Miscellaneous News

[taxiya]

Does it mean much that the Vietnamese invitation for Xi Jinping's visit specifically includes an invitation by the Vietnamese General Secretary, and includes Xi's General Secretary title? A brief look at their other invitations suggests that they don't normally include these details?

Yes and no.

Yes, it signifies both countries are communists and the bilateral relationship is symbolically closer than non-communist countries. Also in communist countries, leader of the party always preceeds president in seniority.

No, because it has become a protocal between communist countries regardless the actual temperature in the relationship.

 

[Ringsword]

Pretty sure the liquidation of the Capitalist Class and their cronies is the only way to save the US.

Edit - hope I don't get a warning for this lol

Don't worry,a new term"self-liquidation" may come into effect as 200million guns,racial divides,hate,drugs alcohol ,economic turmoil comes into synergistic mix like an explosive chemical

 

[manqiangrexue]

I believe this depicts a traditional ancient Chinese Man with long hair, though the hair bun (like me) was actually the more common male hairstyle in historical periods...

It's ambiguous if it's a man or woman. The person has no muscles, wears no armor, carries no weapons; there are just injuries on him/her. The square stance is how angry untrained people stand, NOT how fighters stand. Fighters always stand with front foot leading back foot when anticipating trouble, never square, which exposes the solar plexus to straight attack.

Wukong is not ambiguous. It says we're gonna beat your ass with tricks you didn't know could be physically possible. Wukong will get all the young people around the world cheering after Black Myth.

 

[In4ser]

It’s more poetic that it’s a commoner specially a “Chinese peasant” that stood up to the Imperialism of the West not a some great general or fighter but the salt of the earth rising against oppression from the heavens.

 

[4Runner]

This guy tried his best to hide his anti-China hate and failed miserably. It's all China destroying the environment, China stealing Peru's resources, China has ulterior motives, China speeding exports and imports for itself only, China bad, US backyard in danger, and blah blah blah.

When I saw some names with stuff like "civil" or "mentor" at the same line, my System 1 would immediately alert me with some "mental" ...

 

[TPenglake]

Poverty Alleviation is literally doing God’s work. No surprise there really. The PRC has the Mandate of Heaven!

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1juxhwu

I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned before on here, but r/China seems to have undergone a huge demographic shift. I'm sure most of us got into these online spaces back when r/China was still very much a English teacher/sex tourist kind of space. Then up until around 2019 and especially COVID, it became a place for self-hating dissidents and disgruntled departees to rant about China. But over the years, although it still has its haters and doesn't blindly worship China, the sub seems to be now filled with people generally being pro-Chinese policy towards the US and the expats seem to be now praising the quality of life in China compared to their home countries. This shift has nothing to do with the "wumaos," who still mostly congregate on other subs and consider r/China to be a no go zone, so they might not even be aware of this shift.

All in all what can I say? The tide of public opinion appears to be shifting in China's favor. Even on X when I see anti-China toxicity, especially after USAID got cut and the trolls logged off to find other jobs, its only from those White supremacist incels who flooded the site after Elon Musk took it over.

 

[4Runner]

Very unusual talk from Peter Zeihan. Is this a U-turn brewing from Democrats?

"Fentanyl precursors are widely used legal sustance, impossible to control. Demand side issue."
"Now mostly comes from India."

India Complicates the US Fentanyl Crisis​

I blame you on putting PZ and Bharat on the same subject matter ...

 

[siegecrossbow]

I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned before on here, but r/China seems to have undergone a huge demographic shift. I'm sure most of us got into these online spaces back when r/China was still very much a English teacher/sex tourist kind of space. Then up until around 2019 and especially COVID, it became a place for self-hating dissidents and disgruntled departees to rant about China. But over the years, although it still has its haters and doesn't blindly worship China, the sub seems to be now filled with people generally being pro-Chinese policy towards the US and the expats seem to be now praising the quality of life in China compared to their home countries. This shift has nothing to do with the "wumaos," who still mostly congregate on other subs and consider r/China to be a no go zone, so they might not even be aware of this shift.

All in all what can I say? The tide of public opinion appears to be shifting in China's favor. Even on X when I see anti-China toxicity, especially after USAID got cut and the trolls logged off to find other jobs, its only from those White supremacist incels who flooded the site after Elon Musk took it over.

It’s because US gov has gone off the deep end is plainly fascist now. They don’t even have the democracy/human rights argument anymore.

 

[taxiya]

I believe this depicts a traditional ancient Chinese Man with long hair, though the hair bun (like me) was actually the more common male hairstyle in historical periods...

I have never seen any acient potrait that depicts Chinese adult man keeping hair free-falling. Only children (under 15) may have all kinds of hair styles. I assume hair bun is exclusive untill I saw something else.

I think the free-falling (half or full) are just mordern creation by movie and TV shows from HongKong and Taiwan in the 1970s or so. It was then adopted by mainland producers. Another such creation is that most Qing dynasty male charactors in early Hongkong and Taiwan shows did not shave their foreheads. Today's shows in China further add makeups to make the man looks feminine besides free-falling hair style.

 

[4Runner]

It’s because US gov has gone off the deep end is plainly fascist now. They don’t even have the democracy/human rights argument anymore.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. should be crying out loud somewhere in a New England basement.