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4Runner

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I have never seen any acient potrait that depicts Chinese adult man keeping hair free-falling. While children (under 15) may have all kinds of hair styles.

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.
I would believe that. “士大夫” 和 “学子” would have never allowed such 懒散 fashion. There have been lots of bad influences in entertainment domains from Hongkong and Taiwan.
 

daifo

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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.

I think the change up happen around when NAFO started. My theory is those reddit "mods" holding those subreddits got reassign to NAFO campaign or lost funding. I only monitored r/hongkong but basically the mod disappeared about 2 weeks after the ukraine war started. Since everyone that was not anti-china were already banned, there were still alot of anti-china post but as time went on, the posting just became "normal"... mostly informational and some complaints about how the govt is handling some local problem.
 

Randomuser

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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.
Funny enough I don't even feel much satisfaction. Coz if it is really USAID ending that caused it, it just means you have wasted years of your life arguing with bad faith shills who never actually cared about facts in the first place. When the funding ends they just get up and go like that. No climatic end. It's just a pay cheque for them. Kinda like NAFO which you have noticed has been much less active lately.

That's why I have become more indifferent to all this provocative stuff online lately. Like I rather spend my time on myself instead of potentially giving it to someone who's doesnt care. Either he's paid or hes just so mentality deficient that only a only a bullet will get a sufficient reaction. Life's too short esp if we are heading to ww3 soon. Might as well enjoy what time you have.

It does help there are more people willing to call them out now so I don't have to their jobs for them.
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
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​

Surprise! Not! It's all political. They're just finding an excuse to blame China for anything. China has to bother checking each entity that orders the precursor which is legal around the world to make sure they're not using to make fentanyl? That's up to the country where they're abusing the precursor to make fentanyl. It's just an excuse to blame it on China plus the US doesn't want to look racist deterring Latin-American voters hence they shifted the blame on China. Guess what? I bet you won't hear much in the US of this about India. Why? Because the US needs Indian nationalism against China. Yes Trump's tariffs gives China no incentive to cooperate.
 

tokenanalyst

Brigadier
Registered Member
They have no options, 64% already hurt most of their exports to the US, the issue is that Trump and Ron Vara want China to keep their OWN tariffs low. That is what Trump is negotiating. China consuming the same or more US goods while dealing with high tariffs from the US. Is idiotic.

My opinion is the world should give what Trumps wants, lets reduce US trade deficit by cutting exports to the US and let see how much this stooges will miss their deficit after that supply shock.
 
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supercat

Major
The rise of the yields of the bonds doesn't bode well for America's economy. It means that nobody wants to buy the debts issued by the US government and America's corporations.

Xi to pay state visits to Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia from April 14 to 18

Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2025-04-11 11:27:45

BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Vietnam from April 14 to 15, at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Luong Cuong, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced here on Friday.

President Xi will also pay state visits to Malaysia and Cambodia from April 15 to 18, at the invitation of King of Malaysia Sultan Ibrahim and King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, the spokesperson said.

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The regional currency swap network of the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations, along with China, Japan, and South Korea, has approved the addition of the Chinese yuan as a funding currency.
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In the real world, China can just trade more with the rest of the world.
For example, Shein can expand its business in Europe.

This is not surprising. Who really rule the US and need cheap labor? The corporation oligarchies or the Trump regime? I think it's the former.
 
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