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gelgoog

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Local report on this crash that happened 3 days ago.
Only in America would they make a "high-speed" train with at grade crossings.

99 People have been killed by the brightline slow train (this was before the faster train came into service) since 2018. WTF is wrong with America?
A callous disregard for other's well being that is what it is.
 

james smith esq

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I don't know man, my personal anecdotes for late Gen Zs (Singaporeans and at least) generally do not care about phone hardware specs, ease of software modifications or price as much and generally default to iPhones for the status symbol, user interface or product marketing.
Okay, well, maybe even the earliest Gen Zers are still spending their parents’ munny!
 

AssassinsMace

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Oh yes but when the West implements the same tactics against China, there are no unintended consequences... If China were openly gathering data on Western citizens, the West would consider that espionage. Look at how they're complaining about TikTok when their social media companies were the original sinners. Is it because they think the data of worthless Chinese is meaningless while the private data of Westerners is a treasure? Yes.

I'll have to blame this partly on the Chinese mentality. Since Chinese want to come across as thoughtful and level-headed and not emotional and rash, that's why they don't want to reciprocate immediately and wait like a year before they do anything in response. By then it's lost it's meaning and people forget why and instead it's seen as an attack out of nowhere without reason. Sometimes the only way you can communicate with someone is to speak in their own language. That's the quickest way to send your message.
 

tygyg1111

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Oh yes but when the West implements the same tactics against China, there are no unintended consequences... If China were openly gathering data on Western citizens, the West would consider that espionage. Look at how they're complaining about TikTok when their social media companies were the original sinners. Is it because they think the data of worthless Chinese is meaningless while the private data of Westerners is a treasure? Yes.

I'll have to blame this partly on the Chinese mentality. Since Chinese want to come across as thoughtful and level-headed and not emotional and rash, that's why they don't want to reciprocate immediately and wait like a year before they do anything in response. By then it's lost it's meaning and people forget why and instead it's seen as an attack out of nowhere without reason. Sometimes the only way you can communicate with someone is to speak in their own language. That's the quickest way to send your message.
China: Dear EU, according to our data security laws, the only personal data you are allowed to receive from China is this:
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tamsen_ikard

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One thing I don't understand, how is it possible that China cannot fill its so called vacant homes with 1.4 billion people when its just 65% urbanized. And even out of this 65%, only 50% have actual city hukou. the rest are migrant workers who are too poor to buy a decent home. China should get to 85%+ urbanization similar to Japan and Korea eventually. So, where will all this huge number of people live?

Moreover, most of the China's poor people live in really bad quality houses. This is how it usually is, poor countries have poor quality houses that lack amenities or in rural areas or too small.
The more wealthy China gets, the more people will buy bigger homes, more advanced houses, people move out to suburbs and so on. And yet, supposedly this is it for China and it cannot fill its vacant homes.

It boggles my mind how a so called former official can make comments like this. Is this guy a closet pro-western stooge?
 

tamsen_ikard

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I don't know why you assume that "former official" mentioned in the article actually exists and isn't a complete fabrication. 7.2 million empty homes isn't a lot for a country like China. There is over twice that number in the US.
There are a lot pro-western white liberals/Traitors in China. The number of such people have exploded ever since Covid lockdowns and economic downturn. Even the likes SCMP constantly makes articles that are full China doom and China collapse. So, I do believe such so called former officials do exist. Remember Cai Xia? A lot of such people exist that are deep in the party hierarchy
 
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