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[daifo]

I don't really see it as a problem for Apple as it's really half consumer good and half "luxury" company that will always sell well to people wanting to "flex" . Chinese companies still doesn't have that "brand" image YET. This is were the soft-power matters to building brand and image. But its a fun title to poke the China-haters though.

In reality, China is turning from a supplier to western companies into a direct competitor. The days when western companies could use cheap Chinese components, and its hyper-competitive factories, to lower their costs and fatten their profit margins are long over. Instead, they face increasingly brutal competition from aggressive, well run Chinese rivals now moving into mainstream consumer markets.

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[Bellum_Romanum]

In that case, I suppose China will certainly go into outright collapse, balkanize, and plunge the entire population into yet another Century of Humiliation real soon - Or worse, the ultimate destruction of the entire Chinese civilization.

Am I correct? Especially @ChongqingHotPot92 and @FairAndUnbiased.

I'm serious here.

Then we'll have some serious governance and leadership from real visionaries like these: Republic of Basuria, Republic of Shanghai, Tibet, East Turkmenistan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Manchu, Mongolia etc...clowns.

 

[liamban]

In that case, I suppose China will certainly go into outright collapse, balkanize, and plunge the entire population into yet another Century of Humiliation real soon - Or worse, the ultimate destruction of the entire Chinese civilization.

Am I correct? Especially @ChongqingHotPot92 and @FairAndUnbiased.

I'm serious here.

Is this forum a cross dimensional portal where people from different multiverse are posting without realising it ? Maybe all those sleepy alts are really different people ? Or maybe some of them are not people at all but sentient sock puppets or one where half the population actually defecate freely in public or even live in makeshift squalor but still believe they are living in the best political ideology that ever existed.

 

[tokenanalyst]

1. Middle class Chinese are now spending massive amount of money to try to cross into the U.S. via Mexico, risking everything despite absolutely no guarantee of being able to find a job in the U.S.
2. 996 work culture persists despite labor law clearly making it illegal. With the 996 work culture, employees are burnt out and have no family time at all. In other words, both employers and employees are violating the labor laws just to squeeze the last bits of pennies in cut-throat competitions. Current labour laws are literally impossible to implement since EVERYONE is violating them.
3. Toxic competition and back stabbings in both academic and professional settings called 内卷.
4. Urban young Chinese women (mostly daughters of well-to-do elites) refuse to marry and have babies with Chinese men. When they marry foreign men, they demand no bride price, but when approach by their Chinese counterparts, they demand exorbitant bride price in the name of "feminism". This social phenomenon (call it gender war, if you like) is arguably impossible to fix.
5. While the government hopes to resuscitate the collapsing birth rate, there are little mechanism in place to support pregnant women, and single mothers and fathers. Of course this can relatively easy to fix by increasing welfare coverage.
6. All of these problems, along with others, are making people extremely social darwinian in their beliefs. If you lose your job or your company get driven out of business, nobody would sympathize with you since it is "natural selection" of the fittest.
7. The richest people all try to transfer their assets abroad with the hope to tax avoidance. If you think American companies and Wall Street are kings of tax avoidance, you need to travel to Shanghai and actually talk to Shanghai business elites.

Is that is the list of your problems, I don't think you really have problems at all. Like, wow, you have to deal with toxic people that are willing to backstab you push their own careers? In real life? Yeah. welcome to the real world, kid.
A lot things you posted like #1 and #7 is has being greatly exaggerated by Western mainstream garbage media or a basically your own bias and have nothing government, like why is Xi responsible for who a young woman want to marry?

There are some criticism to Xi like there is a lot to give him credit, personally I think he was slow to predict and act when the US Washington D.C. stooges tried to kill China semiconductor industry.
For years he caved in too much to the Chinese liberals that wanted to keep China semiconductor industry dependent on a few US and European monopolies only because they wanted China semi industry to be more like Taiwan or Korea, newsflash, the US would have NEVER allow China semiconductor industry be so big no matter who is in power in China. Given this threat, localization should have been enforced sooner rather than later and more when government money was involved.​

 

[Randomuser]

Is that is the list of your problems, I don't think you really have problems at all. Like, wow, you have to deal with toxic people that are willing to backstab you push their own careers? In real life? Yeah. welcome to the real world, kid.
A lot things you posted like #1 and #7 is has being greatly exaggerated by Western mainstream garbage media or a basically your own bias and have nothing government, like why is Xi responsible for who a young woman want to marry?

There are some criticism to Xi like there is a lot to give him credit, personally I think he was slow to predict and act when the US Washington D.C. stooges tried to kill China semiconductor industry.
For years he caved in too much to the Chinese liberals that wanted to keep China semiconductor industry dependent on a few US and European monopolies only because they wanted China semi industry to be more like Taiwan or Korea, newsflash, the US would have NEVER allow China semiconductor industry be so big no matter who is in power in China. Given this threat, localization should have been enforced sooner rather than later and more when government money was involved.​

I used to scoff at all the Xi praise. I thought it was just some meme shit like how Indians try to make Modi seem like some complete visionary leader when only Indians themselves care about him.

But after seeing some recent senior party members getting fired for having an affair with a spy or letting their family members sell state secrets, I kinda get why China needs Xi. As someone who lived through the worst of the cultural revolution, basically Xi is a tough personality and is willing to go all the way to see it through without major compromises.

The other leaders especially the younger leaders don't have what it takes. They are mentally weak who would give in to corruption, liberalism and whatever because the path otherwise is too tough for them. I mean it's pretty obvious how the west is trying to screw all of China over yet they are still doing this stuff? How on earth does that help especially when it's your turn to be dealt with? They grew up in better times, they don't really know what true hardship is. Maybe they are smarter coz they didn't have their education interrupted but what's the point if you're just going to be a lib who gives in to the west coz you can't tough it out? That's probably why Xi still has to stay on coz whoever is going to replace him afterwards hasn't shown that toughness yet. If he was leader right now, he probably would have already made dumb compromises.

I previously spoken on LKY being tough and how the subsequent leaders were weak. China better pay attention.

 

[Rafi]

Chinese nation and civilization is thousands of years old, it has its ups and downs like everything in life, but one thing I am certain of and certainly take for granted is the Collective vision and national memory of Chinese people.

My Chinese family members can quote Tang dynasty poetry and the three Kingdom classics.

The Chinese people will never allow the 100 years of humiliation ever again, they will never again allow national destabilising forces to allow foreigners to hurt the nation again.

President Xi has been a great and brilliant leader but he is only a mortal human being, the Party will have worthy successors that will take over in an orderly way.

In my opinion as someone looking in as an outsider (who has great admiration and affection for all things Chinese and our great ally). I think that China has nothing to worry about, it is definitely not a utopia but it is the one great hope of mankind especially us in the global South.

China Zindabad

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

I used to scoff at all the Xi praise. I thought it was just some meme shit like how Indians try to make Modi seem like some complete visionary leader when only Indians themselves care about him.

But after seeing some recent senior party members getting fired for having an affair with a spy or letting their family members sell state secrets, I kinda get why China needs Xi. As someone who lived through the worst of the cultural revolution, basically Xi is a tough personality and is willing to go all the way to see it through without major compromises.

The other leaders especially the younger leaders don't have what it takes. They are mentally weak who would give in to corruption, liberalism and whatever because the path otherwise is too tough for them. I mean it's pretty obvious how the west is trying to screw all of China over yet they are still doing this stuff? How on earth does that help especially when it's your turn to be dealt with? They grew up in better times, they don't really know what true hardship is. Maybe they are smarter coz they didn't have their education interrupted but what's the point if you're just going to be a lib who gives in to the west coz you can't tough it out? That's probably why Xi still has to stay on coz whoever is going to replace him afterwards hasn't shown that toughness yet. If he was leader right now, he probably would have already made dumb compromises.

I previously spoken on LKY being tough and how the subsequent leaders were weak. China better pay attention.

I was clueless who Xi was and what's he accomplished before he became the chosen successor to Hu Jintao. My ex-gf who seemed to dislike Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao for whatever reasons (ex father was a provincial level leader on one of China's province but was removed from his post due to corruption i.e. womanizing). Perhaps she disliked them for corruption linked activities that I am not familiar with as I have not been intimately familiar with the politics of China until Trump came into the scene. She however really liked, no LOVE Pres. Xi. It wasn't until I read the CIA intelligence insights about the man (citing that Xi was INCORRUPTIBLE) that made me a strong supporter of the man. Not to mention that it was his push for Chinese modern military modernization from the establishment of the 5 theatre command, the intelligentization, MIC 2025, dual circulation....he saw the need for China to become self-sufficient and self-reliant when most of the Chinese industry were more than willing and blinded to western industries.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I used to scoff at all the Xi praise. I thought it was just some meme shit like how Indians try to make Modi seem like some complete visionary leader when only Indians themselves care about him.

But after seeing some recent senior party members getting fired for having an affair with a spy or letting their family members sell state secrets, I kinda get why China needs Xi. As someone who lived through the worst of the cultural revolution, basically Xi is a tough personality and is willing to go all the way to see it through without major compromises.

The other leaders especially the younger leaders don't have what it takes. They are mentally weak who would give in to corruption, liberalism and whatever because the path otherwise is too tough for them. I mean it's pretty obvious how the west is trying to screw all of China over yet they are still doing this stuff? How on earth does that help especially when it's your turn to be dealt with? They grew up in better times, they don't really know what true hardship is. Maybe they are smarter coz they didn't have their education interrupted but what's the point if you're just going to be a lib who gives in to the west coz you can't tough it out? That's probably why Xi still has to stay on coz whoever is going to replace him afterwards hasn't shown that toughness yet. If he was leader right now, he probably would have already made dumb compromises.

I previously spoken on LKY being tough and how the subsequent leaders were weak. China better pay attention.

I was suspicious of Xi because I thought he was Jiang's man and going to return China to crony capitalism, 一夜回到解放前. But he proved himself as a strong and independent leader in just the first 2 years alone with anti-corruption campaign and 052Ds being made like dumplings. Just those 2, nothing more, would've made him a good leader. Then finishing HSR, winter olympics, space station, doubling GDP, etc? No wonder Hu had the confidence to give up all his power on retirement.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

Zho Leji made a recent visit to North Korea meeting w Kim.

 

[siegecrossbow]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1780095852209471962

The days of CCP corruption is about to be revealed by western intelligence.

The west loves them Chinese so much that it'll even helped out the government track down the corrupt officials and excess. They helped China fast track it's industrialization, semiconductor indigenisation, military modernization, real estate deleveraging.

I don't know why western intelligence couldn't place the same practice especially about corruption against their own political masters.

Because you get Boeinged if you try.