Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1.  @VineFynn  If Democracy was introduced? They made it very clear they wouldn't. HK could peacefully go on under its British system until handover + whatever (2047/2020, depending on who you believe) Or it could be invaded and subjected to the full litany horrors Mao inflicted on the rest of the country.
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  2.  @wingedarr0w  this is the big thing that democracy gives us. A peaceful way of changing our leadership. Whereas in the PRC, any significant change will involve bloodshed.
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  3.  @cczsus6513  if it's this wonderful land, why don't you earn the retirement funds there? Also, the only thing you can offer is being raised in an English speaking country so teaching English? I've actually spent literal decades hearing this same thing from a British born Chinese person. Last I heard, he's still unemployed and living in the UK instead of being in the PRC.
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  4. University is about theory. Which is extremely useful. But beyond that. No, university doesn't show someone knows anything, it just shows they've got the capacity to learn.
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  5. >>But there is a large problem, when the price of houses goes down, it’s difficult for people to sell their houses and they can’t get the money<< To say nothing of the normal extra fees associated with it.
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  6. But is it incorrect or unreasonable anywhere? If so, can you point out where it is? If not.... It looks like reality is disappointing and biased against the PRC.... That's a real problem.
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  7.  @supervince110  you can't think of anything over the last two years in particular that might have changed the status quo? Edit: also, this started to change about ten years ago. The nine dash line is a prime example. To say nothing of the range of other problems that are coming to a head. Including growth that's been slowing year after year.
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  8.  @zyh0909  I never said otherwise. Either side does have the right to have a problem with the other. And I'm sure you have, buddy. I'm sure you have. Because totalitarian dictatorships never get people to lie. Maybe you can get a few people on camera to read a script about how great things are. That'll help. Or even a super convincing Theresienstadt style tour. Or maybe we can just look at the actions of the CCP. With this as with the CCP virus. Which have been to block any Independent investigation and throw a tantrum when someone suggests it. You can give all the excuses for why they've blocked access you like (while simultaneously suggesting I go there as if access hasn't been blocked) But the fact is they have blocked it to anyone they don't trust to give the "correct" answer.
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  9. If this were true and making a big difference, the CCP would have been all over it in an attempt to use it to prove that the situation isn't all that bad.
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  10. Greedy business owners and people who might like a dignified old age. The increasing cost per worker is a huge part of China's problem. China's thing is still its cheap labour. There's nothing else that's nearly big enough to compare. If Chinese labour isn't cheap, they've got nothing As far as cancer goes, the many cures to various cancers we've found are part of the problem. This is a problem of incredibly low births combined with rapidly increasing lifespans. As for contraception, this is exacerbated by that the govt decided to make contraception mandatory. For adoption..... I somehow doubt there are enough orphans or unwanted children to make up the numbers. And I doubt that the response of people who aren't having children because they don't want or can't afford them will be to adopt someone else's. But that's just me being a skeptic.
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  11. Higher standard of living than whom? Keeping in mind that Shenzhen and Shanghai aren't typical Chinese cities.
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  12.  @brokeafengineerwannabe2071  People who make these comments can be relied on to never elaborate. I doubt he'd actually watched the video. Or any of the videos on this channel.
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  13. The developed world is developed. The issue isn't that it happens, the issue is the speed at which it's happening and that the country is still poor.
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  14. You don't think the negativity surge had anything to do with the CCP breaking its agreement on Hong Kong and (far more important) the impact of the CCP virus over the last couple of years?
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  15. This is a very generic post. Any specifics on where he's wrong or "naive"?
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  16.  @jimwu9121  there were positive aspects. Past tense. But it produced a massive and highly predictable race against the clock that the PRC has lost. It wasn't sustainable and it was kept far too long. To say nothing of they birthrates are continuing to plummet while people live longer. It wasn't ALL bad. But it was very, very bad.
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  17.  @jimwu9121  so which part of this optimism deals with how many of China's resources will be put towards dealing with those massive amounts of elderly?
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  18.  @jimwu9121  what skills do you think unemployed Americans have that the PRC needs?
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  19.  @jimwu9121  that in no way, shape or form answered my question
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  20.  @jimwu9121  and they'd go to a less developed country in sufficient numbers for less money to do those things because.....? Are you trying to make a convincing argument? Or just type words?
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  21.  @jimwu9121  I've lived in China and have been going round for seventeen years. I left Kong Kong a month or so ago because of the government becoming more mainland. I'm a very long way from being alone. You should check out the migration stats to see how well this idea is working out. I don't think you have any idea of what you're talking about.
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  22. Xi should be given a nobel peace prize for doing more than anyone else could have ever hoped to unite the developed world. Although now he'd need to share that prize with Putin. Best friends should be happy to share, though.
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  23. Western countries can attract migrants and throw money at automation. (Which also requires skilled workers)
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  24. 200 percent increase in a country whose growth is slowing every year that's catching up to a moving target. (It's a 200 percent increase if the American economy stays right where it is) That steady growth isn't something to rely on.
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  25. That "as well" really sums up Russia and its friend without limits. Everything is falling apart, but things aren't perfect in the west (that people from around the world literally risk their lives to get to) so it's ok.
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  26. This is why I'm very big on separating the Chinese people from the CCP. The CCP is a barbaric organisation. The government is not the people. (Especially when talking about a govt that's gone out of its way to ensure that the people don't have a say in it)
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  27. What about it?
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  28. From where? And how do they attract them in sufficient numbers? How do they get the type they really need? Keeping in mind mandarin isn't exactly widely spoken outside the PRC. Not when you consider the scale of the problem.
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  29. Sometimes facts are just against things.
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  30.  @jifa17  what relevant things are missing?
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  31. The Taiwanese president said they don't need to declare independence because they already are independent a few years ago.
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  32. There's a massive difference between going there as a tourist, and going there regularly, knowing and actually talking to people, living there, etc. China is absolutely fantastic when you first go. I loved going for short periods. Stay longer or live there and you see the dark side. It's not a country that improves with exposure.
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  33. Nothing to do with things like the South China sea, the breaking of the agreement over Hong Kong or this global pandemic that's been screwing the world for the past couple of years?
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  34. Thank you for doing your bit to discredit the NED lies they were using to shift blame for the Hong Kong protests.
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  35.  @johnbacon4997  yeah, they don't really know how to deal with diversity. Their philosophy is KISS (keep it simple, stupid) taken to a murderous extreme
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  36. The Republic of China is still an independent country, as it has been since 1912 (37 years before the secessionist PRC was founded)
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  37.  @user-ju8cn  that tells me you don't have a clue of what the criteria for being an independent county is. UN recognition (or American recognition, or whatever country I'm from recognition, etc) aren't and have never been part of the criteria. Don't worry, you're not alone. Being completely clueless about this is a prerequisite for thinking the CCP is correct.
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  38. They tried. It's just.... They're really bad at it. I just left Hong Kong. The people leaving were those who either know China, or have seen similar situations (South Africans who've had plenty of exposure to Zimbabwe as an example)
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  39.  @nekomi_ch  two years. I arrived right when the protests started and left the on national security education day. I'm furious (it's a very easy country to love). I'm also not seeing any way in which war isn't coming. Fortunately, Hong Kong will outlast the CCP and in the aftermath, Hong Kong will be the only part of the PRC the rest of the world gives a damn about.
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  40. The clock's ticking. They'd also need to speed up development. A newborn takes about 20-25 years to become useful
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  41. Is it wrong?
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  42.  @mexicoxv2236  >>It doesn't take much to convince the people in camboyo or africa to leave their countries, a country save amazing a amount of money with the inmigration a citidizen cost the estate 21 years of the eduactional system before they work. but an inmigrant doesnt cost nothing they arrive ready to work. << "How would they attract sufficient numbers of the sort of immigrants they need when they're competing against the developed world, which has:" Edit: To put this problem into perspective, the PRC would need to become the destination for about 3/4 of the world's immigrants to make up for its birthrate shortfall. >>the chinese is not impossible to learn in fact many many chinese people know and are learning english,<< I didn't say it was impossible. I said it was a very difficult language, especially when it comes to reading and writing. As far as English in the PRC goes, apparently about 1% of people speak it. >>the big detail with the immigration is the homogenization many people fear that immigrants provoque that a nation ceased to be homogeneous, the culture will decline and the heritage will be lost as a result. the chinese goverment have a irrational fear that new people bring new ideas << This is true. It's the icing on the cake of why immigration isn't going to solve this problem.
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  43. The one child policy was abolished in 2015. There was a slight blip in the couple of years following this, then a catastrophic decline. Now the births per year are about a third lower than in 2015. Imagine one in three schools closing because of insufficient students over a six year period. That's literally the kind of decline we're talking about here. Then the three child policy was brought in. For some strange reason, the ability to have three children didn't make those people who didn't want two children decide to have more.
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  44. Is it wrong or unreasonable anywhere in particular? Or is this a case of the best propaganda being completely factual?
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  45. I come from Brisbane. Home of the 2032 olympics. I envy your bullet dodging ability.
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  46. China is surviving so far. But it's what comes next that'll be interesting. Also, thanks to its massive population, no other country has a problem as big as the PRC's.
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  47. This is what happens when you build cities in places nobody wants to live, coupled with an idea that houses are a safe investment because the govt will always protect the market.
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  48. It sounds like you're ready to give details on what's incorrect and why.
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  49. No, that's pretty much it. It's incredibly overvalued and has received insanely heavy investment because people think it's (government) guaranteed to rise more. If it goes up, you get more problems (affordability and even more overvalued) When it goes down, you'll get a combination of panic spurring more sales and people who might have purchased holding off until they get a better deal. Which in turn means that masses of people are left with something that took their life savings that's not worth what they paid for it, and a huge portion of the economy suddenly gone to nothing because why would you build more houses when prices are crashing? All of which impacts the rest of the economy. Like with the one child policy, this is a problem they've allowed to get so massive the only real solution involves time travel.
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  50. There's two independent Chinas. Taiwan is part of the republic of China. It's never been part of the people's republic of China.
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