I had breakfast with a (white) guy from church this morning. He bought one for local running around. He's owned it for 7 months and some fault left it bricked with the electronic handbrake on. NRMA had no idea. Got it trucked to the local dealership. They had no idea what the error code meant and haven't been able to fix it yet. Hell of a time getting it on and off the flat top truck with the handbrake engaged!
The China Thread
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The Shanghai economy seems especially bad.
^30-something urban professional "leftover" women being passed over for younger, better bridal material >>>> China is collapsing!!!
Take a look at this channel's videos, 100% "China is collapsing" dystopian/doomer messaging, made with AI, published in the US, very high production rate (25 videos produced just the last week).
>>>> US taxpayer money at work, somebody in DC has scored a good gig.
responsiblestatecraft.org
Take a look at this channel's videos, 100% "China is collapsing" dystopian/doomer messaging, made with AI, published in the US, very high production rate (25 videos produced just the last week).
>>>> US taxpayer money at work, somebody in DC has scored a good gig.
House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
responsiblestatecraft.org
I thought they had an immense shortage of women in China. It seems like it should be 50 guys to 1 woman.
About 10 years ago the best was the one where, because Chinese can't swim and there are often drownings, they made the elementary school kids stick their heads in tubs of water inotser to solve this problem.Apparently, Chinese children are learning how to cook at an early age. I can't even fathom the teacher letting kids these young use knives.
Chinese primary school starts 'anti-drowning lessons'
The bizarre teaching method sees dozens of washbasins, buckets and even rice cookers full of tap water lined up in the playground at Qianzhizhuang Primary School in the central Chinese province of Henan.
Apparently, Chinese children are learning how to cook at an early age. I can't even fathom the teacher letting kids these young use knives.
Kindergarten in China used to be a cram school in preparation for primary school, like it is in the rest of east Asia (Japan, S Korea, Taiwan). The Chinese government banned this practice, and now they've been turned into fun activities/vocational schools for toddlers.
A lot of those things can't happen in the US or 5 eye countries because we live in a talmudic legalistic culture where the threat of lawsuits always trumps common sense. Kids would benefit from activities with a low risk of accident in managed environments like these cooking schools, but these practices aren't legally viable.
Makes me wonder what the USA could have, probably 20 hour work weeks and 100 year life expectancy, had we not passed the 1965 immigration act.
Joseph Jordan is correct. China wins by default due to legal third world immigration into the west. When does China pull so far ahead they come to take this valuable land?
They don't need land, they just want access to foreign markets. If they wanted more land, they would have taken Mongolia, Kazakhstan for starts, up for grabs right at their border, both rich in minerals, and with small populations.
Need, no. But the stronger civilizations have always conquered the weaker civilization. At some point it becomes cost effective to both take the land and eliminate any future potential enemies. Plus, if they want a world with 4 billion Chinese, they will need the land and they might decide a world with 4 billion Chinese is better than a world with a few billion low IQ third worlders destroying historical artifacts and spreading hope and despair like a cancer.
They don't want 4 billion Chinese, they have deliberately reduced their population with the one child policy, they want 1 billion Chinese in their country. There is too many of them already. Without the 1 child policy their population would have swelled to 2.5-3 billion and the country would have collapsed under its own weight.
They got rich without taking over foreign lands, or firing a single bullet, why would they change course? They are getting richer and more advanced every year. It's an insular people and culture, not a seafaring colonial empire. If that were the case, they would have long taken Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and NZ long before the Brits, Dutch and Spaniards got there, the natives of these areas being primitive. The one country they did try to take over and failed several times was Vietnam, who are not that dissimilar from the Cantonese north of the border. The Chinese couldn't fight the locals and the malaria that came with that territory.
They got rich without taking over foreign lands, or firing a single bullet, why would they change course? They are getting richer and more advanced every year. It's an insular people and culture, not a seafaring colonial empire. If that were the case, they would have long taken Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and NZ long before the Brits, Dutch and Spaniards got there, the natives of these areas being primitive. The one country they did try to take over and failed several times was Vietnam, who are not that dissimilar from the Cantonese north of the border. The Chinese couldn't fight the locals and the malaria that came with that territory.
Because eventually they will become advanced enough that the most powerful item in the world, land, will be freely available to them by using drones and other technology the rest of the world cannot compete with.
I don't know of a single time in human history that a much stronger and advanced civilization has said "nah, we don't need that land over there, we will just stay here and mind our own business".
You're projecting here, that was the Anglo-American model of seafaring empires from the last 400 years.
The Chinese are going to crack the energy problem within the next several decades, either by exploring suppressed western tech like those from Tesla or others, or by developing new technologies like fusion or advanced fission, at which point they can desalinate and pump ocean water into their dry and desert lands, colonizing the empty half of their country.
The other thing you are not taking into account is that the modern Chinese started out from abject poverty only 40 years ago, when their GDP per capita was lower than the Philippines or Nigeria, and most were peasants. Mainlanders over 40-50yo didn't have TVs, the rich ones might have had fridges, and whole families were packed into small houses and flats. They ate meat once a week, if they were lucky, and rode crap bicycles. So these people today are incredibly satiated materialistically.
I'm not surprised to hear the Chinese describe themselves that way. It's common knowledge here that they are often referred to as the "Jews of the East."
King Vajiravudh of Siam once referred to the Chinese in Siam as the "Jews of the Orient," apparently because he believed they prioritized money above all else.
King Vajiravudh of Siam once referred to the Chinese in Siam as the "Jews of the Orient," apparently because he believed they prioritized money above all else.
Here is one of the article that talks about it.
If the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia—many of whom arrived with little and came from humble backgrounds in Fujian, Guangdong, and other southern provinces—could rise to such formidable influence, imagine the potential of the Chinese population in their homeland: over a billion strong. The overseas Chinese transformed their status through sheer determination, becoming prosperous and influential, even dominating the economies of several Southeast Asian nations.
Meanwhile, in mainland China, descendants of historical elites—mandarins, scholars, and officials—remain. If impoverished migrants could achieve such staggering success abroad, the descendants of China’s intellectual and bureaucratic upper class may well be poised for an even more dominant role. Their potential influence could be described as near S-tier.
This is precisely why the United States must never underestimate China. While America may perceive itself as the global leader—bolstered by its victories in past wars and a sense of divine mission—the geopolitical landscape is more complex. The Chinese are resourceful and strategic; they pursue victory by any means necessary. If aligning with Christianity served their objectives, they would not hesitate. In such a scenario, even the advantage of marching “under the sign of the cross” could be neutralized, leaving the U.S. facing a rival just as committed, just as determined, and just as capable of invoking the same moral banners.
Meanwhile, in mainland China, descendants of historical elites—mandarins, scholars, and officials—remain. If impoverished migrants could achieve such staggering success abroad, the descendants of China’s intellectual and bureaucratic upper class may well be poised for an even more dominant role. Their potential influence could be described as near S-tier.
This is precisely why the United States must never underestimate China. While America may perceive itself as the global leader—bolstered by its victories in past wars and a sense of divine mission—the geopolitical landscape is more complex. The Chinese are resourceful and strategic; they pursue victory by any means necessary. If aligning with Christianity served their objectives, they would not hesitate. In such a scenario, even the advantage of marching “under the sign of the cross” could be neutralized, leaving the U.S. facing a rival just as committed, just as determined, and just as capable of invoking the same moral banners.