Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by Stryder on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:05PM
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Double-standard is the oldest trick in the book for establishing and maintaining power dynamics.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by rfreytag on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:12PM
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The PRC is playing a long game with the Belt and Road initiative as well as incrementally building and claiming islands within the South China Sea laying a real claim to the waters there-round. The PRC inroads in Africa are significant. With a minimum of grandstanding China as moved quite far geopolitically over the last decade and more.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by whynotminot on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:11PM
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China likes to project an aura of inevitability brewing for eons and now thundering forward, but the ruling party is very aware of how tenuous its grip truly is.
The short term economic decisions highlight how much they fear a downturn could upend the party's control.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by jcranmer on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:26PM
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It was the same thing in the movie. Immediately after that exchange, Rachel explains how she turned down Nick because it would mean cutting him off from his family, at which point Eleanor berates her for turning down a winning hand. For as much as Eleanor talks about the importance of suborning happiness for things that last, Eleanor is just as quick as she accuses the Americans of being of pandering to happiness.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by jhwang5 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:36PM
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Way to get cultural insights into China from a Hollywood movie bro
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by krapp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:47PM
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To be fair, it's a Hollywood movie based on a book written by a Chinese author based on his childhood in Singapore. So not entirely without legitimate cultural insight.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by jhwang5 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:52PM
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It's written for the western audience. And I think you just made my point for me. At best it reflects the rich Chinese people's attitude - since when is HN rampant with small sample generalizations?
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by krapp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:07PM
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> since when is HN rampant with small sample generalizations?
Since always. I can't count the number of generalizations I've seen which begin with "in my experience," for which the poster's experience likely includes a sample of one at least, or half a dozen at most.
And to be perfectly fair, it seems to happen a lot when China or Japan come up.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by jhwang5 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:35PM
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>And to be perfectly fair, it seems to happen a lot when China or Japan come up.
Right, I wonder why.
Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
by nate_meurer on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:16AM
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OP just said it was interesting, that's all. Do you have any insights of your own to add?
"There is a Hokkien phrase, 'Gar gee nang.' It means, our own kind of people. And you're not our own kind."
"Because I'm not rich? 'Cause I didn't go to a British boarding school, or I wasn't born into a wealthy family?"
"You're a foreigner. American. And all Americans think about is their own happiness.
"Don't you want Nick to be happy?"
"It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about."
Funny thing is that I feel like it is indeed rare for cultures-countries to think about building things that last. But the US is actually one of the few countries that does---whereas China can't float this level of debt at attractive rates because it is NOT long term focused. It keeps doing insane, credibility-destroying things. Yet always talks about how it is a long term actor.