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ZeEa5KPul

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OppositeDay said:
A lot of people lost their jobs overnight because of an abrupt policy change. Is it too much to expect the government to not kill an entire profession without having some policy ready to cushion the blow?
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Depends on what those people were doing. In this case, yes, it's too much to ask. The racket they were running extorting "tuition fees" from Chinese parents had to come to an end. Ultimately, what they were doing was destructive to China and had to be stopped. If they didn't get golden parachutes (like their ilk would get in America), too bad, so sad.
 
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OppositeDay said:
When they announced the crackdown on private tutoring I was fully expecting them to hire more teachers to bring down the sky-high students to teacher ratio in Chinese public schools
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You got a (partly) point on the many laid off teachers. Some will adapt, some will find jobs as a teacher, some will not. Btw this is an interest group. For so many years, the central government allowed this unhealthy practise to happen because, among other reasons, they didn't know what to do with so many teachers.

Xi finally had enough and decided to pull the plug on this parasite industry. Unfortunately, some people will have to retrain/change/lose jobs. I am sure that the government will try to do everything possible to mitigate this issue

OppositeDay said:
People either love him or loathe him, and the bitterness of his critics is nothing like what I've seen before.
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He must be doing something right then. Given how many entrenched interests Xi has smashed, it is very logical for some people to not like him.

In any case, approval polls for the central government are at an all time high, so I suppose Xi is doing much better than you think he is, and actually takes into account many people's political/economic needs
 
siegecrossbow

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tokenanalyst said:
NOW China is really scared. Scotty boy had spoken.

Ukraine war: Australian PM warns China of potential sanctions if Beijing helps arm Russia​

  • Scott Morrison says Australia would move in lockstep with its allies to sanction China if it has provided military support to Russia in its war with Ukraine
  • Morrison tells industries deterioration in trade relations with China caused by Beijing’s refusal to talk

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China has no intention of arming Russia or participating in the Ukraine fiasco in any shape or form. So when China doesn’t supply weapons, he could claim a win.
 
LCR34

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OppositeDay said:
A lot of people lost their jobs overnight because of an abrupt policy change. Is it too much to expect the government to not kill an entire profession without having some policy ready to cushion the blow?
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Pros and cons of an authoritarian government. Although I would not go as far to call China that. They are a modern socialist whereby the people have much higher degree of freedom. Things are implemented fast. Reforms and what not. Everything comes as a price.
 
solarz

solarz

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OppositeDay said:
Scrap the divorce cooldown period. Make lives of single mothers easier. Right now a sizable part of the Chinese society feel they have zero voice in the political process.
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Want to have a voice in the political system? Pass your civil service examination, then work a few years in the government to understand the job, and then your opinion will start to have value.

While you're worried about divorces and single mothers, we're seeing Russia, and possibility Saudi Arabia, start selling oil to China for RMB.
 
ZeEa5KPul

ZeEa5KPul

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siegecrossbow said:
China has no intention of arming Russia or participating in the Ukraine fiasco in any shape or form. So when China doesn’t supply weapons, he could claim a win.
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"Arming" is a slippery term. I believe China would happily supply things like NV/thermal optics, components for drones Russia has difficulties producing or sourcing, and dual use articles like trucks. If the logistical difficulties Russia is supposedly having are true, then simple things like trucks and MREs would be immensely helpful.

We're not going to see Wing Loong IIs flying over Ukraine, but China might supply things it can plausibly deny.
 
james smith esq

james smith esq

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OppositeDay said:
Yes Xi is good at cracking down on entrenched interests, but is he good at building regulatory processes that take legitimate interests of all stakeholders into account? When they announced the crackdown on private tutoring I was fully expecting them to hire more teachers to bring down the sky-high students to teacher ratio in Chinese public schools. But no. Nothing. No plan at all to help hundreds of thousands of people who lost their jobs from the regulatory change.
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I’m quite surprised that Chinese public schools would have a “sky-high students to teacher ratio”, as the inverse of this has been proven to be a crucial contributor to, and indicator of, students’ academic success. If the future growth of Chinese STEM students/professionals is to be generalized to a larger proportion of the population, this has to be corrected. Is this an accurate representation of circumstances in China, as a whole? If so, then Opposite Day might have some legitimate concerns?

I’ve always admired Cuba for one statistic in particular, i. e., Cuba has more Teachers and Doctor, per capita, than any other country. Now, that’s Socialism!
 
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