kitschshrine

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by kitschshrine 10y ago
uh, this is 2017, not 1930s. let's judge China by today's standard. You can't absolve a sin from someone today because someone else "used to do it" 100 years ago
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
i was wondering when a 'whataboutism' person was gonna show up. why don't we stay on topic and talk about China. Btw, I'm not American "I'm not here to spark a tally of which country has committed more atroci
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
so China is - lead by a billionnaire dictator and son of veteran communist party member, who has shown to purge his enemies, jail innocents/reporters without trial, disappear others. He oppresses the will of hong kongers to self gover
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
> miracle of transformation that is modern China There's no miracle. It's merely the communist party stopping 40 years of criminal abuse of its own citizens, and deciding to rent them out for pennies to the foreign corporation
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US fines China's ZTE $1.2B for violating Iran, N. Korea sanctions(yahoo.com)
2 points by kitschshrine 10y ago|0 comments
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
China's economy is crashing. no free lunch anymore. just look at their reserve and debt ratio
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
> And they do not have subpar education you seem to be wanting to argue about something which I did not even bring up. internet is not a place you start arguing with yourself. > it's not more restricted than in the west Yeah....
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
Why would any foreigner want to start a company in a country that - requires you to give up 50% to a local partner - blocks internet access to foreign websites (thus foreign customers) - can take away your business/assets/customer
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
it's a lie, much like the government's made up 7% gdp growth. "China's liaoning province admitted that it inflated GDP figures from 2011 to 2014" https://qz.com/887709/chinas-liaoning-province-a
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
They've been saying that since the Chinese economy opened up in the 80s, really opened up in the 90s, really really opened up in the 2000s. so far, nothing in 35 years. Japan had so much innovations in way less time. meanwhile China
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
And yet just today... "China’s sprawling Internet censorship regime is harming the country’s economic and scientific progress, a senior official has said in a rare public rebuke of long-standing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy.&qu
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
Highly doubtful on both points. As for open up political system - Xi Jinping is consolidating his power to be the dictator of China. He is removing rivals using routing out corruption as excuse (and not targeting his own supporters) - Chi
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
The Chinese communist party (CCP) tortured its own citizens for 40 years. Then it stopped beating them and then rented them out to foreign corporations for pennies on the dollar, for hard, back-breaking labor. Then the CCP members left Ch
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
There are still other issues in China like - censorship - bad access to world internet - corruption - zenophobia/racism - bad manners/behaviors from locals - no weed - food delicacies (mexican guacamole, european chocolate, real c
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
he's trying to not die 15-20 years earlier due to the cancerous air/food/water in China
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
their private valuation is probably somewhere around 4 to 6B now
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
He was talking about things in China like Poisonous air - "pollution levels hovering over 12 times the level recommended by the World Health Organization" http://theweek.com/articles/672007/filth-breathe-
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That Chinese futuristic elevated bus is now gathering dust(mashable.com)
2 points by kitschshrine 10y ago|0 comments
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Xiaomi stops disclosing annual sales figures(techcrunch.com)
94 points by kitschshrine 10y ago|49 comments
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China Issues First Ever National Red Alert Amid Heavy Smog(nbcnews.com)
1 points by kitschshrine 10y ago|0 comments
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by kitschshrine 10y ago
China won't be able to afford this; China's pretty broke already in 2016. It's approaching 300% debt ratio in combined corporate + government + individual. Its gross reserve is down to 3T (IMF believes China needs at least