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Yeah, I'm sorry to break a nationalist's heart. China needs foreign investment to survive, otherwise its 22% youth unemployment rate, 3 of its biggest real estate companies being b…

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Xi is losing it everywhere; - internal purging of military senior officials. 5 out of the 7 senior officials are now missing in action. https://www.newsweek.com/china-defence-minis…

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There's going to be a lot of Russian and Chinese interference in American politics in 2024 for sure

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silver lake is a private equity firm, pretty famous on hacker news

I would beg to differ. A lot of game developers watch gaming streams. There's a reason why cohhcarnage was asked to voice in cyberpunk and baldur's gate 3, and why blizzard personn…

They have greatly damaged their users and their indirect users' trust. When big time streamers like cohhcarnage and asmongold directly replies to unity and tell them how much they …

the stock is doomed, check out asmongold's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXQ2bYik78 . more importantly, insiders have been selling a ton, for example the founder of iron s…

Note that this OP probably has some agenda against dollar, being that in another comment before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37046128#37047171 they said "Yeah, for example …

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"Chinese factories haven't slowed down and Chinese GDP is still rising" This line is so wrong. You can't have 22% (at least) youth unemployment rate, and 19th straight month collap…

1.) "The demand side is mostly people buying second and third units as investments." that is incorrect. Most purchases are first purchases from couples that want to get married, an…

There are a number, and I mean a large number of issues. I'll just pick a few 1.) as of 2021, There are nearly 800 unfinished Evergrande projects in more than 200 cities across Chi…

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/beijing-replaces-english-words-sub... The English word “station” was replaced with “Zhan,” which is the pinyin or romanised version of the Chinese charact…

If there are any business to do in China in the next 10-20 years. Foreign investment in China is down 90% this year. Again, international travel in China is down 97% this year. App…

English IS the global lingua franca TODAY, used by most travelers to navigate through an unknown environment. if the signs in China are not translated into English TODAY, then ther…

Here are some conjectures: 1.) There is a very high dislike of China across the world. Large majorities in most of the 19 countries surveyed have negative views of China https://ww…

There is 0 reason to learn mandarin if you're doing it for travel/business reasons In Taiwan street signs do mostly have English translations. A lot of citizens speak English, espe…

The young generation of Iran doesn't buy into the whole blaming the US thing for something that happened 70 years (1 generation!!) ago - which the US tried to install a more wester…

Some real estate related news from China: - Country garden, China's second biggest property company after Evergrande, missed a mere 22.5M payments for dollar denominated bonds. It …

If we're talking about the contents on TikTok, there's probably a very good reason why the ultimate owner of TikTok, the Chinese government, wants that kind of content to be the ma…

US seems to be in a hardware/science renaissance, now that there is a new Cold War enemy, and manufacturing and research are being brought back to US.

Tesla creates American jobs for the poor to work in manufacturing SpaceX creates aspiration for the poor Google allows the poor to advertise their product to anyone in the world ch…