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Post by suraci »

ebruchez wrote: post #504
digitalsurgeonz wrote: post #489

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Only empire which exists right now is the western empire lead by US, its days are numbered, then when the propaganda curtain falls, it will be a shock. I had people of Xinjiang as my class mates, they laugh at your propaganda.

I am not taking your word for it at all, but if they "laugh" at this, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

You know what?

Most of you don't even know a single Uigur in your whole life, everything you learnt about Xinjiang/Uigur is from western media(ofc, wikipedia, The "Free" Encyclopedia, and from some random "Xinjiang experts" who funded by some Hawkish think tanks which backed by the US gov.

But I do know many westerners like you in HN, Twitter, etc. And, since I have the more reliable information and experience, just like the one you replied, I know you more than you know Xinjiang/Uigurs, so, my oponion about you is way more reliable than your oponions about Xinjiang/Uigurs. I can easily judge you are ignorant due to credulousness and misinformation.

Now, do you understand why there's "laugh"? They/We are not laughing at "this", we are laughing at people like you.

TBH, I do enjoy browsing China-related comments in HN, it's like watching a comedy, you guys may never get this, untill you take a flight to China/Xinjiang, if you did, you'd find the funny part

Re: The size of BYD's factory

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Post by davedx »

primozk wrote: post #325
davedx wrote: post #314

Twitter links no longer load at all on my iPhone. Can someone post an archive link or something?

You can replace all twitter.com (or x.com) links with xcancel.com: https://xcancel.com/taylorogan/status/1859146242519167249

Thanks, that worked great. Crazy photos.

Re: The size of BYD's factory

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Post by MichaelZuo »

Symbiote wrote: post #599
MichaelZuo wrote: post #579

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How does this matter when the country is known ahead of time, and the relevant laws, the details, etc., are all widely known to be nowhere near identical? It’s not like someone could accidentally board a flight to China and clear immigration by happenstance, or without being informed that things may be very different from their home country.

They were probably optimistic, incorrectly. It's easy to think everything will work when you have a written guarantee from the government, and have never personally experienced a dysfunctional, authoritarian bureaucracy.

An invitation from a local official can not be a written guarantee of something beyond them?

It’s not even a guarantee of getting the relevant visa in time, that’s true for every big country I know of.

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Post by shalmanese »

xbmcuser wrote: post #541
alsodumb wrote: post #490

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Other countries, maybe. But China is never gonna conquer or do reasonable business in India for geopolitical reasons.

Not really US is trying to prop India as a counter to China but India is just using US it has no interests in having a bad relationship with China no matter how much the west would like to do that India is not interested. India is just going to use China as bogeyman for the west to get concessions and help from the west but in the end they will do what is best for them and that is not fighting China.

There are still no direct flights between China and India and visas are still basically impossible to get.

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Post by snapcaster »

aguaviva wrote: post #556
snapcaster wrote: post #436

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It's so funny to read stuff like this and compare it to the united states which during my lifetime has invaded so many different countries and killed countless people across the world. Not saying China is great, but come on man if you had to pick one country that is invasion happy it's not china...

If you had to pick one country that is invasion happy it's not China. Its regime is somewhat conservative in this regard, but happily orders of invasions of other countries when it sees the need. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240482

Can you think of another country that actually does more invasions all the time in recent history?

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

tmnvix wrote: post #521
xtracto wrote: post #479

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I'm curious: Do Chinese cars have the stigma of being crap quality in other countries? Here in Mexico most anecdotes of people buying Chinese cars are that after less than a year something broke and they had to take it to the repair shop, where it stayed for a very long time due to a lack of pieces even by the manufacturer.

There are a lot of them here in NZ. Definitely no reputation for being 'crap'. By all accounts they are quality vehicles. The local car share business has a large fleet. I'm pretty confident that once the Seagull lands we will see a lot more. I expect it to be the modern equivalent of the late 90s - early 00s Hyundai Excel. That was an entry level car that blew everything else out of the water in Australia due to low…

It was explained to me that Americans buy SUVs because they feel safer in them than in, e.g., sedans.

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Post by aguaviva »

snapcaster wrote: post #615
aguaviva wrote: post #556

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If you had to pick one country that is invasion happy it's not China. Its regime is somewhat conservative in this regard, but happily orders of invasions of other countries when it sees the need. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240482

Can you think of another country that actually does more invasions all the time in recent history?

You can ask all the rhetorical questions you want.

I just don't see a need for pretensions that China does not cynically invade countries on occasion, or similar nonsense.

The death toll on two of the interventions above (2M+ each for Korea/Cambodia), BTW.

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Post by bluGill »

deadfoxygrandpa wrote: post #604
bluGill wrote: post #433

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Details matter. Chinese have more in some areas, less in others. China also sometimes does things just for a show, so maybe that villager was allowed to now sell so they could off how progressive they were - while they take lots of other property. China also has a corruption problem (as does all countries!), maybe that villager belonged to the CCP and so had extra rights. Until we get down to details it is hard to sa…

many, many chinese people WANT their property to get eminent domained, because they can get well compensated for it. sometimes it's even above market rates or they'll be given multiple apartments (that they can then rent out) in exchange for giving up property that will be developed. a lot of older housing stock that the owners dont even live in is being held on to and not sold just because these people are hoping th…

Sure, but OP is talking about the case where someone doesn't want it. This might be a tiny minority or it might be a large number of people - I don't know.

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Post by [deleted] »

shiroiushi wrote: post #593
syndicatedjelly wrote: post #575

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I ride my bike a lot, but in fact need a car where I live if I want to go 10 miles in less than an hour. This is common in most of the US, and we don’t like this lifestyle either. Biking on the street with high speed traffic is not safe here, regardless of your height. Things are changing in the US. Car-centrism is on its way out, and walkable cities designed for humans are in. I’m really inspired by the new developm…

>I ride my bike a lot, but in fact need a car where I live if I want to go 10 miles in less than an hour. That's fair; I was simply addressing the other objections (weather, cargo, additional people (presumably children)). The women riding on mamachari here aren't riding 16 kilometers AFAICT, but they don't need to because things are generally close together, and for longer trips, people park their bikes at the stati…

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Post by syndicatedjelly »

shiroiushi wrote: post #593
syndicatedjelly wrote: post #575

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I ride my bike a lot, but in fact need a car where I live if I want to go 10 miles in less than an hour. This is common in most of the US, and we don’t like this lifestyle either. Biking on the street with high speed traffic is not safe here, regardless of your height. Things are changing in the US. Car-centrism is on its way out, and walkable cities designed for humans are in. I’m really inspired by the new developm…

>I ride my bike a lot, but in fact need a car where I live if I want to go 10 miles in less than an hour. That's fair; I was simply addressing the other objections (weather, cargo, additional people (presumably children)). The women riding on mamachari here aren't riding 16 kilometers AFAICT, but they don't need to because things are generally close together, and for longer trips, people park their bikes at the stati…

Sorry to hear all that, and glad you found peace elsewhere.
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