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taxiya

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Overbom said:
Laos is only a 7 million country. China can offlload some labour intensive , low-value industry to Laos to give it kickstart.

This industry would then promote internal circulation and eventually Laos would have accumulated enough capital to start working on its own

I don't think Laos is in such a big trouble. Obviously the biggest obstacle to China helping it develop was that it lacked the railway connection. Now with that done, expect more businesses to be expanded and created in Laos from 2022 and onwards

The real question is why Thailand is dragging its feet on the railway to China... Their neighbour has just completed its railway link to China, while Thailand is now ridiculed for their tardiness. Laos may become a transportation hub if Thailand keeps stalling
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Laos is a landlocked country which need connections. By connecting to China, Laos get a 14 billion market.

Thailand has lots of sea rout, it doesn't have that much desire compared to Laos. The price tag for HSR is high. Although it is also high for Laos, but for landlocked country that connection is more of a must have than good to have (for Thailand).
 
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solarz said:
I read the article. It's got hits and misses. The claim that China gives children military training starting age 6 is just bizarre.

Otherwise, it's got some interesting stuff, such as connecting the Type 075 fire with the Bonhomme Richards fire.
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I thought the article is pretty sus to be honest.

There are just too many wild claims, factual inaccuracies and blatant misrepresentation of facts for my liking.

The child military training is a standout, as is the claim that all 1.6bn Chinese have 2 years’ military training.

There are also the claimed 36 subs in a year and 2000 nukes in 6 months production capabilities; as well as a clear lack of understanding of outsourcing and international trade basics like country of origin rules to claim Germany just repackages Chinese made cameras for sale to the US as made in Germany. There are many more.
 
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taxiya

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I may be wrong but I feel like official Chinese media barely acknowledged the peng shuai affair. Cctv, xinhua, people's daily never covered it. It's mostly relegated to Hu Xijin and global times which westerners view as nationalistic tabloid. That's how much official media think of the affair. It should not be treated like a serious issue of kidnapping or some other bizarre accusation the west concocts that is worth their time.

Hu however isn't trained in western dark arts of PR and spin so I guess he could have improved in this area.
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Some times, Ho Xijin is stupid. He could not distinguish an honest ignorance (of some western people) and deliberate smearing (of most western media).

I actually posted to Hu Xijin's twitter account asking why he played along that granted the western fabrication some sort of legitimacy.
 
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getready

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Why in the world would anyone from official sources acknowledge this affair? The affair between Peng Shuai and Zhang Gao Li was scandalous at best but not anything illegal. (Peng stated in her statement that at the time she and Zhang were in fact "in love", confirming her consent to the relationship) There's also the high likelihood that Peng actively approached Zhang at his time as Party Secretary of Shandong Province to advance her tennis career. (Peng at the time was only in the Shandong provincial tennis team, speculations were that she would never made it into the national tennis team based on her skills, and the fact that after her approach towards Zhang, she was selected in to the national team)

As for Zhang, he was basically retired after 2016. He currently had no political swaying in anything at all. As long as he was not found illegal in this affair, he would remain retired and secluded.

Speculation was that Peng was possibly pregnant when posting that statement, trying to somehow get Zhang's attention of financially "compensating" her. But yeah, these two's affairs were murky af.
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Yep agree. I worded that wrongly I didn't mean official media should acknowledge this matter. I meant to say my understanding is they did not. But I'm not totally sure as I did not keep up with all this religiously so might have missed some news announcement from xinhua etc.
 
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getready

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taxiya said:
Some times, Ho Xijin is stupid. He could not distinguish an honest ignorance (of some western people) and deliberate smearing (of most western media).

I actually posted to Hu Xijin's twitter account asking why he played along that granted the western fabrication some sort of legitimacy.
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I dun know if played along is wat he did. He rebutted the accusation from the western media. At that point they had completely dominated the news narrative. Not doing anything will seem like weakness
 
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Overbom

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taxiya said:
Some times, Ho Xijin is stupid. He could not distinguish an honest ignorance (of some western people) and deliberate smearing (of most western media).

I actually posted to Hu Xijin's twitter account asking why he played along that granted the western fabrication some sort of legitimacy.
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The real question is why China's international PR is based on only 1 person?

The guy is neither a robot neither a superhuman. Its natural that he will occasionally make a mistake.

The issue is that China's international PR should be based on various individuals who can present China's message in a well coordinated personalised manner

For example, I would love to see a lot more Global Times writers to have their own visible presence in international media. It will help on more effectivelly telling "China's story" and also (in this case), correct any possible mistakes made by a single writer
 
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taxiya

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getready said:
I dun know if played along is wat he did. He rebutted the accusation from the western media. At that point they had completely dominated the news narrative. Not doing anything will seem like weakness
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I think here is our difference: IMO "picking up that shit in any way" is playing along, "Total ignoring" is strength.
 
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solarz

solarz

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getready said:
I dun know if played along is wat he did. He rebutted the accusation from the western media. At that point they had completely dominated the news narrative. Not doing anything will seem like weakness
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I see it differently. When you respond to someone's accusations, you're put on the defensive. If those accusations are bald-faced lies, then by responding and thus defending yourself, you are only making it seem like the accusations are genuine.

Case in point, as far as I'm aware, the only evidence of what Peng Shuai allegedly did was an image of her supposed Weibo post, which could have been easily doctored and which in fact contains plenty of telltale signs of being faked. Yet even here, there are still posters here who assume a priori that Peng actually posted that.

So for official Chinese media to respond to the accusation would be giving it credence when it deserves none.
 
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B.I.B.

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taxiya said:
Some times, Ho Xijin is stupid. He could not distinguish an honest ignorance (of some western people) and deliberate smearing (of most western media).

I actually posted to Hu Xijin's twitter account asking why he played along that granted the western fabrication some sort of legitimacy.
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Is it too early for a response?
 
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