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So, you think all phones and wireless base stations and telecom equipment ever need is just some mobile phone SoC?

This narative is so so similar to Chinese netizens'，I couldn't help but cringe when I saw so uninformed and forced arguments, this myth has to stop.

The US still monopolizes most telecom related chips and components, Huawei does make a few other chips along with some Chinese companies, but they are generally low-end in performance, couldn't compete at high-end market.

And let's be realistic, free of those marketing frills, Huawei's chips are impressive but still modified ARM products, and they buy a lot other licensed IPs for their chips.

Acoording to a census, Pu-tian's population is 98.68% Han Chinese. https://wenku.baidu.com/view/deef8bc969dc5022aaea008b.html

The "Pu-tian clique" monopolized the Chinese private hospital industry, capitalizing on China's loose regulations and enforcement, started off by peddling snake-oil-like panacea across the country.

What's more scary is the public opinion about this in China.

When first reported on by state media "the People's Daily", being touted as a glorious historical breakthrough, netizens cheered with overwhelming joy and pride.

Then came critical pieces, netizens appeared to calmed a bit, "Foreign masters displeased!", some started to worry about it, "What if the girls start to pollute the gene pool? It's horrifying." "It's outrageous and immoral, burn He and the girls to death!" "Sterilize them!" "This is an American conspiracy." "I'll be blunt here, the morons who oppose it, don't ever join the line when gene-optimizing treatments come out." "Human thought can't keep up with the advance of technology, it'd be a disaster." "Some people are always jealous of other country's tech, yet here they also don't want to be the first one."

It's exposed by prospective subject parents that when asked what if the experiment went wrong, He's assistant simply said "Don't worry, we would help dispose of the baby."

The small private hospital that approved and held the experiment is one of the "Pu-tian clique", notorious in China for their customarily misleading, predatory and fraudulent medical pratices.

The hospital boss also invested in He's two bio startups, one of which is hawking a failed American 3rd-gen gene sequencing machine "Helicos" that he bought from his American professor, now goes by the name "GenoCare", billed as "the world's most accurate", monopoly-breaking, "fully originally and domestically invented" by him.

The tech gap is too big, despite media hype, don't think China can even catch up.

Don't know this time, but Chinese textbooks mentioned the radioactive space environment could cause mutations in the genes, creat new varieties.

Alibaba once said it's "Data Technology" instead of IT now.

Looks like FB became the scapegoat of the entire industry.

Just to remind you that a 1000 something square ft apartment in Shanghai's perimeters costs like 5 million rmb, that's 50 times the average income there, and in better areas, it easily costs 10 or 20 millions plus.

Think about it.

Expecting in couple months, there would be an American executive's nationally televised confession and contrition.

"WeChat Payment"

Although it's a little tricky here, but once you acquired necessary Chinese IDs with debit cards (more than easy), it's not too hard, old people in villages are more than willing to sell theirs for sevral hundred RMB.

As for authorities, oh they are more busy maintaining social stability, if your case(assuming they allow you to register your case since it's obviously a dead end that effects their stats vital for promotion) are lucky enough to be included in an operation couple months later then maybe they can find out which countries these hustlers are at and cases closed.

Their "MLC" marketing is cheeky

Invest for much better gains.

While 22M youtubers-wonna-be earning little to nothing.

Western media can't see through the veneer, it's true that China has vast amounts of eletric vehicle, but it's due in part to the tax cut and subsidies offered, the vehicles are generally of low quality and little effort put in, some look like ugly plastic toys, no real technology edge across-the-board.

Some cars are just cobbled together to claim subsidies or even defraud the government, since the subsidies are kinda huge, they can ask sky high prices for those garbage cars and make staggering amounts of profit. Just search China EV Subsidy Fraud.

You can say on application side, China is ahead, but on technology side, the US is years ahead.

Guò lái, zhè lǐ

Is fairly common in daily life.

And quality of mandarin content is deterioting ever faster these days, thanks to low quality school education, generally shit-tier English translators, and the self-media sensationalism cottage industry that Wechat and Toutiao from Bytedance helped created.

The basic grammer is kinda hard if you aren't exposed to similar languages or didn't learn it in school, but after that I'd say it's one of the easiest.

In fact they don't care that much if you are deemed reliable, like some state institutes, researchers, there's is a priviledged net CSTNET for those people, they don't block anything on that. They are far more lenient on English sites, presumably due to the requirement of high education level to read.

And there is a university net, it's slightly less blocked than public nets.

They've charged someone for selling VPN online, but charging users is effectively unprobable due to the sheer number, but since Chinese laws are generally vague, judges and prosecutors are easily influenced and arbitrary on party security cases, they can always pick couple guys off to make a statement or set an example, like Sabotaging Computer Systems.

If they install root certificate then all your date is naked, not sure if they do tho.

But either way, you give away DNS log, http data, and possibly forced affiliate link when shopping online.

Someone requested me to provide evidence for my claims, but deleted? I'll post it anyway. I'm not a detective and don't have "evidence", all I said is what I saw first hand the accounts of people doing it. It's an entire industry, I'll just keep it simple and short.

Americans genarally don't realize how much their passport worth in other parts of the world.

The key is entering America, any other thing doesn't matter, if you want to smuggle you way in through Russai-Cuba-Mexico etc, you need to pay around 70-100K or something and it's not guaranteed.

So how to legally enter America? Either through universities, medical reasons, or tourism. Like applying any for-profit American language school to "learn English", PHD and extend it endlessly.

Once you entered, you can do what you wanted, to study then go back home, or to earn money, illegal overstaying waiting for citizenship amnesty, or applying for asylum. Chinese make up the majority of asylum seekers there.

The recent hot topic of birth tourism, there are two ways, do it on a tourist visa and be possibly black-listed and visa revoked afterwards; or state your intention to the VO, you need to frame a perfect story here to convince the person that it's a medical cause, agencies will teach you to say American hospitals are better, pain-free whatever, just don't say you want that passport, but in reality all these people are there for the American passport. It's best to delete any related things on your phone such as Wechat opon entering in case evidence of visa fraud were found.

There's also a service that agencies would help you to apply for EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), publish paid papers, acquire paid awards etc. It's said (by his former friend) this guy paid audiences to fill an entire American theater for his show to help him apply it. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

You guys remember couple months ago, America said they no longer accept domestic abuse as the reason for asylum? I can't say it's definitely related, but it's a known easy way to get quick green card, you pay for a short term sham marriage, then call the police for domestic abuse, go to court, then you can divorce, not having to wait out 2 years' marriage.

It's easy to just blame the authorities, but people should also see that almost any existing hurdle in the visa applying process is set up to solve a problem, while it's unfortuanate that these measures have unintended/undesirable effects, it also forestalled many visa fraud attempts.

People from certain effectively balck-listed Chinese regions are much harder to get it done.

I know here in China people would exploit every loophole and weak point they can find to get a visa to the US etc, either to study, born babies, or apply asylum. They would exchange latest info about where and which VO is easier to pass, how to best frame your story, like white middle-aged woman is more likely to pass etc, these behaviors in turn are pushing the bars higher and higher every year.

It's like that border wall, there are realistic problems on field that need to be solved.

Maybe I didn't frame it the right way, but there's an inherent difference between simply hold stock, and let red capital profit exponentially in exchange for political risk minimization and shadow clout.

You do know CCP cronies and sons of party high officials hold stock in Alibaba right?

Basically if you are a big enough company in China, you aren't gonna get away from this, either by introducing red capital yourself, or the red capital is gonna force their way in when you want to go public(you need to apply for it in China and the quota is very limited).

One of the least shady example: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/alibabas-i-p-o-could...

Maybe irrelevant but still interesting:

more than 100 condos and over 100 mistresses, and literally tons of cash at home, a Chinese state company chief.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-10-17/fallen-chief-of-bad-...

He could just walk past to Shenzhen, but I'm not sure that would much different in this case.

If he realy want to and have money, pay to be smuggled through Vietnam, or Laos is fairly easy, locals there charge like 50 rmb to motorcycle you through the border jungle.

Or maybe pledge allegience to the party on TV shows like some Chinese with criminal records overseas, for example this guy went on Chinese TV to recount how he as an innocent patriotic citizen was persecuted by the vicious American.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/nyregion/03chinese.html

Chinese tech media basically rely on it.

The "self-media" cottage industry that Wechat and Toutiao (by TikTok parent company ByteDance) created, is of 99.99% garbage, but they know what content their users want and like to see, boasts "give me a pic and I can spin it into a hit story", they basically provided a heaven platform for sensationalists and hustlers like this guy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/fake-news-hillary-clin...

Interesting, Chinese IT companies have long been controlling the media, basically corralling "reporters and self-media operators" into private chat groups administered by their staff, therefore excluding outsiders and naysayers, effectively forestall most negative coverage.

Also they don't have quite as many insider leaks.

Cellphone companies like Huawei and Xiaomi would give these people test units and guidelines about how to write articles. You can hardly see candid reviews, a lot of them just do shit-tier translation of TheVerge and other English sites(not sure authorized or not).

I don't know how this works in Germany, but in China, it usually goes this way: doesn't matter if you are good at or even know it (officials won't care), just scour the internet and produce a PPT, pull some strings to arrange a fancy dinner with relevant local officials, deal done, once you got the money hire someone to do a demo, profit.

One woman bragging about this was vacationing on the Palm Jumeirah island in UAE last year, she was there pitching her block chain projects to Arabs.

Standard response from Chinese companies, "We are just doing business!" (We got families to immigrate to first world like party officials, need to make money fast!)

PS. Ctrip Founder levels with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kF8yBZeSFU

Our middle and upper management members all sent their kids abroad, do their best to come by a (foreign) passport. Poor people don't mind, all they want is an apartment in Shanghai. It's not safe here, American education, air, and hospitals are just better.