What’s there to stop China from paying for the cheaper Iranian option?
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You're not Chinese, are you? You don't think like Chinese. For us, we know that treating guests well reflects on the generosity and magnanimity of the host, since the guest has put himself in the host's hands, voluntarily showing trust and vulnerability. That is our culture. In Western culture, honoring of a guest is seen as weakness through elevating another over oneself so guests should be made to feel small and powerless to exhibit the host's strength.
All good personal stories. In mine, I haven't encountered a single Russian in my many trips to Kazakstan or through meeting them in the US who wasn't friendly with a high opinion of China. We're like brothers the instant we tell each other where we're from. We all have stories, broski, but I have data too.
"In Russia, sentiment toward Chinese leadership continues to warm across all segments of Russian society, reaching a record-high approval rating of 71% this year. Approval of German and U.S. leadership, meanwhile, sank further in 2023..."
"Seventy-five percent of Russians said they view China favorably, a significant increase from last year, a poll showed on Friday.
According to statistics provided by the Moscow-based Levada Center, Russians' views of China have significantly improved in 2021, with 75 percent of the respondents displaying positive attitudes
Only 10 percent of the surveyed respondents said they view China negatively"
If he said that 10 years ago it might've been true but nowadays, it's more like eh... not really
Remember back in 2020 when the Chinese owner of Grindr was forced by the US government to sell the gay dating/hookup platform? One of the explicitly stated national security reasons for the forced sale by US regulators was that Grindr's users include many high ranking US government officials and military personnel, making them vulnerable to blackmail.
Good luck with that. I understand that many of us are comfortable calling out the absurdities of modern feminism, which has caused real damage across the world, and China is not immune to its influence. Women’s suffrage, the sexual revolution, and hedonistic individualism have all contributed to this trend, and it’s only going to intensify.
However, trying to reverse this means rolling back women’s progress and curtailing rights that were fought for over generations. All societies eventually have to decide what kind of culture, family structure, and country they actually want to build and live in.
If you look across different social classes and income levels, the groups that tend to have larger families, lower divorce rates, and a stronger sense of duty and purpose are usually those who are more religious or hold traditional values. The CPC will have to strike a careful balance here. This issue could become even more complicated if Taiwan is reunified, since it would bring in a population with very different cultural attitudes.
A new combinational functional balance will come regardless, but how WW3 and its aftermath is handled will determine the details of that.
We cant blame all of the feminist propaganda on the west because Chinese feminist probably want to live like the Mosuo, an ethnic group in China where women rule.
They have this thing called walking marriage where a women can go through multiple husbands.
I dont think so. maybe Russian traveling to China are of lower quality. Russia has trade surplus with China and it can increase. they just dont want trade surplus.
Medvedev recently wrote book about traditional values and tech sovereignty is part of traditional value.
Russia conduct extremely extensive gatherings of world Islamic intellectuals routinely. Alot of stuff not in public.
Putin has said Russia is the land of rising Sun and Russia will grow with Arctic and all his incentives are to shift population to Far East with Soft Power. Putin will obviously understate what he spends on there otherwise the rest of Russians will ask for handouts thinking Russia is so rich. think $50T
$55B Russian olympics can become 100X in western monetary terms due to lack of Soft Power. This how they achieved best FIFA football cup by Royal Standards.
Putin gave Kazakh President A Hero for All Time award to encourage him for Abraham accord and Trump Peace board. i call it return of science without exposure to liberal Universities. Zelensky is there man. they think so high of themselves they let others do there work.