Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

  1. Right, any body parts found would be likely teeth and bone fragments. A shoulder blade if you're lucky. That's how violent the impact was.
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  2. China already owes nearly $2 trillion in debts from the Qing and Republic era before the Communist takeover. There's no reason to believe that the CPC will honor any of China's debts to anyone, foreign or domestic.
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  3. The PRC government likely won't grant that same transparency and cooperation with this incident, especially if what they already suspect as the facts would embarrass them. If it were a true accident, Boeing and NTSB representatives would have been publicly fast-tracked for entry and integration into the investigation.
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  4. We'd laugh. Seriously. Watching it would just underscore the low quality of Made in China, and why the only consumers enjoying Mainland media are the ones who can't access alternatives. Then we'd respond with a Netflix series that more accurately portrayed the battles and conditions, and probably be more sympathetic to the average PVA grunt to boot.
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  5. Efficiency and resilience are diametrically opposing tensions -- as the COVID supply shocks showed, it is very possible to be too efficient due to the lack of standby alternatives and explorations into possibly better ways of operation. America has been "on the verge of collapse" since 1812. And various Panics. The Civil War. The Anarcho-Communist insurrection, the Great Depression, and the assassination-a-month Civil Rights Movement -- the current "woke" vs MAGA battle is mild compared to what the US has survived before. What America lacks in "efficiency" it more than makes up in surprising resilience. By contrast the classically autocratic China throughout history suffers violent internal revolt just as often as it enjoys harmonious prosperity.
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  6. This is why the PRC wants the ROC to disappear: Taiwan is living proof of what Chinese people could achieve if they were more like a Western democracy and less like the Party dynasty.
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  7. Ironically Hollywood has done this before, modifying scripts to satisfy the censors of the most lucrative overseas film market at the time... Nazi Germany. Sadly Hollywood's producers and bankrollers are still a greedy conservative old white boys' club, in direct contrast to the "far left" actors actually in front of the camera.
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  8. There are not many separated houses, and they usually cater to expats and expat-biased locals (the kind who send their kids to international schools). These are in gated communities and yes they have been subject to lockdowns as well.
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  9. But also a PLA that is very inexperienced beyond small unit combat, and which hasn't really improved its kill-death ratio over the decades even against India or Vietnam. It'll be interesting how the PLA would fare in the degraded maintenance environment of a battlefield with largely new untested equipment, and how tolerant of losses China will be with irreplaceable only-sons filling the ranks.
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  10. China especially lately spends on developments where there's little demand or growth potential, and what it does build is of questionable quality. Can't exactly rely on high-speed anything when they're already having occasional collapses of viaducts and tunnels.
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  11. Problem is the Chinese authorities are practically certain to lie or omit key facts about what they find to avoid embarrassing the Party in power.
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  12. Wondering how much of that was through corporate buyouts as opposed to actually learning and developing the technology on their own
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  13. I think there was really a movement to simplify characters to improve literacy; the Republic tried and the Japanese managed to do so. But what became Taiwan abandoned this project probably out of spite for the Communists, and the illiteracy problem got simply resolved through better education overall. So now there's a divide between the Simplified Mainland and those who at least before thought "New China" was the way to go (i.e. Singapore, parts of the Malaysian Chinese communities, and most of Africa and the Middle East who recognize the One China Principle), while the rest of the Chinese-speaking world continues with Traditional.
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