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Maybe it is not the case in the US? Interesting.
Here is the summary that I posted on my blog:
https://paraditedc.com/2019/11/22/pdc-10-chinas-real-progres...
Sorry if it is too personal, but if you don't mind, I would like to know if you have actually visited China.
In my opinion, only people who have actual experience living in China are qualified to make such statements.
Edit: Seems like I have crossed the line on HN. Moderators, feel free to moderate this comment. And apologies for unintentionally starting this long and boring thread.
There is a term and a meme for it on Chinese internet. You can Google-translate these pages that explain the term:
On the other hand, people in US enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically incorrect topics in public.
So basically in both cases, people are just hiding what they truly know/think in their minds instead of speaking them out.
There is usually an English version of the website available for important government websites (as with this case, the button is on the top right corner).
- Some people have spent considerable time and effort writing an entire long wiki page for "Criticism of Confucius Institutes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institu...
- The "Reception and controversies" section of main wiki page for Confucius Institute is considered not neutral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute#Reception_...
Surgery or modern medicine (injection, pills) focuses on one particular manifestation of illness and targets a particular illness.
On the other hand, TCM is not targeting a particular illness, but rather, it sees illness as the symptom of something deeper going off track in the body. Hence it tries to regulate and balance the body so that it can correct itself, without too much intervention.
It's not something that you can quantitatively study easily and get concrete results, as it is more long-term and therapeutic rather than short-term result driven.
Chinese people have been practicing it for thousands years and we are doing just fine in terms of life expectancy, actually better than US.
Your argument, to a Chinese person, is equivalent to "JavaScript is old because Java is old." It makes no sense at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine
Edit: It's also worth noting that in Chinese, TCM is simply 中医, which literally means Chinese medicine. I'm not sure who decided to add the "traditional" in front, but it's not actually how it's called in China.
> Traditional medicine is distinct from modern medicine only by virtue of the parts that don't work.
If you say it this way, then maybe we should stop using the term TCM and just call it its original name "Chinese medicine" so we can both be happy.
"Traditional" simply means TCM hasn't changed much over the years.