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by balola 6y ago
I was closely monitoring Twitter reactions to the product at the time, your are not alone, there were plenty of people puzzled by why they were seeing those weird ads everywhere and repeatedly.
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by balola 6y ago
You probably don't know that Google and FB's ads businesses in China are kinda huge, they never left despite the ban, in fact you can still access a special version of Google Maps, their Analytics and Ads both are fine in China. C
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by balola 6y ago
It's such a myth that 5G can replace optic fibers, afterall 5G itself relies on it, if it requires setting up expensive(controversial) cell towers really really close to homes, why bother making it wireless. https://arstechn
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by balola 6y ago
It's a fatalism, escapism and defeatism catch phrase in China, boils down to: if you can't single-handedly and immediately change the status quo or make it better, then you are not entitled to judge/criticize, shut up and eat
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by balola 6y ago
A unique challenge for US dollars is that as the defult choice of all kinds of dirty money, it has a huge laundering problem. This is not the case for Chinese Yuan and, I presume, Indian Rupee. In China the gov doesn't care about any a
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by balola 6y ago
I didn't read the article until now, it reads exactly like what I said, a capital play. Yet shocking still, it mentions Youth Motors/Qingnian Automobile/青年汽车 as Saleen's neighbor and former plant owner, my god, this is b
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by balola 6y ago
It seems he fell into a classic trap, the Chinese partner never intended to make cars, as the only product they ever produced is a Smart-like "mini-four-wheel-car", which was itself stolen from an HK student design. So the plan is
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by balola 6y ago
Your Chinese employees will be fine, but foreign personel coming in should indeed be very careful not to pique the party's attention as it will actively be seeking pawns.
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by balola 6y ago
You gotta give the masses a sense that the party is doing something for them, usuallly something unrelated to party affairs and politics, like civil criminal cases, that's when the censorship turn "lenient", and these specifi
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by balola 6y ago
Chinese who master both English language and US culture are quite rare in China.
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by balola 6y ago
This is exactly what the general public in China are jesting ByteDance about right now, mocking it as an out-of-favor American lap dog. The CEO actually got labeled as traitor for his past liberal comments.
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by balola 6y ago
The establishment of "Chinanet", such as Alibaba and Tencent, do pledge allegiance to (and are owned in part by) the party in name and action, in return they benefit from the protection and favorable policy it ensues. I personally
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by balola 6y ago
Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It's perfectly normal to not care, but "Policy makers&qu
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by balola 6y ago
Don't anymore since Huawei and COVID-19, it has always been a minority and got smaller.
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by balola 6y ago
Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people. https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-fu... >He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce cold
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by balola 6y ago
It's still what I said, the CCP doesn't care that much about who has data on its citizens, the amount they have could never match the party's anyway, and the measures being taken made it so that potential subversion is unlike
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by balola 6y ago
When billions of people believe something, it will become a "fact". Right now the public opinion in China (not mine) is that India and America are hypocritical bullies and abusing the "national security" excuse, while Ch
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by balola 6y ago
This is a game America can't win, either way the CCP gets to keep the upper hand, everpresent threat or discrediting entirely.
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by balola 6y ago
It's never allowed, part of the reason is you need to install Chinese IME to begin with.
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by balola 6y ago
Seeds are a common e-commerce scam, coz by the time you knew what it turned out to be, it's too late to do anything.
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by balola 6y ago
In China they usually need to pay 1 to 1.5 dollars for someone willingly doing it for them, it's open secret and an entire industry, it feeds platform's ranking/recommendation system to get ahead, sometimes platforms actively
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by balola 6y ago
The thing is, platforms don't really care, it adds to their GMV and fees, in turn it boosts their valuation.
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by balola 6y ago
Says every Chinese internet company, they are all "foreign" companies.
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by balola 6y ago
The CCP high officials don't really care about anyone but their own relatives and cronies, while your assumption is mostly right as in the cases like Alibaba and Tencent, ByteDance isn't exactly like them, it has a kind of autonom
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by balola 6y ago
Does this hurt the CCP? No. It only hurts ByteDance and its investors , which are mostly private entities; while the CCP gets to gloat that look told you, they are no better than us.
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by balola 6y ago
I think ByteDance is in an unresolvable situation, on one hand they absolutely can't afford losing the China market, that means they have to stay Chinese and loyal to the party; but on the other hand, if they don't sever with Chin
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by balola 6y ago
Population decline is more of economic reasons.
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by balola 6y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/250650/number-of-births-... The trend is clear, the limit was loosened late 2015, and it's not working coz people don't want/can't afford 2 kids. China didn&
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by balola 6y ago
The difference is now the population growth is collapsing, even after they loosened the limit to 2 kids per family, China desperately needs more babies.
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by balola 6y ago
#VICENewsTonight China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ

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