Honey, I shrunk the Chinese-Canadians
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I wouldn't discount Chinese talent in athletics just yet. While basketball is heavily dominated by certain demographics, there are other sports that do have Chinese heavyweights. I would keep an eye on OFSAA competitive swimming in the coming years. Track and field and gymnastics also seem to have great showing from Chinese athletes.
Regrettable, but also in line with the US' continued attack on China's national security
It's just an unfortunate case of cold weather shrinkage. It'll get bigger when it warms up a little.
This actually reminds me of Voltaire's famous quote "one must cultivate one's own garden" i.e. one must focus on improving one's own little world without worrying too much about the outside world if one wants peace of mind and self-development.
Instead, today's Europeans pursue Borrell's "we are a garden and the rest of the world is a jungle" philosophy where they focus less on self-improvement and more on controlling and subjugating the outside "jungle".
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Personally, I have no doubt that China's socialism and meritocracy will beat US' oligarchy masquerading as "democracy" hands down.
Height is strictly related to nutrition. No way ethnic Chinese are that malnourished in Canada.
Nothing will really be accomplished by meeting the lame duck except giving China an excuse to breach Taiwan's 12 nautical-mile-line.
LMAO
Well, the Germans are pragmatic and don’t want NSA snooping around.
Incredible that some Germans want to switch to 5-eyes telecommunication equipment when they've already been caught red handed spying on them, meanwhile there's no proof of Huawei equipment being able to do so. American fearmongering trumps logic.
They have to get the power first.
It's not about discounting talent, it's just quite obvious that there is some kind of "special sauce" missing.
If we look at the former Yugoslavia, there is a very steady trickle of NBA-quality (ie getting regular minutes) players, and occasionally Hall of Fame-level players. How can China not produce any players of even just the former-type in decades with the enormous talent pool it has? As I said, it somewhat defies statistics...
I imagine the same such issue exists for soccer/football.
In the Sports thread it was discussed that parents are wary of the Sports academies having a bad academic reputation, so if things don't work out athletically, they are afraid of handicapping them for university. To alleviate this concern, more after-school clubs are being established, but it is a fairly recent phenomenon. Even then, parents are concern with spending so much time "playing games". I am not familiar enough to elaborate further on this topic though.