And, BTW, @Lant3rn, welcome back. I always appreciated your point of view on the old forums.
For whatever that is worth.
Level the economic playing field?
You can’t, the idea sounds to me like being asked to start paving a mountain.
But their over meddling and need to for control over something as choatic as markets are is causing their own internal problems. I watched a very good seminar about this recently.
Plus trade brings influence, if you cut off your economic ties, you’re cutting the same paths that allow culture to be shared as well.
Thanks, I appreciate yours and Joes as well.
If you don’t mind me asking, how is your family doing?
Just fine. The kids are now 15 and 17. Younger one is wrestling, older one wrestled last year, but ended up not wanting to this term.
I’m 2x divorced now, but I’m doing well too. My parents are elderly but smart enough to avoid COVID so far.
So, I’m assuming you moved past that work incident?
And are doing well ?
Xi doesn’t want culture sharing. It seems to me like they (CCP) are controlling that, and consolidating more and more control all the time.
I was referring to this stupid idea.
Social Credit System - Wikipedia.
It’s arrogantly stupid and will backfire.
A government can not be GOD, as much as it might want to be. The level of control their government is trying to maintain will not be sustainable IMO.
I am moving on, i think of it like a scar now.
Glad the kids are thriving.
I’m sorry about the divorce, last i remember you just helped her overcome a bout of cancer.
Indeed I did. Partly fallout of cancer treatment. It kind of affected her mind.
Then COVID. It was a bit much.
She is fine, and we are good friends.
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Not really, by design.
Start naming them, see how far you get.
Oh, you saw The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians too, ah?
Before you know it we’ll be in Khan territory.
These were news in Spain. El Mundo is Center Right if you ask me. Not needed a great level of Spanish to get the point.
Also, from Jan 1st 2020, there is a new Cryptographic Law, I have read a translated article from a Gordon G. Chang guy, but didn’t get the point because I am a bit of a cyberdumb.
If you ask me:
Paid Vacation and Universal Healtchcare should be in Workers Rights Agenda of the Chinese Communist Party, to get closer to their Socialist origins and do good to every other worker in the world.
Also, it is very important indeed to extend Spanish culture of Tapas, like in Granada or Almería, for the good of human kind in general.
Oh man, that’s just not going to happen unless Xi really, really fucks up
He is a hardliner, was cultivated for the task of transforming China into a military threat to rival the US.
The average Chinese guy might be an alright guy but the average aspiring President for Life is a power hungry POS who will stop at nothing to achieve world domination.
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It’s not just China selling stuff to the rest of the world, it’s also China using its increasing wealth and market demand to control other countries’ media. Case in point, how both GOG and Steam pulled the horror game Premonition because one of the placeholder graffiti textures made fun of Xi looking like Winnie the Pooh.
Here in the United States, we’re also going to have to take a hard look at our intellectual property laws. Because such laws are a joke in China, they can innovate much faster than we can over here being unencumbered by patents and copyright law.
These will become more salient once they surpass the US in absolute GDP.
I agree, but without the steady flow of income many of their plans to take over the world aren’t going to happen
Their sex ratio and aging population doesn’t help them on the long term.
One could say, based on this, that their approach to gain control over global agenda might be focused on controlling financial scenario, rather than deploying troops.
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What? Like threesoms and stuff?
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Sorry. Gender Ratio sounds better.
I was highlighting the low percentage of women, and thus the difficulty for a generational relief, that combined with an increase of life span would result in a rapidly aging population.
I read something about it, maybe in The Economist. I am searching for it right now.
Edit* This is where I got this idea.
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You are not remembering wrong.
The one child policy that China had for a long time, combined with the idiocracy of patriarchy, meant that there was a very high abortion rate for a long time. Shit, I remember a story from like the 1990’s where it was notable that they had a public health campaign to “not kill (y)our daughters.”
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Fun fact, in the entire written history of China (which is over 9,000 years), there has only been one female monarch, Wu Zhou, who only got the power through her husband, Emperor Gaozhong, and his two heirs.
Fast forward to 2021, no woman has ever served in the Politburo throughout the history of the regime, even though Mao famously once said “women hold up half the sky”.
The hypocrisy of communism, esp in China, was best summed by Orwell… Everyone is equal in China, but some more than others.
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See? See? What did I write, LOL.
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