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AFascistWorldon China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low

GDP Per capita $10,153 (67th)

And the population is aging fast.

AFascistWorldon Something Special Is Happening in Rural America

The situations seem dire, speculation of properties means you either participate or lose , there's no escape and no other choice, you can avoid it but you can't avoid the inflation and wealth gap that come with it, the people joining the frenzy are richer and richer while you are poorer and poorer.

AFascistWorldon Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

>get a fraction of what 4G can provide

Providers love to boast about max speeds, but the reality is every device under a base station shares the total capacity, more devices means competition and slower speeds.

AFascistWorldon Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products

Should have just put the ones who pay the most ahead.

AFascistWorldon It’s China’s World

The 5 electronics conmpanies have their factories in China, and the Fortune probably wanted to avoid China's wrath from territorial claims more than shoehorning this argument.

Just like this kind of glorious China stories play right into China's palate.

AFascistWorldon Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties

United Front is not a propaganda arm, it was Mao's main weapon againt the then Nationalist Chinese government, by infiltrating deep in, exploiting it's freedom and rights constitution (and it's why he said "we don't do that (constitution)"), Mao was able to subvert it without going to head-on war.

You can call it soft war.

Xi: "Overseas students are United Front work's new foothold." http://www.zytzb.gov.cn/tzb2010/wxwb/201604/d53a3ab80f1149f7...

AFascistWorldon France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

Unfortunately cryptocurrencies are all about buzz, buzz is valuation and adoption. Such as crypto showman Justin Sun, he will seize on any oppotunity to get as much eyeballs as possible.

AFascistWorldon Elevating original reporting in Search

Tech companies are being pushed to become judges on everything or face backlash.

AFascistWorldon Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe

You need to pay hundreds of thousands a year to jail a guy.

AFascistWorldon China Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis

One can say that as now the second largest economy, China didn't cause financial crisis in the 40 years of opening up, outside crises didn't trigger significant slowdown, part of the immunity is that China just has so many easy ways to simply write it off.

AFascistWorldon China Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong'an

Xi's brainchild.

"millennium strategy".

And new title for Shenzhen, "Frontier Demonstration Area of Socialism".

AFascistWorldon China Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis

China hasn't had a financial crisis for 40 years, I wonder how long they can last, and how well their ubiquitous multi-million dollar condos would fare; or can they prove again that nothing communists can't tackle, and capitalism with Chinese characteristics are indeed immune to self-correction.

AFascistWorldon Huawei heats up the battle for internet in Canada's north

Equipment and phone makers need new "Gs" to sell more products, 5G overall is pointless. 5G may never be commercially viable in Canada.

AFascistWorldon Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

This is worth over a hundred dollars, not a small amount for many countries, I can totally see corners being cut everywhere at every level if implemented in China, recipients will probably just throw it out upon receipt if they don't want to do harm to their babies.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

The rate of urbanization in 2002 is 39.09%, note this includes small towns which are much poorer than cities, that means the majority of the population was still very poor and the trend to work in coastal factories barely began, so could you really see average people's daily dishes as a guest?

I'm not saying it's rare to eat pork, what I’m saying is eating pork almost everyday like it's a super normal thing, not just every now and then or even ocassionally. I don't doubt there were many people who can afford to tho it's 1.4 billion afterall.

In my mid-sized town eating pork was a treat back then, especially when there were guests or holidays, definitely not everyday, it was soy products, fish (near a big reservoir) and eggs, people's wages were 50 to 100 dollars, farmers were even poorer coz it was all susbsistence farming.

There's no reply button.

http://finance.sina.com.cn/x/20040908/07101007244.shtml

Do the math, pork was fluctuating around 1 dollar per 500g back then.

Yunnan is mountainous so it probably doesn't even qualify as susbsistence farming, but it's warm and has fruit industry and tourism now, you can still find extreme poverty in Guizhou's mountains which is right above Yunnan.

Leiyang is not a town in the American sense, it was a county now a city. Village → town → county → city → capital → province.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

He also received aid from the Soviet Union and formed an alliance. The CCP allows downplaying of Kuomintang, and he's not realy that revered in China, often described as extremely corrput and incompetent.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

In the 80's the Chinese navy was using warships to smuggle insanely profitable sedans, coastal cities have secret private workshops which was punishable by the law until 2009, students marched in Beijing to protest againt crony speculatiors including sons of party high officials, city population is 20% of the country, farmers need application and strickly controlled permits to work in cities. Even in the early 2000s farmers aka "blind migrants" were still being rounded up in Shenzhen and arrested.

So I don't really know if you are fk superior.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

I believe that's not how economics works, it's like you can't just close your eyes to rocketing condo prices and expect evetything else to remain the same like salaries.

Every animal protein source will be driven to raise prices coz it's not like China could produce vastly more but refrained, arable land is not enough, it imports 30% of it's food, they just can't produce the cheap feed crops needed not to mention the amount.

It is only in the recent 15 years that the average people could afford to put meat in their daily dishes (and aboslutely not in the sense as Ameicans eat cheap meat as a staple), that's why Chinese dishes are so heavy in carbs and veggies and soy. To take that away from many is the difference of have and have not.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

Well, the party has stated loud and clear that China will fight America (and the evil West) no matter what, at all costs and to the very end.

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

Pork consumption 2016 in metric tons:

China 54,070,000 America 9,452,000 Brazil 2,811,000

It's estimated that the supply gap will be 20,000,000 tons in 2020, I don't think Brazil can supply that even if they ditch pork.

The whole planet can't supply it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237619/export-of-pork-in...

AFascistWorldon Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

The whole world is in for a seismic shift, not just HK.

Xi used the word "struggle (斗争)" 58 times in his speech yesterday at the Central Party School.

http://xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-09/03/c_1124956081.htm

Another important thing is the collapse of Chinese pork industry due to African swine fever, unlike other monoculture diseases such as mad cow and banana Panama disease, it has no cure and prevention, it's doomed in the foreseeable future.

It hit China particularly hard because pork is their cheapest(by a large margin) and main red meat, compounding it is that China can't deign to import cheap NA feed crops and pork coz America is the enemy now, price is now around 3 dollars per 500g, pricier than imported Australian beef (Chinese beef is usually twice the price of pork), and is expected to hike even more during holiday season and Chinese new year, maintain a high level after that.

Chinese people don't care about politics, but pork prices will push basically everything more expensive and force them to care, and that's dangerous for the party.

AFascistWorldon China’s internet warriors going to battle over Hong Kong

>Chinese citizens of their own free will

I don't know if there are government sponsored campaigns, but the vast majority of these people are acting spontaneously, you can see people on Weibo sharing how to register western social media and what to do if suspended, there are Baidu Tiebas(similar to Google+) dedicated to these coordinated campaigns with millions of followers.

The reality is the vast majority of China support the CCP, and most of them do not hate the regime.

AFascistWorldon Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends

In a society of extreme conformity, those who dare to not comply are seen as insulting to the rest.

AFascistWorldon Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China

He'd have been charged with "inciting subversion of state power" if he holds Chinese passport.

The WSJ Chinese weibo account was banned last month, even though it basically only posts good news about China and bad news about America.

Also:

>The Chinese central government rejected Lam’s proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters’ other demands at that time,

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china-e...

AFascistWorldon China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)

Yeah, abject outcasts sponsored by black hands from America and the UK.

AFascistWorldon China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)

Ask the ones you've talked with whether they dare to level with their own parents or relatives, most likely they will be scolded as traitors or even be shuned to avoid troubles.

Yes, there will always be outliers, but in the case of China, where conformity is of utmost importance, they really are just absolute minorities in the 1.4B population.

If you've been following the developments of HK protests, a key indicator is that almost all of these "passive dissents" of the CCP you described turned against HKers just like average Chinese, they are bashing HKers and lapping up the info the party gave them.

Do these people love freedom or even democracy, yes, but they are also acting against it in the case of HK. This is the paradox, they love the "good aspects" of freedom and democracy but they also vehemently hate and reject the "bad ones" that inevitably come with it.

AFascistWorldon China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)

You have to understand that Chinese prefer security over freedom. They support this kind of measures since majority of them probably won't be bothered by it their whole lives, as their typical response: if you don't illegal things, what's to fear for.

And the state media has been touting for years that China is the safest country on earth that "you can buy skewers at midnight", that America is the example of a failed society.

They mostly likely are sincerely and proudly presenting this as a superiority over the tumultuous west.

AFascistWorldon China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)

The fact that he's probably the only non-Chinese in the vicinity helps.

AFascistWorldon No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers

Express packages typically cost $2+ per KG for average consumers within China, if you volume is massive, you can negotiate the price to $0.5 to 1.

AFascistWorldon Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

>Military ties, Chinese listed company

That how you know it's nothing but a marketing campaign to boost their stock price.