Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

  1. Wow! A simple statement that JR was economical infeasible, but thought Chinese high-speed rail was until I saw this vid Nas elicited a torrent of abuse from some Anthony fellow. Can't quite understand why. I suppose one should only make comments where you claim complete knowledge about a subject (Aristocles wonders what personal attack this comment will elicit).
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  2. I have been continually impressed by the data and facts you bring to your discussions. The infographics are good too, and I know from experience how hard that can be. Your direct and even tone of delivery makes it much easier to hear the content of your message without the distraction of the histrionics that some commentators on China have. Some of your segments have been multi-part segments and others on closely related and subjects. Often these were separate segments because they were about specific events separated in time although you explained how the previous segments related to one another. Have you ever considered joining together what are now separate videos on subject into one longer video? I do not mean you would need much if any additional editing. In many cases it would require editing to join one segment to another with perhaps a short intro in the front. Does that make sense?
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  3.  @LeisRealTalk  Yes indeed it could. You often point out other videos you have on a topic, and it would be great if those videos were already set up to play. A playlist would do that admirably. Wish I have thought of that. :) A playlist would also allow you to adjust the order until you thought it was right then if it made sense you could combine the videos in a single video, or add a chapter # in the title as you did with the matter of CCP Succession. I look forward to a "lecture series" from Prof. Lei.
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  4.  @johntaylor2683  fixed
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  5.  @drumpfdon760  in fact I have at least to the extent of donating to organizations who need to feed people in ANY war zone including Afghanistan. What contributions have you made, or does the CCP prevent that because of their control over foreign currency exchanges? Incidentally what does "GBU" mean?
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  6.  @drumpfdon760  Mt 6:3-4 But when you do charitable deeds to men, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your giving may be in secret." Thereis the full quote, and indeed I stop from keeping records to avoid seeing the total amounts. The joke on you DRUMP Dump. Take look at tell us how much you give, just a % of income Hehehehe
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  7. As I watched your report a number of aphorisms came to mind: The higher the monkey climbs the more he exposes his tail. The higher you climb the ladder the farther it is when you fall. It also reminded me of the statement by Louis XIV: L'etat c'est moi It suggests a paraphrase to apply to Xi: Le parti c'est moi. We know what happened as a result of Louis XIV establishing an absolute monarchy in France. I wonder what will happen if Xi loses power.
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  8. Look like the Netherlands took action on the situation you described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4bkw0_w0uc and Canada did as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_hSY-QMO2o
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  9. I think the CCP has taken the correct approach in effectively quarantining the athletes. That was the lesson to learn from the mess that Japan made of the Summer Games. However, the Japanese at least had enough sense to avoid making the situation worse for people in cities outside the Olympic venue. I think Japan has learned the lesson that many cities have now learned. The burden and cost of the Olympics is just too high for any city to bear, and the pandemic just made it worse. I knew people in Sydney who made sure to get out of town when the Olympics were held there just because of the chaos it caused to transportation. The IOC should find a permanent venue for the Olympics, and hold them at that place every four years. Better yet, get rid of the Olympics, and put more emphasis on the various World Championship tournaments in the different sports.
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  10.  @mjouwbuis  Good point. It might even be a pre-emptive strike by Xi just to show what he can do.
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  11. Russia has long indulged in this mentality of victimization, and for the Russians especially at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons as Putin often says. China suffers from the same sense of being a victim at the hands of the West, and they have history to back it up. However, such a mentality of victimization never goes well for a country who indulges in it.
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  12. The CCP might benefit from looking at the measures taken by FDR to mitigate the Great Depression. Government injecting cash into the economy as advocated by John Maynard Keynes has helped maintain the consumer spending that drives the US economy. The comments by Prof. Li Dao Qui match those of the US Republican Party. I am most upset by his attack on Carbon reduction. China is crucial to have any significant effect on the climate crisis. The most upsetting aspect of Chinese Economic problems is to remember exactly what it was the ended the Great Depression ... World War II. Having a war helps CCP resolve many internal problems. Wars consume manufactured products at a furious pace, and therefore increase employment and industrial activity. A war will also justify a sacrifice in quality of life, and distract from internal problems. To my mind these economic problems in the PRC increases the likelihood of an invasion of Taiwan in the short term. It just occurred to me that new kind of Olympics might help the entire global economy. People may think I am joking but I am serious. Instead of trying to demilitarize space, I suggest we militarize space and demilitarize Earth by a Space Military Olympics conducted at the Lagrange Points L4 and L5 to avoid increasing the debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) which has already become a problem. Perhaps called the Lagrange Olympics, it would avoid human casualties because all the competition will take place between automated weapons. Industrial capacity in LEO can supply the "athletes" in the LaGrange Olympics, and could also supply the industrial needs of the humans on Earth while Earth focuses on producing food for people, and caring for the health of people. Keep in mind that anyone could decide to move the military conflict back to Earth, but every country participates in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy such as the US and USSR followed during the Cold War. All anyone needs to do is to drop a big enough rock from space onto Earth. That wiped out the dinosaurs in the past, and could wipe out the human race in the future. Perhaps such an existential threat to all humanity held in the hands of all humanity might cause people to respect one another more given the consequences of treating enough people so badly that a large enough group would chose to drop a rock on all of us, themselves included.
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  13. However, this is not crypto currency in the sense that Bitcoin is. In the case of Chinese digital money, the amount of money in circulation is decided on by a Central Bank, in this case The Bank of China. This is just a digital form on the existing RMB. Same as if the US Department of Treasury decided to switch from paper dollars to digital dollars. In a sense all printed currency is digital because they have serial numbers on them. If a dollar is ripped in half or even partially burned, as long as you have the two parts of the dollar bill with serial numbers on it then you can go to a bank and exchange them for an undamaged printed dollar bill. So even the US has a digital currency.
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  14. ​ @LeisRealTalk  When you recapped the CCP History, I was surprised you said nothing about Zhou En Li. I realize that Zhou lacked any aspirations to lead the Party, but he might serve as a good example of a very high ranking position who supported with patience of Job, and who was forced into a very public admission of his reactionary thoughts. I have always thought that made Mao very pleased became it showed Mao what kind of control he had over Zhou. So maybe Zhou is a unnecessary, and would serve to distraction from explanation of how succession occurs. Whenever I look CCP succession, I am reminded of when Winston Churchill about Kremlin succession fights "as a bulldog fight under a rug: “An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.” Thanks for pulling rug off the CCP succession fights so we can whois contending with whom, and how they are doing it.
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  15. The policy you have reported here has to be the most bizarre economic incentive I have ever heard of. The CCP should twist people's arms to invest in improving the life of the farmers, and perhaps offer some food coupons as the dividend for such investments. Although I like the investing in farmers better, it would make better sense to force people to invest in the stock market. Investing in the farmers would be better.
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  16.  @petergilkes7082  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
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  17.  @petergilkes7082  CCP not CPC
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  18. Look at the article, and listen to Lei who says "CCP"
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  19.  @petergilkes7082  Well you need to get sign up as an editor of Wikipedia. It is easy. Then go fix that as well. I presume you have informed Lei about her error as well
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  20.  @simplelife7332  ah I see you joined about one year ago and focus solely on YouTube videos about China. I think your handlers at the CCP may get disappointed now that it is clear you are part of their propaganda offensive. Having identified you as a CCP shill means I can safely ignore your comments in the future.
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  21. I feel terrible to the people who bought apartments from Evergrande.
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  22. Lei, your analysis of the Chinese football industry is another example of your excellent analysis. I do note that it is almost half of this overall video, while the section on the semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup is the other half. I know you have other videos on China's efforts to build a semiconductor industry. Do you feel that making separate playlists on the China sports industry and the Chinese semiconductor industry would prove helpful? You could split this video into the part on the semiconductor industry and putting it into a playlist with your other videos on the Chinese semiconductor industry. Then you could take the segment on the football and create a playlist about the Chinese sports industry as I recall you do have some videos about CCP and NBA relations in another video, although I may have that mistaken. Your videos are so good, I make this suggestion with some reluctance, but I hope you will consider this editorial suggestion.
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  23. The CCP learned from US Corporations who have used stock buybacks to keep their stock value high make sure that the options held by their Executives will retain value. Lest you think this is speculation on my part, I can assure you that friends of mine in the Fortune 100 where I worked have told me that is precisely what has been happening. I guess the US Corporation have run out of profits to artificially prop up their stock prices.
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  24.  @drumpfdon760  I think you have mistaken me for someone who cares about your opinions. In future you can save yourself the effort of replying to anything I post because I will ignore anything that I see comes from you
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  25.  @bbj7383  Thanks! If I ever get over to Taiwan again (unlikely) I will make a point of visited.
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  26. Synthesizing quartz would require using silicon as one of the ingredients. However, silicon is what you want to get from quartz. If you already have the silicon in it's elemental form then that is what you want to make wafers. Having elemental silicon is the objective, and quartz is a means to the objective.
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  27. I should add to my previous reply that when someone speaks about "pure quartz" they are referring to pure silica (silicon dioxide) without any additional elements. There are many types of quartz, such as rose quartz for example. Rose quartz is just as much quartz as pure silica. In fact it is more than pure quartz because it has extra impurities.
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  28.  @drumpfdon760  why two D's? Nobody speaking English uses double D's in the word "kid" unless they mean the family name "Kidd" as in the name "Captain Kidd" who was a famous pirate. Therefore, I am left to conclude that double D's fascinate you because even your name has double D's. There actually is a name for a double D fixation, but then I am sure you know what I mean.
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  29.  @drumpfdon760  Sorry to see you have returned. I hoped to see your back as you walked away. ROTLMAO
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  30.  @drumpfdon760  Don't quit your day job.
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  31.  @drumpfdon760  so just for the entertainment value ... on what do you base calling me "an old, childish, and hypocrite kidd" ? BTW, I really do recommend fixing your spelling of "kidd" to "kid" which has only one "d" rather two. I thought they taught you guys better English in your CCP troll school.
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  32. Wow!
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  33. Another stand out video! By the way, at time 7:39, "Corruption" misspelled
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  34. Oh darn it! I am not a Tiger, I was born in the year of the Dragon.
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  35. Now I will believe anything about the health conditions of Xi and of Putin. There have been recent speculations about whether Putin has Parkinson's disease. When Putin and Xi met prior to the Olympics, Xi mentioned to Putin that he and Putin were very close in age. Putin is a few months older than Xi. As it happens I am the same age as Putin and Xi. Trust me. At my age any health problem is possible. The human body just begins to break down.
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  36. I recall that Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy countries were the European countries with the greatest number of Chinese Police Stations?
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  37. The Chinese characters for Japan are exactly the same as the Japanese Kanji for Nihon, the Japanese word for Japan. Are the Chinese characters for Japan/Nihon are purely phonetic, or do the Chinese deliberately use the same characters as the Japanese use to refer to Japan? https://youtu.be/FbMCZxxl0Iw
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  38. China makes a serious mistake thinking the Biden Administration is weak. The CCP has little regard for laws and treaties and fails to comprehend anyone respecting limitations imposed by a treaty organization such as NATO. The Biden Administration has shown great restraint by avoiding a direct confrontation with Russia while doing much to provide weapons to Ukraine. If you want to demonstrate that NATO exists purely for defensive purposes then you must avoid using the NATO treaty as a means to attack Russia without Russia having first attacked a NATO. It should make the CCP concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused the EU countries to consider having an EU military as well as causing Germany to reverse seventy years of foreign policy and now will expand it's military budget. The Biden Administration accomplished that through diplomatic means. The behavior of the CCP in the Pacific has pushed Japan to reverse the same seventy year policy against using the military in foreign engagements. The Biden Administration encouraged that as well. What the Biden Administration has done in Europe using the NATO treaty to get the European Country to rearm, and using Mutual Defense Agreements in the Pacific to increase weapons sold to Taiwan, to encourage the Japanese to expand their self defense to include any country attacking Taiwan should give the CCP pause. Attacking Taiwan before the end of the Biden Administration would provide a political gift to Biden. The US can cloth itself in self righteous indignation and even make comparisons with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A war with China would close political divisions in the US. There is another aspect to a war with China that as a US citizen it shames me to admit, racism would help fuel a war against China in a way that a war against Russia never would. The white supremacists including those in the Republican Party support Putin eventhough Russia invading Ukraine involves "white" people fighting one another. When it comes to China then all the political parties unite in hostility to China. The white-supremacists would support a war on China for reasons alone. The fact the US would have Japan, Taiwan and Korea as allies works in favor of white-supremacists thinking because it would be the US, a "white" country, leading Asian countries to counter an Asian adversary. A war between China and the US has some many ugly overtones that it makes it disgusting to imagine. However the CCP could deliberately walk into such a war because of the CCP already using Han racism as an excuse for the genocide of the Uyghurs. We could easily end up with a Third World War in which China and Russian are allied against an coalition of US, EU, Japan and ANZ (don't forget Australia, it can function as a huge air base). The CCP could cause all of that to occur if they attacked Taiwan.
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  39. What is the age breakdown on those numbers. I expect the younger the respondent then the more likely respondents doubted the US commitment.
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  40. So in Chinese, women are by definition the "better half".
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  41.  @pudding7074  Precisely my point in the historical case I cited
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