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

  1.  @cczsus6513  your English makes it pretty clear that you're lying about your background. Keeping in mind you've also claimed to have been born in the USA. I really can't understand why so many little pinks and wumao think that a native speaker of a language can't spot a second language speaker a mile away....
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  2.  @cczsus6513  well that does explain it. It's a pretty screwed up culture that routinely does that to a kid. I'm not surprised you're putting off any return.
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  3. That doesn't decrease the time it takes for a newborn to become useful. It also doesn't provide the resources required to make that newborn useful
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  4. Any that's accepted the loss of an election. Even if that acceptance only goes as far as "we don't understand why, but the people don't want us, so we're out"
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  5. Yawn. If Russia thought that NATO was looking for an excuse to invade, it wouldn't have touched Ukraine. And now, it doesn't matter what Ukraine signs. If NATO ever does decide to invade Russia, it'll treat whatever it signed that said it wouldn't with as much respect as Russia treated the Budapest memorandum.
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  6. They said Xinjiang is open to visitors. Then added a qualifier "unbiased". Their definition of unbiased, obviously.
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  7.  @zyh0909  so that makes it ok and other countries shouldn't have a problem?
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  8.  @zyh0909  unfortunately the CCP has disqualified me from this. They intially said that anyone could go. Then amended that to only "unbiased" (their definition) could.
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  9. Yep.
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  10.  @siteraogu8599  tell yourself that if you want to believe it. Chinese aren't special. This is something that works in any society. The difference is that if Modi is kicked out, he retires. If Xi is kicked out, he's dead.
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  11.  @J_X999  yep.
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  12. Most European countries can attract immigrants.
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  13. That's something that fails epically if the elites in X country stop being paid, or if the people (who do know what's happening) become upset enough to threaten the elites.
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  14.  @Rohv  all this assumes that the PRC's economy is in good shape and it can keep this largesse going indefinitely.
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  15. >>You failed to mentioned that China’s net annual growth is twice as much as NA and EU combined<< This is as a percentage. Not in absolute numbers. 6% of 10 < 5% of 60. (Or whatever the actual numbers are) >>China is leveraging the younger population in Asean and Africa in the Bell and Road Initiative to offload its low end manufacturing<< I seem to remember this being done before. And it ended with the country this was offloaded to taking the benefits of this manufacturing base for itself, without really benefiting the countries that offloaded to it (except as a source of cheap goods) >>while China is moving to high tech and automation<< Trying to. It's an absolutely massive job and the number of people who can assist are very limited (and in demand globally, which includes being in demand in countries that are able to offer higher wages, better working conditions, more stability and so on) >>The country is moving into a more consumption based GDP<< The govt is certainly talking about this.... And has been for years..... Not really happening how they need it to, though. >>Unlike NA and EU, China has not opened up for immigration yet, this is another pool of younger resources China can tab on<< One question I've yet to hear a decent answer to is: Why would an immigrant who's in demand in both the West and the PRC go to the PRC? Also, the PRC has need of a massive amount more immigrants than the West does, due to its larger and more rapidly ageing population.
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  16. The social economic gains aren't infinite, and after the time I've spent in China, I'll just give a cynical laugh at pretending the climate advantages were ever part of the equation.
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  17. They can. But which country do you think is going to benefit first? The one that's wealthy and can afford to hire the best people? Or the one that's poor?
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  18.  @Martian74  how long do you think this automated Utopia (the one Japan started working on decades ago, with far more per capita resources) will take to achieve? And the Vatican is its own country. So that number of millionaires isn't overly impressive. A million dollars also isn't that much anymore (they have about 1/10th the number the USA does)
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  19.  @Martian74  at 60x the population, China has three times the millionaires that Australia does. A million dollars in assets really isn't that much anymore. And yes, robotics has improved. To implement is still a massive job, though, requiring skilled labour that can get higher pay by going to a wide variety of countries that aren't the PRC. And the smallest country has a population of 1000 people. To have enough millionaires to make a nation of them is an extremely ordinary achievement. You should ask yourself why you're so impressed by mediocrity.
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  20.  @Martian74  yes, I know what you mean. That doesn't change any of what I said. And you used nation as a measuring stick. Not me. And I'm aware that China has many smart people. Just as I'm aware that people who are following the money won't go to a poor country. I don't know why you think your post contradicts mine. You're still coming across as someone who's amazed by the commonplace.
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  21. We'll also discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyberattacks on the United States and economic coercion toward our allies. Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability. That's why they're not merely internal matters and why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today. ----------- What's the problem with that? Where's the lack of respect? Or is it that simply mentioning those taboo topics is disrespectful in your book?
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  22. When in its 111 year history has the Republic of China not been independent?
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  23. It did. In 2016. In that year, the births per year went from a bit over 15 million to a bit over 17 million. Now they're at 10 million. The pandemic isn't the cause of that decline (although it definitely didn't help)
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  24. Ten years ago, I figured China is a country that's being raped and abandoned. Nothing has happened that's changed my mind on this.
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  25. 1. The larger and newer of the two independent countries called China. It seceded in 1949. 2. The smaller and older of the two independent countries called China. Founded in 1912. 37 years before the larger rebelled against it and seceded from it. 3. To enter an area with hostile intent.
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  26.  @mengmiao7258  there's two independent countries with China in their names. The Republic of China and the secessionist PRC.
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  27.  @mengmiao7258  unfortunately I'm hampered from "remembering" what you want to be true by my knowledge of what words actually mean. Including the legal theories of statehood that WEREN'T invented by the barbarians in Beijing in their attempt to lie. There's been two Chinas since the rebel Mao formed the secessionist PRC in 1949.
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  28. Speaking of being terrible at soft power, some idiot has thought that the way to prove Peng Shuai is perfectly OK and that nothing bad has happened to her (including being disappeared) is to send an email from her email address.
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  29. You say that, but the data from the five years since the one child policy was relaxed disagrees. Using global times numbers, the births per year has dropped from 17 million in 2016 to 11 million last year.
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  30. The Mekong has been dammed. I don't think the Ganges is something the CCP has the power to dam.
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  31. I remember hearing about how achieving communism was historically inevitable.
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  32.  @symbj1972  and yet, for that path, we've got 100 million dead with nothing but failure to show for it. It's kind of like the whole historic inevitability thing is complete bollocks.
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  33.  @symbj1972  with nothing to show for it. The attempts to achieve communism have killed that many. With nothing to show for it.
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  34. What part of of this is biased? I'm looking for unrealistic parts. If reality is biased, that's not the video's problem.
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  35.  @jimwu9121  I'm only talking about national stats. I have no idea why you'd think i was talking about some obscure part. And I manage large computer networks. I'd also said going around. Just finished two years working in Hong Kong. It was very stable work. I didn't fail, but it's easy to see why you're saying I am. On top of this, I married a mainlander I met when I first went. Speak the language (badly) and have a child. Long story short, dismissing me as someone who dislikes the PRC because of a lack of in depth exposure isn't going to work. Your ignorance of something as basic migration (a half million net emigration per year sustained over decades. These aren't the failures, these are the successes who choose to leave) shows as a whole, I know what's going on better than you do. Or at least, I'm able to be more accurate in what I say.
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  36.  @jimwu9121  I'm just going to refer you back to the bit previously where you wrote that importing skilled workers would help fix the PRC's upcoming severe workforce needs.
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  37.  @handsomejack4590  until it does/isn't At which point, things will change very rapidly. For a while, the South Sea company was a first class investment.
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  38. Which would basically result in Chinese wealth flooding to Africa and Africa's economy getting into a position where it can occupy the space the PRC once stood. A great deal for them. China's also given them a wonderful lesson in how they should treat countries that helped them as soon as they don't rely on them.
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  39. You think a wealthy person's assets are just cash sitting in a bank account?
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  40.  @Snp2024  normally. I don't think Ben knows what that means, though.
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  41. Tsai said over two years ago (January 2020. Before the CCP virus became serious) that they didn't need to declare independence, because they were independent. Which they have been since 1912. The response was military grade crickets.
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  42. I didn't realise 9 was 90% of 27. Edit: this is by Crude birth rate, which is probably the most Russia friendly number going.
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  43.  @KolyaUrtz  so let's look at numbers. You seem very certain, so please present specifics. And also why it should matter to someone who's not after a 1930's German style ethno state (if you're after that, I wouldn't be surprised. It's not like the Russian mindset is proving itself to be particularly different from the German at that time, but what you're after isn't particularly relevant to people who aren't you)
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  44.  @KolyaUrtz  when you needed to qualify your original position, you were showing it was bollocks. I'm still waiting for numbers and where I can find the source of those numbers, BTW. I'm also waiting for why it should matter to someone who didn't look at what Germany was after in the 1930's and think "that's a good idea" You might agree with what the USSR's ally was doing then, but that doesn't mean everyone else does.
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  45. When things get bad enough in the PRC that they need a distraction, if they aren't given an excuse they'll fabricate one. There's no point in worrying about antagonising them or making them feel threatened. When internal issues make not attempting more painful than attempting, they'll do it.
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  46. The CCP has murdered and impoverished more Chinese than any other entity. Including the Japanese. Over a shorter timeframe.
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  47.  @bratbrat4473  thank you for a response that perfectly demonstrates what I was saying.
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  48.  @bratbrat4473  I've read countless thousands of posts from people inside Russia and China that show exactly this. Including yours. I've also been dealing with the PRC for the last twenty years.
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  49.  @bratbrat4473  I'm discussing with people on the ground. People, like you, who have the ability to give me the impression they want to. Who, like you, choose to write things that do nothing but confirm what's said about you. When you're saying stupid things that confirm what I say, that's on you.
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  50. That's the bit that makes me laugh when people ramble on about dictatorships kind the CCP being far sighted and planning in generations. These idiots are so short term and so insistent on kicking problems down the road that they were blindsided by demographics. Normally the slowest moving and easiest to predict of the social sciences.
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