You mean 烧饼。
Miscellaneous News
- Thread starter bd popeye
- Start date
This is when cancel culture is useful - CANCEL THEM ALL!
Last night I was mulling coming up with a website featuring clothing exclusively sourced from Xinjiang. So Chinese people can support Xinjiang cotton. Seems like MUJI has done it.
Which is the opposite of what Uniqlo did. We have one intelligent Japanese company, and one lemming Japanese company.
Cancel them all then go for the Japanese companies that also want to play the drama. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Chiang Kai shek didn't respect Chinese public opinion to focus its main effort on Japanese invaders instead of CCP. His inaction turned out to be a great propaganda coup for the CCP to rally support and showed KMT was more concerned with its own rule than the country. The rest shall we say is history.
Public opinion is a fickle beast that should be carefully managed and oftentimes respected. It's ultimately a high-impact risk and benefit assessment for the politicians.
.
It is a really big piece of news.
First, we have to remember some ancient history. The Americans were the biggest customer of Suadi oil. That was back in the 1970's and maybe parts of the 1980's. That was a long time ago, do not remember.
Second, China today is the biggest customer of Saudi oil.
Third, the gasoline powered engine is being legislated out of existence, due some time in the future for cars. Petroleum is a declining industry.
Fourth, probably the most important, The Kingdom has to think of the future, where oil revenue will be lower. The Kingdom uses the oil revenue to make the state budget.
This is the part where China comes in. Saudi oil sold to China, in return Chinese consumer goods come to Saudi Arabia. They do not need to use dollars for that trade, they will eventually just use RMB.
Also, the Chinese will be coming in with other investments and enterprises, diversifying the Saudi economy.
The problem with your example of using Jiang's ignoring popular support in combating the Japanese invaders an example to support your argument for utilizing "public support" errs 2 fundamental assumptions. For one thing, the country was mired in a civil war conflict to wage war as to which of the two main parties will control and govern all of China. The KMT did not i represent the will of the majority of the Chinese people. And as for their support in dealing with the Japanese it made more sense since the existence of the country as a single nation was in major jeopardy because of the already known Japanese intentions, actions, atrocities in the untold hundreds of thousands versus a political rival that's Chinese in mind, body, and spirit. Not to mention that Jiang's own military and political figures within his ranks held the same strategic view which forced his hand by compelling him through abduction that his plans are road to ruin not just for the KMT but for the existence of China as a country.
Secondly, the choice Jiang made was rightfully seen as pigheaded and FUBAR. The war in Iraq II was a WAR OF CHOICE not of necessity. The U.S. was not in immediate threat of invasion or annihilation from a spent force that's been devastated in lack of materiale supply not to mention shitty training, antiquated command and control training, battle tactics that weren't updated to fight the most advanced military in the world. The threat American public thought was a "threat" was entirely based on "perception" cooked up and pushed by their media, public and private officials both civilians and retired military officers who now wants to cash that defense money
And as John Mearsheimer often said, it doesn't take long for the American public to be whipped up by the media-security-military industrial complex to be led into believing that country a, b, c, d, is an existential threat to their way of life.
My KMT example was intended to show disrespecting public opinion at your own peril especially when sovereignty and internal affairs are concerned.
Iraqi war could have been less of a quagmire if US started an earlier and more decisive pullout when the public opinion turned against the war starting from 2006. In essence, US politicians stopped listening to public the moment its view was no longer aligned with the interest of politicians and elites.
supercat
Major
The saga continues:
Chinese actor Wang Yibo who starred in "Untamed" announced he will stop all promo work with Nike.
Chinese actor Wang Yibo who starred in "Untamed" announced he will stop all promo work with Nike.