Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "Why Most Foreigners Can't Understand China" video.

  1. Many Chinese are willing to learn more about America. However, many Americans aren't willing to understand China.
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  2.  Anonymous Panacea  Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth propagated by the British. All verified eyewitness accounts say that Nothing Happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night.
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  3.  @ADHD-Esoteric  It's like many Americans aren't willing to listen to any view that portrays China in a remotely positive light.
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  4. It's thanks to people like you, Cyrus Janssen, Daniel Dumbrill, Nathan Rich, Living in China, Gweilo 60, Jerry Goode, JaYoe Nation (nuance), numuves, etc for showing the West what life is really like in China. However Western MSM will start taking notice of your channels and start targeting you, so please beware.
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  5. The "Yellow Peril" mindset never died out. Since 19th century, Westerners have grown so throughly accustomed to the notion of Western dominance, so much such that the very thought of a non-Western, non-liberal democratic country like China eventually surpassing the United States someday in the future, is simply too frightening for many Westerners to fathom.
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  6.  @ryannverano6452  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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  7. Perhaps you could ask your French friend questions like, Why does he hold such negative opinion of China? Why is he so vicious about you expressing your own opinion? Has he actually been to China and see what life is like here for himself? There was this French speaker talking to Professor Zhang Weiwei and he never actually know about the situation of Xinjiang, yet he claims the "Uighurs are the most miserable people in the world." Video: Is China an alternative to Western democracy? youtu.be/vT4z4TCf4uk
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  8.  @everythingandmore5537  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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  9.  @adoreslaurel  How is China behaving badly? 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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  10.  @yh774  Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053
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  11.  @qm3384  If China does a much better job at demonising US, then why can't is it majority of the people in Western countries hold a negative opinion of China, while a positive opinion of USA? If China's propaganda was really that good, then why is China in such a situation today?
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  12.  @mjlmn86  Even Wikileaks has shown that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989. Source: Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square when China put down student pro-democracy demonstrations 22 years ago.
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  13.  @knowitall5913  Please note that I said Chinese are willing learn more about America, but that's not the same as China copying Western brand of democracy. Learning more about America means learning the good and the bad, learning what works and what doesn't, and improving upon China in the our own way.
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  14. I would hazard a guess that many Chinese actually understand America better than many Americans understand China.
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  15.  @dannyw985  Logically speaking, America's bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki mostly killed Japanese civilians; women, children, the elderly and men unfit for active military duty. Much of Japan's military strength remained unaffected by the 2 atomic bombings, that's why Japan refused to surrender even after the bombings. It was the Soviet invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria that was the last campaign fought of WWII and finally caused Japan to surrender. So if anything, we should be thanking the Communist Party of Soviet Union for bringing an end to WWII, not America's bombing of Japanese civilians.
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  16. Besides "Yellow Peril" the Western MSM is also painting China negatively through "Red Scare" a fear of a potential rise of communism. The combination of "Yellow Peril" and "Red Scare" makes a cocktail of fear that feeds off the paranoia of Westerners.
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  17.  @ryannverano6452  Look at Joe Biden approve sales of $735 million of US weapons to Israel even during Israeli-Palestinian bombing each other. Source: Biden administration approves $735 million weapons sale to Israel washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/17/biden-administration-approves-735-million-weapons-sale-israel/ The US military-industrial complex controls the US government for war and profit.
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  18.  @ryannverano6452  Hamas group? So those 200 Palestinian civilians (including 59 children) died for what reason? And Joe Biden administration approves sales of $735 million weapons to Israel, but you rather act blind.
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  19. China wants to integrate further into the global supply chain. Whereas the USA wants to decouple from China.
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  20.  @ryannverano6452  Taiwan is part of China, look at Taiwan's constitution and 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. And which Philippines fishermen been shot by Chinese coastguard? None! You're just slandering China without proof that's all. The Philippines coastguard shoot to death a 65-year old Chinese fisherman Hong Shicheng (洪石成) but you refused to address his death that's all.
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  21.  @ryannverano6452  China first claimed South China Sea Islands when Republic of China 🇹🇼 published the 11 Dash Line (which the 9 Dash Line by People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 is based on) and nobody objected against China's claims, not Vietnam, not Philippines, not America. The Americans reminded the Philippines at its independence in 1946 that the Spratlys was not Philippine territory, both to not anger Chiang Kai-shek in China and because the Spratlys were not part of the Philippines per the 1898 treaty Spain signed with America.
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  22. At 7:13 Chinese govt: bad, Chinese company: bad Chinese products: bad Chinese apps: bad Chinese vaccine: bad …… In other words they hate China.
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  23.  @ryannverano6452  About the South China Sea, the North Vietnam PM Phạm Văn Đồng had formally accepted that the Paracel and Spratly islands were historically Chinese in a diplomatic letter he wrote to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1958. Here is the note: wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1958_diplomatic_note_from_phamvandong_to_zhouenlai.jpg In 1958, the People's Republic of China issued a declaration defining its territorial waters which encompassed the Spratly and Paracel Islands. North Vietnam's prime minister, Pham Van Dong, sent a diplomatic note to Zhou Enlai, stating that "The Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam respects this decision." The diplomatic note was written on September 14 and was publicized on Nhan Dan newspaper(Vietnam) on September 22, 1958. But after it was discovered that the region contain rich deposits of oil and gas, Vietnam suddenly changed its mind, broke their word and started claiming those territory as part of Vietnam. Why Vietnam politician can change their minds just like that?
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  24.  Neptunian Yes  Many Westerners previously held negative opinion of China until they visit China and see what life is like here for themselves. Even Daniel Dumbrill once shared a personal story that he held negative opinion towards the Communist Party of China, even after living in China for months. One day, Daniel just suddenly had an epiphany of sorts that maybe he was the one being brainwashed by the Western anti-China propaganda all this time. Sometimes, Daniel Dumbrill shared this personal story in his videos. I'm sure Cyrus Janssen has a moment in his life when he held negative opinions about China, it was only after visiting and living in China for a while, did he realised that he'd been duped by Western anti-China propaganda.
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  25.  @ryannverano6452  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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  26.  @MarkYeung1  It's your own personal choice who you believe. According to my Jay Matthews source: Probably the most widely disseminated account appeared first in the Hong Kong press: a Qinghua University student described machine guns mowing down students in front of the Monument to the People’s Heroes in the middle of the square. The New York Times gave this version prominent display on June 12, just a week after the event, but no evidence was ever found to confirm the account or verify the existence of the alleged witness. Student leader Wu’er Kaixi said he had seen 200 students cut down by gunfire, but it was later proven that he left the square several hours before the events he described allegedly occurred. (So how could Wu’er Kaixi have seen those 200 students cut down by gunfire, when he left the square several hours before?) CBS correspondent Richard Roth’s story of being arrested and removed from the scene refers to “powerful bursts of automatic weapons, raging gunfire for a minute and a half that lasts as long as a nightmare.” Black and Munro quote a Chinese eyewitness who says the gunfire was from army commandos shooting out the student loudspeakers at the top of the monument. (So it was PLA commandos shooting at student's loudspeakers, not at the students themselves.) A BBC reporter watching from a high floor of the Beijing Hotel said he saw soldiers shooting at students at the monument in the center of the square. But as the many journalists who tried to watch the action from that relatively safe vantage point can attest, the middle of the square is not visible from the hotel. (So how could he have witness the shooting at the monument, when it wasn't visible from his vantage point?)
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  27. Even if you present the truth about China to Westerners, there are some anti-China Westerners who refuse to believe the truth and still continue hating China regardless.
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  28. Many Chinese warmly welcome Westerners to our lands as visitors (just ask the expats). However, many Westerners are increasingly viewing Chinese in their lands with suspicion.
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  29.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  There are many differences yes. But the main point of comparing Chess vs Go, is that Westerners are interested in short term gains, whereas China is interested in long term benefits.
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  30.  @MarkYeung1  Hu Xijin is entitled to his own beliefs, but was he really a witness present inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 itself? According to Jay Matthews, reporter for The Washington Post as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night and all verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully. Source: The Myth of Tiananmen And the price of a passive press (By Jay Mathews) archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php
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  31.  @ryannverano6452  Look at Phillipines coastguard (Maritime Control Surveillance 3001) shooting to death a 65-year old Chinese fisherman, Hong Shicheng (洪石成). But which Filipino fishermen been shot by Chinese coastguard? None!
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  32. In the US, 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 political system. Whereas 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 political system.
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  33. USA is diverse, but China is arguably even more diverse than USA, yet Chinese travellers are flying out of China and visiting other countries. However, many Americans aren't interested in travelling outside of the USA.
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  34.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  China has air pollution problems yes, because of our over-reliance on coal power, which burns dirtily and produce smog, so the government built world's largest hydroelectric powerstation, the Three Gorges Dam to supply China with clean renewable energy to help reduce our CO2 emissions. Video: The Largest Dam in The World youtu.be/j3J196bLP5E
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  35.  @MarkYeung1  Yes, I already gave an example of Philippines Coastguard (patrol boat Maritime Control Surveillance 3001) shooting to death a 65-year old Chinese fisherman Hong Shicheng (洪石成) but that Filipino guy gave no example of Filipino fishermen shot to death by Chinese coastguard. It's obvious which country is bullying others here.
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  36.  The Hate Factory  Under Chairman Mao Zedong, China nearly doubled in population from 540 million in 1949 to 969 million in 1979, how is Mao Zedong a mass murderer?
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  37. American MSM focus on other countries only if it's of interest to the rich US corporations agenda.
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  38.  @dannyw985  Imperial Japan censored information of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings from reaching it's frontline troops and breaking morale. By bombing the Japanese cities, USA mostly killed Japanese civilians, women, children, the elderly, men unfit for active military duty, whereas the vast majority of Japanese military strength remained unaffected.
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  39.  @everythingandmore5537  China has 5000 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.
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  40.  @ryannverano6452  Chinese fisherman have been fishing around Spratly Islands since history. In the Song Dynasty work Zhu fan zhi by Zhao Rugua, the name "Thousand Li Stretch of Sands" (Qianli Changsha, 千里長沙) and the "Ten-Thousand Li of Stone Pools/Beds" (Wanli Shitang 萬里石塘, or Wanli Shichuang 萬里石床) refer to Paracel and Spratly respectively. Wanli Shitang is also recorded in the History of Yuan to have been explored by the Chinese during the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and may have been considered by them to have been within their national boundaries. The Mao Kun map dating from Zheng He's voyage of the early 15th century, Shixing Shitang (石星石塘) refers to the Spratly Islands.Another Ming text, Haiyu (海語, On the Sea), uses Wanli Changsha (萬里長沙) for Spratly and noted that it is located southeast of Wanli Shitang (Paracels). Source: Mao Kun Map wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MAO_KUN_MAP-19.jpg
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  41.  @ryannverano6452  I gave you an example of Philippines Coastguard (patrol boat Maritime Control Surveillance 3001) shooting to death a 65-year old Chinese fisherman Hong Shicheng (洪石成) but which Filipino fishermen been shot by Chinese coastguard? None! Your Philippines coastguard killed a Chinese fisherman, but no Filipino fishermen was shot by Chinese coastguard.
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  42.  @ryannverano6452  Look at American-Philippine War. The Americans promised Philippines independence from Spain, but after signing 1898 Treaty of Paris USA betrayed the Filipinos and claim Philippines as an American colony, resulting in American-Philippine War where 4,000 American soldiers died but 20,000 Filipino soldiers died, and a whopping 250,000 Filipino civilians died. Video: The Philippine American War-The Shocking Truth youtu.be/bN2wrZGcs8s In the end, Philippines became an American colony.
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  43.  @ryannverano6452  So you're saying that those 56 Palestinian children bombed by Israel were all paid victims? Those 200 Palestinian civilian deaths were orchestrated by Hamas? Or is it an excuse for Joe Biden to sell $735 million weapons sale to Israel?
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  44.  @ryannverano6452  So according to you, Chinese historical evidence is not credible, but somehow your Filipino history is? Why the biased double standards?
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  45.  @ryannverano6452  Taken from Page 11 of War or Peace in the South China Sea? (by Timo Kivimäki): The Philippines gained independence in 1946, but when nationalists within the Philippine government wanted to claim the Spratlys, their American advisors discouraged them. The Spanish-American treaty of 1898 made out clear that the western limit of the Philippines islands did not include the Spratlys, and the United States was not keen to carry the cost of a Philippine irredentist adventure that might bring conflict with Chiang kai-shek regime in China. Source: War or Peace in the South China Sea? (by Timo Kivimäki) Page 11 books.google.com/books?id=CNVf9R_L5FAC&pg=PA11&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false So the Spratly islands weren't part of the Philippines since the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
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  46.  @fcl3294  We were talking about Tiananmen Square Massacre itself, why are you shifting the goalpost elsewhere to the streets leading to the square? As for Tankman, we now know from the cameraman himself that his widely-publicised photo was taken from his hotel window the day AFTER the riots, and the tanks were going away from, not into, the Square.
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  47.  @sayaandyangsaya2756  老实说翻墙之后，就觉得西方媒体对中国太傲慢与偏见，而且很多美国人已经被美媒洗脑了。
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  48.  @MarkYeung1  你搞错了，示威不是200万人，香港警方估计有10万-20万人而已。 One extradition bill, hundreds of thousands of protesters scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013929/one-extradition-bill-hundreds-thousands-protesters-why-hong
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  49.  @kirakamu9246  Chairman Mao Zedong is the founding father of the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳. Mao and the communists had succeeded in reunifying our divided country, where the previous Nationalist Kuomintang failed under the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) for 37 years. It was during Chinese Civil War, so of course Chinese were killing Chinese. Just like during the American Civil War, Americans were killing Americans. Or Vietnamese killing Vietnamese during Vietnam War. Or Koreans during Korean War or any civil war for that matter. When Dr Sun Yatsen overthrew the previous Qing Dynasty China and established "democratic" Republic of China (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 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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  50.  @kirakamu9246  Every stereotypical blue-collar Chinese job you think of has a element of hard work associated with it. Coolies, railroad workers, rickshaw drivers, chefs (of Chinese restaurants), laundromat workers, farmers, grocery stall owners, literally any hard working job you can think of, you'll find Chinese workers willing to do work for it. That's what poor people do, they take up jobs to save up money and eventually lift themselves out of the poverty. It's a set of virtues that makes Chinese people successful at what we do.
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  51.  @kirakamu9246  Why can't a country have culture despite having 9 different languages? India has a total of 179 languages and 544 dialects, so what's your problem with a country speaking different languages? Switzerland has four national languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh, means that Switzerland has no culture? I don't understand your logic here. Shouldn't it be more languages = more culture?
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  52.  @nicholaslee5473  About success rate, popularity or profit of Chinese restaurants compared to McDonald’s, there are literally more Chinese restaurants in USA alone than all the McDonald's, KFCs, Pizza Huts, Taco Bells and Wendy's in America combined, how is that not proof of success or popularity? Here's a list of the most popular takeaway option and Chinese food comes in second just after pizza. Pizza is top in 44 countries, including India and Germany, while Chinese food is second, coming top in 29 countries, including Britain and America. Sushi is third - the most-searched-for takeaway in 10 countries, including Sweden and unsurprisingly, Japan. The World's Most Popular Takeaway Choices 1. Pizza - 44 (countries it's the most-searched-for takeaway) 2. Chinese - 29 3. Sushi - 10 4. Fish and Chips - 6 5. Fried Chicken - 5 6. Indian - 4 7. Korean - 3 8. Thai - 2 …… Source: The World's Most Popular Takeaway Choices dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-9167101/Pizza-worlds-favourite-takeaway-meal-Chinese-Britain-America.html
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  53. Many Westerners rather give credit to Chinese people rather than give credit to the government for lifting millions of people out of poverty.
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  54.  @jansg405  According to the 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. 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 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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  55.  @jansg405  Because China is the world's most populous country at 1.4 billion people, so obviously there will be more people migrating out of China than into China. Just like India, the world's 2nd most populous country, the most immigrants in the world often come from China and India.
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  56.  @jansg405  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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  57.  Edmund Kemper  It's no secret today that America is in decline and China is rising. The trajectories are pretty much set and many economists firmly believe China's economy is expected to surpass the United State's economy sometime in the foreseeable future.
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  58.  NEO GEO  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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  59.  @mc-lb9dk  China isn't decoupling the USA, China actually welcomes the USA on board the Belt and Road Initiative, it's just that USA doesn't want anything to do with BRI.
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  60.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  Besides dominating hydroelectricity, China also dominates solar power, and the current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in China. The largest floating solar farm in the world is located in Huainan City in Anhui province, Eastern China. Video: World's largest floating solar farm in E China youtu.be/qKpYH5SYUeo
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  61.  NEO GEO  The USA did not wage a hot war with the former Soviet Union, so what makes you think USA will wage a war with China then?
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  62.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  Is there something wrong with me bringing China's positive achievements? China's first 100-Megawatt solar power plant was put into operation in NW China's Gansu Province. The molten-salt solar thermal power plant covers 7.8 square kilometres and has a 260-meter-high heat-absorbing tower. Using 12,000 large-sized reflection mirrors the power plant is capable of generating power all day long. Video: China's first 100MW solar power plant goes into operation youtu.be/Uo8FH9huaP4
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  63.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  About technology in China, 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.
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  64.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  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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  65.  @bjrnhjortshjandersen1286  About Education in China, Chinese students scored the highest in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment or PISA in all 3 subjects: reading, science and mathematics. Source: Chinese Students Top Latest PISA Education Survey learningenglish.voanews.com/a/chinese-students-top-latest-pisa-education-survey/5191518.html PISA 2018 ranking for Mathematics 1. China (591) 2. Singapore (569) 3. Macau, China (558) 4. Hong Kong, China (551) 5. Taiwan, China (531) ... PISA 2018 ranking for Science 1. China (590) 2. Singapore (551) 3. Macau, China (544) 4. Vietnam (543) 5. Estonia (530) ... PISA 2018 ranking for Reading 1. China (555) 2. Singapore (549) 3. Macau, China (525) 4. Hong Kong, China (524) 5. Estonia (523) ... Source: Programme for International Student Assessment wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment#PISA_2018_ranking_summary
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  66.  @chrishannis1  serpentza and c-milk speak for themselves, they pretend to care about Chinese people, but the truth is that they don't. serpentza calls ethnic Miao clothing as fake costumes worn to promote tourism, and c-milk calls his half-Chinese daughter "it" or "that".
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  67.  The Hate Factory  Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth propagated by the British. According to Gregory Clark, all verified eyewitness accounts present in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 say that Nothing Happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night.
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  68.  The Hate Factory  Source: Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies (By Gregory Clark) ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053
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  69.  Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков  There's a possibility that coronavirus may not have originated in China, only detected in China. An Italian Doctor suggested that Covid-19 was present in Italy since November 2019. "Strange pneumonia" cases were already reported in Nov 2019, back in Lombardy, the northern part of Italy. This was months before China had an outbreak with the virus starting on Dec. China might just be where the first case of Coronavirus was detected, but it is not the main place wherein the virus originated. This is what a leading doctor in Italy confessed in a report saying that there's a possibility that COVID-19 did not originate in Wuhan, China but somewhere else-- or maybe in Italy itself. Source: First 'Strange Pneumonia' Case Reported in November 2019 in Italy techtimes.com/articles/248263/20200323/coronavirus-possibly-come-china-italy-first-detected-strange-pneumonia-months-wuhan-outbreak.htm As mentioned by one of the country's leading doctors named Giuseppe Remuzzi, the director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, he said that there were already few cases in Italy of this unknown virus that has been severe for older people in Nov. up to Dec.
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  70.  @pop-4567  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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  71.  @everythingandmore5537  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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  72.  @geoeconomics3067  No EurAsian challenger? So if an African or South American challenger rises someday in the future to challenge the United States, does that mean it is permitted? Or is white supremacy so deep rooted, that the thought of an African superpower is too absurd that it's simply not given consideration.
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  73.  @geoeconomics3067  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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  74.  @MarkYeung1  Because Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth propagated by the British, so China doesn't want to propagate this myth. Source: Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies (By Gregory Clark) ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053 The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night.
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  75.  @fcl3294  PBS documentary blocked in China? Well, PBS blocked Chinese documentary "China's War on Poverty" (video:youtu.be/nuaJGPZCBYU ) from airing on PBS, because it showed China as "too positive"
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  76.  @kirakamu9246  USA did not liberate China from Japanese rule. Japan clearly refused to surrender even after 2 atomic bombings by the USA and USA didn't even invade Japanese mainland. It was actually thanks to the Soviet invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria that was the last campaign fought of WWII and finally caused Japan to surrender. So if anything, it was thanks to the Communist Party of Soviet Union who finally brought an end to WWII and caused Japan to surrender. Not the US atomic bombings.
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  77.  @MarkYeung1  "神州 Shenzhou South China Sea is not entirely China. That's the ruling of the international Court." What "International Court" ruling? The ruling was made by Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) which is not a recognised UN agency it only shares the same office space in the Hague as the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Source: United Nations stresses separation from Hague tribunal scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1989486/united-nations-stresses-separation-hague-tribunal The Permanent Court of Arbitration rents space in the same building as the UN’s International Court of Justice, but the two organisations are not related Since the ruling was made by a non-UN agency, then China reserves the right not to adhere to it's ruling.
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  78.  @kirakamu9246  The US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki mostly killed Japanese civilians, women, children, the elderly, and men unfit for active military duty. The vast majority of Japanese military strength remained unaffected by the atomic bombings, that's why Japan refused to surrender even after the bombings. It was thanks to the Soviet Union invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria that was the last campaign fought of WWII and finally caused Japan to surrender. Source: Soviet Invasion of Manchuria was the last campaign fought of WWII wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria So wasn't it the Communists that finally caused Japan to surrender?
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  79.  @kirakamu9246  And today, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is clearly part of China, so is Tibet Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia also part of China. Even Mongolia today is a fraction of it's former glory under the Mongolian Empire, it was Kublai Khan (descendent of Genghis Khan) who abandoned his babaric nomadic ways and adopted Han culture, proclaiming himself Emperor of Yuan 元 Dynasty China.
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  80.  @kirakamu9246  The Jurchens homeland of Manchuria is now part of China. China has 5000 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.
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  81.  @kirakamu9246  The Uighur population in China actually tripled in size from 3 million to 10 million Uighurs in 2010. The latest official figure for Uighurs is 12.8 million in 2018, so clearly the Uighur population is growing. The population of Tibetans in China have also tripled from 2 million in 1953 to 6 million in 2010. Population of Tibetans in China from 1953 to 2010. 1953: 2,775,622 1964: 2,501,174 1982: 3,821,950 1990: 4,593,072 2000: 5,416,021 2010: 6,282,187 …… Source: Demographics of China wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Ethnic_groups
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  82.  @kirakamu9246  In China, the Chinese government controls the state-owned companies for China's benefit, whereas in USA, the U.S corporations control the U.S government for war and profit.
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  83.  @kirakamu9246  All land in China belongs to the state, therefore, it belongs to the people of China. In the West, you can sell your property to foreigners (including Chinese buyers) and your land prices fluctuate uncontrollably or come under the control of foreign powers. Because your government allows it. In China, you can't sell land to foreigners, even Chinese can't selling our lands to foreigners permanently, because all land is property of the people of China and don't deserve to fall into foreign hands. So we avoid the problem that Western countries are facing when Chinese buyers purchase your property. Which system is superior in the long term?
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  84.  @kirakamu9246  The Communist Party of China owns all public utilities like electricity, water and gas, so that the cost of utilities will be affordable to the masses. Look at the example where Texas has that power shortage during Winter conditions, because their electric grid is privatised and disconnected from the main grid. When the private companies control your water, gas and electricity, then they can always hike up the price, making customers pay more money for utilities. The People's Liberation Army is loyal to the Communist Party of China, because otherwise, there might be a military coup like in Thailand where the military seizes control of a country from the government. Then the ordinary people suffer because of miltary coups.
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  85.  @kirakamu9246  Besides the Communist Party of China (CPC) 中国共产党（中共）China has 8 other political parties and they are: -China Zhi Gong Party (CZGP) 中国致公党（致公党） -Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP) 中国农工民主党（农工党） -China Democratic League (CDL) 中国民主同盟（民盟） -Jiusan Society (JS) 九三学社 -China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA) 中国民主建国会（民建） -China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) 中国民主促进会（民进） -Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSGL) 台湾民主自治同盟（台盟） -Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK) 中国国民党革命委员会（民革）
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  86.  @kirakamu9246  China experiences on average some 500 protests daily over wide variety of grievances, including corruption, forced evictions, unpaid wages, human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ethnic protests, petitioning for religious freedom and civil liberties, protests against one-party rule, as well as nationalist protests against foreign countries. The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8,700 "mass group incidents" in 1993 to over 87,000 in 2005. In 2006, the _Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010._ Source: Protest and dissent in China wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China That's an average of 493 protests every day in 2010.
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  87.  @kirakamu9246  China has 5000 years of history and obviously it's not going to be all sunshine and rainbows throughout China's long history. The Great Wall of China for example, is the world's largest graveyard where many political dissidents were sent to work, died and buried into it's walls. Yet the Great Wall of China is a tourist attraction, because it's an inalienable part of our history.
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  88.  @kirakamu9246  Qin Shihuang Di, the First Emperor of China, was the man who unified several warring states into Qin Dynasty, the first unified Chinese dynasty (so much that the name China is named after Qin) It was Qin Shihuang who unified the written language (Hanzi 汉字) the Chinese characters used by Chinese today, and he standardised commerce, currencies, weights and numerous economic policies. The Qin Emperor's Tomb and Terracotta Army in Xi'an 西安 is one of the greatest archaeological excavations of our time. It's part of Chinese cultural heritage and remains a popular tourist attraction even today. Video: Terracotta Army, Xian, China in 4K (Ultra HD) youtu.be/VhIouznYlvo The Terracotta Army was created during the reign of the first emperor of China's Qin dynasty (221-207 B.C.), to protect the emperor's tomb. 700,000 people probably worked on the site, near the city of Xian, for almost three decades. More than 8000 figures have been excavated so far. The tomb has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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  89.  @kirakamu9246  Chairman 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 couldn't possibly control the weather isn't it? And even if he could, he would have wished for fair weather and bountiful harvests, because he wants to make China strong enough to resist foreign imperialism. If not for Chairman Mao Zedong, China today would be a weak and divided country, fighting among ourselves instead of the strong unified country we are today. It was Mao and the communists who unified China and founded the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 in 1949, where the previous Nationalist Kuomintang failed under the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) for 37 years.
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  90.  @kirakamu9246  Have you visited the Great Wall? China has many historical monuments like The Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Qin Emperor Tomb, Terracotta Army, The Grand Canal (world's oldest and longest artificial river) and many more historical sites. Here's some videos of Chinese historical monuments. Video: The Great Wall of China in 4k - DJI Phantom 4 youtu.be/EotbKqZmBuY?t=20 Video: Forbidden City, Beijing, China in 4K (Ultra HD) youtu.be/R9vcSWb6mug
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  91.  @kirakamu9246  Speaking of skyscrapers, China is home to many of the world's skyscrapers. Countries or Jurisdictions Ranked by Number of 150m+ Completed Buildings 1. China (2,395) 2. United States (825) 3. United Arab Emirates (268) 4. Japan (261) 5. South Korea (233) 6. Australia (122) 7. Canada (112) 8. Thailand (108) 9. Indonesia (105) 10. Malaysia (97) ... Source: Countries or Jurisdictions Ranked by Number of 150m+ Completed Buildings skyscrapercenter.com/countries
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  92.  @kirakamu9246  Han Chinese is a concept developed after Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD). The Chinese characters standardised by Qin Shihuang was later known as Hanzi 汉子 after the concept of Han wss developed in China.
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  93.  @kirakamu9246  Chinese invented the Four Great Inventions (四大发明) which have greatly influenced the world through their respective areas. Paper and Printing made the transcribing and transmission of knowledge easier. The Compass made navigation easier and dangerous journeys safer and more reliable. And Gunpowder has changed the way modern wars are fought.
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  94.  @kirakamu9246  The Mongols were nomadic tribesmen who lived off the land and simply moved to greener pastures once the grass is exhausted. It was Han farmers who worked hard growing rice, crops and so on to feed people. When times were lean for Mongols, these warriors invaded Han villages to kill farmers and plunder their hard grown food for themselves, razing villages and raping women. What sort of honor is that? To plunder hard grown food, because their culture is nomadic so they don't grow their own food?
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  95.  @kirakamu9246  With Chinese invention of paper, came inventions like paper lanterns, paper umbrellas and paper banknote (which made business transactions easier since merchants need not carry around lots of metal coinage and precious stones) Mankind's first aviation was in the form of paper kite, and even hot air balloons were invented in China, and were known as Sky Lanterns (天灯) or Kongming Lanterns (孔明灯) Here is beautiful video of RISE Lantern Festival in Las Vegas, celebrated with Chinese Sky Lanterns. Video: youtu.be/SNtwlBbBdb4?t=10 (Suggestion: Watch in HD Fullscreen for best experience)
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  96.  @kirakamu9246  Firearms were invented in China around 1250 AD when the man-portable fire lance (a bamboo or metal tube that could shoot ignited gunpowder) was combined with projectiles such as scrap metal, broken porcelain, or darts/arrows. The oldest firearm in the world is Heilongjiang Handcannon. It was made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China. The firearm had a 6.9 inch barrel of a 1-inch diameter, a 2.6 inch chamber for the gunpowder and a socket for the firearm's handle. It is 13.4 inches long and 7.8 pounds without the handle, which would have been made of wood. Source: History of the firearm wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_firearm
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  97.  @kirakamu9246  The handgrenade was invented in China. In China, during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), weapons known as Zhen Tian Lei (震天雷, "Sky-shaking Thunder") were created when Chinese soldiers packed gunpowder into ceramic or metal containers. In 1044, a military book Wujing Zongyao ("Compilation of Military Classics") described various gunpowder recipes in which one can find, according to Joseph Needham, the prototype of the modern hand grenade. The mid-14th-century book Huolongjing (火龍經, "Fire Dragon Manual"), written by Jiao Yu (焦玉), recorded an earlier Song-era cast-iron cannon known as the "flying-cloud thunderclap cannon" (飛雲霹靂炮; feiyun pili pao). Sourceb Grenade wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade#Early_grenades
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  98.  @kirakamu9246  About composite bows, Chinese invented crossbows that allow untrained peasants to face off against skilled bowmen on a more equal footing. The earliest known crossbows were invented in the first millennium BC, not later than the 7th century BC in ancient China. Source: Crossbow wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbow#History We know this because crossbow triggers have been found buried in Chinese tombs, where the wooden parts has eroded away, leaving the bronze triggers behind.
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  99.  @kirakamu9246  Chinese are arguably among the most diligent and intelligent people in the world. Having the world's largest population, 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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  100.  @kirakamu9246  These poor Chinese parents, they live frugal lives, saving up money to send their kids to school to learn English and seek a better life than their parents. The Chinese kids strive for high grades where possible, they try not to party their life away or get involved in drugs, and when they graduate, they take on stereotypical Chinese white collar jobs like lawyer, doctors, dentists, engineers, scientist, mathematicians, computer programmers, bankers, businessmen, you name it, Chinese workers are qualified for it. This is the essence of Confucian virtues (that you keep mocking) that brought success to Chinese who were poor. Imagine all of these happening a billion times and that's how China transformed from a once dirt-poor, war-torn, starving country in the past, into an economic juggernaut today, the world's factory (Made in China) a growing scientific and technological power, protected by world's largest land army, the People's Liberation Army.
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  101.  @kirakamu9246  The throne of China is an ambitious prize that many have fought for, spilled blood and sacrificed much to obtain. Chinese Emperors trusted no men able to sire heirs that aren't of the Royal Imperial family, in the Imperial harem, so only eunuchs were permitted to stay in the Imperial harem. Such men sacrifice much, but they gain the Emperor's favour and bring wealth back to their impoverished families back in their home province. This is a glimpse of China's political system which has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest "continuous" civilizations. Rather than apply your own biased modern interpretation, why not analyse the logic and necessity behind such practices at that time?
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  102.  @kirakamu9246  China's Type 99 Main Battle Tank has commanded healthy respect from international observers, as its performance parameters are equal to many top Western designs (like the Russian T-90 and the US M1 Abrams), and the Type 99 also packs a few unique tricks of its own. Source: China's Deadly Type 99 Tank vs. Russia's T-90 and America's M-1 Abrams nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/chinas-deadly-type-99-tank-vs-russias-t-90-americas-m-1-17836 China's Type 99 Main Battle Tank was even featured in our 70th anniversary National Day parade. Video: China's new generation main battlefield tanks revealed in National Day Parade youtu.be/Ec4Bu2orKTk
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  103.  @kirakamu9246  If you want to talk about country's dependency, look no further than the world's dependence on China for Rare Earth metals. China controls 90% of the world's rare earth production, which are necessary components in phone screens, TV screens, DVDs, LCD, LED lights, rechargeable batteries, hard disks, magnets, fibre optics, lasers, wind turbines, solar panels, oil refineries, aircraft engines, jet engines, etc. Your own phone, computer, TV, makes use of Rare Earth Metals, of which China controls 90% of global production, that's how dependent the world is on China for materials relating to technology.
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  104.  @kirakamu9246  Take smartphones for example, and China has produced many successful smartphone companies like Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, ZTE, OnePlus, Tecno, and so on. Top 10 Global Smartphone Brands in 2019 1st place : Samsung (South Korean) 2nd Place : Apple (American) 3rd Place : Huawei (Chinese) 4th Place : Oppo (Chinese) 5th Place : Vivo (Chinese) 6th Place : Xiaomi (Chinese) 7th Place : LG (South Korean) 8th Place : Lenovo (Chinese) 9th Place : ZTE (Chinese) 10th Place : Alcatel-Lucent (French) ... Source: Top 10 Global Smartphone Brands in 2019 mbaskool.com/fun-corner/top-brand-lists/17610-top-10-global-mobile-phone-brands.html But where are the famous companies from Thailand to compare with China?
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  105.  @kirakamu9246  China has inducted the world's first operational anti-ship ballistic missile, a "carrier killer" capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads, known as the DF-21D. Video: China DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile 1080pHD youtu.be/p-cEunmqXM8 It's launched from a mobile land launcher and able to target an aircraft carrier strike group on the sea, using its advanced maneuverability systems to evade anti-missile defenses and is even capable of "terminal guidance", making last minute adjustments in it's trajectories just seconds before impact.
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  106.  @kirakamu9246  If eating these "red pills" have demonstrated a marked improvement of the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of people as important as Emperors, then what's wrong with it? Menstrual discharge may contain nutrients and provide health benefits, but this knowledge has been lost to time or because of different set of virtues. I mean, pregnant mothers have eaten their placentas and reported it raising their energies, immunities, nourishes the exhausted mother, reduce post natal depression, encourage milk production, and so on. Source: Eating the placenta babycenter.com/baby/postpartum-health/eating-the-placenta_40008062 And the placenta is sometimes consumed in the form of capsules, much like the "red pills" you described.
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  107.  @kirakamu9246  Animals do it. Chinese medicine has advocated it for centuries. While eating your placenta, called placentophagy, isn't a new idea, it’s been getting a lot of buzz in recent years. whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/ask-heidi/eating-the-placenta.aspx
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  108.  @kirakamu9246  Rockets were literally invented in ancient China. The first gunpowder-powered rockets evolved in medieval China under the Song dynasty by the 13th century. The oldest known depiction of rocket arrows came from the Huolongjing 《火龙经》 Source: Rocket wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#History Therefore, is China the father of all rocket based technology, according to your logic?
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  109.  @kirakamu9246  China is home to the world's longest range ICBM, the DF-41 with operational range between 12,000 km to 15,000 km, surpassing the US LGM-30 Minuteman range of 13,000 km. Video: China missile test DF-41 launch from railroad train youtu.be/h2kjMctT8yU?t=13
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  110.  @kirakamu9246  China's Type 99 or ZTZ-99 is 3rd generation battle tank that is ranked among the World's Top 10 Main Battle Tanks, with advanced features including: -a fully stabilised smoothbore gun with autoloader, capable of firing anti-tank sniper missiles, and speculated to be able to penetrate the armour of the US M1 Abrams at close range with tungsten rounds. -Composite armour hull with front portion and turret protected by explosive reactive armour that resist enemy shell penetration. -A multi-layered radar system that detects and denotates incoming enemy missiles before impact. -A laser warning receiver that warns the tank commander that the tank is being painted by hostile lasers. Source: China showcases Type 99 Battle Tank youtu.be/ktniek01Xyw Source: Top 10 Most Powerful Tanks youtu.be/M3n6q_dTjfk?t=385 And its up there with the fastest to boot, equipped with turbo-charged engine providing a maximum road speed of 50 mph (80 kph).
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  111.  @kirakamu9246  China has even sent people into space. In 2003, Yang Liwei became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program, on board Shenzhou-5 (神舟五号) spacecraft. Video: Yang Liwei: China's first astronaut in space youtu.be/tIviKg4Mduw This makes China the world's 3rd country to independently conduct human spaceflight. China is the 1st Asian country to achieve such a feat, even other Asian countries like Japan, Korea and India have not conducted independent manned space missions of their own thus far.
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  112.  @kirakamu9246  All those electronics, turbines, jet engines, rocket circuitry, camera screens, they make use of Rare Earth metals, of which China controls 90% of global Rare Earth production. Even your phone camera, screen, LED light etc make use of Rare Earth metals and have a 90% chance of coming from China, so according to your logic, that means China is your father?
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  113.  @kirakamu9246  According to your logic, China is the father of Japan and Korea? Take Han Chinese traditional clothing Hanfu (汉服) for example and it has 5,000 years of history and even the Japanese Kimono and Korean Hanbok clothing have their origins in Chinese Hanfu. Video: Beautiful Traditional Costume: Han Chinese Clothing (Hanfu) youtu.be/T6CucJxiWec?t=5
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  114.  @kirakamu9246  China even has hypersonic missiles like the DF-ZF, which have been tested 7 times already and travels at speeds between 4,000 and 7,000 miles per hour. Source: China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Missile freebeacon.com/national-security/china-successfully-tests-hypersonic-missile/ U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that China plans to use the glider to deliver nuclear weapons through increasingly sophisticated missile defenses. The DF-ZF also could be used as part of a conventional strategic strike weapon capable of hitting targets around the world within an hour.
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  115.  @kirakamu9246  In 2008, China even conducted our very own "spacewalk" where Chinese taikonaut exited Shenzhou-7 (神舟七号) spacecraft into outer space. Video: Chinese astronaut makes nation's first spacewalk youtu.be/9PAkbT4kTpI?t=280 China is the world's 3rd country to successfully conduct extravehicular activity in space, after USA and USSR, as well as being the 1st Asian country to achieve such a feat. Even other Asian countries like Japan, Korea and India have not achieved such a feat.
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  116.  @kirakamu9246  Hukou system is to ensure that everyone in China don't all rush to go live in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, etc and so on. It's a common story in the United States: someone from the countryside move to New York, can't afford apartment, can't find a job, can't afford rent, gets evicted, becomes homeless and propagate the poverty cycle. According to Kishore Mahbubani, the USA is the only developed country where the bottom of 50% of income groups have grown poorer. The Hukou system in China ensures that our top cities are not swamped by rural immigrants and tax the cities resources to overcapacity. It's a harsh but a necessary measure regardless.
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  117.  @kirakamu9246  The spoken dialects of Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, etc) may be different, but the written form of Chinese characters is recognisable between different provinces of China. Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world, having been used since 1200 BCE and today, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world by number of speakers. Whereas other ancient scripts like Sumerian Cuneiform (Mesopotamia) Latin and Egyptian Hieroglyphs are considered dead languages today, since they are no longer evolving with the times and no new words being added into their vocabulary. Source: Chinese characters wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters
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  118.  @kirakamu9246  China been invaded by Khitans, Xiongnu, Jurchens, etc then why is the world so afraid of China? If we are as weak as you say, then obviously China poses threat to the world, you can rest easy. Just go back to sleep, why harbor so much pent up resentment for a weak country like you claimed?
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  119.  @fcl3294  "神州 Shenzhou Whataboutism" You're the one who brought up PBS documentary blocked in China, then why can't I bring up Chinese documentary "China's War on Poverty" being blocked by PBS? If our documentary did not meet PBS editorial standards, then I can also claim that the PBS documentary did not meet China's standards, that's why it was blocked in China. It's tit-for-tat. If the PBS documentary is funded by anti-China organisations then China reserves the right to block it, just as PBS did over allegations of funding. …… You said "Is youtube available in the PRC? - NO" Who said YouTube is not available in China? Nobody will come arrest you just for login into YouTube while in China, which person has been arrested just for doing so?
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  120.  @fcl3294  But I've already shown that the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" is a Myth propagated by the British and it's clearly wrong, even Wikileaks has shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989. …… You said: "The pictures and films of June 4th 1989 reminds me of Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Soviet invasion of Hungry in 1956. It seems that totalitarian dictatorships have no compunction about using the military against the people in order to stay in power." It also reminds me of January 6th Capitol Hill riots in Washington, where angry Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill and the US National Guard was called in to deal with the situation. Source: Photos Circulate of National Guard Members in Riot Gear Sleeping in Capitol msn.com/en-us/news/us/photos-circulate-of-national-guard-members-in-riot-gear-sleeping-in-capitol/ar-BB1cJ4FZ It shows that USA has no compunctions about calling in the their National Guard to deal with civilians.
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  121.  @kirakamu9246  About China's space exploration, China has even landed on the Moon. In 2013, China landed our very own lunar spacecraft and lunar rover (Chang'e 3 嫦娥-3 and Yutu 玉兔 "Jade Rabbit") on the Moon, making China the world's 3rd nation to make a soft-landing on Earth's celestial neighbor. Source: China Lands On The Moon space.com/23968-china-moon-rover-historic-lunar-landing.html In October 2015, the Jade Rabbit set the record for the longest operational period for a rover on the Moon. The rover's ground penetrating radar found evidence of at least 9 distinct rock layers. Video: China moon landing video: 'Jade Rabbit' rover soft-lands on lunar surface youtu.be/XpAwmVPT758 Through this, China is showing that Chinese people are capable of achieving equally impressive feats as Westerners in space.
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  122.  @kirakamu9246  About Education in China, Chinese students scored the highest in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment or PISA in all 3 subjects: reading, science and mathematics. Source: Chinese Students Top Latest PISA Education Survey learningenglish.voanews.com/a/chinese-students-top-latest-pisa-education-survey/5191518.html PISA 2018 ranking for Mathematics 1. China (591) 2. Singapore (569) 3. Macau, China (558) 4. Hong Kong, China (551) 5. Taiwan, China (531) ... PISA 2018 ranking for Science 1. China (590) 2. Singapore (551) 3. Macau, China (544) 4. Vietnam (543) 5. Estonia (530) ... PISA 2018 ranking for Reading 1. China (555) 2. Singapore (549) 3. Macau, China (525) 4. Hong Kong, China (524) 5. Estonia (523) ... Source: Programme for International Student Assessment wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment#PISA_2018_ranking_summary
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  123.  @kirakamu9246  If you believe China is a very weak country, then you can rest easy. Close your eyes and go back to sleep, knowing that China is a weak country in your dreams. Why harbor so much pent up anger towards what you perceive as a weak slave country?
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  124.  @fcl3294  When did I deflect the question onto another topic? Clearly, the topic is about Tiananmen Square Massacre itself, you're the one trying to move the goalpost to the outside of Tiananmen Square. And I have already stood by my answer, that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth propagated by the British and it's been proven by Wikileaks that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, so when did I deflect the topic? I shown evidence supporting my argument that nothing happened inside Tiananmen Square except for a military unit entering the Square and allowing students who remained in the square to leave peacefully. I have not deviated from the topic one bit and I have stuck to the original topic. You are the one clearly trying to change the topic here not me.
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  125.  @fcl3294  So if Chinese documentary "China's War on Poverty" did not meet PBS editorial standards, then can't China not allow PBS documentary to be shown in China if it doesn't meet China's editorial standards? The PBS documentary funding comes from anti-China establishments so can't China reserve the right not to publish it? I'm saying that nobody will come arrest you just for login into YouTube while in China. You can always use VPN to access YouTube while in China, even watch that PBS documentary you described while in China, and nobody will come arrest you just for doing so.
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  126.  @fcl3294  Why are you deliberately trying to change the topic? The original topic was about Tiananmen Square Massacre, and I have already proven that it's a Myth propagated by the British. All verified eyewitness accounts say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. Yet you're accusing me of changing the topic when I stuck to the original topic all this time?
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  127.  @fcl3294  Having a VPN helps protect your online privacy much better. VPN can also help you get better deals online if you select different countries. More users nowadays are using VPN for its numerous benefits. How was Zhang Tao "penalised"? Was he sentenced to jail or just given a warning? As long as you use government-approved VPN providers while in China, then the government will leave you alone. But if you use illegal VPN provider while in China then you're breaking the law.
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  128.  @jjbuzz9230  Those Chinese abroad who claimed to personally witnessed Tiananmen Square Massacre have been debunked. According to my Jay Matthews source: a Qinghua University student described machine guns mowing down students in front of the Monument to the People’s Heroes in the middle of the square. The New York Times gave this version prominent display on June 12, just a week after the event, but no evidence was ever found to confirm the account or verify the existence of the alleged witness. (So where is the evidence to substantiate the gunning down of students in the Middle of the Square?) Also… Student leader Wu’er Kaixi said he had seen 200 students cut down by gunfire, but it was later proven that he left the square several hours before the events he described allegedly occurred. (So how could Wu’er Kaixi have seen those 200 students cut down by gunfire, when he left the square several hours before?) So what makes you think just because you personally know one of those refugees yourself, that what he or she said is true? Even Wikileaks has shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989.
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  129.  @jjbuzz9230  You really think China can control the thoughts and actions of all 1.4 billion people in China? Haven't you been on Chinese social media like WeChat, Sina Weibo, Renren, Pengyou, QQ Tencent Video, Xiao HongShu, Douban, Toutiao, Kuaishou, and see what Chinese people say about our government? Even offline, have you talked to Chinese people ourselves and sound out our political views, before making such a claim?
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  130.  @jjbuzz9230  So if according to you, TV anchors are forced to brainwashed our people to raise our kids in China, then why are there still so many Chinese international students flooding Western schools and universities? China sends more students overseas than any other country in the world. Source: China is now world's biggest source of international students scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1797429/china-now-worlds-biggest-source-international-students-more
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  131.  @jjbuzz9230  What's wrong with promoting popular TV shows with interesting storylines and popular celebrities? Did you know that Chinese drama Story of Yanxi Palace 《延禧攻略》was the most Googled show of 2018? Source: Yanxi Palace: The most Googled show on Earth bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46630781 If China's soft power is growing to match other Asian countries like Japanese Anime or Korean K-pop, then what's wrong with China investing and promoting Chinese dramas?
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  132.  @jjbuzz9230   You said: "That means if you post a review on a Chinese shopping site, you can will need to use your real identity." Because posting anonymous reviews can lead to fake reviews. People give 5-star rating for inferior products, or 0-star rating if they are hired by rival companies. Using real identity helps to verify reviews and reduce the spread of fake reviews, which has proliferated in every area of e-commerce, from electronics to clothes to books to children’s toys. Review tracking website Fakespot, which analyzes reviews from popular e-commerce sites, estimates that a third of online reviews on sites like Walmart.com, Amazon.com, and Sephora.com are fake. WSJ reported that the three retailers have disputed Fakespot’s findings, but have also taken steps to improve the reliability of reviews on their platforms. The US Federal Trade Commission recently revealed that beauty brand Sunday Riley faked reviews of its own products on Sephora’s website for more than two years. Just this week, online gaming service Steam deleted nearly 3,000 glitchy, low-quality games from its storefront, many of which lured buyers with fake reviews. …… In my opinion, if you shop online from a particular website, then you are at least obliged to reveal your identity and give your honest review. Why allow people who may not even shop online at all, to give fake review of products that they probably never used?
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  133.  The Hate Factory  Chairman Mao Zedong is the founding father of the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳. Mao and the communists succeeded in reunifying our divided country where the previous Nationalist Kuomintang failed under Republic of China 🇹🇼 (1912-1949) for 37 years. When Dr Sun Yatsen overthrew the previous Qing Dynasty China and established "democratic" Republic of China (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 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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  134.  The Hate Factory  Chairman 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 couldn't possibly control the weather isn't it? And even if he could, he'll wish for fair weather and bountiful harvests, because he wanted to make China strong enough to resist foreign imperialism. Yet why is he classified as a mass murderer, when those people starved to death because of Great Chinese Famine?
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  135.  @jjbuzz9230  Your link doesn't work, it says 404 您要找的内容不存在！Besides, Epoch Times is Falun Gong media, which always paint negative image of the Communist Party of China, and Falun Gong is actually a cult in disguise. I've already given several sources showing that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, including Wikileaks examples.
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  136.  @jjbuzz9230  A Chilean diplomat (Carlos Gallo) provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: He watched the military enter the square and did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds, although sporadic gunfire was heard. He said that most of the troops which entered the square were actually armed only with anti-riot gear — truncheons and wooden clubs; they were backed up by armed soldiers.” A following cable stated: “A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: Although gunfire could be heard, he said that apart from some beating of students, there was no mass firing into the crowd of students at the monument.” Source:wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html
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  137.  @jjbuzz9230  Which Chinese social media like WeChat, Sina Weibo, Renren, Pengyou, QQ Tencent Video, Xiao HongShu, Douban, Toutiao, Kuaishou, have you been on?
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  138.  @abbotsful  What's your problem with whether I'm born late or not? I've already shown that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053 (By Gregory Clark) and even Wikileaks has shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989.
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  139.  @abbotsful  Did you watch the launch of China's Shenzhou-12 (神周-12) manned spacecraft, carrying taikonauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo, to the Chinese Space Station's core module Tianhe (天和)? Video: Live: Special coverage on Shenzhou-12 crewed mission to Chinese Space Station youtu.be/cburnLophMs
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  140.  @abbotsful  Yes, China's space milestones are mounting, with the lunar landing on the far side of the Moon, lunar rock samples collection, Zhurong landing on Mars, and now launching our Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft to Tianhe core module of the our space station. I'm personally glad that I'm born at the point in time, to witness China's rise from a once dirt-poor, starving country in the past, into an economic juggernaut today, the factory of the world and a growing spacefaring nation. It shows that Chinese are just as capable of making equally amazing accomplishments in space as other people.
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  141.  @jansg405  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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  142.  @abbotsful  What's the point then? You said you have no problem with me being so born late (you said: "神州 Shenzhou no problem of mine") then can't I point out how glad I am to be born in a time where China's space exploration millstones are mounting?
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  143. @Leo Lam Agreed, whereas many Americans are stuck inside their bubble. Many aren't aware of the developments happening in China and many consider the thought of actually "learning something from China" absurd and utterly ridiculous.
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  144.  @abbotsful  You said: "and it's the history written by the party that you believe." I literally gave sources from Gregory Clark and Jay Matthews, even Wikileaks has shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, so is this really written by the Communist Party of China? Since you claimed earlier that you have no problem (you said: "神州 Shenzhou no problem of mine,") then what is your problem?
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  145.  @abbotsful  You said "it's the history written by the party that you believe." but I have already proven using Western sources like Jay Matthews and Gregory Clark that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth. Do you agree that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989? Even Wikileaks has shown that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth.
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  146.  @abbotsful  But we are clearly talking about Tiananmen Square Massacre itself, why are you extending it to outside Tiananmen Square? Aren't you deliberately trying to shift the goalpost of this discussion?
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  147.  @nicholaslee5473  About Chinese using English to count in kick boxing during sparring training, since the sparring is held in China, then not all participants understand counting in English. The instructions and countdown should be in a language understandable/comfortable to all participants in such an event. Remember that China has many mutually unintelligible dialects and Mandarin is the common dialect. Secondly, learning about the West is not just limited to language alone, it can be about learning about Western politics, economics, geography, literature, culture, movies, comicbook heros, games, etc.
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  148.  @nicholaslee5473  Mandarin Chinese is the world's most spoken language by number of native speakers. Learning Chinese enables one to communicate with estimated 20% of the world's population. The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World 1. Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers 2. Spanish — 471 Million Native Speakers 3. English — 370 Million Native Speakers 4. Hindi — 342 Million Native Speakers 5. Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers 6. Portuguese — 232 Million Native Speakers 7. Bengali — 229 Million Native Speakers 8. Russian — 154 Million Native Speakers 9. Japanese — 126 Million Native Speakers 10. Lahnda (Western Punjabi) — 118 Million Native Speakers Source: The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World babbel.com/en/magazine/the-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world
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  149.  @abbotsful  "神州 Shenzhou no, the massacre was all about the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square" Yes, but I have cited several Western sources like Jay Matthews, Gregory Clark, and even Wikileaks, showing that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, so the Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth that's all. Do you agree that there was no bloodshed in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989?
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  150.  @nicholaslee5473  Chinese languages are spoken all across the globe. Virtually every major city in the world has their own "Chinatown" where people can gather to appreciate Chinese culture and sample Chinese cuisine. Chinese characters can be seen written on street signs and restaurant menus in Chinatowns all over the globe. Learning Mandarin Chinese enables one to at least communicate with up to a fifth of the world's population. Before 2019, Chinese tourists can be found all over the world, spending money on your economy, so much such that more and more tourists agencies were offering tours in Mandarin to cater to Chinese tourists. Even Western schools and universities were positively flooded with Chinese international students studying the same topics as their peers.
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  151.  @nicholaslee5473  About Chinese cultural icons making it to the West, there's Chinatowns in virtually every major city in the world, like I mentioned earlier. There's Chinese Kung Fu movies, that featured martial artists like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc that are popular. Chinese food is also famous all over the world, there's statistic that there are around 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the USA. That's already more Chinese Restaurants in US than McDonald's stores worldwide. Source: More Chinese Restaurants in US than McDonald's Stores Worldwide studyinchina.com.my/web/page/more-chinese-restaurants-in-us-than-mcdonalds/
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  152.  @abbotsful  I agree that there were indeed student demonstrations inside Tiananmen Square itself. However, all verified eyewitness accounts say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night, according to Gregory Clark. The original story of Chinese troops on the night of 3 and 4 June, 1989 machine-gunning hundreds of innocent student protesters in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square has since been thoroughly discredited by the many witnesses there at the time -- among them a Spanish TVE television crew, a Reuters correspondent and protesters themselves, who say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. Source: Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth, All We're 'Remembering' are British Lies ibtimes.co.uk/tiananmen-square-massacre-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies-1451053 (By Gregory Clark)
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  153.  @nicholaslee5473  You yourself brought up consumerism when you mentioned McDonald’s, Hollywood, basketball, football, in China, then can't I bring up the statistic that there are more Chinese restaurants in USA than McDonald’s stores worldwide? Video: More Chinese restaurants in US than McDonald’s stores worldwide youtu.be/6PQzUKxb48M Experts estimate that there are more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the US now, a number that outstrips the total number of McDonald’s outlets in the world, estimated at 36,000. Chinese food has been around in the US since the mid-1800s, when a huge influx of Chinese immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush. About Hollywood, China has our own movie studio (in fact, the world's largest outdoor film studio) to film Chinese movies such as martial arts flicks and period historical dramas in China. Video: The Largest Outdoor Film Studio is Actually in China youtu.be/pWjsD-tJ9ss Hengdian World Studios, better known as 'Chinawood,' is the biggest outdoor movie set in the world. From ancient temples to modern streets, it's more than the size of Paramount and Universal, combined.
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  154.  @nicholaslee5473  About incentives to learn the Chinese language, its no secret today that America is in decline and China is rising. The trajectories are pretty much set and many economists firmly believe China's economy is expected to surpass the United State's economy sometime in the foreseeable future. Because of this, there is an incentive to learn Mandarin Chinese because business opportunities abound in China, especially once China eventually overtakes the USA. For example, when it comes to book publishing, China produced 470,000 new titles while the United States churned out just under 339,000. The United Kingdom rounded off the top three with 173,000 books. Source: Which Countries Produce The Most Books? statista.com/chart/12358/which-countries-produce-the-most-books/ Countries by books published in 2015 1. China (470,000) 2. United States (338,986) 3. United Kingdom (173,000) 4. France (106,760) 5. Germany (89,506) 6. Brazil (88,685) 7. Japan (76,445) …… Given that China publishes more books than any other in the world is an incentive to learn Chinese language.
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  155.  @nicholaslee5473  About incentives to learn Chinese, China actually 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) ... 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 implies that Chinese as a language is going to grow in importance as more scientific discoveries are being made in China, and new scientific concepts, ideas, terminologies, are being made in Chinese language. This provides an impetus for Western scientists and researchers to learn Chinese in order to gain access to new discoveries being made in China.
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  156.  @nicholaslee5473  As China's domestic film market grows in size, Hollywood is increasingly catering more movies to suit Chinese audiences (it's the largest movie market outside of the USA). What this implies is that more Chinese/Asian actors and actresses possibly get cast into Hollywood movies in order to pique the interest of Chinese audiences. This is my personal opinion, but as a Chinese myself, I wish there were more Chinese/Asian actors on screen in Hollywood movies. There is good representation of African Americans in Hollywood movies, but less so for Asian Americans. In Hollywood, most Asian actors/actresses often get casted into stereotypical "Asian roles" like nerds, martial artists, sidekicks (Kato in Green Hornet), triad gangsters, dragon ladies, tiger moms, china dolls, prostitutes, damsels in distress (for Caucasian male lead to save) and other minor roles. If China's growing movie market is impacting Hollywood to produce films that cater more to Chinese tastes, then I personally support having more Asian actors/actresses on screen, cast into various different roles, even if just to gain more fame and acting experience for themselves.
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  157.  @abbotsful  Yes, there was student demonstrations inside Tiananmen Square itself, and the army was sent into the Square. However, according to Jay Matthews, reporter The Washington Post as far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 and all verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully. Source: The Myth of Tiananmen: And the price of a passive press (By Jay Mathews) archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php But earlier, why did you say "it's the history written by the party that you believe." when I have already proven using Western sources like Jay Matthews and Gregory Clark, that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth?
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  158.  @nicholaslee5473  Because those Chinese research articles have obviously been translated into English in the Institute for Scientific Information in order to be understood by Western scientists. However, everyone knows that during the process of translating from one language to another, some expressions or meanings may be loss through translation. As for the high quantity of publications, China is a relative new-comer to the scientific publications industry. The reason the Chinese government incentivised publications to produce quantity over quality is to build up our initial base. Our scientists started publishing literally from scratch, so publishing huge quantities of papers is needed to gain experience and build up our foundation, of which we can work on to improve on quality publication later. This is the strategy adopted by China to rise in the scientific research fields. …… You said: "This is the classical example of China being China. The global scientific community shares research which is why they use English as a medium." This is where the Western "racist" mindset kicks in. The reason why the Western countries are able to maintain their dominance in the scientific fields, is because they force other non-English speaking countries to adhere to using English in their publications. China is under no obligation to use English for our scientific publications, if Western scientists want access to Chinese papers, then they'll have to learn Chinese in order to fully comprehend the concepts, ideas and terminologies being discussed among Chinese scientists. …… You said: "Publishing it in Mandarin is not an efficient way for technological progress at all for the global scientific community. It's a hoarding behavior and while it may make it easier for scientists in China, it's incompatibility with the world's journals make it even less accurate." I disagree with this accessment. A non-English speaking scientist is more comfortable with his/her own native language, and it may not be efficient for the scientist to communicate concepts and ideas if forced to use only English terminologies. Your statement suggests that non-English speaking countries need to bow down to the power of the West in the scientific fields. And I also disagree that just because Chinese journals may not be compatible with Western journals doesn't imply our publication is inaccurate. China is building up a baseline of scientific publications of our own (like you said earlier) and while it is true that currently it is more quantity than quality, our repository of research publications is only going to improve as time goes by, until hopefully it will become an acceptable and reliable pillar of Chinese scientific publications. …… You said: "Scientific research journals need citations and references from other works, if you are only able to publish in Chinese, you lose a lot of revelant sources which are not in Chinese." This is where the repository of Chinese publications comes into players. Right now the baseline is more quantity than quality like you said, but it's expected to improve with time. I also think Western countries are perhaps a little too obsessed with citations, so much such that the practical applications of their papers are oftentimes overlooked. 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. …… Lastly, while China may be cutting funding to poor publications, China's R&D expenditure ranks 2nd in the world after the USA. Here is a list of countries by R&D spending. Countries by R&D Spending 1. United States ($612.714 billion) 2. China ($514.798 billion) 3. Japan ($172.614 billion) 4. Germany ($131.932 billion) 5. South Korea ($100.055 billion) 6. France ($63.658 billion) 7. India ($58.691 billion) 8. United Kingdom ($51.702 billion) …… Source:wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending#List
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  159.  @nicholaslee5473  Because Hollywood is driven by making profit in the Chinese movie market, that China can exert influence on Hollywood. For example, making them partner up with local Chinese film companies to co-produce films, possibly casting more Chinese/Asian actors and actresses in order to cater to Chinese audience's tastes, and to allow Asian actors/actresses to gain valuable acting experience and to become more visible in the market. In alien movies, fChinese/Asians are humans* too, the Americans see no problem with casting African Americans (i.e Will Smith in Independence Day) in alien flicks, then why not Asian Americans? …… You said: "African Americans are well-represented because they are Americans." Correct, but so are Asian Americans! Why do many Americans seem to forget that Asian Americans are also Americans? This is part of the perpetual foreigner stereotype that plagues Asian American society, because even though many of them are born in America, went to the same schools as other Americans, yet they are treated like outsiders that don't belong. Source: Perpetual foreigner wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_foreigner Hollywood is indeed experiencing a change because of China. The thing is that Hollywood consistently denies Asian actors/actresses roles in which where a character of Asian descent is played by a Caucasian actor/actress instead. For example, in the Hollywood the Ghost in the Shell movie, the protagonist, major Motoko Kusanagi is played by Caucasian actress Scarlett Johnson. Or the Ancient One of Doctor Strange movie was supposed to be of Tibetan descent, but was casted by Caucasian actress Tilda Swinton and this phenomena is known as white-washing. These are missed opportunities for Asian actors/actresses to get some much needed acting experience to improve their portfolios. The problem with stereotypes is that sometimes they can overwhelm. Even martial arts (which I also embraced as a defining feature of Chinese culture) can backfire, because Asian actors are complaining about how many Hollywood directors expect Asian actors to automatically "know Kung Fu" and to perform martial arts without a background in it. There are rare Hollywood movies where a Chinese/Asian actor takes the male lead, but oftentimes the romance is missing. Like Shanghai Noon, the kissing scenes were by Owen Wilson not Jackie Chan, it's this subtle attempt by Hollywood to paint Asians (especially men) as unattractive. Lastly, yes I agree that it takes skill for Asian actors to portray their roles convincingly. However, in an industry where Asian roles are white-washing, then how do people expect Asians to gain the necessary acting skills and acting experience, if denied the opportunity to shine and increase their exposure? This is the lack of Asian representation plaguing Hollywood today. Hopefully, China's movie market will influence Hollywood to cast more Asian actors/actresses to the give them greater opportunities to shine and gain valuable experience.
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  160.  @abbotsful  I have long answered that nobody died that night in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, and I already gave you my sources. I mean, of course people die every day whether in hospitals, car accidents, falling injuries, and other things, how do you expect there to be absolutely no deaths in a country or city in a single night? We are clearly talking about Tiananmen Square Massacre and that it itself is a Myth, and nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. You're the one trying to change the subject because Tiananmen Square Massacre is a lie.
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  161.  @abbotsful  You didn't even answer my question of why did you say "it's the history written by the party that you believe." when I have already proven using Western sources like Jay Matthews and Gregory Clark, that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth?
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  162.  @nicholaslee5473  I read your source and it says: Most scientific journals in China are not published in English, which has meant that much of current scientific development in China is not readily available to non–Chinese-speaking scientists. A large portion of these journals however, also have an abstract in English. It's not racist to use English language yes. But it is racist to think that China needs to be forced to adopt the use of English language in our scientific publications, just to contribute to global scientific advancements. English may be the lingua fraca of the 19th and 20th century, but that does not guarantee that it will be always be so, for the 21st century and beyond. And I never said that I'm forcing others towards use Chinese, I'm saying that "if Western scientists want access to Chinese papers, then they'll have to learn Chinese in order to fully comprehend the concepts, ideas and terminologies being discussed among Chinese scientists." I disagree that English was just adopted because it was easier to learn. When I first started learning English, I was confused by its grammatical rules (some that don't make sense) and the sheer volume of vocabulary that needed to be learned. Just take the days of the week for example and in English, it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But in Chinese it's just 星期一，星期二，星期三，星期四，星期五，星期六，星期天。(i.e Weekday 1, Weekday 2, Weekday 3, Weekday 4, ……) so if you know how to count in Chinese, then it's much easier rather memorising new words like Monday, Wednesday, etc. Even learning the months of the year like January, February, March, April, etc is another memorization headache for new English learners. Whereas in Chinese, the months are 一月，二月，三月， etc (i.e 1st Month, 2nd Month, 3rd Month, etc) About "China being China," China is charting our own path forward, then what's wrong with China following a path different from Western countries? It's no secret today that America is in decline, and China is rising. The trajectories are pretty much set and many economists firmly believe China's economy is expected to surpass the United State's economy sometime in the foreseeable future. If China can achieve this, then what's wrong with our "displays of power"? 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 Scientists work best in their native languages, what if scientists being forced to use a non-familiar language (like English) is what's hampering actual scientific progress? About whether the information is less impactful globally, it depends on how quickly that scientific research can be put to use in actual applications, such as through tangible products or services. China has the advantage of a short idea-to-product transition time, especially if you come to Shenzhen the scientist's ideas get transformed into applications fast. I believe that my statement that "China is under no obligation to use English for our scientific publications." still stands. The main reason why English dominates the sciences is because many other non-English speaking countries are unable to develop their scientific vocabulary and terminologies to explain the scientific concepts in their native languages. That's why the English language continues to dominate the sciences. As a new-comer to modern scientific publishing, China is building our scientific base and developing our own scientific vocabulary to be on par with English scientific vocabulary someday.
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  163.  @abbotsful  Currently, Hollywood casting Asian Americans doesn't cater to Chinese markets, because most of the Asian American actors/actresses are largely unknown to mainland China, and yes more mainland Chinese are familiar with our own actors/actresses than Asian Americans. It's because of the lack of exposure of Asian American actors in Hollywood film industries, that's why Chinese audiences are often unfamiliar with them. Asian Americans are also Americans too, and they have served in US military (3.7% as you said). It is improbable yes, but not impossible, and there have been numerous African Americans actors in Hollywood as well as Latino actors. A movie is a play that serves to entertain, but for actors and actresses, it's their lifeline and being casted in a movie increases their chances of catapulting into fame. I agree that at the current state, Asian Americans actors/actresses aren't as familiar a face as mainland Chinese actors/actresses, because of lack of exposure. You mentioned that putting mainland Chinese actors/actresses in lead roles feels out of context if they are not American, but why does Hollywood neglect to cast Asian Americans actors/actresses, who are there clearly to serve as a balance between American culture and Asian culture? The problem with Hollywood is that the lack of exposure of Asian Americans actors/actresses is devolving into a never ending cycle. Asian Americans who lack acting skills and experience aren't being casted. Yet at the same time, they need to be casted in more diverse roles to improve their acting skills and gain experience, so it becomes a never-ending cycle to keep Asian Americans actors/actress in a low profile. About Shanghai Noon, I thought it was an American movie, not a Chinese movie. The audience is expected to be American not Chinese, so why would Jackie Chan's role as an imperial guard frolicking with the emperor's daughter, outrage the audience? Hollywood is American yes, but America is home to many people of different races, including Asian Americans, yet cultural stereotypes about the "perpetual foreigner" still persist in USA and the opportunities for Asian actors in Hollywood are extremely limited. Only 5% of characters in 2017's top 100 grossing films were of Asian descent, with just 4 of the movies featuring an Asian lead character. And 37 of those Top 100 movies has no Asian actors at all. Video: Hollywood’s Asian Problem youtu.be/0L6IRJExiG0 Asian American actors/actresses need more exposure and to be casted in more roles to gain acting skills and experience. But few directors are willing to cast them in roles because they have little to no acting skills and experience. This is the problem plaguing Asian American actors in Hollywood.
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  164.  @abbotsful  Are you watching Chinese taikonauts on board the Shenzhou-12 crewed mission to Chinese space station? It's live right now. Video: Special coverage on Shenzhou-12 crewed mission to Chinese Space Station youtu.be/BKfACBZR1ts
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  165.  @nicholaslee5473  Who is considered the "average Joe" in the whole world? The entire population of the USA and Canada makes up 5% of the global population and the population of Europe makes up 10% so combined, Western countries make up 15% of the world's population.
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  166.  @nicholaslee5473  According to your source: Most scientific journals in China are published in Chinese; a few have English translations of abstracts for research articles. Some 189 scientific journals are published in English, of which 29 are health-science journals. Most articles published in English-language scientific journals in China are indexed by Science Citation Index and Engineering Index. I never said that it's racist to use a single language to contribute to easier understanding of the world, I said that it is racist to think China needs to be forced to adopt the use of English language in our scientific publications, just to contribute to global scientific advancements. The reasons why many other non-English speaking countries are unable to fully develop their own scientific terminologies and vocabulary is because they use English language to explain scientific terms which deprives their own native language the opportunity to grow and evolve with science. In China, by publishing research articles in Chinese, our scientists are growing their scientific vocabulary in the process and expanding the use of Chinese in science. A simple poll or survey in English will obviously favor English as an easy language to learn, if conducted in English-speaking countries. But you if you approach this from a non-Native English speaker then it becomes difficult to learn. According to Oxford Royale Academy: Why Is English So Hard to Learn? oxford-royale.com/articles/learning-english-hard/ It’s often said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Given the fact that many of the words we use in English stem from Latin and Ancient Greek words – in common with many other European languages – what is it about English that has attracted this reputation for being so fearsomely difficult? It’s often said that English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Given the fact that many of the words we use in English stem from Latin and Ancient Greek words – in common with many other European languages – what is it about English that has attracted this reputation for being so fearsomely difficult? There's so much more about English that makes it difficult than just the 7 days of the week or the 12 months of the year. You said: "Chinese language has a unique sound for every word to ever exist." but this is untrue, at least in the case of Mandarin. Chinese has many homophones where the words sound the same, such as 由于/鱿鱼 (because/squid) 丫头/鸭头 (girl/duck head) and so on. Learning the sound of 26 English alphabets doesn't automatically guarantee that you can pronounce anything, but once you learned how to pronounce Chinese tones, they are repeated for different words that sound the same, there no real need to "learn a new sound." And even if you could pronounce an English word, you'll still have to memorise it's meaning to understand what the word means. Like memorising "Wednesday is the third day of the Week" or "September is the ninth month", it's basically the same memorising as Chinese characters, except that you can often derive meaning from Chinese characters. However, with the various combinations of 26 alphabets lead to a huge vocabulary of English words. As far as I know, China is not intentionally hoarding research, our scientists prefer to express themselves in their preferred form of language that's all and Chinese articles are available in Chinese to any scientists that wants to peruse them, so why are you accusing China of intentionally hoarding research? I agree that it's easier to start from something (if you know the language). But by starting from something it means that over time, you'll become overdependent on that source. Say for instance, USA decides to one day cut off China's access to scientific journals, then we will be in trouble had China chosen to be over reliant on US scientific publications.
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  167.  @abbotsful  What party's deception and denial? I already said that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth and there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989. Yes, a military unit did enter the Square, however all verified eyewitness accounts say that nothing happened other than a military unit entering and asking several hundred of those remaining to leave the Square late that night. You're the one deliberately trying to promote the myth of Tiananmen Square Massacre. And how's this the party's deception when my sources are from Westerners like Jay Matthews and Gregory Clark?
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  168.  @nicholaslee5473  Currently, Hollywood casting Asian Americans doesn't cater to Chinese markets, because most of the Asian American actors/actresses are largely unknown to mainland China, and yes more mainland Chinese are familiar with our own actors/actresses than Asian Americans. It's because of the lack of exposure of Asian American actors in Hollywood film industries, that's why Chinese audiences are often unfamiliar with them. Asian Americans are also Americans too, and they have served in US military (3.7% as you said). It is improbable yes, but not impossible, and there have been numerous African Americans actors in Hollywood as well as Latino actors. A movie is a play that serves to entertain, but for actors and actresses, it's their lifeline and being casted in a movie increases their chances of catapulting into fame. I agree that at the current state, Asian Americans actors/actresses aren't as familiar a face as mainland Chinese actors/actresses, because of lack of exposure. You mentioned that putting mainland Chinese actors/actresses in lead roles feels out of context if they are not American, but why does Hollywood neglect to cast Asian Americans actors/actresses, who are there clearly to serve as a balance between American culture and Asian culture? The problem with Hollywood is that the lack of exposure of Asian Americans actors/actresses is devolving into a never ending cycle. Asian Americans who lack acting skills and experience aren't being casted. Yet at the same time, they need to be casted in more diverse roles to improve their acting skills and gain experience, so it becomes a never-ending cycle to keep Asian Americans actors/actress in a low profile. About Shanghai Noon, I thought it was an American movie, not a Chinese movie. The audience is expected to be American not Chinese, so why would Jackie Chan's role as an imperial guard frolicking with the emperor's daughter, outrage the audience? Hollywood is American yes, but America is home to many people of different races, including Asian Americans, yet cultural stereotypes about the "perpetual foreigner" still persist in USA and the opportunities for Asian actors in Hollywood are extremely limited. Only 5% of characters in 2017's top 100 grossing films were of Asian descent, with just 4 of the movies featuring an Asian lead character. And 37 of those Top 100 movies has no Asian actors at all. Video: Hollywood’s Asian Problem youtu.be/0L6IRJExiG0 Asian American actors/actresses need more exposure and to be casted in more roles to gain acting skills and experience. But few directors are willing to cast them in roles because they have little to no acting skills and experience. This is the problem plaguing Asian American actors in Hollywood.
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  169.  @nicholaslee5473  You said: "China's war is with the U.S." China does not want war, but that does not mean that China is afraid of war. Western countries' MSM are constantly painting China in a negative light and "demonising" our country, that's why China has no choice but to take necessary defensive measures. For example, Trump's tariffs and US sanctions on China is the US attempt to contain China's rise. American chips are banned from being used in China and Chinese companies like Huawei are banned in USA, others like Tik Tok (by Bytedance) and WeChat are being targeted, so possibly the same thing could happen when USA tries to lock China out of scientific publications. That's why China needs to take the necessary precautions against such possible actions, and to build up our scientific publications database of our own. Once again, I would like to reiterate that China does not hoard research, our scientific articles are clearly available in Chinese language for perusal by scientists and it is racist to think that China should alter our scientific publications to be in English. China is under no obligation to use English for scientific publications. While English was the lingua fraca of the 19th and 20th century, there is no guarantee that it will remain so for the 21st century and beyond. The English language was able to dominate the world through 19th century British colonialism as well as the 20th century United States emergence as a world superpower, but for the 21st century, it is forecasted to be an "Asian century" with the rise of China. It's true that currently, the English scientific database is strong and reliable with centuries of scientific work and China is a relative new-comer to the scene, however this may not always be the case in the future, as China builds upon our own scientific research database. I believe that although it's initially disadvantageous in the short term, the benefits of China's scientific research will eventually pay off in the long term, and China needs to take necessary defensive measures to guard against the US attempt to contain our rise. China has world's 2nd largest military spending, I agree, but impressive as it is, it still pales in comparison to the number 1 military spending in the world, the USA's. USA spends more money on defense than the next 10 countries' combined. List of countries by military expenditures 1. United States ($778.0 billion) 2. China ($253 billion) 3. India ($72.9 billion) 4. Russian Federation ($61.7 billion) 5. United Kingdom ($59.2 billion) 6. Saudi Arabia ($57.5 billion) 7. Germany ($52.8 billion) 8. France ($52.7 billion) 9. Japan ($49.1 billion) 10. South Korea ($45.7 billion) …… Source: List of countries by military expenditures wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures#Total_military_spending Indeed, China suffered under the Century of Humiliation (百年国耻) when Western powers invaded China and plundered our cultural artefacts (many of which are now on display in Western museums) and that's the driving force behind the "Chinese Dream" (中国梦) of the eventual rejuvenation of Chinese civilization. However, China does not seek to visit the atrocities commited on China onto the rest of the world. China doesn't seek revenge on the West per say, only to restore our country back to it's former glory before the 19th century Opium Wars. Looking at Chinese history, even at the height of China's power (say during the Ming Dynasty) China did not seek to colonise places that weren't previously under Han control. Ming Dynasty naval forces were among the most advanced of it's time and Admiral Zheng He 郑和 led a fleet of ships through seven voyages throughout the Indian Ocean, visiting Africa, India and the Middle East. However it was a peaceful merchant armada to trade with other countries, not conquer them like what the Western colonial powers did centuries later. Video: Crash Course History: Zheng He youtu.be/NjEGncridoQ?t=126 Given China's relatively peaceful nature during the height of Chinese civilization, I am inclined to think that China intends to preserve this peaceful form of coexistence if China becomes number one in the future. The question is not whether China will rise peaceful, it is whether China will be allowed to rise peacefully.
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  170.  @abbotsful  I don't understand what exactly is your problem. You said earlier that "神州 Shenzhou I'm not going to argue with you Shenzhou…" then why are you constantly trying to pick an argument? I have made my stance very clear that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 and that it's a Myth, so if we are in agreement that nothing happened inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, then what seems to be the problem?
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  171.  @nicholaslee5473  Here are 10 Infrastructure projects in Africa funded by China. 1. Coastal Railway, Nigeria 2. Bagamoyo Port, Tanzania. 3. Modderforntein New City Project, South Africa 4. Standard Gauge Railway, Kenya 5. Infrastructure for Mines Barter Deal, DRC 6. Chad-Sudan Railway 7. Mphanda Nkuwa Dam 8. Hydroelectric Station Project, Mozambique 9. Infrastructure Projects, Malawi 10. Port Sudan-Khartoum Railway Video: Top 10 Infrastructure Projects In Africa Funded By China youtu.be/TtduKDpy4oc 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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  172.  @abbotsful  I have already admitted that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 and my sources have already proven such. If you also agree that no one died that night in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989 then we are in agreement. I really don't understand what concern it is of yours to constantly return to 1989 in China, most of China has already moved on, yet your mindset is still seemingly stuck in this era? As far as I know, you're not even Chinese citizen yourself.
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  173.  @abbotsful  The truth is that the Chinese government did the right thing, given the circumstances surrounding China at that time. The proof is that most of China has since moved on from 1989 and have not let those demonstrations hinder China's progress and prosperity. So looking back, China clearly made the right call. Many Westerners just can't accept the fact that somehow, a non-liberal democratic country like China is able to move forward and quite possibly even surpass the United States some day in the foreseeable future. Even US allies like Canada, UK, Australia and the EU rather side with USA over China, and China needs to take necessary defensive measures against countries who wish to paint our country as "the enemy."
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  174.  @abbotsful  What about those PLA Chinese soldiers getting burned alive because supposedly "peaceful" protestors threw petrol bombs and ignited military trucks and tanks? What about the PLA soldiers who refused to open fire, but got mobbed by unarmed "protestors" and had their rifles stolen and fired against them? Had the Chinese government not taken firm action at that time, then chaos would have erupted, possibly plunging China into civil strife and wiping away decades of peace and progress in our country. So clearly, China made the difficult but necessary decision at that time to ensure that stability returned to China and many people in China have since moved on from 1989. But many Westerners constantly want to return to 1989 because they don't want to wake up to a reality where China is faring well under the communist party leadership. I mean, what happened has happened, and time has shown that Chinese government made the right call, we are more prosperous today under the CPC, than any previous time in Chinese history. I have read many of your previous comments and come to the conclusion that you don't really care about China, except to criticize China maliciously. I mean, for what other reason do you constantly return to an event that most people in China have since moved on? People like you refuse to move on, because you're unable to accept the fact that Chinese government has since learnt valuable lessons from previous mistakes and take the necessary steps not to repeat them.
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  175.  @abbotsful  You barely register any interest in China's positive achievements, look at your responses here and it's mostly just one-liners about China's achievements. Even your comment about computers was previously mentioned by me. About poverty in China, according to the 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. 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: Statista Adult literacy in China 1982-2015 statista.com/statistics/271336/literacy-in-china …… I really don't understand what's your problem with whether I'm born late or not. You clearly stated earlier that you had "no problem" then why do you keep on bringing up whether I was born or not? And again, how did I buy up the "lies that covered it up" when I quoted Western sources like Jay Matthews and Gregory Clark? I never quoted anything regarding the Communist Party with regards to 1989, so why do you keep on claiming that "it's the history written by the party that you believe"? The Chinese government had been negotiating with the student protesters for months who said there was no negotiation? What makes you think a bunch of students (who haven't even graduated, find a job, get married, settle etc) would know how to govern China better than the Chinese government? Here's a video of Tiananmen Square negotiation between Deng Xiaoping with student protesters. (video:youtu.be/qPjwDXohuys ) The students were brash and aggressive, making unreasonable demands of Deng, to which Deng calmly refuted. …… Lastly, you yourself admitted that "it's true that you used to think that 1000s of students had been killed inside the square and that mass media has been lazy, possibly intentionally biased in their reporting". This is ironic, because earlier you repeatedly accused me of being born late and being fooled by the "history written by the party" but here you are, being born early (I assume, since you assumed I was born late) yet you were fooled by biased Western reporting of thousands of students killed inside Tiananmen Square. Can't you see how you've been fooled by Western reporting of Tiananmen Square, yet you accused me of being fooled by the history supposedly written by the communist party?
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  176.  @nicholaslee5473  Even for the average Joe in America, who doesn't want to spend time in China or work here, it still pays to learn about China, because China is rising and going to play a bigger role about future affairs. Yet many Americans aren't interested in learning about other countries outside of America. Chinese Americans are American born and generations past true, but they have a link to China, whereas your average non-Chinese American has absolutely no heritage link to China whatsoever. More mainland Chinese are able to identify with a Chinese American, rather than a non-Chinese American. Yes it takes time to get to know new faces but all it takes is more exposure that's all. On one hand, you claim Hollywood needs China's box office so they cast mainland Chinese actors. On the other hand, you claim Hollywood putting people like these in lead roles is a problem because they are not American and would be very out of context if they were in the lead roles. So the solution is simple, just cast Asian American actors since they are Americans after all. Culture stereotypes is difficult to counter yes, but if you don't start somewhere, then it will never be countered. Hollywood has certainly been inclusive for African American and Latino American actors/actresses, but the same can't be said for Asian Americans. If Asians aren't being cast because of lack of acting skills or experience, then how are they going to gain acting skills and experience if they don't get cast? Video: Only 3 Asian Actors Have Won An Oscar...Ever youtu.be/0YZV8J_0nCw
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  177.  @nicholaslee5473  Here's an African Perspective of China in Africa. Gyude Moore speaks about China's expanding presence in Africa at the University of Chicago. Video: Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” youtu.be/P5uzxV8ub9k To sum it up, many Africans welcome Chinese investment in Africa, because of many factors such as China not imposing "additional" conditions on business, and how China treat Africans as treasured business partners. From the African perspective, it certainly seems like a win-win scenario.
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  178.  @abbotsful  You have never been nice to me, you constantly accused me of "believing the history written by the party" even though I clearly cited Western sources, then why should I be nice to you? The truth is that you don't really care China, except to criticise China maliciously. I don't understand, why is it that you can bring up China's achievements in computing, then why is it when I do the same, it's being labelled as "China is awesome facts to throw at laowai"? Why can't I bring up positive achievements about China? Besides supercomputers, Chinese scientists also built quantum computing machine that is 24,000 times faster than international counterparts and 10-100 times faster than the first electronic computer, ENIAC. Source: World's First Quantum Computer Made By China fossbytes.com/worlds-first-quantum-computer-made-by-china/ The quantum computer is built by a team of Chinese scientists working at the University of Science and Technology of China, at Hefei in Anhui province. The researchers believe that quantum computing could excel the processing power of supercomputers. Pan Jianwei, a quantum physicist, and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that quantum computing makes use of quantum superposition principle for ultra-fast parallel calculation and simulation capabilities. …… Most Chinese have since moved on from 1989. But if you agree with me that no one died that night in Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, then at least we are in agreement in this area. Do you? And my sources are from the West, like Matthews and Clark, then what makes you claim that it's from the Communist Party of China? The student protesters have been negotiating with the Chinese government for months since April till June 1989, so what other options are there? Again, what makes you think a bunch of university undergraduates somehow know the best way to govern China over the Chinese government? You outwardly admitted that you have been previously fooled by Western media claims of 1000s of deaths inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, it was actually thanks to me bringing up these issues to show that Tiananmen Square Massacre was a Myth. Yet you still make the assumption just because that "I'm born late" and "I wasn't alive at that time" that you somehow knew better than me? You didn't know that Tiananmen Square Massacre is a Myth until I brought up this discussion after all, what's your point whether I was alive at that time or not? You were fooled by Western media into believing the Tiananmen Square Massacre myth after all, yet you look down on me because I was born late? You really never said anything nice to me, then why should I be nice to you? All this time, you've been looking down on me, then why should I look up to you? I'm the one literally educating you that there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square Jun 1989, yet you look down on me for being born late. China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty by international standards in just 40 years, whereas the whole rest of the world only lifted 150 million by comparison. Video: Historical achievement: Take 700 million out of poverty youtu.be/CljWffPgmG8 "China has lifted 728 million people out of poverty by international standards. The whole rest of the world has only lifted 152 million." - John Ross, Well-known columnist in UK, Former Deputy mayor of London.
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  179.  Anonymous Panacea  About cemeteries in Xinjiang, the old Uighur burial grounds were crumbling and deteriorating, so the government exhumed those graves and transfer them to newly-constructed cemeteries elsewhere. But the Western media deliberately frame it as destruction of graves, but if you follow the story, it's not true that the graves are gone. For example, a cemetery in Xayar, NW China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has recently become a bone of international contention. CNN reported that graveyards in the region were being demolished by authorities, highlighting stories such as that of Aziz Isa Elkun, a Uygur poet now residing in London, who had said he couldn't find his father's grave on Google Maps. So a crew from CGTN decided to find out if there was any truth to the CNN report. Video: By following CNN , we find how they make fake news about Xinjiang youtu.be/pXBIeKpUq_c
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  180.  Anonymous Panacea  "神州 Shenzhou We got witness accounts" Yes and some witness stories were fabricated. Like Aziz Isa Elkun, a Uygur poet now residing in London, who had said he couldn't find his father's grave on Google Maps, but his story has long been debunked Video: By following CNN , we find how they make fake news about Xinjiang youtu.be/pXBIeKpUq_c
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  181.  @abbotsful  In all our discussions, you have never been nice to me, you constantly make quips about me being "a group of communist party propagandists" sharing one 神州 Shenzhou account on YouTube. Lately, you even made the comment on another thread that I have a "file of China's achievements to throw at Laowai" then why should I be nice to you? Your actions dictate that you are clearly are no friend of mine and neither do you consider my views worth discussing at all, then why should I try to be nice to you? I believe in drawing information from as many sources as possible. You have admitted that you were previously duped by Western media into thinking there was a Massacre inside Tiananmen Square, even though reports have shown there there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square. I mean, I literally opened your eyes to this knowledge and you actually owe me, yet you constantly look down on me for being born late, as if being born earlier somehow put you at at advantage. For what reason should I be nice to you then? You mentioned previously that you "kind of wish you'd never gotten into this, that you'd never commented on a video before HK 2019." but didn't commenting helped you improve your understanding and expand your knowledge? You would have continued blindly believing Western anti-China propaganda had you not commented after HK 2019 and been exposed to different viewpoints.
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  182.  @abbotsful  Let's make it clear, you can't force people to be nice to you. I see no reason why I should be nice to people, who've looked down on my views, implying as if my 神州 Shenzhou account is used by multiple communist party propagandists or that I have a whole "file of China's achievements to throw at Laowai". Or look down at others for "being born late". I mean, what are these if not personal attacks against me for my views? I really don't feel obliged to treat someone nice, who hasn't been treating me nice. Don't you know Confucius' golden rule? "Do not unto others, what you don't want done onto yourself."
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  183.  @神奇方舱  你以为我说中国好是为了狗粮吗？狗粮对我有什么用？给你吃啊？
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  184.  @神奇方舱  看来狗粮最适合你。
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  185.  @geoeconomics3067  No EurAsian challenger? So if someday in the future, if an African superpower or South American superpower emerges to challenge EurAsian, then they are permitted to do so right? Or do Westerners consider the notion of an African/South American superpower absurd and don't even bother to factor it into their plans?
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  186.  @geoeconomics3067  Guess what, China's Belt and Road Initiative runs through EurAsia. USA can't even afford to compete with China on the Belt and Road Initiative front, the best they can do is invest money in anti-China propaganda to discourage countries from participating in BRI.
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  187.  @geoeconomics3067  So what is the USA's answer to the Belt and Road Initiative? The USA lacks a comprehensive plan to deal with China's rise, they have nothing to compare with the BRI project that's going through EurAsian landmass. Didn't you say earlier that whoever controls EurAsian landmass controls the world? China has BRI, but USA has nothing.
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