Miscellaneous News

[Overbom]

I agree. The US govt and the inherent sinophobia of English-language medium are impediments. But these alone can't be inhibiting. After all Genshin Impact and TikTok aren't banned yet. And Chinese cultural products still find a lot of markets. Look at Wandering Earth 2 for example. A lot of people watched it. There are many other problems. It will be a lib argument but yes, excessive censorship is a problem. Political censorship is normal. But things like green blood and arbitrary bans on gaming are ridiculous. Just read Chinese software engineers' posts on social media. Most will tell you how the government effectively killed single player game industry in the early 2000s. Tencent and similars didn't focus on cheap mobile games for no reason.

You can thank the Propaganda department for the game industry fiasco. I can guarantee you that among the entire government, most of the old-minded people are inside the Propaganda department.

Anyway, it seems like a shift is happening towards allowing and pushing for more games recently

 

[Helius]

Intrigued when this CGTN news anchor seemingly implied that 9/11 could also have been an inside job (she compares the Nord stream bombing to it and Hersh is completely surprised). Didn't know this particular view was prominent in the establishment.

Not necessarily. She was referring more to the "rebuttal" by the US that Nord Stream was carried out by "non-state actors", like how 9/11 was likewise carried out by the Al-Qaeda, a non-state actor.

She was basically leading Hersh to qualify his assertion, which he did, on why NS, also a severe terror attack, could not be likened to 9/11 due to the logistics, sophistication and expertise involved in blowing up those pipelines as opposed to hijacking a couple of planes and diving them into buildings.

 

[Overbom]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got them

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China discovers huge gold deposit worth $3 trillion

China has recently discovered a huge gold deposit with a reserve of nearly 50 tonnes, which can be sold for around $3 trillion at current market price.

The deposit is located in rural Rushan City, eastern China's Shandong Province, according to province mineral resource authority.

"The deposit covers a large area," said Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. "The ores are easy to mine and dress."

Government evaluation showed the deposit can produce 2,000 tonnes of gold ores for at least 20 years.

 

[FriedButter]

The Saudi King has invited the Iranian president to visit Riyadh.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637464521894772737

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637464093073321984

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637452075477921793

 

[Helius]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got them

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Huh, so basically China has just doubled its own gold reserves. Nice.

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[Hadoren]

...how come Hong Kong was more pro China in 1998 and 2008 than in 2019?

Hong Kong was indeed more pro-China in 2019 than in 1998 or 2008 (contrary to popular myth). Let's take a look at election results.

Election Year	Blue (Pro-China) Vote	Yellow Vote
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!	30.4​	66.4​
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!	39.7​	59.5​
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!	42.1​	57.1​

Today I would estimate the blue vote to be ~43%.

This is because Hong Kong's population has decreased by 2.2%. Based on personal experience, 90% of the emigrants are cockroaches. So Hong Kong today is more pro-China than ever.

(Btw, the crackdown did not make China any less popular in Hong Kong. It was only unpopular amongst cockroaches who already hated China. Patriotic Hong Kongers reacted the same way that SDF members did - with quiet delight.)

 

[siegecrossbow]

What if poor quality made in China explosives exported to the EU all turn out to be fake playdough?

Easy. It’ll give them an excuse to say f**k China.

 

[daifo]

Wow, political shifting is going on in the world. Maybe trying to keep the peace with the hanjian visiting dc.

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[FriedButter]

The EU is running out of gunpowder to give to Ukraine and will take 3 years to expand production. Everything is now hinged on the US to support the war effort to keep Ukraine alive.

Several European officials and arms manufacturers told the outlet that the bloc’s military plants are suffering from scarce supplies of gunpowder and TNT, which could delay plans to boost shell production by three years. The sources also complained that this meant the defense industry would be unable to meet the soaring demand “regardless of how much money is thrown at the problem.”

The official proceeded to point out that “it’s not possible to increase, in a short time, nitrocellulose” production, which is the basic ingredient in gunpowder. “If I want to increase production of gunpowder I need probably three years,” he added.

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[manqiangrexue]

@tamsen_ikard is right when he says that perception lags reality and @BoraTas is spot on to say that hostile media coverage be the controlling entities in the ROC are warping the perception further but we have to remember that it's never the plan to just have the people in the ROC love the PRC so much they volunteer to join. Plan A is for China to become so strong (reality, not necessarily perception) that Western intervention becomes unrealistic and laughable at which point the PRC will make the ROC an offer they can't refuse. The ROC will sign the merger and then over the next few decades, through positive media projection, the people in Taiwan will come to realize the honor and glory of being Chinese. This change will be brought about by 2 factors: the first is that the PRC will control the media to dispell malicious propaganda against China and the second is that it's too hard to live life hating your situation every day so people will naturally seek a way to reconile and be happy; in this case, it would be no stretch at all to simply realize who you are by blood and that makes you on the winning side, not the losing side. Taiwanese will for the first time traverse the world with the pride that they are ambassadors of a nation that is greater and more powerful than any land they visit rather than mousing around at the feet of giants hoping for some recognition. They're gonna love it once they try it and wonder who the hell has been putting this off for all this time! Plan B involves kinetic warfare to bring Taiwan in so that needn't be discussed here. But to sum up, while perception does lag behind reality and that effect is made worse by Western/DPP disinformation, the status of Taiwan depends not on these but on the reality of Chinese power.