Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "CGTN"
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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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