Modus Operandi posted:

General Chinese stereotypes of the Vietnamese? Small in stature, cunning, duplicitous, and two faced when it comes to global relations. The positive stereotypes are hard workers, upcoming regional SEA state, and they make good wives.

hitension posted:

Also at only 3% of Indian legislators, senior officials and managers are women... and that's ranked #123, meaning there are some ~70 countries (assuming the report is comprehensive) that are ranked worse. Can we just say the world is hosed?

Vladimir Putin posted:

There's probably more national feeling about being the victims of two atomic bombs vs. perpetrating the Rape of Nanking.

Deleuzionist posted:

Happy Chinese New Year.

Deleuzionist posted:

US Embassy Beijing

http://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn/aqirecent3.html

pentyne posted:

Really? I figure they'd just throw back the corruption in Japan and US as proof that China is better, or am I misunderstanding just how large the scope of corruption is?

bad day posted:

I think it's just a myopic perspective - their policy seems to be that A. The NYT will never print anything positive about China. B. Nobody at the NYT is going to work very hard for a story here.

goldboilermark posted:

Don't hold your breath, buddy.

Bloodnose posted:

It's like if America constantly ran historical dramas about Pearl Harbor or The Alamo or 9/11, and that was all you ever got to see of Japanese, Mexicans and Arabs.

WarpedNaba posted:

I have to wonder what kind of system could effectively administrate a nation of a billion + souls.

I keep coming to the conclusion that there isn't one

caberham posted:

If your girlfriend's family broke the law, I'm sure her parents would drill that into her head and guilt trip her to study extra extra hard because the parents broke the law.

You don't get fined if the first baby is a girl. There's a second chance. You still get subsidized schooling and all that jazz. Yes infanticide happens, but it's more of a "I want a son after 4 daughters and can't afford to raise another" situation than "ewww gross a vagina".

Arglebargle III posted:

I don't know a whole lot about drones, but why not? Just because the drone airframes aren't there? Couldn't you fly a drone equivalent of an FA/18 from an AWACS or something?

Riso posted:

If Mao were to return from the dead one day he'd kill everyone in an apoplectic fit.

WarpedNaba posted:

Didn't China ban Death Note because it was subversive causing people to carry their own black books and write the names of their bosses in them?

Modus Operandi posted:

Well I looked it up and i'm a bit off. The U.S. is actually #7 in overall cancer rates which is still pretty bad considering the other countries worse off than the U.S. are far smaller in size with less diverse health circumstances.

Bloodnose posted:

Vladimir Putin posted:

What is 'American' cuisine anyway? It's basically a mish mash of contributions for whatever cultures landed here from the WASPS to the Irish to the Italians and now being heavily influenced by Mexicans and immigrants from Asia and all over the world. Maybe we selected the worst meals from all of these cultures?

MeramJert posted:

What do students in China learn in their political classes? I've been told that they've read excerpts of Marx and Lenin but people don't generally seem to know anything about it.

WarpedNaba posted:

What kind of high school student has never seen a tit? Internet porn is everywhere, dude.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

China ultimately is a mystery though. I don't think anyone knows the whole story about what is going on despite the advances in technology that allow effectively controlling a large state. Even Xi Jinping probably has no clue as to what is happening several levels below him on the totem pole.

Captain Frigate posted:

I think the situation in the US has more to do with deliberate sabotage than any sort of fundamental limit on the effectiveness of federal programs.

Grand Fromage posted:

Tulip bubble is still the funniest bubble.

hitension posted:

I also strongly suspect more people take loans to mortgage houses than are willing to admit it. With the prices of houses and the incomes of Chinese people having such a large disconnect, I think for many it would be impossible to not take a mortgage, even accounting for rich parents' savings.

VideoTapir posted:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-10/06/content_17010973.htm


The legislation in question. Ctrl-f for "chinese"
http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20130318/BILLS-113hr933eas.pdf

quote:

(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP has certified—
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of
technology, data, or other information with national
security or economic security implications to China
or a Chinese-owned company; and
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials who have been determined by the United States to have direct involvement with violations of human rights.

Pro-PRC Laowai posted:

Oh it's just loving hilarious, because the cars have about jack poo poo to do with it. And their "plan" makes about as much sense as the whole "yellow means red" notion of how traffic lights work. Here's how it will go down. Someone will push their precious little baby through the works to see it become reality. The first time everything's a giant mess because classes are cancelled, but work is not, or a factory shuts down on the "prediction" of pollution that doesn't come and workers start getting pissy about pay. And in spite of all their chaos, nothing really changes... it will be kicked to the curb and the idiots who devised it will be sent down to the countryside where they belong.

waitwhatno posted:

This reminds me of a similar situation in Turkey a couple of years ago. Their hilariously corrupt and incompetent car inspection system was judged beyond all hope, so they disbanded it completely and hired a large German inspection company(TÜV)to rebuild the entire system from the ground up. Employees from the previous inspection service where even forbidden from working there. They also put high emphasis on computerizing absolutely everything, so that it would be very difficult to manipulate inspection results. Maybe something that China can learn from.

synertia posted:

seeing their little self-congratulating back patting incestuous awards shows where they give the same 10 people achievement awards every year actually pisses me off.

WarpedNaba posted:

I'll probably regret asking this, but by apologising properly they don't mean 'Stop your neo-liberals and far right nuts from whitewashing school books and visiting Yasakuni shrine and we're good', do they.

Fojar38 posted:

There seems to be a trend of communist countries reverting to nationalism once they abandon communism.

WarpedNaba posted:

I'm not comfortable with an interventionalist China, tbph. There's Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, and that's just on the front door.

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

Having an amban stationed in Lhasa while the Kashag rules central Tibet (and much of the rest of Tibet doesn't even have that much Chinese presence) is such a completely different arrangement that it doesn't really make sense to call Tibet "conquered in ~1720" in the context of current Chinese rule. If by "traditional Chinese territory" you mean territory that Chinese has occasionally considered its own, sometimes nominally ruled, and rarely directly administered, then I don't think that term really makes sense either.

And if you don't consider Chinese adventures in Tibet interventionalist, you should talk to some Tibetans.

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

Luckily the "general Western idea" is mostly held by people who have literally no influence on Tibet.

quote:

Far more important (and relevant to our discussion of Chinese education) is the patently false idea that Tibet has always belonged to China, and the mostly false idea that Tibet can really be considered "traditional Chinese territory," which is promoted as the truth by the Chinese government, taught in schools, and unfortunately believed by the majority of Chinese people.

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

I guess it wasn't, as long as you have Arglebargle, Glasseye-Boy, Tom Smykowski, Fojar83, and dilbertschalter on ignore and think this is still solely about Japanese textbooks and doesn't involve China and larger issues of historiography.

quote:

The claim may be that Tibet and Xinjiang were annexed long ago enough that everyone involved is long dead, and yet there are still plenty of Tibetans alive now who may have never seen a Chinese person before they fought against the rGya mag in the 1950s. This is why it's actual far more similar to the time-frame of the Israel-Palestine conflict than you seem to think. Chinese control prior to the 1950s is a very different thing than you seem to be giving it credit for.

WarpedNaba posted:

In the same vein, Britain is a traditional French territory, Finland and Norway and traditional Swedish territories, and I ain't about to begin with the thousand Germanies. Also, there's good evidence that Manchuria was a Korean tributary for a fair amount of time.

pentyne posted:

Not really. They're so heavily dependent on exports that they can't just go and make demands under threat of withholding cheap consumer goods without their own economy taking a massive hit.

And even if their GDP passes the US, people aren't likely to believe the numbers anyways since as it stands everyone assumes all the economic data coming out of China has been crooked as poo poo for decades.

flatbus posted:

And of course with such 19th century ideas we have to revert to orientalism:



A large portion of Americans don't even consider their own loving president to be American because he's half black, and yet I don't see Chinese or Indians (or even black Americans) avoiding white American movies and music because they can't relate to whiteness. You've got to come up with something less obviously wrong than that.

Wanamingo posted:

Didn't the latest Deus Ex have a section in Hong Kong? I seem to remember that being pretty neat, but it has been a while since I played the game.

VideoTapir posted:

Would a middle class/working class revolt in HK, against the Hong Kong elite specifically, be perceived as a revolt against the Mainland government? I mean what would Beijing do?