Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. The cold war against Russia, the emerging one against China, was all about preventing this sort of totalitarianism. You didn't think it was real then, or now . . . ? !
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  2. Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake . . .
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  3. No wages for months, can't get savings out of banks, how do people manage to live? Time for answers to this, not repetitions of the allegation.
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  4. It is relevant that USA has combat experience with carriers since WW2. In the jet age, it has lost thousands of aircraft and crew in ongoing usage. Acquisition of experience has high costs.
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  5. Good to see values expressed in U.S. dollar$ now - thanks.
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  6. Yet people still buy them ! Can't fix stupid . . . ?
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  7. Unemployed youth - prospective cannon-fodder for the PLA . . . ?
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  8. Remember the city tunnel which flooded when it rained heavily, or was it a dam that was released? More than a few did not escape.
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  9. Spoiled goods in flooded stores, vehicles swept away, lost production time, displaced workers, yet impact on Chinese economy is never quantified – all we hear about is property debt.
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  10. In 1940, Churchill asked a country to endure hardship, promising only "blood, sweat and tears". The country did that - and survived. Other politicians have subsequently betrayed us.
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  11. Who is paying? Good question. The ports will be raising invoices but will they be paid in full? Seizing the goods and trying to sell them off may well be a fool's errand . . .
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  12. Yes, those who stayed made a choice and choices have consequences.
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  13. "Upgrades and redevelopment" whilst all around there is a downturn with closures. Some explanation is needed for this phenomenon - and there is none offered.
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  14. I've yet to hear about what this massive transfer will actually achieve, the overall implications. I wonder why . . .
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  15. We are overwhelmed with statistics about this, that and the other. No analysis or observations as to what this means (as usual).
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  16. Only successful if resources are put in place to effect the required replacement when due. We're not seeing that . . .
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  17. . . . . but that's an effective distraction methodology, especially if the population is starving . . . .
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  18. "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ( Benjamin Franklin )
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  19. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you . . .
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  20. Insufficient passengers so train services are cut, thus do potential travellers not patronise the reduced services . . . . rinse and repeat.
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  21.  @kimoe188  A rip-off then . . .
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  22. "Using official data" . . . . so his conclusions will be very flawed. Garbage in > garbage out . . .
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  23. If this is how ChiComms cope with incompetent water management, what would they do in a war situation, of the sort they seem intent on provoking?
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  24. Yuan numbers are meaningless to us - please use U.S. dollar equivalents.
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  25. It's a question of money. China has grown on the back of foreign direct investment. The Anglo-sphere 'West' has been committing commercial suicide.
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  26. Not the new dollar, but maybe the old Weimar Reichsmark?
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  27. London's Blackwall Tunnel warns about that - the fine for doing so is high. Nobody does it . . .
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  28. Visited early on a Monday morning maybe, but what's it like on a Saturday afternoon?
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  29.  @melanieking4357  What maintenance . . . ? if they're time-expired, the problem [and cost] of rebuilding may be prohibitive, thus never happen; not good for those downstream!
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  30. Corruption is a major 'industry' there.
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  31. Can the replacements deliver the same quality of work? Savings are seen quickly, but failures take time to emerge . . .
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  32. Anyone not yet read Orwell’s book ~ "1984" ? Make sure you do so - soon!
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  33.  @mrbenwong86  How do you compute that?
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  34. Submarines use sailors, not soldiers . . .
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  35. Looking at those multiples of high-rise blocks, I have to ask about any problems with water supply and sewage disposal. Then again, if there is no water supply . . .
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  36. As with so many such videos about China, too many fill-in clips of bank tellers and notes being counted on machines. Stop wasting our time!
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  37. Yes, the country has been here before. This time it might stay there . . . ?
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  38. Thin margins can work, for a time anyway, until fixed costs rise or sales volumes decline.
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  39.  @vueport99  Seizing the goods and trying to sell them off may well be a fool's errand . . .
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  40. Under way in the USA . . .
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  41. The voice says this even took twelve days before elsewhere heard of it. The mass starvation of Mao's era may not recur because of the internet's existence would make any such event impossible to hide for long.
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  42. All rivers are "inland" are they not?
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  43. Yuan means nothing to most of us - please use U.S. dollar$ . . .
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  44. All these videos have multiple clips of banknotes flipping through a counting machine . . . . why ?
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  45. As with so many such videos about China, too many fill-in clips of bank tellers and notes being counted on machines. Stop wasting our time!
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  46.  @mhelmreich1  Intrinsic defects ?
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  47. Yet some stations re-open in response to "public pressure", allegedly.
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  48. Six metres deep, or six feet?
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  49. We'll all be looking "over there" when disintegration will occur "over here". The world as we know it is crumbling; slowly for now, then very quickly . . .
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  50. The more we hear about this problem, the less we hear about its effects; past time that we did. If numbers are so bad, how come nobody (such as CO) has collated them on a national basis?
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