Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "South China Morning Post" channel.

  1. In Asia, South Korea and India are two sides of the same coin. They both deal with extreme male aggression towards females. If you want to see an advanced nation where anti-female behaviour is normalised, look at South Korea. If you want to see a poverty-stricken nation where anti-female behaviour is normalised, look at India. Both countries have traditionally had the same mentality of male babies being better than female babies and as a result traditionally both suffered from skewed gender ratios where there are more males than females.
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  2. Nelson Mandela once said, "One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies". If the Global South wants to remain neutral, let them. They obviously have their own reasons for non-alignment.
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  3. Yeah you'd think people will show compassion during a humanitarian crisis like war but even war won't stop them from exhibiting racist behaviour.
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  4. I've noticed that in ex-colonies where they want to get rid of the colonial heritage by renaming cities, regions and other geographical markers, there is always friction and a constant "living in the past" with resentment and consequently, no progress is made. In the areas where they have accepted their history and embraced it, the people are more happy and peaceful.
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  5.  @earlysda  No, no, absolutely not. Christianity has never been a traditional aspect of Chinese culture unlike Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism (which together are known as the Three Teachings in Chinese culture). Unlike the Three Teachings, Christianity has never had any sort of major impact on Chinese culture. It is completely foreign and not connected to traditional Chinese culture. The Three Teachings have influenced Chinese culture in both a religious and secular sense. Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are also all part of Eastern philosophy and share many similarities which is why they have been syncretised with each other. Christianity is from a totally different tradition and is incompatible with the most basic of teachings of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism and thus incompatible with traditional Chinese society.
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  6.  @sportsunplugged009  It's SOUTH ASIA. The term "Indian subcontinent" is a term coined by British to describe the British Raj (British-colonised India). Indians use "Indian subcontinent" because they want to claim the whole of SOUTH ASIA (Maldives all the way up to Bhutan) belongs to India. I will keep saying this, nationalist India may become a threat to the stability in the Asian region. They cry when China encroaches into their territory but then claim the whole of SOUTH ASIA is India. The RSS already believes the whole of SOUTH ASIA + Tibet + Myanmar + Afghanistan belong to India.
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  7. It's disturbing how many Westerners (especially Americans) have no idea that South Korea was a dictatorship until the late 1980s. They criticise China and BRICS and claim they need to adopt economic and government models similar to the US but have no idea that Asia's most developed states all began as military dictatorships or under authoritarian-leaning figures. South Korea thrived economically under two dictatorships. As bad as they were, South Korea is now a high income developed nation because of the economic policies of dictators, Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan.
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  8.  @deku3i  There are women in South Korea who have vowed to not deal with men entirely. They refuse to get married, date, bear children or have intimacy with men.
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  9.  @renarouge5558  The Korean Wave created a positive image for South Korea that have masked many issues.
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  10.  @renarouge5558  Discrimination towards other Asians, anti-female aggression, religious cults (e.g. 2016 South Korean political scandal, Soldiers of Christ incident), destruction of Buddhist temples by Christian fundamentalists and so on have been issues in Korea that the world doesn't know much about.
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  11. Singapore may have reversed a downward population trend but that's not about its fertility rates of its local population. The Singaporean-Chinese and Singaporean-Indians already have fertility rates of 0.94 and 0.97 respectively (and will probably never go beyond 1.00 ever again), the Singaporean-Malays have slightly higher at 1.83 but still below replacement level. The truth is that Singapore's local population is continuing to decline
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  12.  @rd116s  It's very clear to see that you're an Indian man. Where in my comment did I blame SK and India? I didn't. I merely stated the reality of the situation.
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  13.  @yogisingh4279  I've come to the realisation that India is no different to the expansionist tendencies of China. In the end, both countries want to maintain spheres of influence in the Indo-Pacific. The idea that India is the benevolent opposite to China is wrong. We can see the beliefs of the RSS and their millions of supporters, it echoes the beliefs of 20th century Chinese leaders who spoke of "the lost territories of China". I honestly believe that when India achieves a level of development comparable to China, it will begin being more assertive. Unfortunately, there are certain countries in the Asian region adamant in creating cliques that disrupt peace in the region.
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  14.  @jayantkamble6082  Decline in South Asia??? Why do you always forget Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Himalayan India? All of those areas still practice Buddhism and they're all in South Asia.
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  15.  @SurajSingh-xo4gi  Okay and? Bangladesh is now an independent nation, it's not part of India. How is someone from India going to start saying these things whilst also getting upset when China encroaches into their territory? The irony of it all. Make it make sense.
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  16.  @Kay_R  Yes he's very big, he's popular all over the world
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  17.  @deku3i  They're called the 4B Movement.
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  18. Maldivians are NOT Indians. It's a very discriminatory thing to say that Maldivians have roots in "South India" as if their own identities do not exist. This is the problem people in other South Asian countries believe India will one day invade them and claim their nations because India believes South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar belong to "Akhand Bharat". Your comments do NOT help.
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  19.  @deku3i  In a way it's part of the reason, but not a big part for the population crisis in South Korea.
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  20. Malaysia is always complaining about something, it's never their fault, always somebody else's, isn't it? Malaysia needs to worry about the fact that the educated members of its Chinese and Indian communities are leaving in such large droves to Singapore and Australia that the country is struggling to reach high income status because of extreme brain drain. This is why Malaysian politicians are praising Australia's Malaysian-born ethnic Chinese foreign minister lamenting at the fact that Malaysia is losing its brainy people and the World Bank even issued a warning to Malaysia.
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  21. Banning the app won't make the issue go away.
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  22.  @PissMenn  It's about money, capital. The reality is that China is now the most powerful nation in Asia and so its influence has risen across the region. China has money it can offer to other countries, which is why its influence has risen in South Asia and other parts of Asia. Also, it's worth pointing out that Chinese influence in other parts of Asia outside of East Asia is not a new thing. Many parts of South Asia (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Assam, Bengal etc.), Southeast Asia and Central Asia (Tajikistan, Afghanistan etc.) were tributary states of different Chinese imperial dynasties (e.g. Ming, Qing etc.) during the ancient days. So modern Chinese influence shouldn't be viewed as abnormal, China has always been a major player in the region like India was in the ancient days.
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  23.  @alexoolau  These young Chinese people are merely connecting with an aspect of traditional Chinese culture. Don't correlate this with organised religion. Traditional religions of China (Taoism and Buddhism) are not organised religions.
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  24.  @alastair9446  The utter ignorance. Education is very cheap in Ukraine. Reminder, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe and a developing nation. People go to Ukraine because of the cheap education and many of these students are medical students. Put some respect to their names.
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  25.  @mahinegi3064  No
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  26. I expected to see the comments full of hate because it's so common online these days but I'm surprised at what I'm seeing in the comments.
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  27. For what? It'll be a failed state.
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  28. It's crazy how a full blown humanitarian crisis is going on in Myanmar with the potential for war to affect the rest of the region, refugees pouring out into India and Thailand, even some have entered China and yet the so-called powers of Asia haven't said or done anything considered worthy in trying to help solve this issue. The whole of Islamic Southeast Asia is more pre-occupied with a war happening all the way in Gaza than what's actually happening in their own region. 🙄
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  29. I have a copy of that book and don't ever remember reading that. What page is it on? I'd like to mark it for reference in the future. Edit: It's made up. I searched for it in my pdf copy and couldn't find it and of course it's made up. For those that know history and Lee's life, they'll realise why.
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  30. is what you are
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  31. Ceylon tea is real tea. Many of the internationally famous tea drinks from Asia like Thai milk tea from Thailand, teh tarik from Malaysia, Hong Kong milk tea from Hong Kong and traditional bubble tea from Taiwan are made with Ceylon tea.
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  32.  @chill-pill923  cause Thai Buddhists are respectable and caring people
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  33. 2019 was a serious turning point for Hong Kong. Since then, the SAR has been in a state of distress. I recently read an article about how Hong Kong's local Nepalese population (descendants of Gurkhas who settled in the city during the colonial days) are also leaving and moving to the UK, seems like everybody wants to leave (even the ethnic minorities). Hong Kong is in serious decline... sad.
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  34.  @yogisingh4279  It's their country, their own rules. If they want that ship to dock in their country, then so be it. Bigger countries should not be demanding smaller countries abide by their rules.
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  35.  @souloftheoldblood4122  It's 2025 and they're still partaking in this npc stuff, embarrassing
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  36. Fallen where? It has risen even further
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  37.  @sandeevbandara4401  Yeah but that doesn't mean the country has to follow what India has to say. These small Asian countries should be able to decide what they want on their own not follow what China, India or the US says. Yes India provided that but that does not mean Sri Lanka must kowtow to India and do everything it says. How are you going to survive if you're constantly following what others say, actions that benefit them not you?
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  38. This is such a big thing to point out. In Australia, there are now more educated migrants coming from India than the UK and China. So with so many educated Indians leaving India, how will India be able to develop? The educated people will leave and prevent India from developing and with their job crisis, I don't see why any reason why anybody would stay. The government and nationalists don't see this though but in due time, India will be suffering from a brain drain and it will join Malaysia (a country currently suffering from a severe brain drain and consequently struggling to reach high income status).
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  39.  @claesvanoldenphatt9972  Nestorian Christianity did not influence Theravada Buddhism. Buddhism is a lot older than Christianity. How can Christian sect influence Buddhism or other Asian religions when they've existed for a much, much longer time than Christianity?
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  40.  @sportsunplugged009  No, I'm born and raised in Australia. You just hate the fact that people who are not Pakistani are criticising India. You are here claiming the whole of South Asia + Tibet + Myanmar belongs to India, which is wrong. So keep saying that but it's not true. I know you hate this fact but many people in Australia care about the instability and threats from India. Why? We are part of the Asia-Pacific. Hugh White wrote a whole book about how we should acknowledge that India could be a future threat to us (and I agree with him) and Modern Diplomacy published articles on India's desire to swallow up large parts of Asia. Internationally people respect China more than India, despite the threats coming out of China. I see so many people say negative things about India on a regular basis across YouTube, TikTok and Twitter ranging from predatory men to scammers to colorism and racism. It has such a bad reputation. I just know when India's population exceeds China's by April, there is going to be a lot of xenophobia and racism across social media. Be ready for it. ...and you don't need to worry about Pakistan. People don't care because of how problematic it is. That country is responsible for terrorism, harbouring Osama Bin Laden while pretending to support the West in fighting terrorism, creating the Taliban, lynching people who don't believe in their religion, grooming gangs in the UK and a multitude of other negative things. I still don't know why the US is so close to that country after all the things they have done.
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  41.  @asianbreed3990  They co-existed long enough without any trouble until the Tatmadaw took power in the 1960s. The NUG is working on reintegrating everybody into Burmese society. There is a Rohingya minister in Aung San Suu Kyi's political party.
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  42. I wonder what the South Indians feel seeing how their country is always represented by the North Indian states which are growing in population indefinitely, while they belong to the most developed and progressive states of India where they have low fertility rates and aging populations. India is a country but at the same it's not. Each state has its own ethnic group, language and culture. Their states are more like countries than actual states.
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  43. Ceylon tea is of higher quality. In Australia, Dilmah was responsible for introducing Ceylon tea to Australia decades ago with iconic TV ads featuring the Australian-Malaysian singer Kamahl, a beautiful Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) lady in a sari and the iconic saying, "do try it". I have never ever seen an ad for Assam tea though (no hate to Assam tea though, I love it).
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  44.  @jayantkamble6082  Bhutan, Nepal, Himalayan India (Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Darjeeling, Kalimpong etc.) and Chittagong Hill Tracts are all part of mainland South Asia, are they not?
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  45.  @yerri5567  How is that even comparable? Stop being ridiculous.
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  46. There are also people who believe there is a gigantic man living in the sky and send missionaries to remote international locations to convert marginalised people so...
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  47.  @alastair9446  Firstly, nobody is saying these students are poor. You automatically think that all international students are rich but that's not the case. Many are not and actually have parents that work really hard for them to study. Secondly, education in Ukraine is cheap. It's not expensive like you're making it out to be. They're studying in the poorest country in Europe, a developing nation at that. Some of these students come from very competitive countries like India and China where it is really hard to pass the entrance exams to get into medical school so many end up going overseas to study and Ukraine happens to be one of these countries.
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  48. Nobody is going to give sympathy to a terrorist group (LTTE), let's be real. Only innocent Tamil civilians deserve sympathy.
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  49.  @internalworld7277  Firstly, China hasn't occupied Taiwan at this current moment. Secondly, why are you making comparisons between Sri Lanka and Taiwan? Sri Lanka is an independent nation that has never been a part of India. Taiwan is a nation whose existence is disputed by China.
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  50.  @noname-vp6vf  The person you replied to isn't even Sri Lankan and fyi, Ceylon tea is prized in East Asia. It's used to make Hong Kong milk tea, it is the traditional tea used first to make bubble tea before other black teas like Assam tea rose in popularity and Ceylon tea is used to make ready to drink tea drinks in the supermarkets in East Asian locations like Hong Kong and also used to make bubble tea ice cream that is sold in Taiwan.
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