Comments by "GTW" (@gtw4546) on "Lei's Real Talk" channel.

  1. Anyone who is willing to destroy 2/3 of their own people is INSANE.
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  2. Please do periodic updates on the Li family holdings and maneuvers! It's troubling to see the tentacles reaching so far into the West but must be watched closely.
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  3. Another excellent video, Lei.
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  4. I'm very interested to hear more about China's debt. China was warned by the IMF back in 2015/2016 about their debt to GDP reaching 300%, but to whom does China owe this? Is this more "accounting with Chinese characteristics?" Is the debt from one section of China to another section of China or is it transnational? I know CCP numbers aren't to be believed, but there must be reasonable study that has been made.
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  5. I had heard that the banking limits were to reduce the "capital flight" brought on by the impacts of the zero-Covid policy. People are also having their passports cut or confiscated. China is fast becoming the world's largest prison. But the reasons stated here are certainly worth considering!
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  6. I just discovered your channel about a week ago and have been binge watching and taking notes. I've been using some info from your channel when exchanging comments with wu mao quoting some of your Chinese sources which I hope will help wake them up to the truth. Thank you for providing such valuable information and including the English spelling of the names!
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  7. Power or Money - the CCP must choose because it can only have one or the other, not both! Based on Covid policies, they currently choose power.
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  8. Not China, the CCP. The two are not the same thing. China existed before the CCP took control. Consider what the CCP has done to Chinese citizens (600,000 still live in poverty of $150 or less per month -Li Keqiang), the famine caused by Mao because he was exporting the food in order to raise the GDP thereby starving Chinese people, the gender imbalance and rapid aging of the population because of the "one-child" policy, extensive human trafficking, rewarding corruption, etc. Why should anyone like the CCP?
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  9. I would love to know what BRICS nations really think of China. It's a shame these weren't covered.
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  10. "Pizza-box-sized" - that gives an interesting possibility to the crack-down on food deliveries in Shanghai recently!
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  11. When I purchase something online, open the package and discover that it is made in China (in spite of whatever spin was in the description), I send it back and state why. Getting online retailers to be transparent will be part of this battle. Companies that offer free returns will stop using deception to cover the true manufacturer if enough people will do this.
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  12. The old man who just wanted enough money to eat is heartbreaking. When the camera backed away, you could see that his legs are sticks and he truly hasn’t been eating well in quite some time.
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  13. As opposed to CCP propaganda? I'll take the Falun Gong version because at least FG value truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. The CCP only values continuation of CCP power.
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  14.  @Hmongboi228  It’s only a sacrifice if it’s important to you. Laying down your own life is a sacrifice; taking someone else’s is murder.
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  15. The one-child policy has resulted in very small families and when you're confined to an apartment with no food and everyone in your family dies, who will report it?
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  16.  @drumpfdon760  No need to be any of those things. Many who've lived in China have spoken out once they no longer need to fear for their social credit scores. Some brave people upload even from within China.
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  17. I would love to know if that 27% is equally distributed between CCP party members or if the likelihood of finding a job depends upon party membership!
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  18.  @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane  I don't know if she is or not, just that between FC or CCP, FC would be a much more reliable source.
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  19.  @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane  The CCP don't "get sick," they ARE sick, morally.
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  20. Control your bladder's desire to pee, control your bowel's desire to poop. By appointment only!
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  21.  @prioris55555  10% is hardly “the vast majority of the human population.”  Per an article in Psychology Today: A study conducted in the early 2000s found that 6.2% of the general population would meet the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and 3.7% would meet the criteria for antisocial personality disorder. These conditions officially capture the maladaptive behavior we refer to as sociopathy. But if you’re part of that 10%, I guess you’d like to believe everyone else is just like you.
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  22.  @drumpfdon760  "Love and support" in public, loath and detest in private.
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  23.  @drumpfdon760  88% of Chinese students who study in the West DON'T return to China. Only 10% go back (the other 2% go to a different country from where they are studying, but not to China). That is more than just criticizing on social media. Perhaps one day you'll also be able to escape to the West.
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  24. For that to happen would require that not a single evil person ever gets into power. All it would take is ONE with the rest of the world utterly defenseless to stop them. Sadly, it's often those who are most ruthless and driven that get to the top positions whether in government, corporations, or NGOs.
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  25. You may also like "China Update," a very small new channel that gives daily updates M-F.
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  26. "I want to live with dignity, like a human, not just breathing." Beautifully said and I hope those suffering under tyranny take this to heart!
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  27. Shhh. Let sleeping trolls sleep.
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  28. I'm not surprised. The honor-shame nature of the CCP makes them less than perfectly transparent.
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  29.  @taco7043  Many a gambler failed to quit while ahead and lost everything. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
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  30. I remember that and the "revenge against society" stabbing of children, even kindergarteners, in China.
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  31. The gender balance in China is what makes it unique globally. Having 2 children per WOMAN of childbearing age won't be a replacement rate when the men already outnumber the women by 3:1. No other nation has such extreme gender imbalance.
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  32. Algorithm comment.
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  33.  @prioris55555  It’s sad that your experiences would cause you to draw such a conclusion. I can’t agree since I know many who are both aware and generous, both known directly by me and through charities/agencies that are doing good work. There are many organizations that are aiding poor and homeless populations, fostering/adopting abused/neglected children, rescuing those who have been victimized by human traffickers, investigating and presenting balanced geopolitical information, etc. Perhaps you’ve gotten yourself into an algorithm that is feeding you too much negative information.
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  34. Algorithm comment.
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  35. Consider also, if those 15-year-olds have a gender balance of 2 males to every female. Even if each woman gives birth to 2 children, the population would still decline rapidly.
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  36.  @luuducanh7497  A brief conversation would be fine.
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  37.  @luuducanh7497  No. Cryptocurrency is pure speculation, not investing. There are crypto bots on many sites trying to get people to call some "expert" (various names given) at a Whatsapp number, but these are scams and not organic conversations between real people.
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  38. Following in the footsteps of Marx, an economic deadbeat sucking at the teats of those around him while criticizing them.
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  39. The options that you described don't sound like investing at all but rather like gambling. Putting your money behind corporations that you believe in for product quality, a real market for the product, and sound corporate management - THAT is investing.
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  40.  @taco7043  Sometimes that's true, but you have to consider that many of China's Big Tech leaders are stepping down so perhaps know something that you don't? China's tech sector is under increased regulation from the CCP and are at risk of delisting from exchanges for failure to comply with standard accounting practices and/or refusal to allow their books to be audited.
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  41. The economic situation is much worse in China. Recent college grads in China are having a very difficult time finding jobs and the property sector which accounts for 25-30% of China's GDP is in disarray at best and could collapse. Plus the local governments who were getting much of their funding for "land use sales" have seen that evaporate and have turned to LGFVs and many are insolvent. Those are just a few of the economic woes facing China given as examples but there are others.
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  42.  @drumpfdon760  Back in 2015/2016 China was warned by the IMF because its debt to GDP was at 300% and I'm sure that doesn't include all the "off the books" debt. That was before Covid and all the lockdowns, the supply-chain interruptions, the companies who have moved out or are actively seeking to leave China as soon as current contracts allow. Add to that the property sector problems, the growth of LGFV because of declining land use sales, the increase in "flexible employment," rapidly aging population, and other indications of economic troubles. Throw in China's $23 TRILLION market for commercial acceptance bills - a very risky and controversial form of business financing which caused bank collapses in the past. Yeah, it's easy to see why Lei thinks that RMB/CNY is nothing but worthless vouchers. The entire "China miracle" is nothing more than the China MIRAGE. Even Li Keqiang admits that 600,000 in China still live in poverty - $158 per month or less!
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  43. You've confirmed my suspicion that this is being manipulated by the CCP, but I'd back it up a bit. I think the CCP was withdrawing money that they had put in the US markets, too. The way the tech moguls in China are lying flat, it wouldn't surprise me that they've been pressured to withdraw investments of personal funds from foreign markets. Wealthy CCP members also offshored money in foreign accounts and could have been prompted to sell shares based on the propaganda.
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  44.  @endurerable  Yes, Don Xiang's Digging to China is also very good!
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  45. It will be like watching one drowning man try and rescue another drowning man.
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  46. Thank you. I watched again and see that India and Brazil are covered in the Euroasia Group Foundation poll at about 9:25 into the video.
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  47.  @felixjordan3514  Just because you DON’T believe the “storyline” doesn’t mean that it isn’t true or that the accusation is false. Many people will excuse an abusive person, especially when dependent upon that abuser. And there is plenty of evidence that Xi Jinping doesn’t care about ordinary mainland Chinese.
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  48.  @prioris55555  So take a stand with those who battle against them! Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
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  49. Well, damn!
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  50. 600,000 people in China live on $150/month or less (Li Keqiang).
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  51. I've heard from another source (China update) that 80% of urban household wealth is in real estate. Also, China doesn't officially have "unemployment," however, they are encountering much "flexible employment." Lei has another video where professor Sun Liping discusses 5 challenges that are affecting China's employment situation.
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  52. Consider that the 2-births-per-woman replacement rate assumes that the genders are balanced which isn't the case in China. Those who were born before the one-child policy began and those after are likely balanced (diluting the true extent of the problem), but those of childbearing age are VERY unbalanced, perhaps as high as 3:1. So for China to be at replacement rate, each woman of childbearing age would need to give birth to FOUR children to replace herself, her partner, and each male who is unable to find a wife!
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  53. "Performing Arts Soldier" - Wow, that sounds weird to my Western ears!
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  54.  @drumpfdon760  Going from west China to east China doesn't count as escape.
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  55.  @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane  Yes, it is!
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  56.  @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane  The laugh of jealousy? Or do you believe the CCP lies about the US?
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  57.  @peterseth3296  Since when is being educated the "other side of the same coin"? Are you implying that the wumao are uneducated? And why are you assuming that I'm "forgetting" problems that exist? Prioritizing problems isn't forgetting that there are less serious ones that are still to be addressed.
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  58.  @peterseth3296  Again, you make a wrong assumption. Just because someone has developed a vocabulary doesn't mean that they are a troll. I have enough respect for the Chinese people (though not the CCP) that I'm willing to engage with them. When you have genuine conversations, you will learn some words along the way. I also know that not every Chinese who posts is a troll. Many get past the firewall and post to learn what they can - what the CCP is hiding like the "3 years of difficulties" and those are opportunities for me to learn what's really going on in China as well from at least that person's perspective.
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  59. Fitness as defined by the CCP!
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  60. VERY trustworthy! Excellent credentials! All the more reason to like Lei Xi.
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  61.  @Geopolitics2049  Yes, she did. They get paid by the number of people they count. Do you think they care more about China's GDP per capita or about their paycheck? Kleptocracy is alive and well among officials.
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  62.  @pudding7074  No, I don't. Social credit score would likely matter, but I have no idea about party membership. More likely it's "who you know" and that isn't necessarily dependent on party status.
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  63. Only if you believe the CCP propaganda!
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  64.  @china-ustechnologicalparit3000  To be technoligically on par with the US, China would have to do its own R&D and innovation instead of relying on stealing and espionage. The West is now aware and is cracking down on this, so China's current technology will soon be obsolete.
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  65. I'm shocked to learn that those over 35 are being pushed out of jobs, especially since the median age in China is now about 42!
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  66.  @taco7043  Not a newbie and I retired early.
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  67.  @taco7043  Diversify. Avoid both fear and greed. Management changes, market conditions change, products may no longer be relevent - the idea that you "never sell" was something you read into what I wrote. The lack of transparency by the CCP is a very good reason to avoid China - you can't make good decisions without reliable information.
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  68.  @taco7043  No one wants it because it IS GARBAGE. Six months is too short a time frame. Frequent trading will increase your tax liability. Diversification isn't a meme - it is tried and true advice that has withstood many downturns. How well will you be sleeping if your $480K became $240K overnight? Diversification can limit losses and reduces volitility. That large a cash position will erode your purchasing power through inflation.
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  69.  @taco7043  How is it doing now for you? Did you get out in time?
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  70.  @mrcapybara3579  Falun Gong are top notch! That is why CCP elites favor harvesting their organs when they need a transplant.
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  71. Death by a thousand cuts
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  72. Each 5-year plan is based on flawed information. Flawed information occurs because of GDP-based performance assessment tied to the 5-year plans. This is not a virtuous cycle! Is there anyone left in the CCP who can speak the truth to Xi without suffering for doing so? How long will the wisdom of the wise be censored or punished?
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  73. That is what Africa WILL look like if the CCP has its way.
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  74. Watching this in the year of the tiger!
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  75. Human rights, freedom of conscious, freedom of speech, freedom to access information, knowing what I've earned over the course of my life isn't likely to be arbitrarily seized, . . . Make a shopping list of what's important to you. Each system will be abused because of "human nature," but the one that has checks and balances should slow that decline.
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  76. China Update is also excellent.
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  77. Rate is a percentage of the population, whether it's 27% of 100 or 27% of 1,400,000,000. But 27% of 100 people is only 27 people and 27% of 1.4 billion is 378,000,000 people.
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  78.  @gandhikumar2956  EXACTLY! Because China's population is so large, 27% unemployment is an ENORMOUS number of people without work/income.
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  79.  @gandhikumar2956  China's unemployment rate is 3 times higher than India's. For every unemployed Indian, you will have three unemployed Chinese.
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  80.  @douginorlando6260  That doesn't seem to be among the policies that the CCP is implementing to deal with this. The motivation would have to be very strong for these highly educated Nationals to opt for a return to China and give up their freedom. Perhaps "threat" would be more accurate if their loved ones are at risk.
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  81.  @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane  You state, "she is working for someone with an agenda." If this is true, why don't you provide the information of WHO she's working for and WHAT is the agenda? Or is that just speculation on your part because you don't like what is being said? Do you know the context of the information or are you only assuming that the information is being misrepresented? What you've written "is extremely bad, innuendo laced, conspiratorial" COMMENTING?
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  82.  @drumpfdon760  They use them to buy FROM China in RMB - the worthless for the worthless - hahaha!
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  83.  @drumpfdon760  US gold reserves are over 4x that of China and the highest of any nation by a wide margin - the next three highest nations combined just about equal that of the US. hahaha!
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  84. Three-day supply minimum, a couple of weeks is better, but not 600 pounds of rice. And with the tiny homes in China, I suppose they will be sleeping on those sacks for quite a while!
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  85.  @covercalls88  I agree with you, but that's enough rice to last a couple of adults for a whole year. None of the lockdowns have been that long, so I'd be prepping for famine, not lockdown. Have to be very careful not to let those around you see that you're eating - get very skinny and wear baggy clothes - or your food stores could cost you your life.
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  86. Li Keqiang - 600,000 in China live in poverty Li Dao Kui - " . . . the most difficult period since the economic reforms started 40 years ago." Sun Liping named 5 VERY MAJOR challenges that the CCP is currently facing Perhaps the narrative you've believed is the false one.
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  87. Interesting that a Chinese policy paper calls it "an irreversible mistake."
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  88. The 3:1 gender imbalance in China among those of childbearing age would mean they'd need to have MORE THAN 2 births per woman to be at replacement rate. Each woman would need to give birth to FOUR children just to keep the population from declining further.
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  89.  @neuralvibes  Yes, truth is very important to them. The Falun Gong provide a very valuable service!
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  90.  @yliang1688  Wu mao think CCP propaganda is GOOD propaganda, not disgusting?
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  91. Jin is delusional. He probably thinks beating his ex-wife earns him respect if he thinks invading Taiwan would earn respect for the CCP. Taiwan LEFT YOU CCP; get over it!
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  92.  @drumpfdon760  If you apply the same standard to yourself, you will surely fail and YOU are the "shameless old childish hypocrite liar hater loser sad soul jealous joker clown kidd!! Hahaha..." But what should anyone expect from a CCP troll when the CCP is always projecting on others the very things of which they are guilty?
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  93.  @drumpfdon760  Not "anti-China" - just the truth that the CCP is hiding from its citizens in order to remain in power.
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  94.  @drumpfdon760  Everything that they accuse others of, they are doing themselves. It's SO obvious if you aren't blind, Little Pink.
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  95.  @drumpfdon760  Listen to their state-sponsored media and see for yourself what they accuse others of. Do your own research, Little Pink, and maybe one day you can grow up to become a wu mao.
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  96. Those that developed earlier should have been object lesson for China for what NOT to do. China has destroyed in one generation what other countries destroyed over 200 years of industrialization.
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  97.  @joea5222  Deluded Russian troll!
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  98. Li Keqiang says 600,000 in China live in poverty.
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  99. Chinese science = stolen technology
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  100. Systemic corruption goes far beyond individual fraud cases. The fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  101. Li Keqiang, Sun Liping, Li Dao Kui, and others disagree. Those in China who are laughing may be idiots or those who've gained what they could through kleptocracy and hidden it in offshore accounts.
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  102. That is what Mao wanted judging by all the Chinese he had slaughtered in the "cultural revolution" and the CCP followed his lead with all the Chinese babies that were aborted in the "one-child" policy. So more correctly, "That is what Uncle Xi wants."
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  103. Consider that the 2-births-per-woman replacement rate assumes that the genders are balanced which isn't the case in China. Those who were born before the one-child policy began and those after are likely balanced (diluting the true extent of the problem), but those of childbearing age are VERY unbalanced, perhaps as high as 3:1. So for China to be at replacement rate, each woman of childbearing age would need to give birth to 3-4 children to replace herself, her partner, and each male who is unable to find a wife!
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  104. All the hacking and espionage is like a back-handed compliment and an admission of CCP inferiority. Even still, I hope this massively backfires against them for their IP thefts and speeds decoupling from everything under CCP influence.
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  105.  @DDDrumpf  At least in the US, there are plenty of non-profit organizations, often religious, that offer relief. If the equivalent exists in China, I’m ready to be informed!
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  106.  @DDDrumpf  The homeless people on the streets of Chyna are too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdC9xube-2c
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  107. How many died of Covid and how many people died of ZERO Covid policy? That is what I'd love to know. Starving, suicide, murder because of being trapped in a small space with people who are driving you crazy - Xi's "solution" may be the problem.
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  108. People were starving because Mao was EXPORTING their food to boost China's GDP.
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  109. They wouldn't have died if they stayed in China.
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