Made me see stick
I looked it up, the technical term is white cane.
Made me see stick
There aren't any statistical baselines from China. Their books are all cooked.
I despise people who wants west to lose. And praise enemies. Suicidal idiots. Im western. I want the west to win. But the fagness is too much encroached in this loser mentality with this stupid retarded comfort egalitarian communist environment regulations and taxes.

Sharing this again because neither of you answered and just like clockwork, the back and forth will continue.Not that I have a dog in this fight, following this thread for interests sake, but why do you two care so much? @LaAguilaNegra & @Cooper
It sounds like neither of you live there or close by, have you ever visited?
Do you stand to gain financially or otherwise from posting here on the forum?
Somebody needs a little road trip to the nearest local turdworld neighborhood to get reminded of the actual "geopolitical adversaries" their successful family is going to be dealing with into the foreseeable future.rooting for geopolitical adversaries
You think that there is more accountability in the Chinese hierarchy and also more cheating of the numbers in the West than in China? This is contrary to all experience and is more of your absurd whataboutism.The Chinese political bureaucracy is highly hierarchical, there is a centralized national oversight over the provinces, and likewise of provincial authorities over municipal, so there is a lot of accountability at every level to the higher ups.
There is more cheating and fudging the numbers in the case of crime reporting in many western countries, esp in the US with Democrat and Soros-run cities and DAs, a lot of crime goes unreported for political reasons. That also applies to economic data, the GDP methodology and numbers in the West is a lot more heavily fudged than in China.
Complete nonsense. They don't have to hide a dead body because they can categorized it any way that they feel like, which happens all the time, for example with forced organ harvesting. They disappeared millions of people fairly recently and that mechanism of secret police and secret prisons is still in place. When people are arrested for common offenses, their families can not even find out if they have been arrested and where they are.In the case of accidents, the Chinese don't give a crap about what outsiders think, so there is no incentive for them to cheat wrt the aggregate national numbers. There is some incentive for the local authorities to cheat and undercount the number of their accidents, but there are consequences to the bureaucrats careers if they are caught cheating, and there are stats that they can't easily fudge like road accident casualties, or casualties in general.
Sharing this again because neither of you answered and just like clockwork, the back and forth will continue.
Why is a nation on the other side of the world so important to you and why can't you just present your arguments without resorting to name calling and hyperbole?
Yes, I'm very familiar with the procedure. I lived in Guangzhou for many years and visited Hong Kong countless times, where I used to purchase special HK SIM cards for roaming inside China, like the China Unicom Cross Border King. I also had VPN's since the Great Firewall began restricting Google in May 2009.China had relaxed its visa requirement earlier year and its easy to get around the firewall with VPN - in fact if you're a foreigner coming in with sim card from overseas roam - you're automatically given a built in VPN to go through the firewall.
What's your point, that if the censorship is not 100% perfect then it's not happening? That's the real cope.Heavy censorship is just a cope.
The Chinese baby milk powder scandal was from 2007-2008, which the Chinese govt said only killed 60 babies (and they never lie about deaths according to Coop, however I knew of several infants that were hospitalized) but when I left China in 2018, a decade later, Chinese still did not trust local baby milk powder. In fact, there was a very active network of students and other Chinese sending foreign milk powder back to the mainland, including a huge operation in Sheung Shui, New Territories, HK, where endless streams of transporters would buy non-mainland baby milk powder a block away from the MTR and take it illegally across the border into China in order to resell it at a profit. You must have seen all the efforts at detection in the crossing if you went to Shenzhen and your eyes were open.I see people sharing their experiences NOW even on Western Social Media and they're easy to verify especially with record people coming in and out of China now. How is your algorithm still limited to around a DECADE ago still?
For instance, the Gutter Oil meme was from 1990s (3 DECADES) and I see you're presuming its still rampant (lol).
False equivalency and weird attempt at interfering yourself as some sort of authority on posters and posting matters. This is a often used tactic by posters that are considered more moderate yet still of the same WEST BAD CHINA GOOD VARIETY, aka you.Sharing this again because neither of you answered and just like clockwork, the back and forth will continue.
Why is a nation on the other side of the world so important to you and why can't you just present your arguments without resorting to name calling and hyperbole?
Yes (I mentioned unavoidable punishment in China), in the West crimes go unpunished despite solid incriminating evidence, and it's common knowledge among the thieves, that's why they're so brazen, again in China you will face harsh consequences and it's a given.
Expectation says a noticeable change occurred after Covid, not that long ago, when the wages were not rising exponentially any more, looks more related to surveillance measures and the introduction/tightening of the social credit system
There is actually no social credit system in the same way most folks in the west believe it is - rather it is a debt credit system. Its too much effort to respond to every posts and I made a meme mocking that assertion a long time ago but I'm not going to respond to correct to every mention of it like a bot.
So yes, it is more related to an increase in material well being rather than authoritarianism. You also see similar elements of this behavior to other Sino ethnostate societies such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan as long as basic quality of life is met.
I think one factor that might be at work here is their social media and its influence on society, Douyin, Xiaohongshu are chock-full of feel-good stories featuring good samaritans (in part due to state censorship), while in the West TikTok and Insta are a toxic well of narcissism and social dysfunction that demoralizes and brings down society.
Sharing this again because neither of you answered and just like clockwork, the back and forth will continue.
Why is a nation on the other side of the world so important to you and why can't you just present your arguments without resorting to name calling and hyperbole?
Funny how Cooper's response to the question was just beating around the bush, regurgitating his main points, and no real answer. So many words to get around saying why one would invest so much effort to diligently steer the discussion this or that way. Anyway, it's good to have all the info both sides give, I think everybody can tell who the genuine posters without assignments are, so all is well. In communist newspeak words would flow without end, but you couldn't make any sense of it, they'd talk and talk, but good luck finding the answer you needed there.
@Cooper
I appreciate your commitment to CiK, even if I don't agree with some things you claim. Indeed, I encourage members to share a range of opinions here, ideally in a calm, frank, and well-reasoned manner backed by credible evidence.
It seems that you like sharing a belief akin to "Rotten is the West, China is the best". As you're one of the most prolific contributers here, I'm curious about your reason and purpose for this mission, because the why isn't so clear.
I don't know if any CiK members live in China (?), except for one in HK. Also, I don't know if...
Not familiar with him, go ahead and post his take.( edit: FWIW Marc Faber said the Chinese numbers can't be trusted)
I saw Charlie's assassination footage on a gore site, like all normal people I don't like any of that, there were some videos from China showing some real ghetto behavior, men acting like thuggish peasants and so on. In person, I haven't seen Americans behaving this way. Do not use too much of your time, but for the curious it's here:
I don't want to put you or anybody on the spot, I don't need personal answers. You summarized your views without explaining why you devote that much energy to this thread. China has been successful and the western world is in trouble, many see that without spending that much energy on reminding everybody of it online. Steady Hands asked jokingly if a girl might be the reason. I don't really care.I'm at work right now, scanned through this thread, will come back later to address the other stuff above, but how in the world is my long-ass answer to that question (linked below) "just beating around the bush", did you miss it altogether?
Not familiar with him, go ahead and post his take.
Are you familiar with Charles and Louis-Vincent Gave, French bankers who have worked mostly in the Anglosphere, based in HK?
Your average Chinese man over 50 grew up in a country that was poorer than Haiti or India when he was a kid. The great majority of Chinese people from that generation are/were peasants who spent their early years not just in the third world, but in the bottom of the third world. That is why these people revere Xi and their government.
The upper classes in China did survive the Mao years and the Cultural Revolution, much more so than in Bolshevik Russia, because Mao's cull was not racially based, and not as extreme as the mass class culls in Khmer Rouge Cambodia. That is also the reason China has been successful. People like Xi or Wang Huning come from old families and are well-read and well-rounded, Huning for instance has an interest in French literature, and is fluent in French.
Do I have time to slit my throat before Ping Pong Ching Chong parachutes down my chimney and steals my corneas?AI is the new arms race. Whoever wins this race, will win the next century and beyond. The top AI guy in the USA says China cannot be beat. He is right, we replaced the men who were able to put a man on the moon with slide rulers with third world immigrants.
Why would China waste resources doing that? Just wait for us to collapse by dropping our IQ with third world immigration and then send in drones and robots to clean up the mess.Do I have time to slit my throat before Ping Pong Ching Chong parachutes down my chimney and steals my corneas?
I was joking, my fren. Even Cooper got it, lol.Why would China waste resources doing that? Just wait for us to collapse by dropping our IQ with third world immigration and then send in drones and robots to clean up the mess.
You've got the penguin playground just below you, why not go for a stroll with the emperors?China is preparing for an ice (free) age.
I wouldn't mind a cruise of the arctic.