Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "China Update" channel.

  1. She was a Communist who wanted Chile to be run by a different and far worse dictatorship than Pinochet’s. It’s a disgrace she was allowed to be president even once.
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  2. Germany was not the bad guy in WW1, though. Germany supported Austria’s entirely reasonable cause. France and Russia used that as an excuse to gang up on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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  3. It’s a pity physics doesn’t agree.
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  4. Cultural, not color. China would have been much better off with a colour revolution.
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  5. Meanwhile, lots of people are still so poor that they eat rats…
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  6. Make Tocharia Indo-European again!
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  7. A few of the HSRs are actually gains. Most are drains.
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  8. Just for fun, try comparing the long-distance train fares in China with plane fares in Europe over similar distances…
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  9. Is it bigger than Commonwealth Games?
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  10.  @davidcooper9825  we need to work on your reading comprehension first. Wealth inequality is a bigger problem in China than in the US.
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  11.  @DoubleDogDare54  how did he get his vowels fixed?
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  12. Optical computing works, it’s just not very compact. It’s damn fast, though. Optical data transfer definitely works — that’s what fiber cables are used for. We also have high speed LANs that use fiber instead of copper. We prefer copper most of the time because it is cheaper and easier to work with, even if it isn’t quite as fast.
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  13. He can’t talk about those things anyway because he doesn’t want to get kicked out of China. He is really careful to only quote “safe” sources and not mention his own opinions when he dances around such topics.
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  14. Agree. It was a bit long but it felt like normal content. More of that, please!
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  15. The official Chinese GDP already seems to high to be true -- and they claim that the growth continues during all their stupid lockdowns, trade problems, energy problems, drought, trade embargos, etc!? "It's just a scratch, my GDP is still growing."
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  16. WaPo said nothing about Democrats using three letters agencies to spy on presidential candidates before and after Nixon. WaPo pretended Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake and that the fake allegations against Trump (Steele dossier) were true. It’s not as good and unbiased a paper as most people believe.
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  17.  @raevj  “now”? Wasn’t it always?
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  18. The Chinese did NOT kick their opium habit. It grew after the opium wars (which China lost) and it grew even more as China began to grow its own opium. And then it grew even more as the Communist rebels grew even more opium to finance their wars (and the luxury lifestyles of their leaders).
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  19. More like the war saved you.
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  20. It’s a freehand beard.
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  21.  @Bunnyroo7 yeah, the way we do it in the EU is absurd. But the US should still lower the limit for China to somewhere between 0 and 100 dollars.
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  22. “Happy Sunday, here’s some more bad news.”
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  23. China has claimed ownership with zero merit since 1911 or 1912 (right after the revolution that ended the empire). Sadly, there’s nothing new about that.
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  24.  @gtw4546  they suffer a lot less than they did under Mao and under many of their crazy emperors. It’s not good now, but it is amazing how much worse things have been.
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  25. “The real estate disaster of the Middle Kingdom”? “Lying about lodgings in lawless China”?
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  26. Broken bricks break back of banks in China?
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  27. The NASA Germans, who did all the hard work, used metric.
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  28. Remember Walter Duranty and the Pulitzer Price? The media certainly wasn’t very honest back then.
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  29. When the “good guys” do it, of course! Pearl Harbor was an unprovoked attack totally unconnected to the American blockade that preceded it.
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  30. Yes, but a lot of those apartments are in the wrong place (with no non-speculative buyers in sight) or very low quality.
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