Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1. Its not that simple. Many Chinese families at that time were rural farmers, and they needed more hands to work in the fields as a matter of pragmatism. Chinese culture (and many other cultures all over the world) have the sons carry on the family name, whether its in the West or in the Middle East.
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  2. We must first safeguard our passwords, if we are to safeguard our economy and population crisis.
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  3. Smooth as silk, Elegant as porcelain, Subtle as tea, Light as paper, (which are all Chinese inventions by the way)
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  4. +Dashmeet Singh Countries with large population will have more mouths to feed and most families favor boys because of their ability to work (although girls could work too) and contribute to income. Its a matter of pragmatism, and in India especially there is often a dowry associated when a girl gets married and the cost has to be burdened by the bride's family.
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  5. +Shelby Jean China at that time was suffering from overpopulation (like what India is suffering today) and there wasn't enough resources to support our expanding population. Child mortality rates were high and so was child malnutrition, and there weren't enough schools to send our kids to. So why have multiple kids per family, when there's no enough food to feed all of them, not enough schools to send our kids to, and insufficient healthcare for them? Why not devote your resources into raising a single healthy child past childhood and into a good school?
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  6. +Shelby Jean You think everyone is lucky enough to be born in a country with plenty of food to eat, enjoy safety and security, able to attend school and other things you seem to take for granted? China was dirt poor at that time, and given only a single choice, most farmers would choose a son to carry on the family name (it's considered a dishonour if you fail to carry on the family line) and to be able to work out there in the fields.
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  7. +Shelby Jean And how do you expect poor Chinese farmers to understand the concept of contraceptives and birth-control? Furthermore farmers can't be sure about the gender of the child while in the womb. If born and it turns out she's a girl, then the family will be stuck with a girl and won't have another chance to try for a boy. And it's not just two hands and two feet alone, you'll need strength and endurance for hard work in the fields.
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  8. Back in 1980s, China was suffering from overpopulation, and there was insufficient resources to support such a large population. What's the point of having more than one child per family, if there's not enough food to feed every child, not enough schools to send kids to, not enough hospitals to provide sufficient healthcare? Why not have only a single child instead and pour resource into raising him/her healthily?
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  9. Nobody force your people to buy Chinese goods and creating the huge demand in the first place. Chinese people work hard to manufacture smartphones, computers, electronics, appliances, toys, clothing, sneakers, so that inflation is kept to a minimum and the cost of living in other countries is lower than it should be. Think of all the money you people have saved over the years on living expenses, thanks to affordable Chinese goods.
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  10. USA and Europe also "solve" low birth rates by importing immigrants, which cause all sorts of social problems for the locals. Like Muslims refugees and immigrants come to your predominantly Christian country, but they keep to their old traditions, wearing Muslim headveils, because Western free religious laws allow them to. Instead of assimilating, they convert more Muslims through marriage and they tend to have higher birth rates than Caucasian birth rates.
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  11. Are the North Americans happy with you living on their lands? Do they tell you "Go back to China" or "Stop stealing our jobs" even when you attended their schools and grew up together with Caucasian school kids?
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  12. +CedarHunt China has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest 'continuous' civilization still alive today, whereas other great ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have since faded to history. China has a wealth of political literature to draw thousands of years of experience in how to govern a country, all written and preserved in books by Chinese scholars, historians, strategists, philosophers, and so on. The KMT (Taiwan) had their chance to rule the mainland, but they failed and they lost the mainland to the Communists and fled to Taiwan. How are they fit to be called the real government of China then?
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  13. America is an immigrant country, a New World country and opens its doors to virtually everyone, because the American Dream is all about how a poor immigrant can hope to strike it rich someday in America. Whereas China is an Old World country, our people were here before, and the Chinese Dream is the rejuvenation of our country. So the government has a strict immigration criteria so that only beneficial immigrants (scientists, engineers, businessmen, investors) can enter the country while keeping the undesirables (drug abusers, dissidents, deadbeats, etc) out of China.
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  14. +TalesOfGod Immigration presents its own set of problems. Europe is having an Immigration Crisis, where Muslim refugees migrate to Germany, Britain, France, etc, and they still retain their traditions (like wearing Muslim veil in public) instead of assimilating into their predominantly Christian host countries. Many live off welfare and collect food stamps, and while Caucasian families low birth rate means only 1 or 2 kids per couple, but Muslim families are huge (especially with multiple wives). Lastly, Muslims marriages require non-Muslims to convert to Islam in order to propagate their faith.
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  15. A Surprising Map of the World Shows Just How Big China's Population Is theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/08/a-surprising-map-of-the-world-shows-just-how-big-chinas-population-is/278691/ The population of China is equivalent to the population of North America (USA, Mexico, Canada) + South America (Brazil, Columbia, etc) Australia + New Zealand + all of Western Europe (Germany, France, UK, etc) all combined
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  16. At that time, China was starving and dirt-poor country, suffering from high child malnutrition, high child mortality rates, lack of schools, lack of healthcare, etc. Why have multiple kids per family when there's not enough food to feed them, not enough schools to send them to, not enough hospitals to provide adequate healthcare, and so on? Why not focus all your resources into raising a single healthy kid past childhood and get him into a good school?
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  17. Actually, China invited Taiwan to join the One-China, Two-System policy, to officially recognize Taiwan as part of China, but allow Taiwan to keep its own government like Hong Kong. But Taiwan has rejected it and made no counterproposal of its own.
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  18. The role of women today are vastly different from the past (especially in the West). Feminism has empowered women at the workplace, encouraged women to dominate their partners in relationships, and because of the Western culture of "political correctness", everybody is afraid to voice their own opinions, for fear of offending feminists (and also ethnic minority groups, LGBT activists, etc) and receiving the backlash from SJWs. Because of feminism, young girls are encouraged to pursue whatever they want, eat whatever they want, act unfeminine, to get tattoos and piercings, to grow fat and unattractive, and yet, Western media will claim that men will still find them attractive. Maybe some men will, but not all of them find them attractive, and if men find you ugly, then the media will claim they are being "shallow" and they don't "see the beauty within you" and that they deserve you. Frankly, I think many Western men are sick of this PC culture always blaming men for women's problems. There was a simpler time in the past. A simpler period in every country's history, where everything was traditional. Men worked and women tended the families. Because of this setup, families could grow larger with mothers taking care of the kids. Birth rates were higher in the past, but as modern women started taking on careers and competing with men at the workplace, children became neglected, family sizes shrunk, birth rates fell. If you don't believe me, look at the less developed and more traditional countries. Traditional Muslims for example, tend to have large families, because they can have multiple wives (if the husbands can support them) Maybe it's time modern people change their mindset about "traditional values" and stop seeing them as backward and barbaric. For much of human history, women have been traditionally the wives and mothers of society, so there must be various advantages why humans adopted such a setup in the first place.
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  19. Westerners been polluting the environment for 300 years since the Industrial Revolution in 1700s, but they don't seem to care about the environment. On the other hand China only industrialized 40 years ago, and already, China is producing more renewable energy than Western countries.
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  20. Trump says: China is copying America' declining birth rates!
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  21. India should have its own One-Child Policy, because today India is suffering from overpopulation. Child malnutrition and mortality rates are high in India, and literacy is only about 72%. What's the point of having more than one kid per family, if there's not enough food to feed the children, not enough schools to send the kids to, and not enough hospitals to provide adequate healthcare? Isn't it better to focus all your resources on raising a single kid healthily and educated?
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  22. +InfinityGaming But in India, so many kids are born every year, and not all of them grow up and many die from malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of healthcare. World Bank data indicates that India has one of the world’s highest demographics of children suffering from malnutrition – said to be double that of Sub-Saharan Africa with dire consequences. Child Malnutrition in India savethechildren.in/articles/malnutrition-in-india-statistics-state-wise Why let your kids in India get born and die without ever reaching their full potential? There aren't even enough schools in India to send those extra kids to, so why give birth to them in the first place? Why not focus your attention on raising a single child instead? Also, did you actually see the video and understood what it was talking about? It's saying that a population boom created the aging population as they travel up the pyramid, so what makes you think India won't be full of old people, given its high birth rate?
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  23. The future of India is in Indian people's hands, not Chinese. Indians themselves have contributed many suggestions and ideas on how to govern India, but perhaps the problem lies with implementation, and turning those ideas into reality.
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  24. Westerners always complain about how Chinese people are rude, spit in public, jaywalk, disobey traffic laws, drive through red lights, etc, so what China's social credit system hopes to achieve is to discourage such behavior and prevent such people with low scores from becoming a menace on trains, or buying airplane tickets to become a menace in other countries. But its not the end of the world if your social credit falls too low and there are numerous ways to increase your social credit score to a more acceptable level.
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  25. +Paul Harrison Western culture was built on the backs of African slavery, genocide of Native Americans and Australian Aboriginals, occupation of their lands, brutal colonization of Asia and African, and plundering of their resources like gold. Much of Western mathematics, sciences and astronomy actually had their roots from India and the Middle East (which you seem to despise) and Chinese inventions like the crossbow and gunpowder, help the Westerners establish dominance over other countries, occupy lands and steal resources. Your science and math aren't entirely your own. Your lands aren't even your own, Your resources like gold (and even slaves) aren't even your own and have been plundered from Asia, Africa, America and Australia, the latter two being occupied territories even till today.
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  26. +an ly True that the One Child Policy created problems, but it's not the end of the world and Chinese government can always import Vietnamese brides and other solutions. There are also many Chinese women, who otherwise won't have gotten to school and become successful career women, if not for the One Child Policy. Every policy has both good and bad things associated with it.
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  27. +an ly South East Asian countries have human trafficking problems and many other countries also have Vietnamese brides imported into their countries. And who are you to judge the couples age difference? As long as it's legal then why are you judging other people's marriages?
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  28. +InfinityGaming "High population is an asset" But like the video said, who's going to take care of the population boomers when they grow old? It may be true that malnutrition is concentrated on the rural areas, but it doesn't detract from my point that "Why let more kids get born, only to die in malnutrition or not have enough schools to go to?" Like you said, India has limited resources such as food, education and healthcare for these kids, so why spread those limited resources over multiple kids, instead of concentrating them on only the most healthiest kids?
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  29. To people who disagree with One-Child Policy, you are all entitled to your own views of course, but China is world's most populous country, and at that time, China had high child malnutrition, starvation, low literacy and poor healthcare. Why have so many kids born, only to die from hunger, or not enough schools to sent them, and not enough hospitals to provide adequate healthcare? Why not focus all your resources into raising a single healthy kid into adulthood and get into a good school and break the whole cycle of poverty? According to World Bank, China’s poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to mere 6.5% in 2012. According to UNESCO, adult literacy rate of China increased from 65.5% in 1982 to a whopping 96.4% in 2015 growing at an average annual rate of 10.39%. Of course, there are unforeseen consequences like the gender imbalance, but how else do you expect the CCP to lift China out of poverty? There are also other options such as importing Vietnamese brides to make up for the shortfall of women in China. I mean, its not like its the end of the world isn't it?
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  30. When China was 3rd world, we suffered from 3rd world problems. Likewise, now China is 1st world, so naturally we suffer from 1st world problems too.
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  31. About USA's Free Market vs China's Planned Economy, the global economy is just like a untamed, raging river, constantly in flux and flowing according to economic forces. Would you let the river flow uncontrollably and cause widespread damage to your markets? Because that's what USA is doing with its "free trade", flooding local markets with Chinese goods, while letting the big US corporations like Nike and Apple "escape" to other countries for the cheaper labor force there. China's approach is to "tame the river" and control it to maximize the benefits to China. Our local companies would die if exposed directly to foreign competition, so instead the government shields them and provide a safe haven for Chinese companies in China. Once our companies are developed enough to stand on their own, then they can start venturing into global markets. Huawei is one example of a Chinese company that is beginning to branch out into the rest of the world. So isn't this a better method? For the country to control the economy, instead of letting the economy control your country?
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  32. +Kaimanfrosty China's economy was Communist under Mao Zedong, and when Deng Xiaoping introduced economic reforms to China, China was just beginning the switch from communist market to capitalist, so plenty of laws, rules, regulations were not established, and our foundation was weak and more used to communist system. So how can you start talking about the economy being specialized already to strengths and weakness inline with foreign economies? Our economy completely different to the rest of the world at that time. Back then we had just made the switch so we have to take extra precautions, instead of just letting foreign companies have the advantage. And we want to motivate Chinese companies so the government gave incentives to them. So whats wrong with this? The government needs to maintain control over the economy, otherwise its quite possible China's economy would have broken (similar to USSR collapse) when China made the switch from communist market to capitalist. 2) "The size of population doesn't have much of an effect on growth" What sort of logic is this? You have to raise people out of poverty and a larger population in poverty means more work needs to be done. Hong Kong's population is smaller than China's so the poor people in HK is less than poor people in the mainland, so why make such comparison at all? India has many port cities too. Did you look at the shape of India and notice how much of India touches the Indian Ocean? India has a coastline spanning 7516.6 kilometres, forming one of the biggest peninsulas in the world and around 95 per cent of India's trading by volume and 70 per cent by value is done through maritime transport. So why use Hong Kong simply because its a small port city? 3) I never said people or companies shouldn't seek profit, I merely stated that state-controlled companies have goals aligned with the state, whereas corporations would follow their own agenda (which is profit most of the time) America's economy is great, because American corporations are great, but not much of this wealth is experienced by the middle and lower income groups. That's why Americans complain about being part of the 99%, and the 1% (the big US corporations) control most of America's wealth. At least by being state-controlled, the Chinese government has some control over directing the profits elsewhere, such as into developing the poorer regions in Western China. About US crisis, the US government steps in, but then the US has had the Great Depression before the 2008 financial crisis. China's economy is not as old as USA, but thus far, China has not encountered any economic crisis, because the government is constantly controlling it, reading its economic signs and making decisions with regards to China's economic future. The Chinese state-controlled corporations tend to have a big picture of China's economy, whereas US companies have only a limited view of the big picture of US economy. And each US corporation strives to pull US economy in different directions. I too don't claim to be overly familiar about aviation industry. but the duopoly held by Boeing (USA) and Airbus (EU) prevents other countries from manufacturing their own jumbojet liner to compete with them. Otherwise, other countries would have come up with their own passenger airliner, but the presence of Boeing and Airbus makes it very difficult for them to enter the industry. As for China's C919 Comac it makes use of mostly domestic parts. Even the Jet Engine is homemade, with special single-crystal rhenium superalloy turbine blades that can withstand the necessary high temperatures encountered in Jet engines. Video: China Makes C919 and J-20 Engines with Rhenium Superalloy youtube.com/watch?v=DnwZmDOR1Rk 4) Can I ask how is China's "allocative efficiency of resources" is too tight? Chinese government has been known for being efficient and when they want something done, they get it done. For example, China had plans to build a hydroelectric station, and they went a head with its construction, even when there was protest against the destruction of Chinese cultural sites and displacement of villagers. But if you had taken all these people's views into consideration, then China would never have gotten the project done. Today, China's Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric powerstation, and has been supplying China with clean renewable energy since its opening, to fuel China's growth. Video: The Largest Dam in The World youtube.com/watch?v=b8cCsUBYSkw So it shows China's government efficiency in allocating resources to plan our future. Its all part of a planned economy isn't it? As for USA, its their own solution to their own problem, but by taxing import of foreign goods, you are also creating entity with your allies, and countries like Canada and India haven't been too happy with US slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum, without going through the proper WTO channels. India takes U.S. steel tariffs complaint to the WTO reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-india/india-takes-u-s-steel-tariffs-complaint-to-the-wto-idUSKCN1IO1WP Canada files WTO challenge of U.S. tariffs globalnews.ca/news/4248573/canada-wto-challenge-eu-trade-war/ 5) Since other countries (African countries, India, etc) seem unable to match China's more than half a billion out of poverty in decades, then why did you say earlier that "The claim that it is somehow unique to china is a misnomer" ? Can other countries match what China achieved, size for size? Indian can't make great progress, because the Indian goverment is too wrapped up with what Indians think themselves. The government can't proceed with big projects, because the Indians will protest. If they want to build a big dam like China, they'll have millions of protest that stop the project before it can even begin. Singapore has many government-owned companies (Singapore Airlines, Mediacorp, Singtel, SMRT, ST engineering, etc) but many of them stay in Singapore and Singapore has a small population so its doesn't have many well-known Singaporean enterprises that have struck it big without being government-controlled. But China has much higher population, more Chinese startups and Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent have become global Chinese brands. 5) Soviet Union were trying to introduce too many reforms at once and social unrest came about because people wanted more of the West. Westerners always complain about China's Tiananmen Incident, but if the government didn't do what needed to be done, China would most likely have dissolved just like Soviet Union. We would lose Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China would be a bunch of different provinces (like USSR) instead of the unified power China is today. You are correct that they had bigger guns. So USA decide to sanction Russia after its collapse, because USA now has the bigger guns. The think with Westerners is that why is it they think China has no right to do what they did in the past? Who do they think they are? For example, pollution, the West has been polluting the Earth for 300 years since Industrial Revolution in 1700s, yet China industrialized only 40 years ago. And the West is powerful today because it industrialized much earlier. So why the apparent double standards between China and the West? We are only doing what West did centuries ago. If you think what China doing is wrong, then you are welcome to try and stop China and hinder our growth.
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  33. +Voltage Drop Alex Mercer clearly said "Most of the Top 20 most polluted are actually in other countries" so why are you giving him the 494 cities on that list? Even the OP said "15 of the top 20 most polluted cities in the world are in China." (which is false according to Alex Mercer) so why are you bringing up 494 cities?
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  34. +Crab Synth There is some truth to what you say. Indeed, poor families tend to have more kids as a safety basket to ensure that at least one of them makes it to adulthood. But at the same time, it means more mouths to feed and more resources spent, which could have been more efficiently spent. In an ideal world, all of those maid's 11 kids should be able to survive to adulthood and contribute to the country's progress. But often, that is not the case, and the vicious cycle of poverty, having more kids and then child malnutrition begins to take its toll on the government. And it would take massive change in mindset (and great risk) for a poor family to invest in a single child, that's true too.
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  35. About low birth rates and an aging population, perhaps technology can help offset the shortage of births and excess of elderly? Robotic caregivers and smart devices could one day, help to ease the burden of taking care of the elderly in China.
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  36. +Tommy O Donovan It was a Chinese Civil War and Chinese were killing Chinese (just like in American Civil War where Americans killed Americans) Chairman Mao may not be a good governor, but he was an excellent tactician and able to unify China under communism (which the previous KMT administration failed to unify China under democracy) If not for Mao Zedong, China today would still be divided into various provinces, ruled by individual warlords, and constantly fighting among ourselves, instead of the united country China is today. A country is strong if unified and weak if divided and fighting among ourselves.
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  37. +LEFT4BASS Why is enforcing that One Child policy on the population at large considered a bad idea? China is world's most populous country as compared to South Korea, so why compare China to S. Korea? China had much more poor people to lift out of poverty, so what makes you think you can apply what S. Korea did to China? Also, S. Korea's rapid advancement occurred uder the S. Korean dictator, Park Chung Hee, who introduced martial law in S. Korea and made the government authoritarian. But under his dictatorship, S. Korea rapidly modernized and that's why Park has been ranked by the public as the greatest South Korean president but he still remains a controversial figure for his dictatorship. If you want to compare China's situation, a better example would be India, the world's 2nd most populous country. India today is suffering from overpopulation, high child mortality rates, high child malnutrition, etc (similar problems faced by China back then) India tried to introduce population control measures (India's mass sterilization) but failed, and that's why India is plagued by overpopulation problems. China would most likely have ended up like India if we didn't introduced population control measures of our own. "The biggest problem the one child policy is just what this video described." When China was undeveloped country, we suffered from 3rd world problems (starvation, poverty, high birth rate, etc) Now that China is developed country, we suffer from 1st world problems (rising costs, high birth rate, aging population, etc) so what is the big deal here? Other developed countries, like Japan for example, also have low birth rates and aging population, even when they did not have a One Child Policy, so what is the link between that policy and the problems you described? " A two child policy would have provided a lot more replacement workers, but still shrunk the population." How do you know for sure that a two child policy would still shrunk the population? With 1 child, families need only concentrate their resources into raising him or her into adulthood, but with 2 child, the resources would be split in half. So China might possibly remain mired in poverty with a 2 child policy, according to this logic. China today is prosperous and is the world's 2nd largest economy, so why do you think that there are dark days ahead? Look at some of China's scientific progress for example. China build one of world's fastest supercomputers, Sunway Taihu Light : 神威·太湖之光 and in 2017 Top500 supercomputer survey, China beat USA with 202 out of 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers, as compared to USA's 144 out of 500. China's supercomputers race past US to world dominance cnet.com/news/china-surpasses-us-in-supercomputer-usage-on-top-500-list/
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  38. +LEFT4BASS What makes you think population density is the decisive factor here? True, China has a lot of people and a lot of land, but what makes you think all of our land and resources is being utilized at once? China's land is so vast, you think all the untapped resources are immediately available at our disposal straight away? And like it or not, China still have a larger population of poor people to lift out of poverty than S. Korea, isn't it? According to World Bank, China’s poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to mere 6.5% in 2012. According to UNESCO, adult literacy rate of China increased from 65.5% in 1982 to a whopping 96.4% in 2015 growing at an average annual rate of 10.39%. This is an amazing feat considering that China is world's most populous country yet achieving 96% literacy and 6% poverty. China would not have been able to accomplish this, if not for the One Child Policy reducing our birthrate, so that available resources can be used to lift single-child families out of poverty. Wikipedia: Poverty in China Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China "And the reason the one child policy was such a bad idea was because it helped China in the short run, but in the long run, it’s going to hurt China a lot." What makes you sure that the One Child Policy will hurt China a lot in the long run? You mean you have seen the future and predicted that is will hurt China a lot? Look at Japan and other developed countries having similarly low birth rates and aging populations, and they did not have One-Child Policy of their own, so where is the link to the One Child policy hurting China's future? I mean, your statements are superficial and don't elaborate or go into detail. Like you said S. Korea advanced rapidly without One-Child Policy and just simply expect the same thing to happen to China? China is China, S. Korea is S. Korea, so why you think what works for S. Korea will work for China? About China's economy going to suffer, Western economists have been predicting China's economic downfall since 1990s. Here is compiled list of what Western journalists have been saying about China's economy for decades 1990. The Economist: China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist: China's economy will face hard landing. 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks A Soft Economic landing. 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China. 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing in China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011. Business Insider: A Chinese Hard Landing May Be Closer Than You Think. 2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing. 2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing in China. 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.... 2016. The Economist: Hard Landing looms for China. Buts its already 2018, and China's economy is still going strong so at some point, you should realized Western propaganda is simply biased against China's economy, and have been proven consistently wrong for almost 30 years! Why do you still continue to believe China has a dark future, given all your failed predictions about China?
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  39. There is racism in America against Asian, whether the Caucasians continue to deny it or not. Even the prestigious Harvard is ranking Asian Americans lower than they should be, for fear of their schools being overwhelmed by Asians. Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollment-applicants.html
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  40. +Vision 20/20 In its early years as a nation, Singapore also had pollution problems such as littering, spitting in public, people cutting queues. Even the Singapore River was at one time. massively polluted, so what's the big deal? Eventually, Singapore cleaned up itself, so likewise, China is doing the same by cleaning up pollution in China. For example, China built the world's largest hydroelectric powerstation, the Three Gorges Dam, to supply China with clean renewable energy. Video: The Largest Dam in The World youtube.com/watch?v=b8cCsUBYSkw But of course it will take time to clean up pollution in China, just like it did for Singapore, considering that China has a larger population and more land to clean up.
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  41. +ジョーさん said "Imagine you were a Chinese man but everyone else insisted you were Japanese" So its the same with Taiwan being inseparable part of China. You are Chinese and calling yourself a new term like "Taiwanese" isn't going to change who you really are. The truth is that you are Chinese and has always been so, like you said. ジョーさん said "China used economic leverage to force other countries to accept its One-China Principle," Excuse me, but the One China Policy was first passed by KMT (now Taiwan) under the ROC constitution in 1947 in Nanjing. Even after the communists overthrew the KMT and Mao founded People's Republic of China in 1949, ROC's nationalist government continued to claim legitimacy as the government of all of China. Later, the KMT a modified the "One China" principle to what is known as the "1992 Consensus". Under this "consensus", both governments "agree" that there is only one single sovereign state encompassing both mainland China and Taiwan, but disagree about which of the two governments is the legitimate government of this state. Are you sure that you really live in Taiwan, if you don't even know the history of the One China Policy?
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  42. +ジョーさん The thing is, all of Taiwan's prosperity occurred under the authoritarian KMT rule (similar to China's progress occurring under authoritarian CCP rule) Only in 2016 (2 years ago) did another party (DPP) finally took over KMT at the reins, and since then Taiwan's economy has been in a slump. Its because the newcomer party (DPP) doesn't have the same governing experience as KMT, and if I'm not wrong, there was even violence breaking up in the Taiwan Parliament with members throwing chairs and furniture at each other. Massive fight breaks out in Taiwanese parliament youtube.com/watch?v=kXmPDLRt6hA Whereas the CCP doesn't act like that. There may be infighting among the various CCP political factions, but when an agreement is made, they go along with implementing the policy efficiently. But back to Taiwan, how can the people of Taiwan trust such people to be your government? Because the West thinks that every country should adopt democracy? Look at President Trump making use of his charisma to seduce votes from gullible Americans with false promises of making America great again. Is such as system really good for the USA, as for Taiwan? In my opinion, Politics should be about doing what's right, not necessarily what's popular. Sometimes the popular thing may not be right, and the right thing may not be popular. Democracy, reduced to its basic elements, is all about doing what's popular, not necessarily what's right. Why do you let the ordinary people who aren't politically savvy, vote for such important decisions regarding your countries future? Why not let the people who know how to govern govern?
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  43. +PROF. PARADOX Chinese luxury goods like silk, tea, porcelain (precious china) were in great demand by Western civilizations and the Silk Road was set up to bring these goods to the West. Chinese also had the Four Great Inventions 四大发明 which have influenced much of the world. Paper and Printing made the recording and transmission of knowledge easier. The Compass made navigation less hazardous and more reliable, and Gunpowder has influenced the way modern warfare is fought.
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  44. Check out some of China's Memes (including political ones) here List of Internet phenomena in China wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena_in_China
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  45. +Edin743 What Taiwan democracy? Taiwan was ruled for nearly its entire life by authoritarian single-party KMT. Only in 2016 (2 years ago) did another political party (DPP) took over the KMT at the reins. Much of Taiwan's great progress and prosperity occurred under KMT dictatorship. Even South Korea had that S. Korean dictator, Park Chung Hee, whom led a period of rapid economic growth in S. Korea, sometimes called the Miracle on the Han River. Park has been ranked by the public as the greatest South Korean president but he still remains a controversial figure for his dictatorship and authoritarian ways.
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  46. +Paul Harrison Since the 1970s, China has been investing heavily in African countries like Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, etc, and building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, hotels, shopping centers, powerstations, telecommunication projects, etc. China has done much to develop Africa in decades compared to what Westerners been doing in Africa for centuries
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  47. +韩宇 Agreed with what you said. In traditional Chinese culture, usually the family wealth go to the eldest son (even if there are daughters older than him). Perhaps Chinese families will begin sharing the wealth between the two children, or the elder daughter would have accumulated enough wealth on her own to support herself, if the family inheritance goes to the son.
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  48. Jaber Martini Chinese people is not a race, and there are over 50 ethnic minority groups living in China, apart from the Han Chinese, and they include Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Manchurians and even some Koreans.
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  49.  @jonathanortega2805 Look at religions causing Holy Wars, Crusades and Jihad! Why can't China ban them in our country? China is teaching Muslims (and Christians) to put the country 1st and their religion 2nd .
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  50.  @eyetube33  "@神州 Shenzhou that is up to the citizens to decide not the government" What makes you think the citizens themselves know how to decide? Citizens don't always make the best political decisions, because they are fickle, they make decisions based on emotions, or they simply lack political awareness. Look at Brexit Referendum in Britain for example, and you think you should let citizens decide, not the goverment?
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