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There's no point anymore since everyone has AQI & PM2.5 meters. Incredibly popular is questionable, definitely among tier1 libtards in embassy and consulate ci

There's no point anymore since everyone has AQI & PM2.5 meters. Incredibly popular is questionable, definitely among tier1 libtards in embassy and consulate cities on twitter at the time. There was just as much nationalist on renren then weibo who thought this was US interference. >> It led to China improving air quality. This is charitably western propaganda trying to take credit by fabricating notion that muh free speech can push CCP to change. Reality is BJ recognized pollution issue and had renewable policy underway a few years before this i.e. moving extra polluting factories out, controlling construction dust, vehicle registration systems, better emission standards etc. There was going to be coordinated effort to bring AQI down to <100s during 2008 Olympics and try to make it stick after, US Embassy was trying to stir shit leading up. Like if US embassy AQI shitposts was actually significant in pushing PRC enviromental policies, it would be an incredible own goal that pushed PRC to dominate renewable production chains and EVs while bankrupting western incumbants.

thaumasiotes 2y ago
> There was just as much nationalist on renren then weibo who thought this was US interference. But nobody ever took them seriously. The man on the street in China could just go outside and look at the air. And whether he liked what he saw or not, he still had to breathe it, so interest in the topic was very high. Here's a conversation I had with a friend who worked in the Shanghai office of a major international conglomerate: ----- [me] What do Chinese people think of America? [美国 = the United States] [friend] Different people have different opinions. [friend] Some people see it as the promised land. [friend] Some people are very negative. [friend] Where I work, there's one guy who is really down on America and never misses an opportunity to point out how it sucks. [friend] But even that guy says there's one thing for which America deserves our thanks, the air quality numbers.
- maxglute 2y ago
  >nobody ever took them seriously. ... >friend who worked in the Shanghai You have it backwards, less took your libtard friends from SH seriously. They're expat "cock suckers" (to put it bluntly) putting expats in their filter bubbles fueling western reporting that CCP got pressured to fix air QoL because muh strong US AQI free speech even from their anti US friends (equivalent of my Chinese wife said). Of course the interest in the topic was high, the average person on the street are flooded with CCTV telling them all the various government plans to alleviate air quality even before the US embassy stunt. People joke US helped PRC with airquality, but it's a joke, the one's who take joke position seriously (some groups more prone to this) are mocked (and they should be).
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    > You have it backwards, less took your libtard friends from SH seriously. They're expat "cock suckers" (to put it bluntly) putting expats in their filter bubbles The friend in question has started a number of conversations with me by mentioning how much she dislikes Muslims. I'm not sure what you're imagining here, but it has no relationship with reality.
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thaumasiotes 2y ago

> There was just as much nationalist on renren then weibo who thought this was US interference. But nobody ever took them seriously. The man on the street in China could just go outside and look at the air. And whether he liked what he saw or not, he still had to breathe it, so interest in the topic was very high. Here's a conversation I had with a friend who worked in the Shanghai office of a major international conglomerate: ----- [me] What do Chinese people think of America? [美国 = the United States] [friend] Different people have different opinions. [friend] Some people see it as the promised land. [friend] Some people are very negative. [friend] Where I work, there's one guy who is really down on America and never misses an opportunity to point out how it sucks. [friend] But even that guy says there's one thing for which America deserves our thanks, the air quality numbers.

maxglute 2y ago
>nobody ever took them seriously. ... >friend who worked in the Shanghai You have it backwards, less took your libtard friends from SH seriously. They're expat "cock suckers" (to put it bluntly) putting expats in their filter bubbles fueling western reporting that CCP got pressured to fix air QoL because muh strong US AQI free speech even from their anti US friends (equivalent of my Chinese wife said). Of course the interest in the topic was high, the average person on the street are flooded with CCTV telling them all the various government plans to alleviate air quality even before the US embassy stunt. People joke US helped PRC with airquality, but it's a joke, the one's who take joke position seriously (some groups more prone to this) are mocked (and they should be).
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > You have it backwards, less took your libtard friends from SH seriously. They're expat "cock suckers" (to put it bluntly) putting expats in their filter bubbles The friend in question has started a number of conversations with me by mentioning how much she dislikes Muslims. I'm not sure what you're imagining here, but it has no relationship with reality.

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