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Iracundus

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You know people keep yapping on how China is a dictatorship and how its leaders are worshipped as gods. But yet apart from a few local places which is done as a personal preference by the boss himself you're not gonna see a portrait of Xi or Mao in the office. This is especially apparent in settings that demand a more professional environment like finance or tech because its simply not professional. You're there to work not worship and I think Xi or whatever prefers you focus on doing your job properly first over everything else esp in important sectors. I actually think even in government offices, they don't do that.

And yet you have places like Iran where they have portraits of Khamenei everywhere. Like I remember seeing a clip of some semiconductor or weapon foundry clean room with people in the white covers and there was a portrait of Khamenei in it lol.

China isn't in the iron curtain age. People can openly visit and even work there. I have no clue why people still have this view on China.

The people with such stereotypes and views typically had their views crystallize decades ago, and maybe cling to them because it conveniently allows them to dismiss Chinese as unthinking and brainwashed, who would rise up in uprising if only a white savior could enlighten them. This allows them to dismiss any contrary view from any Chinese person (or any person that goes to visit or work in China) as part of the brainwashing or as a paid for bribed opinion.
 

supercat

Colonel
Can't hide, can you. Everyone knows they are in US payroll
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‘Donald is right’ and China is the problem, EU chief says​

Beijing’s subsidies should be a reason to work together, not tariff each other, Ursula von der Leyen argues.
I wish EU good luck with their negotiations with the Trump regime.

I don't think China will expose its real strength before the reunification with Taiwan.

This sounds like wishful thinking to me. Instead of breaking the China-Russia alliance in the Middle East, it's more likely that the US regime will get stuck in another quagmire over there.

Don't tell this to Michael Pettis. He thought building the HSR system was a waste of money for China. He claimed that China should develop its aviation industry like the US did instead. It turns out that HSR system is powered by electricity, and like EVs, it is far less polluting than airliners.

More amazing infrastructures from India:
 

FairAndUnbiased

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You know people keep yapping on how China is a dictatorship and how its leaders are worshipped as gods. But yet apart from a few local places which is done as a personal preference by the boss himself you're not gonna see a portrait of Xi or Mao in the office. This is especially apparent in settings that demand a more professional environment like finance or tech because its simply not professional. You're there to work not worship and I think Xi or whatever prefers you focus on doing your job properly first over everything else esp in important sectors. I actually think even in government offices, they don't do that.

And yet you have places like Iran where they have portraits of Khamenei everywhere. Like I remember seeing a clip of some semiconductor or weapon foundry clean room with people in the white covers and there was a portrait of Khamenei in it lol.

China isn't in the iron curtain age. People can openly visit and even work there. I have no clue why people still have this view on China.
I've literally never heard that, maybe that was a thing in 1980s or 1990s? For the last 20 years I've only heard the exact opposite: Chinese are super self haters and need a white savior.

The Mao/Xi portrait, military parade, red banner slogans in workplaces (which are everywhere in advanced manufacturing) shit scares them.

The "oh I'm not really culturally Chinese, call me by my English name, and btw I hate Xi" stuff is their wet dreams.
 

Overbom

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Third, Iran needs to swallow its pride and realize that they need a backer. They can have China's respect, but it will not be an equal relationship. After the war they will need to go all in on Chinese weapons systems and give access to China ports and airports to operate from.
They also agreed and signed the 400bn agreement, did you see any implementation? They even gave their port to Indians lol

Maybe a few more Israel and US bombs will teach them to honor their agreements next time because right now their words and promises have like negative value. The more they promise, the more I distrust them
 

GulfLander

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They also agreed and sign the 400bn agreement, did you see any implementation? They even gave their port to Indians lol

Maybe a few more Israel and US bombs will teach them to honor their agreements next time because right now their words and promises have like negative value. The more they promise, the more I distrust them
Has the lran Pak gas pipeline been started yet? I think its the one that aas supposedly be in Bal0ch1stan?
 

valysre

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So long as nobody sticks up a poster of Jiang... Maybe I was a young contrarian anti-establishment student when I was younger, and it colors my recollections, but during his tenure, I recall that it was not uncommon to need backdoor connections to buy train tickets. I had never seen such corruption before and have never seen such corruption since.

I think that if things had continued in that direction for another decade, China would have fallen to something comparable to the cesspool that is the Indian bureaucracy (although that's not the only cesspool-like thing in India).
 
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