Comments by "Yerris" (@yerri5567) on "China's Belt and Road Initiative: 5 Years Later" video.

@Hadi Purwanto Hiring "only Chinese" is propaganda. But they do hire a significant portion of Chinese because local people of 3rd world or developing countries are rather lazy and cant work the 70hr week the Chinese can. Plus the language barrier. "Learn from what happened in Sri Lanka!!!" The Sri Lankans just have poor business acumen. They werent able to calculate maths properly on ROI.
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@Hadi Purwanto Exploitation of what? Who are they exploiting? What uneducated people criticise is none of my business. What is is that China is following through their business agreement with another country. Building what they proposed to build to help build LONG TERM infrastructure in an economy. This short term employment you speak of is insignificant when compared to the big picture. The fact that youre criticising/complaining about this clearly means youre not educated in the field of economics/business. Same for those in the countries youve mentioned. Those are countries that dont receive much education in the field of business/economics. "I also see many Chinese lazy af and get their position due their race" Theres all types of people in every country. What matters is that they get things done. And FAST.
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@Hadi Purwanto "But the reason why loan could be helpfull because it will give incentive to local communities from worker wages and local product purchase" No. The underlying reason why the loan is helpful is because it allows the actual infrastructure to be built immediately. Period. All this hiring workers or using local materials are just side talk. The final goal is having the actual infrastructure coming into fruition. "If China can change it's manufacturing culture, i believe workers in third world countries can change theirs. That's if China really care and really want to help those third world countries" Nonono, work ethnic needs to come from within. You cant ask a foreign country to change your countries work ethnics. China only provides the loan. This is business. Theres absolutely no reason for China to voluntarily change local peoples work ethnics if they dont want to work 70 hours a week in the first place.
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@Hadi Purwanto No they dont what?. Even for low skilled workers, can the local country workers speak Chinese? Communication is important you know? And can they work 70 hour weeks? From their experience, other countries workers are lazy AF. Cant even work 50 hour weeks, let alone 70 hour weeks.
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@Hadi Purwanto "so you accept my argument that China also use many Chinese low skilled workers. Thank you" Your argument was that China ONLY hires Chinese, which is wrong. I agree with facts. If its a fact, then I naturally dont disagree. I dont see it personally. But Ive seen documentaries on how lazy and incompetent they are.
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@freddykrueger6571 "Long term infrastructure my ass. They are building shoddy, over-priced infrastructure with surplus material junk from China which China itself does not want built because its shoddy" You get what you pay for. You pay more, you get higher quality materials. If you cant, then you get lower quality materials. Simple business. "They use only companies from China and it is of no benefit to the host country thereby violating the terms of the agreement" Lies. They didnt violate anything. Completing the project is already benefiting the host country. "Finally there is no end market for all this so called infrastructure anyway - its all pie in the sky mean to entrap these countries into debt to China" That is none of Chinas concern. The host country chose to do it. China just supplies the loan, and builds it. China didnt hold a gun do the host countries head and forced them to sign the agreement. "The reality is no country that has ever signed up for an OBOR project has ever made a profit on it. All are losing their ass on it. They all inevitably end up in debt with this infrastructure falling to pieces within a decade" Are you serious? You expect long term investments of 100 years to have a return within 5 years? Tell me, what long investment in this world can get a positive return in a mere few years? Im all ears. Name it. "Meanwhile China will demand the land, the resources, the infrastructure be handed over in lieu of debt repayment" Thats business. Your banks do that. Do you complain? If you cant pay back the loan, theyll take your assets. Simple business. Its the hosts countries governments fault for not being able to calculate ROI properly. Cant blame China/Banks. "But the good news is word is getting around about this scam" So what youre essentially saying is that this is a scam with absolutely no benefit and the OBOR countries were stupid enough to fall for this scam?
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@Hadi Purwanto 'You said it yourself that local workers, and i quote, "lazy AF"' Yes, but that has nothing to do with race or birthplace as youve mentioned? You brought that up yourself out of no where. I dont appreciate you putting words in my mouth. Please read carefully. "Maybe i was thinking about other China supporters who insulted me in this post" No worries. But do read carefully next time before responding. "No, the point of loan is to train local workers. If not the host country will keep relying on debtors in any similar project in the future. If you don't train the local workers, then you just exploitative, my point" There are projects where they build roads/railways. There are projects wher they build power plants. There are projects that deal with materials like iron and steel. In each project, China transfer their knowledge in certain areas. It would make no sense for China to transfer skills for literally everything. They teach locals how to drive and maintain roads/railways and assembling vehicles. They teach locals how to operate and how to manage power plants. etc etc. Pretty much everything except building it as that slows down the process, and not in chinas best interest to transfer 100% of all the knowledge. Its goal is to help them get off their feet. Not spoon feed everything. "They are also behind work productivity. Long hours work =/= productivity...long hours work has negative implication to health and do not improve efficiancy and productivity" Productivity is one thing. Getting everything done on time is another thing. And I dont think governments of non-developed countries care enough about peoples health to be worried about that. Besides, its just a short few years to build. Not their whole life. "Mexico has longest average work and ranked last form 38 countries in OECD" That is bogus information. According to that ranking, average Japanese work 33hours a week. This doesnt take in consideration to cultural aspects. Married women dont tend to work full times hours in Japan. Most of them are part time workers, and take advantage of their housewives tax incentive by working less hours. Japanese men take the full brunt of the work and can easily hit 80 hours a week working. They call them the "salaryman". Survey showed that 30% of Japanese work over 50hours a week. And almost all of them are men. So its safe to say 60% of Japanese men work over 50 hours a week. The stats of are brought down by women working less hours. "And they do not defend China in ALL cases" No country defends any country in ALL cases. I stated one country in response to you saying that "no other nationality will defend that country[China]". There are also many African countries that defend China. Dont say "no other nationality" when there clearly are. "No sane people in normal situation will defend China led CCP" Again, dont say "no sane people" will defend China when so many people do. A lot of Europeans do in this specific case.
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