Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "Why Should Northern China Worry About Flooding? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. I'm guessing you've forgotten about the last few years. For a start.
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  2. It's past 11pm
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  3. They've also been farming that long. As well as building and working with metal. That massive amount of history doing it wasn't enough to make them collectively think Mao was absolutely bonkers and avert the largest famine the world had ever seen.
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  4. In the US, you have the opportunity to peacefully get rid of an incompetent government. Whereas if you ever ask a pro CCP person what happens when the CCP falls and how it's replaced, they either say it'll never happen or they just skip over explaining the peaceful ways in which a new govt could take power.
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  5.  @norihiro01  remember it's fifty fen. Not 50 US cents. This cost 7 US cents. And they still paid more than it's worth.
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  6. I love pathetic wumao trying to divert attention away from the CCP's epic, epic failures
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  7.  @KevinLyda  a big cultural stereotype about the PRC and the CCP in particular is that they think in centuries. That everything is part of some long term plan. This is the stereotype that's applied to the govt that was blindsided by the effect of the one child policy and applied to a country that can't even form a simple queue. It's not the it's wrong, it's insanely we've laughably wrong. Don't think of them as a 2500 year old civilisation. Think of them as a 60 year old civilisation that was born in and is still recovering from the chaos of the cultural revolution.
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  8. My parents were working in Hong Kong and Zhuhai when the Sichuan earthquakes happened. They were going to go to the affected areas and help setup a temporary school. Then came reports of party cadres embezzling aid that had been donated. Then foreigners were banned from going there.
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  9. Maintenance isn't really a thing in the PRC.
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  10. Outside of the areas tourists tend to see, everything is either brand new or falling apart. There's no middle ground.
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  11. Yes. Due to floods. Wink wink.
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  12. They've seemed to alternate between flood and drought the last few years. And that's just the Yangtze.
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  13. SCMP (owned by Alibaba group and subject to the national security law) China food security: 5 major concerns, from loss of fertile land to tumbling soybean output Self-sufficiency in grains is a policy priority for the Chinese government, which wants to ensure the country can weather external uncertainty Beijing is pushing for a breakthrough in biotechnology and seed production, while trying to ensure enough arable land is set aside for crops Topic | China food security Orange Wang Orange Wang Published: 6:00pm, 6 Mar, 2022 ***SNIP*** China imported a record 164.5 million tonnes of grain in 2021, up 18.1 per cent from a year earlier, official customs data showed. The country’s food self-sufficiency rate has fallen to 76.8 per cent in 2020 from 101.8 per cent in 2000, a ratio that is expected to drop to 65 per cent by 2035, according to Du Ying, former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission.
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  14. It's not really whether they go to war expecting to win. It's whether the CCP's leadership goes to war expecting to stay in power a little longer than if they didn't.
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  15. They could do that. Or they could buy a few houses in the west, and their children to expensive schools there and say they did that.
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