Re:Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy
by IIAOPSW on Saturday August 29, 2015 @09:46AM
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Here's a quick (terse) summary of what happened up-thread:
"I'm physically in China and I find that the NYT reports on China often don't match the reality that I see." "Shut up xinhua shill"
Comparing the quality of xinhua and NYT is completely tangential to the point I was trying to make. I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't have a serious discussion about China. I am saying that such a conversation is not happening here. I expect better than this HN.
Re:Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy
by gress on Saturday August 29, 2015 @12:06PM
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How does the contigenics 'see' the lack of zombie factories? Are they flying in a helicopter to fact-check the NYT? I think not.
Re:Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday August 29, 2015 @10:14AM
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I see. Let me view that NYT report right now. Oh, wait, I can't, for some reason NYT is blocked here. Well, I can check out china daily at least.
Re:Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy
by beachstartup on Saturday August 29, 2015 @11:35AM
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quite frankly, xinhua and nyt are both full of shit.
Re:Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy
by tellthetruth1 on Saturday August 29, 2015 @01:04PM
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"where NYT is vastly more professional than the shill Chinese press."
Pfffft...
Compare say china daily (an English version of xinhua mostly) to NYT, and you'll see a vast difference on bias and reporting standards, where NYT is vastly more professional than the shill Chinese press. So taken like that, why would parent think NYT was lying unless they had something else to compare it to; i.e. the CPC's word that the economy is fine and nothing is wrong?
There are plenty of problems in the Chinese economy...why not report them?