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name said:

Well, I hope they see it. My experiences on this forum, where I assume most are more militant and more aware, has been extremely disappointing. Every time I try to bring up information, I get attacked.

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Century2030 said:

And now the Confucius Institutes are being shut down.. while Genshin Impact has made billions worldwide.

TBH, I don't get why some users are nitpicking Genshin Impact so much.

Is the game 100% perfect representation of Chinese culture? No, it's not. There are some areas where it can improve on.
But considering how China doesn't have a lot of entertainment product that's as popular worldwide. I'll definitely take this for the time being. Mihoyo's success is helping to lay the foundation for other Chinese game developers to enter the market. In time there will be Wu Kong Black Myth and Tencent's Wuxia game.

Majority of gamers in China love GI so it's kinda strange to see some of the critical comments here. Even CCTV (China's state media) put up an ad for Yunjin (one of the characters in GI who's based on Beijing Opera).

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Biscuits said:

Afaik these institutes are some Hu Jintao era relics that provide very little value for anyone. Entertainment export is far better and has been gaining ground the last 5 years.

But Xi should not let the opportunity go to waste, if Sunak intends to close these independent volunteer programs based on nothing but xenophobia, China can ban UK "non" government organizations that have a real harmful effect on the Chinese people.

A good trade.

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BERLIN/PARIS — Relations are now so icy between Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, the leaders of the EU’s two economic powerhouses, that they are even struggling to agree on whether to be seen together in front of the press.

The tussle over a media show is just the latest episode of a deepening row between the EU’s two biggest powers.

In recent weeks, Scholz and Macron have clashed over how to tackle the energy crisis, how to overcome Europe’s impotence on defense and the best approach to dealing with China.

French officials complain that Berlin isn’t sufficiently treating them as a close partner. For example, the French claim they weren’t briefed in advance of Germany’s domestic €200 billion energy price relief package — and they have made sure their counterparts in Berlin are aware of their frustration.

Unprecedented tensions​

Most recently, the French government was irritated by the news that Scholz plans to visit Beijing next week to meet Xi Jinping in what would be the first visit by a foreign leader since the Chinese president got a norm-breaking third term. Germany and China also plan their own show when it comes to planned government consultations in January.

The thinking at the Elysée is that it would have been better if Macron and Scholz had visited China together — and preferably a bit later rather than straight after China’s Communist Party congress where Xi secured another mandate. According to one French official, a visit shortly after the congress would “legitimize” Xi’s third term and be “too politically costly.”

Germany and France’s uncoordinated approach to China contrasts with Xi’s last visit to Europe in 2019 when he was welcomed by Macron, who had also invited former Chancellor Angela Merkel and former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to Paris to show European unity.

Macron has refrained from directly criticizing a controversial Hamburg port deal with Chinese company Cosco, which Scholz is pushing ahead of his Beijing trip. But the French president last week questioned the wisdom of letting China invest in “essential infrastructure” and warned that Europe had been “naive” toward Chinese purchases in the past “because we thought Europe was an open supermarket.”

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tokenanalyst said:

I think is unlikely to learn Chinese by just playing a videogame, in the same way I think unlikely to learn Japanese by just watching Anime as much weebs think they will do.


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Relations between France and Germany are facing a final break against the background of disagreements between their leaders, President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

"Franco-German relations are at the bottom: eternal disputes about energy prices, military projects and the MidCat pipeline from Spain to France," writes columnist Martina Meister.

Die Welt also added that Paris criticized the decision the German politician to allocate €200 billion to support the economy of his country. According to her, Macron tried to corner Scholz with criticism to show that the opinion of Paris should be taken into account.

In addition, the French media in a rude tone describe the end of the idyll in bilateral relations: Germany is called a "lonely racer, an egoist country" that does not care about its partners.

"Now they say (in France about Germany) "Germany first of all," and, as a result, disappointment, irritation, bitterness," the article says.

The observer predicts an "ice age", if not an "unexpected divorce" of a German-French couple, which, significantly, is so called only on the left bank of the Rhine.

Earlier it was also reported that France and Germany could not agree on the issue of a press conference during the German Chancellor's visit to Paris.

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fonster said:

Yeah it's not subtle at all. The company's name, motto, the game's international name. Hell, they've also been trying to push for homosexual values, especially in their previous games. Nothing like getting people more interested in the chinese language than only advertising the japanese and english voice acting. And just take a look at their office.

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