china issues

A talent program just sounds weird - - Does this make China look bad and why? -

US-based billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya has come under a lot of criticism for expressing the view that people in the US, including himself, don't care about China oppressing their Muslim minority. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60045076 The thing is that "We" don't care. Maybe it's...

What seems to have happened is Peng Shuai, a major name in Chinese tennis went public with an accusation that a major figure in Chinese politics sexually assaulted her. She's then gone missing and now an email has surfaced with her name on it essentially stating that she made a 'mistake' and...

We don't seem to have a thread on China. People in the USA, and the older generation seem pretty scared of China, in my experience. Yet I know people who visit there regularly, or have visited there, or live there, and they've loved it. Is this an East/West thing that is outdated? I have a...

A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside Link to full article. Long article, you may have to sign up to read it. My thoughts: Between this and Tibet we are witnessing a real genocide. 10% of the population in camps where people...

We do business with the Chinese government to make money. This is a photo I'd never seen before taken in June of 1989 in Tiananmen Square. A disturbing image. You have been warned. https://i.redd.it/mbn5z9cr5qr31.jpg This is a heartbreaking documentary made in 2005...

It's all going off in Hong Kong. I can't find a thread about it. Anyway, here's a journalist being supplied with essential protest kit by those that came better prepared: https://preview.redd.it/8cl1whsq13431.gif?format=mp4&612e525d Is it too much of a stretch to remember 1989 at this time?

I found this article while reading RationalWiki. https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/no-longer-safe-researcher-harassed-by-china-in-her-own-country-20190128-p50u1n.html It is difficult to get police protection in NZ? Who is it normally afforded to? This seems wrong unless the police are...

State Sponsored atheism rears its ugly head again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/asia_pacific/group-officials-destroying-crosses-burning-bibles-in-china/2018/09/10/55d68366-b4af-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html Appalling.

Scrapping Term Limits Fits the ‘Dictator Forever’ Model

This is a weird topic. I am an extreme libertarian. But I realize under certain circumstances my life would be completely different. I'm the type of person that if I was born I china, I would be a 33 year old hardcore Maoist. But what would life be like for me? What do regular Chinese folk...

I didn't want this to get buried in the POTUS Trump thread. It's too important. Australia has concerns. US 'threatens to involve Australia in war with China': Paul Keating condemns US secretary of state nominee's comments First an ignorant phone call to Taiwan, with nothing to gain and a lot...

China's J-20 stealth fighter made it's debut yesterday. Many people compare it to the F-22 and F-35 mission-wise, but it's obvious it's mission is something else altogether. A PLA general came close to revealing one of the J-20's missions when he stated that it would "Kick the Door in"...

I posted this is another thread but it was somewhat OT. The thread referred to Chinese scientists' mixed success with genetic experiments involving embryos. I want to know if anyone has heard of this practice: I have a friend whose Chinese GF's job is finding American egg donors and American...

China’s Greenhouse Gases Predicted to Peak Earlier Than Pledged http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-07/china-s-greenhouse-gases-predicted-to-peak-earlier-than-pledged I suspect that the conservative naysayers in the U.S. congress were more worried about the U.S. holding up its half...

I may have mentioned once or several times in the past the disturbing presence of Chinese Imperialism, and noted China's sabre-rattling over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Things had started to get interesting a few months back when it became apparent that far from disputing the...

Thought about posting this in Religion but I decided it belongs here instead. China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife :D The Dalai Lama is a heretic to his own religion and the Central Party gets to decide who he reincarnates as. :D Does he actually believe in...

Just wondering because of the runaway capitalism there.

The smog problem in Beijing China just seems to be getting worse. From the article: "China’s toxic air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists" By Jonathan Kaiman: "Early this month, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences claimed in a report that Beijing’s pollution makes the...

I wonder if it hasn't outlived its usefulness? Is there any sign that they might move to a two-child policy for example?