The curse of being a catholic country, what the Spaniards leave us is an oligarchic society where they select who to run and to support. Of course they want to convert their currency to dollar so that they can launder their money and leave the shithole they created.
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
While is is true that the requirements are nothing new, what struck me the most was the stark difference in application.
The application of these design requirements went from token box ticking exercises to extremely serious in the last few years especially, and from purely anecdotal observations, it looks to me like the preparations are systematic across the country rather than focused to specific cities like Beijing previously.
A lot of this is hard to measure and observe, as few foreigners will be going to the underground parking garages of random Chinese residential blocks, and since I was travelling with a foreign passport holder, it was actually eye opening to see how few hotels would accept foreign guests and how defensive the staff got at the mere approach of a foreigner (we just wanted to get a coffee from the restaurant of a hotel and were turned away).
It all left a strong mark on me that from the admittedly small sampling I personally witnessed, I was deeply impressed with the application of the design requirements. These newer shelters are built like they are actually meant to be used, and are not limited to just the city centre. If you find such shelters in 3rd line cities and in flats well outside of the city centre, that’s pretty persuasive evidence to me that the application is nation wide.
How bad was the anti-foreign treatment?
I've heard that it's actually gotten quite more open, common, and aggressive in just very recent times. It almost sounds like it's open 'racism' of a sorts. A part of me does not want to believe that Chinese can be like that, but reality is that everyone is human and the last few years have given Chinese all over the world very good reason to just sorta be fed up with foreigners. At least a certain type of foreigner that we all know loves to profess their love of 'freedom' that is.
I've been busy with schoolwork lately, but I thought I should share interesting personal anecdote. During the last national holiday, one of my relative's friend showed me around a highway (or expansion, not sure) that was recently built in Quanzhou connecting to Fuzhou and Xiamen.
According to him, before the highway was built it would take a few days to travel between Fuzhou and Quanzhou, now it only takes around 12-16 hrs to send supplies or people over. He claims that this is being done not only for economic purposes, but to also prepare for a possible war in the future over the Taiwan straits, since Fujian is going to be the main staging point, being the region on the other side of the Taiwan straits.
In4ser
Junior Member
Nah China should focus on the economic competition. Once the USD crashes into extended recession and US and NGO funding dries up, all the negative propaganda programs and paid shills will suddenly disappear and all the anti-Chinese politicians and scared neighbors will start looking for money and support from China.
Patience, persistence and planning are still the greatness advantages of the Chinese model. We’ve already waited for decades what’s a few more years?
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
France is like, "Since there is an opening, Noowwww can we join s'il vous plaît?"
Not a completely stupid idea from BRICS pov. If there was one major western power that could be 'flipped', it would be France. From China's pov France would be a better member than Argentina (or India).
Just let them do it. They're less disgraceful than Argentina.
No thanks. If European countries start joining then it defeats the purpose. The Global South needs its own forum to push its views and strengthen economic and diplomatic relationships. The west have their forums, the rest should have theirs.
If France joins it won't end there, other European countries will apply and start pushing their Eurocentric views on everyone. Africans know full well how France behaves.