Youtube comments of Twomix (@twomix1822).

  1. You can see the fear clearly registering on her face the moment the “interviewer” lady asked if she could “leave China” to compete in other countries. You will also notice she kept glancing at the side thru out the whole “interview”. I’m not a body language expert but you can clearly see she is very very nervous and someone is clearly coaching her on what to say.
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  2. I laughed out loud at the "Richard" portion.
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  3. My mother have experienced that on a cruise ship with a bunch of Chinese tourists (mostly older women and men). They would grab an entire tray worth of food from the buffet, won't finish the food and then left a huge half eaten mess on their table. It's like watching a bunch of ravenous animals feed at least the animals would finish the food.
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  4. I actually like the "laying flat" philosophy. I don't think laying flat is laziness at all. It just means to enjoy life the way you wanted. You only work as much as you want to work. You eat sleep and enjoy life the best way you can within your means. Unfortunately the CCP is now even cracking down on "laying flat". They are threatening to punish the young people who does the "laying flat" lifestyle.
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  5. I agree, learning Chinese is a good idea but in my opinion the best Chinese is to learn traditional Chinese from teachers in Taiwan. Once you learn traditional Mandarin, learning simplified Mandarin becomes a lot easier as there is a reduction of strokes instead of addition of strokes. The reduction of stroke was done to encourage literacy (learning Chinese writing can be a challenge). Personally I find the traditional form more eloquent and beautiful than the simplified version.
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  6. “We’re working 3 jobs a day to make ends meet.” Is not a sign of a very happy life.
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  7. "Evergrande wasn't just touching the Red Lines. It took them to prom and got them pregnant in the backseat of a Volkswagon Beetle" made me laugh out loud.
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  8. It’s called “Bystander Effect”. Basically for us in the west when we see someone in distress we automatically try to help that person. In China the mentality is “its not someone I know so why should I care” or “its not my business, so I don’t want to bother with it, let someone else deal with it”. It’s society wide apathy syndrome. Remember the case of Yueyue, the 2 year old girl who got hit by a car twice in a row because nobody bothered to help her out until she perished. In an interview with the driver, he basically said if she died, he would only pay 20,000 yuan in penalties, if she lived and is crippled he had to pay 100,000 yuan. It’s a heartless society devoid of compassion. And I agree, Taiwan is completely different, people actually care. Traditional Chinese values are intact in Taiwan while in China it is decimated and replace with extreme materialism.
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  9. Xi cosplaying as the biggest Chinese mass murderer Mao Zedong says everything you need to know about him.
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  10. Ted Cruz’s book should be titled “I microwave fish in the Senate lunch room.” 🤣🤣🤣
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  11. "I'm so poor in America all my Ferrari and Porsche are last year's model." 😂😂😂
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  12. It's becoming blatantly obvious she was not born in the Philippines.
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  13. Wow it’s like Xi made enemies of almost the entire Indo-Pacific. Good job Xi!
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  14. I agree. The CCP is literally a dynasty. The sons and daughters of the leaders during the founding of PRC, the so called princelings are now running China. In fact the CCP dynasty maybe ending soon (and all said and done, it's actually one of the shorter dynasties of China).
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  15. Philippines definitely has huge potential. Unfortunately it has too many entrenched monopolies that curtails competition and growth. This is why FDI rate are pretty low in the Philippines. In almost every economic sector there are 1-2 monopoly giants that completely dominate the sector. This is why the Philippines economy is hampered by the same few billionaires that owns almost everything.
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  16. The last time they did the cultural revolution over 30-60 million Chinese died from the mass murder perpetrated by the CCP and the famine and chaos that followed. I guess history is repeating itself. These are not the actions of a confident leader but one that is paranoid and incredibly fearful of losing his power and one that has made over 2 million enemies from the CCP officials he have purged since 2012.
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  17. That's exactly what the Nazi's did too. Nazi officers were encouraged to have at least 3 children. Those who met the quota were given bonuses and extra privileges while German Jews were limited at having children, those who broke the quota were punished. It is indeed incredibly expensive to raise a child in China. In 1990 the cost of rising a child from baby to 18 years old cost about $70,000 USD. Fast forward to 2020, the cost of raising a child from baby to 18 years old cost $235,000 USD.
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  18. What's worse is even if you declare bankruptcy and the banks confiscate the property and the property is sold you are still owed the initial cost of the loan. There is no debt discharge law in China unlike in the US (where the debt is fully discharged if the loan defaulted due to bankruptcy). Example: let's say if you buy a house for $1M and you paid 300K, then you became unable to pay. The bank can reposses and sell the home in an auction. Let's say the home sold for $500K + $300K principle = $200K balance. In the US, the $200K is eaten as a loss by the bank but in China, the $200K must still be repaid on top of interest and fees. In CCP China they kick you twice when you are down.
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  19. Scholz: “I don’t want to say this out loud but we need Russian oil more than we need Ukraine.”
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  20. Whoever designed that gun is utterly irresponsible.
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  21. Because Taiwan is a mirror that constantly shows what a free Chinese society could potentially be. The CCP is afraid of it's own people, afraid they would revolt one day when they got tired of the CCP's authoritarian bullshit. That is why the CCP is focusing on the economy while trying to marginalize Taiwan. The economy is pretty much the only raison d'etat of the CCP's continued existence, if they can't even deliver that then they will get toppled by 1 billion pissed off Chinese.
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  22. She is right. It is indeed neofascism.
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  23. So happy Taiwan did really really well this 2020/2021 Tokyo olympics.
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  24. The general consensus among Chinese political scholars is Xi isn’t a smart man but most people are too afraid of him to contradict or criticize him because he don’t take criticism well.
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  25. LOL "any conversation with me is classified"
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  26. Andrew Yang is 100% right... this mess isn’t going to clean itself up. It’s gonna need the efforts of every single person who cares about this country.
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  27. CCP strategy: Steal everything that isn’t nailed down and then claim it is historically theirs.
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  28. "If Bannon talks so freely about the January 6th insurrection, yet doesn't want to talk about it while under oath." Good question. "Because he is Steve Bannon." is not an appropriate reply. Bannon is guilty as hell of insurrection. 4 months prison is a slap on the wrist.
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  29. I'll be so thankful we might never hear from Trump ever again after the 2024 election. I'm exhausted after 8 years of Trump/MAGA bullshit.
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  30. It’s true Mao Zedong once said he isn’t afraid of a nuclear attack on China because he said, even if half of all the people in China die, as long as the CCP regime survives then all is well. Mao also thanked Japan for invading China during WWII, he said Japan doesn’t need to apologize because without the invasion the KMT would have won the Chinese civil war. Japan’s invasion of China severely weakened the KMT while the CCP hid in the mountains biding their time. This one was well chronicled during a meeting between Mao Zedong and Japanese ambassador in the 1970s. Why is Xi cracking down right now? Because he felt the CCP regime is losing its grip on Chinese civil social society and economy. The CCP’s survival is at stake, ironically all this crackdown in fact is weakening the CCP even further. This is what it looks like during the end of a dynasty. The ruling regime is doing everything it can in order to grab hold to power at any cost.
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  31. For those who have experienced the SMCs, yeah... cheap food huh? The downside is there is no variety to them. You eat what the government wants you to eat. Those who think this was "great" will soon realize the horrors of those "public canteens".
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  32. Thousands of western and Taiwan and Japanese businesses are indeed leaving China. The days of prosperity in China has ended. Only common poverty left.
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  33. Long live Taiwan!!! 🇹🇼 台灣萬歲!!! ❤️❤️❤️ The guy said it well.. make friends, don’t bully Taiwan.
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  34. I bet a lot are wondering, what's so bad about public canteens? They are cheap for a reason. The government basically decides what food are available on that day. Often they requisition supplies from the lowest cost suppliers. The quality is terrible and there are not a lot of varieties. Those who experience the socialized canteens for the first time will find it novel but if you are eating the same few varieties of dishes for years and years, decades after decades, then it is hell on Earth.
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  35. The CCP is the greatest threat to the free world. Time for the CCP to be dumped into the trash bin of history.
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  36. Everyone who loves democracy and freedom must stand with Taiwan against the tyranny of Beijing.
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  37. Trump out of the WH is the greatest Christmas gift to the American people.
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  38. Ironically Country Gardens Yang Huiyan (楊惠妍) just bought her EU citizenship in Cyprus in 2018. I guess that is where she will flee when the shit comes down. The wealthiest Chinese billionaires all have citizenship in other countries.
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  39. The CCP has one agenda: deflect, ignore, silence all problems and bad things happening in China then claim credit for all good things. The Three Gorges Dam is in serious trouble now... if the dam collapses it will kill 10s of millions of Chinese and displace up to 400 million people. If you studied the history of the project it was masterminded by the CCP’s Li Peng (the same Li Peng called “the butcher of Beijing” and has a hand in orchestrating the Tiananmen Massacre crackdown together with Deng Xiaoping). Li Peng’s family owns many of the electric power company that distributes/sells electricity generated by the Three Gorges Dam. This is how corruption rolls in China.
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  40. Xi is an ideologue meaning he prioritize party ideologies rather than economy. Li on the other hand is an economist, so he prioritize the economy rather than party ideologies. Frankly I would rather go with Li as you can't eat ideology. The economy is what put food on the table for 1.3 billion Chinese.
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  41. In my experience the people with the pitchforks are usually the bad guys... This is gold. 🤣🤣🤣
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  42. It's both. They can't and won't pay. Hard to pay for a future housing when you can't even afford food on the table right now.
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  43. Good to hear. Support Taiwan. Stop trading with the CCP.
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  44. One word: Eugenics. To create Chinese super soldiers that is resistant to diseases so they can use bioweapons freely. The CCP is researching future bioweapons that can only affect people of certain genome or ancestry.
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  45. Classic case of pancaking. This happens when 2 top floors were illegally added. The added weight basically causes the supporting structure to buckle causing a cascading collapse pancake effect. Just another day in China.
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  46. "Insurrection for Dummies" Hahaha that's a good one.
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  47. Basically Tangping or Quiet Quitting are phenomenon as a societal backlash to working for years or decades only to realize you will never be as wealthy or well off as your boss who owns the company no matter how hard you work. This is a failure of the capitalist system. This is why it is imperative to maintain a balance between capitalism and socialism as well as work life balance, too much of either is bad for society. This manifestation of the frustration of workers are also manifesting in the US in more dangerous ways such as the rise of Trumpism and white nationalism.
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  48. That was totally uncalled for. I hope whoever shoved that man will be brought to justice and punished by the full extent of the law. Edit: I read the two cops merely got suspended.
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  49. So basically according to Giuliani he is holding the “evidence” but he just can’t show the so called “evidence” to be scrutinized. 😂😂😂
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  50. Sell everything. Get yourself and your money out of China before it is too late.
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  51. 5 years of total COVID related immunity for corporations that's too much. Moscow Mitch is really against workers.
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  52. I think America has an awakening. If we do not value democracy, if we do not vote then there is a chance we can lose our most valuable of freedoms. As Bernie Sanders have said "Democracy is not a spectator sports." and he is right.
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  53.  @slomo4672  actually the CCP can impose things on them such as sending those who lay flat too often to re-education camps like they do the Uyghurs there are lot of heinous despicable things the CCP can do.
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  54. "Whether you like it or not" is what rapists usually says.
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  55. Sunac China is Evergrande #2. All of them have the same unsustainable business practices.
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  56. People are merely treated as cogs of the state. No human rights, no stable jobs, no stable income, no welfare, no insurance, no labor unions. No wonder “laying flat” phenomenon is happening.
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  57. Trump campaign translation: "If we're not ahead in the polls then it's fake news!"
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  58. Why did the Sino-Indian border clashes erupted after 50 years of peace ? The answer is the CCP is now controlled by warmongering psychopaths with "little emperor syndrome" who seems intent on making enemies of the entire world. Now China is truly surrounded by potential enemies -- on the west (India), on the east (Taiwan / US allied nations), on the South (Vietnam/Australia), and from the north (Russia). From what I am hearing/reading the Sino-Russo relationship isn't so hot lately either. The CCP under Xi Jinping has essentially squandered the good will the Chinese people have built up for over half a century.
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  59. I'm impressed by the professor as he is 100% correct. I agree with him 100%. We are currently living in a very foolish wasteful generation with very foolish "world leaders". We can only pray our descendants will forgive us as we leave them a legacy of ruin.
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  60. Excellent report. They will soon realize the folly of CCP trying to control nature or Heaven.
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  61. Elon Musk needs to be investigated and thrown in jail for his lawlessness.
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  62. Time to bring back the antitrust hearings. A monopoly is never good.
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  63. What’s even more disgusting is he is now using his daughter as an excuse for going to Cancun on vacation while Texans suffers and die. Way to go throwing his own daughter under the bus. Ted Cruz is even more disgusting than I thought possible.
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  64. Yes, China has no personal bankruptcy protection laws. For example: if you buy a new home in China for 1 million RMB, adding all the regulatory fees and interests you have to pay would add up to about $1.15 million. Let's say you paid 50% (500K RMB) before defaulting on your mortgage. The house is repossessed by the bank and then sold off in an auction. Usually the auction price is very low around 100,000 RMB. Let's say the house was then auction sold for 200,000 RMB. The original owner still owes the bank 650,000 RMB minus 200,000 RMB. In the end he still owes the bank 450,000 RMB and no home. That's how CCP China system works. It's messed up. Why are auction prices very low in China? Because Chinese people do not like to buy 2nd hand homes. They always try to buy brand new homes. A 2nd hand foreclosed home is considered bad luck (because it is believed the house absorbs the person's luck or unluckiness). Many Chinese would be reluctant to buy a home where the previous owner has foreclosed. What is why many Chinese would rather give away their houses than deal with the bank or go thru the process of foreclosure. At least if they gave away the house, they no longer have to deal with the banks or pay their remaining debt obligations (it would be the new owner's problem).
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  65. I agree Tedros must go.
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  66. Personally I have a very positive impression of Japan. I’ve been to Japan. Great country to visit. I have many friends who lives in Japan.
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  67. You are right, especially in rural China the male offsprings are prioritized above all while girls are treated as a nuisance and an extra mouth to feed even if the women are the ones making the money. It's Chinese culture to respect and support the parents no matter how shitty and irresponsible the parents are. This is the duty and obligation of Chinese culture although nowadays, the reverse is now happening.
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  68. It's basically Chengguan for the rural villages to make the rural people's lives miserable.
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  69. Point is don't invest in China, invest elsewhere in ASEAN or in Taiwan.
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  70. I saw the video the man was yelling “He does not agree with Xi Jinping having a third term”. Later while arrested he yelled “If China’s reform and opening up is reversed then China is doomed.”
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  71. End game communism.
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  72. Because Indonesia is an upcoming economic powerhouse.
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  73. Yes… traditional Chinese culture is still maintained in Taiwan while in China most of these traditional culture and morals got gutted by the CCP regime. The CCP basically wants to eradicate traditional Chinese culture they perceived as “weak”.
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  74. A shame. As a fledging democracy I think Ukraine should be supported not spurned.
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  75. Very informative as usual Lei. I was a huge fan of Hu Yaobang's reform. Unfortunately, as history have played out the "bad guys" (like Jiang Jemin/Li Peng) won, and the "good guys" reformist (like Zhu Rongji/Zhao Ziyang) lost and China turned into the state that it is today -- economically advanced but politically stunted and backwards. The fight between the major factions continues on today even in 2021.
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  76.  @rogerburn5132  whenever you say American puppets you lose all credibility. Are you a Putin puppet then? Are you denying the ability of Ukrainians to decide for themselves what they want?
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  77. China isn't the enemy. The enemy is the Communist party of the PRC. The authoritarian regime is the enemy not the citizens of China who are very much a victim of the regime too.
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  78. According to an ex-STRATFOR geopolitical analyst I have been listening in on podcast ... China will cease to exist as a sovereign state as it is in about 10 years. Just 5 years ago the analysis was the chance of China invading Taiwan is about less than 5%, today the prediction has risen to 30% so yeah... war between Taiwan/US allies and China maybe inevitable in the very near future. 30% chance of war in the Taiwan strait is pretty dire. The political calculus has drastically changed, the thinking then was "time is on our side, we will take Taiwan without firing a shot by 2050". Nowadays the political calculus is "if we don't take Taiwan now we might not have the financial and manpower to do so by 2050".
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  79. Someone who believes himself to always be the smartest man in the room that he sets himself up for failure... hmm ....sounds like Trump and Putin...no wonder they are both buddies.
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  80. This video makes me want to chant “Vote him out” too.
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  81. Giuliani to the press: This is election fraud. But I don't really want to show the evidence. Giuliani to the courts: This isn't even about election fraud.
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  82. Someone doesn't want evidence inside the apartment to be found or investigated.
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  83.  @gerianmasagnay9106  One thing you have to know is the CCP doesn’t need a valid reason to punish someone. It’s a totalitarian regime that sees its people are mere cogs aka slaves of the state. And just like a cruel slave master, it cannot stand to see its slaves idling doing nothing.
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  84. This is just a small snapshot of what is broken in Chinese society. It is a broken society of greed and materialism because of decades of suppression by the CCP and is in dire need of reform. This is why China needs the rule of law. The rich, powerful and wealthy should no longer be allowed to step on the backs of the working class.
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  85. Very interesting. I agree. The CCP seeks to confront the US in the SCS not in the Taiwan strait. The CCP is essentially blocked in the strait and cannot easily maneuver but they can in the SCS. So if the CCP went to war with the US, countries like Vietnam, Philippines and Australia could get involved.
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  86. China is finished. Li Keqiang is actually one of the better ones. Yes he is still a CCP official. I'm sure he has a few skeletons in his closet but in terms of decency and honesty. I would say I actually liked Li's policies. He is one of the CCP "moderates". He is actually the one that tried to reform China's economy to be more market oriented and more fair playing field for all. I'm kinda sad he will be retiring next year (his term as premiere is up March 2023). That means there's one fewer decent guys that is in Xi's orbit surrounded by mostly hawkish ultranationalists and warmonger yes-men (the worst combinations). And I agree Li Keqiang is considered more of an ideological ally of Hu Jintao than Xi. Li actually has a PhD in economics so he actually knows what he is talking about and is a pragmatist while Xi is more like an ideologue trained in Marxism and Maoism. I would say this does not bode well for China.
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  87. Wow...this is so funny and so sad at the same time. It’s like extreme keeping up with the Jones. This is the effect of extreme income inequality in China and a broken political system and totalitarian dictatorship government. People resort to extreme measures just to get ahead in life.
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  88. The CCP do not dare attack right now because if they do, they will face a global embargo. This will kill any sort of hope they have in reviving China’s businesses and industries. Things aren’t going well within China right now — massive flooding, COVID, coal shortage, electricity shortage, food shortage, collapsing real estate industry, slowing export, slowing domestic consumption, laying flat, infighting within the CCP itself, massive income inequality, growing economic stagflation, etc. Adding war to the equation would collapse the CCP.
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  89. Income inequality creates political instability. Oligarchy and corporate greed can destroy this great country.
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  90. If the CCP collapses it would actually be good for China. A new start for a more sensible government and society.
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  91. CCP cadre get so much money while normal citizens gets zilch no wonder why so many elderly peasants in China live in abject poverty.
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  92. Even Japan who has a pacifist constitution now wants to rebuild their army due to threat by the CCP.
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  93. Ironically the people hurting the most from this pandemic aren’t the rich liberal state like California but rather poor rural red state who needed the stimulus money the most and Trump just gave them all a middle finger.
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  94. Pro-Beijing HK politicians: COVID cases rising… help? CCP: You are insufficiently loyal to the regime!
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  95. I got addicted to Swedish meatballs from Ikea. They are so evilly delicious. 🤤🤤🤤
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  96. Brave souls.
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  97. I love Jordan Klepper.🤣🤣🤣 "I mean it's not even his, he stole it from another guy before him." 🤣🤣🤣
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  98. Did you spot the video of Carrie Lam walking side by side with Xi as "equals" (she was shaking hands with the other dignitaries together with Xi) until she was dragged to the side by Xi's security forces as they approach the cameras and the stage.
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  99. It's not capitalism that failed. It's the lack of transparency and oversight. They hid their bad debts thru shadow banking. Also $300B isn't even accounting in the shadow banking debts.
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  100. Trump is basically encouraging his supporters to commit domestic terrorism against his fellow Americans.
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  101. Frankly the black lady is right in recording the incident in order to defend herself. The Karen called the police on the black woman and lied about being attacked. The police wouldn't believe the black woman if she had no proof. Recording a video for any altercation is the right thing to do nowadays especially when dealing with a privileged Karen that would lie and drama queen herself.
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  102. Imagine that tear gassing and driving the reverend in charge of the Church away just so orange cheetos can get his photo op front of the church. This is beyond disgusting.
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  103. This is why Taiwan needs to massively diversify it's manufacturing and markets to the rest of the world.
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  104.  @Shaolinof36thChamber  that’s where bitcoin comes in…that’s how all the Chinese oligarchs funnel their money out.
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  105.  @vijaykumarnadaraja531  i said support Ukraine not fight Russia. Ukraine is not a NATO member. However, that's not the point. A unified NATO condemnation would make even Putin think twice about doing whatever he wanted.
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  106. Very good analysis and very enlightening.
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  107. One Belt One Road is an utter failure. It’s a massive wasted Chinese citizens money at the same time impose debt trap slavery on the host country. This failure is utterly on Xi Jin Ping’s head.
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  108. So basically if BBM becomes president say goodbye to the billions in estate tax that could be potentially be collected. The Filipino people loses out again.
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  109. Tucker Carlson: “Democracy… bad… Autocratic dictatorship… good…” The far right wing #GOP is too far gone.
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  110. Watching your reports is like watching another episode of “How China’s economy went from hero to zero”.
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  111. So basically Biden won't do jack. At this point why bother even having a president in the first place ?
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  112. To put into context Delta variant had less than 10 mutations and 2 protein spikes, Omicron variant had 50 mutations and over 30 protein spikes. Protein spikes is how the virus penetrates a healthy cell. In RPG terms, Delta would be level 10 Dungeon boss, Omicron would be a level 50 Raid boss. According to preliminary reports this virus variant became dominant in a matter of days or weeks instead of the normal months it took for other variants.
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  113. Imagine China losing 30% of its GDP when the housing bubble burst. The level of housing speculation in China is insane.
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  114.  @ajaykumarsingh702  Actually a lot of countries have nukes — North Korea has nukes, even Pakistan but you don’t see them ruling the world. If China (or the US) nukes someone nilly willy they would lose all legitimacy plus they risk nuclear retaliation by other global nuclear powers. A more painful retaliation is economic sanction — nobody would be willing to do business with China if they fire off nukes nilly willy. China severely lacks resources on their own. They need to import close to 7% of their food due to extreme pollution and contamination of arable land. While 7% sounds tiny it’s actually a huge chunk in food deficit (most countries prioritize food sufficiency). If that ability to import food is cut off 7% of the population would starve — that means 98 million people would go hungry. 98 million angry and hungry people would destabilize the regime. China would become a hermit country just like North Korea. So no having nukes does not guarantee success in any war. Actually nukes more of a mutual destructive weapon — “I am losing so I want to kill as many people as possible, screw the ramification.”
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  115.  @billysoh1745  LOL Indonesia arming up against the US by buying US made weapons.. 🤣🤣🤣 Xi has made enemies of everyone. The reckoning is here soon and the CCP will be no more. It will be a great day for China when the CCP finally collapses.
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  116. The GOP gave $2.7 trillion to their rich friends in 2017. Everyone let’s not forget that.
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  117. Despite the regime calling them terrorists, it’s the people of Kazakhstan protesting the autocratic regime. Despite being a gas and oil exporter the Kazakhs are very poor because most of the wealth are hoarded by the regime elites. Kazakhstan’s biggest companies are owned by the sons and daughters and associates of Nazarbayev/Tokayev. This social and civil unrest is caused by massive income inequality and autocracy and the Kazakhs had enough of it.
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  118. It's going to get worse because Ukraine is heading towards wet winter season. It's gonna be cold muddy and miserable.
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  119. ​ @NZeiram in the Philippines there is something called pre-selling. You pay for 20% of the cost of the home as an initial deposit. The 80% balance isn't due until the finished home is turned over to the buyer. In return you get a special pre-selling price which is a deep discount. That is totally unlike China where you need to start paying for a mortgage loan before the house was even built. Also in the Philippines, you are not legally obligated to buy the house you deposited on. Example: if you see a house or condo for say 3M, you pay a presell fee of around 600K. If you decide you no longer want or are incapable of buying the house or condo you can simply walk away although you could lose your initial deposit.
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  120. Many Americans feel hopeless and desperate during this time of pandemic crisis. I must say Biden is delivering just what the American people need right now which is hope.
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  121. What is happening in HK is basically the CCP can charge crimes that carry long sentences on anyone they don't like. This is tyranny. This corruption of the rule of law. HK used to have independent judiciary and political system but now it's all destroyed by Xi Jinping.
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  122. I know right... i love how Trump inadvertently owns himself ... everything that is happening... the protest chaos, the coronavirus pandemic failures, the social unrest, police brutality and violence, etc. are all happening under Trump’s and the GOP’s watch.
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  123. Time to sue Elon Musk and DOGE. Make Musk personally accountable. Make him pay.
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  124. I like Magnus’ analysis basically he is saying “the current CCP regime goes or the Chinese economy goes”.
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  125. LENI will win.
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  126. The fact that "China will grow old before it grows rich" is becoming true after all.
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  127. This is huge. First time Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia got invited to a meeting for NATO. They will be critical in keeping an increasingly aggressive and belligerent PRC in check.
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  128. Xi overplayed his hand. He is now faced with both internal and external enemies. I predict Xi will indeed start something soon in order to deflect attention. If Xi arrested Jiang Zemin, I predict there will be a massive internal political war within China one that could potentially spill out into the streets.
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  129. Trump’s idea of a “great job” = 9,000+ dead Americans from CoVid19, 300,000+ infected, country running out of medical supplies, 10 million unemployed. I can’t imagine what he considers a poor job.
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  130. Going off script during campaigning is very risky (that's why all politicians hire a professional political script writer and most stick to their script) because saying just one wrong thing could cripple and doom their campaign especially in a very close contested campaign.
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  131. Thank you. Keep exposing the hypocrisy and dysfunction of the CCP.
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  132.  @arthritis2718  The idea of authoritarianism is this : the people surrender all powers and all rights to the ruling class. If the ruling elites do a good job of making the economy great then the people are happy. If they do a piss poor job then the people revolt -- often violently (as seen in HK these days). It's a system of all or nothing. That is why the CCP will do anything to hold on to that power even at the cost of abusing and violently suppressing its own people. Democracy on the other hand is the opposite. If the ruling class does a bad job then they are peacefully removed from power. Is it a better system ? It's depends on how you view things. Authoritarianism is a system that does not naturally promote stability but rather enforce stability thru the threat of force. Democracy on the other hand might not be an efficient system but it promotes a peaceful transition of power as decided by the people (aka society in general) and this promotes stability naturally.
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  133. Migrant workers trapped in Shanghai are already protesting and rioting why they were denied food assistance from the Shanghai government. There are now severe discrimination between Shanghai residents and other Chinese from other parts of China. Chinese society cohesion is fracturing by the seams. In one leaked conversation with a health worker, basically the CCP higher ups no longer know what to do that is why they keep doubling down on zero covid policy. Many in the lower ranks are too afraid to voice dissenting opinions plus nobody seems to want to listen.
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  134. It’s about time the working class gets a real tax relief and the rich people starts paying their fair share of taxes to society.
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  135. Li Peng pushed for the project and now his family controls the power generation from the dam reaping billions in profits. Chinese engineers and geologists actually warned against building the dam because it disrupts the soil subsidence of the land near the dam causing frequent and deadly landslides. Unfortunately those who criticize the project were imprisoned.
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  136. Nope only in China where you need to fully pay for something you haven't even seen.
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  137.  @jimhing  Do you hate China and the Chinese people ? I don't. But I hate the CCP --- especially Xi's regime.
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  138. They aren't building houses that people can live in. Most of those empty concrete structures are unlivable. They are just that -- huge empty concrete structures, utterly worthless. There's entire cities full of them.
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  139. The Omicon variant should really be called the Xi variant.
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  140.  @gerianmasagnay9106  they aren't crazy. For them people are merely cogs of the state. If they don't work then they have no reason to be alive. That's what "meritocracy" with CCP characteristics really mean. If they don't work or benefit the society in anyway they might as well be good as dead. For those in the west, this may sound barbaric but with China’s large population of people, human lives aren’t worth much.
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  141. Canada, NZ, UK and Australia has announced full diplomatic boycott in addition to US. Just waiting for Japan, France, Germany, EU, etc.
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  142. The only way to help the Chinese people is to help them get rid of the CCP autocratic regime.
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  143. Here comes the stock dump.
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  144. Unfortunately only the poor Chinese citizens will starve. Those who are rich and the CCP ruling elites won’t and they won’t give a shit. At worse they will simply emigrate to the US or to Canada or Europe or Australia with their money.
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  145.  @luqmanbello2343  that is just CCP propaganda. Only tier 1 cities are improving. People that live on tier 2-3-4 cities where 85% of people live says they felt poorer and even more over worked. Even Premier Li Keqiang says 600M people still live in poverty under 1000 RMB per month. You can't even pay rent with 1000 RMB. So wake up and stop believing in CCP lies. Income inequality in China and debt fueled economy are reaching catastrophic levels.
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  146. Nope. The days of globalization is finished. Everyone is now anti-globalization anti-multinational corporation. The global economy could splinter into trade blocs as like minded countries and their allies only trade with each other.
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  147. “Can’t f****ing believe what I do for money.” 😂😂😂
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  148. Short answer: No Long answer: No. Move your money else where like say Vietnam, Thailand, or the Philippines. Invest in China at your own risk. All the big investors are saying yes until the CCP decided to REPO their capital.
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  149.  @fredyyfredfreddy  I pray too for that day to come.
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  150. The CCP government only care about profits and what makes them look good. They don’t care about safety or stability of the construction at all.
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  151. The CCP now resorting to kidnapping/hostage taking of international businessmen by exit blocking them.
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  152. The CCP basically took 2000 years of traditional Chinese culture and values and turned it into Marxist shit-mix with CCP characteristics.
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  153. Just look at the median wage between the US and China. US median wage: $52,000 per year as of 2020. China median wage: $15,000 per year as of 2020.
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  154. Instead of cracking a joke, this is entirely unacceptable. This is what happens in a totalitarian regime when people are not able to complain until things got so bad. I have said before, the CCP has mismanaged the Yellow River and Yangtze river. These are the main artery of the dragon of China. The benevolent water dragon is in agony due to the pollution and water mismanagement. Without water, then there is no life. The CCP is courting their demise and dragging the Chinese people along with them.
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  155. 26+ million are now unemployed (+4M from last week), 45,000+ people are now dead from the CoVID-19. People are angry and desperate. Congress, senate and the WH must do more to rescue the common people not the billionaires and not the big corporations.
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  156.  starco  Taiwan is a country.
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  157. Ironically, Trump doesn’t really care for his supporters, he only sees them are money sacks to be milked and discarded.
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  158. Of course. Trump is a conman. A conman will never pay their bills if they think they can get away with it. Of course whenever he has a rally the local taxpayers gets left with holding the bag. Remember: Flush the turd on November 3rd. #vote
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  159. I pray everyday 翠 happens soon !!!
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  160. It's called a new homeowner's excitement. They are so excited at owning their own first homes they are blindsided by the small prints. Also new couples tend to over estimate their income potential. Also note their incomes were unexpectedly reduced due to COVID also unforeseen expenses like pregnancies.
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  161.  @senaaaa  How much does the CCP love the Chinese people ? 30-70 million starved to death during 1959-1962 should give you an answer. Ironically the CCP propaganda machine is now trying to portray Emperor dictator Xi as “father” of the Chinese nation or some bullshit like that. Sorry, only a dictatorial tyrant requires constant government propaganda to remind people that their Fuhrer loves them.
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  162. Xi's regime is losing face left right and center. So funny. So much for China's "wolf warrior" diplomacy. It's looking more and more like "scaredy cat" diplomacy. The free and democratic world has woken up to Xi's lies and aggression.
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  163. Interviewer: "But thousands of Americans are dying everyday." Trump: "They're dying, it's true but it is what it is." <-- said by someone who would not take an ounce of responsibility as president.
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  164. It needs another 8 nation alliance against the CCP. Just waiting for Canada, UK, Germany and France to wake up and stop sucking on the teets of the CCP.
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  165. Andrew Yang is exactly right. The Democrats are horrible in their messaging. They need to embrace progressive policies. They should never be afraid of saying we’ll make sure you working class have a better life and a stable job. The democrats are too timid and they are too afraid to offend their rich donors. People now wants populism because of the rampant income inequalities.
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  166. EU - India - US - Taiwan - Japan - Australia free trade.
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  167. Super delegates are the most incredibly ridiculously undemocratic part of the Democratic Party.
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  168. EVs have incredibly low resell value. An EV would lose 20-35% of its value on first resale even if it is only a few years old compared to 5-8% in ICE vehicles.
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  169. America needs serious rebuilding with progressive policies.
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  170. PRC is heading towards the same as 1990 Japan -- utter economic stagnation for the next decade or two.
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  171. Now I understand why so many people hated George Soros.
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  172. Nobody loves their insurance company.
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  173. This is the real China that I love to see, not the shiny sparkly ostentatious buildings. Thank you for showing us the real China. I love the Fujian Tu Low (福建土樓) and the Si He Yuan (四合院) as they exemplify the real soul and culture of Chinese architecture.
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  174. From 1990 - 2012 China did liberalize. Since 2013 till now it has regressed to Mao Zedong era policies.
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  175. Xi is the problem. He is driving up sino-fascism rhetoric.
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  176. - eat popcorn and watches as two bad guys turn on each other-
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  177.  @fredyyfredfreddy  Too late! I'm addicted :P
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  178. I was doing research after watching this. Almost none of the US mainstream media reported on this. Makes me wonder why. So basically Huang Ou is used as a sacrificial goat to cover up the massive kleptocracy of the CCP. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
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  179.  @rogerburn5132  Burisma is a false conspiracy theory orchestrated by Trump and pro-Russia disinformation groups that has been circulating around since 2014.
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  180.  @rogerburn5132  Again... Read very careful. It has been debunk multiple times. I know Burisma is a real company. But the conspiracy has been debunked. It's a lie.
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  181. It usually takes the life savings of 3 families (both parents of the bride and groom and the life savings of the couple) to buy a home.
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  182. Yep, 500,000 less Americans gets to celebrate their birthday this year because of the inaction and irresponsibility of one man — DJT. No president in US history ever said “It is, what it is.” during a national crisis.
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  183. Biden is basically dealing with the consequences of 4 years of Trump mismanagement. COVID got so bad because Trump and his nutters keep peddling those COVID lies.
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  184. Trump doesn’t care. It could be 1 million dead Americans from the coronavirus and he would still be golfing at taxpayers expense.
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  185. All across the board.
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  186. This video is a very good example of why the CCP state capitalism system will eventually fail.
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  187. Hahaha awesome. I should do the same and sing at the top of my lungs at them. 😂😂😂
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  188. War is coming like it or not.
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  189. Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk and his supporters like nothing more than start and instigate a culture and race war in the US.
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  190. It’s all due to decades of CCP mismanagement and corruption. It’s an opaque system where the state ultimately controls everything irregardless of the wants and needs of it citizens. It is a top down system so this creates rampant corruption. And since people cannot freely elect their officials often society cannot enact positive systemic change if the top does not allow it.
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  191. Some Wall Street firms are basically playing Russian roulette with US investor money in China. Never believe what the CCP says, always watch what they do.
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  192. Those 2 minutes actually packs in a lot of information. It tells us that Trump is a sociopathic narcissist that wouldn’t be caught dead associating with the types of people he claims to champion. In Trump’s eyes his “supporters” are nothing but tools to be used to fluff his own ego. His constant need to be complimented and to be affirmed tells us he has deep seated anxiety instead someone who is confident.
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  193. The CCP China is just like Nazi Germany. China can be redeemed as a good country once they get rid of the CCP.
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  194.  @senaaaa  the only way to "stabilize" China is to split it up into 8-10 countries. Most Chinese hate each other more than they hate even the Americans.
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  195. I remember this scam in the newspaper. It mainly targets other Chinese nationals living in the Philippines and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. This is operated by a well organized gang from China. Most of its victims are Chinese nationals because they know these are the ones that are well to do and have money. They operate in the Philippines because law enforcement is very lax in the Philippines and often these types of “relationship/confidence scam” goes unpunished especially if the money is being laundered outside the country.
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  196.  @billysoh1745  What is funny is China’s economy is now collapsing. Everyone is fleeing China like a sinking ship thanks to Xi Jinping policies. China could have been great but it only takes one bad emperor to destroy the entire economy. So many Chinese real estate developers going bankrupt. Real estate is 30% of China’s GDP. To be honest, the entire Chinese economy is one massive CCP orchestrated Ponzi scheme but that Ponzi scheme is now collapsing.
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  197. Merry Christmas and happy hollidays Lei! Because economic reform requires political reform. It goes hand in hand. Reforming one while the other is stuck in the 1950s is useless. The CCP mentality is still stuck in 1950s mentality of control and stability at all cost, except the more they prioritize stability the more unrest and instability their policies create (ironic I know).
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  198. Andrew Yang would make a great department of technology head. What we need is a responsible tech industry not profit at all cost tech industry.
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  199.  @Dodsodalo  I guess it would be kinda like someone who is drowning, they would mindlessly grab anything nearby just to try to keep from drowning.
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  200. Yes communism originated from Germany then to Russia then adopted by the CCP. Communism was never a Chinese ideology. Nowadays the CCP has moved on from communism into fascism.
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  201. Alex Jones being bankrupt and in jail will be great for American democracy.
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  202. Thank you for revealing this. This means tofu construction isn't only limited to buildings but to military equipment too. Make sense, many tofu buildings that are collapsing now are built within the past 3-10 years and it is certainly possible so are the military equipment. Sadly some people in Taiwan have no qualms about selling Taiwan out to the CCP in exchange for business and money. For those who are aware of politics in Taiwan knows who they are. They are the pro-unification stooges.
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  203. Very informative as usual Lei!
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  204.  @李荣-n7s  When you say “political dynasty” it isn’t just transfer of power from father to son (that would be monarchy) but rather political power is invested upon a small circle of elite politically connected families. For example: Xi Jinping’s father is already a well connected CCP official in the 1950s although they have fallen in and out of favor with the ruling power of that time which is Mao Zedong. Almost all of the CCP high ranking members have parents that are part of the CCP bureaucracy. So they are groomed to take over their parent’s position when they grow up. It’s very rare to have a complete upstart come up from the bottom echelon. Just like warlords clans from ancient China, it is still the same. Although CCP is one party, it is comprise of different factions (or ruling families and factions each with their own interests). In a way China’s current politics still somewhat resemble the situation of the Three Kingdoms with various provinces having loyalty to one faction of “CCP warlord”. This is why they are called “princelings” in a way they are CCP bureaucratic prince.
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  205. Flynn needs to go to prison for a very very long time. When the military is overseeing a national election it's no longer a democracy but a military junta. Flynn and Trump literally wants a US military take over of the US government under Trump. It's a military coup d'etat the likes we see in third world countries. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus literally suspends the bill of rights, civilian governments and courts and the US constitution. Basically military police can arbitrarily arrest you or shoot you dead. It's the type of thing you see in movies portraying fascist totalitarian governments or like in North Korea.
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  206. Collapse of the CCP dynasty coming soon.
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  207. If there really is justice then Heaven would destroy the CCP. In any case, I love how the tigers and the lions are ripping each other's throats out. *eat popcorn*
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  208. Thanks again for the update Lei. I have been following the great factional war of the CCP with interest and you are one of the great sources of analytical information from an otherwise opaque system that the western media have no way of scrutinizing.
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  209. The CCP system is obedience, stability and power at all cost. Human lives mean nothing to them.
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  210.  @burhan3366  lol there are a lot more democratic countries than just US and UK and they are doing fine. Canada is democratic. Japan is democratic. Taiwan, Switzerland, Poland, Denmark, New Zealand, etc. 164 countries are democracies. If your view of democracies are limited to US and UK then you know nothing.
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  211. "Let's expose ourselves and our loved ones to a deadly disease that could potentially kill and medically bankrupt us just so we can "own the Libs" and show how awesome we are." Trump supporters in a nutshell.
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  212. Looks like the CCP dynasty is about to end.
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  213. Tiktok should be banned.
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  214. Of course they blame the local government officials. All tragedy caused by the higher ups are blamed on the local government officials. The reality is in other provinces they are suffering too but you don't see the kind of mass angry reaction from Shanghai. Some has estimated the deaths from the lockdown maybe be around 100,000s+ compared to the relatively few deaths from COVID.
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  215. Yep still under 5000 COVID deaths but 10s of millions of untold “Zero COVID policy” related deaths. There are videos circulating on Twitter of a Da Bai telling a Chinese citizen if you can’t afford the cost of the mandatory COVID testing then you’ll be forever stuck in your home. That is the real China. While the cost of the COVID tests are relatively low it is a huge burden to Chinese citizens who have no income (due to being laid off , etc.) and they have to do it multiple times per week.
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  216. Xi now starting Culture Devolution 2.0
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  217.  @John-us9rm  LOL you will see soon enough once all the defaults starts piling up around 2022. They say Evergrande has $300 billion in debt but that is just one company. There are hundreds of deeply indebted Chinese companies that are basically backed by commercial papers instead of actual collateral. The real Chinese debt would amount to about $27 trillion dollars in hidden domestic debt while foreign debt is $3 trillion. China is up to their eyeballs in debt many of them are off the books commercial paper debts.
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  218. They are estimating China's real estate industry had something like $8-9 trillion dollars in hidden debt.
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  219. The simplest answer is … most Chinese can tolerate the lack of human rights as long as they are making money and living a modestly comfortable life. The revolt will only happen if the money dries up and starvation hits the majority of the population.
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  220. Lol not allowed to lower prices for property sales but allowed the state to purchase property for cheap. This is what they called “harvesting the leek”.
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  221. Basically the problem is corruption in Ukraine but he cannot name one instance of corruption right now. 😂😂😂 The corruption isn’t in Ukraine but much much closer to home like right inside the oval office.
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  222.  @gracefulcat68  You are right. There is no land ownership in China. Technically all land belongs to the state (under communist system). However since the 1990s China has embraced capitalism they sort of relaxed the rules a bit. They can't change the constitution but they allow long term lease instead --- the lease terms are 50 years (commercial) and 70 years (residential). However that does not mean a Chinese person cannot own property. They can own the building and structures (they can collect rent, ban trespassers, erect fences, erect structures, etc.) aka profit from the use of the land they have leased. However there is an addendum, any resources (water, oil, minerals, gold, etc.) found on the land belongs to the state. After the lease lapses the leaser can then reapply for a new lease or extension and the state can renew it or deny it after they pay a new set of fees. It does mean their offspring cannot automatically inherit the land however their offspring can apply to extend the lease as the new leaser. Their offspring can definitely inherit any structure or buildings the original leaser has erected. The system does have some serious caveat. If the state needs your land, they can take it with or without fair compensation. More often than not the government can simply just take your land and you have little to no recourse. It's similar to the "eminent domain" law in the US. However unlike "eminent domain" where the land owner can challenge the order in court. The Chinese people often have little to no recourse. The government will simply order the leaser to vacate and the bulldozers will come tear down everything. There are instances of bulldozer demolishing structures with people still inside it.
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  223. I’m so glad law enforcement is still working and they arrested that nut job. You may dislike a politician and criticize them but to actually try and threaten to kill people is a no no. That guy should go to jail.
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  224. The Lincoln project are composed of center-right conservative republicans.
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  225. Emperor Xi's vision for China: Wholesale harvesting of the leeks. 🤣🤣🤣
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  226.  @youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263  I agree. Hokkien and Cantonese are the “true heritage language” of China. Mandarin is just a language imposed by the Manchu conquerers during the Qing Dynasty. Sadly Hokkien and Cantonese speakers are shrinking and would become an extinct language if nothing is done.
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  227. When the local CCP government are the gangsters.
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  228.  @RH-mk3rp  I tried to link it but apparently YouTube isn’t allowing outside links to Twitter. It’s not that hard to find. Just search for Carrie Lam and Xi.
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  229. The American people needs the stimulus. Going into Christmas/Winter season without a penny in their pockets would devastating for many low income and poor families.
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  230. Wayne Goh 😂😂😂 how much in $0.50 cents have you made today?
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  231. I feel sad many Chinese workers will get screwed if Evergrande collapses. This is excessive speculation. This is damn if you do damn if you don't situation.
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  232. The Chinese people are not the enemy only the CCP.
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  233. The corporate democrats and Trumpers cannot find any fault in Bernie Sander’s policies so they focus on attacking Bernie’s supporters. They asking for civility in discourse yet they dish out the most racist disgusting attacks on Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Bernie has tens of millions of supporters sure there are a few bad apple but it is never Bernie’s fault.
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  234. Very informative topic as usual Lei.
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  235. This is how broken the US "electoral college" system is. Basically the president is decided by the will of a few key states instead of the will of the majority. How is this a democracy ?
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  236. Winning the election with only one candidate. 🤣🤣🤣
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  237. Emperor Xi don't love you.
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  238.  @luqmanbello2343  you have access to the internet … it isn’t hard to do your own research. The CCP are the biggest liars on the planet. It is the Chinese people who pulled themselves out of poverty thru hard work, the CCP as usually take credit for it. Just like during WW2 when they take credit for defense of China from Japanese invasion when it is in fact the KMT/ROC soldiers who defend China while the CCP/PLA soldiers hide in the mountains. The CCP are parasites. In fact Mao Zedong says he is glad Japan invaded China because it allows the CCP to weaken the KMT/ROC so he can easily defeat them.
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  239.  @luqmanbello2343  the CCP under Xi is starting another chapter of dark history with HK and Xinjiang slavery and abuse.
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  240.  @luqmanbello2343  China has never oppressed any countries? Oh really. Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia are all countries until the CCP annexed them. Now the CCP wants to annex and bully Taiwan. Best century? Oh really? I guess the 30-80 million dead Chinese killed by Mao Zedong and the 10,000+ killed in Tiananmen Square amounted to nothing? Or is it conveniently wiped from history because it doesn’t fit into CCP propaganda? China almost made it into a world power, unfortunately Xi screwed everything up. 🤷🤷🤷 You can only blame yourself. You have to ask yourself… why did the west that was positive about China from 1990 till 2012 suddenly turn negative? Because Xi became chairman… the hope was China would liberalize until under Xi it turned into Mao Zedong 2.0 totalitarian dictatorship. Now even other China’s neighbors now dislike China — ask Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, India, Australia and even Taiwan. Xi is garbage and everyday I hope 翠 happens then maybe China can turn to the right path of history.
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  241. Very informative as usual. Thank you.
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  242. Problem isn’t that women aren’t giving birth but because the cost of rising a child from birth to adult increased by 320% from 80,000 RMB to 280,000 RMB (1990 - 2020). This caused most working class Chinese families to either eschew having a child or limit child to 1.
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  243. As they say "the bigger they are the harder they fall". Mega SOEs are a terrible idea. The best performing companies tend to be lean and mean not burgeoning mega corporations. Why isn't Wall Street commenting on this? Why help your biggest future competitors avoid a cliff? Actually US economic thinkers has been warning against mega SOEs since 2012 but apparently the CCP's idea was to double down on crazy.
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  244. What's disturbing was it didn't take much for Trump and his inner circle to fool his own supporters and his supporters only too eagerly believe in those lies based on erroneous and totally wrong information. Frankly all those involved in the systemic and willful erosion of democracy needs to be held fully accountable and punished by the law. If they aren't punished you can bet they will do it again.
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  245. Yes this is a systemic issue. I first heard of this issue as early as 2010 (but everyone was like it's gonna be fine) but I knew this will eventually come to haunt the PRC economy, who knew in just 12 years it's wrecking the PRC economy.
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  246. It means things has gone really bad enough to be spilling out into public domain. Normally these types of CCP power struggle are very low key and opaque. The CCP loves to present a so called "united front unity" to present "face" to the public. To have these power struggles be displayed in a semi-public setting means the knives are now out.
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  247. Total losses in China’s tech stocks is now over $1 trillion dollars. Xi is really the great accelerator. All of this crackdown will hit the Chinese tech workers the hardest, many will probably be laid off once the belt tightening starts. Chinese games are mostly F2P, these games require players to invest significant time to the game. Less player time invested = less profits. This hits their bottom line.
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  248. Latest research shows there is no consistent immunity response to the COViD virus. There are several cases of people getting the virus twice or thrice. Right now we just don’t know. Trump’s claims of people automatically getting immunity are incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.
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  249. Cuunjieng is absolutely right on all counts.
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  250. You can see the guy's face. It wasn't a good laugh... his face says "I know I have been hoodwinked by the QAnon folks and the Cult45 cultists so now I must act like nothing changed to cover my embarrassment". Why do these Trump supporters hate on Biden ? The truth is they hate Obama (it's not because of policies but rather they hate Obama's gut because of the color of his skin -- it's like "how dare a black guy impose healthcare on us") and that hate has transferred by association to Biden. Had Obama been a white guy and gave these people healthcare, these same people hating on him now would be worshiping Obama and kissing the ground where he walked.
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  251. You mean the person with the severe curved spine hunch back ? Yeah even disabled people have to work to eat. They can get employed in construction doing menial jobs. Life can be brutal in China especially if you are poor or you live in the rural areas. There’s no disability assistance in China however there is a government program that hires disabled people to work in construction. You don’t work, you don’t eat.
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  252. The CCP are desperate.
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  253. Yep Lei has great insights. Unfortunately most of western/US media are all controlled by billionaires with business interests in China that is why you don’t see too many criticism of China on MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, etc. This gave rise to a lot of small or independent news or content creator on YouTube and on other platforms.
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  254. The west has pretty much given up trying to liberalize, democratize and cooperate with PRChina. 40 years of appeasement to the CCP PRC regime has amounted to nothing. China prospered because of globalization but we are now entering an era of decoupling and deglobalization. Frankly economy wise China is finished — they are now facing rampant stagflation, demographic collapse and unsustainable levels of debt. Without the US buying stuff from China, the Chinese economy is doomed as local consumption of goods in China is cratering even faster than US consumption of goods from China. Some geopolitical analysts concluded that the PRC would cease to even be a sovereign state in about 10-15 years.
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  255.  @arthritis2718  You gotta realize the HK'ers were revolting because of heavy handed meddling in their political system by Beijing. If Beijing let democracy run it's course in HK then there would be no revolt and no chaos. For almost a decade Beijing has been undermining the democracy in HK and this revolution is the last straw.
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  256. arthritis authoritarianism doesn’t work well... authoritarianism only causes undue suffering of the people while enriching the elites and the ruling class. Take a look at the cultural devolution of Mao Zedong, all that death and suffering for nothing. The only reason why China got rich today is corporate greed, globalization and neoliberalism offshoring jobs that take advantage of cheap labor. CCP propaganda always blames foreign powers for their troubles its never their own fault. And it’s mighty arrogant of the CCP to claim to solve the problem they themselves caused while patting themselves in the back. China’s 5,000 history is pretty much death and genocide and suffering for most of its people the only periods of peace is when the ruling elites enact liberal policies. The citizens of China are the biggest victim and prisoner of the CCP and the ruling elites. When allowed democracy and liberalism the Chinese people produces beautiful society like Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement is all about Beijing’s heavy handed meddling in the HK political process (hello, extradition treaty?). HK is supposed to be autonomous until at least 2047 yet Xi can’t wait to get his dirty hands on the city, yet another reason why the CCP cannot be trusted to keep its word. On top of that income inequality and corruption added to the anger of the HKers.
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  257. ohmar It’s a good thing the priceless royal treasures of China are kept safely in Taiwan. If it were in China, Mao Zedong would have destroyed those irreplaceable priceless treasures in his moments of stupidity aka during the cultural devolution and the great leap off the cliff.
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  258.  @AFDHERO  That's a false statement. Taiwan got rich because the Taiwanese people worked hard, innovated and freedom and democracy allowed that to happen with gradual liberalization of society and that allowed free market economy. It has nothing to do with China's cultural treasures being in Taiwan. Do you think the Taiwanese got rich by hocking those treasures in the pawnshop ? No, they are a cultural legacy that belongs to ALL Chinese people (Taiwanese or Chinese). They do not belong to the CCP. They are much safer and well protected in Taiwan than in the hands of the CCP who has a dastardly history (which they are trying to cover up) of destroying China's rich cultural history and legacy. Thousands of irreplaceable ancient Chinese Buddhist temple, archeological sites, UNESCO heritage sites were destroyed by Mao Zedong during the great leap off the cliff and the Cultural devolution. They are continuing to destroy even those rich cultural heritage sites even now under Xi and replacing them with condos (that nobody lives in) and empty shopping malls.
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  259. That's how "sold out" the so called international experts and leaders at the WHO are to China. They are all drunk on corrupt CCP money.
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  260. Except the virus is the CCP virus.
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  261. I think that’s the plan in the first place — to force investors to “redirect capital away from places like Russia and China and redirect them to the US or at least to US allied countries”. Globalization (the system where you can go anywhere and trade with anyone) is indeed over.
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  262. Very informative as usual Lei.
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  263. I am guessing Rand Paul has embraced fascism wholeheartedly instead of his supposedly "libertarianism".
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  264. Get your capital out of China.
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  265. 🤣🤣🤣 drink more cool aid. Sorry, the reality is the US has more generous socialism than China and the US don't even call themselves socialist.
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  266. True. For the rest of the world not so healthy. The worry isn't North America but the rest of the less food sufficient world.
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  267. Not likely to happen if they maintain their political system. Obtaining citizenship is incredibly difficult in China. Permanent residency permit is possible but for foreigners it has to be renewed yearly. Then there are severe limitations that westerners aren't used to. For example, freedom of movement is a privilege not a right in China (due to the Hukou system). Political protests and congregation in large groups are banned in China. Then there is the issue of bureaucracy and red tape. The Chinese aren't used to seeing a lot of foreigners in their home country. Then there is the racism factor, many Chinese are covert racists (if you think the Trump MAGA hatters are bad, you haven't met a Chinese ultranationalists). At least in the US, people are wary that (covert or overt) racism is a bad thing, in China racism doesn't even register a something to be aware of. For example: words commonly used to describe foreigners such as 鬼子 (white devil), 鬼佬 (ghost man usually aimed at caucasians), 黑鬼 (black devil, usually aimed at African descent), 阿三 or 紅頭阿三 (derogatory words usually used to refer to Hindu Indians), etc are commonly used, whether the speaker is aware of their derogatory meaning is subjective.
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  268. He will be remembered for starting a war, uttering nonsensical ideological platitudes, and collapsing the Chinese economy.
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  269. Lol... always so entertaining. So in their minds Trump isn’t the president of the United States but president of the confederate states.
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  270. Rats bailing out of sinking Trump titanic.
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  271. They PCR tested ice cream. 🤣🤣🤣
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  272. "Common prosperity" isn't a new thing. It was a political slogan during the Mao era. It ended badly for China.
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  273. It is. Many Chinese have decided to end their life than go thru foreclosure.
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  274. Not surprised. Trump is a sociopath. He doesn't care about anyone he doesn't know much less people who doesn't look like him. This isn't new at all. In fact since 2016 and even before the election he has exhibited sociopathic tendencies multiple times (if you looked at news articles involving Trump -- he would arbitrarily fire workers especially people of color). In fact Trump has been involved in several racial discrimination lawsuits since way back in the 1990-2000s.
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  275. 5.5% realistic? Well it's China. They can make up whatever number they like for political expediency. The reality however is questionable.
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  276.  @tofuyam7361  It's now a combination of the worst traits of both -- totalitarian autocracy and fascism.
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  277. I wonder if they have consulted with Feng-sui masters before constructing those buildings. Those buildings does not scream natural flow at all. They look so out of place and extremely ostentatious. It's like a contest of who could be the bigger eyesore.
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  278. I predict she will divorce Trump when he is no longer the president. Who would want to associate with the name Trump these days ? She is doing it for herself of course. It is the smart thing to do to protect herself financially for life after Trump.
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  279.  @luqmanbello2343  it’s not a forgotten issue. And the paradigm is already shifting. China will never be a global leader as long as the CCP is around. In fact the CCP becoming more and more aggressive only shows how desperate they are becoming. If you are a confident superpower then you don’t become a brutish and aggressive. Only someone who is afraid of losing power becomes brutish and aggressive. Ironically all of China’s own neighbors that used to like China now hate China like Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam, Australia, India, etc. Why? Because they know the CCP under Xi are a predatory despotic regime hellbent on imperialist conquest in order to prop up its failing policies. If the Chinese people have faith in the CCP then how come the censorship and arrest of dissidents keeps getting worst and worst? How come they are arresting that young woman just for singing the National anthem wrong? Let’s face it under Xi China has become a totalitarian dystopian regime. How can the Chinese people be proud of a regime that oppresses its own people like slaves? Pretty buildings do not make a good society. Respect for human rights and rule of law is what makes a good society and China has achieved neither.
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  280.  @luqmanbello2343  if you ask me in 2012 whether China would become a world power, I would have said yes. If you ask me now, I would say no. Why? Xi Jinping screwed up big time. Becoming a world power means commanding the respect of its peers. Right now the Xi regime acts more like a desperate despot trying to hold on to power by lashing out to the world especially against its neighbors. That’s not the action of a confident world power but a regime that is about to collapse and desperate to show off its power.
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  281. Over 200+ financial institutions in China (banking and non-banking) are on hook if Evergrande/Hengda goes under.
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  282. Why am I not surprised Fox News always have guest that wants to turn minorities in the American work force as slaves working for peanuts.
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  283. Let’s put it this way.. during the great famine of China in 1959 - 1962 people resorted to eating their own babies while Mao Zedong exported grains to Russia on the (wrong) assumption that those were surpluses. Once it became known that didn’t topple the CCP. Now that the Chinese have tasted a measure of wealth and good life I wonder if it will be different this time around. They can always leave their country permanently (which a lot of the wealthy Chinese did, by taking their skill and wealth with them). There is so much capital flight and emigration the CCP stopped issuing passports for fear of capital and brain drain. But I highly doubt there will be a mass armed revolt against the CCP. 🤔🤔🤔
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  284. As usual the CCP will do jack to help these people.
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  285. Suicides due to financial strain and “murder covered up as suicides” are very common in China because China does not have general personal bankruptcy protection laws. It only has personal bankruptcy protection on very specific cases and only on certain cities like Shenzhen.
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  286. I agree many Chinese who fled China during the cultural devolution years (1964 - 1974) settled in the US as overseas Chinese and they are the ones who formed Shen Yun dance troop. Chinese culture is vibrant and beautiful but during the Maoist years it was gutted to a mere shadow and pale imitations. Many of the intellectuals, artists, dancers, etc. fled China to either the US, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. and elsewhere still maintains these culture. Right now many young Chinese are starting to reconnect and rediscover their traditional Chinese roots thru Taiwan 🇹🇼 but the CCP crackdown continues on to this day.
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  287. That won’t work because people only buy expensive smartphones from a well known brand. Would you pay $500-800 USD smartphone from a no name brand? Maybe if it is a $50-200 cheap throwaway phone then it might work at first but people will find out eventually. Huawei is dead.
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  288. Yes she is. Before 2016 nobody is talking about Taiwan. Now everyone is talking about Taiwan. She has risen the profile of Taiwan around the world. She is doing a fantastic job. I love how her response to Emperor dictator Xi is so perfect, the closet warmongers at Zhongnanhai are at a loss for words and can only bang the war drums.
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  289. The problem in the Philippines is the wealthy are using politics as part of their business. If you look at the government as a whole a lot of the elected officials are wealthy people themselves. Of course they will enact policies that favor the wealthy. The Philippines elites can cooperate with the middle class and the poor to uplift the country as a whole. They can do that by increasing wages instead of trying to depress wages thru schemes like ENDO. This reminds me of the story of the Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Sweden, etc. during the 1900s they are some of the poorest countries in the world. Their talented and skilled people keep leaving the country until such a time they realize they need talented people to uplift the country. So the government decided to enact policies that retain talents as well as discourage migration. After almost 100 years, look at Sweden, Denmark, etc. They have become some of the wealthiest countries in the world with the world's lowest in income inequality.
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  290. Frankly without a political change in China, I don’t see how investors will want to invest their money in China ever again.
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  291. Agree. They need to get rid of tyrannical despots like Putin first and embark on a change towards true democracy and rule of law.
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  292. So basically everything from China is a scam.
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  293.  @vern0018  Yeah.. PRC Chinese is different than Hong Konger, or Singaporean Chinese or even Taiwanese.
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  294. John Lewis is my hero.
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  295.  @chrishamlin5863  they are running out of money. I heard a few provincial government can't even pay their PRC government employees. Instead they reduce their pay check by 30% and gave them extra vacation days off. So now they have government employees who is also Meituan food delivery drivers.
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  296. Taiwan is an independent country only it’s people the Taiwanese can decide what to do. China comes off as a predatory country (much like Nazi Germany) right now.
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  297. Le Pen winning is dangerous for France. I don't like Macron either but at least he is more centered not extreme. I hope Macron picks up his game and win the election.
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  298. I love that smartphone camera technology has basically starting to equalize the playing field.
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  299. 100% agree with you Lei -- compassion and kindness is what the worlds needs not more weapons of war. Happy New Year to you too!
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  300. Thank you for letting us know what is truly going on inside China.
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  301. I hope Blackrock sinks with the rest of the corruption.
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  302. One HK guy rode his bike thru police officers with banners protesting the fascist CCP regime gets 9 years. CCP enact policies that resulted in thousands of deaths from Chinese people drowning to floods and billions in economic damage. 0 CCP officials went to jail. 🤣🤣🤣
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  303. CCP exporting tofu construction to Africa.
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  304. Xi’s CCP has been upgraded from regional concern to an existential threat to the entire free world much like Hitler’s Nazi party.
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  305. Many are especially pissed at Chinese encroachment and overfishing by Chinese industrial trawlers on traditional fishing grounds of FSM fishermen.
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  306. China is uninvestable.
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  307. arthritis I noticed your obsession with the past. Look at Taiwan now... look at Hong Kong now before the protest started. They are two beautiful Chinese society until Beijing decided to destroy Hong Kong because it decided to promote Shenzhen as an international city where it can control. I blame it squarely on the authoritarian autocratic dictatorship of Xi Jinping. The CCP’s mantra has always been to destroy something beautiful that is not directly under its control. It is an evil regime that doesn’t give a shit about the lives of its people.. only how to exploit it for their own gain. Socialism with Chinese characteristics my ass... it’s not socialism it’s mercantilism... it’s a modern day colonialism thru debt slavery and bondage.
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  308.  @arthritis2718  What I find funny with the CCP is they are yelling "Hello world... look at us... we're making China great...with great big buildings, high technology and miles and miles of rails...we got a 12 trillion dollar economy now...but oh wait ...we still cannot afford to give basic human rights, rule of law and independent justice system to all Chinese citizens. We're gonna create a great society that is made of money but nothing else... no compassion, no liberty, no human rights, no decency.
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  309. Fast forward to 2021: Duterte now hates China and has allied himself again with the US. The thing is Xi played him for a fool and most Filipinos prefer the Americans than the Chinese anyway. Xi promised $32 billion in economic aid to the Philippines, 6 years later — $0 billion was fulfilled while the Philippine gave so much concessions. The CCP can never be trusted. It’s an organization of liars and thieves and international criminals.
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  310.  @gracefulcat68  A majority of the fund for the land leases goes to developing the local infrastructure and funding the operation of the local Chinese government (including the high salaries of the local government bureaucracies). That is why when businesses and factories slowed down due to the COVID lockdowns as well as the central government's policy of 3 red lines (in order to curb out of control property price speculation) it affected the local government too. Suddenly many local government found out they had less income (as property developers slows down the development of new properties means less tax revenue for the government). They had to cut the salaries of the Chinese government workers. This is why the central government suggested an annual land tax which was met with fierce resistance (why tax land in which you don't own and are already leasing) with further slowdown and weakening land leases (many people decided to sell off their property leading to more property devaluation and market saturation). It's a massive catch-22 problem facing the central government (they won't allow further rampant speculation of property) at the same time that weakening land lease demands means lesser income for the government.
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  311. This is why so many westerners are investing and living in Vietnam. Vietnam will become prosperous.
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  312. Not just a few buildings, they have entire ghost cities worth of empty uninhabitable buildings that have no value and are just sitting there rotting under the sun.
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  313. God over government is basically theonomy. Basically you would want Iran's model of government where religious laws is also the legal and civil laws of the land.
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  314. The far right GOP are like piranhas they would devour their own if they senses fear and weakness.
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  315. Oh no ice cream got COVID. 🤣🤣🤣
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  316. *eat popcorn while Xi accelerates the great economic collapse*
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  317. This is partially man made disaster by the CCP.
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  318. Being anti-vaccine is like saying you don’t need an extra safety cord while bungee jumping. Sure, you might survive a jump but there’s always that chance the main bungee cord snaps.
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  319. You are so right Lei. The economic guy is right, the kind of spending by the PRC regime is unsustainable and absolutely insane.
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  320. One of the trending topic in Chinese social media is nowadays is "Run Xue" (润学). Due to pervasive censorship in PRC social media PRC netizens often uses code words (a mix of English/Chinese homophones) in order to confuse and evade the censors. "Run Xue" is one of them and it means "to escape and study abroad" (润 sounds like the english word "Run" while 学 means "to study" usually referring to study aboard) . Many young Chinese don't see much future with the way the PRC economy is heading so they try to escape abroad to find jobs and a new life if they could afford it under the pretext of studying abroad (it's actually pretty hard for many Chinese to leave their own country). Unlike most countries, PRC citizens needs permission from the government to leave China. From what I am hearing the PRC government has started to crackdown on issuing/renewing passports unless there is an absolute need. Most of those capable of escaping tends to be the wealthy or upper middle class PRC nationals.
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  321. I agree Taiwan should take its own defense seriously and should not rely on the US. Whether the US intervene in defense of Taiwan or not, Taiwan must get ready to fight a war if it wants to remain free, democratic and independent.
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  322. China is experiencing massive internal turmoil at present, the largest internal turmoil in decades. The CCP cannot afford to wage war with Taiwan and the US (and allies) at this time. It doesn't mean they won't be trying to project a display of strength (posturing, intimidation and falsehood has always been the #1 skill of the CCP). A war with the US means famine for the Chinese people, and an embargo of Chinese goods would spell a death knell to the CCP's industrial ambition.
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  323.  @taoliu3949  Yep. That’s always the narrative being promoted by the CCP that the opium war was the cause of China’s decline when in fact it is due to the mismanagement of the Qing dynasty. This is caused by decades of internal weaknesses and corruption. By the end of the Qing dynasty 9 out of 10 Qing public officials were corrupt. That is the real reason for the fall of Qing. And one major weakness of the Chinese is the inability to see their own weaknesses and they find it easier to blame the westerners for it. I guess even now they still have this weakness and is blaming the west as usual.
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  324. Traditional GOP vs. Fascist GOP. Who will win?
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  325. If that is your logic then how about the CCP pay compensation for all the people killed during Mao Zedong. That is 30+ million murder by the CCP thru starvation or political persecution. How about compensation for the 10,000+ killed during the Tiananmen Square massacre ? Or how about the thousands of Falun Gong killed and organ harvested ? The CCP is the biggest murderer of the Chinese people.
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  326. That’s false. 5G are basically radio frequency. They are no more dangerous than a high powered radio station broadcasting.
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  327. It is going to be amusing when the secret service drags Trump out of the WH in handcuffs.
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  328. Best news I've heard in 4 years.
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  329. Same problem in France as with the US. Racism is a huge issue. But the issue in France is a lot worse because the issue was ignored for decades. At least in the US, there is public awareness of race relations issues.
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  330. I agree Zhao Ziyang was a good guy that could have liberalized and reform China until he got screwed by Deng. For over 30 years the bad guys were in power.
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  331.  中田沙耶  Taiwan will never surrender their democracy to the CCP. Xi will be forced to invade Taiwan to prove a point and because he is politically backed to a corner by hyper-nationalism. Except if he did invade Taiwan, he would have walked into a trap — the Thucydides trap (Xi actually is aware of it, he often talk about it in his speeches). Once war in the Taiwan strait starts it’s very hard to walk back because if Xi walks back he would lose all legitimacy — it’s the end of the CCP. He either wins (at all cost) or the CCP ends. Even if Xi wins and takes Taiwan the damage to the Chinese economy and reputation will be staggering especially if Japan and the US got involved. That is why the best course of action is to back off on Taiwan and not start on the road to oblivion. But judging from his actions lately it is looking like he wants to roll the military dice on Taiwan.
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  332.  @政斌-x8k  Look around you. The entire world hates the CCP. Even countries that previously tries to be friendly to China now hates the CCP. We don’t blame you the Chinese people — the CCP is a murderous organization and would have no qualms murdering millions (like they did during 10 years of cultural devolution). Sure. Sure, Blame it on Mao. Mao commanded it but if his followers didn’t do it then a single person wouldn’t have done much — his collaborators — other Communist party Chinese did it. The sons and daughters of these murderers are still in power today. And they will never be held accountable as long as the CCP remains in power.
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  333. Older Taiwanese = We like China’s economy and infrastructure. Young Taiwanese = We like our freedoms, culture and democracy. The young lady is right in latest survey conducted 70% wants status quo (defacto independence) but without officially declaring in order to keep the peace. 25% wants full independence (declare). Only less than 5% wants full unification with China.
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  334. Trump the only law and order president that openly breaks law and order. He should be called the president of ironies.
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  335. Unfortunately lawsuits against erring companies is useless in China. Unless you have money, power, influence the lawsuit will go nowhere. People have tried holding these erring companies accountable unfortunately only 1 out of 10 succeeded. 9 out of 10 the case is summarily dismissed or ends up ignored. Unless you have political connections in China, lawsuits rarely does anything. But in this case, the publicized issued due to a consumer advocate got the attention of the government and they shutdown the erring company but I doubt the baby’s family will be compensated at all.
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  336. The top down communist authoritarian system is designed to benefit only the few (mainly the CCP cadres) at the expense of many regular people. The only way for China to combat massive and severe income inequality is to allow free market enterprise rather than promote state capitalism.
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  337.  zak quen  Xi can start it but he definitely can't finish it. The US, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Australia together with allies from EU/UK, SEA, Japan will finish it.
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  338. One major thing I want to point out is there are different kinds of debt — debt is actually good for a country when it is the right kind and right amount of debt. The US has huge debts too (over $23 trillion dollars) but US debts are performing debts meaning they are debts that are used to grow and service the economy. China has a lot of non-performing debts, basically these are debts that are useless to the economy and are just burdens on the country. According to latest report — the US has 0.89% (less than 1%) in non-performing debt while China has over 22% in non-performing debt as of 2020.
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  339. Lithuania is so brave facing down two of the world's largest murderous regime -- the CCP and Putin. Lithuania needs the world's support.
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  340. Partly. Basically what is happening is the prices of coal surged globally. While electricity prices in China is controlled by the government. The power plants opt to shutdown and ration electricity rather than incur operating losses due to higher coal/fuel prices while unable to pass the cost to consumers.
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  341. Biden should not bend over backwards to accommodate the GOP. The GOP never engage in good faith.
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  342. Not “very likely inspired” it’s more like “most definitely encouraged domestic terrorism”.
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  343. Maybe it is high time the CCP collapses. And I agree. It is not who is in charge but the entire CCP system that is broken and corrupt.
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  344.  @arthritis2718  The US does have a massive gun violence problem the main difference is gun violence is perpetrated by insane people with mental problems due to lack of gun control because of political corruption while the CCP is the one perpetuating the Cultural eradication of the Tibetans, Mongolians and Uyghurs. Another main difference is the US is always trying to make a positive change for the future...sometimes the good guys wins and sometimes the bad guys win. In China the CCP are the sole authority and they are the ones doing the bad things like mass incarceration in concentration camps, destruction of cultural heritage sites, mass organ harvesting and millions of political prisoners not to mention mass silencing and murder of critics (remember Liu Xiaobo!). Not to mention the opaque broken judicial system and lack of rule of law. Here's news for you: Rule of law means the law applies to everyone or no one. It doesn't mean the law only applies to whoever the CCP says it applies to.
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  345. 🤣🤣🤣 Then how come the CCP whines each time the US government does something positive for the US/Taiwan economic cooperation.
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  346. Looks like Xi found George Orwell's 1984 novel and used it as an instruction manual.
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  347. West: China is using slave labor for cotton. CCP: What about you? You're using cotton slavery 150 years ago? You have no right to talk. West: But we no longer use slave labor. CCP: Why do you care? We are enslaving our own people. This is an internal Chinese slavery matter. West: We want to abolish global slavery, hold countries that uses slave labor accountable. CCP Nationalist: We love cotton slavery! Support Xinjiang cotton! If you boycott our slave cotton, we will boycott you.
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  348. 100% agree with your analysis Lei. There is now a sort of power competition between US pro-globalization forces and anti-globalization forces within the US itself.
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  349. To be fair. 5G is just a marketing term. The real world application of “5G” is called Sub-6 which isn’t much faster than 4GLTE (about 50-100Mbps). While the theoretical top speed of mmwave 5G is 4.5Gbps we are a long way from there (we probably won’t achieve that until 2030 at least when the technology matures). The problem is as the video outlined is cost and energy consumption. mmWave 5G uses a lot of electricity and the equipment are 3-5 times more expensive than 4G LTE equipment. Until the cost and energy consumption can be brought down to a manageable level, I don’t see 5G being a sustainable technology but then again it’s just a matter of time before it happens.
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  350. When the PRC government had to have a specialized task force to debunk bad economic news from western media outlet is when you know shit is really hitting the fan.
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  351. I love the global backlash that is now hitting the current CCP regime. There is no saving or reforming the CCP system it must be destroyed.
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  352. Everything the ccp does now is all about propaganda, obfuscation and global brainwashing because its prosperity model has failed.
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  353. China's greatest disaster is having Mao Zedong and the CCP be in charge of the country.
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  354.  @babox8244  Yeah now I know his true neoliberal face. Neoliberalism is weakness.
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  355. Trump loves superlatives... he could just say he tested negative for coronavirus but he had to spin it to positively negatively....wtf is wrong with that guy.
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  356. You can sing Xi's praise all day long but in the end, he will still harvest you like a leek.
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  357. When the PRC regime suspends the account of a major PRC economic analyst then you really know the PRC economy is really screwed.
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  358. It's main purpose is to enrich the CCP cronies that benefits from the oodles of money spent on the construction of the bridge. Just like all of China's so called public works. It's not to fill a public need. They build stuff just so public funds can get to someone's pockets.
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  359. While I agree on the Afghanistan withdrawal the way it was done was chaotic and utterly disastrous. And I agree blocking out Taiwan's digital minister Audrey Tang's presentation was a WTF moment for me (only the audio was available). Regarding Afghanistan, to be fair Biden had no choice, it was Trump who negotiated the Afghanistan withdrawal with the Talibans not Biden. Trump's people did not coordinate with Biden's about the specifics or the plan of the withdrawal, Biden had no choice but to follow thru in order to have a "relatively non-violent" withdrawal. I would say 60% of the blame falls on Trump while 40% would fall on Biden. Originally the plan was the US was to withdraw gradually but they didn't realize the Afghan government collapsed so rapidly. It was thought, there would be resistance for at least 6 months as the Talibans gains territory, it didn't occur that the Talibans were in Kabul one week later. I agree the Democracy summit was a terrible place to air the dirty laundry between the democrats and republicans.
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  360. That’s what the CCP would like you to think. They can keep lying but you cannot fool numbers.
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  361. It's not just military alliance but economic and political as well. And yes it's awesome. The goal isn't just military but to strengthen the Indo-Pacific supply chain especially for semi-conductors.
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  362. Imagine this is from Trump's own ex-chief of staff John Kelly. The chief of staff is the most important person in the White House next to the president. Yes Trump is insane. Any person with a basic of judge of character realizes Trump is insane and completely immoral a long time ago.
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  363. Lol… says a guy who freely comes to YT to post.
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  364. If the China real estate bubble collapses, I don’t think the CCP can survive that. This is like watching a moving train smashing into the mountain side in slow motion.
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  365. Countless millions -- some of them are relatively newly completed in 2010 - 2015 and already falling apart.
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  366. Most have left China. Most of them are now citizens of other countries and nations. Many of them have said the PRC is now like a terminal cancer patient simply waiting for a slow death. They have simply gave up hope for reform China will be more free. But as many have observed China has become a very dangerous place for people who doesn't buy the CCP narrative.
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  367. True. I don't know how how Rand Paul can still be elected to public office. It is disgusting.
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  368. Very informative as usual.
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  369. Sounds like Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2021 version.
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  370. The CCP’s human rights atrocities can no longer be ignored nor should the world ignore it.
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  371. That would require about 3.5 - 4 million people on the streets.
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  372.  @produkterbarumasakini  No for long from what I am hearing of the Xi COVID variant.
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  373. 100-150 million migrant workers are now jobless in China although the CCP officially reported only 6% unemployment. These people do not have unemployment benefits either and most of them subsist on $150 US per month. Xi’s socialism with Chinese characteristics is an utter failure. This is what happens when most of the money are concentrated in the hands of the few hundred CCP billionaires. What an irony when Xi was doling out billions to impoverished African and Southeast Asian countries in order to buy influence with his One Belt One Road shenanigans.
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  374. I would take everything predicted by Goldman Sacks with a grain of salt. There are the ones who predicted that China would bypass US economy by 2525 in 2015. Goldman Sachs uses data to predict economic outcomes except the problem is China's economic data are mostly falsified.
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  375. This is just symbolic. It doesn't really hurt China in anyway except maybe emperor Xi's ego (massive loss of face).
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  376. The CCP left communism a long time ago. They are now fascist.
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  377. Very interesting. As the Chinese saying goes “千夫诺诺，不如一士谔谔” (A thousand yes men cannot equal one honest advisor) is what is happening in China. Xi has basically purged all his critics and surrounded himself with yes-men. As history have shown, once the emperor has purged all his most objective and honest advisors then only the liars will be left.
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  378. It's not anti-fraud measure but anti-bank run by making withdrawal very hard.
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  379.  @X-cript  lol the CCP never gives out anything and there are thousands of people who live on the streets in China. For all it's boast being communist and socialist, the CCP only uses the country's wealth for its party cadres not for its people. Just look at the mansions of the party cadres versus the beaten down slums of most people in central China. 600 million people still make less than 1000 RMB per month that's less than $150 USD per month. The CCP is socialist in name only it's a lying fascist regime that preys on the Chinese people.
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  380. Xi Jingping Thought is pretty much the prevailing policy thought. That's what the CCP does when they try to backpedal they throw a minion under the bus. It's never the top leaders at fault it's always a minion's fault. When Mao murdered millions of Chinese, you can see how they try to clear Mao and blame the red guards (the red guards were Mao's most hardline followers and they follow Mao's dictates).
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  381. China is finished.
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  382. Wow this is almost like the 2008 Toxic mortgage crisis that screwed the US economy except 2x worst. Didn’t the Chinese learn anything?
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  383. Not when it endangers other people.
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  384. The only acceptable outcome is Ukraine's total victory.
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  385. True Chinese pirates of the 7 seas.. they plunder the entire planet.
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  386. The biggest problem with authoritarianism is the "victimhood mentality". It's always someone else's fault (always the foreigner blaming) and never their own fault. The truth is their failures are caused by their own misguided policies.
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  387. Lol the goods are all stuck at the ports in LA. This isn't a supply chain issue. The issue is delivering the goods to the retail stores and warehouses.
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  388. China economy in 2021 is exactly in the same position as Japan in the 1990s. It's stuck in the middle income trap. Xi knew he had been handed a poisoned chalice by the Jiang faction. You can see all the problems keep piling up and compounding one after another. Now stagflation has hit the Chinese economy -- staglation is when the economy is slowing down at the same time prices are going up.
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  389. Andrew R People who genuinely cares for China, Chinese culture and the Chinese people cares. If you don’t like it then don’t watch. Nobody is making you watch their videos. They are doing a great public service by letting people know what is going on inside China. These are stuff you won’t find on the mainstream corporate owned US Media.
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  390. Basically Loeffler is yet another rich plutocrat trying to buy the election in Georgia. Vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for the good of Georgia.
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  391. It's true. The coffin industry is doing especially well for the past year or so.
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  392.  @bambootransistor2826  The CCP is just another dynasty. One bad dynasty ends. A new one begins with a fresh start.
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  393. The only Nazis here is Putin. And the only acceptable conclusion to Putin’s genocidal war is a total Ukraine victory and Putin getting tossed out of the balcony of the Duma building.
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  394.  @jhutch1470  LOL... man... this is hilarious. It's the US constitution and the government that guarantees your rights not God. Wow... the republican far right has gone insane.
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  395. Interesting topic to talk about tomorrow. Why was Hu Jintao unceremoniously escorted (I say kicked out) of the 20th NPC just before the final vote to proclaim Xi as Emperor Pooh for life ? Also Li Keqiang has been forced out too as premier and Li Qiang (huge Xi supporter) will replace him. Pretty much all the moderates are now out and replaced with Xi clique hardliners and ultranationalists. Note: Li Qiang was the guy who had a hand in the 2022 Shanghai COVID lockdown fiasco as he is the Shanghai party secretary.
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  396. The head of the police union seems to forget that the police are suppose to be public servants not oppressors. The people's taxes pay for their salary. They work for the people not for the government. We don't need a police force who thinks they are above the law and above the citizens which they are suppose to serve. If the police aren't doing their job well then they should be fired.
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  397. I love IKEA and their Swedish meatballs.
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  398. I actually care about the Chinese people and Xi is bringing them towards the path of doom and misery. But you are right, China is closing down and the article is meant for internal consumption. They won’t wage war on the US (China has no major power projection capability much less strike at the US directly). But they will wage war on Taiwan and Japan. What Xi is doing will end up costing the blood and lives of millions of Chinese.
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  399. Looks like China is falling apart piece by piece.
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  400. Ironically China invaded Vietnam before in 1979.
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  401. I heard about this. This is insane.
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  402. FAFO is going to be very eye opening for MAGA.
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  403. New form of human civilization? Is that euphemism for the return of slavery with CCP characteristics?
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  404. There is no stopping the CCP if they want to plunge the entire country off the cliff.
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  405. Very informative video as usual. The more the CCP tries to fake this, the more they get busted. Yeah the IOC is garbage, has been for years.
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  406. Each time the CCP engages in acts of "great benevolence" millions of Chinese people tends to perish...
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  407. Let’s face it Xi overplayed his hand in global ambition now the western powers have woken up and is slapping him down. So fun to see. 😂😂😂
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  408. Actually the US can do a lot more to hurt Russia/Putin. By banning Russia from the SWIFT system would tank Russian economy as they would not be able to sell their oil/gas to the global market. War is a very expensive endeavor and without revenues from gas/oil Russia would become bankrupt from waging war with Ukraine. Biden is right not to put troops on the ground, this will encourage Putin to back down. By putting troops, it would just drag the US to yet another endless pointless war. Ukraine isn’t some weak country, it is fully capable of defending itself given NATO/EU/US support.
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  409.  @mx4690  You're right I'm not but it doesn't take a body language expert to see that Peng Shuai is in distress all thru out the interview. All it takes is a little empathy.
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  410. FDIC has its own money, it does not get money from taxpayers. The participating member banks pay a monthly insurance fee to FDIC. The money is pooled and used as a payout.
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  411.  @martinbudinsky8912  This is why I find CCP culture disgusting. It's not traditional Chinese culture. It's a pervert imported ideology of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism mixed together in crap and forced down the throat of the Chinese people.
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  412. This is true. A lot of CCP 5th column has infiltrated the US and the west like Canada, Australia and UK.
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  413. Wow 5,000 CNY is only about $725 USD.
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  414. The CCP is still the world’s largest fraudsters, with the 1.3 billion Chinese people their largest victims.
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  415.  @李荣-n7s  Political dynasty is a bad practice that is why it is discouraged. I think Deng got it right, institutional rule and term limits is better. Not saying democracy is perfect. The only difference between democracy and authoritarianism is in democracy a bad leader can be removed easily (like Trump) with minimal or no bloodshed. In authoritarianism system to remove a bad leader often requires bloodshed and revolution.
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  416.  @gtw4546  I agree rapidly aging population NOT the contributing factor to increased authoritarianism. Basically what happened after the market liberalization years started by Deng (1990 - 2012) was private businesses and billionaire businessmen became a powerbase and institutions into itself that is not entirely under control of the CCP. Under Xi Jinping, he believes power must be solely concentrated into the hands of the party elites and princelings not business elites (like Hu Jintao or Jiang Jemin) hence the crackdowns at the expense of businesses. Xi calculated if the CCP continues to lose power to the business elites eventually the CCP regime could face demise. It's a calculated risk by Xi to roll back the influence of the business elites, concentrate on rebuilding state run enterprises and state capitalism to replace the business elites. It's basically a power struggle between the princelings (2nd generation red guards) and the business elites. Of course out of this the Chinese people/society are the collateral damage. It's also causing angst to foreign relations with western powers.
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  417.  @travisli-rufus1949  Good question. Most people in the predicament tighten their belts, and start all over again. Some commit suicide. Some leave China when they can by any means necessary.
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  418. The CCP always lies. Now they are arresting anyone who dares criticize the propaganda film.
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  419. A long time ago when the GOP still have decent and good people like Senator McCain.
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  420. CCP mentality: Let's get ourselves out of this credit crunch hole by digging deeper holes. 🤣🤣🤣
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  421.  @mikepowell9439  have you actually seen the gold or did you just drank all that "cool aid" the CCP had pissed into a cup? A country can collapse once the people can no longer support the government and there are no alternatives. Gold in the vaults doesn't mean shit when people are hungry and 100s of millions of people are jobless. You cannot eat gold. You read it right, China has 150-200 million jobless migrant workers. That's about 25% of the working age population. It's now plagued with stagflation and a myriad of economic disasters -- Evergrande is just one of them (the biggest one). Did you know over 200+ smaller real estate and associated companies has collapsed in China within the past year yet nobody is talking about it and the state controlled media says nothing about it. Yeah...keep drinking the CCP "everything is well and hunky dory shit stew".
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  422. Yep. There's no scenario where Putin wins. But due to his arrogance he won't just give up. Putin basically turned the war into a genocidal campaign with indiscriminate murder of Ukrainian civilians. If Putin gave up he knows he is finished especially with the number of Russian soldiers being shipped back home in body bags (rough estimate 3000-6,000 depending on who you believe). If you think 3,000-6,000 is a small number...that's 3000-6000 in 2 weeks. By any measure it's a catastrophic loss of life. By comparison Russia lost about 15,000 soldiers in Afghanistan over 10 years (about 1,500 per year). Not to mention the total cratering of the Russian economy.
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  423. Putin have no reason to invade. Putin is garbage.
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  424. Also protesting outside in open air (while wearing a mask and keeping social distance) is a lot safer than 40,000 - 50,000 people coupe up in an indoor tightly packed stadium.
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  425. Indeed the Vatican Papacy isn't about religion but money, influence and power...especially power over adherants.
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  426. Hahaha she is only there for the $$$.
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  427. I agree with you, Xi will try to invade Taiwan but it will be catastrophic for China and the people will suffer. It is always the common people who will suffer for the misdeeds of the emperor.
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  428. Ironically, Li Keqiang’s (another CYL faction member was purged too) replacement was Li Qiang (Xi loyalist) who was the one in charge when the 2022 Shanghai COVID lockdown fiasco happened. Normally there is a gradual ascension of ranks from lowly bureacrat to politburo standing committee but Li Qiang went from party general secretary of Shanghai to politburo standing committee (massive promotion). I bet he pissed off a few people with that promotion. I guess personal loyalty to Xi really buys you a seat in the new Xi era. The false claim of China’s government are composed of meritocratic technocrats has finally been busted.
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  429. On top of all those ostentatious grandiose Xi power trip projects is the Xiong’an New District project in Hebei. Build a brand new high tech city in the middle of no where that is prone to flooding, earthquakes and sandstorm just because Xi said so. Talk about moronic. After spending almost $2 trillion USD on it, the city is still a ghost town with few inhabitants. Most buildings there have nobody living in it. Why ? Because there are no jobs, no facilities, some parts even have no water, no electricity. Why in God’s name will anyone want to live there ? However, the funny thing is prices of the real estate in the city are rising astronomically, and most all the newly built buildings and units are sold out or have an owner except hardly anybody lives in that city (it’s an entire city fueled by construction speculations). When Chinese intellectual and human rights activist Xu Zhiyong openly criticize Xi in an open letter about the idiocy of the project, he was promptly arrested and thrown in jail.
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  430. There are already plans to do so.
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  431.  @gtw4546  Yep if the US really wants the Middle East to go to hell all it needs to do is pull out the US fleet and watch a massive power vacuum happen in the Middle East overnight. Pirates and rogue states will jump on those tankers so fast most of the oil cargo will be lost to piracy. China can only be prosperous because of the world order provided by the US.
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  432. Dodd-Frank regulations should be strengthened to prevent a repeat of this.
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  433. China: We oppose imperialism unless we or our allies are doing the conquering.
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  434. How to destroy a culture. Prevent the local population from speaking their native tongue and impose another language spoken by the super majority. Note: Mandarin is a foreign tongue that originated from the Manchus. Hong Kongers speak Cantonese natively.
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  435.  @RonaldPlump  For now you can. Just give it time and the CCP will create a very creative reason why you can no longer speak your native tongue Cantonese. In fact, they are now mandating schools to teach all subjects only in Mandarin. Maybe not now but in 30-50 years Cantonese will become obsolete and dead.
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  436. Now the westerners in Shanghai are getting a tiny taste of the kind of crap the Chinese people outside the tier 1-2 cities have to go thru every single day for most of their lives. This is why many wealthy elite Chinese wants to migrate out of China if they have a chance. The CCP are an evil regime.
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  437. True. There are so many bright young Filipinos in the US. They all come to the US to work, start businesses and study.
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  438. GOP: "Biden is doing a bad job. However if it is Trump doing the same exact thing then he is doing a good job."
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  439. Love your analysis. I'm buying your book for sure.
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  440. Let's put it simply: If you are a western investor still investing in China right now you deserve it when the regime confiscates all your money for "common prosperity". Autocracies are terrible places to put your money in because the regime CAN and WILL confiscate foreign investments and investors will be left without recourse like what Putin did last week. China is not much different from Russia, the PRC regime has no qualm about confiscating western investments.
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  441. Won't impact the entire economy really? Real estate in China comprises of 30% of China's GDP. That's how the government reports economic growth. The reality is the real estate affects everything in China. Where do you think people will earn money without working in construction? How will people afford to buy stuff without jobs?
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  442. Most of the Chinese companies listed in the US stock exchanges aren’t real Chinese stocks they are called ADR or American Depository Receipt. When you buy a Chinese ADR you aren’t actually buying a Chinese company stock but you are buying a stock from a shell company founded in the Cayman Islands that represents the Chinese company. It is illegal for Chinese companies to list on the NASDAQ or NYSE so they use ADRs as a loophole. All in all it’s mean to con American stock investors who doesn’t know any better (or who haven’t done any research) and think they are buying stocks from a Chinese company when in fact they aren’t. They have no voting rights nor stock representation in China with those Chinese ADRs. They are basically used as an instrument for speculation or acquiring capital by companies in China. What’s disgusting is US Wall Street continues to peddle Chinese ADRs as supposedly “sound investment” but in reality it’s all one big scam.
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  443. I expect a recession triggered by Trump's trade wars gonna hit the poorest Americans in red states the hardest.
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  444. The video of the guy hammering the floor is especially disturbing. Look at how thin those metal rebars are supporting the whole floor. This is why brand new apartment buildings pancaking/collapsing is very common in China due to construction companies using cheap and substandard materials in their buildings.
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  445. They got what they voted for and they got screwed.
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  446.  @ktng3176  And here lies the difference between east and western ideology. In the west, each individual lives are important and each individual has the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. In Communism philosophy, the collective or the well being of the state is more important. The CCP would sacrifice half of China if it thinks it would help the regime stay in power. Individual human lives have little to no value in the eyes of the state. In my opinion it is the people that makes the state not the other way around. Who is right and who is wrong, it depends on your perspective. For me, without the people then there is no country. That is why the state should be subject to the will of the people not the other way around.
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  447. Thanks for letting us know.
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  448. China is a paper dragon. Actually more like toilet paper. PLA are commanded by "generals" who bribed their way to the top.
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  449.  @PlanetFrosty  their problem isn't just that but most oil fields in Russia is in the west while the cities in China that needs it are on the Eastern coastal cities. Ships are useless so they need pipes but the problem is there are no pipes going to Eastern China since those oil and gas are originally meant for Europe. So now they have to build new pipes all the way to China at the cost of $10-15 billion dollars and will take 3-5 years to build since they cover massive distance of thousands of miles.
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  450. M Chrysogelos it’s true. But yes it has stopped. TSMC sells chips to Huawei but since the ban, it has terminated all Huawei contracts.
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  451.  @itsoktolovechina  This is the truth. What is propaganda is the CCP making the Chinese people think the CCP is at their side (they aren't). Wake up and look around. Ask why 600M Chinese are still earning less than 1000 RMB per month while most CCP higher ups are all millionaires and billionaires. Even Premier Li Ke Qiang admits more than 600M Chinese are still earning less than $150 per month. Ask why CCP cadre can retire with $3M - $6M dollars pension a year while regular Chinese worker pension is only 2000-3000 RMB ($300 - $400 USD) per month. The truth is CCP thinks the Chinese people are nothing but their slaves. They are the new emperors and warlords of China. The CCP is living easy wealthy happy lives at the expense of the Chinese people. And that is Xi's idea of "socialism with Chinese characteristics", the CCP gain everything while the Chinese people work all their lives but gain nothing. At least capitalism is more honest, everyone work for themselves and for their own profit.
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  452.  @christngouf2251  False. Democracy is people ruling over themselves. Autocracy is exactly like what the CCP is which is a bunch of autocrats lording over the people while the people work like slaves.
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  453.  @christngouf2251  France destroyed the monarchy and became democratic and never looked back. The CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty ruled by an emperor in western suits.
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  454.  @Morbitz_TS  Ironically the CCP is demolishing even Christian churches and arresting people who celebrate mass. The doctrine of CCP is Xi Jinping is god and you shall have no other god except Xi. 🤣🤣🤣
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  455.  @Morbitz_TS  The CCP is superior only in one aspect, silencing complaints of the Chinese people and stealing wealth from the Chinese people. Ironically China’s economy is now slowing down, trillions of dollars are wasted on frivolous projects like Xiongan City that nobody lives in. Xi’s ego is costing the Chinese economy trillions. And Taiwan is its own country — it was never ruled by the CCP and never will be ruled by the CCP.
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  456. Very informative as usual.
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  457.  @khiem1939  yes counterfeit RMB is a huge issue in China. Didn't they arrest one guy who was in charge of printing the RMB in 2021? He basically printed 2 copies of the same serial number approved for official circulation. One set was submitted for official use by the government while another set he kept in his home for his personal use. This was billions of dollars worth in RMB.
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  458. China is facing a demographic collapse because of urbanization. In a normal development of nations, people move from rural to cities tends to take generations. For Britain it took 7 generations, for the US it took 5 generations, for China the rapid urbanization took only 1 generation. They literally went from 95% of the population of the country living in the rural villages to 65% of the population living in cities in a span of 40-50 years. Urbanization tends to reduce population because of higher cost of living and cities are not conducive to having many kids, and this neck break speed urbanization leads to neck break speed population collapse too. So China is now in a massive quandary -- you need a sustainable population in order to sustain economic growth. You need an ideal rate of 2.1 to be able to sustain a population. The US had a population replacement rate of 1.9 (or 2.1 factoring in immigration), Japan had about 1.3, China had a population replacement rate of 1.15 due to the one child policy. Even as the policy was lifted in 2015, it was already too late, China's population had peaked in 2005 not 2030 as the analysts had predicted. It was a massive miscalculation due to the opaque census data reporting in the Chinese system. This is why China is so screwed up right now, there's literally nothing their government could do -- they estimated by 2100 China's population could decrease from the current 1.2 billion to less than 600 million (50% population collapse in just 80 years is insane by any standard). Now the regime is thinking of imposing extreme policies like completely banning abortion and mandatory children (having 2 - 3 kids to be promoted in party or government jobs).
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  459. It's all about keeping up the appearance of "growth" on paper in order to prop up the regime. The regime doesn't care if people becomes actually prosperous. They only care of the "appearance of prosperity". In a sense, China under the CCP is a hollowed out country. Pretty on the outside, rotten and hollowed out on the inside.
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  460. Russia: “Everyone against us are Nazis!!!” When Russia is acting like the Nazis. Putin forced this situation on himself with the invasion of Ukraine.
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  461. Some of the GQP politicians currently in office like Jim Jordan no longer wants democracy. They want fascism in the United States. If you have ever wondered how someone like Hitler took power, this is exactly how. Using and being used by selfish politicians with their own self interest. History is indeed repealing itself so be forewarned.
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  462. Very informative.
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  463.  @HH-el8vp  I doubt it will take the world with them but there could be some exposure to western investment institutions like Blackrock.
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  464. You don't negotiate with terrorist and Putin is the largest terrorist there is.
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  465. Time for the democratic world to band together and teach the CCP a lesson.
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  466. Authoritarian communist societies never last long because it is a society that promotes “might makes right” instead of “rule of law”. It creates a society where the politically strong, influential, and wealthy people preys on the weak instead of a society governed by the rule of law. Ironically in communist societies in their overzealous zeal to create a class less society tends to create one that is unequal, devoid of compassion and predatory.
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  467. Tying healthcare to employment is the dumbest thing ever. If you lose your employment you lose everything including your healthcare as millions of Americans are finding out. It is time for Medicare for all.
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  468.  @BHALAMAN  True. That makes it even harder to sell equipment using shell companies. Since I am sure those telecom will be doing research before shelling out millions of dollars for equipment.
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  469. My prediction Gov. Josh Shapiro will be big in the years to come. Potential presidential material.
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  470. That "There Can't be Inequality if everyone is poor." meme made me snicker. 🤣🤣🤣
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  471.  @pedropski6418  An irony since communism is an imported ideology from Germany via Russia and then the Chinese communists copied it from Russia. There's nothing Chinese about communism. Karl Marx is a German for God's sake.
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  472. Not surprised at all. Trump has a history of disparaging gold star families and disregard for the needs of the US military veterans.
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  473. Very interesting and informative.
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  474. Heartbreaking. But her testimony coincides with the fact that were known. The Jingguang tunnel road filled up within the span of 5 minutes. That’s too fast for anyone to escape especially if they are stuck in the middle of the 4km underground tunnel road. They survivors are lucky they escaped because they are near the exits. Latest death count is already 302. I think they will announce more once the local government gauge public anger has lowered a bit but I don’t think they will be entirely honest about the total death count.
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  475. The only way to combat totalitarian regimes like the PRC is to project strength, confidence and aggressiveness.
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  476. If they stay in HK they will be a second class citizen of the CCP.
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  477. China is uninvestable.
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  478. Only Trump the loser wants to pull out of NATO. The NATO actually immensely benefits the US too. For example NATO were with the US throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. Even now NATO prevents Putin from conquering most of Eastern Europe. NATO will also serve as a bulwark against Russian conquest of Alaska. If the Chinese move against Taiwan or Japan, then NATO will be there to provide support to the US Asian alliance.
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  479. For those who are really in the know.. Angbang's global acquisitions isn't really about expanding their business. It is a global money laundering scheme to bring money out of the PRC by the wealthy elites in the form of "foreign investments". They don't care if most of the deals lose money, the goal is to get the PRC elites money out of China. The scheme works like this: Angbang acquires a property or assets in the US or elsewhere on behalf of a client that wants to move the money, once the money has safely changed hands then they sell/dispose of the property/assets once the client was safely out of China. Angbang boss gets a "cut" of the proceeds. It's a massive money laundering operation. Of course all of these are done thru multiple layers of shell companies and front companies to hide the paper trail.
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  480. I used to look at Trudeau with respect but he has proven to be weak. I hope Canada elect a stronger leader that dares stand up to the CCP.
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  481.  @sizanogreen  Germany is the biggest economy in EU now that UK has exited the EU. I think the rest of EU will follow whatever Germany does.
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  482. Women leaders can all see thru the CCP's modern colonization and debt slavery diplomacy.
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  483. Well finally Trump achieves something on his own merit. First US ex-president to go to jail. Wooooo!!!
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  484. Yes Singapore is strict but it follows rule of law. And the Singapore government isn’t the type to steal people’s hard earned money from them like the CCP does.
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  485. Interesting take.
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  486. Well it's the result of a few things -- excessive greed, lack of transparency and check and balance, the myth that such kind of "speculative investing" can go on forever.
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  487. It is a nice way of saying “rape”. In China, powerful CCP officials can rape women with impunity and there is nothing they can do about it. This is why the CCP must be destroyed.
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  488. Basically the CCP has pigeonholed themselves into this “zero-covid” policy which is ridiculous. Had they transitioned into “live with covid” before all the brouhaha about it then nobody would blame them but instead they screwed themselves. Now if they switch then it would be a tacit admission that “zero covid” policy has failed miserably and the Chinese people basically suffered unnecessarily for nothing. I bet they blame all the COVID cases on foreign athletes after the 2022 Winter olympics.
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  489. Credit Suisse: “Everything is peachy!” In other news, Biden announce additional sanctions on China as well as a Beijing 2022 winter olympics diplomatic boycott. Beijing threatened retaliation against US sanctions and encircles Taiwan. COVID Omnicron spread to 110 countries around the world. Evergrande announces bankruptcy. US stock exchanges delisted 200 Chinese stocks. Credit Suisse: “Just like in Tiananmen Square in 1989, nothing big happened. We’re still optimistic about business in China.”
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  490. North Korea is desperate. The only way they can get attention is to do crazy outrageous things. According to reports China, who is North Korea's only economic lifeline has slowed trade with North Korea by as much as 90% between March - April 2020 due to the global economic slowdown and the CoVid-19 pandemic. North Korea's economy is now nearly in collapse. This is North Korea's way of trying to get attention in order to extort economic concessions from the US and South Korea.
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  491. Putin is pure evil and our current Hitler.
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  492. Glad there is now stricter US inspections of Chinese ADRs. Many Chinese companies are kinda scammy in their financial reporting. Too many cooked books.
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  493. Traditional Chinese culture has been destroyed by Marxism and Communism. China's culture now has little to do with traditional Chinese culture. The real Chinese culture can be seen in Taiwan (at least some remnant of it).
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  494. Ironically it was the right wing American right wing who killed the most people thru violence. BLM and Antifa killed 0. The right wing are very much like Mao’s red guard who believe in whatever garbage their leader Trump fed them.
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  495. Globalization is good but excessive globalization led only to massive income inequality around the world. Only the billionaires managed to benefit from globalization and neoliberalism while the working class is diminished.
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  496. Trump's trade wars gonna screw the poorest Americans in red states hard. I expect a recession soon.
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  497. This is what the CCP does...they say nice things to the world but do bad things behind everyone's back when nobody is paying attention.
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  498. I try not to laugh at the MAGA cultist but I just can't. Jordan Klepper is gold. 🤣🤣🤣
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  499. If only the Xi regime took China towards the path of a benevolent superpower the world would have welcomed it. Unfortunately, Xi instead chose to take China towards the path of global authoritarianism and tyranny and has become the greatest threat to humanity.
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  500. This is purely CCP staged propaganda. I wonder after the party how many did in fact got the coronavirus ? That I guess is we'll never know.
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  501. Very good and informative video as usual Lei. Basically it sums up as the CCP is basically an organized criminal enterprise setup by a few privileged Chinese communist leaders to serve themselves and their comrades using the entire Chinese people as their slaves. In order for the China to have truly equitable and prosperous society requires they get rid of the CCP and institute an open democratic "market economy" society with rule of law.
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  502. The CCP is hardly peaceful. It has a long sordid history of murdering it’s own people.
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  503. I really love watching Korean drama. They are really the best. I might be in the minority but IMHO "Squid Game" is just okay, I don't really like it. I would very much prefer series like "Hotel Del Luna".
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  504.  @chrishamlin5863  I’m am actually wishing Xi gets a third term. Xi’s policies are continuing to wreck PRC institutions and international norms and going wolf warrior diplomacy is actually galvanizing and strengthening NATO and other US alliances in East Asia. 10 more years of Xi the Chinese people will be ready to burn down the CCP themselves. I’m watching the economic data from China, youth unemployment (age between 18 - 25) the prime job seeking age is now 25% basically 1 in 4 fresh college graduates are jobless or has no stable job. The CCP collapsing might give rise to an actual better China in the long run.
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  505. Me too. I am really sick of Trump. I wish the mainstream media would stop covering Trump. A lot of right winger hitched their wagons on Trump for their own gains. A lot of them truly do not believe a word Trump said but their meal ticket and fortunes are tied with Trump. Unfortunately Trump do still have many true believers who believed every word Trump said no matter how outrageous and insane it is. Smart people like Alex Jones and Bannon merely uses Trump to make money. In the end, it’s all a gigantic money making scheme for them. Unfortunately the damage to American society by Trump’s rhetoric is very real and will linger for years or decades to come.
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  506. Yes when these expats leave they are taking with them their money and assets. Who is going to hire those skilled local talent when the money spigot runs dry? HK was an international city because of money coming in from abroad.
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  507. Have you noticed whenever bad shit happens in China it always to the poorest and most vulnerable Chinese people who suffers the brunt of these disasters.
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  508. To get rich in China involved dealing with the CCP. The CCP is basically a gangster organization masquerading as the "government" of China. As anyone knows people who tangle with gangsters tend to have short lives unless you are at the top of the food chain. For short, amassing covert or overt power is pretty much an imperative if you don't want to be gobbled up by a bigger fish or slaughtered like a pig.
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  509. CCP: Let’s prop up the flagging economy with more waste spending and debt.
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  510. They would send poorly trained Chinese soldiers surreptitiously meaning Chinese soldiers without any identifying information to fight in the Ukraine Russian war but a lot of them will be killed. That's how the CCP will get rid of those excess jobless angry uneducated young men they have in abundance of. The CCP regime doesn't care how many millions of Chinese gets killed, in their eyes of the CCP elites all Chinese people are expendable.
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  511. Chinese ultranationalism ended up screwing the Chinese people the most.
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  512. It's actually best for the world for China to balkanize and break up into 6-8 countries.
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  513. Wish more democratic countries have the same guts as Lithuania and recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country. Bravo.
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  514. 润学 is now the trending word in China. Basically it means escape from China by going to school abroad. And yes they did this many times in history, the Chinese government basically imprisoned their own people inside China holding them as hostages. They usually do this when they are preparing for war or do some crazy stupid crap like cultural devolution.
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  515. I approve of the subculture. These are just Chinese people trying to express themselves the way they want in a society where conformity and uniformity is mandatory. Okay so maybe their taste or style isn't sophisticated but at least they are happy and proud. But of course anything that isn't "acceptable" to mainstream Chinese culture is often beaten down and ostracized. It reminds me of the image bands of Japan like L'arc en Ciel from the 1990s. People who grew up in the 1990s knows of Visual Kei bands of Japan.
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  516. A video shows a nurse in Wuhan saying the infection has reach more than 90,000 infected and more than 800+ critically ill that’s a far cry from the 6,000+ reportedly “official numbers” that are infected. They are now saying the corona virus is incredibly infectious and the carrier can infect other people even when not showing signs of being sick. Incubation period is supposedly around 7 days.
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  517. I agree the CCP has basically gutted traditional Chinese moral values such as kindness, compassion, benevolence, justice, etc. It replaced those with lust for materialism, money, violence, and power. Communism isn’t even originating from China but rather from Germany via Russia. What the CCP has is Leninist style Marxism which is an all or nothing system that destroys basic human values and turns society into a selfish totalitarian state where the party/state elites controls everything even the very lives of its people. The people are reduced to nothing except mere cogs of the state party apparatus.
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  518. CCP’s definition of “equality” is the rich owns everything while the poor dies in silence. Ironically being a “communist” country, China has one of the largest income inequalities in the world even worst than “capitalist” countries like the United States.
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  519. He was in the board of Alibaba until 2019.
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  520. Google/YT has been infiltrated by pro-CCP employees.
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  521. This is why extreme nationalism is very dangerous. The last time extreme nationalism was massively ramped up. It led to World War II.
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  522. Xi intentionally destroying the Chinese economy so the state can take over these private enterprises for cheap.
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  523. Command economy never worked in it's entire history. Market economy is still king and is the only economic theory proven to work.
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  524. All the deaths from the coronavirus are on Trump’s head.
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  525. "Fun to watch" indeed. 🤣🤣🤣
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  526. The PRC real estate industry isn't facing a liquidity crisis, it is facing an insolvency crisis -- huge difference there.
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  527. UFOs tends to appear when something big is about to occur.
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  528. Duan Lei it’s the nationalism and anti-foreigner rhetoric being promoted by the CCP that is making him feel unwelcomed.
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  529. This kind of scam is very common in China it's called 美人計 (using beautiful women to part horny guys with their money).
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  530. shockwave2291 Totally agree. The CCP is the world’s biggest organized crime syndicate. They corrupted Dr. Sun’s teachings and ideology.
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  531.  @zyz915  Typical excuse by the CCP is "You don't live in China so you don't understand China. Or You don't understand China because you are not Chinese, etc." Same authoritarian bullshit excuse used by dictators everywhere in order to continue their grip on power and to oppress the poor and the vulnerable by the ruling CCP elites.
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  532.  @pavelten1540  False narrative. Yet Li Keqiang recently revealed over 600M (half of China) is still in dire poverty earning less than 1000 RMB ($150) per month. The CCP love to pat themselves in the back about how they did a good job but it's all a lie. If you don't believe me. Look it up in the news Premier Li actually said that (which contradicted Xi Jinping). Plus it is a false narrative. The Chinese people with their hard work raised themselves out of poverty with their entrepreneurship. The CCP did jack.. now they are trying to rob the Chinese people again with land confiscation.
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  533. From what I am hearing people have stopped reporting for daily PCR test and some of the city officials no longer tries to enforce stringent measures as well (they're as exhausted as the locked down people themselves). It doesn't really mean omicron is really gone, but it merely means nobody is reporting any new cases out of fear. That's how China works. The whole zero covid debacle was a political test on how far the regime can push the Shanghainese and they realized people will now fight back if they are pushed far enough.
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  534. Emperor Xi is an utter failure.
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  535. I hope the CCP collapses soon so the Chinese people can finally be free and achieve the real “China Dream” which is democracy, prosperity, and rule of law.
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  536. They were expecting 10,000 Trump supporters to show up in their "We the people Reunion" rally in Kentucky last week -- only 300 showed up. I guess even the most hardcore Trump supporters have realized the only thing Trump was interested in was how much money he can grift from his supporters.
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  537. Very interesting.
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  538. Taiwan is so important to Xi's political calculations because Xi's policies has been a failure. His regime has chaos, slowing economy, trade war, worsening global reputation, internal strife, COVID pandemic, global emnity, endless internal calamity both man made and natural, tightening censorship and totalitarianism, hopelessness and joblessness in China. There are even rumors of an assassination attempt on Xi making him very paranoid now and feeling cornered. Almost everything Xi does is a failure. He needs to annex Taiwan for a win. He is desperate for a political win.
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  539. "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
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  540. Yep. Same phenomenon as Hitler.
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  541. Criticism of the CCP is not racism since the CCP is not a race. It's a corrupt political party masquerading as the government of China. In reality it functions more like a corrupt warlord.
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  542. Traditional Chinese (used by Taiwan) is the REAL writing system of China that has over 5,000 years of history behind it. Simplified Chinese is merely something that was invented by the CCP in the 1930s.
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  543. It is both a corruption purge and political purge. The problem of corruption in China is systemic. It will never truly go away as long as the system is the same. One corruption purge simply means one corrupt official gets replaced with a newer one waiting in the wing.
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  544. Andrew R Unfortunately the CCP’s actions or rather Xi’s government action is causing all these crazy and making China look bad. We understand the Chinese people are victims of their own government.
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  545. Keep revealing the whole GQP dark money network. Good job!!!
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  546. Too much porn spam on Twitter.
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  547. The way I see is the Chinese government will bail out their own and and US Wall Street investors will be left holding the proverbial bag. As I understand it Blackrock and other western financial companies like HSBC hold something like $20 billion dollars in Evergrande bond loans. A tiny amount compared to $300 billion but US investors will be screwed.
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  548. I hate both Trump and Xi. Both are dangerous tyrants. I blame both Trump and Xi for the quagmire the world is in. The CCP is partially responsible for this global pandemic like it or not. They bare some responsibility for it. Now they are trying their darnest to deflect responsibility by saying "oh we did well in containing, but you see what is happening in America" only pisses me off even more. The world is now learning to never trust what the CCP says no matter the amount of propaganda they put out.
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  549. China’s economy is finished.
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  550. Cenk put it the best. “Just because I wanna get rid of Beelzebub doesn’t mean I am on your team.” I agree democrats and progressives must unite to get rid of Trump then fight it out in 2024 for progressive policies.
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  551. Very informative.
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  552.  @jonbaker3728  Nope not a single cent. Taiwanese pays taxes to the Taiwan government not to the CCP government.
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  553. Taiwan is a successful prosperous country, the PRC on the other hand is starting to fast become a failed state.
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  554. Yep typical CCP solution to everything. Our COVID cases were going down because we moved the sick people outside the city. 🤣🤣🤣
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  555. Putin is just another worthless old man that is near expiration. He should just retire peacefully. His aggressive invasion of other countries will just end up with him in the history books together with Hitler, Mussolini, and other hated tyrants of history.
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  556. Indeed Bloomberg is an oligarch. He is buying the US election which doesn’t bode well for democracy. Yet MSNBC isn’t concerned about that.
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  557. 润学 or runxue is really becoming a thing nowadays. There are people now in the business of teaching others how or help others how to get themselves, their families, their wealth and assets out of China. Favored immigration countries: High Net worth individuals: Singapore, United States, Canada, Australia, UK Upper Mid Net worth individuals: Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan Low Net worth individuals: <Sorry, if you are poor in China you are really screwed and can never escape the CCP.>
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  558. It's the end of the world ...as we know it.
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  559. Taiwan is best. You get all of the Chinese culture without the CCP authoritarianism. Yes, many of the most racist Chinese are actually Malaysian Chinese trolls. I know many real Chinese from Taiwan and Shanghai. They know they are the victims of the CCP regime too.
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  560. Scaramucci might be right. Giuliani asked for blanket pardon as well as money assistance from Trump. Trump denied him both times. I can foresee Giuliani spilling the dirt on Trump to federal investigators for some kind of deal. No doubt about this. These villains are only using each other, I can see them betraying each other just to save their own asses.
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  561.  @class6aa  Not for you to decide. And nobody is throwing bombs.
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  562. When I studied PRC history I always find it ironic the CCP under Mao Zedong murdered the most number of their fellow communists. It is estimated as many as 3-5 million Chinese (many of them fellow communists) was murdered by Mao Zedong's Red Guards during political purges. That's not even counting the 15-40 million who died to starvation during the great famine of China in 1958-1961.
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  563. What would be really funny is Elon Musk's companies going bankrupt and then begging for bailout from the US government.
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  564. Believe me. Nobody will say it to his face but there are many whispering in the dark that says Xi is as dumb as a rock. He is utterly merciless, keeps grudges and politically savvy just like Qin Shih Huang. Those are traits that prospers under the CCP system and that allowed him to get as far as he did. When a state rewards the loyal and punishes the wise then you know that state is beyond saving. It will collapse sooner or later. This has happened numerous times in China before. That is why they are saying the CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty on the verge of collapse. They once said the Qing dynasty will never collapse but in the end it still did.
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  565. @Tulak Hord I agree. To be honest, when Xi first became the leader of China I was quite optimistic. I thought he could be just the leader to lead China towards the path of democracy. Nowadays my illusion has been shattered. There is no saving and reforming the CCP only utter destruction awaits. In fact the way it is going, they are running at 120 mph full speed towards an inevitable cataclysm.
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  566. The end of the CCP will be a blessing to China and Taiwan.
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  567.  @jivkotodorov84  Ukraine has a lot of problem but it is a fledging semi-democracy. It has the chance to better the lives of its people once it is allowed to be developed. Does corruption exist in the Ukrainian government ? Of course it exist, but things can get better in the future as the Ukrainians are allowed to decide their own future. Many countries were dictatorships before but due to liberalization of society and politics it became a democracy like Taiwan (during the 1950-1990 Taiwan was a military dictatorship until it became a liberal democracy). The goal is to allow Ukraine the same chance as Taiwan.
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  568.  @wionporky9937  A country has its own passport, military, currency, independent government, protected territories. Everything that Taiwan has.
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  569.  @wionporky9937  lol Taiwan has sovereignty. It has control of it's own territories. Do you even know what sovereignty means? It means it has control of it's own territories. 🤣🤣🤣
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  570.  @bobjack6203 Why are you using that fake Chinese? Use traditional writing with 5,000 year history not that simplified bullcrap invented by the CCP regime. 🤣🤣🤣
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  571.  @bellyhead67  Carlson isn't anti-war he is pro-Putin.
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  572. @Soon Kwek CCP politician says Chained woman forced to give birth to 8 children after being raped is good for country. 8 children as contribution to state population. That's what the CCP is.
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  573. Last week I heard there are already 2,000+ cases in Xi’an and they suddenly stop updating the world of the cases in China. It’s interesting to know it’s spread now all the way to Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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  574. I hope the entire Ponzi scheme collapses.
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  575. Justified.
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  576. If you are still investing in Chinese ADR stocks then you will probably deserve what's coming next. Get out while you can. Liquidate. Liquidate now.
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  577. Don't you mean HAMAS? Yeah, the MAGA GOP has turned into a far right anti-democratic, anti-women, religious fundamentalist extremists.
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  578. The PRC is the largest prison on the entire planet. It has 1.3 billion inmates and most of them are innocent people. The CCP is the biggest warden.
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  579. Actually more progressives will rise up and political corporate centrists like the Kennedy dynasty and Pelosi will become politically obsolete unless of course they change their message to become more progressive.
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  580. Cindy liew plenty of proofs... just look around .. flooding crisis, unemployment crisis, coronavirus crisis, food security crisis, pig flu crisis, now latest food shortages. Why do you think Xi urges the whole country to tighten their belts? Famine is coming.
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  581. I love Teresa Teng (鄧麗君).
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  582. I realize this video was over a year old ... fast forward to 2020. Now you realize Matt Gaetz is a huge supporter of fringe white supremacist/white nationalist extremist groups.
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  583. They can build as many ships as they want but without the experienced crews and experts to man them those ships are useless in combat especially in a war scenario. In war making its the quality not quantity that counts.
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  584. “Common prosperity” is basically the CCP stealing and cutting down the wealthy Chinese to give to themselves. The CCP regime is financially bankrupt.
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  585. "Can a mother and a father get married? No, that would be incest." Okay.. that's hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
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  586. It's a complex issue. Most Taiwanese wants independence but if they officially declare it, then that's war with China and nobody wants war. Even if Taiwan somehow were to fend off China's invasion, it would destroy any shred of relationship between China and Taiwan (many Taiwanese do in fact still have relatives, friends and business interests in China). Most Taiwanese are still waiting and hoping for the day that China liberalizes and democratizes (but that is looking more and more unlikely). That's why many opt for the status quo, however if China leaves Taiwan no choice then most Taiwanese would be willing to support independence. The best Taiwan can do right now is to play it defensively (don't cause any trouble overtly) and prepare Taiwan as best as it can for an invasion from China. I'm actually glad many democratic and allied nations are now overtly supporting Taiwan on the world stage.
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  587. A third term of Xi would pretty much ensure the PRC continues along its merry way to self isolation and economic implosion.
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  588. Yeah tattoos are not part of Chinese culture. In the west if you have tattoos it is seen as “cool” or “manly” or “macho”. In Chinese culture, tattoos and male piercings are looked down as defiling the body and is only done by criminals, prostitutes and/or outcasts of society. In fact if you have too much tattoos people will think you’re a member of a criminal gang or something and the police will regard you suspiciously.
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  589. The CCP regime treats its own citizens like dirt. Down with the CCP!!!
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  590. Tens of millions of Americans are now finding out that tying their health insurance to employment is the dumbest thing anyone can ever do. Tens of millions are now unemployed, have no healthcare coverage, have no savings and are financially broke, sick and depressed. If the COVID pandemic hasn't made the strongest case yet for a universal healthcare system then I am afraid nothing will.
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  591. LOL ...typical Chinese excuse "We have made poor decisions in investments due to extreme arrogance and idiotic speculations but ultimately we blame foreigners (America)." 🤣🤣🤣
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  592. No money was ever sent to Ukraine. It's all surplus arms that were sent to Ukraine. It is American military hardware companies that got the money.
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  593. Taiwan is a de-facto sovereign country -- the PRC has no right over it. The PRC regime is now pretty much using the same rhetoric as Putin uses to justify Ukraine invasion.
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  594. NEWS FLASH: Putin turns out to be NATO's biggest promoter. 🤣🤣🤣
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  595.  @WilliamAshleyOnline  that's not how it works. It still needs to purchase US dollar in the global currency markets to artificially weaken the RMB.
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  596. I know Melania is the silent but really smart type. She can step out of the Trump shadow and forge her own path forward and she will be successful. She did the smart thing by renegotiating her pre-nup. She gotta prepare for life after Trump.
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  597. Taiwan is in good hands with a smart and capable president like President Tsai.
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  598.  @unknownuser6809  True. The CCP considers all wealth in China belonging to the state/government. There is no such thing as private wealth in China.
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  599. Disappointment with the communist system. I agree and I hear you. Who would want to get married and raise a family when they are already a prisoner of the CCP since birth?
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  600.  @Leshic2  Yep most of the Samsung fab in China are the low end 20-30nn chips not the good high tech ones. China still cannot produce the cutting edge 10nn - 5nn chips that's why it is very reliant on US/Taiwan/Korean/Japanese chips. It's most advanced foundry SMIC can only reliably make 10nn (2 generations behind Taiwan's TSMC and Korea's Samsung which can make 7 and 5 nn chips and gearing up for 3nn in 2022). It isn't for lack of trying though, China is investing heavily on chip production and has blew massive amounts of money on it (over $300 billion dollars). However high end chip is very complicated business, it takes over 100+ steps to produce a cutting edge FinFET/MoSFET 5nn chip wafer. You also need to hire thousands materials engineer to do the work (it's a super labor intensive job). Also the US ban on exports of lithography machines to China has basically crippled China's ability to catch up.
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  601. Trump is a traitorious bastard.
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  602. Ironically Putin's genocidal actions in Ukraine is much more similar to the Nazis.
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  603. The entire Ponzi scheme that is the Chinese real estate industry is finished.
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  604. The consequence of Xi Jinping dysfunctional policies. 'Xi Jinping thought" can't put food on the table nor pay your mortgage, rent and child rearing cost.
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  605. Lol I guess you haven’t heard that the “laying flat” movement is now the rage all over China. 🤣🤣🤣
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  606. Answer: You don’t own property in the PRC. You only lease property from the government on a 50/75 year term. You can own homes and apartments however. I would say sell and get your money out of the PRC. There is no riding this out as the low end commercial real estate will collapse sooner or later. The only ones profiting off real estate right now are the high end luxury apartments but even they are hedging their bets and selling their assets and converting them to dollar and hiding them overseas.
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  607. Yep everyone is corrupt in the CCP, it’s the system that allowed this corruption.
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  608. The US doesn’t even need to do anything. Just watch as Xi himself push China into a ravine.
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  609. Russia is now effectively a Chinese slave/vassal state.
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  610. The CCP are going to get what is coming to them very soon. Their lack of compassion will be their undoing.
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  611. How can Trump run for president when he is in jail ?
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  612. There is no future in the PRC market. The future is in Southeast Asia.
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  613.  @jamesdallas1493  That’s almost a guarantee.
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  614. The CCP has zero credibility.
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  615. Jordan Klepper is awesome. This never gets old.
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  616. Trump is a sore loser and isolationist.
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  617. China is now entering a really really dark era of ultranationalism and techno authoritarian fascism.
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  618. @Felix LOL the shop signs are all in simplified Chinese not traditional Chinese. Taiwan only uses traditional Chinese. You are the only one lying here.
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  619. Through out history there are many Chinese heroes, these are people who rose to oppose the tyrannical governments of past Chinese emperors. This era is no different. The CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty.
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  620. TOMAS it’s like a scout badge... they have merit awards for years of service, rank/seniority, accomplishing missions, public service, etc. They award medals for a lot of things not just for war.
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  621. He did.
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  622. The only acceptable outcome to this is an Ukraine victory and Putin gets ejected from the balcony of the duma.
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  623. DOGE is illegal. Only the US Congress can create an official government agency. Musk needs to be investigated and if he broke the law be thrown in jail.
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  624.  @李荣-n7s  what if you learned that the CCP lied and the death is actually 100,000+ and they covered it up? What will you do?
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  625.  Giang Truong  There is no such thing as “deep state”. That’s just a boogeyman. Whenever you say deep state you lose all credibility. Corruption, yes there is corruption. But there are more good politicians than bad ones. If you say all US politicians are bad, that’s the same as saying all CCP are bad which is not true as there are both good and bad politicians even in one party. The question is whether those who are good outnumber those who are bad or vice versa. If your understanding of politics is limited to only “all US politicians are bad and corrupt” then you are simple minded and I don’t need to hear from you anymore.
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  626.  @李荣-n7s  I remember only too well the history of China. Remember the last time China had a leader who have consolidated all power to himself ? Disaster tends to happen to the people. Remember the cultural revolution, great leap forward and great famine ? Of course not. It’s easy to forget during times of good. Those are the consequence of a leader having too much power. I’m afraid history is repeating itself.
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  627.  @李荣-n7s  if they are so smart and so capable then why are they censoring all criticism of the CCP government inside China by the Chinese people?
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  628. Ukraine should be armed with more and longer ranged weaponry. Make Putin feel pain and fear.
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  629.  @minimaster96  just look up US debt discharge law. I like to provide you with a link but YouTube keeps erasing it.
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  630. These are the last decade of the CCP in power. As history have shown China's dynastic collapse tends to be slow burn and then rapidly. It will take years or even decades, those little systemic failures often adds up until a sudden rapid collapse. If you remember the Qing dynasty didn't collapse immediately in 1911. The start of the collapse took decades since the late 1800s due to systemic failures until it culminated in the Wuchang Uprising (it happened in Wuchang District in Wuhan, Hubei). There were hundreds of small revolts that were suppressed brutally by the Qing dynasty soldiers. The CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty and their downfall will be the same -- systemic and will take decades but when it finally happens it will be swift, brutal and extremely violent.
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  631. So informative.
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  632. Capitalism in it's current profits at all cost model is an utter failure.
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  633. Scholz is the weak link and Russia and China knows it.
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  634. Li Keqiang is the loyal adviser (忠臣) while Xi is the tyrant emperor (霸王). If the emperor do not listen to his good and wise advisor then the country is doomed. This is how all imperial dynasties in China eventually falls. The CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty and its existence is about finished.
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  635. This is how the CCP generate GDP growth on paper. Build stuff, stuff collapse within 2-10 years, build more of the same stuff wasting trillions in Chinese taxpayers money and generate massive waste and pollution. In the meantime all that money gets funnelled into the pockets of corrupt CCP officials and their cronies. How do you think there are so many Chinese billionaires (all with CCP connections) while 600 million Chinese still make less than 1000 RMB ($160 USD) per month ?
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  636. I believe Xi will attack Taiwan in 2022 or 2023. We shall see what happens. Is China a real superpower or a big paper tiger joke?
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  637.  @bambootransistor2826  Taiwan is so important now to the global 5nn chip economy that any attack on Taiwan by the PLA will ensure a massive global response.
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  638.  @bambootransistor2826  Don’t underestimate Taiwan. Xi has over reached his ambition. It has already galvanized and awaken western consciousness to counter the CCP. This will only get stronger. Xi has shot himself in the foot and only himself to blame.
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  639.  @mrmacias4217  nobody likes the CCP. It's hated by almost every democratic country. Jamie Dimon is right, JP Morgan will last longer than the CCP.
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  640. Wolf warrior diplomacy is indeed so cartoonish you wonder if these CCP diplomats are somehow trying to destroy the credibility of their own government.
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  641. Xi will win eventually but the consequences won't be anything you will like. I do hope Xi gets a 3rd term. He really is the super accelerator. 😂😂😂
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  642. “I’m the fucking president… you can’t tell me what to do.” <=== Trump thinks he is king.
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  643. Babbitt is not a martyr. She is another casualty of Trump's idiocy and political rhetoric.
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  644. I agree "good" housing policy is selling affordable living spaces to the poor not build more empty luxury apartments.
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  645. Gutter oil are extremely carcinogenic. Because it contains the chemicals aflatoxin and benzopyrene, two of the most toxic and carcinogenic substances. It can cause cancer when ingested by humans. No wonder cancer cases in China skyrocketing by 300 - 400%.
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  646. Nothing new. Putin's Russia has been doing this for over 30 years. Putin's Russia is an evil autocratic dictatorship.
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  647. It's like the CCP took Orwell's 1984 and use it as an instruction manual on repression.
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  648. From what I am hearing the C919 has problems with the air intake and circulation system when it reaches a certain height. Imagine your air supply for passengers shutting off when you are high above the clouds and air is very thin. I am not sure if this is just one flight or is an inherent design flaw. They are being super tight lipped about this. Apparently it's a huge blow to national pride to admit any problem much less a very serious problem with the airplane.
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  649. Only the very very tiny minority of right wing fascist conservative Republicans wants a civil war.
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  650. Yep. Just like most of China's meteoric corporate rise (Evergrande, etc.). It's all debt fueled growth except they hide all the debts. Cooking the books is standard in China especially if it involves foreign investors. Some say the entire Chinese economy is one massive Ponzi scheme and they might be right.
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  651. I agree. These are the final years of Putin’s time on Earth. Simple fact is young Russian soldiers are being conscripted and being sent to their deaths in Ukraine on a pointless war when Russia's demographic is already collapsing. The Russian people are going to realize this is all for nothing. Ukraine will win in the end and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers would have died for nothing. What do you think will happen if the families of those 60-80,000 Russian soldiers realized their sons and daughters died for nothing carrying out Putin's idiotic agenda? Just like in a shark tank, any hint of blood even from the biggest shark will trigger a feeding frenzy from all the other smaller sharks. Putin will die from blood loss from a thousand cuts or bites.
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  652. No to Israeli annexation of Palestine. That billions spent on Israel is better spent on American workers and addressing unemployment.
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  653. This is the real China. A totalitarian autocratic regime where people are treated by the government as trash or disposable cogs of the state. This is what it looks like in a country with no freedom of speech nor self determination nor rule of law.
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  654. The lab leak theory is definitely plausible. The question is therefore if it is a deliberate leak or accidental leak.
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  655. The CCP dynasty is a continuation of the warring era of China. Old warlord (Jiang Jemin faction) vs. New warlord (Xi Jinping faction). Only difference is everyone are now wearing $3,000 USD Giorgio Armani suits instead of silk robes.
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  656. US Wall Street needs to stop giving money to the totalitarian CCP regime.
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  657. I've read about that -- people were trading onions, potatoes and veggies as payments for their apartments. I guess the barter system is in again. How many cows, pigs, chickens and goats do I need for this 300 sq^m condo ?
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  658.  @plaguedoc7727  True. Authoritarian regimes tends to only band together to achieve something, they don't really gain long term allies. Watch Pakistan and Russia stab China in the back once their interests no longer align. Ironically China's expansionism is making its neighbors wary of it including Russia and Pakistan. So it's really more of an alliance of convenience.
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  659.  @plaguedoc7727  LOL trample the US huh... China can't even project power across its shores and the PLA army is untested in real battle. It's okay to love your country and to be proud of it but to have delusions of grandeur? You are courting your own demise.
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  660.  @Blackdot333  Correction some African countries leaders like the CCP’s corrupt money nothing else. China’s own neighbors like Vietnam, India, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar dislike China. The rest like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc. are so indebted to the CCP’s corrupt money they can’t even say anything anymore (debt trap diplomacy). Even Russia is wary of China (you can say it’s China’s biggest frenemy). The CCP gives China a bad name. Once all that corrupt CCP bribe money dries up let’s see if the African autocrats will still say they like China.
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  661. Only JPMorgan and Blackrock is bullish on China. Everyone else is bearish. They are going to lose their shit.
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  662.  @BolsakTBagger  there are people filming their last will and testament, upload it to the internet before they suicide. Lots of them if you know where to look. Often they would say they have lost everything and owes huge amounts of debt and can no longer continue living.
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  663. GOP = party of human garbage.
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  664. Democracy will allow reforms and changes to happen.
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  665. Very informative as usual Lei. I did not even think of viewing it from the selling old rice stock angle.
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  666. The funniest video I saw was when they were PCR testing fishes in the market — the PRC government is insane. Food security issues has always been the biggest fear in PRC collective psyche. The people can tolerate almost anything except hunger due to the terrible collective memories from the great famine era of Mao but all of these are self inflicted and could have been avoided.
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  667.  @lettucesalad3560  Yep the entire Chinese real estate industry is a scam used to prop up "GDP". Latest record shows 55 million.. yes.. million empty and abandoned properties in China. One thing about houses and human constructed infrastructure is they rot and requires active maintenance, unoccupied properties tends to rot the fastest. A rotting property is called an urban blight.
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  668. They're just pocketing it. The whole Trump campaign since 2016 has always been a cash grab at the expense of the American taxpayers/voters.
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  669. Huawei is finished. They cannot even make their own CPU. The sanction pretty much means TSMC cannot make Kirin CPU for Huawei. What are they gonna sell? My bet the number #1 in China will probably be BBK, Samsung, Apple or Xiaomi. Sure they can try to make 5nn chips, SMIC certainly is trying but they don’t have the tech yet. The semiconductor lithography machines are mostly made in the Netherlands, the sanctions prevents Netherlands from selling any 5nn lithography machines to Huawei or SMIC.
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  670. Very good information as usual Lei.
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  671. Re-districting and gerrymandering is anti-democratic. If the democrats aren’t willing to fight against that then they will lose again in 2022 and the cycle of “do nothing” repeats itself until 2024.
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  672. I agree it is just symbolic. It won't do anything to harm or hurt China. It would just be a loss of face for the Xi regime, that's about it. But it's a strong rebuke and it's better than nothing.
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  673. PRC is finished. Get out while you can.
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  674. Not at all. Hitler’s nazi Germany killed about 17 million people (most accepted number worldwide). The CCP under Mao Zedong killed about between 60-100M of its own people (its still a state secret even today and the numbers cannot be independently verified). Most likely won’t ever be verified for a long time. The CCP continues to kill people today especially the Falun Gong members and the Uyghurs.
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  675. They are VOIP spam calls originating from HK and China. These are scams masquerading as the Chinese embassy and they are demanding money from you.
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  676. Thank you Lei! This is incredibly informative.
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  677. Europe needs to step up.
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  678. CCP abuses, enslaves and cause undue suffering to its own minorities. All the CCP nationalists applauding and cheering on the CCP. Now I understand why China would disintegrate if the CCP is gone. 🤣🤣🤣
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  679. Trump's idiocy emboldened Putin to start this war.
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  680. The Palestinians are totally fucked.
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  681. Yes, Nathan Law is legit. China is now a fascist dictatorship under the Xi regime.
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  682. Very good point.
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  683. Allowing criticism is how a country grows. Criticism is calling out wrong doings by the government. People who genuinely love their country should criticize the government for wrong doings. But very well said... what the world really needs is for people to listen to each other.
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  684.  @MrTaxiRob  For all their socialism talks the CCP have one of the worst socialism programs in the world. Even the US had better socialism programs than China. When they say "socialism with Chinese characteristics" it only means the CCP bureaucratic elites and the city dwellers gets the benefit (because of the Hukou system) while the rest of China gets nothing.
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  685.  @whimsiquisitive  I disagree the US will have a civil war. It’s an absurd notion started by Russian disinformation agents. Trump supporters are dwindling every single day. Believe it or not many previous Trump supporters realize Trump is a hoax and only a minority of hardline supporters still thinks Trump should be president (Biden approval rating is 60%). You cannot have a civil war unless both political parties controls military forces of equal strength — the US military still is controlled by the current president (aka Biden) not Trump. Trump most likely will face tax evasion, fraud and corruption charges. Cases are already being filed in NY and evidence being collected. Even some GOP agents admitted Trump could potentially go to jail much less run for national public office.
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  686.  @whimsiquisitive  Nothing I say will change your mind so you can believe whatever you wish. Printing money causes inflation not civil war. The fact that Biden has high approval rating from both Republicans and Democrats polled how do you justify a civil war when the economy is starting to recover and the number of infections and deaths from covid are going down?
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  687. Jiang or Xi, both are the same. Jiang faction is technically more corrupt while Xi faction are more conservative and hawkish. Both factions are composed of evil men. In fact the entire CCP is corrupt because the system promotes and encourages corruption due to the concentration of power and the lack of institutional checks and balances and lack of free press in China.
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  688. Lindsey Graham is complicit.
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  689. False. The US replenishes it’s labor force thru immigration. Yes the birth rate in the US is low at 1.8 but immigration allows companies to replace retiring workers with immigrant workers so it is like as if the US maintains a rate of 2.0+. In fact by 2100 China’s population will be reduced to 485 million while the US will have about 425 million (relatively stable).
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  690. China are ungrateful to the US.
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  691. Share this video and spread it to the four corners of the world. This is the same cultural genocide the CCP did to the Tibetans and the Uyghurs.
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  692. For short... party time is over in China. China needs a new government one that does not rely on lies, violence and distortions to keep power. China needs a new government that sticks to the rule of law, then maybe the world will trust China again. Now the world (especially the US) is revolting against the CCP's state owned enterprises like Huawei and ZTE. World trade between countries must be fair and should not be exploitative like what the CCP is doing to the US and to various other countries around the world or worst exploiting it's own people. And I agree with Premier Li Kequiang, China needs to build up small business not rely on state owned enterprises and billionaire corporations.
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  693. Another excellent video. I hope this blows up like China’s political Chernobyl and destroy the CCP kleptocracy.
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  694. China, Iran, North Korea and Russia laughing their heads off as their agent of chaos Trump destroys the US led global economic and security alliance previous US presidents spent decades cultivating.
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  695. Very interesting video as usual.
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  696. If you dump money in CCP China your money is going into a black hole and you can no longer easily get your money back.
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  697. All those illegal POGOs shpuld be dismantled. Their assets seized and owners/operators deported.
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  698. “Let the country’s wealth be looted” <— the CCP are already doing that themselves. 🤣🤣🤣 And yes, war is coming. All these crackdowns are designed to immunize the Chinese people from long term hardship that will happen once China declares war against Taiwan and the US. Most of Xi’s policies so far has failed and did not improve the Chinese economy or improve the relationship between US and China. In fact the Chinese economy is slowing down, with a looming debt crisis in the horizon (there is a chance China might end up defaulting on their debt obligation due to the shadow debt) and there really is nothing Xi can do about it. Just like Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany they need the war with the US/Taiwan in order to bolster Chinese nationalism in order to try to save the CCP regime. Ironically I read an article recently saying Wall Street lobby is still trying to pressure Biden to make friends and acquiesce to the demands of Xi’s CCP in order to save the billions they have invested in China. The truth is, Xi is on a war path and nothing short of the complete subjugation of the US and Taiwan will satisfy him. There is no choice but to go to war to defend democracy for our allies in Asia. The CCP dynasty’s is nearing the end of life and it’s either them or our democratic allies in Asia.
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  699. Small businesses have closed and when they close they are gone for good. Small business are things like small grocery stores and small diners. When people cut down on spendings it is the small businesses that goes first. Unfortunately the bulk of America's workforce are employed by these small businesses not multinational billion dollar corporations.
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  700. China's economic problems isn't COVID but deep structural problems. The COVID pandemic merely hasten the rot and collapse by a factor of 10. The scam will eventually end like it or not. Ironically it is US Wall Street that is intent on keeping it going but not even Wall Street can save it now.
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  701.  @joylm9108  Even the poorest Americans makes $15,000 a year. The poorest Chinese makes less than $2,000 USD per year. Can't even compare. If you have a low paying job ($7.25 minimum wage per hour) you will make $15,000 as is required by law. The US do have homeless shelter and low rent/rent control housing. Even the smallest one is still bigger than cage housing in HK and China. Ironically for being a "capitalist country" the US even more generous to its citizens than even "socialist" China.
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  702. The CCP itself is the world's largest organized criminal enterprise.
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  703. The sad thing here is Xi will start a war and millions of Chinese will suffer because of his arrogance and incompetence.
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  704. Fast forward to 2022, Duterte got played by Xi Jinping. His concessions to China in SCS gave zero economic prosperity results. The CCP regime can never be trusted. It’s a regime that bullies and preys on other small developing countries with debt slavery. Look at what is happening in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Laos, etc. those countries are all deeply indebted to China and China exploits their natural resources while their people gain nothing from the debt slavery. While the Chinese people are generally good, but their government the CCP is an evil regime.
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  705. True. Look at how the urbanites treat the migrant workers from the rural areas. It's like second class citizens.
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  706. A lot of people hopes that too. Biggest obstacle to China progressing politically is the CCP.
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  707. Germany relied too much on China and got screwed for it.
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  708. ​ @LeisRealTalk  And ironically it spawned a growing feminism movement in China which the CCP is trying to crackdown on. Maybe a discussion about China's feminism movement and the harassment they are facing from the nationalists and the government would be an interesting topic of discussion.
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  709. Whenever I feel saddened and depressed at the state of American politics I view this video and suddenly I feel better. There is still hope. There are good people like Bernie Sanders fighting for the working class Americans.
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  710. 🤣🤣🤣
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  711. They're now trying to promote "Xi thoughts" on the same standing as the classical Chinese philosophers and scholars like Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi and Laozi. Even some Chinese netizens are finding that to be too much and are making fun of Xi.
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  712. I‘m so excited!!!
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  713. It's hypocritical. If you mock Trump or any of the right wing personalities then they will ban you. It's basically a social media for fascists and supremacists to get together.
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  714.  @hermantansri4738  The only bully here is the CCP and now they are hurting because the plutocrats can no longer exploit the world. The world has woken up to being taken advantage of. If China really wants to progress then they should get rid of the CCP.
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  715.  @itsoktolovechina  Harbin is a Tier 2 city similar to Xiamen.. it's a rich city. And I am right. I have data to prove it. In fact the per capita there is 49,000 CNY which is pretty high compared to other tier 3-4 cities. You haven't seen poverty yet.. maybe you should go westward then you will know poverty. You realize 600M that's half of China live on tier 3-4 cities and they earn less than 12,000 - 20,000 CNY per year. But keep denying it.. I'm telling you the truth for you own good. If you prefer to be blind and ignorant then that is your own preference.
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  716. Qing He What I am saying is a good government has the moral obligation to help their citizens instead of spending money on useless things like BRI and building entire cities from scratch that nobody wants to live in or building roads and bridges that leads to nowhere just to enrich the companies owned by CCP cadres using Chinese taxpayers money.
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  717. ​ @hermantansri4738  If everyone in China loves the CCP how come there are millions of people protesting inside China ? How come the CCP have to imprison 2-3 million Uyghurs in slave labor re-education camps ? How come the CCP have to mandate that all Mongolian schools have to teach lessons in Mandarin Chinese ? How come they have to impose draconian and merciless "national security law" in HK ? If everyone loves the CCP how come the police in HK have to tackle and injure a 12 year old girl and beat up men and women protesting peacefully in HK ? If everyone loves the CCP then why ban tourist from visiting Xinjiang and Tibet ? The truth is Xi Jinping's regime is a failure. The Chinese economy is now teetering on the verge of collapse. The flood in China cause over $20 billion in damages yet the CCP did nothing for the people. You can spread propaganda that the Chinese people love the CCP but everyone can see the truth. The Chinese people hates the CCP with a passion (hence the increase number of dissidents and people "escaping" from HK and China including over 500 Chinese billionaires using Cypress "golden passport" to escape to EU with their money). Time is running out for the CCP. One day when China is truly free, then history will show the CCP is one of the most murderous regime in human history worst than even Hitler and the Nazis.
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  718. The CCP will promote and use you until it doesn't need you anymore and then it's off to the prison or slave labor camps. China needs another mass revolution to destroy the CCP dynasty. Chaoyang Masses is basically neighbors policing each other -- total utter dystopia. Its an irony they were arresting a piano celebrity for prostitution when serial rapists that is connected to the party higher ups were pretty much let go with a slap on the wrist.
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  719.  @christngouf2251  The French peasants revolted against Louie XVI and the French nobility because of their excessive tyranny and the people were starving just like how the CCP elites and the CCP bureaucrats were stealing trillions from the Chinese people to enrich themselves while 600 million Chinese still lived under 1000 RMB ($150 USD) per month. The reckoning for the CCP is coming.
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  720.  @christngouf2251  What are you talking about ? Most of the French nobles lost everything. But some did retain their wealth and power simply by hiding their wealth elsewhere like what many corrupt CCP did. The CCP is the main problem and main obstacle in China. They claim they are for the people but in reality, it's just like the French nobility it's a bureaucracy that preys on the people's hard work. The CCP claims they want to create a classless society -- look at China now, the class divide between peasants and the CCP elites and CCP billionaires has never been bigger. They have lied for 70 years to the Chinese people and now the entire Ponzi scheme built up by the CCP in cooperation with Wall Street is now collapsing. You read that right, all that money flowing into China is money from Wall Street -- the CCP allowed it to happen to enrich themselves but now things are slowing down they are all pulling out. When an economic system is hollowed out like that then it is like an empty shell -- prone to collapse.
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  721.  @Morbitz_TS  LOL that’s what CCP propaganda would like you to believe except 600 million people still live under 1000 RMB ($150 USD) per month. This is reported by Li KeQiang himself in 2020. Even the poorest American makes $12,000 a year. China’s economy is a debt fueled economy. US debt is 160% of it’s GDP but China is over 300% debt of it’s GDP. Superior model my ass. The CCP economy is a scam that will soon collapse into a stinking heap.
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  722.  @Morbitz_TS  In any case, the Taiwanese people doesn't want to be ruled by a corrupt shithole totalitarian regime like the CCP. The CCP is acting like a rapey ex-boyfriend who can't seem to understand "no" means "no".
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  723. That's basically the history of Saudi Arabia. 🤣🤣🤣
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  724.  @LeisRealTalk  You cover interesting topics I am not even aware of. Thank you.
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  725. It is a myth to think that "China think and plan in terms of centuries". The PRC regime are very good in 2 things only: 1.) make up lies and propaganda for themselves (they have massive experience in lying to 1.3 billion people). 2.) grabbing hold on to power. It's the ultimate overwhelming mentality of the regime to hold on to power at all cost. Mao Zedong is infamous for saying he isn't afraid of a nuclear war because even if half the population of China dies to nukes, as long as the party infrastructure survives, they can rebuild the PRC.
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  726. The west should never have allowed CCP acquisition of assets and technologies.
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  727. Political ads are usually pretty dry and self promoting but Bernie's campaign ads resonate so strongly with me even now in the days of Trump.
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  728. Bernie doesn't need to pander to the black voters unlike some politicians. You have to remember Bernie was in the civil rights movement and even got arrested for it. The footage is genuine. It isn't those pandering bullshit that some political ads put up.
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  729. Hillary Clinton is part of the 1% hence Hillary Clinton is part of the problem.
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  730. The little bird represents the little people .. us the countless nameless working class Americans that comprises America flocking to Bernie. The Bald Eagle represents America as a nation rejecting Trump and his divisive ideology.
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  731. *eat popcorn*
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  732. Compassion towards your fellowmen is what all politicians should have.
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  733. Income inequality is still rampant, lack of labor rights and protections, and protection of human rights are still primitive in China. The CCP government is still as tyrannical and as intrusive as ever. Ironically, if you know where to look, Chinese porn are very rampant. The CCP government isn't interested in protecting Chinese sensibilities, all they are interested in is to project power.
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  734. You know the system is broken when 32 million people are unemployed yet the stock market are the highest it’s been ever. This is the effect of stock buy backs by corporations using stimulus money. They weren’t using the money for the workers. After they got the corporate stimulus money they still fired millions of workers.
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  735. They will bail out the locals but western asset management companies with massive exposure to Evergrande like Vanguard, Blackrock, HSBC, etc. are screwed. I'm laughing my head off at Wall Street and corporate America still investing and dumping their money in China. They are gonna get what they deserve -- massive losses and bad debts. Evergrande is just the tip of the iceberg. The next gonna fall are Sunac, Vanke, Soho, etc.
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  736. Well Xi is to credit for making China the ire of liberal democracies around the world.
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  737.  @ananditaifada2431  factories and companies that used to be in China are now all moving to Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. The global supply chain is shifting and diversifying. 2020 - 2030 is a transitional decade.
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  738. Trump, JD Vance and MAGA wants the chaos, the fear and the hate they themselves created. They relish in it then they would say "See, I told you so! It's the Democrats, they caused it."
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  739. This is the contrast between BGC proper and the surrounding neighborhoods. You will find many contrasting neighborhoods like that in the Philippines with neighborhoods for the wealthiest people and right across are the low/working class income neighborhoods. Btw, those aren't the slums, just low or working class income neighborhoods. Many of the workers servicing BGC live there (they sure cannot afford a flat in BGC which can cost $500 up to over $2000+ USD per month). BGC supplies the workers with jobs while the wealthy foreigners and residents of BGC (mostly wealthy OFWs or businessmen) supplies the workers with their wages. These contrasting neighborhoods are the effect of severe income inequality and disparity in the Philippines.
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  740. If you can only look at the world thru the lenses of left or right wing ideology then you ought to have your eyes and brain checked.
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  741. Buttigieg is the new Hillary.
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  742. The CCP steals everything including KMT songs. They are called "communist bandits" for a reason.
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  743. Blackrock is gonna get screwed so badly. Soros is right. This guy is right, invest in China at your own risk. Pouring billions into China right now is like pouring barrels of money down the toilet.
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  744. Lol China keep wasting money and ammo as their economy collapses.
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  745. Putin is evil. I hope one day the free people of Russia would get rid of Putin and reform Russia into a free peaceful and democratic country.
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  746. Trump: I just invested in funeral homes stocks for the holidays.
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  747. It’s pretty damning then again nothing would dissuade Trump’s base from voting for him. His blatant cruelty, lies, manipulation and exceptionalism is what actually endears Trump to his base.
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  748. Welcome to the CCP totalitarian dystopia system. It is indeed laughable some countries are saying “we should copy the CCP model”. Well this is the CCP model, zero (0) shits about the well being of it’s people only care about how the government / CCP looks and whether anything is a threat to their power.
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  749. I can see people commenting that don't believe the PRC will collapse but if you studied Chinese history a dynastic collapse doesn't happen overnight but rather it took decades after its institutions began failing. The Qing collapse didn't start in 1911, it's problems have been festering since the 1880-1890s and it took 20-30 years for the Qing state to totally collapse in 1911. The CCP dynasty will happen the same way, it won't collapse immediately in 2024 but probably around 2030-2034.
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  750.  Political Mind  the world already has become poorer as wealth are concentrated into the hands of the few globalists.
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  751. No problem. Trump won't win and will be in jail before 2025 ends.
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  752. Bill Maher is right. If you think the US couldn’t possibly become an autocratic authoritarian regime like China or Russia. It could, it definitely could. There is a huge chunk of the Republican voters who no longer believes the winner of elections should be the one with the most votes.
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  753. The irony is if the CCP nukes Australia, it's gonna kill many of the 1.2 million Chinese nationals living in Australia but the CCP don't care. Also if the CCP nukes Australia, it's gonna prompt a US nuclear response.
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  754. Douglas yes the oppressive laws and broken justice system creates an uncaring, apathetic society.
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  755. Lol it's always the money con with Trump. 🤣🤣🤣
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  756. She is so adorable.
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  757. Lol using Taiwan to control China. Is the CCP that weak that it can be controlled by a tiny neighboring island? Then the CCP system has utterly failed. Time to reform the entire political system in China.
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  758. Don’t worry. The democratic world is preparing to end the CCP dynasty. Haven’t you heard of AUKUS and the QUAD ?
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  759. I love WION isn't pandering to the CCP money like what many US mainstream corporate media have succumbed to. Keep telling the unbiased truth.
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  760. This is very dangerous. If Putin nukes Ukraine we'll see all NATO member states and US allies in East Asia, South Asia begin to ask for their own nuclear weapons or begin nuclear weapons development. It would spark a massive global nuclear arms race. Every country will want their own nukes for protection -- even pacifist countries like Japan and even South Korea. Every country that can afford it will be nuclear armed to the teeth. As for Russia, that probably won't force a surrender from Ukraine, in fact it very likely could backfire and there will be retaliation.
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  761. A society that doesn't care about their young being conscripted to die in a pointless war has absolutely no future. Russia already has a shrinking youth population and this war will further shrink their young people. It's the end of the Russians.
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  762. Hikari Tik says the wumao who have to troll for the CCP to put food on the table because the CCP cannot afford to let the Chinese people speak for themselves.
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  763. Mad Dog Morgan 😂😂😂
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  764.  @pedropski6418  red as in stained with the blood of its own people because the CCP doesn’t give a shit about the common folks.
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  765. No Taiwanese will accept an invasion from the PRC. Taiwan has worked too long and too hard to create a free democratic country and society for itself. No way is it willing to go back to the Han ethnofascist rule of the CCP.
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  766. Parts of China is already shutting down again due to new COVID variants.
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  767. Famine might be coming once again to China.
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  768.  Gregory Alfano  He is the only US president to have American blood on his hands. 192,000 coronavirus deaths and still no decisive action.
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  769. ​@Gregory Alfano Trump willfully ignored the dangers of the virus despite the advice of his health advisors (January 2020). Still refused to take it seriously as cases explode in the US (February 2020). Says the virus will be gone by summer (March 2020). Refuses to wear masks and other PPE equipment, spreading rhetoric about mask being useless (April 2020). Promotes insane and cockamamie cures like hydroxychloroquine (May 2020). Refuses to get the GOP senate to fund coronavirus pandemic relief as the economy tanks. I could go on and on.. yes the 193,000 deaths is on Trump's head. In fact they estimated the deaths would reach over 400,000 by January 2021. They are all on Trump's head because of his leadership failures. So yeah... Trump has failed the American people. Trump is a failure and a loser. The death is now over 192,000 (5% death rate). Blaming it on the Chinese? Sure the virus may have originated from China but Trump had ample warning and yet he continues to do nothing except play golf and engage in inane rhetoric. What a failure of a president. 12-15 million are now unemployed (it's actually higher). This is the worst than the great depression.
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  770. Can't wait to see Trump lose the 2024 election and go to jail for good.
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  771. There is no saving Evergrande. 4 out of 5 top real estate companies in China are under financial distress. If they save one, many will demand that they be saved too. The government doesn’t have the financial capacity to save all of them. As one geopolitical analyst puts it “the western governments views wealth as a morale and societal good, the Chinese government government views wealth as a political good.” What this means is the PRC doesn’t care about making good financial decisions as long as the outcome net them political benefits. It doesn’t mean the PRC government totally does not care about financial well being of the country, they care because when people’s lives are negatively affected they tend to rise up against the regime and social and civil unrest happens. This is why the PRC has so many financial scandals caused by short sight decisions that often has decades long implications.
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  772. Trump is like... mehh... that's fine... I'm still besties with Putin. /golfs
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  773. CCP China can never be trusted.
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  774. Yeah got dozens of those Chinese court scam calls. Annoying as hell. I reported them to my carrier and I don’t get them anymore. According to the news they tracked the calls thru VOIP originating HK or China.
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  775. ❤️❤️❤️ Hong Kong ❤️❤️❤️
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  776. After watching I feel so angry at Xi Jinping and the CCP. Their policy destroyed China.
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  777. Ghislaine Maxwell needs to be arrested too and thrown in jail for being an accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. She is now on the run from the US justice system and refuse to accept any lawsuits according to her lawyers. Efforts to locate her is currently still in progress.
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  778. The Wuchang uprising that led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty started this way too.
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  779. China causing trouble and wants war.
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  780. They won’t allow Pfizer vaccines to enter China’s market but continue to push for measures that clearly didn’t work. This is largely self inflicted by the regime.
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  781. Economic populism is now more needed than ever especially since more than 7.2 million Americans are now permanently unemployed since the start of the year and it's nearing the Christmas/Winter season where finding jobs now is even harder than before.
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  782. The only reason why George Lloyd was murdered by the white police officer is because he is black. Yes racism and white supremacy is still a massive problem in the US. If George Lloyd were white he wouldn’t have been killed. This problem is magnified by Trump’s rhetoric. Also this problem is essentially modern day lynching due to lack of accountability. When a bad police killed someone they are often merely fired. The system protects the police more than it protects civilians, it is rare for a police to go to jail for killing a black person especially if the police is white. So often these police would get fired then they would apply for a job at a nearby town or another state and they would be hired again. But this mass protests means people are trying to hold the government accountable.
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  783. Trump is doing exactly what authoritarian government does, undermine the ability of the people to vote (and vote him out of office). This is incredibly dangerous for democracy in the US.
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  784. Each Russian general taken out by the Ukrainians is a good day IMHO.
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  785. I agree with the lady speaker. People needs to stay strong. This is an endurance fight. The CCP shoots themselves in their foot all the time. It's just a matter of time before the Chinese people had enough of this shitty garbage regime.
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  786. Trump and MAGA is disgusting.
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  787. Lol she should say it... Taiwan not Taipei. 🤣🤣🤣
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  788. Yep. Those bases will be destroyed with just one or two tomahawk missiles. The islands are isolated and far from reinforcement. Plus there's nowhere the soldiers manning the islands to flee to or to hide. Remember those are all man made islands. There are no natural barriers or defensive formations to hide behind. The PLA soldiers stationed there are basically sitting ducks. In the first week of a US China war all those militarized Islands will all be wiped off the face of the planet.
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  789. $750 billion dollars a year for the US military. I would expect the MRE meals to be decent at least. Such a disappointment. I have been checking out the MRE boards and you're not the only one complaining about it. The Spinach fettuccine (MRE #14) is one of the most disgusting MREs on the menu. The entire MRE actually has a chocolate drink you can make (probably to wash out the aftertaste). It's made by the Wornick Foods company from Cincinnati Ohio.
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  790. Glad US law enforcement is working one step at a time. Soon it will be the mini-bosses and big bosses turn to be in jail.
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  791. Lol these Trumpers are funny. Socialism is essentially people paying into the program now that benefits them when they need it later. Lol Trump creating business... the US just lost 32% of GDP under Trump’s watch. 152,000 Americans are now dead. 4.5M are sick. 32M people are jobless. Suicide rates and bankruptcies rates are thru the roof.
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  792. The Chinese water dragon howls in rage and anguish due to damage the CCP has inflicted on nature. Shortsighted projects that caused ecological/environmental damage and damming of rivers for power generation and profit. This is the consequence. Be frightened indeed.
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  793. Peace means giving the middle finger to an international criminal organization like the CCP.
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  794. Yup. China and Russia will do the same. Give token concessions for Trump to declare victory then do nothing and business as usual.
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  795. I love it. So funny.
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  796. The worst enemy of the Chinese people is the CCP.
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  797. If China let COVID rip.. I estimate the death count from COVID deaths would reach 10-20 million people dead just in China alone. The refusal to import US MRNA vaccine however is completely a political decision. The idea was, modern China is now as capable as the United States in creating a MRNA vaccine except the reality is they are not. The US being able to create a viable vaccine within 1 year span of time is nothing short of a medical miracle (most vaccines take 2-5 years to formulate). PRC could make one given time that is why they are buying time for themselves with the draconian lockdown. They see it as a nationalistic pride ("We don't need the US for vaccines.") as to allow US vaccine import would acknowledge that the PRC isn't as capable as the US and that would probably be the end of the Xi regime.
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  798. To summarize: Mao Zedong = Every capitalist who oppose us dies!!! Deng Xiao Peng = Maybe we should open up to capitalism. Jiang Jemin = Money money money!!! Make it rain MONEY!!! Screw the poor. Hu Jintao = Share some wealth with the poor please!!! Xi Jinping = I am the new emperor of Modern China. I want both wealth and power !!! In my hands alone...
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  799. The more the CCP regime does something egregious like Wolf wanker diplomacy the more I lose respect for them.
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  800. Sorry Hong Kong is now being absorbed into fascist China.
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  801.  @atxplus  China is hardly communist. It's now a totalitarian fascist regime. Its communist only in name. The reality is income inequality in China is way worst than even "capitalist" USA. For a communist country it has scant little "socialist programs".
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  802. The service is more like a bandaid until they gain the strength and courage to fix their family problems. For many people, all it takes is a chance to regain their footing again in order to correct their past mistakes.
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  803. Investing in China right now means keeping the CCP going and in power for the foreseeable future. Time to end this Ponzi scheme. While technically select (not all) us firms can own 100% of their company now in China, there is always a risk the CCP will seize company assets. This risk is always there and won’t be negated even if a US company owns 100% of their shares. The CCP can simply go in and seize private US company assets in China. I would say invest at your own risk.
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  804. Democracy is government for the people by the people. Plutocracy is government for the billionaires by the billionaires. The United States USED to be a democracy until the 1970s where it's government were essentially slowly hijacked by corporate interests. Fast forward to 2020, the Trump government is essentially a plutocracy heading towards authoritarian dictatorship. This doesn't mean Trump is the source of the problem but rather he is the product of a broken democratic system that took decades in the making. It's the same as Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Germany during the Weimar Republic was a democracy however due to wars (WWI), the great depression and crushing sovereign debt people opted to elect Hitler in order to "make Germany great again". You can see the similarities here. But it doesn't have to be like that, the US has the capacity to aspire to true greatness if only we can stop electing corrupt and greedy politicians and stop taking democracy for granted. We must get dirty money out of politics as well as outlawing gerrymandering. This is the first step in retaking democracy back into the hands of the people again.
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  805.  @Werkelijk  I didn't say NATO will militarily intervene but will support US/Taiwan alliance against PRC.
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  806. DNC hypocrisy. Bernie Sanders and Obama pretty much said the same things about Cuba but they harshly criticized only Bernie Sanders.
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  807. Add Kazakhstan to the number of countries becoming politically unstable. Just got news today the Kazakh's Nazarbayev/Tokayev regime killed dozens of protesters and are requesting Russian troops to assist in quelling the revolt by their people. If Kazakhstan is embroiled in civil war China can kiss BRI by rail to Europe goodbye. Anti-Putin and anti-CCP sentiment in Kazakhstan is at an all time high and getting worst. Since Kazakhstan and Xinjiang (East Turkistan) shares a 1000 mile border it's definitely possible things can spill over.
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  808. In CCP thought, everyone except the highest echelon is a slave cog of the CCP system.
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  809. Those billionaires that have seen the writing on the wall will cash out and buy tangible assets like gold and land and other assets. Main street and the regular joe investor will be screwed. In fact some of them will happily stay at their hotels orbiting Earth while everyone else play real life "Hunger Games" on Earth. If you have watched the movie "Elysium" (the wealthiest lives above Earth with all their latest automation technologies that can produce anything they will ever need while the rest of humanity rot on Earth) ... that becomes reality.
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  810. No Taiwanese wants to be enslaved by the CCP.
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  811. Never believe in what the CCP/PRC says they are habitual liars.
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  812. LOL US Wall Street is going to learn why the CCP is called 共匪 (or communist bandit), like bandits they rob from whoever they can to give to themselves. Fantastic analogy with the relationship between Chinese companies + US Wall Street + CCP government.
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  813. Widespread infestation of Chinese mafia gang networks operating in the Philippines. The PH gov needs to seriously clean house. Good direction and good start under Marcos but this needs to be continued by the successor.
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  814. I fear for the people living near the dam... recent report shows the dam's structure is starting to crack although the CCP government has denied it.
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  815. Trump regime is all about cruelty internally and externally.
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  816. Lol CCP/Xi thought are long winded garbage.
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  817. Lol. Criticize everyone except the emperor. Yeah it's always someone else's fault but not the emperor. 🤣🤣🤣
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  818. Wow... no wonder Trump didn't want the book published.
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  819. Marxism in physics? What? Crazy.
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  820. There's no way out short of a massive multibillion dollar government bail out and the central government of China is basically saying "this crap is all your own doing we're not touching it with a 10 foot pole". Frankly the central government doesn't have the necessary funds to bail them out either way (it's broke too). Note: All the bonds are USD denominated, it's not like the Chinese government can magically create more USD out of thin air like they could with RMB debts. Chinese USD reserve is the lowest in decades (used to be $4T USD now its down to $3.2T). They would need at least $400-500B to bail this out and that would eat into a massive chunk of the USD reserves. Plus bailing this out would send a terrible message that the elites could keep doing this over and over and the government would bail them out.
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  821. Yes no foreigner are allowed to enslave the Chinese people only the CCP regime is allowed to do that.
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  822. When the POTUS saying “hey, we did armed the Talibans too in the 1970s when the Talibans are resisting a Russian invasion” when its clearly a clear and present danger to US troops right now. I guess Trump’s loyalty is to Russia not the USA.
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  823. China has 539 billionaires that control a total asset amounting to over $2 trillion US dollars in China.
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  824. Ironically the Nazis here are supporters of the GOP they literally do the Nazi salute and are anti-semite and anti-colored pro-white supremacy.
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  825. This is the end of the GOP. So crazy.
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  826. Sorry to say, the traditional honorable conservative GOP is dead. There is no saving it. It is indeed now Trump’s party and this is dangerous because it mirrors what happened to the German Workers Party (originally a pro-labor party) after Hitler took it over and became the Nazi party spouting far right fascist ideology.
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  827. 😂😂😂
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  828. Putin is a global terrorist. Now he is trying to starve the world and Ukraine.
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  829. *eat popcorn while the GQP self destructs*
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  830. Yes only in Taiwan can you see a heavy metal rocker turn politician (Freddy Lim is from the New Power Party). There is also another politician who was a professional cosplayer (Lai Pin-yu from the Democratic Progressive Party).
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  831. Tax cuts only benefits the already wealthy. It doesn't really benefit you if you're making income at the federal minimum wage level or less. Tens of millions of Americans are now at the subsistence level of income (it means they are above the national poverty rate, so they are technically not in poverty but below what would make their lives more comfortable).
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  832. Xi’s CCP is top down system unlike in the US where each states have a local government that can make decisions. Local government only puppets that receive information from Beijing. Too afraid to do anything on their own.
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  833. Well done with the episode.
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  834. Wall Street should learn not to give money to the CCP to prop up the regime's economy.
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  835. NeW KinG actually there are plenty of protest and rioting. The Chinese media just aren’t reporting it. Just last year there are over 600 incidents of mass protest inside China. And of course the mass media is banned from covering it.
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  836. The CCP have not changed and continued to murder Chinese people although not as casually as before.
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  837. The CCP would be angered if Taiwan so much as fart. Taiwan is a country, it can host whoever they want. The CCP is acting like a jealous boyfriend who got jilted but cannot let go of his former girlfriend. The CCP are a regime of total losers that nobody likes.
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  838. Does it occur to anyone that Trump actually hates the US and wants this country to fail hence he is doing his best to bring the enemies of the US and ex-US allies together against the US.
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  839. Excessive globalization is poison.
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  840. Trump is pathetic… period. 🤣🤣🤣
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  841. I don't even know that Quibi exist until this video.
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  842. Sounds like the war between the Xi faction and the Jiang faction has spilled out on the streets.
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  843. The world should boycott the Winter Olympics held in China. The worse thing the west can do is to pander to the CCP. Attending the olympics is basically the west giving their tacit approval that the CCP is going in the right direction.
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  844. The life of the Chinese people differs a lot depends on where you live. In Tier 1 international coastal showcase cities like Shanghai, Macao, Shenzhen, etc. it's pretty nice and cozy (although a lot more expensive). However in 90% of China, life is a lot harder, less freedom, less development, more poverty, more CCP control, more violence and crime. In China, money and guanzi is everything. If you have money and guanzi, your life will be peachy. Everything will be accessible. No money, no guanzi... it's literally hell on Earth. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is essentially "you're on your own especially if you're poor and don't have guanzi." In order to address these fundamental issues, China needs a regime change. It needs to guarantee freedom, human rights and rule of law for it's people and a democratic form of government (or institutional consensus form of government like a parliament). Freedom of speech allows criticism of government, criticism brings systemic change. Authoritarianism does not allow systemic change because it is predicated on the thinking that the ruling elites knows what's best for the people (of course they don't). The ruling elites knows what's best for the ruling elites. This is why democracy is fundamentally a better system for a free society because it allows room for criticism and change for the better.
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  845. So once 230 is repealed that means big tech will be censoring what post will appear on their platform since they can now be sued for posts made by their users. So essentially Facebook / Twitter / Google will now be moderating and censoring your post on their platform. 230 essentially protects big social media companies from being sued for post made by their users. But I agree social media needs to be rolled back a bit. And this will apply to everyone right including presidents ?
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  846. Elaine Chao is Taiwanese and Trump is a racist. Had Trump said she is a CCP loving turd then I would agree as Elaine Chao's sister/family has huge business interest in China thru their container shipping business. Knowing that Trump still appointed her as department of transportation head, this is what political corruption looks like.
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  847. Car centric autonomous vehicle = can be used anywhere where it is legal. Smart autonomous vehicle infrastructure = the autonomous car can only be used in places with smart roads limiting their deployment.
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  848. We need you president Bernie Sanders!!! <3 <3 <3
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  849.  @jukit3906  The CCP has destroyed cultural heritage sites in China that dates back thousands of years. The Forbidden city and the surrounding areas are the symbolic seat of power for the CCP other than that they destroy anything from the old China. Take for example, they burned down a 100+ year temple recently just to "reclaim the land" for a real estate developer to turn it into a shopping mall. Look up Yulingta Monastery in Gansu province.
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  850. Coherent logical Republicans still in the party are a rarity these days.
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  851.  @dont_tread_on_me-nh5jp  lol keep believing in Fox News far right neo nazi bullshit.
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  852. Well in any case, the CCP's credibility is massively damaged. Nobody trust the CCP anymore. Ironically the global pandemic has essentially derailed Xi's global leader ambition goals (if you noticed the propaganda for China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and "Made In China 2025" are no longer trumpeted). If you look at the latest 2020 October trust rating the trust in China went on a downward spiral globally (although it went up with countries that are also authoritarian/totalitarian) but massively went down for democratic western countries. China can't be a global leader if other powerful countries don't trust it.
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  853. Can't wait to see the CCP collapse and Hong Kong and China become free again.
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  854. CCP collapse is good for the world and the Chinese people.
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  855. Prove that Bernie is a communist then ? You can’t can you ? Because you don’t even understand what communism is like most Americans who is conditioned from childhood to fear the words “communism” and “socialism” without understanding why.
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  856. *watch Xi destroy China’s institutions one by one until nothing is left* There goes the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. As one Chinese national says “Our family be the last of our generation. Thank you.” Implying there is no future after this generation.
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  857. Zelensky comes as very down to Earth and is humble and bravely fighting for his country against overwhelming odds. He has my respect and admiration.
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  858. 996 is modern slavery. I'm so glad so many Chinese people are waking up to the oppressive conditions imposed on them by the CCP overlords. No independent labor rights organization means people are prone to exploitation. But 100s of millions of Chinese workers are still chained practically to their workplace like modern day slaves. For the people to be free, the broken oppressive system needs to be destroyed.
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  859. Trump is a failure.
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  860. Why not allow Moderna and Pfizer vaccine to be available in China ?
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  861. Many of the Chinese elites and western foreign residents living in Shanghai realized the truth, as “free” and “liberal” as the city of Shanghai is, it is still ultimately under the iron grip control of the CCP. Kinda funny how the CCP are now twisting the narrative that they don’t need to apologize because there was no “lockdown” of Shanghai after all. Just as the regime loves to state “nothing happened” on June 4th, 1989 — it’s been 33rd year of the #TiananmenSquareMassacre and no political reform or any apology from the regime are forthcoming.
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  862. Not much difference between the imperial dynasties of China and CCP dynasty. China has always been ruled by emperors and tyrants that murders and oppresses its own people to bring in the so called era of prosperity.
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  863.  @rdcsg  most of the supply chain for semiconductors runs thru East and Southeast Asia. In the event war erupts you need the manpower and defense systems ready. Semiconductors are now the life blood of the global economy not just oil.
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  864.  @multatuli1  they are preparing for the war to be started by China.
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  865.  @rdcsg  they are investing heavily in Australia and India for the global supply chain now that China will no longer be the factory of the world. They call it diversification.
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  866.  @multatuli1  I doubt Xi is just talking BS. They are spending $200-300 billion a year in military hardware. Don't underestimate how a totalitarian regime lashes out at its weaker neighbor like Taiwan.
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  867.  @multatuli1  the CCP regime doesn’t care about bombing their own people. There are a ton of Chinese nationals in Taiwan but they still threaten to bomb them. One lesson learned in the Munich Accords is if you backdown and tried to make peace with a bully this will only embolden the bullies. The best way to deal with bullies is to stand up against them, gang up against them and kick their butt if they try to be violent. Unfortunately, once words no longer works, it’s time to back it up with action. I’m all in for diplomacy but if diplomacy no longer works, then its time to kick butt.
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  868. It is true. They estimated because of the one child policy the CCP prevented more than 100M female babies from being born.
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  869. Frankly Rupert Murdock should be in jail where he can do limited damage for the rest of his natural life. This is a prime example of a wealthy guy using his wealth and influence for evil.
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  870. Most Americans do not realize it but America has been trending towards right wing fascism for the past few decades. This country is becoming plutocratic fascist (where wealthy elites hold all the power) while the political power of the middle class and poor gets hollowed out.
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  871.  @StillLivinginthewoods  fascism is a right wing ideology basically it’s capitalism at its most extreme with profits at all cost mentality. Ironically you agreed with me and then you say there’s no “left or right wing” (left wing is defined as ideology favorable to the common people or the working class while right wing is favorable to the elites or the capitalists). And China DID NOT abandon communism since the government still controls most of the method of production and you cannot own land in China only lease it from the government for 50-70 years. They have embraced state capitalism which is a defining feature of fascism.
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  872.  @StillLivinginthewoods  Extreme Capitalism is what created Trumpism ironically. Income inequality will destabilize this country. You can call it whatever but the fact is inequality is wrecking havoc on democracy. I'm not against capitalism but anything in extreme can cause social unrest.
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  873.  @StillLivinginthewoods  trickle down economics didn't work and even exacerbated during the Trump era. You remember that $2.3 trillion tax cut to the wealthy by the GOP in 2018?
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  874.  @StillLivinginthewoods  that's the major issue the "corporate tax cut was permanent". The wealthy actually paid the least did you know if you're a billionaire you get tax cuts that aren't available to people like teachers or healthcare workers ? Trump lowered the capital gains tax severely too from 21% to 15% which excessively benefit the wealthy who owns a majority of the stocks.
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  875. Poverty and inequality is what creates extremism and radicalizes people.
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  876. Totally agree with you. I'm glad you have the chance to get out of the USA and see China for yourself. Most Chinese just like most Americans just want to live peacefully and have a good life. Most troubles between US and China's governments are basically the product of politics and often politicians are far removed from what the regular citizen wants, this applies to both US and China.
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  877. He should call it the CCP virus.
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  878. Actually it’s a pretty fair request. A closer cooperation between US and Taiwan is good for the world. When the US economy is strong then the world including Taiwan and India benefits too.
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  879. The park question is a perfect example of the lack of rule of law in China. So basically a foreign journalist cannot enjoy a public park? What kind of society is that? Next the Ministry of Foreign affairs propagandist immediately take aggressive stance at such questions because he really doesn’t have any good answers. So the CCP’s answer to anything they cannot give a well rehearsed answer is to lash out aggressively. The answer is of course China has no rule of law, it has plenty of rules but those rules apply selectively based on who you are, your status and your nationality (which can change based on who the CCP favors or unfavors). Han ethnocentrism and extreme nationalism is rife in China.
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  880. NOONY!!!
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  881. A democrat trifecta will actually get things done and give the American people the much needed help they need. To be honest, without a massive overhaul of the system the US economy is finished.
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  882. He is right, unfortunately as long as there are a vast swath of humanity that hasn't been vaccinated yet this pandemic isn't going away anytime soon. This isn't just a problem for one country, this is a problem for the entirety of the human race. As of this writing only about 55% of the entire population of the Earth has been vaccinated with at least one dose, we need to hit 70% at least.
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  883. Lol. This is awesome. Nice way to troll Trump.
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  884. Philippines stock market dropping big time.
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  885. This is why I have no always on always connected devices in my home. Anything connected to the internet especially IoT devices can be weaponized or hacked.
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  886. Communism is poison and a Ponzi scheme. Market economy is the only thing proven to work and work well as imperfect as it is. China's economy is essentially the world's largest Ponzi scheme run by the CCP in cooperation with the global neoliberals and oligarchs.
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  887. The only people who still roots for Trump are the racists and the nationalists (most of them are non-college educated white men in their 30-40s). Even the left wing, and the centrists are now rooting for Biden. Let's face it, Trump's policies (if you can call it that) are garbage. Trump could have won re-election if only he had address the pandemic properly but no his arrogance and stupidity has finally done him in. Even the seniors and boomers who comprises a huge chunk of his right wing base are now abandoning him. 70% of the 208,000+ pandemic fatalities are seniors in the 60-70s age bracket.
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  888. I don't see anyway out for Russia for this short of a regime change.
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  889. This is great!!! Good job people of Georgia!!! EU = have a future. Russia = dead man walking.
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  890. You are right. Tesla and Musk are screwed. The biggest weakness of the US corporations is its bottomless corporate greed and the CCP knows exactly how to exploit it to the detriment of US society. And the CCP never stopped looking at the US society as an ideological enemy that must be destroyed as democracy, capitalism and freedom are diametrically opposite of the CCP’s communism, authoritarian, total control model. Ironically corporate America are gonna lose their shirts to the CCP.
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  891.  @Morbitz_TS  Hahaha Elon Musk just admitted SpaceX is gonna become bankrupt if they cannot develop the next gen rocket and was forcing his employees to work double time 24/7. Elon Musk only makes money thru government subsidies. When California said oh we won’t subsidize your Tesla production anymore he moves his HQ to Texas to avoid paying taxes. Why do you think Tesla created a gigafactory in China ? The CCP government gave him massive multi billion dollar subsidies on land and taxes (those cost money to the Chinese tax payers). Just wait and see, once the CCP pull their subsidies Tesla will pull out faster than you can blink.
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  892.  @Morbitz_TS  Evergrande is just one of the many companies collapsing the real estate industry in China where 70% of the Chinese people keep their wealth. Ask yourself why is vegetables now more expensive than pork? Why is coal more expensive than food? Why is Xi trying to raise tension in the Taiwan strait ? All of these means his regime is feeling very uneasy not confident. He knows he cannot induce confidence in his rule thru the economy (because China is suffering from stagflation now). So now he is trying Chinese ultranationalism just like Mussolini and Hitler. This is because during 30 years of China’s economic boom — trillions are wasted on ostentatious projects by the Jiang CCP faction. Now all that money is gone — 2012 is when China’s economy started slowing down and the upcoming demographic collapse. Why do you think phenomenon like “laying flat” is happening ? The Chinese people feel hopeless. Xi cannot do anything to save the economy from collapse. All he can do is tighten the reigns. I read in the news the other day, they have further limited USD withdrawal from Chinese banks from $15,000 to $10,000 per year. The CCP is running out of money to run the country.
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  893.  @Morbitz_TS  Nobody wants to buy their so called "assets" it's a dead weight. That means once Evergrande collapses it will pull down China's entire real estate industry. Remember they still have about 1.2 million homes yet to be delivered and a debt of over $300 billion in bonds. The ones screwed won't be Evergrande's boss, the ones screwed will be the suppliers and downline businesses Evergrande owes money to and the 1.2 million home buyers where their life savings went up in smoke. The CCP allowed this shit to happen.
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  894.  @Morbitz_TS  Its not even propaganda, its common sense. Think, where did all the money go ? Who is backing Evergrande from 1996 - 2018 ? They took the money from the people for a future home. All that money were paid out to share holders many are CCP officials who are in on the scam and they approved everything Evergrande did. They already took their money years or decades ago. Now people are looking for homes they paid for years ago but Evergrande did not build anything. It's so simple. Evergrande boss colluded with the Jiang CCP faction and other Chinese oligarchs, the authoritarian system did not allow such malfeasance to be reported to the public until it is too late. All of this is happened because of the corruption of the CCP.
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  895.  @Morbitz_TS  Corruption is when the CCP government joins in with corrupt entrepreneurs in tricking the Chinese people out of their hard earned money and then telling them "tough luck" like what Evergrande boss and the CCP did. Chinese people who lost everything weren't even allowed to protest or file complaint.
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  896.  @Morbitz_TS  My choice of Chinese/Taiwanese leader is president Tsai Ingwen and I agree she is good compassionate leader unlike Xitler. History will praise her and condemn Xitler and the CCP regime. A leader stands up for what is good not oppress and bully other small countries like Lithuania.
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  897.  @Morbitz_TS  the KMT was an authoritarian military dictatorship but I am glad Taiwan was able to move past that and progress to democracy. Chang Kai Shek was a shitty leader, Mao Zedong was an even worst shitty leader. Main difference is Taiwanese stop idolizing Chang while CCP still loves Mao Zedong.
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  898.  @Morbitz_TS Or so you claim yet most Taiwanese would still vote for democracy than be ruled by shitty CCP. The point is democracy allows people a say on who their leader is in a fair contest. Authoritarianism doesn't allow that. Plus Taiwan is considered one of the cleanest most transparent government in the world while China is always ranked last on par with North Korea and other despotic governments. No country is perfect but democratic system allows people collective control of the levers of power while authoritarian system doesn't.
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  899.  @Morbitz_TS  You obviously cannot differentiate between rule of law and rule by law. China doesn't have rule of law only rule by law. There ponder on that. Get back to me once you understand what it means.
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  900.  @Morbitz_TS  You still don’t know the meaning and difference between “rule of law” and “rule by law”. Like I said China’s biggest problem is it has no “rule of law” only “rule by law”.
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  901.  @Morbitz_TS  If you look at all my comments I’m not pro-US or anti-China. I’m anti-assholes that is running this world to the ground which includes assholes in both US and China. So which country has more assholes ? I would say China because they have a larger number of people although the US have 2nd biggest number of assholes too. The only saving grace is in the US the assholes can be voted out in due time while in China the assholes there are permanent fixtures.
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  902.  @Morbitz_TS  India has 1.2 billion people, it is a democracy. Does it need improvement ? Of course, but none the less it is a functioning democracy — their citizens can vote and can voice opposition in politics. So your fallacy that countries with huge population cannot have democracy is false. That’s just CCP propaganda and their excuse to continue their oppression of the Chinese people. Democracy doesn’t mean the country is perfect, it simply means the people can vote in or out their leaders.
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  903.  @Morbitz_TS  In a democracy we’re not afraid of criticizing those in power. We can even criticize our own government because the people has the power. In totalitarian system like the CCP, the people has no power only the autocrats which are treated as emperors or feudal lords. This is why I said the CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty, the name maybe different but the system is still the same.
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  904.  @Morbitz_TS All countries have problems but the more democratic the country is the lesser the problem it has because people are able to address those problems. Is the US a shining beacon of democracy ? Of course not. I never once claimed the US is perfect. But the US is one of the most powerful democracies economically and militarily. If you are looking for absolutes then you won’t find it in this world. Being able to accept faults is the definition of a democracy unlike in China which the state and the government cannot ever admit or accept faults which ironically is why many totalitarian systems tend to fail.
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  905.  @Morbitz_TS  Are you kidding ? China is serene and peaceful ? You are fooled. They only looks serene and peaceful when 99% of crimes are not reported by the news media. You really should move your family to China then you will realize just how dystopia the system is. I have many Chinese friends that are born and live in China, everyone wants to get out if they could. The CCP is a shitty government. 90% approval of the Chinese, what hogwash when you can’t even say an opinion or criticize a CCP official without being arrested or “invited to tea” by the gestapo kong-an police. You really should move your son and wife to China so they can curse your name once they realize they are now trapped in a system without future.
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  906.  @Morbitz_TS  You can believe whatever you want. No need to convince you. You can move to China if you want, nobody is stopping you. From a free country you can move anywhere you like. Unless you are from China then the government will stop you from moving out of China.
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  907.  @Morbitz_TS  Talk to people who got exit banned in China because they criticize the regime then get back to me.
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  908.  @Morbitz_TS  LOL as of 2020 there are only 845,000 foreigners in the entirety of China. No seriously. There are few foreigners that wants to live in China. In a 2020 survey of millionaires, 30% of them wants to leave China permanently and live elsewhere. Like I said China is a country without “rule of law” only a country “ruled by law”. It’s a broken country and society where universal human values and human rights means little to society. It’s a society engulf in materialism and wealth. Not everything is the CCP’s fault but these are the unintended consequences of CCP policies (which tends to be short sighted). The fallacy that the CCP plan long term is just that a fallacy.
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  909.  @Morbitz_TS  The CCP’s #1 problem is it lies. It lies on everything. It lies on official government data. It likes using the media. It lies on propaganda. Everything it says is a lie. You can attack me whatever it still doesn’t change the fact most democratic countries see China in a negative light. The reality is China can become a better country by getting rid of the CCP.
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  910. The more the CCP does farce like this, the faster the regime will collapse.
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  911. You are absolutely right Lei. Our leaders must be convinced to do the right thing. Rewarding the CCP regime for oppressing its own people as well as its aggressive behavior would only embolden the regime. Once the regime has been emboldened enough then it would have no qualms about oppressing and abusing its neighbors. When and where will the international community draw the red line ? Would they wait until they are being abused and oppressed themselves like what the CCP is doing to Lithuania and Taiwan? The time to cut the abusive behavior and stand up to the bully is now not in the future not when the bully is emboldened enough.
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  912. Yeah Lei Feng is totally fabricated. There may have been an actual person named Lei Feng but his deeds are complete CCP fabrications. It doesn’t matter, many CCP true believers believed in Lei Feng even if that person doesn’t really exist. That is the product of decades of CCP brainwashing and indoctrination which is to be faithful to party. This is also why many Chinese nationalists cannot differentiate between loyalty to country and loyalty to party. For them, country and party is one and the same and that is exactly how the CCP likes it.
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  913. You can definitely compare Bernie's campaign videos and Biden's and see a stark difference. You watch Bernie's campaign videos and you feel strong and empowered and hopeful. You watch Biden's it's a snoozefest and you feel that they aren't even trying. My 72 year old aunt would mumble "I'd like to vote democrat but there's nobody in the democratic party I am enthusiastic about" each time she saw Biden on the TV. Maybe Biden can still salvage his flagging campaign by getting a VP that people can get behind someone younger, exciting and progressive. That's the only way I can see how Biden can save his campaign from being trounced by Trump. Don't mind the polls..remember 2016 when they announced Clinton has an 90% chance of being president yet somehow on election eve people starts to realize polls doesn't mean shit. If Biden won that simply means Trump did a horrible job and the people can no longer stand by him in power anymore.. it doesn't mean that Biden had appealed to anyone.
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  914. You really think socialism is folly ? I guess you won’t be collecting your social security checks when you retire because that is socialism.
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  915.  @jaystoms3715  Reagan created massive income inequality in the US. Why do you think Trump got elected ? It's because of income inequality. Reagan started a 40 year decline of the American middle class.
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  916. By not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump. This is how critical this 2020 election is. It won't be a landslide for Biden in fact this election will be close. If people sat out again like in 2016 you get a dysfunctional clown like Trump for president for another 4 years and the US is truly lost. Trump already laid out his agenda for 2nd term -- complete gutting of the Social Security system. Turn the US into one giant corporation and the people as it's worker slave. If you think 177,000 American deaths from the coronavirus is a lot, wait till you see the number of pre-mature deaths of the elderly when Trump pulls the plug on Social Security. I will repeat, by not voting at all you are seceding power to Trump because his supporters will surely vote for Trump en masse.
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  917. Imagine Giuliani going nuts on Fox News.... that Borat thing must have hit a bit too close to home.
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  918. No money = no baby
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  919. That is true in all authoritarian / totalitarian regime. The elite cities aka the capital cities where the government is located will NEVER face hunger or shortages. All that hunger, depredation, desperation will be inflicted upon the most vulnerable population and that are usually in the far flung rural areas. You will never see hunger or starvation in Shanghai or Beijing but once you go to Tibet or Xinjiang or Guizhou (贵州) or Gansu (甘肃) province that is where you will see the true face of poverty in the country (and that is where a lot of the poorest people lived).
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  920. Gasprom is basically Putin's own private piggy bank built on top of the backs of your everyday Russians.
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  921.  @tessietesoro7407  CCP is beyond reform. We waited patiently and gave it 40 years. It was given business so it can prosper and made it wealthy. It stubbornly cling to outdated and violent ideology. Now that it is a threat to the entire world. The only solution left is to destroy it.
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  922. You are right. The CCP is gearing up for total war. Taiwan and the democratic alliance needs to get ready to transform into a war economy.
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  923. LOL can't wait to see PRC response to Pelosi's visit. My bet they'll end up whining like usual. If the PRC starts a shooting war against Taiwan, I can see the PRC economy completely collapsing and the entire country de-industrializing within a year or two.
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  924. You are right the CCP is preparing for war. They are preparing to invade Taiwan. This could be as early as sometime in early 2023. Once Xi obtains his 3rd term he will invade. The US/NATO/QUAD and Taiwan have to prepare for war with China. Many experts thought war with China would be 2024 or 2025 but the COVID pandemic has accelerated the time table. There is a possibility of US China war as early as 2023.
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  925. Ironically these are all self inflicted wounds.
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  926. Yah after the destruction of the CCP.
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  927. Trump is too weak to stand up to Putin.
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  928. The greatest hits. 🤣🤣🤣
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  929. What the CCP will do is what they do best: steal, lie and cheat. In the coming months the PRC will announce they made some super breakthrough in chip design that puts them on par with Taiwan, US or South Korea and western media will buy it. Of course upon close scrutiny it will all be a lie (and of course the regime won’t let anyone scrutinize anything closely). This is how the CCP works.
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  930. Ironically when viewing this clip NASDAQ is up by 0.25%. We're now officially in recession territory and the stocks are up. How screwed up is that ?
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  931. Make no mistake the CCP regime is already waging covert ideological war against the western democratic governments and its allies without declaring it. That's how the CCP regime works often in secret and behind the scene. There is no reforming the CCP, it can only be destroyed. Also the right side of history is allowing freedom and democracy to spread not authoritarianism. The best way to destroy the CCP is to starve it of the US dollars it needs.
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  932. Totally agree. Warren earned my respect.
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  933. The entire PRC real estate industry is a scam.
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  934. You are absolutely right Winston. Very good video as usual. China has no rule of law. It's a lawless place ruled by the CCP plutocrats. If you're rich wealthy and politically well connected you can literally get away with being a serial rapist or be a serial murderer.
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  935.  @peaceinmind6202  Yep. Xi is now engaging in Han chauvinism and fascist imperialism. History is repeating itself.
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  936. Hong Kong is like the new Czechoslovakia, Taiwan is like the new Poland. Never forget the lessons of the Munich Accords. There is no appeasing a totalitarian expansionist regime. And I totally agree.. if you want peace then you must be prepared to fight for it. Peace is not given to us for free but rather we must earn that peace with blood and sacrificed lives.
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  937. Steel industry isn't the only industry that's going to be collapsed by the real estate collapse.
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  938. Genetic weapons / Ethnic bioweapons is a real thing. Frankly a lot of countries are doing research on such type of weapons. The UN did issue a warning that such weapon are now a possible reality. Frankly once these types of weapons have been unleashed there is no putting it back.
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  939. China is in for some rough years ahead. Maybe this will result in the end of the CCP and China may actually have a bright future ahead after the calamitous years.
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  940. I miss presidents who are coherent, smart and is a unifying voice for the country. While it's just been 4 years it felt like 10. It's like seeing that glimmer of light out of a very very long dark tunnel.
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  941. I support Pelosi's trip as it is a matter between the US and Taiwan, two sovereign countries. Allowing the PRC to dictate what the US/Taiwan can or cannot do is tantamount to a foreign policy surrender. PRC apologist cowards like Mike Chinoy is why the PRC regime are so emboldened now. Too many cowardly US neoliberals who wants to appease the PRC regime just to continue suckling on the PRC financial tits.
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  942. More like traitors to the US constitution.
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  943. God bless America. We’ve dodged a bullet to tyranny and authoritarianism this time. Now the real job is to make sure a future Trump never ever happens again. As long as income inequality, voter suppression, gerrymandering and systemic rot in the government exist then a future Trump will always remain a possibility. It is time to rebuild a new progressive compassionate America for the future.
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  944. The more the Trump regime files these frivolous suits the more Trump looks like a desperate, pathetic sore loser. I don't think overturning the election is Trump's goal but rather it's an effort to undermine democracy in America. Some crazy ass GOP governors are already openly talking about seceding from the United States.
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  945. Tiktok and Douyin are totally CCP propaganda machine, the US government is right to take action. China is not the future, not the way their current government is. They can’t even feed their own people (for more info: look up “Sinograin warehouse scandal”). 600M of the Chinese people live on less than $150 per month. That is half the population of China in abject poverty. Xi’s totalitarian government only knows how to waste the Chinese people’s hard earned money with ostentatious and wasteful projects.
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  946. Ironically the more the CCP does this, the worst their reputation becomes and now they are lamenting how the west has united together and is bullying them? Good ole CCP, always playing the victim. It’s the worst most duplicitous regime in the world.
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  947. Matt Gaetz is finished.
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  948. Speaking of Confucius institute. Taiwan is starting a language training program in the US. It teaches real traditional Chinese Mandarin not the simplified version used in China. They plan for 15 initial Taiwan language school in the US in 2021-2022. If you want to learn Mandarin give the Taiwan Mandarin school a look.
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  949. This is real life idiocracy.
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  950. Looking at the comments here many Trump supporters are denying the numbers and saying CNN is fake news except the numbers are very real. It’s data collected from John Hopkins and various US research agencies and hospitals around the country. Trump has failed America. The Trump administration is a failure and everyday it continues its political rhetoric attacking the free press, the doctors, protesters, teachers, workers, etc. it is continuing to fail America.
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  951. All hail Xi the emperor...we give praise to Xi for making it looks like he is saving humanity after infecting the entire planet with the CCP Virus and causing the deaths of millions of people. All praise satan..err.. I mean.. Xi !!!
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  952. In short, anything that is good for the country and the economy in general is bad for Wall Street, the banks and the stock market. Sounds good to me.
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  953. Of course the bridge feasibility study is faked. Just like everything done by the CCP. It's purpose is to enrich the CCP cronies that benefits from the construction of the bridge. And just like all CCP projects it kills every living thing near it. Bridge of blood and tears indeed. It is the bridge of subjugation and enslavement of Hong Kongers by the CCP.
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  954. Well the danger is if they inject too much money it would create an artificial asset bubble. It's a tough decision. Most likely they are going conservative. Inject little by little to see how the market will react.
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  955. They voted for Trump and MAGA politicians but wants Democrats to fight harder? FAFO!!!
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  956. @Loj32 A lot of them already do. Frankly breaking them up means they each can have their localized laws which will do a better job of fulfilling the needs of the local population than one size fits all laws and government. Plus aren't they always complaining about China being too big to rule?
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  957. @Loj32 the balkanization is happening not because of the US but rather inequality and ethnic stresses that is already happening inside China. Xi is only trying to rile up Chinese nationalism by creating an us vs them mentality but in reality things are already fracturing due to unequal development between the coastal cities and rural western provinces and also from the north and southern provinces. What is keeping the flimsy relationship was the promise of wealth to all by the CCP except only the coastal province got rich while the rural western provinces are still as poor as ever. Xi's "common prosperity" slogan is just a bandaid to tide things over and hoping that is enough to appease rural China but China's economy is slowing down. The global supply chain is moving away from China. This means Xi's rhetoric is empty. People are fed up, they gave up their freedoms for promise of prosperity but so far only the coastal cities got it while 60% of China are still as poor.
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  958. The PRC is now a full on totalitarian fascist gestapo state. This is the same stuff they did during Mao's cultural devolution from 1965 - 1975 where they imprison and murder intellectuals, burn books, burn anything deem unpatriotic or culturally foreign.
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  959.  @JSkyGemini  Yeah.. which is an incredibly insane and irresponsible thing for a president to say especially in the middle of a pandemic.
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  960. I think that just proves what everyone already knew: Trump and his sycophants like O’Reilly are losers.
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  961. So glad your channel is here to dispel all the CCP propaganda.
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  962. Trump depression incoming.
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  963. The irony here is the CCP proclaims leftist ideology except their policies are all far right. It’s all about control and enriching the party cadres.
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  964. Flush the turd on November 3rd. #Vote
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  965. Exacerbated by Xi's belt and road debt trap.
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  966. If the CCP attacks Taiwan, India should liberate Tibet and Xinjiang.
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  967. Been following Laowhy and Serpenza for a couple of years now. It is a ridiculous claim. The tankies and the wuamaos relentlessly attacks them because they expose what is wrong with China despite all the CCP government propaganda. They have lived in China for 10+ years and have visited a lot of places (especially rural China that most western foreigners and tourists don't get to see). The rural China is the REAL China (still lots of under developed areas and poverty and is the home of over 800M people). The CCP loves to present the narrative that China is now super wealthy and advanced (in some areas yes but not for the entire country). Both Laowhy and Serpentza shatters those illusions and makes a lot of people realize underneath all that shiny new buildings, there are massive persistent systematic problem in China such as massive wealth inequality and wealth distribution problem (for being a so called "socialist" country that's a huge problem).
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  968. Ignore the polls. Get out and vote on election day. That’s the only way to guarantee a chance to win the election.
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  969. Trump thrives on violence, racism, white supremacy, and chaos. Trump is essentially describing America under his so called "leadership" (or lack thereof). Yet he profess to take absolutely no responsibility at all for the ongoing violence and chaos as well as the massive loss of American lives due to the pandemic. This is all on Trump's head.
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  970. 800+ COVID delta variant outbreak cases now reported in 19 Chinese provinces about 90 cases per day on average. This is the CCP government's numbers. The reality could be 10x more.
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  971. Carrie Lam is a failure and a traitor. Her betrayal of her own people by her ass kissing of the Xi totalitarian regime will be recorded forever in history. Long live the people of Hong Kong. Liberate Hong Kong the revolution of our times!!!
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  972. Trump's strategy on how to stave off political irrelevance --- push more election fraud lies that has been disproven a billion times by both sides of the aisle. Ironically the more Trump does this, the more he drags down the GOP. Sure, Trump still has a few million hardcore followers blind to his lies but a majority of Americans both on the left, center and right has moved on.
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  973. The arrogance of the CCP is staggering. Time to end the CCP.
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  974. Pretty damning. Essentially Putin is offering bounties to Taliban terrorists for every American soldiers killed. Trump knew about it since March 2020 and did nothing.
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  975. Trump is finished. Next is investigations on all his crimes. Trump pissed off the wrong people, they are Republicans and Democrats alike and they want Trump’s head on a silver platter. Ironically Trump did tremendous damage to the Republican party. When they were blaming looters (many of those same looters are Trump supporters as well as criminal elements) that attacked shops during the BLM protest, Trump’s supporters themselves attacked, destroyed and looted the offices at the very heart of American democracy.
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  976. 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico will hit American wallets fast because these are things a majority of Americans use and consume on a daily basis. These includes automobiles, foodstuff, fertilizers, eggs (from Mexico), petroleum/gas, medicine/pharmaceuticals, etc.
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  977. China was never a peace loving nation. Thru out its 5,000 years of history it’s been warring with each other for centuries. Uncountable billions of people dies to these purges when one dynasty purge another. The Xi dynasty is just another imperial dynasty that wants to dominate the world.
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  978. Asia is the future so why not.
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  979.  @drumpfdon760  You know what.. instead of saying awful things to you. I will say good luck to you on 2022. I know I won't change your mind and you won't change my mind about the CCP but we'll leave it at that.
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  980.  @drumpfdon760  I'm for peace but I will fight a regime that obviously wants to subjugate other society. PRC / CCP is the aggressor here. If destroying the PRC / CCP means peace for the entire region then I am all for it.
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  981.  @drumpfdon760  Taiwan is its own country. Never belongs to the PRC not even in entire history. PRC always claim things that does not belong to them like Tibet and Xinjiang and SCS and even parts of India and even islands that belong to the Philippines. You know what claims things that does not belong to them ? Thieves. CCP is the biggest thief in the entire world. That is why they are called 共匪 or communist bandit. They steal and rob everything from other people using violence. The CCP from 1950 is still the CCP in 2022. Nothing has change. Still a big thief. Protecting a nation from communist bandits is an honor.
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  982.  @drumpfdon760  Tell you what...get rid of CCP join the world of freedom and democracy and we'll talk. Okay ?
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  983.  @drumpfdon760  Suit yourself. I'm gonna laugh while the 老百姓 eats the CCP once they realize there is no more prosperity from the CCP and everything are lies. Evergrande is just the start. KABOOM!!!
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  984.  @drumpfdon760  Keep telling yourself that. PRC economy already tanking. Xi policy is really great. It destroyed $2 trillion dollars in stock value in Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchange in just 6 months. Can't wait for 10 more years of Xi Jinping. 200 million young Chinese workers now unemployed. The angry and hungry 老百姓 will all be doing "躺平" because of Xi policy. I guess when they get hungry enough they will eat the CCP together with a side dish of Emperor Xi. 🤣🤣🤣
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  985.  @drumpfdon760  I will tell you now. PRC will have a lot of suffering and challenge ahead in 2022 after all its Party Congress election year in China. All the people who lost money due to Xi's policy... do you think they will be happy ? No, they will not be happy having to go thru 5-10 more years of Xi. They definitely won't be happy at all.
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  986. If you know anything about the PRC is they always say one thing and do another. Lying to their own people and to the world is practically their basic modus operandi.
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  987. The Chinese government isn't communist or socialist. It is totalitarian fascist. They only pay lip service to socialism and communism.
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  988. One day future historians will study this moment in history. It will be called the lost decades of America from 1990 - 2020. Future generations will learn from this moment in history. One day we will tell our children and our grandchildren that we have once again fought for freedom and democracy against the forces of tyranny, corruption, greed and darkness and we have emerged victorious.
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  989. In an open capitalist society there are the elites and working class but no slaves. In an authoritarian/autocratic communist society there are the elites and everyone else are the slaves.
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  990. T Mackie yep! He is a very good congressman.
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  991. Allowing ex-president Trump and his co-conspirators to walk away unscathed for trying to undermine the country’s democracy and rule of law would diminish the United States in the eyes of the world. The Chinese would laugh and say “you can’t even hold your own ex-president accountable for trying to destroy democracy and the US government so why should we allow democracy in China”.
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  992.  @tophan5146  Interesting question. Actually the housing bubble has been discussed since 2010. The bubble was artificially kept going/ignored because during that time China's economy was growing by leaps and bounds. Everyone was probably thinking the economy could tolerate the crazy real estate speculation. Fast forward 2020, China's economy has peaked early due to COVID and is now slowing down due to population growing old. Even the CCP government has realized the bubble is unsustainable. Right now they are trying to burst the bubble in a controlled fashion (thru the so called "three red lines" of real estate) while trying to maintain stability at all cost. That's why the Chinese media is barely reporting on the situation while the western media is reporting about it non-stop (US debt exposure to Evergrande is worth about $20 billion -- small but not insignificant) while Chinese exposure is about $300 billion (a major chunk of the debt is owed internally to Chinese investors/speculators). The CCP government are trying to diffuse the situation quietly while avoiding massive financial panic.
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  993. You are right, if the CCP is so beloved by the Chinese people as their propaganda claims then how come their internal security budget is out pacing their external security spending? Math does not lie. Trying to pacify growing anger and unrest is why the CCP are focusing everything on party stability. The more belligerent and aggressive the CCP is, the more it shows it is unease and unsure of its own hold on power.
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  994. As usual Lei you brought up a very good subject of discussion. To us China watchers we knew the Chinese economy was too good to be true especially those who have seen the real China away from the glitz and glamour of Shanghai and Macao. It's essentially a massive lie created by the CCP to enslave 1.3 billion Chinese. Ironically many Chinese nationalists thought they are better off being perpetually lied to and enslaved by the CCP.
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  995. This is good to hear.
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  996. Except everything is built upon a debt economy. This is the most ridiculous thing I have heard. 🤣🤣🤣
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  997. While the west is fixated on Evergrande at least 4-5 other major real estate companies in China just defaulted as well. The shitshow has just started.
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  998. The current GOP really is an utter failure. Instead of working to better the lives of Americans they dedicate the whole party into making sure Biden can do nothing for the next 4 years while 10s of millions of Americans suffer under the pandemic. I hope Georgia’s voters realize this and give the democrats the majority so at least something can be done to alleviate the sufferings of the people. Whatever happened to the compassionate republicans party?
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  999. Never give anyone your pin. Your bank will never ask for your PIN. The reason why they need your PIN is because they can only view your online bank account information but they cannot actually get any money from it anonymously. With your PIN they can actually do some damage like create a clone of your ATM card then use your PIN to withdraw money from an ATM.
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  1000. In the meantime the CCP goes bankrupt while they spent the hard earned tax money of the Chinese people on weapons to kill other Chinese/Taiwanese. This still doesn't change the fact that Taiwan is a country.
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  1001. Nothing the regime can do to prevent this from ending badly. Millions of Chinese are gonna end up with no homes they paid their life saving for. To totally bail this out would require trillions of dollars the Chinese government doesn’t have so bail out is out of the question. What they will do is bail out some while suppress the rest.
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  1002. Lol the US is the #1 donor of aid to Syria but keep siding with ISIL and Al Qaida.
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  1003. I agree. No more playing nice with the CCP regime. Time to fight back and destroy this odious totalitarian regime. Even Deng Xiaoping once said if China became a superpower and is engaging in "imperial socialism" like what Xi is doing now that is bullying and cheating other countries then the world should team up with the Chinese people in order to expose it and destroy it.
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  1004. Saw Biden’s cabinet nominations. No progressives. Pretty disappointing.
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  1005. Trump is a criminal.
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  1006. Bernie Sanders is 💯 right as usual. Democrats needs to deliver for the working class not the billionaires. People are disillusioned, there is only so many times the Democratic party can promise something then fail to deliver. And the GOP is heading towards a very very dark and dangerous path towards authoritarianism. So right now people are stuck between a party that does little for them and a party that has far right fascist tendencies.
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  1007. CCP celebrates 100 years of lying and stealing from the Chinese people.
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  1008. Taiwan = people are altruistic. If they see someone who needs help, they will help them. That is true Chinese culture. China = people are more wary of strangers. If they see someone suffering they will just stand by and watch, too afraid to get involved because they keep thinking “will I get in trouble myself?” That is the difference between free people and oppressed people.
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  1009. “How Chinese history are taught” <— basically whitewash all the atrocities and people murdered by the CCP regime and engage in farcical revisionism.
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  1010. Human lives mean nothing to the CCP fascist regime.
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  1011. More proof Xi the Pooh's regime has lost the mandate of heaven to rule China.
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  1012. They already made their trillions. They don't need Trump anymore. They're gonna go all in Biden this time.
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  1013. Nothing has batteries.😆😆😆
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  1014. Putin losing completely and getting assassinated would be a lesson as well as a warning to the Chinese. That is why the US/NATO are fully committed to this. In the long run it would save a lot of lives compared to say US Russia China kinetic war which will result in millions of deaths.
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  1015.  @lvjinbin28  LOL “China is still a developing country” when the situation calls for and “China is already developed” when the argument requires it. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1016.  @shanelee3347  Already 302 people dead officially reported. Makes you wonder what is the real “unofficially” reported deaths.
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  1017. Yep. Typical CCP dysfunction in China.
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  1018. Young people needs to run for office first and get elected to public office. Unfortunately a large number of American voters tends to be geriatric (65+) from the baby boom and they tend to elect someone just like themselves hence we are now in a situation where most of our elected leaders are old people themselves.
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  1019. I find it utterly disgusting the CCP regime is now going on wholesale in trying to silence this. The CCP regime needs to be destroyed for China to finally be free.
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  1020. The GOP yells the sky is falling and Biden hasn't been president for half a year yet utterly silent as Trump screws the working class and give $2.0 trillion to the wealthiest. This is merely the economy rebalancing itself as America reopens for business.
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  1021.  make a wish  LOL it doesn’t matter whether she is Falun Gong or not. She is a great news source from China where journalists and reporters are now openly being jailed or disappeared if you don’t tout the party propaganda. Plus Falun Gong is pretty much what Chinese yoga is it’s a health movement. It was the CCP who demonize the movement because it has so many members which constitutes a political threat to the CCP (in the CCP’s mind). Just like how the CCP demonizes the Uyghurs, the Tibetans (especially the Dalai Lama) and the Mongolians. Whatever the CCP cannot control and it tries to destroy.
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  1022.  make a wish  You are free to believe whatever. Still doesn’t change the fact the channel delivers credible news from inside China. The stuff the CCP regime doesn’t want the world to see or hear about, the atrocities they are doing to the Chinese people. You think the zero covid policy has not produced fatalities ? The CCP regime aren’t even providing death count anymore, why? If people knew the actual death there would be a revolt in China. They actually did a model of the COVID infections and based on data (all data accounted with no gaps) provided by South Korea / New Zealand which had the best covid response in the world (108 deaths per million and 10 deaths per million) China should have about 1 million deaths yet the CCP reported only 3.3 deaths per million which is a ridiculously low number.
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  1023.  make a wish  LOL most western journalist are banned from entering China. There is no verifiable information about COVID in China because the CCP won’t even let reporters and researchers near Wuhan. Actually the best sources of information are from the Chinese people themselves and from the underground information network.
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  1024.  make a wish  China have no free press only propaganda mouth pieces. LOL all the so called “journalist” left in China cannot write anything contradictory to CCP propaganda.
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  1025.  make a wish  LOL what’s that to do with anything ? If you cannot write objective pieces contrary to the regime’s propaganda then it’s no longer free press, it would be propaganda.
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  1026.  make a wish  LOL what bullshit are you talking about ? Chinese propaganda even have channels on Twitter and on YouTube yet no American news agency are allowed unrestricted access in China or on Weibo.
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  1027.  make a wish  Who say it doesn’t say ? When it is a US government official it says it is a government official. US news sites aren’t even allowed to operate on Chinese social media. Who is bias here ? The CCP regime is the most hypocritical crazy murderous regime in the entire planet who murdered 80 million Chinese. Why are you defending a murderer ? Do you like to see more Chinese being murdered and suffer by the CCP just for speaking out ? Stop lying already to defend the CCP regime.
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  1028. It’s true. The American people have woken up to the lies, thievery and the propaganda of the CCP. And I agree with Pompeo the change in attitude and Anti-CCP policy will last for decades.
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  1029. There are a lot of intellectuals that are against what the CCP is doing (lying to the Chinese people). Its easy to point at the intellectuals sounding the alarm and call them crazy until their statements are proven accurate.
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  1030.  @Joe-sm7lm  the difference between US system and China system is in the US system common people can enact positive change, in the China system common people cannot enact positive change.
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  1031.  @Joe-sm7lm  Yah.. not gonna happen. You are not gonna get an honest answer because only those who agree with the CCP are allowed to talk while those who are against are silenced. There really is no freedom of discourse. Even Chinese people who left China are silenced by the CCP by threatening their families and friends left in China. The CCP are completely immoral.
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  1032.  @Joe-sm7lm  Only the CCP does that … pretend to speak for 1.4 billion people. They don’t. If the only thing you can do is hurl insults then there’s nothing else I can say. The CCP is a fascist regime that is only interested in enriching themselves on the backs of the Chinese people. People are starting to wake up to that fact, that is why you see phenomenon such as “laying flat”, people know they are being used to enrich the wealthy but cannot do anything because of the dictatorial system hence they chose to do absolutely nothing. That is protest against the broken dictatorial system.
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  1033. Woman of color for VP..why not Nina Turner or Maxine Waters or Ayanna Pressley ?
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  1034. Of course they lied. Everything the CCP says are lies. When war breaks out between US and China, those islands will be the first ones to be sunk. Yes, they will sink because those islands are inherently geologically unstable. At least they make good homes for fishes at the bottom of the sea in the future.
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  1035. China was great from the 1990s - 2015. Now it's like going back to Mao Zedong crazy era of murder and mayhem. And Taiwan and Hong Kong (pre-CCP meddling) is definite proof that Chinese culture, an open free society and democracy can definitely work and work well.
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  1036. Tucker Carlson is only interested in promoting himself and his far right fringe white nationalist authoritarian views. People like Tucker Carlson sees Putin as an idol that should be admired and imitated. I'm glad there are Republicans that stands for decency, democracy and America.
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  1037. Of course, those who are planning on leaving won’t publicly say they are leaving. That would be akin to signaling to the CCP fascist to make trouble for them. They will just finish their business, cut relations and leave. You won’t really know until years later. Last I heard 27,000+ HKers already left for UK. That number will only grow bigger as the totalitarian fascist CCP cracks down on more freedoms.
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  1038. There's blood on the GOP's hands .
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  1039. How can helping the American people in economic distress during a severe pandemic be a “political stunt”? McConnell is cruel and insane.
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  1040. Identity theft is very common in China because of the lack of privacy, security as well as rampant corruption at the local government levels. Unfortunately for most poor low income families in China there isn’t much they can do about it as people lacks social, civil and political rights in China. Plus many Chinese people are conditioned not to question their own government. Only 242 cases were punished, the reality is there are 10,000+ cases and those were never brought to justice especially if they involved powerful politicians or wealthy families.
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  1041. The CCP is a failure. Instead of using money to buy influence they need to use it to help their own people.
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  1042. Basically Putin sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives of his own citizens for his arrogance and stupidity.
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  1043. Yeah the CCP wumaos now have people from other CCP friendly countries like Malaysia flag videos or generally cause a nuisance for themselves. They will have western user names but have location in KL, Malaysia, etc. It’s an obvious sign the CCP wumao operations have been offshored.
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  1044. There was a report that came out that says at least 60-70% of CCP politicians all have secret 2nd passports. These passports will be used as safety net if and when the CCP collapses or the people revolt against it -- it's the elites way out if Chinese society is destabilized. These elites knows the CCP system is inherently unsustainable and they are simply milking the wealth of China as much as possible before it all collapses. If you look at all the CCP elites, all of them have US dollar accounts stashed somewhere in the Cayman Islands or in Switzerland or elsewhere. The panama papers and the pandora papers have revealed that.
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  1045. Ukraine can definitely win. Putin already lost before the war started.
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  1046. Looks like civil war in Kazakhstan.
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  1047. Wow the more he talks the worst it looked. Even the body language of Karen Davila changed (she looks annoyed).
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  1048. Patrick Byrne was the guy who had an affair with Putin's spy in the US Maria Butina. Butina is now a politician in the Russian Duma (elected 2021) under Putin's party and publicly expressed support for the invasion of Ukraine.
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  1049.  @narutouzumaki3270  In 2018 they say China’s economy will surpass the US in 2028, now in 2022 they say China’s economy will surpass the US in 2034. Give emperor Xi 10 more years and China’s economy will surpass the US in never. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1050.  @billysoh1745  LOL the Chinese workers producing those will actually be paid a fair wage. You realize the majority of the big business in China the oligarchs are all CCP members that treat Chinese workers are slave. Even with the CCP gone the workers will still be there and will have a much better lives.
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  1051. Consequences of corporate greed and lack of accountability. Boeing got a slap on the wrist as punishment.
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  1052. I would agree. Many Trump supporters have an uncanny ability to ignore facts and Trump's reprehensible behavior. One thing they could not ignore though is the state of the economy, the pandemic response and the unemployment numbers. Democrats, Independents and Progressives needs to get out and vote. Many Trump supporters are even more fearful, uncertain, and angrier than ever before and they will turn out in force to vote for him again (ironically). In their minds, Trump is their "security blanket" and they need that "security blanket" even more so than before especially in the current economic uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  1053. Chinese fascism is on the rise in China.
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  1054. As usual putting the blame on the small guys while the CCP higher ups all wash their hands of responsibility. This is CCP China in a nutshell.
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  1055. Yeah... have fun playing with the Talibans and ISIS then.
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  1056. And this is why communism has never and will never work.
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  1057. Also note Tiktok has been caught scanning your device clipboard memory. For those that aren't technically minded.. it means if you have ever copy pasted your password from let's say a Password Manager then Tiktok would have gotten your password by scanning your device's clipboard memory (where it is decrypted). Not saying Tiktok is actively stealing your passwords but if they wanted to or commanded to by the CCP then they could. So if you have Tiktok installed, uninstall it now. I really don't blame Tiktok, they have no choice. Any Chinese owned company have no choice but to give up data if the CCP asked for it. It's in the Chinese national security law. They cannot withhold data or they get shut down. This is what happens when the CCP pretty much has it's clawed tentacles in every Chinese multinational (even if they are registered in the Cayman Islands, in the US or in Hong Kong). If they do business in China they have to give up their data or pack their bags. And that is how the CCP uses "market access" to get their way.
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  1058. Time to play hardball. No more cooperation with the CCP. Time to demolish the CCP. Just a little more global push to topple the paper tiger regime.
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  1059. Indeed...why would a shadow operation be a good thing? Bernie Sanders is running on a platform to get shadow money out of American politics. Receiving Bloomberg’s dirty blood money would run counter to that goal.
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  1060. The PLA is not China’s army. It is the CCP’s army. It’s main purpose is protection of the CCP political party not defense of China nor its people. It’s secondary purpose is to maintain stability in China thru the threat of force. The CCP’s biggest threat isn’t the US or the west but it’s own people. It fears a people’s revolution that would topple the totalitarian regime. That is why the regime’s overriding policies is regime stability at all cost. The CCP would murder 1 billion of China’s people if it thinks that would allow it to survive. The CCP has no qualms about using nuclear weapons against its own population if it feels threatened.
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  1061. Not surprised at all. Trump has always come off as being lazy and sleazy. I bet he hasn’t done a single day’s worth of honest work in his entire life. What George Orwell wrote is becoming reality. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell
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  1062. Let’s face it a large number of Chinese originating from China harbors strong Han supremacy views.
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  1063. PRC + Putin = "The west is weak now, we can destroy them and remake the world order." One week later... PRC to Putin = "You're on your own." 🤣🤣🤣 Ironically at least 3 eastern European countries (Ukraine, Finland, Sweden) have asked to join NATO after the invasion started. I'm so glad western Europe is starting to wake up. The PRC cannot be trusted. Ironically the PRC "intellectuals" are so blinded and oblivious to everything else they blame everything on the US when in reality not everyone wants or desires the PRC system. It's gonna be fun watching Europe bite the PRC in the ass. In the eyes of the world, the PRC and Putin are the aggressors.
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  1064. The key here is to maintain our debt to GDP ratio by 3% or under per year. As long as our economy grows by 3% every year we can increase national debt by $730 billion dollars ever year in perpetuity without actually increasing debt burden. Plus the US has over $200 trillion dollars worth in assets to cover our debts, we definitely are a long way from national insolvency or default.
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  1065. The CCP is the world’s largest organized crime organization masquerading as the Chinese government.
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  1066. There should be a mandatory retirement age for congress and senate.
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  1067. American style capitalism at all cost has failed. It's time for neo-capitalism (which is a mix of socialism and capitalism). When young people are so disenfranchised and feeling hopeless like that it is indeed incredibly dangerous as it would only lead to further unrest in the country as well as propagation of extremist ideology.
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  1068. She could be CCP 5th column implant. Very suspicious.
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  1069. Many geopolitical analysts are already predicting the PRC will become a failed state in 10-15 years under Xi's total control. The way things are going this prediction is going to be accurate.
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  1070. Fantastic documentary. It is indeed a massive mistake by Duterte to allow POGOs to operate in the Philippines as it victimizes both Filipinos and Chinese nationals (especially vulnerable Chinese nationals). Most of these POGOs are operated by Chinese organized crime/Chinese mafias.
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  1071. They have suspended the RCEP due to increasing hostility by the CCP towards EU and vice versa. Xi’s CCP regime shot themselves in the foot as the trade treaty took 8 years to negotiate now it is useless.
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  1072. The PRC regime loves to portray itself as a victim just like all autocratic totalitarian regimes.
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  1073. No $15 per hour minimum wage will ensure Trump or one of his family members are going to get elected on 2024. All they need to offer is like $10 an hour or some token deal. People are more likely to embrace extremist ideology because of abject poverty.
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  1074. Looks like the CCP continues to burn bridges across the entire world.
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  1075. Word on the street is ...20 Indian soldiers dead and between 35-43 PLA soldiers dead on the Chinese side. As to whether China and India will go to war over this. The answer is no. The area is not a top priority zone. Sure both sides claim the territory but this is more for the sake of "face" not a critical town or territory so it is highly unlikely both sides will go to war over it. But that doesn't mean there won't be bad blood though. Indian nationalism and Chinese nationalism are both at an all time high. This incident could be just one of many incidents that could potentially trigger a future conflict but the incident itself will not trigger a war between China and India. Also note this border dispute has been going on for decades. Skirmishes such as these is nothing new although the intensity of the recent skirmish is surprising.
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  1076. I love hearing logic and explanation from Peter.
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  1077. If only Graham and McConnell grew some balls to stand against Trump or any compassion or decency then people won't hate them.
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  1078. I think most people outside the Chinese firewall knows exactly what the CCP is capable of. If they are capable of murdering millions of their own people while the other half applauds them while they are at it they can do anything.
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  1079. Chinese people who still thinks the CCP will fight for them are naive beyond belief. The party will sacrifice them first if it serves the party's agenda. People are merely slaves and cogs of the CCP party to be used and abused.
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  1080. The Chinese users loves iPhones. It is seen as a status symbol phone.
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  1081. @JM-wn1gr  unfortunately the US is now being run by a gang of moronic incompetent buffoons that are failures in everything except in the art of grift and corruption. Be prepared for a lot of pain. You got what you voted for. FAFO! 🤪🤪🤪
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  1082. The CCP is the world's largest organized criminal enterprise.
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  1083. The entire China GDP numbers were fabricated scam designed to lure western money and investments.
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  1084. The corporate democrats needs to get with the progressives and help rebuild rural America. How ? Bring back jobs and development in rural America. Cut down on excessive globalization and offshoring of American jobs to oversea factories. Most Americans favor left wing social policies like social security, universal healthcare and universal education. These programs are NOT free they are paid for by the US taxpayers and to be used on the US taxpayers rather than being doled out to multinational billionaires. We need to bring back the middle class working class America once again. Populism is in once again while corporatism is out.
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  1085. Hahaha I bet the wealthy Chinese billionaires all hate Xi now for gutting their wealth by half. It didn't address income inequality merely make everyone poorer. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1086. My prediction: Harris will win in a landslide and Trump will whine like a bitch while peddling his stolen election bullcrap and this time nobody will really care. Even hardline republicans are tired of Trump.
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  1087. They are printing money. The PRC are printing 4x the amount of currency than even the US government.
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  1088. This is basic CCP mentality. They spread the virus to the entire world but they're doing better than anyone else so it's all good.
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  1089.  John Smith  China declares war on poor South East Asian countries without actually declaring war. They just harass and murder poor fishermen while acting all innocent and with fake indignation when confronted. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philippines-backs-vietnam-china-sinks-fishing-boat-70037606
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  1090. LOL the dude is doing scripted answer and trying to deflect blame to the west. The reality is if they accept the western mRNA vaccine then the regime totally loses face. It would tantamount to admitting Sinovcac is just not as good as the mRNA vaccines.
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  1091. Trump is really his own worst enemy. All Biden had to do was stand there, say a few platitudes and wear a mask and he would win because Trump has reached critical mass insanity. I mean what kind of president would NOT a wear mask and go against the medical advice of every doctor every single medical practitioner in the entire country (heck the entire world).
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  1092. Duan Lei he doesn’t look angry to me. He just looks sad China’s political rhetoric and climate is ramped with anti-westerner sentiment that is affecting his Chinese friends and even family members (remember his wife is Chinese). In fact most of Winstons views and opinions is pretty fair and favorable to China. The truth is China under Xi is now going to dark places and a lot of westerners in China are feeling it. Criticism means people care about something. Not all criticisms are bad, in fact criticism is how something improves. The Chinese government’s fear and recent crackdown of criticism simply means it is not confident of its own rule.
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  1093. I’M FEELING THE BERN!!! Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate that excites me.
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  1094. $150 million dollars is what it cost the US taxpayers for 4 years of Trump playing golf while the US taxpayers pick up the bill.
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  1095. When US politicians are blaming doors for mass shooting you know it is time to vote them out.
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  1096. You are right.. I’m so fucking pissed. But getting pissed is useless instead I will double my donations to Bernie Sanders campaign.
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  1097. I am hearing 340,000 Texans are without power now just when they need it the most. Time to send Abbott packing.
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  1098. Makes it very expensive to export products.
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  1099.  @kongwee1978  yes. This means manufacturer would have to adjust their supply chain. Inflation in the US means people are buying less too.
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  1100. And of course Lancaster, CA is mostly Republican with a Republican mayor and Republican dominated legislature. It's split between 23rd and 25th congressional district and guess who are the Congressmen of the district? It Kevin McCarthy and Mike Garcia both MAGA Republicans. So I am not really surprised. Keep them poor, keep them angry and disillusioned and have always been the GOP modus operandi.
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  1101. China’s real estate industry is collapsing. This is Lehman brothers on steroids x 100. The losses will be in the trillions… not millions… not billions but trillions. Most of China’s real estate companies while they look good on paper are actually nearly bankrupt because of hidden debts (they have massive debts that are off the books). They are experts in making their books look clean but a lot of dirt are hidden beyond the scrutiny of investors and shareholders.
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  1102.  @henryreinhart5912  yes...there's always that threat of force and violence by authoritarian authorities.
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  1103.  @AFDHERO  so glad Taiwan kept all those gold and treasures of the ROC from the grubby hands of the communist bandits. Had it been left to Mao it would have already been melted down to fill the coffers of the corrupt CCP bandits.
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  1104. FAFO!!!
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  1105. New Zealand report is right, too many CCP spies and 5th column in New Zealand.
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  1106. I would have to agree with Romney. The GOP is now Trump's party, there's no saving it. It effectively now functions more like an organized cult than a political party. The moderate and centrist GOP might have to form a new party and fully abandon the GOP that's been fully highjacked by the far right. These people doesn't care even if Trump was fully convicted of a crime in the criminal court. In their eyes Trump is forever blameless and innocent no matter what. And I agree with Farron, the best thing for US politics is for the traditional GOP and DNC to split into 4 or more distinct ideological parties. That way political parties would be forced to compromise and work together in a coalition without one party or the other dominating the agenda.
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  1107.  @jonmccormick8683  Yes the issue is under California law, empty containers can only be stack up to 2 containers high. Unfortunately there are a lot of empty containers and they are running out of space to put those empty containers. This created a container backlog jam preventing new containers from being unloaded. They want the governor to pass an emergency measure to stack the empty containers up to 6 stacks high in order to create room to unload more containers. Then there is the issue of truck drivers. The COVID created a lack of available commercial truck drivers (you need a license for driving commercial long haul trucks so not anyone can drive them). Even working around the clock, it would take them almost a year to clear most of the backlog caused by the COVID pandemic.
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  1108. Philippines should stand strong the reckoning against CCP China is coming.
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  1109. I agree. Putin won't survive this.
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  1110. Cults are scary. I have met people that I used to know before and after they joined a cult. The change in their personalty and behavior is drastic. It's like the person you use to know isn't there anymore but is replaced by someone else in the body. Cults usually engage in a passive form of brainwashing and indoctrination thru repetition of propaganda materials. If you are a moderately intelligent person reading a cult material for the first time, you would think that whoever wrote the materials have mental illness. However for cult members who are fully indoctrinated, their thinking process is so warp they wouldn't think the cult's material is crazy. It's like their minds fully accepted the materials without passing thru logic processing. Also for cult members, they view the cult's hierarchy or leadership the same way they view their parents or siblings. It's like warmth or kinship but it is artificial and often they would justify abuse as "normal". This is why often ex-cult members require professional deprogramming to get back to normal. The damage to their world views and mental processes are real.
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  1111. Zero deaths ? When cremation services in Wuhan were running 24/7 for months at a time. Would you seriously believe they only have 4K deaths and that number has been stuck there for the last 2 years.
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  1112. Taiwan is the real Chinese culture and what happens when Chinese society is free to develop and advance positively.
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  1113. Useless taxpayer money sucking white elephant.
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  1114. Thanks to Trump, the drug cartels now have a drug and undocumented immigrant freeway into the US. All hail Trump!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Oh yeah the US taxpayers paid for the drug/immigrant freeway.
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  1115. Trump is essentially building a modern day fascist party on American soil. Good thing people have woken up to his blatant lies and propaganda. Some members (not all of them) of the Fox News crews is Trump's Joseph Goebbels.
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  1116. It is a genocide.
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  1117. Hehehe another nut job in jail for a long time. His son is brave.
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  1118. ZERO COVID policy is a political move. Little to do with actual COVID prevention. Actual COVID deaths in China is actually pretty low. It's a stress test on how much the regime can push the population. It's a preparation for near future war.
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  1119. I agree with you the GOP is shooting themselves on the foot this upcoming 2022 midterms. People are going to remember the GOP's lack of support for the stimulus (while people have short term memory, the midterm election is just next year and the memory of pain inflicted upon them by the GOP will stay in there for quite a while). What I am seeing now is the GOP's utter lack of concern for their constituents and instead they are going full force into voter disenfranchisement and suppression.
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  1120. Excellent tip. Move out of China to escape.
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  1121. Okay… explain to me what it means to you when you spout words like Marxist. Ironically most Americans hated the word marxism or communism or socialism because they were conditioned to yet does not know what it means.
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  1122. Xi Jinping Thought = Chinese fantasy La La land where only rainbows and sunshine exist while ignoring or erasing all the deaths, starvation, injustices, corruption, malfeasance and outright farce that happened thru out Chinese history while learning nothing from it.
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  1123. Penny pinching is a good thing. Yes drugs are bad. There is a huge taboo against drugs in China due to the opium war. And drugs are partly the reason for the century of humiliation.
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  1124. So glad the democratic world are waking up. No more turning a blind eye to the CCP’s atrocities.
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  1125. Stocks of Sinic Holdings (another Chinese real estate company) just collapsed today by 87%. Trading halted.
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  1126. The CCP is known for imposing unrighteous, cruel and unjust laws like the One Child policy.
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  1127. The Chinese nationalists love to see their own people suffer especially the minorities like Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians just because the Han majority CCP said so.
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  1128. Ironically Biden is simply doing what a majority of Americans wanted. Recent poll shows 70% of Americans approved pulling out of Afghanistan. We’ve overstayed for over 20 years. Only the warmongers in Washington (both GOP and DNC), the billionaires who are profiting off Afghanistan and the far right (Trumpers) are whining about it.
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  1129. If this report is true that means China's navy are all hollowed out. This means expensive new toys but nobody experienced enough to command it. A navy is only effective if it has experienced military leaders otherwise those new expensive ships will be as good as very expensive target practice. It takes years or decades to train new commanders.
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  1130.  @Pixel5564  how can it be sino phobic when the CCP doesn't represents the Chinese people. It is a corruption party that is only interested in enriching and enslaving the Chinese people.
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  1131.  @Pixel5564  CCP only represent the wealthy elites and definitely NOT the Chinese people. It's the new wealthy ruling class of China that throws back to the imperial royalties of old China.
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  1132.  @Pixel5564  CCP goal is make money for themselves and rob the Chinese people blind while continuing to enslave them. Look how the richest CCP all have families with US citizenship or green cards. It's a corruption totalitarian regime keeping the Chinese shacked like dogs while using them to make money.
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  1133.  @Pixel5564  CCP lies that China is now wealthy yet premier Li Keqiang says in 2020 over 600M Chinese still makes 1000 RMB per month that's only $155 USD. You can't even pay rent with 1000 RMB. 600M is half the country.
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  1134.  @Pixel5564  you are right the CCP is not the Nazi party, it is WORST than the Nazi party. The Nazis don't enslave their own people and treat rural Chinese farmers like dogs.
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  1135.  @Pixel5564  the CCP isn't taking over anything. It's a regime deadly afraid of it's own people.
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  1136. As much as the CCP loves to peddle the fantasy that they are doing it for the Chinese people, their actions shows they are in it only to enrich themselves (all the wealthy people in China are CCP members -- this is mandatory). The greatest lie the CCP has perpetrated is to convince the Chinese people their policies are socialist while in reality their actions are fascist and that the Chinese nation cannot exist without them. That's obviously a massive lie since Taiwan which is a free and democratic Chinese nation exists as a free and prosperous society. That's the only reason why the CCP wants to snuff out Taiwan, because its a complete repudiation of the CCP totalitarian regime.
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  1137.  @KenjaTimu  the irony is the CCP regime is only socialist in political rhetoric but not in practice. Even fully capitalist countries like Japan, and US have more socialism programs than CCP China. The CCP is only concerned with two things -- control and power.
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  1138. Typical CCP modus operandi, start aggression/play dirty and then cry victimhood when they get exposed to their shenanigans.
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  1139. True. China is an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. Feminism while is growing in China is still small and powerless. Out of the 25 members of the politburo standing committee (the highest ruling party officials in China) only 2 are women. Women are still seen as weak in the world of Chinese politics. For women to reach the top of the political circles she must truly be the queen shark among sharks. Also there is unfair treatment of public officials between men and women. When a male public official reaches the age of 60 he is encourage to retire however if it is female that age is 50. The entire CCP is comprise of 91 million members (only 25 million members are women).
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  1140. Her constituents doesn't really care if she committed treason, they are sending her to Congress basically as a middle finger to the US government. Basically they are saying "look we can send the most unqualified obnoxious insane person to public office to wreck havoc and undermine the US government and you can't really do anything about it". She could shoot someone on live national TV and they would still vote for her. At this point they don't even want democracy anymore, the crazier the more havoc they wreck the better.
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  1141. The west is now totally fed up with Xi and the CCP’s bullying tactics. Time to lay some smackdown. I’m so glad Germany is now standing up to the CCP. The CCP under Xi doesn’t want dialogue it wants servitude/capitulation of the west. Everything this guy is saying is straight up CCP party line. It’s like reading from a script.
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  1142. Unfortunately money talks. The Olympics will make them billions in merchandise and video rights sales. The Uyghurs, millions of dissidents, Peng Shaui of the world be damned.
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  1143. It’s always the GOP modus operandi to screw their constituents and then put the blame on liberals.
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  1144. Warren is finished.
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  1145. The CCP loves Elon Musk.
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  1146. "Look..you have empty seats there.. it's irrefutable that Trump couldn't fill a 19,000 man stadium." (6,200 showed up or around 28% of the expected crowd). Trump propagandist: "But Joe Biden.." sounds like the all too familiar "But Obama.." deflection. The Trump campaign can blame Biden or Obama all they want but the American voters can see... Trump is failing hard.. right in front of their very eyes.
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  1147. The guy really does look like Santa from our collective imagination.
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  1148. China totally screwed by Xi.
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  1149. They interrogated her for over 5 hours. She later wrote on social media she was extremely frightened and exhausted after the ordeal. This is why the CCP needs to be destroyed.
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  1150. Anything funded by the CCP and claims to be for human rights is a lie. The CCP have no qualms about murdering millions of people. They have done it before and will do so again.
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  1151. Bernie is our only hope.
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  1152. Xi Jinping shitty policy strikes again and yet the CCP keeps blaming the US. 🤪🤪🤪
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  1153.  @chechang18  True. In a system where you only exist to work for the state and have no freedom to decide the direction of your own life, then "tangping" or laying flat is the smart way to go. It's actually a genius response to government and societal pressures and oppression.
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  1154. The GQP are all so afraid. Maybe … just maybe..they have actually done something that could lead to them being arrested of a crime. Makes you wonder. 🤔🤔🤔
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  1155. Western media is easily fooled because there are less and less journalists on the ground reporting. Most has already fled China so the western media now just parrots what the CCP says.
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  1156. Lol end Ukraine but Russia is the one that is buried in the grave.
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  1157. China has become an imperialist warmongering empire that wants to dominate the Southeast Asia under Xi Jinping.
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  1158. Who would buy a phone that cost the equivalent of 3-4 month salary of a regular worker ?
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  1159. Basically Xi is now faced with a damn if you do, damn if you don't dilemma. High housing prices is unsustainable however if he caused the property prices to crash, the people who speculated by putting all their money on real estate are gonna enrage on him. Either way, someone is gonna enrage here. This is a systemic problem that should have been addressed 10-15 years ago.
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  1160. America is now waking up to the fact that GDP and the stock market are metrics on which to show how the rich people are faring in the United States not how the average working class American family is doing.
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  1161. #ILikeBernie
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  1162. Buildings can be destroyed but as long as Ukraine doesn't give up hope everything will be rebuilt brand new. Billions in EU, UK and US money will come pouring in once Russia loses and Putin is put at the gallows. Ukraine will come back stronger than ever. Does the Chinese wants a piece of the Ukrainian economic pie? Of course they do but they need to play by the rules just like anyone else.
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  1163. Any evangelicals still rooting for and supporting Trump at this point is a traitor to the Christian faith. Trump is everything that Jesus has warned every Christian about. Trump is a liar, a misogynist, a thief, and a traitor to our country for colluding with China and Russia in subverting our democracy. He is morally bankrupt and is a sociopath.
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  1164. People don’t exactly wants to announce they planning to leave in an authoritarian regime.
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  1165. I don't get how anyone could still support Trump at this point. He is amoral, corrupt, dirty, lying charlatan. The pandemic is now raging like wildfire, the economy is in shambles and 34 million Americans are now out of jobs.
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  1166. The CCP is all about control and one way to control 1 billion people is thru violence, intimidation, indoctrination and nationalism. They need to maintain that control so the CCP political elites can maintain their level of comfort and wealth using the Chinese people as cheap labor to be exploited.
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  1167. Yep autonomous killing machine will be the future. China, Russia, US, India and other great powers has refused to sign an agreement to ban autonomous weapons of war. Huge chance these weapons destroys the human race. Swarm Ai autonomous weapons are all the rage now. These weapons are very cheap to produce and are highly effective and deadly. What could happen is the human race could be wiped off the face of the Earth and these AI systems would still continue to try to win a war but without any humans left to tell them to stop.
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  1168. Call them for what they really are "domestic terrorists". If they want changes in American society they should do it thru democratic means not thru violence. They claim they support democracy and freedom except their actions are exactly what authoritarian and totalitarian regimes does which is thru violence and force not thru the rule of law. And Trump is liable for all of this. If there really is justice then Trump should be in jail.
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  1169. In the end it's all about the $$$. They thought the BRI would bring them a ton of prosperity and money, it turns out the BRI put them in even more debt. When a country is massively and uncontrollably in debt to another country then this threatens their sovereignty. CCP China is putting a lot of these economically developing countries under debt slavery and Chinese imperialism. The CCP accuses the US and the west of imperialism yet they are doing it themselves.
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  1170.  @doujinflip  the CCP system is beyond reform. It is inherently corrupt and bureaucratic with zero accountability. The only thing left is to demolish it and rebuild from the ground up with checks and balances and transparency.
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  1171. The CCP can certainly try and they will fail because the democracies of the world will assist India. Plus India is a nuclear power and is certainly not a pushover. I can see India liberating Tibet and East Turkistan (Xinjiang) from emperor fuhrer Xi’s regime.
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  1172. False. Actually as of 2018, there are only 600,000 foreigners living in China total and only 72,000 are Americans. Most of them live in the international tier 1 cities like Shanghai. You over estimate how welcoming the CCP are. In fact the only ones that stayed works as a representative of some multinational companies. 2021 that number could be even fewer now. China is not exactly a welcoming place for foreigners. Ironically the number of Chinese living in western countries like the US, Canada, Australia, UK have increased. In the US alone, the Chinese diaspora now numbered 5.5M as of 2018. I guess many Chinese prefer the freedom and democracy the west can afford them.
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  1173. You can only wish. CCP system only thinks the Chinese people are dispensable cogs of the system. Human lives mean nothing to them. They only demand obedience and stability at all cost.
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  1174. It is standard PRC propaganda to blame everything on others the fascist Chinese regime has done wrong.
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  1175. People who uses "believe me" excessively tends to be liars and frauds.
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  1176. Exactly. A country is what the people make of it.
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  1177. The ponzi scheme is starting to collapse.
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  1178. Actually many big businesses are moving now. Apple just opened up several new factories in India. They plan to shift 30% of their production to India by 2030.
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  1179. Pretty much what Hitler said to justify Nazi Germany expansion and annexation of Czechoslovakia. Putin is simply saying the same things. But everyone knows its bullshit.
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  1180. The Philippines needs technocrats and policy wonks not social media stars and celebrities in government.
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  1181. Putin's days are numbered.
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  1182. The Chinese/HK people are not the enemy only the CCP. The Chinese/HK people themselves are the victims of injustices of the CCP kleptocratic elites (which ironically kept their money in the US).
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  1183. Exploding batteries.
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  1184. So luxurious.
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  1185. What would be wonderful is the GOP right wing and far right wing destroy each other and render themselves politically impotent. Then the corporate democrats can stop using Trump/GOP as a boogeyman. This would allow progressive policies that are favored by a majority of Americans to finally pass.
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  1186. Actually Biden was even more hawkish than even Trump to China. Many of Trump’s policies were continued by Biden. The biggest difference was Biden doesn’t tweet his national policies on Twitter. Another major difference was Trump thinks the US can stand alone against China, Biden thinks the US needs friends and allies to stand against China. I actually like Biden’s approach.
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  1187. If Bernie Sanders were to run in 2020 against Trump it wouldn't be a close call hair raisingly close election (290 is close). Bernie would win in a massive landslide (320+). Florida would turn blue. This year's election is more like getting rid of a dangerous fascist like Trump than any enthusiasm for Biden. People are now hurting, what they want is a president that actually has a plan to address the COVID issue, the economy issue, the job issue, and the healthcare issue (3.5M people are currently sick and over 14-20M are jobless and about the same has lost their healthcare). People would be super enthusiastic for Bernie Sanders.
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  1188. Elect Jon Ossoff for Senate (Georgia) https://electjon.com
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  1189. This is what happens to countries who falls in bed with China. Become bankrupt and even more indebted to China.
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  1190. Trump has Xi envy. You hear him mentioning he admire Xi Jinping many times for the absolute power he wields. Trump wants to be dictator for life too.
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  1191. When the far right wing MAGA GOP are full of Russian assets undermining the US and NATO.
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  1192. Taiwan owes absolutely nothing to the communist bandits the CCP. Not one cent. Not one iota of anything.
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  1193. Putin's political career is finished. It would be a surprise if he survives till he retires.
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  1194. Is that why the CCP is rationing electricity in Anhui in the middle of winter and forcing tens of millions of Chinese to go without heating or electricity while intruding in Taiwan's airspace every single day ?
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  1195. Someone started calling it "Diablo Immoral". 🤣🤣🤣
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  1196. China under Xi’s CCP is not becoming great. It is becoming a fascist dictatorship that oppresses and enslaves its own people.
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  1197. This is basically Putin putting his own people in mass graves.
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  1198. Very interesting. I was researching communism and all communist regime around the world has one thing in common — the idea that the state has the right to inflict violence and death upon the population in order to fulfill whatever grand goals the state is aiming for. Going back to the originator of communism/maxism — Karl Marx, he himself never abandon the idea of using violence as a political weapon. In fact from his writing he encourages using whatever is necessary to oppose the bourgeoisie/capitalists (including using violence and lies) to bludgeon society into obedience in order to achieve a national goal and create his communist utopia/dystopia. This is what turned me off Marxism. If you think about it, Marxism is a very attractive idea (a world where everyone is equal and there are no social classes) however in order achieve that necessitates the death and destruction of the bourgeoisie (elites, capitalists, etc.) and in order to achieve that destruction necessitates the application of violence, death and lies on the elites. There is no such thing as a non-violent communist struggle as communism runs against human nature (human society tends to be selfish and greedy because our society and human progress are built upon constant competition for survival). Note: I’m not saying communism is entirely wrong or unethical but it depends on your personal perception on what is “right”. Is it right to be wealthy and provide for your family or is it right to want a more equal society where there are no excessively wealthy individuals ? I think a lot of people can agree the right answer is somewhere in the middle.
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  1199. It is very satisfying to see Justice finally come for Trump.
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  1200. Imagine Ukraine was able to do this with just 12 HIMARS. If the US gaves them 50 more HIMARS and the corresponding ammo they could completely turn the tide of battle against the Russians in short order. A lot of strategic analyst have realized the Russian military has been grossly over estimated and is a lot weaker than previously thought. The bigger threat now is the PRC.
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  1201. All big Chinese multinational corporations are arms of the CCP whether they like it or not. Also hostage diplomacy is not something new. The Chinese has been employing such inhumane tactic for a long time even before the CCP. Human life holds little sanctity to the Chinese government. They will use and abuse anyone to get what they want. The CCP IS an organized criminal organization masquerading as government of China.
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  1202. Bernie has 6,000+ more votes. More votes = winner. Delegates system is a sham.
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  1203. Unfortunately politics and corruption pretty much ensure that any big train projects ends in failure. Take for example the high speed rail that will be connecting SF to LA (cutting travel from about 6 hours to 2 hours) went from costing $65 billion to $77 billion to $80 billion and now it seems they cannot find the money to fund it. At least the BART extension project will be completed this year despite the delay.
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  1204. Totally agree. China is playing the long game here. I doubt China will use the military power to beat up smaller poorer countries as it would simply galvanize the entire western world against China. They use bullying tactics and diplomatic isolation to wage psychological war on their enemies such as what they are doing to Taiwan now. And I totally agree.. China wants the smaller poorer countries to support them hence all that BRI project. It is debt slavery and as they say in Chinese... a country in debt is powerless against their debtors.
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  1205. Now I want to eat Matsusaka wagyu beef ...yum yum... :3
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  1206. Evergrande could be the trigger that collapses China's economy.
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  1207. Yep the GOP voted against it now they are trying to take credit for it. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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  1208. Actually the expected number is 3M people. HK is a small city of 7M. They expect half the people there to flee. 27K went to UK, rest went elsewhere (a lot went to Canada, Australia and US). Of course many will not announce they are leaving until they actually left.
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  1209. Very good information as usual Lei!!! I agree China would need to end the CCP once and for all to have a future. I hope Xi succeeds in his endeavor to destroy the CCP from within. From the ashes of the CCP a new China that is free and democratic will finally be born like a phoenix from the ashes.
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  1210. So happy Biden finally doing something concrete for HK’ers not just rhetoric. The extended temporary visa will allow HK’ers to apply for jobs while their cases are pending in immigration. I’m laughing while the Global Times and other pro-CCP media rag are blowing their gasket over this.
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  1211. This is why I hate the CCP. The Chinese people are enslaved and worked like slaves just so the CCP officials can bath in moutai and stage lavish multibillion dollar state banquet celebrations paid for by the tax dollars of the Chinese people. $2 billion centennial celebration + $3.9 billion for 2022 Winter olympics while 600 million people still make less than 1000 RMB per month.
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  1212. This is essentially excessive capitalism. Exploitation of the workers at the bottom so the few at the top can make millions. Who are making all that money ? Directors, producers and Voice actors. Wow $500 per month..that's not even enough to pay rent in the US.
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  1213. Change thru trade obviously didn't work on China because the CCP always needs an external enemy in order for it to exist.
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  1214.  @davidnoelfranks1124  PRC is threatening Taiwan just for daring to exist.
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  1215. Anyone who have observed Trump knows he is a pathological liar and a sociopath. Now his own niece merely confirms it.
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  1216. Ray Dalio: the billionaire who sold out the US to China.
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  1217. Getting reports that the Uyghur concentration camps are essentially forcing the entire 2M Uyghur population into becoming slave workers for the state owned enterprises.
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  1218.  @NoCareBearsGiven  according to historians most of China during the Han dynasty speaks Hokkien/Minnan. But to put it into context the Han dynasty China is a lot smaller than it is now and comprises the southern and central Chinese provinces.
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  1219.  @NoCareBearsGiven  according to researchers it was the “lingua franca” during the Han Dynasty, although just like Old English it’s a lot different from Modern English. The “Hokkien” language spoken at that time would probably be indecipherable to today’s Hokkien speakers.
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  1220.  @jbob6545  Taiwan government has started a program to teach traditional Mandarin in US universities as replacement for the Confucius Institute.
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  1221.  @NZvanlife  Simplified already exist even before the Chinese civil war. It was invented in the early 1900-1920s as a way to encourage literacy as the traditional mandarine characters (often only used in official government documents) proved to be too difficult for the uneducated masses to learn. Back then only the Qing aristocracy can read and write. In 1920, China had a literally rate of only 5% (95% of the population couldn’t read or write). The Republic of China in the 1920s decided to encourage public literacy and they decided to use simplified to make it easier for the masses to get educated.
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  1222. Website of the inn if you want to book a night there. Due to coronavirus they are closed for business until June 2, 2020 I think. http://www.zashiki-warashi.co.jp/rkanren.html
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  1223. Xi has an ambition to conquer the world.
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  1224. Greed and short term gain can blind the smartest people.
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  1225. Yes the CCP are the new Nazi party. In fact they are worst than the Nazis. Remember during the cultural devolution and great leap off the cliff Mao Zedong's policies murdered more than 40-60 million of his own people thru summary executions, purges and systemic starvation. It's way worse than what Hitler could have done.
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  1226. Every vote must be counted. That is the very core of democracy. Without it then it wouldn't be a democracy it would be tyranny of the minority.
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  1227. Trump “America first” ? More like Trump first, America last policy.
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  1228. If India boycott the Chinese Uyghur genocide olympics it would definitely send a very powerful message as India is an upcoming global super power.
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  1229. You maybe right. We are definitely starting to see evidence of tiny cracks in the CCP system. As the economy gets worse the cracks grows wider. We maybe seeing the final decade of the CCP system. I think China will split into 2 or more along the North/South. Places like Shenzhen and Shanghai will continue to do okay but interior and northern China will revert to their natural state (ruled by warlord fiefdoms).
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  1230. Loneliness is a real killer in Japan. This is why suicide by the elderly and the young are so high.
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  1231. *eat popcorn while watching the great accelerator accelerates towards the fiscal cliff* Go go emperor Xi!!! I do hope he gets re-elected to a third term. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1232. China's government and system of governance doesn't work. In theory the US system of government should work unfortunately due to decades of corruption the US system has sprung massive leaks in its system and the good politicians are too busy working to plug the leaks while the bad politicians just stand around doing nothing. Frankly I have much more faith in the US system because it has the potential to be a great system if not for corruption. The CCP system is utterly broken, corrupt, dystopian and simply doesn't work. Note I call it the CCP system because it's an imported system from Russia. Communism isn't even inherently a Chinese ideology -- it originated from Germany across Eastern Europe then to Russia where Mao Zedong got it from.
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  1233.  Drumpf donny  Will be funny once the Chinese people realize Xi’s “common prosperity” is actually “common poverty”. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1234.  @drumpfdon760  CCP tries to puff itself up to look like a super power but it's really more like a toilet paper dragon. Can only bully small countries like Taiwan and Lithuania. Ironically the CCP regime can't even handle Lithuania nor Taiwan. Everyone in the world laughing at the CCP regime. Wow big "super power" but more like "super loser". 🤣🤣🤣 I will tell you what is the greatest weakness of the CCP. The CCP's greatest weakness is it is a cruel regime. It treats its own people cruelly without a shred of kindness or compassion. The world cannot respect a regime that treats its own people badly. Why would Taiwan wants to unite with China when it sees the CCP treating its people so badly, harshly and cruelly. If Taiwan reunites then the CCP will treat the Taiwanese the same or even worst. There is no logic in wanting to unite with a cruel and despicable regime devoid of humanity and compassion.
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  1235.  @drumpfdon760  lol how would you know what the majority of the Chinese people wants when they are not given the right to free speech and press and all who disagrees with the CCP regime tends to end up in jail or dead. Let me tell you... I have spoken with a lot of Chinese, those who have flee or migrated from China. All of them hates the CCP. That is why they migrate out of China. No future there with the CCP in charge. Especially now the Xi regime is cracking down on everything. Those who can leave China already has left either to Taiwan, to Australia, Canada, UK and US. Common prosperity really is turning into common poverty.
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  1236.  @drumpfdon760  the only place for the CCP is in garbage bin.. I'm quoting the politician from Lithuania and they are right. CCP is garbage who starves it's own people just for blue skies during the 2022 Beijing genocide Olympics. Whoever wants a government that starves it's own people just to "save face" ? What a cruel loser government. What ? Coal is more expensive than meat in China? What a loser government. Who would want that kind of government?
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  1237.  @drumpfdon760  I don't hate Chinese. I pity you because your government treat you badly and yet you continue to beg for pain and suffering. Sorry pretty buildings are useless if people do not have food to eat or have electricity. Only a loser government would prioritize blue skies over the well being of its citizens. But I guess the CCP regime doesn't really give much value to your lives.
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  1238.  @drumpfdon760  enjoy your blue skies in Beijing while everyone starves just like during Mao Zedong stupidity era. It is indeed sad you choose to support a shitty government that treat Chinese lives like worthless dirt. The worst enemy of the Chinese people really are other Chinese people.
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  1239.  @drumpfdon760  Will be funny when Taiwan takes back Fujian and China balkanizes just like USSR. Hahahhahaa… Republic of Canton will be good too. Also Republic of Taiwan.
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  1240.  @drumpfdon760  Yahh.. Republic of Canton with the capital Hong Kong City. Also Republic of Taiwan with the capital at Taipei. I'm pretty sure Tibet will want independence too and East Turkishtan/Xinjiang now called Republic of East Turkishan. So much better.
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  1241.  @drumpfdon760  It will happen even sooner. CCP will be gone in 10-20 years.
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  1242.  @drumpfdon760  CCP already collapsing today. That is why they are very strict and crackdown on everything. Of course when weak show they are strong. That is basic Sun Tzu tactics of projection. We talk to Chinese inside China everyday. We know what is really going on. The CCP can try to hide it but the economy is in dire strait. Once the economy goes, so does everything. CCP mentioned "stability" 25 times in their last meeting. Why would they mention it so many times if it is not a concern? Think about it.
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  1243.  @drumpfdon760  Good. Let them come so they can be destroyed. Instead of just Macao, and Hong Kong maybe even Shanghai and Xiamen can be liberated from CCP fascist dictatorship.
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  1244.  @drumpfdon760  Don't worry. We are prepared. The CCP can start a war, we'll finish it and them. It will be another 八国联军 bwahahhahaha!!!
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  1245. This is awesome. Trump: the last 5 questions were hard. Wallace: But one of the questions was count back 7 from 100. 😂😂😂
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  1246. Just look at all the tofu buildings and bridges collapsing in China, that tells you all you need to know about the quality of workmanship of China made weapons.
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  1247. Nope. Not while Xi and the CCP are around.
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  1248. I heard 300+ projects and over 70 cities are affected. The ramifications are trillions in US dollars.
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  1249. The China is gonna get a massive bloody nose when all the countries China bullies decided to band together and teach them a lesson. Time for the CCP to go. The arrogance of the CCP regime will be its end.
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  1250. WHO totally disgusting to pander to the fascist CCP regime.
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  1251. If Chinese medicine is so good at curing the coronavirus as what that nationalist lady says... how come China is quarantining entire regions of cities with over 100M people again ?
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  1252. Kin W you have to learn that freedom, justice and democracy is more important than buildings and money. Nobody likes the CCP because they are a bully and thugs.
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  1253. LOL China the most secure countries in the world..who can’t feed their own people and need to severely muzzle its own people in order to keep regime stability. That’s not the definition of secure. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1254. According to a Chinese merc blogger who fought for Russia, 8 NK commanders/special forces died in 1 day of being deployed in the front lines in Ukraine.
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  1255. The global economic reset is coming.
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  1256. The entire CCP economy is a scam.
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  1257. Ed Markey all the way!
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  1258. More and more Chinese and western CCP shills alike are waking up to the true nature of the CCP especially after the Shanghai lockdown catastrophe. It's kinda funny even the CCP realized how badly they screwed up they are engaging in wholesale manipulation, blame deflecting and even banning people from stating the fact Shanghai was locked down. Love Lele Farley he truly understood the Chinese people. And he is right no political party in the entire planet is arrogant enough that they would conflate and bind the party itself to the nation state. You don't see the Republicans or the Democrats or any political party for that matter saying crazy shit like without us there is no USA.
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  1259. If you are still investing in the PRC despite all these signs then you deserve losing it all when this Ponzi scheme collapses into a smoldering heap. Foreign investors are gonna get screwed. Sadly the Chinese people who bought into this are gonna get screwed the worst.
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  1260. Frankly the only way this ends up satisfactorily is if Putin ends up in a morgue together with the thousands that he had ordered slaughtered.
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  1261. It means that Wall Street just dumped other people's money on a Ponzi scheme that just popped.
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  1262. The CCP has shown its true face. It is a corrupt despotic autocratic totalitarian regime. It is time for the free world to band together and dump the CCP into the dustbin of history and free the Hong Kong and Chinese people from tyranny.
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  1263. Taiwan is already an independent country no matter who the president is.
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  1264. Frankly the only solution to fixing China's woes is to get rid of Xi Jinping and the CCP system once and for all.
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  1265. <3 <3 <3 Ilhan Omar <3 <3 <3 Don't you love it when progressive politicians like Ilhan Omar speaks truth to power. Yes the US economy is indeed a sham. The stock market are at an all time high yet over 20-24 million American workers are unemployed (14% - 16% unemployed). Who owns the stocks ? It's the rich venture capitalist people. Once they sold their stocks and profit off the hyper pumped up stock then they fire tens of thousands of workers in the name of cost cutting. If this isn't called a sham I don't know what is.
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  1266. The Digital Yuan instead of allowing freedom is the exact opposite. It virtually guarantees government control of everything. If the Chinese government wants to destroy someone they can simply void their banking privileges. The person cannot survive especially if China completely phases out cash. Cash for all its limitations at least ensures some freedom free from government control. Digital Yuan is 1984 dystopian technology becoming reality.
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  1267. I like Biden now. At least he has balls. He has released US oil reserves to reduce gas prices for consumers and that is good too especially for the Holliday period.
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  1268. Lol the CCP can never be trusted. They always say one thing and do another.
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  1269. It’s more like how the Chinese communist party ruins everything good and beautiful in this world.
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  1270. He was in the board of Alibaba until 2019.
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  1271. Kissinger is a traitorous war criminal. By enabling and empowering the CCP it created the US own biggest enemy. The CCP is incorrigible.
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  1272. Bernie Sanders will change the world for the better. We are now at a crossroads. The fate of America and the world is at a crossroads. Do we choose good or evil will depend entirely upon us. I chose to stand with good and the right side of history. I chose to stand with Bernie Sanders.
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  1273. Taiwan is model of what a Chinese society would look like if given democracy freedom and the rule of law. The CCP wants to snuff Taiwan out because each day Taiwan exist makes the CCP looks worst and worst to its own people. The PRC is basically a massive prison state of the CCP where 1.2 billion Chinese are held as prisoners for life and many PRC Chinese are starting to realize that.
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  1274.  @herbayum76  They are doing it for money and ratings. I don't believe Tucker Carlson is that dumb only highly immoral. What is sad is this kind of pandering can destabilize democracy in the US. Recently it is revealed that in order to go to work at Fox News office you have to be vaccinated yet they are pandering to the anti-vaxxer crowd with those crazy anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
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  1275. It’s not going to be business as usual because there is no business left. Almost 25-45% of America’s small businesses has been damaged by the pandemic. Biden and the Progressives will likely be spending the next 4 years trying to prevent America from a full on economic collapse. The GOP are already preparing for 2024 election and they got even worst people than Trump lined up to be president.
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  1276. It's basically a cascading collapse of the PRC real estate industry.
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  1277. I think the world will rejoice once the CCP collapses.
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  1278. Kazakhstan is also a major China BRI (belt and road initiative) hub to Russia and Europe. If they lose Kazakhstan the Chinese can say goodbye to their BRI project. China and Russia keep blaming the west when in reality Kazakhstan is run by the Nazarbayev/Tokayev autocracy and the Kazakhs are tired of the regime’s bullshit. Despite being a major oil and gas exporter most Kazakhs are very poor earning less than $2500 USD per year due to massive income inequality. Nazarbayev’s son and daughter (the previous leader who resigned in 2019) owns almost all the big oil and gas businesses in Kazakhstan.
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  1279.  @MilkyWayjay7  so you would rather sue the manufacturer rather than clip on an extra safety cord? This explains the insanity.
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  1280.  @MilkyWayjay7  mathematically there is always a risk of death. There is a tiny chance you could die while sitting on a sofa at your home while doing nothing. The goal is to mitigate and lower that chance of death as much as possible and that is the purpose of the vaccines with regards to COVID. Life has no guarantees but we have the technology to increase our life span and it would be folly to not take advantage of it.
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  1281.  @MilkyWayjay7  allowing lawsuits on vaccines would be ridiculous. No company would guarantee their vaccines works on 100% of the population of the world. Instead of 750,000 American deaths there would be 5-10 million deaths. We got a vaccine program up and running within a year of the pandemic and got 70% of American population vaccinated. That's a massive achievement. Allowing lawsuits on vaccine companies would kill the chance of any company producing one as it is impossible to guarantee the vaccine would work on everyone 100% of the time.
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  1282. I agree. Holding Trump accountable and liable is critical in preserving democracy and the rule of law in the United States. Not indicating Trump despite overwhelming solid evidence would set a very dangerous precedent that POTUS can do no wrong and is above the law like a king or monarch.
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  1283. The biggest irony was they recently found out many of those conducting the covid test were themselves COVID positive. They don't routinely test the test conductors/medical personnel only the citizen peons.
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  1284. @Soon Kwek The CCP is the world's largest criminal gangsters.
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  1285. @Soon Kwek It's not misinformation. CCP politician did say that. Of course you don't know. They censor his statement after he said it. He said the chained woman has contributed to 8 children to the population of the state after she was raped and it is good. This is the kind of people running the CCP. Not saying all of the CCP are evil but many are evil and uneducated. They think Chinese people lives have no value other than be used by the CCP as leeks and fodders that can be harvested at anytime "for the glory of the party".
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  1286. She is excellent and she is 100% right.
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  1287. I saw one video where there are literally a mountain of garbage produces by a community in Shanghai due to the lockdown. The garbage wasn't collected for weeks to almost a month now. It was pretty disgusting. The guy who filmed it commented they are running out of room to store their garbage so the garbage are spilled out everywhere.
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  1288. I agree with you 100%. American greed perpetrated by the US oligarchy allowed the CCP to influence America while weakening our democracy and economy. Time to wake up.
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  1289. Citizens United is destroying democracy in the United States.
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  1290. I was there in 2017 and it is not dangerous at all even at night. Just see lots of young drunk businessmen. What is the most dangerous thing there is the SEGA gatcha/crane games parlor.. those things will rob you blind. 😂😂😂 Just don’t go to those seedy host/hostess bars as they will charge you outrageously high prices especially if you are non-Japanese/foreigners. Nobody is going to rob you at gun/knife point in Japan but white collar/scams/credit card crimes do exist.
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  1291. I agree if you are a North Korean defector YouTuber you should not go to China. The CCP regime in China is 100% in cahoots with and cooperating with the Kim regime to send back defectors to their deaths and torture in North Korea the blood is in their hands to.
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  1292. I think she is basically acting as a proxy for the Guo criminal syndicate. She either doesn't know anything or is hiding/protecting the real owners of the pogo hub.
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  1293. Simple. The people are utterly powerless. They know bad shit are happening but the political system do not allow common citizens to participate unlike in western democracies. Even if you protest the regime, it can easily arrest/murder/silence you with impunity. There is no separation of branches of government (executive, legislative or judiciary) all are one and the same in the CCP. There used to be institutional rule but those have been destroyed (2010 - 2015) with Xi's great purges. Those who are at the top have either 1.) invested decades/their whole lives into the system that they ARE practically part of the system (the so called Tuanpai or the "Communist Youth League") like Hu Jintao. 2.) family relations (the so called "red guard" princelings in which Xi was part of). 3.) business elites (the so called Shanghai gang/clique) which Jiang Jemin is a part of.
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  1294. The CCP must fall just like another corrupt dynasty for China to be truly free.
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  1295. Lol the CCP does see Russia/Putin as a junior partner/vassal. The PRC/CCP regime has no friends only enslaved and vassal countries.
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  1296. Yeah Taiwan stands united with Ukraine. What is sad are the wumao and little pink Chinese fascist nationalists attacking that poor Chinese guy in Ukraine. You can really see the little pinks are psychopaths without a shred of humanity. But don't worry, they are going to get what's coming to them. Have you read the Two Sessions news today. The PRC has some very interesting new laws to impose on PRC citizens. One that will make their lives even more hellish. It's almost like Xi Jinping is saying "The Chinese people haven't suffered enough yet, lets add these new laws to tighten the grip on their balls." 🤣🤣🤣
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  1297.  @drumpfdon760  you will find out soon enough... It's a surprise. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1298. Yes. Standard industry practice is the buyer does an initial deposit (roughly 10-25% of the selling price). Then mortgage the balance AFTER the house is built. The practice in China is to pay 20-50% of the selling price upfront then mortgage the other 50-80% until the turn over which could be 3-5 years down the road (there are many cases where the developer went bankrupt after taking people's money and the housing unit were never completed). It's a broken system akin to a Ponzi scheme.
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  1299. It almost seems like Trump is trying very very hard to lose the election. This is insanity.
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  1300. I agree. Bring back the Hanfu. So cool!
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  1301.  @jonathanpasch6604  Trump only tried to overthrow the US government and attempted to start a civil war. Glad he failed and now could be going to jail due to his corruption and crimes. US justice system works. It's high time politicians are held accountable.
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  1302. Ironically I heard even Trump himself isn't putting money into his own campaign. Instead he is channeling all of his money into his businesses. I guess he is preparing for life after the presidency.
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  1303. Mass shooting every week now. That is the real threat to American lives.
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  1304. Same phenomenon as what happened in Nazi Germany. Basically in their minds, truth and facts no longer mattered. Whatever bullshit Trump says is the “truth” to them.
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  1305. Yep Duterte got fooled by Xi Jinping. The pledge was $32 billion, only less than $600 million was actually fulfilled after 6 years. In return the Philippines lost control of the Spratly islands where the PRC immediately militarized despite promising not to and millions of Filipino fishermen lost access to one of the richest fishing grounds in the SCS. Filipino fishermen face daily harassment from the PRC coast guard, the PLN and the so-called Chinese merchant marines.
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  1306. What the CCP's debt trap slavery looks like.
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  1307. A vote for Biden is a vote for decency and a united country. A vote for Trump is a vote for hate and discord.
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  1308. The US won't have 5G connection in most of it's cities not for the next 3-5 years (not with the current slow rate of roll out). By the time 5G rolls out in most US cities your 2020 iPhone would be obsolete. There would be iPhone 14 or something in 2024.
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  1309. Ironically they blaming western journalists for making China look bad by exposing the CCP regime really doesn't give a shit about the well being of the people.
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  1310. This is socialism with CCP characteristics.
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  1311. The only reason why the PRC is whining is because its economy is failing catastrophically and its so called "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is utter farce and the CCP has nothing left to offer except virulent ultranationalism. Taiwan will be fine. The PRC will cease to exist if it continues its violent path towards oblivion. Taiwan is an example of a free, prosperous and democratic Taiwanese society.
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  1312. The lynchpin is in China's real estate. Real estate market in China is severely overheated (warning signs already showing). If the real estate market in China implodes I think the whole domino effect will crash the Chinese economy. We'll be seeing something akin to the US 2008 toxic mortgage crisis but on steroids because most Chinese (78%) tie their wealth to the real estate market (what they say about putting all your eggs in one basket). This is why the consumption economy isn't picking up in China instead real estate keeps going up and up despite government tightening of credits. This produces a potentially very dangerous outcome. If the real estate bubble burst we are looking at a doomsday scenario where 7 out of 10 regional banks in China running out of cash or going bankrupt. Right now the Chinese government needs to thread a careful line between managing economic growth and playing Russian roulette with the real estate market.
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  1313. This is how the PRC regime are trying to manipulate US conservatives by mentioning George Soros.
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  1314. Sorry you cannot eat patriotism. People move in or out of countries due to economic reasons.
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  1315. The old Korean guy basically admitted he bought harvested organ from China.
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  1316. Keep exposing the Trump organized crime family for what it is. They all need to be held accountable and go to jail. If not held accountable then these criminals will try and try again to undermine the US government and US democracy.
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  1317. Another major reason is water resources security. The source of water to India flows from Tibet from Yarlung Tsangpo with the Brahmaputra River. China wants to build three massive dam in Tibet (3 times larger than even the 3 Gorges Dam) to generate power. This will impede water flowing into India or cause a flash flood if China releases all water at the same time (in effect weaponizing water resources). If China controls the flow of water to India that means India will be under the political thumb of China in the future. This is why India doesn't like the CCP government.
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  1318.  @minus21334  CCP has been causing drought downstream from the Mekong River threatening water security of Vietnam. War will be fought over water security in the future.
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  1319. You have to realize Evergrande is just one out of the dozens of defaulting real estate Ponzi scheme companies. There are dozens of them and almost all of them are nearly defaulting or bankrupt. The system created this. No amount of money will be able to bail the industry out.
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  1320. China and Russia already waging war on the west/NATO.
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  1321. Yeah..they are the worst in behavior and most racist to boot.
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  1322. The extension actually tells you where the seller of the item is based not where the item is manufactured. In fact most of the merchants on Amazon with English sounding names are based in China and Hong Kong.
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  1323. This is happening because China went from authoritarian to totalitarian dystopian craphole under 10 years of Emperor Xi rule.
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  1324. Taiwan won't be fighting alone.
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  1325. If you have money stored in HK banks, get them out now before the CCP steals everything.
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  1326. “The biggest default problem isn’t China’s real estate but China’s government itself” <— never truer words were said. The CCP is an organized criminal organization masquerading as “government” of China. It’s a corporate fascist entity under an autocratic totalitarian dictatorship.
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  1327. Well Texit has been around for decades but they never do it because Texas needs the rest of the US. Sure it has oil but nothing else. Remember the 2020 winter power crisis where Texas had no power for weeks despite being an oil producing state? Yeah that loser Ted Cruz was the Texan senator who abandoned his own state to go on vacation with his family in Cancun in the middle of the crisis while his state constituents suffered from the power crisis. After that the Texas power grid commission (ERCOT) charged many of it's customers $8,000 to 30,000 USD for electricity during that two weeks period. Not mentioned was over 200 - 800 Texans who froze to death during that crisis. The GOP are a minority, they only keep power by preventing people of color from voting. They love to peddle voter fraud conspiracy theories but the fact is Republicans are becoming radical authoritarians dictators. The GOP is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln nor freedom and democracy.
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  1328. Ironically it was the CCP regime that plunged China into devastating famine and economic collapse during the 1960s. Make no mistake, China is getting rich thru the hard work of the Chinese people but most of the wealth are in the hands of the CCP cadres. Income inequality is even worst in China than in the US. The CCP isn‘t liberalizing, in fact it is tranforming into a high tech totalitarian fascist dystopian dictatorship.
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  1329. Yep never trust what the CCP says only watch what they do. CCP's words have no honor and their actions have no morality. The CCP are preparing for a global war and I believe India, the west and east allied democracies all needs to do the same in order to counter the CCP.
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  1330. They say the mortality rate of the corona virus is 2% that’s a pretty low ball number. The actual mortality rate is probably around 5-6%
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  1331. The only way to deal with the CCP is to watch what they do next not what they promised to do. They are master manipulators and liars and is the world's largest organized crime syndicate masquerading as the government of China. It is time for the world to stand up to this bully.
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  1332. The GOP are like.. oh if socialism take root in the US people will stand in bread lines.. blah blah... look at what is happening right now. People are now standing in bread lines and have to rely on unemployment insurance because small businesses and millions of jobs got decimated. Millions of people lost their health insurance that is stupidly tied to their jobs. Yet the billionaires made almost $1 trillion in profits from the pandemic collectively. I was looking at the job market website and all the jobs are for Amazon warehouse or delivery staff. There's almost nothing for anything else.
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  1333. It’s not bizarre. It’s a safety net. Many wealthy Chinese knows the Chinese housing market is extremely speculative and it could inevitably crash one day. If shit hits the fan they still have their assets in the US or Canada to save them.
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  1334.  @ericmanget4280  Agreed. I believe some states now have provisions to impose a tax penalty on empty property. This is state by state tho not federal.
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  1335. I will say this. Without the $2000 stimulus. The Democrats will lose the midterms election. Even the best laid plans needed time to work and Biden won't have the time if the Democrats cannot hold on to the House majority. All these symbolic gesture and feel good rhetoric are worthless when people are hungry. People wants/needs money in their pockets right now -- not months later.
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  1336. They need to pass the $2000 now.
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  1337. Free China from the tyranny of the CCP.
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  1338. Blackrock is gonna lose their shit.
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  1339. Lara Trump just like the rest of the main Trump family are utterly immoral and disgusting. We have people like these in the WH making decisions that affects the lives of 10s of millions of Americans everyday. No wonder the COVID death toll in the US is now over 222,000+ (still the highest in the world) and 8.2 million+ are infected. These people have utter disregard for their fellow human beings.
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  1340. The CCP only cares about one thing and one thing only and that is money. Hit them where it hurts which is their wallets and their economy. They got 1.4 billion people to feed. When people gets hungry enough they revolt. The biggest mistake is the west thinks the CCP cares about human lives. They don’t. Human lives means nothing to them. They would have no qualms about murdering half the population of China just so the party survives. All the CCP sees in the Chinese citizenry is more mouths to feed and another worker drone cog in their economic machinery.
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  1341. The little pink's excuse now seems to be along the lines of "so what if they're being exploited and genocide are being committed, they're all terrorists and a threat to the Han Chinese. The US has done the same to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq Muslims." They are using the US war against Islamic terrorism as justification for their own genocide against the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang. That's the kind of brainwashing, brain twisting logic are now being used by the regime. It's like "Its okay we are doing this because you are doing this too." It's absolutely insane and immoral justification by the Chinese little pinks and ultranationalists.
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  1342. The only ones who should decide the fate of Taiwan are the Taiwanese themselves.
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  1343. Not surprised the CCP manipulated the data just to make themselves look good while throwing the real poor Chinese people under the bus.
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  1344. I would want Medicare for all especially during a time of the coronavirus going pandemic. Trump’s health czar even said they won’t intervene to make the coronavirus vaccine affordable to all Americans and will just let free market price the hypothetical vaccine.
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  1345. There goes China's GDP.
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  1346. Dead boys, their lives wasted. It's all on Putin's head.
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  1347. 🤣🤣🤣 Strong Yuan makes it very expensive to export products.
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  1348. The GOP are pretty much admitting they no longer wants democracy in the United States. It's perfectly fine for them that an authoritarian autocrat like Trump that disregards the rule of law is in power as long as it works for them.
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  1349. GQP hypocrisy.
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  1350. What happens in a corrupt autocratic system. Nothing last for long.
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  1351. They do. Saudi isn't some helpless country. And yes Taiwan is more important.
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  1352. Then what would be left is a one party state just like China. Do you want the US to turn into a dystopian fascist state just like China ?
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  1353. Essentially Trump’s non-answer is we’re lucky we “only” have 110,000 Americans dead instead of 2.2M. He is nuts and totally irresponsible. What a shitty answer from a shitty president and person.
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  1354. So basically Kentucky legislature wants a dynastic system where the previous leader can pick his successor like kings.
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  1355. About time.
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  1356. You are absolutely right. Real estate in China is completely about speculation and investment. People don’t usually buy houses to live in but rather to invest on, this creates a massive housing bubble. Now we are seeing the housing bubble bursting with the collapse of Evergrande. More real estate companies will soon follow. Even the Beijing government were warning people about speculating too much on property.
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  1357. Corporate greed is the biggest downfall of CDPR.
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  1358. The Kong-an 公安部 or public security officers are essentially CCP thugs. They can beat up anyone they don't like. The normal Chinese citizen have little recourse against their abusive behavior by these state sanctioned thugs. They are called Chinese gestapo for a reason. The worst abuses happen in more rural villages. Many leaked videos have shown these thugs brutally beating up and kicking the elderly, women and children. In fact the clips shown here are nothing....there are far far worst abuses (the videos are out there if you know where to look). The Chinese people are very much victims of the CCP regime. The regime can arbitrarily create laws and enforcing the laws can be spotty at best or brutally draconian at worse (depending on location and depending on the status of the person). This is what happens in a country without rule of law.
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  1359. Taiwan is what real Chinese culture is. The CCP corrupted and destroyed any real Chinese culture with Marxism which isn’t even a Chinese ideology. It’s a broken corrupt ideology imported from Stalinist Russia (originating from Germany). The real Chinese ideology is legalism and Confucianism.
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  1360. People arrested because they reported to the government they weren’t being paid. The CCP loves enslaving their own people.
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  1361. Trump’s legacy is he will be known as the worst president of the United States. Possibly the only president to go to jail after their presidency for crimes like tax evasion, fraud, etc. I’m not saying Trump definitely could go to jail but he is definitely vulnerable to prosecution for the myriad of graft and corruption and malfeasance cases the state and federal attorney generals are preparing. One article listed the possible crimes Trump could be charged with and these are no joke. It includes multiple instances and charges of fraud, campaign finance violations, negligent homicide and even obstruction of justice. He will be spending the rest of his life and most of his wealth fighting dozens of civil, and federal lawsuits.
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  1362. It was a preventable death. This is partly a man made disaster. The local government failed to stop the subway from operating despite they know they are going to release the flood waters from 3 nearby dams that were in danger from collapsing. So the government released the dam waters + massive deluge (600 cm of rain) + allow the subway to continue to run until the waters were neck high. So now they are trying to shift the blame and cover their own butts.
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  1363. The PRC under Xi is becoming belligerent, fascist and warmongering. Time to kick them down a peg or two. Those militarized islands are death traps once war starts. They will be target #1 and wiped out with a bomb or two if a shooting war starts and there really is no escape since the islands don't have any natural defensive geography.
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  1364. 5900+ coronavirus related deaths as of today in the US and growing exponentially every day. How can people still say universal health programs like Medicare for all is not a necessity ?
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  1365. If you do not vote then you are seceding power to Trump. His supporters will be voting 100% for sure.
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  1366.  @jinndoe7068  3rd party has 0 chances of winning. Sadly this race is between Biden and Trump (yes I know two unpopular people). I'm a big supporter of Bernie Sanders but unfortunately any vote for 3rd party is as good a vote for Trump.
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  1367. Very enlightening.
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  1368. Not that it doesn't want to but it can't. The RMB is artificially pegged to the US dollar thru Hong Kong exchanges.
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  1369.  @WilliamAshleyOnline  okay.. then go to a grocery store buy $100 worth of groceries and then pay them $1 and tell them to imagine that $1 is $100 let's see what the reaction is.
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  1370.  @WilliamAshleyOnline  No. The value of money is agreed upon by two or more authoritative parties. The buyer and the merchant can agree a piece of bread can cost $1.50 or not. If you agree you pay the price and buy the bread. If you don't you move on to another bread merchant. The same too is with the global currency the USD (the chinese agreed to pay 6.3 rmb for 1 USD). If the seller of the USD agreed then they get to buy it if not then they move on. This is called market economy.
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  1371. The global currency market is based on market economy principles not on imagination.
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  1372.  @joegage1255  LOL they can roll out whatever but few government trust China’s government. The USD still dominates the currency market (60%) for a reason. The USD is a free floating market currency while the RMB is not.
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  1373. This is how the PRC regime are now playing the American conservatives by mentioning George Soros. Their ultimate goal is to cause political unrest in the US by pitting conservatives and liberals against each other. If the US is in chaos because of partisan politics then the PRC regime wins.
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  1374. Accountability = Go to jail for the banking executives.
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  1375. Everyone in Asia should be preparing for war. Xi is getting desperate and he will wage war on Taiwan to distract from all the economic woes China is facing while blaming Taiwan and the US for all its troubles caused by decades of economic mismanagement. The entire economy of China is like one giant Ponzi scheme that is currently unraveling.
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  1376. A businessman with 6 bankruptcies despite being a "supposed billionaire" and people believed he could create jobs ?
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  1377. I might not agree with her policies but she is honorable. The GOP under Trump is heading towards a very dangerous direction.
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  1378. It is projectionism. Whatever the CCP claims is a reflection of themselves.
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  1379. Why blur their face and names. They are criminal murderers.
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  1380. Only "We the people" can save America. There is no savior coming. Only the collective American society can save ourselves. Quoting Adlai Stevenson "We are the rulers and the ruled.'
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  1381. The CCP dynasty collapse is coming. Basically the CCP system is 1.2 billion slaves serving 100M CCP masters.
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  1382. Rudd is one of those CCP apologist that completely sold out to the CCP for $$$. Beware there a lot of those in Australia peddling PRC/CCP narrative to the Australian people.
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  1383. Thanks for explaining. This is always the problem in China, the need to save face and unwillingness of those who knows to reveal the problem for fear of implicating their colleagues or superiors. This issue will only exacerbate and rot from within until everything collapses.
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  1384. This is why no Taiwanese wants unification with China. One look at the PRC CCP system and everyone is scared silly.
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  1385. 70% decline in truck and freight transport traffic around China according to reports so those 4.8% growth in GDP is highly suspicious. Apparently today they revised it to 4.4% growth as reported by IMF. The real growth data maybe only 2-3% or even 0% but that is not tolerable as Xi will be "rubber stamped elected" this year.
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  1386. The only western banks and mortgage firms who are saying everything is peachy are western banks/institutions with severely vulnerable investments in the PRC. When the Ponzi scheme goes belly up, these Wall Street firms stands to lose everything they have invested in China. These aren't small banks in the US but huge investment firms like Blackrock. Of course they want the scam to continue or until at least they could get their money out. At this point in time if the US firm continues to invest in this Ponzi scheme despite rampant warnings and ended up losing everything then they certainly deserves it.
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  1387.  @incipidsigninsetup  How can there be private wealth when the government can simply take it away at any time ?
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  1388.  @paulzhang1310  little pinky.. don't let me break your fragile heart. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1389.  @paulzhang1310  China isn't rising. It's bankrupt. Because it's entire so called economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. Everything is fake and hollowed out.
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  1390.  @paulzhang1310  it cannot even let its own people see information freely. Everything has to be approved by the dictatorship.
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  1391.  @paulzhang1310  Also Taiwan is a country. Tibet is a country. East Turkistan is a country. Think of it this way, what government censors all information from the outside from its own people. Only a very insecure and totalitarian government does that. Why ? Because it doesn't want its own people to realize they live in a dystopian shithole.
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  1392.  @paulzhang1310  The CCP's economy cannot innovate it can only steal ideas. Communism doesn't allow critical thinking. Only copy and steal. They are called communist bandit for a reason.
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  1393.  @paulzhang1310  CCP now even stealing technology from their so called "allies" the Russians. What kind of allies does that ?
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  1394.  @paulzhang1310  You're comparing to a few people to imprisoning, torturing, enslaving thru labor slave camps MILLIONS of Chinese and Uyghur people and these people are Chinese dissidents, intellectuals and mostly just poor defenseless people the CCP preys on. Does Julian Assange deserves it ? I don't know but he refuses to stand trial and instead hide in an Ecuadorian embassy. That's his own decision. Chelsea Manning what about it ? She even run for congress lately and lost. Nobody really likes her. The US goes thru rule of law process and respects the law. China/The CCP does not respect any rule of law. It's a tyrannical criminal organization masquerading as "government" of China while preying on its own people. It's a tyrannical regime that must soon be toppled.
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  1395. Had heart attack and still working for us. A real leader. Bernie Sanders is the president America needs and wants. ❤️❤️❤️
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  1396. Trump is finished.
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  1397. COVID-19 should be officially called the CCP Virus. After all they tried to cover it up until it became a global pandemic. Dr. Li Wen Liang should be recognized as a global hero for trying to warn the world while the CCP should be censured and punished for trying to cover it up. If people are smart they should indeed pull out or diversify their businesses and manufacturing from China.
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  1398. FAFO !!!
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  1399. I love Jordan Klepper. Man... I seriously worry for America. The people he interviewed...hooboy...
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  1400. Capitalism does not guarantee freedom. Democracy merely allows the mechanism to allow the fundamental structural changes to society based on the rule of law and based on the concept of the "common good" to society. To allow for freedom a society must balance capitalism, socialism and democracy. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
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  1401.  @covercalls88  True. Some materials simply cost too much to recycle or reuse. It simply doesn't make economic sense.
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  1402. Yeah no more unemployment bonus yet the unemployment numbers didn't lower in fact over 2 million more people are now unemployed since the end of the $600 per week unemployment bonus. It's not that people didn't want to go to work but the fact is there is no more work. Without the $600 per week stimulus people are cutting down. This translates to weaker sales and weaker sales means more layoffs. Trump and the GOP politicians are failures.
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  1403. Yeah... I used to adore Warren but she has disappointed me too much. Bernie Sanders cannot control all his followers actions much less than Warren can completely control her followers actions and blaming Sanders for all the negative actions of his supporters is just plain hypocrisy. And no “Bernie Bros” aren’t all single angry white young men... in fact it’s been proven a significant number of “Bernie bros” are in fact young women from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and skin color.
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  1404. 199,000 deaths now.
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  1405. NATO needs to prepare for World War III.
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  1406. In Chinese there is a saying 国富民穷 it means the country is rich but the people are impoverished. The state and CCP government officials and elites are filthy wealthy but the common people live in dire poverty.
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  1407. “More than half the country hates you” <=== so true.
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  1408. Trickle down economics is a scam that has never worked in 40 years.
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  1409. There are two Chinas. One is wealthy. Inside that wealthy China is the poor China where the 40% of the population lives under $150 per month (that's $3 dollars a day).
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  1410.  @vickilaws8518  there is no radical DNC. Only corporate DNC and Progressives. And progressives are winning.
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  1411. LOL like who ? If Bernie doesn’t care like you claim then there is no one left. Bernie is the most caring US politician. US politics is nasty and the middle class rarely gets what they want. All the concentration of power are now in the hands of the plutocratic elites. We’re a few steps short into becoming an authoritarian fascist country.
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  1412. @Texas Mexican Lady You realize he lost because the establishment system is corrupt. If you don't see anything wrong you're part of the problem.
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  1413. Won’t be World War 3, it will be more like the entire world versus CCP China.
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  1414. Global climate change induced super snow storm.
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  1415. Lol he specifically says there won't be taxpayers bailouts. Listening comprehension is important.
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  1416. MAGA voters voted for this Trump shitshow 2.0
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  1417. The CCP doesn't care if they waste trillions, they are not accountable to the Chinese people. If you look at government buildings in the PRC they all look like grandiose opulent palaces while the typical Chinese live in tiny homes or block apartments.
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  1418. Poor American families have lesser choices of school because schools are so chronically underfunded many have closed especially in African American neighborhoods and Trump's secretary of education Betsy Devos had a hand in defunding these schools in order to promote charter schools or private schools. I swear I drop 1 IQ point for every minute I hear Dumpy here speak.
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  1419. Republicans using American lives as dispensable pawns in their political games. Vote the GOP out!
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  1420. This is the first shot of a new Chinese civil war 2.0. As history have shown revolution against oppression and tyranny always starts at the periphery of China. Is this the new Xinhai revolution 2.0 ?
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  1421. Excellent video.
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  1422. I'm pissed at Apple. Doesn't make sense that they limit better app swapping to the M1.
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  1423. Fanaticism is dangerous because people become blinded to the actions of the leaders they are supporting. Their supported leader can do no wrong. This creates what is called a "cult of personality". This kind of phenomenon creates the conditions for an autocratic dictatorship. When people becomes fanatics, this means any and all kinds of abuse can be forgiven, once that happens there is no more accountability.
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  1424. Excellent video as usual Lei. Do you see any hope of economic or political reform in China?
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  1425. Taiwan is already an independent country..
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  1426. I believe you. A few years back you can criticize Xi and the CCP and you get the wumao or little pinks defending the regime within minutes of postings. Nowadays there seem to be a lot less Chinese willing to defend the regime. Starvation, massive curtailment of basic freedoms, crashing the PRC economy, joblessness and hopelessness and basically ruining the lives of its own people with insane political stunt (zero covid is a political stunt) tends to do that.
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  1427. There is no saving the CCP. The only path forward is social democracy.
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  1428. Russian assets masquerading as politicians in the GOP will say anything to cause discord in the US.
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  1429. This is the consequences of excessive debt trap.
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  1430.  @gmmonomotapa2889  You brought up an interesting point. China’s PPP (purchasing power parity) is now equal to the US yet still insist on being given preferential treatment as a “developing nation”. Frankly once a country’s PPP has reached global standards on par with the US, then it’s preferential status should be removed.
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  1431.  @ansalan7734  Utter bullshit. First you said its defined by UN and then you change your logic to be a definition that can be defined by anyone. It's is quite obvious the UN higher ups are corrupted by the CCP.
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  1432. I hope Twitter/X goes bankrupt and Elon Musk loses billions of dollars. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1433. Love seeing the nature spirits fighting back to destroy the CCP.
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  1434. These CCP YT shills are exactly the same as the Nazi sympathizers. Make no mistake the CCP are already waging a cyber / propaganda war against the US and the west. The CCP’s peaceful rise is an outright lie — the CCP in its short 100 year history is one of the most murderous dystopian regime in human history.
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  1435. Sounds to me the nurse was involuntarily retired for daring to question the authorities and for daring to protect herself and her colleagues.
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  1436. Yeah the CCP is a kleptocracy.
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  1437. You are right. Many western wall street investors don't realize is that their investment in China are not protected at all. The CCP can confiscate Wall Street's investment in the PRC at any given time and they won't even receive an apology. The CCP can liquidate any and all private wealth to fund the PLA's military or whatever they want. Look at what they did to Alibaba and numerous other Chinese billionaires they can do the same to US Wall Street's money in China too.
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  1438. Wow the kind of currency manipulation of the RMB by the CCP. From $1 = 7.1 RMB with its current regime imposed value to it’s true “free market” value at $1 = 30 RMB. This is why the Chinese RMB is worthless.
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  1439. It's easy to dismiss him as just another China pessimist but he is right on several points. First is, China cannot enact change without an outside stimulus. Second, the actions of outside forces (aka US, allied forces, Taiwan, etc.) can trigger changes in China only if the conditions are ripe. Pro-democracy forces inside China are there, but they cannot yet act. However if the condition is right then they will be able to act to oust Xi from power and transition China into a democracy or at least Singaporean style hybrid liberal/authoritarian system. If you are a China watcher, the next year (2022) will be critical for Xi. If China's economy, global reputation and foreign affairs continue to degrade then Xi could be deposed. Public sentiment can rapidly turn at a moment's notice. This is why Xi is very fearful. By abolishing term limits in 2015, Xi has created for himself a lot of enemies inside the CCP itself. Many younger CCP politicians are ambitious themselves and Xi blocking their way to advancement has earned their ire.
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  1440. @The Professional Just someone that has been analyzing politics in China for a very long time. By trying to monopolize absolute power on himself Xi inevitably screwed himself which is ironic. The more power he tried to monopolize, the more destabilized the CCP system becomes.
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  1441. @The Professional You can insult me as much as you want. Still doesn't change the fact China is screwed with Xi driving the country into the abyss. Evergrande is just the first, the rest will follow. Bank run is coming. My advice for other readers, get your money out of China while you still can.
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  1442. @The Professional yeah that's exactly what Xi should do. Close it all down. 😁😁😁
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  1443. Of course the elites in the democrats side wants Trump to win again. All those corporate tax cuts made them very very rich without them getting any of the political blame. Next is cutting Social security and Medicare which will make those millionaires and billionaires even richer. Who will be left to suffer for it in the end ? The people. The working class and the poor. Once the US has been looted to the last drop those billionaires can just pull out and move to another country and start the process again. This is what excessive capitalism does.
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  1444. Lol he specifically says there won't be taxpayers bailouts. Listening comprehension is important.
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  1445. CCP is a corrupt morally bankrupt political party that enslaves the Chinese people. People needs to be free to make decisions for themselves so their life would become better. In the end only the controller of the people's wealth (Huaxi group) got rich while the people have to suffer the burden of debt.
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  1446. Trump needs to be in jail.
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  1447. Biden have almost 4M more votes now than Trump.
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  1448. This only shows how weak and desperate Xi really is. It’s military ramp up is mostly for show. They know the world’s eyes are on China right now. If the CCP really attack Taiwan and the US got involved (together with the US military alliance) it is the end of the CCP. The US still have plenty of traditional allies (despite Trump’s rhetoric) while China has none to speak of. A high ranking retired Chinese general pretty much publicly says attacking Taiwan will not bring prosperity to China, it will only provoke the US (recently even both democrats and republicans have drawn the line at Taiwan especially after the national security law being imposed on HK). I agree with Premier Li Keqiang. Xi needs to prioritize taking care of the 600 million poor people in China instead of waging pointless war with Taiwan and India in order to preserve regime stability. The recent flooding really caused massive damage in China. Famine and food shortages will be next. The total damage is estimated at $20 billion dollars but the Xi government has only doled out less than $100M for repairs and reconstruction. The poor villagers in Anhui are pretty much left on their own after the CCP intentionally flooded the poor province in order to spare other more wealthy cities and provinces from damage.
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  1449. You can see the hypocrisy here from the right wing GOP. They are like "oh the Bidens has profited from China..blah blah blah" without a shred of proof. Yet Trump is doing exactly the same kind of graft and corruption openly and nobody in the right wing republican party is batting an eye. Is Hunter Biden wrong in using his dad's name? Sure. Trump's daughter and Jared Kushner and even Trump himself are doing exactly the same kind of graft and corruption yet you don't see the right wing media criticizing them. America is in a severe case of cognitive dissonance. The US government on both sides of the aisle (republican and democrat) are utterly broken. This is why vote progressives.
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  1450. Very good information. And I do hope the CCP gangsters utterly destroys themselves so China might have a new start towards the path of good governance, transparency and democracy.
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  1451.  @Anne_one  The CCP want to be the next global super power and supplant the US. Xi has global domination ambition.
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  1452. Linda Fukuyu Xi’s vision of the world order is the CCP plutocrats are the masters and everyone else are slaves including other Chinese people.
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  1453. Thanks to channel like this the world can penetrate the lies and propaganda of the CCP. It is so typical of the totalitarian CCP, everything just looks good on paper is good enough. This is why many Chinese youths are disillusioned because the propaganda makes the country smell so good but in reality it still stinks.
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  1454. Pretty damning evidence Trump lied to the American people. The 194,000 American deaths from the coronavirus and 6.5 million infected are on his head. Trump is totally responsible for this.
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  1455. I agree. The India, US, China, Russia dynamic is very important for peace in the Indo-Pacific. India is a rising super power. China, Russia and US are waning. They estimated by 2050 India could be as wealthy as China if it could surpass it's systemic weakness. China and Russia's partnership is temporary at best the Russia had annexed China's territory before so most Chinese are wary of Putin's backstabbing nature. Russia's economy is too much reliant on resource extraction. While Russia had massive natural resources its weakness is it's resource (like natural gas and oil) are not transformed into high value products so it is vulnerable to wide swings in commodity prices. China on the other hand has the reverse problem, it's natural resources are dwindling however it's manufacturing industry is just starting to transition into high value manufacturing. However it's manpower is starting to age and dwindle too. It's trying now to compensate thru automation, AI and robotics and get over the middle income trap. The middle income trap is where the economy slows down once you reach "middle income level" due to the law of diminishing returns. It's easy to grow an economy from nothing however once you reach a certain level the energy and resources you need to put into growing the economy have a reduced output effect so the energy and resources needed to increase further growth doubles (due to diminishing returns). The US on the other hand have no such problem -- it's population is still young due to immigration, it's demographics however are changing rapidly. White population is rapidly shrinking while black, brown, Asian population in America is rapidly growing this is creating friction in politics as white politicians lose power and black/brown/Asian Americans gain political power. Those in the white population knows this so they are trying to gain and cement as much power as they can thru dubious underhanded political rules and tricks. Some American fringe political groups are even calling for a "race war". By 2050, America will look a lot more diverse white population will reduce to 40% (from 60% now), latinos will become one of the majority groups at 30%, while blacks (15%) and Asians (15%) will each hit about 15% of the population.
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  1456. True boycott is easier said than done. It is time for the world to move manufacturing out of China.
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  1457. Lol there are people who were at the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 literally saying on YT videos that they filmed themselves that "Trump sent us, not Antifa."
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  1458. It's payback for Tulsi Gabbard dissing Kamala Harris. Making polls as qualification for the next round of debate is utter bullshit. Did they forget the 2016 election polls already ? Hillary Clinton was polling at 90% certainty of winning the presidency until of course election day.
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  1459. I predict someone gets killed before this ends.
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  1460. I agree. In order for that to happen they need to get rid of the totalitarian CCP regime first and engage in democracy much like how Taiwan did it.
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  1461. Yep. The BRI was a massive Chinese style scam right from the start. The original purpose of the BRI was designed to dump PRC excesses capacity goods (like steel, concrete or low quality PRC manufactured goods) on partner countries. Dozens of countries got conned by it and now we are seeing the consequences. It didn't bring prosperity nor jobs to the partner countries, only saddled them with massive debts with huge interests and short repayment time. Take for example: Sri Lanka which is one of the biggest recipient of BRI projects is now effectively bankrupt. For short it's a massive debt trap.
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  1462. This is why I love this show. The left and right can in fact work together. Sure both sides disagree on a lot of things like immigration, border security and foreign policy but both sides agree on a lot of things too like corporatism taking over our democracy, the dangers of excessive globalization, etc.
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  1463.  @havanascp9602  5.5% of fake report means the regime is lying to its people. I prefer a government that is honest. If business isn't good and GDP is at 1% or even 0% a good government would report that instead of make shit up just to look good.
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  1464.  @李荣-n7s  so basically only lower officials get removed not the ones at top. What if everyone at the top conspired to lie to keep themselves in power and you found proof of it?
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  1465.  @李荣-n7s  When you mention check and balance in power. Did you know there is no more check and balance in power. Xi moved the military commission that is normally under Li Keqiang to himself. He now consolidate power and control over everything. This is why many intellectuals are angry at Xi. During Deng era, he separate powers to prevent abuse. Now Xi has consolidate power, no more check and balance. And that is very dangerous for China.
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  1466.  @李荣-n7s  I wonder about CCP learning from past mistakes or is it making them all over again this time with dire consequences.
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  1467.  @李荣-n7s  if you claim the CCP serve the people then shouldn't they allow the people to say what they want to say? Censorship means the CCP is afraid of the Chinese people hence preventing them from speaking out.
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  1468.  @李荣-n7s  Fake news only if the news is critical of China and the party. Xi loves to tout “rule of law” except in practice it is more like “law only applies for you poor peasant, no law for the wealthy or the CCP lordship”. It’s more feudal than anything. If anything the CCP loves to talk the good talk but rarely put anything in practice as everything is hidden in shadows. For a society to be great, it has to be open and accept criticism not cloak in shadow and oppression as well as censorship.
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  1469.  @李荣-n7s  躺平 is happening because young people feel hopeless about the future. Why keep working when only the CCP cadres and CCP connected businessman are getting rich? Condo in Shanghai now cost 3M RMB while pay only 8,000 RMB per month for regular workers. It will take decades just to do the downpayment. No freedom, no housing, no marriage, no children, can’t even loudly complain to CCP that is why 躺平 happens.
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  1470.  @李荣-n7s  the last guy who wrote an open letter criticizing Xi got a 3 year sentence. Xi is a totalitarian autocrat and he is dragging China to hell with him. What is funny is the more Xi tries to act tough in international diolomacy the more people turns towards and cooperate with the west. It took 10 years to negotiate RCEP, Xi foreign policy torpedo it in just 1 year. BRI spent already $400 billion but 30% of projects already failed. Xi is good at one thing, make grandiose plan and promises and waste China's money and resources for nothing. For example, he spent billions building new city but few people live there because there are no jobs. The buildings and empty apartment are all just rotting away. You cannot build a city just full of buildings but no people. I can go on and on about why the CCP under Xi is a failure but it doesn't matter. How you want to make your country like is up to you. Too much trust and blind belief in CCP is just stupid. Many top level CCP members don't even believe in the CCP.
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  1471. HK police before 2014 used to be perceived as one of the most prestigious and professional police force in the world. After 2018 it is one of the most hated police force in the world. The CCP has destroyed HK. The CCP corrupts and destroys everything that is good and beautiful in the world.
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  1472. Medicare for all or universal healthcare is not radical... ALL advanced economy countries have it except the United States.
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  1473. Looks like Xi wants to engineer yet another cultural devolution 2.0 in 2021.
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  1474. CCP shot themselves to the foot by destroying Didi and other US listed Chinese companies.
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  1475. Basically the Chinese are being taxed for a property they leased (but do not own) for 50 years. What a scam. This is why communism is poison.
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  1476. LOL ironically the GOP has even more establishment white guys. At least the democrats had more diversity.
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  1477.  @Rebar617  Careful your racism and misogyny is openly showing. The GOP nowadays doesn't even bother hiding their utter disdain for women and people of color.
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  1478. All these hardship are all self inflicted by the CCP elites. But this phenomenon isn't just in China, it's every where in the world including the US. The COVID pandemic really wreck the economy all over the planet and reduce global consumption by a significant amount. It also made people realize we are all running a pointless rat race whether in New York or in Shanghai, it's the same thing -- the billionaire class profits off the labor of the people while the working class work like rats.
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  1479. Wow the crazy over religion.
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  1480. Because Singapore isn't a democracy. It's a liberal one party dictatorship. Vietnam is the same too.
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  1481. Reality check. Taiwan was never a part or territory of China. Taiwan is model of what a Chinese society would look like if democracy, freedom and the rule of law is adopted. The CCP wants to snuff Taiwan out because each day Taiwan exist makes the CCP looks worst and worst to its own people. The PRC is basically a massive prison state of the CCP where 1.2 billion Chinese are held as prisoners for life and many PRC Chinese are starting to realize that.
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  1482. Basically Trump lied about everything. Not surprised. Trump is criminal and delusional at the same time.
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  1483. We need a people first capitalism instead of a billionaires first capitalism. We need regulated capitalism. Anything in excess is bad.
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  1484. Alan Foo it’s a failure that harms other people and preys on those who are vulnerable. It is evil. A kind of prosperity that preys on others is what evil does.
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  1485. @Alan Foo What is even sadder is some Chinese people are so brainwashed by the CCP they think this is so great yet the CCP didn’t lift a single finger to help the Chinese people whose livelihoods, houses, businesses and lives are destroyed by the massive floods in Anhui, Jejiang, Wuhan, etc. Yes, we know a lot of the shit that is going on inside China. How? Because the Chinese people are crying out everyday due to neglect by the CCP and we the people of the world have heard those cries no matter how much the CCP tries to stifle and silence those cries.
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  1486. Huawei and Oppo phones are pretty good phones. It’s a shame politics got in the way of it being widely available/subsidized in the US. I bought a Huawei Honor 8X for my girlfriend and she loves it.
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  1487. People who attends Coachella tends to be liberals and they do not appreciate Trump ruining their music festival.
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  1488. I predict a massive recession due to the chaos under Trump.
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  1489. Yeah.. build it and they will come philosophy is a big fat joke. That is not how you do infrastructure. Plus only state owned enterprises in China are allowed to be successful since 2012.
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  1490. US India and Taiwan can be best friends.
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  1491. The entire CCP regime is a fraud.
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  1492. All of the economic problems of China are self inflicted with poor policy planning and failed zero COVID policy.
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  1493. Yes... Bloomberg is finished. Not even his $66 billion dollar wealth can save his presidential campaign. He should just save his money if he is smart. But that’s not his goal.. his goal is to cause a contested convention so the 500 super delegates will get into play in order to screw Bernie Sanders during the democratic convention. We’re not dumb we know exactly why the DNC has fielded so many candidates.
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  1494. The money from Tier 1 cities never trickled down to the REAL China which are where 80% of the Chinese people lived. The lady said it right, yes they have beautiful mountains and lakes just no money. 600 million Chinese still live under 1000 RMB ($150 USD) per month. This is a statement said by Premier Li KeQiang himself in 2020. Where did all that money go ? All of it went into the pockets of the CCP elites and the CCP plutocracy. The CCP market itself as being "for the people" but in reality it is just that all propaganda and marketing. The CCP is only interested in enriching themselves and grab hold on to power and wealth for as long as possible. This is the absolute truth in China. This is why I am against the CCP. If you genuinely love the Chinese people not just the flashy building in Shanghai or Shenzhen then you would be utterly disgusted at how the CCP treats its own most vulnerable people.
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  1495. A truly insightful video. Xi is the great accelerator that will accelerate the demise of the CCP, unfortunately the question is how many Chinese people will suffer and die before the CCP is dead and buried ? In 2010 my opinion about China was neutral, almost positive. Flash forward to 2021, my opinion of China is negative 100.
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  1496. This dude openly supports the CCP and the Chinese totalitarian regime.
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  1497. The "fuck around and find out" phase is going well.
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  1498. Even today the CCP regime oppresses the Chinese people just for speaking out. That is on top of decades of murder, lies and atrocities committed by the CCP on the Chinese people, the Uyghurs, Tibetans and Mongolians. Do they think they can wash away the decades of bloodstain just by paying off westerners to do propaganda for the CCP?
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  1499. Why am I not surprised ? No checks and balance in China. No transparency. No oversight. Of course there will be graft and corruption.
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  1500. This is the Trump regime going "la la la la la... I can't hear you... la la la la..."
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  1501. The more Putin indiscriminately bomb and kill people the more enemies he makes. Nobody wants to have their homes bombed and their friends and family killed.
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  1502. Digital yuan = more CCP scam. Let’s face it, the CCP rules China thru fear not trust. Who would trust a government that could confiscate or manipulate people’s hard earned money.
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  1503. Yep... the CCP and Trump government are the ones stoking all the hate. It’s really getting dangerous and absurd.
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  1504. Of course sentient Alien life is real. Are we so arrogant to think we’re the only sentient intelligent life in the universe ?
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  1505. I predict the CCP will collapse within 10 years.
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  1506.  @mikepowell9439  lol no currency is backed by gold nowadays. You think the CNY is backed by gold? You must have drank too much CCP bullshit shit stew.
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  1507.  @mikepowell9439  just search for it. No really, it's not even a huge secret unless of course you live in China and all bad news are censored.
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  1508.  @mikepowell9439  I know what gold standard is. Nowadays everyone uses a system called the fiat currency. No one uses the gold standard anymore because there’s not enough gold in the entire world to fully back the currency requirements of a country. Let me repeat … NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CURRENTLY USES THE GOLD STANDARD ANYMORE. Back in the 1800s the US dollar was backed by the gold standard until 1971 but not anymore. And I know exactly what I am talking about. You on the other hand doesn’t know shit.
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  1509.  @mikepowell9439  I don’t read just MSNBC or WSJ or whatever US or UK newspaper you mention. I actually read Chinese, HK, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippine, Malaysia, UK, Australian, India newspaper. I read newspapers from all over the world which has an English version. So I know what I am talking about.
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  1510.  @mikepowell9439  Seriously you don’t know how currency works. Gold, silver, etc. are precious metals. They are classified as commodities. Sure, they are valuable and are traded internationally but NO country in this entire planet uses them as “currency”. A country does not based their currency based on the amount of gold they have because that would be pretty dumb — imagine the price of an ounce of gold is $1,500 (just an example), how do you peg that to the price of let’s say loft of bread ? Let’s say 0.0001 ounce is equal to a loaf of bread, what happens if the value of gold went up or down then the price of bread would swing wildly up and down. This is the reason why nobody uses gold or other precious metals as currency. Fiat currency is used because it is more stable. The reason why the US dollar is used as a defacto global currency is because the US dollar is the most stable currency and is a free floating currency unlike China’s Renminbi which is artificially pegged to the dollar thru the Hong Kong exchanges. China buys and sells US dollar to maintain the value of the RMB. If China wanted they could unpeg from the USD and could go 1:1 which would caused massive inflation in China and wreck their export economy.
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  1511.  @mikepowell9439  lol bullshit. But tell you what you are free to believe in whatever you want. This is like playing music to a cow.
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  1512. Corporatocracy is just as dangerous as any totalitarian regime. It is basically private corporates subsuming the government. It takes in the worst traits of capitalism and communism.
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  1513. I agree the Chinese people are masters at ingenuity. It is the retarded CCP policies that are holding the Chinese people back. I hope to see the CCP finally collapses one day and China becomes free, democratic and liberal just like Taiwan.
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  1514. BESTBRANDS 2525 lol....😂😂😂
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  1515. Taiwan won't be fighting alone.
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  1516. CCP China wants war.
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  1517. Being born in CCP China is a curse.
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  1518. How the GOP wins any election? Cheat thru mass voter suppression and gerrymandering.
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  1519. Frankly the CCP regime is already waging undeclared war against the west. Stop giving corporate money to the Chinese regime. Once the US dollar flow into China stops the regime collapses.
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  1520. Twitch is now an Amazon company. Expect more stupidity.
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  1521. I hope the movie fails miserably. That ought to teach corporate America about pandering to the CCP. I heard Disney spent over $200 million making that film (the most expensive remake ever). I hope this is the end of neoliberalism and excessive globalization.
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  1522. The CCP doesn't want a partner it wants servants and slaves that caters to its every whim. Don't wimp out now Germany, stand with your EU brothers and sisters against a tyrannical regime. Look at how the CCP is bullying Lithuania. It want to fracture the EU so each country can be easy pickings for the CCP regime's bullying tactics.
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  1523. What Common poverty looks like. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1524. 包子 (baozi) is street slang in Mandarin for "useless weak person". So 习包子 is a huge insult directed at Xi Jinping by calling him a "useless weak person".
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  1525. Xi's ideology is communist fascism. He thinks universal human rights is dangerous. China is now a massive threat to the entire world. Ironically Xi's own sister was forced to commit suicide after being humiliated by the Mao red guards (humiliated = raped).
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  1526. And this is why China needs democracy, transparency and the rule of law. Authoritarianism only allows such kind of malfeasance to fester until it got massive because nobody dares to point out corrupt officials and there are no independent oversight. This is a modern day equivalent of one CCP warlord ousting another warlord in order to thin out the competition. Every CCP member has the potential for corruption as the temptation is simply too big especially in a top down system without any oversight and no checks and balances. This is a systemic failure of China's governmental system.
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  1527. The name of that spineless WHO official is Bruce Aylward.
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  1528. China under the CCP is just like one massive 1.3 billion people sized prison or concentration camp.
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  1529. My prediction is Putin isn't going to survive this.
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  1530. Trump really is a reprehensible moron.
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  1531. They can see the big picture that ironically a bulk of the less wealthy / will never be wealthy seems to miss. Socialism enacted in a controlled manner is actually good for the country and the economy. Enabling the working class to prosper is good for the economy. Hoarding of wealth at the top is bad because once the economy is hollowed out (when everyone is either super rich or super poor) then the economy collapses.
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  1532. Lol high speed railway do not make a civilization. He keep pushing that infrastructure is what makes China great. Actually no, it's the open transparent society with rule of law is what makes a nation great not infrastructure. Chinese efficiency is a myth. State capitalism being promoted by the CCP is one of the most inefficient burearucratic system in the world.
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  1533. The reporter talking progressive policies as if it's a bad thing. Progressive policies are what the majority of American people wants. People are tired of income inequality, for profit healthcare system, for profit education system, corporations creating laws thru their proxy in congress that benefit only themselves.
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  1534. Collapse of America ? Enjoy your Taliban and ISIS sponsored terrorism and decapitation then.
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  1535. The CCP is a global criminal organization.
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  1536. Not really surprising... members of the CCP especially the really rich ones are known to have dozens of mistresses/girlfriends because they have the money to support them.
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  1537. Also a majority of the protests are peaceful. While there are some violence and looting, vandalism involved a majority are peaceful. It’s easy to show one instance of violence and then claim all protesters are violent. What is sad is many anarchist and violent people are instigating violence. Many police are using violence freely too. Unfortunately instead of trying to calm everyone, Trump is instead saying stupid things like he would “dominate the protesters”. Sad to say the US currently has no leader only a spoiled brat trying to instigate a race war in the US. It is time for Trump to resign.
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  1538. Even Pakistanis are starting to have enough of CCP China's bullshit and encroachment of their sovereign marine territories and modern neocolonialism. The CCP are called communist bandits for a reason.
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  1539. Never gets old. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1540. Let's face it -- Trump is evil.
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  1541. CCP incompetence and corruption on full display. This is why democracy and rule of law that Taiwan has is better than authoritarian dictatorship.
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  1542. American style capitalism at all cost is a failure. It's time for neo-capitalism (a mixture of socialism and controlled capitalism). It's time to put the working class first instead of the capitalist billionaires.
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  1543. I agree. Whoever can deliver programs that can help the working class Americans the most will win big time. But it seems the race has now boiled down to who is more anti-China. This is ridiculous and disheartening. While yes China's militarism and expansionism is an issue but the more important issue is how does the American working class fares. And yes the coronavirus is the top #1 priority issue not the economy. Trump could have coasted to victory in this election had he even pretended to care about people getting sick from the CoVID-19. Nobody cares about the economy when you or your loved ones are sick from the coronavirus. The DJIA reaching all time high is meaningless when 193,000+ Americans are now dead and 6.5M are sick from the pandemic. They are now even estimating the number of dead could reach 400,000+ by January 2021.
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  1544. This is terrible. The least the CCP could do is to be upfront so that the international community can send help to these people.
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  1545. Ironically the harsher the lockdowns the more the virus spreads. One member of the family per 2 days has been increased to 3 days starting this Monday.
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  1546. Frankly Putin already lost the war before it even began. You cannot hold a territory if the entire population hates you. Putin would have to commit over 2 million soldiers just to hold the entire country. Remember Ukraine is a very large country, it is only slightly smaller than Texas with 44 million people. Russia itself only has about 144 million people. Instead of being a war, it is fast becoming a genocide where Putin indiscriminately murders the Ukrainian people with his army and weapons.
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  1547. Li Peng (Li Xiaolin's father) is one of the perpetrators of the Tiananmen Massacre. Li Peng is also instrumental is getting the Three Gorges Dam built despite objections by hundreds of Chinese geologists and experts. Why ? Because Li Peng's family owns the power stations that sells electricity from the Three Gorges Dam to the villages and cities nearby. That is how corruption works in China. If you are part of the higher ups in the CCP then your goal is to make as much money as possible (or until discovered and disposed) more often they escape to the US with their money to live out their live in opulence while 600 million Chinese live on less than CNY 1,000 ($140 USD) per month. The entire CCP is not a government it's the largest organized criminal organization in the world with an army that preys on the Chinese people. It is only masquerading as the government of China. The PLA do not serve the Chinese people but the CCP. It is now under Xi Jin Ping's command (since 2018 he has concentrated all levers of power on himself).
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  1548. Hawley is a creep.
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  1549. Lol how many of those road, buildings and bridges built within a matter of hours/days/weeks collapsed within 3-5 years. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1550. The CCP love to use "color revolution" to deflect blame and point fingers at the US for their own failings and atrocities. In fact they are outright blaming the US for the societal unrest in the PRC due to the draconian lockdown policies enacted by the regime.
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  1551. That's what the CCP wants the world to believe but the reality is many Chinese (especially the highly educated ones) find Xi abhorrent.
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  1552. For those who thinks China will be able to help Putin out economically will realize the Chinese economy is reaching a tipping point towards collapse too. Russian economy = collapsing, China economy = collapsing. Not a good sign for the globally intertwined economy. Frankly the era of globalization happy go lucky is about finished.
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  1553.  @geminiXXX  ZERO COVID policy and OIL. While yes China and India are buying up all the cheap Russian oil at discount prices India's Russian oil only constitutes 5% of its fuel needs. Even the Chinese is maxed out at Russian oil at 15%. 80% of Russian oil have no other buyers and are basically sitting in storage rotting and fossil fuel comprises about 40% of its economy/GDP. So if you suddenly lose 30-35% of your GDP (in a matter of weeks) I think that's called collapsing. As for China, economy already slowing due to COVID + real estate issues + myriad of other issues (energy security) + Russian sanctions + uncontrollable debt, etc. I don't wanna type it all out. Some are now saying China would be lucky to make 0-2% GDP growth this year (PRC government targets 5.5% at least).
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  1554. Our family runs the gamut of ideology from liberal to conservative but we are all united in our belief that Trump is a piece of garbage and our loathing for him is unanimous. Thank God we don't have to deal with awkward Thanksgiving in our family. It's time America learns that voting has consequences. Happy Thanksgiving!!! 🦃
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  1555. That guy taking a hammer to their iPhones that they bought with their hard earned money made me LOL. Seriously, do you think Apple will care what you do with your iPhones once you paid for it ? Ultranationalism is so stupid it made me cry. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1556. CCP China has become the world's largest funny farm.
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  1557. Elections have consequences and one of those is losing the respect of your friends and loved ones. Soon there will be even more heartbreaks and ruined lives as Trump enact his crazy policies. 🤷‍♂️
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  1558. Scary. Was built in 2019 so it's new bridge.
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  1559. China loves to call other countries evil when the CCP is the most evil organized crime organization on the planet that trades in slavery of it's population as well as human organ harvesting.
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  1560. I hope scums like Alex Jones loses everything.
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  1561. Lol… because Huawei doesn’t play fair. It is backed by the CCP as a state run enterprise. It’s corporate governance is opaque. Nobody knows who actually owns Huawei since Ren Zhengfei only holds less than 2% of stocks. The reality is the CCP elite cadres owns a majority of Huawei but they don’t report it. Huawei doesn’t even need to turn a profit since they are subsidized by Chinese taxpayer money. That’s how Huawei can offer “cheap, rock bottom prices”. This is of course unfair competition and stinks of government attempt at monopolizing an industry.
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  1562.  Survival prepping for normal people  you don’t see the antifa or BLM plotting to kidnap a duly elected governor.
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  1563.  @bobroberts2371  income inequality is one. Poverty, Ignorance, Political division, Etc.
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  1564.  @bobroberts2371  the people protesting aren't there recently, they are descendants of the millions of slaves imported by France during the slave eras. Most of them are French citizens for a very long time although they are in the minority. It is estimated France imported over 1.4 million slaves from Africa before slavery was abolished.
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  1565. I love that quote.
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  1566. The PRC literally wrote out doctrines on how they think nowadays. Xi Jinping thought is now the primary and overriding decision making thought process nowadays. The CCP government doctrine literally says "the whole country should follow Xi's thoughts" and government officials need to literally study Xi's books in order to keep their job or get promoted.
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  1567. The people of these island states have no love for the PRC government. Once the bribe money runs dry watch how fast they drop China. There is no genuine friendship there.
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  1568. What opportunities? Once the international people vacates, the mainland billionaires are coming in to buy up all the properties vacated and jacking up the prices of real estate even further.
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  1569. Makes you kinda think where else is Trump keeping a bank account. Russia ? Ukraine ? Well we know now he keeps one in China.
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  1570. Bloomberg: Yet another Chinese financial institution has come under graft and corruption investigation but we are still very optimistic about China. Yep everything is peachy!!! Come and dump more of your hard earned American dollars on China!!!
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  1571. No Taiwanese would want annexation by the PRC especially with the clusterf*** we are seeing in Shanghai.
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  1572. Should be identified, arrested for assault and thrown in jail plus revoke her medical license. These kinds of people have no business in the medical profession.
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  1573. The real reason is the Jiang faction wants Xi's head on a platter. Xi cannot afford to leave the country in the middle of an internal political factional war between the different factions of the CCP.
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  1574.  蔡English  second rate is the CCP claiming to have eradicated poverty yet half the country still earns less than $150 usd a month. Not only second rate but a liar too lying to his own people. Frankly begging for help is fine. It's better than be an arrogant asshole and a thief. In the UK there is Robin Hood who steals from the rich to give to the poor. In China, there is the CCP who steals from the Chinese people to give to themselves.
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  1575. Razia Ali yet he wants to start a war with Iran, it took congress to pass a law to stop Trump from deploying troops to Iran arbitrarily.
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  1576. borntobeking85 There are about 1.4B Chinese... the latest information is only 90M official CCP members or only roughly 8% of the population. Out of those 90M members many are members of convenience... they are members because it is beneficial to them and their business not because they truly believe in the communist ideology. There are a very small number of true blue communist believers, not even the CCP leadership are true communist/marxist.
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  1577. Victor Orban is in fact fascist and he is turning Hungary into a kleptocratic bankrupt fascist state. Orban's policies targets Hungarian Jews, Romas, LGBTQ and other minority communities in Hungary turning them into 2nd class citizens.
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  1578. Just like Hitler during Nazi Germany.
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  1579. Not just Japan but most of East Asia has shitty work culture.
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  1580. Yep the DNC and RNC are pretty much the same. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate left that actually supports democracy.
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  1581. 200 million people are jobless in China, is Africa going to give them jobs? 🤣🤣🤣
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  1582. They are right. Nobody should trust China. I think the entire world has awaken to the real agenda of the PRC CCP regime. I read one Chinese "political analyst" blaming Jews in Ukraine (Ukraine president Zelenskyy is Jewish BTW) for Russia invading Ukraine. If that isn't blatant anti-semitism with Chinese characteristics I don't know what is.
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  1583. I used to respect Warren. Not anymore. Her continued stay in the race will only hurt Bernie. When it is Biden vs Trump we’re doomed.
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  1584. PRC: "We hate the US but we love American dollars and goods." 🤣🤣🤣 Ironically all the economic pain and suffering in China are entirely self inflicted by the regime.
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  1585. Love seeing MTG and M. Gaetz get trolled the crap and chased the hell out of town. No sympathy for those two idiots.
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  1586. No country is perfect. But the difference between a democracy and an authoritarian dictatorship is just this. Democracy allows the potential to change the system for the better. Authoritarianism does not allow change but promotes only stability (aka stagnancy) until everything is rotten from within. Sometimes you need a little shaking up to expose the rot within and democracy allows that to happen while authoritarianism is only interested in presenting a good front but does not address the rotten core.
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  1587. Symptoms of the failure of the CCP system.
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  1588. Putin can't wage war once the coffers run dry and he cannot pay his soldiers or buy more bullets. What does a sovereign debt default mean ? Basically Russia runs out of money or refuses to pay its foreign debts. What would happen after ? Russia would find itself unable to borrow more money from international lenders (after all nobody would lend to a country that is unable or refuses to repay their debts). Even if Russia found someone willing to lend (like China), the interest rate will be incredibly expensive akin to a loan shark / payday lender because they don't have any other options. If Russia continues to be unable to pay their debts, their assets in other countries like properties or assets maybe seized as collaterals of their debt. Usually such kind of seizures are only done as a last resort, most countries will make some sort of deal for a repayment plan (regular supply of X goods for Y number of years in exchange for Z repayment sum).
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  1589. The short answer is No. Not while the current regime is around. Xi's policies ironically is wiping out trillions in the Chinese economy. From what they are saying over 200 million young Chinese migrant workers are now out of jobs/unemployed and 10s of thousands of Beijing residents are even moving out of the city due to bankruptcies and economic slowdown. Most Chinese are starting to get pessimistic on the "China Dream". In the future when there is political liberalization and respect for human and worker rights again then maybe China will become investable again. Unfortunately, the Chinese people are sufficiently cowed by the CCP, it will be up to the international community to encourage the Chinese people to get rid of the CCP. During the 1990s - 2010s China did have social liberalization (but not political liberalization) but this changed when Xi Jinping took power. All avenues of social liberalization were rescinded or reverted. I have friends who lived in China during the 1990s until 2018, the change was pretty stark. Back then communist propaganda were becoming obsolete during the boom years as China embraces capitalism. Nowadays all those CCP communist propaganda posters/billboards are back in force and now posted everywhere. Children are now required to have "patriotic education" (aka mandatory communist party ideological education)
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  1590. The end of the CCP will be good for the world. China will finally be free.
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  1591. Small retail shops and mom and pop stores. Everything -- all the big business and state enterprises connected to the CCP ARE corrupt.
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  1592. Xi is like a tyrannical Chinese emperor totally drunk with power and out of control. The tyrannical CCP dynasty will end with Emperor Xi. Sun Dawu is a real Chinese patriot, he dared criticize the CCP regime that is why he got imprisoned. While Sun is a billionaire he create a company town that gave good jobs, healthcare, schooling and a good wage for all his 9,000 employees (and their families) instead of mistreating them or exploit them. His imprisonment is one of the gravest injustice perpetrated by the CCP.
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  1593. Taiwan is Chinese society done right. Don't go to China, go to Taiwan instead.
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  1594. Xi's purge was never about addressing corruption. It is all about replacing Jiang's men with his own loyal supporters. Xi's family has billions in hidden wealth in oversea bank accounts as exposed by the Panama papers. How else can he afford to send his daughter to study in the US at top Ivy League schools. And Li KeQiang is right, I support Li's efforts to help the poorest of the poor Chinese instead of just fudging the numbers just to say "poverty solved."
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  1595. Yes the entire Chinese speculative real estate industry is a Ponzi scheme.
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  1596. Hahaha.. I love this. Jordan Klepper is literally throwing these Trump supporter's words back at their own faces and they don't even realize it.
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  1597. Bicycle is also called 腳踏車 = foot pedaling car.
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  1598. Rand Paul is not a bad guy true. He is just delusional that libertarian policies in the middle of the worst economic crisis and pandemic in US history is good for the country.
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  1599. Yep a majority of the mass shootings are done by angry lonely young men that are anti-social and feel society has abandoned them. Income inequality and insecurity also contributes to this. How to start a family when you are jobless and hopeless.
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  1600.  @plaguedoc7727 Putin only profess to love China in front because of pressure from the US. Beware of Putin stabbing China in the back when the opportunity arises. Ironically Russia tech companies are complaining that China are stealing military technology from Russia.
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  1601. The big question is why would the Chinese people sacrifice their own lives to prop up a totalitarian regime that suppresses and oppresses its own people in order to enrich and prop up the plutocratic elites that dominates the party? If the CCP is gone then the Chinese people would be free.
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  1602. They are product of the Mao Zedong era where a huge chunk of the population are mentally and socially damaged.
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  1603. Actually Putin can go to hell once the Russian economy tanks because of Putin’s kleptocratic policies. Putin runs a kleptocratic autocracy.
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  1604. The only solution for China is political reform. Xi or Jiang are both bad choices. For China to truly be rejuvenated it must destroy the CCP.
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  1605. Yeah Trump really wrecked the US global reputation or rather he exposes the holes in US politics and that made many US allies that relied on US military protection question whether the US can be relied on in a pinch. Biden and future US presidents will have a huge job ahead rebuilding America’s reputation and fixing the systemic rot inside US politics. The illusion of America’s superiority as a bastion of democracy, rule of law and global leadership that took over 70 years to build was wrecked in merely 4 years. I know Trump isn’t the source of the rot but rather the entrenched oligarchy and partisan politics that often wrecks people’s lives is the ultimate source of dysfunctional in America. The ship we are sailing in has a hole, water are pouring in, we can either do something to plug and repair the hole or do nothing until the whole ship sinks. I still believe in democracy but democracy involves work and people getting involved. Quoting Bernie Sanders: “Democracy is not a spectator sports.”
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  1606. Lol. *eat popcorn as the great accelerator burns more global diplomatic bridges* Incoming 8 nation alliance 2.0 incoming.
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  1607. Ironically Costs Rica has a very socialist government. The government in power right now belongs to the Citizens Action Party has social democracy as its party platform much like what Bernie Sanders advocated. Man I love this segment. The jokes pretty much tell themselves.
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  1608. They want to resurrect the idea of emperor. Xi could be the last emperor of the CCP dynasty. Make no mistake for all it’s name and labeling, the CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty and like all Chinese dynasties before it, it is cruel, patriarchal and authoritarian that uses “for the people” a lot in their propagandas but in reality, it’s a gang of obstinate self serving bureaucratic tyrants. Xi loves to throw around sound bites, ideological snippets/phrases, and grandiose ideas that sounded good on paper but has no actual details on how to accomplish those goals and is completely detached from reality. It’s kinda like “I want to completely eliminate poverty and hunger in China” but I leave the details on how to actually do that on the little guys that makes up China’s bureaucracy. And of course the little guys feeling immense pressure would report that poverty and hunger has actually been completely eliminated to their bosses while no real action happens. China’s poor is still as poor as ever. This was revealing in 2019 when Premier Li Keqiang commented that 600 million Chinese are still earning less than 1000 RMB ($150 USD) per month despite Xi proclaiming that poverty has been eliminated in China — mission accomplished.
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  1609. So glad NATO is now strengthened.
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  1610. Her English is fantastic actually. Unlike that dude Han who can't even speak a single straight sentence of English.
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  1611. This is awesome. I hope Bloomberg blows $1 billion dollars and still lose.
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  1612. So serene and green. I like it. :) The food looks so exquisite and expensive.
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  1613. There is no normal if we don't get the virus under control. $2 trillion is a small price to pay for saving 10s of thousand of American lives. Hell we went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq and spent over $6 trillion dollars as revenge for 5,000+ 911 deaths. Now there are over 250,000+ American deaths and the GOP are complaining about spending $2 trillion to prevent thousands more deaths?
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  1614. Trump's deregulation caused this.
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  1615. Lack of choice in a rigid two party system. That is why we need reform into a multiparty system where the president needs to create a ruling coalition. Without reform I can see a continued disintegration of the two party system.
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  1616. It's the end of the road for the PRC all thanks to emperor Xi.
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  1617. I agree with Khodorkovsky, Putin is the type of leader that only understands force. He will only listen to someone who wields a bigger stick and isn't afraid of using it. That's typical behavior of a strong man autocratic dictatorship -- in their mind "might makes right", the weak should be exploited and devoured, negotiations and diplomacy are only useful if you are in the stronger position. Should Ukraine fall to Putin, the next target are 5 other countries including Moldova and Poland, 3 of them (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) are NATO members. If Putin is emboldened enough then open warfare with NATO is inevitable sooner or later. This is why I support the "peace thru strength" doctrine.
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  1618. This is the consequence of the arrogance of the CCP higher ups. They should just admit Sinovac failed and should just import foreign vaccines and vaccinate everyone in short order. At least that is what a sensible leader would do but of course not Xitler. This is a self inflicted pain and suffering in order for the regime to show off its power.
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  1619.  @fantasy9917  True. In a totalitarian society where the government controls all flow of information the government bureaucrats themselves may become the biggest victims of that censorship. Especially in a strong man autocracy where the leader is especially hostile to negative news like Xi. Basically their censorship bubble is so thick they may start to believe in their own lies and this leads to severe missteps since nobody is giving honest feedback or contradicting information than the narrative put out by those in charge. For example the coal shortage last year -- from what I heard it started in August 2021 but Xi didn't became aware of it until the end of October 2021 because nobody dares to bring him the bad news until the situation has become dire.
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  1620. It's thanks to GMO foods. That's why America is self sufficient in food. Decades of research into high yield high resistant to disease crops allows this food self sufficiency. And I agree, the problem of imitation, cloning and lack of copyright in China has destroyed any hope of China having a thriving GMO food industry since people will simply just steal IP and tech from each other leading to losses by the original. Who wants to spent billions innovating and inventing a new breed of crops when another Chinese company can simply steal the seed design and flood the market with it leading to the original company with massive losses. Not just in agriculture, this happens in almost all aspects of China's economy -- you don't see much innovation just rampant copying and stealing of IP.
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  1621. This is slightly misleading. The US planes are disabled so they will never work again. While the planes are intact, a disabled plane means the critical parts or key component that enables the planes to fly or function are missing or destroyed. They are as good as scrap metal for all purpose and intent. There are no way to reverse engineering those without significant help from another technologically advanced government like say the Chinese government. It is highly unlikely the Chinese would be willing to give the Talibans access to high tech planes that could potentially be used against them in the future. So the planes are left behind, they are worth only as much as their spare parts or weight in scrap metal will fetch. While the planes cost a lot on paper in reality most of those cost are negligible without the underlying key tech. And just a reminder the ones who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and started this whole 20 year war crap is Bush.
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  1622. Yes. Get her out while you can. The CCP are known for holding innocent foreigners as political hostages.
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  1623.  @joeawk  actually China is even more dependent on food imports more than ever because of massive industrialization and pollution of agricultural areas. Do you think the ports and food imports from Africa, US and South America will continue to work once the economy shuts down?
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  1624. Taiwan is a country.
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  1625. Now you know why most Hong Kongers hates Jackie Chan. He really is a scumbag. Anyone who wholeheartedly supports the CCP are scumbags. He even abandoned his own daughter.
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  1626. Not a few hundred incomplete properties. Evergrande has 1.2 million incomplete properties it owes to its buyers.... Yes... Million of units that has already been paid for but they haven't been built yet due to lack of funds to pay workers and their suppliers.
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  1627. Very informative.
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  1628. LOL 400 people to decide the fate of 1.3 billion people. What dystopian dictatorships look like. A one man autocracy tends to result in cataclysmic disaster of epic proportions, just like what happened during Mao Zedong era. I see history repeating itself.
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  1629. What was sad was many members of our military and retired veterans are actually aware that Trump would often denigrate or mock them in private.
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  1630. These PRC ultranationalist are the same ones who think the PRC should nuke Taiwan.
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  1631. Cai Xia is brave. Xi Jinping is a shitty leader. She is right, Xi Jinping's neocolonialism, right wing fascist nationalism has made countries all over the world look at China with apprehensive eyes. Then comes the HK crackdown, now everyone is even more alarmed as the national security law passed arbitrarily in Beijing and imposed on HK (it was never voted on by the HK legco as required by law and the HK constitution) allows arrest of ANYONE in the world regardless of nationality for criticism of the CCP, Xi Jinping, and China.
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  1632. I’ll be straight, how a populist like Trump took power is exactly how Hitler took power in Nazi Germany. In the 1920s, the Nazis were a butt of everyone’s joke as was Trump in 2014. Then everyone couldn’t believe it when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1932 (as many people couldn’t believe it that Trump became POTUS in 2016). Fast forward in 1939 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland and started WWII. Luckily, Trump didn’t attack China and start WWIII but I think he was about to if given a few more years. The American people woke up just in time to vote Trump out of office in 2020. We must work now to safe guard our democracy from future Trumps or other populist demagogue from hijacking our democracy. The only way to do that is to address income inequality as an existential threat to American democracy. China has its own massive problems with income inequality. Because of Trump weakening American democracy, the Chinese were feeling emboldened thinking America is finished. Now that Biden has shown the US is now back in charge in global leadership, you can see their tone softening again (they realize the US isn’t quite as “finished”) as Biden was able to gather a global coalition against China. If the US face China alone (the CCP were counting on it) then the US would lose. However with a global coalition of like minded democratic powers then we can keep China’s ambition to overturn the US led democratic world order in check.
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  1633. I agree with Professor Lichtman. US Independents, national security voters and the business community are sick of the unpredictability and chaos caused by Trump. I agree Biden/Harris weakness is Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah war and indecisiveness when it comes to aiding Ukraine. But Trump is much much worse in all aspects.
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  1634. CCP neocolonialism and imperialism.
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  1635. Trump is really shameless. Veteran's Choice (or Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014) is one of the major accomplishments of Obama. The act is passed and signed into law in 2014 by President Obama.
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  1636. The irony of it all was even after Cena apologizes, all the CCP nationalists still says it's not enough and they don't accept his "insincere apology". There is no pleasing these CCP nationalists. When will all these western CCP apologists learn ? Unadulterated neoliberal greed is America's greatest weakness.
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  1637. Not just Xi but the entire CCP is hypocritical and corrupt. The regime and the party must be destroyed.
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  1638. It would. Also when people are secured that they won’t go bankrupt due to a single medical emergency they are more likely spend the extra money in their pockets to buy things that they need and want like cars, houses and consumer goods. They could also start a new business and invest in the economy. This boost in economic activity would increase demands which leads to more jobs being created. Job losses in the healthcare insurance industry of course will naturally happen since Medicare for all essentially cuts out the healthcare insurance middleman but instead shift workers into actually delivering healthcare instead of pushing paperwork. But this is the systemic change that America desperately needs. In the end, it would be a net benefit to America’s economy. Bernie Sanders is right as usual, we need a fundamental and systemic change in our society where everyone’s healthcare is secured and protected from healthcare bankruptcies. Medicare for all single player system would allow this fundamental change to happen.
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  1639. Hard to implement since the CCP membership roster isn't released to the public. How do you know who is CCP and who isn't ?
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  1640. FAFO is pretty eye opening for the MAGA part of American society and I like it.
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  1641. Emperor Xi's idiotic policies has ruined the future of the Chinese youths.
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  1642. So terrible. This is like a self inflicted demographic apocalypse.
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  1643. You are right, the Chinese will stab Russia in the back at some future date. You can count on it.
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  1644. *eat popcorn*
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  1645. That is true. Corporate America doesn’t care one iota what the CCP are doing to the Uyghur Muslims as long as corporate America makes their money from China. Hell the CCP could murder millions of Uyghurs or Chinese dissidents and the US corporate media will collectively give some lip service and shrug their shoulders. If the US corporations really cares they should just immediately stop doing businesses in China and stop pandering to the CCP. I applaud American leaders who speak out and who isn’t afraid of offending the CCP.
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  1646. It is indeed a sad day in America when money and power holds more value in the eyes of the Republicans than human lives.
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  1647. Leader of a crime mafia.
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  1648. Typical CCP modus operandi. Taking credit for everything done by others for themselves.
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  1649. Warner is another prime example of why most republicans distrust corporate democrats.
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  1650. There are already talks of massive class action lawsuit against CDPR for fraud.
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  1651. This is what happens when a country’s bark (propaganda) is greater than it’s bite. This exposes Russia is now a military joke who believed too much of its own propaganda.
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  1652. The pullout is warranted. It's not as if Saudi Arabia is in any danger of being invaded. The missile batteries were simply moved to a location where it is needed.
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  1653. In China: The elite bureaucrats silences the poor. In US: The elite bureaucrats ignores the poor. What I don't like about the Chinese government is how awful they treat their own people.
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  1654.  @victorchew151  Robots don't consume consume goods only produce. When you say size of economy it refers to the consumption and production of goods and services. When there are fewer people it's only natural that consumption of goods and services is reduced as well.
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  1655.  @GokulOnFire  Lol. Nobody is allowed to visit certain places in Xinjiang. Many journalist have tried. But one guy did and the videos they smuggled out were pretty damning. They were videos of CCP guards beating Uyghur prisoners in groups with clubs and bamboo sticks.
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  1656. It wouldn’t be too far fetched for the CCP to put fake empty containers and move the trucks around in order to paint a rosy picture and fool Wall Street into giving them even more money now that they know what is Wall Street looking at.
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  1657. Elon Musk is a danger to the US.
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  1658. I’m here just to mock Tedros Adhanom for his hypocrisy.
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  1659. This is corporate America’s endgame capitalism. People are turned into consumer bots. No sense of community or anything.
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  1660. Yep. PRC under the CCP cannot innovate it can only steal and pirate ideas and technologies from other countries.
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  1661. Yep it's no longer a war, it's a genocide by Putin on the Ukrainians. Putin is basically indiscriminately murdering Ukrainians. Putin must be held accountable for his actions.
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  1662. Actually Bolton is still loathsome to me. It's like kettle calling the pot black. Both Trump and Bolton are loathsome. Pretty sure Bolton has an ax to grind with Trump. It's just hilarious seeing one conservative hawks and neocons stabbing each other to death.
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  1663. Heaven saying Xi Jinping has lost the Mandate of Heaven. Disaster hitting China just this year 2020: 1. Earthquake 2. Floods 3. Drought 4. Locust 5. Coronavirus 6. Economic slowdown. 7. Antagonizing neighbors and major western powers for SCS issues. 8. Global enmity for causing global pandemic. 9. Famine (upcoming)
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  1664. Wow that's retarded for Apple to do. Meh.. just stick with the illegal supply chain. Many US states are starting to sue Apple in order to make Apple products more repairable in "right to repair" lawsuits. Apple's greed really is boundless.
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  1665. Lol all the wumaos dissing the west but so conveniently forgotten Mao Zedong’s CCP killed over 30 million Chinese their own people during the cultural shenanigans and great famine as well as thousands more during Tiananmen square massacre. The biggest murderer of the Chinese people are other Chinese people.
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  1666. The choice really is very clear: Take the vaccine — 99% chance you will survive COVID or remain unvaccinated and there’s a sizable chance you won’t. People who still willfully refuse to take the vaccine for no reason other than their own self righteous convictions despite the multitude of warnings by healthcare professionals and by the CDC is just plain arrogant and stupid. They put not only themselves at risk but also their own family members but also vulnerable (immuno-compromised) community members at risk because of their selfishness.
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  1667. The US really is in a class war between the wealthiest vs the poor being mislabled by the media as Liberals vs. Conservatives.
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  1668. Fans of Putin are traitors to humanity.
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  1669. LOL… I can see the CCP dynasty ending even sooner if they try.
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  1670. Also note there are many different types of “Chinese” living in Asia. One is Taiwanese Chinese, they are more open minded, liberal and democratic. There are also Malaysian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese. All of them span the spectrum between conservative to liberal/progressive (left or right wing). The CCP are mostly mainland Han Chinese (98% at least with a few token members from Ethnic minority groups).
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  1671. I agree the solution to China's woes is the destruction of the CCP and raising the institution of democracy in China. Down with the CCP/PRC regime. Long live democratic China!
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  1672. Zhengzhou is the pilot city for the so called “sponge city” since 2015 they spent $8 billion dollars on it. Makes you wonder where the hell did all that money go. And yes the “Mandate of Heaven”. All Chinese dynasties which has ended is due to losing the Mandate of Heaven and the inability to control floods in China which causes famine, poverty, and hardship to untold millions and which contributes to political instability and the collapse of the regime. And yes, CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty and that dynasty is ending just a little over 70 years.
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  1673. When China says their GDP for 2022 grew 0.4% it's actually negative growth -- possibly negative 4%. Of course the CCP would lie, the whole premise of the regime was the promise of "prosperity" in exchange for obedience from the citizens. The CCP has no reason to exist if even the economy is faltering.
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  1674. What we need is not a transition to socialism...what we need is regulated capitalism. Excessive capitalism leads to plutocracy. This country do need a paradigm shift because the current existing system doesn't work. Trickle down economics doesn't work because nothing really trickles down. If you gave $2 trillion to the billionaire owners of corporations..the money doesn't trickle down to workers.. it merely goes to the billionaire's offshore bank accounts or stock buyback.
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  1675. Yep. Middle East is no longer of strategic interest. The oil will run out in 2050 anyway. Saudi can pay for their own defense.
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  1676. I love seeing the CCP chop their own foot off with wolf wanker diplomacy.
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  1677. The greatest deterent to CCP China is to show unyielding strength. The CCP regine only respects strength for they are cowardly bullies. They don't dare ram US/Japan ships but will relentlessly bully those who they deemed as unable to fight back.
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  1678. The great China economic collapse is coming.
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  1679. I agree if the US military go full throttle on the PRC it will destroy the PLA. The US military has decades of experience in war making. The PLA has no experience. All they got are numbers. The body count will be in the several hundreds thousands of dead PLA soldiers.
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  1680. I applaud India for courage to stand against the CCP fascist regime.
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  1681. 30 million unemployed. That's worse than the great depression.
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  1682. Typical how CCP projects works. $8 billion allocated on project. 70% goes to corrupt pockets while 30% actually gets to project. Also often these projects are pushed thru by the local CCP government (in order to appropriate money) while not enough adequate project study are done. Report to higher ups everything is peachy and going according to plan. If project fails, one fall guy gets the blame and axed while the entire corrupt system survives. This is why China needs a new transparent government system and freedom of press.
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  1683. Except Trump didn't seems to understand how serious it is. He is tweeting now that the COVID-19 is nothing to it.
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  1684. Let’s face it the far right, those who refuses to wear a mask are dying off from self inflicted stupidity. A lot of them are in the 50-60-70 age bracket (ironically the most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic). A majority of progressives are young people in their teens-20-30-40s. In fact most young people tend to be liberal and progressives. Trump would be the last hurrah of the far right.
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  1685. Kushner isn't even hiding the fact that he hates black people anymore. Seriously "they aren't successful because they don't want to be successful ?". Seriously. But I'm kinda glad the Trump campaign have these idiots coming out to sabotage their own campaign.
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  1686. Exactly. Having a truly equitable society is when the problem of low child birth rate can truly be solved. Same problem in China as the US. The problem is less severe in US due to immigration. Who wants to birth the next generation when the child will only become peons ripe for exploitation by the elites and oligarchs?
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  1687. Trump won’t be able to run for president when he is in jail for tax evasion, graft, malfeasance and corruption.
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  1688. The reason is the CCP is now in a very tenuous position. There is a rising number of dissatisfaction and unrest in China especially due to the massive flooding (the CCP has done little for the people affected), the US-China trade war, the coronavirus pandemic and the slowing global economy all of which affects the Chinese economy. The CCP's legitimacy is now being called into question. There is also now a factional power struggle between the Xi faction and the other factions within the CCP. If the Xi government cannot deliver economic prosperity to the Chinese people then they will be overthrown. The CCP is now incredibly nervous this is why they are lashing out against the HK people with their cruel policies (which is making things worse). They know they cannot do much against the increasingly hostile and wary western governments so they lash out at everyone like a bully. The CCP is now in maximum regime preservation mode because they are losing legitimacy fast in the eyes of the Chinese people.
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  1689. The CCP regime basically destroyed traditional Chinese culture and moral values. The end of the CCP dynasty is near. It is an evil regime who changed the Chinese people from a spiritually strong and moral people into one that cares for nothing except money.
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  1690. You know it's the end of the CCP when they are pissing off even the mild tempered Canadians. The CCP are now buddy buddying with murderous terrorists (the Talibans) and totalitarian regimes. I guess birds of the same feather do indeed flock together.
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  1691. 270% GDP to debt ratio and those are the ones being reported. They don’t even count the debt from shadow banking (hidden debts that is not reported to the government) which according to some estimates accounts for something like another $8-10 trillion US dollars in debt. For all it’s pomp and outward ostentatiousness China is buried up to its neck in debt.
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  1692. 1 billion useless shots of Sinovac.
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  1693. Ahh.... Obama's speech.... I miss what a real president sounds like. Trump: "Look at the numbers we're producing, the virus numbers are way way down." <-- big fat lie, 176,000 Americans are dead and 5.7M infected.
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  1694. It's a complex situation. Basically the local government of Zhengzhou issued a covid lockdown. Many of the workers (200,000+) demanded they be allowed to go home because they don't want to be locked in the factory dorms (where conditions were dire). They also demanded they be compensated with wages (they claim they were not paid the promised wages). The local government then sent the SWAT police and riot CONTROL to "pacify" the workers protesting. This culminated in a showdown between workers and the police which got ugly and there was violence. The police were beating up protesters and the protesters fought back using improvised weapons (like pipe, steel bars, barricades, etc. whatever they can get their hands on) Note: This is an active situation so things are happening fast.
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  1695. When the CCP says "workers paradise" it means everyone works like a slave and the CCP elites enjoys the life of a slave master in paradise.
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  1696. If the economy crashed it would be on McConnell and Trump's head. In fact the splash damage will be felt by the entire GOP.
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  1697. This is Xi Jinping "common poverty" in action. No private land sales no government revenues. It's the end of the line. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1698. China under Xi is going the North Korean totalitarian dictatorship way. The world has to joined together to oppose the CCP ethnofascist totalitarian dictatorship state.
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  1699. Exactly! Emperor Xi committed the same error that brought down all previous Chinese dynasties -- excessive hubris and arrogance. He counted his chickens before they were able to hatch while openly antagonizing the hands that feeds China.
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  1700. America has freedom of information (the internet is never blocked) and freedom of speech. China doesn't have either. No real progressives are waving communist flags.
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  1701. I suspect Kushner or Trump might have sold top secret US nuclear secrets to the Saudis and the Saudis are not exactly America's best friend lately (the Saudis could even sell those secrets to the Chinese or the Russians). Trump's actions is creating a huge hole in US national security and his actions might have major negative consequences for the United States years or even decades down the line.
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  1702. Many Chinese are now waking up to the fact that they had been fed a lie all their life. They have always been taught that the society the CCP had built was a paradise except it’s not, it’s a dystopia and now that dystopia is unraveling by its seams. Only the cold ugly truth will set you free.
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  1703. That was the best part of the video :P
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  1704. They are masters of harvesting the Chinese chives/韭菜 (a slang meaning the wealth of the people).
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  1705. Yeah I have a feeling Trump's rhetoric about mail in votes is going to backfire big time and then he is going to claim voter fraud stole the election from him and he will refuse to vacate the WH and will ask his supports to come defend him.
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  1706. CCP China is evil.
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  1707. The problem isn't China or the Chinese people, the main problem is the CCP. The CCP does not represent the whole of the Chinese people but rather only the ruling party plutocratic elites. They rule thru intimidation, threats of violence, and fear just like a mafia gangster. When a Chinese society is allowed the rule of law, independent justice system, social and civil rights and democracy it produces wonderful societies like Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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  1708. Of course, Xi turned Hong Kong into a totalitarian shithole. Nobody would appreciate him for that. Remember what the pro-democracy HK protesters wanted was elect their own local public officials in order to address local problems such as housing and other crisis. Apparently that was considered a threat to the CCP.
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  1709. Totally agree. China can export it's culture if it allows true freedom of expression, creativity and speech. Nobody will ever like state sponsored propaganda disguised as entertainment. The Chinese people are creative if only the mainland Chinese government allows them to express it. The irony is Karl Marx isn't even Chinese.. he's a German for god's sake... even Germany doesn't promote Karl Marx's ideology. The only way China will become cool in the international scene is if they be real and be woke.
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  1710. The covid relief bill is a public good that benefits all Americans. Zero (not one) of the republicans voted for it only proves the GOP only cares about holding on to power. They don't give a rats ass about their constituents and voters.
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  1711. CNOOC exiting the west means PRC plan to start trouble soon by invading TW.
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  1712. This is why I love South Park.
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  1713. Actually Taiwan definitely can defeat the CCP and the PLA especially with the help from other regional/global powers like the US, Japan and Australia.
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  1714. The biggest flaw is the censorship and the top down command based economy. When China first opened up and adopted some levels of market economy they were doing good. But starting in 2012 Xi started adopting state capitalism or top down command economy wholesale. This is what brought the system to its knees.
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  1715. The animosity between generations has manifested itself thru the HK pro-democracy protesters. Most pro-democracy protesters are millennials or composed of the XYZ generation while most of the pro-Beijing supporters are the boomers and the forgotten generation. This is a generational war compounded by the massive income inequality between the boomers and the millennials. It a war between the rich and the poor. This isn’t just in China but happening in the US and elsewhere too.
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  1716. Joe Biden full on senility is showing. If you look at Bernie Sanders he doesn’t have mental deterioration like Biden. Bernie Sanders is our only hope. #Bernie2020
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  1717. Trump is a piece of traitorous garbage.
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  1718. Congratulations!!! Happy 1st year anniversary. You are absolutely right, as someone who can read both Chinese and English the US media coverage of China is indeed superficial. They are too afraid to offend the CCP because of their business interest connection to China. The US mainstream media needs advertisers for their bread and butter and often their biggest advertisers in the US all have business interests in China so the CCP is able to control /influence the narrative of the US mainstream media thru these corporate connections. It is up to people like you and a few others to discuss topics that the US mainstream media finds taboo. One Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) member was even caught on video bragging how they are able to influence decision making at the highest echelons of the US government thru these business connections.
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  1719. The CCP dynasty is ending soon.
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  1720. When the CCP economy collapses it's gonna pull Russia down to the abyss.
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  1721. All of it can be summarized as, the US won’t be invading Russian or Chinese territories at any time. The Chinese would invade and annex Russian territories if given half a chance. The US does sanctions or spout rhetoric against Putin’s government but Russia is in no existential threat from the US. The Chinese on the other hand are completely capable of invading Russia. This why even if Putin and Xi are buddy buddies now, each of them knows the other can stab them in the back at any time if one of them shows even a single whiff of weakness.
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  1722. The future of America are the young people. The future of America are progressive.
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  1723. The PRC will be balkanized within 10-15 years just like the USSR. Don't believe me? Come back here in 10-15 years. Doesn't mean China will be gone, it just means the PRC will cease to exist but China will still be around but under different names/banner.
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  1724.  @dont_tread_on_me-nh5jp  yet there were 0 deaths. Most of the deaths in America are caused by the right.
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  1725. I think Xi will attack Taiwan as early as 2023 or 2024. The world should now prepare for a massive war in East Asia. I wrote this on November 9, 2021.
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  1726. Lol... only the CCP can be so hypocritical. "PRC: We don't need the west." At the same time Marxism is our core tenet which ironically is an ideology that came from the west. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1727. It’s all about conning his supporters for more money. Also his big lie is damaging democracy in the United States. The question is how many people have awaken to Trump’s lie and realize he is nothing but a shysters/con man ?
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  1728. Totally agree with you. The CCP's main modus operandi now is to upend the new world order and destroy democracy and install themselves as ruler of the world. Everything they do now has this objective in mind. If they succeed then humanity will enter a dark age where there are no human rights, no democracy, no dissenting opinions. The CCP doesn't care about humanity. They don't care about their own people. All they want is to gain more and more power and control over the world.
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  1729. And this is essentially what Xi's "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is in a nutshell, the CCP government screwing 10s of millions of it's own citizens out of billions of dollars in compensation. The CCP doesn't give one iota of crap about the Chinese people. It only cares about two things only: power and money. It cares only about maintaining it's power to lord over the Chinese people and uses the Chinese people to make money for the CCP plutocrat elites.
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  1730. They are praying to a tyrant that orchestrated the murder of 40-60 million of their own people thru starvation and political persecution. The propaganda from childhood really twists the minds.
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  1731. Don't believe in the "fake niceness" overtures of the PRC. Wolf warrior diplomacy is still pretty much ingrained in Xi Jinping Thought. They are biding for time in order to try to get the US off their backs while they try to solve massive local issues like local government bankruptcy and the dying economy. The US should not fall for it.
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  1732.  @dilkash1831  I think he is being sarcastic. Latest public reported death is 302. I think the real death numbers are in the 1000+
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  1733. German corporations are going to lose all their shit once the CCP confiscated all their "investments".
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  1734. The CCP and Xi acting like Hitler and the Nazi and the world will treat them like Hitler and the Nazis.
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  1735. Trump and his ilk should be in jail for obstruction of justice.
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  1736. You are right. The CCP elites as a whole is bad, most of them have blood on their hands. Only very few CCP politicians are good but most of them have been removed from power. It is in the best interest of the world and the Chinese people to finally see the CCP gone and China transition into an open democratic system and society just like Taiwan. Once again thank you for your videos Lei it is very informative. I agree also Taiwan is not safe even if Xi is toppled as long as the CCP exist in China, then Taiwan is never safe.
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  1737. And Biden's answer is exactly the kind of answer you would expect from a REAL president of the United States.
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  1738.  @eagle2855  it's because of people like you who only resort to insults when they run out of logic to protect their precious idiotic CCP that is making China look bad on the international stage.
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  1739. Xi Jinping's common poverty in action.
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  1740. I agree. Banning Trump from Twitter isn’t the solution. It could go into a very dangerous direction (censorship). Who is to say that kind of censorship power won’t be used on future progressive candidates or anyone the establishment wants to censor? To be honest, Trump rage tweeting is in fact kinda entertaining. Each time he rage tweets his stupidity his polls go down and more people wakes up to the fact Trump has no leadership skills.
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  1741.  @lijolalichan5450  Totally agree with Biden's strategic redeployment. The US cannot be distracted by Islamic insurgency in the Middle East if it wants to fight against China. The US pulling resources and redeploying them where they are needed the most is the right move.
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  1742. If democrats wins and takes over the senate people will see a bigger relief. McConnell throwing scraps at people in need in order to influence votes is just plain disgusting.
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  1743. The Trump mafia is finished. Good job.
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  1744. Very interesting. Thank you for your video. This opens up a lot of new perspective.
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  1745. The great Chinese Ponzi scheme collapses. Some people are calling it the Chinese economy. It's not an economy but a debt fueled Ponzi scheme of epic proportions. When this blows up, it's taking out a large chunk of the global economy. But that might be for the best.
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  1746. Youngkin can't admit Trump is an unAmerican authoritarian nut job.
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  1747. What she is saying is it is people that innovate not machines. Fewer people in the work force means fewer innovations. Fewer innovations means lower advancement and productivity. On top of that a growing elderly population means the state has to divert more and more money and resources to take care of those elderly. Imagine an elderly population of 450 million that is 1/3rd of the population. If the CCP do not take care of the elderly then these people will revolt. What is the CCP gonna do? Kill their own fathers and mothers?
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  1748. Thanks for sharing Cultivate. I shop a lot on Amazon and this will help a lot in avoiding fakes and counterfeit products.
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  1749. Joshua Wong is my hero.
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  1750. Zelenskyy apologize to Trump? What for? Fuck Trump. Zelenskyy does not owe Trump anything. He was grateful to the American people and he has publicly thanked the US over 33 times. Trump is trash.
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  1751. The Great Translation Movement is really doing a great service to the world by exposing the hypocrisy and the two faced-ness of the PRC. While the PRC regime may say one thing (peace and prosperity and cooperation) to the west — the regime promote the reverse to their own population. They taught their own people how to hate the west and disseminate hatred thru the social media. Think of CCTV and CGTN as similar to Newsmax, Breitbart, OANN on steroids except you don’t have many other options in China.
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  1752. China is basically stuck in a conundrum. Kick the can down a few more years and watch it get worst or allow it to collapse and reform now. Looks like the central government opted to kick the can down a few more years. Even if the PRC government uses taxpayers money to buy those assets now to support the developers, it still doesn't address the fundamental problem which is the loss of consumer confidence in the Chinese real estate industry. Plus those are assets they cannot easily get rid off so all that state money is basically tied up to a bunch of non-performing assets. Unused buildings and properties are basically depreciating assets rotting under the sun.
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  1753. This is the consequences of the CCP trying to tame nature. Nature cannot be tamed. You can only cooperate with nature. Those who try to subjugate or tame nature will only get their ass kicked. China loses billions of dollars in damages a year due to these floods which wrecks the homes and fields of the people. The arrogance of the CCP caused this disruption in the natural flow of water.
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  1754. Trump is pro-union? Don’t make me laugh. He refuses to pay his own workers in Taj Mahal hotel bankruptcy.
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  1755. Looking at all the propaganda and manufactured outrage coming out of the PRC it's becoming increasingly clear China seems to be running short of talented thinkers within their foreign affairs department. They have been blasting insults and propaganda against the US, Japan, Taiwan, president Tsai and Pelosi almost non-stop for the past 4 days but almost all the propaganda materials are low quality and crude.
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  1756. This is why freedom of speech and independent press is important.
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  1757. I think a lot of American are starting to realize the GOP doesn't even want democracy anymore. They are going authoritarian.
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  1758. It could be the “president” of the Mickey Mouse club. 🤔
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  1759. I agree with Michael Moore. Don’t count Trump out. Democrats should not think Biden is going to coast into a landslide victory. If anything it’s going to be a very very close race despite many of Trump’s domestic policy failures. His attack on China/the CCP is winning him huge points from the anti-CCP left, center and right. In fact Biden’s Vice President pick could actually help him win or lose the election. Many people who I have talked to told me, they would only vote for Biden if they like his VP pick.
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  1760. Ironically China is the world's biggest manufacturer and exporter of fentanyl and other illegal drugs. If you think China has no drug abuse problem you're naive. Chinese society simply doesn't talk about it. China has way more problems than they cared to admit. Things like child trafficking and child slavery as well as organ harvesting is an ongoing societal problem especially in the very poor rural towns and cities. Yes, the US has gun violence problems, China has knife violence problems especially violence between spouses. Violence against women in China is rampant. An even bigger problem now is medical insurance and retirement fund, China has over 300-400M retirees by 2050 due to one child policy but the government is now running out of money to support them.
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  1761. Texan Democrats fled the state in order to avoid allowing a wholesale anti-democratic voter suppression law to pass. Cancun Cruz did it to abandon his constituents during a time of massive crisis. Huge difference here.
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  1762. Capitalism: $495 for the company boss, $5 for the workers.
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  1763. Basically if the battery says Made in China and is from a no-name brand. Caveat Emptor.
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  1764. Forget the polls. Get out and vote. Unless Biden wins with a clear margin Trump will just say Biden cheated with mail-in votes and what not. Don't get complacent. If you are on the side of freedom and democracy get out and vote or use the mail-in/absentee ballots. Vote early to ensure your vote is counted (seems another Trump tactic was to delay the mail so the ballots won't be counted -- he is counting on his supporters to vote in person risking their lives for him).
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  1765.  @АлександърНиколов-ш9б  They won’t directly attack the US (China has no major power projection capability) but they will attack Taiwan. And of course the US can either sit back and twiddle our collective thumbs or do something to protect our democratic allies like Taiwan and Japan. The CCP doesn’t need any justification, they just need an “external” enemy no matter who it is in order to justify their existence. And like all authoritarian regimes, it blames all the problems caused by decades of mismanagement by the CCP on the US thru ridiculous propaganda. Make no mistake the CCP has perfected the art of propaganda dissemination perfected by the Soviet Union, that’s how it is able to fool a huge chunk of its 1.3 billion population.
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  1766. Vote them all cowardly turds out on November 3rd 2020. The current republican party is finished. Ask for your mail-in ballots when available.
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  1767. Some GOP politicians are authoritarians. They are taking a page out of Russia or China where protesting the government will have their rights revoked.
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  1768. It is an accurate description of CPAC 2021.
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  1769. I agree. East Turkistan (Xinjiang) will one day be liberated from the control of the CCP regime.
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  1770. Tiktok should be banned. I'm liberal leaning but I think TikTok is dangerous to American society because the company can manipulate public opinions. For example, it was recently leaked by an ex-Tiktok employee that Tiktok have an internal feature that can artificially make a post or video go viral.
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  1771. Good for Teddy Locsin Jr. !!! China should indeed GTFO of the SCS.
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  1772.  @1956paterson  Totally agree. Things needs to change or the whole economic system would collapse.
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  1773. Hong Kong is the new Czechoslovakia. Taiwan is the new Poland. Will the world band together to stop the Xi regime’s imperial war machine before it starts to do serious damage?
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  1774. You know how a little dog always somehow barks the most often and the loudest? That’s the CCP right now. All that wolf wanker diplomacy is for local consumption. It needs to reassure itself. And sadly it is effective in diverting all that attention away from its myriad of internal problems. That’s what authoritarian regime does whenever it’s leaders encounters a problem it cannot easily resolve — blame foreign forces. Ironically all these propaganda efforts are backfiring badly — most of the world now sees China not as a confident country but one that is unsure of itself and lashing out like a mad dog.
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  1775. Personally I like Chinese culture and the Chinese people. I just don't like the CCP government and their government policies towards Taiwan and the ill treatment of their own people (Uyghurs slavery and genocide). I think the CCP under Xi has become a massive bully.
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  1776. Putin is indeed a thief that has stolen billions from the Russian people for decades. When despots like Putin is toppled maybe the US and Russia can be great friends.
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  1777. Poor guy being censored just because he looks like Xi.
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  1778. Proud of Biden. If it were Trump, he would be kissing Putin's feet. Trump is an inherent natural coward.
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  1779. Basically Trump is celebrating the death of US liberal democracy and the rise of right wing fascist authoritarianism. When the power of the people to affect change thru voting is curtailed to such a degree as not to affect national elections I must conclude we are in banana republic territory.
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  1780. Yeah MSNBC and other mainstream corporate media are shit. They are downplaying Bernie’s surge and win. Thank God there are now more independent media like The Hill.
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  1781. FAFO!!!
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  1782. The CCP is extremely dangerous. I am glad the US government and many Americans are waking up to the threat posed by the CCP.
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  1783. Lies are pretty much emblematic in this administration. What's new ?
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  1784. I agree. Trump wanting to ban CCP members is unrealistic. Many many Chinese celebrities and businessmen are members of the CCP like Jackie Chan, Donnie Yuen, etc. what the US government should do instead is use the global magnitsky act to sanction and freeze the assets of CCP and PLA officials who have committed human rights violations worldwide. It is much more effective and can be used to target individuals rather than a blanket ban.
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  1785. The only solution is to burn the CCP system down and rebuild a new system that is more transparent and democratic from the ground up. That is the only way for a better China.
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  1786. Saagar is absolutely right. The CCP does not care if you criticize them on human rights. One way to deal with the CCP is to kick them in the economic nads. Once the Chinese people realized that there was no social contract, no real prosperity after everything they had given up and everything is a lie then the Chinese people will eat the CCP plutocrats alive.
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  1787. *eat popcorn* It’s entertaining to watch the PRC implodes.
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  1788. Well the Talibans are China's and Iran's problems now. You know that the Talibans assassinated 9 of Iran's diplomats in 1998 in Afghanistan.
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  1789. If you think that is funny 3 million Chinese were directly murdered by Mao’s red guard while 30-80 million Chinese people died from starvation in 1958-1962.
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  1790. 70% of the Chinese people's wealth are invested in real estate. 70% in real estate is absolutely insane. Imagine if the real estate bubble were to suddenly pop..that means 70% of China's middle class and wealthy population would suddenly find themselves a lot poorer.
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  1791. If Russia attacks UK with a nuke, Russia would cease to exist. NATO would pour into Ukraine full force and it’s only 230 or so miles to Moscow — the Russian Federation would cease to exist. Putin can still walk away from this relatively unscathed. However, once nukes are used all bets are off. One thing is for sure if he used nukes, Putin isn’t getting out of this while standing.
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  1792. Thanks for exposing them all. The reckoning for the CCP is coming.
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  1793. The CCP only knows how to steal. Even the slogan song "没有共产党，就没有新中国" was stolen from the KMT they just changed 国民党 to 共产党. They are called the epithet "Communist Bandits" (共匪) for a very good reason.
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  1794. Shhhh don't let more people know the Russian army is absolutely garbage.
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  1795. CNN should stop calling Xi as president. That's not his title. Also the title "president" implies he was elected by the population when he wasn't.
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  1796. The guy said it best. China is indeed like “Hotel California”, you maybe able to check in easily but you might find yourself not being able to leave with your money. If I were a billionaire I would invest in America. The CCP are infamous for confiscation/theft of other people’s hard earned assets and wealth. This is why they earned the pejorative of “Communist Bandit”.
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  1797. Yeah.. packing the courts with Trump cronies and appointees... that's his so called "greatest accomplishment" except he fails on everything else that mattered like social issues, national security, unemployment, lost of quality of living.
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  1798. The worst enemy of a Chinese person is another Chinese person.
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  1799. A majority of America wants genuine freedom, democracy and equality for all. A minor part of America wants authoritarian fascism and return of Jim Crow.
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  1800. This is actually good. Those super tall but structurally unsafe buildings are dangerous. And yes the infrastructure boom is over. It’s unsustainable in the first place. This reform of China’s economy is actually good in the long run.
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  1801. Trump is utter garbage. I respectfully disagree with PM Trudeau, Trump is not a smart guy, he is dumb shit.
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  1802. It can only do this because as a state owned enterprise, it doesn't need to make profits. No commerical rail company will survive having billions in debt for years. It's also a huge massive waste of resources. They have high speed rail to nowhere. As i have been saying China's CCP economy is a massive Ponzi scheme that has now reached the end of its run.
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  1803. Elon Musk loves Russia. The dude is pretty much a fascist lover.
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  1804. Frankly the COVID virus isn't leaving humanity anytime soon.
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  1805. 3.5M COVID deaths worldwide indirectly by the hands of the CCP.
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  1806. Hong Kong now destroyed by CCP. China is now fast turning into a fascist totalitarian state. The CCP are merciless, they will arrest children as well as old people. The CCP’s prison is known for torturing men and women.
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  1807.  @rithyheng6634  Sorry. Respect is earned and so far the CCP has earned little to no respect. Plus respect is reciprocal, until the CCP learn how to respect other countries and their sovereign maritime territories they shouldn’t expect respect in return.
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  1808. Good. No more bailouts for Wall Street and fat cats.
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  1809. War will be started by Xi to deflect attention from China's failing economy. That's the only reason he wants to start a war with Taiwan. The biggest losers are going to be the Chinese people who will feel the brunt of global sanctions, the retaliation from Taiwan and/or US allied/QUAD forces. The thousands of only child PLA soldiers (many of whom have elderly parents back home) will be sent to their deaths for nothing. Their elderly parents will be waiting for their only child to come home but tens of thousands won't. This is the folly of an arrogant and foolish emperor wanna be who overestimated himself.
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  1810. Fake it till you make it is pretty much the mantra in CCP China. They need foreign investments, technology transfers and years/decades to develop a real functioning AI. Western companies blinded by greed go along with it while undermining their own capabilities. The reality is western foreign investments are the only thing propping up the CCP regime.
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  1811. Xi will go down history as that idiotic dictator from China that made half the countries on the entire planet hate the CCP.
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  1812. The CCP needs to collapse.
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  1813. Putin got emboldened by China. This is it folks. Xi and Putin are the Hitlers of our times.
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  1814. Facebook should be anti-trusted and broken up.
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  1815.  @oneviwatara9384  nothing wrong with GMO foods. A majority of global food supply are GMOs otherwise there won't be enough food to feed a majority of the people on Earth. If you think 300-400M people globally don't have food security, without GMO foods the number of people that is food insecure would triple.
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  1816.  @oneviwatara9384  that is a false narrative. The problem is not GMO foods but scarcity in the availability of healthy foods. Soda, carb loaded/sugar heavy foods, and candies are cheap while fruits and vegetables are expensive and that contributes to the problem of obesity in the US. Also the "drive everywhere" in a car culture contributes to that too.
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  1817. Not surprised. Xi Jinping wants a return to Mao Zedong era where the CCP controls everything. And just like during the Mao Zedong era, it didn't go well for China -- tens of millions of Chinese people starved to death during the great famine (1958-1961) and millions more were murdered during the cultural devolution (1965 - 1975). It only ended because Mao croaked (thank God). During the cultural devolution era, someone could be beaten in public, humiliated or killed just for reading western literature or play western music (the CCP regime would ban western musical instruments like violins).
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  1818. It only shows how broken the US election system is. When only a handful of states actually mattered in the overall scheme of things. This is why the electoral college needs to be abolished.
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  1819. There goes the conservative Evangelical votes. Oh except the far right wing nationalist Evangelicals..they love that shit.
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  1820. The wormtail joke was masterful. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1821. Trump needs to be in jail not running for president.
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  1822. One reason why the HK youngsters are protesting. This is class warfare, the rich vs the poor. The elites vs the proletariate. With democracy at least the people’s voice can be heard. With authoritarianism people’s voice are silenced and everyone fake display happiness.
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  1823. Bravo Art Acevedo!!! Totally agree.
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  1824. Raman Preciado that’s exactly what socialism is..using the people’s money for the people.
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  1825. Trump claims the national medical stockpile was empty and Obama didn't left him anything except Trump has been president for 3 years and he didn't think to check the national medical stockpile in those 3 years ?
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  1826. The biggest victims of CCP oppression and systemic political violence are the Chinese people themselves.
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  1827. So true. Disney is totally sucking up to China and bowing to Chinese totalitarianism just for a few more bucks.
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  1828. The funny thing is those iPhones and iPads she smashed were probably all made locally in China but Apple thanks her for the money anyway. Buy again soon! 🤣🤣🤣
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  1829. The secret is learn how to cook the books. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1830. Hundreds of such cases and incidents in China. The government robs the banks, the bank robs the people, the people robs each other.
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  1831. McConnell needs to go.
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  1832. Exactly. Great Leap off the Cliff 2.0 is coming for China.
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  1833. This is the culture created by the CCP. It has severely damaged the Chinese people and created an arrogant society devoid of any kindness, compassion and benevolence. They only value money and power.
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  1834. All signs point to Russia.
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  1835. The supreme court justices upholding the rule of law and that is something Trump cannot understand or abide by that is why he is on a nervous breakdown.
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  1836. CCP spy trying to document who are the Australian journalist to be added into the CCP database so the CCP can blackmail or buy them off.
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  1837. Alas a brave American patriot has appeared.
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  1838. Isn't it great that pro-China losers like Han Kuo-Yu got recalled after China spent all that money to get him elected in the first place. The Taiwan voters are smart. They know a China puppet and loser when they see one.
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  1839.  @dorisyu1605  The world is waking up to the fact that the CCP under Xi is nothing but a gangster criminal organization masquerading as government.
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  1840.  @itsoktolovechina  Let me guess you live in one of the rich tier 1-2 cities. You haven't seen poverty until you move out of the bubble. The CCP only spends on their Tier 1-2 cities while the rest are abandoned.
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  1841.  @itsoktolovechina  Actually a lot of people are asking for help. Just look around Twitter for the videos. There are those whose house got destroyed by the flood and the CCP did nothing for them. They were crying and begging for help because they lost their business, houses and life savings. The CCP has abandoned them to their fate. These are elderly men and elderly grandmother. The CCP really has no heart and no soul. So tell me why would these people be faking it ?
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  1842. Narendra Trump video evidence are everywhere poverty is everywhere in China. Half the population of China are in dire poverty even if China poverty standards are pretty low already. So you are saying Premier Li Keqiang is lying in front of the National People’s Congress?
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  1843. KK Fung Forefront ? You can say that. But not in a good way. In the US, just 20 years ago the general disposition to China is as a partner. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012 the idea has gradually change. Now the CCP is thought of as being a threat to the free world. Not just by the US but also by Japan, UK, Germany, Australia, India, Taiwan, EU, Vietnam, etc. Clearly the problem is with Xi Jinping and his warmongering and bellicose rhetoric. Everyday he threatens Taiwan and whoever else he deemed as "enemy" he just sounds more and more like nut job dictators like Kim Jong Un. Let me reiterate, the problem is not China. The problem is Xi Jinping's totalitarian CCP regime.
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  1844.  @lazyhusband  I know.. I enjoy exposing the CCP and their crimes for the entire world to read.
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  1845.  @lazyhusband  Yep. That's not an isolated case. If you know where to look there are a ton of videos showing CCP police beating up Chinese citizens brutally and Chinese citizens fighting back against the CCP with fist and cleavers. The more the CCP tries to censor videos and prevent the Chinese people from speaking out the more videos are leaked and the more vocal and angry the voices becomes. It is time for the CCP to be dumped into the dustbin of history.
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  1846. LOL of course of course.."everything wrong is done by the US while everything good is by the CCP." or "You don't know China or understand China." We all hear this excuse a million times already. The fact is the CCP is corrupt, broken, and dysfunctional. It's a plutocracy that caters to the rich while enslaving the 1 billion Chinese people. When will you ever wake up and realize everything bad that happens is because of the bad decisions done by the CCP decades ago ? They continue to make bad decisions but nobody is stopping the CCP because there is no freedom of speech or criticism in China and everyone is too afraid to speak out so instead they opt to bury their heads in the sand while blaming the US. But keep on talking... I can and will refute every single excuse use by the CCP because it's so old and tired. It's the same excuse because the CCP cannot innovate. It can only read party lines like a broken record.
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  1847. The reality is the CCP didn't do jack. The Chinese people pulled themselves by the boot strap out of poverty with sheer hard work and American /western investments. Also another reality is 600 million or half of China's population is still in dire poverty because only a very tiny amount of people actually owns all the wealth in China and these are all members of the CCP.
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  1848.  Bapa aku  ask the Tibetans, Mongolians, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers if they feel happy that the corrupt and violent CCP are in charge. They so happy that many wants to revolt and the CCP have to build prison and concentration camps to contain their happiness.
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  1849.  Bapa aku  tell me this. If the CCP is so honest, benevolent and beneficial to mankind how come it has little trust around the world? Latest international poll show CCP trust negative 20 points starting this year in 2020. Oh right... after they lied about the Wuhan coronavirus.
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  1850.  Bapa aku  the great thing about democracy is we’re allowed to cry and whine when the government do something wrong. In China’s totalitarian system the government doesn’t even allow citizens who are hurt by government to complain or cry about it. Everything is censored and covered up. This is why open society is better.
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  1851.  Bapa aku  CCP only too happy to enslave millions of people starting with their own people in Xinjiang.. why bomb when you can enslave them. Also CCP enslaving people in Africa and Southeast Asia with debt slavery.
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  1852.  Bapa aku  Another great feature of democracy means if we ever got a garbage leader like Trump we can get rid of it. CCP totalitarian system means in the event China gets a garbage leader, it cannot easily get rid of it. This is why democracy is still a better system.
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  1853.  Bapa aku  No it's called CCP state capitalism. Chinese worker work their whole lives. CCP elite pocket the profits. Ask why 600M still living in poverty of less than 1000 RMB but CCP cadre has 100 billionaires.
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  1854.  Bapa aku  US is not a perfect country but democracy allows us to change. US is constantly changing and recognizing past mistakes. Yes Iraq war is a mistake (I'm against it from the beginning). Unfortunately CCP totalitarian system under Xi do not allow change. The CCP silence any criticism. If no change is allowed it means the system will only rot and fester from inside. This is why China will only be truly great if it embrace democracy and open society.
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  1855.  Bapa aku  Yes a lot has changed in the US. We promoted equal rights. China doesn't have that. We promoted free market economy. Xi trying to reverse the river and go back to State capitalism is the height of stupidity.
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  1856.  Bapa aku  The problem CCP nationalists like you is you cannot see what is happening now in front of you. Countries do change. I don't believe China is communist anymore but is rather authoritarian capitalist (the worst of two ideologies). Sure the US government have done wrong but society is changing for the better. And yes Russia and Iraq would be better off if they have democracy. Problem is corrupt politicians like Putin corrupts the process.
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  1857. If you look at all the recent Chinese military machines all of them are ripped off straight from the US military or Russian military. Very few designs are original.
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  1858. Evergrande is basically a real estate Ponzi scheme.
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  1859. RMB is not an attractive currency because it is tightly controlled by the PRC. The PRC government tightly control the RMB flow unlike the USD which is a free flowing global currency. This is why few countries uses it despite rising global trade with China. The PRC will never relinquish tight control of its currency in order for it to become a global currency.
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  1860. If Sen. Ted Cruz wants to regulate loot boxes then I fully support that. The crazy greed in loot boxes has gone out of control.
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  1861. I love it when you guys bust the lies and make the fascist CCP/PRC and state media lose face. Hahahaha. Good job!!! 🤣🤣🤣
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  1862. The CCP can do all the propaganda they want but the fact remains unemployment in China right now is over 100M out of jobs (especially the migrant workers coming from the rural areas) due to domestic consumption slowdown and US economic slowdown. They have 8 million college students graduating this year and half of those will be jobless. This is why the CCP is going all in with the propaganda. The CCP is feeling very very vulnerable right now and people are starting to get pissed at the broken social contract between the people and the government. In March-April 2020 alone there were over 50 incidents of laborer protest inside China involving thousands of people but nobody is paying attention to it. This exposes the vulnerabilities of society when the government (it doesn’t matter whether democratic or authoritarian) is dominated by plutocrats while the working class suffers. It doesn’t mean it’s peachy here in the US. 33 million Americans are now jobless. Same pattern of weaknesses when governments rely too much on billionaires or state owned enterprises to create jobs. The key to a stable economy is a balance between small businesses and big businesses but recent years big businesses has dominated practically everything due to government lobbying. I have been hearing reports of factory owners in China who absconded and disappeared with all the company's money overnight while leaving all the workers without any compensation or any recourse (socialism despite being touted by the CCP as a feature is barely functional -- in fact US socialism is more generous than China). Situation in China is indeed pretty dire, one factory owner even burned down his own factory in order to try to claim insurance (and this is of course insurance fraud not to mention arson). And yes there is a victim here, the Chinese people are victims of their own un-elected government that is dominated by plutocrats. Do you think the billionaire ruling elites care ? They are now living comfortably in quarantine inside their 10 million dollar mansion while driving their Jaguars and Maseratis and drinking mai tais by the poolside while you worker grunts can skip a meal or go without eating just to save rent money.
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  1863.  @burhan3366  lol that's bullshit. China is a totalitarian dictatorship yet the plutocrats CCP has stolen trillions more than any politician can steal in a democracy. For all it's problems, US and UK citizens live so much more happy and fulfilling lives without the tyrannical CCP regime breathing down their necks. At least in the US and UK we can complain about our government and it would be fine. In China if you complain they throw you in the Chinese dissident gulag or throw you into the cotton slave labor camps.
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  1864.  @cryptohornbill9658  as long as the majority of the people are involved in electing their leaders and there is a peaceful transition of power then it's a democracy. Some democracy are better than others.
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  1865.  @farismee1202  No the Taiwanese just don't want to be enslaved by the CCP. The Taiwanese can decide for themselves whether they want to be a part of China or not and recently a super majority (90%) decided it doesn't want to.
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  1866.  captured guy  Taiwan is a country.
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  1867.  @SJ-xv1ri  We're doing more than just commenting on YouTube videos. We are petitioning and pushing our government officials to support Taiwan. In a democratic society the people have the power to push for things and enact changes.
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  1868.  @farismee1202  lol the CCP are the ones banging the war drums. Taiwan is already an independent country. Also it is the CCP under Xi who destroyed the one country two system. The CCP simply cannot be trusted. It is a criminal organization of thieves and liars. The CCP are called "communist bandit" for a reason.
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  1869.  @LeisRealTalk  I heard the Jiang faction tried to assassinate Xi 7 times already.
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  1870.  @Morbitz_TS  Obviously you are the one who doesn’t know shit. Youth Unemployment in China is 25%. That’s 100 millions of young people jobless. Rural migrant workers not considered poor ? Really ?They don’t live in villas as their villages were demolished by the CCP to create parking lots for new malls. They have no homes because they cannot afford to buy new homes.
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  1871.  @Morbitz_TS  Accusations without proof means nothing. China does not have rule of law. Those punished because they lost power and their political allies are unable to save them. In China they don't need evidence to convict you because the courts are not independent entities, they are all part of the CCP. The end of the CCP dynasty is coming. I don't see the CCP lasting beyond 2032.
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  1872.  @Morbitz_TS  LOL you know much about Taiwan because your wife studied in Taiwan university what kind of bullshit reasoning is that ?
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  1873.  @Morbitz_TS  BRI is designed by Xi to trap poor countries in endless cycle of debt trap slavery. What is funny is $400 billion USD was spent on BRI projects and over 30% of the projects failed, cancelled or abandoned by their host country once they realize it's really a debt trap slavery.
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  1874.  @Morbitz_TS  LOL the neoliberal thinking in 2000 was to invest in China to help China become more liberal, free and democratic. The turning point was when Xi got elected in 2012 and the lynchpin was in 2015 when he abandoned term limits and turn full totalitarian. Everyone now has negative views of China. So now everyone is pulling out their money including Japan and South Korea. Shenzhen once the growing high tech hub of China is now fast becoming a ghost town as Samsung has pulled out their supply chain. Even Japan has pulled out. What is funny is emperor Xi keep pressuring Taiwan companies that were left manufacturing in Shenzhen -- they penalize Far Eastern group. I just read news from 2 weeks ago even the leaders of SMIC (poached from TSMC) the #1 semiconductor company in China has resigned and returned to Taiwan. The reason is growing semiconductor industry is now hopeless in China especially with all the crackdowns by Xi and US/China trade war.
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  1875.  @Morbitz_TS  If you are a true Christian then you should help liberate your country men from the CCP tyrannical regime like Moses liberating his enslaved people from Egypt.
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  1876.  @Morbitz_TS  Emperor Xi will be known in history as the final emperor of the CCP dynasty. He is a loser with a capital L. LOSER!!! The CCP will be put on the same way how they remember the Nazi party. An evil despotic regime that murdered 100+ million Chinese from Mao Zedong era all the way to Xi era.
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  1877.  @Morbitz_TS  What is funny is the CCP thinks they are greater than God. God is eternal the CCP will only last 70-80 years at most. Just another blip in Chinese history. Yet another loser imperial Chinese dynasty just like the Chin Shih Huang dynasty.
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  1878.  @Morbitz_TS  China's entire 2000-3000 year history is comprise of Chinese people murdering each other. If you think that is "superior" then you are a moron. One dynasty rises and another dynasty falls by murdering the previous dynasty. The worst enemy of the Chinese people isn't the west but is other Chinese people. United ? Not even 100 years ago there's no PRC (PRC is only 70 years old). Do you consider Qing dynasty to be Chinese when the rulers are Manchus ? What is funny is you keep buying into the CCP propaganda of all Chinese people being "united" when in reality each region of China has its own unique custom and language. The Mandarin language was only standardized in the 1930s and this was spearheaded by the ROC and then continued by the PRC. Your view of Chinese history is so funny. Didn't they teach you about the Great Famine of 1962 where under the CCP over 30-80 million Chinese perished due to starvation? Didn't they teach you what happened in June 4, 1989 ? I bet you don't know how the CCP murdered hundreds of thousands of babies in forced abortion --- hundreds of thousands of pregnant women were forcefully injected with drugs that force the fetus to be ejected from the body. Look up at the case of Gong Qifeng and Feng Jianmei. Look up 百日无孩 for 100 days the CCP killed every baby that was about to be born in Shandong.
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  1879.  @Morbitz_TS  Because it is the truth. CCP propaganda says everything is peachy and everything is great except it isn't. Also the CCP history is ugly. It's a regime that thrives on the continued oppression and murder of the Chinese people while covering up the awful truth. If you truly care about the Chinese people and the Chinese society then these things are important because they are still being done by the CCP in secret and nobody has hold them accountable for their oppression for decades. But I will tell you, the reckoning is coming for the CCP. That is why the CCP is so afraid of the truth because the truth will destroy the regime. Do you want a society where 20 CCP government officials held down a pregnant Chinese woman and inject drugs into her stomach to force an abortion ? This is what actually happened in China. Do you want a society where such things are still being done to the poor and powerless ? The CCP has done all kinds of evil things in secret and it is time all these evil things are exposed for all the Chinese people to know.
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  1880.  @Morbitz_TS  LOL still blaming the west. Why did the Qing dynasty collapsed ? Because it's a shitty imperial dynasty that's about to collapse due to internal corruption, the opium war merely hastened it. China had a chance to become prosperous and democratic except the CCP is more interested in gaining power for themselves. The CCP is not much different from the autocrats of the imperial dynasties. In fact Mao Zedong told the Japanese diplomat he was happy Japan invaded China as it allowed the CCP to take over and turn China into a communist slave state. The CCP was never about creating an equal society for China. It was about allowing a small group of CCP autocrats to enslave 1.4 billion people and chain them into perpetual servitude with no way out.
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  1881.  @Morbitz_TS  I just read a financial report about China. China steel massive loss in November 2021. I guess the Evergrande collapse is the domino effect that keeps on giving. The era of Xi Jinping "common poverty" is here.
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  1882. McCarthy should visit Taiwan. Should be fun.
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  1883. The tickets for the debate cost between $1700 - $3400 it definitely skewed the audiences towards the wealthy. And those heckling Warren and Bernie definitely sounds like paid hecklers probably by Bloomberg because they tend to cheer exceedingly loud each time Bloomberg talks while booing every single thing Warren or Sanders says. It was pretty obvious they were paid hecklers.
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  1884. What would be truly remarkable is if Trump in an orange jumpsuit, in handcuffs, assigned a prisoner number and behind bars. That would signal that the rule of law actually works in the US and political elites can no longer flaunt the law and try to destroy the US constitution and the US government.
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  1885. This is bad really bad.. let’s vote for Biden so we can get screwed even more while smiling. Let’s forget about progressive politics and politicians like Bernie Sanders which the poor and working class really want.
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  1886. Will be funny when Twitter/X goes bankrupt and Elon Musk loses billions. 🤣🤣🤣
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  1887. Lol one country two system is farce. Taiwan is a free country.
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  1888. The severing of economic ties with PRC is already starting. It will take some time but it is definitely happening.
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  1889.  @mindpuzzle81  US politics is nothing. If a US politician loses power. They just go back to private life, safe and sound. If a CCP politician loses power -- their own life, their family's and associates life are threatened (they either go to jail, gets tortured or assassinated).
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  1890.  @mindpuzzle81  I agree. The US needs to be mindful of China but I think the way Biden is acting he is very wary too. He just doesn't like to show off (Biden is the type not to show his cards).
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  1891. Xi’s hardline policies screwing themselves. 😂😂😂 They say Xi is like Mao Zedong resurrected. I say that is true, it is like hardline idiocy resurrected. Welcome to the great leap off the cliff and cultural devolution 2.0
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  1892. LOL China isn’t playing the long game. The CCP’s modus operandi is very simple. Lure an American tech company in, steal or copy all the technologies it can then dump them out when they are no longer useful. Elon Musk for his supposedly “genius” is being played for a fool. CCP China can not innovate, it can only copy and steal.
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  1893. Let's face it MAGA Republicans no longer want democracy and the rule of law.
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  1894. You are absolutely right. The Democrats cannot save America. It is up to the American people to save themselves against fascism. There is no savior coming. The American people themselves have the power to save themselves if they choose to exercise that power.
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  1895. Collapse of the CCP regime would be the best outcome for the world. Xi was called the “great accelerator” in dissident circles. His actions and policies is exacerbating the collapse of the CCP. His recent crackdown on big tech means he wants CCP control of all the big tech which puts Xi in direct confrontation with a lot of the big tech that created jobs and money for China. His policies exacerbated the unemployment in China as US China trade slows down which means less manufacturing demand from China. Now 50% of Chinese college graduates every year is now unemployed or under employed due to economic slowdown as well as his crackdowns on big tech has cost China tech industry over $2 trillion in stock net worth. In the end will this Chinese antitrust crackdown benefit China’s startups or will it lead towards oblivion? We won’t know for a while.
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  1896. MTG’s version of the GOP is very much like the Nazi party.
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  1897. A majority of Chinese concept stocks are just scams anyway take for example Luckin Coffee. American investors needs to divest from these semi-Ponzi schemes.
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  1898. FAFO is fantastic!!!
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  1899. The only solution is to burn it all down and build up again. China's lack of free press and lack of transparency caused this.
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  1900. Happy New Year!
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  1901. Hahaha even the crazies in Canada are a lot nicer and friendlier than the ones here in the US.
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  1902. Corruption + Pandemic + Incompetence exacerbated by debt slavery.
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  1903. 8% of 150 million (in the American workforce) are 12 million Americans who have lost their job and it is looking more and more like those job losses maybe permanent. The rich are still doing well. The poor are sunk.
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  1904. The Ponzi scheme collapses.
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  1905. Not a good time in the US. Democrats are feckless while MAGA Republicans are fascists.
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  1906. Yep. The simple fact that countries like North Korea who hate the US more than South Korea still want the US dollars. It's simply the most stable Currency on the entire planet and there is no other choice. China hyping up the Digital Yuan is the same. It's all smokes and mirror bullshit.
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  1907. One day Putin will be gone and forgotten. And people like Nadya Tolokonnikova will be cherished and celebrated.
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  1908. kapriece4100 i read another article that says total urns transported is about 200K - 300K within that past few months... of course it is hard to say... but it is plausible the real number of deaths could reach that.
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  1909. Yeah Crystal Liu is a hypocrite. Thankfully Disney isn’t going to release Mulan anymore due to coronavirus and public backlash. Still she probably already got paid millions by Disney and they will release it on Disney+ or go directly to blu-ray. Chinese Americans who praise the CCP while living in America and enjoying the freedoms America has to offer are the worst hypocrites. I really hate them too.
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  1910. Make sense the birth rate is falling. Societal pressures, totalitarian government policies, high cost of living, lack of government support, no rule of law..bringing a child to such a society is an act of cruelty.
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  1911. Ironically it was Trump who started all this.
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  1912. I have a feeling Trudeau will lose. The Canadian Conservative party has a good chance of winning.
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  1913. This ad is a stoke of genius.
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  1914. Yep. CCP China is the world's largest loanshark. Sure they will loan to anyone at obscene interest rates but once you cannot pay, they will take your country piece by piece. The CCP are called communist bandits for a reason.
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  1915. Marvel at the beautiful..glub... sunrise, our cities are now ...glub ...under water...glub..but what a sight to ...glub...behold!
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  1916. Forget the polls. Get out and vote for Biden. If you want social security, environmental protections, job security, ability to retire without being in poverty out the window then vote for Trump. Yeah I know you don't like Biden (very few progressives does)... vote for Biden just for the sake of the supreme court. To be honest it doesn't matter which president wins, the US will be in deep economic depression for the next 2-3 years. To be honest I rather have Biden to be in charge than Trump who will probably say "it is what it is" as he busies himself playing golf.
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  1917. LOL China is a paper dragon. And China IS threatening them now but they are doubling down on support for Taiwan.
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  1918. This is true. The Chinese emperors always treated their own people badly. The Chinese rulers are the Chinese people's own worst enemies. You will see how they enact policies (generous leeway are given to foreigners while Chinese people are punished mercilessly by the CCP tyrants). The CCP has always treat the Chinese people in general as expendable dirt since it's founding. The CCP is yet another Chinese dynasty nearing it's death. For the Chinese people and Chinese culture to shine China must develop democracy.
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  1919. I’m so glad Biden is speaking out for unions. You can see the influence of Bernie Sanders here.
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  1920. It is time American Wall Street stop propping up this Ponzi scheme that is China’s property market.
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  1921. Originally the intent was when the CCP collapses, the ROC government can then step in to take over China. Also back during the days of the original deal, Taiwan was still an authoritarian military dictatorship, the US did not calculate Taiwan turning into a vibrant liberal democracy in the 1990s. The US government engagement with China hopes that prosperity and trade would somehow liberalizes and democratizes China. And here we are in 2022, and obviously things didn't pan out the way it was planned. China has gotten wealthier, more powerful and more dangerous but it did not democratize nor liberalize in fact it has gotten even more nationalistic, militaristic and bellicose. The US government basically created its own Frankenstein's monster that it cannot easily stop. This is why the US government is in a panic because sooner or later the US China relations will turn from friendly to economic rival into bitter enemies. But there is a profound shift in US Taiwan relations starting 2017. US has become a LOT more supportive of Taiwan. But it cannot overtly support Taiwan independence in order not to trigger a war in the Taiwan strait. The Taiwanese are recognizant of this fact so many does support the status quo. Very few Taiwanese nowadays (less than 5%) wants full unification with China. It is in fact the PRC's hyper-nationalists side that keeps banging the war drums on Taiwan to deflect attention away from the collapsing economy in China.
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  1922. Xi Jinping's "Common Poverty" in action.
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