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Winnie the flu is absolutely the correct branding to counter the countermand (or w/e the ccp is claiming they are doing today).Grand Fromage posted:He's an official government spokesman, so yes. Caixin seem to be gambling their right to life. More power to them. Given that NYT etc are being turfed, doubly so they should stand, it's impressive ethics. Fojar38 posted:Alot of the positive propaganda falls flat too when one realizes that the PRC isn't donating things to countries so much as selling them. The "medical outreach" is plague profiteering Have you not been offerred a job selling masks? I have, my gf has, other friends have. The plague profiteering is either desperately needed, or disgusting, i haven't decided yet. The poo poo does need to move, whether it seen is overcapacity product dumping won't be decided for a few weeks yet. Demand is what it is. Them that take advantage now will likely reap the reward later (I hope). I would blow Dane Cook posted:Covid-19? Why you no get Covid-A? This just needs more love! A classic. Magna Kaser posted:no water. just beer. room temp.   *ahem, thats ours, not theirs!
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Burns posted:I wonder how many countries will now indebt themselves to chjna gor the next hundred years gor their bailouts. given the rate of money printing - sorry QE - that is about to take place, i don't think any one is planning to pay anything back. Much like the trillions that got 'lost' during 2008, i would think we are going to see another ridiculously painful inflation jump, just shy of hyper inflation (if we're lucky and we all play nice). I'm not an economics hero by any stretch, but the risk of hyperinflation seems to be stronger now than in 2008. I'm not 100% certain, but, when we are printing telephone numbers of currency overnight, (with what seems to be increasing regularity) the models in hand seem like maybe they are not working - it's not ok is all I'm sure of. I'll toss in an ill-thought out conspiracy just for fun, I would also ask if 2008 was an opportunity to achieve some degree of currency equalisation to ameliorate some of the effects of 20 years of wanton offshoring. I can't meaningfully engage in economics, apologies if this annoyed you. non-stealth edit: Fojar38 posted:You can say that the plague profiteering is good and that's fine but the problem arrives when it's treated as Chinese aid given freely out of the goodness of their hearts, which it isn't. yeah, i'm wholly behind that. Do the corruption and grease the wheel to get the loving poo poo moving. (that was the topic of my dissertation btw, the win-win of coruption in a developing country. at some point the normalisation has to kick in, and the corruption has to stop. Corruption is only useful to a point, the CCP have clearly missed their indicators.) the re-branding, that's lame navel gazing,wishful thinking, point scoring, back patting, disappointing to humanity at large, dissonant ambition. url fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Mar 25, 2020 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:i cannot comment as i am not an economist Fair comment. I have some broad strokes, but this is GBS, and I've eaten enough poo poo on SA to just put the disclaimers up front these days.
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Squalid posted:I'm not an economist either but I know just enough about it to tell you that your post is so hysterically nonsensical that I'm not even sure if you know what hyperinflation means. I don't think it starts at 10000%, calm down a bit. But, sure, I'll walk the hyperbole back. What's the scale, creeping, walking, galloping, hyper? If stimulus is required for an extended period, I think it's relatively safe to say we will be out of our comfort zone and on that scale, to what degree is anyone's guess at this juncture.
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KennyTheFish posted:Mark Blyth has a lot of good presentations on YouTube that goes into this. Thanks, taking a look now
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Cheesemaster200 posted:the US would recognize Taiwan as an independent country. The US did. Taiwan declined the opportunity to be recognised as an independent nation. The US chose to no longer do so. This is how the one-china problem came to be.
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I'm not gonna quote the posts mentioning the pols closed thing. Where it started off as that pools-closed daft meme, it's now morphed into /pol/s closed. Referencing the edgy 'meme wars' of 2015/2016, and the annoying deluge of Pepe memes. I've got nothing against the HK'ers standing up to be counted (more power to them). But, I think the initiative has gotten away from them and that's why they are struggling for column inches. 6 months of global front-pages and very embarrassing news is a very cool achievement (unlocked). I'm not a meme warrior, I couldn't possibly comment.
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Kharnifex posted:Just wait till Africans realise that eating Chinese is the cure to corona virus This would be a great sport to gamble on. I did wanna reply on the previous page that various African diplomats have spoken up, and to some degree been taken seriously. I'm guessing the Chinese businesses and people distributed throughout Africa being at stake helped them see the light.
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I want me some of this hot page 88 action, I think I might be too late E: gently caress yeah
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Atopian posted:It's very unlikely that anyone but a professional can maintain information security in China over long periods. Oldest one in the book. Drive an tank down a high street, you will be met with force. Hide in plain sight, you won't. It's a gamble, they have an unlimited budget. Guerrilla suggests you play to your strength and their weakness.
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Shumagorath posted:Your choice of OS doesn't matter if you end up getting questioned in the land of No Why. It barely matters in the west. For gently caress, look, it's not the app, it's not the fire wall. It's the predictive loving text, it's in the keyboard. The Chinese typewriter guy nailed it best with his click bait title: 600 million hacked (or whatever) https://youtu.be/G7gN9cRUUwo
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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1biWgSNmgcmNPxh-DwAzJQ This will go smoothly and will end well for everyone involved in it. At no point will this dissolve into the biggest game of 'last mouse out'. No siree, that's not gonna happen. some WeChat spam news thing posted:China has started testing its government-backed digital currency in some regions before it is introduced to the public, aiming to replace paper notes and coins in circulation, according to the People's Bank of China, the central bank.
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That's the one, some local level official forced people to drink bleach or similar. I scrolled back a bunch of pages but couldn't find it. I was caught in a (pointless) to & fro with an wumao/water army type earlier is why I was looking. Apologies for derail. As regards the Swedish thing, some are saying it's being spun to fit the current #chinaisanasshole narrative that is finally start to get some traction. It's not bad thing regardless of spin, those Confucius Institutes were, at the outset and by design, supposed to be a staging ground to infiltrate and spread the CCP hegemon.
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Grand Fromage posted:Vietnam is doing well, though you do have to keep in mind they are also an authoritarian country with information control so you have to put an asterisk by their numbers, you don't have to do that with Taiwan or South Korea. It has been very difficult here. I don't know how much low-balling they are actually doing (that's the nature of it I guess). But, anecdotally, where I have met several who have been put in quarantine for the thinnest of reasons, I haven't heard of a single fatality. We did have an influx of Chinese (lower than usual) just as the news broke before LNY/Tet and we all kept our distance and pointed and joked. Masks were flying off the shelves immediately. Then it went crazy with a bunch of conflicting information coming out of everywhere. Odd, illogical decisions being made about whether foreigners with passports from xyz country could come into the country even if they hadn't been home etc etc. The correct course of action has prevailed. The usual stuff about ppl trying to sneak around and whatnot has been met with social disapproval rather than any jest. It's been hard, business have collapsed everywhere, lockdowns were pretty strict. It's only just started back up the past two weeks and it's slow. Tourism is dead, other than internal stuff (but no one has any money to use the free internal flights on offer. I snuck my gf in just before Tet, and we enjoyed a month together while we watched it unfold. She returned to SZ on March 1, and she escaped a quarantine. Maybe our relationship doesn't make it. It's difficult and mental health issues are showing up everywhere, depression, divorce, and suicides are horribly up. Apologies for sad stuff, I'm not a humorist, I couldn't comment.
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My all time favourite tee-shirt was one I picked up in the silkroad outlet in Beijing. Big white lettering on black. I ♥️ BJ Because I am a low-rent, juvenile fool. Numerous friends asked for it and i relented. I got a second version on another visit. the colour leeched and it was trash.
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Shadow0 posted:I, too, bought many of these the one time I went to China. I just did a ridiculously out loud laugh at your last line, in a bar, in Vietnam. Thank you for brightening my days.ill be keeping this moment close for days to to come.
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While I'm still giggling and being looked at. I have in the past few days landed a teaching number (it's always the plan b, excoet when all the schools etc close.). It'll tide me over while poo poo gets itself righted and I can find real work again. My plan is to return to China after my ban has expired. The girl I love is there, and for whatever reasons, I want to return and try. Right now it's difficult, and I just have to eat that poo poo. Yummy.
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Yeah I got that in mind too. I'm not wanting to derail a thread that was getting back to speed.bi can't PM right now. I have some time to reconsider, buy, the heart wants what it wants. *Ahem* banned from both Chinas btw. Deported unceremoniously from both.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:it's pretty funny that one of the only things that the PRC and Taiwan have agreed on in decades is "This guy really sucks". That is hilarious, but my reality is not that impressive. The rules/laws changed while I was there. (Six~ years). I was picked up at the airport for a traffic fine that I hadn't paid off. I had a new job and was planning to pay the remainder of the balance of the ticket after payday. I hadn't received a notice in the post to say that I was overdue or that a warrant was on me etc (I had just moved). So, unawares, I had booked a ticket to celebrate my new job by visiting Malaysia to watch a motorbike race of a weekend (I think Marquez came 4th). I was stopped at the border and unable to produce the entire fine on the spot, sentenced to serve the fine and then sent home. I found out on my release that any number of people would have been happy to receive my call on a Saturday afternoon and help me make good a very small fine, including my then new manager. But, once the hammer goes down, judgement is what it is, and that's all she wrote. [img]i.imgur.com/gallery/ZDsyRwe.gif[/img] url fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 25, 2020 |
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Fwiw, it was the second fine in under one year (that being the change to the rule, not that it matters). I was some hours shy of one year, and the police and I joked at it being very unfortunate. Twice in one year has a significant multiplier effect. I had paid two of three installments when collared at the airport. To further elaborate, I had a radial fracture in my leg to contend with during the repayment schedule. That's why I had staggerred the payments and was looking for work. I had scheduled a series of trips (for work and to meet family). I was stopped at the airport on a Friday night with a Wednesday paycheck due. Kicked out of bad China was equally dumb, just a snowball of poo poo. One year later I'm still recovering from the mess.  Horatius Bonar posted:Suspected foreign spy. You should know I have used your story as a cautionary tale the past year. quote:Of course Winnie the Pooh couldn't resist the honeypot. 
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Atlas Hugged posted:There have been at least two goons deported from good China and one actually was arrested once as a suspected foreign spy. Another goon's mom actually was deported as a foreign spy. Horatio posted maybe three posts above you :/
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evil_bunnY posted:mandatory quarantine Vietnamese can do quarantine at home. Laowais, not so much. The viet govt has been proactive in repatriating theirs. Take a look at the UK abandoned if you want some good funnies. Apparently, the blue passport and brexit thing hasn't delivered yet. I'm sure it will. Germany has repatriated more Brits than the UK govt.
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Green tea bitch is (I think, excluding the gendering aspect) a tight insult. It has enough flexibility to be broadly applicable. 綠茶婊 luk6 cha4 biu2 绿茶婊
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So there's a semi religious/cultural thing where you wave a stupidly dangerous thing around (nunchuku with blades) and make it release todins or sth from your back. Now, I've seen it irl more than once. And the injuries are life changing. The thing that bothers me, is that as soon as a hard+core injury happens, like a split of flesh more than 8" long happens, a bunch of crowd gets involved and Ignore the solemn and serious commit required for the whatever God demanded. You attended a show to see a clown gently caress himself up. Stand your ground is my point. I'm not am ethical person, I can not comment.
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Shadow0 posted:Please don't use Google translate or Papago for your essays. Okay Hands up, my bad, that was defined a post which didn't meet the SA sobreity metrics. The point I was incoherently making was as follows. I have had the dubious pleasure if attending 'religious' festivals where self-harm is the agenda. Typically a local politician is sponsoring the event in support of the local community shrine worship place (I'm not getting into that here) At the events someone is tasked with hurting themself in a significant way. Chained tools with spikes and blades seem to be the choice. Much swinging if said tool, and skin opening happens. As the volunteer enters the 'trance' stage, the very obvious life-changing injury is readily apparent. My point is, when that (seemingly inevitable) result occurs there is a great deal of crowd participation, and revulsion. I find that unusual. I have it in the same space as saying 'awww th bull died, after having paid for a ticket to see exactly that". I'm not an ethicist, I couldn't comment.
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https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/china-isnt-losing-europe-yet/ China Isn’t Losing Europe Yet Despite Beijing’s series of missteps, the real battle for influence has barely begun. By Michito Tsuruoka June 06, 2020 One of the most notable developments in Asia-Europe relations amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rise of Beijing’s overt and covert diplomatic offensive vis-à-vis Europe. In fact, China’s increasingly assertive and threatening approach – sometimes called the “wolf warrior” diplomacy – has alarmed many Europeans, and there seems to be an emerging consensus that Beijing’s behavior in the midst of the pandemic has been mostly counterproductive, leading to the notion that China is losing Europe. However, it is still too early to make that call. The argument that China is losing Europe could give the false impression that Europe is winning. The battle has barely begun and it will be a long and hard one. It is certainly clear that Beijing’s heavy-handed strategy of intimidation has alienated many Europeans and damaged China’s public image in Europe. The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns of a “global battle of narratives” regarding the pandemic and criticizes Beijing’s attempt to “play on” differences between Europeans. It was widely reported in April that Beijing had tried to use its influence to change the wording of the EU’s report on disinformation activities. Though Brussels insists that it did not change any wording because of pressure from China, there is now official acknowledgment that Beijing did make a series of interventions. Immediately following this, another controversy erupted. At stake was the censorship by the Chinese authorities regarding an op-ed piece for the China Daily, authored by the EU Ambassador to China and 27 ambassadors of EU member states in Beijing. The China Daily, under the supervision of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, wanted to deleted a sentence on the origin of the pandemic as a condition to publish the article. The fact that the EU Delegation accepted the censorship ignited fierce criticism back in Europe from those appalled at what it meant for press freedom. There have been other instances of China’s assertive behavior in various parts of Europe, most notably in France, where the Chinese Embassy website posted a series of articles by an anonymous Chinese diplomat criticizing the way France and Europe have handled the pandemic. What the recent developments show is that Beijing has scored a series of own goals. What Beijing has tried to do – particularly its efforts to whitewash its image as the source of the pandemic and the intimidation it deploys to silence criticism of China abroad – have largely proved counterproductive. Europe’s policy discourse on China is undergoing a structural shift and what could be termed as “business as usual” approach toward Beijing is becoming harder to sustain. Europe has indeed changed a lot. Most recently, the situation in Hong Kong reinforces this trend. However, it is crucial to remember that a mere series of Chinese missteps can never be enough on their own for China to “lose” Europe. Much depends on the European side as well. There are four main areas to take into consideration. First, we need to recognize that Beijing’s goal is no longer about winning the hearts and minds of European people (if ever it was). China’s practical goal now seems to be to ensure that there are enough number of people in important positions in Brussels and in national capitals who are prepared to compromise European values, such as fundamental freedoms, and accommodate China’ positions for the sake of maintaining economic relations with China. Second, the battle in Europe between those who are prepared to lose China and safeguard Europe’s values and interests on the one hand and those determined to preserve current relations with China on the other is set to intensify in the coming months and years, including after the pandemic. Beijing is already a substantial player working behind the scenes on national governments and business communities, trying to exert influence in its favor. In addition, countries such as Hungary and Greece, as well as the post-Brexit U.K., are beginning to become new battlegrounds between the U.S. and China. Third, ridiculing Beijing’s diplomatic missteps will not make Europe more resilient to Chinese pressure. Beijing is fully aware of Europe’s dependence on China, based on which it formulates its behavior vis-à-vis different countries in Europe. Therefore, the question as to how each country could decrease its vulnerability to China is becoming more acute. The concept of “strategic autonomy,” which originally emerged in the context of foreign policy and security, now seems to be expanding to the issue of the global supply chain of strategically important products, including medical equipment, at least in the short term. Fourth, one of the biggest questions facing us now is whether Beijing’s heavy-handed approach to Europe is a desperate short-term reaction in response to the pandemic, or if it is the beginning of a “new normal.” Even if assuming that Beijing’s approach could change, its interest and goals in Europe will not, meaning that in either case this is going to be a long battle. Before claiming that China is losing Europe, there are many challenges that Europe needs to address. Beijing has certainly not given up on Europe.
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shovelbum posted:they didnt want blood from a place with healthcare so lovely you are likely to have diseases so long eradicated in normal countries that they dont have the ability to test for them hth As a Brit :whatho:, i have had this experience in both Denmark, and Taiwan. I didn't even bother to offer in China. BSE you see.
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I'm phone posting so the image isn't super high quality. I'm not seeing the military ships though. E: I guess I was expecting the (lol) much vaunted, cutting edge (completely not spontaneously combusting) PLAN destroyers and cruisers, and coast guard and maybe even the recycled liaoning. But, maybe they are busy hiding from the three that the US have close by for the past few days. (Nothing quite says area denial capabilities quite like having the opposition forces park up, fully tooled, in your neighbours house) url fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Cool, thanks for the extra pics. And yeah, those are suitably pointy and grey. Not sure what types. They're not so large as to be 'very threatening' The large buildup in Shenzhen before the planned 'police display' (back in October iirc) looked more ominous.
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What will happen to seven's week? It's the most debauched and fun gathering of expats across all of SEA I think.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...a-idUSKCN1VP35H Tl;dr: it's a great day for Singapore The finance will fly, my actual interest is in will happen to the port. It's long been significant. But, I'm not a sailor, so I couldn't possibly comment.
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Houston we have a problem Just wanted to get that out here, I haven't read up, apols if I'm the 100th version of it
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加油川普 - Jia you chuan Po (jar yo trum Po) Go Trump!
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Because I am no Gordon Ramsey, my rice opinions are possibly outdated. As much as I love a rice cooker, I do have a hankering for loose , fragrant, long-grain rice on occasion, for a curry type dish etc. I actually thought the purpose of the hilariously funny video of a random Asian guy guy having a meltdown at white peoples' rice, was to highlight that most people (Asians included) can't cook rice anymore. Thereby highlighting him as the fool, not the Karen making rice the old way. I was taught the fry in oil for a bit, then boil it off method as a child. As far as i know, that is how it was done in the millennia before rice cookers were invented. I can't speak to the sales of rice-cooker equipment in India, I would guess it's not significant, since they have kept the old skills alive. Don't get me wrong, i love 'sticky' rice as much as the next fan of congealed gelatinous mush.
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