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- doesnotexist4
this thread gave me brain rot
- yuekit0
"How Beijing Influences the Influencers"
Interesting article about this weird trend of Westerners who move to China and start making propagandistic YouTube videos for the government
- https://www.youtube.… is an interesting counter balance to this.Brabo_Brabo
- the whole sphere of westerners that are around the china-verse = a dork fest. on both sides.shapesalad
- haha very true, it's a bunch of lunatics on both sidesyuekit
- Greed is Good!utopian
- YouTube videos featuring luxurious hotel stays, and eating Chicken Teriyaki on a stick hardly classifies as propaganda.PioneerDJ303
- If you watch their videos you will start to understand...they all repeat the same topics like they have been hired to do so. It's very creepy.yuekit
- https://www.shine.cn…PioneerDJ303
- Seems to me that of course the Xinjiang videos he did are a type of propaganda. China has created a police state in Xinjiang, hundreds of thousands are detainedyuekit
- The government then gets Western influencers to travel there, not to the mass detention camps but only to touristic areas to create a false impression.yuekit
- PioneerDJ3031
YOU CAN NOW TRAVEL ALL THE WAY FROM PORTUGAL TO SINGAPORE BY TRAIN
Rail enthusiasts believe it is the longest continuous rail journey on earth- IN 21 DAYS.sted
- @373MPH.PioneerDJ303
- It's not one train is it? They're saying you can theoretically do it by transferring from one line to another.yuekit
- In 2032, 18 years after an attempt to stop global warming, the remnants of humanity have taken to a self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercerdrgs
- lolyuekit
- shapesalad1
China construction... faling apart a little there:
- They also go around the world with their "Belt and Road Initiative" building shoddy stuff then billing the host countries with debt for crappy work.grafician
- yep... well this is what happens when you have a 'cultural' revolution and a wholesale brain drain, followed up but a big dose of corruption.shapesalad
- For them, hundreds of people dying is nothing, but if 300 people died in Europe because of shoddy infrastructure work - let's say in Germany with the recent flografician
- ...floods, the entire EU will change policy overnight and we do.
While in China the cost of human life is nothing, they're like scum.grafician - Study their history, they have some amazing inventions then mountains of human sorrow. They're the closest we will ever get to an "hostile alien civilisation"grafician
- Just wait until China's mega-tall skyscrapers start collapsing all over their country. It's only a matter of time.utopian
- ^That's nothing, they leaked a deadly virus onto the world and covered it up and nobody blinked - yetgrafician
- Trust me when I tell you that there is a lot of pent-up rage against China in the USA. It's only a matter of time before the sleeping giant awakes.utopian
- Rage against China as a people is not right, rage against a way of doing things around there is another thinggrafician
- "Rage against China" sounds like a good band name.shapesalad
- shut updoesnotexist
- Krassy3
China can lock up a million Muslims in Xinjiang at once
...staggering scale of China’s prisons and detention camps
- PhanLo3
- only 31 people died... even though approx 600 cars in rush hour traffic in a tunnel that flooded....shapesalad
- Meanwhile in the USA....droughtutopian
- mg332
China's long game, and their willingness to play it with the utmost patience, is really what keeps me worried about how we come out of this pandemic and how we move forward over the next decade.
Establishing dominance in terms of currency and military capabilities has been their doctrine for decades now as they've slowly moved pieces on the chess board ever so slightly so that the big move never comes all at once - you just notice your F'd when you realize you didn't even see all your pieces gobbled up.
The thing that's really bothered me during this pandemic is that it's revealed countless exploitable opportunities in the US that show how weak we are and how weakened we could be if a little effort was put into it. Most of our failures are our own, but the biggest red flag to me is the reliance on a supply chain that could be crippled instantly if the Chinese government so chose. WAY too much stuff is made overseas that we depend on, that we could make right here if we just chose to pay people a living wage to do the work.
The scary thought is this: let's say Covid-19 was an accident (and I still believe it was). If we're this screwed because of an accident, God forbid what would happen if a pandemic came with some intention of using biological agents, gain of function stuff that would absolutely cripple society in conjunction with supply chain disruption that would bring our country to a dead stop. Toss in attacks on the electrical grid, other essential services, and you've brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees without firing a shot.
There's so much conspiracy theory stuff out there that's pure nonsense and not worth a seconds worth of time to talk about, but understanding China's global ambitions and their absolute willingness to pursue it makes it all seem perfectly plausible as a tactic born out of that slow, methodical, patient, calculated strategy they have to achieve it.
- Who’s to say that China doesn’t vaccinate its population, start a pandemic then take over the world? They might living in your house...shapesalad
- *They might like living in your house.shapesalad
- All signs show we are heading towards WWIII. But slowly. Creeping. And China will lose, but only after massive destruction on both sides.shapesalad
- Failure will come from China's lack of understanding of human motivation.shapesalad
- Can you please study more communism? No communist country is interested in expansion, rather than maintaining power.grafician
- Also WW3 will be in space, as WW2.5 is already cybergrafician
- Anyway, communism will never win as it promotes fear and corruption - the easiest things to exploit in any conflict.grafician
- China taking over the world is going to quickly run into the reality that almost no one outside of China wants the "Chinese system."yuekit
- Even on the periphery of China (HK, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cambodia) you can see it running into trouble.yuekit
- So how is China going to start taking over totally different parts of the world? Not to mention, even if people wanted to learn Chinese it's really difficult :)yuekit
- USA was successful partly because English is the default global language, American movies and music are watched everywhere. Chinese culture is very insular.yuekit
- _niko0
Another one bends the knee
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
it's bad enough Chinese citizens live in this Orwellian nightmare but when westerners willingly bow to their nonsense it's just fucked up.
- did he swallow?GuyFawkes
- its inevitable, learn Mandarin fellasGuyFawkes
- obviously not John Cena himself but Studios putting pressure on him. Everyone hates the CPC except capitalists when money's at stake._niko
- Every movie I've worked on in the past 8 years has a tour group of Chinese money backers come through production. This doesn't surprise meFawnDog
- Haha, what a bitchGnash
- such a pussypango
- shapesalad0
China just landed a rover on Mars.
- ROVER FIGHTS!!!!pango
- If we find life on Mars now, it will be "made in china"grafician
- MarsFluGnash
- Mars now inhabitable for Elon, due to a gain of function bat virus brought to Mars by China....shapesalad
- LOL GnashGuyFawkes
- Krassy2
- in case something "happens" with the other cryptos.sted
- "It's much easier to steal and hide your money with Crypto." - Xi Jinpingutopian
- I like this image.shapesalad
- Gnash1
- was this from 2021?!Ianbolton
- ^ yuppers. at first Twitter said it didn’t violate any rules, but changed their minds after some backlashGnash
- The kind of stuff that short circuits the brains of sjws_niko
- ^hmm no not really. Do you think anyone would believe anyone can be happy in a concentration camp?pango
- yuekit0
Meanwhile in Hong Kong...
53 Hong Kong democrats, activists arrested under security law
- If it was afaganstan USA + UK + France would be jetting off and dropping bombsshapesalad
- hong kong is a forward-thinking, literate and democratic society that is not waging Jihad on the westhotroddy
- JIHAD!pango
- *redaction* -- WAS a democratic societyhotroddy
- It was never truly democratic. That's partly what the protests were about.yuekit
- HK is fuckedOBBTKN
- NBQ001
- has always been for the last half a decade.pango
- you mean last half centuryd_gitale
- poop lol
yespango - at leastpango
- not really. not yet. will attack financially and politically first.shapesalad
- true. its not financially worth it for military action.pango
- at this point, china doesn't need Taiwan. they're doing great on their own. However, gaining Taiwan means easier access to the pacific.pango
- This was a good documentary. I still wonder about what would happen after China takes over Taiwan. You can speculate about whether they can pull off militaryyuekit
- invasion but what about the aftermath? It's one thing to put down protests in a city you already control (i.e. HK), another to take over an entire country.yuekit
- And at the same time facing fallout from the entire world including possible war. Maybe it will happen eventually but seems like the cost would be very high.yuekit
- via military probably if they run outta patience. Politically, it's going to be tough. the dislike for china amongst taiwan's population is preeeeety high.pango
- shapesalad1
- thats what we need right now...Bennn
- It's an inevitability, sometime in the next 20 years...MondoMorphic
- I think it would end up like the US invasion of Iraq. They might pull off the initial military operation, but after that it could be a complete disaster.yuekit
- There’s a book about this. Basically due to the tides, weather and distance it’s be very hard to sustain an invasion and occupy Taiwan.shapesalad
- Once first troops land on Taiwan, the supply and support chains to maintain them and take control of Taiwan would be very hard to setup.shapesalad
- The Taiwan army would instantly distrust the Chinese armies supply and support network. Who would also be battling the tides and weather. Allies would alsoshapesalad
- Help. Any troops on Taiwan would face a fearsome local population. Most guys have done time in the army due to national conscription.shapesalad
- The mountainous inland area would be a rebels playground and very difficult for any army to take. Ask the Japanese about that.shapesalad
- Krassy3
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe
"China’s ascent to AI supremacy is a menacing prospect: The country’s political structure encourages, rather than restrains, this technology’s worst uses."
- yuekit2
After a failed two-year campaign to stop China’s Huawei Technologies from leading the world’s rollout of 5G mobile broadband, the Trump Administration announced the so-called nuclear option, asserting control over sales of computer chips made anywhere in the world with US equipment.
- then let Americans build and deploy their own 5G networks. What's that you say? They're mouth breathing tinfoil hat wearing ludites who are burning cell towers?_niko
- The Gov just puts out 5G licenses, the telecoms buy/bid on those, but the telecoms use what tech they want. Either Huawey or Ericsson...grafician
- Ericsson 5G is more robust and thus more expensive, Huawey is basically made in china cheap basic tech.grafician
- But the issue here and everywhere is that because Huawey tech is cheap and so bad , it can be h acked by every body easily!grafician
- And on top of that they're also a chinese company...grafician
- But the big irony is that while major Govs ban Huawey tech, the ppl still use Huawei 5G smarphones lolgrafician
- So this is more of a "block the door, but leave the windows open" situation.grafician
- That’s goodGnash
- utopian1
US says China trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine as markets slump
Chinese hackers are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research, US authorities said Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between the superpowers as markets slumped on warnings from the US Federal Reserve that prolonged shutdowns could cause "lasting damage."
- Each and everyday, I hate China a little bit more. These fuckers just don't know when to hit the pause button.utopian
- First they murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people with the Wuhan virus and then they wreck the global economy.utopian
- Fuck off China!utopian
- #gy-na!renderedred
- China is slowly getting to the top of the hillBennn
- ^ not slowlyKrassy
- you're right, they're getting there pretty quickly actuallyBennn
- nb4
https://freakonomics.com/podcast…
Freakonomics Podcast Ep 414:
"Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China?"Holy shit, this is an eye-opener! Excellent guests. Opposite sides of the spectrum but they somehow 'mostly agree' on almost every problem.