nation by 2047, and neither do you.
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  1259. "Casualties - 29,996". That's a big exaggeration. 9/11 total casualties were around 3000 and that involved 3 aircraft, not just one. Total fatalities from AA Flight 11 were about 1700, most of course being office workers, not passengers.
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  1260. The Taliban has also banned shaving for men, so you cannot get a shave.
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  1261. It's also much more dangerous to walk on the streets. Globally 1.3 million are killed each year in traffic. But those stats (yours and mine) don't really help the coal miners. Only a strict enforcement of safety regulations will do that. There is still much room for improvement. It's better to enforce regulations than to come later with a large rescue team.
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  1262. What an amazing story!
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  1263.  @lijackson-x6r  Aren't you confusing 'work permit' with 'permanent residency'? Those are two very different things. The requirement for a work permit and a limited residency visa are not so high. What the video talks about is PERMANENT RESIDENCY.
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  1264.  @bartolomeothesatyr  Love that comment! Unfortunately, it may not make much of a dent in the overall level of stupidity in the general population, but the effort is appreciated.
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  1265. Goldman Sachs mentions the decline in workforce growth, but there is a simultaneous negative growth in consumers, which may have an even bigger impact.
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  1266. Well, he was a UN arms inspector just before the Iraq war. His name was often heard back then.
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  1267.  @TubeOrNotTube  Well, I remember clearly the run-up to the Iraq War, and his name was constantly on the news because he was one of the main weapons inspectors. As you may remember, they never found any WMDs in Iraq. I don't remember reading about his private life and crimes committed, because I don't really care about him as a person, nor do I care what he does in his free time. I care about Ukraine and I follow the war quite closely. I see Scott Ritter mostly as entertainment. He seems to always be wrong, which is entertaining in itself.
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  1268.  @TubeOrNotTube  Ok, I must have not paid attention back then, but you're right. I just did a search, and these crimes were widely reported around 2010/2011.
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  1269.  @ryanwalters6184  Thanks, I feel pretty safe, but I didn't go to the office.
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  1270. Hello from Shanghai, China's wealthiest city. I see a ton of Teslas in the streets; it has really exploded over the last year. Other EVs I often see are: NIO, X-Peng, Lynk & Co, Li, and a few others. Since most people in cities here live in apartment high rises, charging is going to be a challenge and I don't really know how they do it. People living on the 4th-5th floor roll extension cables out their windows down to ground level.
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  1271.  @KBellate  That's why there will be no complete decoupling, only a movement of some production to other countries. This is already happening, of course. China will continue to produce some products for some countries.
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  1272. In this case, Matt Walsh is a little too authoritarian for me. He wants his standards to rule other people's lives. That doesn't seem free to me.
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  1273. I think they usually do that during the Spring Festival fireworks.
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  1274. Hmm, do you think that's why there are so few western tourists in China now? The way China talks about the west? Maybe you have a point.
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  1275. Did downtown Beijing get flooded, or only the suburbs?
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  1276. Isn't that a rather exclusive neighborhood? Big old mansions and the Shangri La Hotel.
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  1277. My exact thought.
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  1278. I prefer salmon, especially smoked.
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  1279. "Mr. Nostalgia: Agreed. Policing in Europe and in the US is very different. In Europe there is more emphasis on not injuring anyone, suspect or police. In the US, there seems to be a focus on completing the police task immediately, regardless of whether it will lead to escalation.
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  1280. Considering there are only 14.5 million people aged 23, 11.5 million university graduates is an astonishingly high number (79% of all in that age bracket). Of course, some might be a little older or younger, but those numbers are similar.
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  1281. Yes!
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  1282. "The defence industry never misses an opportunity to make money". I'm sure that's true, but that doesn't mean you can suddenly double or triple production in short order. You may need to install a whole new production line, train workers, get parts, etc. If Russia and Ukraine were just shooting nails with nail guns, it would probably be a lot easier.
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  1283. The lady at 8:55 is wearing a thin plastic screen, but she appears to think that she is speaking from behind a thick wall.
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  1284. No country has the right to join NATO, but any country can APPLY to join. Their application will then be assessed and they will get an answer. Most countries will get a polite 'no'. It's really not much different from applying to a university, or applying for a job position.
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  1285.  @moviesenthil  An allegation is essentially like an 'accusation'. An accusation or an allegation can be more or less credible. There is nothing wrong with this usage.
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  1286. Assuming this interview is very recent: "Ukraine will be ground to dust". That is Bolton's prediction right now on April 28/29. As the Zen master said: "We'll see...."
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  1287. 9-38%, depending on the manufacturer.
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  1288. Great video! Perhaps Americans in the South-West can explain where the water for the facility will come from. I thought the entire South-West was quite dry.
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  1289. Excellent episode!
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  1290.  @DC-qn4wz  You don't think economic and political ideas in China from 1949 to 1978 had anything to do with it?
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  1291.  @badbad-cat  Are Indian phones better than Apple phones? After all, you refer to Apple phones as iJunk. In what way are Indian phones better?
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  1292. What I want to see: A person standing with a neat whiskey catching big hails in his glass. I believe that's called a boss move.
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  1293. I've never been to YiWu and I didn't know they had such good Turkish and Lebanese food. But we don't hear much about YiWu anymore, unlike in the 2000s when it was constantly in the news as China's 'trinket town' (sorry for the contemptuous attitude, but I'm in Shanghai, so it should be expected).
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  1294.  @雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu  "They were told to go to Thailand". By who? They should have kept their passport safe. They should not get into a strange car. This kind of thing just doesn't happen to tourists.
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  1295. Russia has a GDP/capita identical to China's, but only 1/10th the population. Expanding into Russia is like expanding into Hebei and Hunan, haha.
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  1296. @SivalinPuthery Your complaint here doesn't seem to be about freedoms, but about safety. More freedoms=more risks. More safety=Less freedom. The challenge is to strike the right balance, and different people have different ideas about where that balance should be. It seems clear that Americans value freedom higher than safety. They believe that safety is the responsibility of the individual, while the government should guarantee freedom. Most Asian countries value safety higher than freedom.
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  1297. That's weird, considering kowtowing was invented in China.
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  1298. GLF
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  1299.  @billsmith5109  By the way, according to the book by Mao's former doctor, toward the end of the Great Leap Forward, Mao had finally accepted that millions were starving, so out of solidarity with the people, he decided to forgo of chicken during his regular dinner and add a vegetable dish instead. Very considerate. One can imagine how he identified with Marie Antoinette.
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  1300. There are so many comments like this, basically claiming that our governments are just as bad, or even worse, than criminals. Is that what you really believe, or are you just being a bit cynical?
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  1301. Europe is rich. We can handle it.
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  1302.  @francibalanci5617  Don't worry, we'll get through this easily. We've been through much worse in the recent past. No major problem.
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  1303. If you're going to talk about the Taiwanese bubble tea industry, you might as well also make a video about Taiwanese red braised beef noodle soup. That's much better than bubble tea.
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  1304.  @MrToubrouk  Well, alarming for those unfortunate enough to have bought their shares. And you could say that in a healthier construction sector, they would probably have been fine. But now those with shaky legs will fall, and only the strongest will survive. We're already seeing similar things happening in the EV sector.
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  1305. Yes, this is clearly Australia's fault. Not New Zealand's, only Australia's.
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  1306. Don't worry, it's probably just a minor hiccup.
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  1307.  @lonesomefencesitter3186  That's probably true, but I think people will eventually get tired of Rasmus Paludan. If he continues with these stunts, people will say 'oh, again?' and it becomes progressively uninteresting. Support for him will waver and he may realize that his campaign is going nowhere. Just in my lifetime (50+ years) we have had so many radical ideological groups, from communist revolutionaries to facists to jihadis and Islamists. Young people are attracted to radical ideas, but even they cool off eventually.
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  1308.  @pureality4117  Countries make moral arguments to get the backing of their people. China does it, the US does it, and every other country does it. Moral arguments are always meant for domestic consumption. If you can get the backing of your people, you can start a war, for example, even if your real reason for starting the war is strategic and not moral. Regular people don't understand strategic arguments, but they understand moral arguments.
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  1309. As if Tianjin doesn't have enough problems already. Well well, these things happen every now and then. We had a big fire in Shanghai 5-10 years ago. Things get fixed and people move on.
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  1310. 1:18 "GDP in 2022 was 1.2 trillion yuan". That has got to be a mistake. Perhaps 120 trillion?
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  1311. This channel is about China, not American domestic politics.
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  1312.  @ranapriliaful  Surely, WTO is there for a reason. WTO has the ability to make judgments on trade practices. All parties in this case are members of the WTO, so it's not the wrong forum.
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  1313.  @pogogod6036  "the equivalent of filing a police report". If Indonesia's actions are against WTO rules, then yes, it is a little like filing a police report. I guess time will tell whether Indonesia is following the rules or not. Don't forget, Indonesia itself signed on to those rules. Indonesia wanted them, now they have to follow them (and of course that is the same for the EU). As for your claims of colonialism, it's the kind of word weak people throw around when they have no real argument. Colonialism would be if Europe went to Indonesia and took over management of the entire country (or if Indonesia took over management of Timor Leste). That's not going to happen, so you can calm down.
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  1314. (Not so) fun fact: The desire for sugar was a large part of the reason for the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the first place. Before then, Europe practically had no sugar whatsoever. Sweet foods were for the rich only. And a large part of the reason why slavery ended when it did was that European growers/farmers developed the sugar beet in the first half of the 19th century, thereby voiding the need for slave labor in the tropics.
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  1315. That's highly unlikely. Water borne diseases include typhoid, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis, but not respiratory illnesses. It's almost in the name that respiratory illnesses are airborne.
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  1316. Ali, its time to pay, don't you know?
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  1317.  @TheFriend2u  "N.Korea people survived all these centuries". Most of them survived, but millions have died from starvation over the last several decades. N. Korea has struggled with food shortages for over 50 years, and only through food donations from many countries have they been able to feed their population. Over the last decade, it is estimated that N. Korea's grain production has provided 1900 calories/day/person, which is just around the minimum requirement for daily consumption. Compare this to neighboring China, which has an annual grain production providing 5000 calories/day/person.
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  1318. Wow, that's amazing! The villager's injury notwithstanding, it's remarkable that wild Siberian Tigers get so close to human settlements. It's either because the population of Siberian Tigers is growing, or because this particular tiger was desperate for food. So, could be positive, could be negative.
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  1319. Well, Q1 4.5% is reasonably good growth. Different media outlets will focus on either the good numbers or the bad numbers. There is certainly no shortage of economic challenges in China, but I think the reality is that China's economy is no longer booming, nor is it collapsing, it is just slowing down. My prediction is that by 2030 we will see annual growth numbers between 2 and 3%.
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  1320.  @JC-hl9nu  "most Chinese can afford to have second home abroad". I wonder what socio-economic circles you move in. Most Chinese? More likely a tiny, tiny minority. Here in Shanghai, it's probably less than 10% who own a second home abroad.
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  1321. It'll be interesting to see what impact this will have on the presidential elections a year from now.
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  1322. 0:25 "They practice this technique regularly". Ok, and it looks very impressive, but wouldn't it be better to practice techniques that actually are useful in the kitchen? How is this stunt going to improve the food or the time spent cooking it? It seems to be more about showing off a relatively useless skill, like fishing food out of deep frying oil with your bare hands, making pulled noodles while riding a bicycle hands-free, or throwing vegetables into the wok from across the kitchen. Well, I guess they get some face doing this 'gongfu'.
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  1323. That's easy: Don't drink too many sugary drinks. You are ultimately responsible for your health, the person who sells you sugar is not responsible.
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  1324. Yes, you can.
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  1325. If they want to sell on the international market, they probably have to offer a low price, as the specs on this plane are not quite up to par, compared to A320 family and B373 family. But, it's a first effort, and with massive government support they can probably get a successful aircraft program up and running.
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  1326. Happy criminals. Inmates fighting in the courtyard.
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  1327.  @BernhardWelzel  I don't think there is any food, approved by the FDA or other authorities, that is unhealthy in small quantities. If I eat one bag of potato chips once a year, or a Mars bar once a year, it will never have any negative impact on my life. (As it is, I eat less than a bag of potato chips and less than a Mars bar every year. Not for health reasons, but just because I think there is so much other, better food to eat).
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  1328. Re. Hu Jintao: I agree with the 'bad health' hypothesis. A public purge of an old, former leader is very out of style of the CPC. It also goes squarely against Confucian ethics, upon which much of Chinese culture is based. Deliberately humiliating an old man and former national leader is not something I would expect to see, anywhere, anytime.
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  1329.  @AL-sj2dx  How do you know it's more? Do you have any evidence, or is it just a belief you have? Without evidence, your argument doesn't hold water.
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  1330. That's like saying a farmer will come out as the biggest loser because people just want to buy their corn/wheat/soy. When did selling things become a losing position?
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  1331. I liked Ashlee Vance's reports from Shenzhen. Very interesting. This is also interesting, but it seems like they didn't have enough content so they decided to stretch it out with some camping footage and a long Zoom conversation in the end. I could have done without that. That female Bloomberg colleague looks cute, though.
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  1332. Contract manufacturing of cars, isn't that completely new? I've never heard of a car maker that outsources their entire production line. Except perhaps small batch 'super cars'.
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  1333.  @mapletibits6372  Before China sent up the space station, they regularly launched satellites that had seeds inside. This has been going on for several decades already.
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  1334.  n ll  But how many people from China's great cities on the coast will spend a whole day, maybe two days on a train, when they can fly much faster for the same price? Shanghai to Kunming is 12 hours, daytime train only, then you have to spend a night in Kunming before boarding another train to Laos. Most tourists will probably be from Yunnan or Sichuan. Tourist arrivals from China have levelled off in recent years. Could this train persuade more to visit Laos? Maybe, but I'm not so sure.
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  1335. A little unusual in 2008, but 20 years earlier it would have been commonplace in that part of China. Not so further north, though. I went to a fresh market (wet market) in Guangzhou in 1988 and it was a virtual zoo. Dogs, cranes, turtles, snakes, pigeons, quails, pheasants, raccoons, everything alive and ready to be butchered and chopped up. My friend and I actually ordered raccoon for lunch later. Quite tasty, gamey, and in the Chinese tradition, boney.
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  1336.  @HoneyBadgerVideos  True. At least Russia will be able to field a very large delegation at the next paralympics.
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  1337. I found my apartment through Lianjia. They have a good search system. In my understanding it is a franchise type company where individual realtors can join. I know nothing of their financials.
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  1338. Good idea. One can imagine that as societies have become fully settled on broad plains, a flood will be totally devastating, as opposed to when you're hunter-gatherer and you can just run up the hills for a few days and then continue your lifestyle. It's perhaps very understandable that in a settled, agrarian society, a big flood will generate stories that get handed down for many generations.
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  1339.  @ckaybit  Don't mind this Oona guy. He is likely very young and passionate. Better ignore.
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  1340. "I guess there are no scientists in China capable of expressing findings about their own land". I think CCTV or CGTN has just what you're looking for. Enjoy!
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  1341. Depends partly on the total size of these economies. If they are each 3 billion, then one of them is in serious trouble and the other is swimming in money. If they are both 30 trillion economies, then none of them would hurt much (because 3 billion*365 days is only 3.7% of each economy). Another aspect is that China invests most of its trade surplus in the US (or did until recently), thereby helping the US economy grow. The world outside the US invests around $5 Trillion in the US every year. The world outside China invests around $250 Billion in China every year.
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  1342.  @philipm3173  I am confident we will solve all our problems and make our world better and better. Why am I so confident? Because that's what we've been doing for the last 10,000 years. Human ingenuity is limitless. Occasionally we have problems, but in the long run those are like having a cold for a week before you move on to greater things.
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  1343. If China will only accept Yuan for Made in China products, that means other countries first have to buy Yuan in order to import from China. And when they buy Yuan from China, what are they going to pay with? Presumably, China doesn't want Dollars or Euro, so what does China want? Gold bars? The value of all the gold in the world is only a small fraction of the world economy. So how are we going to get the Yuan to pay for the products?
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  1344.  @YanYuan397  "You really, honestly, sincerely think India's like China?" I'm talking specifically about air pollution in cities. Many other aspects of the two countries are different.
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  1345. Surely the CPC can lead China to great success without the use of any western technology and know-how. Or what? After all, the west invented all this on their own. China can do the same.
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  1346. If you've only been living in Canada for one decade, you might still have a Chinese passport. You can always move to the country where your life will be better. Will you choose Canada or China?
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  1347.  @juneyi187  "my mom’s pension is $400 cad. My uncle’s pension is $1200cad". That's RMB 2,000 and RMB 6,400, respectively. Fairly good if you live in a 3rd or 4th tier city, but in 1st tier cities, it's hard to live well on RMB 2,000/month. RMB 65/day to cover three meals, utilities, clothes. Doable, but it will be a very simple life.
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  1348. Well, let's see. I'm European and have been following this incident. The ship is in international waters and it is unlikely it will allow itself to be examined. Without proof, there is not much we can do.
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  1349. What's the evidence that "we make better decisions" when we listen to indigenous communities? Simply put, indigenous communities tend to live lifestyles that we left behind thousands of years ago. We've lived those lives and we found something much better. If anything, indigenous communities should listen to us so they can improve their standing in life. They don't have to, but it would certainly benefit them.
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  1350. Very dramatic music for what is, after all, just very cold weather.
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  1351. How much are they down? A ball park figure is fine. I think many manufacturers are really tightening their belts, and selling product at close to cost.
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  1352. The US, South Korea, and North Korea always argue with each other. That will continue for the foreseeable future. No big deal.
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  1353. Apparently, there is some interesting history behind this story: Up until a few years ago, most of these foreign fishing vessels were owned by European companies. But the EU saw the disruption they caused to local fisheries, so they banned all seafood products from Cameroon, causing the European-owned ships to give up. Since the ban, the Chinese fishing vessels have taken over. Neither the European nor Chinese vessels are necessarily doing anything illegal. It is very easy to register your ship to sail under the Cameroonian flag, and according to the law of Cameroon, if you sail under the flag of Cameroon, you can fish as much as you want in local waters. This is obviously not sustainable, and it is harmful to Cameroon. It seems like Cameroon has shot itself in the foot by making it so easy to conduct this exploitative practice.
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  1354. I've noticed that China's imports always trails exports but generally follow the same trajectory. I'm guessing this is because many of the imports are components that get re-exported as parts in finished products. I'd be curious to know how many imports stay in China (like wine and whisky, handbags, soybeans, Swiss watches, etc.).
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  1355. Indians probably feel the same about China as Chinese people felt about Japan and USA in the 1980s: "How come they are so rich and developed and we are not?" I think all developing countries go through this phase. We all develop at different times and speeds.
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  1356. "One of the world's most livable cities". KL certainly has some nice aspects, but also some terrible ones. It is a hellscape for bicycles. I once rode into town from the north-west. There was zero way to get into town without going on expressways with flyovers, on- and off-ramps, no traffic lights and no bicycle lane. In my many decades of cycling all over the world, this was by far the worst and scariest cycling environment I have ever experienced. With just a few regular ground level roads, this problem can be easily solved. Or build small connecting roads between the many isolated neighborhoods. (I understand that access to and from the east is a little better)
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  1357. Re. US chip imports: I'm looking at the chart and am puzzled that imports from Taiwan are relatively small. My conclusion is that the country the chip is imported from (in the chart) is not necessarily the 'fabbing' country, but rather the packaging country, thus big exporters like Cambodia that don't have any fabrication plants of their own.
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  1358. Slime or no slime, snails are delicious in butter and garlic.
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  1359. It only affects children, so most people watching this can relax. We should be more concerned about dying of old age.
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  1360. Can you give examples of the company 'trying to destroy his life'?
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  1361. "show me an 'meaningful' alternative". Well, before Zhengzhou there was Shenzhen, so that is one alternative. Companies will move where it makes most economic sense.
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  1362. It would be a huge diplomatic mess for the Philippines, or for any SEA country that tries to get into this. ASEAN as a group could do something, but they won't.
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  1363.  @Hkchinese888  You said it, so I'm asking you.
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  1364.  @anakborneo7993  I do understand Mandarin, yes, and Taiwanese Mandarin is just an accent. Taiwanese Minnan language is different, belonging to a different language family, and I don't understand that, but the speech was held in Mandarin. But that is all irrelevant, because you can find the speech translated into other languages.
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  1365.  @kuegue840  Ok, I don't want to get involved in that. I know there has been some friction between the ethnic groups in Indonesia for a long time. I hope you can all sort it out.
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  1366.  @rumah4325  "you are from west? So you are brainwashed by their propaganda" I am from the west. What specific propaganda are you referring to? I'm happy to have a conversation about specific issues, but not some broad-based idea of 'brainwashing'.
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  1367. If only we could re-introduce child labor, we could make some money off our children. More children would equal more money. The problem is that children are pretty useless in the office.
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  1368.  @justinjakeashton  Not really. Some taste a little better than others, none are disgusting, none are delicious. Deep fried crickets have a really nice crunch, but they're still quite bland.
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  1369. Despite fast economic growth, Rwanda is still a very poor country by any measure. Its GDP/capita is only around USD 900.- Compare that with Laos at $1500/capita or Cambodia at $1600/capita. Both Laos and Cambodia are very low income countries.
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  1370.  @JohnWayne-dh8gl  If you want to be a member of the club, you have to follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules, there will be sanctions. Pretty simple. Toshiba and a Norwegian company both sold highly sensitive military equipment to the Soviets against the rules. Their punishment was reasonable and light, there was no 'handing over' of IP to US companies, and that whole incident has nothing to do with the Japanese semiconductor industry. You're just spinning a yarn.
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  1371. Yes, cuisines become more and more globalized. When I was a kid, we basically only had our own national food. Now there's food from so many countries in every city.
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  1372. 0:37 "a new trend: Cleaning with enzymes, instead of harsh chemicals". Ok, ok, ok, let's see. Hand soap uses neither enzymes nor 'harsh chemicals', though what 'harsh chemicals' refers to seems to be a matter of opinion. Hand soap has existed since the middle ages and possibly before. Hand soap does tend to dry out your skin, because the purpose of soap is to remove oils and fats from your skin. That's the reason you wash your hands in the first place. Laundry detergent has been using enzymes to clean your clothes since the 1960s. In fact, the enzyme industry turns over billions of US$ every year, hardly a new trend.
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  1373. Don't forget that African countries without resources are equally poor.
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  1374. There's an old Arab proverb: Me against my brother. Me and my brother against our cousin. Me and my brother and our cousin against the stranger.
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  1375. All living beings are GMO. That's what evolution by natural selection is: Modifying the genome each generation.
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  1376.  @joaodecarvalho7012  I think one of them is 'ChinaObserver', another is 'ChinaInsights'. Not sure who is behind those two channels, though I suspect it might be FaLunGong. The video in question, from today, mostly discusses demolitions of neighborhoods in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Urban development down south has generally been different from further north.
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  1377.  @pepelepew1227  "statements like this remove all doubts that you need a proper education." I'd like to take your offer of educating us all on the 200 years of humiliation. Please shower us with your wisdom, if indeed you have any.
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  1378.  Taiwan Isnotacountry  The government does not agree with you. They deliberately capped the speed at 350 km/h because 380 km/h became overly expensive without any real benefit. The major lines are designed for 380 km/h. Personally, I think the maglev idea sounds cool, but I'm skeptical that it will happen.
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  1379.  @Steven-xf8mz  That IS irrelevant! The statue is from the 12th century and thus, unlikely to have been from Beijing in the first place. When the Mongols invaded in 1213, they razed the city to the ground. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that any temple artifact from before that time would have remained in Beijing until the 20th century. Beijing is key to your thesis, because the 8-nation army only looted Beijing. The statue is more likely to have been from a more ancient city, perhaps Xi'An, or Hangzhou, or Kaifeng or some other city.
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  1380. It's a little different for people who exclusively direct their voice at a foreign audience. Think of Michael Pettis who sits up in Beijing, just outside the 4th ring road, and makes one negative prediction after another. Should the political situation deteriorate, Michael Pettis and Tony are more likely to just have their visa extensions denied, and even that is not likely to happen in the current climate.
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  1381. China has been using the term 'running dogs' for many decades now. Always used to describe countries that side with the US instead of siding with China, and previously, with the Soviet Union. In fact, after the China-USSR split, even USSR's allies were called 'running dogs'. In essence, 'running dog' or just 'dog' is just another word for 'country that doesn't like our China'.
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  1382. Well, isn't that nice of China.
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  1383. There's not a single comment that mentions "Tofu-dreg Construction”.
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  1384.  @SuperLusername  Haha, great reply!
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  1385. Congratulations, Team Japan. Now, when can we buy those desserts in Family Mart?
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  1386. Bought! This statue was bought fair and square in the early 1930s in Beijing from the Chinese art collector Huo MingZhi (霍明志 1879-1949) by the grandfather of the current owner. It was not stolen. They have the receipts!
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  1387. 1:45 Hong Kong cyclists really like those loud rear cassettes.
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  1388. Caspian Report, still better than Visual Politik. (and almost as eagerly awaited as Primitive Technology)
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  1389. Thanks to Indian media for following this development so closely. Other foreign media seem to be 'too far away'. Man, the internet is so great!
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  1390. The problem is that whether you pay for your children or the community pays for them, the fact is that raising a child is many times more expensive in an advanced, modern society than in a poor, rural society. As our society advances, the cost of raising children will invariably become more expensive. In theory it's possible to raise a child cheaply if you primarily feed them mashed potatoes, make them wear only hand-me-downs, and home school them, but most people feel this is not the best way to ensure a good future for a child.
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  1391. Presumably only people in the Americas. Here in Asia, his videos are published in the evening.
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  1392. Regarding trusting statistics/data: People might have a good reason to distrust data from some countries (eg. China). Nothing wrong with that, it is always good to preserve a healthy amount of skepticism. However, if you only distrust the positive numbers but trust the negative numbers, then it is not the numbers that are the problem, it is you. Unfortunately, I feel we see this more and more, not just with respect to China: People simply choosing to trust the data that support their preconceived ideas, and distrust the data that go against those ideas. That is not how a rational mind works, nor does it help you understand the world better. We should be openminded enough to let in new ideas, but not so openminded that our brains fall out.
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  1393. Yes, it is usually in early October, but final dates are usually not published until a few weeks before. It's considered an internal party meeting, so informing the public is not a priority.
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  1394. "This freight ship lines are a huge factor on why our consumer goods are going up." A 40' container can hold 10,000 laptops. It costs US$ 3,000 to ship from China to US west coast. That equates to 30 cents per laptop. It used to cost only 10 cents per laptop computer, so yes, the price of your MacBook has gone up 20 cents due to these evil, greedy container shipping companies. Your claim that shipping is a 'huge factor' is simply false. The reality is that a very large part of the price of many goods is due to advertising and marketing. A huge proportion. For known brands, it's probably over 30% of the price you pay that goes to advertisers. But without advertising and marketing, you probably wouldn't buy the product in the first place.
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  1395. If we take 99% of these people's wealth, we're also taking 99% of their shares in their companies, since that's where their wealth is. In the process, we're making them small minority shareholders with no decision power in the companies they themselves started.
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  1396. This could potentially work, as long as the boosters are released at low altitude. If they're released above 90km they will almost certainly burn up on re-entering the atmosphere.
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  1397. Not everything is about America. Countries in Asia have their own interests and concerns.
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  1398. Biden called and said 'My son Beau was also killed in a terrorist attack, no joke'.
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  1399. Diagnosis: Great anger and resentment.
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  1400. @Yourbrother05 I'm real, and I will give criticism when I feel it is deserved, and praise when I feel that is deserved. I am against trolling, which I see as non-constructive.
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  1401. Actually, immigration to rural areas by people from around the world who want to farm is not such a bad idea! I hadn't thought of that.
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  1402. -Artificial snow for skiing -Artificial grass for football -Artificial waves for surfing -Artificial rockfaces for rock climbing Anything else?
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  1403.  @MyDogRescuer  " we choose someone who have a proven track record in governance". Fair enough. Only time will show if you chose correctly.
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  1404. One of the biggest scam center operators is She ZhiJiang 佘智江, originally from Hunan, China. He has a long history of being involved in scams, illegal gambling, human trafficking and money laundering. First in Cambodia, then the Philippines, and finally Myanmar. He runs YaTai Group which has a major development in Shwekokko, a little north of Mae Sot/Myawaddy. She ZhiJiang 佘智江 is being actively sought by the Chinese authorities. He is currently in detention in Thailand, fighting extradition to China.
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  1405. -Phở -Bún bò Huế -Bánh mì -Bún chả -Mì Quảng -Gỏi cuốn So many great things to love about Vietnam!
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  1406. Fun fact: The Taikonauts on the Chinese Space Station ordered this delivery on MeiTuan.
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  1407. In the last 74 years (since its beginning), the Doomsday Clock has never been further from midnight than 17 minutes (1020 seconds). The 100 seconds should be seen in that perspective, not in the perspective of 24 hours. The news used to pay attention to the Doomsday Clock; I remember it being on the news regularly in the '80s. But since 'doomsday' never really seems to come any closer, people no longer care too much about it. Indeed, the whole concept of the Doomsday Clock has a smell of Christian religion to it and seems to verge on the cultish, in my opinion.
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  1408. China's central government debt is now at $16 trillion, plus local government debt at $12 trillion, totaling $28 trillion. This does not include the debt held by State Owned Enterprises, which lies at around $11 trillion. If we include that, we end up at $39 trillion. However, China has the benefit of being a centrally controlled financial system, so debt can be cancelled, or money can be moved around, or be issued, for a long, long time. It's not good, but it's not a disaster, either.
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  1409.  @min-jd5lb  Why are you putting your comment in quotes?
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  1410.  @raymondcheung409  I hope you're right, but you forgot to mention earlier that while China owns 70% of the joint venture that also means they take 70% of the revenue. Let's see how much benefit this will be to Laos. I'd like to see them develop their economy. Maybe some Chinese private investment in low cost manufacturing will be helpful.
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  1411.  @raymondcheung409  Yes, I'm all for investment and a big proponent of economic development. Again, I hope it works out well for Laos, but I am a little skeptical with a project this expensive.
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  1412.  @skydragon23101979  The ability to make some things does not mean the ability to make everything.
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  1413.  @张兴亮-v3e  You don't seem to know your own country.
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  1414. Actually, that might make your shop famous = big money!
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  1415. I doubt it has anything to do with that. Even Chinese companies in China have increasing difficulties growing their profits.
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  1416.  @ebonymaw8457  It's just a suggestion. Calm down. Besides, it's unlikely Turkey would agree to let Armenia join NATO. Those two countries are not too friendly.
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  1417. I'm guessing China will aim for 4.5% growth in 2024. Seems like a reasonable amount, and the state cannot continue to pump large amounts of money into the economy year after year. In 2023, the govt. told local govts. to issue bonds (which is debt) worth $660 billion, money to be used for investment into the economy. That's a lot of stimulus, especially if it needs to be done every year.
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  1418. So interesting to see these old photos of Shanghai, including JiaoTong University. Some of those buildings still stand on campus.
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  1419. 无后为大 specifically refers to offspring/descendants, ie. 'not having descendants is the biggest (unfilial act)'. 后is for 后代=descendants.
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  1420. This video is a shortened version of another video that Bloomberg posted 11 months ago. I thought the whole thing looked very familiar. But what is it? Two guys who are proponents of space elevators, they believe in it, it's their thing, and they talk about how "it's possible now". Well, let's see. I'm skeptical.
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  1421.  @alisonzhang702  No, the relationship has improved since then. More trade, more investments, more diplomatic talks.
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  1422. 0:28 Look at those 境外势力
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  1423. It's the appropriate weapon in a war that's a complete clusterfuck.
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  1424. 2:26 Why are those people holding up signs with mathematical symbols?
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  1425.  @HinaKhan-yt3jt  I'm not worried. Our future is looking pretty bright.
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  1426. "China, which has the world's newest and best infrastructure." China certainly has some of the newest infrastructure, but even Chinese infrastructure gets older with time. Some of Shanghai's early metro lines built in the mid-90s are really beginning to show their age. Many inter-city expressways built in the 90s are also getting quite worn. Many of these will be maintained and repaired, but it depends on the fiscal ability of the location they're in. As time passes, China's 'new' infrastructure will get older and older, just like that in Europe. Then all the money will go toward repairs and maintenance.
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  1427. In my community there are many elderly people who have run out of insulin for their diabetes. They're calling for help on WeChat for new supplies. It's a tragedy!
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  1428. Interesting data. Here in Shanghai, the registered cases say 90-95% asymptomatic. Xinhua News Agency says today that Shanghai has 9 severe cases which is around 0.1% of symptomatic cases. Approximate cases for Shanghai since March 30: -Total asymptomatic: 250,000 -Total Symptomatic: 11,000 -Total severe cases: 9 -total deaths: 0 (though several people in an elderly care facility died, but the news reports that they died because the care staff got Covid and were put in quarantine, thus leaving the elderly without care. In my view, that's even worse than dying from Covid).
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  1429. So Disappoint Panda is, for once, not disappointed. That's an achievement in itself.
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  1430. Cooperatives were a very important part in developing agriculture in Scandinavia, starting in the late 19th century. It was all by farmers' own initiative and 100% farmer-owned. Today, these many cooperatives have merged in both Denmark and Sweden to create one of the biggest dairy companies in the world: Arla. Arla is still a largely farmer-owned company today.
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  1431. Last time India had a larger population than China was before 500 AD. That's a good while ago.
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  1432. It should be mentioned that he retired in 2017, his 'whistleblowing' took place in 2019, and he was found dead in 2024. If the company had wanted to assassinate him, they were awfully slow about it. Additionally, he had recently completed his testimony about his experience at Boeing, so it was much too late to try to silence him. All in all, nothing points to foul play.
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  1433. This is very bad for night clubs! These guys don't buy drinks, they don't buy bar-food, they probably won't buy you a drink, either. Instead, they just take up space on the dance floor, flex their moves and make you feel inadequate. On the upside, they probably don't hit on the girls, but try to chat up the espresso machine instead.
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  1434. In 6 months this will all be forgotten, and China-SK tourism is back to normal. That's my prediction based on all the other so-called scandals we've seen between countries in East Asia over the last 20 years. Something happens, people get extremely angry for two months, and then life goes on.
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  1435. Singapore does a lot, but even then they still suffer from population decline. The Total Fertility Rate in Singapore is now down to 1.1, the lowest they have ever had.
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  1436. The video states that there is a shortage of sand. That is only true for the kind of sand used in the construction industry, sand that has to have sharp edges to lock together in concrete, or on a stable road base. But the sand needed in these 'sand batteries' don't need those properties. It could be beach sand, or sand from a desert. Those types of sand are unsuitable for construction, but there is certainly no shortage of them (Just ask any Egyptian).
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  1437.  @nancymcgee4776  Sure, but it doesn't always flood in summer. Rain, yes, but not necessarily flooding. It's a bit of a wave, excuse the pun.
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  1438.  @condorX2  Hey, I'm a 'glass half full' kind of guy. 🙂You know, always look on the bright side of life.
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  1439. This is simultaneously crazy, funny, and amazing...
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  1440. Many commenters seem to believe that Cai Ying Wen stepped down as resident. She did not. She is still president and will remain so until early 2024. These elections were not presidential elections, just local elections.
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  1441.  @shadowrebels1623  1) It's not selfish to not worry. 2) It's not selfish to ride a bicycle. 3) None of my friends or family have expressed concern about high gas prices. Nobody likes high gas prices, but we just rearrange our budget and perhaps avoid buying other things. It's not complicated. Besides, most people expect the high prices to be temporary, lasting maybe a year or so at most.
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  1442. I live in Shanghai. Air quality is pretty decent, certainly much better than 10-25 years ago, when it was horrible. Overall, the city is much cleaner now (and certainly cleaner than Beijing).
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  1443.  @petsandthingsilike  Sometimes. My reason for loving Shanghainese people is that they're cool, confident, independent thinkers.
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  1444. We're now 5 months into the year and the picture is quite clear: No massive rebound, but also no collapse. Seems to me that going forward, 'natural' growth will lie around 3-3.5%. Whatever target is set will have to be made up by govt. investments.
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  1445. Great episode!
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  1446. Inspirational TED talk of the week: "Nature has been providing us with an environment that has been a sweet spot for humanity". What luck! "Nature based solutions are.....very human based". I have no words.
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  1447. Second largest. Albanians are the largest group.
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  1448. Great explainer video! I guess the hotel industry has learned from the fast food industry. What industry will follow this path next? Air travel? You operate a B737 and you get to slap a 'Singapore Airlines' on the side, if you manage it well.
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  1449.  @joesmith9139  As the video mentioned, Shanghai is such an important city that closing it all down at the same time could have very deleterious effects on the whole country. Secondly, Shanghai is neatly divided by a river, so in principle, you can treat it as two separate areas. How it works in practice is a different matter, since the two parts are connected by 5 bridges, 15 road tunnels, 1 pedestrian tunnel, 14 cross-river ferries and 13 metro lines.
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  1450. It's not really new colonialism, as New Caledonia has been a French colony for over 170 years. If anything, it's old colonialism.
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  1451.  @rmot-t9c  Thanks for your replies, though I was hoping for just a few examples of good Indian dishes that were more old, more traditional.
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  1452.  @rmot-t9c  Dosa is nice. In fact, I'd love to try more South Indian food, but it's not as easily available as North Indian food.
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  1453. "You are not an individual with your own dreams and interests and desires. In fact, you only matter as a tool of the nation, so do as you're told"!
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  1454. I didn't really understand this: -Since the Covid restrictions have ended, why are the roads still blocked? -If rural people cannot bring their produce to the city, why can city people go to the countryside to buy the produce?
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  1455.  @carinalaurel2571  Thank you.
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  1456. Frankly, Najib Razak's wife reminds me of Imelda Marcos: "What? Who, me? What did I do wrong?"
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  1457. It's not quite that many and I'd be interested to know where you got those figures from. I think there are around 330 million housing units in China, of which around 300 million are occupied by 900 million people, leaving 500 million people in rural areas (rural houses aren't counted as part of the housing market, for a variety of reasons). Of the 330 million housing units, about 180 million were built in the last 24 years, with the remaining 150 million existing from before 2000. About 30 million units are either unfinished or finished but unoccupied. Many of those are located in 3rd and 4th tier cities, where no one wants them. Tier 1 cities have quite healthy housing markets with very little availability, but they only make up a relatively small slice of the total market.
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  1458.  @ChiefBridgeFuser  Thanks for that. I see the quote is from a CNN article. It's an extreme view, and the article also mentions that there there are an estimated 7 million vacant homes, even less than I mentioned. But 7 million vacant homes is only enough for about 20 million people, a very small number when compared to the 1.4 billion people in the country. In any case, 7 million vacant homes (plus 10 million unfinished homes) is a lot, no where you are. It'll likely take 10-20 years to fill them up, and some may never get occupied because they're in towns where no one wants to live.
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  1459. For comparison, it takes about 13 minutes to walk from HK Stadium in Happy Valley to Causeway Bay MTR station. HK Stadium is where the HK Sevens are currently taking place, in addition to big concerts. I wonder if they are going to redevelop Happy Valley into something else.
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  1460. Who is calling these French protesters 'criminals'? Nor are they 'fighters for freedom', they are protesters who express their outrage. That is their right.
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  1461. A table full of Nasi Padang for me, please!
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  1462.  @远山-k3s  "U r fed up by". Please note the difference between 'fed by' and 'fed up'. 'Fed up' means you're tired of something. Now for your protest: The IAEA is assisting Japan in the release of Tritium waste water. It has been determined that releasing the waste into the sea is the best option. Tritium is a Helium isotope with two neutrons attached. It radiates beta-radiation, which is relatively weak, and it has a half-life of about 12 years. Tritium is released by nuclear power stations every year around the world under normal operation. The amount of Tritium that will be released by the Fukushima plant annually is equivalent to, or less than, the amount of Tritium released by Chinese nuclear power plants annually. And China isn't even a large emitter. Other countries release more.
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  1463.  @Alex-pj8nz  True, but the ISS has participation from ESA (European Space Agency) and they also had little experience to begin with. I'm sure Japan and Korea could easily build a module each. We could call them 'The SONY Space Station' and 'The Samsung Galaxy I Module".
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  1464.  @cyrusmarikitph  What? Who's taking about traveling? This topic is about platform screen doors in metro systems. It's a technical issue, not related to racism.
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  1465.  @jw999  What types of people would you welcome into the UK?
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  1466.  @jw999  Does that include Harry and Megan? Haha.
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  1467.  @x-hale2899  "Europe needs to make own decisions. Orban is right about that." Orban can leave the EU and leave NATO if he wants to. Then he can make any decision he likes. He can even join the Russian Federation.
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  1468. I heard the North Korean consulate used to throw some sick parties.
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  1469.  @mikeevans6344  I will try to make this as short as possible: -Culture A: 3000BC, some artistic elements of which look a little similar to -Culture B: 1300AD (4300 years later) -Separated by 14,000 km and an ocean strait which became flooded by rising sea levels around 8,000 BC. Those facts are the reasons for my skepticism.
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  1470. It's one thing to write an angry email if a graph or a data set has been misinterpreted, but to write one because reality doesn't conform to one's beliefs, that is delusional.
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  1471. The most impressive thing about North Korea is their creativity in making threats. They must have an office devising new wordings: "How about Hellish Fire"? "No, we used that before" "Hmm, Evil Maggots Getting Squashed By Our Steel Boots"? "Yeah, that sounds great! Let's put that on top of the threats list".
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  1472.  @TacticalMayo  I'm pretty sure this guy is being sarcastic.
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  1473. Looks like a nori-wrapped sushi.
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  1474. She's a princeling, just like Xi JinPing is. Both of their fathers were high ranking members of previous governments.
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  1475. The narrator sounds like she's sitting under her duvet with a flashlight, quietly speaking into the mic, worried that her parents might hear her.
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  1476. -WHAT?! -This is bananas! -A gazillion times the Hiroshima bomb! -It's a nightmare! -Deadly important! I'm not going to take advice from someone as excitable, highly anxious and on the verge of panicking as this journalist.
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  1477. There's a lot of talk about China's production overcapacity these days, but that doesn't seem to extend to babies.
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  1478.  @arminius6506  Fortunately, there is other media than western media where can find the stories you want. No need to pay attention to western media if you don't like it.
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  1479.  @linm770  Tell it to someone who cares.
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  1480. Balochistan = Ba-loo-chee-stan / Ba-lo-chee-stan. Those are the pronunciations I have heard.
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  1481.  @JamescwMansfield  "we have pissed a lot of countries off. As a Brit I did get a few digs and insults" It's all part of life. Nothing much you can do about it. I'm from Denmark and we also did a number on you a thousand years ago. I hope you've gotten over it.
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  1482. What part of the world is your country in? China's economic challenges have been widely covered in the western press.
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  1483. "Not when the country has high inflation, no affordable housing and millions of others want the same thing" The dream doesn't come true for everyone, that's why it's a dream, not a certainty. But it does come true for many people.
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  1484. They should put it up on display next to that other ancient British fossil: Tony Blair
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  1485.  @gavinhillick  Sorry, it was my impression that Mick Wallace and Clare Daly spoke about all of Europe and not just Ireland. You know, we're all together now, working for a common future. I'm not Irish, by the way, I'm Danish.
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  1486. Basic particle research.
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  1487.  @IbnAbdRahman-jkk  "they are around 580 palestinian in Malaysia". What a laughably low number! The Nordic countries which have a combined population much lower than Malaysia, together have more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees. Malaysia could easily take 150,000 Palestinians.
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  1488.  @whyitmatters6906  That's not the point. The point is that as society advances, bringing up children becomes increasingly expensive because their skillset has to be as advanced as society in order to succeed (it's no longer enough to just be able to hold a shovel). Therefore, each child becomes a larger and larger part of a family's total expenses to the extent where the family can only afford one child, or none at all. The only way to solve that problem is to decrease the cost of having children, and here I mean the cost to society as a whole, not just the cost to parents, and the only way to do that is to find a way to make children contribute financially. As I wrote, I don't think that is ethical, but it leaves us with an unsolvable problem.
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  1489. I'm sure German forces said the same thing when they were close to taking Stalingrad. Don't underestimate a people's desire to retake their homelands.
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  1490. But at the cost of Ukraine being taken over and annexed by Russia. Given your hashtag, that is probably a result you would welcome.
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  1491.  @skydragon23101979  Yes, I think the 3rd and 4th tier cities and below are probably overbuilt. Not to mention the many projects built outside cities in 'vacation spots', say along the Shandong coast, or the Hainan coast. So many apartment towers there, most of which I suspect will remain empty forever. As the economy slows down, the most affected will be the lower tier cities, pushing young people to seek their fortunes in the more successful cities: The big ones. What's the term? 'Go big or go home' or something?
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  1492. I hope not. By 2070, I hope we still have our well preserved ancient city centers. Important cultural heritage.
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  1493. This train only goes from Beijing to Jiangjiakou. It's not part of BRI.
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  1494. It doesn't have to be either/or. Green energy can be part of the larger energy mix, just like coal, gas, oil, wood, nuclear, cow dung.
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  1495. The project is going swimmingly!
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  1496. You seem to be confusing the words 'free' and 'rich'. You can be free and poor, rich and unfree,
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  1497.  @Thinkofwhat  Thanks for those two video recommendations. I've put them on my list.
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  1498. The Great Wall doesn't work! Illegal immigrants are still pouring in!🤬 Oh wait, that's in a different country.😵‍💫
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  1499. Once interest rates go down, Americans will borrow more money. They will then spend that money. Some of that extra spending will go to Chinese manufacturers. Those manufacturers' revenue and profits will go up. People will feel more optimistic about the future, and future growth. People will resume investing in Chinese stocks to benefit from that growth. At least in theory.
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  1500. Well, over the next 25 years, there will be 200 million couples (potential couples, if they match up) coming of age who may be prospective buyers of a home. Not all of them will be moving to/living in urban areas, but perhaps 75% will, or 150 million couples. At the same time, approximately 200 million couples will pass away after a long life. Only about 40% of those own property in urban areas, or about 80 million apartments. This adds up to a potential need for 70 million new apartments over 25 years. There are currently around 30 million apartments available (unsold plus sold but empty). This ends up giving a rough estimate of 40 million new apartments needed over 25 years, or 16 million needed per decade. So, the first two decades are covered by available supply, plus a little extra. Only by 2042 will we begin to see a real shortage again. After 2055, there will be so many old people passing away and leaving apartments behind, and so few children being born, that the need for more apartments is negligible.
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  1501. Another candidate for the Darwin Awards.
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  1502. The initial clip of a panda mum and cub walking in the snow is animated/AI-generated. It looks very real, but there is something uncanny about it that gives the plot away. Impressive how far AI/animation has come.
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  1503. Add 5 milliSiverts to your moon cakes for that extra glow.
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  1504. This was a very accurate description. I'm in Shanghai and we are very far from 'back to normal'.
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  1505.  @DesignFIaw  "Most lines are commerically non-viable." Really? Denmark built the 'Great Belt Bridge' (car and train) in the mid-90s at a cost of USD 4 billion. It was to be 100% user-funded. It became so popular that it was paid back several years before planned and now turns a nice annual profit. A few years later, another bridge (car and train) linking Denmark and Sweden was built for USD 4.6 billion. Also 100% user-funded. That is also profitable. The Copenhagen Metro opened its first line in 2002. The system has been profitable most years since it opened. The Channel Tunnel (train only) between the UK and France was built with 100% private investment for about USD 5 billion and opened in 1994. It has been profitable most years since 2016.
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  1506.  @mehere8038  Thanks for that. I am watching the footage now. How bizarre the way they seem to huddle together just off the shore before beaching later in the night. It's as if they have completely lost their sense of direction. I wonder if the ones that got pushed back out again were able to regain their bearings. There are many hypotheses that could explain this behavior, but how we figure out the correct one I have no idea.
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  1507.  @AgakAgakEngineer  The main language in HK is Cantonese, so perhaps migrants into the city just adopted the language of the city. 'Stamping out'? Are you saying there was a concerted effort to eliminate other dialects? By who?
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  1508.  @AgakAgakEngineer  But the vast majority already there spoke Cantonese. And many of the newer arrivals were from Guangdong, where they already speak Cantonese. After 1949, a lot of wealthy Shanghainese moved to HK, as can be seen in Wong Kar Wai's movie 花样年华, where the other residents in the building speak Shanghainese. But their children probably switched to Cantonese because their friends and classmates spoke it.
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  1509. Seem like a very reasonable assessment to me. My predictions were along the same lines.
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  1510. "Starbucks business model is really easy to copy". But no one has copied it anywhere, as far as I know. There are lots of coffee chains, not just in China, but no one has been able to create the image that Starbuck's has. Starbuck's isn't about the coffee. If it was, every coffee shop would be equally successful. It's a little like McDonald's: It seems like it's so simple to make a mediocre hamburger, but McDonald's is about so much more than that.
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  1511. Nice with some new drone footage in the beginning of the video, which I believe is from Erhai Lake in Yunnan. Beautiful area.
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  1512. You should direct your complaints to your government. I'm sure they will listen to your concerns.
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  1513. The local villagers they interviewed looked almost excited that something big happened near their village.
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  1514. Little girl: "I don't like this Tesla Model 3. I'm getting out"!
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  1515. There are already several Chinese-made movies about the Nanjing Massacre, including “南京1937”, "南京！！ 南京！！"， and "金陵十三钗". There are also a bunch of American movies about it, and even a few Japanese ones.
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  1516.  @leezhieng  "the port is paying 15 million US dollar every 3 months to the Sri Lanka government". Hambantota Port was leased to a Chinese company for 99 years for a total of $1.15 billion. That is just under $3 million every 3 months, not $15 million.
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  1517. Everybody needs an enemy. Reality TV shows are based on this principle.
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  1518.  @qwerty-vp1sb  Ok, just remember that those on the other side may try to outlaw you, too. You wouldn't like that, would you?
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  1519. If everyone could do it, it might not seem so cool. Everybody can afford to ride around on a bicycle; is that considered cool?
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  1520.  @ameytiwari1247  But India couldn't do it. In fact, they split up into three countries because they couldn't work it out together.
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  1521. You mean poking the panda.
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  1522. They're not wild, but they still look great.
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  1523.  @josemiguelmunoz6985  Thanks for expert reply. What is the approximate oil percentage from green olives of first harvest? That can give me an idea of the price difference.
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  1524.  @joeeigo9820  Good point. So I guess I have to go to the Mediterranean region to get the good stuff.
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  1525.  @chantow8657  Here is a quote from Nigel Marks, Professor in Physics & Astronomy, Curtin University, Australia: “The radioactivity in the Fukushima water is almost entirely tritium, a form of hydrogen. For scale, the Pacific Ocean contains 8,400 grams of pure tritium, while Japan will release 0.06 grams of tritium every year. The minuscule amount of extra radiation won’t make the tiniest jot of difference. A lifetime’s worth of seafood caught a few kilometers from the ocean outlet has the tritium radiation equivalent of one bite of a banana."
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  1526.  @wang06411  It doesn't matter what you call the water. What matters is what's in it. What is in the waste water from Fukushima is less radioactive, and less dangerous than what is being released from nuclear plants around the world, including Chinese nuclear plants. Look at my comments further up for some numbers.
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  1527.  @LongHUlove  For political reasons. It serves two purposes: 1) It gives Chinese people the impression that their govt. protects them from harm, and that China is a strong country. 2) It is a great reason to criticize Japan. China will never miss a chance to criticize Japan. But the fact remains: Seafood from Japan is at least as healthy and clean as that caught off the Chinese shores. After all, China releases much more radioactive material into the sea every year than Japan does. That is not to say Chinese seafood is bad. I happily eat it myself.
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  1528. Are you mixing up BRICS and BRI, or have I completely missed something?
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  1529.  @Lin-eo5xu  Thank you, I did not know about the Qing navy sailing out from Dongshan Island, but it seems to be the kind of historical fact that only local people would know about. Certainly, in all my years in China, I've never heard his island mentioned by anyone.
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  1530. Re. Land subsidence: I've lived in shanghai since the mid-90s. Even back then, the local media regularly talked about land subsidence. The article referenced in the video mentions that Shanghai has sunk 3 meters (10 feet) over the last 100 years. And yet, Shanghai suffers much less from flooding incidents now than it did in the past. This all goes to show that despite land subsidence (which is real) or rising sea levels (which are also real), human ingenuity and hard work can easily mitigate the impacts of these environmental threats. Whether Shanghai or The Netherlands, we have not only arrested flooding events, but in both places we have actually reclaimed even more useful land from the surrounding sea. Every year, Shanghai grows bigger and bigger by preventing the silt of the Yangzi River from flowing into to the ocean and instead using it to build up land. The land where Pudong Airport, Shanghai's main international airport, is located was under water just 30 years ago. 1300 years ago, just around the end of the Tang Dynasty, all of Shanghai was just a swampy marsh. So yes, nature keeps giving us problems, but our engineers are pretty damn good at solving those same problems.
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  1531. Very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's warehouse.
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  1532.  @directxxxx71  "He just said it's a secret meeting". He said secretive, not secret. Those words have very different meanings.
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  1533.  @mandmsmapper8400  True, but you can filter most of them out. Incinerator exhaust is tested for compliance with environmental regulations.
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  1534.  @pennyandian  Burying it is a kind of processing. Not the kind we want, but a kind nonetheless.
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  1535.  @Nothing-yo5uo  My comment is not about whether Carrefour or HeMa is better. It is also not about China's development. Read it a few more times and maybe you'll understand.
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  1536.  @inannaenigma9391  I think the participants are from all over the country. The event just happens to take place in Texas. But I think you're right that most of them are self-identified conservatives or libertarians.
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  1537.  @stage6fan475  Oh, forgot to answer the translation question: I believe you download Torrents with different language subtitles, but I don't know how good they are. We used to get some good laughs out of the inept translations.
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  1538.  @tsartomato  Yes, but I wouldn't call Russia a developing country. More like a stagnant country.
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  1539.  @huas5350  Can you name some of those neutral media? I want to see the more colorful videos.
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  1540. But how are we in the west going to replace all the Russian brands? Oh wait, there aren't any.
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  1541. Another salon visit cut short.
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  1542. A correction: 0:42 "A controlled ventilation. And that detonated the train and the track with explosives, and it created a gigantic explosion that filled the town with debris". That is not what happened. Several of the rail cars were at risk of getting overheated and exploding. It was decided to conduct a 'controlled release' (or ventilation, but not an explosion), whereby the rail cars in question were opened and the vinyl chloride was allowed to run into a ditch that had been pre-dug for the purpose. The vinyl chloride was then deliberately set alight. This created a gigantic cloud of smoke, video and pictures of which is available everywhere. Why they burned it instead of some other action, I don't know, but there was no explosion, per se, but instead a fire. Nor was there debris flying all over town. There were 5 rail cars emptied of their content. Had they not done this, it was estimated that there was a risk of an actual explosion which could have sent lots of debris all over town. It was to prevent this from happening that they decided to release the chemicals.
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  1543. They appear widespread, but actually they are not. Though it depends how bad a building has to be, to be classified as 'tofu dreg'.
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  1544. Civil aircraft will be a good litmus test. China likes to play Europe and USA out against each other, but they need airplanes and only we can supply them. What are they going to do if we both make them angry?
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  1545. "in the West ...... more and more unhappy people in general." That may be your personal observation, but on the World Happiness Report, western countries still hold 19 of the top 20 spots. (The World Happiness Report is a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative of the United Nations)
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  1546. Your diet consists of sunflower seeds and hard grains?
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  1547. It looks like a dolphin that's lived off an American fast food diet all its life.
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  1548.  @karthikeyanm.v8381  Thank you. It's basically over now, 4:45PM. Pretty quiet, low winds, only light rain.
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  1549.  @NPCorangebad  "their group was flaunting American dollar bills". I have some dollar bills, got them for an overseas vacation some years back. What does that make me?
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  1550.  @zenithdawn9663  Oh yeah, I completely forgot about those "Ukrainian Bio Labs".
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  1551.  @taiwanisacountry  Who is your comment addressed to? It's as if you postulate that I claim you can. I have made no such claim, quite the opposite.
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  1552.  @yudogcome5901  That's probably all true, but there's no reason to think that USA's consumption power will suddenly decline. As for Mexico's low level of industrial development, that doesn't mean they cannot improve going forward. China was also underdeveloped once. And surely you will not claim that Chinese people were not diligent before 1978.
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  1553. Smog levels in big Chinese cities have been going down for more than 10 years. However, noise levels are noticeably lower with the many EVs on the roads.
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  1554. As soon as they have sold 10-25 billion tickets, they will have paid back the cost of the system. Unfortunately, the system appears to operate at a $9 billion annual loss.
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  1555. "Oh Allah, I have become a beggar"! I'm sure Allah is sad to hear that, but what's he gonna do about it?
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  1556.  @SeelkadoomSonicBlack  Did I say otherwise? Seems to me you're fantasizing about my original comment. I would advise you to never overinterpret people's comments, but read them literally.
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  1557.  @benyaminyasserchin8858  Very basically, so basically it can hardly get more basic. But all space programs can be described in an equally basic way: -Basically dropping a person off on Mars and transporting them back again?
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  1558. Your premise is that "The entire world can only bring back 1.7kg with modern-day (2020) technology". Why would you think that is the limit? If you can lift 100,000 kg off the face of the earth (which has much greater gravitational force) and out to the moon, why shouldn't you be able to lift a few tens or even hundreds of kg off the moon (with only 1/6th the gravitational pull) and let it fall back to earth? In fact, thinking about it, that sounds like the easiest part. It's your entire premise that is wrong.
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  1559. EV sales slump notwithstanding, X-Peng, NIO, and Li Auto all have some great looking cars. Very different from the drab models otherwise seen in the Chinese car market.
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  1560. 3 months to travel 80 meters. They should have given this cute rover a bicycle. Much faster.
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  1561. Very cool! I'd also love to see commercial motorboat taxis on Shanghai's many rivers and canals, just like they have in Bangkok. It would be so cool! (Could be electric: No noise, no CO2)
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  1562. Since this video stops counting in May 2020, SpaceX alone has sent up 781 Starlink satellites (2021-February). As of the end of this video, there are a total of about 9000 satellites in space. SpaceX aims to launch 12,000 Starlink satellites into space before 2027.
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  1563. If it doesn't hit the target, how do you know what the target is? Are you just guessing?
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  1564. "Hey, rich people! Why won't you give us your money, woo woo woo...."
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  1565. Plastic waste.
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  1566. The thumbnail couldn't be from 2014 because the tall building you see in the middle, CITIC Tower, was not completed until 2018. Additionally, the Beijing Air Quality Index for the last two days has been hovering around 180, denoting 'unhealthy'.
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  1567. Actually, I'm here right now during Chinese New Year and hotels are booked pretty solid. I'm paying double.
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  1568. Don't forget to pick up a few leather handbags.
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  1569. "2027 Ultra horror plus" with fear stabilization and 5.6 inch suffering.
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  1570. Just a little more tweaking and soon it'll be able to write you an essay that will guarantee membership of the Party.
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  1571. In practice it's not that bad, though it may sound bad.
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  1572. Agreed, though I am neither Indian nor American. India will probably always have an independent foreign policy and defense policy, but as long as India is not hostile to the west, I think we can be happy.
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  1573. It's not really surprising that fewer people are getting married now, compared to 2013. In 2013, there were 25 million people aged 25, but now there are only about 15 million people aged 25.
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  1574. How to speak Chinese?
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  1575.  @ssuwandi3240  Your comment still has no relevance to the topic: Visiting HK by plane.
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  1576. Your comment reveals your feeling of shame about what happened. If you were not ashamed, you would not bring up colonial rule as an example of an even worse system. Instead you would say: 'How wonderful our system has become, that these types of punishments have become reality.'
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  1577. @wgh Perhaps they are not, but that is why the government investigates. These investigators don't just take Tesla at their word but will require evidence.
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  1578.  @zacksmith5963  "67% in china". 67% of what is in China?
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  1579.  @Javy_Valen_Tain  No particularly reason why you should know. Disasters happen all the time, we can't know about all of them.
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  1580. Evergrande is asking for a USD32 billion (CNY 230 Billion) cash injection to get through its restructuring and back on a profitable path. If you were a potential investor, would you take a gamble on a real estate developer which already has $340 billion (CNY 2.4 trillion) in debt in the hope that it might return to profit some time in an unknown future? It's a pretty risky bet for not much return.
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  1581.  @雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu  Yes, some Thai police probably facilitate the border crossing, but tourists shouldn't get near the Myanmar border in the first place. These tourists volunteered to get into the car and go to 'the job site'.
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  1582. Bring child labor back and having children will become profitable. Not sure what children are able to do though. They used to deliver newspapers, but nobody reads newspapers anymore.
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  1583. The first woman, Erena So, sounds different from the usual Hong Kongers I hear speaking. I don't speak Cantonese myself, but it sounds to me like she has a slightly unusual accent. Any ideas?
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  1584. Abusive husband to estranged ex-wife: "Just end your senseless resistance and come back to me. Otherwise, I will just keep beating you up".
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  1585.  @heyojayo8642  "Show me one megastructure project that actually makes in on budget in any country." That's easy! Denmark built a major bridge in the mid-90s at a cost of USD 4 billion. It was to be 100% user-funded. It became so popular that it was paid back several years before planned and now turns a nice annual profit. A few years later, another bridge linking Denmark and Sweden was built for USD 4.6 billion. Also 100% user-funded. That is also profitable. The Channel Tunnel between the UK and France was built with 100% private investment for about USD 5 billion and opened in 1994. It has been profitable most years since 2016.
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  1586.  Zaydan Alfariz  Yes, there's a lot of truth in what you say. HSR is mostly not profitable except for the most used lines: Paris-Lyon, some Japanese lines, Beijing-Shanghai line. Those are all very profitable. However, the Jakarta-Bandung line is more expensive per kilometer than any Chinese HSR line built, so it's going to be difficult to make money.
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  1587. Do you have any evidence for those claims, or is it more a suspicion you have?
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  1588. At least that's some kind of rain.
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  1589. 34% of Indians live in urban areas, 66% in rural areas. These numbers are identical to China's in 2000, according to the China 2000 Census.
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  1590.  @petefrys545  I don't know where you're from, but Nazi-, Fascist-, White Power-, Nationalist groups started growing all over central and eastern Europe very quickly after the wall fell. I remember this clearly on a visit to Budapest in 1992, where I was faced with some of those people. Widespread youth unemployment and a general feeling of despair led some young men to join these movements. This was, and is, a trend we saw all over the east, including in Russia. Fortunately, these groups are generally a small minority everywhere, including in Ukraine. As for Russia, I don't expect the Russian authorities to clamp down on these groups because they often serve the governments interests. Russia is a spiritually rotten wasteland, let's just make that clear.
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  1591.  @sko1beer  I'm shipping in the opposite direction. The ships to China are almost empty so prices are low.
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  1592. Well dried wheat, maize, barley and other grain can easily last for years, as long as it is stored well.
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  1593. Top comment!
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  1594. Nice overview.
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  1595. What's the corgi vs. chicken fight? Something to do with the queen's dogs?
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  1596. I always look forward to a Covert Cabal video. Just the data, no hype. I love that.
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  1597. Thank you. Good video!
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  1598. "Dwarves are actual humans". Except for Dwarf Hamster, Dwarf Mongoose, Dwarf Crocodile, Dwarf Cayman, Dwarf Elephant, Dwarf Hippopotamus, and possibly many others species.
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  1599. When the US first put a man on the moon, it had a GDP per capita of $5,000.-
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  1600. Question for our Chinese commenters: The name Dwen Dwen, or Dun Dun, or 墩墩 to mean 'plump' or 'fatty', is that an expression mostly used in northern China? I have never heard this expression before.
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  1601. "needs investors"....."human greed". Would it be less greedy if he had just used his own money? How so?
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  1602.  @leo7957  'Supporting'. I love that. It's the phrase so often used on Chinese social media: 支持！😏
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  1603.  @MetaView7  Look up China-Australia trade war for an overview. There's lots of material to learn about.
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  1604. Fortunately, even lactose intolerant people can eat yogurt, sour cream, some cheeses and other 'processed' dairy products, because most of the lactose have been eaten by bacteria and yeasts.
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  1605. Yes, clearly the US and the UK are poor, underdeveloped countries, filled with hungry masses.
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  1606.  @Mr.Patrick_Hung  That's true. Lower GDP means lower cost.
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  1607. I completely agree with the OP, but I don't think there is any nefarious purpose. Rather, they worry that viewers will change the channel if they go too deep into any topic. They understand that to keep viewers in their seats, coverage of any topic must be exciting, colorful, emotional, moralistic, superficial, offering simple solutions to complex problems, lots of CGI and video. At best, they offer 'news-tainment', not education. This is especially the case with US media. Just look at the hosts: They all have to look good, with perfect hair and bright smiles, as if that has any relevance to what goes on in the world and in society.
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  1608. My country Denmark has never hosted the Olympics, either, and we're not going to, ever. It's a total waste of money, just for having people running around on a track or a field. I would be strongly against hosting Olympic Games.
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  1609.  @Sumi_S  I remember what people used to say about cleanliness in China 15-25 years ago. Remember, all countries must go through similar stages of development.
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  1610.  @theholypopechodeii4367  People throw this term, 'ultra-processed' around, but what does it actually mean? Is cheese ultra-processed? Whisky? Seems to me people use this term mostly for modern foods with lots of additives made in a factory, and that gives the impression that people feel the additives themselves make the food unhealthy. But where is the evidence for that? All current additives are approved for human consumption. What knowledge do we actually have that 'ultra-processed' food is unhealthy? Is it just based on belief without evidence? People used to believe MSG was bad, but I think more people are coming around to the reality that it does nothing harmful to us, and that's just one example. High-end restaurants will sometimes process their food to an extreme degree, freeze-dry it, pulverize it, etc. Does that make it unhealthy? I'm highly skeptical.
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  1611. "They become like internet commenters and cannot switch off, becoming useless". 😅
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  1612. No country in Europe bans hijab, but Niqab, burqa and other clothing that covers the face completely is banned. A muslim woman can feel safe wearing hijab in Europe.
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  1613. I don't get the point. If China wants to invest in Panama, they can continue to do so, even without the BRI. Nobody is worse off because Panama cancels their membership.
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  1614.  @stephanieyee9784  The earthquake was 4.3. I'm neither minimizing nor maximizing it. It is a statement of fact. As for 'rude and arrogant', those are your feelings about my post, not a statement of fact.
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  1615. The Long March 8 is also designed to be reusable, though no tests have yet been made in that respect.
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  1616. Well done. Maybe we can start thinking about what to use all that unlimited energy for. Not just the energy problems we have now, but thinking much farther than that.
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  1617.  @mudshovel289  I don't want people to know which country I'm from. Nevertheless, your belief or lack of belief is entirely up to you. Telling me you don't believe me isn't going to make the experience any different.
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  1618.  @pogogod6036  And how do you define 'neocolonialism'? It seems to me this is just a word people are throwing around when they are too lazy to come up with solid arguments.
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  1619.  @joMan1060  "why EU forcing Indonesia to export RAW Nickel ?" The Eu is asking WTO to determine if Indonesia has the right to ban sales of raw nickel under WTO rules. After all, Indonesia is a member of WTO and has signed on to the rules. If you agree to the rules you have to follow the rules. Besides, in the end, Indonesia might win.
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  1620.  @pogogod6036  Finally you concede that I'm right. Thanks for this conversation. If Indonesia feels sure that they're right, they can go into the WTO negotiations with a feeling of confidence. Everybody will end up being friends again.
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  1621.  @muhammadanshari3931  "but you said selling to others? What double standard". Selling to others is a double standard? You're not making sense. Try to make more clear and coherent arguments.
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  1622.  @suasanakota6219  "only the EU are angry". Ok, I did not know that the EU is angry. I only see a lot of commenters here being angry at the EU, I don't see any European comments expressing anger at Indonesia.
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  1623.  @KyutkyutRodeng  Did you know that Indonesia has had a trade surplus with the EU every year for the last 15 years? Indonesia will likely continue to have a trade surplus with the EU going forward. Shouldn't that make you feel better?
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  1624.  @someonespotatohmm9513  If you don't get paid for your work, I advise you to quit immediately and find a job that does pay you. I don't know where you grew up, but the industrial revolution has created immense wealth for even the poorest compared to their situation before the industrial revolution. If, on the other hand, you compare to Jeff Bezos, then yes, everyone else is suffering.
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  1625. I remember that. I was in Nanjing in October 1991, stayed for a few nights in a dorm in Nanjing University. I didn't see any trouble, but people told me about it.
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  1626.  @demonvictim  You may be misunderstanding the real estate situation in China. You do not 'lease' the land under your property. Rather, you pay an administrative fee for the 'land use rights' for that land. That fee is not high because it's not a lease, and it's a one-time payment. However, you're right that it is unknown exactly what will happen when those 'Land Use Right' certificates run out. The general understanding is that you can extend a further 70 years and pay another small administrative fee, but that is not actually written down anywhere. The historical experience comes from the countryside, where farmers have been able to extend their 20-year land use rights over and over.
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  1627. If the heavens would rain a sweet, flavored syrup, we would have the world's biggest slushie ice dessert.
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  1628. Is that a Glasgow accent he is sporting?
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  1629. China is free to build up anything they like. Other countries have also been through 'centuries of humiliation'. In fact, it's more common than not.
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  1630. It should be mentioned that of the railways built abroad mentioned in the video, the ones in Laos and Kenya are not high-speed railways. Vietnam has recently announced that they will build their own high-speed railway, rather than buying it from abroad, though who knows, they might change their mind. Almost all the technology for China's high-speed rail system was supplied by foreign companies: Siemens for the sleeper-less tracks and the signal systems, trains came from Japan, France, Italy, and Germany. Since then, China has continued to develop on these systems to a degree where they can now export the technology as their own. One prime example of this is the Fuxing train set, with a design speed up to 380 km/h.
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  1631. China imposes tariffs, too. Do you apply the same explanation? Almost no products can enter China from any country without at least some tariffs.
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  1632.  @tara_p_rose11  Banned in mine, too. I think banned in most European countries. It's cruel!
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  1633. I disagree with the idea that viewers in the US and the west in general simply let themselves be spoonfed certain opinions and take those as gospel. What is my evidence? All the commenters here and people elsewhere who hold differing views. Why were we/they not persuaded by the mainstream news? Are we better or smarter than those who disagree with us? I don't think we necessarily are. There exists an endless amount of news and opinion online of all possible views, and anyone who thinks people are easily manipulated are having a harder and harder time doing that. And finally, everybody seems to think that others are easily manipulated, but they never think that they themselves are easily manipulated.
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  1634. There's really no reason to speed up production of SpaceX rockets since they can be reused many times. Some of them have flown up to 15 times. So whereas this new plant in Hainan can build 50 rockets per year, SpaceX can make the same number of launches with perhaps just 4 to 6 rockets. (The two rockets are not identical, though. SpaceX Falcon 9 is designed for Low Earth Orbit, while the LM-8 is designed for Sun Synchronous Orbit)
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  1635.  @MeowMeow-jt8mo  "Nice try CCP troll". What part of my comment made you believe I have any sympathies toward the CCP?
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  1636. "Chips shouldn't be an exclusive weapon holding in only 1 country." It isn't, and never has been. There are a multitude of countries involved in making chips. In fact, there is no single country that can make them all on its own (except for the really low end chips).
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  1637. I'd like to se someone (perhaps not this channel) take a deep dive into which industries will leave China first and which will stay on. For example, it's one thing to move an assembly line to Vietnam, but if all the components are made in China first and then shipped down in boxes, it's not much of a difference. Despite having lived in China for decades, I am still sometimes astonished when I open my Taobao app and see the multitude of products made here. It's basically everything you can imagine, and even a lot of things you can't imagine. As an example, whatever kitchen knife set you are thinking of buying, it seems most likely it will be made in China. Recently, I've seen assorted western branded kitchen paring knives sold in bulk for $1/piece. These are not fakes, but excess production.
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  1638. People like Tony and I and other viewers of this channel, and tens of thousands of others live here. We have a pretty good idea of what is going on.
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  1639. If your oysters light up a dark room with a green glow, don't eat them!
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  1640.  @itr8247  Yes, I believe it's now an Indian company. Then there's Christiani & Nielsen in Thailand, also started by Danish engineers, now owned by GP Group.
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  1641.  @bubuneowoo6161  "Please stop exposing your ignorance". Yes, the engine is the same, and still the aircraft is not up to par: Range is only 2300 nmi, compared to at least 4500 nmi on the A320 and B737. With approximately the same fuel capacity, it indicates that fuel consumption is higher per km flown, i.e. worse fuel economy. The shorter range means greater limitations on the routes available to this aircraft. For example, the C919 can fly from Beijing to Bangkok, but not to KL or Singapore. The A320 or the B737 can fly from Beijing to Singapore, Bali, and even all the way down to Darwin, Australia. In the other direction, the A320 and the B737 can fly from BJ all the way to Moscow and Helsinki, Finland. The C919 can only fly to Astana, Kazakhstan.
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  1642. I'm pretty confident that countries around the Baltic Sea, with the exception of Russia and possibly Germany, are all quite happy that this pipeline was destroyed, so that would include Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. It could even have been done with some of the technical expertise those countries possess.
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  1643. I think it aired on a number of streaming channels in China, possibly Youku.
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  1644. That is a term coined by Elon Musk a few years ago. It's just a funny way of saying 'explosion'.
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  1645.  @rylandrc  Is poor personal hygiene a problem where you live? Where is it a problem?
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  1646.  @FilmscoreMetaler  You could even say that by giving away their excess soap, those big hotels are washing their hands.....(sorry, I'll show myself out)
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  1647.  @platoquemado  "I just had a family member get sick with typhoid". Did your family member not have access to soap, or did the person just choose not to use it? Also, is it possible your family member got infected in another way, for example by eating or drinking contaminated food? That is the most common way to get infected.
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  1648.  @RealMTBAddict  Nobody has to, but some people are daredevils.
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  1649. There's also the Jamestown Foundation, but only in writing, no videos. They have some very good and deep, some might say downright nerdy, analyses of China's geo-strategic actions.
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  1650.  @YounisShah-ln7sr  Why has the prophet already waited over 70 years without taking any action? And what are the signs that he will take action soon?
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  1651.  @4evertrue830  But it's an arch construction, which should be able to support itself without re-bar.
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  1652. It was not to improve economic ties. It was primarily to lower the distrust, lower the risk of military conflict.
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  1653.  @condorX2  Thanks for that comprehensive and yet, completely irrelevant list.
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  1654. As Chairman Mao used to say: 天要下雨，娘要嫁人。We may not like it, but there's nothing we can do about it.
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  1655. Excellent update, as usual. An observation from the ground here in Shanghai: We're seeing an increase in government investment in 'Common Prosperity' infrastructure projects here, among them early beginnings of installation of elevators in the thousands of 'public housing' neighborhoods, 6-story walk-ups built in the 80s and 90s that make up around a third of all housing in Shanghai. This will be popular with the aging middle class that occupy these apartments (or flats, as you'd say), it will provide jobs for construction companies and local elevator manufacturers, but perhaps it also illustrates how difficult it is becoming to find projects with good, or any, return on investment. There's also a fair bit of commercial office space being developed in my area, but it seems to fill up very slowly.
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  1656. I thought Ukrainian and Polish language were closer, but the Polish translation of Zelensky is quite different.
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  1657. It starts with a handshake, then a hug, then a kiss, and then they turn out the lights.
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  1658. In 2023, Maldives received 11% of their tourists from India, 10% from China, 11% from Russia, 29% from the EU, 4% from the US. However, back in 2019, before Covid, Chinese tourists made up 17%, the biggest share from any single country.
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  1659. Very interesting overview, Bloomberg. Thanks for that.
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  1660. March, 2024, still hilarious!
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  1661. Certainly, I don't know of any western country that requires you to be a patriot to run for office. It's also very difficult to define what is meant by patriot. -If you support the government because you love the country, that could be patriotic. -If you want to change the government because you love the country, that could be patriotic. -If you want to change the political system because you love the country, that could be patriotic.
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  1662.  @johnbrooks7144  "The Russians will take back Kherson Oblast when it suits their plan." You're basically suggesting that Russia's plan was to take Kherson, then give it up, and then take it once more? Hell, maybe they'll take it again, then give it up again, all just for the exercise.
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  1663.  @MrGercela64  I'm very happy for you.
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  1664.  @mapletibits6372  "are you sure the variety of crops used in the agriculture industry not of ones tested in space?" I'm not sure, but there haven't been any reports about it. If these experiments were successful, it would surely be reported.
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  1665. Good introduction. I had hear of Tom Zhu, but I was lacking more info. Thanks for providing that. He seems nice for a Beijinger.
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  1666.  @Ariun97  Studies based in part on satellite images viewed over time clearly show that as much as 70% of Mongolia's grasslands are degraded to some degree due to overgrazing. There is a widespread decline of vegetation across the steppe. If Mongolia doesn't do something soon, there will be nothing left for the Mongolian pastoral nomads to survive on. "We can’t bring the grassland to them". Yes, you can. This is being done in other parts of the world. Keep the livestock penned, harvest the grass and bring the grass to the animals. This practice is much more gentle to the grasslands and help them survive and thrive.
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  1667. The woman in the video is literally named Amy, an English name. Compare that to people like Kamala Harris (US VP), Rishi Sunak (UK PM), Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO), Sundar Pichai (Google CEO). Your claim doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny.
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  1668. Hilarious!
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  1669. Another challenge for 2023: China's two biggest export markets are EU and North America. If those two regions have a recession, as many economists predict, consumers there will likely buy fewer goods, negatively affecting China's exports.
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  1670.  @jokast8861  "especially in uk lol". That's what I hear, though apparently the UK has bad weather year round.
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  1671. Does 'soil' infer organic matter? If it's sand and mineral dust, would that not constitute 'soil'?
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  1672. Typhoon season usually starts in summer. Many typhoons over the season with several hitting China every year (it's a big place, after all, so hard to miss). In my many years in Shanghai, I only remember a couple of direct hits to the city. The worst was in 2014, I think. The streets were littered with tree branches, twigs, leaves and other debris. A handful of people got killed, mostly fishermen who had not made it to port in time. Some billboards, shop signs and awnings were blown to pieces.
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  1673. "Glory to Ukraine"
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  1674. People always find it hard to believe, but: Politicians have friendships across party lines, even if they disagree on almost everything. Who knows, maybe Kamala Harris and Lindsay Graham both love crab cake sandwiches and they spend hours comparing notes on where to get the best one in DC.
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  1675.  @brendakayyy  Thanks for your reply. It's all becoming clearer now.
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  1676. There may very well be lots of Chinese people who will buy these bonds. They have little else to invest their money in. It used to be real estate, but now they will put their money in anything that can give just 2-3% per year.
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  1677. Average cost of high speed rail projects: -China: US$ 30 million/km -Europe: US$ 40 million/km -Jakarta-Bandung high speed rail: US$ 51 million/km
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  1678. Exactly! Now we can have fun imagining what will be the next handful of countries that will undergo this phase.
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  1679.  @gmanlee575  Don't you remember China in the 1990s?
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  1680.  @mingyuhuang8944  It's a legitimate question.
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  1681. I'm glad the whole thing is finally over. April and May were brutal in Shanghai. Never again! I'd rather die from Covid-19 than go through two months of lock-down again.
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  1682. People living in China know how WeChat can increase productivity, but 'trial by WeChat', that's a new one for me.
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  1683. Re. Mao's view on nuclear war: He was remarkably flippant about sacrificing millions of Chinese people lives, seeing them as an expendable resource, mostly useful for the advancement of national interests. There's a story about one of Nixon's first conversations with Mao in the 70s. Nixon played the 'freedom card' and asked why China didn't allow its citizens to travel abroad and see how democratic countries worked. Mao is supposed to have replied: "I suppose we can let more Chinese people travel to the US. Do you like Chinese women, President Nixon? How about we start by sending you 50 million Chinese women, and if you like them, we'll send 100 million more". Nixon didn't quite know how to respond and changed the subject. At other times, Mao boasted about how many intellectuals he had killed: "A lot more than Emperor Qin".
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  1684. But how do you get your un-laundered cash into an online casino? If it's online, the money transfer would have to happen electronically, so first you have to get your dirty cash into the financial system. That seems to be the sticking point.
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  1685. Were you not aware that there are fake bank notes in other countries, too?
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  1686. Things may look gloomy now, but the roll-out of renewable energy generation is growing at almost exponential rates. 10-15 years from now, things will look much better. I also expect we will see massive growth in EVs during that time, all of which help to lower our CO2 emissions drastically. I'm very optimistic about our future.
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  1687.  @Indian_Rajput  "Chinese origin Singaporeans are Chinese who flee China". Using that same logic, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are Indians.
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  1688. 0:12 I thought that was President Xi arriving in Saudi Arabia by camel.
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  1689.  @DDDrumpf  When discussing economic and social development, it makes no sense to be politically correct. You can't eat political correctness. You have to go by the facts. Nor does it make sense to make jokes about socio-economic development, because you can't eat jokes, either.
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  1690. 1:21 Look at all those SpaceX employees cheering like they're at the football World Cup finals.
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  1691.  @michaelgriffith5119  We don't have decades? Then how long do we have? When does it end?
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  1692.  @philipm3173  "Rich countries need to stop exploiting the masses" The way I see it, rich countries have solved most of their problems, while poor countries still need to solve theirs. Poor countries can try to solve the problems on their own, or they can cooperate with rich countries. Both of those are fine with me.
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  1693.  @pepelepew1227  "housewife in a wet market". They are some of the smartest people in China.😉
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  1694.  @pepelepew1227  Well, I don't think the US or Europe will agree to that. We may have to take our business elsewhere, even if we would prefer to buy from China.
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  1695. Excellent video as usual. Content wise, this is really a high quality channel. Production quality could still be improved, but that is secondary when the content is so good.
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  1696. Considering their rigor in testing (here in Shanghai we've gotten tested every 48 hours), I find it mindboggling that they don't simultaneously offer vaccinations at the testing site. They have the medical staff on hand and they could strongly 'encourage' any laggards to get vaccinated. My community has an overweight of elderly. I don't know how many are vaccinated, but a constant nagging would persuade a large number to get the jab. There hasn't even been any mention of getting vaccinated during this lock down. Nothing in government advisories, or community chat groups, or from the Neighborhood Committee.
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  1697. @keepgrinding23 True, but crop burning was also a problem in China back then.
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  1698.  @thalesnemo2841  That is not correct. If it were, most of us would be dead long ago.
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  1699.  @daisyo.6666  I couldn't afford to have 4 children with my income, so I decided not to.
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  1700. Sounds reasonable. I wonder why Peru started the lawsuit to begin with? Were they hoping to get some favor from China? Maybe they did get a favor, a favor that has not, and will not, be made public.
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  1701. During that period, the law stated that people have the freedom to protest, and march in the streets. Doesn't matter what they are protesting, doesn't matter what slogans they yell, doesn't matter what signs they hold up. The law gave them the freedom to express their opposition to the National Security Law. But now that the National Security Law has been ratified, they no longer have those freedoms.
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  1702.  @canto_v12  I don't know about 'most countries', but in most western and other developed countries, hate speech tends to be free speech. It is a common misunderstanding that 'hate speech' is punished by law in the west. Hate speech is generally considered protected speech. It is true that there a limitations in speech, the question is how broad these limitations are. For example, it may seem reasonable to limit 'incitement to violence', but only if the term 'incitement' is very clearly defined with clear limits. To say "I hope xyz-organisation is overthrown" is perfectly legal in democratic countries. Anyway, let's go back to HK. Before 1997, HK was perhaps the most free region in all of Asia when it came to speech. You could critique and protest against colonial British rule, against the governor, against the police, against the government of Britain or HK. These activities were all protected. People did not need prior permission to march in the streets, though there were rules against stopping or disrupting traffic or normal business. The National Security Law makes it a crime to 'incite hatred against the Central Government or the HK government'. There has never been such a law in HK before, and such a law does not exist in any democratic/western/developed country. But laws like this are common in authoritarian countries. You like this law, and you have to live with it. Good luck.
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  1703.  @JCarterme3531  "Freedom of expression include arson and destroying people's ancestor tombs". It does not, and those crimes should be prosecuted, but it should not lead to an end to the freedom of expression. It is not speech that were the cause of those crimes, but people's criminal behavior. Words did not set fire to buildings, and words did not destroy the tombs.
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  1704. It's regular black pepper, but the pepper grown in this region is supposed to especially fragrant. It commands high prices.
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  1705.  @TacticalMayo  Not a problem. We all learn new things every day.
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  1706. Brunei and Malaysia both pump a lot of oil from the SCS, thought I don't know if it's considered 'deep sea'.
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  1707. He probably lives on the Upper West Side now and his main concern has changed from illegal logging to 'where can I find the best espresso roast'?
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  1708. Pretty interesting. I've been contacted by scammers several times, as I'm sure everybody else has, but it always seems so obvious that it is a scam.
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  1709.  @tc98826  "Surely it needs less yield since each one is twice the size". No, yield is measured in mass/area, for example Kg per hectare, or in China's case, jin per mou.
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  1710. There are hundreds of people who do that every year, though with slightly different routes. Europe - China - Singapore is a popular choice. It has become a little more difficult in recent years, though.
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  1711.  @neonboy99  "Vietnam still remembers". Of course they remember, but they are also ready to move forward with new cooperation to a greater future. And let's not forget: Vietnam won the war.
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  1712. Crimes yes, but not heinous ones, only regular crimes.
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  1713. Ah yes, celebrity news! So important for us all.....
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  1714.  @ChinaUpdate  Thanks, Tony. BTW, your city of Ningbo, would you categorize that as 2nd or 3rd tier? Sometimes I feel like Hangzhou should be considered a 1st tier city, but there doesn't seem to be clear divisions.
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  1715.  @gtw4546  Thanks, let's see how it goes.
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  1716.  @gluecksdrache2054  Well, at some stage, Chinese labor costs will rise so high that it will become cheaper to make the ships elsewhere. That's what happened in the other countries. It's also what has happened to the Chinese apparel and shoe industry. Jobs move to where the cost is low.
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  1717. Hey, I met Chuck Schumer in China once, too, but that was back in 2006.
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  1718. Regarding the PMI: Does anyone know how these numbers are tabulated? For example, if you simply survey Purchasing Managers, you could have the following example: 10 manufacturers each have 10% of the market. You survey them once, and the growth number is flat. Then one manufacturer goes bankrupt and the rest take over that share. Even with a flat market, at the next survey, those 9 will now report a 9% increase in production. Such a scenario will give a false result, so that's why I'm wondering how it's tabulated.
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  1719. There's Hotmax in Shanghai?
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  1720. A low Yuan is good for foreign tourists. Good for exporters.
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  1721.  @cuteandfunnyearthlings2863  "The same people fled hk or in hk prison now". In that case, it should be simple to repossess their ill gotten properties. More likely, though, is that they are the opposite of what you say.
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  1722.  @4evertrue830  "Why do you blame the rich for taking the land and putting it into use?" Because they're stealing the land. They never paid for it. Also, this land is not for sale, because it serves a purpose: Keeping the terrain safe.
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  1723. 18:40 'Beijing recently announced an additional 47.5 billion USD injection into semiconductor R&D'. Thousands of grifters will be lining up for some of that sweet, free cash.
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  1724. SCMP did have an article on it, but if there's no video footage from CAR, they cannot make a video.
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  1725. I guess that taught her a lesson she'll never forget.
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  1726. Battleship, Cruise ship, space ship, China can make it. But what will the future bring? Hardship? Friendship?
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  1727.  @JM-xg8ll  Yes, it reminds of being in China in the 1980s and 1990s. Give it some time and it will pass.
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  1728. United Nations Population Division predicts that Indonesia's population will never get as big as that of the US. Indonesia's population will peak in 2067 at 337 million and then slowly decline. By that year, the US population will be 400 million. These numbers could change depending on immigration. If Indonesia allows millions of people to immigrate to the country, it will continue growing.
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  1729. Looks like a compilation of three different attacks in three different places. One is an attack by artillery shells, one by unguided rockets, and one shows a direct hit on a sole vehicle.
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  1730. "eponymous" = named after a person. A better choice would be 'enlightening'. Might have been an auto-complete error.
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  1731. It seems very different in Asia. Whether it is Japan, HK or Singapore, high rise apartment buildings generally seem very well kept and orderly.
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  1732.  @bluerisk  Well, there's no doubt that housing built in the 1990s and 2000s in China seem to quickly deteriorate, but that may be due to poor construction quality. Apart from that, there really is a difference with Western countries. You hardly ever see vandalism, graffiti, youth gangs or social decay in Chinese residential complexes. That could change in the future, of course, but I doubt it. There is a cultural difference. I'd like to see us westerners learn from East Asian countries in that respect, though I don't know how we'd do it. Culture is hard to change.
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  1733. Don't feel sorry. Having lived and traveled in developing countries for decades I know that the people there have no use for your pity. If you express your pity to them, they'll just want you go to somewhere else. If pity was a tradeable good, they might feel different about it. What those people would like much more is for you to visit and buy some of what they sell.
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  1734.  @ElysetheEevee  I think @aaroniouse was trying to be sarcastic and snarky at the same time. It's hard to say for certain.
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  1735.  @Princelywon  "India still has to figure out how to feed most of its people". India is self sufficient in food production and is a major exporter of rice. China is still not self sufficient in food.
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  1736. These young consumers they interview, who talk about buying domestic goods, they really look like they're from 3rd tier cities. What do the young people from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen say? (The young woman is IN Beijing, but she is not FROM Beijing). In any case, people around the world often buy domestic products, not because they want to perform their patriotic duty, just because that's what they're familiar with.
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  1737. They're not 'utterly dependent'. They're Iran's biggest buyer, so that gives them leverage. But they can also get oil from so many other places, and indeed, they already spread their oil purchases around the world, exactly because they don't want to be too dependent on one country.
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  1738. I like how the first guy they interviewed was wearing a marijuana T-shirt.
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  1739.  @jetli740  "Hypothesis". Do you know what that means? Try to look it up.
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  1740. We're charging our battery And now we're full of energy We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots We're functioning automatic And we are dancing mechanic We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots Я твой слуга Я твой работник Я твой слуга Я твой работник We are programmed just to do Anything you want us to We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots We are the robots (Kraftwerk 1978: music video here: https://youtu.be/D_8Pma1vHmw )
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  1741. Or you can eat spinach, which has twice as much iron as sugar cane juice for the same amount. In my understanding, spinach is a very commonly grown vegetable in India and should be easy to find.
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  1742. No matter how you cut and slice it, Japanese knives are great!
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  1743. They may have to change the name to Valley of Life.
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  1744.  @clarkesmith.  That is unrelated to language. Much of America's economy is controlled by people of German, Italian, Russian, etc. descent. That doesn't mean their ancestors' language has any more importance.
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  1745.  @anakborneo7993  "current UN ROC constitution" The UN charter and the ROC constitution are two unrelated documents by two different organisations. The UN recognizes PRC as the sole representative of China, but the UN doesn't say whether Taiwan is a part of the PRC or not.
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  1746. Yes, I think in his earlier days, he had extreme nationalist views. But didn't he move more to the center later on? This is not an unusual journey in politics, certainly not in European politics. Just think of Italy's Meloni, or Sweden's 'Sweden Democrats‘. Many European center-right politicians started out being quite extreme (and many on the left did, too). Perhaps this is the case with Navalny. In any case, it's a moot point. The man is dead, but even alive and free, it's unlikely he would have been allowed to run for office.
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  1747. I don't understand these concerns about privacy. We've been talking about them for decades. And for decades, tech companies have been collecting data about us and our behavior, online and off. But in those decades I cannot think of a single time where I have been bothered or inconvenienced by this collecting of my data.
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  1748. @Julio Duan: Where did you get this information? I am highly skeptical of the claim that any Sherpa would simply abandon a client to die in the most dangerous part of the climb. I know you can't post links here, but a reference to a source would be nice, thanks.
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  1749. @Julio Duan: I looked up your claims on Baidu (百度), Xinhua News (新华社), Sina (新浪), but could not find anything like your story.
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  1750.  @dannial7744  Selamat datang
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  1751. "People don't part with their hair unless they need money, or they do it for religious reasons". I'm pretty sure most people part with their hair because they want to change their hairstyle, or they just need a haircut.
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  1752. I imagine getting any real work done in space must be very frustrating. Things just flying around all over the place....
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  1753. Xi is right that sanctions may impede global economic activity, but I think the West is willing to make that sacrifice. Perhaps we're not as weak as some people around the world thought we were. Grain exports from Russia and Ukraine may plummet, but they're not affected by sanctions. A reduction of grain worldwide is because of the war, not because of sanctions.
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  1754. This is great news for spineless people everywhere.
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  1755.  @gringadoor5385  It's business news. They do business in Asia, too. A lot of it, actually, thus the need to have a Hong Kong studio. Also, the time difference means you can talk about US stocks during the US daytime from the NYC studio, and then when the US stock market closes, you can shift to the Asian studio and talk about the Asian market to keep your coverage relevant 24/7. It all makes perfect sense to me.
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  1756. It was news to me that SK doesn't build cruise ships, and that most are built in Europe. Are they really so much more complicated than, say, a container ship?
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  1757.  @naturetruth5218  Thank you, great info! 🙂
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  1758.  @naturetruth5218  No problem, we can all make mistakes.
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  1759. Using upper-case letters does not make your claim more valid.
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  1760.  @Celticowl4136  In the end, national security is more important than the price of any goods.
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  1761.  @suntan8655  But China has practiced this for decades: They make sure they have several different national suppliers of oil, gas, wheat, corn, soy, iron ore, copper ore, civilian aircraft, and other strategically important products. There is nothing wrong with this approach. It is not immoral, or unfair, but completely understandable. Russia could easily supply all China's needs for oil and gas, but China doesn't want to be tied to Russia. Australia could easily supply all of China's needs for iron ore, but China doesn't want to be tied to Australia. And so forth....
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  1762. Native Americans don't need imported goods. They collect everything they need from nature.
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  1763. I think you put the comma in the wrong place. Total casualties during 9/11 were around 3,000 and that includes all 4 flights.
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  1764.  @jkardez4794  Just google it, instead of being both snarky and ignorant.
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  1765. Does it matter who leaked it? A child or a retiree, the result is the same.
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  1766. That's not going to help if you don't start having more children to begin with.
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  1767.  @bhoomeerg8045  I've lived in China for many years, now, though not 35 years. That first trip made me curious.
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  1768.  @sdqsdq6274  Yeah, we were also skeptical about these claims, but as we couldn't communicate further it was impossible to get details.
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  1769. @@MengGuoZhou "info were linked by PhDs from Sun-Yat sen University." Well, in that case, tell me the name of the article and I'll do a search for it.
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  1770. "most people in chinese big cities, like shanghai/beijing, earn easily $3000net". Not quite that much, Average monthly income in Shanghai in 2024 was RMB 13,000.- or a little under $2000.- However, you also added 'net', meaning after tax (also known as disposable income). In that case, average disposable income is RMB 7,500.- or a little over $1,000.-
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  1771.  @rollinghippo2940  Oil will never run out, for the following reason: As the amount of oil we can extract begins to decrease, the price will go up, because demand is still there. The price goes up, it becomes too expensive for many countries, who will seek other forms of energy. By then, solar, wind and nuclear power suddenly look very low priced, so countries will invest more in that. That causes the demand for oil to decrease, then increase again as demand goes up, and the cycle repeats. Every single natural resource works like this, including labor, if we consider ourselves to be natural. Fewer workers mean higher salaries, means higher prices, means lower consumption, means higher unemployment, etc., etc.
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  1772. It's nothing compared to the challenges of building a successful life in China.
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  1773.  @Hkchinese888  He is his mum's regular customer. It's called 'circular economy'.
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  1774. These warzone correspondents must have a very special personality. Yes, they're brave, but there must also be a strong attraction to danger. And there's the lure of getting a big story no one else can get.
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  1775. Re. demographic data around marriages: We should remember that there are a lot fewer women of prime marriage age now than there were in 2013. 27-year-old women in 2013: 12.5 million 27-year-old women in 2021: 8.0 million
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  1776.  @alm777  Sorry, March 30
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  1777.  @drippingout6154  Sure, it probably won't make me sick, it just doesn't taste very good. Don't worry, no one is saying we are facing starvation. I think we'll all survive.
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  1778. Re. infrastructure spending, the field of energy generation will still be a good place for the govt. to invest. Nuclear, wind, solar, Ultra High Voltage powerlines. These both help reduce China's need for imported fossil fuels and help to achieve China's goal of reducing CO2 emissions. I don't think China needs more airports, expressways, high speed rail, or at least they won't help the economy grow much, if at all.
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  1779.  @pepelepew1227  Ah, you include the Qing Dynasty as part of the 'humiliation'. That is not an view I often hear in China, though I agree it makes sense. In those years, many Han Chinese were vehemently opposed to the Qing government, for hundreds of years, but it is not often discussed nowadays.
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  1780.  @valorzinski7423  No, they don't! Give me just one example of changes in the voting system.
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  1781.  @Steven-xf8mz  "8 nations invaded China not too long before 1920s". No, that happened long before, in 1900. The statue was documented to be in France since the early 1930s, at least 30 years later. That makes it unlikely that it is from the same event.
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  1782.  @Steven-xf8mz  Ok, I found some more info on this statue: It was bought in the early 1930s in Beijing from the Chinese art collector Huo MingZhi (霍明志 1879-1949) by the grandfather of the current owner. Hopefully, this can put our discussion to rest. We were both wrong, but it was interesting to speculate on the origin. You can read more about Huo MingZhi on Baidu: "霍明志,生于1879年,字宗杰,浙江绍兴人,二十世纪初著名收藏家"
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  1783.  @Steven-xf8mz  "is this connected to what said about "would have been destroyed?" No, it is not, because the foreign invasions were not the cause of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). You know who caused that.
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  1784. The real question is: How many years is 'a few years'?
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  1785.  @alexg3744  That's a shame. I have taken the SHG-BJ and SHG-ShenZhen sleepers many times. I love them. They seem to be at least 70% full every time.
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  1786.  @youngz13o  I hope so, and let's not forget that they would be welcomed by business travelers, as well. A whole day on a train is a whole day (almost) wasted.
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  1787. Don't you use oil or gas in your life? It's a resource that is still needed in our society and we can't just turn off the tap from one day to the next. The energy transition is a long-term process. As long as we make progress every day, things will get better.
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  1788.  @KinLee919  Well, now it's 444
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  1789.  @appa609  SK started pulling ahead already in the 70s.
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  1790.  @TheBooban  Are you advocating for killing people?
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  1791.  @Madd.annie26  It's always great to learn new things. Keep it up. 😉
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  1792.  @whyparkjiminnotridejimin  How about a tuna?
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  1793.  @ittakes2-2tango  I second that and add that the most touristy sections were further restored and renovated in the 1980s, 1990s to be safe for tourists. Whether you're at BaDaLing, MuTianYu or SiMaTai, just go to the end of the crowds and you will see much more worn down sections of the wall, many of which may be dangerous to traverse.
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  1794. Strange they didn't think of that back in the Soviet days.
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  1795.  @timloo6191  "Ang mohs must learn that sometimes u lose". Oh, we're well aware of that. We have all lost at various times through history, so we are doing what we can to prevent that from happening again. As Singaporeans will do, I suppose.
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  1796. With some heavy government subsidies I think they should be able to sell quite a number of C919s. It'll be all about the price.
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  1797.  @davidtuer5825  If you buy every single share (incl. founders' shares) in a public company, do you not then own the company? And the price you paid for the shares, does that not indicate the value of the company at the time of purchase? I claim that it does. If you then want to take the company off the market, keep it private, or even shut it down, that is your decision, but what you paid was its value at the time.
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  1798.  @davidtuer5825  Well, I'm not trying to explain why people buy and sell shares. Very far from it. If you wish, you can look through the conversation in this thread and get a clearer picture.
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  1799.  @CJMGalaxy  Haha, that's very funny. I've never noticed this. There are also a certain number of homes approaching 'McMansion' style. When it comes to architecture and industrial design, I'm not ashamed of being called an elitist. We need some standards!
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  1800. Sounds reasonable. The government is pumping trillions of Yuan into the economy, so that will be reflected in the growth numbers.
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  1801. Are you referring to the car that rammed into another car on a mountain road? I read about it in the news yesterday.
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  1802. It's a bit of a stretch to say that "Travel time between the north and south of Xinjiang will be cut from 3 hours to 20 minutes". Drawing a straight line from Urumqi to Yuli County, which this new highway connect, shows a distance of 250 km. You'd have to drive real fast to go 250km in 20 minutes. Instead, what this new highway does is make a more straight route through the TianShan Mountains compared to the previous expressway. Yes, there is already one modern expressway between the two cities/areas: It's the G30/G3012 National expressway, which goes around the mountains. Now they have one more, cutting highway travel time between the two cities from 6 hours to perhaps 4 hours. It's very nice, but will it really make such a big difference in investment as the researcher Li Lifan says? To me, it seems to be more a case of: 1) We do it because we can, and it helps boost our prestige abroad 2) We do it because we believe infrastructure development is always beneficial 3) We do it because any infrastructure investment helps to prop up GDP, whether it generates economic activity or not.
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  1803. No, fundamental restructuring in this context means allocating more money to consumers and less to manufacturers. This could be in implementing a better social security system, or better healthcare system, or better pension system. The idea is that if people have access to those things, they will feel more comfortable spending their money, rather than saving them for retirement, or saving them for a potential extended hospital stay. In other words, lots of money would then be freed up for domestic consumption.
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  1804.  @kapilsds7  He is almost certainly on a 'Hammerhead Tower Crane'. Those are always horizontal. The one collapsing looks more like a 'Luffing Tower Crane' which can tilt from almost vertical to almost horizontal. Look them up to see the difference.
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  1805. "Anti-racist baby is raised to make society transform" You have to be a lot older than a baby to understand concepts such as 'racist', 'society', and 'transform'. I'd say at least 6 or 7.
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  1806.  @zhcterry1  It HAS been tested! All that's left in the waste water is Tritium.
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  1807. Maybe it changed at the very end of 2022, but here is a quote from the Chinese travel giant Trip (Ctrip, 携程) from October 13, 2022: "Travelers are required to quarantine at their own expense for seven days in government-approved accommodations and, where appropriate, an additional three days in quarantine at their residence or accommodation". Here is from NYU Shanghai campus website giving advice to new students: "What is the cost for quarantine? The cost for quarantine hotels range from 200RMB (30USD)/night to 600RMB (85USD)/night. Meals cost 100RMB (12-15 USD)/day. " Here is from Am-Cham Shanghai: "As of July 2022, all inbound travelers to Shanghai need to undergo centralized quarantine at designated hotels for 7 days and 3-day health monitoring at home. Travelers will be assigned to the districts where they reside (typically registered home addresses). Travelers need to cover the expenses of hotel stay and food services."
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  1808.  @pensacola2015  "what about 998%?" Still wrong. You cannot be more than 100% correct. This is primary school math.
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  1809.  @pensacola2015  My main gripe with the original post is that it is based on nothing. It's a silly statement.
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  1810.  @jamesbizs  Currently, there are no plans to develop nuclear energy in Denmark. Our main focus these years is on developing wind energy.
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  1811. When you no longer hear the sound, where did it go?
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  1812.  @doujinflip  Yes, that's a major issue for short term visitors.
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  1813. I'm sure there is at least one company in China declaring bankruptcy daily, as there is in the US and every other very large economy.
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  1814. I guess this could refer to Palestinian refugees who have moved to Europe over the last several decades. Tens of thousands of them, maybe hundreds of thousands. Since then, they and their descendants have consistently topped the crime statistics in European countries.
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  1815.  @zhelichen8058  Great, thanks very much for that info. So will the new line not pass by Shenzhen? Anyway, Shanghai-Guangzhou should be much faster, especially if we can go over Hangzhou Bay close to Ningbo.
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  1816.  @zhelichen8058  Yes, it certainly is.
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  1817. Why does this make you feel ashamed? Lots of countries do this: Greece, Portugal, Malta, many others.
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  1818. They probably can, but in general, sports just isn't a thing in India, except for Cricket. You almost never see Indian athletes at international sports events. It's not part of their culture. Again, except for Cricket, which they are obsessed with.
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  1819. Actually, almost no arms manufacturers accept blood of innocents as payment. Or blood of the guilty, for that matter. Cash service only.
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  1820.  @garyoakham9723  I'm sure you can always find something bad to say about anybody you don't like.
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  1821. I remember when it was 8.3 to the Dollar. It stayed that way from the mid-90s until around 2007.
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  1822.  @mingouczjcz3800  Thanks for that extra info. Very interesting. We can imagine (without knowing for sure) that they believed birds inside the sun pushed it across the sky. In some countries in Europe the sun was depicted as being pulled by oxen across the sky.
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  1823. 1:16 The painting at 1:16 that is labeled 'Baku, 1861' looks highly suspicious to me. In the background, two large 1960s-style office towers, one of which has an antenna rising from the roof. Are my eyes cheating me?
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  1824. "In order to have a strong economy, first, you must convince the people and the world, that one has a strong economy." While this may sound a little wacky, it harks back to Chairman Mao, who said something to the effect of "The masses can accomplish anything, as long as they have the correct political ideas, and the correct guidance". We can take this even further back to Karl Marx, who, many years after publishing his theories was both surprised and disappointed that the workers had not yet started a revolution and overthrown the capitalists. He concluded that the working class simply did not have the intellectual capacity to understand his wonderful ideas, not even stopping to consider that perhaps the working class HAD thought about his ideas but decided instead to keep their jobs and fight for better working conditions by setting up labor unions. One could almost reach the conclusion that Marx, Lenin and Mao were the ones who had the least confidence in the working class they claim to represent.
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  1825.  @sleepymeow7156  "what you said has nothing to do with my comments". You used the term 'plutocracy'. That means 'a government of the rich'. That is why I bring up the wealth of government officials. While a huge number of officials have beem removed and punished under China's current leadership, there is no indication that any of the new leaders are less corrupt than those who were removed. After all, the anti-corruption campaign continues year after year, and no matter who gets promoted, they end up getting caught up in some scandal (until they reach the top level where they are protected from punishment).
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  1826.  @skydragon23101979  I do not doubt the will of the Chinese people to succeed in every endeavor. Unfortunately, the phrase you mention is not always true. There is not always a way, no matter how great the will is.
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  1827.  @JayBee-cr8jm  " your comments are being blocked. No one can read what you're posting." 1) You can read them. 2) How are blocking of comments related to the ability to see warning labels in the video? That doesn't make any sense.
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  1828.  @JayBee-cr8jm  And why would my comments be displayed specifically for you but not for others? Also, that fact that I did NOT see a warning message would indicate a LACK of censorship.
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  1829.  @JayBee-cr8jm  But you're claiming I'm being censored, despite the fact that there's no indication thereof. Besides, being shown a 'warning label' is not censorship.
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  1830. Chomsky on student debt relief: "We should ask the right questions". So he answers a question that was not asked: Should education be free? I agree that it should, but Chomsky is talking about what should be, not what actually is. And the situation is that education is not free. So what is his view on student debt relief? Well, he simply refused to answer that question. That's pretty weak! Chomsky used to be in favor of the working class, and as such, he would be against forcing the working class to pay for the college degrees of the intellectual class. Maybe he's had a change of mind.
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  1831. "E-ru-viz"
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  1832. Probably near the Mekong River, which is the focus of his work.
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  1833. China's imports of pork have been on the decrease for several years, now, so big tariffs help to decrease imports even more. For the EU, a total stop to imports of European pork will mean a reduction of 5% of total pork production. It probably won't be a total stop, though.
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  1834.  @ryanseet8314  No need to apologize. I suppose it was easily missed.
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  1835.  @hansheinrich958  Please see my answer to অର୍ଘ୍ୟਦੀప पाல
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  1836. Old hens are the best for soup. Very flavorful!
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  1837. Why on earth did their lawyer choose to have them go for this long walk through a park? They could have driven right to the courthouse front door.
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  1838.  @土馒头  Well, it's more convenient, thus the name. And HotMax can best be described as a convenience store as well.
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  1839. Certainly, China could sell its $700 billion in US treasury bonds, and that would probably cause some volatility in the market for a period of time, but let's not forget that the US bond market has a value of over $50,000 billion and the stock market has a value of $12,000 billion, so $700 billion can easily be absorbed by the market.
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  1840. They forgot to mention the difficulty in overcoming Russian anti-air defense systems, incl. the Pantsir, S300 and S400. These are highly capable systems on par with the best that we have. Any aircraft will need to be equipped with anti-radar missiles (ARM) to prevent them all from getting shot down early in the battle.
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  1841. This reminds of the old Grace Jones song "I'm Not Perfect, But I'm Perfect For You". This solar system is in no way 'perfect', if you could even label any solar system in that way, but it is perfect for the scientists who study it because it is relatively easy to study. It's like a bathroom without corners for a cleaner: So easy to clean.
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  1842. Looks amazing! 😋🤩🤪
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  1843. -'The Butcher of Aleppo' is put in charge, because now things are really going to happen. -He arrives on the battle field. -Russian forces are bogged down. -Two days later he is wounded in battle and promptly removed from theater. Things aren't really going Russia's way.
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  1844. Western countries should welcome Chinese automakers and other industries to invest, with the following conditions: -You can produce and sell here, but imports will face large tariffs. -You have to enter into a joint-venture with a local company of the same industry, and you can own up to 50% of the joint-venture. The local partner's 50% will be in the form of land and labor. Profits are shared 50/50. The local partner must run the HR department. -You must agree to technology transfer. These are the exact same conditions foreign firms faced in China in the 80s, 90s and 00s.
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  1845. You can't use desert sand, it's too smooth. You can also not use beach sand, because it has salt in it and is also relatively smooth.
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  1846.  @alisonzhang702  Yes, but that was more a result of the '97 financial crisis and general hatred of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. It was not due to bad relations with China.
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  1847. There will always be one city that is the world's most polluted.
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  1848. 8 million tons of LNG (over a 3 week period) is approximately 0.005% of EU annual consumption. More tankers, please!
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  1849. A few counterpoints: "manufacturing is collapsing". Manufacturing in China is far from collapsing. Follow the charts often presented here on this channel regarding PMI. It's stable, and often increasing. However, in the long term it will probably decrease. "China will NOT be able to afford its military expansion". Even poor countries can expand their military: North Korea, Iran, Russia are good examples. It's all about how much of GDP you allocate to defense spending. China will be able to afford military expansion for decades to come.
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  1850.  @刚-o2h  That's the allegation. Where's the evidence? Or if they cannot provide evidence, at least be specific about what exactly she did. Otherwise, anybody can be convicted of crimes, even if they did nothing wrong.
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  1851. I find it so strange that Turkmenistan is not more interested in this economic integration. They could make huge profits from a natural gas pipeline to Europe and China, in addition to this trade corridor.
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  1852. Well, it's asking a question, a question that will only be answered in time. I'd rather have real vegetables than vegetables pretending to be meat. Vegetables are delicious.
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  1853. Green hydrogen: This is not difficult to make. I made hydrogen in primary school, though it wasn't made using renewable energy. The problem is not in making it, the problem is in making it cheap enough to present a viable business case. That problem is not yet solved.
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  1854. Most European cars sold in China are also made in China. Only the most expensive models are imported.
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  1855. Don't try to ban alcohol! People will always find a way to get it.
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  1856. China has been researching and developing maglev trains for close to 25 years now. Progress is certainly being made, but it isn't only the technology that is the stumbling block. The cost of the whole system will likely continue to be prohibitive for years to come. The Shanghai Maglev is nice, but I don't think it ever paid itself off. I think it's like the Concorde Jet: Yes, it can be done, but does it make economic sense to do it?
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  1857.  @watb8689  "Shanghai maglev is already profitable". Do you have any sources for this claim? I did a search and there is not much to find. A Trip (携程) article from 2019 said it's not profitable. Based on the construction cost and estimated daily passenger numbers, it's unlikely to be profitable.
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  1858. That was an excellent interview with Professor Landis. I didn't know that much about Syria before, but from what I heard in this interview, Syria is very much like other authoritarian dictatorships around the world: Common people are always just tools of the government with no real way to act independently or get out of their predicament.
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  1859. Wealthy people in countries that have restrictions on the free movement of capital, for example. There's one big one like that in East Asia.
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  1860.  @Thefreenebula  "it's falling in real terms". It's not, western countries' currencies are quite strong and stable. The Euro to CNY is higher now than the average since 2007. The USD to CNY is also higher than the average since 2007. If you disagree, please present some data here.
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  1861.  @janami-dharmam  It's the batteries that are so expensive. Try getting your smartphone battery replaced and you'll know what I mean.
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  1862. @Adam I'm quite happy with the way things are going in my country.
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  1863. Corruption is illegal in Pakistan?
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  1864. Resumption of couple's therapy. Therapist: Ok, so we're here to try to save this relationship. China, when America says these things, how does that make you feel? What would you like to say to America today?
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  1865. Anybody in need of shells can just go down to the beach. Lots of shells there.
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  1866. Despite your use of the word 'suffering', none of these countries seem to be suffering at all. They are all among the richest, most developed countries in the world. Perhaps your comment is meant as a prediction: That these countries will eventually be suffering at some stage in the future. Who knows, time will tell.
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  1867.  @kamsunleong6648  Smart drivers know to always drive slowly in bad weather conditions.
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  1868. ​ @kristinabliss  Thanks, Kristina. I'm not even a native English speaker, so I hope you will award me three gold star stickers.
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  1869. Well well, eventually they'll get it running, and then 5 years from now everybody will have forgotten those delays. In the long run, the main sticking point will be whether it will be popular with passengers and the line can make some money.
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  1870.  @Catalin-n5i  I see. I wonder if he feels the same about sports matches: If you support one team, you have 'double standards' and practice 'hegemony'.
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  1871. If he had only stuck to cricket, he would have ended his days as a celebrated global idol.
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  1872. It's not even close to the same flavor. Anyone who tries both kinds can immediately pick out the real vanilla.
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  1873. Changing nature to make it look prettier, it's a long tradition. After all, that's what city parks are all about.
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  1874. Do you remember all the other Stock-Aitken-Waterman hits of the time? Bananarama, Kylie Minogue, Mel & Kim? They were all pretty similar, but we loved them.
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  1875. This press promotion is a great way for the company to get government tech funding.
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  1876.  @ArdikaPercha  EU doesn't have a capital. EU is a trade organization, not a country. It's like ASEAN, which doesn't have a capital, or the USMCA, which also doesn't have a capital.
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  1877. Turbulence doesn't cause the turbine intake blades to break. Had to have been something else.
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  1878. The surface on all those cooked items looked quite pale. Couldn't they blast it with super-heated air for a minute or so? Perhaps that is beyond the device's capabilities.
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  1879. Hair today, gone tomorrow.
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  1880.  @vincentramirez8188  Or any person with a medical degree, or even someone who has just a basic understanding of health.
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  1881. Mengman, where it was found, is right on the border with Laos.
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  1882. It's important that you and other immigrants speak out on these issues, and do it strongly. Otherwise, the main narrative in society becomes that immigrants do not care about local society. Speak out often, also to let other immigrants hear you.
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  1883. I hope he advises the senate to follow the people's choice and vote in the party coalition with the biggest popular support. Hopefully, Thailand can return to democracy.
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  1884. The Libyan coastal town of Derna lies at the mouth of the River Derna, a river that is normally quite dry, just as the whole region is dry. The Derna River has a catchment area of around 500 sqkm, so in a rainstorm like this, it will collect and carry quite a lot of water down to the town. The dam that burst is located appx. 13 km upstream from the town. It is a simple earth dam, and the only dam on the river. In normal times, due to the dry climate, there is little to no reservoir behind the dam.
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  1885.  @andia968  How do you feel about this? Do you think it's best if people around the world, no matter where they are, segregate by ethnic/cultural groups?
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  1886.  @yunlu6867  Ok, so you believe it's best to segregate by ethnic/cultural groups?
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  1887. This is the first time I see this format, having been a subscriber for maybe 2 years. For the next show I'd like to see an introduction to both presenters and an explanation on what this show is. Otherwise quite interesting. I think the show could favorably include 1 (one) long-form topic discussed in depth.
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  1888. "Hello, Jennifer Rubin, I understand that your own employer, Washington Post, has concluded that you're a conspiracy theorist". Jennifer: "Huh"??
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  1889.  @seabedsand  "blame China". We don't blame China, we just intend to protect our economies from Chinese imports.
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  1890. This footage was very grainy
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  1891. Well, it's all very interesting, but I don't think I will be following this case closely. I prefer to just wait until a verdict is reached. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not on the jury, so there's nothing I can do but wait. I have no doubt that thousands of news articles and opinion pieces will be written about this case over the next year or so, but I won't be reading them. I'm happy to wait and hear what the judge says at the end.
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  1892.  @estrellaruiz8091  But you can't stop people from taking a chance with their lives, even if it is illegal.
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  1893. When are we going to see this drone on DJI's web shop?
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  1894. The Kim family are the Taylor Swift of North Korea.
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  1895. Re. the peace negotiations back in spring. It was reported already back then that both the US and Russia expressed skepticism that such an agreement could succeed. The US said "We'll see what Russia does, not what they say they'll do". The Russians said "Even in the event of an agreement, we may still conduct operations in some northern areas [this was before they completely pulled out of the north] and we will continue to fight the Azov Battalion in Mariupol". So it was very far from a done deal and would probably not have worked, anyway. Generally speaking, peace deals are only successful when both parties feel they are stuck in the current situation, or if one party feels forced by circumstance to accept a deal. Evidently, that was not the case then or now.
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  1896.  @duncansmith7562  Do you have some links to videos of "Donbass babushkas greeting their Russian liberators". I'd like to see them. It's good to see the situation from both sides.
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  1897. Chinese people want to know the truth, but If the truth is embarrassing, then it's better to save face than to tell the truth.
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  1898. Despite all those challenges you mention, very few people seem to leave America. Once they arrive, they want to stay, even in the face of difficulties.
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  1899. If he doesn't care, why bother to do the comb-over in the first place? Jared, just shave that head already!
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  1900. Thomas Sowell is old and rarely gives interviews anymore. Though it wouldn't hurt to ask him.
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  1901. +Greg Paris   1) He was traveling economy class. 2) I'm pretty sure everyone who has ever endured these types of delays, in the middle of the night no less, and then get kicked of the plane; everyone in this situation would feel pretty disappointed. I know I would. I've tried sitting in a plane on the tarmac for 3 hours in the departure airport waiting for take-off clearance. Then arriving at the destination so late that the airport was effectively closed. Plane parking in some restricted area so we had to wait for special permission to disembark onto little buses, pouring rain, no taxis, no buses, no metro. It just sucks.
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  1902. Humans are so mean :-(
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  1903. +Ryan: "Socialism always fails". Your premise is wrong. There are no real socialist countries left in the world and there are no real capitalist countries left in the world. Rather, all countries are a mix of market economy and government involvement. Governments are often needed to establish the infrastructure to help private enterprise flourish. Governments often invest funds in cutting edge science and technologies and once they have matured, private enterprise takes over. In the modern world, socialism and capitalism work in symbiosis, not in opposition.
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  1904. Ryan, could you give us an idea of what functions you think government should reasonably have, if any. My suggestions: -National defence -Law enforcement and judiciary -Certain national infrastructure (rail, power grid, roads, sewage, water, communication lines) -Standards and regulations on safety, units, consumer protection. -Support for basic scientific research (eg. NASA) On top of this comes the more 'socialist' functions: Basic education, basic health care, basic social security.
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  1905. "In this world, everybody believes in a god" Talk about living under a rock!
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  1906. I hope this is not the beginning of Dave Rubin getting all religious on us.
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  1907. I think you're misunderstanding what these elections are about. They are only local elections, elections for city and county governments. Cai Ying Wen is still president and will remain so until the next elections in 2024.
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  1908.  @Chancellor-g9b  You are so envious of capitalism.
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  1909.  @AfricanMaverick  "it worked in Tanzania". If you call a GDP/capita of $3000 'worked', then yes. If you call being below the African average GDP/capita 'worked', then yes. If you call being below the African average in Human Development Index, the yes. I would say the data is not there to show that it worked.
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  1910. "sagars knittted tie portfolio"... Hahahahahaha :-D
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  1911. Strange thing for Kissinger to say, as it makes no sense at all. USAs best friends are all prosperous, independent, safe, successful countries.
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  1912. All this match fixing that has been going on in Chinese sports for years makes me wonder if China would propose a match-fixing deal on a China-Taiwan war: How much would Taiwan need to be paid to lose the fight in round one?
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  1913. Rain is God pissing on humanity. These floods are the result of God taking a big piss after four quick beers.
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  1914. Very good analysis.
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  1915.  @sayamalu2495  I better stock up on food today.
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  1916.  @markmh835  I tried my whale meat at a dedicated whale restaurant in Tokyo. We had whale cooked in several different ways, including sashimi, tempura, grilled, pan fried. It wasn't all equally good, but the grilled whale meat was excellent.
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  1917.  @rishavbarnwal7155  Well done. Another month and a half and India should be back up and running at full speed.
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  1918.  @donaldduck1322  But they're all vaccinated, so what are they afraid of? What's the point in getting vaccinated if it doesn't change anything?
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  1919.  @signumxmagnum  Yes, I hope that the quarantine will end completely, or at least get a lot shorter (currently 3 weks). Since we're all vaccinated, why still have a quarantine?
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  1920. 'A nano-bowl of Taiwanese beef noodle soup'. Sorry, that's not going to be enough for me. I go for the large bowls.
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  1921.  @sunnymitra6372  Interesting. India appears to have an eclectic range of suppliers.
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  1922. Apple devices and other electronic brand name goods are not sent individually through the mail. They are shipped in containers and go through customs in the normal way. As for the 10% tariff, it may mean an acceleration of manufacturing/assembly outside China, such as in Vietnam, India, etc. Chinese companies can still profit if they invest in production capacity outside China.
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  1923.  @3strikesyouout643  I think Russia is running out of cannons, so it's a moot point.
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  1924.  @Patrick-jj5nh  Yes, I think that's clear.
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  1925. Foreign Direct Investment in 2023: -China: USD 33 Billion -India: USD 44 Billion
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  1926.  @keys6556  : P20 Pro as well. Just got it. Pretty nice phone.
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  1927. Lots of NIO cars driving around here in Shanghai. Among all the new e-vehicle brands, it is among the most popular and best designed. I don't know anything about the specs or whether they are well built.
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  1928. Based on the number of young people reaching apartment buying age, minus apartments left behind by city people passing away, there might be a need for up to 40 million new apartments in this decade, and 35 million new apartments in the 2030s. The question is, how many of them have already been built or are under construction?
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  1929.  @courtly5982  Sure, all those empty apartments in 3rd and 4th tier cities will probably never fill up. Also, my numbers are based on the belief that many young people in rural areas will continue to move to the big cities, a belief that is by no means guaranteed. But even without them, there are still lots of young people coming up already in big cities who need a place to live. While it is true that the population is now declining, there are still a lot more young people than very old people. Around 30 years from now, that will flip.
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  1930.  @courtly5982  Yes, you said countryside, and I added 3rd and 4th tier cities, which I believe will never fill up, either. I don't see many new apartment buildings in the countryside, though, and if there are large developments in the countryside, perhaps it's not really 'countryside' anymore.
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  1931.  @courtly5982  It's only now I notice you mention 'apartment supply shortages', when I thought we were talking about apartment surplus. I think the only places there are apartment supply shortages are in 1st tier cities: BJ, SHG, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and perhaps in Hangzhou. Major cities like Tianjin have tons of supply of apartments, but not enough people to live in them.
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  1932. Yes, in China itself, everything is just fine!
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  1933. But a genuine depression is not very likely. Even a recession is unlikely, at least in the near future. More likely is a slow creep towards zero growth, taking perhaps 15-20 years.
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  1934. Covert Cabal continues to provide top quality content without exaggerations or emotional outbursts. Fine work.
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  1935. Nice with a view of some Kiwi sheep, for a change.
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  1936. Can you be more specific? Which election outcome will guarantee a fate similar to Ukraine? And are you willing to make a bet? You could win some money if you're right, see if luck follows you.
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  1937. Enforce with what? The UN doesn't have an army. The UN needs consent from member states to do anything, and good luck getting consent from Russia on your suggestion.
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  1938.  @SumTingWong888  Well, I think people know what I mean, even Chinese people.
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  1939. I think we eventually all have to acknowledge that many of the dishes we consider to be 'traditional' in any cuisine, may not be that old after all. You'd be surprised to learn how many dishes are entirely recent: Pat Thai was invented in the 1940s, many 'authentic' Italian pizzas are from the 20th century, Sushi is relatively new, most Cantonese dimsum are from the 20th century, Chicken Tikka Masala is recent, and that's not even beginning to take into account that Chili, tomato, potato, eggplant, corn only arrived in the EurAsian continent in the 16th century, after the Spanish sailed to South America. There is probably very little food from before the 16th century that would be recognizable to us today.
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  1940. It appears his people condone inherited titles and leadership positions. I wonder what he thought about USA getting rid of that at its inception.
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  1941.  @hatespeechisntreal  "peaceful summer of love". Peaceful or not, they have a right to protest. Those committing crimes during the protest may be arrested and prosecuted.
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  1942.  @hatespeechisntreal  "peaceful summer of love". Peaceful or not, they have a right to protest. Those committing crimes during the protest may be arrested and prosecuted.
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  1943. Hong Kong murderers seem to really enjoy cooking.
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  1944. @Oona Oheagertie Ok, that must be based on new archeological research, because that is not what Chinese experts used to say.
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  1945.  @danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk  So far, there are no documented cases of anyone being harmed, so you are correct.
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  1946.  @远山-k3s  China is not involved. I mention it because you use a Chinese name (Far Mountain). If you had used a French name, I would have mentioned France, which also releases Tritium from their plants. As I wrote, other countries that use nuclear power also release Tritium from their plants. China releases relatively little. To educate yourself about this release of waste water, don't just rely on your negative emotions, but instead go to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) of which China is a member. It is a UN agency. It is easiest to just Google 'Fukushima water discharge' and see what the IAEA says about it.
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  1947.  @ZaQen  Hydrogen, you're right. Thanks for the correction.
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  1948.  @melonseiiLOVE  It's often only the newer lines that have them. The reason cities are slow to retro-fit screens may be because there are very few accidents/crimes of people falling onto the tracks. That's probably different from city to city.
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  1949.  @QuarioQuario54321  "Sydney is not western". Australia and New Zealand have the distinction of being the only Western countries located in the far east.🤣🤣🤣
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  1950.  @LuisCruz-ne5wo  Possibly, I don't remember every detail. But primarily, it follows one family and their troubles and successes.
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  1951. You seem to be confusing the US with South Africa, or Brazil, or Cuba. Those places are dilapidated and poverty stricken.
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  1952.  @teoengchin  "Article 5 doesn't apply to member's territories outside of Europe or North America". I did not realize that, but it makes good sense.
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  1953.  @x-hale2899  "If you would scrutinize the points, you'd know they aren't true". Give us a few examples if you want us to believe you.
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  1954.  @x-hale2899  "The Treaty states that NATO membership is open to ....." Yes, I am aware of that. What is your point?
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  1955.  @kalwongkl  "Enough said." Yes please, enough of your misinformed opinions.
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  1956.  @x-hale2899  "by what metric or framework are we defining democratic values?" I'm not sure, but I would guess it involves free and fair elections of political leaders by a large proportion of the population.
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  1957.  @x-hale2899  I was in the USSR, though only as a visitor. Yes, it was pretty grim. Now it's better, but Russia has a long way to go before it can hope to become a friend of Europe. Maybe Russia doesn't want to be a friend of Europe, and that's ok, too. Russia makes its own decisions.
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  1958.  @x-hale2899  "USA is also the same country that went after countries for non existent "weapons of mass destruction" and prior to that used nukes on Japan." That is correct. What is the point you're trying to make?
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  1959.  @sophonblock76  Yes, it's possible, there is just no evidence for that, so it will remain your own little hypothesis.
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  1960.  @mikeevans6344  Arctic peoples, not Aztecs, not Chinese.
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  1961.  @mikeevans6344  I made my arguments clear a little further up. I may never be able to convince you, but I'm ok with that.
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  1962.  @sophonblock76  They believe it, yes, and you believe it. It's a valid hypothesis. Now all you have to do is find supporting evidence. Until that happens, I will remain skeptical. It's ok that some people are skeptical, isn't it?
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  1963.  @sophonblock76  I think you're thinking of something else, so let's be clear: There is incontrovertible evidence that all native peoples in the Americas originated from the Asian continent. But that is not the topic under discussion. The claim here is that the culture and art of Sanxingdui is closely related to that of one or more central American ancient cultures. Not DNA, but culture. As you know, culture is not transmitted through DNA.
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  1964.  @sophonblock76  Again, an interesting hypothesis. And again, you just need to find some evidence to support it if you want it to be more than a hypothesis.
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  1965.  @sophonblock76  I know we can't post links here, but give me the title of a relevant article and the name of the publication. I'll search for it and I promise I'll read it and get back to you.
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  1966. No prosthetics were featured in this video.
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  1967. Do we know why deceased souls haunt places at night rather than during the day? Seems less tiring to do the haunting in the daytime.
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  1968. Once scientists finally find neutrinos, it won't take long before influencers will start to market 'neutrino energy drinks' and 'neutrino-flavored egg white omelets'.
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  1969. Tritium has a half-life of 12.5 years.
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  1970. So far, it looks like the only condition that guarantees a high fertility rate is abject poverty.
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  1971. Re. Dalai Lama 'Suck My Tongue': Just today there are a couple of articles out explaining this incident with context: Apparently, it is a tradition in Tibet for grandparents to give their grandchildren sweets/candy by putting it in their own mouth and letting the child 'suck' the candy out the grandparent's mouth, following with the phrase 'now I only have my tongue left for you to suck'. Weird perhaps, from our perspective, but less creepy when understanding the context.
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  1972.  @andyyang5234  It's already here, just not in very large amounts. A slow drizzle.
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  1973. All these "world's oldest person" keep dying on us! Soon they'll all be dead.
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  1974.  @s546813  That's wonderful!
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  1975.  @AdrianArgen7o  I guess that's why they named it Buenos Aires.
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  1976. Yes, pretty steamy in Shanghai today. 40 degrees. At 7:30 PM it was still 38.
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  1977. Alright, it's over! Let's all move on to other topics. A new life may begin.
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  1978. Fortunately, car manufacturers don't particularly care what you call them, as long as you buy their cars.
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  1979.  @adammaturin1277  Well, I don't know how crazy that really is. As I wrote, the container will only fall off if the truck itself turns over, so even if it were strapped down, it would still fall over, just with the truck attached to it.
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  1980. "Foreigners used to earn cheap money in china. This time is gone" Chinese people also used to earn cheap money in china. This time is gone, too.
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  1981.  @user-um7vv  "Let entire world laugh at India". What makes you think the world is laughing at India. I'm from Europe and I don't laugh at India. It's a great culture with high economic growth and the potential for a very bright future. In fact, I don't know anyone who laughs at India. India is still poor, yes, but so are many countries, and every country that is rich today used to be poor, too. We are just getting rich at different rates, some sooner, some later.
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  1982.  @matracity3414  Ok, most of what you write is similar to other European countries. Your high number of Nobel Prize winners is hardly Orban's achievement. The only reasons you give for people voting for Orban (rather than some other Hungarian person) are: "he is never against Hungarian people, but protects Hungary and its nation from war, from accusations, prosecutions". Clearly, many accusations are coming from the other EU countries. And protecting Hungary from war? Isn't that why you left the Warsaw Pact and joined NATO instead? The Warsaw Pact didn't protect you from being overrun by Moscow in 1956. No EU or NATO country has been attacked, because we stand together as one. Only Orban seem to want Hungary to stay outside, while still getting the benefits of being on the inside. I respect the choice of Hungarians, but your reasons given are only very soft, emotional reasons. There's nothing really concrete in term of policies that had a specific positive effect on Hungarian society.
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  1983.  @hwoonDeurim  At some stage, even the most popular leaders become unpopular. Eventually, people will want a change.
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  1984. Didn't Kruschev and Kennedy consider Sun Yat-Sen as the father of modern China? I mean, you say that that is the difference.
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  1985. @burneraccount "the pro-war side has logged on". I'm pro-defense. Pro defending Europe against aggressors. I feel I hold the moral high ground in this respect.
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  1986.  @askosefamerve  It's up to the voters. They're the ones who pick the candidates.
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  1987. This is such an old talk, and I like to think that some progress has been made since then. Religion does seem to be less important in society and politics than it was in 2008.
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  1988.  @dashong8912  Probably nothing.
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  1989.  @wei4869  "we are not the cause of them losing their home and country". True, they are themselves the cause.
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  1990. Just in time for my huge Gin & Tonic!
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  1991.  @yukio9723  And how many children would you like to have? If you want one or two, why not three or four? I think that you, like everybody else, will consider many factors: Cost, time, freedom.
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  1992.  @mrila-x3e  That's basically what I'm saying.
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  1993. Only Prigozhin will go to Belarus. All the Wagner soldiers will go back to base, ie. southern Ukraine.
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  1994. I live in China, so perhaps this 'analysis' wasn't for me, but I tried to get through it. There was no Economic Update, no analysis, no numbers, no mention of growth rates, debt rates, foreign or state investment, no mention of the real estate market, demographics, return on fixed investment, and indeed there was practically nothing that couldn't have been said 10 years ago by a college junior. Some update!
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  1995. It's impressive how adept it is at peeling the bark off before chewing into the core.
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  1996.  @ListenToStatic  And a few more things: Carlsberg beer, LEGO, Maersk Shipping, Hans Christian Andersen fairytales. But it is not enough. I want more!!
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  1997.  @jenro3626  Well, I guess Filipino people end up getting what they deserve. It's a democracy, after all.
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  1998. There are a lot of pro-Russian keyboard warriors here. The REAL warriors are the Ukrainian freedom fighters resisting Russian aggression.
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  1999.  @OMGFrijoles  "Where even is South China". You take a map of China, arm yourself with a compass, then take the southernmost part of China. That is south China. I hope that was helpful. As for the name of the newspaper, it may have been chosen to differentiate it from the older, and more popular 'North China Daily News' which was based in Shanghai from 1850 until it was ordered by the Communist Party to stop publishing in 1951.
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  2000.  @OMGFrijoles  Sure, but that doesn't prevent media in other parts of the country to report on it, just like the LA Times can report on things going on in Washington DC.
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  2001.  @gcx4892  It's possible, but more likely, the original commenter is just trolling.
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  2002. Buy LEGO as Christmas gifts, it's made in America, and it's popular with young and old.
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  2003. And after realizing this, what action would you take?
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  2004. The headline says "boosts imports of Thai Durian", but they don't mention that in the video. Some numbers comparing fruit value/quantity before and after using the railway would be useful. Two days saved time probably doesn't make much of a difference. If it's also cheaper to transport by train, it begins to make sense, but the video didn't make that claim. Let's wait a couple of years and see what economic impact this railway has had on SW China/Lao/Thai trade and economy.
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  2005. Huh, that's interesting. I have yet to catch anything. Are you and your friends up north? That appears to be where the bulk of sickness is. Perhaps later in the winter it will move down south.
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  2006. Chinese immigrants in America tend to do exceptionally well. Hard work and persistence is the key, and that is something the Chinese immigrants have in abundance.
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  2007. That's a wonderful initiative!
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  2008. @Time Is that the best rebuttal you can come up with? Pretty weak.
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  2009. Since the beginning, the clock has never turned back. In other words, these 'concerned scientists' believe the world has become increasingly dangerous, day by day, year by year. At the same time, we can actually measure the data and see that the world has become safer, richer, more peaceful, healthier and just better and better. This clock shows more than anything the scientists' bias toward a doomsday delusion. As time goes on and the clock moves toward 1 second to midnight, I predict that they will simply start counting hundreds of a second: The Doomsday clock is now only 57 hundreds of a second to midnight. Keep up the scare mongering at all costs.
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  2010.  PancakesAnd Wine  (Goes to Jackie Aina's channel). Hmmm, it's all about make-up, not geopolitics.....
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  2011. 'should have', not 'should of'. In fact, 'should of' doesn't really mean anything. 'Should have' belongs to the same category as 'must have', 'got to have', 'have to have', 'want to have'.
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  2012. There are lots of great people of Chinese descent in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand. I know the situation for ethnic Chinese can be tense at times, but I hope you all stay safe.
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  2013.  @anantakusumap2459  Well, you can still hold on to your ancestors' culture, nothing wrong with that. Many immigrants do that all over the world, including in the USA. Loyalty to your culture, and loyalty to your new home country. These things can exist at the same time.
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  2014. Didn't Xi just say a few weeks ago that growth was over 4%? Maybe he was referring only to Q4. But even that seems high.
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  2015. Yes, I agree. In China, any type of news should always have a positive spin: "Man Dying in Traffic Accident Means Higher Profit For Undertaker".
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  2016. I'm going to guess that data out tomorrow will show retail up slightly. It's just guess, but I feel that people here in Shanghai are slightly more optimistic, slightly more willing to spend. Tomorrow we'll know if I was right.
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  2017.  @biboloxo  But 80%? Come on, both you and I know that can't be. Remember, this is not just young people, it's everyone. Yes, we see young people out in restaurants, clubs, shopping malls; on the corners eating BBQ meat sticks or MaLaTang, but what about their parents? They don't do this. They stay at home.
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  2018. They probably say the same about China.
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  2019.  @YourSherlock  " you know indonesia has 250 million citizen, right?" Why does that matter when the company building it says that on 30,000 are expected to ride on the train. That company knows how many people live in Indonesia. It's an Indonesian (and Chinese) company.
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  2020.  @huas5350  Yes, these things all help, but remember there were lots of railways in China before they started building the HSR. Certainly, I have traveled extensively by rail in China both before and after the HSR. The HSR has not made me travel more, or make more stops, but it has made me use the train where before I might have taken a plane. Besides, China and Indonesia are very different places. Let's look at one example: Beijing-Shanghai HSR: Total cost: USD 33 billion Cost/km: USD 25 million Annual ridership: 200 million Ticket price: RMB 550 (USD 80) Annual ticket revenue: USD 16 billion Annual revenue/total cost: 0.5 Jakarta-Bandung HSR: Total cost: USD 7.6 billion Cost/km: USD 53 million Annual expected ridership: 12 million Ticket price: USD 10-20 Annual revenue: USD 120-240 million Annual revenue/total cost: 0.015-0.03 Can you see the huge difference? The business case for the JingHu Line is 30 times better than for the Jakarta-Bandung Line. This is the reason I am skeptical.
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  2021. Gold is not a better conductor, but silver is. Silver has a tendency to corrode over time, though, and it is very expensive, of course.
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  2022. Mindboggling and almost scary in its complexity. Great video!
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  2023.  @xyztgn7292  Look, I personally feel it would probably be good for America to have more immigrants from Asia, rather than fewer. Asian Americans, on average, thrive in American society and, subjectively, improve upon society. But that is just the opposite view from that of Amy Wax. Would my view be more acceptable, and if so, why is it ok to have one view, but not the opposite view? Perhaps a debate on the UPenn campus between Wax and another professor on this very issue would be enlightening for all students and faculty. (Edit: I have a background as a teacher, in Asia, no less)
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  2024. "98% is pretty good if you just took a mid-term..." Asian flexing alert!
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  2025. As usual, the CCP makes the correct decisions (according to themselves).
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  2026.  @HemantKumar-id3jg  "This sort of portrayal is the reason that won't ever happen with the western countries." This is from a Singaporean TV station. And you're complaining about bias? Seems you have a lot of it yourself, in addition to a big chip on your shoulder.
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  2027. These days it's not opportune to be Asian. You're not oppressed enough.
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  2028.  @gumz4183  My thoughts exactly.
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  2029.  @Vincent_de_Paul  Because it's awesome! You should try it. It will change your life!
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  2030. Yes, and that's why they have not been counted in unemployment stats up until now.
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  2031. I have boycotted every Olympics, summer and winter, since 2004. Except for marathon, and 100 m sprint, those two events I like to watch.
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  2032.  @business  Thanks very much! :-)
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  2033. I stayed in XinJie for one night about 10 years ago. Saw one set of terraces in the afternoon and two more the next morning. I also had to stay in town because I rode my bicycle up from NanSha, the county seat at the foot of the mountain, and I was exhausted. Neither XinJie nor Lüchun (briefly mentioned in the video) are themselves very interesting. It's the stunning mountain scenery that surround and connect them that is absolutely worth a trip (and yes, the best experience is on a bicycle).
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  2034. There's also a lack of truck drivers. Many have quit their jobs because they have too much money.
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  2035.  @greenjack5999  "nuclear powers believe that tactical nuclear weapons CAN be utilized to win a war". I don't think they believe that, and I would challenge you to find examples of such statements by them. You should have heard the threats that were hurled around in the 70s. This is much more muted. But the media nowadays like to turn up the hysteria-dial.
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  2036.  @jerry85g7  "you should be more scared now". And yet, I'm much less scared. Compared to back then, this is much more muted.
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  2037.  @jerry85g7  "People now are distracted." What people? You? Are you distracted?
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  2038.  @SerBallister  This "Anglo Saxon" label is very popular among some anti-western commenters. I think they believe that the label can help to split continental Europe from UK/US. They don't really have a basic understanding of the west.
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  2039. Thanks for this video. As someone who has lived in China for many years and who has followed the demographic challenges for a couple of years, I have a few thoughts on this: -Can China increase the birth rate? Possibly. Remember, China is an authoritarian one-party state. Thus, policies that would be unthinkable in the West, might be implemented here: A total ban on abortions. A ban on all types of contraception. Monetary fines for couples who are not pregnant before they turn 28, etc. Yes, it's draconian, but remember which country we're talking about.
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  2040.  @danielv.5988  That sounds right, but again, why outlaw it? Why should some values and ideas be criminal?
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  2041.  @PipoGirlTv  So you think the best course of action is to ban them?
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  2042.  @marnilalfornon7180  Who decides what's bad for the community?
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  2043.  @marnilalfornon7180  And who decides what is 'morally upright'? Surely, you're aware that morals change over time. They change because people question the 'traditional' morals and advocate for new ones.
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  2044.  @marnilalfornon7180  No, you can keep the values you like, for as long as you like. Other people may adopt other values that are different from yours. We don't all have to have the same values.
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  2045. Are you referring to Thailand? It is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Sure there are some scams, and sure there will be some people who don't like foreigners, but overall it is pretty awesome!
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  2046.  @neonbunnies9596  That claim is easily disproven: If everybody is equally poor and miserable, there is no benefit from this kind of crime, because nobody has money. Rather, these criminals make a quick cost-benefit analysis: What is my potential reward versus what is my potential risk. If you increase the risk, the potential for crime goes down. This is what happened with piracy in the Indian Ocean. It became too risky for the pirates to continue.
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  2047.  @peterretep1010  Yes, perhaps the cutest of bears.
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  2048. When someone introduces themselves as 'eminent', I immediately become skeptical. Reminds me of that scene from 'The IT Crowd': "I hope I do not sound arrogant when I say that I am the greatest man in the world".
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  2049. I think Christmas 2022 was already a bit muted, wasn't it? People in the west focus on the basics now.
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  2050.  @sjv9147s  That was my understanding from the video. You can also see they have herdsmen riding along to guide the horses to the meadow. I guess they've been indoors through the winter, just like dairy cows. But again, that's not to take away from the majesty of that herd.
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  2051. Democracy does not preclude racism. Every democracy has racist elements, as does every non-democracy. I can't think of a single country that does not have a fair amount of racism.
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  2052. We're a good 40 years into the Personal Computer age. Surely, by now people should know the difference between memory and a logic chip.
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  2053. 9 miles? That's a nice little bike ride. A used bicycle is cheap. I ride my bike everywhere. Cost me $300,-
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  2054. I don't think you need to be "5th-generation Singaporean with ancestral links to both mainland China and Taiwan" to know that "Taiwanese engineers travel freely across the straits" and "people on both sides of the straits are basically Chinese". This is common knowledge to everybody.
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  2055.  @josemiguelmunoz6985  Ok, so only about half the yield you'd get from ripe, black olives.
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  2056.  @The123dannyd  "Never cook with olive oil". And yet, I do it all the time. Delicious!
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  2057. To quote Donald Trump: "Billions, and billions, and billions, and......."
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  2058. You're channeling my thoughts exactly. Countries in the Global South most likely don't care where the money comes from, as long as it comes to them. Once China's largesse dies down, India's might be on the rise, and then all those countries will court India. And we can't blame them. Countries, especially in Africa, really need a lot of foreign investment to help propel them into the middle class.
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  2059. Great report! NYT, when it really matters, you actually CAN make top quality journalism. Well done.
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  2060. Why does SCMP need to remind you of those wars? Can't you just look it up on Google? It's part of history now, and on the record.
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  2061.  @easternrazor3749  It's not news. It happened over a decade ago. There is ample documentation of the Iraq War online and anyone who wishes to study it can do so.
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  2062.  @easternrazor3749  Well, you are obviously very interested in the war in Donbass and you're disappointed that the western media doesn't pay more attention to it. Perhaps you can find other media that does, but you can't really force other people to be interested in the same thing you are. At best, you can try to persuade them to pay more attention, but that requires you to put out verifiable information such as videos, and making the case in favor of the Donbass rebels. Who knows, maybe you can persuade me.
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  2063.  @LongHUlove  I do: One comes from the cooling water, the other from inside the reactor. But the distinction is irrelevant; what's important is what is actually in the waste water. What isotopes are in it, what is the level of radioactivity? How dangerous is it to human health. Both types of waste can be more or less dangerous and our concern should be how dangerous it is, not which part of the plant it came from.
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  2064. I found the football example much more difficult to grasp, until I decided to let them play 10 matches. In that case: -Brazil wins 8 times = you're only awoken 8 times -Canada wins 2 times = you're awoken 40 times Total number of times over 10 matches you're woken up: 48 times You should choose Brazil 8/48 times = 11.8% You should choose Canada 40/48 times = 88.2% In other words, Canada is more than 7 times more likely to be the correct answer. Perhaps the real moral of the story is: Stay Woke!
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  2065.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  "Heard china collapse for 60 years". Nobody started talking about that until 25 years ago, and back then it was just a crank. More serious concerns about China's economy started surfacing 15 years ago, but it is still only cranks who talk about 'collapse'.
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  2066.  @Kiyoone  Well, dams, roads, bridges, etc. can be designed to withstand a certain magnitude of earthquake. That's what they do in Japan and California. You design for the conditions.
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  2067. You may be confusing wave power for water current power. Those are two different technologies.
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  2068.  H L  "there have been no more than 3 American astronauts in any of the expedition". I think that is not correct. For a short period in March, 2009 there were 8 US astronauts onboard the ISS. Some had just arrived, while others were getting ready to go back to earth. In total there were 10 people on the ISS at that time.
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  2069.  @ravichitgopkar5304  "nato is countinuously supplying weapons to ukraine". Yes, it's necessary for Ukraine's survival. As time goes on, we will supply more and more weapons. For the last 30 years we have let our arms industry shrink to almost nothing. Now we're starting to ramp up production again, but things are moving slowly.
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  2070.  @RyzenShanks  Yes, I suppose it depends on how you define the terms 'winning' and 'losing'.
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  2071.  @WingkKong  " Why don't you just respect the interest of the Russia". Because territorial integrity and the inviolability of national borders supersede the interests of any country. National borders around the world have mostly been settled, with some minor disputes here and there, but Russia has long since recognized Ukraine's borders and territory. It's only in 2014, and later in 2022, they suddenly changed their mind. This goes against the UN Charter which they themselves have signed and ratified.
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  2072.  @ИльяЗапольский-и5и  Insults are not arguments.
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  2073. Yes, she said 'Thank you for abducting me and holding me hostage. It's the best thing that ever happened to me'. Is that what you imagine?
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  2074. Didn't you watch the video? Lula was greeted by Joe Biden.
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  2075.  @chadliu5005  Ah, got it. Well, since Taiwan is not a recognized country, it would be inappropriate for the president to meet with her. It would also make China very unhappy. There's no reason to make relations worse than they already is.
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  2076.  @chadliu5005  My impression is that most Taiwanese prefer the status quo. I agree that the US seems to be stirring the hornets nest a little bit, but it could also be a part of trying to make US' allies in the region wake up to a much more powerful China. In other words, China will soon get so powerful that the US cannot deal with them alone, but needs partners in the region to do their share. SK, Japan and the Philippines seem to be listening. (Same in Europe where I'm from). Of course most countries in East Asia don't like the idea of choosing sides, but that trend may be inevitable.
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  2077. People walking in the rain with paper cups of take-away coffee = It couldn't have been all that bad.
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  2078. As the saying goes: Power corrupts. A politician may start out with a clean history and the best intentions, but as his power grows, he slowly becomes more and more corrupt, both financially and morally.
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  2079. I support massive retaliatory action by Israel! No mercy!
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  2080. I'm a foreigner in China, and that seems like a pretty accurate assessment to me. They're not angry all the time, though, but just one incident can change the way locals view all foreigners. Living in a different culture, we should always be careful how we act.
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  2081. Can't they just grow more quinoa?
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  2082. I love Taibbi's gopnik outfit.
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  2083. You're right about Chimera (ky-MEE-ra), but the word 'innovative' has slightly different pronunciations in British and American English, so it's not wrong to pronounce it INno-vah-tiv.
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  2084. Several countries in Europe burn waste plastic in large incinerators, producing heat and energy in the process. That process actually does turn the plastic back into its base components: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chloride....
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  2085. I want Ukraine to win as much as DW, but this report is full of holes. There's no evidence, as far as I know, that the 30 mile convoy north of Kyiv 'came under ferocious attack'. It might have, but we don't have evidence of it. The clip DW shows to prove this is not from that convoy but from the east side of the Dnipro River, just north of Brovary. 'The Ukrainians are a superior fighting force'. I'd love for that to be true, but right now, Russia is making (very slow) progress every day. Ukraine not so much. Dear DW, don't try to cheer us up. Instead, tell us the facts on the ground, painful as they may be. I'm worried and I don't want to be served sugar to distract me from the danger.
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  2086. Richard Wolff's definition of Socialism: "like Capitalism, but it takes care of people in a way that Capitalism, if left to itself and the pure private market, never would". By that definition/description, the US is in some ways already a socialist country, as are Canada, the EU and most of the developed world. Indeed, the only countries that are not yet socialist are the countries that are too poor to be socialist.
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  2087. The processing of waste as a business is a phase that most developing countries go through. They know that it is a pollutant, but their choice is between some people dying of air pollution versus some people dying of poverty related causes. As the country develops its economy, this waste processing will gradually become unacceptable and the industry will move to the next country that is happy to get the business. Once upon a time, all that waste was processed in what is now 'the rich world' before environmental standards changed and it got shipped abroad. The same change will happen in Thailand and it is even likely that Thailand will at some stage export their own waste to some other country.
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  2088. It could be true, there is just not any evidence that it is true. It could also be true that ribeye steaks are at a 90% discount at Target. Are you going to jump in your car right now because of that?
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  2089.  @beckyconstantinides2546  Yes, it is often hard to get the real numbers. All potential investors should be aware of that.
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  2090. China lies on several fault lines and is very prone to earthquakes. Rural housing is least likely to resist shaking, so most fatalities tend to happen in rural areas. In big cities, buildings and infrastructure is much better built and large scale destruction is fairly unlikely (except for older construction). A death toll like the one in Tangshan in 1976 is almost impossible today.
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  2091. Tesla is doing quite well in the Chinese market. They're all over the place here in Shanghai. They are also good with PR. They say little, but stand by what little they say. And Tesla Shanghai export a lot of their vehicles, which was part of the deal they signed up for.
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  2092. Perhaps in the same way that many Indonesians are proud of their great archipelago, even though there are islands and regions that have sought independence for decades, and who are suppressed. Who is to say what is just and what is unjust?
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  2093. That's irrelevant, because Caucasus is a geographical term, while Caucasian is a term popularly used to describe everyone of European background. (But if you must know: Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, with bits of Russia, Turkey and Iran included)
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  2094. 320 million tons of gold. That's 1,500 times more than has been discovered around the world in all of human history! Sounds very unlikely to me.
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  2095. You're right. The chili pepper originates in South America, and was then spread by the Portuguese (or Spanish), first to Europe, then Africa, then Asia. Exactly when it arrived in Asia is hard to say, but probably in the early 16th century. It has certainly found great success here. Practically every South-, South-East-, and East Asian country is in love with chili.
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  2096.  @guxunfeng1525  花椒，我晓得了！
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  2097. Re. Movie imports: When I first came to China in 1996, the quota for foreign films was 6 per year, and not all of them were equally interesting. Fortunately, already back then, the black market for films on disk was thriving, with basically every Hollywood movie available for a small sum.
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  2098. That imprint looks more like a 巾 to me.
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  2099. How do you see this grey filter? Colors look very bright to me.
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  2100. That's a good point, but 25 years ago, China talked a lot about mining methane clathrate from the bottom of the oceans to use as an almost limitless energy source. Nothing much has happened since then. There are ideas, and then there are application of ideas. Without application, the ideas themselves remain just ideas. Nuclear fission energy is a good choice for China. Maybe focus on that for now. Several reactors already built and under construction.
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  2101. But if the people on social security and retirement don't cost much, it may have been easy to ignore. Right now, pensions for city people are around USD 300/month, for rural people only around USD 30/month. Old people in China are expected to take care of themselves.
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  2102. The list price is almost identical. No airlines pay the list price, but it is never made public what the real price is.
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  2103. The idea of describing a vacation week as 'Golden Week' started in Japan. The term was later adopted by China in 1999. 1999 was the first year where Chinese people got a whole week off for both Spring Festival, May 1st, and National Day.
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  2104. That's quite a long screed.
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  2105. @@wgh-cs2nw Sure, but don't we all know that Russia has a lot of missiles and nuclear weapons? Of course I understand it's meant as a kind of warning, but it's the kind of warning a weak person would send.
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  2106. Also, while a settled housewife may never join the work force, her daughters likely will before they even establish a family. Once they've seen the economic benefits of that path, they are more likely to continue on it. Additionally, a young woman working a 'real' job may be able to save up for the home appliances that will give her the time to continue to work outside the home.
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  2107. Not to be confused with 'a lethal blow': https://youtu.be/07w9kvwE5oc
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  2108.  @skydragon23101979  Sure, but it will take a long, long time before China can replace Airbus and Boeing. So far, only one C919 aircraft has been delivered to a customer. In comparison, Airbus and Boeing combined have delivered over 4000 aircraft to China. And finally, let's not forget that the C919 is made of mostly imported equipment.
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  2109.  @kaleeysmith8801  "SCMP is just british aligned U.S interests news". SCMP is owned by Alibaba, a Chinese company. The Managing Editor of SCMP, Yonden Lhatoo, who is regularly featured here is hardly pro-America. But perhaps the SCMP is not nearly nationalistic enough for your taste. I guess you'll have to read the Global Times instead.
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  2110.  @seekx2y556  "it's better to go visit those places in person." No, it isn't. Going to see it in person only gives you a small snapshot of the situation, not the full picture.
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  2111. I'm a little skeptical about this. She didn't mention expenditures, she didn't mention growth. Instead, her focus seemed to be on how more money can be given to the disadvantaged. That is very nice, very kind, but is it good economics?
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  2112. Tuvalu already has an agreement with Australia to move all citizens to Australia, when the time comes. Australia is in the Pacific, India is not.
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  2113. "One more thing, price of the brick going up"! Marlo Stanfield.
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  2114. Zhuzhou in Hunan Province.
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  2115.  @voltaireduterte8986  There are tons of homeless in the major cities, because the homeless know they have access to a lot of benefits there. You won't find homeless people in smaller towns and cities. In other words, great wealth attracts the homeless.
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  2116.  @gear16  Yeah, I"m not sure how popular that is. Swap stations are not conveniently located.
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  2117. Well, I kept waiting for Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan, as both have consistently good sound, but I did not expect to see Coltrane in #1. It is a great album, though. Several of Coltrane's Impulse albums have very good sound, especially considering the quality of recording equipment of the period, compared to now.
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  2118.  @user-fb6hy2eh5y  I thought about that, too, but it won't be to local officials. The bailout came from the central government, so it'll be more like a Godfather situation: "I granted you this favor. One day, I may come and ask you for a favor in return". In Godfather, the undertaker only had to brush up Sonny's corpse for the funeral. With NIO, who knows what the favor will be.
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  2119.  @jdoggtn7  Possibly, but that was probably not named by vikings themselves.
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  2120.  @KBellate  I don't think colonialism is that important in economic terms. Many western countries that were not colonial powers managed to industrialize just as well. Japan industrialized before it became a colonial power, South Korea was never a colonial power, nor were Taiwan or Singapore. Spain and Portugal were among the first, and biggest, colonial powers, but their industrialization process was not nearly as successful as many other countries (like Switzerland, which was never a colonial power). As for China today, I get the feeling that many Chinese believe that China is 'special', different from other countries that have industrialized and grown quickly, but most international observers see China as following pretty much the same path to development as Japan or South Korea, at least after 1978. And China's size is both an advantage and a disadvantage: The advantage is that huge resources can be rallied toward specific, narrow goals; and that the huge market itself generates growth of a kind that a small market cannot. The disadvantage is that China needs to rely more on itself because the outside market is not that much bigger than the domestic market. For example, South Korea can continue to grow just by relying on exports because the outside market is 140 times bigger than the domestic market. China's export market is only 5 times bigger than the internal market. This means that in the long term, exports can only be a small share of China's growth.
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  2121. No need to amplify. The evils of Palestinians are already clear for all to see.
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  2122.  @LogicCaster  I hope you won't mutilate children. That's a terrible idea.
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  2123.  @LogicCaster  I don't agree with this logic. The trans movement can exist regardless of how we define marriage, and the trans movement can exist even if we disallow medical intervention in children. That's just a question of law. But an adult who wants to 'perform' another gender, well, that's their business and their freedom, and I don't really care. I'll even use their preferred pronoun, if it's not too complicated and I can remember it. Same with marriage: People should have the freedom to get married for any reason, as long as it doesn't harm others. I'd even be ok with people getting married purely for tax purposes. I understand and accept you have a different view on this. Nothing wrong with that.
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  2124.  @LogicCaster  Well, rest assured there's no chance in hell I'd ever agree to cut my dick and balls off. To me, that is a nightmarish scenario, but to some (very few, I guess) it's a price worth paying for becoming something else (or what they believe is something else).
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  2125. No doubt many Chinese phone brands are very good. I have had two Huawei phones, but now I went back to Samsung. Huawei is good, but I need Android. Without Android, I don't want it, no matter how technologically advanced it is.
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  2126.  @robocop581  Do you have better numbers? Let's see you provide some data.
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  2127. @qinghejushi-pb2ru  Trade has certainly increased since the first line opened in 2007, but is it because of the high-speed rail network? That is hard to prove. After all, the high-speed railway almost exclusively serve passenger trains, not freight, so the relationship to trade is difficult to show.
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  2128. @zacksmith5644  The US military is not in debt. It gets money allocated as part of the Federal Budget. However, the US is in debt, is that what you mean?
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  2129.  @zacksmith5644  I answered you elsewhere, but just to clarify, the US military is not in debt.
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  2130. @zacksmith5644  The US military gets all its funding from the federal government. They cannot spend more than they get.
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  2131.  @卡卡d  "His point being Ukraine literally has no way to achieve a resolution as a victorious country". That is not my point. In fact, in my original comment there is no real point, but simply an explanation of where things stand right now. To be clear, I want Ukraine to win and I want Russia out of Europe. I'm European and I can tell you that most Europeans never want to deal with Russia again, whether through trade, cultural exchange, politics or diplomacy. We'd like them to stop looking in our direction and look east or south instead. We're done with Russia!
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  2132.  @pepelepew999  I don't think that counters anything I have written. You may be responding to the wrong person.
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  2133.  @pepelepew999  Again a personal comment without substance.
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  2134.  @kenz2756  I agree. The security interests of nations are just too different for us to come to an agreement through conversation. In the end, raw power does make the biggest difference. And countries may then align into groups based on their interests. That's only natural.
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  2135.  @davepsk7334  "Lets see how long the US or Ukraine can last". Yes, let's see.
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  2136. Both debaters are unfortunately delusional. This conflict is not about morality, or who is right and who is wrong, or who started it, or who is more Nazi. Debating those questions only serve to make the debaters (and the audience) feel more warm and fuzzy about their own feelings. The war is ongoing. The debate starts there! What do we do now? The question is: Who do we want to win? Do we want us (and/or Ukraine) to win, or do we want Russia to win? It's really as simple as that. There's no other option. If we do nothing, Russia will take over Ukraine and never let it go. Never! If we help Ukraine, we win. Yes, it involves risk and perhaps a better debate would be how we go about winning without igniting WW3.
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  2137. "...by 2035, with a projected GDP/capita of at least $20,000". I think that is feasible. Even if annual growth slowly decreases year by year to below 2% by 2035, China should still be able to reach that goal.
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  2138. 12:52 Look at that guy, taking up two parking spots!
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  2139. I think the EU fully expects some form of retaliation from China, but retaliation in the auto industry probably won't make much of a difference, since almost all western brands sold in China are also made in China, with the Chinese government as business partners. More likely, we will see high tariffs on agricultural products, incl. meat, wine, dairy products. This will be a challenge for the EU because China is a big market for us, and it is not easily replaceable with another market. We'll have to get through it, and there are a lot more workers in the auto industry than in the agricultural industry.
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  2140. Yes, but China is so big that it would take a massive amount of immigrants to make up for the shortfall. Toward the end of this decade, China will lose 5-6 million people every year. By the 2040s, that will increase to 8-12 million every year. I don't think China can attract that many people.
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  2141. Patek Philippe? Why not a Tianjin Seagull watch?
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  2142.  @discursion  I mean 'for the well-off'.
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  2143.  @samy8897  Well, you could say it's never possible to completely eliminate risk, but remember that we have used nuclear energy for decades to heat water. That's how electricity is generated: The fission process heats water, a pipe with clean water is brought through the basin, the clean water gets heated up to boiling point, the steam from that water drives the turbines that make electricity, the hot steam must be cooled down in cooling towers where some of it evaporates into the air. Because this is potentially dangerous, much effort is made to make sure that that water does not become contaminated with radioactive material. These same safe guards are used when piping the 'waste' water into district heating systems. I hope that's useful.
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  2144.  @C-3POII45I4  The traditional route has been through China and then into Laos, not Myanmar. Travel through China happens by bus and car. There will sometimes be South Korean helpers along the way. But it is still very dangerous and difficult to complete the trip. It's possible to get money because many of the North Koreans work in North East China before they make the trip. They may also learn some Chinese language so they can get on a bus.
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  2145.  @C-3POII45I4  You can take local countryside buses, going between small towns and cities. Long distance buses probably won't work. In any case, I'm not North Korean and I don't have a need to escape. But this practice has been documented in numerous reports, both in writing and on video. It's not just some story, it's reality.
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  2146. What? Diplomacy is 外交。Passive aggressive is 被动攻击. I don't see any connection.
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  2147.  @WhiteGirlChinaPeanut.online  Ok, got it, but the original poster makes this claim: "The only country on earth that was able to bring back a lunar sample was China". That is clearly wrong.
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  2148.  @Andy-P  It's possible. NIO, while being a beautiful car, is still deep in start-up debt and sales figures are still relatively low. But they have a lot of value in design and brand.
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  2149. "It will take more than a local engineering solution to fix it". That is true, but it is also true that it will take local engineering solutions to mitigate the problem until it has been fixed on a global scale.
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  2150.  @dontcomply3976  I think the joke works better like that.
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  2151. It's not companies that want to 'decouple' or 'de-risk', it's the EU. Private enterprises often have different interests than nations do.
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  2152. I see a future with legalized cannibalism. Exciting times!
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  2153. Not only does it make more money, it also saves more money for the electricity consumer.
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  2154.  @Bike_Lion  "So this means that the electric companies have to build, maintain, and staff fossil fuel power plants". Yes, but we already have all that installed. The point is not to replace all existent generation capacity, but to grow resilience by diversifying our means of generating electricity: Nuclear, coal, oil, gas, wind, solar, hydro.... This is all part of building energy security.
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  2155.  @Bike_Lion  "It's better to focus on building up more baseload nuclear capacity". I think it's best to build up a variety of energy generation methods, not just rely on one.
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  2156.  @Dot2TrotsLowCarbLiving  "Without taxpayer subsidies, the wind industry dies." Not true. There are private companies making a lot of money on wind energy without government input. It's becoming a fairly profitable industry.
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  2157.  @erikkovacs3097  And is that what nuclear plants actually do? Do they store 20-30 years worth of fuel on site? It's one thing to say 'you could' do something; quite another to observe what people actually do.
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  2158.  @osamabinladen824  Yes, for taking down large buildings, you need more mass and more fuel, Osama. Btw, I went past your cave the other day, but you weren't home.
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  2159. No, the opposite: They have NOT been including the student population. If they include it, the rate will drop to only 6.7%.
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  2160.  @browncony3897  Not even that, but the Party itself.
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  2161. Now you only have to convince the rest of the world of your greatness. That's the difficult part.
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  2162.  @stewlew8449  Ok, thank you. I think you make a very fair, and plausible, argument.
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  2163. As if there was peace in the world before the US came into existence. There has never been peace in the world.
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  2164. 5.5% seems high, but if they're pumping USD 500 billion (being 2.8% of GDP) into the economy, that'll help. However, just the last two months poor home sales alone will result in a drag-down of around 0.45% of GDP.
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  2165.  @SDN117  You're so happy about this, based on your laughing emoji.
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  2166. My first thought: Is any of them a Tesla? Appears to be a 'no'.
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  2167.  @thinkingaloud5379  " Show evidence or shut up". YouTube doesn't allow outside links, but you can Google the following terms: "Uyghurs can't get passports" "Tibetans can't get passports" As for PLA soldiers, I have been told by PLA soldiers right here in China.
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  2168. What a terrible, disjointed video! Was it about Turkey's development and use of laser weapons, or was it about: -Turkey - Russian strategic competition? -Turkey - Greece strategic competition? -Turkey's NATO membership? -Albert Einstein? -The science of lasers? -Coup attempt in Turkey? Who knows.......
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  2169. He took the chance and ran with it. Even some time in jail probably won't make him regret.
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  2170.  clemathieu JT  China has (or had) the benefit of the rocket scientist Qian Xue Sen, who was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech in the 1930s. He really propelled (ha ha) China's rocket technology forward.
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  2171.  @Jane-ch9yb  Maybe none of them remembered it.
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  2172. My first thought was that this is a place companies can buy and sell the data they've collected, but that seems too unethical, even for China.
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  2173. To be fair, it was not Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who started the war against Bangladesh / East Pakistan but his predecessor, Yahya Khan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was handed the presidency after Bhutto was overthrown by his fellow army colleagues because he lost the war.
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  2174. I doubt there's going to be a major and sudden crash. Much more likely is an annual slowing down of growth by 0.3% on average over the next 7-10 years. (Obviously this is a very rough estimate).
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  2175. "If I know my country, the US and its people will ignore this". Then you don't know your country, because as the video clearly demonstrates, something is already being done about this problem.
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  2176. So would you suggest a national leader not say anything?
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  2177.  @lvjinbin28  "make friends with any country". Obviously not with countries that behave like Australia, so there must be limits to who China will make friends with. What do you think those limits are?
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  2178.  @hangtuah888  It's clear you are very emotional and angry, and you have a large amount of resentment against western countries. What you are describing is part of history; it has already happened and we cannot change it, no matter how angry you are. The values and ideals I talk about are modern. Those values and ideals aim to bring us to a better place where we will not repeat the wrongdoings of the past. We must learn from the past so we can better our societies, decade by decade. And our societies today are much, much better than before. If you have a chance to visit a western country (and I include Japan, South Korea and Singapore as 'western', but I do not include Russia), perhaps you will find that things are not as terrible as you think. In the meantime, you are free to hate and be resentful toward any country you want. It doesn't really affect us.
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  2179. Does anybody know when the expected launch date is?
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  2180. European NATO member countries currently have 115 F-35s delivered, and another 377 on order. 4th generation fighters include 766 F-16s, in addition to many other fighter aircraft (Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, Mirage). Turkey is not included in this tally, as it is technically not European.
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  2181. Noam Chomsky has obviously had a huge impact on many fields of American society, culture and science. However, in later years he seems to increasingly make these 'end of days'-predictions. In 2016, he said that Trump would turn USA into a Fascist military dictatorship or something like that, and under both Obama and Trump, he claimed that either president might very well start WW3. I think he's better when he speaks about linguistics, psychology, media, or even US foreign policy. On the positive side, he looks increasingly like Gandalf The Grey.
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  2182.  @jonhowe2960  and do you also increasingly look like a wizard?
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  2183. India does have some catching up to do, but they're also installing solar at high speed. India installed capacity: 39 GW China installed capacity: 302 GW In 2015, China had 44 GW, so India is 6-7 years behind.
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  2184. Hah, I was wondering where that was. My guess was north-eastern city, or possibly Hangzhou. Is the church and surrounding buildings original (German)?
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  2185. Does this mean my Andy Warhol paintings are out of fashion? Anyone want them?
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  2186.  @in-human1698  "20-30 percent for double patterning on 7nm chips using DUV." Wow, that's very low. So each usable chip increases 4-5 times in cost.
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  2187.  @calvinblue894  But when you join the army, you go into it expecting some deprivations, like long marches, digging trenches, little sleep... If you move to a major metropolis, you generally don't expect to be deprived your freedom to move or buy food. Each situation should be viewed in context.
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  2188. It's like putting your hand on the stove and realizing it's not nearly as hot as people told you it was going to be.
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  2189.  @franciscocz8384  I'll take that as a 'Yes', and confirmation that you don't care about Cambodia.
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  2190. While there may not be many Americans on Fudan University campus these days, thousands of Americans and other foreigners have studied at Fudan University over the last 40 years, including me.
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  2191. Sounds like a lucrative business, if you can corner the market.
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  2192.  @hkraytai  I don't remember reading anything about that, and I don't think many people had BBQ parties back then. But I do remember someone cut down a famous and much loved bronze statue in the middle of Huaihai Rd. to sell as scrap metal.
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  2193.  @cuteandfunnyearthlings2863  Thanks for injecting geopolitics into this. Very astute!
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  2194. Thanks for your welcome. I have been several times and I would like to visit again. Btw, I have never heard a gun being fired while in the US, or even seen one.
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  2195.  @animeee4380  "Where is Snowden?" : Moscow Where is Assange?": London. Any other questions?
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  2196.  @animeee4380  Snowden: Because there was an arrest order out on him in the US. He is accused of stealing classified documents. Assange: He didn't really flee, but was already in the UK when an arrest order was put out on him. So he sought refuge in the Bolivian Embassy. Now he's under arrest and awaiting possible extradition to USA. The charge is similar to that of Snowden: Stealing or publicizing classified documents.
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  2197. I'll try to give an answer. There is no official list of tiered cities, so people will often disagree. -First tier: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen -Second Tier: Other major cities, especially along the coast: Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Xiamen, and some major provincial capitals in the interior -Third tier: Large cities in the interior, including many provincial capitals -Fourth tier: County seats and smaller cities, though in the Chinese context, they may still have a population of 1-4 million. Another way to look at it, used to be popular in the expat community: -First tier: Has tons of international brands and Shake Shack, Burger King, Starbuck's, McD's, KFC -Second tier: Has Starbuck's, McD's, KFC -Third tier: Has McD's, KFC -Fourth tier: Only has KFC
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  2198.  @longdog33  "Canadians and Americans love making fun of the canto accent." Ooh, what a tragedy! You don't think Chinese people make fun of foreign accents? The Chinese art of XiangSheng (相声) takes making fun of other accents to a new level. This is universal, not limited to Canada, America, or China. People do that everywhere. Have you ever heard Americans making fun of a southern accent? Or a Minnesota accent? Or a New York accent? Or a French accent? You have the accent you have, everybody else has their own accent, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Better get over it, rather than let it ruin your soft heart.
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  2199. I guess Q3 GDP numbers will come out next week.
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  2200. What does the US get out of joining UNESCO? Just a big bill? There doesn't seem to be any benefits.
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  2201. Companies can't be traitors. They are loyal only to their owners, regardless which country they are based in.
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  2202.  @far_centrist  Well, there's always the train.
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  2203.  @ssuwandi3240  Your questions seem unrelated to my comment.
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  2204.  @ssuwandi3240  Those free tickets are not only for Asians, in my understanding, but will be distributed worldwide, or at least to the places Cathay and other HK airlines fly to and from. Have I misunderstood that? Are the tickets only given to Asians?
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  2205. It'll be interesting to learn all the details once the inquiry is complete.
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  2206.  @PHlophe  "you'll forget about this in 10 minutes". I don't think I will. I have Greenland Inuit family.
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  2207. "what will you called that alliance". How about PATO (PAcific Treaty Alliance)?
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  2208. I had an Impossible Whopper at Burger King. I did not like it and I wouldn't choose one again. I've had some great veggie burgers/sandwiches in my time, but none of them pretended to taste like meat.
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  2209. It was also Bush 2s (Dubya's) choice of pronunciation. It never failed to make me gnash my teeth.
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  2210. If the world wasn't ruled by greed, we'd still all be poor and living as hunter-gatherers.
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  2211. I hope some of those Thai workers can also cook so everybody on the farm may eat some delicious Thai home cooking.
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  2212. Where's the full video? News outlets seem to cut out the actual shootings.
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  2213. True, but that is not an indicator of trouble. Many successful economies are net importers of food: Singapore, Iceland, Japan come to mind.
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  2214.  @pearlyung  Pork is pretty cheap in China, around $3.5 a pound, some cuts less.
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  2215.  @DuxSupremus  "they've completely ruined the habitability of their country through pollution". Certainly China has its fair share of pollution, but not so much that is has a major impact on food production. China's main problem in this area is the shortage of arable land. Large parts of China are mountainous, and the land up there is only just enough to feed the local population. However, it is correct that efficiencies in agriculture are not on par with the west. In a pinch, China could probably feed itself, but it would have to forgo of meat and sustain itself on just grain and vegetables. The vast amount of China's food imports go toward animal feed.
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  2216.  @HKim0072  You misunderstand me. The small annual drop in population will not have a great impact on people's economic situation. As for the incels you refer to, their situation is related to the gender imbalance, not the growth in total population.
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  2217.  @HKim0072  "If dudes can't find a partner, it's pretty hard to make babies". That is true, of course. And that is why demographers only concern themselves with women, because they are the ones who make the babies. Whether there are too many men or too few men makes no difference. That in itself will not change how many babies a woman is going to have. (Within limits, of course. If there is only one man per 100 women, it'll be hard for him to fertilize all of them, though I'm sure he'd love to try).
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  2218. I believe Tony is based in Ningbo.
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  2219. Does @excalibur8448 know anything about how the Chinese government works? Perhaps he can point out where 'this dude' is wrong?
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  2220. Wet markets are just open markets like farmers' markets that sell vegetables, meat, fish, etc. They've been open the whole time, except in Wuhan. Here in Shanghai I've been doing my vegetable shopping in wet markets throughout the Corona crisis. The markets themselves are not dangerous as long as they only sell 'normal' meat and veggies and nothing exotic.
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  2221. He always wanted to swim in that infinity pool at Marina Bay Sands. Maybe he'll make a video with a selfie stick titled "I got kicked out of two countries!!" Should get lots of views.
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  2222. Not quite correct. Gorillas and us share the same ancestor, but that ancestor was neither gorilla nor human, but some other primate. Further back, we also share an ancestor with Gibbons. I love gibbons, my favorite cousins!
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  2223. Re.: Shanghai. I received an 'exit pass' today and left my community for the first time in almost two months. Went to a nice supermarket, got some coffee beans, butter, cheese. It was amazing! "Freedom, freedom, freeedom, woooooaaaahhhhh, freedooooooom" (Aretha Franklin)
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  2224.  @gtw4546  Haha, perhaps, but there's not much to do outside with all the shops closed.
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  2225. In China, increasing your profits supersedes almost any other consideration. The only exception is: getting caught.
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  2226.  @europeets  What does that mean?
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  2227. China's population will not halve by 2050. That is practically impossible, barring some major natural disaster that kills 500 million in one fell swoop. We can expect that almost everybody under the age of 50 right now will still be alive in 2050, when they will be 78. There are currently about 850 million in China under 50, so even if Chinese women stop giving birth tomorrow and never have another baby, there will still be those 850 million left by 2050. 850 million is 60% of the current total. More likely, from now until 2050, at least 200 million babies will be born, giving a total of 1.05 billion. That's a worst case scenario. My prediction says 1.2 billion in 2050, a prediction based on TFR slowly falling to 0.9 babies/woman, as is the case in S. Korea.
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  2228.  @waichungsham1578  Not in the direction I'm shipping.
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  2229.  @fuyuan822  Yes, also a possibility. In any case, the policy of 'Zero Covid' is set, so it won't get changed now. But I also wonder if Big Boss is using this opportunity as an attack on the Shanghai faction in the top leadership to ensure he continues as the Big Boss.
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  2230. Liu He's nose is quite red, like he downed a whole bottle of baijiu just before the meeting. And he's not even a North-Easterner.
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  2231. Chinese spelling.
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  2232. Jessica Berlin is correct. Germany's lack of action is disgraceful! You see the surrounding, much smaller countries really digging into their reserves to support Ukraine. Meanwhile, Germany is standing with their hands in their pockets. Recently, an executive of a large German industrial corporation said that we should end the war soon so we can get back to doing business in Russia. It's perversion at its worst. You get the impression that Germany is willing to sell Ukraine for a quick profit. Shameful!
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  2233. Perhaps China and South Korea can unite with Japan under Japanese leadership. Would you like that?
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  2234. I hadn't even heard of this train accident, which seems to have happened 6 days ago (on an unmentionable date). Looks to have happened in Guizhou Province. In fact, I can't think of any accident involving high-speed trains in China since the 2011 Wenzhou accident.
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  2235. The vast majority of foreign people in Shanghai were not 'needed foreign talent'. In fact, they only made up a tiny percentage. The biggest proportion were entrepreneurs, and foreigners working for foreign companies wanting a slice of the Chinese market. None of that has to do with 'foreign talent'. It has to do with profits.
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  2236. Whether a country should be grateful or not for things left behind by colonial powers is entirely up to the people of that country, not for people of other countries to decide. However, this video seems to put the reason for all the ills of India at Britain's door. Perhaps the answer is a little more nuanced. After all, Britain had no particular interest in the partition of India and probably couldn't care less, but it was a demand by Jinnah. And even if the trains hadn't been there, wouldn't the Hindus and Muslims have killed each other anyway?
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  2237.  @Adeynan  "debit per capita of $10000". Do you mean debt? Debt and debit have almost opposite meanings.
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  2238. Are Russia and China in a defense alliance with Mexico? That is news to me.
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  2239.  @battletroll1likesminecraft214  "we can’t just sit back forever". We're not sitting back. We have been continuously improving our world for centuries. Think about what aspects of your life were impossible just 100 years ago. Make a list.
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  2240. Since they're fighting each other, that sounds very likely.
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  2241. Is this a result of Japan's Central Bank recently changing from a negative interest rate to a positive one?
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  2242.  @MGZetta  But the US is raising the interest rate to dampen their own inflation.
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  2243. That's my question, too. You can make 7nm chips on a 28nm machine (which is what they have), but apparently only at around 60% yield, which means 66% higher price per chip, or around $100 higher. Perhaps Huawei is willing to eat that extra cost.
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  2244. The Kiel Institute's account of spending/support for Ukraine only starts from February 2022, not from 2014. So they're not wrong, they just don't start from back in 2014. But what does the US government itself say about its support for Ukraine? Quote from the US State Department website, March 4, 2025, entitled 'U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine': "To date, we have provided $66.5 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.2 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles." So, in fact, the EU is NOT way behind, but on par with the US on assistance to Ukraine.
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  2245.  @MetaView7  You're a good student.
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  2246. China has traditionally stayed out of problems concerning other countries, as long as they don't also concern China. It has been like this for over 2000 years. It remains a highly insular culture.
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  2247.  @Ctrl_Del_0  "Russia will come down on Ukraine even harder". I think they've already come as hard as they are able.
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  2248.  @Ctrl_Del_0  "Just wait when Russia gets to a full mobilization." Ok, I'll wait, though I wonder how long I have to wait.
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  2249. India's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was designed and built in India from 2009-2013, when it was launched. After lengthy trials, it was commissioned in 2022. China's Fujian carrier was built from 2015-2022, and is expected to be commissioned later this year (2024).
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  2250.  @topspeed9004  I don't? Tell me where I am wrong and give us the real data, then.
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  2251.  @xuli3961  The term 'commissioned' doesn't say anything about the quality of the ship, it doesn't mean the ship is without flaws. Commissioned just means that it is now serving as an active part of the navy, no longer doing trials.
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  2252. In the last 25 years, around 1.3 million Chinese people have immigrated to the US. Some have become great scientists. It's only natural that a few of them would move back again. I don't think it's something to worry about for the US, which also receives smart people from many other countries.
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  2253. Olympic arms race: 100 missiles in 9.78 seconds.
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  2254.  @pogoil7053  I got mine from a nephew of a former Nigerian president. Those Nigerians are so generous!
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  2255. The great Chinese writer Lu Xun was especially critical of bystanders who do nothing, calling them '看客'. It's an issue that has been debated in China for decades. But I think the situation has improved somewhat over the years.
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  2256. Why not try to introduce a Russian-style burger? Beef patty, slice of red beet, smetana, all on a buckwheat bun.
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  2257. I'm sure he's aware. We all are.
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  2258. Agreed. I found the dam on Google Maps: 24.683038, 110.523225
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  2259.  @pinklady7184  Still irrelevant! My original post is about teaching primary school pupils about basic physics. The comment would apply also for the ISS.
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  2260. That's a statement, not a question.
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  2261. 4.3 is a pretty small earthquake. Does anybody remember the earthquake we had in Shanghai in the fall of 1996? That was about the same strength.
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  2262.  @hanisrosli5484  Did I say otherwise?
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  2263. What else do you think they should have done? Just let him run around the city until he get run over by a bus?
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  2264. Re. Fewer marriages: We shouldn't forget that one of the reasons for fewer marriages is that there are simply fewer women in the prime wedding age, 23-29. There are only a total of 64 million in that group, or ave. of 8 mill/year. Just 5 years ago, there were an average of 10-11 mill/year.
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  2265.  @kapmann500yearsago9  Well, it shows that when we look at China's demographic decline, we should be careful not to overinterpret. The low marriage numbers are only partly due to people being less inclined to get married, and more due to the fact that there are fewer people in the marriage pool. A quick look at the demographic pyramid of China can answer many questions.
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  2266.  @partricklin9749  Google the name of the victim 'Ukawa Saito' to see for yourself.
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  2267. 4:50 "60% of people aged 16-24 had no more than a high school education". Ok, but let's remember that people don't graduate high school until they're 18-19 years old, and they don't get a college degree until they're 22-24, so even if everybody ends up getting a college degree you would still only have 67% who have graduated high school and at most 10-20% who have graduated college. So those numbers don't sound that alarming. Edit: Oops, I jumped the gun and didn't hear the next sentence: "Excluding people currently enrolled in school, 70 only have a high school degree". Well, still not such bad numbers as again, within that age cohort, only about 67% are old enough to have graduated high school.
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  2268. I think he means "what is achievable with the current equipment". SMIC has 28nm machines, which can be tweaked to make 7nm chips, but at somewhat lower yield.
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  2269. Hey, that's a good observation, I hadn't thought of that. Many countries have tried campaigns to get consumers to buy more domestic brands, and it might work for a short while, but in the end, consumers will buy whatever they feel is the best deal for them.
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  2270.  @lov2cyanaked  Thank you.
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  2271.  @kokeno3176  That is correct. When I was in Indonesia many years ago, many people knew Danish badminton players and we knew Indonesian badminton players. It was a great way to connect with people. 🙂
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  2272.  @muhammadanshari3931  We'll happily buy all the palm oil you want to sell us. It's only some environmentalists who complain about palm oil. They don't understand economy, they don't understand industry, they don't understand how the world works.
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  2273.  @muhammadanshari3931  "so we have the right to decline the request". Yes, of course you have that right. And then it may go to the WTO for a judgment.
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  2274.  @tomw4688  " [Neo-colonialism.] sounds like what EU is doing right now. WTO is an institution designed by the powerful blocs". Ok, you don't have to be a part of the WTO if you don't want to, and you don't have to do business with the EU if you don't want to. No country or group of countries can influence you, pressure you, or force you to do business with the EU or any other country. You make your own choices.
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  2275.  @tomw4688  "Im outta here". See ya!
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  2276.  @AlphaCovid2020  "how bought raw material became the solution to world enviromental?" I have no idea, but that isn't the issue I have. In fact, I don't care about Nickel at all. My issue is with the commenters who claim that the EU is somehow unfair, or colonialist. It is neither of those things. It is a simple trade dispute which Indonesia could have had with any country, over any mineral or commodity. There's nothing more to it. Now, some commenters have said that because it is the EU, that makes it inherently colonialist, or evil, or a 'power play', because the EU is a large economic power, and because some (but far from all) EU countries were colonial powers in the past. And certainly there is a power differential here. While Indonesia is smaller than the EU, it is by no means a small economy. But as much as we would like to see every country, big and small, treated equally, it is clear that that is never going to happen. This is a big reason the EU was established to begin with. So many EU members are tiny economies that would never get a fair shake in trade negotiations, but teaming up as a large group, we have much more power. ASEAN could do this, and should do this. You will have so much power in the world if you turn ASEAN into a real economic organization and give it real powers. You will be much better off when negotiating with China, or the EU, or the US, or India (in the future). This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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  2277.  @Senzaya  "Denial". What am I denying?
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  2278.  @Jack-xe2xe  Yes, it's interesting, isn't it? Like a trade boxing match.
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  2279.  @shevaroesdy  "we don't need anything from EU". Ok, so why are you so angry about it? Just ignore what the EU says.
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  2280.  @amazingworld2203  "banned indonesia and give them sanction". I doubt Indonesia will be banned from the WTO. There is no process that can do that, as far as I know.
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  2281.  @hendysetiawan5508  "To all EU countries, go buy somewhere else". If only it were that simple.
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  2282.  @nfl5597  "EU doesn't want pricey processed nickel so they attack Indonesia for banning export raw nickel." I know. That's what this whole thing is about. No need to repeat it.
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  2283.  @FaktaHumorChanel-en6fq  "you deliberately want to win alone". It's not me, it's the EU. "It's time for Europe to fall". Ok, that's quite a wish, but I think it's going to take a very long time for that to happen.
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  2284.  @Azrudi  "I support our Southeast Asian neighbour's export ban". Ok, but it doesn't really matter what you support. What matters is what the WTO says.
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  2285.  @FaktaHumorChanel-en6fq  "When Indonesia collaborates with other countries, apart from EU member countries, why does the EU get angry." Can you give an example of this happening? I'm not aware of such a situation.
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  2286.  @FaktaHumorChanel-en6fq  Selamat pagi. (It's the only Indonesian I know, and I didn't understand your message).
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  2287.  @doodlenoodle5466  "why don't you criticise that?" I have not criticized Indonesia for not wanting to sell raw nickel. You will not find a single place where I demand that Indonesia should sell their nickel to the EU. In fact, I understand Indonesia's position, which sounds reasonable to me. What I am saying is that this is a standard trade issue and nothing more. EU has the right to involve WTO in this. That is not a sign of hostility, or evil, or colonialism, it's simply using the tools that the WTO rules allow. And Indonesia has the right to defend its choices, of course.
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  2288.  @kanalKM09  "kolonialism mentality". Does that term actually mean anything?
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  2289. ​ @tenshoneyskin4500  "EU countries, have banned indonesian palm oil distribution". The EU has NOT banned the import of palm oil, but it is phasing out the use of palm oil as fuel. It continues to import large amounts of palm oil from both Indonesia and Malaysia and other countries, about 5 million tons per year. The EU is continuing to use palm oil for all the traditional uses: soap, detergent, skin lotion, ice cream, microwave popcorn, etc. and this will almost certainly continue for years to come. As for EU hypocrisy, I certainly agree when it comes to talking about habitat destruction. Europe has mostly destroyed all its natural environment centuries ago, and is only now working to rebuild it. So yes, it is hypocritical for Europeans to criticize other countries for destroying natural forests, when that is exactly what we have already done, and also when we want to buy the produce from those destroyed forests. We are in agreement there.
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  2290.  @southeastasia8429  "See isn't like colonize era?" How is that related to the colonial era? Seems to me your thinking is this: You think the EU is being unreasonable, and since colonization was also unreasonable, then they must be the same thing. So anything unreasonable done by a European country, that is colonization. Is that what you believe?
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  2291.  @southeastasia8429  But Indonesia is not a colony anymore, and your government knows that. It's pathetic that you don't. Stand up! Take responsibility for your own future! Be a man!
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  2292.  @kingcolz  "EU is going downhill anyway compared to other countries". Yes, high income countries tend to have much lower growth rates than low income countries. I think it's good that so many developing countries are now seeing high economic growth. It'll be better for the whole world, including for Europe.
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  2293.  @ensignmdedynp9999  "And for that EU sue us in WTO". That is correct. Of course you don't like it, nobody would, but EU thinks you're in violation of the WTO rules, so they sue. Pretty simple. Nobody expected you to think it is ok.
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  2294.  @retnopratiwi61  "do you think we are that dumb?" Certainly not. I fully expect Indonesia to fight for the right to formulate a trade policy that benefits Indonesia. And I expect the EU to do the same. You want what is best for Indonesia, the EU wants what is best for the EU.
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  2295.  @retnopratiwi61  "We just want to limit the impact to the environment". I haven't written this anywhere. That quote does not come from me.
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  2296.  @larasatipaulana5279  "Indonesia should go out from WTO and may be join BRICS". Or you could stay in WTO and join BRICS, or leave WTO and NOT join BRICS. My question is, why do you think leaving WTO and joining BRICS will be better for Indonesia? Do you even know what benefits WTO membership brings to Indonesia?
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  2297.  @BangMalihl4035  "VOC MONOPOLY !!!!". What's VOC?
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  2298.  @larasatipaulana5279  "why should we stay in WTO". Staying or leaving, it's your choice. Just remember to examine the pros and cons before you make your decision.
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  2299.  @Uurva  Look, I don't think there's a single European country (except for Russia) that has any interest in colonizing another country, especially not in Asia. We are perfectly happy to just trade with you and visit your beautiful countries. Of course there will be trade disputes now and then, so we talk about it, hopefully solve the problem, and continue benefitting mutually from our trade relationship.
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  2300.  @Uurva  Yes, there's no doubt that Indonesia still has many problems that are waiting for a solution. It's especially hard in a country that is spread out over so many different islands. People in Sulawesi may hope to one day become as well off as those in Java, but it might never happen. On the upside, Indonesia is developing quite fast, and you now have the ability to elect your own leaders. When I was in Indonesia, Suharto was still president. I think now is better than back then.
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  2301.  @redkop510  My praise is specific to this particular segment. Should be easy to understand.
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  2302.  @someonespotatohmm9513  Worker unions are something that happens naturally as workers want to increase their bargaining power in the labor market. Only authoritarian rule and repression can prevent this.
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  2303. Thickest accent 'Slava Ukraine' I've heard so far. 😁😁
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  2304. Do you even know what Tritium is? Or do you just assume that it is very dangerous?
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  2305.  @Acee0388  Great, so you know it's not that dangerous, especially after it has been diluted in sea water.
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  2306. The water issue? Do you mean the quality of drinking water, or the available water for irrigation and hydro power production?
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  2307.  @thomasherrin6798  Well, the drinking water quality is about the same as it has been for years. You shouldn't drink the tap water, but you can shower in it and brush your teeth in it. There are people who drink tap water, but it can have a bad taste. May also be contaminated with heavy metals. As for irrigation, it appears that there are still water shortages in some regions. SCMP just recently posted a video of a farmer whose crops were short of water.
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  2308.  @WillBill6143  If I get the chance, I'll certainly check them out. I'm always happy to try something new.
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  2309.  @turbokid99  I don't think there's any evidence for your claims.
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  2310. If it was his car that was missing, he would be running around the lobby with his laptop.
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  2311. If you're a foreign invested company and you have proof that you paid all your company taxes, then transferring your profits abroad is not hard. There's paperwork, yes, but no real stumbling blocks.
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  2312. Some people like to cook, regardless of how much money they have. It can be a hobby. But no, they almost certainly don't cook every day.
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  2313. Sunrise at the Bund is better. 5-6 AM
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  2314. "In Shanghai Covid is still running rampant". I'm in Shanghai and I didn't know this. It's not that I doubt the claim, but that we have no up to date information. The government has stopped providing any information about the pandemic, so how can we know what's going on? 小道新闻够吗？
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  2315. Yes, much anticipated good news. It will likely be accompanied by 'no vaccine or testing requirements'. Chinese tour operators and hotel owners are looking forward to this.
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  2316. If you've been following this channel for long enough, you will know that Tony is very aware of China's demographic problems. You also seem to be contradicting yourself: You write 'Since their economy is based on export driven growth, and not domestic consumption, there will not be a big enough population to sustain their economy'. If their growth depends on exports, then domestic consumption is less important than production.
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  2317.  @ZweiZwolf  China still has a net population outflow, to the tune of 300,000 per year. That is down from the 500,000/year we used to see before 2015, but still a fair amount. As for students, there is more demand than there are spots in US universities. The reduction in Chinese students has been made up for by an increase in students from India.
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  2318.  @youarebeingtrolled6954  Well, we're talking about the US, not my country. There are not many Indian students in my country. So wishing me luck doesn't really make sense.
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  2319. Congratulations to India. Tonight, I will celebrate with a chicken tikka masala.
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  2320. Let me guess: This is related to crypto currency investments?
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  2321. In that case, America's export restrictions shouldn't be a problem. Everyone is happy.
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  2322.  @yttraveller3757  Tourism is fine but can only get you so far. Science, technology, industry, those need to be developed in minority areas, too. My problem is not with people wearing ethnic costumes, but that ethnic minorities in Chinese media are only portrayed as cultural curiosities. They want what people in Shanghai have, they don't want to just be looked at by the majority.
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  2323.  @moses5623  Which is why more and more people get their information from alternative sources, like YouTube, in-depth news sites, think tanks and analytical sources. Main stream media is mostly for older, suburban people.
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  2324. A few weeks ago she was talking about 'impending doom'. Now people can throw their masks off.
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  2325. I think the Chinese government and people generally take their cue from the UN climate panel. That is in line with what most countries and people do.
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  2326. China's Central Bank to foreign investors: "Baby, how am I supposed to live without you? Now that I've been loving you so long How am I supposed to live without you And how am I supposed to carry on?"
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  2327.  @sandraankenbrand  No, but in China unmarried women's babies don't get officially registered. That means they will have great difficulty finding daycare, kindergarten, schools for their kids. Women have been pressuring for change, but the government is not yet listening. Same with freezing for their eggs. Married women can get their eggs frozen, but unmarried women can't.
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  2328. The fact that there are lots of people from Ethiopia and Sierra Leone is a clue that the people trapped in these scam centers are not tourists that were abducted. There are hardly any tourists from Ethiopia or Sierra Leone in Thailand, or anywhere else. They are too poor to travel. Rather, these people were promised high paying jobs and they fell for the scam, borrowed money to go to Thailand, and were then transported across the border to Myanmar. Once they got there, they finally discovered they had been tricked. Don't be gullible!
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  2329. Strictly speaking, Badaling Great Wall was rebuilt in the 1980s. But yes, it has lasted until today.
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  2330.  @mehere8038  Yes, also a good option. However, penning does not mean the manure goes to waste. It's common practice around the world to spread the manure where it's needed. But both options are good.
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  2331. There's a paddle/spatula somewhere down there....
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  2332. The word is now out that they did this because they were angry they couldn't get Taylor Swift tickets.
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  2333. The narrator has a very interesting lisp. EDIT: Lisschp.
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  2334.  @Kiyoone  Yes, lithium battery fires are pretty scary, not just in cars but also in smart phones. Fire departments are working on developing more effective methods to extinguish them. That will probably take some time, but they have already developed some special foams that work much better than water, for example. It's a work in progress, as with all new technologies.
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  2335.  @chengyangzhou8785  "Search up Operation Barrel Roll". Operation Barrel Roll dropped bombs in eastern Laos, not near the railway line. So do you have information about mine clearing along the line as part of construction?
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  2336.  @anakborneo8459  I do know the word accumulation, but Tritium doesn't endlessly accumulate, it decays over time. Nevertheless, I agree that testing should continue into the future.
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  2337.  @carriec9121  She is not being charged with stealing patents. Currently, there is a court case ongoing in Canada to find out if she should be extradited to the US. This extradition case can take a long time, partly because she has the option to appeal. If and when she gets extradited to the US, only then can the real court case begin.
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  2338. She would have been 62 years old now.
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  2339.  @LTCloud9  Haha, so true.
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  2340. Latest news says this was a 6.5 Magnitude earthquake. That's quite powerful.
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  2341. So, we have airplanes that can take off and land on water, and now we have this 'bus-train'. What will the next combo be? -Bicycle-space ship? -Skateboard-ferry?
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  2342.  @Aapig  People who have democracy like it. Once they have it, they will never give it away.
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  2343. I think this temple is destined to become very popular, so that should mean lots of great street food along the road leading to it. In that case, I might visit one day.
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  2344. The fact that he is ethnically Chinese makes his punishment worse, because the Chinese government believes that you should be loyal to the home of your ancestors, even if you become a citizen of another country. So he's seen as a 'double' traitor.
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  2345.  @ChinaUpdate  Yes, we shared some great stories: I told them how I once got scammed in the guy's home town Guilin, and the girl told me how she once got scammed in Vienna. Lots of laughs.
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  2346.  @naguoning  "Of course in China BYD is slapping VW." Not quite. VW and BYD sales are neck and neck for 2023, with each having sold just about 3 million vehicles, including both EV and gas cars. I live in Shanghai, and we certainly see a lot of Chinese EVs, incl. BYD, but there are also still a lot of the old brands being sold: VW, BMW, Toyota, GM, Hyundai, etc. These are all popular and respected brands in China, and people like to buy them (still). There is no indication that Chinese people have suddenly decided to reject western brands.
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  2347. Some possibly for ideological reasons, some for excitement, and some get detained for some minor wrongdoing.
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  2348.  @sayanchx  Yes, we discussed them already further up.
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  2349.  @TheFarrukhzain  "i wonder what is b373 family aircraft". Ah, B737 family of course. Small typing error.
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  2350. In many societies, when the (economic) future seems uncertain, people will retreat to the tried and true traditions because it gives them comfort in the face of that uncertainty. That is just basic human psychology. Unfortunately, that also often means people will be less tolerant of 'unusual' behavior, because that behavior may lead to uncertain outcomes. Of course, in reality, different ways of living one's life rarely lead to societal ills, and in some cases can lead to a new blossoming of creativity and growth.
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  2351.  @yerri5567  "they follow the standards and use ingredients set out by their parent company, which isnt Chinese." Doesn't China and HK have their own standards for what may be imported and sold in their respective markets? Why are those standards not enforced?
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  2352.  @yerri5567  Are you saying that HK does have those standards? Then why aren't they enforced? And if HK doesn't have those standards, isn't it the responsibility of the HK government to change that?
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  2353. @SuM of NoN That's how many people in developing countries make their living: By running small mum-and-pop businesses. You don't have to care about them, but they want to make a living.
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  2354. @SuM of NoN "All you need to live is food, water and shelter. Nature already provides all of that". Ok, without necessarily telling which country you're from, can you at least tell me what kind of society you live in? From the way you describe 'living', it sounds like you live out in nature. But somehow you still have access to the internet.
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  2355.  @zeineb8870  Yeah, if the recycled soap was all distributed in the same city as the hotel, that would be more sensible.
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  2356. This is two days old news. Come on SCMP, you can do better.
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  2357. Socialists have been declaring the end of capitalism since Karl Marx was alive. Actually, he was the first to predict it. 150 years later, things are going pretty well.
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  2358.  @RealMTBAddict  Well, if you have to, extreme moderation.
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  2359.  @RealMTBAddict  I have no arguments in favour of eating poison and I wouldn't personally do it.
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  2360.  @Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping  It's a think tank that covers global threats, so mostly military/strategic content. They primarily cover Russia/Central Asia, Middle East, China/N. Korea, and terrorism generally.
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  2361.  @YounisShah-ln7sr  You did give me an answer. An answer based on pure fantasy.
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  2362.  @muslimresponse103  "just a matter of time!" Ok, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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  2363. @@bobs_1429 Why should they pay more than the law requires? If you think they should pay more, tell your elected politicians. Do you normally choose to pay more in taxes than you have to? Don't be naive.
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  2364.  @thelastofthehitachi972  Oh, I'm aware of it!
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  2365.  @Kimmimaro86  Give one example of that EVER happening. Just one!
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  2366. Canada has today banned Poutine, since the name sounds too similar to Putin.
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  2367.  @Kryptos_x  Thank you, that sounds very reasonable.
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  2368.  @Zsharma1  "what if you eliminate the cost of fuel???...then suddenly it becomes economically viable.." Highly unlikely. A perfect analogy: One big semi-truck versus 62 people on bicycles. Unless the cyclists are willing to work for free, it won't make economic sense. However, it's possible that in the future we can fuel our container ships in a 'green' way, but that's a long way off.
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  2369. I suggest you start a 'worker owned co-op' and try to become a supplier to Apple. Then develop from there. Who's holding you back?
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  2370. 200 meters deep!!! You could probably do base jumping from the edge.
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  2371.  @xelaxander  Probably the first. It's common for new policies to not be explained, just implemented. Then people are left to read the tea leaves to find the reason.
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  2372. Great episode, which brought me to the Sinification Substack. Much reading to be done.
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  2373. It's a real tragedy, but if you have to crash, this is a beautiful, scenic part of China to crash in. Rest in peace.
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  2374.  @ckokloong  "foreign agent use protest to destabilize the country". Where do the foreign agents in France come from? Or are 'foreign agents' only a problem in Asia? And are Asians really so weak that they let 'foreign agents' pull them around by the nose? KL Cheong, are you controlled by 'foreign agents'?
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  2375.  @maggiechan33  I'm sure they will. It will be interesting to see how long it will take before the Chinese tourist numbers are back where they were in 2019. That will be a sign that China's economy is doing well again.
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  2376.  @maggiechan33  Thanks, you too. Greetings from Shanghai.
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  2377.  @maggiechan33  Not that brave. I've been here for several decades.
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  2378.  @maggiechan33  Well, certainly it was very different back then. But it also had a certain charm. Now is better, though.
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  2379. Thanks for pointing out that distinction. I've been to Bukittinggi, but not to Mt. Marapi.
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  2380. Thanks, I was wondering if it was a MiG or a Sukhoi or something else.
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  2381. I think it's a little deceptive of Bloomberg to refer to general budgetary expenditures as 'stimulus'. We don't normally call other countries' government budget 'stimulus', it's just the annual budget. Nevertheless, the remainder, 9 trillion Yuan, or 1.4 trillion USD, is still a very large stimulus at roughly 7.7% of GDP. Without it, would China's GDP for 2022 grow at all?
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  2382.  @woohu8443  But what's included in that 30%? Also the annual government budget? I just wouldn't count that.
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  2383. Don't worry, guys. When you see all the European athletes, you'll notice they're all just wearing sports clothes, by choice.
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  2384. You can only wonder how China became so big in the first place.
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  2385.  @adnan_honest_jihadist5775  Allah doesn't like women playing football? Does he like men playing football?
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  2386. Great interview. I've viewed a number of interviews following the release of Late Admissions, but this is one of the best. Nick Gillespie is a really good interviewer.
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  2387.  @jelena5608  "the war is not over. see you after the end of the war." I have a strong feeling that if Ukraine regains all its territory, you're not going to admit you were wrong. You'll just move on to other topics and hope everybody forgot what you said. And you will probably be right about that.
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  2388. In my opinion, Nanjing Salted Duck is overrated. It's not bad, but also not spectacular.
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  2389. We've been 'one step closer' to nuclear war every day for 70 years, but we never seem to get all the way. Perhaps the reality is that we do NOT go one step closer, but continue to stay far away from a nuclear war.
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  2390. Bouncing up and down means you're lying? Why is that?
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  2391. And yet, the stores are all full of Chinese consumers. I wonder why that is.
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  2392.  @Leshic2  Thanks for your comment. I am well aware of the numerous solar parks in China's west and north. Yes, they are truly massive! There are also huge wind parks in the northwest, going on along the highway for hours and hours.
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  2393. What does that mean? Biden and Trump have very different policies and styles, so there is clearly some difference, no matter these so-called oligarchs say or do.
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  2394.  @sunmanyi3265  Not, not only the president, but also the legislature. After all, both houses have to approve laws, and most policies are also laws (except for the aspects that the president can directly control). As for 'oligarchs', or private companies, they have their own interests and they will try their best to persuade govt. to favor their interests. So will labor unions, and everybody else. Businesses have a lot more money, but the rest of us have a lot more people. Policies where Biden and Trump differ: Immigration, trade, tax, environmental protection, international relations. If you follow the news, these differences should certainly have stuck in your mind.
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  2395. Maybe they'll find Stephen Chou (周星驰) practicing the 'Buddha's fist' move.
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  2396. I wonder if these interviews had been done by a mainstream American news media, the producer would have said "Sorry, these people's opinions are not extreme enough. We can't show this".
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  2397.  @Ariun97  Yes, I understand that, but if their practices are not changed, they will eventually descend into poverty as the grasslands disappear. Mongolia is not the first country where people have had to make radical changes to their lifestyle in order to survive.
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  2398.  @chensiqiang-cn  Ah, I see. your objection is that I make a comment at all. As a non-Chinese, I should not make any comments about China. Am I understanding that correctly? Well, I don't need your permission to speak my mind about any topic, and I will continue to speak my mind when I want to. If you don't like that, you are free to leave YouTube and go to Chinese video services instead. Comments there are heavily moderated in the way you prefer.
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  2399. The other two survivors were neither girls nor teenagers, so they didn't matter to The News.
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  2400. Great report! This is top quality war reporting.
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  2401.  @yourdeal2408  Tell that to Lena above. She's the one who made the original assertion.
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  2402. On the face of it, 'New Productive Forces' sounds like automation, robotics, AI, and anything that can increase productivity. It'll be interesting to follow what they come up with.
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  2403. I don't think we will find out how many have died / will die from Covid-19 until the next national census in 2030.
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  2404.  @maolo76  Yes, once we get large scale numbers, we will have to account for the number of people who otherwise die in a normal year. So we can only make an estimate, just like we can only make an estimate of deaths during the Great Leap Forward based on census numbers. But it's better than nothing. Right now, we have little access to any real numbers.
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  2405. The US already has rescue teams on the ground in the disaster zone: 159 personnel, 12 rescue dogs, 80 tonnes of rescue equipment. Video here: https://youtu.be/5MyJ8qij1xo Even Ukraine has sent a rescue team to the region, as have many other countries. One more video here: https://www.youtube.com/live/0hNCWJsJOvY?feature=share
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  2406.  @sweesboey7177  Thanks for the correction. I didn't know ASEAN imported that much from China.
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  2407.  @rabbitazteca23  "in South East Asia right now it's still a bit colder than what we are used to". That's interesting, be cause despite my complaints about Shanghai weather, this winter has been a lot warmer/milder than usual. It's probably that El Nina.
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  2408. But they didn't move out of America and the rest of the west overnight. It was a slow process that took 30 years. Moving on from China will take at least a decade.
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  2409. It's not a 'colossal' dam, but a small dam holding a small fresh water reservoir for irrigation purposes. Google Maps coordinates for the dam here: 24.683038, 110.523225 (satellite view only).
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  2410. I didn't know Amtrak had the power to stop genocide.
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  2411.  @guff9567  Interesting. My shame at not knowing this already almost made me soil myself.
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  2412.  @Flotter-Flo  But you don't even know what I thought was 'funny' and what I thought was 'tragic'. You are simply interpreting without asking me.
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  2413. Re. Communes as an administrative division: In Denmark, the smallest administrative divisions are called 'Kommunes'. Usually towns with a population of around 20-50,000. Above that you have regions (Denmark is too small to have provinces or states). The Kommune as an administrative unit has existed for many many years. They have never been communist, communism has never been a predominant ideology in Denmark, and the name Kommune has never been an expression of a desire to eventually become communist, but rather an expression describing a 'common administration' in a certain area. I suspect the same goes for France.
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  2414. 80年代人家都下海，20年代都下河
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  2415. A fair number of African and Latin American countries have a positive view of China. However, for many developing countries that struggle to get funds to help build their country, they will look positively on any country that supplies those funds, and look positively on any country that imports a lot of their goods. Once the funds run out, once the imports slow down, they'll change their mind.
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  2416. at this time it is unlikely that any Russian company would be allowed to do business in the EU.
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  2417. I think everybody remembers
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  2418. I think the consensus is that while China would like the war to end, China will not allow Russia to lose the war. China is interested in ending the war on Russia's terms, not on Ukraine's terms. I think the general belief in China is that this war is about limiting NATO's and the West's power. This is neither moral or immoral, it's just that different powers around the world have different national and strategic interests. In this case, Ukraine is the country that feels the pain, like a thin man between two very fat men in a crowded elevator.
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  2419. Thanks to Face The Nation for fixing the volume issue that has plagued recent issues.
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  2420. A little off-topic: Why is there such a concept as a 'self-hating Jew'? And what does it actually mean?
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  2421.  @Danny310563  Ah, I see. Thank you. So it's kind of like the derogatory term 'race traitor'? In other words, conform to the group's thinking or be declared an outcast.
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  2422. There are also fewer foreigners living in Shanghai than before, but I don't know the exact numbers. It's just clear from walking in the streets, seeing memberships fall and WeChat groups shrink.
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  2423. I'll taste it before I believe it. But it would be nice if they can succeed in squeezing better flavor out of Robusta beans.
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  2424.  @miltontong4032  I've lived here for 25 years, but I don't see how that's relevant, especially since this is all fairly recent. My point is that this is not a 'digital currency' like Bitcoin, but simply the CNY through a payment app. Perhaps you have some insights to share since you're so knowledgeable, Milton?
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  2425.  @andresiniesta9955  Very enlightening, thank you. :-)
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  2426. Unless people state what kind of world they're aiming for, the slogan "New World Order" can really mean anything to anybody.
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  2427. We must discount the possibility that his nose is itchy, because that never happens.
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  2428. I think they were hoping the sanctions would be short lived, so they wanted to wait it out. But now they've realized the sanctions aren't going away, perhaps not for a decade or more, so they had to leave.
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  2429. When do you think China will publish the report on China Eastern flight MU5735 that crashed in Guangxi in March 2022?
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  2430.  @electromega3077  Certainly: The video is about the G7 asking China to end it's ban on Japanese seafood. You then comment on the US complaint that China grounded the Boeing B737 Max, an issue that is unrelated to the video. I then ask you about another airplane incident. So if my question is illegitimate, your comment is just as illegitimate. I'm happy to concede both, but not only one.
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  2431.  @fernr9496  The reason for the G7's criticism is not that seafood is expensive or cheap. The reason is that the G7 believes China's ban is unreasonable, that it is meant to harm the Japanese economy and punish Japan, rather than for reasons of health.
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  2432. My God, it's gloomy!
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  2433. North of where? Asia or America?
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  2434.  @iron4517  Thanks. I live in China and there are wide ranging opinions about whether northerners or southerners are nicer. That's why I asked.
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  2435.  @iron4517  I am. Otherwise, no YouTube
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  2436.  @iron4517  Got it. Life hasn't always been easy for Chinese in Indonesia.
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  2437.  @iron4517  Great! :-)
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  2438. Well, in that case there's no reason to worry, from any side.
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  2439.  @jetli740  The lock-downs in Europe were nothing like what we had in Shanghai. In Europe, people could still go out to shops, go to the park, take a walk through the streets. In Shanghai we couldn't go anywhere.
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  2440.  @donnydrumpf9563  Certainly, as all countries do. If not, we'd all be living the 16th century.
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  2441. I hope those arms don't cost an arm and a leg.
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  2442. Not exactly a fireball. There's an explosion and the soldiers sitting on the tank jump off and run away.
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  2443. Despite having lived in China for over 25 years, I have never managed to develop a taste for red bean or mung bean desserts. To me, they still just taste like beans with sugar added. Beans (of any kind) have a sandy mouthfeel that I don't want in my dessert.
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  2444.  @usmantariq7997  Yes, you're right, of course. But I was in China from the mid-90s, when very few people could afford a car. Only VW had a few cars on the streets. But then, year by year, more and more people entered the middle class and car sales really took off. I believe India is close to reaching that threshold. 5 years from now I think you're going to see significant growth in car sales in India.
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  2445.  @Innerspace100  Well, I stand corrected, then. But we still needed to change wheelsets. It was a very boring wait.
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  2446.  @dragosalexpop  Huh, I didn't know that. Historically, as I understand it, broad gauge was a defensive measure by Russia/Soviet Union to prevent neighboring countries like China, Japan, Germany from invading by rail. On paper, it does make sense, but no other country has ever followed this idea, to my knowledge.
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  2447. Response to HK journalists?
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  2448.  @KevinTroy777  "SCMP editors are wsterners aka brits". SCMP is owned by Alibaba. Do you think Jack Ma is anti-China?
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  2449. 1) Just like alcohol, it can be dangerous at high concentrations, but once it gets diluted in the ocean, it is not dangerous. 2) Dish washing water is safe to pour down the drain, but you wouldn't want to drink it.
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  2450.  @d1p70  Yes! 😁
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  2451. The '800 million by 2100' is based on a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 1.45. China is already far below that, with most recent years showing a TFR of 1.25. With such a low TFR, the population in 2100 will be 650 million. Should the TFR fall to just 1.1, the number in 2100 will be just 575 million (of which 275 million will be over age 65 and 300 million below).
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  2452.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  The sky is falling? The end times are here?
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  2453. All the water is pretty much gone.
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  2454.  @blokin5039  They used part of it to pay off debts, but it was supposed to fuel investment in infrastructure (which includes techy projects).
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  2455. Rebar is not common in road construction. The road is supposed to be supported by the ground below it, and it is supposed to be a little plastic over time.
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  2456. If the average lifespan of slaves in those Scottish plantations was only 7 years, that must mean that the extra labor you could squeeze out of the slaves in that timespan would have been worth more than the cost of buying new slaves. In turn, this must mean that slaves would have been relatively cheap. But in other parts of America, slave owners actively got slaves to produce children, because even with the cost of bringing them up, it was considered cheaper than buying new slaves. That seems to present a contradiction. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
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  2457. I thought that, too. Maybe after serving a year or so in prison.
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  2458. Since China no longer publishes any Covid data, we have to resort to speculation: The funeral home person quoted in Tony's video says there's a one-month waitlist to get your loved one's body cremated. We can then guess (and it is only a guess) that this equates to twice the number of cremations they would have in a normal month. Since, in pre-Covid China, about 10.1 million people died in a year (= 840,000/month), we can estimate that in the most recent wave 840,000 excess people have died. At least. Could be more, but probably not less.
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  2459. We've seen experimental use of exoskeletons for some years now, but I am still to see it used out in the real world. What is holding it back? Space constraints? Cost? Cumbersome in use? Inconvenience?
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  2460.  @DW-op7ly  I think this was just a marketing video to show off the product.
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  2461. They are invited by their host nations. You should ask the host nations why they invited France and America.
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  2462. I think it's all of the above. In the end, businesses will go where they can make money. Lots of businesses are quite committed to the Chinese market, especially consumer brands. But those who only/mostly manufacture for export may seek more favorable countries as a base. Generally, low-end manufacturing is leaving / has left. On the other hand, I see more western mid- and upper-market life-style brands coming in. Even if economic growth is flatlining, there will still be some people who might buy your product. That being said, if I were an investor I would go elsewhere unless I were investing in my own business. Much of the low hanging fruit was picked a while ago. India might be the next 'miracle', but it's too early to say.
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  2463. Re. Covid deaths: It is always tragic for the nearest when a family member dies, but whether China's Covid deaths are 60k or 2 million, it probably doesn't matter in the long run. Most of those dead were likely to die over the next decade, anyway. They just took a shortcut, so to speak.
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  2464.  @capicuaaa  Ok, so how long do we have?
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  2465.  @MZ99698  Well, it would be nice if we could move faster, but we move at the speed we do. In several aspects, we're making improvements: Alternative energy is getting built out, many large species in the developed world are increasing their numbers, tree cover is increasing, desertification being arrested in many places. We're not there yet, but we're moving in the right direction.
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  2466.  @pepelepew1227  I forgot to answer this: "check out the cumulative fdi in china". I couldn't find exact numbers, but it looks like only about USD 5 trillion from 2000-2020. Can it really be so little? Maybe I got the wrong numbers. In the same period, the EU invested USD 37 Trillion in the US, and USA invested over USD 40 Trillion in Europe.
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  2467. -Hello Sir, may I tell you about our specials? -First, tell me, what is the race of your owner? I don't mean YOUR owner, I don't support slavery. And what is your preferred pronoun? And where can I check my privilege before I order?
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  2468. Fairly nice looking cable-stayed bridge.
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  2469.  @stevevbell  "google Fontera, Abbott, and Feihe Dairy co. ( formerly American Dairy Co. )" Fonterra (not Fontera) is a New Zealand cooperative owned by New Zealand farmers. Feihe Dairy is a Chinese company. It was formerly known as American Dairy, but that was just a name. It has always been Chinese, and never American. Abbott is American. They have a single plant in China producing infant formula for the Chinese market. There are other foreign companies in China producing infant formula, but that is a negative growth industry as the number of babies born in China continues to decrease year by year. Fewer babies=less formula.
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  2470.  @oxunion  Haha, maybe you're right. I may just be making assumptions based on their outfit.
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  2471. With a little more practice he can find a way to keep the silver coins. Don't give up!
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  2472. Europe, Europe, Europe. This guy is mostly talking about Sweden. Other European countries are very different. Given that there are over 40 countries in Europe, each with its own laws and regulations, it is easy to pick the worst aspect of each country and say 'This is Europe'. John Stossel, please put some data on the table, rather than these anecdotes.
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  2473. But EU car brands are part-owned by the Chinese state or by Chinese private enterprises.
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  2474.  @jaker3151  Exactly
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  2475. I love how Indians litter their speech with English words here and there.
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  2476.  @JCarterme3531  "A saw arson during every night of the protest". Arson is illegal and should be prosecuted. Still not a reason to limit freedom of expression. These crimes you and others mention were already illegal before the National Security Law. That new law is designed to prevent speech that the government doesn't like. You express your opinion freely here. Isn't that a freedom you want to protect?
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  2477.  @JCarterme3531  "I have had enough of their free expression". Their? Now, all HK people's free expression has been taken away, including yours. You asked for it, now you have to live with it, forever. Congratulations.
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  2478.  @juneyi187  It all sounds very nice. I have to say Sichuan is one of my favorite provinces: Great food, a culture that seems a little different from the rest of China, perhaps going back to the ancient Shu Kingdom. And people are nice and soft, like the climate.
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  2479. Russia has more nukes, but not by a wide margin. Not sure how they came to an agreement on the numbers.
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  2480. People once ate woolly mammoth, but now nobody can remember what it tasted like.
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  2481. It happened yesterday. It was on my NPR news app.
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  2482.  @李荣-n7s  Well, in that case China won't mind more restrictions on technology exports, and won't mind bigger tariffs. Everybody is happy! 🙂
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  2483.  @李荣-n7s  You know, I can't find the comment where I wrote that, but feel free to copy-and-quote my comment here. Remember to include the tag of the person I was replying to, so I know what it's about. Then I'll be happy to give you an answer.
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  2484. Generally speaking, most modern innovations have gone towards greater convenience for users: Household electronics, cars, Google search, online music and video, etc. If it helps you save time, helps you relax, you'll want it. That is certainly an argument in favor of electric scooters, AI and drones. Lab grown meat may well become successful, but it will not replace the meat that is grown on an animal's body. You just can't replicate the flavor of 'real' meat, not least because different cuts of beef taste different, and different breeds of cattle taste different, and different ages of cattle at slaughter make the meat taste different. A can of pineapple slices cannot really replace a real, fresh, ripe pineapple. Health monitoring tech on your body may become very common, especially if they provide more information. Once they can approximate real diagnoses of a variety of diseases they will probably become ubiquitous.
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  2485. This whole CRT debacle reminds of when there were debates about teaching creationism and 'biblical truths' in schools. Children can be presented with different viewpoints and beliefs, but they shouldn't be told that any particular belief is 'the truth'. That goes for the belief of CRT, too.
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  2486.  @directxxxx71  "ry to go out after 8 o'clock in the evening and take a NY subway". I've done that, even on my first visit to NYC. Not a problem.
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  2487.  @renemartin5729  You may not know this, but the Saxons in 'Anglo-Saxons' were Germans. There's an entire state in Germany called Saxony. Some of the Anglo-Saxons were Vikings from Scandinavia. 'Anglo-Saxon' has always been an exonym, i.e. a term used by outsiders, never by British people themselves. Nowadays, the term is mostly used by Russian and Chinese nationalists as a slur.
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  2488.  @renemartin5729  And it is a derogatory term, used mostly with scorn towards those it is used about. They wouldn't call themselves WASPs.
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  2489.  @renemartin5729  "sometimes disparaging and offensive". Exactly my point.
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  2490.  @renemartin5729  "I prefer to continue calling it the Anglo-Saxons." Well, I can't stop you, but at least now you know what signal you're sending out when you use that term.
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  2491.  @renemartin5729  "The West had no problems in accepting millions of Ukrainians". They're fellow Europeans, they're our neighbors, of course we'll take them in, and happily so. But let's not forget that over the last 40 years, we have also taken in around 15 million refugees/migrants from outside Europe. Is there any non-western region of the world has has done anything similar? No, because they are a lot more racist than we are. A lot.
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  2492. It is probably best for us EU countries to pare down Russian diplomatic representations in Europe to skeleton levels, with just an embassy in the capitals manned by a few basic staff. Then, some time in the future, if the relationship improves, we can scale up gain. But for now, let's get rid of as many Russian diplomatic staff as possible.
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  2493. It's not a scam. People willingly pay for the name recognition, and the high prices make it even more attractive. You pay for something that has value to you, even if that thing has little or no value to others.
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  2494.  @sabrinamystified  "it's just the brand name. Their stuffs are made in China". Doesn't make a difference.
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  2495.  @acuantjahyadi7393  I do not speak Bahasa Indonesia, except ayam goreng, terimah kasih.
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  2496.  @martinsky2086  The height of the plant has no relation to the amount of grain it produces. In fact, wheat has become progressively shorter in recent decades by (human) choice. We have made wheat shorter to make it more resistant to rain and wind without buckling or falling over. Making wheat shorter has not reduced the yield.
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  2497. I'm surprised Putin didn't claim this was orchestrated by the west. Well, it's not too late for him to make this claim later.
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  2498.  @nehcooahnait7827  That's very true! 🤓
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  2499.  @stevengreen9536  I can't name them, but I've seen footage of other drone swarms that make patterns in the sky. If it's cloudy, it could very well look like that.
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  2500. Well, since there's no such thing as a 'presidential apprenticeship' or 'presidential studies', presidents must come from other professions/jobs.
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  2501. -Red Crescent, Red Cross is already on the scene. -First order of the day is food, water and shelter, plus medical assistance. Teams are already on the ground in Turkey. -UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is coordinating international response. -13 EU countries have already sent 15 search and rescue teams -Many countries have offered monetary and other aid, incl. USD 10mill from Australia, USD 6mill. from China, and many others. You see? We think the world is full of hatred, but when it matters, we help each other. This is NEW! 80 years ago there would not have been such an international response. The world just keeps getting better and better.
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  2502.  @oceanwave4502  I see it. It is quite ironic.
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  2503.  @nicklee7002  That's basically what we learned in Europe back in the 60s. It almost destroyed our food culture and it is only now slowly coming back.
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  2504. It's journalism, not a beauty pageant. What they look like is completely irrelevant! Just like with you: Nobody knows what you look like, and nobody cares.
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  2505.  @gluecksdrache2054  That's not related to my question.
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  2506. "If you know the money behind Bloomberg". I know the money behind Bloomberg, and a simple Google search can let everybody know: Bloomberg is a privately held company. It is majority owned by its founder, Michael Bloomberg, who owns 88% of the company. Bloomberg is primarily a financial news organization, but also reports on general business and economic news. Bloomberg's primary income comes from the 'Bloomberg Terminal', a kind of connected screen that gives its customers real-time stock quotes and a multitude of other real-time financial information.
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  2507. Why is it presented as a problem that developed countries have high vaccination rates while others have only just begun? We're churning vaccines out as quickly as possible so it's not that some people are deliberately denied access. If vaccines were administered equally worldwide, every country would have about 25% vaccination rate. Would that be better at stopping the spread or reducing deaths? No, it wouldn't. In fact, it makes perfect sense to start vaccinations in countries most affected and that's pretty much what has happened.
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  2508. Everybody knows. 天安门 is to China what the Arc de Triomphe is to France, or what the Brandenburg Gate is to Germany.
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  2509. re. the C919: From a state perspective it makes sense to make national airlines buy that aircraft. It's not quite up to par, with shorter range and worse fuel economy than the A320 or the B737, but letting major Chinese airlines buy the C919 is essentially the State buying from the State: Bad for business, but good for national strategic priorities. Almost all Chinese airlines are state owned, except for some small carriers like Spring Airlines.
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  2510. I don't think exports are down 60%. They are still growing, though slowly.
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  2511. There is probably some potential for good profits in the Chinese stock markets now, given how cheap it has become, but I doubt it's going to be boom-town from here on: My guess is some improvement, followed by leveling out.
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  2512. That is clearly a mistake. Perhaps they meant a billion square meters? Since 2000, when the market really opened, they have built around 200 million apartments, and most of those are not empty. A better estimate is around 25 million empty apartments, enough to house 75 million people (two parents and one child per apartment).
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  2513. I find it highly unlikely that Xi should be losing power. His power is more secure than ever. Every person in the Standing Committee is hand-picked by him, most people in the Politbureau are hand-picked by him, almost every military leader is hand-picked by him, there simply are no other power centers in the party top. Where should any threat to him come from?
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  2514. "traumas of western imperialism". I find it odd that no countries ever seem to be traumatized by Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian/Soviet, Inca, Mayan, Mongolian, Khmer or Arab imperialism. No countries in Europe seem to be traumatized by German, Roman, Polish or French imperialism. Also, most of Brazil's population are the colonizers themselves. Are they traumatized by themselves?
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  2515.  hick  But the majority of Brazilians today can trace their ancestry back to Africa and Europe. Many also have native admixture, but it is a relative smaller amount.
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  2516. Yes, I would strongly recommend you buy a lot of food to prepare, so you don't end up like us down here in Shanghai.
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  2517.  @thePOWERofART-11  Actually, the testing today was fine for me. They came to the neighborhood, put up some tables and I got it done in 30 minutes. Most of the wait time was taken up by old people who couldn't figure out how to register online.
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  2518. = No deliveries for three weeks.
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  2519. Sounded British to me.
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  2520.  alon3369  Well, if I have to be offended, I am offended by the original poster saying "Bloomberg has shown its true colour by inviting such leftist on show", because it reveals the poster's belief that a news media should only have one political stance, that there IS only one correct opinion, and that allowing opposing opinions is somehow in bad taste. I guess that's not offensive, but it is highly annoying and frankly, contemptible.
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  2521.  @tonysu8860  "25-33% of GDP contributed by a Real Estate Development sector". I think that 25% number (sometimes it's 20%, sometimes 30%) was based on 'Chinese telephone', with one news organization upping what they heard from another news organization and so on. When I looked into it last year, I could never find a source for those numbers. Rather, looking at the amount of money invested into the housing sector and comparing with GDP, it looked much more like 9-15%. It's also possible the 25% figure was true back in 2015, but not since then.
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  2522. Hyundai and Kia EVs are quite popular in Europe.
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  2523. Another purpose of this hole: If someone gets very embarrassed they can jump in this hole until they feel better and the world has forgotten what they did. Then they can come out again.
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  2524. Awesome!
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  2525. Annual population drop of 0.64%. Crude birth rate of 6.0. What is happening to Japan now will happen to South Korea in 10 years time, and to China in about 20 years. But in the long run, China's population will probably decline much faster than those other two countries. Taiwan, HK, Singapore are dealing with identical problems. The video says that Japan's population will decline 33 mill by 2070. That's 26% down from today. By 2070, China's population could very well drop by 36%, or 500 million, leaving the country with 900 million people, of which 440 million are over 60.
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  2526. Maybe Comac will become a genuine competitor to Airbus and Boeing, or perhaps they will end up like Russia's Tupolev: Making perfectly serviceable aircraft, but not quite good enough to compete with their western giants.
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  2527. @Peak White Monkey Yes, perhaps limited. But I remember in the 80s in my country (in Scandinavia), commuter trains were filled with graffiti. We eventually got rid of most of it. I do firmly believe that we in the west have a cultural aspect that encourages/allows a youth culture that is not only very creative, but also violent. I clearly remember this from my teenage years. But maybe these things go together: Freedom-creativity-violence. If faced with a choice, I will go with freedom and take the consequences, rather than the other way, but it would be nice if we could reduce the negative aspects.
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  2528.  @aaroniouse  I haven't tried. How do you kill them, and why is it fun?
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  2529. This is heart wrenching. Difficult to watch a mother burying her son. To Isobel Yeung and the Vice team: This is some of the best war reporting I've seen from Ukraine. Isobel Yeung has some of the biggest balls in journalism these days.
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  2530.  @JasonYu35  Well, for decades it meant 'biggest population'. By some standards you could call Russia the world's biggest developing economy by land area. After all, Russia's GDP/capita is lower than China's.
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  2531.  @EmilyRouge  How do you define the difference between a developing and a developed country?
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  2532.  @Crom21  "President Xi did mention India has overtaken". Thanks, I'm not saying that China is denying that India is now a bigger country.
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  2533. He hasn't been sentenced yet. Wait for the trial. Be a little patient.
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  2534.  @netgodzilla1  "they pit them against each other". People in Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia all have their own dreams, ideas, hopes for their respective countries. Do you just discount that?
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  2535.  @flyingnan2520  And what about the independence vote they had a few years ago? Look, there's just no comparison, no matter how you twist it.
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  2536.  @flyingnan2520  No, 'there is no comparison' = same standard
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  2537. You might think so, or perhaps you just believe that is what other, unnamed, people think. But you'd have to search far and wide to actually find anyone who thinks this.
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  2538.  @armymenaroundthehouse  You can never know for sure, but if they don't have the howitzers, why keep the shells?
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  2539.  @kremigmitsahne7197  Ok, I'm not speaking about Germany, I'm speaking about China, where I live. Get it?
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  2540. Even in space, they follow the 996 work schedule.
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  2541.  @yerri5567  Well, that's just what I've read, that many of the players have been out and that the virus keeps infecting players.
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  2542.  @cherrysaplings8166  Perhaps you can direct us the available evidence, or present it here? Note: Suspicion and speculation does not constitute evidence.
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  2543.  @jetli740  I don't think that contradicts what I wrote: "There is no evidence the virus originated in a lab".
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  2544. They are not ideological, they're practical about their country's future. Scandinavian countries seem to be more pragmatic than America.
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  2545. 把我们的血肉烧的一个新的肉串。。。。
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  2546. The 'National Republican Army'. They must have moved from Northern Ireland to Russia.
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  2547. I had hoped to view a video specifically about Jardine House which IS an iconic building. Those round windows, the fat feet, the plaza outside with that wonderful curvy Henry Moore sculpture. It's timeless!
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  2548. Brazilian beef is top quality, but the price in China is very high.
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  2549. Basmati is great with Indian food, but it doesn't really work with East- and South East Asian food, where a more sticky consistency is preferred. It also has a different flavor. I love both, but I don't mix them up.
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  2550. It's interesting that Huawei's three newest chips all use the 7nm node. Their best lithography machines are designed for 28 nm production, but you can still make 7nm chips on them, just with more waste. It's like taking 10 photos of a distant object with an un-stabilized camera: Some of them will come out ok, others will be fuzzy and useless. But could Huawei and SMIC also go down to 5nm? And if they can, what will the yield be? My guess is that current 7nm yield on 28 nm machines is, at best, 80%. They may be willing to eat that loss, and the state is probably happy to chip in to cover that loss. But can they go on like this for years, or will they be stuck at 7nm?
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  2551. You're forgetting this is the South China Morning Post. SCMP has always focused on: 1) Hong Kong 2) PRC 3) Region (East and South East Asia) 4) Lastly, world news. So, based on that premise, you will always primarily have news about China and Asia. If you want news about US or Australia, you should seek out news outlets from those regions.
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  2552. Since China's McDonalds and KFC source almost all their ingredients in China, a trade war would not affect their prices.
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  2553. Yeah, those numbers don't seem to add up. Take a Toyota Corolla as an example: It goes around 33 mpg, or 9 gallons for 300 miles. This would mean that a motorized lawn mower uses 9 gallons in one hour. Imagine the size of the fuel tank on the lawn mower if that were the case. Plus the weight: 9 gallons weighs around 80 pounds.
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  2554. You mean, especially in China. Nobody speaks Chinese anywhere else, including the Thai Prime Minister.
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  2555. That's amazing! The deepest I have free dived is 22 meters.
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  2556. Perhaps if you continue to follow this channel, you will gradually learn more about China, including their currency. Then you will no longer have to proudly declare your ignorance.
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  2557. You wear hijab at the end of the month?
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  2558. Hi Hangry Woman, there has been a lot of talk about both cost and shortage. Can you share your personal experience here, eg. does it steal your entire budget? Have you been unable to get your prescription filled at all?
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  2559. All I wanna know is: Who is the woman in the thumbnail?
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  2560.  @fernr9496  In my understanding, Trump felt that China follows a mercantilist economic and trade policy which harmed the American economy, and in the long term, American national security. He decided that putting higher tariffs on certain categories of goods would help to counter that problem.
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  2561.  @anakborneo7993  "whatever...doesn't matter". Ok, so you make claims, and when they're disproven, you just say they don't matter. So why make those claims to begin with, if they don't matter?
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  2562.  @anakborneo7993  "Ask ur Taiwanese friends to translate". Clearly it can't be anything important, or you would have written in a language I understand. Oh wait, even when you write in English, you don't write anything important. 🤣🤣🤣
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  2563. You mean suspicions.
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  2564. Hey Bob, I'm in Shanghai under lock-down. Generally speaking, people set up 'shopping groups' online within the community. Food can be delivered, but due to lack of personnel, they only accept bulk deliveries. As an example, I volunteered for a shipment of fresh vegetables a few days ago. We ordered 90+ boxes of mixed vegetables. It took 2 days to get all buyers together and collect money, then 2 days before the goods were delivered. My volunteering consisted of receiving and distributing the goods together with two other residents. We all had to suit up in protective clothing and all boxes were disinfected. It took about an afternoon. There are shopping groups for all sorts of things: Toilet paper, soft drinks, meat, condiments, etc. My community is 99.7% Chinese, so we don't expect bulk buys of anything Western (butter, coffee, cream, cheese, etc).
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  2565. Advertisers are sensitive because consumers are sensitive. That's why ads for diapers and sanitary pads are always demonstrated using a blue liquid, rather than a yellow, brown or red liquid.
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  2566. If, in return for technological cooperation, India will also agree to sell 155mm artillery shells to the US, this could be a real win/win.
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  2567. "lost of translation of languages". What do you mean? The entire interview is conducted in English. There is no translation going on.
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  2568.  @kevinu.k.7042  Yes, that's is true, as it is for most lowest-income countries. But still, over 30% of Rwandan children suffer from severe malnutrition, causing stunted growth. Laos is also still struggling with the same problem. But for both Rwanda and Laos, as long as every year is a little better than the last, there's good reason to remain optimistic.
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  2569.  @kevinu.k.7042  Certainly, what Rwanda has done is lay a very good basis for economic development. There is almost nothing more important than strong institutions for building long term prosperity: Rule of Law (rather than rule of man), easy to understand regulations, and government transparency. I'm not aware of any country that has yet to make all wealth and income of government employees and elected officials completely open to the public, but that would certainly help to limit corruption, graft, and nepotism.
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  2570. I'm only a minute in, but 'a huge part of the story' does not have to do with Africa. It has to do with the Industrial Revolution, which made Europe more wealthy and powerful than any other region in the world, by a very large margin. That is the primary reason a small continent could take over the world. A development and disparity like this had never happened in world history, and will probably never happen again.
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  2571. Remind me again, which country is the world's no.1 largest polluter??
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  2572. Very nice, and with the population in the North-East decreasing, these large animals will probably continue to thrive.
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  2573. "how the hell did that luxury co think they can trademark the name". It's not that they think they can, they HAVE trademarked the name.
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  2574. Volodymyr is a different spelling of Vladimir. Both names come from the old Nordic name Valdemar. This goes back to when the Vikings first came down and established Kyiv and the Kievan Rus about 1000 years ago.
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  2575. The end of this video has a recommendation for an older SCMP video: "Returning migrants - the Chinese economy's next great hope?" That video is from April, 2018. How times have changed!
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  2576.  @pedroroque8681  "It will be hard for these countries to build any resilience as long as their resources continue to support the entire western economy." This is a faulty argument, because it just leads to the next question: Well, how did the west first get rich, then? And if you say 'colonialism', the question is: How did western countries become rich enough to start colonizing the world to begin with? The west must have gotten relatively rich and powerful as a prerequisite, before colonizing, and conquering, and importing resources. So how did that happen? The answer to that question is again: Functional institutions.
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  2577.  @lowdpacks7874  "The west wasn’t the richest part of the world when it started colonizing". That may be, but it must have been strong enough to conquer all those other nations, unless you are claiming that these other countries welcomed colonization of their countries.
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  2578.  @lostgaijin8640  As I wrote above, how did these colonizers gain the wealth and power to start colonizing in the first place? That is the answer we are looking for.
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  2579. Doesn't matter that he's French. He is a buyer and a producer of chocolate and therefore one link in the value chain. Speaking to the cocoa farmers will also be good, but not all Africans are cocoa farmers. They could just as well interview a cocoa farmer from Ecuador, which grows 9% of the world's cocoa.
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  2580. I think in 2010-2020, there were 10 million housing starts annually. 2000-2010: 7 million housing starts annually. 1990-2000: Much fewer. Early 90s were when people first had the opportunity to actually buy their own home, but only few could afford it. In total over 30 years: Perhaps 200 million apartments/homes. That also fits with the urban population having grown from 300 mill to 900 mill.
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  2581.  @jeil5676  "systemicatic....both". Hey, you invented a whole new word.
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  2582.  @yivunqp963  But I think that's a lot harder to do when you live in a small village far from the big city.
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  2583. Sounds like this recent discovery is in the northern part, but of course there is also oil in the southern part: Malaysia and Brunei get most of their oil from the South China Sea.
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  2584.  @Andy-P  Yes, since the SCS is not demarcated, every claimant country will be prospecting for oil in competing zones. Vietnam cooperates with Russia on oil exploration, sometimes in Chinese-claimed areas. This has created a bit of a headache for the parties that supposedly are 'best friends'.
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  2585. Companies in China used to always have nap time after lunch. Maybe they should bring that back. Seems like they need it.
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  2586. Here is that actual quote from the Joint Communique: "The Government of the United States of America acknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China". The meaning of the English text is different than the Chinese text.
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  2587.  @JohnWayne-dh8gl  Yes, big countries use trade restrictions to protect their own economic development. USA does it, Japan does it, China does it, EU does it, India does it and many others do it. You can keep complaining about it, but I doubt that's going to change the way countries protect themselves.
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  2588. That Shanghainese snowboarder spoke excellent English! Shoutout to all the cool Shanghainese people. You know who you are.
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  2589. I don't believe the California high-speed railway project will ever materialize. The route is not convenient for passengers and it doesn't enter main urban centers. It's also questionable that there will ever be enough passengers to support the cost. High-speed rail is for connecting large, urban centers.
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  2590. The EU could make a 'Risk Management Law' that states that for certain strategic product groups, no single country may supply more than 40% of EU's needs, and then add the list of products, a list that can be changed year by year.
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  2591.  @suntan8655  I'm glad we agree.
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  2592. Interesting. According to Wikipedia, his name used to be Feroze Jehangir Ghandy, so still pretty close. Would have been better if he had changed it to Candy. Or Grandy, or Granddaddy.
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  2593. So far, they've been on the offensive for 18 months. Maybe another 6-10 years of offensive will make your wish come true.
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  2594.  @davelane9366  But they may never run out.
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  2595. Earlier this year, SCMP quoted a Chinese demographer who must have had access to more detailed census data than what are made public. He said that in the three biggest and most prosperous cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, the Total Fertility Rate is only 0.7. That made me raise my eyebrows. However, the people needed to move into those cities won't have to be peasants, but could well-off people from a 3rd tier city in the interior. Those people will then be replaced by up-and-comers from a county seat who will be replaced by chance seekers from a distant township, and so on.
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  2596.  @taiwanstillisntacountry  "So you P00R countries can do business with the PRC". If these countries are poor, why would China think it can benefit from doing business with them? Wouldn't it make more sense to give free visa access to rich countries?
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  2597.  @canthandlethetruth-dji  Best answer so far, though we still need an answer for why they slowed it down before.
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  2598. Oh, Chinese people have become very litigious! They'll sue each other for the smallest thing.
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  2599. 19:22 Robotic dogs. I believe these robotic dogs are from the company Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Model looks like the 'Unitree Go 1'. I went to visit them a few years ago. Very nice people. They envision their robot dogs being sold as pets. I have seen them at various exhibitions, but never being walked on the street by private owners.
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  2600.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  You certainly have a well developed imagination.
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  2601. Thank you for including several NATO and EU members in this mixed bag of countries.
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  2602.  @johnsamu  Oh, they had stairs and railings and everything, even back then. While we didn't climb Huashan, we did climb Emei Shan, and it already had all the tourist trappings back then: Stairs, hotels, restaurants, food stalls, convenience stores, even people who would carry you up sitting in a chair, for a fee. Yes, in 1988.
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  2603. Shepard Smith (in the extro)....he's on CNBC now? When did he shift from FOX to CNBC?
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  2604. Disturbing? Racist? Sure, but are they illegal? Do these texts violate the law? There are no threats of violence or harm.
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  2605. He may be referring to "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics For a New Era". It is being secretly studied by NK teens under the covers.
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  2606. Can you describe the process by which this affects taxi drivers?
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  2607.  @thatblack_kid1651  I'm not.
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  2608.  @ItsAsparageese  No problem. When I was a kid in the 70s, I was told by my mom that our detergent was especially good because there were enzymes in it. I didn't know what they were, but I remember being told.
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  2609.  @bell-xk5dd  Oh, I know all about it and have visited the Nanjing Massacre Memorial several times. But that doesn't mean they could not themselves become a victim in the future. That is what they want to protect against.
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  2610.  @swanubal508  "more than 500-600 unesco sites in the asia". Ok, I did a quick count: Asia: 315 UNESCO sites total. Europe: 457 UNESCO sites total. So wherever we want to go, there will be plenty of places to visit. In Asia, I have been to 22 of them, all worth a visit.
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  2611. I think generally speaking (not just in China), a pension scheme gives people peace of mind about their old age and thus makes them feel more comfortable spending their money on consumption.
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  2612. Well, at least you acknowledge that China is comparable to 'authoritarian' and 'totalitarian' countries. That's a kind of progress, I suppose.
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  2613. @klopkerna3562  And Luxembourg, a country with no oil, has a higher gdp ppp per capita than any other country. What's your point?
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  2614. There is no dignity in begging.
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  2615.  @akashagarwal2404  That question is irrelevant to the topic of the video. Please stay on topic.
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  2616. Let's hope they find something. If they dig all the way through earth, they'll come out on the other side just off the coast of southern Chile.
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  2617.  @prashantpaudelpaudel843  "Should be". Perhaps, but don't hold your breath. It's not likely to ever happen. Better take your destiny into your own hands.
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  2618. These people really live in a 'river crab society'.
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  2619. They are clearly very proud of this boat. Nice boat!
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  2620.  @pedroroque8681  "Norway is a much older nation. They haven't been colonised as African nations". They have. Norway was a colony of Denmark for centuries, and then a colony of Sweden for centuries. They only gained independence in 1905. Norway, and indeed Sweden and Denmark were all relatively poor countries until about 150 years ago. In the 19th century, Swedish people were starving, which is why so many of them emigrated to the US.
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  2621.  @haniahannslew4108  "you and me living in the west." Maybe you live in the west, but I don't. I live in China.
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  2622. That's just speculation without evidence. Would you base any forecasts on that?
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  2623. Don't hold your breath.
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  2624. Same in Shanghai, in addition to along widened roads. Shanghai has traditionally had tree shaded streets (as has Guangzhou), but once roads become eight lanes wide, they turn into deserts.
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  2625.  @موسى_7  I don't think the number of cars on Chinese roads is going to go down anytime soon, on the contrary.
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  2626. I think they're mostly made of paper and strips of wood. The environmental impact is minimal, and certainly less than, say, our use of tissues on the office desk or in restaurants. Let's keep things in proportion.
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  2627. Perhaps she exposed her lack of motorcycle riding skills.
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  2628.  @jazeenharal6013  Well, I guess we disagree on that.
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  2629. Thanks to CNBC for shining some light on this issue.
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  2630.  @dttra566  I've lived here for many years. I have a good understanding of the water quality. Judging by your comment, my understanding is better than yours.
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  2631.  @dttra566  I'm not an American, and I don't know why you would think that.
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  2632.  @theproducersnote  "Why isn't vaccines still being pushed hard". This is the most mind boggling issue. Considering the massive coercive power the govt. has over the people, why didn't they press the vaccination drive? Apparently, lots of older people were wary of the vaccine, and the govt. just said 'ok, no problem'. And that brings us to today, with huge human and economic cost. I don't think anyone can explain it.
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  2633. It seems several commenters here have already decided to declare him guilty. That's how justice was done in ancient times: Let the mob handle it.
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  2634.  @PlayfulPinoyGamer  But they are not borrowing any money for this project. That's what B-O-T is: Foreign investors pay for, and build the whole thing, they operate it without any cost to the host nation, in this case for 50 years, and then they hand it over to the local government for free. It shouldn't cost Cambodia a single dollar.
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  2635.  @egg-h4b  " I don't have to give any evidence to anyone". Faith-based argument, then.
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  2636.  @egg-h4b  Ok, you've now left the topic and started insulting me personally. I understand that's a common reaction, but it takes us away from the topic. Like you, I have few details about this project, so we can only discuss B-O-T projects in general. At the very least, the idea of a B-O-T project is what I have written previously, and while this one may be different, it doesn't negate the benefits of a B-O-T project for the recipient country, compared to 'predatory loans', as some might term them. This type of project seems much more safe for Cambodia.
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  2637.  @ChinaVictor.  I love beef! A big, juicy steak, a well-made hamburger. It's one of the more popular meats where I come from, though not quite as popular as pork.
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  2638.  @pepelepew1227  No, just read some books in my free time. I've had an interest in Chinese history and society for a long time.
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  2639.  @pepelepew1227  I don't consider myself an expert on much of anything, but we can all educate ourselves to increase our knowledge. One thing I never waste time on is attempting to insult others. Why you do it, I have no idea. Perhaps you get a lot of joy out of it.
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  2640.  @Steven-xf8mz  A little more info: The statue sold on auction yesterday (June 14) in Paris. Hammer price: € 2,589,400
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  2641.  @goojxue1971  A huge amount were destroyed. You go visit old villages in southern Anhui around Huangshan, the region known as Huizhou, many villages are well-preserved, but almost all the carvings of deities and old sages have their faces cut off. Many Buddha statues you see in temples nowadays are pretty new. Zhou Enlai did his best to preserve what he could, and yes, some was preserved. I remember China in the 1980s, before they started renovating old temples and building new ones, there wasn't that much to see.
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  2642.  @goojxue1971  I've only been to Taiyuan, many years ago. Maybe some day I will visit again.
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  2643. Does anyone find it weird that people in Shanghai want their wedding photos with a colonialist/imperialist background, whether it's The Bund or gardens in the former French Concession? Personally I like it, but I'm not Chinese.
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  2644. Many of those who invest are companies that already have a big footprint in China and who are planning to expand in the country. If their business is going well in China, they may want to build a new manufacturing facility, or an R&D facility. Remember, even in a troubled economy, there will still be some that make a lot of money. Back in the 2008 financial crisis, many people were struggling, but some were having great success, and just off the top of my head, Netflix and Starbuck's were both doing very well at that time, I think.
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  2645. What did he say about Evergrande specifically, and what did he propose as the solution for Evergrande's economic problems?
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  2646.  @siamcharm7904  You're very optimistic. Perhaps with magic, but that seems unlikely.
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  2647. Socialists have been predicting the demise of capitalism for over 75 years now, but more and more countries are choosing capitalism as their economic system, and among those few countries that are self-described socialist it is very hard to find any where the socio-economic development is anywhere near the levels people in capitalist countries enjoy.
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  2648. Burning it (in an incinerator designed for the purpose) is the most environmentally friendly option. Nordic countries all do this.
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  2649. First, she manages to prevent a large, destructive explosion. Later, she destroys the entire 2nd floor of the building.
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  2650.  @Gutraidh  Thanks, despite watching it twice, I didn't see the location mentioned. Ok, Xiamen is certainly in the south. I didn't know Xiamen had become so cool. I also looked up 'Nanban Duck', but only got results about Japanese udon noodles.
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  2651.  @rajasvlogs2061  I'm in China.
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  2652.  @RoseRose-gk6ku  And I have gone to many of those places. It still seems odd that a country would block all foreign visitors from a huge block of their territory. It's not a small area, it's bigger than Zhejiang. And, like I wrote, it prevents foreign citizens not just from going to that area, but to ride the G318 to Lhasa. It gives the impression that China doesn't really welcome outsiders.
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  2653. This is literally a shit video!
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  2654.  @male-efficient7262  Didn't you watch the movie? Not only did they go to a black hole, they also went to a water planet with REALLY big waves. And they had a robot that looked like a bunch of suitcases stacked on top of each other. All in all a very entertaining movie.
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  2655.  @anantha92  Exactly, and you get more daytime at the destination to meet with business contacts.
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  2656.  @IdNoPurpose  But it's so delicious!!
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  2657.  @IdNoPurpose  Haha, deep fried butter. I hadn't heard of that before.
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  2658. 1:50 "a robust supply of cats"?????
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  2659. 8 billion, not 10.
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  2660. Did you know we use fossil fuels to grow vegetables? Not so green as they make them out to be!
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  2661. "including Prime Minister of England". And what exactly is Rishi Sunak's expertise in the semiconductor industry? Or are you suggesting that all it takes for success is to be Indian?
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  2662. There's no such thing as 'Western Medicine'. There is evidence-based medicine, and treatments that have no evidentiary basis. Whether it is TCM, or Native American medicine, or Ayurveda medicine, or Tibetan medicine, or European medieval herbal medicine or anything else, the question we should ask ourselves is: Is there solid evidence that this will work? What other field of science continues with these shenanigans? Traditional Vietnamese math? Christian American physics? Confucian Chinese chemistry? Say NO to superstition and unsupported beliefs!
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  2663. It's always about the future, isn't it? Just like in 1958 when Mao promised that China would produce more steel than the UK in 5 years. Eventually, you did, but it took another 25 years.
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  2664.  @wumaobot  Do you have some numbers to back that claim up?
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  2665. She's so cute I want to marry her, but I'm probably too old.
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  2666. Another great rundown of data by Covert Cabal! One of the best defense channels on YouTube.
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  2667.  @FC-xc3zy  China is renewing passports again, without restrictions. This started soon after the zero covid policy was ended in November, 2023. To be fair, I also feared that the restrictions would be permanent, but that doesn't seem to be the case, at least for now.
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  2668. That was pretty entertaining.
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  2669. I don't think we were ever really friends, but for 30 years we tolerated each other and had a good trade relationship. I think those days are over.
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  2670.  @gnffoodingredients8405  "Where is the little China?". It's the title of a Hollywood movie from 1986 ["Big Trouble in Little China"]. It's an action-comedy about gangs in Chinatown in San Francisco. It's not about China. Kind of like 'Kung Fu Hustle' (周星驰的功夫）, but not as funny. It was a flop at the box office. I haven't seen it.
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  2671.  @jarednovel  "this level of poverty has been caused by...France". What is your evidence for that? I know this is the popular view, but does that mean it is correct?
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  2672.  @pennicky8069  "the role of France in its destabilization of the region". How do you know that France has destabilized the region? It might as well be that France has stabilized the region, which could have been much more unstable without France. (I'm not French, but I'm curious to know how people reach these conclusions. More often than not, it just seems like belief without evidence).
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  2673.  @pennicky8069  Makes you think, doesn't it? How do you really know if you're right or wrong?
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  2674. "why was the USSR and later Russia denied admission to NATO". Russia's current (and previous) geo-political outlook and their internal political situation would probably preclude them from being accepted. Most European NATO members would want to see major reforms in Russia's political system, Russia's economic system, and Russia's foreign policy before considering their membership.
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  2675. Much better than the narrator at WSJ's 'Tech News Update' who sounds like a real Valley Girl.
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  2676. Considering the vast majority of European auto brands sold in China are also manufactured in China, and with Chinese SOEs as partners, I don't see why China would try to block that. I think Europe should, and would, welcome China auto brands to manufacture cars within the EU. It doesn't matter if the car a European buys is a BMW, a Toyota, a Kia, or a BYD, as long as it is made in Europe, helps create European jobs and contributes to EU's economy.
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  2677. "It's always good to have more diverse systems". For consumers, yes, but this video is not only about consumer benefits, but also about competition between adversarial nations. If some person who you think might aim to harm you suddenly develops the capability to, for example, snoop on your phone, you will want to take action to protect yourself.
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  2678.  @karzan995  Not if you also agree to give away 99% of your own property and money.
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  2679.  @karzan995  Well, I agree that at some point, a widening wealth gap will become too big to tolerate. Uprisings, revolutions, protest votes in parliament, street fighting, you name it. But we're not quite there yet.
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  2680. What have the Romans ever done for us?
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  2681.  @starjay9308  If that's true, let's hope it doesn't get hit by a bomb, which could release those pathogens into the air.
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  2682. "I kept flooring the brake pedal, but it just went faster and faster...... Now, where did I leave my slippers?"
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  2683.  @yayaanetwork2530  Not that it's that important, but on October 28, 2019, the day of the taping Tesla's share price was $65,-
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  2684.  @yeru1975  That's beside the point.
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  2685.  @meowt8464  That may be, but there are quite a few architects who derisively refer to interior designers as 'cushion throwers'. Besides, a building without any furniture or decorative items may still be a great work of art. Interior design may add to that, or detract from it.
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  2686. I'm betting the horse is the murderer.
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  2687. Losers can't be choosers. You may not like what was decided, but there's nothing you can do about it.
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  2688. Re. Rahm Emanuel: 1) We know him as campaign manager during Obama's initial run for president in 2008, and as Mayor of Chicago, and in both jobs he was known to be quite, er, outspoken. So it could just be his personality coming out. 2) I am not one for conspiracy theories, but it is possible that the new Biden admin said "Let's have our own wolf warrior. Not in China, but in a nearby country that is known for having a contentious relationship with China, and then let him rip". It's better to have the US ambassador in China be the 'good cop', developing a friendly relationship, and the 'bad cop' in nearby Japan, spouting mad criticisms. It seems to work well so far, and I'm not sure China knows what to do about it.
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  2689. What an amazing speech: -Russia's 'internal affairs' include Ukraine. -The West attacked Russia through Ukraine. -Russia, by implication, is not 'colonialist', despite it actively trying to invade and/or control Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the -stans. -'Saying what you want' is considered a great danger to Russia.
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  2690.  @andia968  You must have failed to notice the thousands of media stories in the last 30 years gushing over China's economic growth. Western media even coined the term 'The Chinese Miracle'. And the many news stories praising China's high-speed rail network. There's probably almost as much praise as criticism. But maybe you cannot tolerate any criticism and demand only praise?
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  2691. "....wants to see Russia weakened. Over the weekend..." Probably an unintentional rhyme, but I love the sound of it: "Weakened over the weekend". It belongs in a poem somewhere.
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  2692. 1.4 million North Korean volunteers will fight Americans over a hamburger.
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  2693. They can turn them into 皮蛋 and they will last a long time.
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  2694. If I were China and I saw my wallet get fatter and fatter, while my customers' wallets get thinner and thinner, I would be very happy, and I would also tell the world: "Decoupling is bad for everyone. Don't stop buying my products, don't move production out of my country. Let's continue the way we're doing things now. I love all this money I'm making".
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  2695. Isn't most of the footage taken during the daytime?
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  2696. Who is going to fly in this? It's slow and tickets are probably more expensive than a regular aircraft.
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  2697.  @janewow77  Yes, that's very possible.
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  2698. @Yourbrother05 Mostly, though, I try to write comments that I hope are a little illuminating for people, not just emotional outbursts.
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  2699. It would be so funny if tourists started flooding into the country to join the protests.
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  2700.  @令喆孟  That was the waste 10 years ago. It has been cleaned up since. Have you been asleep in the classroom?
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  2701.  @thomaszhang3101  I found a video here by a guy called Yan Yu, describing his quarantine experience entering Shanghai in Aug. 2022. It's a bit long, but you can go to 16:17 for a cost overview.
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  2702. Americans are not free to travel everywhere. Just like other free countries, Americans are free to leave the country, but you will still need to apply for access (a visa) to visit most countries. USA and EU has visa-free access, but both regions still reserve the right to deny you access if they feel like it. And thus, travel is still a privilege, not a right.
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  2703.  @mascara1777  Fair point, but she lived through the Korean War, the Moon landing, the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, the Biafra Civil War and famine, the Vietnam War, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and later Reform and Opening, the Hip Hop 'revolution', the crack epidemic and urban blight, the Ethiopian famine and Live Aid in the 80s, The end of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Maybe she just forgot about all those events.
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  2704.  @stevehayward1854  I think you're replying to the wrong person. Like you, I am skeptical of the assertion that she is "1000% correct" and that was my critique of the post.
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  2705.  @pensacola2015  An alternative platform? YouTube is for every opinion, and presumably Spectator Magazine is also a proponent of free speech, including yours and mine.
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  2706. Consumers don't have power? You ask any retailer if consumers have power or not. They will tell you otherwise.
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  2707. Interesting how you started with a geopolitical analysis and drifted into a religious advertisement.
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  2708.  @intreoo  "It’s only Japan that wants China and Korea to forget what happened in the war." I think you're right about that. It seems to me this is a part of North-East Asian culture: In the interest of social harmony, let's not scratch old wounds, let's not talk about it, but instead move on. As they say in China: 不提了，不提了，呵呵。。。
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  2709.  @TheExtraterrestrial99  They're probably still delicious.
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  2710.  @vibinzim2796  They're unpopular among some Koreans, not all. And the Korean government appreciates the defense cooperation it has with the US.
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  2711.  @deadbydaylight3168  Ok, Chinese tourists are very welcome in Europe, where I'm from. The fact that you don't want Chinese tourists in the US, well, that's your business.
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  2712. My uncle raised animals, but he didn't have a mustache, so it can't be him. The pigs did scream and squeal, but the ducks mostly said quack quack.
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  2713.  @davidwong5197  They themselves did. First they fled to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt. Only many years later did they go to Europe. In any case, we're getting them well integrated, it's just taking a lot longer than with our wonderful Chinese immigrants, for example.
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  2714. When my mother in law wants to visit, I speak like Zhao Li Jian.
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  2715. The music is not ominous, it's 'space music' or 'science fiction music'.
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  2716.  @novogral7889  Sorry to hear that. But let's wait and see. Maybe something can be done to avert disaster.
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  2717.  @zhewu9052  I used to teach 雅思 IELTS in Shanghai. Level 6 is pretty good.
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  2718. If there was money to be made anywhere in the world, they took that chance. Not much different from today. It's only the social development that has changed.
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  2719.  @louischau7982  "A payment is a payment specially if the currency is back up by gold". Can you mention one country in today's world whose currency is backed by gold? Just one country.
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  2720. "If I don't see it, there's nothing there"
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  2721. A: The NYT article does not attribute the surge in electricity use primarily to EVs, but to the growth in data centers and crypto currency mining, both of which require a significant amount of energy. However, EVs do make some contribution, and soon, home heating will, too, as more homes switch to heat pumps. B: EVs or not, electricity use will continue to rise, essentially forever. We will never quench our thirst for more energy, because energy is a crucial ingredient in helping our economy grow and will continue that way forever. Therefore, as we look into the future, we will be best served by energy that is highly scalable, and with a reduction in cost the more we scale up, like any other product. This is only possible if we use a resource that is virtually unlimited, and (almost) free. For now, fossil fuels are fine, but at some stage they will become too expensive. Nuclear energy is fine, too, but also very expensive. Time will tell what sources will be dominant in 20 years.
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  2722. Another excellent video from Asianometry!
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  2723. This seemed to be a trailer for a video series, not very informative on its own.
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  2724.  @danielhutchinson6604  "They have potential manufacturing infrastructure". That's true, but not really related to debt which is a fiscal issue, not a production issue. "they are members of BRICS, who seem to have Associates who own 75% of available resources." You don't have to be a member of BRICS to buy those resources. BRICS members will happily sell those resources for a good price. You also don't have to be an EU member to buy things from the EU.
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  2725.  @dtruth8030  Isn't he in Russia?
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  2726. ....and Embraer, which also makes planes in this class; maybe a little smaller.
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  2727.  @samtat5873  Doesn't matter if it's a friend or an enemy. You don't have to do what they say. However, it is possible this friend/enemy says this: If you behave the way I want, I will give/lend you money. If you don't behave the way I want, then no money. That is not telling you what to do, it's offering you a business deal. You can take it or leave it.
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  2728.  @samtat5873  Now you're just whining like a little child. Stand up, be a man!
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  2729. 13:00 A little correction: It says Shanghai has subsided 2 meters in the last two decades. This is not correct. Land subsidence IS a problem in Shanghai, starting in the early 20th century, when Shanghai's industrialization began. It became most serious in the 50s and 60s and mitigation efforts began, primarily by pumping rainwater back into the ground and restricting use of ground water. In the last two decades, Shanghai has seen average subsidence of 5.5 mm per year, or a total of 110 mm (appx. 4.3 inches). Nowadays, we get most of our tap water from the Yangzi River. A large reservoir was built in the delta back in the 00s, if I remember correctly. The reservoir allows sediment to clear, after which water is pumped to treatment stations before being released into the pipes. Technically, Shanghai's tap water is drinkable, but partly due to old pipes, it doesn't taste very good, and most people buy drinking water in 4-gallon jugs and only use tap water for showering, tooth brushing, etc. (I have lived in Shanghai since 1996, and while that in itself is not evidence of anything, I have followed local developments closely).
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  2730. As if Chinese high-level govt. officials don't have huge amounts of money stashed away.
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  2731.  @skydragon23101979  Yes, I agree.
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  2732.  @SiRasputin  Well, no one can accuse you of being weak of faith. And who knows, maybe you're right. All I'm saying is that there are no guarantees of future success.
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  2733.  @SiRasputin  "underestimating anyone is perilous". I am not underestimating China. I am saying there are no guarantees all its dreams will be fulfilled. That is the case for every country, and for every individual. "you're forecasting the demise of an ancient civilisation". I challenge you to find anything I have written that even suggests such a forecast. Anything! I'll be waiting.
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  2734.  @SiRasputin  "perhaps not you, but many in the West". Well, then address your complaints to them, not to me.
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  2735. I don't see the problem with this particular use. Whether they use an AI person or a real person or just a voice over some stock footage, the important bits are in the message that is being conveyed. Doesn't matter if it's Mickey Mouse or Anderson Cooper who narrates the message.
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  2736. China takes these types of incidents very seriously and will investigate thoroughly. They have done so at other Tesla crashes. In no cases have Tesla been found to be at fault.
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  2737.  @aarondewindt  "US isn't importing Venezuelan oil anymore thanks to sanctions". I thought the US had resumed purchases of Venezuelan oil recently.
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  2738. I regularly hear about people who get these warning pop-ups, but I have never gotten one. Maybe it has to do with where you are located.
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  2739.  @JayBee-cr8jm  And how can you control that? Are you in charge of the Useful Idiots channel?
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  2740.  @张兴亮-v3e  If your claim is that the original poster is lying, then I and most other Chinese people know better than you.
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  2741.  @张兴亮-v3e  I'm mostly familiar with the situation here in Shanghai, where it may not be as extreme as in less developed regions, but you still see it occasionally. Now, can I cite a specific regional case? Yes, for example the one in the video. That is very much a specific case. The internet is full of videos of other cases. Look, you say I'm lying, while others agree that the situation presented in the video reflects a real thing here in China. You can have your opinion, the rest of us can have ours. Video evidence supports our case, not yours.
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  2742.  @张兴亮-v3e  I didn't say any of those things, nor do believe them to be true. You're letting your imagination run too hot.
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  2743. Yes, HKs MTR is very user-friendly, better than most other systems, including those in Shanghai and Beijing.
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  2744. What the Duck?!!
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  2745. 1:32 "I'm black". Could we have a Chinese Rachel Dolezal here? 😂😂
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  2746. I asked in my community in ChangNing, but was told there are no plans to let us out for now. They're awaiting instructions from above. We're now 14 days since last case, so in theory we should open today or tomorrow. But with the new directive we may have to wait until June.
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  2747. I give him a 5-10% chance of winning.
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  2748. It's getting crowded on the moon. You better reserve your tickets now before it becomes mainstream to visit. "When I was on the moon, it was still pretty original. No luxury resorts, no chain restaurants, no souvenir stores. Very pure and authentic".
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  2749. Actually, cases are falling.
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  2750.  @jivvyjack7723  No, she said 二十几万：More than $ 200,000.-
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  2751. So far only trees.
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  2752. I agree with those people who said it's tacky.
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  2753. I'm going to posit that food waste is not a problem: 1) Throwing out a head of lettuce or a tomato is no different from an oak tree shedding its leaves and acorns. Both are plants that eventually decompose. Throwing out a half-eaten steak is the same as a rat dying in a ditch. 2) Wasted food still gets eaten, just not by humans. It gets eaten by other mammals, or insects, or bacteria and fungi. 3) Giving food to those who need it already happens. You give your food to your loved ones: Friends, children, etc. when you eat with them. That's the purpose of buying food in the first place. 4) Giving food to strangers who need it is not so easy. You will keep food at home as long as it has value to you. Say some deli ham, you keep it until it turns bad. Once it's bad, nobody else wants to eat it. Same with old eggs, or old wheat flour. Shelters can't use expired food because it has the potential to make people sick. 5) Giving excess food to people in other parts of the world is only a good idea in places going through famine or severe food shortages. Generally speaking, food should not be given to developing countries, because it disrupts their own food economy: Free food may take away the livelihood of farmers who need the income from selling their crops on the market. Thus, free food can make life worse for people on the bottom of society. People living with malnutrition generally live in areas far from towns and roads, so getting the food to them is virtually impossible.
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  2754. I don't think 5.2% is unrealistic. It's a bounce-back number. Bounce-back years will always have relatively high rates to even out the downturn from the prior year. Just like 2020 to 2021 (2.3% to 8.1%, giving an average of 5.1%).
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  2755. If you mean off the coast of East Africa, they practically ended piracy there. It was a collaborative effort by China, Russia, USA, France UK and several EU states.
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  2756. They need a cup of hot chocolate!
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  2757. It's not completely true that the EU doesn't buy American made cars. All BMW X7 are made in America and shipped around the world.
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  2758. I'm sure Li Keqiang is looking forward to a well-deserved retirement. Maybe a cottage in the mountains of southern Anhui, his home province. He can look out over the beautiful scenery, drink a cup of Huangshan Maofeng tea and contemplate the human condition.
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  2759. It's late now, but I'm gonna come back tomorrow and read all the comments. It'll be interesting morning entertainment.
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  2760. Wasn't it Coco Lee who had that Mando-hit in the mid-90s: "Bad Boy, Bad Boy". That got a lot of play in Shanghai night clubs around 1998.
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  2761.  @la7dfa  Huh, that's interesting. I didn't know that. But I guess they're different from the ones used in amplifiers.
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  2762. With that nice satellite dish on the station, they should be able to get both HBO and ESPN.
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  2763.  @alisonzhang702  Yes, that would be nice.
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  2764.  @derekdorsette7782  Who is GUSDOR? I'm not aware of any Indonesian or Chinese president with that name. Or indeed any president in any country.
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  2765. Actually, China is not that corrupt. According to 'Transparency International', the organization that tracks these things, 115 countries are more corrupt than China, while only 64 countries are less corrupt. There are even 10 European countries more corrupt than China (11 if you count Russia as a European country). 29 European countries are less corrupt than China. Singapore is Asia's least corrupt country. North Korea and Myanmar are the most corrupt countries in eastern Asia (not sure how they get any information about corruption from North Korea).
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  2766.  @mosseisleyYT  Isn't that what I wrote? I mean, exactly the same?
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  2767.  @wsant2872  " It is not a formal language that can be written". What an ignorant comment. Every language and/or dialect can be written, and indeed can be written using a number of different scripts. Just look at Mandarin Chinese which can be written with Chinese characters (complex and simplified both work), and can also be written with PinYin, a written language all Chinese children must learn in school. You could easily write Mandarin in Japanese Kana, as well.
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  2768.  @gabrielsilva-pl3dx  You may be right, but I found her comment to be hilarious!
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  2769. Ever heard of translators, human or electronic?
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  2770. Parts of Germany's 5G network is from Huawei, other parts is from other suppliers, like Ericsson. Huawei is cheaper, which is the reason it is in the German network in the first place.
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  2771.  @krisshu8254  Spending level has nothing to do with coolness. Some very uncool people spend a lot of money, just look at Donald Trump.
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  2772.  @Volv0x.  "evidence is evidence when proofs are given. Words are not proofs". That is correct. Canada has not yet presented any evidence, but they have said that they are in possession of such evidence. That means we cannot yet know who is right and who is wrong. We simply have to wait for the evidence to be presented. In the meantime, no one should judge India or Canada.
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  2773. beyond people is pork, delicious pork.
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  2774. "You can stop the war at anytime". As long as 'you' refers to Russia, then you're correct.
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  2775. For decades now it has been a standing joke that civil servants do very little: A nice cup of tea, break out the newspaper, chit-chat with colleagues. When a citizen comes in for help, the facial expression is 'Oh no, not another one....' Perhaps that is not too dissimilar from what we can observe in the West.
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  2776.  @Queen-px5tj  "Trump For 2024". Now, that's a slogan! For all those commenters who made the mistaken claim that my original comment was a slogan, here is a real slogan for you: Short, and making a strong statement.
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  2777.  @archie1554  Is there no toll fee? User payment for crossing large bridges is common in other places.
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  2778.  @archie1554  There's a toll fee, so tax payers don't have to pay anything. Only vehicles crossing the bridge will pay. The toll fee is 50 Turkish Lire.
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  2779.  @aditatva  I'm glad we agree.
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  2780. 2:35 The daughter takes private English lessons. That's ILLEGAL! (maybe the documentary was made before the ban).
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  2781. I will give my prediction of 2022 births already now: 9,400,000 (1.2 million fewer than 2021)
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  2782.  @jeffbolton2986  Sure, but some public transport is too expensive to make sense. It's all a question of budgeting. Some things we can afford, other things we can't. For example, we could build metro systems in every town, but for most places that would be a massive waste of money, so we only build metro systems in bigger cities. We could make sure everybody can take a private jet everywhere for $ 5,- but it would be much too costly. The numbers have to add up somehow.
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  2783.  @grazsarducci7477  I did use the word 'tool' in its original meaning as a mechanical implement to complete a task. I thought your use of the word was the slang meaning 'a stupid, useless or socially inept person'. If I misunderstood you, then I apologize.
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  2784.  @MRT-co1sd  Yes, that why I wrote 'inspired'. I haven't seen this before and it makes me wonder how often they change the backdrop in all these meeting rooms in either The Great Hall of The People, or in ZhongNanHai.
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  2785. Both leaders seem a little........out of focus.
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  2786.  @Bustingtuna27  "US should try". Why?
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  2787.  @JoOtterH  Wow, I did not know that.
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  2788. I'm so glad I don't live in Northern China, but that's not because of the weather.
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  2789. It's a Chinese-owned newspaper, as you know. I guess that makes Jack Ma anti-China.
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  2790. Plus, they invented a whole software language.
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  2791. There were reports of those two teams being shot at, but the teams later got protection by the Turkish army, and they continued the rescue effort.
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  2792. You think this concept will catch on? Let's wait a few years and see. My prediction is that you will never hear about this again.
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  2793.  @DccAnh  "intentionally being ignorant". Where was the ignorant part of what I wrote? I didn't make any claims of fact, but made a prediction about the future. By definition, that cannot be ignorant.
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  2794.  @DccAnh  "even if it show up in western news you wouldn't want to see it". That's your interpretation of what I wrote, but it isn't actually what I wrote. I wrote that I hope we won't see these things in Europe. In the countryside in Europe, there is plenty of space for parties and dinners. Almost every small town and village has a community building that local people can rent for a small fee and use for events. There has never been a need for this type of vehicle in Europe, as far as I know. As for my claimed ignorance, you still haven't come up with any example of this; it is just an attempted insult by an angry, insecure, little man.
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  2795.  @DccAnh  Alright, your responses are exclusively personal insults without any arguments relating to the topic. Every single response has been about me, and nowhere have you even attempted to discuss or defend the contraption shown in the video. I'm happy to discuss with you, but our conversation MUST be about this 'foldable dining hall', not about you or me.
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  2796. The floor partition looks to be only 3-4 cm thick. Also, to the left, where the woman stands, it looks like someone had cut through the floor with an angle grinder. Perhaps this was originally meant to be an opening between the two floors which was then covered over with a very thin slab.
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  2797. Well, it looks very nice, but is this just going to be a North Korean 'display window' to the world, or are they actually going to have more retail, more consumption, more private entrepreneurs opening their own shops and restaurants?
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  2798. Companies as democratic organizations: There is nothing preventing a group of friends from setting out to start a company where everybody is an equal owner and everybody has equal power. In fact, there are many enterprises that have started this way. They are normally called 'cooperatives'. But cooperatives bring with them their own problems and the vast majority end up as market-driven enterprises with a leadership that makes the main decisions, a leadership that makes more money and that has more power. All this happens with the consent of the workers/owners because they see a benefit in that kind of capitalist structure.
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  2799.  @dannywalters2365  Good question. I don't have the data, but European wind power projects generally pay themselves off and make a profit. A wind power project commissioned in 2014 should have a lifetime of 25-30 years. The world's first off-shore wind power project was commissioned in 1991 in Denmark and was eventually de-commissioned in 2017 after 25 years. To give an idea of how wind power has evolved, that first off-shore project was only 5 MW divided between 11 turbines (450 kW/turbine). Now, a single offshore turbine has a capacity of over 10 MW.
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  2800.  @zachary3777  Yes, several turbine manufacturers are working on the 15-18 MW range at the moment, incl. Siemens, Vestas, maybe Goldwind, GE. This is not going to stop anytime soon, but it does take a number of years to develop each of these new, bigger turbines.
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  2801. She does not have US citizenship. The closest you can get is that her grandmother was a US citizen who got married to a German and then moved to Germany.
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  2802. From the point of view of those who are getting invaded/attacked, there is no justification. But from the point of view of the invader/attacker, there may be several justifications. International relations and war are not like a game with fixed rules everybody has to follow. Instead, each country will make decisions about what they want/need to do survive and prosper.
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  2803.  @pauldunn108  Ah yes, the plot thickens.
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  2804. Why is it the producers rather than the consumers who should deal with the waste problem?
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  2805. That guy has a thick Swedish accent.
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  2806. As the video states, it's like having a teenage son. They cost money, but you wouldn't just get rid of them.
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  2807. We remember. That's unfortunately the cost of success.
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  2808. And yet, western countries are somehow much less corrupt than China. It's a mystery.
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  2809. Can Macau reinvent itself? Its a gamble.
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  2810. it's very difficult to follow Anna Soroka's translator. There seems to be bits of sentences missing here and there and I found it overall a bit incoherent.
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  2811.  @Eddy-Cool  I don't get it. What has Khan done to reduce Islamophobia? Please be specific.
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  2812.  @Eddy-Cool  Alright, that is an impressive list. You have convinced me.
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  2813.  @askosefamerve  True, but it could be anyone and anything. Only your imagination sets the limit.
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  2814. It just looks like a monster, whereas humans look like us.
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  2815.  @danellis-jones1591  "30 companies are responsible for 70% or so of the total greenhouse gas emissions." Ok, I haven't checked that statistic, but let's go with it. What value do they bring to society in return? If we shut them down, how will that affect society? If we force them to pay, won't that mean they will just charge us for that extra expense by raising prices? No matter who you blame, in the end you and I and everybody else will have to pay the bill, because we're all part of the problem, we're all part of society, we're all part of this world.
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  2816. Ok, we got the accusations. Now all we need is the evidence.
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  2817. "sand-cement mixture", also known as concrete.
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  2818.  @nerostile333  I'm aware of this problem. I've lived here for many years and seen it with my own eyes. That doesn't change the fact that a mixture of sand, cement, and water is, by definition, concrete.
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  2819. They buy it. It's not just dumped there. There are sellers and buyers.
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  2820. I think Foreign Minister Jaishankar sounded much more reasonable and measured during this event. Some other times, he has sounded quite assertive, even aggressive when discussing India's relationships with other countries.
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  2821. Watch 10-20 Zeihan videos in a row and you don't have to watch him again: From then on it's all re-runs.
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  2822. You remember back in the 90s? Shanghai often flooded during summer. Then Xu Kuangdi got his rain boots on and demanded an upgrade of the sewage system. It's been great since then.
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  2823. Far from it. There is just no political will in America to do it.
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  2824. I think we'll find out over the next year or so how bad it is. Let's hope you're right.
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  2825. I agree. He is pretty strong on foreign policy. I'm not American, so US foreign policy is my main interest. Americans may have a less positive view of Biden. Seems to me most Americans have little interest in US foreign policy.
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  2826. Amazing the girl survived that first 4 floor fall. That's 12-15 meters. Well, they say babies bones are more elastic, so maybe that's why.
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  2827. It's as if Rahm Emmanuel thought "I want to be a wolf warrior diplomat, too".
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  2828. Not quite. In 30 years there will more likely be 300 million fewer than today, or around 1.1 billion.
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  2829.  @fabiandonvil  "those are figures using the official data". Ok, so what are the real figures? Or the better figures? Are we just going to make them up to suit our own narrative? Is there any data for 'the real figures'?
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  2830.  @HealingLifeKwikly  Ok, how about you start shrinking your lifestyle? Are you going to... -Drop your internet plan? -Stop buying laptops and smart phones? -Only buy new clothes when the old clothes are worn out? -Refrain from going out to restaurants and bars, and only eat at home? -Occupy a home of no more than 40 square meters? -Get rid of A/C? -Turn down heating and wear more layers in winter? -Only buy locally produced foods and goods? -Only travel by foot, bicycle and public transport? -Never travel outside your local area unless it's absolutely necessary? -Only drink tap water? -Stop eating snacks, but only eat at meal times? -Stop drinking coffee, tea, or other imported foods and drinks? I'm sure you can think of other ways to 'shrink your lifestyle'.
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  2831.  @HealingLifeKwikly  Well, that is wonderful! Hats off to you for actually doing something. Considering you have already come so far, it might be interesting for you try to calculate your personal carbon footprint, compared to where you were before. It's probably a complicated calculation, but I think there are websites that can help.
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  2832. Because inflation is very low. And inflation is very low because manufacturers produce more than they can sell, so they have to keep prices very low. Public employees have had their bonuses cut, meaning less spending power. Reduction in investment, reduction in loans, increase in savings. All these are contributing factors in keeping inflation very low.
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  2833. That happened quicker than I thought, and the tariff is a little higher than I thought. Well, well, there aren't that many Chinese EVs sold in Europe to begin with. It'll be interesting to see how China will retaliate. European wine and alcohol? Dairy products? Those are my first guesses.
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  2834. It's always been like that. You live and learn. In fact, many countries try to cheat foreigners, because it's easy.
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  2835. Too many people believe that capitalism simply means that a few people get rich at the expense of the many. But that has been the case long before capitalism was invented during the Industrial Revolution.
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  2836.  @dan-bz7dz  He had already given his deposition.
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  2837.  @nicholasfooong.  "boeing 737 is the most sold commercial plane". Used to be. In 2019 it was overtaken by the A320. Up to 2024, total orders: -A320: 18,460 -B737: 16,470 Though, to be fair, slightly more B737s have been delivered so far, 11,703 vs. 11,328.
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  2838. They had their sports reporter write the headline. Haikui-Taiwan 1-0
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  2839.  @bigfish1963  So what is your answer to my question? Do you think it's best if people around the world, no matter where they are, segregate by ethnic/cultural groups?
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  2840. Most Americans struggle to find anywhere on a map, even the USA.
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  2841. There is certainly reason to be skeptical of the HTS rebel force. Only time will tell what happens.
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  2842. You mean eating dumplings outside in the winter? Why do you wish that life for anyone?
    2
  2843. Few of them are 'foreign talent'. Most are simply foreigners working in foreign-invested enterprises.
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  2844. Pink Floyd is not going to be happy about this.
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  2845.  @toskovicg  Oh, I'm sure we'll pay. First we win, then we pay. We have money.
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  2846. Why don't people wear their seatbelts? When on a plane, always have your seatbelt tightened when you sit. Seatbelts are not just for take off and landing.
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  2847.  @ayamasakya4196  That's true. In fact, we don't know if all those perks have any impact at all. Many European countries do it, too. Nobody know what works.
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  2848. It can be based on bilateral agreements, but it doesn't have to. Granting visa free access is a way to boost your tourism industry.
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  2849. You're confusing enterprises and governments. Chinese gaming companies would have loved to introduce new games in 2021, but the government had a different opinion. It's basically like that.
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  2850. A slight likeness.
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  2851. 4:10 Foxconn makes components? I thought they only did assembly.
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  2852.  @ZweiZwolf  I've had HarmonyOS on my phone for several years now. They auto-updated from the original Android. I don't like it, and I'm going back to a phone that uses Android.
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  2853. You're the expert.👍
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  2854.  @ZooomaCW  Haha, they may be, but considering how small they are they can hardly be considered more than a snack.
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  2855. It's possible traffic safety drags down Chinese cities. I think we have to admit the streets here can be pretty crazy, especially with all those 快递 riding on the sidewalk, left-turning cars trying to squeeze in ahead of those coming in the opposite direction, drivers trying to intimidate pedestrians crossing the street, drivers turning right on the red light even when there are pedestrians crossing. Lots of bad, unsafe behavior.
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  2856. There's something very satisfying about building demolitions. And they give space for what might be an awesome new building.
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  2857.  @33none42  Well, if it was only the Trump brand that is the problem, it might have become a Wynn, or a Sands. I think the problem lies in Atlantic City not being a good place for big casinos. I've been there once. It was pretty low class, if you ask me. Sorry if you're a local.
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  2858.  @BruhTNT4258  S[han]ghainese 😀. Happy now?
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  2859. A settlement in the case was reached in June, 2022, before it went to trial. No details of any compensation were made public.
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  2860. Larry King: A good old fashioned, level headed observer. I think we can learn something from his style. And apparently he knows everybody personally.
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  2861. Dave Rubin, you are a voice of sanity! Thanks for doing what you do.
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  2862. One up-talker interviewing another up-talker; it's difficult to listen to. I feel so old.
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  2863. Strange how the teacher, whose responsibility it is to teach Swedish to foreigners, is the one with the worst English among all those interviewed.
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  2864. Wouldn't it be easier to just state things as percentages? Or is that considered too boring?
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  2865. John Davis: Why is that? Are you saying he has a hidden agenda which doesn't come out in this interview?
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  2866. D M: Well, I don't watch sports, so.....
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  2867. Tylr Who is HBR?
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  2868. Nice little riddle, but with a pen and paper (or a keyboard and a note pad), it's not so hard.
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  2869. 8 shots of them cutting the omelet in this one-minute vid. Made especially for viewers with extreme short-term memory problems Bonus: Three shots of pouring demi-glace over.
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  2870. Congrats on the new setup, Rubin Report. The colors seem a bit dim, like too little contrast or too little lighting.
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  2871. Very interesting vid. When looking through history, it appears that every society that was open to new people, new ideas, trade, etc. eventually became very prosperous. That is worth remembering.
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  2872. Great voice and diction.
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  2873. Robots have already taken over the most boring aspects of our lives: Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dish washers, lawn mowers, dryers. I say let's thank robots for all they do for us. Next up is hopefully the autonomous (but not too autonomous, thanks) car.
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  2874. I've seen David Wolpe in several debates with Hitchens, Harris et al. Not much new material here, but a nice conversation nonetheless.
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  2875. Well, as I wrote, there are elements of socialism and capitalism in most countries, except for the poorest of the poor. But I don't really care if socialism 'always fails' or capitalism 'always fails'. Those are just ideologies. The goal is to make a functional society, regardless of ideology, wouldn't you agree?
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  2876. Ok, not ideologies, but economic theories or systems. Nevertheless, if you leave theories behind and look at the world, you will notice that both systems have been tried and it appears that most countries have found that a combination of the two work very well. And that includes America. As I wrote earlier, there is virtually no country that is purely socialist or purely capitalist, though N. Korea and Cuba are trying to get socialism to work, with mediocre results. I am in favor of free markets, combined with a strong government to set the framework and invest in the infrastructure to make the markets run smoothly.
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  2877. I just use more mildly-mannered words for the same thing.
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  2878. Well, let's not get into an argument over what exact words to use. I have no sympathy for the North Korean system, but it may still be a better managed country than totally failed states like Somalia or parts of Syria and Iraq, where there is no functioning government at all. I currently live in China and I am well familiar with the failures of communist countries. I am not a socialist or a communist, Marxist or whatever. As I said earlier, I am in favor of a free market, but with government regulations and protections for citizens.
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  2879. "He's in the Schmarta biz". Can we get some Yiddish translation here? Hmm, does it mean 'fashion business'?
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  2880. He is clearly talking to adults, but the style seems to be designed for primary school children. Are adults nowadays so ignorant, so disinterested in science, so short of attention that they need to be spoken to in this childish manner?
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  2881.  @angelalim0502  Competing fairly also includes withholding technologies from competitors. That's why companies constantly sue each other for copyright infringement or patent infringement. Chinese companies sue each other, too.
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  2882.  @happymelon7129  Ok, so it's all part of a plan to keep Asia down, despite the fact that the US is continuing to invest in many Asian countries, is a close ally with 4 Asian nations, is building close relations with a number of other Asian countries, and that the US only has bad relations with Asian nations run by communists. And with good reason: Communists hate free and capitalist countries.
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  2883.  @angelalim0502  You don't really understand economy, do you?
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  2884.  @happymelon7129  Your comment doesn't make any sense. Try to express yourself clearly.
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  2885.  @LetsGoUSA  Do you mean 'degraded'?
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  2886. She appears to share her father's diet.
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  2887.  @HoldMyCowsberg  How is that related to my comment?
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  2888. I called it several days ago, though in fairness, this was not a surprise to anyone.
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  2889.  @pepelepew1227  Thanks for sharing your opinion.
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  2890. We all gotta learn from our mistakes.
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  2891.  @joseph7105  "Like all the rainbows that come out of America?" Pride flags are boring. Communist propaganda posters are much more interesting.
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  2892. I love those analogies! 😊😊
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  2893. I didn't know Asiana was merging with Korean Air. That means no Star Alliance airline with a hub in Korea 😞
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  2894. I completely understand the need for sensationalist video titles. Here are some more suggestions: "Biden and Xi had a phone call. This is what happened next...." "Xi destroys Biden in expletive-filled tirade over the phone" "The Biden Xi phone call that could destroy the world" "America-China phone call: Who won?" "Biden and Xi had a phone call, and people on X are not having it!!" (followed by an article made up entirely of random people's tweets) "The truth about the Biden Xi phone call" "The Democrats and CCP stroking their members during steamy phone call". "The call is coming from INSIDE the building"
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  2895. They can try a socialist planned economy. That'll get rid of inflation, but of course it will mean no economic growth. Ever.
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  2896. It's very different from quarter to quarter, year to year. According to Cal-Maine's financials, net profits varied from 8% in Q1 to 25% in Q4, 2022. However, 2022 was a record year. In the 5 years prior to 2022, it looks like profits were around 5-10%.
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  2897.  @mothratemporalradio517  Yes, so far belief is all we can have, because there is no evidence either way.
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  2898.  @中央山脈-c4i  Ok, if not about personnel, what kind of deal are you suggesting/imagining? I guess I'm questioning that there even is any kind of deal at all. Why would they have a deal going on?
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  2899.  @中央山脈-c4i  "what he was told/promised". What do you think he was promised? And why would such a 'secret/under-the-table' promise be written in an official document handed out during the meeting? Frankly, I think you're letting your imagination run wild. Re. nurses vs. staff, you don't need a nurse to help an old man up from his chair and guide him out the room. Now I'm still open to the idea of a purge and humiliation of Hu, I just want to see some evidence. Speculation isn't enough to convince me.
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  2900.  @中央山脈-c4i  "don't trust anything china says". I don't, but that doesn't mean I can just conjure up some alternative reality in my mind. I've seen the same footage as you, and to me Hu just looks very frail and confused, like someone with dementia.
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  2901.  @中央山脈-c4i  You only wrote "there was a deal, and Xi pretends to agree", but you didn't write what kind of deal it might be. Of course we cannot know, but I'm interested to hear your suggestion. It could be anything: Hu: "Hey Xi, don't forget to bring back my Playstation 5 after you're done with it." Xi: "Sure, I'm almost done with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare".
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  2902.  @中央山脈-c4i  I disagree with the 'must'. They might have had a deal, but we cannot know that for certain. It is one of several possibilities. Besides, Ai Wei Wei is an artist. Why is his opinion more accurate than anyone else's? Yes, there are factions in the CCP: The 'Princeling faction', the 'Youth League faction', the 'Shanghai faction'. From now on going forward, there may only be two factions: the 'Marxist faction' and the 'Reform faction'. This is well known, but it doesn't tell us anything about any deals.
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  2903.  @George-rj4fj  Even Deng Xiaoping said the same thing on his return to China after his first visit to the US: "Look around the world. Every country that makes friends with the US becomes rich".
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  2904.  @George-rj4fj  "Dream on." No need to dream, we're already rich. The dream came true.
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  2905. I agree. It seems more like a propaganda weapon than a bio weapon: "Hey, the foreigners are out to get us"! "Beware of the American body snatchers".
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  2906. Like her or hate her, she's pretty hard-core.
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  2907.  @siamcharm7904  You say low rates. I have read that most loans are considered commercial loans with rates similar to what you see inside China: Around 6%. This is especially the case with loans from Exim Bank.
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  2908. Open it up to everybody, and then, among those standing in line to get a jab, pick out the old, the obese, the diabetic for first injections until the day's supply runs out. Rinse and repeat.
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  2909. There will always be a mix of shortages and surpluses in every commodity. Supply and demand aren't always completely aligned.
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  2910. I remember a few years back there was talk of The Great Bacon Shortage. That was a scary period!
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  2911. That's pure fantasy.
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  2912.  @ronniechew6566  "How did we mine helium 3 on earth?" We're not mining helium 3 on earth. It's so rare it's too expensive to make. Instead, we produce it from other elements, a process that is also difficult and costly. The reason people are looking at the moon is that we expect there to be much more up there than on earth, but even on the moon, it is not abundant. Btw, Helium 3 is not the same as regular Helium.
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  2913.  @ronniechew6566  It's true there's very little Helium on earth, but fortunately, we do not need much of it. As you say, it's mostly used for party balloons and making our voices sound funny. It's not like oil or aluminum, which we use a lot of.
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  2914.  @ronniechew6566  Not 'needed' per se, but it is a potential source of energy. But we have many other sources of energy that are much easier to find.
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  2915. "disillusionment with the West". And what were the illusions about the West people had before?
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  2916. But unlike India, most people in China are now vaccinated. In your opinion, when should China open up again? I want to travel without a long quarantine.
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  2917.  @donaldduck1322  Alright, so I'll ask you: When do you think China should open up again?
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  2918.  @donaldduck1322  Fair answer.
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  2919.  @John-us9rm  I'm already here.
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  2920. What, the federal government taking over debt from states? That would be highly unusual.
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  2921. The Chinese government has confirmed it is their balloon.
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  2922.  @adhirajkar7396  "Those are not NATO calibers but NATO assigned general calibers". Are you starting a discussion about semantics?
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  2923. Any article or video that has a title beginning with "The Truth About [insert your own topic here]..." should rather be read as "Here's My Conspiracy Theory About [.......]".
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  2924. Imagine there was a country where government officials got fired if too many people caught a cold.
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  2925.  @SeaJay_Oceans  What currency is the 'king of the world' now, if not the US Dollar?
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  2926. For a second there I thought the bridge would go to PuTuoShan. Maybe next time....
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  2927.  @mattandre5648  My numbers are for 2023, not 2022. I clearly stated that in my comment.
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  2928. Very well done. Now they only need to land it again.
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  2929. And so far it hasn't happened. The closest they have come was Serbia. Not an invasion, but a bombing campaign. I suppose we can include it.
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  2930.  @collo5070  Northern Europe. It's common in several countries in the Nordics. Generally, we do not use landfills, except for some construction waste and other, non-combustible waste. Some construction waste can be reused for road construction.
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  2931. This is old news. I heard about this a year ago. However, it still boggles my mind that people will travel to see this fake stuff. They know it's fake, so why not just download pictures online? I cannot understand the thinking of these tourists. How about this: You step onto a fake airplane, step out again, go into a studio where all your favorite tourist sites are displayed, take some photos, and then you can be home again in time for dinner.
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  2932. That'll change soon. In a few months the infection levels in China will get very low and the restrictions will be lifted. A year from everybody will have forgotten about it.
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  2933. Reading the comments here, it seems that many commenters believe that the words 'collapse' and 'decline' mean the same thing.
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  2934. I love a good lecture. There is so much to be learned.
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  2935.  @jokeychin  Depends what the talk is about. However, there is plenty of US investment in Africa. In 2023, US investment in Africa reached $56 billion.
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  2936.  @taz09216  I didn't mention aid, but investment. Much of that investment is also with local partners in various African countries.
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  2937.  @lvjinbin28  "US military bases built too". Yes, but that doesn't count as investment. That comes out of the defense budget.
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  2938.  @happymelon7129  "China is so humble". If you're so humble, why do you feel the need to point out this hospital gift? That's not humble, that's 吹牛.
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  2939.  @happymelon7129  Singapore, then. But simultaneously pointing out 'being humble' and also boasting about the hospital gift is just a contradiction. You can have one or the other, but not both.
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  2940.  @Sebastian0729  I'm very happy that Africa sees more foreign investment. And it comes from China, Europe, and the US, mostly. That's wonderful for Africa's future development.
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  2941. How do you get all those little dots on top of your letters? It's a cool feature.
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  2942. Well, there are presidential elections next year in November. You'll have to wait and see what American people decide.
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  2943. It's only sports, guys. Try not to take it too seriously.
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  2944. This could be a great quiz: Where and when? I guessed Italy after I saw 'Polizia' on the uniforms. And then I guessed sometime in the 70s. I was right about that. But I thought it might be related to the 'Red Brigades', so I was wrong about that.
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  2945. If China becomes a little more liberal with their visa policy, I think even more people will come. For example, 3-month tourist visas used to be easy to get, but now it's almost impossible. So, 3-month, or even 6-month tourist visas, double-entry visas would all be very welcome. I think foreign tourists are willing to pay good money for those types of visas. Secondly, make it easier to apply for visas, online application would be great, drop the fingerprinting at application and only fingerprint when arriving at the border. There are many potential tourists who look at the complicated process and just choose another country to visit.
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  2946. Many countries have tried that over the years. It only works for as long as the campaign lasts. After a while, people will go back to buying whatever they feel like, foreign or domestic.
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  2947.  @victortandi7982  I think you're assuming that people will let their patriotism decide their shopping habits. Very few people actually do that. Germans are happy to buy Korean or Japanese or French cars, if they feel those cars are right for them. Korea has two big laptop brands: LG and Samsung, but even Apple, HP and Asus sell very well in Korea.
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  2948. The witness is basically correct, depending on area/region: Solar and wind energy is now among the cheapest forms of energy that can be produced, and it will almost certainly get cheaper and cheaper as the years pass. That is because the price of solar and wind energy depends on manufacturing cost of equipment, not on the cost of the resource (wind and sunshine, which is always zero). Like with cars, smartphones and washing machines, the manufacturing cost is likely to go down over time.
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  2949. Let's see if the military junta in Niger asks the US and France to leave. They haven't asked yet. If they ask, of course those countries should leave. Then we'll see 5 years from now if Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are any better off than they are now. I'm skeptical. None of these regimes appear to be particularly pro-development, pro-business, pro-investment. I hope I'm wrong about that.
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  2950. I think it goes through the Baltics, not Ukraine.
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  2951. His bechamel came out lumpy....... what a fail.
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  2952. Pakistan is very, very far from being in control of their country. There are a ton of violent separatist movements operating in the country.
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  2953.  @Fred_the_1996  What makes you think that is of higher probability?
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  2954.  @tluangasailo3663  So it could be for discovering/counting stars and galaxies?
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  2955.  @schivver  "by your standards the US is a no no". Not only is the US a BIG YES by the standards listed, but the numbers prove that out, with the US being a bigger recipient of FDI than China since the beginning of time.
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  2956.  @HoldMyCowsberg  "Sounds like you're giving 🇮🇳 a lecture". It applies to all countries, including India, China and any other country that wishes to attract FDI.
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  2957.  @shktxy3  "humiliating business partners after inviting them your country". Did China humiliate business partners? What are you referring to?
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  2958.  @HoldMyCowsberg  "exceptionism applies?" What is 'exceptionism'?
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  2959.  @shktxy3  "biden called him dictatoor". Yes, I saw that. How did you feel about that?
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  2960.  @HoldMyCowsberg  "Now I shall wait your response ". But my question to you is: What is exceptionalism? What do Americans think it means? What do you think it means? I don't exactly know what it means.
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  2961.  @HoldMyCowsberg  Let's discuss the topic you brought up: Exceptionalism. Let's not discuss me or you personally.
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  2962.  @muhammadfayiz3243  That may all be true, but it doesn't have anything to do with the criteria foreign companies look for.
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  2963.  @stuartkilby2751  Ok, but we're nowhere close to such a scenario. All the stuff you see on the news about a possible armed conflict between the US and China is mostly just speculation. None of the two countries have any interest in armed conflict and they will both go to very great lengths to avoid it. They are each other's top business partners, why throw that away?
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  2964. Granite? It looks like white marble to me.
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  2965. Of those three, shitposting is the most lethal.
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  2966.  @ChiefBridgeFuser  That's true. People have no good options for investing their money at the moment, so they put it in the bank, or possibly buy state issued bonds. It's a real problem going forward. As for property ownership, you do actually own your apartment, that is your property. What you do not own is the land beneath it. That is what you lease for a limited time. I believe it used to be 30 years, but is now possibly 70 years. What you get is a 'Land Use Rights Certificate' which gives you the right to live on that land. Some of the early certificates have already run out, and so far, people have been able to renew them for a small fee for another 30-70 years. However, nobody can know for certain if these rights will be honored going into the far future. So far they have been.
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  2967.  @recondax  Sure, you are free to use any number you prefer. Regarding basing population numbers on salt consumption, you would first need to know how much salt the average person eats. I don't think there's any data on that, and it might even be impossible to get such data. If we use your preferred numbers, then we have to use them in other fields, too. That means China's per capita GDP is not $13,000 but $20,000. It also means that China's Total Fertility Rate is not 1.1, but closer to 1.7, higher than even the US, and that would mean a much slower population decline than currently assumed.
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  2968. I doubt we'll see this in Shanghai anytime soon.
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  2969. Every time things don't go so well, you can always say you're playing 'the long term game'. When things go well, there is no reason to say such things.
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  2970.  @benjaminabdullah3289  "How many wrong predictions about China have been proved to be wrong by time?" Oh, I think perhaps about as many as the wrong predictions made about Apple, or IBM, or the US, or Sri Lanka, or really any entity you can think of. When people make predictions about the long-term future, they are more likely to be wrong than right, simply because there are more ways to be wrong than to be right.
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  2971.  @hiyukelavie2396  Further down, someone says "when I was in Taiwan, all the Taiwanese love everything Japanese". The video is not about Taiwan.
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  2972.  @hiyukelavie2396  Yes, that's a possibility.
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  2973.  @thesoggiestshart  Yes, I agree, but the large population also increases the chance that someone is there to catch a falling child.
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  2974. If you polish it, it shines. Very neat.
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  2975. You don't have to do what the Europeans say, but they also don't have to buy your products.
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  2976. There's nothing better than when people take immediate action to solve a problem.
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  2977.  @Furrina89  Now they are, but that will change as society changes.
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  2978. I don't think you can blame the parents for this. If anything, you should blame the girl, but little children don't understand the results of their actions. So, no apologies needed, but perhaps a government ruling that treadmills need to have a barrier in the back that protects the belt from being blocked.
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  2979.  @chrislee5685  My point is that any nation's cuisine changes quite quickly. As for young countries, they may very well have had people living there before they became a country. Those people still have food culture. As an example, Italy only became a unified country in 1860, but no one can say they haven't had a culture for several thousand years before that.
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  2980.  @chrislee5685  Sure, I don't doubt it, but even ancient civilizations had very limited choice of produce compared to today, so the food from just a few centuries ago must have been very different from what we eat today. And people's taste changes all the time. When I arrived in Shanghai almost 30 years ago, Shanghainese people insisted that (yellow) onions and chili were almost inedible foods. That has certainly changed in a big way.
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  2981.  @rmot2911  "2,000-year-old curry" Ok, but it's a curry without chili, without tomato. I suppose a Korma comes close to that description. And of course Europe also had a food culture 1000 or 2000 years ago. But again, almost certainly different from today.
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  2982. Yes, there have been regular exchanges of dead soldiers' bodies throughout the war.
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  2983.  @donderstorm1845  Maybe we should have one.
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  2984.  @gamingchamp6728  Don't you love it?
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  2985.  @jacksonjunggrandwisdomchan5513  That's extremely speculative, but I suppose it's ok to speculate.
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  2986. Putin: So where did all that money go? Spy: Well, we managed to convince a lot of Ukrainian hookers that Russia is great. A lot!!
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  2987.  @远山-k3s  Did you go to the IAEA website? Then you would know that they do have a widely represented committee called 'The Task Force'. It has experts from all over, including Chinese experts. You would also know that the IAEA will indeed monitor the emission. You would also know that the IAEA agees that the discharge is the best option, and that China agrees with that.
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  2988.  @远山-k3s  If geosphere injection and underground burial are better alternatives, why does the IAEA recommend disposing the waste water in the ocean? Besides, the waste water only contains Tritium.
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  2989. I'd like to have Japan and South Korea on board, as well. They know the techy stuff very well.
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  2990.  @Alex-pj8nz  Ok, I think that's a little pessimistic. I'm sure European and Asian partners would be able to manage the station. Besides, Russia's main responsibility was to provide propulsion and navigation.
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  2991.  @Alex-pj8nz  That's not quite correct. Of the ISS' 12 modules, 3 are built by NASA, 2 by Russia, 4 by ESA, 1 by Japan and 1 by Canada. Russia and the US are the only countries that have rockets large enough to send the modules up to ISS, and to send people to and from the station.
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  2992. Just goes to show that no one can predict the future, whether that is the future of politics, of the economy, of the stock market, or anything else. Some people get lucky, and if you only have two candidates to choose between, it's possible to get lucky many times in a row, but it is just that: Luck!
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  2993.  @QuarioQuario54321  We can agree on that.
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  2994. Europe HAS matched the US. Europe has given Ukraine more than the US. However, most of EU's aid has been financial, while only a smaller portion has been in military supplies. Ukraine needs its society to function, so financial aid is also important, or it would have folded completely. Nevertheless, I understand why Americans are not interested in supporting Ukraine anymore. It really should be Europe's job, and it likely will be going forward. I thank Americans for the support you have provided so far.
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  2995. In a clip like this, with this headline, would it be too much to ask that you actually mention what the inflation rate fell to, or even better, where it was before and where it is now. There was no mention of any of this in the clip.
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  2996. Well, it's getting easier and easier to visit China, but still not as easy as it was in the 1990s or the 1980s. The most difficult time for China visas was 2018-2019, not including the Covid period, when it was almost impossible.
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  2997. I've seen you post several times about this. You must have perfect knowledge on The Amazing Race, a TV show I have only watched a few episodes of. Anyway, I like these little trivia notes.
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  2998.  @theburden9920  "your comparing north korea to china really?" Only to illustrate that when we say 'it's only a matter of time', it doesn't mean very much unless we say how much time we allow. You could travel back to the stone age and say 'one day we'll all fly through the sky in big machines, it's only a matter of time'. That would be a true statement, but a ludicrous one to make in the stone age. So, North Korea? Who knows what North Korea will be like 100 years from now? or China? Or the US?
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  2999.  @theburden9920  I don't know what that is supposed to mean.
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  3000. "We have entered 6th mass extinction phase already". 'The 6th mass extinction', also known as the Holocene Extinction event started already more than 10,000 years ago and is ongoing. Humans have brought species to extinction all that time, not only in recent years. What is different now is that we're actually doing quite a lot about it. Up until about 100 years ago, there were no nature reserves, national parks, or protected areas anywhere in the world. No one cared about species going extinct. There were no animal protection efforts, no WWF, no Greenpeace. India did not have a Ministry of Environment, there was no Wildlife Institute of India, no Forest Survey of India, no protection of tigers, or elephants, or any other species. India and other countries now have a great focus on renewable energy and environmental protection. It will probably get worse before it gets better, but it will definitely get better, slowly but surely, as long as we all work together on the problems.
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  3001.  @andredingstertsao  I don't think you understood my comment, which is meant as sarcasm. My percentages are based on the numbers the statistician gives in his presentation.
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  3002.  @x-hale2899  "Russia is not our enemy". Russia is absolutely the enemy of Europe! They have proven that over and over, threatening to take Berlin in 3 days, threatening the use of nuclear weapons against us, frequently threatening Poland and the Baltic republics, invading Ukraine just as Ukraine made moves to get closer to the EU and NATO, invading Ukraine AGAIN and waging a huge ongoing war against Ukraine. I think it will take decades before we can have any kind of relationship with Russia again, and certainly not as long as they occupy Ukraine.
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  3003.  @cowubl  "why nato bombed yugoslavia, afghanistan, iraq?" -Yugoslavia: Under UN mandate, not an action initiated by NATO. -Afghanistan: NATO Article 5: When one country is attacked (USA in the case, perhaps you remember September 11th, 2001), all other members will come to its assistance. -Iraq: Not a NATO action. As you may remember, two large NATO members, France and Germany, refused to participate. -In case you want to add Libya, that was also a UN mandated action, initiated by The Arab League, but European countries did the actual bombing.
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  3004.  @DesmondRanking  "What about serbia". Serbia appears to be making moves toward joining the EU sometime in the future. After that, they may very well join NATO, too. Some countries move fast, others move slow. It's fine, each country should move at their own pace.
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  3005.  @HugeDinosaurs-g9g  "why is it trying to go into the Pacific". NATO has many friends in the Pacific region. Those countries see the benefit of joining forces for mutual protection against bullies and aggression.
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  3006.  @HugeDinosaurs-g9g  "countries and even military blocs must consider the security of non bloc members". Certainly! NATO or other military blocks shouldn't go out and threaten other countries, but if a partner country feels threatened or bullied by a third country, it is fair for the block to send out a message that we will help protect that country.
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  3007.  @Leslie-zn9ly  "the South China Sea. Just curious what countries would it entail?" China, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam. All these countries surround the South China Sea, and all claim parts of it, mostly the claims follow the 200 nautical mile limit. China claims all of it.
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  3008.  @mikhail7587  It was more democratic and more secular when they became a member. Once you're in, there's no real process for kicking you out. As for Cyprus, both Greece and Turkey became members at the same time, as a kind of compromise, even though their territorial dispute was not solved.
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  3009.  @rico8573  not what?
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  3010.  @tommyboss4067  "Where do you get such information?" From the Chinese government's official National Map, which includes all of the South China Sea.
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  3011.  @tommyboss4067  "I never heard any disputes on SCS territory between China and Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei or Malaysia". Thailand is not a claimant of any art of the SCS. Indonesia has had a few clashes with Chinese patrol boats in Indonesian waters. Malaysia and Brunei are the only two countries that so far have not had navy/coast guard clashes with China over this issue.
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  3012.  @allanshpeley4284  Yes, if I were trying to make the case that unemployment is down, or that AI reduces unemployment. But that is not the case I am trying to make. I am saying that the number of jobs in a country or state or region is not static, and that people seem to conjure up new jobs out of thin air. Even if you had a country with just a single employer, then more people would still lead to more jobs. Economists don't have a clear idea of why this is the case, they just observe it happening everywhere, in every age.
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  3013. The problem with both Martin Wolf's article and the response to it is that both simply rationalize the past by putting a positive spin on it. This is akin to saying that it was a positive development that you got fired from your job, because you now have more freedom, or that it was good that you were hit by a bus, because you now have three months to spend in bed, and work was getting stressful, anyway. There's a certain level of 'Ah Q-ism' in this kind of thinking: Every loss can be redefined as a win. Back when China had 9+% growth rates, nobody said that this growth was bad, or low quality growth. It was just growth, and people loved it.
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  3014.  @YourHineyness  "the cumulative effect would be by now an economy worth 47 quadrillion dollars". You can make a simple calculation to figure out what the growth rate would have to have been over the last 40 years to end up with an economy of $47 quadrillion. It's not something you have wonder about, you can calculate it.
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  3015. The French are world leaders in public protests. But they'll probably come around to accept the changes.
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  3016.  @Llortnerof  😂
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  3017.  @bobbymoss6160  Aren't those just for decoration? I wonder what's inside: Red bean paste? Fresh meat? 韭菜香菇？
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  3018.  @潜伏在歪果仁家的梅姐  That seems unlikely.
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  3019.  @潜伏在歪果仁家的梅姐  That seems unlikely.
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  3020. If you include all the individual components, there are probably thousands of steps in putting a smart phone together. Amazing that we can buy one for a few hundred dollars.
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  3021. Ok, so you don't want them to report on negative economic news about China. How about positive economic news? Should they also not report on that? Perhaps no news about China at all?
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  3022.  @godlect4979  "The uneaten grapes are always sour." I'm merely listing the cost of HSR in different countries. This is useful information for everyone. As for my country, it is too small to justify 350 km/h trains. We've recently completed a new line, but only designed for speeds up to 250 km/h. We designed and built it ourselves, and paid for it ourselves, no foreign loans. Cost: USD 24 million/km. Plans for future expansion are underway. We like to build our own top-class infrastructure, we are fully capable of it, and we have the money to do it.
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  3023.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  "are you sure about hs2 England". I wrote average. Some lines are more expensive, some are cheaper. That is also the case in China.
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  3024.  @pwjfk250  "US cost$ 105 billion dollars for 520 miles". I'm not aware that the US has any high speed rail. What are you referring to?
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  3025.  @VanDuc-hm6sp  Yes, they have wasted a huge amount of money. Fortunately, in Europe we do much better. We invented high-speed rail, after all. Oh, and we also invented maglev. Oh, and we invented the railway at the very beginning. And we invented metro systems. We also built the first railways in China, Vietnam, India.
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  3026.  @自然醒-b9j  If you're too lazy to translate your comment, you are surely too lazy to search for information by yourself.
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  3027. She is pushing back on allegations made without evidence. That is the right way to do it. Note Shellenberger using terms like "we see", "correlated", "we think", "would cause deaths". These are all beliefs, not evidence.
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  3028. 20 years ago people believed mobile phone signals caused brain cancer.
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  3029.  @inception6657  They sound like college students.
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  3030. If the price is right, I'm sure they will. But the price is not yet right.
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  3031. India's economic development will take care of the rising population, all by itself.
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  3032. They are one of the many rebel groups.
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  3033. A-nice, in English pronunciation sounds like A***. Anethole sounds like anus-hole. Coincidence? I think not! Even so, as a Dane, I join my fellow Danes (and Finns, Swedes, and Dutch) in expressing unbounded love for the flavor of liqorice! Sweet, salty, even almost ammonium-like, we love it!
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  3034.  @bluedragontoybash2463  Basic knowledge, no special education needed.
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  3035.  @Lola-yz3ys  "Check what firefighters have to do when an EV explodes". They tend to douse it with large amounts of water.
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  3036.  @bluedragontoybash2463  Ok, so try to look up how they put out lithium-ion or lithium-metal battery fires in real life. Lots of water, because it's ample and available, even on a civilian aircraft. There are methods that are more effective, but those aren't available on an airplane.
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  3037. It's rare that they are so destructive, but smaller tornadoes are not unseen in any given year.
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  3038. "Young Man Holding a Roundel". Looks like a real mama's boy! If Botticelli has painted the man with a green mohawk I might be interested.
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  3039. Hopefully they will follow the people's choice.
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  3040. 20:02 Lady talking about her bar: "Old guys from Singapore and China often dropped by. There were trailer drivers, too". Ok, I think I can guess what kind of services she offered.
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  3041. Dry in the wet regions and wet in the dry regions. Does that mean this coming winter South China will be freezing but North China will be just a balmy cool?
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  3042. That $1 trillion stimulus in 2022 for infrastructure has to go somewhere.
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  3043. "Takes off"?? NIO has had battery swap for years, but that's not the same as "takes off". I wish the video had explained how many NIO owners actually have signed up for the service. It's something you can choose sign up for when you buy the car.
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  3044.  @casper-z9rkls6gl  The universe may be expanding, but Brooklyn is not expanding.
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  3045. You might be able to squeeze 4sqm of solar panels on a car. 1 sqm can generate max. 200W, or 0.8 kW total. One day can have maximum 6 hours of direct sunlight onto the panels, giving 4.8 kWh/day. With NIOs efficiency, you can drive 34 km/day, but only if the sun shines on the car all the time. More realistically, it's closer to half that amount.
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  3046. Maybe it's for the better. Now, she can go get a REAL job.
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  3047.  @marybudd906  It only feels creepy to you because your mind puts it in a sexual frame. Not all cultures think like yours.
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  3048. IN 2020: -Approximately 1 in 7,000 arrests of Black Americans ended with the suspect getting killed by police. Approximately 1 in 7,500 arrests of Hispanic Americans ended with the suspect getting killed by police. -Approximately 1 in 7,900 arrests of non-Hispanic white Americans ended with the suspect getting killed by police. -Approximately 1 in 5,500 arrests of Asian Americans ended with the suspect getting killed by police.
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  3049. Hmm, looks like it could be useful!
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  3050. So many videos of this, but none of them show the run-up to the incident. Why not start the clip a minute before it happened?
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  3051. What an action-packed video!
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  3052. Video title: [How The Worlds Richest People Travel (Disgusting)]. If that is disgusting, then I'm certain the vast majority of the world's people dream, openly or secretly, about becoming very, very disgusting.
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  3053.  @CC3GROUNDZERO  Yes, we should not desire to improve our lives. That's immoral.
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  3054.  @xinyiquan666  In McDonald's I rarely see kids. Mostly young adults, say 20-35 year-olds and lots of middle-aged people in the evenings. Very similar in KFC.
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  3055.  @xinyiquan666  Haha, yes, times change.
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  3056.  @wineverything7529  They do. How else would you know about it?
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  3057.  @wineverything7529  Me too. In other words, the media.
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  3058.  @wineverything7529  As a test, I just Googled 'Sexual abuse in the military' and on just the first page got coverage from: NYT, PBS, NPR, ABC, LA Times, USA Today, The Guardian, plus several smaller news organisations. Is that enough for you?
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  3059.  @borja1000  I hear there are great BBQ and steaks!
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  3060. "China will face a devastating famine and political instability". This is the kind of hyperbole Peter Zeihan is famous for. Peter Zeihan's predictions are akin to those predictions about climate change we sometimes hear: That the world is about to end in the next few decades. Climate change is a real problem that needs to be solved, but it is not too late to work on it. Likewise, food shortages are a problem China needs to solve, but it is not too late to work on it. Peter Zeihan's predictions may come true, but only if nobody lifts a finger to do anything about the problems.
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  3061. "China will face a devastating famine and political instability". This is the kind of hyperbole Peter Zeihan is famous for. Peter Zeihan's predictions are akin to those predictions about climate change we sometimes hear: That the world is about to end in the next few decades. Climate change is a real problem that needs to be solved, but it is not too late to work on it. Likewise, food shortages are a problem China needs to solve, but it is not too late to work on it. Peter Zeihan's predictions may come true, but only if nobody lifts a finger to do anything about the problems.
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  3062.  @scholarssolutions6735  'Living paycheck to paycheck', what does that even mean? Everybody who spends their money too quicky, or are not prudent with their spending will always live paycheck to paycheck. Make a budget, make sure you always save some money. It is always possible to spend less: Don't buy coffee in coffee shops, but make it at home, or even better: Don't drink coffee at all, but just tap water. Quit all candy, cookies, cake, and other unnecessary snacks. Only buy the clothes you really need to wear. Cancel all your subscriptions. The possibilities are endless.
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  3063.  @scholarssolutions6735  Don't be wasteful!
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  3064.  @xx133  Look, this is only (or mostly) in Luang Prabang. There are so many other parts of Laos that will never be much affected by tourism. It's really no different from Venice in Italy, another city that is highly dependent on tourism. Both Venice and Luang Prabang will survive just fine.
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  3065. -He should be executed. -He has to be chopped into pieces. -He should be burned. Thankfully, these practices were abolished in the west centuries ago, along with witch trials.
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  3066. The Gambinis and the Solozzos get together to discuss the Corleone family.
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  3067. ISIS jihadis have been captured in Europe for years, a number of them convicted of serious acts of terrorism. Quite a lot, actually.
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  3068. Every commenter talks about how great Huawei phones are, but even in the local Chinese market, Huawei is neck and neck with Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi, and globally, those other Chinese brands are way ahead of Huawei. So why is there so little attention paid to those other brands? Aren't their phones great, too?
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  3069. Almost all the people being 'trafficked' are being cheated by other Chinese people in Thailand, not by Thai citizens. It's Chinese 'butchering' Chinese.
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  3070. Chinese leaders seem to be meeting all sorts of world leaders these days. Who knows, maybe China wants to become friendly again.
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  3071. They should make a drone shaped like a stylized Chinese cloud and then require that any passenger must wear Han clothing. Male passengers must have a very long, white beard and long, white eyebrows. Passengers must also rehearse how to make an evil laugh.
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  3072. As far as I know, Byton still doesn't have a car on the road. If they want to be part of the game, they have to start playing, now.
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  3073. So far Ukraine is only receiving about 100 of them, hardly enough to make a dent, but I'm sure they're appreciated anyway.
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  3074.  @hwoonDeurim  "he is very generous to smaller cities". Huh, that's interesting. So, a classic populist. Those types of politicians seem to gain popularity these years. It's probably a fad that'll last another 5-10 years.
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  3075. I'm sure that won't be a problem. Doing that is not a crime in Germany.
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  3076.  @hondaxyz  That's up to the people of Germany. If they want to split up again, they can start a political movement, get support from political parties, and then have a vote. There's a clear process. Me personally? I don't care. It's not my country.
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  3077. He wasn't very popular when he was the leader, but I think people have developed a more positive view of him since then.
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  3078. “Why stay in a coutry where you are treated as second class citizen?” That is exactly why so many Chinese people move abroad in the first place.
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  3079.  @mutopz  Well, in that case it is the ideology of the United Nations, which is the umbrella organization above the IAEA, and which both Korea and China are members of. We can only wonder why they haven't expressed their opposition within IAEA, but only in public press releases. Btw, IAEA has stated several times that they support the release of waste water, so I don't know why you would say they don't.
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  3080.  @HoldMyCowsberg  If the best you can come up with is conspiracy theories, there's really no reason to listen to you.
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  3081.  @HoldMyCowsberg  "It is what it is." Exactly!
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  3082.  @mutopz  Countries with nuclear power plants release radioactive waste water all the time. This is well-known and has been for decades. Maybe you don't know it, but that says more about you than it does about the practice. Please stop being ignorant! The world's information is at your hands. Educate yourself instead of living under a rock.
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  3083. Wain and wivers are both ware in Saudi Awabia.
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  3084. Evidently, Allah hates Gazans
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  3085. It's not the population that is the problem, it's the rain, which will come down no matter how many people live in Paris. When it doesn't rain, waste water does not flow into the river.
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  3086. In a European context Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are very much on the political fringe. Fortunately, fewer and fewer Europeans agree with them as the years go by. In fact, most European NATO members are now increasing their defense budgets. We need to be stronger in Europe and we want a more powerful NATO. It's embarrassing that we can hardly defend our own territory.
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  3087.  @colmlarkin8665  Haha, yes, I realize my opinion is in the minority here, but I expect educated people to be able to accept opposing views. I like to watch Useful Idiots and have been a subscriber since the beginning, though I feel it was more entertaining when Matt Taibbi was co-hosting.
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  3088.  @pmesa7305  Slurs will get you nowhere, but they may give you a short lived sense of moral superiority.
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  3089. @burneraccount I don't think my position is morally superior with respect to war in general. There can sometimes be a good justification for war. If you look back in history, you may find wars that you feel were justified, but that other people feel were not. In the end, it's up to the individual to decide whether they think a war is justified or not. You (presumably) feel that the west is not justified in supporting Ukraine militarily, but I do. As a European, I feel particularly concerned about Russia's actions, at least since 2014. Of course I wish we could have had a good partnership with them, but our interests were unfortunately not aligned.
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  3090. @burneraccount Ok, I understand that position and sympathize with it. But the United States has a strategic interest in strengthening NATO and weakening Russia. In other words, it's not a moral justification but a purely strategic one. I think many Americans, like people around the world, have little interest in 'strategic interests' because it's not a part of their life, and that's why most democratic countries always feel they need to persuade their voters on a moral level to support wars, even if the real reason is strategic and not moral. With respect to Ukraine, I think both a strategic and moral argument can be made, because Russia invaded Ukraine and not vice versa. This makes it easier for people to support.
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  3091. @burneraccount Yes, and Europeans are making even more sacrifices, given how dependent we have been on Russian gas. For some reason, the American government doesn't try to explain to the American people why this is so important. Maybe they don't trust that people will understand it, so they go to moral arguments instead. I'm sure you have noticed how the American legacy media frames the conflict in moral terms: Stories about individuals who had to flee, or had their house bombed to rubble. These stories may give the clicks needed and they are easy to understand. It reminds me of how the US media was cheerleading the runup to the Iraq war. That's when I realized how untrustworthy the legacy media is.
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  3092. @burneraccount Different polls taken in April, May and June all show that a majority of Americans still support assisting Ukraine with military equipment. Of course, there will always be dissenting voices, as there are with any issue.
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  3093. @burneraccount That's a belief you have no evidence for. Perhaps you're a 'man of faith'. In any case, US government support is there for the Ukrainians who so badly need it. I'm grateful for that. As for gas prices and inflation, I'm just going to ride my bicycle (we do that in Europe, anyway), put on some warm clothes and eat cheaper food. That's nothing compared to what the Ukrainians have to go through.
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  3094.  @gavinhillick  No, the previous commenter claimed that most Americans are opposed to assisting Ukraine. The polls refute that claim.
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  3095.  @gavinhillick  Ok, it's hard to know exactly what people are replying to. So, opinion polls can only show what direction the general population is leaning towards. They do not say anything about whether their position is correct or not. My argument in favor of arming Ukraine is not based on majority opinion but on my own views about the situation. 1) I believe in the inviolability of national territory. (God knows we have had lots of problems in Europe in that respect before the UN was established). 2) My opinion is that Russia is a long-term destabilizing factor in Europe and beyond. 3) While I understand that Russia is equally worried about NATO, I foresee that we will always have clashes regardless, because the two sides will always try to advance their own interests. That's just the nature of competition/rivalry. 4) Ukraine has signaled a long-term interest in being aligned with the West, both in trade (EU) and in national security (NATO). We cannot predict how this conflict will end, but I see some interesting developments beyond Russia. It appears that the Central Asian states are now becoming interested in a closer relationship with Europe and the West in general. Most likely as a counterweight to Russian and Chinese influence. In a way, the world is still a bit like high school with cliques and 'mean girls' all trying to get the upper hand.
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  3096.  @crhu319  I don't what?
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  3097.  @gavinhillick  You are going to have to quote me from a previous post, because I cannot find where I used opinion polls as an argument in favor of supporting Ukraine with military equipment. To be clear: Opinion polls can only show how people feel about an issue. They do not say anything about whether those people are right or wrong.
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  3098.  @m.ó.baoighill  More likely, it's both, plus an alliance that will also promote European interests.
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  3099. Americans had plenty of younger politicians to pick from, they just didn't pick them. They picked the two older guys.
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  3100.  @callumbush1  Well, she has yet to run, but there have been other younger choices: Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Eric Swalwell, Timmy from next door (ok, maybe not him).
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  3101. There is a big difference between cities. Hypothetical comparison with the US: 1000 new apartments in Detroit will have a very different fate than 1000 new apartments in Manhattan.
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  3102.  @lucianowillemse8244  The BDS movement is mostly in America and makes up a tiny percentage of the total consumer base. As for Israel losing money because of the BDS movement, I'd like you to present any data to support that. If you can't, it's nothing more than speculation.
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  3103.  @everbright2011  Certainly, there has been an explosion in local coffee chains. Personally, I prefer M Stand, but Starbuck's is also a regular of mine.
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  3104. This video would have benefitted from being edited down to less than 5 minutes. There's just way too much superfluous and irrelevant talk. Secondly, it makes the mistake so common nowadays of turning our own personal choices into some result of corporate manipulation, lies and evil. Very cheap, very ignorant.
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  3105. There was a time when people sincerely believed that mobile phones would give us all brain cancer. 25 years later, it turns out tripping on the sidewalk is the real danger.
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  3106.  @MrMezmerized  You may not have been around in the 90s and 00s, but it was much, much worse then, in my opinion.
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  3107. Mango leather? Sounds like an uphill battle to me. But who knows, maybe they'll succeed.
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  3108.  @vsharmishtha16  Unless someone else finds a cheaper way to make 'vegan leather' from other vegetables/fruits.
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  3109. Frankly speaking, after several decades in China, I feel the name of the game on Chinese roads is still 'intimidation'. If you come in a large semi trailer truck, you expect all others to yield for you, no matter who they are. Cars yield to large trucks and buses, motorcycles yield to cars, bicycles yield to motorcycles, and pedestrians yield to everyone. It is my experience that drivers will try to move forward in a pedestrian crossing in order to scare pedestrians. That is just the culture here. Rules don't matter, only power matters. In that sense, Chinese people are 'realists' (following the Realism School that is made so famous by John Mearsheimer).
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  3110. "poverty for 100 yrs"??? That's some expensive rail!! Imperialists also built lots of rail in China before China became independent. Nobody in China seems to think that was a bad thing. On the contrary, the railway network help propel an independent China forward.
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  3111. Bizarre that they never mentioned which particles they had found.
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  3112.  @bernkoh343  How do you support them?
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  3113.  @bernkoh343  Great, prayer doesn't cost anything and only takes a few minutes of your time.
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  3114.  @reardelt  And how does that impact the low fertility rates in many countries around the world?
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  3115.  @thevigilant6884  As you grow older you'll probably mellow out from that world view.
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  3116. So they can continue their broadcast until the next security golf cart comes by, stops the broadcast, demands to see permits, threatens to destroy equipment before apologizing. And THEN they can continue for a few minutes before......
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  3117. It's not bad, but it can be a little difficult to read because of Rushdie's style of writing, which is a mix of prose and poetry. I read it many years ago when it came out.
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  3118.  @aleenaprasannan2146  "Dharavi vehemently try to stop any kind of redevelopment". There's a famous Gujarati vegan restaurant in Dharavi called Shree Thaker Bhojanalay. I hope I get a chance to visit it before any redevelopment occurs.
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  3119.  @aleenaprasannan2146  "you'll understand exactly how monstrous sweat shop factories can get." Unfortunately, all countries have to go through this phase to get to a better place. India will do it, China did it before India, Hong Kong did it before China, Japan did it before HK, USA did it before Japan, and Europe did it before USA. Countries that have already been through this process can look back and say "that was terrible, we can never allow this again", but countries that are at the beginning have no choice; they must go through it to get to the other side.
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  3120.  @jungar4286  And when foreigners in China get fed up with local food, they run to McDonalds (or a pizza place, or steak house, or KFC, or French restaurant).
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  3121. The negotiations are still ongoing. It appears to be mostly about UAV's (drones) and air defense systems.
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  3122. There are regularly reports in the Western media about China's massive installations of both solar and wind power. At least a couple of times every year.
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  3123. To all my Chinese friends: Remember, in just a month or two, the contaminated waste water will reach China. Then even Chinese seafood is no longer safe. So you have only two months left to buy seafood, then all the fish and shrimp will be radioactive for the next 30 years. But you can still eat 大闸蟹。
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  3124.  @Sigmasmeren  Ok, show me a quote of a hateful comment.
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  3125. "CXAI Up 7 %". Haha, for a stock that IPOed at $10 two and a half years ago and is now trading at $1.70 that's not very impressive. In fact, it is still lower than at any time before Sep. 18.
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  3126. She's very cute
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  3127. Lots of Shanghainese look down on other Chinese. What should we do about that?
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  3128.  @yuzhang7657  "Chinese are not so fool to destroy priceless things". Except the the 75% of relics mentioned above that were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. It is most reminiscent of the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and the destruction of ancient Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts in Iraq by ISIS. Thinking back, I'm sure there must be many Chinese people who regret the craziness of that period.
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  3129. Also if it were 12 teenage Thai football players? Would they be left for dead?
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  3130. What's your point?
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  3131. From their owner, Alibaba. But mostly from subscriptions and ads, like all other media.
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  3132.  @warrengoss7547  Ukrainians will decide how long the war will continue. As soon as they surrender or win, the war will end. There is no amount of weapons that can make the Ukrainians fight if they refuse to fight.
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  3133.  @warrengoss7547  All it takes is for Ukrainians to stop pulling the trigger. That should be easy to understand.
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  3134.  @warrengoss7547  Look Warren, you obviously want Russia to win and take over Ukraine. I want Ukraine to win and kick Russia out. But you and I are both not Ukrainian, so let's let the Ukrainians decide what they want to do. It's not a decision you or I can make.
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  3135.  @warrengoss7547  You know, next time we're going to use the great manipulative powers of our media to get the Russians on our side. Problem solved!
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  3136.  @warrengoss7547  I'm using the great manipulative powers of Western media. Just you wait and see....
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  3137.  @gtai1969  Hey, I think you're right. Huh, I'm surprised they don't have a factory in USA, such a big market.
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  3138. 18.9% of China's population are over 60. By 2030, 25% of China's population will be over 60, and by 2040, they will make up 32%. 27% of China's population are under 25. By 2030, 25% of China's population will be under 25, and by 2040, they will make up 20%. So right now there are 50% more young people than old people. In 2040, there will be 50% more old people than young people. However, only by 2050 will Chinese society be as aged as what Japan is now.
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  3139. Come on, Eileen, just the tip.
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  3140. Does it make a difference if the rulers who hold you down are foreigners or your own countrymen? You're still being oppressed.
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  3141. Power Banks: Don't put all your power in a power bank. They always give negative interest, and sometimes they blow up all your power, leaving you powerless.
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  3142. 3:01 Dr. Albert Chi looks a little like the character Vince Masuka from Dexter. I was half expecting him to make a perverse comment.
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  3143. "A few decades in the future". Yes, it's always a few decades in the future, isn't it? It never becomes now, but always remains 'in the future'..
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  3144.  @araara4746  He said that by road it used to take 6-8 days, but by rail it takes 4-6 days. That's easy math.
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  3145.  @araara4746  Why would they transport fruit from Thailand to Chengdu/Chongqing by sea? Farm - Bangkok - ship - FangChengGang - onto a train - transport to Chengdu. That route is too long and I doubt they used it much before. It's just something to say for the camera. If it were to Shanghai I could understand, but not to Chengdu. Yes, 2 days of 7 is 28%, but it is still only 2 days. We are talking about fruit, not profits. My basic skepticism is this: Has the railway really made a major improvement in Thai/Lao/China trade? Time will tell, but this video doesn't give much indication.
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  3146.  @araara4746  Ok, let's go with that argument. It would then be because of reduced cost that they use the new railway. Sadly, the video didn't mention anything about cost comparisons.
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  3147.  @araara4746  Ok, thanks for that. I suppose some of the cost is also related to crossing two customs checks that might not be the most efficient around.
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  3148.  @argus-r1j  Yes, there are, but that fact is not really related to my comment which is about the savings in cost and time of using the railway vs. shipping by sea.
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  3149.  @argus-r1j  As you clearly saw in the video, all the containers with fruit were refrigerated. Sea freight is not wise to Chengdu/Chongqing, perhaps, but it is very wise for fruit going to Shanghai. The type of transportation will vary depending on destination. Anyway, neither you or I know all the details. I am merely voicing a little bit of skepticism regarding the benefit of this new railway line, compared to the cost of building it. We will find our answers in the next 5-10 years.
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  3150.  @argus-r1j  As you can see in the video, all fruits are transported in refrigerated containers, even if they are only going to Chengdu. That is probably a wise choice. Re. sea freight, this makes sense when the destination is far away, but near the coast, like Shanghai. In any case, neither you nor I know all the facts. My main point was to voice a little skepticism regarding the usefulness of this new rail line, compared to the cost of building it. Let's see 5-10 years from now. Maybe I will be proven wrong.
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  3151.  @argus-r1j  Yes, there is certainly no shortage of high-speed rail in China. But I would like to see more night train options on the longer lines, say Shg-Chengdu, Shg-Kunming, Bj-Shenzhen. I'd much rather spend 12 hours lying down than 12 hours sitting. If I travel Bj-Shg or Shg-Shenzhen I always choose the night option.
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  3152.  @argus-r1j  Yes, investment in high-speed rail continues. I think what the foreign media says is that some routes don't have the population numbers required to fill the trains, or the numbers required to repay the construction cost. Some lines are very profitable, of course. Shg-Bj line is highly profitable. Infrastructure is not only about profitability, of course, but also about improving the overall economy by improving transportation. But there will always be a limit to how much you should build. The argument in the foreign media is that perhaps China is building too much. We can't know for sure, we can only speculate. Maybe the foreign media will prove to be wrong, maybe right.
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  3153.  @argus-r1j  Not that slow. BJ-SHG has a couple of D-trains leaving around 19:00/20:00/21:00. They take about 10 hours. Daytime G-train may take as little as 5 hours, but for me, that is still a long time to just sit in a chair.
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  3154.  @argus-r1j  May I ask which province you're in? Maybe I've been there.
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  3155.  @argus-r1j  "you seem to think it's unnecessary to transport fruits through this train". That is a misunderstanding of my position. Certainly the train is excellent for transporting fruit. My point is that the high cost of building the train isn't quite justified by the time or money saved by transporting fruit on it. Let me give an analogy: Every day you take the bus to and from work. One day you decide to spend 3 million on a Ferrari. "This Ferrari is great", you say, "it saves me 10 minutes on my commute to and from work". My question is: Was it worth the cost of the Ferrari? Jiangxi, yes, I rode my bicycle through there on my first bicycle trip: Wuyuan, JingDeZhen, NanChang, Zhangshu, XinYu, AnFu, YongXin, JingGangShan. Very nice trip, spicy noodles with pickles.
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  3156.  @argus-r1j  No, sea transport for those consumer goods is not 'express' enough. But if it were 1000 tons of rice, they might still transport it by sea.
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  3157.  @argus-r1j  "freight railway between China and Europe." I know. Originally, it started in LianYunGang, later, they made a terminus in YiWu, I think, but you can ship from anywhere. It's faster, but more expensive. Most importers and exporters still use container ship. And now there are some geo-political complications between Europe and Russia. The world is complicated.
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  3158.  @VastChoirs  Ok, let's see when it comes to Shanghai.
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  3159. War on Tape? What are we gonna use instead, paper clips?
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  3160. You should write your suggestions to the wind power companies. Maybe they'll give you a job.
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  3161. "China produces 1,200,000 engineers every year". How much for one 40" container of Chinese engineers? Price at factory gate.
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  3162. Despite what many people say, the American Dream is still alive.
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  3163. Thank you. That's a lot of people.
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  3164. Very interesting video. I suppose the collection of these sculls is not that different from a modern-day hunter hanging up heads of deer and moose. Why do modern-day hunters do that? Why don't they hang up sculls of rabbits and pheasant and pigeon? I know several hunters, and to them, killing a deer is hard, it's something you don't do every week, or even every year. Hunters hang these heads up to celebrate their kill, to show others what good hunters they are. They take considerable pride in them. So, we can then put ourselves in the shoes (did they have shoes?) of these Neanderthal people. Their lives would have been precarious, it would have been a constant struggle to get enough food for the whole band/tribe. Killing a large animal like a woolly rhino or an ox would have meant ample food for the whole band for days on end. It could have meant the difference between death and survival for some of the children. In addition, these are very scary, dangerous animals. The Aurochs was a huge animal, it probably killed many hunters in its struggle for life. It may have been much more dangerous than a Grizzly. Imagine yourself with 4-5 friends using sharpened sticks having to kill a Grizzly for survival. You have to do it, even though you know it could end your life. Then, once you have succeeded in this major hunt, is it any surprise that your band would place extra importance on that kill? Is it any surprise that you would display those skulls as a sign of your greatness as a hunter?
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  3165. I think it would be the second deepest under-sea railway tunnel in the world, after the Seikan Tunnel in Japan. I think it's at least 80 meters deep in the shallowest place. Shallowest route would be Fuzhou to Taizhong, other routes would be even deeper.
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  3166. East Germany used to do something similar. Over 600 East Germans were shot and killed by border guards while trying to escape to West Germany. For these communist countries, the people are the property of the state, not the other way around.
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  3167. Although the US constitution does not say it explicitly, it has traditionally been the President who decides on national defense. The people were not asked about the Iraq War, the Afghan War, the bombing of Libya, or Kosovo, or Vietnam, or Korea, or even US entry into WW2. The best American voters can do is vote for candidates who explicitly oppose supporting Ukraine.
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  3168. "Do you think Mr. Alba has a case"? Hey, Nate The Lawyer, you're the lawyer, you tell us. (Please)
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  3169.  @thomaszhang3101  "America caused the chip shortage in the first place when it sanctioned Chinese semiconductor industry and Huawei". That's wrong. Huawei does not fabricate chips. They design them, but don't fabricate them. The shortage is due to a cancellation of orders due to Covid-19 back in 2020. The backlog is all in the fabrication of chips, not in the design of chips.
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  3170.  @thomaszhang3101  "COVID had little effect on the fabs and did not cause any noticeable change in chip production." Most auto manufacturers cancelled their chip orders because they worried that the lock-downs would mean lower sales for a long time. Once they changed their mind, it was too late. "America blocked everyone from selling high end chips to Huawei, effectively killing the company. " Yes, that is correct, but the chips made just went to other phone manufacturers, like Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, XiaoMi, etc., etc. So the total number of chips made for the phone industry didn't go down.
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  3171.  @huoyeh4319  Why is it unstable? They seem to have a solid business, as far as I can see.
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  3172.  @thomaszhang3101  "companies that need chips are worried the US can sanction them next." Yes, that could happen, but I think not for several years. They might consider moving part of their production to S.E.A. to avoid sanctions. There are also many foreign companies in China worried about potential trouble up ahead. Few have moved, but many are making plans if things go wrong. As someone trying to do business in China, I am also worried.
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  3173.  @simonkimber1152  Wow!
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  3174. The logo for 'Air Defender 2023' has both the Swedish and Finnish flags in it. Perhaps a little premature?
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  3175. "did Japan add 1/4 of India's entire 2022 economy in a single year?" What's that supposed to tell you? In 1986, Japan added 2 times China's entire economy to its GDP in a single year, and the year after, Japan added another 1.3 times China's economy to its GDP. It didn't tell you anything about what the future would hold. You can't use today's GDP numbers to predict the future. And what's wrong with showing people building lanterns instead of EVs? Should those images be banned? Why? And then this stupidity about 'filters'. Here in Shanghai that's often what it looks like. Overcast weather is common in China, creating a grey look. It's just what the climate is like here. Stop crying!
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  3176.  @anantakusumap2459  The Force of the Dark Side is strong with your parents. I hope they don't have access to a light saber.
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  3177. It's good to be skeptical, but you can also get so skeptical that you no longer believe in anything, and that only brings you back to square one.
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  3178.  @kennethli8  I've lived in China for over 20 years, speak the language, etc., etc. In the end, it isn't whether we should believe numbers uncritically, but consider what numbers we have access to. There are numbers from the government, other numbers from places like Beige Book, and then there are numbers we just pull out of our ass. That last category is the least reliable.
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  3179. I love this channel!
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  3180. Will everything now be as before? Will it be better than before? That is the question. Time will tell.
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  3181. It's hard to make news with something moving so slowly. It could be 20 meters from crashing into South Georgia, and still take days or weeks before it happens.
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  3182. I think you're making things up. Russia is still in the World Trade Organization.
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  3183. It looks very promising. I'd buy their stock.
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  3184. Rather than "Believe All Women", here is much better advice: Listen to all, women, men, children, but always be skeptical of any claims made, especially if they're made without evidence. This is also the case when the claims are made by politicians, even the ones YOU like. We as humans are much, much too willing to believe what we hear or see without any supporting evidence. Too many people in history have been hurt, or even sentenced to death or outright lynched based on nothing more than claims. We actually need to update our judiciary practice: It should no longer be possible to convict anybody of a felony without at least some kind of forensic evidence. Eye witness accounts have proven over and over to be unreliable.
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  3185. The owner is down there with the other passengers. I suppose you could fish up his dead corpse and arrest it.
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  3186.  @cantaloupemelonz1533  Ouch!
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  3187.  @notawidow6560  The day is only hot now. By November it'll cool off a lot. At least here in Shanghai.
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  3188.  @industrialrobot434  "Medical expenses? Electricity bill?" Those are two posts that Chinese people also have to spend money on, plus clothing, food for the home, furniture, gas, shoes, mobile internet, basically the same stuff everybody spends money on. Only a fraction gets spent on 'nighttime economy'.
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  3189.  @obsidianstatue  Ok, so 'daytime economy' is almost nothing.
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  3190.  @biboloxo  Ok, so 'nighttime economy' is just another word for 'consumer spending'?
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  3191.  @zeth479  It doesn't make sense to use PPP in a fully domestic context. Imagine you make RMB 20,000 a month. You can't then say 'Hey, I'm using PPP so I really have RMB 30,000 to spend on 冒菜 and gaming'. You still only have RMB 20,000. What PPP means is that a bowl of 冒菜 may only cost you RMB 30 in Shanghai, but the same bowl would cost RMB 45 in L.A.
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  3192. Your argument is faulty. 80% is still 80%, no matter if you use PPP or not, and 40 Trillion is 40 Trillion, no matter if you use PPP or not. To repeat: PPP is a measure only useful when comparing relative wealth and expense levels between different economies. This study is not about different economies, but only about China's domestic economy. The study claims that Chinese people will use 80% of their money in the 'nighttime economy'. Let's not ignore the fact that iiMedia Research is also a marketing company, which may generate a lot of business if people believe their research.
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  3193. Fyneface Dumnamene really does have a fine face.
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  3194.  @jetli740  So you can easily afford Australian steaks, lobsters and red wine? That's wonderful for you.
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  3195.  @jjsamuelgunn1136  I don't think that is going to happen. Australia already exports billions of dollars worth of iron ore to China, and they take payment in USD. Besides, what is Australia going to do with all those Yuan? They are really only useful in China.
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  3196. First you talk about Europe, but all the stats you give are from the US. You know those are in two different parts of the world, right? Or perhaps you're just living under a siege mentality: China against all other countries? No friends, all enemies? You outlook and thinking is not replicated in any of my Chinese friends.
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  3197.  @harrysmith8515  " it is better to focus on comparing one party vs two party". Ok, let's do that: -One party states: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei. -Two or more parties: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. All these countries have such different economies and levels of success that you cannot draw a conclusion based solely on one- or two/many parties. Here's a better comparison: -States with open economies and free markets: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei. -States with closed, or planned economies, or strong market barriers: North Korea, Myanmar, (up until 1978) China, (up until 1982) Vietnam, (up until 1992) Mongolia, (up until the 90s) Cambodia, (up until the 90s) Laos, (up until the 90s) Indonesia.
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  3198. Well, I guess the problem is solved, then.
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  3199. These guys seem to exchange every instance of "man", "friend", and "person" with the n-word. Very efficient use of language.
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  3200. What a terrible "accident".
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  3201. The Asian woman sounds to me to have a Filipino accent, perhaps a relatively recent immigrant. The Philippines also have lots of active volcanoes, so she probably used to it.
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  3202.  @anjunadeep.8384  I don't think you understand the original comment.
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  3203. I was thinking she was an American college exchange student on an internship.
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  3204.  @tenglim4406  Ok, but that makes the potential growth even bigger. This investment is many times larger than anything China has ever done before, including the big one after 2008, which I think was $800 billion.
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  3205.  @thomasherrin6798  "don't take my word for it, I'm not an economist". Yes, that's clear from your rambling comment. In the future, try to narrow down and write in a more precise way. Deal with one issue at a time.
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  3206.  @tonysu8860  These are great points. Certainly, investment in the healthcare system would be very welcome in China. There are some good hospitals here, but not enough, and trying to see a doctor is like trying to get a ticket to a Beyonce concert.
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  3207.  @kennethli8  I disagree.
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  3208. The Color Revolution of 1949 was also directed by CIA, and that one was successful.
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  3209.  @xinyiquan666  " profits because it overprized, the fare is too high". You may think they are too expensive, but they are profitable, as you acknowledge. Profits mean that the country makes money to spend on even more projects.
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  3210.  Zaydan Alfariz  "Most of the European HSR are upgrades". No, they're not. In order to make an HSR line, you need to rebuild the entire track to accommodate the high speeds. "And it's not even the same as Chinese tech". Considering almost all of the technology used in Chinese HSR was bought/transferred from European companies (Alstom, Siemens, Bombardier) and some Japanese companies, we can conclude that yes, it is literally European technology, from the cars, to the tracks, to the signal systems, to the power systems. China has since built on top of that and now own most of the new IP themselves.
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  3211.  @huas5350  "The role of the railway is to accelerate social and economic circulation". I agree. "the spillover economic income will be far greater than the income of the railway itself". I hope so. Time will tell.
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  3212.  @beniceandhappy  "most infrastructures in your country is not profitable". Where did you get that idea from? Do you have some evidence of that? (Only transportation infrastructure with user payment, please. Sewage systems and garbage collecting will probably never be profitable anywhere).
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  3213.  @fajarliong  "country development cannot be subject to profit only". I agree, but especially developing countries must be careful they don't end up with 'white elephants' that become more of an economic burden than a help. We need to look at large infrastructure projects in a critical way. We can't just throw money everywhere and say "Oh, it'll be fine"! This is why we make feasibility studies before we start.
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  3214.  @kucingoyen9965  Well, in that case, why not just borrow an insane amount of money and pave the entire country with highways and railways, starting tomorrow? You know the answer: Because we need to be prudent with how we spend our money. My only argument is that this Jakarta-Bandung line may not have been so prudent.
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  3215.  @xinyiquan666  "this is cheapest loan indonesia can get, while japan refues to give low interest loan". What is the interest on the loan? Do you even know? Or are you just blowing hot air?
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  3216.  @maxdc988  "Thousands KM of roads among others in your country received zero payment from users, yet they were still been built". Yes, roads are often free to use, unlike trains. This project is a railway, not a road. People pay to use trains in every country in the world.
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  3217.  @kucingoyen9965  And where does the state get their money from? From the people!
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  3218.  @huas5350  The video and my comment is about the Jakarta-Bandung line in Indonesia. It's not about High-Speed rail in China, nor is it about the Chinese economy in general. We can compare high-speed rail in China and Indonesia, if you prefer. You go first.
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  3219.  @huas5350  You were not born in Indonesia, so it is normal that you do not understand.
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  3220.  @YourSherlock  So many people have replied, I can't remember everything you wrote. Indonesia has a big population, yes, but we're talking about the Jakarta-Bandung line. A person going from Banda Aceh to Medan will not use this line. A person going from Yogyakarta to Surabaya will not use this line. Only people going from Jakarta to Bandung will use this line. Therefore, the 250 million number is irrelevant. The 30,000/day is not 'gas lighting from indonesian businessmen'. It's an estimate from Kereta Cepat Indonesia China, the company that BUILT THE LINE! In the original feasibility study, the number of riders was estimated to be 60,000/day. And no, 'most of the 250 million' do not live in Jakarta. Along the line, including Jakarta and Bandung, there are about 35-50 million people.
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  3221.  @huas5350  "railways have been rapidly built on the African continent, look at the GDP growth rate of Ethiopia, Kenya or Nigeria" Are you saying the economic growth happened because the railways were built, or were the railways built because of economic growth? By the way, you keep shifting the topic. Can we stick to the Jakarta-Bandung railway, please?
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  3222.  @vlhc4642  Roads are only occasionally user paid, but railways almost always are. Free train rides are not a thing. The question remains: Will this railway project from Jakarta to Bandung become a growth driver, or will it become a financial burden? It is a question that all citizens around the world should ask their government.
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  3223.  Siti Rohana  Thanks for your local insights. 🙂
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  3224.  @robotsubasa  Well, rather than chastising me for not having enough information, how about you provide that information so we can all be educated? Perhaps you don't have that information, either?
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  3225. IMF does not give development loans, only restructuring loans after the economy has gone belly up. The World Bank does give development loans, but always at lower than market rates. It's all the private loans, so-called Euro-bonds and bilateral loans that have high interest rates. The IMF are rarely the cause of financial trouble, they are the rescue team once you're lying in your room with a heart attack. What they will do is demand that you go on a diet and exercise program that can often seem much too tough.
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  3226. @J.J.McCullough He even looks like you!
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  3227. Primary suspect: Walter White.
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  3228. 1:12 Did he say "打飞机"?
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  3229.  @petitedrop  Well, I don't know if those comments are racist or not. We could probably find arguments for or against. But my opinion is that it is better to engage with Amy Wax, find out what her real concerns are (is she just afraid of losing political power; does she not like Asians and why not; does she think Asians will make America worse and why) and then discuss that. I think that could be a very interesting discussion that we could all learn something from.
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  3230. @Dilshad Yes, if such cases of discrimination are found, they should be dealt with by university leadership and the professor should be sanctioned, but I don't believe we should sanction people based solely on the belief that they may commit infractions in the future. As for academic research, there will always be some personal bias, which is why we have peer review and critique.
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  3231.  @frogger832  'Rails against white people'. I don't think I'd have a problem being taught law by a professor who felt we should limit the number of white people immigrating to the US. I don't really agree with any of these viewpoints (limiting Asians or whites), but I'd be fine receiving classes from such a person. Additionally, I'd probably try to engage that professor in a conversation about why he or she held such views. I'd be interested to know their reasons.
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  3232.  @frogger832  My position is that the consequence for her views should be some intellectual push back, not a firing from her job. I'm not sure I agree that she holds negative views against Asian Americans (though I don't know that), but that she wishes to limit the number of future immigrants from Asia. Those are two different things. You might like ice cream, while at the same time limit the amount of ice cream you eat. You might feel a little ice cream is great, but too much is bad.
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  3233. @Dilshad I agree with you. And as I've written above, I do not agree with her viewpoint. My position is that she should be challenged intellectually, not fired. In part because simply firing, or otherwise punishing people whose views we disagree with doesn't make them change their views, and doesn't do anything to advance society. It's just revenge. If we want to advance society, we must confront these challenges head on with rational argument, not an emotional reaction.
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  3234. @Dilshad "Penn tries to prevent discrimination before it happens". And that is a good thing, but it is not the same as getting rid of people simply because you have a suspicion that they might discriminate in the future. We cannot sanction people for something they have not yet done. Now, perhaps you feel that her comments already spoken (or written) are enough to warrant sanction, and that's where our real disagreement lies. Her comments challenge our viewpoint on how American society should/could be, and the correct reaction to that is to meet that challenge with solid counter-arguments. Indeed, that is exactly how ideological differences are resolved in a university. I'd love for UPenn's Asian Student Union (if one exists) to challenge Amy Wax to a vigorous open debate about this issue on campus. Through solid reason and argument she can be beaten down intellectually, and you and I, and the Asian Student Union will all emerge victoriously!
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  3235. @Dilshad I agree that she is stereotyping Asians and treating them as a monolith, but to then suggest that she will become like the Rwandans and Germans who committed genocide is a leap that is not intellectually defensible. As for grading Asians negatively, she has not given indication that she has any dislike for Asians per se, just that she wishes to limit immigration from Asia due to cultural differences. However, if there is suspicion that she discriminates when grading, it should be investigated rigorously. You and I may never agree on this case, but I appreciate you challenging me, because it keeps the mind sharp. I also want to thank you for keeping our discussion civil without personal attacks or accusations. All discussions should be like this.
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  3236. @Dilshad "reducing entire diverse groups of people to singular behaviors" This is the primary point that needs to be challenged, because it is not really intellectually sound, and there is little evidentiary basis for such a claim.
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  3237. @Dilshad That's a interesting point, but one I resist agreeing to. You seem to know the school much better than me. As an older, 'celebrity' faculty member, how many classes does she actually teach? Professors at her level often seem to spend most of their time writing books.
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  3238. @Dilshad "reducing all Asian-Americans to a certain voter type" BTW, I think you hit the nail on the head here, and that has also been my impression. She is clearly a conservative, and she is worried that certain population groups will make it impossible for conservatives to get their policies through. This kind of political gamesmanship is difficult for me to respect, because it does not engage with policy positions, but purely with demographics, as if people can never change their mind when faced with good arguments. Re-districting is also up that alley.
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  3239. @Dilshad I do se it. I thought I had made that clear. The problem is that she doesn't see it.
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  3240.  @frogger832  Yes, I agree that is a good point (about power differentials), but it seems to me that it is those with power (in a university setting) who can use that power to put forward controversial opinions. Someone with less power might be censured immediately. The concern expressed here is that Amy Wax will use her power to punish students who disagree with her. But I don't think that argument holds water, because even if she had not expressed her view, she might still have held that view, and she might still have discriminated against some students, and nobody would have known why. So then we're back at square one. I think we need controversial opinions, we need intellectual push-back, we need our world view to be challenged, that's how we advance society. And we need to challenge the views of others. Otherwise, we'd be back to when the Church decided what we were allowed to think, believe and say. If it is indeed true what Dilshad says that Amy Wax has been asked to debate this issue, but refused, then that is a problem. But it is a problem that can be solved by publicly declaring her a coward who is too weak to defend her views.
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  3241.  @frogger832  "A large portion of her salary is paid by the students’ tuition. This is a problem of her betraying the trust of those she has accountability to." Yes, but here I differ with you on what a university is about. It is not like a massage parlour or a hair dresser where you pay to feel good about yourself. A university should be seen more like Mt. Everest: If you want to get to the top, you're in for a lot of pain, and without that pain, you'll never make it. (and as a sidebar, people pay about as much for a permit to climb Mt. Everest as a year in an Ivy League school) "Do you see why this is a problem for Asian students? " Yes, if that is indeed what happens, but do you have any evidence of this happening, or do you simply rely on a suspicion? If your suspicion is enough to convince you, you are a victim of the exact same cognitive fallacy as those people who believe the 2020 election was 'stolen': "Suspicion is all we need to convince ourselves". You have to hold yourself back until you have more than just suspicion.
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  3242.  @frogger832  Yes, I would certainly support an investigation, but the problem is in proving racial/ethnic bias. But it's a law school, there should be plenty of experts available in that regard. "I dont exactly know why you are giving her such a wide berth". It's because that's what I do with everybody. Now, I should mention I'm a little older, in my 50s, and I wasn't always so willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. But nowadays I'm happy to listen to all sorts of wacky, even extreme beliefs (at least once), whether they are politically left or right, religious, social, conspiratorial, etc. However, I never believe anything at face value and always try to preserve a good amount of skepticism. The wilder the ideas, the more skeptical I become. In addition, an idea such as that held by Amy Wax was new to me, so I had to think it over for a while to develop a good counter-argument. Of course I could have dismissed it out of hand as plain racism, but that's not an argument against her position. That's just a label.
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  3243.  @frogger832  "its harder to view things with aloofness when you are targeted by her words." Yes, I can understand that as someone who has lived in East Asia for more than two decades. Most people here are very friendly, but there has been the occasional hostile outburst over the years. It bothered me very much at first, but as I got older I realized it's not about me, it's about the inner turmoil of the person uttering the negativity. However, I am not a citizen here, so if you are a citizen of USA you deserve, and can demand, to be treated as an equal, as someone who belongs in America as much as the next person.
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  3244. Very nice to see this. I've often wondered when they would invent a functional submersible that doesn't use propellers for propulsion. Easy for fish, but apparently difficult for engineers.
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  3245.  @shreeshbhat3971  "Your hypocrisy"? I never made a claim that some countries should apologize while others shouldn't. There is no hypocrisy in what I wrote. If you think there is, please point it out.
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  3246.  @user-ll8dj4kp5m  " European not only don't apologise" Belgium has apologized for atrocities in Congo. Generally speaking, I don't think there's any reason to apologize for colonialism as a whole. It's wrong to overtake another country now, but prior to the 20th century, conquest of other territories was considered quite normal, and even just. After all, India's Mughal Empire was founded by foreign conquest. That's just history.
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  3247.  @shreeshbhat3971  "Preaching to rest of the world about human rights and democracy". We do like human rights and democracy, both Western (and European) developments. But even if we preach, other countries don't have to follow our suggestions. At the same time, there's no doubt that we choose our friends based, in part, on their record on human rights and democracy. As for 'returning money and wealth", perhaps that will happen some time in the future, after we have made a full account of all the benefits and downsides of the colonial period.
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  3248.  @shreeshbhat3971  Thanks for expressing your opinion. My opinion differs from yours, no matter how angry and resentful you are. I'm very happy with our political, legal, social and foreign policy set-up. Have a great day! 😊
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  3249.  @shreeshbhat3971  Considering your hostile tone, I see no need to give you any further information. You are clearly only looking for a way to to smear western countries, and perhaps even their citizens. You seem both immature and highly emotional.
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  3250.  @WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight  And of course railways, electrical grids, vaccines, antibiotics, science, electric lights, and an entire industrial package.
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  3251.  @AgakAgakEngineer  Fair point. So what is your claim? That Teochew and Hokkien dialects were suppressed? If so, how and by who?
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  3252.  @AgakAgakEngineer  "People speaking other dialects were subjected to othering". Ok, if you want to call that 'suppression'. But this is what happens everywhere in the world, including in Shanghai and Beijing, where migrants slowly adapt to the local language. I wouldn't call that 'suppression', unless you're suggesting that the Beijing government should go out and protect Henan dialect speakers in the city.
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  3253.  @AgakAgakEngineer  Here you compare China to HK, when it would be fair to compare HK to Shanghai, or Beijing, or Chengdu. Even if there are no smaller dialects in HK they will still exist in many places in China. Yes, they may die out in HK, but they will also die out in Shanghai, Beijing, etc. Don't worry, these dialects will probably stay alive and well in their places of origin in China for a long, long time to come.
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  3254.  @MeiinUK  Try to make some notes and then write a comment that is concise, coherent, and clearly expresses your point. This stream of consciousness is not easy to find head or tail of.
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  3255.  @kimeli  Yeah, it's an interesting question. Are you a Hong Kong person? Are you familiar with any surveys documenting the use of different dialects in Hong Kong homes? There should also be some use of Shanghainese, given the number of people who left that city for HK just around 1949.
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  3256.  @HemantKumar-id3jg  It seems your main objection is to the depiction of parts of India that are not yet 'hi-tech', depictions of slums, sweat shops, small villages, etc. Well, those things are also a part of India, and there's no reason to get angry that they are depicted in media around the world. As you yourself wrote: "Be aware of your shortcomings". Have you ever seen photos of the homeless in California? Have you seen photos of farmers demonstrating in Paris? Have you seen photos of American police killing black people? These are all shortcomings of different western countries. No one is claiming that the west is perfect, nor that these images should be hidden away. Only weak people try to hide the dirt. Your relationship with Russia is your business. And it is your business whether you want economic cooperation and investment from the west. Heaven knows we've been waiting for this for a long time. But the choice is yours.
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  3257.  @HemantKumar-id3jg  "This type of portrayal is stupid and part of the reason why there will never any sort of mutual respect between western countries and India". Fortunately, the relationships between governments are not based on, or even affected by, these petty, emotional outbursts. They are based on mutual interests. If India feels it is in its national interest to develop a closer relationship with the EU and the US, whether for economic, security, or political reasons, then India will do that, your hurt feelings notwithstanding.
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  3258.  @HemantKumar-id3jg  " Indians want to expand economic ties with US and EU". That's all I need to hear.
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  3259.  @HemantKumar-id3jg  But I never claimed that India and the West would become allies. I think most people in the west are aware of this. India is a large country that can develop its own strategic significance. But I don't think India is fundamentally hostile toward the west, certainly not in the way China is and has been since 1949. We've always known that China is hostile to the west, partly for ideological reasons, and partly because China wants more control of East Asia, where there happens to be some important allies of the west. We recognize that India probably wants to be the dominant power in the Indian Ocean, and will want to exert some influence over parts of South East Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East, but that doesn't have to be a problem for the west, as long as that influence is not directly damaging to us. Additionally, India is a democratic society with lively, pluralistic public debate (unlike China). That is something we can understand and sympathize with, even if the opinions and ideals of Indians might be very different from ours. Frankly, I just feel much more comfortable with a powerful India than with a powerful China (or a powerful Pakistan, for that matter).
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  3260.  @mangopudding5979  My calculation is not wrong. That is just basic math. Numbers don't lie. However, you may believe that India can achieve 15% growth annually over the next 10 years, but that is just your belief, it's not factual. Maybe you will be right, but the chances are extremely low. No country has achieved those growth rates, ever.
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  3261.  @mangopudding5979  The numbers are real. Put them in a calculator, press 'enter' and see the magic happen.
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  3262.  Gaurav K  I am pro-Asia and pro-West, because it's possible to be both at the same time.
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  3263. In the 14 years since the Fukushima disaster, not a single person has died or fallen ill due to radiation from the plant, in Japan or elsewhere. People are worried because they are ignorant.
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  3264. So BBC doesn't actually provide an answer, only more theories...
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  3265. Say, is this just a compilation of previously published CNBC videos?
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  3266. 1:40 "American aircraft, no approaching anymore". This reminds me of a sign I once saw on a Beijing tourist sight boarded up for renovation: "No Nearing!"
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  3267. "as has been suggested ?" by crackpots.
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  3268. 1,035 million bushels of soybean is not the same as 1,035 million metric tons of soybean. 1,035 million bushels of soybean = 28 million metric tons.
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  3269. ...and that includes the farmers themselves.
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  3270. COVID had a lot to do with that. A coincidence of factors.
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  3271. A pretty odd thesis, if you ask me. He seems to be taking 21st century aspirations and applying them to pre-history. Or at least, finding examples from pre-history to make a case for more equality. I'd like to see the world more equal, but that seems unrelated to what societies were like 6-10,000 years ago. I mean, what are we learning from this presentation? That some ancient societies were more equal while others were less so? That's not so different from today.
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  3272. @@dr5290 Yes, I saw that in another video. If it's cheaper I'm sure there'll be plenty of takers.
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  3273. Perhaps Malaysians can take comfort from the fact that there are still 120 countries more corrupt than Malaysia and only 60 countries less corrupt. In South East Asia, only Singapore and Brunei are less corrupt than Malaysia. Cambodia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world with only a quarter of the world's countries more corrupt than Cambodia.
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  3274. "There is no war going on in the California Central Valley". Could culture wars make the map light up?
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  3275. You can travel to Madagascar and buy it for cheap but that will probably cost you more than $400. Or you can travel to Madagascar and start a 'Direct To Consumer' business shipping the vanilla by FedEx. Also not cheap.
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  3276. In spite of Andrew Callaghan having a persona of a sort of slacker, or dope head, or at least very relaxed, his channel provides some top quality content that regular media simply wouldn't publish. Not necessarily because of some conspiracy or powerplay, but because they worry their viewers would change the channel if there are not splashing colors, dramatic jingles and action filling the screen constantly. Thanks to Channel 5 for the great content.
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  3277. Re. the peace negotiations back in spring. It was reported already back then that both the US and Russia expressed skepticism that such an agreement could succeed. The US said "We'll see what Russia does, not what they say they'll do". The Russians said "Even in the event of an agreement, we may still conduct operations in some northern areas [this was before they completely pulled out of the north] and we will continue to fight the Azov Battalion in Mariupol". So it was very far from a done deal and would probably not have worked, anyway. Generally speaking, peace deals are only successful when both parties feel they are stuck in the current situation, or if one party feels forced by circumstance to accept a deal. Evidently, that was not the case then or now.
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  3278. European here: One thing that fascinates me is that if I go to a Subway Sandwiches, the bread they use to make the sandwich has the general shape and appearance of a baguette, but it is just as soft and bland as sliced bread from a supermarket shelf.
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  3279.  @fungj.w2144  "Chinese are treated differently". It's not Chinese people. It's all travelers arriving from China, including non-Chinese people. Also, a Chinese citizen arriving from a third country don't have to follow these rules. So it's about where they arrive from, not their nationality or ethnicity.
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  3280.  @山山-t5z  "People from other countries do not need to bring yellow cards, only China does". But Korean people arriving home from China also have to wear the yellow tags, not just Chinese people. It's all people arriving from China, including Koreans and others.
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  3281.  @fungj.w2144  Oh, there are at least 200,000 of us, I think. You'll see us around, though maybe not in your village.
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  3282.  @fungj.w2144  I'm sure there are some rats around here, but we also have a lot of cats in the neighborhood, and they keep the rats in check.
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  3283.  @gytan2221  Yes, but I want to emphasize that I do not boycott for political reasons. I just don't find sports interesting to watch. So, not really a boycott, per se.
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  3284.  @Mr.aAdDies  "ALOT of people have said that before ALOT of wars". Sure, but how many nuclear wars have there been since 1945?
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  3285.  @pedropiquerai  "Nuclear weapons don’t discriminate. They don’t care about your age, your nationality, your politics. They will wipe out everything you love and cherish in a matter of seconds. And then what? You’ll be left with nothing but ashes and regrets. So don’t tell me the risk is not nearly as high as during the Cold War. It’s higher than ever." You're not making a single argument for why the current war is less manageable, you're just stating some well-known facts about nuclear war. We all know what nuclear war is.
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  3286.  @hughmungus2760  Good point, but isn't Russia's population resurgence partly a result of ethnic Russians immigrating back to Russia from neighboring countries? Are Russian women really having more children?
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  3287.  @hughmungus2760  Well, time will tell. But as far as I know, demographic decline has not yet been reversed in any country, though as you say, Russia got close.
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  3288. I'll have a whisky with ice on that!
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  3289. As she said, GPS can only send, it cannot receive. Therefore, it does not (yet) have the ability to track your phone. China's Beidou can both send and receive, so it can track your phone. But I would not be surprised if the US will implement this ability in future systems. I would.
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  3290. It's a great deal for SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp) and GM, both part-owners in this venture. I don't think they paid very much for this auto manufacturer. Especially GM seems to struggle with EVs otherwise, so this may be a nice, little money-maker for them.
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  3291. I think UBER wants to get into this business. Cheap drivers!
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  3292. Fortunately, Ukraine is one of the countries that have the most experience with exploding nuclear power plants, so I'm sure they can handle this.
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  3293.  @piotaape6171  Falling apart? Where? I don't see it.
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  3294.  @kiena26  Again, who then decides which moral standards should be banned by law? And if we can only have one standard of values, how are our values ever going to change? Surely, you're aware that the values of the distant past are not ones we wish to return to.
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  3295. Let's hope they find something. 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas sounds like a lot, but it is only enough to cover 3 months of China's consumption.
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  3296. Do Indians buy a lot of western goods? I've so far not heard of India being described as a major market for western consumer products, aside from iPhones.
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  3297. Great overview! A whole other video could be made about Run Run Shaw's philanthropic efforts.
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  3298.  @josephchamoun3440  So is it your contention that if only the 'true' Arab states are included, a union is likely? You think Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Syria are willing to enter into a union? Seems highly unlikely to me.
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  3299.  @josephchamoun3440  Ah, ok, an even more pessimistic view than I expected, but I am inclined to agree.
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  3300.  @thenamewhowillknockksidown7333  Egypt is still a major force in the Middle East, but it has some almost equal contenders: Turkey (big boy in town) and Saudi Arabia. Smaller, but important players include UAE and Israel, and then you have the outside forces who are constantly looking to increase their influence in the region: Russia, Iran and USA.
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  3301.  @jakesmall8875  Excellent reply!
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  3302.  @khashayar8989  Are you suggesting that the great Arab nations and their populations are all being controlled by little Israel?
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  3303.  @khashayar8989  Wow, how weak those hundreds of millions of Arab citizens must be! They can't even break free of Israeli domination. Will they ever grow a pair of balls? How pathetic!
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  3304.  @khashayar8989  Well, in the end it's the Arabs' own choice. If they prefer money to self-control, then that's ok with me. They should have the society they want to have.
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  3305.  @blazzinga595  What are you referring to?
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  3306. You don't think this is a real issue that we needs to be addressed? Besides, the exact same issue was treated in Danish state media just recently.
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  3307.  @yoyolim538  I'm not sure what you mean. I'm reporting what I see in Shanghai. What is your problem with that?
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  3308.  @bollyfan1330  I cannot. I have no access to numbers that you don't also have.
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  3309. I was told my genes are fine, but they feel they are too good for me. They want to find a different host than my body and cells. Damn those selfish genes!
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  3310.  Skyjacker  In this context, it doesn't matter.
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  3311. @James Furey No, I am disputing the claim that a real democracy cannot be racist. Democracy has nothing to do with racial, ethnic, political, religious or national hatred. Democracy is purely a form of government where the national leaders are chosen through a popular vote. The voters may hate each other, but as long as they vote their leaders in, it is a democracy.
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  3312.  Skyjacker  " it practices demographic engineering to maintain a Jewish majority population". That does not negate being a democracy. Despite my already telling you what what a democracy is, you seem to have great difficulty understanding it. It's as if you confuse the concepts of democracy and human rights. You can have both, neither, or one without the other. But they are (almost) unrelated.
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  3313.  Skyjacker  Ok, if some (adult) citizens of Israel are denied the right to vote, then that is not a true democracy. But denying the vote to those in occupied areas who are not citizens is not a negation of democracy. Only if the occupied territories are de jure annexed into Israel would the country be required to include those people in the voting process. I want to state here that I have no opinion about Israel in general. My only argument is about the definition of democracy. My comments about Israel could apply to any country, including one that has occupied some other territory. I don't really care much about what goes on in Israel/Palestine (or any other Middle Eastern country). My interest in that region is, at best, marginal. Except for the food, which is excellent.
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  3314.  Skyjacker  You seem to be talking about genocide and/or human rights violations. Those two concepts are unrelated to democracy. They're just not the same thing. Again, you clearly show a lack of understanding of what the word 'democracy' means and what it doesn't mean.
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  3315.  Skyjacker  In what way? Bring forth your argument.
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  3316.  @Darth_Bateman  "Are businesses SUPPOSED to have expectation of massive future growth?" No, but the stock price valuation is usually based on expectations of future growth. You can certainly have a viable business that is profitable and long lasting, but with limited growth. The share price will reflect that situation.
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  3317. So far there has not been an announcement regarding resumption of tourism visas, but that could happen any day. It's still not that easy to get a visa.
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  3318. Well, at least the Mongolians can't invade without being discovered.
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  3319.  @aglis_  Ok, maybe some people think so, but many millions of western people have visited China as tourists, or studied at Chinese universities, or been on business trips to China, or know someone who have done one of those things.
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  3320. Once they get to a safe country, they will most likely be able to fly back to China relatively quickly. If they can find an empty flight.
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  3321.  @josemiguelmunoz6985  Thanks, very informative.
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  3322. "Zelenjewishky". I'm not surprised that the antisemites are on Russia's side. They're basically Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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  3323. Don't worry. Property prices in big, first tier cities like Shanghai will never go down, because it will always be attractive for people to move there. Same for BJ, GZ, SZ, and other big, prosperous cities like Hangzhou. It's the people in smaller inland cities and county seats (县城) who should be worried.
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  3324.  @oooTACooo  It doesn't really work that way.
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  3325.  @mrzb987  "rebels are committing genocide against the muslims in sudan". Muslims make up 97% of Sudan's people. How can they let a tiny minority commit genocide against them? It seems technically impossible.
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  3326.  @easternrazor3749  You mean in the Donbass region? Yes, admittedly, I have not been following that closely. I thought there was a stalemate between the two sides, both lobbing grenades and bombs at each other. Both dug into ditches that they defend. Essentially, that is a civil war, like in Ethiopia, or Myanmar, or Syria, or Libya, or Yemen. But to your statement about the media hiding stuff. For people who really want to know the details, there are other ways to get information than just watching the evening news. Not everybody is interested in what goes on outside their little neighborhood.
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  3327.  @easternrazor3749  And you are welcome to do so.
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  3328. What evidence do you have that France gets a discount on the uranium they buy from Niger? I know there were allegations regarding a deal in 2011, but evidence of any 'special deal' is hard to find.
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  3329.  @wang06411  No, let me educate you, even though you should really reject ignorance and educate yourself: -The original waste water from Fukushima was full of very dangerous and radioactive isotopes. I imagine you know this. -Over the last 10 years, a massive operation overseen by the UN IAEA has sent all that waste water through many chemical cleaning processes that removed all the most dangerous substances. This is a time consuming process, which is why they can only release the waste water now. -The only isotope that cannot be removed through chemical processes is Tritium, a kind of hydrogen. So that is what is left in the waste water: Tritium. -High concentrations of Tritium can still be very dangerous, so they have diluted the waste water until it reached low, safe levels. -Additionally, almost half the Tritium has decayed to other elements. The half life of Tritium is 12.3 years. -The concentration of Tritium in the Fukushima waste water is so low (especially after further dilution) that it poses no danger to the environment. Seafood from the sea around Japan and in the Pacific has shown no dangerous levels of radiation. Tests have been made regularly over the last 10 years. -As a liquid, tritium moves easily through the environment just like water. Tritium occurs naturally in the environment in very low concentrations. -Sources of tritium include commercial nuclear reactors. Tritium may be released as steam or water from these facilities. This happens from nuclear energy plants around the world. It is not by mistake or because the nuclear plant is faulty, but is a natural part of making nuclear energy.
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  3330. Robber Barons? I always thought it was Rubber Barons, business people who got very rich very quickly on the Amazonian rubber boom from the 1880s to the 1910s.
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  3331. I hope they're not planning to have this guy take over from Rebecca Choong Wilkins. There's a qualitative difference.
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  3332. Pigeon is delicious, though the domesticated pigeon is not as tasty as the wilder species. Be careful not to overcook your pigeon as it easily gets dry. Alternatively, cut off the breasts while raw, make a sauce of the carcass and sear the breasts. Wings and drumsticks have very little meat on them; hardly worth the trouble.
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  3333.  @Paul-H-Wolfram6608  I didn't mean "USA or China". The video is about China, not about USA. If there is a video about USA, I won't mention China. Fair?
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  3334. She IS Japanese.
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  3335. 0:40 "Apparently, these are the best of the best America can find". No, that is a misunderstanding of democracy. They are the two people American voters have chosen. Each voter may have their own standards for why they choose the candidate they do. It's not about 'the best', but about who The People want to lead them. Then later, the winner is free to choose 'the best of the best' to help him administer the government. That's what we have experts for. No leader, American or otherwise, knows everything.
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  3336.  @canto_v12  Nowadays, most candidates get the majority of their campaign funds from small, individual donors, but of course, political organizations can contribute, too. Nevertheless, there are numerous examples of candidates losing to others who had less money to play with. In addition, people like Bernie Sanders got hardly any corporate donations, and he made it very far. It is legitimate to critique the American campaign system, but it should be done rationally, and not simply be pronounced as some kind of conspiracy. If anything, in countries where the next leader is chosen by the previous leaders without public input, the system is much closer to the definition of a conspiracy: A few people getting together with a plan to decide the next leader.
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  3337. It basically drives like a young student driver, which may sound bad, but is actually pretty damn good!
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  3338.  @katepausig8562  Yes, that is certainly true, which is why elementary school teachers in NYC average 80,000/year. As a single tax filer, you'll end up with around 4,700/month after tax. It's by no means as high as a doctor or lawyer, but it's also not a high-skill job. Teaching is pretty easy, though not all have a talent for being a GOOD teacher. I think we can all remember one or two bad teachers from our youth, just like we can remember one or two great teachers who changed our lives.
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  3339. Where did you read that some people in the Ted organization wanted to prevent it from airing?
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  3340. I think they take pride in their ability to conquer such large parts of of the world, and perhaps the cultural artifacts they left behind. They do not take pride in the cruelty that resulted from it. But we should also not forget that cruelty was the order of the day in past centuries, regardless of whether your country was free or colonized.
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  3341. Especially along the edge of the Tibetan plateau where there's a major fault line.
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  3342.  Dark Clouds  Yes, I think that's the same in China. Should a major quake happen, older structures will not fare well, newer will do better.
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  3343. 0:50 Reporter: "The plane was devoted to Denver". That's so sweet!
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  3344.  @Tat2Dragons  He meant to say diverted, that is clear.
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  3345.  @Tat2Dragons  Perhaps it's because I pronounce it 'die-verted', so what he said sounds to me like devoted.
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  3346.  @Tat2Dragons  Whether you're buying it or not is not really important.
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  3347.  @Tat2Dragons  I'm beginning to think you're the reporter, taking such offence.
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  3348.  @Tat2Dragons  I agree, it's not a big deal, but as long as you write to me, I will respond. That's only polite.
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  3349. Congratulations to the Chinese space people. This was quite an achievement!
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  3350. If the Taliban puts economic development at the top of their priority list, they will in time be able to build more earthquake resistant buildings and thereby save thousands of people. But the Taliban doesn't do that. Their priority is religious dogma. This is the result.
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  3351.  H L  There were two missions to the ISS in March 2009: -STS-119, bringing 7 astronauts to ISS, including 6 Americans. -Expedition 18, bringing 3 astronauts to ISS, including 2 Americans. They were only together for a short time before some of them went back to earth. Some of the astronauts mentioned may have arrived on an earlier flight to stay for an extended period. In any case, around mid-March they were all on board. There was also a Russian and a Japanese on board.
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  3352.  @grouchypatch9185  What do you mean? They were there at the same time. Some of the crew on the Chinese space station are also going back soon, in other words, exchanging crew. It's the same thing.
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  3353.  @nullptr64  Wasn't he the mayor of Fuzhou?
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  3354.  @KG-ii2yx  "imagine Rusia Chn Iran NK Belrus all joining forces". Yes, that is a formidable force, but so is NATO. Of course it depends very much on where such a fight might happen: Europe, Asia? On land, in the air, on the sea? Everywhere at once? Different places would have very different outcomes.
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  3355.  @cb250nighthawk3  "Zelensky complaining that they were all rusted and couldn't function at all". I'd like to see your source on that. So far, it all appears to work very well. However, we certainly do not send our most advanced equipment to Ukraine, except for air defense, which is pretty advanced. Most of the other equipment is older, and helps to make space for new equipment for ourselves while at the same time also helping Ukraine. The conflict is a land war using traditional artillery. NATO has so far been mostly about air and sea superiority, but we have learned from this conflict that we also need to focus on land arms.
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  3356.  @ragnarokws2670  But the consequences for China would be pretty bad.
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  3357.  @ragnarokws2670  I think it would be more than sanctions. It would mean a loss of all your customers in the developed world. I think we would stop buying anything from China, about $1.5 trillion every year. This would mean massive unemployment and bankruptcies in China. China knows this, so they do not help Russia with lots of arms. Why risk your prosperity just to help another country defeat a small neighbor? We certainly wouldn't.
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  3358.  @bainesho6691  Probably, but they have no interest in that. What do you think? Can they?
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  3359.  @bainesho6691  Ok.
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  3360.  @WingkKong  "tell me why the west is not joining the fight". There is a risk that it could lead to escalation beyond anyone's control, so all parties want to keep it at a low level. However, there is a general consensus that providing material support will not lead to escalation. That is the case in wars generally, no just in this war.
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  3361.  @SaifAlikhan-wy1zs  "The afghans did it against USA and nato". That's true, and the lesson is this: Don't ever give up fighting, even if you have to do it for 40 years.
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  3362.  @grdev3066  "The first purpose of any goverment is to protect its people". Exactly, and we are going to help Ukraine protect theirs. Helping Ukraine is also beneficial to us protecting our own people (in Europe) from potential Russian aggression.
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  3363.  @grdev3066  "the entity you are supporting in kiev, is not the type of government that should br supported?" They want to be European, they want to be our partners, they want to be democratic, they want to be in the EU. We fully support that. Negotiations will happen when Ukraine decides that is what they want to do.
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  3364.  @mariadamen7886  "There's noone so blind as the one who refuses to see". And what are you trying to say with those 'wise words'? btw, no one is two words, not one.
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  3365.  @Giesel017  Studying history and geography is not as useful as supplying Ukraine with weapons. It's sad, really. Russia has really isolated itself from Europe and the west, for decades to come. Of course, you now have a great friend in China, but it that was you were always dreaming of?
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  3366.  @olle227  The United Nations and 198 countries disagree.
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  3367.  @rich11a15  How is that relevant to the situation in Ukraine?
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  3368.  @rich11a15  "to plunder the riches that Russia has". Right now no western country is buying any of Russia's so-called riches, and I think it will be decades before we start buying any again. We thought Russia would become our friend, but now we finally understand that will never happen. Goodbye, Russia.
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  3369.  @祖宗-e5o  How is that dubious claim relevant to this discussion?
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  3370.  @chadliu5005  " the relationship China has with Taiwan". In your opinion, what kind of relationship do they have? Friendly? Best friends? Enemies? Lovers?
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  3371.  @chadliu5005  Ok, that relationship characterization sounds right to me. With respect to the US, don't forget that President Cai herself wants a stronger relationship with the US. It's not a one-way thing. Taiwan wants more weapons to defend themselves.
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  3372.  @marcantony9453  Have you asked all the other countries if they want to speak Portuguese and have Lula as president?
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  3373. These are great questions. But now the HK Sevens is already over, and you should be able to find the answers to all those questions.
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  3374. If American butter is unfermented and European butter is fermented, does that mean that American buttermilk is not sour? After all, traditionally at least, buttermilk is the leftover 'liquid' from producing butter, and so if the cream has not been fermented before turning it into butter, the buttermilk would not be sour.
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  3375. Better cameras, better AI and we're beginning to see a really usable product.
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  3376. 10:47 "The global rise in fame of Panela, as a healthy alternative to sugar". Whoa, whoa, whoa, where did that come from? What is the evidence that Panela is more healthy? It's still sugar, just with more fiber and impurities in it. Does that mean that I can buy some plain, white sugar, drizzle a bit of fiber and dust over it, and it becomes more healthy?
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  3377.  @hanspecans  Are you referring to any specific comment? And if my comment is incorrect, what is the correct answer?
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  3378.  @memoobaba  Neither the invasion of Iraq, nor the invasion of Ukraine by Russia are justified.
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  3379.  @BengalTiger-di7gn  "Invading Iraq and killed millions of Iraqi". It's evil. But there weren't 'millions killed'. Approximately 50-75,000 combatants killed. Approximately 100,000 civilians killed.
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  3380. Fortunately, the man only suffered second degree burns and later recovered after receiving treatment in hospital. The perpetrators, who were never found, did NOT say that they did this 'in the name of “freedom”, “democracy” and “human rights”'. It was done as part of a scuffle involving the man and a small group of vandals. There's video evidence.
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  3381.  @ravensrevenge7245  "China's former ally"? Who are you referring to?
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  3382. Can you point to anything specific he said that was factually wrong?
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  3383.  @waynegore5291  Ok, just mention one thing that was factually wrong, just one thing.
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  3384.  @merrick6484  But you're not saying anything different from what the guy in the program said. China's property market is in a major crisis. As you say, prices are falling, but sales are also falling. Homes that people already paid for are not being completed. There are roughly 30 million empty apartments on the market. Developers are struggling, local governments are having problems making an income from land sales, and are struggling to find money to pay for their expenses. In some localities, local governments are telling their SOEs to buy the land so the government can get an income. These are all real issues, very serious issues that weigh down on the national economy. "Houses are for living, not for speculation". Yes, but all those people who have bought a house that is still not complete and that they cannot move in to, how does that help them? And those who speculated in buying many houses, they still own those houses, many of which are still empty. You write that the government reduced inflation, but China didn't have a problem with high inflation before, so why would it be necessary to bring it down? Frankly speaking, your comments sound like something 阿Q would say: Every defeat is really a victory. If you're Chinese, you must know 阿Q and the author 鲁迅.
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  3385. Chit-chat. "Hey, nice shoes, Mr. Trade Minister. Where did you get them"?
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  3386.  @Bob-p5h1m  Great run-down! 😃
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  3387. Engineers: Very knowledgeable, skilled, informative, but not much charisma. And yet, I like listening to engineers.
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  3388. One week in bed is better than 2 months in lockdown.
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  3389. I think a main problem with working in the porn industry is that while its products are hugely popular, the industry is still somewhat stigmatized. That rubs off on the people working there. By the population at large, it is still considered a 'not quite appropriate' industry to work in, so the people working there become isolated, making friends with each other and being shunned by 'civilians'. This is a social problem that we need to talk about much more. There should be room for everybody.
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  3390. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacteria causing infection that is treatable with antibiotics and China produces lots of antibiotics. But the sheer amount of affected patients may cause bottlenecks. I don't think this should be considered as dangerous as Covid-19.
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  3391.  @gulitzt5865  I did see the last years. 2018: 6.7%, 2019: 5.9%, then 2020/2021 averaged out at 5.1%/year. As Li Keqiang said, there are serious downward pressures on the Chinese economy, with low consumption growth and the downsizing of the property sector as two main points.
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  3392. Behind the collapsed White Cliffs of Dover are more White Cliffs of Dover.
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  3393. It's a shame that VisualPolitik's videos are increasingly just a rundown of the history of the topic under investigation. It's not much different from looking up Wikipedia. VisualPolitik, please be more rigorous in your research and tell us something we don't already know.
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  3394. I really like the name 'Heavenly Supermarket' for that night club. Perhaps Beijingers are more cool than I thought. -Greetings from Shanghai.
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  3395. If The Line is designed to solve some problems of current cities, then designing it as one long line isn't going to solve traffic. There will be a lot more traffic jams when everybody is located along the same line.
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  3396.  @zna9297  So do you prefer that countries produce their own goods and refrain from engaging in large-scale trade with each other? To some extent, that is what we did up until the 1980s. After that, global trade really took off. Do you think we should revert to the way things were done up until the 80s?
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  3397.  @steppenwolf3252  That's just a slogan without any real content.
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  3398.  @therock8224  They may not become 'developed' soon, but they will develop their economy and society to become better than it is now. At some stage, there will be practices that are no longer acceptable. I don't think this is related to their mentality. It's just a question of a society developing.
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  3399. "Oh no!! He may allow those we don't like to voice their opinions!! Then how are we going to control the narrative?"
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  3400. No A380, no B747. Will there no longer be large, majestic, civilian aircraft in the sky?
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  3401. Russia is getting offended!
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  3402.  @niblet112  Good for you!
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  3403. Excellent!
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  3404.  @NeostormXLMAX  Kicked out? She's still the president. Perhaps you should go back and read the news more closely. Her party, the DPP was beaten in local elections, but in the national election.
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  3405. Next: LPL makes video scratching the screen of his smart phone.
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  3406. Hearing the indigenous explanation of the origin of the rock is a powerful reminder that before the age of enlightenment and the advent of scientific enquiry, we were all just incredibly ignorant. We'd see something we couldn't immediately explain and then we'd just conjure up some incredible story about it. Hopefully, we will forever leave this stupidity behind us.
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  3407. Yes, it's equally silly.
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  3408. Excellent!
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  3409. Since pure speculation is now news, here is my prediction: Aliens will come down on their space ship, suck up Putin with their tractor beam and take him back to the Andromeda galaxy. Experts say that is unlikely and that it is more likely that Putin will slip on a banana peel and hit his head on the corner of Lenin's mausoleum.
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  3410.  @tylershen  Do you think the economic basis is there to build a high-speed line from Sydney to Melbourne? They could stop by Canberra for some more passengers. Considering the high cost of high-speed rail, you really do need a lot of passengers. I agree that high-speed trains are amazing. I have traveled on many here in China. But 'amazing' in itself is no guarantee of profit. Space travel is pretty amazing, but would you pay a million for a ticket from Beijing to Guangzhou?
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  3411.  @426dfv  Airports certainly should only be built if they can pay for themselves. In my country, health care and education is free (covered by taxes), so it is impossible to measure if hospitals, schools and universities pay for themselves since they don't charge money.
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  3412.  @426dfv  Yes, I agree that much infrastructure is not built for profit, but simply to improve society, and hopefully help to grow the economy. However, a society must also evaluate whether any piece of infrastructure is worth the cost. Let's imagine you're in Australia. A 6-lane expressway from Broken Hill to Alice Springs wouldn't make sense, so we're always faced with the decision of whether to spend the money or not. That is the entire basis for my skepticism. Maybe this high-speed railway project in Indonesia will be successful, maybe it won't. Neither you nor I can know for sure.
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  3413. "LOL, do you think China build HSR to make direct profit?" Well, I can only say that in Europe our budgets are tight and we cannot afford to throw money away on wasteful prestige projects. Very careful analysis is done to ensure that any major infrastructure project pays itself off later.
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  3414.  @triggeredbanda253  I think the video mentions a new railway station and other projects built in the city.
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  3415. Great interview! Side question: Cindy Yu's accent, is that an Oxford University accent, or a Cambridge University accent, or a regional accent, or just the accent of educated people? I increasingly hear this accent from certain young, educated British people.
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  3416. I don't think the video mentioned that the damage is limited to ICBCs 'US Markets division', so not the entire bank.
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  3417. "CHINA CUTS OFF TALKS WITH US". They will only be communicating by angry text message from now on.
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  3418. Not exactly. They've stopped cooperating on fuel investment projects, but they will continue to buy Russian oil and gas.
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  3419.  @Planet_Xplorer  It's good you put 'western' in brackets, because the only country that has colonized Egypt in modern history is The Ottoman Empire. But even so, labor movements can exist independently of the form of government in the country.
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  3420.  @abdullahaleiti8024  Not only the biggest, but also the best.
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  3421.  @abdullahaleiti8024  The best at colonizing. Practically the whole world was colonized by either the Portuguese, the Spanish, the British, the French or the Dutch.
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  3422.  @OkOk-qd2nc  Are you sure? Where does the video mention 花椒 or 辣椒?
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  3423.  @OkOk-qd2nc  Oh, you're right. I missed that completely.
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  3424.  @albertwugamedev  When does a food become authentic? Pad Thai, one of the most iconic Thai dishes was created less than 100 years ago.
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  3425.  @raimundomartin5459  Yes, you're spot on! I'd love to visit Latin America some day.
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  3426.  @civiltrialatty  Try to get a hobby. It'll be good for you.
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  3427.  @tren133  Well, it's certainly an interesting industry, and it looks like it has a low barrier of entry.
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  3428. Few developing countries can afford to buy US Treasury Bonds. They need that money for their own development. The vast majority of foreign-owned Treasury Bonds are owned by rich economies, including China.
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  3429. Through 2023, foreign countries have reduced about 2-3% of their holdings of US Treasury Bonds/Bills. Who have they sold them to? Mostly private investors, mostly in the US itself. America is now investing in itself instead of in other countries.
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  3430. I buy pine nuts at the wet market (vegetable market) here in Shanghai at USD 23/pound. Fortunately, you don't need at lot to make your own pesto.
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  3431. Which is your favorite Belt and Road project?
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  3432. I steal your bicycle, you steal my bicycle. We're both still committing crimes.
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  3433. 5:53 Trash disposal. I sort my trash according to regulations, but my community only opens the doors to the trash cans for a few hours every day, just like in the video. That is so stupid! We can't organize our day around trash disposal, we have more important things to do.
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  3434.  @chhhhhhhhhhhi  Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks.
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  3435.  @PAIN07Shinra  What surveys? Who's talking about surveys?
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  3436.  @electromega3077  In 2020, the "most advanced and the most influential superpower" was still the US.
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  3437.  @-x5858  I see they aim for commercial extraction by 2030. If they can make it economically viable, the rest of us can learn from China how it's done. Let's see how it goes...
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  3438. Cocteau Twins' Tishbite is a wonderful two-chord song.
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  3439. The current problem is that there are no buyers.
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  3440.  @adog3129  Most foreigners use VPN
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  3441.  @adog3129  Most of them don't work well. In addition, you're not supposed to download them and domestic app stores are banned from carrying them. Google Play Store is blocked, so that creates a problem: You need the Play Store to download your VPN, but you can't get on the Play Store without a VPN. That requires creative thinking.... In reality, a large number of educated Chinese people, especially those who have some foreign experience, all use VPNs.
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  3442.  @suecandice2081  The stupidity has reached new levels!
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  3443.  @xph9301  Well, you have your beliefs about this release of waste water. You know, a few months from now that dangerous, unhealthy, toxic, radioactive water will have reached Chinese shores. Then you can't even eat Chinese seafood anymore, for 30 years!! Or will you decide that the waster water has become so diluted that it'll be safe by then?
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  3444.  @reunificationRights  Tritium doesn't get removed by demineralizing the water. The plan to release the water into the ocean may not be 'endorsed', but it is clearly approved by the IAEA. You can try to do a search for this sentence: 'IAEA safety review has concluded that Japan’s plans to release treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the sea are consistent with IAEA Safety Standards'. That will take you straight to the IAEA website.
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  3445. Did the driver say "I'll be back" in an Austrian accent?
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  3446. You think these parents in France would feel better if you told them that? Or do you think they would tell you to F**k off?
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  3447. Just FYI: Niger's armed forces: 40,000. Nigeria's armed forces: 230,000. Niger+Burkina Faso+Mali armed forces: 77,000 ECOWAS armed forces: 383,000
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  3448.  @DukeLM  Yes, I'm sure you're right about that.
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  3449.  @Counter879  No tears. After all, it's not my country that has to deal with the Taliban. I'm safe and comfortable.
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  3450. Reject at your own risk.
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  3451.  @fumie4996  "like Gazprom?" Gazprom isn't a brand, it's a company name. All companies have names, but that doesn't mean they're brands. Gazprom sells commodities which are identical from one company to the next.
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  3452. He sounds like a guy who has a LOT of money invested in China and he desperately doesn't want to lose it.
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  3453. "western controlled Brussels". I'm pretty sure Brussels is in the west, and very much part of the west. It is also the administrative centre of the EU. If anything, it should be "the Brussels controlled west". Finally, it's where they invented the brussels sprouts.
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  3454. "Developing the political consciousness". Wouldn't it make more sense to develop the economy, infrastructure, agriculture, trade?
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  3455. I'd say internet search is much more profitable. And it works in peace time, too.
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  3456. It's an open court. They are there to observe. No different from a football match.
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  3457. BlackRock? BlackRock is an investment firm, owning shares in almost all listed companies, so obviously they will be co-owners of almost any product on the market, not just hair care products. However, specifically, you may be thinking about Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, two large consumer products and healthcare products companies. BlackRock owns about 6% of Procter & Gamble, and 6% of Johnson & Johnson.
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  3458. Or maybe the Ohio chemical train derailment was a distraction from the Ukraine war. The possibilities are endless.
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  3459.  @NOYB1776  I don't have to explain those. You have to explain why you think they are related to mobile phones, when there could be an untold number of reasons. Besides, you haven't even provided evidence that those conditions have increased over the last 25 years.
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  3460.  @negusnutrino8863  I didn't mention any studies. I wrote that even without any studies, we now have clear evidence that massively increased mobile phone use has had no effect on our physical health.
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  3461.  @CrankSick  "ChatGPT search states". Not sure where ChatGPT got this info, but here is from the American Cancer Society: "incidence rates for malignant brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors declined by 0.8% annually during 2008 through 2017 in the United States for all ages combined. The decline was driven by trends in adults, whereas rates have slightly increased by 0.5% to 0.7% annually among children and adolescents over the same time period." Granted, this is only for an 11 year period, but even so. This is not a scientific study, but just collection of data on brain cancer from hospitals and doctors around the country, ie. Real world historical data, not a study.
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  3462.  @rochester212  I haven't looked into that and I am not your teacher. Google is free for you to use, and you can do your own research there. If you find that the rate of other types of cancer have seen a significant increase over the last two decades, feel free to share your findings here, and make sure to present your arguments for how that is related to mobile phone usage, rather than diet, lifestyle or other causes. But don't come asking me 'what about this'? 'What about that'? Don't be lazy! Do your own research!
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  3463.  @CuriousCrow-mp4cx  "We're talking about corporations gifting us for profit." You may be, but that is not what this thread is about. Feel free to start a thread about your favorite topic.
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  3464.  @ricekick  Fair point, but given this is already over a week ago, it tells me this is more of a political message, perhaps also directed at their own population: "Don't worry, people, we're strong".
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  3465. It has been reported by BBC, but you have to click on some links to get it. I know, you can't handle that.
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  3466. I'm born in the year of the goat, so I'll get more money this year. Yay! On a serious note: I wonder if this guy predicted a year ago what would happen to Hong Kong in 2021.
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  3467. A tall Cockroach Spice Latte, please.
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  3468.  @skydragon23101979  Why wouldn't Chinese parts pass air worthiness tests? In any case, the C919 may be a good aircraft. Let's see how many COMAC can produce in 2023, and then in 2024.
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  3469.  @skydragon23101979  "I see real competition 5-10 years time". Hey, it's possible, who knows? But Brazil's Embraer has been making passenger aircraft for decades now. They have a slice of the market for smaller single-aisle planes. I think they're COMAC's main competitor for the time being.
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  3470.  @skydragon23101979  "Why should US govt pass c919 air worthiness and create competition and same for Europe?" I guess for the same reason they have issued/accepted certificates for each other's aircraft, and for Embraer's aircraft, and Bombardier, and Ilyushin, and Tupolev.
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  3471.  @skydragon23101979  That's not a bad idea. With Embraer's expertise and China's manufacturing prowess, that could be a very beneficial partnership for both parties. They should get started as soon as possible.
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  3472.  @tamoc2354  "We welcome you to visit, but not to stay". Yes, that does seem to be the message, but then why would they promote the permanent residency to begin with? It seems contradictory.
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  3473.  @tamoc2354  So because the media and the foreigners want to get permanent residency, China's government decides to grant that, even if they don't want to? Why are they letting themselves be so easily manipulated?
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  3474. How could this be? She was a TikTok celebrity!! What better qualifications do you need?
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  3475.  @jadenhau  "More and more people are living in poverty". According to Eurostat data, poverty has remained relatively stable, though the most recent data are from 2022. "during the last election the unthinkable happened". What, nobody got elected? That would have been unthinkable. Or is it rather that the people who got elected are at odds with your political views? News flash! That's what happens in a democracy, you don't always get your way. "they are becoming less and less happy". Of the top ten countries on the World Happiness Report, 6 are happier than in 2019, while 4 are unhappier than in 2019. I may 'sound' ignorant, but the empirical data clearly shows that you are, in fact, the ignorant one. Feel free to do more research going forward, rather than simply depending on your own 'feeling'.
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  3476.  @Palexite  It's not only politics, it's also culture, artistic expression, product marketing and sales. My point is that we shouldn't silence people just because we don't like what they say, or how they express themselves.
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  3477.  @CoolNumber1  I don't want ANY social media banned: TikTok, YouTube and others, none should be banned. Am I making myself clear now?
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  3478. Both the Mayans and the Incas had armies, they just weren't strong enough to beat the Spanish. And, of course, a large proportion of them had died from smallpox by the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived, so were easy pickings.
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  3479. Clearly, the driver is a thief! Puts the phone in the boot and then refuses to hand it back, pretending he doesn't have it. I hope the police handled the problem with the seriousness it deserves.
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  3480. Huawei 5G is the answer to every imaginable problem.
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  3481. If India can get rid of a lot of red tape and difficult regulations, it certainly will be.
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  3482.  @SuperEmlo  Joking about what? Actually, none of my comments are jokes, but I'm happy to expand on them if you want more detail.
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  3483.  @SuperEmlo  So you think all these assembly factories will move abroad completely?
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  3484.  @SuperEmlo  Well, let's see. You will have to do something. Don't let 内卷 destroy your own country. There will be new opportunities popping up.
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  3485.  @SuperEmlo  Well, of course you should do what you think is best for you, but I think China will be ok. Maybe not a 'New Tang Dynasty', but still a fine country.
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  3486. Why did you include all those European countries that are clearly supporting Israel?
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  3487. Hmm, refreshing!
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  3488.  @lawontrial  There is currently no agreement about what land belongs to who because Palestine don't want to sign any agreement.
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  3489.  @Expatnema  "Nothing lasts forever". You could make the same argument for every country, including yours. The point is that for the last 50 years, Palestinian groups have failed at improving their situation. They keep believing in 'From the River to the Sea', but the reality is that their territory has only gotten smaller as the decades have passed. They need to start over.
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  3490. You make it sound like 5% growth is a law of nature in China. As if it just happens automatically.
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  3491.  @Fire-ci4se  Well, it certainly has up until now, and much more than 5%. But there are not a lot of people left in the countryside: Only about 220 million rural residents under the age of 40 (older people don't migrate to cities), so the rate of urbanization must slow. Useful infrastructure is almost completely built out. There's still a need for expanding the power grid and power production, but most useful rail, road, ports, airports have been built, so new infrastructure won't add as much to the economy as 10 years ago. It's going to get progressively harder to grow as the country becomes more developed.
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  3492.  @Fire-ci4se  Yes, I think that's the right path to follow. Let's see what happens over the next ten years.
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  3493.  @jaker3151  I think that's a safe assumption.
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  3494. That would be a silly thing for the World Bank to say, because it will take many generations before we hit zero population.
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  3495. Purely anecdotally, I know of IT companies that offer RMB 300,000/year ($45,000) starting salary, but that is partly because they want to choose from the top 10% of graduates of the top 10% of universities.
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  3496. It looks most like the two parties are taking the internet comment section out into real life.
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  3497.  @StopBaizuo  Hey, no problem. 😉
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  3498. Very dramatic!
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  3499. I wouldn't mind trying rat meat. It's still meat, how bad can it be?
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  3500.  @CreepyPears  "It should be universal." Ok, but who is to decide which countries participate? Surely, every country should have the right to join or refrain from joining. Universality only works when everyone agrees.
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  3501.  @UKONOfficial  "You don't need we chat but UPI". That is unrelated to the idea of a payment APP. You can have UPI with or without an APP.
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  3502. Most commenters here: "It's an outrage that the farmers don't get all the profit. All the people standing between the farmer and your kitchen shouldn't be paid a dime".
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  3503. Loved this!
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  3504. "Exploited them for cheap labor". And yet, their economic situation was better than back home, where there was severe poverty and unrest at the time. During that period, many Southern Chinese people also left for Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and elsewhere. Tough times!
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  3505.  @DanteAtropos  Migrations out of the southern parts of China started long before the Opium Wars, but you may be correct that those wars exacerbated the situation. I'd like to read some research on that.
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  3506.  @wang06411  IAEA
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  3507. Wasn't there something about Trump stumbling down a ramp and people finding it absolutely hilarious? I think they even had specials on the evening news about it. Invited a panel to discuss.
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  3508. This thread: Chinese people talking amongst themselves.
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  3509.  @partricklin9749  "he is 7, not 17, also all of 5 are japanese". Ok, people can just google the victim's name 'Ukawa Saito' and news stories will pop up with the correct date, place, people involved.
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  3510.  @lif3andthings763  You may be right, but we can never really know because the terms and conditions are secret. The Kenyan people can't know and the Chinese people can't know.
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  3511.  @andysol.4593  If the projects are not funded by German and French loans, then definitely no.
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  3512. China should mandate outdoors video game parlors.
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  3513.  @ronsmith3523  Where did I say that? Do you have any actual counter argument? In fact, your comment is overtly racist, while mine is overtly non-racist.
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  3514. For some unknown reason, China has not revealed the names of the Chinese citizens released from the US. And they must have asked the US not to make their names public. Why this secrecy?
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  3515.  @aglis_  Oh yeah, I see it. Thanks. One of them was Xu Yanjun (徐延军), a career intelligence officer, beginning in 2003 and rising to the rank of deputy division director at the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
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  3516. The conclusion is: Anything bad that happens in China is due to 'foreign forces'. Case closed!
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  3517. and what if the Pope says 'yes, we can'. Wouldn't it sound the same played backwards, or is it only when those words are said by Obama?
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  3518.  @theta799  And if actor Jonathan Pryce says 'Yes, we can' and it is played backwards, it will also sound like 'Thank you, Satan'. Same if you say it.
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  3519.  @theta799  'Slogan'. Perhaps we should investigate what 'I'm Loving It', or 'Finger-Licking Good', or 'Just Do It' sound like when played backwards.
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  3520.  @theta799  Oh, that's very nice. As it happens, I don't really care about Satan. That is, I don't care whether he exists or not, or what he does. I'm not religious.
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  3521.  @theta799  T? Who is T? You mean Trayvon?
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  3522. The woman taping this should have followed the perp and lead police to him.
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  3523. At a safe distance, of course.
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  3524. Yes, it's all very amusing.
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  3525.  @saviorlee8176  I wouldn't say 'usually'. In modern complexes, perhaps, but think about all those 公房 neighborhoods. They don't have parking basements.
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  3526. That old man should be sent back to his village and banned from leaving it. He doesn't have the skills to function in civilized society.
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  3527. I decided to watch this video twice.
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  3528.  @royalroyal2210  Euromaidan 2014 was NOT a coup. The democratically elected parliament had a 'vote of no confidence', forcing the government to dissolve. This is part of the legal democratic process. After that no confidence vote, the president left the country and a caretaker government was established. Votes of no confidence happen in parliaments all over the democratic world. Usually, the result is that the government steps down and announces a new general election. That is also part of democracy. In Ukraine, the govt. did not announce new elections, but chose to flee the country.
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  3529.  @blackpanthar906  "Didn't you invaded Libya because "some" people were protesting outside?" There was already heavy fighting going on all over the country before the western air campaign started. Libya's government was not chosen by the people and was therefore not representing the people. There's no doubt the west was against Gaddafi, though, but so was most of the Libyan people. In the end, despots always fall.
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  3530.  @reubenabugah2137  " Gaddaffi was Africa hero". No, he wasn't. He was an insane megalomaniac. People who liked him did so for the spectacle. He was good entertainment.
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  3531.  @royalroyal2210  The vote of no confidence was fully in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, and was taken by the democratically elected members of parliament. After the vote happened, Yanukovich left. Yes, there are some similarities with Jan. 6 on the street: Large crowds protesting violently against the government. In both cases, the legislature took the action that was lawfully theirs to take. In theory, the Ukrainian government could have then stepped down and called for new elections, but instead, the president decided to leave the country. It's very likely he felt he was in grave danger, but that is what he did. Was it somewhat chaotic? Yes. Was it also lawful? Yes. In fact, this kind of action happens on occasion in other European countries, even in recent decades, but it is my understanding that under the American system, this option is not available. The Ukrainian political system is more similar to the European system, but less so to the American system.
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  3532.  @royalroyal2210  The US constitution does not grant congress the right to oust the president. The Ukrainian parliament did not oust the president, they had a 'vote of no confidence' which is part of the political process under Ukrainian law. Your arguments are based on a faulty understanding of Ukrainian law and are therefore invalid.
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  3533.  @royalroyal2210  "meddled, and inorganic". But very legal, and in complete compliance with the Ukrainian political system.
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  3534. Andy Lau is a bit of a has-been. He was big in the 90s, though I didn't like him then, either.
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  3535.  @billyhamlen9610  What do you think of NIOs? Do you think they're good quality?
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  3536.  @imdba3685  Yes, they have been very accommodating. Generally, they like to give high tech industries preferential treatment (or whatever industry is in vogue at the moment).
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  3537.  @WPaKFamily  Isn't it just a display room and a kind of lounge? I haven't been inside.
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  3538. It's nice to see Egypt develop its economy, but for the life of me I cannot understand how they make money. They have no natural resources, very little arable land, a poorly educated population, little scientific research, and hardly any industrial base. Where does their money come from?
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  3539.  @captainwin6333  That's a little exaggerated. Helium-filled balloons are commonly sold world wide. But this was hydrogen, of course. Maybe that is the danger you're referring to?
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  3540. It's amazing that only now is Germany considering re-evaluating the shut-down of its nuclear power facilities. Frankly, they should have made that decision already back in March. It's almost as if Germany cannot see the reality in front of their eyes. Come on, Germany, wake up! We need you to be strong, we need you to grow a spine. Just don't take it too far, like you did in the 1930s.
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  3541. Everybody who lives in China knows that this kind of bullying behavior from 'City Management' (城管) has been standard practice for decades. Every city person has seen it with their own eyes.
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  3542.  @comediangj4955  Based on the three responses to my comment, it appears people suddenly love the 城管。How times have changed. If only they would also do something about all the cars illegally parked on the sidewalk. And by the way, I like that you can get a hot potato in winter from a vendor, or a 煎饼, or some BBQ lamb sticks. I think that makes the city better.
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  3543.  @comediangj4955  You eat 煎饼 on your way home? For most people it's breakfast, 所以“早点到公司”。
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  3544. Very interesting video on convenience stores in Taiwan. I have followed the development of convenience stores in the Chinese mainland since the 90s, when they first started popping up. The first successful chains were 7-Eleven and Lawson (Japanese), then Family Mart. Chinese state owned retail giants also wanted in on the business, but apparently it's not that easy to find the right recipe, and they were not as popular as the foreign imports. The state came to the aid: They issued a regulation that said that no new convenience store could open within a few hundred meters of another. This limited the total number of stores one could open. This new regulation was then strictly enforced for foreign chains, but unenforced for the state-owned chains. They just started opening everywhere with impunity, while the foreign stores were blocked from expanding. Nowadays, Family Mart and 7-Eleven are still doing well, and the domestic brands have mostly caught up in terms of providing an attractive environment. The playing field is more level now, and I believe the old regulations have been scrapped.
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  3545. 2:35 "The court of King LeBron James IV"??? I take this as an encouragement to look up some history. Turns out there's a King James IV, but nothing about LeBron or the king's propensity for basketball.
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  3546.  @Funktastico  Well, auto manufacturers would only make a deal with Foxconn if it makes economic sense to them, meaning they can sell more cars, and they can sell more cars if each car is a little cheaper. So yes, that is what it means. But remember, for now it is just an idea, not yet reality.
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  3547.  @China_Countrysides  "It would be found out earlier, a better chance of being cured." If that is true, it should show up in the data. Malaysia would have a higher rate of curing cancer than the US. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any such data existing, so everyone can just put forward their own opinions and theories.
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  3548.  @kkeishax  If the survival rate is the same, that would indicate that Americans actually do get the treatment they need. I think most people agree that American health care costs are extreme, but does it show up in the health data? If Americans were dying at high rates, there would be a good point, but if not, this anecdote is without basis.
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  3549. Perhaps an attempted 'suicide by cop'.
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  3550.  @tedaspane1493  Great, so China won't have to worry about this de-risking. Trade will continue, investments will continue, it will just be spread a little more around the world. China already does this: Invests all over the world, imports from all over the world. That's what the west is going to do, too.
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  3551.  @tedaspane1493  Exactly!
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  3552.  @John-hl2ir  Ok, I'm much more optimistic. Let's see what happens.
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  3553.  @KBellate  Many interesting points, but let's go back to the topic: " what is the point of this decoupling". As I see it, it is the attempt among the world's different economic and industrial power centers to preserve jobs, industries, technologies that are important to them, and to preserve a high level of wealth and social development. Actually, the idea is not to decouple completely, but to de-risk, i.e., to try to ensure that no single country can hurt you disproportionally, by spreading out the risk over several different countries. Another important consideration is also who you do business with: Doing business with your family or your best friends can make you more secure; doing business with people who have expressed hostility toward you, or who have said they want you down, that is more risky. So more business with friends, less business with those who dislike you.
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  3554.  @John-hl2ir  Thanks for sharing your view on AI.
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  3555.  @kokovin6808  What do you mean? (And remember, laughing is not an argument for or against anything).
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  3556. With launchers? What's that supposed to mean? Rocket launcher? A review of the footage gives me the impression this is the result of a landmine.
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  3557. You can pay utilities on Alipay. There's a button called 'utilities'. Property fee I don't know.
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  3558.  @canto_v12  I'm not American, so I don't care too much about the US interstate system, but as far as I know the US railway system is profitable and has been profitable since it was built.
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  3559. What it takes to survive THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: -Day 32: The first debates. Here, candidates have to answer gotcha questions from the press and try to burn other candidates with political or moral zingers. -Day 59: The rally. The candidates each hold rallies where they try to drive their supporters into a frenzy. -Day 123: The Iowa Caucus. Here, the losers hold speeches pretending that they're really the winners. Etc, etc...
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  3560.  @GoingForth  "So basically war of attrition". Probably, yes.
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  3561.  @SeelkadoomSonicBlack  I don't understand what you're trying to say. Please state your position clearly and unambiguously.
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  3562.  @pepelepew999  Hello Pepe, we meet again, and you're still as useless as in all your previous comments. Your focus is on judging the commenters, not on adding to the topic. Knock yourself out.
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  3563. It's anybody arriving from China, HK, or Macau, not just Chinese people. There are still quite a lot of non-Chinese people who live in those three areas.
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  3564.  Magic  What you're saying is nothing but pure emotion. Try to dial down the emotion and dial up the reason.
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  3565.  @yerri5567  " Its discrimination towards the country." Yes, because China at the moment has an extremely high caseload, many times higher than the rest of the world. Once the infection numbers within China go down, these restrictions will disappear. It's probably only for a month or two.
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  3566.  @justmanuel2000  That's not an argument. What is your argument?
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  3567.  @yerri5567  Calm down. Very soon the infection numbers in China will go down, and then these restrictions will disappear. Just be patient. You've waited three years to be able to travel. Surely you can wait 2 months more. Our wise leaders always make the correct decisions.
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  3568. That's pretty young. Now that he is 18, he can even start his own OnlyFans account.
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  3569. "If you want honest conversations with fascinating people, Triggernometry is for you." If you want dishonest conversations with boring people, there's now the new Dave Rubin Show.
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  3570. Sorry, that was very snarky, but hopefully, a little funny.
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  3571.  @___beyondhorizon4664  And yet, I have no interest in royal families, but specifically for this wedding, I would like to have seen what the dinner menu was like. I'm from a country that has its own royal family, but they don't interest me, either.
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  3572.  @TechnoGears-2023  "You have the choice between an IMF loan at a rate of 20 to 30% with the impossibility of repaying for life and a Chinese loan of 2 to 5%" 1) The IMF does not give loans for development projects. That is not the purpose of the IMF. IMF financing is meant to help member countries tackle balance of payments problems, stabilize their economies, and restore sustainable economic growth. Perhaps you are thinking of the World Bank, which does give loans for development projects. 2) World Bank infrastructure development loans are around 2.7% with zero interest the first 6 years of loan repayment. 2) Most Chinese BRI loans have been financed by the Chinese Exim Bank at commercial rates, which until recently were around 3-6% (China's PBOC has recently cut its interest rate several times to boost the domestic economy). Chinese Exim Bank rates are among the highest because they're commercial, but they are sometimes attractive to borrowers because they will lend money to projects that are higher risk, and which other banks will not lend to.
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  3573.  @billinsf88  These problems are mostly seen in smaller, budget hotels in 3rd and 4th tier cities and small towns. It's not universal, but I have experienced this, too, including in Zhejiang's Quzhou, Changshan, Huzhou. Sometimes there are tricks to deal with it, the receptionist in Quzhou used a friend's ID card to check me in. On the other hand, in Changshan, only one out of 20 hotels I tried would let me in.
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  3574.  @billinsf88  Yeah, that probably doesn't happen often. Even so, the problem does exist and it will be a huge improvement if the registration process is made simple and easy for all hotels. I'm not optimistic though, as this problem has been constant for over 15 years.
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  3575.  @billinsf88  I hope so, but I have to wonder: Why is this still a problem in China? In pretty much every other country, visitors can stay in the same hotels as locals. In most countries, you just hand over your passport and check in. I haven't heard of any other country where foreign visitors are banned or prevented from staying in certain hotels. It's bizarre, and it has been going on for decades.
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  3576.  @billinsf88  Nevertheless, this is common in small cities and towns across the country. And again, why are there even these difficulties in the first place?
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  3577.  @billinsf88  "suppose you come to the US and your ID has no English on it". Chinese passports have names written in the alphabet (A,B,C, ect.) "Does your ID has Chinese characters?" My residence permit has, including my Chinese name.
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  3578.  @billinsf88  Many times. Police answer has been 'hotel staff is not trained to receive foreigners', or 'the hotel is not approved to receive foreigners'. This despite the fact that there is no law in China requiring hotels to get special approval to receive foreign citizens.
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  3579.  @billinsf88  Many times. The answer from police/exit-entry bureau has been 'hotel staff is not trained to receive foreign guests', or 'the hotel is not approved to receive foreign guests'. This despite the fact there is no law in China requiring hotels to apply for prior approval to receive foreign guests.
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  3580.  @billinsf88  "A budget motel can’t afford to hire foreign language speakers". So what? Lots of hotels around the world don't have Chinese speakers. That doesn't mean Chinese visitors are banned from staying there. Besides, I have stayed in all sorts of hotels in Vietnam without speaking even a word of Vietnamese. It was never a problem, and it's not a problem anywhere else in the world.
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  3581.  @billinsf88  "S. Korea doesn’t revolve around me either." It's not about me, it's about the principle of this kind of apartheid. If it is indeed true that this situation exists in Japan and Korea as well, then that is just as bad and certainly no excuse for what is happening here. Additionally, in China, these hotels are quite happy to receive foreign guests, it's the local authorities that prevent them from doing it.
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  3582.  @billinsf88  "why go somewhere were you are not welcome". The hotel staff welcomes me, restaurants, shops, people all welcome me, it is the local authorities that prevent me from staying in certain hotels. "you are pretty demanding". Asking for equal treatment is 'demanding'? I'm not asking for special treatment, I'm asking for equal treatment. Look, we probably won't reach agreement on this issue. You do not see this discrimination as a problem, but I do. Let's leave it at that.
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  3583.  @DucaTech  I agree, but I have been here for a long time. People in the west have seen the negative comments from Chinese government officials about the west. It doesn't bother me, because I live here, but it does bother them.
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  3584.  @yechen586  You may not be complaining, but I'm sure hotels, restaurants, bus companies would like to see the number of tourists go up, including western tourists. They welcome everybody, it means more business.
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  3585.  @yunjuyishi  Chinese hotels welcomed western tourists before, they will welcome them again, language fluency or not.
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  3586.  @yunjuyishi  And of course Chinese tourists are welcomed in the west. Many of the better hotels and shops have Chinese speaking staff to help the guests, because many Chinese tourists also can't speak English. This is normal. People nowadays travel all over the world, and we can't expect them to learn every language.
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  3587.  @DccAnh  "the lack of western tourist affect no one." That's true in economic terms, and this has been the case since domestic tourism really took off in 1999. However, the question is what other effects the meeting of different cultures have. Sure, you can choose to be isolationist, and China has done this many times in history, but it always seems to end badly. Tang Dynasty was open, Song Dynasty closed down. Ming started more open, but quickly closed down, Qing started closed, then was forced open by foreign countries, then China closed down in 1949, before opening again in 1978. We all know the effects.
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  3588.  @DccAnh  "tourists doesn’t bring knowledge nor technology, only money." And cultural exchange, exchange of ideas, values, habits, interests, etc. All these are also important.
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  3589.  @DccAnh  "China is in no way isolationist". I'm thinking in terms of people-to-people exchange. Making friends, talking about our different cultures. These are wonderful things, in my opinion.
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  3590.  @DccAnh  So does that mean you are in favor of a more insular Chinese culture? Fewer tourists, fewer foreign visitors of other kinds (business people, academics, sports people, performers, etc)?
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  3591.  @DccAnh  Ok, you've made your view on international cultural exchange very clear. Perhaps your view will become more common in China and China will again slide into self-imposed isolation for hundreds of years, after just 40-50 years of openness.
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  3592.  @discursion  Ah, no, I can see that. That is much lower than I expected. I thought it would be a very desirable area, so close to the lake.
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  3593.  @Watefak  I won't correct you, because you're not wrong.
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  3594.  @samy8897  What do you mean, 'risky'?
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  3595.  @Singh_King_823  Just to be clear, are you saying that the US didn't bring back any lunar rocks/dust at all? Or what are you trying to say?
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  3596.  @lonesomefencesitter3186  and if the US had also sent up some shovels and a wheel barrow, they could have brought back much more.
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  3597.  @Singh_King_823  As another poster said: The US came and went with a full space craft big enough for three people and more cargo. China came with a small robotic craft, a rover. These two different types of craft can carry very different loads. Like the difference between a rowboat and a container ship.
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  3598.  @Singh_King_823  Chang'e Rover is a very tiny space craft with very limited capacity. The Apollo space craft were significantly bigger, big enough for several people. Basically as big as the SpaceX Dragon Capsule.
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  3599.  @Singh_King_823  But 'the whole world' CAN bring back thousands of kg of material from the moon if we want to. It's just that for the last 40+ years, nobody has had any interest in spending the money to go back to the moon. It's very expensive, there's not much to do up there, and those rocks have no financial value, and very little scientific value. We have had our scientists examining the moon rocks for decades and probably found out everything there is to know about them. Going to the moon is not that hard, but it is extremely expensive. The only reason to go to the moon is for national prestige.
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  3600. I can see why someone would want to 'tighten up' before a meeting at the White House.
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  3601. "Best estimates". Frankly, that seems way off. Where do those birth- and death records come from? In order to have anyone believe those extraordinary claims, you need to provide some pretty strong evidence. If you're right, what does that say about China's housing sector? China's automobile sector? It would mean that home ownership and car ownership rates are twice what the government says. It means that GDP/capita is twice what the government says. It means that the Total Fertility Rate is twice what demographers say, meaning 2.2 children per woman rather than 1.1. If you estimate that the current population is only 700 million, how do you account for all the other numbers?
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  3602.  @DeMews  "Someone here on YT said it could be as low as 300M". And does that make it true? I could say there are only 2 million people in China, but without any data to support that, no one should be so naive as to believe it.
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  3603.  @GARYGUYTON-c7i  "How reliable are those figures? at lot of issues with official PRC stats.". Certainly, I agree with that. But any other proposed number MUST have some data to support it. Otherwise, it's just something people pull out of their ass.
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  3604.  @drdiabeetus4419  "they could be taking the real numbers and inflating them to the same degree as the population". Yes, that is true, but there are some numbers that are verifiable, among them trade figures. Those figures come to light on both sides of the trade equation. Both the buying country and the selling country keeps track of this. So we can be pretty sure that China's trade figures are relatively accurate. So if GDP is only half of what the Chinese say, but trade figures are what we see, that would mean that China's annual GDP growth is twice what we're being told, ie. 10% rather than 5%. China had a trade surplus of $1 trillion (verifiable numbers) in 2024, so if their GDP is only $9.5 trillion, it would mean growth is 10.5%. Many other figures are verifiable: Agricultural imports, oil and gas imports, etc. If China's population is so low, they would be consuming twice the amount of calories/capita we are being told, and burn twice the amount of fuel/capita we're being told, both of which would indicate a very wealthy economy. You simply cannot make up your own numbers without it skewing the picture somewhere else. You MUST be able to make all the numbers fit into a bigger equation.
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  3605.  @modeus5914  "lies?". Sure there are lies, but just because someone lies, doesn't mean you can then substitute their lies for your own lies. You MUST have supporting data.
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  3606.  @DeMews  Ok, YouTubers say all kinds of stuff without evidence, but you will never hear a serious economist make these types of claims without having some strong evidence to support those claims. If you are skeptical about the Chinese government's numbers, which you should be, you do yourself a service by being skeptical about other people's numbers, too.
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  3607. Yes, as one of the world's oldest democracies, USA has really struggled to develop any technology. Is that what you mean?
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  3608.  @ASK-ko9qx  That's possible. Time will tell.
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  3609. 10:47 "I don't think this is going to be a long-term technology that we're going to keep in the cars". I wonder if this will go down in history like the American scientist Clifford Stoll, who predicted in 1995 that the internet would be a passing fad.
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  3610. Lying, emotional manipulation, impersonating someone else, for years and years. It's certainly immoral and cruel, but is it a crime? Lying is not a crime, pretending to be someone else is usually not a crime, unless you try to gain from it, emotional manipulation is not a crime, as far as I know. Should these things be crimes? I think it's probably better that they're not.
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  3611.  @rafsanjaamimahir8095  That's not my question. Question is: Should these acts be illegal?
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  3612.  @rafsanjaamimahir8095  I agree, but again: Should these acts be illegal?
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  3613.  @acid1747  The section that was destroyed was built during the Ming Dynasty (1279-1644). The original wall from the Qin Dynasty 220 BC (2200 years old, not exactly 3000 years) has mostly eroded away completely. The other parts they showed, with all the tourists on them, were renovated/rebuilt during the 1980s and 90s. Things don't last forever.
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  3614. This is a wonderful report, but it is not clear "what shocked the CNN reporter". I suppose the title is just meant as clickbait. Certainly, the reporter is not shocked by being followed by government minders, as this is standard throughout China. I first visited a Dong (the ethnic group) village in 1991. Very charming and picturesque. Looks like not much has changed in those villages in the last 30 years.
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  3615.  @TBasianeyes  White asparagus in China? I've never seen that. Green ones, yes, but no white asparagus.
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  3616.  @cosi4683  Yes, I know that, but I have not seen any white asparagus for sale in China.
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  3617. Americans seem quite willing to believe just about anything without evidence. It's probably because of the high levels of religiosity over there, where people are brought up to believe all sorts of myths, never asking for evidence.
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  3618. The case made by Shellenberger and the documentary producers is based on the BELIEF that the wind power industry is partly responsible for increased deaths of Right Whales. Neither the documentary nor Shellenberger present any evidence that that is the case. In other words, it's an allegation, a hypothesis. Let's investigate, but let's not draw any conclusions until we find evidence. In Europe, offshore wind power is a pretty mature industry, especially in the North Sea (between Great Britain and European mainland), where offshore wind power plants have been in operation since 2002. Multiple investigations since then have shown an increase in marine life, not a decrease. I am not familiar with any data specifically about large whale species, but there haven't been reports of increased deaths. The increase in marine life is mostly due to the foundations of the wind towers, which work as artificial reefs and attract lots of marine life for protection and breeding.
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  3619.  @WalkOverHotCoal  As I wrote elsewhere, the interests of corporations don't always align with the interests of the nations they come from. Many Chinese enterprises have had a similar experience: Alibaba, Tencent, and numerous gaming companies and educational companies. It sucks for them, but the country had different interests.
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  3620.  @alexejvornoskov6580  Yes, that is an obstacle to fast growth, but they have to be realistic and work in the world that exists, not in the world of their imagination. Every age is different, every region is different. The last 30 years of Chinese economic development have been very good for the whole world, and maybe we will not get another period like that for a long time, so we will all have to settle for less growth until we find the next 'shooting star'.
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  3621. Where did you read that?
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  3622.  @spider6660  Ah, ok, it's what you imagine they might write. So you just made it up.
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  3623. The only 'eastern' countries that have truly been free of engagement with the west are North Korea and Iran. Not sure I'd call them prosperous.
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  3624.  @Bike_Lion  "I think nuclear alone is sufficient". Yes, you've already made your view on nuclear energy abundantly clear. It's a panacea, it'll solve all our problems, especially when those new thorium reactors finally get to market. Look, it's fine to be pro-nuclear, but I feel it's becoming almost a religion for some people, though perhaps that does not apply to you. In the end, our disagreement is relatively limited. Perhaps we agree more on bikes (mine has a -cycle after it).
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  3625.  @erikkovacs3097  Perhaps where you are this is not an issue, but many countries do not not have all the resources they need: Uranium, coal, oil, gas, etc. For those countries, in one of which I am a citizen, it makes sense to reduce the risk of sudden lack of access to the raw materials through embargoes or sanctions, or to guard against price fluctuations in those same raw materials.
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  3626.  @erikkovacs3097  "it's the bulk of the fuel that's impressive". That statement seems irrelevant. Why is it important that fuel bulk is 'impressive'? We're not running out of space to store fuel, leaving aside the fact that some fuel can just be left underground until we need it, and other energy generation methods don't need fuel at all.
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  3627.  @erikkovacs3097  Ok, I think there's a massive age gap at play here. You sound like I sounded when I was in high school. Let's stop this conversation. Maybe you can talk to people your own age.
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  3628. Most European car brands sold in China are made in China, so you can't really have tariffs on them. Besides, most of them are joint ventures with Chinese state-owned companies, like SAIC, FAW and others.
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  3629. "I think Ukraine morally has the upper hand". If only we could win wars using morals.
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  3630. Ah, this is right behind BaBaiBan Department Store. What do my Shanghai friends say about this? Local person or outsider?
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  3631. Interesting! I don't get a context warning when I watch China Update.
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  3632.  @eurospec  Sounds like it.
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  3633. It's not really news. Anyone who follows China has known about this for over a month. Russia and China are strange bed fellows and they're only sleeping with each other because no one else will.
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  3634.  @amenhotepavoskin1307  Well, it's certainly worth paying attention to, but my opinion is that they're only doing this because they both feel pressured, not because they feel strong.
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  3635.  @amenhotepavoskin1307  Well, we have lots of trade and economic cooperation with China and that is not going to end anytime soon. I think what's happening now is just a slight stepping back one or two steps. Prosperity is important, but national security trumps all other considerations.
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  3636.  @fellowcitizen  Kool-Aid is delicious, isn't it?
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  3637.  @amenhotepavoskin1307  No one is to blame. Every country must concern itself with its own security: Russia, China, USA, Ukraine, and every other country.
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  3638.  @amenhotepavoskin1307  And what place would that be? I don't think you have any idea where I am.
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  3639. The aircraft types you mention have been built in 11,000 units so it's no wonder a few of them get lost every now and then. That's just a matter of probability. Your tally lists 42 incidents over 2 years. That is 2 losses/1000/year, or 1% losses every 5 years. No big deal.
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  3640.  @Indian_Girl_Aarini_5213  Look at the numbers and make your own calculation. Knowledge about probability and statistics are very useful for life. Certainly much more important than opinion.
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  3641. This video doesn't show a single direct hit by the Ukrainian tank on the Russian vehicles. Clearly, a couple of the Russian vehicles got hit, but the video doesn't show if it's by the Ukrainian tank or by artillery strikes. Additionally, only 2-3 of the Russian column got hit, according to the video, and it looks like partly by artillery shelling. Why is the video cut up like that? Why not show us the whole event chronologically?
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  3642. -"New Productive Forces" = A focus on high-tech industries like EVs, PV panels, wind power generators, batteries, AI, biotech, etc. -"High Quality Growth" = Supporting growth in the areas mentioned above, not supporting growth in gaming, education, social media, APPs in general, entertainment, life-style services and products. -"Chinese-Style Modernization" = Whatever the Party says it is. -"Further Comprehensive Deepening Reforms" = Move away from free-style private sector growth and into more state-directed development.
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  3643.  @stewlew8449  So some of them hit their target, and you're guessing that this one had the same target? All I'm asking is: How can we really know what it was supposed to hit?
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  3644. I feel sorry for Sun Hung Kai which is building that massive office/shopping mall complex in Xujiahui. They're putting a lot of money into that project. Right next door, Grand Gateway seems awfully quiet these days.
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  3645.  @nuser2921  "Either clear your 100 year mess with paying to all . Or stay in toxic air ." I think we'll do what is best for us and for the climate. COP meeting notwithstanding, we will continue to invest in renewable energy, invest in energy saving measures, and invest into the green economy. And China and India will do the same, even if they are not normally included in the 'rich country' category. As other countries get more developed, they will do it, too. My critique is only with these angry voices demanding money from us, as if we had a responsibility to give them money.
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  3646.  @thinkingaloud5379  Sometimes it helps to close down YouTube, change to a different server on your VPN, and then start up YouTube again.
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  3647. CNBC is owned by NBC NBC is owned by NBC Universal NBC Universal is owned by Comcast Comcast is a cable and broadcasting company. It is a publicly listed company and you can buy ownership in the company if you're interested. They even pay dividends: $1.16/share/year. For consumers, Comcast is a much-hated company, especially for its poor service. It has been voted 'Worst Company in America' by consumers.
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  3648. Apparently, it's harder to send a satellite into orbit than it looks.
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  3649.  clemathieu JT  I know he's Chinese. There's a museum built in his honor near my house.
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  3650.  @cloakster  "He basically makes Rupert Murdoch look poor."....and obese.
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  3651. Z for Zorglub
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  3652. But it works so well in Hollywood!!??
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  3653.  @tomaccino  Maybe a nice bottle of sparkling.
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  3654.  @tomaccino  Salty peanuts and cheese crackers....
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  3655.  @danielhutchinson6604  Ok, so was it also the G7 countries that reduced China's air pollution significantly over the last 15 years? You can choose one, not both.
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  3656.  @talesofcanterbury42  I know the studio is in HK, but the thumbnail is a view of Beijing.
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  3657.  @talesofcanterbury42  You can see the thumbnail clearly in this reply section. Try to do a quick search for 'beijing skyline' and this very distinctive skyscraper will certainly come up. It is Beijing's tallest building, called CITIC Tower. Note that the original comment did not question the location of the HK studio or the backdrop of the studio. The comment is purely about the thumbnail, and that thumbnail is an image of Beijing's skyline.
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  3658.  @wallacekatini3424  Interesting, my eyes have no filters and I sometimes see the same.
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  3659.  @wallacekatini3424  People have been using this 'filter excuse' for many years now. There's no filter, just the sad reality.
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  3660. "...to reduce emissions..." and, perhaps unintentionally, raise oil prices in the process.
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  3661.  Hajos Armandio-Liviu  TLDR
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  3662. I support welcoming young, educated Russian immigrants into EU. Russian higher education is held in high regard in Europe, especially STEM fields. You have a proud history of producing good scientists. Unfortunately, we in the EU have very complicated bureaucracy when it comes to immigration.
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  3663.  @memnem3787  Sure, as long as they are educated, or have a useful skill. Their race or ethnic background is unimportant to me.
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  3664.  @janostoth4315  Exactly! It seems like all the money that is spent to make societies functional and safe come from taxpayers.
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  3665.  @janostoth4315  You're right. In this case, all those weapons are gifts to Ukraine, paid for by western (primarily US) citizens. And as you yourself write, the weapons manufacturers make big profits and in the process, employ more US workers (who also pay taxes), and the manufacturers also pay corporate taxes. The majority of the money spent stays in the US.
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  3666.  @loot6  I agree.
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  3667. "Prick yourself with that and you'll be dead within a day.........or longer.........different frogs, different times". Gareth Keenan.
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  3668. When you're a relatively small country with only 25 million people, it makes good sense to ally yourself with someone else. And the best ally is someone who is both strong and who shares your values and ideals. Other countries which share values and ideals with China may ally with China. It is as it should be.
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  3669.  @hangtuah888  I wrote 'shared values and ideals' and that is what I meant: Shared values and ideals.
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  3670.  @hangtuah888  "You are just a racist/white supremacist". You have no evidence for those claims, and therefore they can be immediately dismissed.
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  3671. Seems like they're bringing Middle Eastern-style conflict up to Europe.
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  3672. Palestine already has democracy. They elect their president in free and open elections (though perhaps not always fair).
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  3673.  @alungalung1896  Thanks
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  3674. Denmark is currently at 2.5%, and going to 3% over the next one or two years. That's higher than most.
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  3675.  @RUHappyATM  Certainly! It's going to take time to build up military capabilities, but the first step is allocating the funds to do it. In my understanding, there is now a consensus to increase defense spending to 3% of GDP from 2027 or even before that. Ten years ago it was 1.5%.
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  3676.  @RUHappyATM  "Oh, YT, stop your cancellation of FREE SPEECH." Hey, I received both of your replies, maybe YT just didn't show you.
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  3677. Imagine taking a human family from their 23rd floor apartment and sending them into a forest 'human reserve', given fur pelts for clothing and access to a cave for living in. Once a week, the park wardens throw in some food, since they have forgotten how to survive in the wild.
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  3678. If you are on any transportation conveyance and you have the slightest suspicion that someone is a human trafficker, report to Pete Buttigieg immediately! It's better to falsely accuse thousands of innocent people than to let one trafficker go free! Let's all contribute to the moral panic! Report your neighbors and friends to the authorities!
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  3679. "Can I take your coat, Sir?" "Yes please!"
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  3680. I wrote another comment about this, but I have no expertise in the area. What yields of 7nm chips do you think they get on their 28 nm machines? 80% 70%?
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  3681.  @Hanad3  That may happen at some point. A naval drill with Cuba, for example. If they did that, what could the US do?
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  3682.  @matkilau1320  "our boycott". Who is trying to boycott Philippines? I haven't heard of any.
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  3683. Since you (Socialist Republic of Vietnam) are in Vietnam, why do you care what the cost of healthcare is in the US?
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  3684.  @askosefamerve  It's not my system. I'm not American. 'My' healthcare system is in a Nordic country, and I'm quite happy with it.
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  3685. Generally speaking, we have to increase the retirement age all over Europe. We can no longer afford to pay for pensions as people live longer and longer.
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  3686.  Noël Jacquerey  Yes, those are real problems, but where is the money going to come from? The system only works as long as a large proportion of the population works. As we begin our working life later (due to long education) and live long past our retirement, the proportion of working people to non-working people gets smaller and those who do work will have to pay a bigger and bigger share of their income for retirement. That cannot go on forever.
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  3687. Well, if anything, they have stolen the design from DJI.
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  3688.  @lynnattwood6689  Yes, it's going to have a major negative impact on China's economy. The golden days are over.
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  3689.  @MiladyToxic  You said: "liar. Elderly people are left alone to die hungry" Do you have any evidence of this to present here? In any case, to be hungry is not the same as starving.
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  3690.  @calvinblue894  I know, and didn't people in the rest of the world write about their lock-downs? You don't have to care about what I write. Just ignore me.
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  3691.  @calvinblue894  1: I'm not in Europe and I don't follow European news. 2: Where did I write 'crazy anti-CCP sentiments'? Are you a Chinese citizen?
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  3692.  @calvinblue894  Alright, I am very curious to know where you're from. It's unlikely that a westerner would use the term 'Western hate media'. The term indicates a strong feeling of resentment towards the west. That's ok, many people around the world both hate and love the west at the same time. It's pretty normal.
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  3693. Two years conscription is not a big clue for me, so I'll just guess Malaysia or Indonesia. Your dislike of the west is clear. That's ok. As I said, it is common among many people. Fortunately, most governments in ASEAN have an excellent relationship with us in the west. And I think we have a great relationship with ASEAN, even if you don't.
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  3694.  @calvinblue894  I looked it up, so now I'm guessing Singapore. Wonderful place with great people, great food, and a great relationship with the west. A real friend.
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  3695.  @calvinblue894  The future will be bright, both for Singapore and for the west. I'm looking forward to visiting Singapore again. By the way, I think Singapore is part of the west. 'The West' is not a geographical location, but a set of values, principles and a certain way of governing society.
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  3696. The values we share include: -Respect for the rights of the individual - individuals are at the center, rather than individuals just being tools of the state. -Respect for private property -The importance of institutions, such as independent courts and many other institutions that function independently of government. -Freedom of expression -Democracy, allowing the people to change the government if they are not satisfied. These are some of the more important values we share.
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  3697.  @calvinblue894  You raise some interesting questions. Nevertheless, Singapore has a legal and political system based largely on those in the west. That's just a fact. If the people in Singapore wish to change those systems to something more in line with what you prefer, you have a system of democratic elections which allows you to do that. Of course, you need to get at least 50% of Singaporeans to agree with you, and that might be difficult.
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  3698.  @calvinblue894  "on the overall..the government still wins..and have most of the say". Yes, I agree with you that the PAP has abused the law to stay in power since independence. Your democracy still needs some improvement, but at the base it has the tools for change. And let's not forget that apparently, most Singaporeans prefer to vote PAP. It's not a terrible party, but not perfect, either. I'm familiar with Amos Yee. And generally, I will agree with you that Singapore has some of that authoritarian style we see here in China. It's still better, though, kinda half way between the Chinese style and the Taiwanese style. You make a lot of references to social problems in North America. Those problems are real. I'm not from there, though, but from Europe. I'm quite happy with the way European society functions. It's pretty nice, but I also think Singaporean society is pretty nice. A well functioning society.
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  3699.  @calvinblue894  Democracy may not give leaders that you approve of, but it gives leaders that the majority of people approve of. And the beauty of democracy is that if people want to have a dictatorship instead, they can vote to end democracy. I don't think that has ever happened and I doubt it ever will. People like the power to decide their government. If you think Singapore is stricter than China, you don't know China very well.
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  3700.  @calvinblue894  Cheer up, Calvin! Your country is pretty great. Best country in SEA! You seem to think that I don't know anything about China. I'm in China now, you know. I've lived here for 25 years. I speak the language, I live in this society just like the Chinese people do. I think I understand what goes on here pretty well.
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  3701. I thought she was cleared months ago.
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  3702. Jazz-Fusion sucked! Hopefully, nuclear fusion will be much better.
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  3703. "fields that can contribute to world peace, help fight diseases, save climate change by employing advanced green technology etc." This sounds very nice, but can you give an example of any space mission from any country from any time period that has ever helped achieve any of these goals? I just don't see any evidence that space travel, and doing experiments in space, can do anything for medical research, world peace, or the climate, and I don't think anybody has seriously suggested that this is even possible. Space travel is primarily about space, living in space, traveling in space. It has little to do with earth.
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  3704. Thanks for yet another well researched and informative video.
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  3705. Bauxite mining has been a very important contributor to Jamaica's economic development. Before discovery of bauxite, Jamaica relied purely on agriculture for its economy. If you want things to always stay the same without any use of natural resources or change in the environment, then your country won't develop. Some of the richest countries in the world have long since eliminated the last bit of original nature, but we're rich and happy today. And nature, you can always grow it back when you feel like it.
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  3706.  @dcc70  "you're taking a big risk." Not really. Western people like me have been here for many years. Getting screwed over by the authorities does happen, but it is extremely rare. But I suppose you could say the same about swimming: Sometimes people do get killed by sharks, but has that prevented you from going to the beach?
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  3707.  @dcc70  Certainly there are sharks in the waters surrounding Taiwan and Singapore, though Singapore doesn't have many good beaches. Singaporeans go to Malaysia and Thailand for the beach, but they both also have sharks. In any case, few, if any, foreigners who live in China do so because they support the local government or the political system. That includes people like Tony and myself. But we are also not too concerned about getting 'disappeared'.
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  3708.  @dcc70  I understand, so I got back to the original argument toward the end.
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  3709.  @dcc70  Thank you.
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  3710. If China continues to grow at 5% per year, it could very well surpass USA by around 2032. But of course we have no idea what growth rates are going to be like in the coming years.
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  3711. Looks pretty great, but I'm afraid that even January will be too hot in HK for me to run a marathon. Shanghai's late November marathon is just the right temperature.
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  3712.  @GarethLee01-tc2vc  Every runner has a different 'ideal temperature'. This is completely personal. Some runners like it hotter, some like it colder. There is no 'perfect temperature' that suits all runners.
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  3713.  @GarethLee01-tc2vc  You must not be an athlete, or even do any kind of outdoors activity. Temperature comfort is a personal matter. Surely, in your life you must have spoken with athletes who express differing views of what they consider 'the best' temperature for exercise. I actually quite enjoy running in sub-zero temperatures, though I wouldn't say it is ideal for me. On the other hand, anything above 26 C slows me down, and wears me down, quickly. I think the ideal for me is around 12 C.
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  3714.  @GarethLee01-tc2vc  Ok, so then I advise you to read my original comment again. What I said was that it was too hot for ME, not that HK weather in January is too hot for everyone. Clearly, lots of people found the temperature to be perfect, I'm just not one of them.
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  3715.  @GarethLee01-tc2vc  Thanks. That was long discussion for nothing, but there's no harm done.
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  3716. So this is about the West, not about Cambodia?
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  3717.  @franciscocz8384  There is really nothing better than freedom and democracy. Perhaps you'll get a chance to experience it one day. For one, it's likely to make you less angry at those countries who have it. And let's face it, those countries you mention didn't have any before, and they still don't have it today. But those that did make the change are much better off today. Not everyone is ready for that change, but in time they will be. It's the wish of the people.
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  3718.  @franciscocz8384  To quote yourself: "Cry me a river".
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  3719.  @OrientalPearl  I'm actually going up there tonight, but not the main campus. I'm going to the School of Management further north in a separate building. When I was a student at Fudan, the foreign students' dorm was on Zhengtong Lu, just off Guoding Lu. That is now a teachers' apartment compound. Happy memories.
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  3720.  @thelandoftwitchclips  "oh yeah.. show us.." Portugal, Greece, Malta, among others. It's much easier if you just Google 'Golden Visa'.
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  3721. What's the point? Only 'patriots' can stand for election. How do we know who is a patriot? Those who are not part of the opposition are patriots. Those who ARE in the opposition are not patriots. Ah, I see. Interesting!
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  3722. I don't notice anything special. Tell us how you interpret the ending.
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  3723. So that means "NO"! If it was his policy to 'bring the troops home' from Afghanistan and Iraq, he would surely have told his press secretary.
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  3724. No. The earthquake was on land, not out in the sea.
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  3725.  @killakame-3434  The epicenter of the quake was on land.
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  3726.  @JJ-hi4gh  "What does one mean by saying 'credible allegation''?" It means that there is a good reason to believe the allegation is true. Here is another important concept: 'reason'. Reason is not the same as a feeling or a suspicion. There must be some tangible evidence that is at the basis for the allegation. Therefore, 'credible allegation' indicates that there is some sort of evidence.
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  3727.  @hdthor  "I’d say the chance you’re grammar is correct is a definite maybe." But the chance your grammar is correct is zero, evidenced by your use of "you're".
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  3728.  @FloridaMan69.  Chicago, sure, but Oakland, no thanks. I have friends in nearby Berkeley, that's close enough.
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  3729.  @jirachi-wishmaker9242  It was only meant as a hypothetical.
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  3730.  @p3u3g3poultree7  Well, I'm not from the US, so I can't say for sure, but the friends I have in America seem to be quite content.
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  3731.  @p3u3g3poultree7  So where do you live now? Do you like it there?
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  3732.  @p3u3g3poultree7  Well, there's still Switzerland. At least as beautiful scenery as Ireland. And better cheese.
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  3733. Any experts here? Can lab-grown diamonds only be pure white? I mean, if carbon is the only input, no other colors can be made.
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  3734. "Elon Musk came from a wealthy family that owned an emerald mine". Do we actually know how wealthy Elon Musk's family was/is? Are we just assuming that any family that owns an emerald mine must be very rich? Does anybody know some numbers? I'm curious.
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  3735. Set fire to the US flag? Sure, protesters do it all the time. Setting fire to a US flag is an act of free expression that is protected by the constitution. In most other free countries, it is also not a crime.
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  3736.  @gravenguan  "UK BNO passport, those are more like for colonial people. It is a truly second class identification." No, that is completely wrong. With a UK BNO passport, they get MORE privileges than people with regular foreign passports. To use your wording, those with UK BNO passports are treated as a better class of people than people from other countries. Of course, once they become UK Citizens, they are treated like any other UK citizen, with all the benefits that bestows on them. This is the standard in every country in the world.
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  3737.  @gravenguan  "you shoukd compare with citizen, no foreign passport". Ok, then foreign citizens are 'second class citizens' in every country around the world, so there is no particular reason to single out HKers and the UK. According to your logic, UK citizens living in HK would also be 'second class citizens'.
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  3738. "Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot He was not afraid to die, oh, brave Sir Robin He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin"
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  3739. To be fair, if it was the penguin that had disturbed the drone, they would have shot the penguin.
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  3740. Hey, I once met Jaynet Kabila, sister of Joseph Kabila. She's a parliamentarian in DRC. We had lunch and dinner together. She was very quiet, but nice. I only realized who she was at the very end.
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  3741.  @banjemine4150  But we know that, too, so it can't be that.
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  3742.  @ssuwandi3240  I don't understand the meaning of your comment. 'Sanitized house', 'to Mars', and some stuff about USA and NATO, which is utterly unrelated to Hong Kong tourism. Please stay on topic.
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  3743.  @ssuwandi3240  "You think G7 is still prospering for travel? You West have ruined the trade harmony" Oh, there will always be some people who are able and willing to travel. And remember, people have to apply for those free tickets. They don't just send them out to random people.
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  3744.  @ssuwandi3240  "two faced schmucks indeed". Your antipathy toward me is well noted.
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  3745.  @julianchi3193  Thanks, Julian, I know. 🙂
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  3746. FYI: China is the world's second biggest arms exporter.
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  3747.  @fraccozeta  Your reaction is justified. I was wrong. China is not the second biggest weapons exporter, it is only the fourth. China's biggest arms costumers are Pakistan and Bangladesh. China's main export items are missiles and missile systems of various kinds. China's missile technology is very good, in my understanding.
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  3748. 0:57 I remember that video game from my local mall. Atari, I think.
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  3749. No, SpaceX locks it geographically to only work in approved locations.
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  3750.  @aboasskarltzhotmai  That I don't know. I imagine that commercial aircraft get to use it everywhere, as long as they're up in the air, and maybe the same for ships. But the reason SpaceX blocks access in some countries is that they don't want to get in trouble with the countries that ban its use.
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  3751. Great rescue mission! I wonder where they could have had 3 meters deep flooding. Perhaps near Dongting Lake?
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  3752.  @ellegmye  Thanks, Elle. I did not know that. I was only a teenager at the time and didn't know much of anything outside my own country.
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  3753. It's not hard to flee to South Gaza. It's only about 15-25 km, a distance that can easily be covered on foot in 3-5 hours.
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  3754.  @urbanaudio9089  Exactly! A backpack and a couple of bags in each hand will probably lengthen the walk by a couple of hours, so that brings them up to 7-8 hours max. No biggie.
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  3755. I didn't even know Ireland was neutral.
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  3756. Wimpy, spineless, weak, delusional, naïve....
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  3757. I'd like to see them land on, and disappear into, a creamy, ripe Brie.
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  3758. I agree that we should be better at designing cities, but stretching them out into one long line is definitely not the answer.
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  3759.  @franki1990  Greed is the driver of creative technological development. When hunter-gatherers first realized that they could plant seeds to get more grain the following year, they did so exactly in order to get more grain, not because they wanted to express their creativity.
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  3760. I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm guessing it has something to do with St. Patrick's Day.
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  3761. Whatever the money ends up going toward, I think it should be called 'The Kusenko-Muller Passing Wind' Grant.
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  3762. Probably not every summer, but on the occasional hot summer.
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  3763. Black, white, Asian, it's all fine, but why did they have to interview all those Beijingers?
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  3764. That's because they can pump as much money as is needed into the economy to reach that growth target. Of course that's debt, which goes up, and up, and up.
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  3765.  @herrwolf5184  Not really. The Chinese govt. prefers to boost the economy by investing in infrastructure and new technologies (by giving grants and cheap loans to tech companies and R&D labs). The American model is to boost consumption. Both can work, but there's no guarantee that either will always work. Personally, I think China should boost consumption by giving money to people. With 1.4 billion people, China should be a consumer economy rather than an export economy.
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  3766.  @BabaYaga826  "No one can compete with USA." I don't think China is trying to compete with USA on debt, but they have no other choice. They have to increase debt year by year to keep the economy growing.
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  3767. During the Cultural Revolution, many of those persecuted were also accused of being 'foreign spies and agents' in addition to 'traitors'. These are very convenient accusations because no one likes a traitor, so they are automatically seen by the public as guilty, without proof.
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  3768. @Chan Fat And that is evidence that they are traitors?
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  3769.  @AutoTrawler  My comment was partly in jest. After all, in a first tier city like Shanghai, prices are still going up, and will likely continue. During and after the sub-prime mortgage crisis in 2008, housing prices in Manhattan continued to go up. Some places always have a long line of people hoping to get in.
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  3770. 'He was later given a banner'. Shows a 3 by 4 foot frilly monstrosity, twice the size of the boy he saved. Couldn't they have made it bigger? The flowers are nice, though.
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  3771. Cindy Yu, you need to do something about the room acoustics. It's makes your speech less clear.
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  3772. All their nuclear missiles can be wound up by turning a handle, just in case something like this happens again.
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  3773. Unlikely
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  3774. European countries have been training large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers. Since early spring, there have been around 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers at any one time in Europe, training for several weeks to several months. Mostly specialized training in NATO equipment and urban combat in addition to some basic training.
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  3775. At the beginning of the year, the Chinese government planned to pump 5 trillion yuan into the economy during the year. 5T is 4% of the economy. So if the economy this year grows by 4.9%, that means only 0.9% is organic growth, the rest is government investment. With this new 3T stimulus into the property sector, it may be as high as 6T total, which means all the economic growth this year comes from government investment.
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  3776. These sand storms are largely a result of an excess of goat/sheep grazing. As China, and now Mongolia, have become more prosperous, herdsmen have increased their herd size to make more money. As the grasslands are a 'free for all', no one seems to consider the long term consequences of letting the sheep eat everything, including the roots. China has made some efforts to change herding practices by mandating penned herds (and bringing the grass to the pens), but Mongolia still hasn't quite gotten to that level yet. In time, this will hopefully improve. Economic development is complicated.
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  3777. You do not need to look Chinese to get a visa, find a girlfriend, or get married. However, even if you look Chinese, it is almost impossible to get Chinese citizenship.
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  3778. I remember it, though not very clearly. I must have been engaged with other things at the time. It's a bit like a train crash, or a plane crash, just more dramatic.
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  3779. Re. the snowed over LED traffic lights, I believe this problem has since been solved through a redesign of the lights or the screen around them. It should be a fairly easy problem to solve in the design process.
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  3780. Brazil founded Embraer in 1969 when the GDP/capita was only USD 400.- They started building small aircraft and then developed over time. They delivered their first regional jet in 1996, when GDP/capita was USD 5,000.- Don't get me wrong, it is a real achievement of China to have made the C919, but it is not unique.
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  3781.  @令喆孟  “美国不可能允许周围国家发达起来.” 这才是你的意见，不是事实， 例如加拿大， 很发达，就在美国旁边。智利也是发达国家。还有，加拿大也有自己的造飞机公司: Bombardier. "巴西离上帝太远". 谁说上帝不在巴西的肩上？
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  3782.  @Shirokuma15  Does that mean Indonesia is going to end diplomatic relations with Russia?
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  3783. 5:48 Host: 'This here is Suparno, wassup Suparno'? Suparno: 'Who is this dude? Why is he talking to me'?
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  3784.  @雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu  Ok, but primarily Chinese preying on Chinese. All those pig-butchering scams are so common in China. I get calls almost every day in Shanghai, although most of those seem to be loan scams.
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  3785.  @雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu  "Thailand is letting those people living in their country". Yes, Thai politicians are now suggesting ending visa-free access for Chinese citizens, because they end up ruining Thailand's reputation with other Chinese people. It's a problem that is largely caused by China's economic stagnation.
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  3786.  @antinatalistwitch111  What do you mean?
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  3787. Very enlightening, thank you.
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  3788. They have talked before and will undoubtedly talk again. But this time it was EU-China.
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  3789.  @willywonka4340  "one naval blockade by a foreign adversary can end these countries". Yes, that's probably true, but it would be pretty hard to blockade a large country like China. Can we please try to be realistic, rather than engage in fantasies?
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  3790.  @DuxSupremus  "So China is already cultivating more land than the US is. " I think you may be misreading the numbers: USA Total area (metric, I'm European): 9.8 million sqkm. of which 16.8% is arable. Of the arable land 44.5% is farmland, which gives Arable: 1.64 million sqkm Farmed: 0.73 million sqkm China 9.6 million sqkm. of which 11.3% is arable. Of the arable land 54.7% is farmland Arable: 1.08 million sqkm Farmed: 0.59 million sqkm So the total farmed area in China is 80% the size of that in the US. In any case, the population of China has always been very large, because even in ancient times, they were able to feed a very large population. This is due to the very fertile soil and good climate conditions in China. The US obviously also has excellent soil, but not quite as good climate. Yet, the US could easily feed a population twice or three times its current size. As for China, 1.4 billion is probably surpassing the point at which the land is not longer able to feed its population, so there's no doubt they have problems. Communists have always had an obsession with self-sufficiency. They were very focused on that in USSR, and today in N. Korea, China, Cuba, etc. There's a certain level of paranoia inherent in communism, especially in relation to food, as if they are constantly worried that other countries will not want to trade with them.
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  3791.  @billfrehe6620  " A naval blockade of China would be quite easy". As I'm sure you know, China has a very large navy, a very large coastal patrol force, a very large marine militia, and a very large merchant fleet, in addition to a coastline more than 3500 km long. Blockading such a country would not be easy by any means, even if all western naval powers join forces.
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  3792.  @billfrehe6620  Your feelings of amusement notwithstanding, even the Pentagon realizes the dangerous size and capabilities of the Chinese military. Fortunately, they are not as dismissive as you, but take the situation seriously.
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  3793. 0:47 "The most important thing is to keep the spirit of TCM culture". Yes, because there is zero evidence that TCM can cure your disease. It's all based on belief, same a herbal treatments from other cultures. People, stick to science.
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  3794. It's a solid day's work for a man who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.
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  3795. Can you tell us when China will start shaking the world? It would be nice to prepare.
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  3796.  @catinbootsnow4267  "Pro-Israel Americans and pro-Palestine Americans are both emotional". Oh, so true! It's pathetic to observe. Fortunately, I have at least one American friend who sees it like we do.
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  3797. "please follow US money". How about you get us started with whatever information you have?
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  3798. Wow, all the way to Admiralty! That's pretty convenient!
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  3799. Looking like a lens? An inverted lens? The burger comes out elliptical? May I suggest using the words concave and convex. Concave=thinner in the middle. Convex=fatter in the middle.
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  3800. Numerous internet commentators have told me that China will very, very, very soon completely overtake the US in semiconductor technology, so China has nothing to worry about.
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  3801. 40,000 or 4 million, it doesn't really matter in the long run. Since the vast majority of deaths from Covid are older people, they would have died in the next 10-20 years anyway. They are also not big consumers or producers. Sorry, but old people are not the main drivers of a country's economy or development. Yes, it's a little cold-hearted to say that, but it's a fact.
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  3802. These two guys. One is moar Noo Yoak than the otha.
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  3803. haha, good one!
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  3804. Japanese people are already quite short. If the population keeps shrinking, soon we won't be able to see them. But if they only wash themselves in cold water, they won't shrink.
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  3805. Everything has changed in 50 years, except British weather.
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  3806. My first phone used the GSM network. That pulled very low Gs.... almost weightless.
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  3807. Haha, chuckle, chuckle...
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  3808.  @herrensaar1989  "the trend of putting cholotate and licorice together. Please just kill it yesterday" I concur. It's a culinary Frankensteinian monster! (fellow Dane).
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  3809. Even though I hardly understood anything in this video, I still found it interesting.
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  3810.  @leyasep5919  Oh, I've been a subscriber for a long time, thank you.
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  3811. "there are massive problems with our civilization". Could you give a list of the most massive problems with our civilization? I hope it doesn't include 'trans-activism' or 'loss of the traditional family' because those are microscopic problems that will solve themselves.
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  3812.  @Freshie55  Ok, the mass shootings and homelessness are serious problems that ought to be solved. They can be solved if the will is there, but it isn't. People say homelessness can be solved with affordable housing, but any affordable housing will just be taken up by young people why were staying with their parents before. The homeless will still be homeless. A better (but heartless) way is to simply ban sleeping in the streets and enforce it. Mass shootings is harder to solve without even more draconian measures. In any society, we have a choice: More freedom and less safety; or more safety and less freedom. It's finding that sweet spot that's so hard.
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  3813. I'll happily take the Acrylamide and fats for a food product that tastes much better. Oil for me, please.
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  3814. He had been struggling with substance abuse for several decades.
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  3815. And there's a decent night market nearby where you can get your snacks after seeing the train.
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  3816. They've been listed on Nasdaq since 2018.
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  3817. I don't see any illegality in this video clip. Maybe I'm missing something?
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  3818.  Roger Out  Well, I'm just reading other comments, and it seems like people view this as evidence of illegal acts. To me it just looks like a group of people backstage looking at TV screens. Of course, there's no sound. Maybe sound would change the picture.
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  3819.  @xypzs5123  "in position to know the truth". Just to humor you, what position is that? And what is that truth you're talking about? Perhaps you'd care to share it here in detail?
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  3820.  @christinewillis7545  Wake up to what? I'm well aware of the problems facing society. Those problems aren't new. Problems are there to be solved. Better if you propose a solution.
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  3821.  @christinewillis7545  I thought you were going to provide solutions to society's problems, not just repeat what this doc said about underground money transfers.
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  3822. That's not the reason I use it. I use it for convenience. I haven't used cash money in several years. I stopped carrying cash 18 months ago.
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  3823. There was just news that an Egyptian football player was criticized for having a Christmas tree in his home.
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  3824. By several months. Maybe the video was found under a pile of documents.
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  3825. Unlikely. In China, as elsewhere, most of the people dying from Covid will have been elderly people. Elderly people don't consume much even when they're alive.
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  3826.  @markbernier8434  "There is data that suggests the population has been considerably overstated for years". Could you direct me to that data? I keep hearing people mentioning this, but I have been unable to find any underlying data.
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  3827.  @texaswunderkind  But why can't we provide that?
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  3828.  @europeets  ?????
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  3829.  @grahamelliott9506  "their population would halve about 2075". This is a more reasonable estimate. "they have over counted their census by 100m". I know some people are saying that, particularly the U. Wisconsin Obstetrician Yi Fuxian, but there is no evidence for his numbers. They are just speculation. The rest of the trends you mention are correct, and they will most likely lead to a halving of the population by the 2070s, not by 2050. In 2050 there will still be around 1.2 Billion. Put the numbers in a spreadsheet and make your own calculation, as I have done.
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  3830.  @grahamelliott9506  "china's population halves from its peak in the next 3 to 5 decades". 5 decades, maybe 6. It's math.
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  3831. Capitalism enabled the leather industry to move to more safe and cleaner ways to tan leather. China, Soviet Union, Vietnam have all processed leather this way, as have western/capitalist countries. It's not about the economic system applied, but about the level of economic, social, and technological development reached.
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  3832. There is much less gun violence now than during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. In general, America is safer now than at any time in history. Check the homicide statistics for yourself.
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  3833. Am I the only one who caught this from the title "Silicone Valley"? Silicone? In the 1980s, 'silicone valley' was a slang term for the cleavage created by implant-augmented breasts.
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  3834.  @realmaniac  And more expensive than by sea. I prefer shipping by sea, as do almost everybody else.
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  3835.  @sko1beer  Fortunately, that's a very rare occurrence, not really worth worrying about.
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  3836.  @ouyangon5711  Yes, that's possible. We are not willing to sacrifice lives for social order. You are not willing to sacrifice lives for personal freedom.
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  3837. Very enlightening!
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  3838. New Yorkers buy it. Wall Street types and people interested in business/economy.
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  3839. So, in short: Still nothing.
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  3840. They live there, you silly man! People can't just move away at a whim.
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  3841. This was primarily advocacy, not so much educational. I would prefer more education, more digging into the data, more real-world examples of what is being done, and what is not being done. Examples of successes and failures, examples that we can all learn from. To just tell us (the viewer) that we need to do more may be true, but it leaves us unfulfilled because we don't learn how to do it. Actually, I will suggest an old favorite video of mine by John Liu: https://youtu.be/8QUSIJ80n50?si=ESWvwGbFknibSDVV
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  3842. Prostitution is an honorable profession for all MILFs. Is she also on OnlyFans?
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  3843.  @lawlaw585  Whether money is printed or not doesn't make a difference.
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  3844. I think it's most of them.
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  3845. Answering myself: There was at least one accident in 2013, killing 4. But I also learned that the China Railway Corporation has a policy not to publish information about deadly accidents . No wonder we don't know about them.
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  3846. Great skill, but frankly, these styles look very 土。
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  3847.  @HoldMyCowsberg  Wouldn't it be easy to make the same claim about all the Chinese space launches? That they're all fake? Watch what ideas you put out there; they might be used against you.
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  3848.  @HoldMyCowsberg  And that debt is bought by eager investors.
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  3849. We're not going extinct. People who think we are have a very limited and simplistic understanding of humanity and the world. Homo Sapiens is an extraordinary species!
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  3850.  @MrBlinder514  Huh, that's interesting. Those Beijingers, they're really something.
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  3851. It's not going to happen overnight, just like China's manufacturing prowess didn't happen overnight. I remember Chinese manufacturing in the 90s, not quite ready for prime time. Everybody has to start somewhere.
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  3852. Most recent tests of the Fukushima waste water, monitored by the UN IAEA, shows the radiation level to be 63 becquerels of Tritium per liter. The World Health Organization recommends an upper limit of 100 becquerels per liter of drinking water. Therefore, the waste water is RELATIVELY safe, but not completely safe. There is no such thing as 'completely safe'. There is background radiation everywhere in our world; even 'pure' drinking water that you buy in a shop has a small amount of radiation in it, as does all the food you eat, and all the air you breathe. A very small number of people die because of that. Nothing we can do about that; it is just a part of existing in the world. The Fukushima waste water could, in theory, be drunk without problems. But again, if one million people each drink one glass of it, straight from the storage tanks, probably one person will die from it, the rest will be just fine. Once it gets diluted in the ocean, that problem is basically solved. The risk that seafood should be contaminated from this is basically zero.
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  3853. And gas prices in Norway are $9/gallon.
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  3854.  @glennv3176  None of them mentioned that they weren't able to "drive to grandma for christmas". You're fantasizing.
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  3855.  @glennv3176  Several people mentioned that they just charge along the way. Others mentioned that they also owned a gas car for that specific purpose. So those who need a gas car will buy one, those who don't may buy electric. It's no different from the choices you make when you buy any other product.
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  3856.  @glennv3176  They DO have a choice, it's just that one choice is more expensive than the other. I don't know what country you live in, but why don't you leave the Norwegians to manage their own country and concentrate on how to manage your own?
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  3857. I don't think this will be successful. Much better for the US to help India develop their solar industry, and then buy from the cheapest supplier. Playing India and China against each other should ensure low prices and a steady supply. The solar manufacturing industry seems to be made for large, middle income countries (with future players possibly being Nigeria or Brazil).
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  3858. I think a lot of people not familiar with Soviet history don't really know the meaning of that phrase. I had to look it up. It brought a smile to my face.
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  3859. I myself have been involved in child labor: When I was 13 I got my first after-school job: Cleaning an office, twice a week. It was great to make my own money and it helped me save up for the things I really wanted to have.
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  3860. ...and later the French pilots return from mission to a meal of croissants with Bayonne ham and Gruyere cheese, and a nice cafe au lait...
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  3861. The thumbnail shows only whiskey.
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  3862. @Bard Erland "for instance, do something useful out of your life" Such as writing long passages on internet comment sections about future, not-yet-developed technologies?
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  3863. Is it possible that there are other species of coral that are more suited to these high water temperatures? After all, 33 degrees C is not the highest temperature around, though it may be especially high for the Gulf of Thailand.
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  3864.  @shutup51916  Perhaps not, but whining can make you feel better inside, even if it doesn't actually help improve your situation. Whining is very popular.
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  3865.  @godzillamothra5983  Any country can do that. If a country feels guilty, they won't invade in the first place. Countries invade other countries because they feel they have a good reason or justification to do so.
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  3866.  @godzillamothra5983  Look at my answer a little further up.
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  3867.  @MetaView7  I'm sure some kids were killed. That's what happens when the bombs fall.
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  3868.  @godzillamothra5983  I believe the reasons for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were, in part, an attempt to create liberal democracies in the Middle East. That obviously failed. For more reasons, you really need to use Google more so you can find answers to your questions. I can't be your personal Google or Alexa or Siri.
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  3869. @Khepri Try to read the whole conversation in the comment thread and you will understand my position.
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  3870.  @pbworld7858  Which of my comments are you replying to?
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  3871. Well, there's CGTN, that's pretty pro-China. You can try that. It's good to get different points of view.
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  3872. Typical diet in France: Foie gras with cornichons, accompanied by a glass of wine. "Typical Diet" in the US: A grey powder in a vial.
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  3873. 35:20 (Re. China) "By 2050 their population will be less than half of what it is today". I've heard Peter Zeihan say this on multiple occasions recently, but it is simply not physically possible, barring a major deadly epidemic or nuclear war. We can expect that almost all people under the age of 50 today will still be alive in 2050 (28 years from now they'll be 78). Well, China currently has 900 million under 50 years of age, and there will still be some children born between now and then. By 2050, China's population will most likely be around 1.15 Billion, or about 260 million fewer than today. A halving of China's current population will most likely happen as soon as 2080. By 2100 it could be as low as 450 million.
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  3874.  @sleepingtoss  Yes, Zeihan has said many times that China has overestimated the population. This is based on the Wisconsin researcher Yi FuXian, who has written books with this claim. But there is no real evidence that that should be true. By 2050, the Chinese work force will be 65% of the population, as opposed to 70% today. In total numbers: 980 m today, 750 m in 2050. But that is not what Zeihan is saying. He is making two major claims: 1: By 2050, the population will be halved (This is simply not possible, barring natural disasters). 2: By the end of this decade, China will seize to be a functioning state. That is also a ridiculous claim. Worst case, China's economy may be shrinking, but even that is highly unlikely.
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  3875. I can't wait until we get the North Pole. We've been putting up with those squatters Superman and Santa Claus for far too long. Time to charge some rent!
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  3876. It should be the Academy Awards asking to get a mention in one of Zelensky's speeches. He is much more decisive, consequential, and popular than this self-congratulatory, self-absorbed and meaningless award show.
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  3877. That dog at 0:38 is pretty cute!
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  3878. I believe that falls away after Jan. 8. They may even begin to take applications for tourist visas come spring. That'll be a first in 3 years.
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  3879.  @xuli3961  As a Chinese you may also be biased against anything related to India.
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  3880.  @GangesNaanman  I don't compare China to India, the original poster (yes, that's YOU) compared China to India.
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  3881.  @leminion3097  I don't compare any products, I'm providing data on India's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.
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  3882. The market value of SMIC also went down. How do you explain that? Could it be that market values of all these tech companies are only remotely related to the Huawei Mate 60?
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  3883.  @whiteknuckles  Yes, you're right. SMIC did go up in the days immediately following Aug. 29, from HKD19 to 22, and then it fell again to HKD20 today. ASML has fallen 12% since Aug.29, but it was already on a downward trajectory since mid-July, so it's pretty speculative to make any connection to the Mate 60 or SMIC. SMIC up 145% in 5 years. ASML up 210% in 5 years.
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  3884. What happens if you do criticize Israel? I'll tell you: You get criticized yourself. That's all. It's a debate.
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  3885.  @Aurora-bv1ys  I agree
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  3886.  @marcelo55869  "why don't we copy it?" Most developed countries have already been operating under a market economy for centuries.
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  3887.  @zaintbreez5178  That is correct. So you can feel free to travel around Europe in a full evening make-up, if that pleases you.
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  3888. Impressive! Now let's see Paul Allen's aircraft carrier.
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  3889. Classic New Year's greeting, could have been written as a WeChat message to friends and colleagues (with lots of extra emojis).
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  3890.  @sz5263  To make money?
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  3891. I think this war could easily last more than 2 years. Once Russian forces go into defensive positions, digging themselves down, it can be a very lengthy process to 'smoke' them out. It's a lot easier to defend than to attack.
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  3892. Is that Nicki Minaj?
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  3893. They post videos about that regularly. Two videos in the last month.
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  3894. They are made public by SpaceX. Transparency breeds more trust than secrecy. And let's not forget that astronauts are already using SpaceX rockets to go to the International Space Station.
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  3895. Hmm, could be anything: Flu, Appendicitis, food poisoning, lightning strike, Ebola, accidentally superglued himself to the floor, AIDS, Panda attack, violent assault by wife, cold, eating too many 蟹粉小笼包.
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  3896.  @soyea4818  By the time this gadget gets up and running, the last Bitcoin will already have been mined. But I'm sure there'll be other crypto currencies people can mine.
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  3897. I'm also a thigh man for chicken, but not when it comes to women.
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  3898. 130,000 Indians acquired citizenship of an OECD country. That is only 0.01% of India's population, or one in 10,000.
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  3899. Good conversation.
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  3900. Re. No Communists: Foreigners entering the US really DO HAVE TO check a box that says 'No, I have never been a member of the communist party'. Other boxes that need answering NO to include 'Have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization'. At least that used to be the case and I have done it several times.
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  3901. "China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges". If only that meant lots of Chinese and American people engaged in a hot free-for-all orgy during the event, that would be pretty awesome.
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  3902. 5:00 I feel it's a misunderstanding to say that it was all the wires that needed to be replaced with semiconductors. Before semiconductors, the calculations were done with vacuum tubes, and those are quite big. The semiconductor replaced the vacuum tubes, not the wires.
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  3903. All the comments below mention unemployment. My comment was not about unemployment, but only about educational attainment rate.
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  3904. For people interested in an alternative view, there is a very interesting, and recent, lecture by economist and professor Arthur Kroeber, NYU, given Sep. 22 at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @ Harvard U. It has a somewhat different conclusion from we normally see here on China Update, but it is accompanied by lots of data. A very interesting perspective. https://youtu.be/LnXVzcgllrE?si=A_Xb4MGTONvu-6vz (Also a good recording where the camera zooms in on the slides rather than the speaker; the opposite is too often the case). (The Fairbank Center is named after John King Fairbank, an eminent historian every China observer is familiar with)
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  3905. Perhaps you should ask yourself the question: Why do so many Indian people leave India, and then try to kill other Indians? That's not something we see from other countries.
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  3906. Reciprocal expulsion of an ambassador is standard diplomatic practice. I agree it can seem a little childish, but this is what is done by all countries. Later on, new ambassadors are usually appointed.
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  3907.  @zjz19900621  A 75% yield using a 28nm machine to make 7nm chips? I don't know where you got those numbers from, but if it's true, it would a major achievement.
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  3908.  @tonysu8860  The US' trade restrictions are, at least in part, due to China's mercantilist policies. Eventually, trade partners are going to to resist always buying and never selling. I think you're going to see this with the EU soon, as well.
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  3909. I think the new aspect is how the currency swaps don't actually involve moving any money. RMB only circulate within China, and USD only circulate within the US, but still everybody manages to move their money across borders.
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  3910. Protection from the destruction of the Cultural Revolution.
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  3911. Why would China pay 5 million to get a spy to the US when they can do it for free right now?
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  3912. You mean the lipstick guy?
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  3913. I find it frustrating that the footage only shows the balloon being shot and falling a few hundred meters, but doesn't show it hitting the water. I understand it's not that important, but if I were standing on the shore and looking, I wouldn't just turn around and leave until well after it had hit the water. Very dissatisfying footage!
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  3914. Has the Thai government presented any evidence that cannabis is the cause of increased crime? Have they presented any evidence that increasing numbers of children are consuming cannabis? Without such evidence, it's nothing more than policy governed by irrational fear.
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  3915.  @Dalvik.N  That's true, but the EU does want to buy. That is why the case may be brought before the WTO. Nothing colonialist about that. Your logic is this: Country A bring a case against country B before the WTO, and that makes country A colonialist. Indonesia might bring a case against the EU before the WTO. That would make Indonesia colonialist, wouldn't it? Countries take other countries to the WTO all the time. Doesn't mean any of them are colonialist.
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  3916.  @FaktaHumorChanel-en6fq  As I have said repeatedly, my opposition is toward the idea that the EU is committing an 'evil' act, that they are nefarious, or unfair, or colonialist. My position is that EU's action is wholly within the standards of the WTO. Any country or trade entity can take another trade entity before the WTO to get a judgment on trade practices. I'm sure Indonesia has, or will do this at some stage, too. That is the whole reason we have a WTO with rules. There is nothing evil about this and it is similar to one badminton player asking the referee for a judgment in an important match.
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  3917.  @binarexa5289  I agree EU's action is not beneficial to Indonesia, and that Indonesia, as a developing country, does not have the economic power that the EU has. However, that does not mean that the 'weaker' economies can just break the rules because they are not as rich. Everybody must follow the rules. Now, it could very well end up with the WTO ruling in Indonesia's favor. Then, hopefully, we can put an end to this unhappy situation. And let's be real: Even if the EU wins, what are they gonna do? I don't think there is much they can do, other than buying their nickel somewhere else. As many commenters have written: Indonesia has many other customers. Indonesia doesn't need EU.
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  3918.  @suasanakota6219  "we already conduct business to those who respect our decision." Great! So Indonesia is happy and EU is the loser. Then I'm just wondering why so many people are so angry.
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  3919.  @fachrulsaid1336  ais krim
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  3920.  @fachrulsaid1336  nasi padang
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  3921.  @airaairin4460  Gado Gado
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  3922.  @airaairin4460  Ayam Goreng
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  3923.  @airaairin4460  I've never had tempe, but I want to try.
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  3924.  @stevanuswijaya  "WTO complained, saying that we have to sell it to EU, why?" I think it's because it's against the rules. Do you think rules are important?
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  3925.  @IndoFarmID  "stop being naive". In what way am I naive?
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  3926.  @Uurva  "I'm not saying that it's going to happen again". Ok, you agree with me, so why complain?
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  3927.  @Uurva  "it could happen". Yes, it could. It could also happen that Indonesia goes to Europe and colonizes The Netherlands. But is it likely? No, not even a little likely. By the way, you keep saying 'Europe' as if all Europeans are Dutch. Most Europeans, and most European countries were never involved in colonization. Are Indonesians the same as Papuans, or Japanese, or Indians? No. There are 44 countries in Europe, of which only 10 were ever involved in colonization.
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  3928.  @mbakjowo1906  Stop whining and grow up! Be strong, don't be such a weakling!
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  3929.  @mbakjowo1906  "We just asked for fair treatment." Fair treatment is treatment that is codified in WTOs rule book. "What is even a fair trade?" 'Fair Trade' is not a concept within trade agreements. Rather, 'Fair Trade' is an idea conceived by NGOs to pay farmers and producers in developing countries more than the market decides. I.E., if you can only sell your product for IDR 10,000 in the open market, the 'Fair Trade' people say you should be given extra money. It's a nice idea, but most people don't want to pay more than they have to.
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  3930.  @mbakjowo1906  "stop hindering our growth". No one is hindering your growth, but you cannot force other people to buy what they don't want to buy, nor can you force them to pay more than they want to pay.
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  3931.  @mbakjowo1906  This has already been discussed further up in this comment thread. Check it out first.
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  3932.  @mbakjowo1906  Again, I refer you to previous comments further up. This has been covered.
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  3933.  @suasanakota6219  "Indonesia is already move on." Ok, then it's surprising why so many Indonesians express so much anger in this thread.
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  3934.  @vijyeubaidillah1283  That is correct. The EU may be filing a complaint with the WTO, which is the correct place to do it.
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  3935.  @lookielookie1393  I have no idea what you are referring to.
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  3936.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  What's the problem with suing you in WTO? If you're right you win.
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  3937.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  EU is well ahead of China with respect to the environment, thank you. Come take a look.
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  3938.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  It's not weird, it's just following the rules of WTO.
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  3939.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  So far, it's the angry pro-Indonesian commenters in this thread who are doing all the crying and other emotional outbursts. We are more rational in Europe, less emotional.
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  3940.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  "You spelled egostical wrong, lol." So did you.
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  3941.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  I have no idea what you're talking about. Let's stay on topic and not get personal.
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  3942.  @m.akbarfajrian2656  You call me 'pathetic'. That is personal and outside the topic of this thread which is about a trade dispute between Indonesia and the EU. It is not about you or me.
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  3943. Meanwhile, Xi is giving a speech at Bo'ao Forum indicating things are going well. https://youtu.be/tT0yFnghsjw
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  3944. It certainly looks suspicious, but without evidence of wrongdoing, what are you gonna do?
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  3945. They only eat small fries, at least from now on.
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  3946. "The new system uses magnets with rare earth elements to create a constant repelling force". Sounds like rows of neodymium magnets placed north-north or south-south, repelling each other. Neodymium is a rare earth. However, presumably they will still need electromagnetic forces to drive the train forward, or backward, or to stop it. It will be interesting to see how this works in practice and what the final operating cost will be.
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  3947.  @AntonBerglund88  There is no famine now, but there are still severe food shortages. Refer to the annual grain production above.
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  3948.  @maddoo23  In my understanding, the term 'secret sauce' was first used by McDonald's to refer to the mayo that go in their Big Macs.
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  3949.  @maddoo23  I think it would have been more fun if Blinken had ended his sentence with '...Dude!'
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  3950.  @maddoo23  Not that I know of. That would probably take it a step too far in the overly casual direction.
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  3951. "Chrissy Teigen Pan". I had to look that up. Turns out there is a whole line of cookware. Cookware endorsed by a Hollywood celebrity. Actually, I don't know if she is a Hollywood celebrity, but I've seen photos of her at premieres and product launches, standing together with other celebrities.
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  3952. "Hey, Afghan National Army, would you like to surrender"? "Sure, I'll be right out, let me just get my pants on".
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  3953. China started its ban on Japanese seafood in early July, 2023: https://youtu.be/gVF-MVFo9UE?si=mU4DM6OEq-uynukY
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  3954. "the superiority of western model." It's science, not politics. If you think physics, chemistry, biology, all of which were first developed in the west, if you think they are somehow not valid exactly because they were developed in the west, then feel free to reject them and try something else. Physics, chemistry, biology work, not because they are western, but because there is a real-world evidentiary basis behind them. And who knows, maybe it was just a coincidence that they were first developed in the west; there is certainly nothing particularly western about any of these sciences. Re. the Nobel Prize: If you are so resentful of the Nobel Prize, why even mention it? Sounds like you are full of envy.
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  3955. Is there even such a thing as a 'fake accent'? There are millions of accents, none are more real or fake than others.
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  3956.  @ladarrylemccalpin  "tornado alley has shifted". I did not know that, but I'm sure it must be a relief for those it has shifted away from.
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  3957. @BegissoR Do you have some data to back up that assertion?
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  3958. @BegissoR Yes, I've noticed the Ruble is back to pre-war levels. Is that all it takes to have a 'growing economy'? We'll see if you guys can pull it off. You're used to hardship for many centuries. It almost seems like you enjoy it.
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  3959. @BegissoR What else? Supermarkets are full? That's great, you can buy food. Oil and gas prices up? Also great, but what if your customers won't buy your oil and gas? We're only at the beginning, I think. There is a growing feeling in the west that we can no longer have a reasonable relationship with Russia, in trade, culture, diplomacy, anything. People here want to cut all ties, forever. It's just too much trouble to engage with Russia, so why even try. Perhaps relations can be improved, someday in the distant future. We'll see.
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  3960.  @pedrob3953  It's historical fact: The Soviet Union did it to Eastern Europe against their will, and tried to do it against Afghanistan. Further back, Nazi Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Roman Empire, Inka Empire, Mongolian Empire, etc. etc. As for pure sanctions, China did it against Australia in recent years. It's how the world works, love it or hate it.
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  3961. Haha, it looks like we all have the same idea: Homes for low-income people.
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  3962. Excellent explanation! Thanks for that.
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  3963.  @josephsanchez5396  "we won't know which side is actually correct for several years". That is certainly a statement we can agree on. I think we also agree that China's economy will eventually decline, I just think it won't happen until the 2040s.
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  3964. The graphs shown are very illustrative, but when examined closer, they don't really show much disparity. For example, the graph on attaining a STEM degree (6:22) show that black and hispanic students drop by 2%. So if 100 black and hispanic students got a stem degree in 1996, in 2002 98 black and hispanic students got one. Same with attending grad school: A 2% drop. Same with average salary attained: A 2% drop. Is that statistically significant? Perhaps a little, but it is nowhere near the gross disparity we might have otherwise feared.
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  3965.  ENERRRGY  It's an ankle brace. Inside it is a GPS transmitter/receiver, just like in your mobile phone. With this ankle brace on, her movements can be tracked. She is allowed to stay in her house and she can move freely around outside her house as long as she is with the local guards.
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  3966.  @知-k3q  Yes, there's no doubt Chinese Americans are also doing very well in America. My comment was in reply to the person who implied that Indian students/immigrants were 'second tier' and another who implied that Indian immigrants were somehow a problem. The data clearly shows that Indian immigrants are performing very well in America, and I think most western countries would benefit from having even more Chinese and Indian immigrants.
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  3967.  @obj6989  Yes, opportunities for the best and brightest have been very favorable in recent years, especially in tech. Do you think that is going to continue? All sorts of companies are reporting difficulties ahead: Tencent, Alibaba, JD, Baidu and many others. ByteDance (Douyin) seems to be doing very well. It's hard to know the real labor situation here, because the government has issued a directive that the media should not report negative economic news, so that leaves us in the dark.
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  3968.  @happymelon7129  Strange. I looked it up, but I cannot find any news about this incident. Where did you read this?
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  3969.  @happymelon7129  Oh, I found a story about it. However, you don't need to provide me with those types of stories. I'm not too interested in crime news stories, and especially not in some far-flung country.
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  3970.  @tomsuh1362  "enriching a country industry". I never said that, must be something you're pulling out of your behind.
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  3971.  耳耳  "Laos uses one percent of the potash mine it owns to pay off its debt". Laos is a net potash importer, not exporter. Therefore, Laos cannot pay off its debts using potash. " Why is Laos not in debt, tell me? " Laos IS in debt! Total foreign debt: US$ 16 Billion = 88% of GDP. That's a very large debt load.
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  3972.  耳耳  Key words here: " If the acquisition of potash fertilizer resources in Laos is successful". So far, potash imports into Laos are bigger than exports. Thus, no surplus to help pay back the loans.
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  3973.  耳耳  I'm suggesting China is at fault here, but I am suggesting that the loans will be very difficult, almost impossible, for Laos to pay back.
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  3974.  耳耳  That's very helpful to Laos for paying back the loans. Maybe the railway will be beneficial to Laos' economy. We'll see.
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  3975.  耳耳  " the twenty-third year". You mean 2023? Well, let's see. I couldn't find any info about this mine.
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  3976.  耳耳  Well, you're clearly more optimistic than me about Laos' ability to pay off those loans. Let's hope you're right.
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  3977. Well, we're at 7.3% now, so it's entirely feasible, though by no means guaranteed.
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  3978.  @voltydequa845  Your comment has no meaning. "Make up your sense". Do you mean 'make up your mind'?
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  3979.  @voltydequa845  'Put your mind into sense' is also not correct English. Perhaps you mean 'be sensible'? With regard to the future of wind power, we can only speculate, but to go from 7.3% to 20% is certainly within the realm of possibility. It requires annual growth of 15% in new installations over the next 7 years. Growth in 2023 was 9%, so not enough yet. Time will tell.
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  3980. Once the US is run by a party called 'The Imperialist Party of USA' you can safely do that.
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  3981. Here's a link to that YouTube channel that is dedicated to the bridge in the US that keeps peeling the tops off trucks. Happens all the time. Very satisfying videos, except for the truck driver. https://www.youtube.com/@11foot8plus8
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  3982. Hawaii is not on an atoll. Pacific islands based around volcanos won't get inundated for many centuries, or millennia. But the states built on low-lying atolls will, and relatively soon.
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  3983. I find these new background visuals to be distracting.
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  3984. Toyota - Lexus - Buick - ??? no Tesla.
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  3985.  @grimsonforce7504  Clearly it's not the only answer, as I just gave two different possibilities, but it may be the answer you believe.
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  3986. "The Chinese never forget the American help Chinese education since Qing Dynasty and fighting with the Japanese during world war II." I hope you're right, but it's something I have almost never heard mentioned in my many years in China.
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  3987.  @steveyu6434  Well, there's no doubt that the US sees China as an adversary, just like China sees USA as an adversary. That has been clear since 1949 and it has never really changed, even in the 'honeymoon years' of the 80s and 90s.
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  3988.  @李大人-m7p  Yes, that is a historical fact. We cannot go back and change history. On the other hand, do you think it's wise to seek revenge for what happened more than 100 years ago? If that's the case, there are a lot of countries that will seek revenge over a lot of other countries. And how far should we go back?
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  3989.  @刘刘-y4r  Every country has a right to defend itself, but once time has passed, we should accept historical fact. So if China wants to rob USA, USA will defend itself. And I'm sure China will defend itself if a foreign country tries to rob China. China has that right.
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  3990.  @李大人-m7p  I'm not American. It is unwise to automatically believe that everyone who disagrees with you are American. It shows a level of intellectual and emotional immaturity.
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  3991. It looks like a perfectly fine aircraft, but in one respect it underperforms: Range. A320neo: 3,500 nautical miles B737MAX: 3,500 nautical miles C919: 2,250 nautical miles It will still be attractive to some airlines, but the range limits the variety of routes it can operate on, and airlines look at that, too. From Beijing, the A320neo and B737MAX can cover all of East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and even go all the way to Dubai or Moscow. The C919 can get to Bangkok or Phuket, but not KL or Singapore, it can go to New Delhi, but not Mumbai or Sri Lanka, it can go to Astana and Tashkent, but not Ashgabat, to Omsk, but not Yekaterinburg.
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  3992.  @tailsorange2872  Risky? In what way? Are you referring to the 737MAX problems? I suppose that's a valid point, but I suspect those problems will be solved, though it looks like it could take a while.
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  3993. I love this channel!
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  3994.  @condorX2  Since there are only 197 UN member states, the numbers you list probably refer to embassies + consulates, not just embassies.
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  3995. Exactly! I don't like the pandas so I don't want them, no matter what the terms are.
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  3996.  @yttraveller3757  That's great. I'd like to see a Uighur or Kazakh engineer explaining something high-tech to Xi next time, not just dancing and playing music.
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  3997.  @Joooo89  Hanfu is rare. It's part of the cosplay culture. You're not going to see your colleague wearing hanfu at the office. What I want to see from Chinese minority areas is people working as engineers, scientists, factory workers, not people on display just for their 'exotic' culture. China is not alone in this, western media makes this mistake sometimes, too. It used to be much worse but it has improved over the years.
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  3998.  @moses5623  The video is approved by the Chinese government, so it's as real as it gets.
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  3999.  @moses5623  I'm not looking for the tourist experience. I am specifically referring to how minority groups are portrayed in the Chinese news media. I am very familiar with Chinese news media as I have lived in China for several decades. Think about it next time you watch the news.
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  4000.  @moses5623  Who cares about western media? I'm specifically talking about Chinese news media. What, you also want to bring in arguments about African media, Polynesian media? That's not what this is about.
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  4001.  @moses5623  Well, it's nice we can agree on something. 😊
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  4002.  Jack Smith  I don't understand what you're trying to write. Try putting it through some translation software before posting.
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  4003. But if it's true, you won't be.
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  4004. Ah yes, the wild theories are already bubbling in your mind. What else can you come up with? WW3? UN will enslave American citizens? The military industrial complex will ration gasoline and beans? The options are limitless!
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  4005. Fortunately not all from the same howitzer.
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  4006. "What you hear re real-time battlefield communications". No, they're recordings of battlefield communications, re-played for us.
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  4007. It's almost impossible to beat and invade China on its own soil. It would probably take all its neighbors ganging up and attacking together, which can only happen in someone's fantasy. Conclusion: China is safe.
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  4008. It is many, many times easier to build a space station than a cutting edge chip fab. The reason most countries don't build space stations is that there is no money in it. These things are mostly for national prestige and they cost a lot of money with little return.
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  4009. North Korea is also going hungry while developing nuclear weapons. Korea, Japan, Taiwan could probably all develop a nuclear weapon is a short time if they felt they needed to.
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  4010.  @bobcharles7716  Could be, nobody can say what the future will bring.
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  4011.  @bobcharles7716  Yes, one day China will become as great a civilization as Japan. It's only a matter of time.
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  4012.  @bobcharles7716  And one day you may take over their place.
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  4013.  @bobcharles7716  "for 95% of the last 2000 years whoever rule China is the most powerful person on earth!" I don't know how you made that conclusion. It's not very scholarly, that's for sure.
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  4014.  @bobcharles7716  No, it's a conclusion made by people who don't have much knowledge of Chinese history or of world history. Just one point: If you do not engage with the rest of the world, how can you know if you're stronger, and why would it matter? Comparative strength only matters if there is engagement, whether it is cultural, military, trade or otherwise. Apart from short trips by Zheng He, China rarely went outside East Asia until the 20th century. There is no doubt China is an illustrious culture with a proud and rich history, but 95% is putting it too high. Think of all the troubles starting long before the Han Dynasty, with invasions from the north, invasions from Tibet, and numerous internal uprisings, again, and again, and again. Splitting up and reuniting, again and again. Like other countries, China has had its problems for thousands of years. Now, China is on the upswing again, but the world is a different place than it was before.
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  4015.  @bobcharles7716  Ok, you have no arguments, only this assertion. It's nothing but emotion, and no one can argue against that.
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  4016.  @bobcharles7716  I'm still waiting for any rational argument from you.
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  4017.  @bobcharles7716  Don't bother. This conversation is going nowhere.
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  4018. "Did you guys know China have 56 ethnic groups? " You know, a handful of westerners have gained Chinese citizenship over the years. What ethnic group do they belong to? The number of ethnic groups, 56, never seems to change. It's as if that number was fixed decades ago, and now it can't change because '56 ethnic groups' has become such an important part of 'the story of China'.
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  4019.  @wl6020  2029 is 6 years from now. They have all been born. Those who will get married in 2039, 16 years from now, have also all been born. We know how many there are.
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  4020.  @sandraankenbrand  That's true, but that is the case already now, so the ebb and flow of women of marriage age will still go down and the increase again (and then go down again around 2045). However, should the trend of young people staying single continue to increase, China could have a real crisis on its hands.
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  4021.  @wl6020  Look at my answer to other commenters. The exact same question was asked above. EDIT: Jesus, it turns out it was you who asked that question! Look above, my answer is right there.
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  4022.  @wl6020  Ok, fair point. The Chinese Bureau of Statistics conducts a census every 10 years, last one in 2020. If you look at the census results, which you can find on Bureau of Statistics website, you can see how many women were born each year. We also know from The Chinese Bureau of Statistics that the average age of marriage for women in China is around 26/27. Based on this information, we can easily find out how many women can get married over the next 20+ years. The number of women reaching the age of 26 will decline to its lowest in 2029, when only around 6.2 million women will turn 26. After that, the number of women increases (again, based on census results) until it will reach a peak in 2038, with 9 million women reaching age 26. Those 9 million women are currently 11 years old and have been counted in the last census. After 2038, the number of women will decline rapidly over the next several years until 2046, when only 5.8 million women reach age 26. After that, the census can no longer help us, but The Chinese Bureau of Statistics does sample censuses every year, counting about 1% of the population. Based on that info, we can estimate that by 2048, there will only be around 4.5 million women reaching age 26. I hope this clears up any questions.
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  4023. @@dddd-vf8zm Interesting hypothesis.
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  4024.  @alexyou3233  Some Chinese are very rich and they are the ones who can afford to buy property overseas. I even know a few of them myself. But this is the top 0.1% of society and does not represent the broader Chinese society.
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  4025.  @alexyou3233  " How is 0.1% of China buying out multiple countries?" They're not. What you're reading is most likely hysteria, aimed at ramping up viewer numbers.
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  4026. @Patriot When you write 'he', who are you referring to? The poster [Alex You] is most likely a hyper-patriotic Chinese-Australian (or Chinese student in Australia) for whom China can do nothing wrong. There are lots of those types online.
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  4027.  @gravy1219  Ah, so this is a bitcoin scam. I was wondering why I hadn't heard of Silverster Wilfred, but now I understand I don't need to know.
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  4028. 4:42 "South Korea will see its population cut in half in just one generation" That's not correct. With a Total Fertility Rate of 1.0, the next generation will be half the size of their parents generation, but we have to account for all those who are older.
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  4029.  @Kyleking444  Agree, but that's easier said than done. You can't force people to have children. People must feel the urge/desire to have more children. Of course, the basic problem is that in modern, urban, highly educated societies, children are just an expense and remain so until they're around 20 years old. In agrarian societies, children are cheap and can help on the farm as early as age 6.
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  4030.  @alliswell-p3e  "its useful in high speed situations". You mean on a high-speed train, or when you need a high-speed connection? Frankly, I haven't noticed a difference here, either.
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  4031.  @alliswell-p3e  Ok, that may be the case. I don't play multi-player games on my phone, so that's not an issue for me. Nor do I stream movies on my phone. I prefer to watch movies on a bigger screen.
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  4032.  @rah164  You're welcome, but bring warm clothes. It can get pretty cold.
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  4033. Very nice, but did they take him to any 'Red Sights' to study the glorious history of the Party? I didn't see examples of that.
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  4034. I saw that. Good video.
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  4035.  @creative_cooper  Not really. Without Germany, Netherlands, Japan and others, you simply couldn't make the best chips we know today. America certainly couldn't.
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  4036.  @creative_cooper  That's exactly why no one wants China to get control of the whole supply chain. And it's one of the reasons for the restrictions we see now.
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  4037. It's very simple: Russia aggressively attacked a neighboring country. Israel is retaliating against an attacker which launched thousands of rockets over the border into Israel and killed over 1000 people. So in this case, Russia and Gaza/Hamas are the aggressors, while Ukraine and Israel are the defenders. That is why Russia has been banned. Palestine is participating in the Olympics because the Palestinian Authority are not the attackers.
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  4038. What did Dominic Raab do? From the report: -Holding his hand up between his face and another person's face to gesture 'stop talking'. -Banging his hand on the table during heated discussions. -Interrupting his colleagues/staff. -Suggesting to his staff that they breached the civil service code. -Unconstructive criticism.
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  4039. So far, I don't think there's any indication of that, but it doesn't hurt to be vigilant. I think it's just as likely that China, like a snail, will slowly retract into its shell as the headwinds increase.
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  4040. If China were invaded by Russia and had two of their provinces occupied by Russian forces, they would never, ever accept such a peace deal. They would fight to the end.
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  4041. Like what?
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  4042. Sahra Wagenknecht's party, The Left, holds 5.3% of seats in the German Bundestag (parliament). Sahra Wagenknecht is a good example of the 'horseshoe theory' of political partisanship: The further people/parties get from the political center, both to the left and the right, the closer their political positions align with those of their political opposites. Like a horseshoe, the ends meet. Sahra Wagenknecht, while being on the socialist left, shares several political and social views with those on the political far right: Opposition to NATO, in favor of Russia, opposition to EU's support of Ukraine, opposition to Israel, opposition to immigration, opposition to the German Covid-19 response (incl. vaccination policy). While these are all legitimate views, it's interesting that two political groupings that, on paper, are so far apart still have so much in common.
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  4043. So the primary reason for international resistance to the Chinese vision of the future world order is not that there's anything wrong with it. It's just that China hasn't communicated it clearly enough. As soon as they do that, the rest of the world will cheer them on. Does that sound to anyone else like evangelism? (I'm here to spread the good news).
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  4044.  @aungaisum8654  Any kind of waste, or just Japanese nuclear waste? After all, we dump all kinds of waste into the ocean all the time. Every country does it, and every country with nuclear energy production dumps nuclear waste into the ocean.
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  4045.  @i99vs  Ok, so there's a big business opportunity here for you to profit off of. Take the leap!
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  4046.  @NaturalNihilist  Ok, I've never sold my hair, but if someone wants to buy it I have no problem with that. It's free to grow and I even pay to have someone cut it off. If someone will pay me $10 for it I'd be quite happy.
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  4047. Don't you want to improve your life? Improving your life entails spending more, if not on consumer goods, then on better food, better clothes, better and longer vacations, going out at night. Don't you want to improve your housing situation? That means spending more money. It is the desire to improve one's life that makes the economy grow. No growth = no improvement. No improvement = no growth.
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  4048.  LOOK_UP_RAPTURE  "GUYS JESUS IS COMING". People have been saying this shit for centuries, but it never seems to come true. Why should we believe you this time? Do you have any evidence to present?
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  4049.  @Diegomkz  " a big part of industrialized countries consume things that are not necessary". Yes, there is no doubt that we in the developed world overconsume to a large degree. I agree with that. And I suspect that many of the people who decry overconsumption also happily order a bunch of clothes on Shein on a regular basis. Nothing against women because of that, but it shows that our desires often override our more thoughtful plans. I used to be part of a large cycling community, many of whom took pride in their zero-carbon transportation mode. And yet, many of them also bragged about the 4, 6, 8 bicycles they owned, completely needlessly. If you want to fight overconsumption, you have to fight the human desire for admiration, respect, love. People can't help themselves.
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  4050.  @yashwardhansable5187  Your example addresses inequality. I'm discussing growth, not inequality. You can have growth and equality, or growth and inequality, or no growth and either. However, let's use your example of country B, where people all earn $300, but with no growth. Every year they make $300.- Country B imports some (maybe just a few) goods from another country, country C. C has growth, C has technological development and they make new smart phones every year. Eventually, their phones cost more than $300 and people in B can no longer afford them. B starts falling further and further behind. Eventually, B becomes an underdeveloped country, compared to C, and falls into perpetual poverty.
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  4051.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  And yet, every time we notice we're running short of a certain type of fish, or tree, we put in a moratorium so we will never run out. Because we humans are smarter than the Cree Indians thought we were. While hunter-gatherer people may have had very good understanding of local plants and animals, their level of knowledge was basically on par with what the developed world had in medieval times. They were certainly not well versed in science and really had a very limited understanding of how humans can function in the world.
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  4052.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  "if we carry on as we are most commercial fish will be gone by 2048". Yes, that is why we will not carry on the way have been. We humans are pretty good at changing course when it really matters. We (largely) stopped killing whales, dolphins, pandas, elephants, rhinos and all the other animals that are close to extinction. Many have been brought back to more sustainable levels.
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  4053.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  The sixth mass extinction, a.k.a. 'The Holocene Extinction' has been under way for 15,000 years and includes extinction of megafauna done by our ancient ancestors (woolly mammoth, etc.) and the deliberate extinction by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries of several species, the Dodo, for example (the flightless bird, not the YouTube channel). We became aware of this problem over 50 years ago, which is why the WWF was established. In recent decades we have become much better at mitigating and preventing the extinction of further species. There are large inter-governmental initiatives underway to prevent species loss, something that has never happened before, and countries across the world are working to protect endangered animals. Yes, there is still species loss, but it's not always due to human activity. Yes, we have a problem, I recognize that, but I am optimistic that we're moving in the right direction.
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  4054.  @juang5424  No, my argument was the opposite of that: People buy these products because they make our lives and the world better. It is an argument against those who say we should slow down and stop growing.
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  4055.  @SkeledroMan  "The government should just be honest". Ok, but what if that is not the reason there is no rail or tram network? Should they then lie to conform with your preconceived bias?
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  4056. For those African countries that hope to throw off the CFA Franc and create their own regional currency system, the Euro must be a sobering example. Yes, the Euro has done relatively well, but not equally well for everyone. The Euro suits the north-western European economies well, but it is not so easy for the Mediterranean and Balkan nations. If these African countries end up making their own monetary system, I suspect it will be very beneficial for some of them, and a source of grief for the others.
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  4057. It's BS. Just some frightened scientists. It's not rational.
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  4058. "Weapons grade, highly enriched uranium". That is not what you use to fuel an powerplant. Enrichment for a powerplant is around 3-5%. For a nuclear weapon you need to get up to at least 90%. So Wang Wenbin is not even close.
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  4059. No country or company should ever become too dependent on the Chinese market, because China can turn on a dime within a minute and completely shut off business. It will always be a market that has high risk. I think we can all do business with China, but we must be aware of the volatility of such a business relationship. (interestingly, China never says they are going to stop exporting to you, it's always only stopping imports.)
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  4060.  @lchristophor3107  The US regularly imposes limits on exports to China, but rarely bans imports from China, so it's the opposite of what you say.
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  4061.  @hezziepablo6894  Yes, but they are 'grey' sanctions, meaning they are never referred to as sanctions.
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  4062.  @jeffbolton2986  Yes, we can all learn from China and use those same tools for political gain.
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  4063. 40:50 "The Danes, the Dutch, the Germans will be interested in repairing it (Nord Stream pipeline)". This colonel seems to have some blanks in his knowledge of Europe. Denmark has no interest in the Nord Stream pipeline. We were not part of it from the beginning, we don't get gas from it, we have no interest in the pipeline, and never had. In fact, for Nord Stream 2, we did not allow it to run through Danish territorial waters (though I think NS 1 does traverse our waters).
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  4064.  @sps6  There's a bit of it all over Europe, but if you're an Indian food addict, go to the UK. I've been told their Indian food is better than in India.
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  4065.  @train_xc  Yes, I know the Schengen visa is hard to get, at least until India gets wealthier. I lived in China for many years and locals hard a hard time getting visas. Now that China is 'rich', they get them very easily.
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  4066.  @train_xc  I was in India many years ago (1989) and I was not impressed with the food, though I may have chosen the wrong restaurants. I specifically remember we went to one called 'Kwality' which may have been a chain. A little disappointing after some amazing Indian food in Malaysia. However, with the internet to help, I'm confident I could find some great Indian food today.
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  4067.  @arumoy3925  Fair point. It's how we used to feel about traveling in Japan.
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  4068.  @arumoy3925  That's wonderful.
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  4069. I'm writing this 5 days after the video was posted, and only 5,700 people have viewed the video. So, does Trump really have a grip on America's Attention, or is that just something the media believes?
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  4070. Just try again. Eventually, they'll get it right.
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  4071. The map shown at 0:25 show ALL railway lines in China, not just high-speed lines.
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  4072. Re. The AI wave: It is possible that one or two AI giants will eventually emerge, but it is equally possible that it will all fizzle out like so often before: Many years ago, when media in the US started talking about nano-tech and nano materials, the word 'nano' suddenly started popping up everywhere in China. Supermarket shelves would be stocked with nano-toothpaste, nano-shampoo and nano-socks, and more companies would start subsidiaries with the word nano in their name. That eventually all came to nothing. Later, when Bill Gates mentioned the 'Internet of Things', everything became about IoT for a number of years, and now we no longer hear much about that, either. In the end, the success of Chinese AI ChatGPT, at least as a consumer application, will depend on whether they can monetize it, and whether they can make it popular. Time will tell, but I am a little skeptical.
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  4073. It's basically scrapped. What we rarely hear in the media is that when they announced the 3-child-policy, they also said that no one having more than 3 children would be sanctioned in any way. So it's a sort of odd political statement: You can now have three children, but if you have more, we're not going to focus on it. Perhaps a way to save face for the government.
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  4074. What are they gonna do? The UN doesn't have its own armed forces. They only have what other countries are willing to lend them.
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  4075. The Saudis can spend their excess RMB on crab meat xiaolongbao. You can never have too many of those.
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  4076. I don't think it's an issue, but then I'm from the west, where anybody can become anything they want. Free, yes, but confusing for some. The west, still the least conservative part of the world.
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  4077.  @schoolingdiana9086  Show me the evidence! People who don't know the first thing about meat production think that if you grab an animal off the street, you can make money by selling it to a restaurant. That's ridiculous, except for in very poor countries. In most countries, the possible profit from doing that is just too small. Pork, chicken, beef even, much too cheap for 'roadkill' to able to compete with it on the market.
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  4078. So much rain in Northern China. It's very unusual and the northern provinces are unprepared. Nothing much you can do but suffer. As Mao once said: 天要下雨，娘要嫁人。
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  4079. The video doesn't mention the price, but a bit of internet searching helps. C919 list price is $100.2 million, but average sales price according to CaiXin is around $68.4 million. Competitors A320neo and B737 MAX-8 sell for $49 million and $51 million, respectively.
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  4080. Sounded like a British accent to me.
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  4081.  @egegeggegeeg4789  According to Chinese government data, it appears that the population will peak at the end of this year, or early 2022. This is based on preliminary data from provincial governments on births in the first 9 months of 2021.
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  4082. Asteroids: One of the best video games of the 80s.
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  4083. What's the nice beat you play at the end?
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  4084. 19:30 "Insomnia is a common symptom of being too lean or in too steep of a caloric deficit". That is interesting. I also used to cycle a lot, especially bicycle touring around Asia. I was often in a caloric deficit because some areas just didn't have anywhere to eat or I couldn't find enough to eat. I always lost a scary amount of weight on those 2-3 month tours. And yet, I slept like a baby every single night. In fact, it was during those days of touring that I fell asleep the fastest, and I usually felt great as soon as I awoke by the sound of my phone alarm. However, I always made sure to not go to sleep hungry, for example by eating relatively late. I am naturally skinny, or was until I turned 45.
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  4085. 33:44 "Black swans supposedly stand for China's resilience, according to superstition..." This is a complete misunderstanding of Black Swan Theory. It has nothing to do with China or superstition, but is a theory developed by the risk analyst and mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2001. It refers to an unusual, unexpected, and impactful event.
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  4086.  @zsarimaxim692  The calls I get are from Chinese speakers, they happen in China, to my Chinese number.
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  4087. The future of humanity? Perhaps the future of 1/5th of humanity, but not the rest of us.
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  4088. Netflix is n American company, and the participants in this TV show appear to be American. So by your own logic, Americans are more enterprising than Chinese. That is not my view, but yours.
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  4089. Wheat? I prefer a nice baguette.
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  4090. It would be a lot easier and cheaper to just go all around Indonesia. That way you don't have to go through the Strait of Malacca at all.
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  4091. These telescopes are pretty mind blowing.
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  4092.  @yerri5567  "you should not be asking some random person online." I'm asking you because you made the original implication that these products do not comply with HK standards. I also answered your question further up: If HK indeed has standards that ban these chemicals, then it is the responsibility of the HK government to enforce those standards.
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  4093.  @yerri5567  Ok, it looks like I have not expressed myself clearly. My point is this: It is not useful to blame or criticize the manufacturer or the country of origin, as long as the products imported comply with local regulations. If they DO comply with current local regulations, then the regulations may need to be updated. If they DON'T comply, then the local authorities need to do a better job at testing and rejecting the imported products. Perhaps they can also fine/sanction the manufacturers who sent them over. It doesn't really matter where this is, HK, China, Europe, anywhere else. It is the responsibility of local authorities to protect the consumers in their own jurisdiction.
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  4094. Wow, what a tragedy!
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  4095.  @_w_w_  "Americans and Europeans are just wasteful." That is certainly true, but I have lived in China for many years, and people here are equally wasteful. The question is how we deal with all the waste.
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  4096.  @rylandrc  Diseases are not primarily spread by not washing with soap. Yes, washing hands can limit the spread of the common cold and other simple viruses, but the vast majority of dangerous diseases are spread through contaminated food and water, biological vectors like mosquitos, and contact with human biological fluids like spit and semen. Besides, there is plenty of soap in the world. This idea that many people don't have access to soap is simply false.
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  4097. @SuM of NoN Whether the US invades their country or not, they still need to make a living. You may not have a very good understanding of the developing world, but in many places, there are no large companies they can work at. Often they're on their own. Life in those places is much harder than in any developed country. "It's paper". You mean money? It's made of paper, but it's necessary. "Just like your God". Let's get real, there are no gods, none at all.
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  4098. @SuM of NoN Everything you're saying here indicates that you don't believe you have any control over your own life. That's pretty weak. Don't be a weakling, don't be a loser. Be strong.
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  4099.  @banhammer3904  "the great reset agenda". What exactly is that?
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  4100.  @simontang5487  "Are the Chinese Middle-Class going to rebound?" Probably not all of them, but like in other countries, many of them have quite stable jobs and can maintain a high standard of living for decades going forward. Of course some will perish and others will join them, and the growth in numbers of middle- and upper middle class people will likely slow considerably. But 100 million, give or take, high spenders is still a substantial amount.
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  4101. " I don't think you should be allowed to provoke religions". And what do you think the punishment should be if a person in Sweden provokes a religion? Let's imagine you do it. What do you think is a fair punishment?
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  4102.  @rosalie.e.morgan  Certainly potentially dangerous. In the case of Fugu, if it is prepared improperly, and for milk, if it contains dangerous pathogens. However, raw milk is used for cheese all over France and some other countries with almost no examples of people who got sick from it. Lots of raw vegetables may also be contaminated, as may meats if stored improperly. Even water can potentially be dangerous if it contains pathogens, heavy metals or certain chemicals. These are all just a result of us being part of nature. Biological life exists by eating each other, and sometimes we're the ones getting eaten.
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  4103. A very high quality overview of Xi's rise. Well done, Vox!
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  4104.  @Will_Smith_Slapping_Xi_Jinping  One of their contributors may not be familiar to you, but is very familiar to people who have followed China for decades: Willy Wo-Lap Lam. For many years, especially in the 90s and 00s, he was the foremost expert on the inner workings of the CCP. He had some excellent connections inside the Party, but since 2013, it has become increasingly hard for him, or anyone else, to get connected to any insiders. The door is now shut. But he still writes good analyses based on public sources. His column is called 'Willy's Corner'. Also check out his wikipedia page.
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  4105.  @stefanyuwono1909  Mao, of course, did not follow a former leader of the CPC. I stand by my opinion.
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  4106.  @antb9521  You say you agree it 'looked planned', but just to be clear, that is NOT what I am suggesting.
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  4107.  @YounisShah-ln7sr  What? Are you citing the bible? The bible is not a historical document.
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  4108. Very nice video, but it is an exaggeration to call it a 'luxury wardrobe' for the following reasons: -The wood used is from the Paulownia tree, a very fast growing tree, the wood from which is cheap, soft wood, mostly used for making wooden crates. This wood is not distinguished by its strength, color or grain pattern. -The technique used in this video is basic, semi-industrial cabinet making, not even close to the high level of craftmanship associated with Japanese master cabinet makers. Is the result a useable chest of drawers? Yes, certainly. Is it 'luxury' or fine craftmanship? No, not even close.
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  4109. It's a little unhinged.
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  4110.  @briopalumpus8676  So? What's the big deal? Ivory Coast didn't have to use that building as their presidential palace. They could have used another building.
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  4111.  @briopalumpus8676  How could they be more independent?
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  4112.  @ВалерийБогомазов-д5п  It's Turkey.
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  4113. @@bobs_1429 Ok, so persuade your legislature to change the law so corporations pay more in taxes. Perhaps you will be told the reason those changes are not made. I'm guessing it's because they create so many jobs that it would be detrimental to the national economy to force them to pay more. Btw, you're using 'straw manning' wrong.
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  4114. It's already on CNN. By tomorrow, it'll be reported everywhere. Any interesting news is reported in Western media.
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  4115.  @kastus77  You think those two cases are similar? One steals and releases thousands of classified documents. The other hands over a copy of a press release to another journalist a few minutes too early, a press release that would be released to the public, anyway, a press release that did not contain any national secrets.
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  4116.  @Kimmimaro86  If I look at Nancy Pelosi, what do you expect me to see?
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  4117.  @mrj428  Yes, she gave the foreign MEDIA agency the documents a few minutes before they were released to the public. These were not secret documents, they were intended to be public, just a little later.
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  4118.  @mrj428  I challenge you to find any detailed information on what exactly she was arrested for, if not for what was said by her.
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  4119. Pepperidge Farm is a subsidiary of Campbell Soup Company. Pepperidge Farm is a bakery, mostly famous for their cookies.
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  4120. We've heard Russia threaten to use nuclear weapons against the west for years now, even decades. There is nothing special about this.
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  4121.  @DouglasW-m9z  "China doesn't care, you stuffed it up". This news story is not aimed at Chinese people, it is aimed at Europeans who watch DW. You should watch CCTV for news that will make you feel good.
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  4122.  heterosexism gaming  Yes, I think that's obvious.
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  4123. 1:40 "I used to think important people would come to India and give something to the poor". Look, I think you're confusing 'important people' and Santa Claus. Why would people 'give you something' just because they're important? What kind of attitude is it to simply expect to be given a better life without effort?
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  4124.  @chaoticlife311  No, they're important to me, too. They're the leaders of the G20; they're important to the whole world. But we shouldn't expect them to throw cash out the window of their car.
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  4125.  @茶叶-x5z  He was Hakka. Hakka is a cultural identity.
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  4126.  @茶叶-x5z  So which one is a culture and which one is an ethnicity? And does it really matter if people call it an ethnic group or a culture?
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  4127.  @wordimobi5765  "contemporary norms can be scaled down." It's not about norms, it's about getting stuff from A to B as cheaply as possible.
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  4128.  @JoeARedHawk275  Why do you use the term 'military industrial complex' instead of just defense industry? I know it is often used by its critics, but why? Do you also say 'pharmaceutical industrial complex' or 'automotive industrial complex'? When people use this term, it tells me that they view it ideologically, politically, imbue it with more power and meaning than just a collection of companies that try to make money, just like any other industry. But it is exactly that: An industry composed of (mostly) private companies that make military products/weapons and try to sell them at a good price. It does not have the power to start or direct wars, anymore than the pharmaceutical industry has the power to start new diseases, or the automotive industry has the power to create more dangerous roads. To say 'military industrial complex' almost implies that there's a conspiracy. Do you think there's a conspiracy?
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  4129.  @nooonanoonung6237  But then you must ascribe the same ulterior motives to other industries, too. Does the food industry want to make people fat? Does the pharmaceutical industry want to make people sick? Even if you believe that, what kind of country do you have if those industries don't exist? Insecurity, disease, famine.
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  4130.  @nooonanoonung6237  You have a choice when it comes to medicine: You can choose not to take it. What are you expecting from pharmaceutical companies? If they are going to spend billions on developing new medicines, who is going to pay for that? Recently, Ozempic has been in the news a lot. It is very expensive. But did you know that the company making it has been working to develop this medicine for almost 50 years? That costs a mountain of money, money that they need to earn back. "Why do you think 40% of Americans are obese?" That's easy: They eat too much and don't exercise enough. That's just basic biology.
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  4131.  @nooonanoonung6237  There are much cheaper insulin products. The price you list is for the newest types. Why do I think Americans eat too much? They don't all eat too much. Only the ones who are overweight or obese eat too much. That's what eating too much does, it makes you overweight. One standard size Snickers bar every week for ten years will probably earn you 30 extra pounds, all else being equal. Nobody needs a Snickers bar, or any other candy bar. They taste delicious, but we don't need to eat them, and nobody forces us to eat them, just like no one forces us to eat boiled pig's intestine. One just seems to be more popular than the other.
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  4132.  @nooonanoonung6237  Yes, it is a trend, mostly because people are more wealthy than 50 years ago (and 100 years ago, etc.) while at the same time, food is cheaper due to the large-scale industrialization of food production. Candy used to be a rare treat, but now we can eat candy every day, if we want to. Snacking on chips and other carbs is common. Our lifestyle choices are what make us slim or fat. I gained 27 pounds during Covid. Didn't really notice the change until one day in April 2023 I couldn't fit my clothes. So I designed my own diet, and in the 10 months since then I've lost 25 pounds. Wasn't even that hard, though it did involve eating around 400 pounds of carrots during that period (3 large carrots a day, every day). Fortunately, I like carrots, and they're cheap.
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  4133. I live in China and follow the news. At the time this crackdown happened, there was no indication that the reason was fully or partly due to eyesight problems.
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  4134.  @qwkl2450  Gaming is considered by some to be a major social problem, but it probably depends on who you ask. After all, gaming has become a profession in itself. As for social problems, the government has their views and others may have their views. What is in the news is ONLY the governments view.
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  4135.  @qwkl2450  It depends on the topic. Some topics are considered very sensitive and only the official explanation can be given. Other topics are more open to a variety of opinions. The origin of Covid-19 is one example of a sensitive topic where some opinions/explanations are not allowed. You could also compare it to the current situation in Russia, where the term 'war' is not allowed, only the term 'special military operation'. In the west, or particularly USA, we see a strong social (but not legal) pressure to allow only some viewpoints. Case in point could be the conversation around gender expression, trans issues, etc., where individuals can be strongly chastised for expressing certain alternative viewpoints. At least in the west, the conversation keeps going, since the worst that can happen is that you get ostracized from 'polite society'.
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  4136. However, it should be noted that in private in China, people will discuss even the most sensitive topics among people they know and trust.
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  4137.  @qwkl2450  Re. video games, as I remember, there were several explanations or reasons given: It takes time away from studies, it's bad for the kids' physical health, it fosters a bad national culture (the govt. wants people to appreciate traditional culture). I think those were the main concerns. Re. freedom of speech, yes, in private you can say what you want. Online, you may get censored or your account shut down, and if you persist, you could be arrested and charged with "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (寻衅滋事), which is a crime in China. Social stability is very high priority in China, which is another way of saying that you're better off conforming.
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  4138.  @qwkl2450  Yes, I think most Chinese people agree with you in principle, but when the restrictions hit them personally, they also tend to get angry, as we saw in Shanghai recently. As always, it's a choice: Do you want freedom and chaos, or stability and repression. If we could have both freedom and stability, that would be nice, but those two work in opposite directions.
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  4139.  @qwkl2450  First, I'm not Chinese, I just live in China. (I'm from northern Europe) 1.) My view is that the Zero-Covid Policy is a mistake. My view is that locking people up in their communities is more harmful than it's useful. And certainly, in my community, many people agreed with me. Those people were all Shanghainese. The Shanghai government was not interested in a long lock-down, the order came from Beijing (and you-know-who). I wouldn't say it's evil, it's just wrong. 2.) We can certainly have a balance between freedom and stability, and most countries have such a balance. But all countries differ slightly in whether to emphasize a little more freedom, or a little more stability and I prefer a little more freedom even if it means the occasional street riot or crazy anti-government demonstration. Personally, I like the balance found in the Nordic countries, Singapore is fine, HK was very fine, Malaysia a little too strict, Thailand a case study in itself with a constant change between military coups and democracy. China is much, much too strict. Your view will differ, as will the views of everybody. As for 'strong government', I only want one that has the mandate of the people. Otherwise, 'strong' just means oppressive, like a father who beats his children and wife when they don't behave the way he wants.
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  4140. I have already made my position on the pandemic management clear: NO lockdowns, NO Zero-Covid policy, anywhere. As for Shanghai specifically, I think the Shanghai govt. was right and the central govt. was wrong. They should have let the virus run through the population, just like they've done in most other Asian countries. In the long run, that's the right way to go, in my opinion. As for the US, I prefer our Nordic system with a good social safety net and our political system of representative democracy which usually results in coalition governments. USA has a different political and economic system, but I don't think it's oppressive, not even a little bit. I would say it emphasizes personal liberty and personal responsibility. That makes it more chaotic and potentially more dangerous, but also more free. Some people like that, others don't. Most Americans seem to like it. Those who don't are free to write articles criticizing the system, and they do that all the time, in all the big newspapers. Lots of freedom = lots of debate and disagreement.
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  4141.  @booaks2980  So is Singapore
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  4142. I wonder when this was taped. It's all from Shanghai, but it has been way too hot to go for a casual walk along the river since the middle of June. Not long before that, we were all locked up. Most people are wearing masks, so perhaps early to mid June?
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  4143.  @mayurii27  That's not what I said and you know it. Keep your anger to yourself.
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  4144. Why is it so terrible for China to have one million deaths? China already has ten million deaths annually, or almost one million every month. The people who die from Covid are very old and would have died from other causes soon, anyway. You realize we will never be able to stop Covid, right? It will come back to every city in China, every year. Are you prepared to lock-down for two months every year?
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  4145.  @markwalker8374  That's for sure, and the elevators are much welcomed!
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  4146.  @jeffreylai6796  Thanks for that. Even when you're told about the different Slavic language groups, it's hard to know how close they are. Germanic languages include Nordic languages, German, Dutch and English, but you wouldn't pick them up with going to school. Nordic languages are pretty similar to an extent where they understand most of each others' language.
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  4147.  @brendon1689  I think in the clip Zelensky spoke to a crowd of Polish people? I'm too tired to watch it again. You tell me.
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  4148. ​ @brendon1689 Thanks for clarifying.
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  4149. Terrifying!
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  4150. "Surprise, Motherfucker"! From the TV series Dexter and since heavily meme-fied.
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  4151. I have forgotten what the topic is....
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  4152. I agree with Aaron and I want to see this interview transported to Gaza: Aaron: "Sir, why are you violating the quiet car" Mr. Ali: "Hey, there's a war going on here, we're being bombed and I'm trying to get to the shelter" Aaron: "I know, but violating the quiet car is also a serious issue. Why are you doing it"? Mr. Ali: "Look, I want to get to the bomb shelter. Please leave me alone" Aaron: "I just want to know why you violated the quiet car regulations" Mr. Ali: "I'm leaving"!!
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  4153. People curious about the financials, here is some of it: Primarily funded by two Chinese loans totaling USD 3.97 billion: 1) A USD 2.3805 billion loan at 2.0% interest, to be repaid over 40 years 2) A CNY denominated loan worth USD 1.587 billion at 3.46% interest, to be repaid over 40 years. Both loans are by China Development Bank, with security agent being ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China).
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  4154. Absolutely fascinating story!
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  4155. 8:56 "In the 2010s, western countries co-opted coconuts as superfoods". This should read 'USA', not 'western countries'. The whole idea of 'superfoods' is a scam that we in Europe have yet to fall for. Rather, in Europe we divide foods into two categories: Delicious foods, and not so delicious foods. I admire the woman at 9:27 who tries (in vain) to get some reality into our understanding of foods, but she is fighting an uphill battle in a society where people are willing to believe pretty much anything without evidence.
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  4156. Danish, not Norwegian. Denmark is practically Britain, at least it was 900 years ago.
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  4157. "bin ich deutschen blutes". Doesn't that specifically refer to William of Nassau? "William of Nassau am I, of German descent". There is also a reference to the King of Spain.
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  4158.  @jimwhite1756  People in the video seem to care. That's what the video is all about: People complaining about poor athletic clothes design. And plenty of people in the comments here seem to care, too.
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  4159. A lot of videos and news articles confuse 'energy' and 'electricity'. Journalists are not educated in basic science or math.
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  4160. The Finnish have the advantage that they drink a little less vodka than the Russians on a daily basis.
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  4161.  @mohamedmostafa1375  Ha, I didn't know he said that, but those are wise words.
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  4162. Exactly my thoughts. But it's always easy to speculate.
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  4163.  @capricorn839  Will? When? You think he will be elected a second time?
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  4164.  @ricomajestic  I want to weigh in on this comment: During Trump's time in office, USA provided military aid to Ukraine worth $1.2 Billion. This aid was provided specifically at that administration's direction. We can only speculate whether military aid under a hypothetical Trump presidency would have continued after the Russian invasion, but based on the decisions already made by the administration, I think a logical case can be made that military aid would have continued and increased.
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  4165. Top economists' meeting. Yellen: So how about that Marx, huh? Liu He: I kinda like the guy. He goes straight for the top. Yellen: Come on! He's had a lot of bad seasons. He hasn't won in decades! I got my money on Adam Smith and maybe Keynes. Liu He: Smith is old! He belongs to a different era! He won't make it to the play-offs. Keynes, maybe. Yellen: Ok, let's see ten years from now how it goes. Liu He: That's a bet! Ok, let's get a round of beers.
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  4166. 1:27: News headline "BEIJING TOPPLES DOLLAR". I first read that as "Beijing topless Dollar" thinking 'Hmm, sounds interesting'.
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  4167. Nuclear weapons and an electric pubic hair trimmer, what a juxtaposition!
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  4168. Hmm, despite having lived in East Asia for many years, I have never tried dog meat. With it now getting banned in Korea, perhaps I should try it somewhere in China before it gets banned here, too. Digging in to a plate of freshly cooked Lassie, it might be really tasty.
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  4169.  @ahmadsantoso9712  Any place that's not considered a tourist destination.
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  4170.  @strongchallenger2269  China Unicom keeps calling me asking me to upgrade to 5G, but so far I have declined. I don't feel the need for faster speed.
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  4171.  @sch4891  Come on, you know that's BS. Tencent already makes games with excellent 3D graphics. There's no real difference in this respect.
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  4172.  @sch4891  Hey, no problem! 🙂
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  4173.  @kalas2320  No no, just that it would be nice to get a civilian in the leadership post, not a military person.
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  4174.  @kalas2320  You shouldn't be too pessimistic. Over time, you may be able to make some reforms. For example, the army seems to me to have an outsized influence in Thai politics. Maybe long term reforms can reduce the power of the army in Thai politics and domestic life. Another problem is that almost all power and wealth is concentrated in Bangkok. Hat Yai or Chiang Mai are tiny in comparison and it's difficult to build a local power base in those places. So it is often Bangkok against the rest.
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  4175.  @Iceyfire12  What do you think can be done to improve democracy in Thailand?
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  4176.  @RoseSiames  Thanks for the correction.
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  4177.  @johnbrooks7144  "Very funny!". Thank you, you too.
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  4178. The only major European EV producer in China is VW. They produce their EVs in Anhui's Hefei and Shanghai's Jiading.
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  4179.  @sanatanihindu383  "then it is more shameful". And yet, we are still not ashamed. Nothing will make us compromise our national security.
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  4180.  @timur3505  "you're shameless." That is correct, and we're not ashamed of that fact, either.
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  4181.  @david98765432123456  For the time being? You know, they've been sending seeds into space for over 50 years. And it's agriculture we're talking about. Countries are generally happy to share agricultural improvements. Might help them make some money, too. Besides, if they don't want to make the results public, why publicize the experiments in the first place? Your reasons don't make a lot of sense.
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  4182.  jies2811  China is happy to share 'hybrid rice' so why not this? The fact is this: Whether it is China, or the US, or Russia, these 'space seeds' have NEVER shown any improvement. I challenge you to find ANY evidence that the 'space seeds' have done anything for agriculture. If you can find that, I will applaud you.
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  4183.  jies2811  Your nationalistic, self-aggrandizing fantasies are irrelevant. My challenge still stands: Find ANY evidence that these seeds had any effect at all. I doubt you can. You can only fantasize about how great your country is. "崇高的道德品质和价值观", every country thinks about itself that way.
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  4184.  jies2811  Show me the evidence, I'll be waiting. Your complaints are getting tiresome. 你越来越烦。
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  4185.  @eish3291  Certainly, that would be a more reasonable explanation.
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  4186.  @samyu4473  I'm expressing skepticism, not a great desire to know every detail about space flight. My skepticism relates to the usefulness of taking seeds into space. In 60+ years of space flight, I have never heard of any benefit derived from that practice.
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  4187.  @chjin1796  What's the name of this giant pepper? Chinese name? I want to look into this.
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  4188.  @chjin1796  Ah yes, I looked up 太空辣椒 online and there are several varieties, but they don't look much different from regular chilies available in Chinese markets. Some of them look like 朝天椒, which at least sounds a little like space. The fact that these are 'specialty chilies' tells me they're not more productive or more valuable than regular chilies, but they are just a kind of gimmick.
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  4189.  @张印武  I'm in China, and I have never seen it at any market here. Of course we have 杭椒, but that's from 杭州，not 航天.
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  4190.  n ll  I don't have a golden solution to make Laos develop faster, but we don't yet know if this railway line will make a big difference to economic growth. Tourism is important to Laos, of course, including tourists from China. However, it should be mentioned that Yunnan, with a population about the same as Thailand, only sends 1/3 the amount of tourists to Laos. Then there's hydro-power, which China and Thailand have also helped to develop, and forestry/timber, which both Vietnam and China are very interested in. Generally, Laos should try to get into labor intensive manufacturing like all Asian countries have done in the early days. But those manufacturing bases require flat land which is mostly in the south, where the train doesn't go.
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  4191.  n ll  You seem to be contradicting yourself. If Laos is not suitable for manufacturing because products have to go through other countries, why is it so necessary to have a railway? Just for tourism? Or do you mean the railway can facilitate industry in Laos? I'm not against this railway, as I wrote in my first comment, but considering the high cost, I fear it could actually hold Laos' development back.
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  4192.  @turtlesoup8134  I like your optimism. Let's see how it goes. If it doesn't go well, perhaps China will forgive part of the loan it gave Laos to build this line. After all, the main beneficiary of this line will be China who gets a link to South East Asia. China has been very generous in the past, and maybe it will again.
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  4193. I like John Stossel, but I think he's building a bit of a straw man here: I don't think many people will claim that electric cars will solve all environmental problems. There are other reasons to buy an e-vehicle, not least of which is the amazing acceleration and relatively low noise. From an environmental/climate perspective, it is true that some of the electricity may come from a gas powered plant, but it COULD also come from wind or solar. Your regular 95 octane gas cannot come from wind or solar. With respect to the emissions caused by manufacture of the cars, this should be seen in relation to the emissions caused by a regular car, not a pair of shoes. Yes, those who claim that electric vehicles will solve all our carbon emission problems are clearly wrong, but how many of those people are there really? Our road to a more electrified society is still long, but we have already come far. Most railways worldwide are now electric as opposed to diesel. Nobody in the developed world uses kerosene lamps indoors and few heat their home using firewood, though that is always pretty comfortable and romantic. These developments, including the electric car, have happened incrementally over decades and they will continue to happen incrementally. And even those grumpy people who complain about it now will enjoy it when it happens; that I am sure of.
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  4194. Both the question 'What do you think of Western Democracy' and the answer given are uninteresting. What did we learn? Nothing.
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  4195. My personal favorite is the HSBC Tower in Hong Kong. It's a beauty that also projects power and stability, suitable for a large bank. (Architect: Norman Foster)
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  4196.  @Thebrothaisback  How is that related to anything I wrote?
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  4197. It's not reporting, it's one person's view.
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  4198. What similarity do you see between the two?
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  4199.  @andy.8444  That's true, but I think China was aware, as are many other emerging economies, that an auto industry is a great way to grow the economy in the early/middle stages. So, good for the economy, but bad for us cyclists.
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  4200.  @rh906  Since they also have a lot of hydro power, they use the reservoirs as energy storage.
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  4201.  @irritatedanglosaxon1705  They have done this before, in 2017, on their way to an exercise with the Russian navy. That is their right, and they were escorted by ships from relevant navies in the area.
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  4202.  @blardymunggas6884  What does geo-politics have to do with sinkholes?
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  4203. Did CaspianReport just call politicians whores?
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  4204. I think it's pretty clear that for a certain segment of Trump supporters it became a cult, almost a religion. I think that's why they have such difficulty leaving it behind them. Much of the talk about Trump 'coming back to take his rightful place' has this messianic quality, just like Jesus returning. Of course a lot of conservatives are very religious to begin with, so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising.
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  4205.  @badmofaux  How is that different from what I wrote?
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  4206.  @chensiqiang-cn  "Reeks of very foreign and western backwards thinking". The solutions I mentioned are all taken from China's Loess Plateau and North-West regions, solutions that have been in place since the late 90s. In fact, China was in large part a pioneer in introducing these practices, in collaboration with The World Bank. Next time, try to learn before you write so you don't expose your own ignorance so blatantly.
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  4207.  @jajkc  There were originally a lot of people in the boat, all migrants trying to reach Europe. But they got lost and many people on the boat died of thirst, etc. Only three people left alive when they were found.
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  4208. The Chinese government has confirmed it is their balloon.
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  4209.  @Robot3527  Sure, but very few cars are exported from Europe to China. Most European cars sold in China are also made in China.
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  4210. They ask Allah for help, and he will send his angels to fight on their side. (or something)
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  4211. The point is to complete the already sold apartments and hand them over to the buyers, thereby preventing large-scale social unrest. Whether the developers get out of it alive is less concerning for the government. The banks are owned by the state, so you could say it is primarily a 'government social stability program'.
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  4212.  @stephanledford9792  I agree.
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  4213. "It happened to our grandfathers, now it's happening to us". That reminds me of a song by The Smiths.
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  4214.  @SyndicateOperative  "the US has always been heavy-handed when dealing with other countries". Not true, it's just that your memory only contains the cases where the US has been heavy-handed, while ignoring all other cases. But this, of course, is beside the point of this video, which has nothing to do with the US.
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  4215. The temperature in the river got too high due to a heat wave and reduced water flow.
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  4216. A: Excuse me, you're sitting in my seat. B: No, I got here first. A: No, it's my seat, I always sit here. B: But I've been sitting here for hours now. A: I reserved this seat days ago. B: But there's no sign saying it's reserved. A: Anyway, this seat is mine. Get off. B: No, it's mine! A: No it isn't. B: Yes, it is! A: Is not! B: Is so! .........
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  4217.  @noivalencia  Oh, they make them pretty well. These large engineering projects are generally up to international standards. And that tends to be the case with every country that undertakes such large scale projects. It's simply too expensive in the long run to skimp on quality.
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  4218.  @ballyhigh11  Yes, you're right.
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  4219.  @maolo76  "The fact he is wearing tennis type shoe tells me he just some guy off the street with no professional knowledge." And people with professional knowledge, what kind of shoes do they always wear? If they change their shoes, do they also lose their knowledge?
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  4220.  @sweesboey7177  Yes, but it's always a problem when your customers buy less. That is the same for every country, not just China.
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  4221. The B1M should make a video around 'fires in old buildings during renovation projects'. There are so many examples of fires starting in historic buildings exactly because they were in the process of being renovated, sometimes because a welding machine was left on or similar occurrence. That should then be followed up by another video that examines efforts to develop new, better and safer practices in construction and renovation projects.
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  4222. I don't understand why BYD is so popular. X-Peng, NIO, and others are much better looking cars. Maybe it's a price issue?
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  4223.  @Tabula_Rasa1  None of these answers explain the popularity of BYD. Why do people buy these cars?
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  4224.  @luismvg11  Thanks, so it is a price issue.
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  4225. I'm sure Indonesia will do that anyway. Why wouldn't Indonesia want to sell to everyone?
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  4226. Come on, all soft drinks, fruit drinks, and even natural fruit juices contain citric acid which slowly eats its way through a metal can. The 'special chemical cocktail' is simply a specially formulated plastic coating that can be sprayed on, cover the entire surface without gaps, and which is non-toxic.
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  4227. They can always move back to China if they want to.
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  4228.  @jessemhd33  But the quote ""you're breaking the rules of how we operate on amtrak" was said by the Amtrak employee, not by the senator. Amtrak threw Aaron off the train, not the senator.
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  4229.  @knowledgeispower6726  Sure, but it's no shame to simply state the rules as you have been told them. In the end, it's Amtrak that threw Aaron off. Besides, imagine it's you sitting on the train and Alex Jones comes over and starts pestering you with questions about Democrat demons and black helicopters and won't go away. I'd ask train personnel for help, too. Same if it was a Jehovah's Witness.
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  4230.  @knowledgeispower6726  "even less shame". There's no shame in stating any of those rules. You can't say 'even less than no shame'. Yes, you're not a public servant, but you have the same capacity to be annoyed by strangers approaching you in public. Even people who are elected officials should be granted a chance for some privacy on their commute.
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  4231.  @knowledgeispower6726  I think you know what I meant. When you say there's 'even less shame' in something there is already no shame in saying, you're implying that there IS more shame in stating the rules. But there isn't. There is no shame in stating any of the two things. They are equally without shame.
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  4232.  @knowledgeispower6726  Excellent.
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  4233.  @guff9567  I'm sure that's true, though I am not Chinese. I am European.
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  4234. That's pretty funny! 🤣 Reminds me of the old British TV show 'Yes Minister': -We should always fight for the weak against the strong! -So why don't we send troops to help the Ukrainians against the Russians? -The Russians are too strong..... (I changed Afghanistan to Ukraine. The show is from the 80s).
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  4235. In the South China Sea, of course!
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  4236.  @dealtime2774  "World war always start with 2 country fighting each other". Ok, but that does not mean that every conflict between two countries will inevitably lead to a world war. We have had numerous conflicts between two or more countries in the last 120 years, but only two world wars.
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  4237.  @nikolas_5629  Hakuna matata
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  4238. Next: Elderly people in a nursing home are forced outside to play in the sand box for one hour in morning and one hour in the afternoon.
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  4239. Very happy, thank you. Finally we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This should have happened a year ago. We could have avoided the lockdowns and a major downturn in the economy. Hopefully, things will improve from now on. We may be able to travel, go out freely to shop, dine, party. Oh, it'll be awesome!
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  4240. That made me chuckle.
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  4241.  @Danny310563  Hah, so crazy. I guess people are really protective of their groups. We really need to get beyond that.
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  4242.  @Danny310563  Yeah, a Jewish-American friend of mine told me pretty much the same thing. He said it sometimes caused an unhealthy level of selfishness, a trait that he was aware that he had. Still a great friend of mine, though.
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  4243.  @ericshang7744  "they got ports, airports, pipelines and rail roads in the end." Yes, but those are not gifts. They bought them with their own money, though money borrowed from foreign banks.
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  4244.  @ericshang7744  Ok, I misunderstood your comment. There are plenty of other countries supplying loans to developing countries for infrastructure projects, but at the moment, China is by far the largest. China is also willing to supply loans to projects that other countries might shy away from because they think it is too risky. China is more willing to take that risk.
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  4245.  @slingshotchicken4695  That may be the case. But then, if you consider the awesome power the government has over its people, why don't they just force all the old people to get vaccinated? They seem to say that old people have the right to refuse vaccination, even if it means locking tens or hundreds of millions of people up. It makes no sense at all.
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  4246.  @MrScandinavio  Not sure what to say to that. What are the alternative numbers? And the numbers provided by the government don't exactly make a good case for lock-downs.
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  4247.  @1O1O11  Yes, I agree with you, except for the 'getting on a plane'.
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  4248.  @slingshotchicken4695  I do not agree with that and I think there's something the government is forgetting: This virus will NEVER go away. It is now endemic all over the world. It will keep coming back, and back, and back. Just like the common cold, or the flu. At some stage, they will have to recognize that. Maybe not this year, or next, but eventually, there's no other way.
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  4249.  @StephenGillie  Yes, but the Chinese prefer it. My friends say they enjoy picking the meat off the bone using lips, tongue, teeth. To them, it's an added pleasure of eating.
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  4250. Hehehe.
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  4251.  @andresiniesta9955  Fair point, but that still doesn't make it a 'digital currency'. It's still just an electronic payment app. The currency is still good old RMB. That being said, I suppose offline payments have their benefits, even if I have never had the need for them.
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  4252.  @JD-yz4kr  Thanks, I get that, though that is no different from, say, Alipay. 'Frog in a well' above gave a better answer. Fundamentally, it's a way for China to get around international currency barriers: They can trade in RMB, rather than in USD, even while their currency is not freely tradeable.
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  4253. @FlyingMonkies325 Most people already have debit cards. I haven't used mine in a long time, though. Everything is paid through payment apps now. I haven't used cash (paper notes and coins) for over two years.
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  4254. @FlyingMonkies325 Yes, it's good to have several options: Cash money, debit cards, credit cards and several payment apps. I carry cards and phone with me everywhere.
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  4255.  @589supra  And yet, one year later and not much has changed.
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  4256. It's the same everywhere. But hopefully, brighter days are coming soon.
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  4257.  @angelamonk716  Personally, it makes me think of the 80s synth band New Order. "Blue Monday" was a big hit when I was in high school.
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  4258.  @peteraston4753  "Coal has been a renewable fuel since the first tree fell thats where coal comes from". That is not correct. Coal was originally from wood, but no new coal has been made in over 50 million years, and it is unlikely any new coal will ever be made. Coal was created when there were not yet any bacteria or fungi able to process (eat) the wood, so the wood turned to coal. Now all old trees get eaten by organisms and will never become coal.
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  4259. I've never heard of Byron Donalds before, but he is certainly feisty!
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  4260.  @HoldMyCowsberg  Are you referring to the future handful of emerging economies? I'd like to hear your ideas. Just 4-5 countries that will start growing fast 15-20 years from now. I'll give you mine: -Nigeria, -Ethiopia, -Kenya, -Myanmar, -D.R.Congo.
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  4261.  @gmanlee575  Well, I haven't been to India for a long time, but based on reports about the various development efforts underway, I does look to me like India now is where China was around the year 2000, maybe even a little later, 2005.
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  4262.  @electromega3077  Ok, and my comment was related to your because of the aircraft angle. See, two can play this game.
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  4263.  @BabaYaga826  The G7 is asking China to end is ban because they feel the ban is unjustified. China may feel they are justified, so they just disagree on that issue.
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  4264.  @BabaYaga826  G7 can buy it, and I'm sure they buy some of it. And they can also call upon China to end its embargo. You can do both things. It's not either one or the other.
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  4265.  @BabaYaga826  Well, they'll buy as much as they want, just like you do when you go to the market. It would be silly to demand that you buy all the food at the market. Of course China can choose to not buy Japanese seafood, and others can ask China to change its mind. It's not a big deal.
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  4266.  @BabaYaga826  I don't understand what you're trying to write. Please send your message through a better language translator to make it coherent.
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  4267.  @BabaYaga826  That's how international diplomacy and trade works. Different countries arguing with each other. China want to do things China's way, and the G7 wants to do things the G7 way. It's just a disagreement.
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  4268.  @BabaYaga826  G7 believes China's ban is unreasonable. That doesn't mean you have to believe it. You can believe it is very reasonable. That's what disagreement is all about. However, I will concede this: The G7 making a public statement, criticizing China on the global stage is meant to embarrass China. That is one of the reasons you are angry. Had the G7 said it privately to China in a closed meeting, no one would be angry. China really dislikes being criticized in public, just like Chinese people hate being criticized in public. But that is the whole point of doing it this way: Public criticism is the international trade version of a public 'struggle session' during the Cultural Revolution, where the 'bad person' is put before the masses. It's very bad for China's self-image and it is hoped that China will change its behavior because of it. Putting pressure on China, so to speak. It may not work, but the G7 feels it is worth a try.
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  4269.  @electromega3077  Yeah, I didn't follow the whole 737MAX issue, but I know it was a big problem for Boeing for a long time. Hasn't that all been resolved now? As for 'accusing China of harming the US economy', this is completely normal. China and the US will continue to accuse each other of harming each other, this will not stop for many years into the future. You better get used to it, if you aren't already.
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  4270.  @fernr9496  Wrong, right, it all depends on your perspective.
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  4271.  @fernr9496  "Objectively wrong*". If it is objectively wrong, it should be easy for you to explain why that is so. I'd be interested to hear your explanation.
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  4272. This attempt at satire/sarcasm was not very successful, I think, but maybe that's because I'm from Scandinavia. Nobody here thinks 'Hvaldimir' is a threat, rather he has become a mascot of sorts in Norway. He has quite a presence on Norwegian social media. I have been following this story for years and even in the Anglo media I have never seen the whale described as a threat, or as an active spy, or as dangerous. Clearly, this has all along been one of those 'isn't it weird' kind of stories. Try harder, Glenn, also at reading from a screen. Don't read like a 4th grader.
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  4273. Also, did you see those nice sides of fresh cod they served him? Norwegian seafood, it's something else!
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  4274. Why would that be scary? India and China already have a lot of cooperation with African countries, and the west already cooperates with all of them: India, China, African countries. So the future looks bright, with or without BRICS.
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  4275.  @maolo76  "omicron is not dangerous so they did herd immunity with this variant so everyone recover in about 2 weeks." Omicron was already the dominant variant in spring of 2022, so why did they lock us down in Shanghai for 2 months? They could have opened then and 'everyone recover in about 2 weeks'.
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  4276.  @donnydrumpf9563  1) How do you know that their plan was to open after Spring Festival? I think you're just making that up. Do you have any government statements to share? 2) Why did they have to follow the demonstrators? The demonstrations were shut down after one weekend. In Shanghai, Wulumuqi Rd. was shut down Monday after the demonstrations. Anyway, the point is that this was unplanned. If it were planned, they could have told us the plan.
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  4277.  @donnydrumpf9563  I'm beginning to think that we may actually agree. I agree on the party conference before opening. But I still think the opening in early December was not pre-planned, but was a kind of panic move as a result of demonstrations and bad economic indicators.
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  4278.  @donnydrumpf9563  I was here, I remember the situation. Your description of China is quite accurate. The lock-downs in USA I don't know much about in detail, but in Europe, they were relatively mild. There was no ban on going out, but restaurants were all closed for a couple of weeks. Shops were open. In Sweden there was never a lock-down. In fact, I would say the lock-downs in Europe were very similar to the situation in Shanghai during Spring Festival 2020: We could go out, but most people stayed in. Most restaurants and shops were closed, but not all. I even met a friend for coffee. Europe or USA never had a lock-down like we had in Shanghai in April-May 2022 (or Wuhan in Feb-Mar 2020).
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  4279.  @donnydrumpf9563  "the virus already spreading widely and uncontrollably". Do you have any links to news stories about that? I don't remember seeing that. It's fine if they're in Chinese.
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  4280.  @donnydrumpf9563  Ok, fair point. So what do you think the government should have done? Do you think they made the correct decisions all the way since January, 2020?
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  4281.  @donnydrumpf9563  Yes, in my many years of experience it has become clear they are very reactive.
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  4282.  @donnydrumpf9563  Actually, let me say one more thing. I was, and still am, very impressed with how Deng Xiaoping led the country from '78 forward. He had the courage to make some radical changes that were very unpopular with other party leaders at the time. His policies improved the lives of Chinese people more than all the other leaders combined. The day after he died, one of my teachers cried in the classroom. That moved me deeply.
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  4283.  @donnydrumpf9563  I think it's too early to say. History will be the judge of th current leadership, as is the case with every country. Let's give it 20 years or so.
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  4284.  @donnydrumpf9563  Who knows, maybe your dream will come true. If it does, I wonder what you will use all that money for.
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  4285.  @donnydrumpf9563  Anything is possible, but nothing is guaranteed. After all, not all developed countries have the same GDP/capita. But let's see: For China to achieve a GDP/capita of US$40 k, that is an increase of 208% compared to today. To do that in 30 years will require an annual growth rate of 3.8%, which is feasible. To do it in 20 years will require 5.8% per year, a much more optimistic level. We'll see how it goes.
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  4286.  @donnydrumpf9563  The exchange rate is to a large extent controlled by China's government. If they want the RMB to go up, they just sell a lot of USD and buy RMB; if they want it to go down, they buy USD. RMB 3-4/US$ was the exchange rate when I first visited China in the late 1980s. China later decided to lower the value of the RMB to improve exports. They can raise the value of the RMB again, if they want to. Of course, there are consequences to doing that.
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  4287.  @donnydrumpf9563  Yes, China must move on to depending more on domestic consumption, especially for a country so large. But China's domestic consumption as a percentage of GDP has not increased since 2016 and is even lower than it was in the 80s and 90s. So China's growth is still mainly due to exports and investment, especially investment. To raise consumption, you need to raise incomes, raise salaries. As for floating the RMB, China has been talking about that for 25 years. There are no indications that it will happen soon, but it would be great if it did. So great!
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  4288.  @genesiss420  But the soldiers sitting on the tank seemed unhurt and just ran away. It also looked like the grenade hit a little to the side of the tank, not right on it.
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  4289.  @legendaryblood1937  Ok, you may make the argument that the US constitutes 'the West' and that other western countries don't matter, but then why even mention them in the first place? Why not just say 'USA'. Also, are you claiming that Chairman Mao did not send in 250,000 troops to fight in the war? Then why does official Chinese government figures list 150,000 dead Chinese soldiers in the Korean war?
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  4290.  @chrislee5685  Yes, you're right. I'm thinking about it from a European perspective. Yes, several other countries were involved, just no one from Europe.
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  4291.  @chrislee5685  France and the UK did not take part in the Vietnam War. Vietnam was a colony of France until independence in 1954. The Vietnam War didn't start until 1955.
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  4292.  @chrislee5685  We shouldn't forget the USSR and China also both took part in the Vietnam War with several hundred thousands of troops on the ground.
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  4293.  @thesovietshark8945  So what? The US sent troops after North Korea crossed the 38th parallel. Basically identical. I'm not trying to make the case that the US was more justified than China, but that both countries are willing to go a long way to protect their national interests. That's only normal, for China and for USA (nd other countries). Nobody wants to be a doormat for others.
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  4294.  @thesovietshark8945  Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, that seems accurate to me. China doesn't want US forces on its border, perfectly understandable.
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  4295. David Bowie?
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  4296. Who said the first bit?
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  4297.  @vinm300  I see, thank you. In any case, it's a good quote.
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  4298. Is that important for visiting China?
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  4299.  @dongdong9560  But EU's voice is not French. We speak a bunch of different languages. And several Chinese leaders speak at least some English. In any case, who cares? A language is just a tool for communicating.
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  4300.  @dongdong9560  Whatever you think about EU is your business. We handle our affairs the way we prefer. You shouldn't be surprised that the US, UK, and EU share a lot of values, ideals, culture and opinions. We are more like different Chinese provinces than we are like different Asian countries.
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  4301.  @dongdong9560  Again, it's clear from your comment that you have very little understanding of European/Western culture and the relationships we have with each other. There's simply no comparison with any two Asian countries. We really are like family. In fact, I'm continuously surprised that Asian countries don't try to develop closer relationships. Perhaps you all feel you're unique, while we feel we're almost all the same.
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  4302.  @dongdong9560  "a really united Europe is a nightmare for UK and the US". It's not a nightmare for the UK and US. We like to work together. That is what you don't seem to understand. We're friends!
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  4303.  @dongdong9560  Thanks for your concern. We'll keep an eye out for future difficulties.
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  4304. What is a fair price? Coffee beans are an agricultural product, just like wheat or soy beans. Prices are decided by the market. Of course, if the growers can find a way around the middle men, they can get a larger share of the profits. Co-ops might be a solution: Many growers go together and set up their own distribution company. This is what farmers in Europe did in the 19th century. They set up their own dairies, their own slaughter houses, their own transportation companies. This is much too expensive for one farmer to do, but when you join hands, the impossible becomes possible.
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  4305. Most people seem to suggest aliens. But have you considered these options: -A sign from Buddha foreshadowing an endless era of free breakfast. -A real life superhero. They might exist. -A Donald Trump tweet that got away -Canadian covert technology -A Jackalit (ask Leon from Curb) -A tuna, bro!
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  4306. But what if you are in the opposition? Do you then see yourself as an enemy of humanity?
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  4307. 1:10 As he returns to his seat, you can see him saying to Xi: "Dude, my throat is killing me! I gotta take a day off, man."
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  4308.  @mxn1948  I didn't say Mao was insane, only that he was flippant about the sacrifice of millions of Chinese lives. That's entirely rational if you value the nation over those people who are part of the nation.
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  4309. Ok, you could have cut this video down to 1 minute and just shown the earth works in progress at 7:01 .
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  4310. Thanks for the update. Let's see what happens.
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  4311. The last words the passengers will exchange before the end are: 'My heart will go on'.
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  4312.  @justinlin8973  Some of us know China very well. I was in Shanghai the day Deng Xiao Ping passed away. I remember that day clearly. One of my teachers cried in class. It was very moving.
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  4313.  @heybudstfunow  But how? That's the question.
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  4314.  @heybudstfunow  For a second I thought you had a real question. Turns out you're just trolling. Feel free to continue.
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  4315. Space travel is apparently a lot harder than going down to pick up a cafe latte at your local coffee shop.
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  4316. In the long run, Europe will benefit from this, and I say that as a European who is happy to the that pipeline gone!
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  4317. Wow, I'm the first to comment. Never tried that before. What an honor!
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  4318. In the 70s, we had Jazz Fusion, but it lost its popularity in the 90s. In the 80s, we got Fusion Food which gained some popularity, but that went away, too. Soon, we will get Fusion energy. What will it sound like, what will it taste like? I don't know.
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  4319. "Ethnic Cleansing". As I remember, this term was brand new and was invented during this war to describe what happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's an attempt to find a term for a kind of 'mild genocide'. Nonetheless, it is still genocide.
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  4320. That has already started.
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  4321. 18:07 Standing by Santa Monica Pier: "What is this village called"? Hahaha. Santa Monica has a median household income of RMB 1,200,000.- In Chengdu it's around RMB 300,000.-
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  4322. 4:30 "We take on images that we learn as children, to hierarchize people on the basis of their gender, skin color". Well, this is one possible hypothesis to explain racism, one of several. It is not a hypothesis that evolutionary psychologists would agree with. On the contrary, fear, suspicion and dislike of 'the other', 'the outsider', 'the stranger' is built into us from birth as a mechanism for protection. Later in life, usually beginning around the onset of puberty, this can develop into racism, xenophobia, and other bigotry. What we need to do is learn NOT to be suspicious or have antipathy towards out-group people. This can be learnt with relatively little effort, also beginning around puberty, but it needs to be learnt.
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  4323. Roger Federer
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  4324. "Enhance the image" "Ok, enhancing 800%" "Jesus Christ, it's Just Blur"!
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  4325.  @drunkenmonkey1887  I'm not sure, either.
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  4326.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  Cost benefit analyses are being applied. That's why you have tons of private investors getting into renewable energy. They wouldn't do it if they didn't think it could generate a profit. There is also no 'logistical nightmare'. Certainly, off-shore wind is logistically complex, but it's been done for decades already, and we know very well how it's done, what it costs, what resources are needed, and what the impact on the climate and the immediate environment is, exactly because we already have over 30 years of experience.
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  4327.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  I disagree.
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  4328. Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria. All three represent large populations, regions, religions. They should all be members.
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  4329. Ban them from where? YouTube is not an Indian company, as far as I know. But you have a choice to stop watching YouTube. It's the easiest thing to do.
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  4330.  @somerandomalien4221  You seem to believe I am critiquing e-sports participants. In that belief you are mistaken.
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  4331.  @dynestis2875  I'm not aware of anything that can replace them.
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  4332. I feel Glenn Greenwald's face looks different, like it's partly paralyzed. I hope he's not having an ischemic stroke.
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  4333. It's easy to continue to be angry about Japan's release of this waste water. All you have to do to continue your anger is believe that: -TEPCO is lying -The Japanese government is lying -IAEA is lying -UN is lying -The scientists are lying It also helps if you already hate Japan. If you already hate Japan, nothing can change your mind about this release, because you will always welcome more reasons to hate Japan.
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  4334. 17:40 That robot-guy sounds like he's from Hunan. When he wants to say 能够, he says 冷够 🤩Very cute!
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  4335.  funnymudpee-tf3dg  The potential added radiation is lower than background radiation, so we're all quite safe. Only the ignorant will panic.
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  4336. I like Rebecca Choong Wilkins. I think her accent comes from top-end British universities. It's a bit similar to the accent you hear in Harry Potter.
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  4337. And, of course, she also wears Harry Potter glasses.
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  4338. 10 years for holding an 'experimental primary', which is essentially nothing more than an opinion poll. It holds no legal status. It is also not illegal under HK or Chinese law. Instead, they concoct this idea that it is part of a bigger plan to overthrow the government. Did they have any evidence of the truthfulness of this claim? They did not.
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  4339.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Ok, but I have never seen it, other than online. And this goes years back.
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  4340.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Sure. Where I live most buildings don't have elevators. The delivery guys are doing ok, but the moving company people are really struggling.
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  4341. It's a poor, developing country. The government doesn't have the resources to help. You will find similar situations in every developing country. As they develop and become more prosperous, they will slowly be able to solve their social problems, one by one.
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  4342.  @DDDrumpf  If you thought that you are mistaken. Perhaps you are thinking of European or North American countries.
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  4343.  @DDDrumpf  I'm not hurting anyone. You're the one who is setting up this strawman, not me.
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  4344. 1:03 Chemicals added: Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Sodium Phosphate, spice extract. -And why are they bad? MSG occurs naturally in lots of foods, including mushrooms and tomatoes. Sodium Phosphate is a leavening agent, just like baking soda. Spice extract is, well, spices. It seems to me that there are certain chemicals we accept because we are used to them in our kitchen, like Sodium Chloride (salt) and Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda), but if we are not familiar with their names, we think they are probably bad. They are chemicals!! Oh no! But all food is fundamentally made of chemicals. Personally, I do not eat a lot of processed food, but that's because I like my food fresh, I like it simple and I don't enjoy eating crisps, Cheetos, and other snacks. But I just don't believe that eating processed foods (in moderation) is bad for me. Almost all food, including the food we cook at home, is processed in some form. Cooking in itself makes your food processed. Cheese is processed (including 'processed cheese'), as is all forms of alcoholic drinks. Eat food in moderation and variation and you'll be alright.
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  4345.  @mbak7801  You mean worldwide, or only in China? It seems like a high number.
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  4346. @helllajennifer Do you have a counter argument?
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  4347. You mean like Silicon Valley Bank that went under earlier this year? This channel has over 70 videos about that very event.
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  4348. Maybe when it happens. After all, NIO delivered only 20,000 vehicles in Q1 2021, so it would be too early to say they're a threat to other, more established brands.
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  4349. That guy Robin Maynard from the organization Population Matters is one of those people who generally believes that humans are a strain on the world, a burden for nature, and ultimately 'bad'. That is an opinion some agree with and others don't, but it is an opinion, not a fact. I believe humans have made the world a much better place and that we will continue to do so. All our environmental problems can be solved by human ingenuity just as we have already solved many of our problems. Things will probably get worse before they get better, but that has always been the case. I believe a decreasing human population is ultimately much more damaging to the world than an increasing population. But all within limits, of course. However, even without encouragement to limit births, we will probably ultimately have fewer babies going forward, so global population decline may be inevitable.
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  4350. It's the South China Morning Post, not the South USA Morning Post (which would give the acronym SUSAMP).
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  4351.  @ToiChutGongWu  "One wonders if the SCMP receives money from the US Agency for Global Media". They do! Every day, US Agency for Global Media sends them money for ice-cream for the whole staff.
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  4352. And what does "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership" mean? That was Vietnam's statement.
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  4353. Milk? China hardly exports any milk, but imports a lot. In fact, China imports 200 times more than it exports. And what is this American company you are referring to? Surely, it cannot be MengNiu or Yili, the two biggest players in the market.
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  4354.  @stevevbell  Just FYI, China consumes 20 million tons of milk and milk-derived products per year. That's about 14 liters/person/year.
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  4355.  @gtw4546  They're not useless. They're less effective, but still provide good protection against serious illness and death.
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  4356. "a zontes bike which is of Chinese brand". I have yet to see anyone riding a Zontes bike in China. Most people ride e-bikes, and the few that want a nice motorcycle will buy Harley Davidson, Ducati, Moto Guzzi, Honda, Yamaha. Perhaps Zontes bike are popular out in the provinces.
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  4357. The more you can cram in, the more money you can make.
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  4358. M-kay, cool...
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  4359.  @gaeig  They will move up the same way other countries have moved up, and the same way they have already been moving up for several decades. If you saw what life was like in Bangladesh 30-40 years ago, you'd understand. And just for the record, I have lived in the developing world for almost 30 years. I know what it's about from first hand experience.
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  4360.  @gaeig  Ok, so you also have first hand experience with the economic and social development of India. Ask your parents if life now is better or worse than 30 years ago. India has a good opportunity to double or triple its economy over the next 10-20 years. Go out and take some photos of your local community now, and then look at them again in 20 years to see the difference. And for good measure, visit a countryside village and do the same. Nobody is expecting Utopia, but you and Bangladeshis can expect much better than today. But to reach a level on par with where the developed world is today, that is going to take 40-50 years.
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  4361. The host here, Katie Tarasov, looks a little bit like Taylor Swift, doesn't she?
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  4362. "a whole different set of problems that we haven't discovered yet". That may be true, but if we haven't yet discovered those problems, how can we make that claim?
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  4363. Australia has already learned. Installed (PV) solar power capacity: -Australia: 0.91 kW/person -China: 0.22 kW/person So they're not doing so bad down under.
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  4364. "Socialized stimulus" seems to me to be the right path to take. Send the money to local governments, put them in restricted accounts, use the funds only to pay subcontractors to finish the sold apartments and let the buyers move in. Then send the bill to the developers. At least this should help with social stability. Perhaps local governments can take shares in the property developers until (if ever) they can pay back. It's not going to do much for the overall economy, but I'm not sure anything will at this stage.
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  4365.  @canto_v12  I'm just going to quote the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union): Do I need a permit? -You don’t need a permit to march in the streets or on sidewalks, as long as marchers don’t obstruct car or pedestrian traffic. If you don’t have a permit, police officers can ask you to move to the side of a street or sidewalk to let others pass or for safety reasons. -Certain types of events may require permits. These include a march or parade that requires blocking traffic or street closure; a large rally requiring the use of sound amplifying devices; or a rally over a certain size at most parks or plazas. While certain permit procedures require submitting an application well in advance of the planned event, police can’t use those procedures to prevent a protest in response to breaking news events. -Restrictions on the route of a march or sound equipment might violate the First Amendment if they are unnecessary for traffic control or public safety, or if they interfere significantly with effective communication to the intended audience. -A permit cannot be denied because the event is controversial or will express unpopular views. You live in the US where you enjoy all sorts of freedoms, but you are quite happy to deny those same freedoms to the people of HK, just because it 'seems necessary' to you from afar. HK worked very well with these freedoms, and now they're being strangled, newspapers closed, people imprisoned, just for speaking their mind.
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  4366. The Indian news channel Firstpost covers the fighting fairly closely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EUXX-QFWMg&t=212s . After all, India is right next door, so it's only natural they pay more attention.
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  4367.  @zebraimage  I think that depends on how the journalist got access to the information. American journalists exposing American war crimes have happened often, and it probably will happen again. There's no shortage of criticism of the US government from within the USA. That's how we like it in the West.
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  4368.  @HTeo-og1lg  Thank you
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  4369.  @zebraimage  I'm not denying anything, but it seems to me you're over-interpreting my comment. Of course, that what people on the internet do, so no real surprise.
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  4370.  @DucaTech  No one is saying that, but if there's a trial, I think it's going to be like I presented.
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  4371. It's SCMP. They would very likely get in a lot of trouble if they mentioned that.
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  4372. "There's no video in the camera". Interestingly, the word camera has the same Latin root as chamber, so it kind of makes sense.
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  4373. Climate change (while a real thing) is most likely NOT the reason for the Gobi Desert expanding. Rather, since Mongolia became independent in the 90s, sheep holding has expanded rapidly. Farmers are buying larger and larger flocks because the wool business is good. They send these multitudes of sheep and goats out onto the grasslands where they devour the grass down to its roots, sometimes pulling up the root. What else can the sheep do? They have to eat. The same has been happening in Inner Mongolia (part of China) since the 80s. But the grasslands cannot regenerate grass fast enough for all those sheep, so grassland turns to desert. The only solution is penning of goats and sheep, reducing the amount of feed that comes directly from the grassland, and then the slow process of regenerating the grasslands.
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  4374.  @juneyi187  Sure, you say 'nearby' Chengdu, so I guess a smaller town or suburb of Chengdu. Life can be very low cost in those areas. And out in the countryside villages, it's almost free (if you have a bit of land to grow vegetables). In such a case, I can see how RMB 2000 will go a long way.
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  4375.  @juneyi187  I'd go for Thailand, but then, I already live in China.
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  4376.  @juneyi187  "city of half million population". Ok, that's fairly big by western standards, but not big by Chinese standards. I spent a few days in GuangHan just north of Chengdu, 10 years ago. There wasn't much to do, but we did manage to find a coffee shop.
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  4377.  @BettyWhite2171  According to The Federation of American Scientists, the US has 5044 warheads, while Russia has 5580. But these warheads could be deployed on different systems, e.g. one country could have fewer missiles but more warheads per missile, etc. It's my understanding that both parties are aware of the other's inventory, and that they have discussed this many times and come to some sort of agreement.
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  4378.  @BettyWhite2171  Apparently, during the height of the cold war, in the mid-80s, the two countries had a combined 70,000 warheads. That's a lot!
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  4379. 4:40 quote from 'Tim Apple'. Great little gem.
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  4380. 'Maybe the only difference between us was luck.' Based on a variety of forensic evidence, including injuries to the defendant's face, the jury found that Trayvon Martin had assaulted the defendant. I'm quite confident that President Obama never assaulted anyone, so that's at least one major difference.
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  4381.  @kaneshirosan1642  "investing in other China city is cheaper and less complex compared to HK". And yet, foreign direct investment in Mainland China is at its lowest level in 30 years.
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  4382.  @李荣-n7s  "no need foreign investment". That's wonderful.
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  4383.  @李荣-n7s  "What case?" What what case? What are you referring to?
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  4384.  @sleo3720  "HK will eventually find its glory days again". Yes, all it takes is for HK people to study the speeches of Party leaders. If they spend all their time studying those speeches, they will learn to love the Party.
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  4385.  @李荣-n7s  You think so? I find it quite easy.
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  4386. Not that it should matter, though apparently it matters to you. Of the people featured in this segment: Nick Clegg, WTO Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, JPMorgan CEO of Asset and Wealth Management Mary Erdoes & US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, not one is jewish. Not one. I think they are mostly christian or not religious.
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  4387.  @jackcaffrey8493  Yes, she is, but she wasn't really featured, except in background footage. In any case, I understand some people think Jews are trying to take over the world, but it is not a view I share or really care about. To me, it is a view held by people who feel powerless, and who feel the powerful are deliberately holding them down. It's a sad mental state to be in, because it will never bring them out of their helplessness.
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  4388. Richard Wolff sounds like he's addressing people without a high school education, or people who couldn't care less about what's going on in the world, or people who are, erh, differently abled. And why would those people listen to a professor talking about BRICS? BRICS is mostly a talking club. They meet regularly and discuss issues of common interest. It is not an alliance, it is not a trade grouping, or a political grouping. The two biggest members, India and China, make up 75% of the group's total GDP and 85% of the total population. India and China do NOT have a good relationship and are unlikely to develop one in the next several years. Russia and China are sort of best buddies, and Brazil and South Africa are mostly members to get some trade benefits. And we shouldn't forget that South Africa, Brazil and India all have good relationships with the US, though by no means as allies.
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  4389.  @rap3208  Can you be specific with respect to where my understanding lacks?
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  4390. Another typhoon! They seem to come back to back this year. We've already had two in Shanghai.
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  4391. I'm not French and I don't think Macron is aggressive or unbearable.
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  4392.  @GemsSupplier  "Then you must be a billionaire or very misinformed." Or possibility #3: I have a different opinion about Macron that you do.
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  4393. "Prigozhin says he doesn't understand what we do. The Akhmat unit performs all the tasks assigned by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief". This reminds me of Jordan Schlansky.
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  4394. Yes, I suppose it's impressive, but I still wonder what the purpose of this exercise is. After all, they are chef's apprentices, their purpose should be to make the best food, not to perform tricks.
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  4395.  @shanmaomao4156  Cooking great food is never boring!
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  4396.  @blushingralseiuwu2222  Yes, I have noticed some locals (here in China) find this kid of showmanship to be very entertaining, but I usually put that down to the diners being low class. Higher class diners are more interested in high quality food, and high quality restaurants never have this kind of pointless performance. I feel sorry for the chefs that feel pressured to become circus performers.
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  4397.  @shanmaomao4156  It's not really a question of opinion. More a question of sophistication.
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  4398.  @shanmaomao4156  That is correct.
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  4399. I thought Qasem Soleimani was killed years ago. Are you suggesting he is in his secret hideout in Argentina, controlling the world from his underground lair?
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  4400. Wow, I'm sitting here in Shanghai and the situation seems normal here. Who knows, maybe we'll get a big wave in spring. In any case, it's much better than being locked down. The whole 'Zero Covid' was a huge failure! What waste of time and money!
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  4401.  @hyc1266  As long as I stay alive I don't care what the death count will be. And it's even possible the death count will not be made public to save the govt. any embarrassment.
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  4402.  @hyc1266  Why should I?
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  4403. I don't think that's what they meant by 'plastic recycling'.
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  4404.  @pepelepew1227  Perhaps South East Asia. China no longer buys waste for processing. Not enough money in it.
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  4405.  @OrpheusSonOfCalliope  I know China is very safe from shootings and violent crime. After all, I live in China. But the US just isn't that dangerous, either. The majority of killings in the US are domestic, meaning they are friends or family killing each other.
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  4406.  @nigeltang8738  Ok, you must be living in Chicago's South Side.
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  4407.  @bushidofreakz  Well, there's a million people living in Philadelphia to a ripe old age without ever getting shot at. You need to calculate the statistical likelihood of becoming the victim of a violent crime within a certain timespan. That is the only way you can make a rational assessment (rather than an emotional one) of the danger of living in America.
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  4408.  @LiesTerminator4  But clearly you know that some concentrated areas have very high crime rates where other areas have very low crime rates. Is that not true?
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  4409.  @Hopper-n5f  Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Most Americans just don't live in fear of gun violence. It's only in some concentrated areas where the crime rate is extremely high.
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  4410.  @kevinlin4895  "Shanghai is much safer than NY". Yes, I agree with that, and almost everybody else will agree with that. But that does not mean Americans are living in fear of crime. Most Americans live comfortable, safe, secure lives. Only a small segment of society are victimized by criminal activity.
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  4411.  @fatcammal  You say "we", but the Americans I know do not feel the way you do. Of course people should be cautious, as they are everywhere. Here in China, I do not worry about violent crime, but I am still cautious about people around me. That is only natural.
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  4412.  @kevinlin4895  Sure, but South Africa is at a whole different level. Let's not get too many other countries involved, or it will get much too complicated. We're talking exclusively about the claim made by the original poster: That America is a dangerous place to live in, and that that is part of the reason these academics go back to China. America certainly has a much higher violent crime rate than China, the data on that are clear. But that does not mean that the average American is living in fear. As I said, among the many many Americans I know, there are just no one who have expressed living in fear, but at the same time, they say there are neighborhoods they wouldn't want to visit, nor do they have any need to visit.
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  4413.  @AliAli-et7zy  "Majority of americans don't feel safe and at this point it is undebatable fact". What a ridiculous statement! I challenge you to present any evidence to support this.
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  4414.  @deragoth4250  Nor have I, nor have any of my American friends. I've asked and they have never even heard a gun being fired. Most have never seen a gun with their own eyes. Again, gun violence affects small, concentrated communities, it's not all over.
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  4415.  @joelberg3262  Sure I know. When I was a kid we had nuclear attack drills, hiding under the tables. That didn't mean we were afraid in our daily lives. As children, we also learn how to cross the road without getting run over. Doesn't mean we're afraid when crossing the road. I stand by my position that the vast majority of Americans are not living in fear of crime, even if they know it might happen to them one day.
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  4416.  @AliAli-et7zy  I haven't walked around the suburbs of NYC or LA, I've only walked around Manhattan and a bunch of other cities. I felt perfectly safe most of the time, but I was cautious at night, as I am everywhere. Being cautious is not the same as 'living in fear', especially not to a degree where people decide to leave the country because of that fear. But that is what the original commenter is suggesting. What about yourself? Are you 'living in fear'? Do you think people in Japan and Indonesia are 'living in fear' of earthquakes and volcanoes? They know it's going to happen at some stage, but we all have to live our lives. Yes, I know the crime statistics of the US, but I reiterate that that does not mean people are fearful of moving around society.
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  4417.  @amirillodude  "Living in America, you probably get used to it". The truest statement so far.
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  4418.  @kevinlin4895  "if you talk to New Yorkers who live in less savory part of town like Bronx or Harlem or people who live in the rust belt". Yes, that's probably true, but how big a proportion of the total US population do they make up? Of course there will always be some who live in fear; it could even be an upper middle class woman with an abusive husband. She might be living in fear every day, but we're talking about an average across the US.
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  4419.  @Geoff020650  I've been to the same places. I weren't afraid of the homeless, it's probably more just you being a coward.
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  4420.  @dylreesYT  "What's BaaS stand for?" I think it's "Batteries as a Service", as in swapping batteries when you need it. It could work, but one problem is that each brand, each model will have a different size/shape of battery.
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  4421.  @michaelrusso8466  "should have been". Don't look back, look ahead.
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  4422. In Denmark, Quark is a dairy product. (low-fat, low-whey fermented milk product. Imagine a 'dry' yogurt)
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  4423. A lot of it was from ChongQing, which is overcast most of the year. The Sichuan Basin has more overcast days than almost anywhere else on earth. There was also a fair bit of footage from Beijing, which still often struggles with air pollution. The Shanghai and Shenzhen footage was pretty clear and sunny.
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  4424. Yes, it's not a legally binding agreement, but those who break it might get shamed in the media.
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  4425.  @renemartin5729  "English speaking" . Thanks, that is a much more neutral term.
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  4426. How would you define 'big time'? 7% growth? 9%?
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  4427. "how can China claim a positive GDP". That's easy: Just pump more stimulus into the economy. Of course that has to be repaid some day, but so far they're happy to kick the can down the road.
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  4428. 0:57 "He is a major defense contractor". Technically, that is true. SpaceX has a contract with the Defense Department to launch several satellites into to space over the next couple of years. Currently, SpaceX is the only American launch company that can reliably send satellites into orbit. The value of the defense contract is USD 734 million, about 0.1% of the US defense budget. SpaceX makes a lot more money from cooperating with NASA, but NASA is a civilian agency, not a defense agency.
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  4429. Sounds about right.
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  4430.  @jujutrini8412  "They are rip-off merchants". They may be for you, only if you feel ripped off. Others may not feel that way.
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  4431. In terms of energy use, yes. A standard gas car (I used a Toyota Camry as an example, and gas price $3.5/gallon) will cost around $ 0.09/mile Electric car (I used Tesla Model 3 as an example, and electricity price $0.155/kWh) will cost around $ 0.05/mile. If you drive 25,000 miles/year, you will save $1,000/year in energy cost. This all depends where you live and what car you own, but EVs will invariably be cheaper to run.
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  4432. Lance Armstrong should be able to do his podcast, but I am not going to listen to it or anything else he has to say about the sport. He has lost all credibility for me, forever. But I'd be happy to have a beer in his pub in Austin, just nothing related to the sport. (I'm a former amateur bicycle racer).
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  4433. China's most advanced lithography machines are made by Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE). Their top machine can print 96nm, a far cry from 7nm. SMEE has promised 28nm by year's end, but we have yet to see even a prototype.
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  4434.  @elc6895  I don't know why SMEE told the world they would be ready with a 28nm machine by year end. I guess it helps their stock price.
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  4435.  @elc6895  Ok, so first you say they don't announce because there's a bully trying to stop them. Then you say they DO announce in order to 'deal with' that very bully. So regardless of whether they make an announcement or not, it is still a victory over the bully. It sounds exactly like 阿Q
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  4436. Thanks, I noticed that. And the change happened in 2018, so unless Johnny Harris has a very drawn-out work flow, it probably happened long before he started working on this video. Perhaps the mapping software he uses needs an update.
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  4437. While I agree with Sen. Hawley on this question, there is an important point to be made: Confirmation hearings of judges are NOT about the judge's personal opinions. Those judges do not face the Senate as private persons, but as judges. In other words, their job/work/profession and professional opinion is being tested, not their personal opinion. As an example, an architect might be asked to build a house that he/she thinks is ugly, a chef maybe asked to cook food that he/she thinks is bland or boring, an Uber driver may take you to a place that he/she has no interest in going to. That same Uber driver may hate his car, but if it does the job, then it's good enough.
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  4438. Hold back on the seafood, my Chinese friends. It's dangerous!!!😱
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  4439.  @acuantjahyadi7393  ???
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  4440.  @MayYourGodGoWithYou  I'm sure you're right. The reason for my skepticism is that in my several decades in China I have heard constant news of technological breakthroughs of all kinds. More often than not, they fizzle out and we never hear about them again. Even the famed Hybrid Rice seems to be slowly losing ground. It doesn't have the consistent high yields that were promised. Crop acreage of Hybrid Rice in China has decreased by 25% since the late 90s.
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  4441.  Mark Ulis  What is 'magley thought lights'?
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  4442. 6:40 "but when tariffs were dropped in 2021, China reentered the market". I'm pretty sure the tariffs are still in place with no change.
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  4443.  @Mehieddin7  I think there is some help going to Syria, but it may be more difficult to get in there due to the ongoing unrest.
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  4444.  @SmilingStaffyLensLane  Well, I don't know which part of the southern hemipsphere, but LAtin America has some great rides, eg. Caraterra Austral. South East Asia presents numerous opportunities, eg. Hanoi to Singapore. Africa: Circle around Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania to Zanzibar. So many opportunities.
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  4445. Re. Marathon runners: The times I have run in organized marathons water has always been provided in paper cups, not plastic bottles.
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  4446. What happens at 8:12 ?
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  4447. As a tiny country, Timor Leste can never have a fully independent foreign policy, so they may be making a wise move here. Surrounded by big powers (Indonesia, Australia, China) it can be beneficial to them to play those powers out against each other. Once China becomes 'too big' in Timor Leste, the government can invite Australia or Indonesia in to level the field. In the end, Timor Leste benefits.
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  4448.  @venanziadorromatagni1641  Ok, I'd love to hear both your definition, but more importantly, your suggestion for how to alleviate this problem.
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  4449. Except if you're into SCUBA diving.
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  4450. They're everywhere.
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  4451.  @Bike_Lion  Yes, that sounds like it might be true, but on the upside, there is no 'input', i.e. no fuel goes in to generate energy. In a sense it is similar to hydro power and solar in that respect. And that aspect needs to be part of the calculation, too. Certainly, nuclear is also a good and reliable way to generate energy, but it is so expensive! Really expensive!
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  4452.  @wheel-man5319  There's no input in generating the electricity, but there is input in manufacturing the turbine, of course. In more traditional electricity/heat generation, there is input in the form of wood, coal, dry cow dung, oil, gas; i.e. things that have to be burned.
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  4453. "Some demographic projections have China's population falling by roughly half by 2050". Those projections are clearly mistaken. Even if Chinese women stop having babies completely, there won't be enough people dying over the next 27 years to make the population drop by half. At the very worst, the population might drop to 1 Billion, but that is provided no babies are born until then.
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  4454. "technically"
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  4455.  @1BUKKAKE  Speak for yourself, woman!
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  4456. It seems chaotic when viewed from afar. The news only report when things happen. Most days, most years, most places, nothing happens. Most Americans live their entire lives without ever hearing a gun being fired, and most have never held a gun in their hand.
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  4457.  @qiyuxuan9437  Yes, I agree China will be the main ship building center for a long time. But eventually, it will move, because that's just a result of economic development. So either you keep the shipyards and don't get rich, or you get rich and the shipyards move elsewhere.
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  4458.  @guzilayerken5013  Well, in that case, the industry may move back to Japan, the most advanced country in industrial robotics and automation.
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  4459.  @guzilayerken5013  So, by your thesis, the world has seen tremendous change over the centuries, but that is going to end and going forward, everything will remain as it is now. Brilliant!
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  4460.  @EdibleDiarrhoea  " it may contain water or minerals". Why would it be more likely to contain water or minerals. You realize that the 'dark side' of the moon is not actually dark. It is exposed to sunlight as often as the side we see, so any water would have evaporated. On the north or south pole, that is a different matter.
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  4461. Very interesting, but could you leave that deep, dramatic voice to Discovery and NatGeo, please?
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  4462. 🤣
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  4463. I didn't know China's ambassador to Canada was Zhao Wei. She was great in My Fair Princess (还珠格格).
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  4464.  @kjrom  The so-called 'nuclear winter' theory has already been debunked. But still, it will take decades to get us back on foot.
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  4465.  @Bland-79  Well, it's all just speculation. We can't know what will really happen, we can only guess.
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  4466. You think they're gonna catch Russians and eat them, too?😉
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  4467.  @outisnemo8443  I know, I'm European. My meaning is that there are no 'tribes' that rely on gathering wild produce for their subsistence.
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  4468. Not perpetuating, but winning. The two parties will go on until one of them has decidedly lost.
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  4469.  @arjunraj823  That's great to hear.
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  4470.  @Nisthename  They were elected to government in 2006 and have been in power since. They run Gaza.
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  4471.  @Kat-zi2tb  Yes, the original poster corrected it from 'country' to 'city' after I wrote my post. No big deal.
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  4472.  @sportsonwheelss  I don't think it's ok. I am just about old enough to vaguely remember the Biafran Civil War, where the government deliberately blocked food to the region, leading to one of the worst famines in modern history. Nevertheless, the Biafran people (mostly Igbos) have since risen out of despair and toward great success.
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  4473. China is really throwing its weight around these days. Like a blue whale, just scooping up everything in its way and eating it.
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  4474. If we could bring Confucius and Socrates back (who were almost contemporaries; Confucius died 9 years before Socrates was born), we could put them head to head and have a philosophical discussion.
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  4475. There are already plenty of McDonald's clones in China, mostly in smaller cities and towns that don't yet have a real McDonald's.
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  4476. Another commenter mentioned the instant noodles. In fairness, they are used in cooking all over East- and South East Asia.
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  4477. There is still work to be done on all kinds of AI.
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  4478. I don't buy the idea that the Amazon Rainforest is dependent on nutrient-rich dust from the Sahara for its survival. There are plenty of rainforests around the world that are independent systems and the sheer amount of fauna living in a rainforest provide plenty of fertilizer.
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  4479.  @michaeldeierhoi4096  It's not as simple as that. Even with the patent/recipe, other countries may not have the technology or expertise to make those vaccines. It's like semiconductors: It's not a secret how they're made, but the technology needed is on a level where only two companies worldwide can make the cutting edge chips.
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  4480. Perhaps you can point out any inaccuracies in the report?
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  4481. "Shouldn't we tie down this gigantic concrete block?" "Nah, it'll be fine, don't worry about it".
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  4482.  @greentea8852  Depends what you mean by 'normal'. The total amount planned to be released per year is about the same as nuclear power stations in Fujian and Zhejiang release every year. "donation to iaea". IAEA is a UN agency. They are fully funded by all countries around the world. There's no need to donate anything to them.
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  4483. Why do some Indians leave their country, immigrate to somewhere else, and then try to kill other Indians? Why can't the different religious groups in India get along? Why are the religious frictions in India seemingly getting worse in recent years? These are social problems in India that only India itself can solve. Seems to me India would benefit greatly from having open debate about these issues and try to solve them, instead of each group isolating and each declaring their own supremacy over others, and each group growing their own hatred of the other groups. You have to continue to live together for the next hundreds of years, whether you like it or not. The problem doesn't go away by itself.
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  4484. My parents bought an electric lawn mower about ten years ago. Sometimes they can mow the (smallish) lawn with one charged battery, sometimes they have to change half way through. They always have charged batteries ready. The mower is lighter and quieter and is a pleasure to use. I don't think they're going back.
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  4485.  @d1tto232  "Julian Assange should be a Hero for Australian's". This video is not about Julian Assange, but for the record, I don't think Julian Assange has done anything wrong, and I think he should be released.
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  4486.  @krisb-travel  It's still stealing land that doesn't belong to them.
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  4487. What if your friends want to know?
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  4488. Facepalm!
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  4489. The guest is pretty hard to understand. I give up.
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  4490.  @genespell4340  Sure, but you know what I mean. Most of the world, at least in the west, have experienced much more prosperity without slavery than with it.
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  4491.  @asmodeus1274  Sure, but not institutionalized slavery. After all, slavery is not legal anywhere. What is referred to as 'Modern Slavery' is very different from what happened in the past, where people were bought and sold in markets, or taken as war booty, and then chained and worked to their death. I'm sure you know the difference.
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  4492.  @hg2.  "the bullying and hysteria of the climate-change constituency is stupid". Can we please keep the climate debate out of a video about archeology?
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  4493.  @dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855  I was replying to the original poster
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  4494. Fascinating hearing!
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  4495. Ostrich Gang vs. Duck Army, that's a Chinese street battle I'd like to see.
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  4496.  @Christmas12  Well, it's hard to say with certainty, but in my 20+ years in China, I have never heard anyone saying they were traumatized by colonization, whether it is western or Mongolian. Yes, there is resentment against the Japanese and to a much lesser degree against westerners, but resentment is not trauma, and in any case, that resentment is quite rare (some Europeans also have a bit of resentment against Germany, but it is rare). Additionally, I also haven't heard of trauma from Indians, Malaysians, Singaporeans. Surprisingly, even the Vietnamese seem to have already moved on from American aggression and French colonization.
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  4497.  @Christmas12  Resentment is just as often, if not more often, a result of envy. Envy at not having made it as far as others. As for the opium war, we have have all tried being attacked and/or invaded by other nations. My country has been invaded/attacked by numerous countries over the centuries. It's just a part of history and there's no need to wallow in past injustices. Better to get one's life in order and move on.
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  4498.  @charliezhu674  Thanks, Charlie. We're almost getting used to this strange life down here. A lot of time is spent looking through WeChat groups to find the right food to buy. Today, I got bacon from a bacon-group, and milk from a milk-group. I'm also waiting for vegetables, cooking oil and a 三黄鸡 chicken (Shanghai specialty).
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  4499.  @AnotherPointOfView944  I'm in China. Nevertheless, it's now next morning and I'm still alive.
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  4500.  @ZakiHaider-y9o  What makes you think so, Zaki?
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  4501. This is nothing. There are entire countries where no one can vote.
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  4502.  @santhoshv3028  Most countries that today are democratic started out with only a small part of the population being able to vote. Then, over time, more and more people got the right to vote. Even today, not everyone can vote, even in countries that consider themselves fully democratic: Children cannot vote in any country.
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  4503. I think Europeans in general have largely moved beyond pomp and flash and being called 'your excellence' and so on. Just the fact that you may see European leaders cycling around town on a bicycle should be a signal that we don't care too much about protocol or being treated like nobility. I'm glad those days are over.
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  4504. Popular democratic parties have no future in Hong Kong. From now on, all political decisions will be made in Beijing.
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  4505.  @esashaik1372  It's not something I'm saying, it's the United Nations. And they base their calculations on the number of children people have in Indonesia and in the US, plus the number of people immigrating into the US every year. If Indonesian people have more children, then you're right. If they have fewer children, then you're wrong.
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  4506.  @esashaik1372  That's true, but neither you or I can know for sure what will happen in the future. But we do know that Indonesia's Total Fertility Rate (the number of children an average woman will have) has been falling steadily for decades and is now at 2.1. Any fewer children and the population will eventually decline, but it will not happen for at least 30 years.
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  4507. People have doubts about a lot of things. A lot of people have doubts that Russia and China are legitimate countries, and are instead mafia-controlled wildernesses.
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  4508. It seems to be the one that makes the most sense, but there is no evidence either way, so any idea is still possible.
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  4509.  @Leshic2  That's an interesting point, but fabs that make even relatively low end chips need a very large initial investment. I think we would have heard if Cambodia had built a fab. Or maybe not, maybe you're right.
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  4510. When 'The Empire' grows, socialists are unhappy, when it declines, socialists are unhappy. When society remains the same, socialists are unhappy, when society changes, socialists are unhappy. Conclusion: Socialists are fundamentally unhappy people. Richard Wolff has been unhappy for decades. I'm happy, but I'm not a socialist. Maybe that's why. Or it could be because our societies (not just the US) just keep improving and improving. There has never been a better time to be alive, and few countries can compare with the capitalist countries.
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  4511. @Yourbrother05 I'm using Taylor Swift as an example of a person whose fans idolize her so such a degree that they cannot accept any criticism of her.
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  4512.  @kuldeepsharmaiist  "Bloomie is sad that India is growing". What's up with this pathetic, nationalistic whining? Your country is growing very fast, why are you still angry? Why are you so afraid of criticism? Are you not strong enough to just shrug it off? Be proud! Be confident in your country's abilities! Be a man!
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  4513.  @kuldeepsharmaiist  I try to stay informed through a number of media, including Bloomberg and several Indian news sources (in English). I have only really started following Indian news in recent years, since we started to see the Indian economy moving ahead at a fast pace. In general, I take an interest in economic and development news from emerging economies. What happens politically in those countries is less interesting to me, as governments change quite often.
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  4514.  @Usersskk  Again, your objection is purely because you dislike the view being presented. You simply cannot stomach hearing an opposing view. It's immature, and borderline authoritarian.
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  4515.  @svanimation8969  What's the point of all those 'laughing emojis' you post? None of what you write is funny, it seems more angry.
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  4516.  @Usersskk  But she didn't say everything is going wrong. She pointed out one aspect of the economy that should make us careful about predicting high growth going forward.
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  4517.  @Usersskk  Again with these 'laughing emojis' at the end of an angry post. Seems to be two opposing emotions. Very confusing.
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  4518.  @Usersskk  "you have proved that you are authoritarian mindset person". How is that? Feel free to present your 'proof'. Or are you just leveling an accusation at me?
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  4519.  @Usersskk  More personal attacks, more laughing emojis. But no arguments, no contribution to the discussion. Very weak.
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  4520.  @kooalabeats5388  I understand that, but you can expect that as India grows in wealth and importance, the amount of scrutiny will only increase. Just like how a wealthy industrialist will receive much more scrutiny than a street side vendor. That is how the world should, and does, work.
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  4521.  @Nolan608  Thanks for that well reasoned comment.
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  4522. Chinese people like to do things together. They are very social people.
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  4523.  LockerGamingTV  Perhaps not that social, though, back in the 80s, it was common to see public toilet stalls without any partition. Talk about 'common production'!
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  4524. and he doesn't appear to know Kung Fu.
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  4525. Could be a 'Viking Raid Motive'.
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  4526. The area controlled by US Forces is in the south, bordering Jordan. That area is pure desert, no agriculture, no oil, no gas, no mines, no resources of any kind. Almost all of Syria's oil and gas fields are controlled by either the Syrian government or Kurdish dominated forces. A small part is controlled by Turkey. USA does not import products of any kind from Syria.
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  4527.  @JMA4206  That's not an argument.
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  4528.  @Otter-Destruction  Yeah, and that's the least of it. By the way, most public toilets in China still don't have freely available toilet paper or hand towels, because they'll get stolen immediately. Instead, there will often be a vending machine where you can buy some. (To be fair, when I went to high school, some of my classmates who lived alone would sometimes steal rolls of toilet paper from the school toilets, so this phenomenon is not unique to China)
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  4529. Pretty interesting. I'm going to try this.
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  4530. Help your mother by joining her in prostitution. Two people can make more money than one.
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  4531. Unless you're defending your country. Most people would do that.
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  4532.  @ckpioo  Ok, I stand corrected, then, and I'll wait and see if I get it.
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  4533. Peter Zeihan is best viewed as entertainment. He is deliberately sensationalist for clicks, and much of his source material is sketchy at best. Slow, gradual decline is much more likely. In 2050 China will probably still be a formidable adversary.
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  4534.  @Drownedinblood  "where did they all go?" They are celebrating their victory in shopping malls, cafes, restaurants, and on airplanes going to a warm holiday destination.
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  4535.  @jetli740  Haha, they were young people. Their risk of dying is almost zero.
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  4536. Wow, I did not know there was an Easter Island statue emoji.
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  4537.  @wilsonmpesha904  He doesn't have his life anymore, but how does that relate to Boeing? That is what I'm asking for evidence of.
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  4538.  @wilsonmpesha904  "Just read the OP again". There's no evidence of wrongdoing to found there.
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  4539.  @wilsonmpesha904  What? Who are those guys? Is Boeing involved with these 'guys' in some way?
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  4540.  @wilsonmpesha904  "Must"? How so? You seem to go straight from suspicion of wrongdoing > conclusion that it happened, but you leave out that very important part in the middle: Evidence! Suspicion of wrongdoing > evidence of wrongdoing > conclusion that it happened. Without that element of evidence you can never get further than suspicion. And just to be clear again: Suspicion of wrongdoing IS NOT evidence of wrongdoing.
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  4541.  @wilsonmpesha904  Resorting to emojis? You've presented no evidence. Are you also now running out of arguments?
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  4542. I think you're basically right, but there is no need to join BRI in order to invest. BRI is a Chinese program, but it is not the only way to invest in infrastructure globally.
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  4543.  @Princelywon  You said India couldn't feed itself. You said it! I'm pointing out your error. And it is also a fact that China is not self-sufficient in food production. And you don't have to teach me about China. I've lived here for over 25 years, I've seen the country develop, I speak the language, I know the people, I know very well what China is about. And I also remember what China was like in the 1980s. Foreigners said terrible things about China's low level of development back then. And now you do the same to countries that are less developed than you. Why be a bully? Haven't you learned anything? Try to be a little nice.
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  4544.  @EmilyRouge  In what way is Russia more developed than China? It's poorer, it's less technologically advanced.
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  4545.  @cptrofl1343  "calling the US the largest developed Country is such a joke". So what is required to be a 'developed country', in your opinion?
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  4546.  @sharuwanabdulla5344  "America is more like a developing 3rd world country". So how do you determine when a country is developed, and when it is developing? You must have your own standards.
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  4547.  @clever34c  "第一或第二是很榮耀嗎". If it's not important, why would China keep mentioning it in every meeting with the US since the 1980s?
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  4548.  @美军御用修脚师  That's true, but it's a kind of marketing language, just like 没有共产党就没有新中国. It's easy to say, and it doesn't really mean anything.
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  4549.  @EmilyRouge  "by their infrastructure buildings and more technological advanced". Well, in that case, China is certainly a developed country. At the very least, more developed than Russia.
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  4550.  @EmilyRouge  "uhm china has been inviting us to meetings in the 60s and more specified,Harry Kissiger (ik its not that exact spelling but yk who I mean) and recently he went to meet in china earlier this year" Why are you telling me something I already know? And what relevance does it have to this topic?
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  4551.  @EmilyRouge  "he used to be a US ambassador". Even less related to the discussion of 'developed' versus 'developing', a discussion that could be had about any two countries, not just the US and China.
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  4552.  @kelanzhi7269  MLGB
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  4553.  @kelanzhi7269  This is quite funny, but do we have to continue? It very quickly gets boring. I'll give you the last word, if you want to throw one more at me. 😉
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  4554.  @harmless6813  But those businesses don't consider China their enemy. You could even say that they have neither enemies nor friends, only suppliers and customers. Remember, they are businesses, not countries.
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  4555.  @harmless6813  I would say the only 'enemies' of businesses are competitors and government regulators. If it wasn't considered immoral by society at large, or outright illegal, most western businesses would be happy to trade with Iran, North Korea, Russia, or Syria.
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  4556.  @peterstafford4426  Just take it as entertainment. They're not gurus.
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  4557. Nice looking bridge. What are those two narrow central lanes for? Please tell me they are exclusive bicycle lanes!
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  4558.  @jennylee1802  China is not colonizing other countries. The comparison makes no sense. We can talk about colonization if you want, but not on this video, which is not about colonization, but about corrupt business practices. Besides, Vice News deals with the news that happens now, not what happened hundreds of years ago. It's not a history channel.
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  4559. With 4.8 million cases and only one death, the North Korean government has proven that their system of government is superior to any other government in the world. Any objections?
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  4560.  @thegrandaviator8308  I see.
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  4561. It's not an easy business to compete in, even for a large company like Intel, but I wish them the best.
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  4562. Smart move
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  4563. But if you were to write 洗进瓶, the AI bot wouldn't know what you're talking about.
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  4564. You mean they go to Pattaya for some more 'drilling'?
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  4565.  @evancooper7259  "because too many ppl". You can always find places to visit that have very few people, even in China. But that's not what people choose to do. They deliberately go to the most crowded places.
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  4566.  @fungames24  That is an excellent counter-point. Now you've made me think. 🙂
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  4567. It's not CNN, it's CNA = Channel News Asia, based out of Singapore. Not related to CNN.
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  4568. The Chinese got mad at the British for the opium trade, and now they don't understand why the British are mad, too?
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  4569. Why do all these Afghans want to go to the West when we know that 'The East is Rising, The West is Declining'? Is it possible that the slogan 'The East is Rising, The West is Declining' is not accurate?
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  4570. Robo-tyne rather than Robot-ne. It's not easy.
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  4571. US military budget: $ 990 billion. That is 17% of the federal budget, and 4% of GDP. Medicare budget: $ 750 billion Medicaid budget: $ 750 billion Housing assistance: $ 75 billion Food assistance (SNAP / food stamps): $ 115 billion Dept. of Education: $ 68 billion Almost all of this spending goes straight back into the domestic economy. It's given to corporations and to regular people. They then spend it all and it joins the great spending cycle of society and eventually end up back in the federal coffers to start all over again.
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  4572. It takes time to produce billions of vaccines.
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  4573.  @hadesolympus6069  Ok, I think I see what you mean. I don't know where you're from, but at USD 25 a shot, that's 250 billion for 10 billion shots. Big governments could probably make a much better deal than that, but it would still cost a fair deal. Who will/should/are willing to pay for that? If it's US tax payers (which I am not), it will cost every tax payer $1000.- For some, that's reasonable, for many others, it's a lot of money.
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  4574.  @carnage2k4  Yes, both you and Hades make a good point. One problem, as I understand it, is that while the mRNA vaccines are very simple, they are not so simple to manufacture and require some very high-tech equipment, in addition to specialized and expensive facilities built from the ground up. In other words, a large pharmaceutical company in country X may not even be able to make them, unless they themselves put in very large funds.
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  4575. Judging by the people interviewed, it turns out Americans are pretty smart after all.
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  4576. Well, if you ever have to tell your friends you once got beat up, it's great to at least be able to say that the person giving you the beating was Mike Tyson.
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  4577. In my understanding, the problem is that a large number of NHL players have tested positive in recent weeks and because of that, they may not be able to get through quarantine with a complete team, thus not be able to play anyway.
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  4578. No, they are mostly black or dark grey with a bit of shiny metal color on the sides.
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  4579. She didn't say they were 'entitled'. Nobody is entitled to do business with anyone, you have to ask if they want to do business with you, and African countries say YES!!
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  4580.  @EuroTravChannel  "African nations have learned the behaviors of IMF". And what behaviors are they?
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  4581. With respect to Aboriginal interests, it's an open question how long the affected communities would want to preserve their current lifestyles. After all, we were all once hunter-gatherers, but most of us have little interest in returning to that lifestyle. It's not hard to imagine that new generations of Aboriginals would have an interest in agriculture or just a material advancement of their lives. They may hold the land ownership rights, but that doesn't mean they would refrain from developing that land.
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  4582.  @nicksmith7989  Well, in time, most people change their viewpoints. We'll see what happens.
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  4583. Eagle eyes!
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  4584.  @jetli740  Yes, but even then, it would have to first come from an animal. Or it should have been possible to test people in Wuhan and look for remnants of previous, less dangerous viruses.
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  4585.  @hiyukelavie2396  There are probably several, but after SARS in 2003, the Chinese government put special emphasis on studying corona viruses in order to prevent another epidemic, and specifically set up the Wuhan lab for that purpose. It is generally agreed that the Wuhan lab is the top Corona virus lab in the world. The Wuhan lab spent years traveling to caves all over South West China, in addition to South East Asia, to collect Corona viruses from many many species of bats for medical and biological research. As you may be aware, South West China is characterized by Karst geology, with numerous caves spread over thousands of square kilometers and with many different species of bats living in these caves. The Wuhan lab has one of the largest repositories of those Corona virus samples. Additionally, the Wuhan lab is special because it is located in the very city where the first outbreak took place.
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  4586.  @hiyukelavie2396  It is unique, due to the high level of expertise in the Corona virus field of research. As I wrote, it is perhaps the foremost Corona lab.
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  4587.  @hiyukelavie2396  It's not about the people, it's about the lab. I'm not expressing certainty that the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab, I'm saying that given the proximity between the world's foremost Corona virus research facility and the initial outbreak, the possibility of a leak must be considered as a high likelihood. The primary question that must be asked is: Why did it start in Wuhan and not some other place?
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  4588.  @neobios  Can you supply us with evidence that the virus had ' been circulating around the world months before'? I understand some people are saying that, but it takes more than just claims and opinion to convince me. Given that the first major outbreak happened in Wuhan, and that the infection rate was so rapid in the city, we should ask the question why that didn't happen elsewhere.
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  4589. It was not 'discovered' in Wuhan. Wuhan was the epicenter was the epidemic. It was never observed anywhere else before, and despite many search efforts, no cases of the virus has been found elsewhere before Jan. 2020.
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  4590.  @lvjinbin28  I have already addressed that. Besides, it was not hidden by the media. If it were, how did you find out about it?
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  4591.  @lvjinbin28  Please read my earlier comment regarding the Spain finding. It's in this thread.
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  4592. What makes you say the location is promising? It's about equidistant to BJ, TJ, and Baoding. I live in Shanghai and there's a small city called PingHu that is equidistant to SHG, Hangzhou and Ningbo. But why would people want to move to a new place away from those cities when there's much more value in living in the middle of a big city? There's a reason people move to BJ or SHG and not to Baoding or Cangzhou. Big, established cities will always be more attractive.
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  4593.  @wingkeungkong415  We are like Harvard University: Many people apply, and we will take every application under consideration, but we cannot accept every applicant. However, we do not discriminate based on where you're from, east or west, north or south.
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  4594.  @wingkeungkong415  I don't think you understand what 'applicant' means. Other countries apply to join, NATO does not go out and ask other countries to join. And even when countries apply they are not always accepted. Just look at Sweden and Finland who have applied to join NATO. They have still not been accepted. What Russia and China does is their business. What we do is our business.
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  4595.  @wingkeungkong415  "Nato, is for war not for peace. Otherwise it would not continue to expand" You can believe what you want. I don't care.
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  4596.  @wingkeungkong415  "all small country is controlled by great power in the world". That is a claim without evidence. It's your fantasy to make you feel better about your own sad and angry opinion.
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  4597. This development opens up the battlefield in a way we haven't seen in several week or even months. I am on Ukraine's side, but there is no doubt this was a big set-back for Ukrainian forces. I hope they can hold or slow down the Russian advance going forward.
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  4598. Don't cry over spilled milk!
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  4599.  @josephrong4780  Check it out. It's a classic of electronic music.
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  4600. I didn't know that when Germany was beaten in WW2, they also had their balls cut off. That's unfortunate.
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  4601. -Did you step on the brake pedal? -Yes! Very hard! Well, I'm pretty sure it was the brake pedal...
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  4602. I don't think anyone has claimed that this carrier has copied any western design. 100% home made.
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  4603. I can totally see a Hollywood celebrity naming their first-born son Omicron Delta.
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  4604. I've visited Unitree, the company that makes these. Nice company, nice people.
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  4605. This video made my heart pulse.
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  4606. JZ?
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  4607.  @jigsaw2281  I don't know. Do they make their own aircraft? They may make military aircraft, but not civilian aircraft.
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  4608.  @ragabara1031  So it's a bad idea for China to make their own parts and components? That's what you're saying.
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  4609.  @ragabara1031  "China's aim to achieve self-sufficiency across all domains". Ok, but you also write: "globally sourced parts and components also helps with deterring threats to China's sovereignty". And you also write: "An aircraft firm that does everything on its own doesn't offer that kind of advantage for its home country." These statements are directly contradictory.
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  4610.  @Indian_Rajput  I think that's pretty much exactly what I wrote.
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  4611.  @Erispedia  Well, I don't know which part of SEA you're from, but several countries have a rich offering of Indian food, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. They serve it with basmati rice and it's delicious.
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  4612. 0:17 "Over decades of war, subways have become home to so many" Decades? It's only been 5 weeks.
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  4613. "Them" meaning all foreigners in all countries, no matter where they're from, and no matter where they are.
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  4614.  @Ahnaf57  I agree.
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  4615. Before having watched the video, I think I can answer the question "What This Golden Retriever Used To Look Like": It used to look a lot smaller, kinda like a puppy.
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  4616. You should ask why so many Chinese people are willing to cheat and scam other Chinese people.
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  4617. "The masses have boundless creative power. They can organize themselves and concentrate on places and branches of work where they can give full play to their energy" Mao Zedong, 1955
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  4618.  @AMT1345  "misspelled incorrectly" is a double negative, so the meaning is actually 'spelled correctly'.
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  4619.  @fabianofrank4785  As a Brazilian, you have experience with both sides: 1930-1945: Dictatorship under Vargas 1945-1964: Various democratically elected governments 1964-1980: Military dictatorship. 1980-today: Various democratically elected governments So which type of government do you prefer?
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  4620. I highly doubt this will make a come-back, other than as a curiosity. It's fun to try old recipes, like that channel Tasting History, but rarely do old customs regain their popularity.
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  4621.  @alvindurochermtl  But this is not Japan, it's Hong Kong. Likewise, Chinese customs are unlikely to become popular in other parts of the world.
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  4622.  @alvindurochermtl  Well, I suppose it can. Think of coffee culture which is all over China now (I prefer M-Stand). And hotpot has completely taken over China, though that was Chinese to begin with. But tea ceremony is slow and I don't think young Chinese have the time to spend on that just for a cup of tea, when you can go to 'Happy Cup' and get a fruity beverage in a minute. I just don't see it happening.
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  4623.  @alvindurochermtl  That's true, I don't have a clue. Despite knowing HK people and having been to HK many, many times, I've never heard people say they're into matcha (except matcha ice-cream, matcha cake, matcha-everything, except tea). But perhaps you can enlighten me about the popularity of Matcha in HK?
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  4624. They're like QAnon with Trump.
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  4625.  @Deathlock61  Thanks for that correction. You're right that I am not an expert on Q Anon, nor would I wish to become one, because it's insane!
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  4626. Everything China dislikes is always "doomed to failure".
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  4627. Nothing special here. This is the stance of all nuclear powers.
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  4628.  @ImNotMito  Thank you.
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  4629. Unlikely. There's plenty of housing available in the US, but the homeless cannot afford to move in. They tend to be drug addicts, unemployed, mentally ill.
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  4630.  @qizhang2032  Wow, your equations must be better than mine. Would you share them here, please?
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  4631.  @aodr9356  Nevertheless, I'm much less interested in kings and treasures and more interested in social and technological development.
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  4632.  @aodr9356  Those books are important, but as I wrote, I am interested in what archeology can tell us about social development, and then perhaps, compare it to those two books. I am less interested in the written history.
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  4633.  @aodr9356  I have feeling you don't really understand what I write. Maybe I can write very shortly in Chinese: 我关注考古学，不关注历史。懂吗？
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  4634.  @freakmoister  Literature only goes back to a certain point. Before that, we have to rely on found objects. That should be easy to understand.
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  4635.  @freakmoister  Even during times of recorded history, archeology can give us answers to help us understand those periods more fully. After all, recorded history only present one viewpoint of the times.
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  4636.  @aodr9356  As you grow older, you will hopefully develop a more mature view.
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  4637.  @aodr9356  Thank you. You too. I like to debate and discuss, but I prefer when we can do it in a friendly manner and respect each other's viewpoints.
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  4638.  @aodr9356  I did not write those comments about the Party. In addition, I believe Chinese archeologists are highly professional.
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  4639. You're too emotional to talk to, even angry, an anger based on your own imaginations about me. I have stated my interest in archeology and what it can teach us about early human societal development. I stand by it. Your anger is your own to keep.
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  4640. The one against Australia? China started that one.
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  4641.  @mingyuhuang8944  Ok, so berating another country is justification for starting a trade war? I'd like to see China declaring that rule in international relations.
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  4642.  @fernr9496  Yes, it's true that the idea of 'free trade' can easily be abused, by any party. The world has a long way to go in this respect.
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  4643.  @anakborneo7993  "you might learn something usefu". Like what? Give any example of what you said that was not either faulty, or just expressing your hopes for the future?
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  4644.  @anakborneo7993  How does that teach me anything? I already know about the different dialects/languages spoken by people of Chinese descent all over East- and South East Asia. Don't try to impress me me with this primary schoolboy knowledge.
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  4645.  @anakborneo7993  I don't care what you said, because I'm not 14 years old.
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  4646. Exercise is healthy, including military exercise.
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  4647.  @mm-dd-yyyy  Thank you for that info. It looks like this could be two separate incidents. The Malaysian climber was male and has since been flown back to Malaysia. The other climber in distress, as you mention, is female, Chinese from Hunan. Additionally, the Hunan woman, Fan Jiangtao and Xie Ruxiang (also Hunanese) were all climbing from the Chinese side, while the Malaysian was climbing from the Nepalese side of the mountain. Whatever the case, people who help others in need should always be praised. These are all heroes.
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  4648.  @mm-dd-yyyy  The China Daily article has a photo with the caption "A selfie of Fan Jiangtao and Xie Ruxiang of the Hunan mountaineering team at Mount Qomolangma in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region". I interpret this to mean they're sitting in a camp on the Tibet side (North face) of the mountain. If they ascend from the north, they also descend to the north. Well, anyway, who knows what is what? The main thing is that the Hunan woman/Malaysian man was rescued, and several climbers and guides/assistants made a huge effort to help out. Hats off to all of them.
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  4649.  @manfunny917  The latest story from SCMP is that Ms. Liu don't want to pay the Sherpa who rescued her. As for thanking people, do we even know if Mr. Ravichandran or Ms. Liu were conscious when they were rescued?
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  4650.  @amiithan4992  "you mean both of them walked down to the base camp in delirium and unconscious?" I didn't write that anywhere, nor do I believe that, and I don't know why you would come to that conclusion. What we know now with certainty is that these are two different events, with two different people being rescued, by different Sherpas. We also know that both events happened on the Nepal side, not the Chinese side. Apart from that, there are still some unknowns.
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  4651. 9:15 Green peas = Gu-reen pee-su.
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  4652.  @min-jd5lb  You can blame your own failures on the CIA, but it's not going to get you anywhere.
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  4653.  @min-jd5lb  I don't believe they all hate the US. Some do, and others admire and like the US. After all, hundreds of thousands of them wish for nothing more than to immigrate to the US.
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  4654.  @min-jd5lb  Of course not, which begs the question: Why is the US so successful and why are certain other countries always failing? Hmm, is it the CIA again?
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  4655.  @waqasiqbal265  Cannabis was in common use in east and south Asia from the 10th century, and spread throughout the Arab/Muslim world from the 12th century onwards. But perhaps it skipped over Afghanistan.
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  4656.  @PhadJHR-bz7th  If Afghanistan is really so peaceful today, it shouldn't be a problem how many weapons there are. The peaceful people of Afghanistan can just leave those weapons alone.
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  4657.  @pepelepew1227  Yes, the west tries to persuade other countries to vote with them. China tries to persuade other countries to vote with them. Russia tries to persuade other countries to vote with them. This is how the world normally works ,whether you like it or not.
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  4658.  Pengamat militer abal-abal  I think you're right. Both the US and China have a lot to lose by going to war.
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  4659.  Pengamat militer abal-abal  What are you talking about? A country? Already several countries have been mentioned in this thread.
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  4660.  Pengamat militer abal-abal  Ah, got it. Ok, I see we agree. That's always nice 😎😎
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  4661.  @Rakkasan11b  Or you fight alone. I believe that is what Indonesia has decided to do.
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  4662.  @Rakkasan11b  They appear willing to take the chance on their own.
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  4663.  @motengfreeTV1990  What do you mean by nuclear? A nuclear power station? A nuclear powered submarine? Nuclear weapons? Just to be clear, no country that has nuclear weapons has EVER sold them to another country.
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  4664.  @michaeltan9438  Sure, but Singapore also has a strong security partnership with the US, exactly because their leadership has decided that is beneficial to them, because they're a relatively small country.
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  4665. Not everybody wants them, but millions of people do, a number that is likely to rise to hundreds of millions by the end of this decade. There will always be a market for gas cars, though.
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  4666.  @asherscott3151  Perhaps traditionally, but fashions change in Vietnam, too. Especially in the cities.
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  4667.  @AndyKing1000  I think it's possible to get baby milk formula and other necessities, but coffee and other imported goods are not considered necessities. We have been asked to refrain from ordering unnecessary goods like wine and alcohol, juice, cake, etc. because the few delivery personnel available should be reserved for necessary goods only. But people order these things, anyway. I was lucky to get my hands on cigarettes today, though, because a tobacco shop owner lives in the community and he had a stash on hand. I felt like hitting the jackpot!
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  4668.  @AndyKing1000  Thanks for your advice, which I will not follow.
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  4669.  @felmargego2534  I am.
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  4670. China only tells when they do something they're proud of. When they make a huge mistake, they always try to keep it a secret.
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  4671. Bill Gates is not Pfizer. Bill Gates was lamenting not being able to visit China. Why would medicine have any relation to visiting China? Your argument seems confused, irrelevant.
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  4672.  @freddy4603  There is some Western investment in Africa, but perhaps not as much as that from China. Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Kenya is the largest private investment in Kenya's history. It is not a loan that Kenya has to pay back, but there is an agreement that Kenya buys all the electricity at a fixed price for a fixed term. Investors are mostly from Northern Europe and Africa itself.
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  4673. "people who said russia will never win". And because of that it's ok to bomb them? Is that what you mean?
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  4674.  @NailahRoberts  Well, it shouldn't come as a surprise to us that China primarily cares about China. In the end, it's not really about morality, it's about national interest.
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  4675.  @sharwama992  "Air in Africa is one of the cleanest on the planet". Perhaps try exports of African air: "African Air! Clean and healthy. Keep your bathroom odor free with African Air! Or pump it in your bicycle tires. Never before have your bicycle tires been so clean on the inside!"
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  4676. For a second I thought it was Ron Swanson.
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  4677. In 2024, around 1.3 billion 'de minimis' packages arrived in the US, half of which were from China. US Postal Service only has capacity to check 35 million packages per year, so less than 3% of the total.
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  4678.  @bertiesworld  "The West accounts for around 25% of the world population". Not even close. It's more like 12%.
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  4679. Re. Buttermilk and hogs: Where I'm from in Denmark, it is still common for dairies to return the whey from cheese production to farms as fodder for dairy cows or hogs. It is highly nutritious, and the animals love it! Buttermilk (the real stuff from butter production) is sold to us humans.
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  4680. This is a problem that should, and can, be solved. If the automated appraisal system devalues a home simply because it's a black owner or because it's in a black neighborhood, the system needs to be changed.
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  4681. She seems to be conflating 'surge' with 'insurgency'. But 'surge' is a kind of wave, or a mass of water moving into a space/area. Most SCUBA divers are familiar with the word 'surge'. In this context, at least, it has nothing to do with 'insurgency' or people trying to take over the country, it just means 'a lot of people coming at the same time'.
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  4682. What I learned from this video is that there's a Tesla Tequila!!?? "It's electrifying"!
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  4683.  @meyiyaseki1720  It's a figure of speech, not to be understood literally.
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  4684.  @condorX2  Looks like my worries were confirmed.
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  4685.  @rododendronkrakatoa8633  I did watch it. You're referring to the situation after a collision has happened; I'm an describing the likelihood of a collision happening in the first place.
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  4686.  @rododendronkrakatoa8633  Well, that's just speculation. Feel free to speculate as you wish.
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  4687.  @rododendronkrakatoa8633  Thank you. I hope you'll keep that promise.
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  4688.  @rododendronkrakatoa8633  You're getting emotional, and you couldn't keep your promise to leave me alone. May I suggest you put your device away, have a nice cup of tea and maybe go for a walk around town. It'll do you good.
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  4689.  @cztober3085  "People won a nobel prize for that this year? We studied that in MBA school 15 years ago." You have a serious lack of basic knowledge.
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  4690.  @SoSoSango  I highly doubt the west would care too much about what Paul Kagame says about them. After all, there are regularly YouTube videos put up about how some African leader berates a western journalist or politician. Nobody cares.
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  4691.  @itsaykay  Ok, so you say it's a chicken and egg thing: You say the money has to come before the institutions can develop, where the economists say the institutions should come before the economy can really grow. It's an interesting question.
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  4692.  @bobgeels262  Sounds very conspiratorial.
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  4693.  @mariawong6965  "we are not the government!" True, in China, people are powerless, but why just hand over power without speaking out? There's a risk to speaking out, but Mao knew that, too, and it didn't discourage him.
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  4694. You're pro-Saddam?
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  4695. Does anyone know exactly where Liangshui Village is? The rescue personnel came from Zhaotong, so maybe it's in the region administered by Zhaotong city?
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  4696.  @coryplum5375  Excellent! Thank you very much.
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  4697. What a fascinating story.
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  4698. It's going to be virtually impossible for China to solve the problem through immigration. By the 2040s, China will be losing 100 million people per decade. It will be hard to find 100 million people who want to immigrate to China every decade.
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  4699. This is from Bloomberg's Hong Kong studio. It's no surprise most people there would be Asian.
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  4700. -Nice coat you got there. -Thanks, I just shaved it this morning.
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  4701.  @xinyiquan666  There was just another commenter who said that SK builds medium-size cruise ships. Now I don't know who to believe.
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  4702.  @sbalogh53  : I find it highly unlikely that the 3 Gorges Dam would suffer from this flood. By the time they designed and built that dam, China's engineering skills were very much up to par.
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  4703.  @sbalogh53  Hi Dexxter, the video you link to does say the 3 Gorges Dam has 'shifted, leaked, and bent', but the article they show as a source says that this was all within normal limits (design limits).
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  4704.  @thomassterling2919  Well, who knows what they're referring to? Time will show what effect, if any, the floods have had on the dam. My prediction is that there has not been a detrimental effect.
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  4705. Hah! If you think that's something, you should see what happens in youth hostels during the Mediterranean summer!
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  4706.  @JohnWayne-dh8gl  I think that just proves that having partners is better than trying to go it alone, but to each his own. You do you.
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  4707. You seem to have a very limited understanding of international organizations. NATO and EU are not the same thing, or even the same countries.
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  4708. I would only join if Trump named it 'The Ice-Cream Party'
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  4709. "US consumer debt has risen to a new height of $17.8 trillion". One man's debt is another man's investment opportunity. China has invested $800 billion in US debt and is getting returns of 4-5% annually ($30-40 billion). China is very thankful to the US consumer.
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  4710. I think the point was that in the event of a war where some ships get destroyed, it will be harder for the US to replace them quickly due to the low ship building capacity.
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  4711. It vastly reduces your desire to eat, and your feeling of hunger.
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  4712. Because the Ukrainians are willing to pay, whatever the cost.
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  4713.  Sean Giang  I was about the say the same: Nobody in China calls it 'Chinese New Year', so why are they so adamant that the rest of the world uses that term?
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  4714. This news story would have been more informative if they also had footage from other luxury hotel properties in the capital to compare occupancy. It's an open question whether this downturn is exclusively or primarily affecting Trump properties. Worth following up on in the months to come. There will certainly be people who would never set their foot in a Trump hotel, but most business people tend to be rather pragmatic, not ideological.
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  4715. Why does 10 trillion mean 15 trillion?
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  4716. Hoarder. You regularly see those people on American reality TV shows, too. Sometimes it's just trash, other times it's trash, human feces, cardboard boxes, plastic bags.
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  4717. Hard to know what to say about this. I hope people are aware that mermaids/-men are just a figment of our imagination. They are not really real.
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  4718. Europe is full of brain drain. Highly educated people skipping from one country to the next, looking for the best deal. It hasn't hurt Europe. The point being, brain drain is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if those leaving send money back home, as most do. An Ethiopian brain surgeon might be more beneficial to his country by working abroad and sending money home than by staying in Ethiopia.
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  4719. Some commenters say that these people are fleeing extreme poverty and violence. Not exactly 'extreme poverty'. 40 years ago, they would have been too poor to even attempt the journey. It's only now that these developing countries' economies have grown that they can afford the $5-10,000 it costs to make it to the US border. They have likely borrowed from friends and relatives with the promise of wiring back money when they get rich in America. If it were primarily violence they're escaping, they could just as well flee to Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, countries that are relatively safe. These people are taking the chance for a better life in America and I don't blame them. It's the opportunity of a lifetime. I also don't blame America for tightening border security and reducing illegal immigration. That is America's right.
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  4720.  @ErikGaming3700  Now, none. I'm referring to last year.
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  4721.  @TheFirebird123456  And there are many young, professional women in those big cities who prefer to enjoy their lives, rather than become a mom.
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  4722.  @taiwanstillisntacountry  "So what is your country worth?" Doesn't matter. My country is not among the 6 listed.
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  4723.  @donnyd9453  No, my comment is about what China is really committed to: Opening up, closing down? It's a debate which has been going inside China's leadership for many decades, if not centuries. Should we open up and join the world at the risk of our own culture and system getting corrupted by foreign influence? Or should we close down to protect our culture and system at the risk of becoming isolated? This seems to be a central part of China's relationship with the outside world since the Han Dynasty.
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  4724.  @vicolew  "Dont be so hype up on so many conspiracy theories". What part of my comment alluded to any conspiracy?
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  4725. This looks totally staged. Press cameras everywhere, no attempt at really taking the palace, just a calm conversation with the president at the entrance. No coup leader would be so gentle and show such deference toward the very president he is trying to depose.
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  4726.  @darrekworkman5595  Tell me, how is the media going to investigate this? Do they have the capability to send expert divers down there? No, they don't. The media will only find out what people with knowledge are willing to tell them.
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  4727.  @tonysu8860  Yes, sounds plausible, especially if 'green tech' is included in high tech. There is a continued effort to build out solar and wind capacity, and the EV industry has grown a lot in recent years.
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  4728. You think electric lawn mowers can control your mind? In that case, stay away from kitchen appliances, most of which are also electric.
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  4729. Business casual. European politicians often look like this, except for very formal events.
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  4730.  @facetiousmarbles3539  As you mention, gravity decreases, so as you get near to the center your speed will slow to a snail's crawl and by the time you finally reach the center, you will be in a zero-gravity state, just like in orbit.
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  4731. That's not a new term. 'Negative growth' is a standard term in economics and other fields.
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  4732. Technical question: You toast the whole spices before grinding to a powder. Later you fry them in oil. That seems unnecessary to me. If you're gonna fry anyway, there's no reason to first toast. I need to ask an Indian chef, but I don't know any.
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  4733. @@MengGuoZhou Do you have evidence of that, or is it just what your 土包子 family told you? I mean, your beliefs are insane!
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  4734.  @anonimai  This guy 'MengGuoZhou' is clearly an idiot, as only idiots would believe such a thing.
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  4735.  @johnsamu  Yes, that seems to the way it works.
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  4736.  @jont2576  Haha, a McDonald's! Well, I shouldn't be surprised.
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  4737.  @JohnSmith-nj4zq  From what city to what city?
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  4738.  @where2rage  Yes, so disturbing, and hurtful. But the news piece says that the FBI is looking into this. For what purpose? If sending these texts is not illegal, why investigate? For what it's worth, I'm guessing, and it's just a guess, that these texts were sent by young trolls, or shit posters, as they sometimes refer to themselves as, to get the reaction we see now. And then they sit at home, laughing, thinking 'haha, I can't believe I did such a crazy thing'.
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  4739. I'd like to try the Reichsbürger. According to reports, it is the most right burger. I've had a lot of wrong burgers in my life.
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  4740.  @ItsAsparageese  Here's a short quote taken from Wikipedia: "The five classes of enzymes found in laundry detergent include proteases, amylases, lipases, cellulases, and mannanases. They break down proteins (e.g. in blood and egg stains), starch, fats, cellulose (e.g. in vegetable puree), and mannans (e.g. in bean gum stains) respectively."
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  4741. Sarah who?
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  4742. It looks like the driver accelerated to pass the truck on the outside. Perhaps the driver didn't see the poles.
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  4743. I do not generally share the political standpoint of Vox, but Borders was a great documentary series. I'm confident you will continue to make more top quality work for us all to learn from and enjoy.
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  4744. 11:20 Step one: "There's inflation"! Step two: "This long conversation about inflation is itself getting inflated" Step three: "Whatever, let's go back to spending money".
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  4745. I don't think America will care about candles lit by the HK government. I'm not even American, and I wouldn't care.
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  4746.  @Tabula_Rasa1  Well, some countries do not have a culture of preserving old things. They may not see more value in it than an old pair of shoes.
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  4747. So do you think there were some central organizers? And if there were, are all the protesters aware that they are part of a large organization? Why did the protesters follow the direction of those central organizers?
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  4748.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  "singapore is better." I agree with that. It was just to show that the other commenter's argument was irrelevant. To be fair, though, I have only driven through Luxembourg, didn't stop. Who knows, it might be nice.
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  4749.  @bhaskarjyoti  "80% is emitted by the developed countries". The combined 'West' (USA, Canada, EU, UK, Australia, NZ, Japan, S. Korea) emit 29% of CO2, so when you say 'developed countries', you must be including BRICS countries, which as a group emit 47% of total CO2. The numbers are from 2022. The sources are the International Energy Agency, an international agency whose members include Brazil, India, China, S. Africa, Indonesia and others.
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  4750.  @bhaskarjyoti  "do you not know BRICS too have developed countries?" I think it depends how we define 'developed country'. For example, China consistently rejects the label 'developed country'. Russia is developed by most standards, I think. "People in the comments are attacking India". Maybe elsewhere, but not in this thread. Don't be too sensitive. Just because someone says that New Delhi has serious air pollution, that is not an attack, just stating an unpleasant fact.
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  4751. I am one of those (apparently rare) people who will see people who are unusual/out of the norm/different and ask them about it: Why are you like that? How did it happen? How does it affect you? Are you able to live with it? What is your life like? I'm curious and I find most people don't have a problem with that as long as they see I'm not trying to mock them.
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  4752. Why not bring a little hot plate and enjoy some hotpot on the subway?
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  4753. Richard Wolff is an economist, an academic and a professor, but he seems more like a political pundit (perhaps a geo-political one) than an economist. I haven't really seen him display a deep understanding of China's economy, at least not in this video.
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  4754. Well done!
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  4755.  @spectrumboy5992  "serious pressure on the limited resources we have". Actually, we have almost limitless resources. Some types of resources are being depleted, like timber, but others are completely unexploited because we haven't yet found a way to use them. Think of Lithium: Just a few decades ago lithium was an obscure element with little use, but now it looks like it will be crucial for future development. Same with Silicon: Once useless, now very important. Same with Uranium: Once useless, now very important. We have only just begun to discover all the uses for rare earths, and we have hardly started discovering so-called meta-materials, materials that don't really exist in nature, but can be made in a lab. At the other end of the spectrum, trees used to be important for building almost everything and for energy. In the 16th to 19th centuries, many European countries almost ran out of trees and forests for building their navies. But now we use other resources, like steel and cement, and forest coverage in many parts of the world are growing. We used to be short on guano for fertilizer, but now we make it from other things. One day, oil may become a marginal resource, because we have found better and cheaper ways to make energy.
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  4756. Imagine an American president of any party, or a president of any other country, spending a 2-hour interview discussing economic theory and fiscal policy. Hard to imagine.
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  4757. People are already dying from obesity-related diseases. In the millions!
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  4758.  @toby9999  I've seen several reports from the frontline by Sky News, CNN, BBC and others.
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  4759. "Chinese EV makers face European Union tariffs up to 38%". It's both true and not true: EVs made in China face these tariffs. But EVs made by Chinese companies in Thailand, for example, would not face the tariffs. At the same time, EVs made by European companies in China would also face the same tariffs.
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  4760. 0:40 'The Doomsday Clock'. Has anyone ever wondered why this so-called doomsday clock has never been further from midnight than 17 minutes? That's 11:43 PM. Have those who issue these doomsday notices ever explained what it would take for the clock to move back to 11:30PM? How about 9:00PM? Or 2:00PM? How peaceful would it have to be for the clock to be set to 6:00AM? Considering how we have been within 17 minutes of doomsday for the last 60 years, it seems almost impossible to even imagine what the world would be like at 6:00AM, a kind of world that is 60 times more peaceful than now. What does that even look like? Right now, the clock is set to 90 seconds before midnight, when total destruction of civilization will occur. In 1991 it was at 17 minutes. Does that mean the world was 11 times more peaceful in 1991 than it is now? I remember 1991 and it doesn't really feel more dangerous now than it did then.
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  4761. 16:09 A spitting image of Peggy Olson from Mad Men.
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  4762. First, they're enslaved by France in Haiti and forced to work in the sugarcane fields. Then, they have an uprising and a revolution and as one of the first colonies in the western hemisphere, they gain independence. After 200 years of independence, they now work under slave-like conditions in sugar plantations again. I normally don't believe in the phrase 'history repeats itself', but in this case it seems to be true.
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  4763.  @wilber2k06  That is unrelated to my comment.
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  4764. In Sumatra?
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  4765.  @qadriandre6261  Yeah, that was a terrible event, especially for Northern Sumatra. I remember the images from Aceh.
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  4766. "China needs to teach EU fascism a lesson". And what would that lesson be? Perhaps you can teach us here.
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  4767. "Ukraine asked for closing the airspace". We've been over this many times already: A no-fly zone would require NATO aircraft to shoot down Russian aircraft and Russian anti-air systems. It would mean an immediate full-scale war between NATO and Russia.
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  4768. The Achilles heel of throwing shade is that it only works on people who are seeking your approval or your admiration. If people genuinely don't care about your opinion, throwing shade is useless.
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  4769.  @davidradtke160  Yes, that is the question. Another question is why someone would put out the number -10% with no supporting evidence. Are we just making up our own numbers here?
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  4770. If you don't agree that China should be free to do whatever it wants, wherever it wants, you are 'Suppressing China'.
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  4771. Hello from Shanghai. Someone sent a drone out during our lockdown to shoot scenes of our 25-million-person post-apocalyptic street scape. Whether you have visited Shanghai or not, I think you can appreciate the eerie feeling: https://youtu.be/XeUoApHh2q4
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  4772. I guess I'm a bit dim, because it is only now I realize that these clips are just ads for a paid Bloomberg streaming service.
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  4773. Trump's rhetoric made him commit an anti-Asian hate crime.
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  4774. Great background music! 😎😎
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  4775. China's rural population (of humans) today is only 2/3rds of what it was in 1990, so it should be possible to find a little space for them to be.
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  4776. What money? There's money involved? If we're going to follow it, we have to find it first.
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  4777.  @hansudowolfrahm4856  "almost everyone has a job especially young people". Yes, but I graduated from college in the mid-90s, where youth unemployment was high in most of Europe.
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  4778. @SamUSA Yes, of course it goes up and down. But I'm sure you're aware of recent history where there have been periods of high youth unemployment. No, it's not all the time, I know.
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  4779. I noticed the 'social credit chart' on the mud-brick house has Yi script, a script used by people speaking the Yi language. It also says this footage is shot in ZhaoJue County in southern Sichuan province. I'd love to spend some time in that area. The Yi People are relatively closely related to Tibetans, but no more closely than fx. Americans are related to Germans. Yi People cultural trait #1: Sitting sideways on your motorcycle, wearing plastic flip-flops, one hand on the handlebar, the other on your hip, trying to look very casual and cool. Sunglasses and dyed hair optional.
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  4780. Nobody in Denmark cares about the WEF, or what they say. Same with the Pope: We don't care!
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  4781.  @hillerm  Yes, I don't know why we are so privileged. It's a regular 公房 community.
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  4782.  @alm777  It's not just me. It's everybody here.
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  4783.  @dttra566  I think you must mistake my comment for another one. I have no reason to pretend to be American and I have been here a lot longer than 3 years.
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  4784.  @connoryeung8624  That I don't know, and I prefer not to find out.
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  4785.  @disconnect9084  We were warned on March 27 that we would go under lockdown April 1-4. But actually, in my case the lockdown started afternoon of March 30 and is still ongoing.
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  4786.  @liviilazii7679  Thanks for asking, but there is nothing. The problem is not a lack of money or a lack of food or other supplies. The problem is getting the food and supplies from farm/factory into our communities. Imagine going to McD's. You order and pay, but the counter is so high you can't reach the food and the staff tells you they have no way of getting the meal down to you.
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  4787.  @XC-iy4il  My community has about 1200 people, only 4-6 are foreigners. Most are elderly Shanghainese people. It's not high-end, but 公房。We have two cases, but we are still allowed to walk outside, though they ask us to limit it.
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  4788.  @whysoserious6345  I don't know why you get so emotional. I'm not asking for your sympathy, nor do I care about it. I am simply describing the situation as it is and I am indeed dealing with it. Consider it a field report, not something that requires a reaction from you.
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  4789.  @coconutboy8198  Thanks, Coconut Boy. You're the best coconut!
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  4790.  @KK_Denovo_  You thought right, but there are ways around that.
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  4791. With this mirror a teenage girl can get a super clear view squeezing out a zit on her face.
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  4792. My guess: Harris has a speech writer who tries to hand Harris good speeches, but Harris always says "Don't worry, I'll speak off the cuff. I'm much better at that".
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  4793.  @ManojKumar-z5l7b  That's what the video says. BOT projects are great for low income, but high growth countries, because they lack the funds now, but need the infrastructure now.
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  4794.  @SirotanParkHanedaGarden  " the new airport not only puts Cambodia in a ton of debt to China". How can it put Cambodia in debt when Cambodia didn't borrow any money to build it and Cambodia is not paying for it? Foreign investors are. It's a B.O.T. project, Build, Operate, Transfer. That means some investors build it and manage it, they also take all the profits if there are any, and after some time, they hand it over, free of charge. In this case, after 50 years.
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  4795.  @SirotanParkHanedaGarden  Presumably they have to pay taxes off their corporate earnings, but after that it is no different from another foreign investor building a shoe factory and taking the profits. It's a business investment. According to the deal, the airport will be handed over to Cambodia after 50 years, thus the 'transfer' in Build-Operate-Transfer.
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  4796.  @RoseRose-gk6ku  Whether the airport becomes successful or not is beside the point. It's a foreign invested project, no different from a foreign invested T-shirt factory. The only people who should care about its success are the investors who stand to profit (or lose). If it also becomes useful for travelers is just a bonus.
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  4797.  @egg-h4b  It's an investment. Why would the local government be obliged to bail out a failed investment? Do they do that for other foreign investors?
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  4798.  @egg-h4b  And what do we know about this particular BOT contract?
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  4799.  @the_thinking_lady  But if neither you nor I know those details, why even debate them? We'll be debating based only on speculation.
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  4800.  @v.hamilton5679  I was thinking more along the lines of smashing their boombox with a baseball bat.
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  4801. Why would a Russian care what the tariffs are in the US?
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  4802.  @canto_v12  Why compare with the US? Is it possibly because you secretly admire US as the ideal society? I don't need to compare everything to the US because my country is functioning very well on its own terms. Objectively speaking, and without comparing to some other random country, HK elections were freer and more representative before these new rules.
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  4803.  @БО-СМ  I don't understand.
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  4804.  @БО-СМ  Still don't understand.
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  4805.  @jgalt308  The poster is writing in bad faith; a troll, if you will. There are no arguments for or against anything. No need to indulge him.
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  4806.  @jgalt308  "YOU are the troll". If you see my initial comment as an example of trolling, then what kind of opposing view would you accept as NOT trolling, but simply an opposing view? After all, I think my comment is factual. Or do you see all opposing views as trolling?
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  4807. This may be a threat to ban Android from phones sold in China. It's possible China wants all phones in the country to use Huawei's 'Harmony OS'.
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  4808. If I were Bytedance, I would try to get as much money out of a sale as possible, but I would also announce that the algorithm that comes with the sale will be an older version. I would not want to sell my latest version of that algorithm. The new owners can then tinker with it as they like. Of course it's an open question whether the Chinese government will even allow a sale. They may very well not, leading to TokTok's demise (but a continuation of the Chinese version, DouYin).
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  4809.  @TheBlond49  Sure, but couldn't she just have knocked him out? It seems unnecessary to destroy half the building. I suspect Wonder Woman has little respect for architecture.
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  4810. Where is it? Looks like Beijing old industrial area, like 798.
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  4811. Upon reviewing, none of the people in the video have a northern accent, so maybe it's down south somewhere.
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  4812. "Why shouldn't I be allowed to have fun?"
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  4813.  @rajasvlogs2061  So far I'm staying.
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  4814.  @bryandeng570  I hope you're right, and I agree with you that the govt. is seeing the detrimental effect it has. (Or at least part of the govt.)
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  4815.  @bryandeng570  I'm not German, but I am European.
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  4816.  @The_Art_of_AI_888  "the US and its lapdogs" are under no obligation to trade with any country they don't want to trade with. North Korea knows this, of course, and has made its choice.
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  4817. I occasionally see these nonsensical comments on YouTube. Is it some kind of SEO-thing going on?
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  4818.  @josephwu3136  Yeah, I think you're one of those people I was referring to.
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  4819.  @albback8176  It's not that high. I think maximum 4200m above sea level. Most people can do that without ill effects, except for people with heart disease, etc. I went for a morning run when I was in Tibet and I could definitely feel the relatively low oxygen level, but it was also refreshing. And let's not forget that hundreds, if not thousands, of Chinese bicycle tourists ride the G318 to Lhasa every summer, without asking a doctor first. It's not that big a deal.
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  4820. Yet another well researched, informative and interesting video from New Mind.
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  4821. Race to the bottom. If I were Starbuck's, I wouldn't follow the rest. Stick to being a premium brand, but make sure people get a good experience for their money. People are happy to pay for good experiences. After all, people in China happily pay RMB 500 just to enter Shanghai Disney World.
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  4822.  @zeelmundra  Of course, but people are comparing the cost of Chandrayaan-3 and a movie, so I can compare the missions of Chandrayaan-3 and the movie. I don't think that's wrong.
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  4823. Biden's comment is probably meant more for domestic consumption, to give Americans the impression that things are going well under Biden. It's election season, after all. To cut through the media clutter, a presidential candidate often has to sound more bombastic; just listen to how Trump sounds. More drama = more attention.
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  4824. 50% butter to potato ratio is NOT insane. It's called French mashed potatoes. Common in restaurants all over France.
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  4825. Art is very much like fashion (which is also a kind of art). Some people are happy to pay $200 for a simple T-shirt designed by Kanye West, or if it says SUPREME on the front. There's no inherent value in the T-shirt itself, but there's a kind of social value in owning one. But even if you recognize that, you might still really like the T-shirt.
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  4826. It looks like meat, and maybe it feels like meat, but does it taste like meat?
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  4827. I knew Estonian is related to Finnish; they sound sooo similar. I thought this guy was Finnish.
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  4828. Again, nature wins by a landslide!
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  4829. Why do teachers deserve better pay? I don't understand this claim. Are teachers saying that other people don't deserve their salaries? Or are they simply saying that they'd like a bit more money? If there are too few teachers, the salaries can go up so more will join the fray. If there are enough teachers, why raise salaries?
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  4830. 0:36 "but one segment of the US market has given up grounds". I heard what you did there.🤣
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  4831.  @TruthTeller8888  7
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  4832. Is it a Millennial thing that young adults cannot cook? Maybe it's part of the whole over-protective, helicopter parenting thing.
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  4833. It's not just the US and the EU applying tariffs on Chinese imports. Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and many others are now working on hefty tariffs on certain Chinese imports, especially EVs.
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  4834.  @kamsunleong6648  "BYD is now making evs in their plant in Thailand for the Asean market. So no tariffs.". Yes, that is the way to go, and it is good for both the investor and the local market. This is also the reason for the high EU tariffs. The EU welcomes investment by Chinese EV makers into Europe.
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  4835. Michel Shellenberger and his team didn't present any evidence that off-shore wind has anything to do with these whale deaths. They simply suspect that is the case. Let's not forget that a large proportion of Right Whales are killed by ships (37% of documented cases) and fishing gear (11%), with 52% of unknown cause. Those are numbers from before any wind projects started. It's certainly a possibility that wind projects can be responsible, but without any data to even support such a claim, how can we know, or even start to believe, that Shellenberger is right? So please, present some data, thanks.
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  4836. 2:40 "...using shells designed to kill enemy troops". What are the other shells designed for? New Year's Eve?
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  4837. Of course this is nothing new. The only new thing is that this time it's State Media being harassed.
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  4838. And it's equally puzzling why the west sold their technological knowhow to China.
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  4839. Ok, I'm only 38 seconds into this video, but I will predict that Johnny Harris will not mention the primary reason for bread quality: The wheat variety used. I'm looking forward to seeing how far into the video I may be proven wrong,
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  4840. We use Shanghainese to talk about people from Shanghai; Fujianese to talk about people from Fujian. Sichuanese about those from Sichuan. No big deal.
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  4841. Does anyone here in the comments know exactly where that 'Elephant Corridor' is? At least down to county level and even better, to township level (镇). Thanks.
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  4842.  @ftd7435  Not accurate enough.
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  4843. 'Songs as an asset class'. It's actually a pretty good idea. Not an idea that would have worked in the 70s, but it works now. Real estate, equities, commodities, why not music? It has a revenue stream and you can trade it. That's less the case with 'fine art', which tends to be in someone's home, or for public viewing in a museum. Movies also have a revenue stream online, but they're rarely traded in bulk.
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  4844.  @whohan779  You cannot compare volume to 'height' of rain without also specifying how big an area you're talking about. The news piece doesn't do that but instead implies that the Sahel only receives a Coke can worth of rain. That's the problem. But thanks for your 7th grade calculation, which looks correct. A+ for you!
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  4845.  @laszloiso777  Yes, nobody has denied that.
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  4846.  @53toddk  Yes, that's also my argument. But the video says that 300 mm is 'less than a can of Coke', which is a useless comparison.
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  4847.  @emilspec1227  Really? What service do you use?
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  4848. That's what I was thinking. So when do you think it'll come down here?
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  4849. Reminds me of Konstantin Chernenko, 5th leader of the Soviet Union, who was the leader for a grand total of one year and 25 days before he passed away. After that, they got the reform minded Gorbachev. Chernenko looked like a nursing home resident for the entirety of his presidency.
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  4850. You should petition your government to block YouTube in India. There are too many videos on YouTube that make Indians angry.
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  4851. I visited Malaysia and Indonesia in the late 80s and again in recent years. The difference is remarkable, with huge swathes of rainforest now turned into oil palm plantations and rubber tree plantations. It has certainly helped those two countries grow economically which is good, but it's sad, even depressing, to see the large-scale destruction of nature.
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  4852.  @pepelepew1227  It's possible. I wouldn't know as we no longer have any pro-religion parties in my country's parliament. We did until the 90s.
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  4853.  @pepelepew1227  None of our politicians court leaders of any kind for endorsements. Voters couldn't care less about so-called 'endorsements'. We tend to trust our own judgment. And up to elections, there are lots of debates in the media. As for religious parties, throughout my lifetime (50+ years) no political party professing to be religious has ever gotten more than 10% of the vote. Very few people care about the opinion of priests, rabbis, mullahs, imams, or the pope.
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  4854.  @pepelepew1227  10% was back in the 70s. As I wrote, since the 90s no party with explicit religious views have been voted into parliament. I also don't think there's a risk of religion becoming a significant force. Only 5-10% of the population attend any kind of religious service on a regular basis (2 times or more per month).
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  4855.  @pepelepew1227  Pandering to religious leaders is not an issue in my country.
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  4856. He would have looked great with a Smurf hat on.
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  4857. There are two lessons to learn from this: Either 1) Don't cheat, or 2) Learn to be better at cheating.
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  4858. More like 25 years. Some turbines are even useful after that, but because they were built so many years ago, they tend to be much less efficient than new turbines, a bit like how a car from 1998 is less efficient than a new one. Therefore, older wind parks are often replaced with newer ones.
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  4859.  @freedomfighter4990  "Can't we donate our old blades to some poor country". I'm sure we could, but it's less likely they would want them. It may not be cheaper for them to re-fit old blades onto new turbines. If this made good economic sense, it would be done already. Besides, though these blades look (and are) huge, they make up only a tiny amount of the industrial and construction waste we discard every year. We only notice them exactly because they are so big. And the focus on them as a waste problem is primarily because renewable energy is supposed to be more environmentally sustainable. So, there is a problem, and it needs to get solved, but it is by no means a disproportionally big problem.
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  4860.  @TONYSTARK-iy6fg  No, it's about satisfying the energy needs of Bangladesh.
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  4861.  @TONYSTARK-iy6fg  Hopefully, it can cause Bangladesh to have a stable electricity supply that doesn't have black-outs. This is very important for industry, for transportation, and for regular people's livelihood. As for the safety of nuclear power plants, it is extremely high. Over the last 50 years there have been two major disasters involving nuclear power plants: Chernobyl and Fukushima. These two disasters have caused total deaths of less than 50 people globally.
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  4862. You think socialism would grow the tourist industry?
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  4863.  @IamACanadian47  That's a noble dream, and also a very naïve dream. We can force equality for everyone, but the very next day people will start to develop in unequal ways: You put your money in the bank, I go out and eat a huge steak. Very soon, you will be much better off than me, and we're unequal again. Only took a few weeks.
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  4864.  @ZweiZwolf  Back before China embraced free market capitalism in 1978, Chinese workers had neither money nor vacation time. They would get five days off when they got married so they could go on a honeymoon, but that was it. Chinese workers didn't start getting real vacation time until 1999, when the three 'Golden Weeks' became law.
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  4865.  @ZweiZwolf  But you will agree that after 1978, China started a massive economic liberalization and let private citizens start their own businesses, which led to the greatest wealth increase in China's history. The entire hospitality industry is mostly private, social media and tech is mostly private, retail is mostly private, real estate is (or has been) mostly private, agriculture is partly private, with some state owned farms in the 中原, 西北 and 东北 regions. Light industry, incl. electronics, bicycles, electric bikes is mostly private, textiles, apparel and shoe industry is mostly private, tourism is partly private. Chinese socialism was tried from 1949-1978. You tell me if you think that was successful, or even better, ask your grandparents.
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  4866.  @ZweiZwolf  Ok, fair point. China is socialist (even economically). And now, would you say China is turning toward more state control of the economy than before? Or do you think it is turning toward more private control?
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  4867.  @balkanleopard9728  Ok, I happen to work in the tourist industry in China, and I live in China. Yes, there is more tourism than during Covid, but it is not even near the numbers we had in 2019. Not even close! So booming? That's really putting on the rosy glasses.
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  4868.  @fengzhu4340  True, so it would also be wrong to use the term 'booming' about those countries. Perhaps we can agree to use the term 'recovering'?
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  4869.  @fengzhu4340  If 91% is the correct number, then it is indeed a remarkable achievement. Let's hope the numbers continue to go up. (FYI, I work in the tourism industry in China, so I am biased in favor of that industry).
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  4870. It's tough for Millennials who have lived their entire lives with virtually zero inflation. From 1975 to around 1985, most of the western world had 8-10% annual inflation. That's when I grew up, and I just thought that was the way the world was, just like the Millennials today. Shifting production of most products to emerging economies are responsible for the 0% inflation we have been through the last 25-30 years. The downside is no secret to anyone: Loss of thousands, or millions of low end jobs in the west. Now it looks like we're turning around: More manufacturing jobs coming back to us, but in return we are probably going to live with high inflation for decades to come.
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  4871. That looks so cool!
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  4872.  @whitemerlin5737  "when did they arrogant?" I'd say since the early 90s. Before then, there weren't any rich people in China.
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  4873.  @Clarity520  Ok, but those people who are rich now, do you think they are less arrogant than rich people 10 or 20 years ago?
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  4874. @RohankrishnaB Well, I've always known that. I'm talking about rich people of any age compared to non-rich people of any age.
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  4875. "focus on self sufficiency". "Expand trade and investment with rest of the world". If China is self-sufficient, why would they need or want to trade with the rest of the world? You trade because you're not self-sufficient.
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  4876.  @robijorum4113  Pain or not, the comment is self-contradictory.
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  4877.  @robijorum4113  There's nothing wrong with China's or Europe's trade and economic policies. The problem is with the original comment, which tries to have it both ways.
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  4878.  @binbi8177  If China only wants to sell, but not buy, who would other countries want to play along with that? After all, so far there is not a single product that only China makes, and that the world needs. There are many products that China makes cheaper, and that's great, but if the rest of the world can only buy and not sell, they will quickly run out of money, and then they can't buy anything, even if they want to.
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  4879.  @mng8680  Great, so that means that with respect to avocados, China is not necessarily aiming to become self-sufficient. And I'm guessing that is also the case with perfume, smoked salmon, and many other products. So what China is looking for is not necessarily self-sufficiency, but just the ability to have a functioning society without having to rely on others, even if that means a slightly less rich life. That seems reasonable enough.
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  4880. Did you trust them before?
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  4881.  @conlon4332  I'm from Europe, but I was speaking to our American friends.
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  4882.  @nickiemcnichols5397  How is that related to anything I said?
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  4883. It is to a large extent how students are educated in China, though mostly in lower grades. By high school, there is much less 'group shouting' and by university, it's gone. Partly, rote learning is beneficial in a society where you have to educate millions of children with few resources, and partly, it instills deference to authority and group conformity. Those values are part of traditional Chinese culture, but they also tie in with what the government wants from its people. " if this impedes breakthrough creativity". It's very difficult to quantify this, but based on my 25+ years in China, I would say: Yes, it does. So far, China has had all the ideas come to them from more developed countries and they are now getting to the stage where they have to come up with their own ideas to advance. This looks to me to be more difficult for them (though it is by no means easy for us in the west, either).
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  4884.  @johntse8655  China is filing the most patents by a large margin. According to Dong Yunting 董云庭, director of the Expert Committee of the China Electronic Information Industry Association, 90% of all Chinese patents are in 'utility model protection' and 'design' categories, and only 10% are in 'innovations'. If you can put patent filings on your resume as a research fellow in China, you have a much better chance of getting grants, promotions and awards. The government is also actively promoting filing of patents, but they forgot to state that those patent better have some technical value. China now holds just as many patents worldwide as the US (about 3.3 million) but there is not much money or other value in this for China because those patents are rarely used, and it's doubtful if many of them are even useful at all. 董云庭：中国专利90%都是垃圾
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  4885.  @karzan995  Ok, but the proposal in the video was not 99% tax on income for billionaires. It was 99% of their entire wealth, which includes everything they own. They'll get to keep 1%.
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  4886.  @DeividasBrasas  Alright, so that's taxation on corporate profits and personal income. That is a significantly smaller number than Oxfam's proposal. For example, Amazon paid about 1.6 billion in corporate tax in 2020, while Jeff Bezos' net worth is around 150 billion. If Amazon should have paid 99% in corporate tax, that would 'only' have been around 22.6 billion, still far below Oxfam's proposal.
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  4887. There are bio labs all over the world, including in Ukraine, China and most other countries. Bio labs helps us develop medicine, agricultural science, natural science. Only a small number of bio labs work with highly dangerous pathogens.
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  4888.  @backpackpepelon3867  But the C919 is not sold at a cheaper price. According to CaiXin, the C919 goes for an average $68 million, while the A320neo and the B737MAX-8 sell for around $50 million.
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  4889.  @backpackpepelon3867  It's not cheaper than its competitors. C919 costs $68 million. A320neo sells for $49 million. B737 MAX-8 goes for $51 million.
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  4890. Dissing+Weitling and COWI again?! Seems like they're designing all big bridges nowadays.
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  4891.  @jingjing8560  Yes, it seems highly overvalued, but currently, there are no signs the price will drop significantly any time soon.
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  4892.  @tonywilson4713  Yes, TSLA may never again get as high as it was in the fall of 2021, but it is still 11.5 times higher than when the interview was taped.
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  4893.  @tonywilson4713  TSLA is still bought by many investors. It is currently estimated to be 'bullish' in the short and medium term, and 'bearish' in the long term. But no one can really know how the stock price will develop in the long term.
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  4894.  @tiffanyjones14  Compared to when?
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  4895.  @Enxuvjeshxuf  And yet, it is still up 770% since the interview was taped. (today's date: Feb.4, 2023)
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  4896.  @StudyTrainAchieve37  "Value went up. Profits are plummeting." But for the shareholder that is irrelevant. The shareholder is concerned with stock value and dividends. Dividends are still pretty good.
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  4897.  @StudyTrainAchieve37  It's possible, but not really relevant.
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  4898.  @StudyTrainAchieve37  Well, I suppose if we assume that the share price is highly dependent on the popularity of Elon Musk, but I don't think it is. Lots of rich people are highly unpopular: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, The Koch brothers (though their company, Koch Industries, is not a listed firm), the Walton family, Mark Zuckerberg. Lots of unpopular rich people. I think stock price is determined by a belief in future earnings, and that is also the consensus belief. Is Tesla at risk of going bankrupt soon? I don't see it, but I'm happy to hear your arguments for why that might be the case.
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  4899.  @juliahopemac  "This didn’t age very well did it". I wouldn't say so. Tesla stock is now 7% down since I wrote my comment, but it is still 12 times higher than when the interview was taped, so nothing to cry about (if you were those two guys).
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  4900.  @KingHayabusa384  Well, not quite. TSLA has fallen a lot in recent weeks and months, but it is still ten times higher than when the interview was taped. Come back to me when the stock goes below $22.
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  4901. How did you get the information? Through the normal media? I thought so. After all, it's been all over the news for days.
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  4902. He's saying Ukrainians cover up the monuments to protect them from attacks. The monuments are not covered up by Russians.
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  4903. All countries have been there for 5000 years. They may have different names now, but they are still there, in the same place they were before.
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  4904.  @steedelee5868  All countries are still here, just in a different form. As for writing, you can not find any examples of Chinese writing older than 3600 years. It's also unlikely that people spoke the same language 3600 years ago. You'd likely not even be able to understand a person from the Tang Dynasty, 1200 years ago, although you might be able to read the characters. In fact, the whole '5000 years of civilization' includes 1400 years of mythical periods. China's actual history begins around 1600BC, giving 3400 years of history. But don't feel bad, it's still a long time.
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  4905. Is that, err, a 'nightlife spot'?
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  4906. Not particularly informative.
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  4907. Perhaps some media would, but you could fairly say that Western countries have failed to control the outbreak as a choice. In my country of Denmark, a full 50% of the population have gotten infected in just the last 7 months! But we would rather be open, we would rather face the risk of getting infected in return for the freedom to move around, go to work, spend time with family and friends, socialize, travel. We understand that life has risks. (btw, in those last 7 months, 0.06% of the population has died from Covid, or about one in every 1650 people)
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  4908.  @TheKing-yo9ze  Yes, I know that. What I'm saying is that there's another expressway already built nearby.
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  4909. I think you misunderstand. Before was cooperation. The competition only begins now.
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  4910. Fascinating!
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  4911. Even CCTV and Global Times believed that for a while.
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  4912. I notice most commenters try to make moral arguments for or against the war. Wars are not about morals. They are about power. Who has it, who wants it, who is best able project it. So in Ukraine it is only, yes only, about who is stronger, not about who is right or wrong, or moral, or good, or justified, because all sides can find perfectly good justifications for their actions. I like to think we in the West are ultimately stronger, and so I hope we can win this war. We're gonna have to pay a high price for it, but I believe it is worth the price in the long run (say next 50 years).
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  4913. Since robots don't go shopping, it will still mean a big reduction in economic activity. Imagine a future where 90% of a jobs are taken over by robots. The remaining 10% of jobs held by people will only produce products for other humans. Robots don't shop, don't go to restaurants, don't eat at all, don't travel, don't go to the movie theater, don't drive cars. They are as useless for economic development as a rice cooker. In fact, the benefit of robots is similar to the benefit of other machines: Air conditioner, TV, PC, mobile phone, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, microwave. They are great to own, but they do not themselves contribute much to the economy. In that sense, they should be seen more as capital than as labor.
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  4914.  @lynnjohnny01  "What's your point?" My point is that people in Shanghai, and presumably in other parts of China, no longer feel optimistic about the economy. Surveys show that, too.
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  4915. How annoying that people won't just have the exact number of children the government asks them to. It's almost as if people want to make decisions about their own lives.
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  4916. Indian food is in my top-5, and so is Japanese and Italian, but Greek food isn't.
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  4917.  @Kiyoone  What's the attraction to the rich? Slowness?
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  4918. People who think China might suddenly collapse don't really understand China, or the wider East Asia region in general. These societies put a premium on social, political and economic stability. China in particular is not a free market economy, but a highly managed one. The govt. simply won't allow any sudden movements. Instead, we're much more likely to see a Japan-style slowdown and stagnation. By the end of this decade, China's annual growth could be as low as 2-3%.
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  4919. It has in a sense, just not in 1st tier cities.
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  4920. Fortunately, Lay's Potato Chips are still widely available in China. But for how long?
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  4921. "if Russia got a nuclear hit". Do Russians really believe this is likely to happen soon?
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  4922.  @alanparsonsfan  Yes, there are a host of different reasons for the declining marriage rate. So I've lived in China for several decades and what I see more and more (in urban settings) is a female wish for self-realization as opposed to immediate motherhood, couples are more willing to live together without getting married, and the general increase in the 'single lifestyle' that we also see in the west.
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  4923. What is Jesus Christ's macro economic philosophy?
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  4924. Nice development. Now, if they could only end the ridiculous security checks in metro stations, then we'd be getting somewhere. Oh, and also in railway stations. The amount of identity and security checks we have to go through really slows down the check-in process. Imagine you could take the metro to Hongqiao railway station and walk right down on the platform with just a single check (or even no check, like in Europe). Wouldn't that be something?
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  4925.  @ansa336  I know, but we didn't have them before 2010 (for metro), or before 2013, I think (for entering airports). Security check at immigration makes more sense, but it was much simpler before 9/11. Let's go back to the way things were before. Terrorism is not what it used to be.
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  4926.  @ansa336  Come on, we haven't had a terrorist or bomb incident in Beijing or Shanghai for over a decade. The last time we had any incident was in Shanghai Pudong Airport in 2016 when an angry old man lit a coke bottle with gasoline on fire and threw it. Nobody was killed. Another angry man blew up a bomb in Beijing airport in 2013. No one was killed then, either. Both of those men were Han, by the way, not Uighur. It was after those incidents that security got really tight. But I think it's time to roll back some of that excessive security. China is safe, don't worry.
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  4927. If the money comes from inside the country, it cannot be a debt trap.
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  4928. Yes, very close relative.
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  4929. What a waste of deGrasse Tyson's and the viewers' time. Give the man the time necessary to explain an image! This is so typical of traditional TV: No time to learn anything, move on, move on, keep it fresh and exciting. It's a philosophy that destroys learning.
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  4930. There are few things greater than liberating your country from an invading force. What a feeling! Most countries have tried this at one time or another.
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  4931.  @ianhermansson7191  Thank you. I'll go and get myself checked out.
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  4932.  @Trixinxin  As far as you know? Based on what?
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  4933.  @ttc1618  It's not safe to drink, but it's safe to release into the sea without ill effects. Think of it like the water you have just washed your vegetables in: It's not safe to drink, but it's safe to wash down the drain and eventually into the sea, or into a little river. I hope that will clear up your confusion about the difference between 'safe to release' and 'safe to drink'. Or think of urine: Safe to pee on the ground, but not safe to pee into your own mouth. It's a distinction that should be easy to understand, even for a child.
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  4934. China refused to participate in testing because they would rather complain, and complain, and complain. It's easy to complain about others, much harder to fix your own mistakes.
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  4935.  @zhcterry1  "only element left is Tritium?" Yes, Tritium is the only element that cannot be removed by a chemical treatment process. In fact, it cannot be removed by any process. Testing was done by a number of international labs by order from the UN: These include three labs in Austria and one in Monaco. All labs specialize in radioactive isotopes. Korea's government has basically stopped protesting and has accepted the release. The only government left still protesting is China: They will use any excuse to criticize and punish Japan and this is a great excuse. However, I am skeptical that China will continue its ban on Japanese seafood imports for the next 30 years, which is how long the release will go on for. Additionally, the Chinese government has not mentioned what people should do about Chinese seafood once the waste water drifts down to China, which it will do in a few months.
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  4936.  @ericp1139  "it’s an institution utilized by the West". The IAEA is an agency under the United Nations. It can be utilized by any member country, including western ones. If your country wants to utilize the IAEA, it can do so.
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  4937.  @anonymanonymous9763  Ok, fair point, though it depends where Americans want to go. Some countries make it very hard to get a visa, though not only for Americans.
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  4938. Where was this? Hefei? A hot air balloon in the middle of a city?
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  4939. "their actions are based on track of history". If that is true, then I'm afraid SEA will slow its own development. Think about all the European countries that were invaded by Germany. If we all said we don't want to work with Germany now because of history, then that would slow Europe's economic development down. And what about the history within SEA? Will Thailand not cooperate with Myanmar because Myanmar once invaded and colonized Thailand? Will Cambodia not cooperate with Vietnam because Vietnam once invaded Cambodia? Will Aceh Province not cooperate with the rest of Indonesia? Sometimes it's best to let the past be the past, unless you also want to sacrifice your future.
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  4940. Ok, REASON, could you dial down the background music, please?
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  4941. Earlier this month, Pres. Xi warned Pres. Biden: "Those who play with fire will get burned". This is proof that Xi was right.
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  4942. China is set to reach this level of ageing around 2048, 25 years from now. Better act now, before it's too late.
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  4943. 风雨时代到了。 但是。。。。 雨后初晴。。。
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  4944.  @chasleask8533  Would you care to elaborate? Give some examples of how I lack sense and use well reasoned arguments, please.
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  4945.  @jwsuicides8095  What's the point of hyperbole when you can make more sense being rational and presenting supported arguments?
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  4946.  @chasleask8533  You're using ad hominem attacks and not providing any reasoned arguments. Thus, your comment is useless.
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  4947. And so, F3 United Channel, what do you think it is? What is your analysis of the situation?
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  4948.    Well, as long as you stick to gaming, I think we're all going to be alright.
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  4949.  @factnotfiction5915  Sounds like a great plan, we just need to build the nuclear power plants first. If we make the decision today, we can have the first plant ready in only 10-20 years.
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  4950.  @goodlife6277  How would you define 'renewable energy'? Currently, wood chips are renewable because you can replant trees where the old ones grew. In that sense, burning fx. paper, cardboard and natural rubber is renewable. Plastic is not renewable since it comes from fossil fuels.
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  4951.  @goodlife6277  Ok, thanks for that long explanation. You seem to equate the terms 'renewable', 'ecological', and perhaps 'zero carbon', 'carbon neutral' and 'green'. I would say those terms all describe different things/practices.
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  4952. "They may mean different things in isolation". I agree. "what is important is finding a way to generate the necessary energy without generating greenhouse gases". I agree.
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  4953.  @Blabbermouth-w5w  There are developments in the works to filter out most of the CO2, but the technology is not quite there yet. Other harmful emissions are already being filtered out, but it's harder with CO2.
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  4954.  @SeeLasSee  I agree with you, but that was not the point I was making. My point is that to enact justice, you need power. In your country (and mine and everywhere else), the state holds the power and can use police, courts, lawyers to make sure justice is done. The world doesn't have a 'state'. The world doesn't have an overarching power, but is an amalgamation of different powers with different interests.
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  4955. We shouldn't forget that Kiron Skinner is herself not Caucasian, so perhaps there's a different meaning than what people suppose.
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  4956.  @JohnWayne-dh8gl  I'm quoting the video.
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  4957. "think about how much more humanity would accomplish if we all just die" Yes, let's think: If we all just die, there will be no 'humanity'. Therefore, humanity will not be able to accomplish anything. I think that answers your question.
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  4958. "mango college". That's the kind of college I'd like to go to.
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  4959.  @activistbook3809  China's peaceful rice is soft on your teeth.
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  4960. "Since the dawn of time, mankind has tried to make things smaller". Erlich Bachman.
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  4961. I agree with the guy who said they should have kicked her off the plane and black-listed her. What a 傻B!
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  4962.  @LivingLonger  There is photo and video evidence online showing people bloodied, lying dead on the ground. Not only students, but also police and soldiers. One soldier was burned to death in his vehicle. I have no evidence of the total number of people dead. I don't think anybody knows. There used to be a group of Beijing mothers whose children were killed who organized a kind of association, but they were eventually told to stop talking about it.
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  4963.  @mindmybusynassm1645  “no Western media told me about any anniversary on the Nanjing massacre” They may not have told YOU directly, but there have been books, movies and documentaries made about the Nanjing Massacre in the West. Lots of them! And lots of books, movies and documentaries about Japanese atrocities in general. Lots of them. Westerners are very much aware of what Japan did in WW2, including in China and Korea.
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  4964. "No one in the west even comments about the Nanjing massacre though... oh, japan is a us vassal.. that is why". You must be extremely ignorant. There have been books, movies and documentaries made in the West about the Nanjing Massacre. Lots of them! And lots of books, movies and documentaries about Japanese atrocities in general. Lots of them. Westerners are very much aware of what Japan did in WW2, including in China and Korea. As a test, next time you meet a westerner in the street, ask them about it.
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  4965.  @mindmybusynassm1645  "no events in Hong Kong or in The US to commemorate any trocities committed by Japan or any western countries when occupying HK or Chinese mainland. " Usually, tragic events are commemorated in the place where they happened. Monuments to remember the millions of Jews killed by the Nazis are in Europe, not in Asia, because they were killed in Europe. Monuments to commemorate the Nanjing Massacre are in Nanjing, not in Shanghai or Chengdu. As for 6/4 which happened in Beijing, it cannot be commemorated in Beijing, so people in other places commemorate it so the memory doesn't die out. Some day in the distant future, Chinese people may be thankful for this.
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  4966.  @udontknowme7798  There is almost no religious violence in Denmark or other Scandinavian countries. It is true we don't have much respect for religion in general. Why should we? Religion is just fantasy and made up stories and should be treated as such.
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  4967.  @docjackal8511  What did she say?
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  4968.  @mawi1172  Certain varieties of corn cannot be eaten by humans at all. It's bred for industrial use only.
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  4969.  @mawi1172  I'm an atheist.
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  4970.  @CureMW2  I don't care.
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  4971.  @dane4073  There are a lot of things the world doesn't 'need', but we want them anyway.
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  4972.  @ashmaterial  No, but pigs around the world are fed wheat, barley and soy.
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  4973.  @fightback397  So what is your point? I don't see any other comments from you in this thread.
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  4974.  @theendoftheline  Hahaha 😄
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  4975.  @enigmamyth  Beef is delicious, I agree with that.
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  4976.  @nicerecruit4216  There are 138 posts in this thread. I don't know which one you're referring to.
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  4977.  @nicerecruit4216  Is it where I said: " I like my bacon. It's so delicious it'll make you leave Islam!"? I think it's not unusual for religious people to go out and try to convince others to leave their old religion and join a new one. Indeed, in Islam it is a duty to go out and do "da'wa". Now, I'm not religious, but it cannot be disrespectful or rude to simply claim that bacon is so delicious it can make people leave their religion. Religion may be sacred to those who believe in it, but it means nothing to others.
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  4978.  @joe18425  I am indeed an In-food-del.
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  4979.  @YaBoiJeffe  "GM corn". Nothing wrong with that.
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  4980. Let's get a bungee jumping business going from the middle of that bridge!
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  4981.  @tedaspane1493  "Can white folks see the difference between China Chinese and Singaporean Chinese?" We can't see it, but we can hear it. Singlish and Chinglish are both very distinct accents.
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  4982. "A partially assembled kit for home completion". I was going to write an IKEA joke before I saw this, but the company beat me to it.
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  4983. White woman don't care...just like the Honey Badger.
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  4984.  @sali-ali  It means 'heaven' or 'sky', so Tian Shan means 'The Heavenly Mountains', though it can also be interpreted as 'The (reaching into the) Sky Mountains'.
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  4985. Great if you can sit in a life boat and watch an old western. Maybe John Wayne, maybe Clint Eastwood.
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  4986. In Miami they'll make you one of these out of gold.
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  4987. Caspian Report=always interesting
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  4988.  @scootergrant8683  The existing line? It runs several times a day and at around 75-90% capacity every time I've used it.
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  4989. It's scientifically proven that if you put a blanket over your legs when you sit down outside, you're near death! Everybody knows that.
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  4990.  @Spextori  Just don't use heavy water.
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  4991. Problem is the five permanent members with veto rights are loath to give those rights away. They all understand it's not equal, but self-interest overrides principle (for all five of them). Expansion: I like it, but not everybody does. Giving India a permanent seat will not be approved by China, Giving Iran a permanent seat will not be approved by the three western members, but perhaps we can still make a compromise. My candidates are: Japan, Indonesia, India, Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria, Germany, Brazil, Mexico. Everybody gets both a few friends and a few enemies, but at least these countries represent a huge number of people, religions, cultures, economies and regions.
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  4992. Joe Rogan is a typical Gen-X'er. I'm the exact same age as Joe Rogan and his way of talking and his view of the world is not uncommon among us. We're not really too left or right, not very ideological, we were (are) often accused of not caring about anything, but we just had a more mellow view of everything. And we liked dark humor, gallows humor, jokes about the most terrible things. We went to high school during the AIDS epidemic and the famine in Ethiopia (and Live Aid/We Are The World). We cared about those things, but we also made lots of jokes about them. Just trying to cope and get along with everyone. 18:00 Johnny Harris: "Not everyone who has a point of view has ideas worth hearing or debating in our society". This is really the crux of the difference between Gen X and Millennials, of whom Johnny Harris is one. Gen X'ers are happy to hear everyone's ideas, but may remain skeptical of all ideas. Millennials, well, I don't really understand what they're about, but they seem to be more restrictive in what ideas they will allow to even be aired, as if there are ideas that are damaging by themselves.
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  4993. Nice backdrop of a large arctic map viewed from the north pole.
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  4994. Me too
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  4995. I know of one other person who got his permanent residence last year. He posted it on WeChat and it caused a (very local) sensation.
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  4996. -Iraq was an unjustified war of aggression by USA, there is no doubt about that. -Libya was a United Nations sanctioned action taken at the direct request of The Arab League and Lebanon. The UN security council approved the action, neither Russia nor China voted against. Western countries supplied the muscle, mostly France and a few Nordic countries. -Syria was/is a civil war started by the Syrian people. The main belligerents in Syria were/are the Syrian government, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the US, in addition to a number of armed groups. Of the three you mention, Libya is perhaps the best example of how the Rules-Based Order can function.
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  4997. Well, it looks like the Kenyan forces are making some inroads into gang territory. It's slow going, but if they get a couple of city blocks every day, they should make good progress month by month.
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  4998. The locals destroyed it, now they're restoring it. They're the ones who use or preserve the resources.
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  4999. Usually, 'foreign forces' refers to western countries, especially USA.
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  5000. It's probably more dangerous, because the only way to Europe is sailing in small boats across the Mediterranean Sea. Lots of people drown every year. Thousands.
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  5001. Countries that join the Belt and Road Initiative probably do so in the hope that it will generate big investments from China. It has for some countries and not for others. But at the same time, some countries that never joined also received big investments from China, so it seems like it makes no difference if you're in or out.
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  5002. The waste water already goes straight to processing plants. It is only during heavy rains that the drains flow over into the river, because they are not big enough to handle those massive amounts of water.
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  5003. Congratulations! I imagine being a mom must be a very special kind of happiness.
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  5004. At least they weren't Mongolian hordes trying to raid China.
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  5005. What paper do you read? It's been all over the news. And how did you find out about it?
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  5006. The two companies compete to find out who should be the real Apple of China.
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  5007. First, Borders, the bookstore. Now, Borders, the video series.
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  5008. I'm surprised the company hasn't yet hired one of those South Asian gentlemen with a turban, who goes: "Hello Sir, today is your lucky day. I see it in your face."
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  5009. Now that iPhones get banned in the government, I wonder how long it will take before Huawei's top level management also stop using iPhones, hahahaha.
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  5010.  @johnsullivan8673  I'm not. These are very big numbers. The CNY 6 trillion China has just announced will go to cover local government debt over 5 years are only for imminent debt payment that will come due during that period. They are not nearly enough to cover all the local debt. They just give local governments a little breathing space. However, as I wrote earlier, this is not the end of the world. China has many financial instruments they can use to ensure stability.
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  5011. Is that a critique of President Xi? Do you disapprove of his decisions?
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  5012.  @AceChina  Ok, a kind of arrested development.
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  5013.  @Anonymous------  Well, they delete videos and comments that overtly racist, fascist, threatening and hateful, if that's what you are referring to. There are other American social media sites where you can offload all your hate, conspiracy theories, anger and rage. Try them out, you might feel better.
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  5014.  @dtruth8030  He was sought by US authorities for stealing and trafficking classified documents. Russia was willing to grant him asylum.
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  5015.  @AJonVolk  Ok, I hope you will develop more trust in your own judgment going forward. Knowledge is key. If you still feel we're all being controlled: Gain more knowledge.
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  5016. 2:55 (The Yuan) "Crossing the psychologically important USD7.- threshold". That should be "Crossing the psychologically important CNY 7.- threshold" (for every USD).
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  5017.  @Bialy_1  Haha, thanks for the overview. That's pretty funny that I made such a mistake.
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  5018.  @raymondcheung409  Actually, Laos has been developing quite rapidly since they opened up their country in the late 90s. They receive foreign investment, not only from China but also from Thailand and Vietnam, France and Japan. As a neighbor, it makes sense that China also makes investments in Laos and indeed, China is Laos' largest source of FDI. I don't appreciate your anti-western sentiments and I am not going to engage with them. They are irrelevant to this project.
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  5019.  @raymondcheung409  My point is that it doesn't matter who invests in Laos. Imagine it's Martians, it's the size of the loan/investment relative to Laos' total economy that worries me, not the country that gives the loan.
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  5020. @Sun Wukong What hoax am I spreading? Please express your argument clearly, only then can we have a conversation.
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  5021. @Sun Wukong No! You accused me of making a hoax. Or was that just irrational anger from you? In that case, I'll just ignore it.
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  5022.  @raymondcheung409  Yes, but again, my concern is not with the origin of the loan, but with the size of it compared to the recipient country's ability to repay. Of course Laos said 'please, and thank you', so I hope they made the right decision.
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  5023.  @Xperiment  Sorry, I did not see the second part of your comment. Regarding China's high-speed railway development: The first line was built around 2006-2008, Beijing-Tianjin. Cost was around $3 billion. That was 0.1% of China's GDP at the time. China's construction cost for its entire high-speed railway network of 38,000 km has been about $760 billion, built over 13 years for an average of 0.65% of China's GDP. That is very different from 30% of Laos' GDP on a single railway line (not high-speed. Designed top speed: 160 km/h)
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  5024.  @Xperiment  Laos does not use bull carts for transportation. Have you been to Laos? Have you studied its economic development? Your understanding of Laos does not seem educated. Transportation infrastructure is 'pavement for future', as you say, we agree on that. My concern is the very high cost compared to the economic benefits. I have mentioned this several times. That's the question. Will this railway project help to drive forward Laos' economic development forward faster than they have to pay back the loan? If not, they will lose money.
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  5025.  @Xperiment  I hope you're right. The future will tell. In any case, I have given the reasons for my skepticism and provided some numbers. Perhaps they will make people think.
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  5026.  @raymondcheung409  Yes, I agree. And I'm happy that our conversation ended in a friendly manner and not with 'my country versus your country'. I'm very tired of these 'us versus them' comment wars.
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  5027.  @raymondcheung409  Agreed.
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  5028. So what are those health issues? Hot ears? Numb fingertips?
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  5029. For a country to join NATO, they cannot have any ongoing territorial conflicts, and territorial disputes must be either resolved, or there must be an agreement to solve them through UN. Additionally, an applicant country must have a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy; fair treatment of minority populations; a commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflicts; the ability and willingness to make a military contribution to NATO operations; and a commitment to democratic civil-military relations and institutional structures.
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  5030. For a country to join NATO, they cannot have any ongoing territorial conflicts, and territorial disputes must be either resolved, or there must be an agreement to solve them through UN. Additionally, an applicant country must have a functioning democratic political system based on a market economy; fair treatment of minority populations; a commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflicts; the ability and willingness to make a military contribution to NATO operations; and a commitment to democratic civil-military relations and institutional structures.
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  5031.  @sleepymeow7156  My point is that your system is no better at choosing leaders than a democratic system, which is what you claim. You claim that the Chinese system is meritocracy-based, because that is what the govt. tells you with online campaigns and little, cute cartoons. But it isn't. It is based in traditional Chinese culture where you rise by making connections to other powerful people, grant the right favors and give gifts to others to 'make friends', join the right organizations, say the right words as told to you by the Center and 'The Core of The Center'. Your political, economic and social ideas are irrelevant, because you never let them become known in public until you reach the top, so no one can know what your vision is before it's too late. Now, I have no doubt that you agree with whatever your leaders say, having no real opinion of your own, other than what you're being told.
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  5032.  @ZincFold  "corrupt governments simply don't pull millions out of deep poverty.". China has pulled millions out of poverty, and it has punished tens of thousands of corrupt government officials, even some very, very, high level ones. So either you're wrong and some corrupt governments can indeed pull millions out of poverty, or you believe that all those officials were wrongly convicted. The US has also pulled millions out of poverty, and they have punished some corrupt officials, but there seems to be much fewer of them in the US.
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  5033.  @yijiequ662  There's a Tim Horton's near my house, but I haven't been. They only sell coffee, and right next door is a Lawson, a KFC and a Luckin' Coffee. I'm skeptical of Tim Horton's long-term success in Shanghai. At least sell some cake or donuts.
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  5034.  @yijiequ662  It's possible. For reference, a Big Mac meal costs CNY 35.- (CAD 7.00) here.
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  5035.  @yijiequ662  Well, it has certainly gotten a lot more expensive over the 20+ years I've been here. We used to be able to get a nice bowl of noodle soup for CNY 5.- (CAD 1.-) and I still remember I once got a delicious bowl of rice noodle soup in Yunnan for CNY 0.8 (CAD 16 cents), but that was in the early 90s. Those days are long gone.
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  5036.  @snap6532  Actually, there were coffee shops in China before Starbuck's. But yes, only once Starbuck's arrived did it really take off.
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  5037.  @snap6532  Not always. American chains that have opened in China, and then closed again: Popeyes, Jack in The Box, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and others that I forgot.
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  5038.  @snap6532  "it's completely unreasonable that Chinese people accept US's culture easily and quickly absorb everything". I'm not sure I understand your concern here. Why is this unreasonable to you? I understand if you don't like US culture personally, but surely others can make their own choices? If Starbuck's, M&Ms, Nike were all from Singapore or Brazil, would that make it better? It's just coffee, sweets and shoes.
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  5039.  @snap6532  Ah, maybe I understand. You are concerned that Chinese culture will disappear? I don't think that will happen, but if it does happen, it will happen very slowly, and it will be because Chinese people want it to happen. And let's not forget that Chinese culture, like every other culture, keeps changing, century after century.
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  5040.  @donkeyssuck  How about Eric Cartman from South Park? I'd like to see him narrate news about the earthquake in Turkey.
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  5041. Someone should have asked Coleman what he thought of having won in the 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' category. It's almost kind of ironic.
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  5042. Yes, it's odd that the WSJ only shows the biggest 5 powers in Europe, and even leaves out Turkey, which has a big army. Most European countries are quite small, but together they contribute a lot. Had the WSJ shown the total European armed forces, they would have surpassed Russia by a wide margin.
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  5043. Self-sufficiency is very important. We should all start knitting our own socks and grow our own vegetables. Only then can we feel secure. Or what?
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  5044. 灭洋！(A slogan used during the Boxer Rebellion)
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  5045.  @junxifu3472  "honestly as a chinese I admit it". Don't feel bad. No country is perfect. It's best if we can learn to laugh at our country's little faults, and let's admit it: These stories of ayis are often quite funny, whether it's the dancing ayis taking over basketball courts, or fashionable ayis with puffed up haircuts, or warrior ayis trying to get a free sample.
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  5046.  @ziqi92  One more thing: You better get used to old people taking over your country, because the proportion of old to young in China is only getting bigger every year. Now, there is one old person (over 65) for every child (under 15) in China. 40 years from now, there will be 10 old people for every child. There will be dancing ayis on every street corner.
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  5047. ...using Chinese commenters on Chinese social media, like 微博. Very cunning
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  5048. Just a few more days and the temperature will start to fall across the nation. But will there be rain coming? That is the great unknown. We could potentially be affected by this extreme summer for a long time to come.
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  5049. Actually, it's Chapter 15, which is specifically for foreign companies. You'll have to look up detail for yourself.
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  5050. Fast or slow, it's probably the same leather. Only when you get up to the top of the line leather fashion will the leather be processed in a more modern way.
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  5051.  @jellybeanz1989  So he has changed his mind in favor of the intellectual class and against the working class.
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  5052.  @jellybeanz1989  Intellectual class refers to people with academic degrees, often also with professional degrees, and you could just add in all who have a college degree. The point that Aaron Mate was making was that the working class, people without a college education, will be paying for the degrees of others who, in time, will end up making much higher salaries than the workers. Aaron Mate indicated that many people feel this is basically the middle- and upper classes exploiting the working class. Or put more crudely: The rich taking from the poor.
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  5053.  @blackenedblue5401  "it's the business class who'd fit the bill of children of working class parents". I don't understand what that sentence means. Do you mean 'foot the bill', as in, 'pay for'? If so, you're saying that the cost of college loan forgiveness is paid by the 'business class' (presumably, the upper-middle income groups). But everybody pays tax, including the working class. Some of their money will go to paying for those loans. The main point is this: People with college degrees on average make much more money than those without. Why should those with lower incomes help to pay for those college loans?
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  5054.  @blackenedblue5401  Yes, that is the question Chomsky wants to answer, but it is not the question Aaron Mate actually asked. Aaron Mate asked if Chomsky was in favor of loan forgiveness. Chomsky did not answer that.
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  5055. "Restaurant". More like a dining hall. There's no kitchen, so all food must be delivered from outside.
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  5056.  @thyristo  "our Slavic countries. she will get observed by our people." No one cares.
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  5057.  @LoC28C  "she will then appreciate the freedom she used to have in China". Can you give some examples of those freedoms?
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  5058. "explicit and obscene dance steps". What is an explicit and obscene dance step? Should we have observers in China's night clubs to stop people from making these steps before they destroy society?
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  5059.  @danielben-avraham1539  What a revelation!
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  5060. A country's population size has nothing to do with its wealth or poverty. There is simply no correlation. China is much richer now than it was in the 1960s, when it only had half the population. Some small countries are rich, some are poor. Some large countries are rich, some are poor. The difference between rich and poor depends on how the country is managed, not how many people there are.
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  5061.  @happymelon7129  "European countries that have cut off Russia's affordable oil and gas will find it difficult to repair with Russia". We don't want to repair relations with Russia. It's important you understand that. It's over! We don't want anything to do with Russia anymore.
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  5062. What are you talking about? EU is the biggest export market for Chinese EVs.
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  5063.  @maolo76  If that's the case, how do you know cases are rising? Where do you get your data from?
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  5064.  @jivvyjack7723  Sounds like you need a separate speaker set-up for your device, maybe with a dedicated amplifier and possibly a sub-woofer.
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  5065. "To fly high, and stay high". As discussions about legalizing weed become more mainstream, this quote is very apt.
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  5066. Every time I see one of these videos, I go on Google Maps satellite view to see if I can find some sinkholes myself. But I'm never successful :-(
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  5067.  @alileevil  But even then, they would be the first to notice and take action, not wait for some people from the lowland to come up and make them understand.
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  5068.  @ryanseet8314  I know. My comment is sarcastic.
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  5069. Nothing happens. It's still the same.
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  5070. The victim mentality is strong.
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  5071.  @ginawiggles918  Please see my answer elsewhere in this comment thread.
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  5072.  @哈尼腥  That is correct.
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  5073.  @987dhcvt  Well, it was designed by an American architect firm, so I don't think that's a correct conclusion.
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  5074. There's nowhere to put all these migrants. There are an estimated 7-10 million of them in the US now. Where are you going to find space to detain 10 million people? I suppose you could acquire Montana through Eminent Domain and dump them all off there. Plenty of space in Montana.
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  5075.  @masonkent9468  Well, the meat will still be quite tough, but the soup itself is delicious. Afterwards, you take off the cold meat, cut it up and make a chicken salad.
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  5076. Jesus Christ! Celebrity news is the stupidest kind of news!
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  5077.  @biboloxo  Isn't that what I wrote? Seems to be what I wrote.
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  5078. This kind of situation is great for the clicks! Your TikTok account may blow up.
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  5079.  @lachlantrescott5533  Pearl clutcher!
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  5080. Wasn't there just another video about shea butter in Kenya? The Kenyan ladies claimed their shea butter was better than West African shea butter because East African shea butter comes from wild trees while West African shea butter comes from cultivated trees.
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  5081. Only 20 years ago, all internet video looked like this. Makes me feel so nostalgic.
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  5082. I'm just at the beginning of the video and I'm going to predict that the alcohol level has reduced a lot, simply due to evaporation. Alcohol is more volatile than water and will evaporate over time, unless it is contained in a completely sealed container made of glass or metal. No lid will be 100% tight.
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  5083. Very nice. It all helps on the way to carbon neutrality.
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  5084. Thank you. I was just thinking if these were Unitree robots.
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  5085. A Whopper without tomatoes is not a Whopper I want to buy.
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  5086. When you've already reached the top, it's very hard to go higher. From then on, you have to build your own mountain.
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  5087. Don't worry about the fireworks, it's totally sa.........🎇🌟🎉🔥🎊✨🌟
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  5088. So you'd prefer if he lied. Or maybe you'd want another analyst who gives a positive view? Better face reality, even when reality is grim.
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  5089.  @achatcueilleur5746  You certainly have a well-developed imagination.
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  5090. It's highly unlikely the Rhesus Monkey will go instinct. It's very common, and as you can see, lives happily among humans.
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  5091. One could make the argument that Denmark is not Greenland's 'colonizers'. The Norsemen were there several hundred years before the Inuit people arrived, so you could even argue that it's the Inuit who are the colonizers. Additionally, Greenland is a democratically run country which has the power to declare independence if they should so wish. There are political parties that support this path, and others that don't (for the time being). However, all that being said, there is no doubt that there is some tension between Greenland and Denmark, tension that has existed for a long time. There are wounds that need healing, wrongs that need to be made right, social problems that can seem insurmountable, but at least we talk to each other like rational human beings while trying to find solutions.
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  5092.  @Marty_YouTuber  My post has nothing to do with my own like or dislike of Chinese cars. It has to do with trade and industrial policy.
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  5093.  @terung1392  Wow, his presidency completely passed over my head. Maybe I was busy with other things during those two years. I don't know what he did.
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  5094.  @starexanovanna7717  I'm sure Indonesia has many old friends.
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  5095. Very nice! Shanghai walks ahead of others, as usual.
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  5096.  @shiishinchiu6636  Don't believe me? Ask some Shanghainese people.
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  5097. It's pure evil! They are aiming for apartment buildings and university dormitories. In the mind of Russia, Ukrainians are not human beings, so they don't matter. In the Russian media, Ukraine as a country doesn't exist and Ukrainians are not a real people. They are just confused Russians who need to be taught a lesson.
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  5098. Maybe they use it for clothes sold in China, but not elsewhere.
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  5099. The last 20 second clip looks like it could have been taped in yesterday's Shanghai, with its cold, rainy, windy, grey weather.
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  5100.  @ChinaUpdate  Have a good time in NZ. You deserve it!
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  5101. Highly educational and enlightening video! Thanks for that.
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  5102. "Alright, you guys, start horsing around!!"
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  5103.  @ianhomerpura8937  The video used the term 'dialect', so I used that, too. Wikipedia also considers Cantonese to be a dialect, but I'm happy to view Cantonese as a language in its own right. But since you say "Learn the difference between the two", where do you make the cut-off between dialect and language, or how would you define the difference between the two?
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  5104.  @snowyy.5275  HK is pretty exceptional, and so is its culture. But you could make that same argument for other parts of China: Shanghai, Taiwan, Macao, Yunnan. All quite exceptional in their own way.
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  5105. Most of those people are so hopped up on drugs, they can hardly say a straight sentence.
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  5106.  @刚-o2h  It wasn't a security breach. It was fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. You can read all about it on Wikipedia, just search 'extradition case of Meng Wanzhou'.
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  5107.  @WingkKong  You think that's the best way to deal with it? Maybe we can try it next time.
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  5108.  @johhw_6432  Thousands, yes, but not hundreds of thousands. There are only about half the number of westerners now that there were in 2019. And what is your evidence that she (not he) is a criminal? No evidence has been provided, no supporting documents, or even details of what she is supposed to have done.
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  5109.  @wayned69  All foreigners detained in China MUST sign either a confession or an apology letter before they are released. If they don't, the detention will simply continue until they do. This has been standard, also for Chinese citizens, at least since the Cultural Revolution, and likely long before that.
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  5110.  @kkay2000  Enough for what? A lack of denial is proof of wrongdoing? In what legal system?
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  5111. "The paramedics got out to look at the damage to the ambulance first". This is 100% typical in China.
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  5112.  @ms21945  "It’s highly unlikely to see a tesla in China not manufactured in Shanghai." Model S and Model X are all imported.
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  5113. They look and sound like they might be Buryat people, also because they mentioned being given a sheep for signing up. The Buryat people have been a major source of soldiers in the war. A much larger percentage of their young men have been taken away. I believe they're a subset of Mongolians and they live in the far east.
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  5114. If the US is really 'over excessive printing of their USD' then how do you explain that the value of the USD keeps going up?
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  5115.  @brianliew5901  I do know Chinese, but business people don't have to know the language of every country they do business in. Chinese business people do business all over the world while only speaking Chinese. It can work, don't worry.
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  5116.  @brianliew5901  The west will protect its core industries, just like China does. There's no difference there. As for discomfort, your parents' and grandparents' generation say the same thing about you as you do about the West. 啊呀，现在的年轻人不能吃苦！Is there something that you and I understand that they do not understand? Think about that.
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  5117.  @brianliew5901  You're plainly wrong. The gay and lesbian community in China is alive and well, as far as I know. Nobody I know in China would think of shaming people for being gay or lesbian. Nor have I met anybody here who wants to 'lock up' gays or lesbians. Your mind has become polluted by American conservative ideas. Please keep your 境外势力 out of China.
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  5118.  @kaygee1623  How do you measure which manufacturer is better? Is there some official standard? After all, the are lots of companies supplying 5G networks: Altiostar, Cisco Systems, Datang Telecom/Fiberhome, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, and ZTE.
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  5119. Some studies also indicate that Black Americans are less likely to live below their means and put money away for the future, even when adjusted for income level. It's tragic as many would like to see the Black community thrive.
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  5120. The slogan 'One Country, Two Systems' will continue indefinitely, even long after it has lost any meaning.
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  5121. Why? It is the world's second largest economy. Or are you claiming it's the largest? 3rd largest? 4th?
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  5122.  @cooldudecs  People say China lies on their statistics. Ok, so if that is the case, what are the real numbers? What data should we rely on instead? Are there any authoritative data in existence? Or are we just going to put a number on the table that we pulled out of our ass? There are lots of economists who caution us not to believe Chinese data too much, but you will notice they never present other data, because there aren't any. It's like asking a lady her age. We may not believe her to tell the truth, but we have nothing else to base any number on.
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  5123.  @jamesdallas1493  I don't know, but various international institutions indicate $19-20 trillion. We don't have to believe them, but who else should we believe? And why should we believe the numbers Mexico put forward, or Thailand? In the end, you have to go with the numbers you have, not the numbers you would like to be true.
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  5124.  @Jaysqualityparts  "Now they lie so much I’m going with Japan or South Korea." Based on what? Fantasy?
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  5125.  @Jaysqualityparts  "young college graduates in China have over a 50% unemployment rate." Yes, those are official numbers and known to all. But A) Why do you believe those statistics and not the others? B) How do those youth unemployment numbers indicate that China's GDP is lower than that of Japan? Your argument seems rooted in believing only the numbers that agree with your prior position, and dismissing the numbers that are counter to your prior position. That's not serious.
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  5126.  @Jaysqualityparts  I know all these data. They are publicly available. My question is: What calculations do you use to get at your conclusion? I posit that you simply pull numbers out of your ass. Like every other China observer, I am skeptical of the official figures, but being skeptical doesn't mean you can just make up your own numbers.
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  5127. "Ukraine self infliction". You sound like the kind of guy who beats up his wife and then blame her for it.
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  5128.  @CprtFM  You don't seem to understand the difference between 'evidence' and 'allegation'.
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  5129.  @caspar9794  "many people see them as credible, which is what counts at the end of the day." It may count in the public opinion, but it would never count in a court of law. "people see them as credible" just means that people believe them to be true. Belief is just belief, it has nothing to do with facts, truth, data, or evidence.
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  5130.  @krishN29  "evidence can be false or made up". No, because that would not be evidence. That would be fakery and fraud.
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  5131.  @GKRE  "Evidence can be fabricated". That's not evidence, but fraud.
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  5132.  @RP-qs1tp  "who told you evidence are always credible?". Evidence that is not credible is NOT evidence.
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  5133.  @hrithiksingh5942  "Not all evidences are credible a.k.a trustworthy". Evidence that is not credible or trustworthy is NOT evidence.
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  5134.  @architsrivastava7217  "educate yourself please." No need. I am correct, the naysayers are wrong.
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  5135.  @TheGruntski  I agree that the examples you give do not constitute evidence, and no one should refer to them as evidence, credible or not, because it's not the correct use of the word 'evidence'. It's amazing how many people in this comment section do not understand the meaning of the words they use.
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  5136.  @CprtFM  Why is the place important?
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  5137.  @hrithiksingh5942  "weak or unreliable evidence". I wouldn't call that evidence. In any case, the word 'evidence' has not yet been brought up by Canada, so let's wait and see. It's very possible we will never be shown the reason for these allegations, and that it will all be handled by India and Canada behind closed doors. That's my guess.
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  5138.  @hrithiksingh5942  Exactly. This is why countries always deny spying on each other, hahahaha.
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  5139. For cynical people, everything is a scam.
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  5140. It's not the announcement that is important, it's the actual investment. That has been going on in North America for decades, just not with a grand announcement.
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  5141. I did not get much out of that.
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  5142. Based on the examples shown, BBC, NYT, Der Spiegel, these cartoons all focus on the poverty that is still prevalent in India, despite much progress being made in recent decades. Perhaps Indians don't want to be reminded that poverty still exists, and they feel their achievements are being diminished by being reminded of this. These emotions are understandable, but also exaggerated. Maybe an 'honor culture' is still common in India, a culture where people easily feel insulted and therefore lash out in anger. The west has more of a 'dignity culture', which is why you constantly see cartoons making fun of national leaders. These leaders have to accept the ridicule, and they do, as do most other people. Whatever the case may be, none of these cartoons are racist. At worst, they may be classist.
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  5143.  @jaridkeen123  I didn't know Australia had a 'War on Emus'.
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  5144. There are a lot of comments about insider trading. I haven't really looked at this closely. Is there currently any publicly available evidence for this claim, or is it speculation? (Speculation, of course, being a favorite pastime among American voters).
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  5145.  @charissy910  I know. I was only joking.
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  5146. "something unnatural". It may look unnatural (to you), but the question is: Does it signal that a crime is about to be committed?
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  5147.  @pandemicoftheunvaccinated5367  Your comment is entirely unrelated to the issue of expelling a prisoner.
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  5148.  @pandemicoftheunvaccinated5367  It's too long to be a slogan, but it is simple. That's what makes it so great. 😉
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  5149.  @pepelepew1227  I have never commented on the Otto Warmbier incident. My original comment here is quite amusing, as evidenced by the 200+ upvotes. As for being paid, the many upvotes and your emotional hysteria as a reaction to a mildly amusing comment is payment enough, thank you. It's heart warming.
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  5150.  @pandemicoftheunvaccinated5367  Accountability for what?
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  5151. Especially Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin.
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  5152.  @devtogoru  Well said, and agree.
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  5153. Quick run-down of current, active military conflicts, East to West (I may have missed some): -Myanmar: Civil war for two years running -Yemen: Low-flame civil war, but with Houthis lobbing a few missiles toward international shipping and Israel, with Western navies throwing a few missiles back -Ukraine War -Syria Civil War: Low-flame conflict. -Israel-Gaza war -Sudan civil war (though not with participation of many civilians, just warring military factions) -Libya Civil war: Low-flame conflict where factions have largely achieved control over their own territories. -Smaller conflicts in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, all fighting against insurgents. That's basically it.
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  5154.  @ck-bs2ms  I know, though not on as many streets as I would like. My experience is mostly from Shanghai where several of the main roads are closed to bicycles. Additionally, about 10 years ago, they started allowing cars to stop, or even park, in the bicycle lanes.
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  5155. Those Pakistani religious zealots look like clowns with bad make-up. They'd be better off trying to improve their own country than to rage against a foreign country.
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  5156. "99 yeast leases". I always lease my yeast.
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  5157. This is not about trust, it's about buying and selling stuff. No trust needed, just an exchange of goods and money.
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  5158. Or milk.
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  5159.  @Fred_the_1996  XC = cross country. Pretty nice. Do you do overnighters or even multi-day trips?
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  5160.  @aditatva  The bridge's tender project was designed by Tekfen Construction and Installation(Turkish company), Detailed design, construction engineering and technical follow up during construction by COWI A/S (Danish company), with design of cable and approach bridge by PEC (Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants) from Korea. Any other questions?
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  5161. "Is Malaysia full of forests?" In the 1980s it was full of forests, and not of the palm oil or rubber tree kind.
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  5162.  @Transformersrobotpower  I thought it was interesting in the 80s. I really enjoyed my visit back then.
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  5163. 1:20 Look at that chart from 2023. With all the talk about Chinese EVs coming to take over the western EV markets, on this chart, there is not even one Chinese model.
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  5164.  @pisablavatsky-cb3dd  Only that article from C-trip (携程) that I referenced earlier. Purely anecdotally, I have taken the maglev several times and I have never seen it full. Personally, I feel a taxi is more convenient for people who live in PuXi. Alternatively, maglev + metro.
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  5165.  @pisablavatsky-cb3dd  I don't think that's luck. The train seems to run at below capacity most of the time. The first 10 years or so, it ran at only 25% capacity. But the morning trains often reach 60-80% capacity, so maybe that is what you have experienced.
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  5166.  @grazsarducci7477  Or he may just have a different understanding of the situation than you. To declare him 'a tool' because of that is too dismissive. You also didn't present any argument why you feel this way.
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  5167.  @grazsarducci7477  "He also visits people in their homes, stays for dinner". So does Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un. These visits are usually accompanied by a TV crew and broadcast to the masses.
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  5168. So what if he visits people for dinner. You and I do that too, I'm sure. And what is that supposed to be evidence of? What good is it that a leader shows himself as a 'man of the people' if he fucks up the country in the process?
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  5169.  @grazsarducci7477  You seem to have a very romantic view of Syria and its authoritarian dictatorship. My view if different.
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  5170.  @grazsarducci7477  If the Syrian government is so benevolent, one wonders why the people rose up in revolt. Perhaps they were just bored at the ease and comfort of life under the Assad leaders.
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  5171.  @grazsarducci7477  "Abdullah Issa, the 11yr old beheaded by the State Dept funded al Zinki white helmets". That is irrelevant to the question of Syria's government shortcomings.
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  5172.  @grazsarducci7477  "Or the boy, Omran Daqneesh, the same jihadists grabbed". Also irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is the competence, of lack thereof, of the Syrian government.
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  5173.  @grazsarducci7477  "Abdullah was kidnapped". Equally irrelevant. I'm not going to entertain your attempts to sidetrack the discussion. You are clearly opposed to USA and anti-government forces. I understand that, but that is not the topic under discussion.
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  5174.  @gbrsjones11  "people in the Eu will be so poor next winter". That's what they said about this winter, but it didn't happen. Some people even predicted Europeans would rise up against their governments. The opposite has happened. Europeans are slowly waking up to the benefits of brute, military power.
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  5175.  @gbrsjones11  So far, NATO countries will not send troops to Ukraine. Materiel only. Even if we change our mind, professional soldiers will suffice. Obviously not all Europeans agree, but there is a majority that do. You and your friends don't. That's to be expected.
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  5176.  @gbrsjones11  Well, that was quite a screed. I hope you got it all out. But I suspect your anger and resentment will persist. Carry on.
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  5177.  @gbrsjones11  A self-appointed voice of 6 billion. Sounds like you imagine yourself as the dictator of the world.
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  5178. Wow, a YouTube channel devoted almost entirely to critiquing Elon Musk. Well, maybe there's a need for that, too.
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  5179.  Zack Smith  I haven't watched the videos, so I don't know if he's wrong or right. I guess time will tell.
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  5180.  Zack Smith  Thank you, but I can't even be bothered starting, let alone stopping. I don't care.
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  5181. Didn't you pay attention to the video? Lower prices may be good for you in the short term, but it makes society poorer in the long term, and it can be very difficult to get out of.
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  5182.  @zeaxg  Look, I cannot give a better argument than the one in the video. Try to watch again and listen to the economist. If you have an economically based counter argument, I'd like to read it, but simply saying that "Deflation is just scary term coined by economists that try to justify central bank inflationary policies" is not an argument, it is an unsupported claim.
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  5183.  @liberaltart7531  Yes, your comment makes good sense (until you start mentioning 'bloodsuckers'), but it doesn't speak against anything I wrote.
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  5184. It may be too little, too late.
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  5185. African countries have the right to invite any cooperation partner they want, be that France, Wagner, USA, UN, or any other. The countries that do invite foreign partners will then have to live with that decision. It's as simple as that. In the end, Africans are responsible for Africa's security, stability and development. No one else.
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  5186. Toripalimab is used specifically for the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare type of cancer that especially affects people of Chinese/East Asian ancestry. Clinical trials showed a 37% reduction in the risk of death compared to chemotherapy alone. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is very rare among people who do not have Chinese ancestry (less than 1 in 100,000 diagnosed annually among non-Chinese), but since there are 5 million people of Chinese ancestry in the US, it makes sense to introduce it there.
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  5187.  PajeetStreetShitters  Why don't you look it up yourself, you might learn something.
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  5188. Actually preventing sand shifting, and preventing desertification has been ongoing in Europe for over 100 years, you just haven't heard of it, because you only care about what happens in China.
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  5189.  @watb8689  "earning close to 8 million usd this year alone in farming at the countryside". If that is true, you are among the top 0.01% of Chinese farmers. I'd be curious to know what crops you grow. If you grow basic food crops like wheat and rice, then even with two harvests per year, you will need 800 hectares to make that much money. 800 hectares is 1,250 times bigger than the average farm in China.
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  5190.  @DccAnh  I hope not.
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  5191.  @DccAnh  See, you continue to talk about me, never touching on the topic of the video. Don't you see the uselessness of that exercise? Try to talk about the convertible dining hall in your next comment. I challenge you.
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  5192.  @DccAnh  "t have been about your ignorant attitude since the start". That is uninteresting to me.
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  5193.  @whitemerlin5737  You saw a random comment years ago from a random person which was not me, and that random comment says something about my prediction? Look, maybe this unfolding dance hall will become a big hit worldwide, but I will remain skeptical for now. As I wrote, let's wait a few years and see what happens.
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  5194. Ok, maybe the thumbnails are becoming a little too dystopian. I understand it generates interest, but let's try to keep cool heads.
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  5195. Everybody loves Chinese tourists, especially their money. Chinese tourists like the young lady in the video are always welcome everywhere, but sometimes there are 土包子团队 who give China a bad image. Nevertheless, eventually all Chinese tourists will become like the young lady in the video.
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  5196. The captain and crew were in the middle of a game of bridge.
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  5197. Very nice, but they have a long, long way to go before this becomes mainstream. At least a decade, maybe more than two.
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  5198. Excellent overview! Anyone interested in more info can look into the classic history books: "The Search for Modern China" by Jonathan Spence, and "China, A New History" by John King Fairbank. Both are widely taught in colleges around the world, and are easy and excellent reads.
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  5199. 16:33 "Stay cool, it's hot out there!" Presumably, this video was made a few months ago.
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  5200.  @vivalaleta  "a sociopath took control". We should ask ourselves why the owners/workers allowed a sociopath to take control. As owners, they can easily get rid of the sociopath.
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  5201.  @vivalaleta  And do you know any examples of companies that have remained co-ops for many years?
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  5202. Who are the puppet masters?
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  5203.  @frontliner9799  How can we stop him?
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  5204.  @frontliner9799  "we’re all Fked it’s game over in our lifetime". Well, in that case I'm just going to carry on as before.
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  5205.  @jishan6992  Basically yes, but improvements in the gearing and mechanism help too. For on-shore wind power, capacities are lower, around 6MW, but off-shore, they're getting really big. I'm guessing you might be Chinese. Try to look into Chinese-made off-shore wind turbines. CSSC Haizhuang is currently trying to develop an 18MW turbine. That is very big, indeed. Turbines of this size also need to be raised very high over the sea surface.
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  5206.  @abbashaider6651  I don't, but I'm sure there must be some here. Just search and limit by time, like choose 'within the last year' when searching.
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  5207. I was thinking the same. Binkov did a pretty good job, including at the end: "It will change the whole world and start a new cold war".
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  5208.  @alexsalemo9137  Well, I certainly welcome Finland into our community.
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  5209. Very interesting. I'm 55 and I have never bought a loaf of toast bread in a supermarket or a bakery. No, I am not from a poor country, but those supermarket breads look too soft, semi stale, and I find them devoid of flavor. I've bought many other breads in supermarkets, especially whole grain, dark rye bread, which is common in the Nordics.
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  5210. Actually, there are regularly people sleeping under bridges, etc., but it is debatable whether you can really call them 'homeless'. They will often be migrants trying their luck in the city, but not having enough money to rent a room. Sleeping under the stars is sometimes tolerated, other times people are chased away.
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  5211. Taiwan does not accept mainlanders. They see them as a security risk.
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  5212.  @Maviel85  " it is working for China and the life of the average citizen is improving". Perhaps you haven't been following China's economic development for the last few years. What used to be a well-oiled machine now seems to be running low on fuel.
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  5213. Nice save!
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  5214. Important context regarding AMBER alerts: "To be labeled an AMBER Alert, there must be reasonable evidence that an abduction has occurred, the child must be believed to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, there must be enough descriptive information about the victim and the abductor, the child must be under the age of 17, and the child’s information must be entered into the National Crime Information Center system (Guidelines for Issuing AMBER Alerts). If these guidelines are not met, an AMBER Alert cannot be issued, and the child is labeled as a runaway." So, not all disappearances justify the use of an AMBER alert, even if hundreds of thousands of children disappear every year. I have no data from the US, but in Europe, most child disappearances are either runaways, or a result of abductions by a divorced parent or other relative who doesn't agree that the child is living in the right place/family.
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  5215. A tropical storm can still drop a lot of water.
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  5216.  @darvidkoh2707  I live in Shanghai and I know the subways here very well. They're good, but I wouldn't say they blow my mind. For example, the constant security checks implemented since 2010 are really annoying. Some lines and stations are showing their age, especially along line 1 (opened 1995) and 2 (opened 1997). They could really use an overhaul. Same with that underground shopping mall in Peoples Square station. It's messy, chaotic and way too inconvenient to get down to the platform on line 2. The Shenzhen Metro is nice, perhaps nicer than Shanghai's. Beijing Metro is not particularly nice. Many others are quite fine. Now for Europe. Many metro systems in Europe are also old, much, much older than any system China has, and they are showing their age, too. But there are also new systems that are at least as flashy and modern as those in China: Bilbao, Brescia, Copenhagen, Rennes, Toulouse, Lausanne. All of these are built around the same time as Chinese metro systems and they are every bit as modern. The station entrances also tend to have much better designs, where Chinese metros are often designed to be utilitarian, with with little concern for urban aesthetics.
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  5217.  @darvidkoh2707  I don't want to sound too dismissive toward China's many metros. I'm very happy we have them. I remember when we had to travel around Shanghai by bus; it was slow and inconvenient. Metros are so much better.
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  5218. These chemicals may be banned in the EU, but are they banned in HK? In China? The video didn't say anything about that.
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  5219. Using that same standard, Eastern Siberia and Vladivostok should also be returned to China. Both were taken by force in the mid-19th century. Both foreign powers made the Qing emperor sign an 'unequal treaty'. And yet, Chinese people seem to find a difference between the two.
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  5220. Maybe they will end up as "Tech Geeks that can attack the CHINESE Grids and Infrastructure".
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  5221.  @squarefour65  Fair point.
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  5222. And because she was wrongly convicted, you distrust everything the Italian authorities say in this report? Isn't that a little extreme?
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  5223.  @Halisco_New_Generation  "You expect people to beIieve they had people walking on the moon in the 1960s." Nobody expects you to believe anything. Believe what you want and disbelieve what you want. No one cares.
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  5224. I haven't watched the video, but the title says '1000km Shinkansen' and the thumbnail says '12 hours'. But 1000km in 12 hours is only 83 km/h (or 52 miles/hour). You hardly need a shinkansen for such a low speed.
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  5225.  @jaydee6268  I wouldn't know.
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  5226. There are a lot of debunkers out there, but Professor Dave's style is really very entertaining! One can't help but crack a smile.
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  5227. Does anybody know what that tenor sax music at the last 45 seconds was?
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  5228. Until China changes its regulations on civilian air travel, this will not become a success. The regulations for eVTOLs (or manned drone flights) are currently not separate from other flights. They include: "China requires all aircraft to obtain a permit before flying over the country or landing at its airports. Permit requests must be submitted at least three days in advance (seven is better), and contain the following information: -Operator and aircraft information. -Routing and schedule, including entry and exit points. -Crew and passenger information -Specific purpose of flight (tourist flights not allowed) -Local receiving party/sponsor information (for landing permits) -Sponsor letter (at certain airports)". Imagine you had to comply with all this before getting in your car and going to the shop.
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  5229.  @Eddy-Cool  I think that's a little too optimistic. People in Europe have hardly any idea of what is going on in Pakistan, nor do they know who Pakistan's leaders are. And outside of the UK, nobody knows anything about cricket or who the main cricket stars are.
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  5230.  @Eddy-Cool  Ok, I had no idea he had had an effect on curbing Islamophobia. Can you give any concrete examples of that?
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  5231.  @ittakes2-2tango  Maybe there hasn't been so much positive news from China in the last few years. I'm sure there's news that people in China think is positive, but BBC is not a Chinese news organzation. Maybe I can challenge you: How much positive news about the US, or even the west in general, have you seen in the Chinese media?
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  5232. Hopefully the driver will be held responsible for killing another person on the road.
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  5233. Which body parts are still missing? We could all keep an eye out for them.
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  5234.  @jdy-ew5gj  "we" are human beings, but you could probably train dogs to help out.
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  5235. I've heard the Palestinian Authority is also considering banning Israeli visitors.
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  5236. "under the US Israel leadership". What do you mean? Can you be specific?
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  5237. Google it and you'll find out what the criminal charges are.
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  5238.  @melodramatic7904  "It doesn't seem strange to you?" It certainly seems strange, but that is not evidence that she was attacked by the morality police.
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  5239. I am a little skeptical of the 'study hard' theory as the main cause of myopia. One should compare rates of myopia among graduate- and PhD students in different countries and continents, not just within East Asia. A quick Google search reveals that in Israel, adult ethnic Jews have rates of myopia around 60%. Jews are also known to have a tradition of high academic achievement. This rate is higher than the global average, but lower than in East Asia. The 'time spent outdoors' aspect does look like a very important factor, but I cannot help but suspect that genetics is also a strong factor.
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  5240.  @bobweiram6321  But if genetics is not a factor, then what is the reason that 'Asians do much better in visual discrimination', as you claim? Surely, that couldn't be genetics, either.
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  5241.  @bobweiram6321  It should not be excluded as a possible explanation, but it should also not be accepted without 'rigorous scientific validation'. After all, that's how we get to the truth of things.
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  5242. Where is that disclaimer? I don't see it when I play the video.
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  5243.  @sofvines3940  Ok, that doesn't appear when I play the video. I watch through a VPN, so maybe that's the reason.
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  5244.  @horstschlemmer1337  Haha, yes, but we so rarely hear about 'coke scarcity' or 'coke refugees'.
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  5245. Let's hope they don't re-offend.
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  5246. Reverse osmosis always makes me think of Cypress Hill.
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  5247. "Playing with fire". People play with fire all time, and as long as they are careful, nothing happens.
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  5248. You want it spelled Kampochea?
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  5249.  @nezhokojo1641  I agree
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  5250. They don't want independence. They voted three times in the last 20 years to stay with France.
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  5251. "History shows regime collapses almost always follow a similar arc, not unlike stock market crashes". Could you give just a couple of examples of 'regime collapses' that happened as you describe? If 'history shows', there should be at least several examples to pick.
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  5252. Because fish stink?
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  5253. I was in Shanghai. We had looked forward to it so much! The weather had been great running up to the eclipse, clear blue skies. Then, the day before, clouds started to gather, and on the day it was completely overcast. Couldn't even make out where the sun was supposed to be in the sky. Bit of a let-down.
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  5254.  @StickyKeys187  Well, at that particular time, it was not pollution, just heavy clouds.
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  5255. I agree, and there are other channels here that give excellent daily overviews of the battlefield. The style may be different, but they are very informative. Here's one: https://youtu.be/oI7ciGTus_A
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  5256.  @misterbig9025  No formal studies, more like a 'look around'.
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  5257. Amazing that you make the effort to capitalize every word. Makes it look like a movie title.
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  5258. To all the people talking up Xiong'An: Would you want to move there? There is readily available real estate / homes you can move in to tomorrow, and at a low price, too. Certainly cheaper than Beijing. You should consider the question 'why aren't people moving there in droves?' When they started developing Shenzhen, they couldn't get the buildings ready fast enough, millions wanted to move to Shenzhen.
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  5259. It's a money losing business in Australia, that's why there's not a lot of mining going on there.
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  5260. This is great war reporting! More of this, please, and less of people sitting in a studio discussing Putin's mental state.
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  5261. I love fungal infections.
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  5262.  @stantheman9072  Well, I obviously disagree with Obama's former secretary of defense on that issue. Biden's work on fostering greater cohesion among friends of the US has been very good. The setting up of AUKUS and development of the Quad, his stance on Russia and China are the right way to go, in my opinion.
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  5263.  @stantheman9072  Thanks for sharing your view.
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  5264. You think they should just go straight to dropping nuclear bombs? You know, get it over with quickly?
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  5265. All it takes is for people and governments to realize that old people are not necessarily obsolete. They may not know the latest technologies, but they have a wealth of experience in work and life. They may not be able to, or want to, work 30 hours a week, but they also don't need to. They've already bought everything they want in life and only need money for food, clothes, medicine, and maybe some travel. They have no interest in buying the latest iPhone or the latest car. They couldn't care less. So they can work, and they are not expensive.
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  5266. There was some pretty heavy debris flying up just around takeoff. Looked like very large pieces of something.
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  5267. Or how we invest other people's money. As we get more of the world to develop economically, that means a new and bigger market for our products and services. So it's not just spending, but investing for future benefit. If you have any kind of pension plan, you're letting other people spend/invest your money.
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  5268.  @HealingLifeKwikly  Thanks, you too.
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  5269. I don't think that full beard works for Stossel. Bring back the moustache!
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  5270. Exactly my thought. "USA backstabbing our motherland again".
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  5271. Why do refugees constitute a national security risk? Surely India and China, each with 1.4 billion people, can handle a few hundred thousand refugees from a neighboring country without risking their national security.
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  5272.  @buymecola1  They've been talking about that for a long time, but they never seem to do anything about it.
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  5273. 'Pumping up to CNY 10 trillion into the economy'. In 2023, the US had a fiscal deficit of $1.7 trillion, adding up to 6.2% of GDP. 10 Trillion CNY would be 7.9% of China's GDP. Of course, China is not as wealthy as the US, so such a high fiscal deficit is a more precarious position to put yourself in.
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  5274. With a combined population of less than 4.7 million, how on earth are those two countries going to destroy Serbia, let alone destroy Christian Europe? Besides, many Europeans no longer consider themselves Christian. Religion is not very popular anymore. We have better things to do with our time.
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  5275. This Wharf video is sponsored by SCMP.
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  5276. If so, then there are apocalyptic signs around the world every week, and there have been for millennia. So no, I don't think so. Besides, Apocalypse is just a fantasy.
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  5277. Have you checked out the videos made by Chinese and Indian media? I'm sure there must be some.
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  5278.  @phinehasblack8739  "the US firms who are taking it as a charity" Strange, none of the people interviewed mentioned that. It looked like they saw American investors just like any other investor: A big bag of money.
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  5279.  @public.public  So far, it looks like he took his own life, sitting in his own car. But you keep simmering on those theories. At least it'll keep you busy.
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  5280.  @dan-bz7dz  "not in a court of law." Ok, so he gave his deposition in front of a judge, under oath, but not in a court of law. So that is the smoking gun that convinces you that there is foul play?
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  5281. The IMF is not an investor or loan giver to projects. The IMF has only ONE purpose: To assist countries with large debt to get their financial structure back on track by providing emergency funds. The IMF only provides funds to countries in order to alleviate crippling debt. No country has to accept funds from the IMF, and all countries that do accept IMF funds do so after accepting the terms. Countries that don't want IMF funds can try to go to China, and come away disappointed.
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  5282.  @southkoreausasmaster8805  "International Monetary Organization"?? IMO?? What's that? Do you mean the IMF? As you know, the IMF only provides assistance to countries in great financial trouble. These countries often have nowhere else to go for help. They don't have to use the IMF, but they choose to do so. They make the choice, not the IMF. The interest on IMF loans tend to be much lower than any other loans, and in some cases, they are provided interest-free.
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  5283.  @annan7728  Russia simply follows China without independence.
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  5284.  @peterk5981  "You simply do not get any substance" When are you guys going to learn to write in proper English? You're not making any sense.
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  5285.  @obinnaezealah2465  "We've dealt with China, we're not disappointed." I don't think you've tried to approach China for fiscal debt relief, which is specifically what the IMF is for. The IMF is not for giving loans to development projects. For that purpose, we know China often gives loans, as does many other entities. You may be someone who only views the world from China's perspective, and you ignore everything else. With such a perspective on the world, it may very well look like nobody else is providing loans or investing in developing countries, but lots of countries and organisations are.
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  5286.  @peterk5981  I'm only asking you to express yourself clearly, not giving you an English lesson.
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  5287.  @peterk5981  Ok, you've now resorted to personal insults rather than talking about the topic of the video. I have no interest in that.
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  5288.  @peterk5981  "narcissist". You're providing my evidence. That is a personal insult, and you still do not touch on anything related to the topic in the video.
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  5289. 2:34 "Tourists go home, Carteristas welcome". A 'carterista' is a pickpocket, according to Google Translate. Does that mean that former President Jimmy Carter's name meant 'pickpocket'?
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  5290. Come on, CNN! Arkhangelske was liberated on October 3rd, not 'newly liberated'. The battlefield is highly fluid and it is sloppy to be so far behind the curve. You're CNN! Don't you remember how good you were during the Gulf War? (Comment written on October 15th)
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  5291. Very nice use of metric measurements in this American-made video. Refreshing!
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  5292. "别人做事，我不管“
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  5293. Old man yells at cloud.
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  5294.  @eatmorenachos  It's not a question of proof, or a question of true or false. It's a question of paying for services: If you want good service, you have to pay more. If you'd rather save money, your flight is going to stink. It's like the difference between McDonald's and a good steakhouse.
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  5295.  @eatmorenachos  But there's not a monopoly. As he said, 4 airlines control 80% of the market, which means there are even more airlines covering the remaining 20%. That's not even close to a monopoly. However, I agree that a full liberalization of the market with international participation would be better.
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  5296.  @eatmorenachos  Extra charges has become quite common in the budget plane travel world. I don't like it, either, but it does give passengers options, including the option to choose a completely different airline. Aren't there still full-service airlines in the US?
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  5297.  @gentoffire  I don't think it's a deep question. It's a simple question of how you feel. Right now.
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  5298.  @andia968  " different culture, different belief." Yes, that is true, so I ask again: What is YOUR BELIEF? Do you believe it is best to segregate by ethnic/cultural groups?
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  5299.  @江宁路牛奶棚-q6x  I'd go to Taiwan and visit the museums. Don't forget to try some of the famous Taiwanese street foods while you're there.
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  5300. Chinese people have also never experienced war on their soil since the Civil War so the Chinese people do not have any memory of the devastation to life and property that war entails (except for those who were older than 4 in 1949. They will now be at least 78 years old). Of course China has been at war in Korea, Vietnam, India, but that was not on their own soil.
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  5301.  @5he11-  Didn't provoke? Vietnam 1979 was a completely unprovoked military attack. China didn't even issue a warning beforehand.
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  5302.  @Nope991  " is fish and chips created by the British?" Hard to say for sure, but it is very much recognized world wide as THE quintessential British food. Same with 'Afternoon Tea'. We know tea originally is from China, but the concept of 'Afternoon Tea' is associated with Great Britain.
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  5303. It's still considered a bit of a political scandal in Denmark. Many people believe the culling was an illegal political act.
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  5304.  @goliaboi  They did not, and the fur industry in Denmark basically ended with this act. Mind you, it was considered a controversial industry to begin with by animal rights activists. No more mink furs....
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  5305.  @waynegabler6570  Are you saying Hong Kong's hamsters came from Denmark? I don't think that is correct. Perhaps you have misunderstood something.
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  5306.  @namelesswarrior4760  That's not what we do down here in Shanghai. Our lives are better than up in HeiHe, and we don't have to eat our dumplings in the freezing cold. We're civilized.
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  5307.  @namelesswarrior4760  Ok, the lifestyle may be great at the border, but then I'd prefer the border with Laos or with Hong Kong. Better weather, better food. Nevertheless, as long as you enjoy your life up in the far north-east, everything is good.
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  5308.  @colleen2671  And yet, we see a constant stream of North-Easterners moving to Hainan, XiShuangBanNa, Shenzhen; not exactly places known for their cold weather.
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  5309.  @Whatisnottaken  If you ever come to Shanghai, you will quickly see how much better it is. And regarding eating dumpling in the cold, why would anybody sit outside in the winter if they didn't have to? If sitting in the cold is so great, why don't people just turn off their heating inside?
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  5310. He didn't really address the concert goers' demonstration at all.
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  5311. I notice that the sauces have Heinz' logo on them. So Heinz is still quite happy to support the Russian economy and by extension, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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  5312.  @robintan502  "tenure professors have moved with their whole team to China". I'm sure there are some of them, too, but still, most are just business people working in regular industries. As for 'returning Chinese', I don't think China counts those as 'foreign talent' if they still have Chinese citizenship.
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  5313.  @Defective1313  "Yellen's actions will have made the Chinese think of her as less deserving of their respect." That's very possible, but geopolitics does not depend on personal respect, it depends on the power and resources of each country. Whether Chinese officials have respect for American officials or not is (almost) irrelevant, because any particular decision can be made in both cases: You respect me, I'm going to charge you $5 for a cup of coffee. You don't respect me, I'm still going to charge you $5 for a cup of coffee.
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  5314. No country wants to be ruled by Russia, that's the real issue.
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  5315. If they can find such a little thingy in huge Australia, USA now has no excuse for not finding Bigfoot!
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  5316. Apology accepted. Now let's move on!
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  5317. A global conspiracy against Africa. If only there was something Africa could do about that.....
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  5318. This was a pretty weak effort from Vice. It is more akin to one of those traveling YouTubers who make a video about this awesome new city they're in and talking to the locals. I feel there was very little journalistic effort behind this piece.
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  5319. I only know the Lord's Resistance Army. Do they still exist? And are all these rebel groups concentrated in the east?
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  5320. What comes down must go up. Oh wait, it's the other way around.
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  5321. Oops!
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  5322. Only the media concerns itself with 'President Putin's state of mind' as if they're psychologists. It's infuriating that the media thinks this is all about someone's mental state. It's not! It's about geopolitics, great power competition, and about who is going to win on the battle field and win in the greater world. Stop with this pseudo-psychology. Putin's state of mind is, at best, of marginal importance. Let's look at recent history and foreign leaders who have been deemed 'mentally unstable' or 'terminally ill' by the media: Kim Jong Un, Putin, Saddam, Gadaffi, even Trump. If we don't like them, it must be because they're insane. How ignorant, lazy and pathetic!
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  5323. I'm an atheist. I don't believe Jesus was the son of god, nor do I believe there even is a god, but I love these ads. It's a spectacularly well made ad campaign. I just love them.
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  5324.  @ItalianClown2003  1) I have no faith. 2) I do not believe they found any 'ark' on Mount Ararat, Noah's or anyone else's.
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  5325.  @ItalianClown2003  Ok, but I'm not holding my breath. Religious belief means nothing to me.
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  5326.  @ItalianClown2003  Well, I'm happy that you enjoy your relationship.
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  5327. Not so much the spice trade, which was thriving before sugar plantations existed. But sugar production was certainly one of the primary reasons for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Europe had no sugar before that, because sugar cane can't grow in the European climate. Eating honey, the only sweet product, was reserved for the rich. You can even see it archeological digs: People buried before sugar became widely available in Europe have great teeth; those buried after have teeth full of cavities.
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  5328.  @reddixiecrat  I understand that, but the spice trade started with Vasco Da Gama and Columbus in the 15th century. The sugar trade and cultivation and associated slave plantations started later. So, to reiterate: Spice trade first, sugar plantations later.
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  5329. Great idea!
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  5330.  @miles5600  Yes, I'm kidding.
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  5331. There are always protests and riots in France. If it's not farmers dumping carrots all over Champs Elysees, it's young people setting cars on fire. Just another day in the life of beautiful Paris.
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  5332.  @monacophotographyevents2384  Actually, I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me.
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  5333.  @worldtraveler8571  So what? It's media. And it is literally 'American media', which is what the poster requested. Don't you understand what media means?
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  5334.  @rherrer9  Hard to say what I would do if I were not me but someone else. It's very possible I would try to immigrate to a rich country, too. There's no telling. But I'm quite confident that going forward, we will see more and more migrants from the south trying to get to the north by any means.
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  5335.  @PhillyKid07  Have you also experienced not getting free ice-cream from businesses? It's an outrage! We must demand free ice-cream!
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  5336.  @PhillyKid07  Oh, I've heard about these incidents, mostly on AirBnB. Yes, it sucks. People will make inferences about you because you're the same race as perhaps some previous guest who trashed the place and was also black. It's a major societal issue, and a psychological issue. People seem to find it difficult to see others as individuals instead of as members of a group. It's like if you see someone with a MAGA hat, it might be easy to suspect that he is probably a racist, but we can't really know that until we talk to him. There is no quick solution to this problem, but we need to keep talking to each other, get up close with people who are different from us. Then, slowly, over time, will society improve. Until then, people like you, who belong to a visible minority, will continue to occasionally face this kind of adversity. Best of luck. (PS: I'm not American)
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  5337. The Chinese word used to describe 'sheep flavour' is now, in Mandarin, spelled Sao, pronounced almost identical to the English word sow (mama pig). Sometimes called 'yang sao wei' (lit. sheep sao flavour)。
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  5338. Are you saying that Useful Idiots is secretly manipulated by government? How can we know?
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  5339.  @kidrengo  Ok, so manipulation only occurs if some of the presenters may have worked for the govt. Got it, thanks.
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  5340.  @kidrengo  In what way?
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  5341.  @kidrengo  That's not really an answer, but ok, let's leave it there. You've had several chances to insult me, and hopefully that gives you a feeling of satisfaction.
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  5342.  @kidrengo  Agreed. I'm generally quite cheerful.
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  5343.  @junhan85  I've heard it mentioned, so they must have mentioned it somewhere.
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  5344.  @Nigerianreaction  "just set it to not auto update". Yes, but that's much too late now. Once it updated, I could never go back. I didn't expect them to delete Android just like that.
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  5345.  @ZooomaCW  Yes, you're right. Every person and every business will have a 'red line' beyond which they will not go, even if it means they lose out on making money. So, I might be ok taking a job at a butcher shop, but I wouldn't if the job involved killing kittens.
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  5346.  Swift BMF  Yes, I copied it from my reply to the other, full length Useful Idiots video from a few days ago, the one about comedy in China. This clip above is from that video.
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  5347.  @americaisdyingslowly  "Who is Dick Jacobsen working for?" My name is Peter, not Dick, or Richard. I work for myself, importing alcoholic beverages into China.
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  5348.  Ouchwitz Summer Camp LLC  "he's full of sheet". Can you be more specific? Perhaps present a counter-argument?
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  5349.  Ouchwitz Summer Camp LLC  Ok, I see what you're about.
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  5350.  @bnawr4336  "they're trying to put their noses well inside VZ like it was theirs? So, of course, Caracas will be last place." So if they were more fair, what place do you think Caracas should be in? Would you consider it a safe city?
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  5351. Brooklyn is not expanding, and nor are you, so what do you care?
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  5352. A few notes: Tastien, the 'Chinese McDonald's' in the video currently only has 10 stores nationwide; 9 in Beijing, 1 in Guangzhou. China has had McDonald's and KFC clones for decades. Since the 1990s, the Taiwanese chain Dico's, and for almost as long, a plethora of small clones in 3rd and 4th tier cities and below, small local chains often named something like 麦肯基 (Mai Ken Ji), which can best be translated as McKentucky, serving approximations of food from the two big US chains. The Nike competitor Anta has existed for decades, but mostly popular in 3rd and 4th tier cities, serving consumers who couldn't afford to buy international brands. Their logos are designed to be close enough to Nike's swoosh to make it interesting, but not so close as to invite copyright lawsuits. Going from a low-end brand to a high-end brand is going to take a lot of effort, no matter where you are. Could you imagine Walmart becoming a desirable, exclusive grocery? Luckin Coffee has a very viable business model. They are to coffee what Domino's is to pizza: Cheap, quick, and everywhere. But few people would claim that Domino's Pizza represent a high quality Italian dining experience. The video highlights the use of patriotism/nationalism by several of these homegrown brands. This can work for short periods, but I think history tells us that long term success cannot be built on patriotism alone. Americans buy Toyotas, Europeans buy California Wine, Japanese buy Hermes scarves. There's no reason to believe that Chinese people will be any different, at least not in the long term. What we're seeing now is Chinese consumers realizing that they can no longer afford to buy foreign premium brand goods, so they buy the next-best thing: Local, cheap and cheery, good-enough brands.
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  5353.  @33none42  Well, if there's good money in it, I'm sure someone will build that.
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  5354.  @33none42  Thanks for sharing that interesting story. Seems to me NJ has grown into having a rather distinct culture of its own. People admire it now, and also laugh at it (I'm thinking Jersey Shore, Jon Stewart, Sopranos), but I think most people can see themselves in the NJ culture.
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  5355. You already know what they're thinking: One of them, the president, wants to shoot it down. Others, the Pentagon, say that's not necessary.
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  5356. It's $69 billion from the US, according to The State Dept. (March 4, 2025 press release). The 350 billion figure mentioned by Trump was, quote: "In my opinion". In other words, not a number he based on any data, but just his opinion. If there is any evidence of this high number, I'd like to see it.
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  5357.  @alanliang9538  The people who live in Shanghai are Shanghainese [嗓嘿宁】and the language they (often) speak to each other is called Shanghainese 【嗓嘿啊唔】, part of the Wu Languages 吴语 .
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  5358.  @IMDogGod  No, it's because Shanghainese people are a little better than other people. Just ask them and they will tell you. And I've probably been to more places in China than you have.
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  5359. At least it's not beer (yet).
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