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@johnsoltan965 That's Capitalism at work, which seeks to shrink the workers wages in order to maximise profits. Capitalism is the overproduction of goods for the sake of profits, unnecessarily polluting the environment in the process, with the eventual goal being the complete depletion of the Earth's resources.
Communism is the belief that every resource should be allocated according to one's needs. The Marxist saying goes: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Because our modern industries are just too efficient, we can literally produce enough food, goods, houses, hospitals, schools, etc for everyone on the Earth, yet we still have starving people, homeless people, illiteracy, people lacking access to healthcare, and so on.
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@johnsoltan965 What genocide in Xinjiang? Ethnic minorities in China (like Uighurs, Kazakhs, Tibetans, etc) aren't subject to the One Child Policy (or Two-Child) and they can have as many kids as they want. The population of Uighurs and Kazakhs in China from 1953 to 2010 have actually increased over the years, so what genocide are you talking about?
Population of Uighurs in China from 1953 to 2010
1953: 3,640,125
1964: 3,996,311
1982: 5,917,030
1990: 7,207,024
2000: 8,399,393
2010: 10,069,346
Population of Kazakhs in China from 1953 to 2010
1953: 509375
1964: 491637
1982: 878,570
1990: 1,110,758
2000: 1,250,458
2010: 1,462,588
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Source: Demographics of China wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Ethnic_groups
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@johnsoltan965 The Uighurs in Xinjiang are Chinese citizens by birth and they are receiving a proper Chinese education, learning Mandarin Chinese (national language of China) Chinese history and cultivating patriotism towards their homeland, China. Just like the Hawaiins in Hawaii are American Citizens by birth and they learn English at school, American history and cultivate patriotism towards their homeland, America.
Previously, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region used to be plagued by terrorist attacks perpetrated by misguided Ughurs such as the 1992 Ürümqi bombings, the 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings, the 2010 Aksu bombing, the 2011 Hotan attack, 2011 Kashgar attacks, and the 2014 Ürümqi attack
Source: 1992 Ürümqi bombings wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_bombings
Source: 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_bus_bombings
Source: 2010 Aksu bombing wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Aksu_bombing
Source: 2011 Hotan attack wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Hotan_attack
Source: 2011 Kashgar attacks wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Kashgar_attacks
Source: April 2014 Ürümqi attack wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2014_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_attack
But thanks to the government program in Xinjiang, there have been no more terrorist attacks in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region since.
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@richardvesey1909 China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@JohnBauman-h6d About Communism vs Capitalism, it's no secret today that capitalism is killing the planet. Capitalism is the overproduction of goods for the sake of profits, unnecessarily polluting the Earth in the process, with the eventual goal being the complete depletion of the Earth's resources. Because our modern industries are just too efficient, we can literally produce enough food, goods, houses, schools, hospitals, etc for everyone on the Earth. Yet despite this, we still have starving people in the world, homeless people, illiteracy, people lacking access to healthcare, etc. Because under the capitalist system, the goods go to those who can afford it.
Communism is the belief that every resource should be allocated to the people according to needs. The Earth's resources are finite, and capitalism only seeks to exhaust the Earth's resources in pursuit of profit, whereas communism is committed to the idea of distributing resources according to needs. Sure, it's not a perfect system but it seems preferable to capitalism, which is overproduction for the sake of profits. What's the point of hoarding profit? When we all eventually die, can capitalists take their profits into the afterlife? No.
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@mate3238 China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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RIDIN’ HIGH 5150 About the Social Credit System, many foreigners often complain Chinese people spit in public, smoke in non-smoking areas, jump queues, disobey traffic rules, jay walk, drive on wrong side of the road, speed through red lights, etc when not all Chinese people are like that. We Chinese feel embarrassed that such bad people represent China overseas, so the government introduce social credit system to discourage such bad behaviour and promote better behaviour instead. This is a meritocratic system where good behaviour is rewarded and bad behaviour penalised.
But if such people persist with bad behaviour, until their scores fall to become unacceptable, then they will be barred from purchasing plane tickets to fly out of China and make nuisances of themselves overseas. At least until their scores improve until it becomes acceptable for them to travel again.
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@cryptorenegade1406 About Communism vs Capitalism, it's no secret today that capitalism is killing the planet. Capitalism is the overproduction of goods for the sake of profits, unnecessarily polluting the Earth in the process, with the eventual goal being the complete depletion of the Earth's resources. Because our modern industries are just too efficient, we can literally produce enough food, goods, houses, schools, hospitals, etc for everyone on the Earth. Yet despite this, we still have starving people in the world, homeless people, illiteracy, people lacking access to healthcare, etc. Because under the capitalist system, the goods go to those who can afford it.
Communism is the belief that every resource should be allocated to the people according to needs. The Earth's resources are finite, and capitalism only seeks to exhaust the Earth's resources in pursuit of profit, whereas communism is committed to the idea of distributing resources according to needs. Sure, it's not a perfect system but it seems preferable to capitalism, which is overproduction for the sake of profits. What's the point of hoarding profit? When we all eventually die, can capitalists take their profits into the afterlife? No.
The "Communist" in the name, represents the parties' desire to be closer to the concept of achieving a communist system. While China is not communist at the moment, it remains a long term goal of the party.
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@larrysmith2123 Taiwan had been under authoritarian single-party KMT rule for more than half its life. For decades the KMT ruled Taiwan with iron fist and Chiang kai-shek was a dictator who jailed and executed dissidents and political rivals (whether real or perceived) in a period known as White Terror (白色恐怖) and imposed martial law on Taiwan for more than 38 years, which was qualified as "the longest imposition of martial law by a regime anywhere in the world" at that time.
But under authoritarian single-party KMT rule, Taiwan actually flourished and prospered, in what's known as the Taiwan Miracle (台湾奇迹). Between 1952 – 1982, Taiwan's economic growth was on average 8.7%, and between 1983 – 1986 at 6.9%. Taiwan GDP grew by 360% between 1965 – 1986. The percentage of global exports was over 2% in 1986, over other recently industrialized countries, and the global industrial production output grew a further 680% between 1965 – 1986. And its all been achieved under KMT leadership.
Only in the late 1990s, when democracy was introduced (because USA threatened to cut off weapons sales to Taiwan) did Taiwan's economic growth became more modest. Taiwan's economy has since stagnated, wages are stagnant, cost of living is rising, unemployment is rising.
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@larrysmith2123 After the Korean War, South Korea was actually dirt-poor under democracy with GDP lower than sub-saharan African countries. It was under South Korean dictator, Park Chung-hee that brought prosperity to the South Korea. When he came to power in 1961, South Korea's per capita income was only US$72.00 and North Korea was the greater economic and military power on the peninsula.
One of Park's main goals was to end the poverty of South Korea, and lift the country up from being a Third World economy to a First World economy via etatist methods. Using the Soviet Union and its Five Year Plans as a model, Park launched his first Five Year Plan and he is credited with playing a pivotal role in the development of South Korea's tiger economy by shifting its focus to export-oriented industrialisation.
Park's policies transformed the impoverished South Korea into prosperity, resulting in Miracle on the Han River (漢江의 奇蹟) but he was a dictator, ruling the country as head of a military dictatorship. In 1972, Park declared martial law and amended the constitution into a highly authoritarian document, tantamount to abolition of the former Constitution. During this time, political opposition and dissent was constantly repressed and Park had complete control of the media and military.
In short, South Korea actually prospered under authoritarian South Korean dictator Park, it wasn't because of democracy that South Korea was prosperous. You can read about Park Chung-hee on Wikipedia.
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@niyarao2962 Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where 95% of the population were slaves and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called damaru that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity.
Source: List of universities and colleges in Tibet wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet
Source: List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region
Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
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@patrickchoi7257 China today is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@myspace1876 About China's "president for life", China has produced many 5-year plans, 10-year plans, 20-year plans, 30-year plans, etc to map out China's future and direction in the years 2025, 2030, 2040, 2050. By abolishing the presidential term limits, our leaders can remain in power long term to see their plans for China bloom and come to fruition in the future. This is the advantage of China's long term leadership
Whereas in the United States, the US Presidents have to step down after 4-8 years because of presidential term limits, so they can only make short term plans for America's future, instead of long term plans spanning, say 10 years or more. This is the disadvantage of US short term leadership.
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@myspace1876 Under 100 years of communist party rule, China has since transformed from a once dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country in the past, into the world's 2nd largest economy today, the world's factory (Made-In-China), having the world's 2nd largest R&D spending, protected by the world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by the world's 2nd largest military spending.
And it's all been achieved under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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Chinese aggression? China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
Video: U.S. should focus more on infrastructure rather than warmongering youtu.be/LyhK2PQyE_w
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@neil6958 About Innovation, China publishes more research papers than any other in the world, over a wide range of topics such as physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.
Countries by published scientific papers in 2016:
1. China (426,165 articles)
2. United States (408,985 articles)
3. India (110,320 articles)
4. Germany (103,122 articles)
5. United Kingdom (97,527 articles)
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Source: List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_scientific_and_technical_journal_articles
This shows that many Chinese scientist and researchers are making discoveries and publishing their findings, contributing to mankind's scientific advancements.
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@douglasman2011 As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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China can support 20% of the world's population with only 7% arable land and still produce surplus food for export. We are home to world's largest pig, goat, sheep and duck farms. China's fishing industry accounts for one-third of the world's fish production and our fish farms account for two-thirds of the world's aquaculture production.
Source: Fishing Industry in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry_in_China
China ranks 1st in worldwide farm output, producing more rice, wheat, onions, cabbages, green beans, cauliflowers, eggplant, potatoes, spinaches, carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, pears, grapes, peaches, apples, plums, strawberries, kiwifruits, tomatoes, watermelons, tea, beer, chestnuts, peanuts, eggs, and honey than other countries.
Source: List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_producing_countries_of_agricultural_commodities
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@larrysmith2123 Hong Kong's economic success was built while it was under the authoritarian colonial rule of Britain. Previously, Hong Kong was once a British colony, during which Hong Kong did not enjoy democracy and virtually no elections were held by the people of Hong Kong. Only during the period of Hong Kong's 1997 handover, that Hong Kong people finally get to vote in elections for their favorite leaders.
So isn't it thanks to mainland China that Hong Kong people finally get democracy under the One Country, Two Systems Policy, where they had none before? For 150 years as a British colony?
Lastly, although you did not mention it, Singapore is the last of the Four Asian Tigers/Dragons to see massive economic growth. Singapore has been governed by authoritarian single-party PAP for 55 years (their entire life as a nation) and it transformed Singapore from a sleepy fishing village nation into a world class country.
All in all, this trend seems to show that Asian countries/regions actually seem to flourish best under an authoritarian system, as shown in the examples I listed above. Likewise, mainland China today is flourishing under authoritarian single-party Communist Party rule.
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@violatedmonkey China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
If anything, it's the United States that's the threat to global peace and stability here.
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Supreme You said: "Why rename themselves the facist party of China to reflect the reality on the ground."
Fascism is racial supremacy, like back when Hitler demonized the Jews as an inferior race during Nazi Germany. If China was truly behaving like the Nazis, we should be seeing similar demonization of ethnic minorities. Yet ethnic minorities in China aren't subject to the One Child Policy (unlike Han) so they can have as many kids as they want. Ethnic minorities in China enjoy special privileges from the government, tax exemptions, free education up to 15 years, priority in healthcare, government bursaries and education admission advantages. For example, if Han student needs 600 points to qualify for a certain university course, then an ethnic minority student needs only 300 points (easier to qualify) for the exact same course.
This is the complete opposite behavior of Nazi Germany, where Jews were demonized even in the Nazi media. But if you tune in to CGTN, CCTV, Xinhua (New China) TV, they promote ethnic minority cultures, festivals, dances, traditional instruments, traditional food, traditional clothing, etc, which is the exact opposite of what the Nazis did to represent the Jews.
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Supreme About Religion in China, China has nearly 200 million religious believers and more than 380,000 clerical personnel. The five major religions practiced in China are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism. China has over 20 million Muslims, more than 57,000 clerical personnel. There are around 222,000 Buddhist clerical personnel and over 40,000 Taoist clerical personnel. Catholicism and Protestantism have 6 million and 38 million followers in China, respectively, with 8,000 and 57,000 clerical personnel.
There are approximately 5,500 religious groups in China, including seven national organizations which are Buddhist Association of China, Chinese Taoist Association, China Islamic Association, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, Bishops’ Conference of Catholic Church in China, National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, and China Christian Council.
At present, there are about 144,000 places of worship registered for religious activities in China, among which are 33,500 Buddhist temples (including 28,000 Han Buddhist temples, 3,800 Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, and 1,700 Theravada Buddhist temples), 9,000 Taoist temples, 35,000 Islamic mosques, 6,000 Catholic churches and places of assembly spread across 98 dioceses, and 60,000 Protestant churches and places of assembly.
Source：nation.com.pk/03-Apr-2018/china-has-over-20-million-muslims-35-000-mosques
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Supreme "神州 Shenzhou your views are straight delusional and seem like you are pro ccp almost blindly and to the point you ignore valid criticism."
Granted, the Communist Party of China is certainly not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. Under Chairman Mao Zedong, China's population grew from 540 million in 1949 to 969 million in 1979. China's growth in life expectancy at birth from 35–40 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1980 is among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history (Banister and Preston 1981; Ashton et al. 1984; Coale1984; Jamison 1984; Banister 1987; Ravallion 1997; Banister and Hill 2004).
This graph shows life-expectencies at birth across China, USA and India. Source: data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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RIDIN’ HIGH 5150 About the Social Credit System, many foreigners often complain Chinese people spit in public, smoke in non-smoking areas, jump queues, disobey traffic rules, jay walk, drive on wrong side of the road, speed through red lights, etc when not all Chinese people are like that. We Chinese feel embarrassed that such bad people represent China overseas, so the government introduce social credit system to discourage such bad behaviour and promote better behaviour instead. This is a meritocratic system where good behaviour is rewarded and bad behaviour penalised.
But if such people persist with bad behaviour, until their scores fall to become unacceptable, then they will be barred from purchasing plane tickets to fly out of China and make nuisances of themselves overseas. At least until their scores improve until it becomes acceptable for them to travel again.
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China is helping build infrastructure in African countries, such as roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc. China has done much to improve African countries in just decades, compared to what Westerners been doing in Africa for centuries.
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@neil6958 Over 50 years ago, nobody thought that China would ever be successful, or play any important role in global politics, yet look at where China is today? Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain and wasn't fully returned.
During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China.
Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
I've already explained the idea behind the Social Credit System, to reward good social behaviour and to penalise bad behaviour. But you Westerners often quote the storybook by Orville, but that's just a work of fiction! The author deliberately exaggerate the negative aspects of technology for entertainment purposes and to attract readership, but it doesn't necessarily mean that reality will follow in its example.
Under old Chinese laws, it was legal to harvest organs from prisoners on death row, but only with the express permission of the prisoner or their family members. In my opinion, the criminal is already sentenced to death, so at least the harvested organs will be put to good use saving someone's life, instead of being wasted and rotting away with the body.
But since 2014, China has abolished the act of harvesting organs from executed prisoners and China's organ transplant rates are low, and the organ waiting lists are long.
Source: The Economist: China ends the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners economist.com/graphic-detail/2014/12/30/organ-harvest
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@tomspencer1364 You asked: "What do you do when they start to do an awful job?"
Throughout China's 5000 years of history, China has our fair share of tyrant emperors neglecting state affairs and indulging in pleasures while the common people suffered, yet China's authoritarian political system has survived for millenia. Peasants eventually rise up to overthrow the Emperor and the imperial court. But guess what happens next? Another Emperor is eventually installed in power after the uprising, and China's authoritarian political system continues as it has until the modern times.
"神州 Shenzhou Did I say the CCP was doing an awful job?"
If you support the idea that the Communist Party of China is doing a good job governing China, then we are in agreement. A recent long-term study by Harvard University has revealed that around 80-90% of Chinese citizens support the CPC.
Source: Harvard survey finds Chinese satisfaction with govt rises china.org.cn/china/2020-07/17/content_76281590.htm
About the exceptionally bad performance of the United States in dealing with Covid-19, I agree that the root of problem probably started decades ago (like you said). But had democracy been "self-correcting" like you said, then you would have rooted out the problem decades ago. This shows that simply changing government doesn't solve the problem at all, you need to change policies, not change governments.
In short, in USA, you can change the government, but not the policies. Whereas in China, you can't change the government, but the policies change.
Finally, with regards to your last statement, there's no shame in being an elderly person. In Chinese culture, elders are respected, for they are fonts of wisdom, just waiting to impart their knowledge to the new generation.
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@covertpuppytwo3322 China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
Video: U.S. should focus more on infrastructure rather than warmongering youtu.be/LyhK2PQyE_w
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@dagsmoko3889 Welcome back? I was on the thread and posted above you. About agriculture in China, China can support 20% of the world's population with only 7% arable land and still produce surplus food for export. We are home to world's largest pig, goat, sheep and duck farms. China's fishing industry accounts for one-third of the world's fish production and our fish farms account for two-thirds of the world's aquaculture production.
Source: Fishing Industry in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry_in_China
China ranks 1st in worldwide farm output, producing more rice, wheat, onions, cabbages, green beans, cauliflowers, eggplant, potatoes, spinaches, carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, pears, grapes, peaches, apples, plums, strawberries, kiwifruits, tomatoes, watermelons, tea, beer, chestnuts, peanuts, eggs, and honey than other countries.
Source: List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_producing_countries_of_agricultural_commodities
So what has not being able to vote even got to do with China's agricultural developments?
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About the One Child Policy, in the past China was still dirt-poor country, suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems at that time. Why allow families in China to raise multiple kids, only for them to starve to death, succumb to childhood diseases, and having not enough food, not enough hospitals, and not enough schools to send them all to? Why not make families focus all available resources into raising a single, healthy kid into adulthood, and get him into a good school?
According to World Bank, China's poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to a mere 0.7% in 2015. According to UNESCO, adult literacy rate in 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 impressive feat considering that China is world's most populous country, yet attaining 0.7% poverty and 96.4% literacy.
Source: Poverty in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
Source: Adult literacy in China 1982-2015 statista.com/statistics/271336/literacy-in-china
Look at India, world's 2nd largest population country, and India is suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems that China once suffered from in the past. So it's thanks to the One Child Policy that China managed to lift millions out of poverty.
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@douglasman2011 Mao Zedong did not murder those people, they starved to death because of Great Chinese Famine which was caused by bad weather conditions like flood and drought, causing destruction of crops and resulted in poor harvest and mass starvation. Even Mao Zedong can't possibly control the weather isn't it? And even if he could, he'll wish for fair weather and bountiful harvests, because he wants to make China strong enough to resist foreign imperialism.
Also where did you get your bloated figure of 60 million dead during the Great Leap Forward (1958—1962)? According to the following source, China's population in 1955 was 612,241,552 and by 1960, China's population was 660,408,054 having actually increased by 48,166,502 in 5 years.
Source: Population of China in 1955 populationpyramid.net/china/1955/
So you're saying that during the Great Leap Forward (1958—1962) China's population decreased by 60 million, but from 1955—1960, China's population actually further increased by 48 million? Where did you get your bloated figure of 60 million dead during Great Leap Forward then?
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@douglasman2011 Granted, the Communist Party of China is certainly not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, USA and India.
Source: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - China, India, United States data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@Satyam-pj5ii China literally help Vietnam gain independence from France. During the 1st Indochina War, China supplied and provided the Việt Minh guerrilla forces with almost every kind of crucial and important supplies and material required, such as food (including thousands of tonnes of rice), money, medics and medical aid and supplies, arms and weapons (ranging from artillery guns to rifles and machine-guns), ammunition and explosives and other types of military equipment. 2,000 military advisors from the PRC and the Soviet Union trained the Việt Minh guerrilla forces with the aim of turning it into a full-fledged armed force to fight off their French colonial masters and gain national independence. On top of this, the PRC sent two People's Liberation Army (PLA) artillery battalions to help Vietnam fight for independence from the French.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War#China
From 1950 to 1954, the Chinese government shipped goods, materials, and medicine worth $43 billion (in 2019 dollars) to Vietnam. From 1950 to 1956, the Chinese government had also shipped 155,000 small arms, 58 million rounds of ammunition, 4,630 artillery pieces, 1,080,000 artillery shells, 840,000 hand grenades, 1,400,000 uniforms, 1,200 vehicles, 14,000 tons of food, and 26,000 tons of fuel to Vietnam.
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@Satyam-pj5ii During the Vietnam War, China supplied Vietnam with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Military_aid_given_to_North_Vietnam_by_China#Confronting_U.S._escalation
From 1964-1975, China provided Vietnam with 1,922,897 Guns, 64,529 Artillery pieces, 1,048,207,000 Bullets, 17,074,000 Artillery shells, Radio transmitters, 48,922 Telephones, 560 Tanks, 164 Planes and 15,771 Automobiles. Where would Vietnam be if not for Chinese aid given to Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
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@hiroshiyamashita2090 As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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@nuwa1737 Granted, the Communist Party of China is certainly not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, USA and India.
Source: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - China, India, United States data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@dagsmoko3889 As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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@DeySouravOfficial. Yes, China actually helped Vietnam gain independence from France. During the 1st Indochina War, China supplied and provided the Việt Minh guerrilla forces with almost every kind of crucial and important supplies and material required, such as food (including thousands of tonnes of rice), money, medics and medical aid and supplies, arms and weapons (ranging from artillery guns to rifles and machine-guns), ammunition and explosives and other types of military equipment. 2,000 military advisors from the PRC and the Soviet Union trained the Việt Minh guerrilla forces with the aim of turning it into a full-fledged armed force to fight off their French colonial masters and gain national independence. On top of this, the PRC sent two People's Liberation Army (PLA) artillery battalions to help Vietnam fight the French for independence.
Video: First Indochina War wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War#China
From 1950 to 1954, the Chinese government shipped goods, materials, and medicine worth $43 billion (in 2019 dollars) to Vietnam. From 1950 to 1956, the Chinese government had also shipped 155,000 small arms, 58 million rounds of ammunition, 4,630 artillery pieces, 1,080,000 artillery shells, 840,000 hand grenades, 1,400,000 uniforms, 1,200 vehicles, 14,000 tons of food, and 26,000 tons of fuel to Vietnam.
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@valuedcustomer8922 China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
Video: U.S. should focus more on infrastructure rather than warmongering youtu.be/LyhK2PQyE_w
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@kvm1992 Previously under the Republic of China 🇹🇼, China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today under the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@neil6958 About Innovation in China, China is world's most populous country, so statistically speaking, China has the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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@tomspencer1364 Granted, the Communist Party of China is certainly not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, USA and India.
Source: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - China, India, United States data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@tomspencer1364 China's political system has been through immense change. China once tried democracy when Dr. Sun yatsen (Sun Zhongshan) overthrew the Qing Dynasty China in 1911 and established the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949). But back then China was divided into several areas, we lost control of Tibet, and various warlords ruled different parts of China and even Japan invaded China twice during this weak period of Chinese history. Dr. Sun tried to get help from the Western powers, but they laughed at the thought of China copying their democracy. They even gave away the Shandong province (which had been occupied by the Germans during WWI) to Japan, instead of returning it to China (even when China was part of the Allies during WWI). In the end, Dr. Sun died without ever realising a unified China under democracy.
Next, China tried communism under Mao Zedong and he accomplished what the ROC could not, and reunifed China under communism, proclaiming the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 in 1949 and Tibet was finally returned back to China in 1951. If not for Mao Zedong, China today would still be weak and divided country, fighting among ourselves, instead of the strong unified country we are today. But Mao was an excellent strategist, not a good governor and that led to China's failed economic policies.
Next China tried Socialism with Chinese Characteristics under Deng Xiaoping which successfully transformed China from a dirt-poor country into an economic juggernaut today. But with economic reform comes political pressure, and it was Deng who ordered the People's Liberation Army into Tiananmen Square. Deng died without ever admitting to sending the PLA to Tiananmen Square.
Today, China is following Xi Jinping Thought under President Xi Jinping, and its still too early to tell what's going to happen. The thing is, China's political system is constantly evolving with the times, whereas in USA, the U.S constitution has remained unchanged for 150 years.
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@dedoshucos China applies for more patents than any other country in the world and we also have the world's largest number of granted patents, according to World Intellectual Property Indicators.
Patent applications for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (1,542,002 patents)
2. United States (597,141 patents)
3. Japan (313,567 patents)
4. South Korea (209,992 patents)
5. European Patent Office (174,397 patents)
6. Germany (67,898 patents)
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Source: World Intellectual Property Indicators wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Indicators#Patents
Patent grants for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (432,147 patents)
2. United States (307,759 patents)
3. Japan (194,525 patents)
4. European Patent Office (127,603 patents)
5. South Korea (119,012 patents)
6. Russian Federation (35,774 patents)
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@shambhutekar5797 You said: "China even announced a tariff exemption for 97% of exports from Bangladesh."
Isn't that a good thing for Bangladesh? Currently, 3095 Bangladeshi products enjoy duty-free access to Chinese market under Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA). With the new announcement, 97% of Bangladeshi products will join this zero-tariff club from July 1 that raised the numbers of Bangladeshi products with zero duty access to Chinese market to 8,256.
You said: "The Maldivian Government leased out Islands of Feydhoo Finolhuto China until 2066 for $4 million."
The islands are leased for Chinese companies to develop into a tourist resort. According to Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, the Feydhoo Finolhu resort appears largely complete as of August 2020, but the wharf is modest and seems intended for civilian vessels, presumably ferrying guests who fly in to nearby Male. Small villas line the shore all around the island, while the only larger buildings are the small cluster near the harbor. These are presumably the administrative buildings and shops for the resort. And dozens of bungalows line piers over the reef itself. The island has even been planted with small groves of palm trees. And there is very little room left to build anything else, whether civilian or military. All in all, Feydhoo Finolhu has every indication of being a commercial resort.
And in 2066, the 50-year lease would expire, the Feydhoo Finolhu island would be returned to Maldives. So doesn't Maldives stand to benefit in the long run?
You said: "Sri Lanka meltdown exposes China loan policy"
I already pointed out that China only makes up 10% of Sri Lanka's foreign debt, the remaining 90% comes mostly from the West, Japan and India, yet you're blaming China for Sri Lanka's woes?
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@violatedmonkey China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
Which country is the real threat to global peace and stability here?
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China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place. If anything, it seems like the U.S is a threat to global peace and stability.
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@sunnyinmilkyway2114 No, it's the Westerners who want to divide China by targeting Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. Tibet was part of China since 800 years ago when the Mongols conquered Kingdom of Thibet and Song Dynasty China and incorporated those territory into Yuan Dynasty China. The Manchu conquerors of China did a similar thing with Tibet centuries later during Qing Dynasty China.Xinjiang was part of China since Han Dynasty (200 BC) and it was known as Xiyu (西域).
Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain. During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China.
Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
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@engr_rioja Tibetans themselves signed the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet (中央人民政府和西藏地方政府关于和平解放西藏办法的协议) for short in 1952, affirming Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. So there is legal document binding Tibet to China isn't it?
Previously, while Tibet was under Dalai Lama rule, Tibet was a brutal theocracy, where 95% of the population were slaves and the remaining 5% elites were slave owners. Tibetan mountainous soil is infertile, rainfall is scarce in the Himalayas, so the slaves had to work hard to feed the Tibetan population. Starvation was commonplace and theft of food was punished by torture, amputation and even skinning. There's this Tibetan drum called damaru that's made from human skulls, a drumskin made of human skin and drumstick made of human bone. The Dalai Lama was overly worshipped and his followers fought for the right to consume his saliva, his urine and even his feces, because he was considered a divine vessel.
After Tibet returned back to China, Chinese workers began rapidly modernising Tibet, building roads, railways, streetlamps, running water, gas and electricity as well as introducing modern amenities like cars, computers, telephone cables, smartphones, the Internet, WiFi, online shopping (from Taobao) and so on. Under CCP, the first Tibetan colleges opened in Lhasa, offering degrees in both Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese languages. Hydroelectric powerstations were built by Chinese to supply Tibetan homes with electricity.
Source: List of universities and colleges in Tibet wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Tibet
Source: List of major power stations in the Tibet Autonomous Region wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_the_Tibet_Autonomous_Region
Chinese workers built the Qinghai-Lhasa railway (world's highest elevation railway) through dangerous mountainous terrain and low oxygen environments, to connect the normally isolated Tibet with the rest of the world. Tibet can now import food from the mainland to feed its population, and Tibet's population has tripled from 1 million in 1950s to over 3 million people today. A thriving tourist industry has even sprung up in Tibet.
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@freetibet8140 Go and read Taiwan's own constitution, it says that Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan claims all of mainland China (including Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, etc) as part of their territory, including territory currently under the control of Mongolia, Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. Here's a Map of all the territory Taiwan claims (Source:wikipedia.org/wiki/File: ROC_Administrative_and_Claims.svg )
Since there hasn't been any amendments to Taiwan's constitution, then by default, Taiwan is part of China under their own constitution.
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@dagsmoko3889 According to World Intellectual Property Indicators, China applies for more patents than any other country in the world and we also have the world's largest number of granted patents.
Patent applications for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (1,542,002 patents)
2. United States (597,141 patents)
3. Japan (313,567 patents)
4. South Korea (209,992 patents)
5. European Patent Office (174,397 patents)
6. Germany (67,898 patents)
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Source: World Intellectual Property Indicators wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Indicators#Patents
Patent grants for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (432,147 patents)
2. United States (307,759 patents)
3. Japan (194,525 patents)
4. European Patent Office (127,603 patents)
5. South Korea (119,012 patents)
6. Russian Federation (35,774 patents)
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War? China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@redfieldchris1217 In the past, Hong Kong was once a prosperous port city under British colonial rule, while the mainland was still dirt-poor at that time. Today however, fortunes have reversed and Hong Kong has since fallen behind rising mainland port cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and is facing increasingly higher levels of competition from other upcoming mainland cities, like Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Dalian, etc. No wonder why some Hong Kong people feel like they're being left behind.
Source: List of busiest container ports wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_ports
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@ForrestSCS If you want to look at history, China has 5,000 years of history and is among the world's oldest "continuous" civilization still alive today, whereas other ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have since succumbed to history. China has witnessed the birth and death of various other nations, the rise and fall of numerous other empires, yet China has survived the violent passage of time to modern times relatively intact, whereas even Rome eventually crumbled.
China has always been under the authoritarian rule (and we still are today) of emperors and the imperial court, because that's how China has been successfully governed for millennia. Not all countries have to adopt Western democracy to be successful and China is living proof of this.
Because this is what China's 5,000 years of history is telling us, that China functions best under a strong central government, like the Emperor and the Imperial Court of old. China's current authoritarian political closely emulates the ancient imperial system under President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China.
And go and read Taiwan's own constitution, it says that Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan claims all of mainland China (including Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, etc) as part of their territory, including territory currently under the control of Mongolia, Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. Here's a Map of all the territory Taiwan claims (source:wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROC_Administrative_and_Claims.svg )
Since there hasn't been any amendments to Taiwan's constitution, then by default, Taiwan is part of China under their own constitution.
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@wuppas Chinese food is delicious and people all over the world have proclaimed their love of Chinese food.
Want something flavorful? Try our Sweet & Sour Pork.
If you want something meaty, we have Peking Duck.
If you want something light, we have Dim Sum Dumplings.
If you're in a hurry, just grab convenient Baozi (Pork Bun) and eat it on the go.
If you like mild spicy, care to try our Kung Pao Chicken?
If you like very spicy, dare to try our Mapo Tofu?
If you are vegetarian, we have vegetarian Springrolls. And we are tofu heaven.
If you like rice, we have Fried Rice.
If you like noodles, we have Chow Mein.
If you like porridge, we have Congee.
If you like soups, we have Hotpot.
If you like seafood, well you're in luck, because Chinese love seafood too.
Food is life, and no culture celebrates food as much as Chinese culture, whether it is the preparation of food or its consumption.
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@lincolnwikipedia4218 If you go and read Taiwan's own constitution, it says that Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan claims all of mainland China (including Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, etc) as part of their territory, including territory currently under the control of Mongolia, Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. Here's a map of all the territory that Taiwan claims (Source:wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROC_Administrative_and_Claims.svg )
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@kushio214 About mainland China's GDP per capita being lower than Taiwan, that's because mainland China has to host the world's largest population. So if you divide our GDP by our enormous population, then of course you arrive at a lower GDP per capita for the mainland than it is for Taiwan. Take India (world's largest democracy) for example and their GDP per capita is even lower than China's, despite being a Western brand of democracy.
As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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@kushio214 So comparing GDP per capita is fair, (because you can divide our GDP by our enormous population) but when I use China's population to our advantage, that's somehow unfair? You can bring up Japan and South Korea, then why can't I bring up India and USA?
About technology in China, China is home to world's largest highspeed railway network, surpassing even Taiwan's hi-speed railway and Japan's Shinkansen in terms of track length. Our high-speed trains are world class, the journeys very smooth and enjoyable. Passengers have even experimented by balanced small objects like coins, stationery and smartphones on their edges in a train traveling at 350 kph, and the objects remain undisturbed (even stagnant water remains still) for long period of time.
Video: Watch how long coin can balance on high-speed train traveling at 350 kph youtu.be/fumYdO9XknE
Prior to the advent of high speed rail, during the Spring Festival, people in China would make the trip back to our home province to spend the new years with family and friends and the journey would often take several days. But thanks to China's high-speed rail, the commuting times have been cut short, from days to mere hours.
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@kushio214 So you can compare GDP per capita (by dividing our GDP by our enormous population) then can't I use China's population to our advantage? Chinese universities produce the most STEM graduates (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) out of any other country in the world.
Countries With The Most STEM Graduates
1. China (4.7 million)
2. India (2.6 million)
3. United States (568,000)
4. Russia (561,000)
5. Iran (335,000)
6. Indonesia (206,000)
7. Japan (195,000)
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Source: Forbes: The Countries With The Most STEM Graduates forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/02/the-countries-with-the-most-stem-graduates-infographic/
This implies that China is going to play a much larger role in the STEM fields, given the sheer number of graduates produced in these fields. In the grand scheme of things, China is only going to get better and better over the years.
The HDI also compares two countries with the same level of GDP per capita that can end up with different human development outcomes, so isn't it linked to population size as well?
Lastly, if you think that Japan or Taiwan could have built even longer train lines if they were the size of mainland China, then it's possible that their GDP per capita and HDI won't be as high as they are today, because of the sheer size of China's landmass. In 2003, China had 0km of high speed rail track, but today, China has more than double the track length of the rest of the world!
Countries by high-speed rail lines in operation
1. China (38,207 km)
2. Spain (5,525 km)
3. Germany (4,692 km)
4. France (3,802 km)
5. Japan (3,421 km)
6. Sweden (2,055 km)
7. United Kingdom (1,757 km)
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Source: List of high-speed railway lines wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lines#Overview
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@erickm8799 About the One Child Policy, in the past China was still dirt-poor country, suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems at that time. Why allow families in China to raise multiple kids, only for them to starve to death, succumb to childhood diseases, and having not enough food, not enough hospitals, and not enough schools to send them all to? Why not make families focus all available resources into raising a single, healthy kid into adulthood, and get him into a good school?
According to World Bank, China's poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to a mere 0.7% in 2015. According to UNESCO, adult literacy rate in 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 impressive feat considering that China is world's most populous country, yet attaining 0.7% poverty and 96.4% literacy.
Look at India, world's 2nd largest population country, and India is suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems that China once suffered from in the past.
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@erickm8799 Not everyone is as fortunate enough as you, to be born having enough food to eat, safety, having access to healthcare and education, and so on. Previously, China was a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country in the past, suffering from overpopulation, high birth rate, high child mortality, malnutrition and illiteracy. Poor families had multiple mouths to feed, what little money was divided until some children starved to death, some succumbed to childhood diseases and parents having not enough money to send their multiple kids to school.
Why not pool all available resources for poor families to raise a single child into adulthood and send him into a good school? That was how China was able to lift millions of people out of poverty and into the middle class, as well as raise adult literacy rates. Look at India (world's largest democracy) and they have no population control measures, so the poor families are trapped in cycle of poverty by having many mouths to feed and raise.
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@erickm8799 Apart from China Evergrande, China is home to many of the world's largest banks like China Construction Bank, ICBC, AgBank, Bank of China, Postal Savings Bank of China, Bank of Communications, China Merchants Bank, Industrial Bank (China), China Minsheng Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China China CITIC Bank, China Everbright Bank, Ping An Bank, Huaxia Bank, Bank of Beijing, China Guangfa Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Jiangsu, China Zheshang Bank and so on.
Source: Wikipedia: List of largest banks
But where are the famous banks from Singapore?
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@ericphua2359 "神州 Shenzhou . Many Banks in China you mention own the debt in Evergranda, Wangda, fantasia ans etc."
How did you even manage to obtain this information that nobody else have? You predict that suddenly all over China's major banks become bankrupt and collapse, plunging China into debt? Wow, what have you been smoking to arrive at such a conclusion? Just like earlier you claimed Evergrande was bankrupt, turns out you're spreading fake news that's all.
And where are all the famous banks in Singapore to compare with China Construction Bank, ICBC, AgBank, Bank of China, Postal Savings Bank of China, Bank of Communications, China Merchants Bank, Industrial Bank (China), China Minsheng Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China China CITIC Bank, China Everbright Bank, Ping An Bank, Huaxia Bank, Bank of Beijing, China Guangfa Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Jiangsu, China Zheshang Bank?
How many Singapore banks make it to world's largest banks compared to Chinese banks?
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China today is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@记住天安门广场 Go and read Taiwan's own constitution, it says that Taiwan is part of China under their own constitution. Taiwan claims all of mainland China (including Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, etc) as part of their territory, including territory currently under the control of Mongolia, Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. Here's a Map of all the territory Taiwan claims (Source:wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROC_Administrative_and_Claims.svg )
Since there hasn't been any amendments to Taiwan's constitution, then by default, Taiwan is part of China under their own constitution.
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Ash Xi You said: "Reunification means mainland belongs to ROC Taiwan."
Why did the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) lose the mainland to People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 (1949~) and had to flee to Formosa (Taiwan) then, if the mainland belongs to ROC Taiwan? During the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalist Kuomintang had massive wealth (they taxed peasants heavily) they had superior weapons and superior numbers over the communists, yet despite all this initial advantages, the KMT still lost the mainland to a bunch of dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Taiwan.
If anything, this demonstrates KMT's gross incompetence to rule the mainland, while at the same time, cementing the communists right to rule China. Then why should reunification mean that the mainland belongs to ROC Taiwan, when the KMT couldn't even keep control over the mainland?
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Ash Xi So why'd during the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalist Kuomintang 🇹🇼 lose the mainland to the Communist Party 🇨🇳 and had to flee to Taiwan? At the beginning, the communists were out matched by the stronger KMT, who had wealth (taxed from peasants) had superior weapons and superior numbers over the communists, and nobody expected a Communist victory. Yet fast forward till today and the KMT lost the mainland to a bunch of dirt-poor, heavily outnumbered, ill-equipped, starving Communist peasants and had to flee to Taiwan, then doesn't this prove KMT's gross incompetence in their right to rule the mainland? While cementing the Communists right to rule China?
The Taiwan flag is actually the Republic of China flag 🇹🇼 and if you go and read Taiwan's own constitution, it says that Taiwan is part of China. Since there hasn't been any amendments to Taiwan's constitution, then by default, Taiwan is part of China under their own constitution.
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Ash Xi If you claim Taiwan 🇹🇼 is a country, then why Taiwan can't join the United Nations or the World Health Organization? Is there some force preventing Taiwan from joining the UN or the WHO? Where's Taiwan's formal declaration of independence? Who signed it and when was it signed?
Previously, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony. During the 19th century, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but China did not want anything the West had to offer, so Britain waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. During this weak period of Chinese history, Hong Kong was taken from China and made into British colony, to act as a drug distribution hub to spread the addiction throughout rest of China.
Even when Britain renounced ownership over its former territories, Hong Kong was not fully returned back to China, and China had to agree to Sino-British declaration just for Britain to handover what belongs to us.
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Ash Xi China suffered a lot during the what's called the Century of Humiliation (百年国耻) Hong Kong was taken from China by Britain, even Imperial Japanese made Twenty-One Demands out of China. Imperial Japan committed numerous wartime atrocities like Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, and comfort women issue. During the Nanjing Massacre, Japanese soldiers butchered Chinese men for sport, and held contest to see who could rack up the most kills. Chinese women were gangaped and killed, their bodies left exposed and mutilated, their crotch bayoneted or having sharp sticks of bamboo shoved in. The young and elderly weren't spared, and Japanese soldiers sliced open the bodies of babies to do them. Japanese forced families to perform acts of incense; Sons were forced to do their mothers and fathers to daughters. Pregnant women were gangaped and had their swollen bellies stabbed, the unborn fetus torn from their wombs and bayoneted right before their eyes.
What did Chinese people do to deserve this? All Chinese people wanted to do was to defend our lands, and protect our homes and loved ones from the Japanese invaders, who stole our lands, plundered our wealth, killed our men and gangaped our women.
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@mav "no , we definitely should not interfere in.others affairs ... thank you ... go tell that to the overlords in Beijing"
China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
If anything, it looks like the United States is the real threat to global peace and stability here as well as interfering in other's affairs.
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Ash Xi During Unit 731, Japanese scientists conducted inhuman experiments on Chinese prisoners, including men, women and children. Prisoners were infected with various diseases and then subjected to live vivisection, often without anesthesia. Scientists performed invasive surgeries, organs were removed, limbs amputated and then reattached to opposite sides of the body, all while the subject is alive. Some prisoners even had their stomachs removed and their esophagus reattached to the intestines, presumably to measure how long humans can survive without the stomach.
The women had it worst during Unit 731. Prisoners were injected with sexually transmitted diseases and then forced at gunpoint to spread the infection to other prisoners. Women were gangaped and impregnated (sometimes by Japanese themselves) and then vivisected at various stages of their pregnancy to study the effects of diseases on their organs or on the fetus. Some Japanese scientists even gangaped female prisoners and then had experiments conducted on unborn children they fathered with female prisoners there.
Imagine if you are woman prisoner in Unit 731. Or you are a man injected with STD and then forced at gunpoint to have sex to spread it to other prisoners? Why not simply inject everyone with STD, instead of forcing prisoners to spread STD by sex? Or imagine having your limbs amputated and reattached to opposite sides of your body, all without anastasia. All Chinese people wanted was to defend our homes and protect our loved ones, but the Japanese invaded our lands, stole our territory, killed our men, gangaped our women and perform inhuman experiments on our childrens.
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@brianplum1825 I simply proven your statement wrong, why resort to labeling me a fifty-cent loser just for refuting your point? As the world's most populous country, China has (statistically speaking) the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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@brianplum1825 About the One Child Policy, in the past China was still dirt-poor country, suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems at that time. Why allow families in China to raise multiple kids, only for them to starve to death, succumb to childhood diseases, and having not enough food, not enough hospitals, and not enough schools to send them all to? Why not make families focus all available resources into raising a single, healthy kid into adulthood, and get him into a good school?
According to World Bank, China's poverty rate fell from 88% in 1981 to a mere 0.7% in 2015. According to UNESCO, adult literacy rate in 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 impressive feat considering that China is world's most populous country, yet attaining 0.7% poverty and 96.4% literacy.
Source: Poverty in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
Source: Adult literacy in China 1982-2015 statista.com/statistics/271336/literacy-in-china
Look at India, world's 2nd largest population country, and India is suffering from high birth rate, high child malnutrition, high child mortality, high illiteracy and other population problems that China once suffered from in the past.
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@ponnusamymuthaya6084 Granted, the Communist Party of China is not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, USA and India.
Source: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - China, India, United States data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@violatedmonkey About the Social Credit System, many foreigners often complain Chinese people spit in public, smoke in non-smoking areas, jump queues, disobey traffic rules, jay walk, drive on wrong side of the road, speed through red lights, etc when not all Chinese people are like that. We Chinese feel embarrassed that such bad people represent China overseas, so the government introduce social credit system to discourage such bad behaviour and promote better behaviour instead. This is a meritocratic system where good behaviour is rewarded and bad behaviour penalised.
But if such people persist with bad behaviour, until their scores fall to become unacceptable, then they will be barred from purchasing plane tickets to fly out of China and make nuisances of themselves overseas. At least until their scores improve until it becomes acceptable for them to travel again.
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@violatedmonkey China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
If anything, it looks like the United States are the real threat to global peace and stability here.
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@violatedmonkey About the gag orders on doctors, that happened after China already had informed the World Health Organization of a mysterious pneumonia like illness on 31st Dec 2019, so what's your point when countries had already been informed about the virus? And buying up global PPE, China was in urgent need of PPE, and your countries choose to put up your PPE for sale, then why can't Chinese fork out money to buy PPE? Your countries put PPE up for sale, so Chinese people bought them and shipped them back to China because China urgently needed PPE at that time. In fact, before 2019, your PPE was Made-In-China and Chinese people are buying back PPE that was previously produced in China.
And about selling inferior products back to the world, China was swamped by huge global demand for PPE, and China's production couldn't keep up with the demand so the quality of PPE suffered as a result. Some smaller companies in China also set up factories to cater to the demand, but they had no previous experience making PPE, and their qualifications had not been approved by the government, but other countries already made the purchase of PPE without informing Chinese government of the transaction.
About human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, there was no confirmation of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19 back in 2019. Human-to-human transmission was confirmed on 21 Jan 2020, and that's when the government began locking down Wuhan shortly after this discovery.
Video: China confirms human-to-human transmission of new coronavirus youtu.be/XPbdMRXQhdE (Dated to 21 Jan 2020)
About international travel, except for chartered flights, no international passenger flights have departed from Wuhan since its lockdown on January 23, according to the Hubei Airport Group Company.
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S W What's wrong with Chinese products? Chinese workers work hard to make products like smartphones, computers, electronics, appliances, toys, sneakers, clothing, etc cheap so that the cost of living in other countries is kept lower than it should be. Think about the billions of dollars Americans have saved on living expenses over the years, thanks to affordable Chinese goods. Money saved that can then be spent on other things like cars, housing, luxury brands, rent, tuition fees, and so on.
Isn't that why many Americans often flock to Walmart because of their everyday low prices? Because it saves them money on living expenses to spend elsewhere?
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S W About using the money on innovation, the government is pouring funds into research and development, and China already has world's 2nd highest R&D spending after the USA:
Countries by Research and Development spending
1. United States ($511.1 billion)
2. China ($275.0 billion)
3. Japan ($165.7 billion)
4. Germany ($118.8 billion)
5. South Korea ($91.6 billion)
6. India ($66.5 billion)
7. Brazil ($38.0 billion)
8. United Kingdom ($44.8 billion)
9. Russia ($42.6 billion)
10 France ($38.4 billion)
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Source: List of countries by research and development spending wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending#List
In the West, researchers often have to worry about funding, so they write papers and cite other peoples work to improve their credibility, so that they can expand their academic circles, get approval of grants so that they can publish more papers. It has degenerated into an academic system and many researcher's ideas remain on paper, instead of being turned into actual products.
Whereas in China, research funds are available at all tiers of society, from corporate to government sector, and a struggling research can easily get a $40,000 funding approval, thus freeing the researcher to concentrate on his/her research instead of having to worry about funding. The idea-to-product transition time in China is short too, so many researchers can feel a sense of satisfaction, witnessing their ideas being turned to actual products.
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S W China can support 20% of the world's population with only 7% arable land and still produce surplus food for export. We are home to world's largest pig, goat, sheep and duck farms. China's fishing industry accounts for one-third of the world's fish production and our fish farms account for two-thirds of the world's aquaculture production.
Source: Fishing Industry in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry_in_China
China ranks 1st in worldwide farm output, producing more rice, wheat, onions, cabbages, green beans, cauliflowers, eggplant, potatoes, spinaches, carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, pears, grapes, peaches, apples, plums, strawberries, kiwifruits, tomatoes, watermelons, tea, beer, chestnuts, peanuts, eggs, and honey than other countries.
Source: List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_producing_countries_of_agricultural_commodities
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S W China is world's most populous country, so statistically speaking, China has the most brainpower to come up with plans and ideas, as well as the most manpower to implement said plans and turn ideas into reality. Larger populations have more geniuses, and since China's population is 4x that of USA, there should be at least 4 Chinese geniuses to every 1 American genius.
Source: China's Statistical Advantage: Large populations have more geniuses http://iiipublishing.com/blog/2018/06/blog_06_07_2018.html
Consider two standard bell curves, say one with 1.4 billion people and one with 326 million. The number of average people in China is very close to 4.3 times the number of average people in the U.S. That is also true for those in the top 2% say, which produces scientists, the best business and government people, and the most competent computer programmers. Even there, China would have a 4.3 to 1 advantage, which would be quite an advantage, everything else being equal.
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S W Where's all the famous companies from Taiwan as compared to the mainland? Mainland China has Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, ZTE, but where are the famous companies from Taiwan as opposed to the mainland?
China is home to many of the world's largest banks including ICBC, China Construction Bank, AgBank, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Postal Savings Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, Industrial Bank (China), Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China CITIC Bank, China Minsheng Bank, China Everbright Bank, Ping An Bank, Hua Xia Bank, Bank of Beijing, China Guangfa Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Jiangsu, China Zheshang Bank and so on.
Source: List of largest banks wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks#By_total_assets
So how can Taiwan possibly hope to compete with the sheer economic power of the mainland?
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S W Besides Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, ZTE etc, China has produced successful Internet companies like Alibaba, Tencent, JD, Baidu, Suning.com, Bytedance (Tik Tok), Meituan-Dianping, NetEase, Kuaishou, Trip.com, Pinduoduo, Sina Corp, Sohu, and numerous successful Internet companies.
Source: List of largest Internet companies wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies#List
But where are the famous companies from Taiwan as opposed to the mainland? How can Taiwan possibly hope to compete with the sheer economic power of the mainland?
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S W "神州 Shenzhou i have a more accurate measurement. i am a customer. customer is always right."
Apparently, you're a biased anti-China customer then. I already shown that Chinese companies like Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, ZTE, Alibaba, Tencent, JD, Baidu, Bytedance (Tik Tok) are among the most successful Chinese companies in the world, where are the famous companies from Taiwan as opposed to the mainland? How can Taiwan possibly hope to compete with the sheer economic power of the mainland?
Even apart from Huawei, Xiaomi was started in 2010. Today it's one of the world's most popular smartphones. In India, it's number one.
Video: How Xiaomi broke out of China to go global | CNBC Reports youtu.be/291DlKa7iIU
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S W About innovation in China, China publishes more research papers than any other in the world, over a wide range of topics such as physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.
Countries by published scientific papers in 2018:
1. China (528,263 articles)
2. United States (422,808 articles)
3. India (135,788 articles)
4. Germany (104,396 articles)
5. Japan (98,793 articles)
6. United Kingdom (97,681 articles)
7. Russia (81,579
8. Italy (71,240 articles)
9. South Korea (66,376 articles)
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Source: List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_scientific_and_technical_journal_articles
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S W China is home to world's largest highspeed railway network, surpassing even Japan's Shinkansen hi-speed rail in terms of track length. Our high-speed trains are world class, the journeys very smooth and enjoyable. Passengers have even experimented by balanced small objects like coins, stationery and smartphones on their edges in a train traveling at 350 kph, and the objects remain undisturbed (even stagnant water remains still) for long period of time.
Video: Watch how long coin can balance on high-speed train traveling at 350 kph youtu.be/fumYdO9XknE
Prior to the advent of high speed rail, during the Spring Festival, people in China would make the trip back to our home province to spend the new years with family and friends and the journey would often take several days. But thanks to China's high-speed rail, the commuting times have been cut short, from days to mere hours.
Countries by high-speed rail lines in operation
1. China (38,207 km)
2. Spain (5,525 km)
3. Germany (4,692 km)
4. France (3,802 km)
5. Japan (3,421 km)
6. Sweden (2,055 km)
7. United Kingdom (1,757 km)
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Source: List of high-speed railway lines wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lines#Overview
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S W About Technology in China, China is home to one of top five world's fastest supercomputers, the Sunway Taihulight (神威·太湖之光)
Video: Sunway TaihuLight named world's fastest supercomputer youtu.be/KEdsrT1mFAU
Supercomputers play an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulations of the early moments of the universe, airplane and spacecraft aerodynamics, the detonation of nuclear weapons, and nuclear fusion).
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S W About research spending, China already has world's 2nd highest R&D spending
Countries by Research and Development spending
1. United States ($511.1 billion)
2. China ($275.0 billion)
3. Japan ($165.7 billion)
4. Germany ($118.8 billion)
5. South Korea ($91.6 billion)
6. India ($66.5 billion)
7. Brazil ($38.0 billion)
8. United Kingdom ($44.8 billion)
9. Russia ($42.6 billion)
10 France ($38.4 billion)
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Source: List of countries by research and development spending wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending#List
In the West, researchers often have to worry about funding, so they write papers and cite other peoples work to improve their credibility, so that they can expand their academic circles, get approval of grants so that they can publish more papers. It has degenerated into an academic system and many researcher's ideas remain on paper, instead of being turned into actual products.
Whereas in China, research funds are available at all tiers of society, from corporate to government sector, and a struggling research can easily get a $40,000 funding approval, thus freeing the researcher to concentrate on his/her research instead of having to worry about funding. The idea-to-product transition time in China is short too, so many researchers can feel a sense of satisfaction, witnessing their ideas being turned to actual products.
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@hmong_keeb_kwm Han Chinese weren't nearly as expansionist as the Mongolians and Manchurians, instead of conquest, we tend to prefer peaceful pursuits like crafting silk clothing (Hanfu 汉服) creating porcelain (fine china) works of art, and developing Chinese characters (Hanzi 汉字), calligraphy and poetry.
Video: [Sinosphere] China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam Traditional Dresses - Beauties Of Asia youtu.be/Oa3F5N8r_QU
Just compare Maps of Han Chinese dynasties, like Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, with Maps of Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and Manchurian Qing Dynasty for example, and while Han aren't entirely expansionist, Han maps weren't as expansive as those by Mongols and Manchus.
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@jeffreyhinds6440 If democracy does not work for India, why not try switching to a different an alternative system, like when "democratic" Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) was replaced by the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 (1949~) under the communist government? Britain was colonial superpower during 19th century but was eventually overtaken by USA in 20th century. But prior to that, China (and also India) had been economic superpower for 1800 years and we made up 25% of the world's GDP share, according to world leading British economist, Angus Maddison.
Source: Global distribution of GDP among China, India, Western Europe, USA, Middle East from 1 AD to 2003 AD wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_AD_to_2003_AD_Historical_Trends_in_global_distribution_of_GDP_China_India_Western_Europe_USA_Middle_East.png
And judging from the above trend, it looks as though China is all set to dominate the 21st century.
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@John77Doe Taiwan had been under authoritarian single-party KMT rule for more than half its life. For decades the KMT ruled Taiwan with iron fist and Chiang kai-shek was a dictator who jailed and executed dissidents and political rivals (whether real or perceived) in a period known as White Terror (白色恐怖) and imposed martial law on Taiwan for more than 38 years, which was qualified as "the longest imposition of martial law by a regime anywhere in the world" at that time.
But under authoritarian single-party KMT rule, Taiwan actually flourished and prospered, in what's known as the Taiwan Miracle (台湾奇迹). Between 1952 – 1982, Taiwan's economic growth was on average 8.7%, and between 1983 – 1986 at 6.9%. Taiwan GDP grew by 360% between 1965 – 1986. The percentage of global exports was over 2% in 1986, over other recently industrialized countries, and the global industrial production output grew a further 680% between 1965 – 1986. And its all been achieved under KMT leadership.
Only in the late 1990s, when democracy was introduced (because USA threatened to cut off weapons sales to Taiwan) did Taiwan's economic growth became more modest. Since then, Taiwan's economy has stagnated, wages are stagnant, cost of living is rising, unemployment is rising and Taiwan graduates are increasingly seeking jobs abroad, such as in Singapore or mainland China.
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@s.ludden5700 Evil? China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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City Wok Guy China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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I agree. China today is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@praisethelegendarymessiahs2617 The Chinese political system is very similar to Singapore's political system. Look, there were literally no elections held for Singapore President Halima Yacob (that's why you failed to tell me the latest Singapore Presidential poll results, because there were none) yet you complain about no freely elected national leaders in China? Singapore's opposition is literally a joke, they exist to make the PAP look good that's all, so the Singapore people vote for the PAP, and it's dominance is such that Singapore is effectively a one-party state, having been under authoritarian PAP rule for 56 years (their whole life as a nation) similar to China being under Communist Party of China (CPC) rule for 72 years. Singapore government also controls all religious activity, you have to apply for government permit. For example, in Singapore, all religious foot processions are banned and this ban was imposed in 1964, after riots.
Go ahead and just try to remove the PAP from power. The PAP has several tools at their disposal to get rid of Singaporean dissenters and political rivals. Haven't you heard of Singapore dissident Francis Seow being arrested by Lee Kuan Yew? According to Human Rights Watch: Singapore
Singapore’s political environment is overwhelmingly repressive. Citizens face severe restrictions on free expression, association, and peaceful assembly through overly broad criminal laws and regulations. The government has aggressively enforced a sweeping “online falsehoods” law that permits government ministers to order the “correction” or removal of online content.
As for China, the National People's Congress (NPC) elects the President of the People's Republic of China and the Vice President of the People's Republic of China. The NPC also appoints several governmental executives like the Premier of the State Council and many other crucial officials to the central state organs. The NPC has the power to remove the above-mentioned officials from the office.
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@dedoshucos According to World Intellectual Property Indicators, China applies for more patents than any other country in the world and we also have the world's largest number of granted patents.
Patent applications for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (1,542,002 patents)
2. United States (597,141 patents)
3. Japan (313,567 patents)
4. South Korea (209,992 patents)
5. European Patent Office (174,397 patents)
6. Germany (67,898 patents)
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Source: World Intellectual Property Indicators wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Indicators#Patents
Patent grants for the top 10 offices, 2018
1. China (432,147 patents)
2. United States (307,759 patents)
3. Japan (194,525 patents)
4. European Patent Office (127,603 patents)
5. South Korea (119,012 patents)
6. Russian Federation (35,774 patents)
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@s.ludden5700 Granted, the Communist Party of China is not perfect (then again which government body truly is?) but despite its initial failures and setbacks, under its leadership, China's population doubled, our lifespans doubled, our literacy rates doubled, and our poverty rates plummeted. The graph below shows life-expectencies across China, USA and India.
Source: Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - China, India, United States data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CN-IN-US
China was once a dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country similar to India (world's largest democracy) in the past, but today, China has since transformed into world's 2nd largest economy, the world's factory (Made in China) having world's 2nd highest R&D spending, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army, funded by world's 2nd highest military expenditure.
And it's all been achieved under communist party leadership, despite Western anti-Communist propaganda constantly denouncing China's success all along.
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@toddfarkman2177 Regarding Asian stereotypes about being smart, tech-savvy, hard workers, this doesn't guarantee there is no racism against Asians, just because of positive Asian stereotypes. For example, you said Asians being smart and the best in universities can create negative resentment among Americans who believe that they are losing grades to Asians and job offers when they graduate. This positive stereotype could result in racism against Asians
Just like the stereotype you said Asians are tech-savvy might create images of Asians as hackers and imagined as culprits behind cyber attacks (especially in the USA, Australia) which in turn, breeds resentment among Asians.
Even the Asian stereotype of being hard-working can breed resentment, because it gives the sense that Asians are somehow stealing American jobs.
This goes to show that what you regard as "positive stereotypes" about Asians, can backfire and lead to racist attacks against Asian, because of such perceptions. It doesn't necessarily mean that with positive stereotypes that there will be no racism against Asians.
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Alexandria School of Science China is currently at peace and not at war with any country, since our last major conflict in 1979. Instead of making war, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, bridges, tunnels, powerstations, dams, ports, airports, etc and investing in developing countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, etc.
Whereas the United States is warmonger being involved in Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, etc, even in the 21st century. USA is bombing in those Middle Eastern countries and enacting regime change by cutting off their "heads" (Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, etc) and then installing their own US puppet governments in place.
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@Sun Happy About China's leader for life, China has produced many 5-year plans, 10-year plans, 20-year plans, 30-year plans, etc to map out China's future and direction in the years 2025, 2030, 2040, 2050. By abolishing the presidential term limits, our leaders can remain in power long term to see their plans for China bloom and come to fruition in the future. This is the advantage of China's long term leadership
Whereas in the United States, the US Presidents have to step down after 4-8 years because of presidential term limits, so they can only make short term plans for America's future, instead of long term plans spanning, say 10 years or more. This is the disadvantage of US short term leadership.
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@Sun Happy Chairman Mao Zedong is the founding father of of the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 and he succeeded in the herculean task of reunifying our divided country, where the previous Nationalist Kuomintang failed under the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) for 37 years. When Dr Sun Yatsen overthrew the previous Qing Dynasty China and established "democratic" ROC (1912-1949) China was divided into several areas, we lost control of Tibet, and various warlords ruled different parts of China and even Japan invaded China twice during this weak period of Chinese history. Dr. Sun tried to get help from the Western powers, but they laughed at the thought of China copying their democracy. They even gave away the Shandong province (which had been occupied by the Germans during WWI) to Japan, instead of returning it to China (even when China was part of the Allies during WWI). In the end, Dr. Sun died without ever realising a unified China under democracy.
But then Mao Zedong came along, and he accomplished what the ROC could not, and reunifed China under communism, proclaiming the People's Republic of China in 1949 and Tibet was finally returned back to China in 1951. If not for Chairman Mao Zedong, China today would still be weak and divided country, fighting among ourselves, instead of the strong unified country we are today.
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Reuel T You're contradicting yourself, you said under Treaty of Shimonoseki, Taiwan was "ceded to Japan in PERPETUITY" and next you said "Taiwan residents gained independence from Japan." so what's the point of claiming perpetuity then?
Taiwan may have gained independence from Japan but not from China. Go and read Taiwan's own constitution and it says that Taiwan is part of China. Taiwan claims that all of mainland China (including Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, etc) is part of their territory, even territory under the modern control of Mongolia, Burma, Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. Here's a Map to illustrate my point.
Source: Map of ROC Administration and Claims wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROC_Administrative_and_Claims.svg
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