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Re:Why do Australians live so long? on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:01AM (#41364686)
damn, it's a shame you lived. now you're existing simply to shill for Russia and China dictatorship. the world would have been better off otherwise.
Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Monday August 19, 2024 @12:59AM (#41287937)
https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1ev4oin/你国真...

吃到一半,结果其中一人突然把话题转到了经济情况,他说现在经济十分不景气,家里的生易亏了很多钱。

另一个人则吐槽起了就业压力大,996,物价上涨什么之类的。

第一个人把矛头一转,对准了中共,说中共现在瞎搞把经济都搞坏了。

https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1ev4oin/你国真...

如果粉红能思考, 自然也就不会粉红了.

那些留学还回去的粉红, 我至少还对他们保留一丝尊敬, 就算愚蠢, 他们至少言行一致.

选择留在民主国家生活, 但是离岸爱国的粉红, 我是真不太懂.

https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1ev4oin/%E4...

吃到一半,结果其中一人突然把话题转到了经济情况,他说现在经济十分不景气,家里的生易亏了很多钱。

另一个人则吐槽起了就业压力大,996,物价上涨什么之类的。

第一个人把矛头一转,对准了中共,说中共现在瞎搞把经济都搞坏了。

https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/1evf77w/%E5...

如果粉红能思考, 自然也就不会粉红了.

那些留学还回去的粉红, 我至少还对他们保留一丝尊敬, 就算愚蠢, 他们至少言行一致.

选择留在民主国家生活, 但是离岸爱国的粉红, 我是真不太懂.

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @11:01PM (#41279825)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-party-congress/Xi-v...

Xi Jinping opened the Chinese Communist Party's twice-a-decade National Congress on Sunday by pledging to never renounce using force to take control of Taiwan

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10/chinas-xi-says-outs...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and said that outside influence cannot stop the “family” reunion between Beijing and Taipei....Beijing views the self-ruled island as a province that must be reunited with mainland China, and it has not ruled out using force to assert its claims to Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-calls-taiwa...

China's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @10:29PM (#41279684)
I guess most people wouldn't know about the amount of backdoors that are on Chinese android phones
Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @09:57PM (#41279563)
I would be curious which high quality products the western audience thinks China makes. As far as the popular media (reddit, YouTube) is concerned, most are more aware of gutter oil, fake food, toxic clothes, tofu dreg buildings, olympic athletes that take drugs, roads or bridges that collapses, Chinese EVs that burst into flames, list goes on and on. Not to mention the cheap stuff on Amazon and Alibaba that breaks with only a few usages.

DJI might be one of the few products, but most people don't know DJI.

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @09:17PM (#41279399)
Xi Jing Ping, the Chinese dictator, repeatedly threatens to take Taiwan by force. The Taiwan relations act provides Taiwan with security guarantee from US. US would need bases around Taiwan to protect Taiwan, thus the recent additional US bases in Philippines which chokes off of military maneuver from China. Also probably why China is furious and has been recently ramming filipino navy ships.

North Korea has an ongoing war with South Korea for the last half a century. There's a mutual defense treaty between South Korea and US to provide mutual aid if either faces external armed attack. North Korea also has a mutual defense treaty with China. Thus US need bases around South Korea.

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @06:00PM (#41278341)
It's a bit funny that you think I'm copy pasting, when all your China (sorry, PRC, I guess you don't want dang to come find you) posts reads like llm rambling garbage with no references to back it up.
Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @04:13PM (#41277571)
lots of other scandals, not just food

1.) recent 2024 huge scandal regarding oil container trucks swapping out cooking oil with cancerous industry oil without cleaning the tank. the trucks ended up covering up their tank with tarp so people can't see what kind of oil these trucks are carrying.

2.) videos of Chinese EVs just simultaneously combusting in the streets while driven or parked

3.) toxic chemicals found on Temu/Shien clothes, found by South Korea and US

Re:China's manufacturers are going broke on Saturday August 17, 2024 @03:51PM (#41277410)
Still doesn't work.

1.) Internal consumer demand for China has collapsed, due to real estate debt overhang, local government debt overhang, increasing job loss, and incoming and increasing college graduates. It's estimated that 80% of this year's current graduates are jobless.

2.) External demand for China has been decreasing, 3.5T total export in 2022, only 3.3T in 2023. probably below 3T this year. Due to geopolitical factors such as China allying with Russia, and increasing tariffs from every other country due to overproduction/overexport from China.

3.) EV (at 36B in 2023) is only 1% of value of all Chinese export (3.7T). Not going to rescue the Chinese economy at all. On top of that, only BYD is capable/making some profit, while every other Chinese EV is going to shut down in the next 5 years.

Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:05PM (#41220133)
China accounts for close to 60% of global coal-fired electricity generation and coal-fired power emissions

In 2023, China's total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power generation hit 5.56 billion metric tons, an all-time high that was nearly 6% greater than 2022's record. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-may-upend-...

Re:Will there be 50B+ in student loan delinquencies in US? on Friday August 09, 2024 @11:27PM (#41207090)
the yen carry trade has apparent unwound around 50% https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240809244/sto.... let's see what happens when the remaining 50% is unwound in the next few months, as investors are selling risky assets in US and Europe (and even riskier assets in China, if they haven't already) and moving cash back to Japan to convert to yen. the world economy will be very volatile until the yen carry trade unwind completes.
Re:Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor on Friday August 09, 2024 @03:44PM (#41204805)
TikTok is focusing on longer videos these days via allowing the video length to be longer, because short videos are a money sink. Meta realized this already as well, as Mark mentioned that they're losing 1B a year on short form videos.
Re:Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor on Friday August 09, 2024 @02:50PM (#41204386)
Russia seem to be more reliant on TikTok these days https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/05/02/russias.... Make sense since TikTok is owned by their ally.

This flurry of social media ban might signal the start of the end of Putin's regime, with sudzha's fall by Ukraine. Right now Ukraine can seize artillery storage and destroy rail lines anywhere behind the frontline with ease, and Russia seems paralyzed. If they soften any of the frontline to reinforce the interior, that frontline will collapse.