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

  1. As a father of a young child, I enjoy seeing my daughter reach developmental stages that Xi hasn't.
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  2.  @sushan716  it's fun watching how many people wave around robotics as a magic wand without realising how much time, investment and skilled labour go into it. There aren't many people capable of doing it, it's something that's in demand globally and they'll follow the money. (A very large part of my job is automation) - China is not an attractive place for people like me to work. Anyway, unless you've got an escape, as someone living in the PRC who will become elderly, you should worry about that. I also enjoy how you didn't answer my questions and basically offered up vague hope.
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  3.  @Sedna063  adding onto "just import them" I'm pretty sure pretty like Shan Shu haven't got the slightest clue about how the non PRC world works or how different people from other places are from those within the PRC.
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  4. The USA can attract large numbers of immigrants. So many that a major political battle is based on how you keep the excess ones out.
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  5. We should ignore the CCP taking over an independent country because it needs to distract from its own incompetency? And we should ignore that this will expose other nations to the CCP's coercion, coupled with that the CCP has shown a tendency to want to grab more things that don't belong to it? (South China Sea is a prime example)
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  6. @Tulak Hord makes you wonder how many weapon and supply caches have been hidden all over the country over the last seventy years.
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  7. @Tulak Hord at least a large core. It's the obvious thing to do for what's almost certainly coming.
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  8.  @bonk2910  I would have been forgiving if the govt looked like it had learnt anything beyond what it took to stay in power. If they have, it's been dismissed as useless info. Hong Kong was a perfect testing ground for preparing the PRC for a post CCP world. Also... The problems the CCP (partially) solves have a strong tendency to be problems it creates in the first place. For example, this economic miracle is based on them grudgingly allowing in capitalism after spending decades fighting it tooth and nail
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  9. >>"Wasn't all this retaliating what former president Trump did which were basically blunt smear?"<< What was incorrect? >>"Why on earth is U.S. in a position to educate Chinese on XinJiang when they could not treat their own citizens in black well?"<< Because there's imperfection vs camps, sterilisation and selling organs on the black market. >>Western has controlled the mainstream voices for so long that it's time for a different voice to hold the western to the same standards.<< And it's perfectly legal to have these different voices (sounds a bit different to the PRC) >>then they shouldn't try to suppress China speaking for the blacks.<< When was this done? If entity A needed to be perfect before it could criticise another, the CCP would never speak again.
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  10.  @noahway13  unfortunately this isn't a stable stalemate. The PRC is having more and more major problems spring up. At some point, going to war will be less damaging to them than a continuing peace and decline will be. The thing people tend to not understand about the PRC is that what's good for the PRC isn't nearly as important as what's good for the CCP. When the CCP decides it needs a war to allow them to hang on for another year or two, we'll get that war. Unless we basically full on surrender and let them take or do whatever without a shot being fired, any appeasement only delays the inevitable (while putting us into a worse situation) Really, we should have stopped giving the CCP the benefit of the doubt decades ago. The delay only increases the pain the world will suffer when they fall.
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  11. That news is brought to us directly by CCP diplomats and state run news outlets.
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  12.  @C05597641  and? What's that got to do with hearing about how big and bad China is?
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  13.  @C05597641  I'm going to refer you to my first post.
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  14.  @C05597641  that's nice. BTW, why are you pretending to be from somewhere else?
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  15.  @C05597641  is not an answer to any question asked.
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  16.  @C05597641  ok..... .....
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  17. Tim Cook doesn't have the power to murder the board members (and their families) who disagree with him.
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  18. It's also interesting to just talk to them as individuals. Overall, they do tend to follow the official line, but with lots and lots and lots of exceptions. That following tends to crack when there's been a simple civil conversation with someone with a different point of view. It only really becomes difficult when an emotional reaction is generated. Then the shields go up and it's pro govt all the way.
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  19. The total number of births in 2020 is the lowest it's been since the PRC's population was less than half what it is today and going through Mao's famine. The births per year have dropped by over 30 percent in the five years from 2016 to 2020. With this in mind, what relevant information is being ignored?
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  20. This expectation that only people who can read Chinese can comment on the PRC's soft power is a huge part of the reason it has terrible soft power. The CCP is just the worst at dealing with people it can't do horrible things to if they don't nod and agree.
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  21. I'm guessing she was southern Chinese. That sounds about right for there. My niece is from the North East. I can remember her being taught in school to watch her water usage. She's with us now and doesn't seem too bad. Of course, it wasn't school students they needed to teach to be careful. The situation in the north is pretty dire.
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  22.  @peterlongland6862  that's fair. This is from Shenyang, so not as important to keep happy as Beijing
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  23. What's a short amount of time? The amount we're looking at here is measured in decades. Also, this will last as long as birthrates continue to decline (plus about thirty years after they eventually get back to replacement levels)
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  24.  @shaunmckenzie5509  a week is an eternity in politics.. Which is more relevant, considering the current setup of the PRC.
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  25.  S Qq  Taiwan is independent. Taiwan is a country (look up the definition of these words) Taiwan has split. It's very difficult to take someone who thinks Vietnam is the answer to China's working age population decline seriously when he calls someone an idiot. Edit: and don't get me started on the kind of moron who talks about nuclear war right from the beginning.
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  26. It can, but in the timeframes needed it's not enough and it needs a highly skilled (and paid) workforce to implement. A workforce that's in demand in literally every sector of every developed economy around the world
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  27. With the situation the CCP has created, how can you get a peaceful transition to another system of govt? How can you even get a peaceful transition to another govt?
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  28. That's what's happening at the moment. It brings its own problems, and also has a more limited use. They're getting old, they're not capable of doing as much. Also, the current working population still needs to provide the resources for the elderly to survive. Food, medical care, accommodation, infrastructure. To say nothing of the personal cost of caring for an ageing relative. (For me, it was hard enough with no child, a wife and a brother to help. For an only child with a child of two of its own, plus needing to make up for what's expected to be an empty pension fund... IT seems like it'll be worse)
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  29. But the communist party is always the communist party. Xi isn't a cause, he's a symptom of a system that's designed to be abused
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  30. Can you think of any reasons why? Particularly since January last year?
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  31.  @TheTudor111  please continue to post and further ruin China's reputation.
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  32. So is there anything incorrect or unreasonable in there? Or are you just upset at having it pointed out that the CCP's PRC is viewed extremely negatively overseas. Also: You think it's a good idea to turn the world into an enemy in your opening move? What kind of imbecile does that? That's the kind of stuff you do when you're ready to let the dice roll. (Or when something internal terrifies you more than the consequences of war with the massive trading partners your export driven economy relies on does)
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  33. 600 million living on less than 5 dollars a day says it didn't work. The continuing decline of annual births, even after the one child policy was abolished says that whatever they're doing to reverse this also isn't working. They can't afford to play around with this and do it bit by bit either. One of the ten million born last year is turning 18 at the same time as 22 million are retiring.
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  34.  @Jose-og909  lol. It's not your country either. Also, no. And now that I've defied a direct order, what are you going to do about it?
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  35.  @User-jr7vf  basically, a bigger country making up a non-existent threat (no. No one wants to invade the PRC) as an excuse to invade a smaller one. The mistake made with Ukraine was not letting it join NATO.
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  36.  @Jose-og909  I'm still doing it. Have you figured out how you're going to make me yet?
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  37.  @elgenerico1315  BTW. Shared delusions (or a psychopath forcing someone else to have a delusion) or overlapping claims? Not mentioned in the criteria. Look at the two Koreas. And if it's not law, what is it? Opinion? Everyone has one of those. If it's fact, we get back to my question. What criteria for being an independent country is the Republic of China (established 1912. 37 years before the secessionist PRC was proclaimed) lacking? At what point did it stop being an independent country? Before it comes up: No. The UN resolution you're about to bring up only relates to membership if the UN. Claims that it makes the Republic of China not a country are simply lies.
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  38. @elgenerico1315  you evaded it. You didn't answer it. Ethnicity has nothing to do with whether a place is an independent country. They've done very badly in the war, but they haven't lost. We can see that by the mere fact we're having this discussion. The Republic of China (established 1912. 37 years before the secessionist PRC was proclaimed) lives on to this day under its own govt and legal system, with no PRC laws or law enforcement organs being active in it. It's very obvious you don't have a clue of what the definitions for a country are. Read up on the constitutive and declarative theories of statehood and get back to me with an answer. All you've given is things you wish were criteria. They're not. Claims of uniqueness don't change this. Every situation is unique in some way.
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  39. No reason to. Completely separate and independent country. 😁
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  40. Which is why when the CCP invades Taiwan, a four or five front war will start (India, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and possibly Russia. Whatever Russia does, they won't ally with the PRC) Plus a definite uprising in Hong Kong.
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  41. There's a lot of children there. Like.... A lot.
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  42. It's a Republic of Chinese tiger. An independent tiger that has nothing to do with any People's Republic of Chinese tigers
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  43.  @forgemaster6120  plus the language difficulties. The size of the problem. And the simple fact that the PRC is a poor country without the ability to attract sufficient numbers of the sort of people it needs.
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  44. What aspect of being an independent country is Taiwan missing? And before we waste time going down this route, if you're about to mention UN or American recognition, I'm going to need to date and agreement in which UN or official American recognition became prerequisites for being a country. If you're going to bring up the number of countries that recognise them, I'm going to need a source on why that number of countries is the golden amount (under the constitutive theory of statehood, that number is 1. Under the declarative theory, the number is 0)
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  45. ​ @indrajaya9585  They can. Your posts demonstrate this wonderfully.
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  46. The USA didn't actively punish people for breeding, it provides assistance to people in raising their children and it's able to attract large numbers of immigrants to offset the naturally declining birthrate. Also, GDP per capita of 60k vs 10k leaves a lot of options.
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  47. Stephen He did a video on this. 😁
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  48. The PRC is a country with a massive population, low GDP per capita, an extremely repressive government and a populace that has never had to deal with heterogeneity. How is it going to get enough useful people to make up for its demographic problems when it's competing with wealthier, more liberal and has a proven track record of dealing with multicultural societies? In order to entice someone to go somewhere, it need to actually have a way of doing this.
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  49. You haven't been paying attention to recent votes, have you? Xi has been a wonderful unifier for American politics.
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  50.  @sword7872  sacrificing the short term for the long term? Lol. They're not going to do that. And you can view the demographic predictions yourself. If they're not worried, the chief question on your mind should be why aren't they?
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