They control the narrative so of course they can say they won. Look how effective they have been in telling their people that they have handled the virus better than China.
Chinese Economics Thread
- Thread starter Norfolk
- Start date
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It just shows how they're the ones that want to takeover everything just like the past. There can be two separate technological paths. They're the ones that don't want to see that happen because they want to control and make all the money from new technologies. They're the ones that want to to force it on everyone else. The only way they can do that is to start conflict.
I don't know if any of you younger people remember this. But my grand parents and others of their generation used to boil their water in batches, and bottled them in hot water flasks for drinking in the next day or two.
These are those made in China flasks with pretty flowery enamel pattern, and cork as the stopper. I remember a very old flask with strews wrapped around on the outside.
Yes, but I would like to see people able to boil the tap water.
Right now most people have those water dispensers for cold and hot water.
solarz
Brigadier
Yes, my in-laws still do that.
Actually a lot of places do boil tap water. My wife's home town in Henan, and our relatives who live in Xinjiang, for example.
I think usually that water doesn’t taste good for drinking and tea. Good enough for cooking and pasta though.
PeoplesPoster
Junior Member
living in central china my fear of the tap water has more to do with heavy metal concentration. You can’t boil that out.
Jobs, Houses and Cows: China’s Costly Drive to Erase Extreme Poverty
China has spent heavily to help its poorest citizens, an approach that few developing countries can afford and even Beijing may struggle to sustain.JIEYUAN VILLAGE, China — When the Chinese government offered free cows to farmers in Jieyuan, villagers in the remote mountain community were skeptical. They worried officials would ask them to return the cattle later, along with any calves they managed to raise.
But the farmers kept the cows, and the money they brought. Others received small flocks of sheep. Government workers also paved a road into the town, built new houses for the village’s poorest residents and repurposed an old school as a community center.
Jia Huanwen, a 58-year-old farmer in the village in Gansu Province, was given a large cow three years ago that produced two healthy calves. He sold the cow in April for $2,900, as much as he earns in two years growing potatoes, wheat and corn on the terraced, yellow clay hillsides nearby. Now he buys vegetables regularly for his family’s table and medicine for an arthritic knee.
“It was the best cow I’ve ever had,” Mr. Jia said.
The village of Jieyuan is one of many successes of President Xi Jinping’s ambitious pledge to eradicate abject rural poverty by the end of 2020. In just five years, China says it has lifted from extreme poverty over 50 million farmers left behind by breakneck economic growth in cities.
Unless I'm mistaken, China's richest man Zhong Shansan a high school drop out made his wealth from selling bottled water amongst other things.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Isn't hot water a chi thing or something like that? I prefer it cold. I don't think I know one Asian woman who drinks cold or room temperature water. All water suppose to be drunk hot.