Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "China Fact Chasers" channel.

  1. Autocracies ultimately play not to win, but to not lose -- they live in constant fear of changes they can't predict because any one of them could be political. "New China" is especially cautious as their own self-made issues (aging, debt, pollution, etc) continues to narrow the Party's options to maintain its unchallengeable rule.
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  2.  @robotface42O  Probably fake rich too, actual wealth is usually not so boastful about it 💸
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  3. The CPC endorsed through song the message for the people to rise up. They're becoming a victim of their own success.
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  4.  @katrinoy1  Reunified as the Republic of China under the democratized government currently based in Taipei, yes?
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  5. Secondhand? My upgrades are half-priced because I buy them used
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  6. That's one way of using it, but it's usually made into soaps and detergents. How much to use just depends on how big is the biotarget, whether it's the size of a virus or a fully grown animal.
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  7. That's the dilemma that basically everyone in "New China" faces: it's impossible to really get ahead without engaging in something illegal or unethical, often not enforced immediately and kept hanging over you for selective punishment at the convenience of those in power.
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  8. It's more than collecting your meme pics, where you post and what inspired you to do so is very useful information in building your dossier. Marketers do this to create targeted ads, and political groups do the same for messaging and steering your mentality in their favor. Having live updates on what you view and where you post really simplifies the process of gaining verified insight on how you think and thus ways to hijack it. Also Chinese phones dominate because they don't have to pay off the R&D that went into a new design, and thus can afford installing the same quality components at a lower price to the consumer especially with Chinese state subsidies and marketing support. It's similar to economic "dumping": using abnormally low prices (enabled by stolen tech and state-level resources) to kill competition and gain market advantage.
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  9. The Muslim World seems to be as ignorant of the PRC as much as they're overreactive to slights from the West. Probably by intention seeing how they made themselves so dependent on China now that modern transportation allows trade routes to reliably circumvent the Middle East, leaving little else to offer outside of petroleum and sometimes tourism. Might also have to do with its core dominated by autocratic kingdoms who share similar regime security interests, leading them to grab effectively slave labor from faraway corners of the world while they dump war refugees from neighboring countries into Turkey and North Africa.
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  10. Sure, trust a poll taken before the nationwide lockdowns and in a place that doesn't tolerate negative statements no matter how accurate.
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  11. I recently learned that the Independence Arch in Seoul was built to commemorate its independence _from China_, and erected to commemorate the establishment of the Korean Empire (which was the Joseon Dynasty but no longer beholden exclusively to China).
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  12. Hotter global climate allows the atmosphere to hold more moisture, creating more extreme weather events. This results in events like record snowfall followed by record snowmelt-driven flooding.
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  13. The Brits let go of all of HK thinking that Mainland China would converge towards Western free market democracy, which seeing all the progress with other anti-authoritarian movements going on in Asia seemed to be happening until 1989 proved that the Party plans to continue without challenge. The Brits made HK (and by extension Shenzhen) what it became because it was a piece of China 'with Western Characteristics', unlike the mess on the Mainland under the brittle centralized corrupt governance of the Qing, the pre-democratized Republic, and the CPC's "New China". Continued rule under the Party likely will just make HK into a mere inconvenient bedroom community of the Pearl Delta area with funny street names (mostly to maintain appearances as a "Special" Administrative Region).
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  14. Likely for power projection between the other side of the island and Guam. As long as we can bring in supplies to the east shore of Taiwan, the longer, deadlier, and more embarrassing to Beijing we can keep the inevitable Taiwanese insurgency alive when we're not directly fighting the PLA ourselves.
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  15. It may not look like it, but Africans have more genetic diversity than the rest of humanity combined. An entire "race" could be considered inbred compared to what's available within the population of Nigeria.
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  16. Wouldn't be surprised to get what you pay for when a professional walk-up test booth charges only ¥30 ($5) per test
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  17. Inflation is caused by demand outpacing supply. Demand has surged back as COVID precautions get abandoned, but the supply isn't there as low wage workers skilled out to better jobs, private shipping companies fail to share resources, Chinese factories and ports can't operate, and Russia tossing even more chaos into the supply network.
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  18.  @floydwhatchacallit6823  STEM fields in general tend to be tunnel-visioned and ignorant of other considerations that people actually care about; in college they take humanities courses often begrudgingly and usually dismiss it as a waste of time. But there's a reason STEM-minded folks tend to not do well in open competitive politics.
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  19. What often doesn't get said is that Ms. Meng was released from her luxury house arrest only after positively confirming the evidence against Huawei in the larger case of sanctions violations with Iran.
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  20. "New China" feels both inferior and arrogant towards the rest of the world. They don't Wolf Warrior about a "Century of Humiliation", "containment", and "hurting the feelings of 1-point-something billion Chinese people" just for the lulz
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  21. Even if it's just the next base over, it's much more economical to load and roll them on wheeled trailers. Plus unless they're on a mission tanks would be moving with their turrets facing backwards so the main gun doesn't accidentally punch into anything.
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  22. I feel TikTok is more psychological operations, autoplaying based on your feedback and gradually nudging you towards the interests of its masters by at least omitting videos they don't like.
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  23. Modern political demonstrations are almost always peaceful, it generally gets violent when the police themselves or pro-authoritarian saboteurs decide to escalate force.
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