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    China’s wisdom in taming desertification



    "Each day, hectares of moving sand dunes are tightly grasped by straw checkerboard sand barriers in the Tengger Desert in the Shapotou District of Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

    The women who work here lay the barriers equally over the sand while men use shovels to dig holes into the ground and fill them with straw. Each straw pile stands 10 centimeters below ground and 30 centimeters aboveground.

    50-year-old Zheng Zihua and his fellow villagers have been doing this job since the 1950s, keeping this unique technique of fighting desertification alive for decades.

    While working, women wear face masks and hats to shield their faces from the hot sun. The workers’ resting place is very simple: a makeshift tent supported by four wooden pillars with a bed sheet and several sand bags.

    More than 200 farmers are involved in making these straw checkerboard sand barriers, which gives them an annual income of 60,000 to 70,000 yuan, according to Fang Wensheng, Party secretary of Heilin Village.
    They have so far created 360,000 mu, or 24,000 hectares, of sand barriers since a program to combat desertification was launched in 2013. The current number is very close to the overall target of 420,000 mu.

    As the grass barriers gradually fade out, new plants grow, bringing life to the area.
    Shapotou, its name deriving from the high sand dunes all around, is located on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert. For half a century, Shapotou has been known as a hub for curbing desertification by making straw checkerboard sand barriers on a large scale.




    The straw checkerboard sand barriers were originally created for building the desert section of the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway, and the technique was unprecedented back then.

    In 1955, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established China’s first comprehensive observation station in Shapotou; and then the following year, the country’s first specialized sand-break forest was launched.
    After numerous failures and explorations, straw checkerboard sand barriers were adopted as the main method to deal with moving sand when the railway opened.
    The method was applauded by experts from both home and abroad at the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) in Nairobi in 1977. Since then, foreign experts and personnel came one after another to Shapotou to learn the unique method.
    Zhang Zhishan, deputy chief of the Shapotou research center, said experience has indicated that the straw checkerboard sand barrier method is so far the most convenient, eco-friendly and cost-effective way to fight desertification.
    The research center has also found that it’s feasible to recover the ecology in the desert area of northern China through planting manmade vegetation. Now, 155,000 mu of straw checkerboard sand barriers have been created, 145,000 mu of shrubbery has grown and a 60 meter belt for wind prevention and sand fixation has been established in Shapotou.
    But there is still a long road ahead. According to statistics, China has 2.61 million sq km of desert, occupying 27.2 percent of the country’s landmass.
    The country looks to effectively tame 50 percent of its deserted land by 2020, according to a guideline on pushing forward ecological civilization construction issued in 2015.
    Scientists are now working on targeted desertification control, such as studying the desert water balance and ecological hydrology in Shapotou, which they think is key to curbing desertification."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Mex View Post
    Why China has banned videos of people whispering
    By scantily dressed sub teens. Or are you in favour of child pornography?

    From your link:

    "TingTing describes seeing Chinese videos that are categorised as ASMR featuring girls wearing little clothing and using two cameras, “one to focus on their chest and the other to focus on their bare legs in a miniskirt"

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    Chinese enterprise makes clean water available in Ghana



    "A Chinese enterprise has made clean water available to Ghanaians by digging 1,000 wells across the country, Xinhuanet.com reported on June 20. Due to poor geographical conditions and lagging economic development, many villagers in Ghana had to collect rainwater and river water for daily use, and thus were vulnerable to diseases such as cholera. When times were tough, they even had to fetch dreggy water from distant ponds.

    However, thanks to the wells dug by the Jiangxi Zhongmei Engineering Construction Company, locals are now able to access clean drinking water.

    In November 2015, the Chinese government made the decision to help dig 1,000 wells in 832 villages across six provinces in Ghana, to help solve the water problem. The project is expected to benefit 500,000 Ghanaians.

    Chinese expert, Huang Xianzhou, explained that although some experts were infected with malaria and had to endure the weather and poor sanitary conditions during construction, they felt it was all worthwhile when they saw how much one well could change the lives of those living in a village.

    Zhang Jie, an employee of the project, said that he was touched when a local immediately sent him to hospital when he quickly developed a fever.

    These wells are changing lives in Ghana, and in turn, the kindness shown by locals has warmed the hearts of Chinese experts, further deepening friendship and cooperation between China and Ghana. "

    Chinese enterprise makes clean water available in Ghana - People's Daily Online

    One wonders what happened to all the wells dug by the European countries which colonised, ruled and exploited Ghana's resources and citizens for previous centuries.None dug or poorly designed and installed?
    But at what price?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    By scantily dressed sub teens. Or are you in favour of child pornography?

    From your link:

    "TingTing describes seeing Chinese videos that are categorised as ASMR featuring girls wearing little clothing and using two cameras, “one to focus on their chest and the other to focus on their bare legs in a miniskirt"
    Where do you get 'subteens' from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Where do you get 'subteens' from?
    "TingTing describes seeing Chinese videos that are categorised as ASMR featuring girls"

    From:

    1. Baby Girl

    2. Girl
    3. Teenager
    4. Young woman
    5. Woman
    6. Old Woman.



    Women’s Growth and Development Across the Life Span
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    http://samples.jbpub.com/9780763756376/Chapter2.pdf


    What do you general word for a female human, between 2 and 12 - 13 years old?

    Have you raised any female children?

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    ^huh?

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    So you're just assuming then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uncle junior View Post
    ^huh?
    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    So you're just assuming then.
    The link suggests that some of the videos in China have been banned due to the "leg and chest shots of girls", with no further clarification. The link suggests the Chinese authorities,, by banning the videos are attacking a "civilised" and acceptable pastime in China. Which currently, as I am unable to find any Ice eating "leg and chest shots" videos, I cannot confirm, either way. Can you?

    As such the poster has accepted the report with no evidence. All the Ice eating Chinese videos I have seen and there are a few, do not show any chest and legs shots.

    Either the poster cannot read, the post is incomplete and lacks any such shots. As such fake, anti-Chinese propaganda.

    If you find any please inform me and then we can discus what we think the age, mental state, social pressure the "girls", in the videos are in reality, whether they are being abused and who is profiting from their abuse. If in fact they are being abused.

    The use of the noun, "Girls", seems pretty obvious, to me. But then English is my native language and understand some societies describe adult women as "girls" falsely, to enhance their product audience.

    As you failed to answer my question regarding the upbringing of female children I assume you haven't. There is a time, depending on their physical and mental growth when they prefer the term "girl" and a time when they prefer the term "teenager". beong classed and accepted by their parents and peers as a "teenager" is an important step for them. It is a point where the previously agreed rules, responsibilities and behaviour are adjusted, by both sides. An example is the acceptance that a desire to have her ears pierced was granted. As she grew older other adjustments continued to be made.

    Some were abused by my daughter, but nothing of any great/lasting consequent, luckily.
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    So a 'girls night out' is a bunch of subteens hitting the town in your mind. You're an idiot.

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    The post #33 has been edited, for clarity. Your usage of the phrase "girls night out" is your usage, not mine and factually incorrect. Not that it will change your opinion of me.

    But am I bovvered, NO.

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    West is Spreading Sick, Racist Anti-Chinese Nihilism

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    "It appears that the Western public, both relatively ‘educated’ and thoroughly ignorant, could, after some persuasion, agree on certain very basic facts – for instance that Russia has historically been a victim of countless European aggressions, or that countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran or North Korea (DPRK) have never in modern history crossed the borders of foreign nations in order to attack, plunder or to overthrow governments.
    OK, certainly, it would take some ‘persuasion’, but at least in specific circles of the otherwise hopelessly indoctrinated Western society, certain limited dialogue is still occasionally possible.
    China is different. There is no ‘mercy’ for China, in the West. By many standards, the greatest and one of the oldest cultures on Earth, has been systematically smeared, insulted, ridiculed and arrogantly judged by the opinion-makers, propagandists, ‘academia’ and mainstream press with seats in London, New York, Paris and many other places which the West itself calls the centers of ‘erudition’ and ‘freedom of information’.

    Anti-Chinese messages are sometimes overt, but mostly thinly veiled. They are almost always racist and based on ignorance. And the horrifying reality is: they work!

    They work for many reasons. One of them is that while the North Asians in general, and the Chinese people in particular, have been learning with zeal all about the rest of the world, the West is thoroughly ignorant about almost everything Asian and Chinese.
    I personally conducted a series of simple but revealing ‘experiments’ in China, Korea and Japan, as well as in several countries of the West: while almost every North Asian child can easily identify at least a few basic ‘icons’ of Western culture, including Shakespeare and Mozart, most of the European university professors with PhDs could not name one single Korean film director, Chinese classical music composer, or a Japanese poet.

    Westerners know nothing about Asia! Not 50% of them, now even 90%, but most likely somewhere in the area of 99.9%.
    And it goes without saying, that Korea is producing some of the best art films in the world, while China and Japan are renowned for their exquisite classical art, as well as modern masterpieces.

    In the West, the same ignorance extends to Chinese philosophy, its political system and history. In both Europe and North America, there is absolute darkness, withering ignorance, regarding the Chinese vision of the world. In Paris or Berlin, China is being judged exclusively by Western logic, by Western ‘analysts’, with unsurpassable arrogance.

    Racism is the only fundamental explanation, although there are many other, secondary reasons for this state of affairs.Western racism, which used to humiliate, attack and ruin China for centuries, has gradually changed its tactics and strategies. From the openly and colorfully insulting and vulgar, it has steadily evolved into something much more ‘refined’ but consistently manipulative.

    The spiteful nature of the Western lexicon of superiority has not disappeared.

    In the past, the West used to depict Chinese people as dirty animals. Gradually, it began depicting the Chinese Revolution as animalistic, as well as the entire Chinese system, throwing into the battle against the PRC and the Communist Party of China, such concepts and slogans as “human rights”.

    We are not talking about human rights that could and should be applicable and respected in all parts of the world (like the right to life) protection for all the people of the Planet. That’s because it is clear that the most blatant violators of such rights have been, for many centuries, the Western countries.

    If all humans were to be respected as equal beings, all countries of the West would have to be tried and indicted, then occupied and harshly punished for countless genocides and holocausts committed in the past and present. The charges would be clear: barbarity, theft, torture as well as the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people in Africa, the Middle East, what is now called Latin America, and of course almost everywhere in Asia. Some of the most heinous crimes of the West were committed against China and its people.

    The ‘human rights’ concept, which the West is constantly using against China is ‘targeted’. Most of the accusations and ‘facts’ have been taken out of the context of what has been occurring on the global scale (now and in the history). Exclusively, Eurocentric views and ‘analyses’ have been applied. Chinese philosophy and logic have been fully ignored; never taken seriously. No one in the West asks the Chinese people what they really want (only the so-called ‘dissidents’ are allowed to speak through the mass media to the Western public). Such an approach is not supposed to defend or to help anybody; instead it is degrading, designed to cause maximum damage to the most populous country on Earth, to its unique system, and increasingly, to its important global standing.
    It is obvious that the Western academia and mass media are funded by hundreds of millions and billions of dollars to censor the mainstream Chinese voices, and to promote dark anticommunist and anti-PRC nihilism.

    I know one Irish academic based in North Asia, who used to teach in China. He told me, with pride, that he used to provoke Chinese students: “Do you know that Mao was a pedophile?” And he ridiculed those who challenged him and found his discourses distasteful.But such an approach is quite acceptable for the Western academia based in Asia. Reverse the tables and imagine a Chinese academic who comes to London to teach Chinese language and culture, beginning his classes by asking the students whether they know that Churchill used to have sex with animals? What would happen? Would he get fired right away or at the end of the day?
    *
    The West has no shame, and it is time for the entire world to understand this simple fact.

    In the past, I have often compared this situation to some medieval village, attacked and plundered by brigands (The West). Food stores were ransacked, houses burned, women raped and children forced into slavery, then subjected to thorough brainwashing.
    Any resistance was crushed, brutally. People were told to spy on each other, to expose “terrorists” and “dangerous elements” in society, in order to protect the occupation regime.

    Only two “economic systems” were allowed – feudalism and capitalism.

    If the villagers elected a mayor who was ready to defend their interests, the brigands would murder him, unceremoniously. Murder or overthrow him, so there would always be a status quo.

    But there had to be some notion of justice, right?

    Once in a while, the council of the brigands would catch a thief who had stolen few cucumbers or tomatoes. And they would then brag that they protect the people and the village. While everything had already been burned to ashes by them
    Given the history and present of China, given the horrid and genocidal nature of the Western past, ancient and modern, given the fact that China is by all definitions, the most peaceful large nation on Earth, how can anybody in the West even pronounce the words like ‘human rights’, let alone criticize China, Russia, Cuba or any other country that it put on its hit-list?
    Of course, China, Russia or Cuba are not “perfect countries” (there are no perfect countries on Earth, and there never will be), but should a thief and mass murderer be allowed to judge anybody?

    Obviously yes! It is happening, constantly.

    The West is unapologetic. It is because it is ignorant, thoroughly uninformed about its own past and present deeds, or conditioned to be uninformed. It is also because the West is truly a fundamentalist society, unable to analyze and to compare. It cannot see, anymore.

    What is being offered by its politicians and replicated by the servile academia and mass media, is totally twisted.
    Almost the entire world is in the same condition as the village that I just described.

    But it is China (and also Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, and other nations) that is being portrayed as villains and tormentors of the people. Black becomes white. War is peace. Slavery is freedom. A mass rapist is a peacemaker and a cop.
    *
    Once again: The West hates China. Let us be totally honest.

    China has to understand it, and act accordingly. Sooner rather than later.

    As we have already determined, the hatred towards China is irrational, illogical, purely racist; mainly based to the superiority complex of Western “thinkers”.

    But also, it is based on the subconscious fear of the Westerners that Chinese culture and its socialist system (with all its ‘imperfections’) are greatly superior to the culture of terror and thuggery spread throughout our Planet by both Europeans and then North Americans.

    Several years ago, I was interviewed by various Chinese media outlets, including the legendary People’s Daily, China Radio International and CCTV (now CGTN).

    They all wanted to know why, despite all those great efforts of China to befriend the world, there is so much Sino phobia in Western countries. I had to face the same question, again and again: “What else could we do? We tried everything… What else?”

    Because of its tremendous hereditary optimism, the Chinese nation could not grasp one simple but essential fact: the more China does for the world, the less aggressively it behaves, the more it will be hated and demonized in the West. It is precisely because China is, unlike the West, trying to improve the lives of the entire planet Earth, that it will never be left in peace, it will never be prized, admired or learned from in such places like London, Paris or New York."

    https://journal-neo.org/2018/06/17/west-is-spreading-sick-racist-anti-chinese-nihilism/




    It's a great pity that the 1892 attitude is reflected here on TD, predominantly.
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    I do in fact hate the Mainland Chinese, Communist mentality....and for good reason. Because of what they have done and continue to do to Tibetan people individually and collectively. And to the environment there. They are arrogant philistines who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

    Their arrogant creation of islands in the South China sea is barely believable. Moreover their rhetoric is abominably hyperbolic and hypocritical.

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    Opops....dang.....I just sent you a green with a rude message. It'll be a red as soon as I reload...

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    No problem. It will take generations for the current anger to soften. If in fact China and it's citizens actually achieve their peaceful dreams as projected.



    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Are you suggesting that is solely a Chinese phenomenon?

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    The gems fair is on in Naypyitaw. It's an annual event, mostly attended by mainland Chinese men who come to inspect and buy the gems that Myanmar is famous for, as well as the large quantities of jade.

    The arrival of these large numbers of Chinese means that the local hotels make a decent income from housing them all for the 2 weeks of the fair duration. The 4-star hotel where I stay has accommodated about 100 of these guys.

    After a few days of the presence of these mainland Chinese, I politely pointed out to the hotel manager that:


    - If I wanted to visit a farmyard at breakfast, I would go and see my friend Old McDonald

    - Would it not be possible to accommodate these Chinese at another hotel, preferably a hotel about 200 miles away from my current location?

    I'm not sure if the manager appreciated my dry wit, but yesterday I and the 4 other teachers of my school who live at the hotel were treated to a free 'high tea' by the hotel management, with pretty little scones, pancakes and croissant. The manager apologized for 'how busy' his hotel has been this week.

    Luckily the gems fair ends this Friday.

    Mainland Chinese...don't you just luv 'em?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon43 View Post
    Mainland Chinese...don't you just luv 'em?
    Many countries citizens take years to adapt to foreign customs. Or haven't you experienced that phenomenon?

    The newcomers bring their own customs which normally are considered atrocious by the locals and the world travellers.

    Just think of all those children they produce and become available for you to teach.

    The silver lining to the overhead black cloud is now shining:

    Ask their tour organiser where the not so loose women can be "found", after all we know their dicks are much smaller than ours. If he is competent at his job, I suspect he knows how to cater for any newcomer's tastes or fantasies.

    Have you not noticed all the unusual local "ladies" in the hotel?
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    Have you not noticed all the unusual local "ladies" in the hotel?
    No I have not - this is not Bangkok or even Yangon. This is Naypyitaw and there are armed soldiers at the hotel entrance and only residents are allowed to enter.

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    Six Chinese cities appear in 2018 Global Cities Outlook

    "Since A. T. Kearney began tracking the performance of the world's top cities a decade ago, China's urban centers have rapidly become more competitive on a global scale, the consulting firm said in its eighth edition of the Global Cities Report released in late May.
    Hong Kong and Beijing rank fifth and ninth respectively in the 2018 Global Cities Index, which takes into account factors such as business activity, human capital, information exchange, political engagement and cultural experiences.

    The number of Chinese cities included in the Global Cities Index has spiked from 7 in 2008 to 27 this year, while the Global Cities Outlook, which values personal well-being, economics, innovation and governance and measures a city's potential, has also increased its valuation of Chinese cities, growing from 21 in 2015 to 27 in 2018.

    This evolution of China's cities reflects intentional efforts by national, regional, and local entities to improve the country's competitiveness, according to the report. Their initiatives have focused on business, governmental and cultural activities, providing improvements that boost quality of life for residents, increase ease of doing business and attract more investment and attention from global companies.

    Let’s take a look at the six Chinese newcomers to the 2018 list."

    At:

    Six Chinese cities appear in 2018 Global Cities Outlook - Chinadaily.com.cnhttp://www.schroders.com/en/schrodersglobalcities/blog/blog/outlook-2018-global-cities/

    http://www.schroders.com/en/schroder...global-cities/

    In the top 30:

    17 ameristan, 5 China, 3 Australia, 1 each in; Singapore, France, Japan, UK and Canada.

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    Simon, as you may be aware, relationships in Thailand are a bit fuzzy. A girlfriend will often ask for help with the rent, and this slides into prostitution very easily. What you need to do is find a woman who is willing to allow you to part the labial folds occasionally if you help her with the rent. She will appear to other Burmese as a girlfriend and so acceptable. Find some poor woman who appears friendly to you, and who has had her husband leave her with a kid to feed, then buy her a few things and let her work out that if she allows your advances, she will get more. That is how it works in Thailand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon43 View Post
    No I have not
    Have you had a chat with the Chines tour operator or his local gopher?

    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Find some poor woman who appears friendly to you
    You and the other teachers seem to be permanent residents at the hotel. What sort of relationships do the female staff have with you all?

    Are they very standoffish, possibly as directed by the hotel management, or somewhat friendly, after seeing you around for some time now? Are you and other foreigners, culturally aberrant to them, due to their customs and your possibly being seen a intellectuals?

    I presume some must have foreign language skills, if your local language skills are non-existent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Have you had a chat with the Chines tour operator or his local gopher?
    Have you ever been to China? If not, you should. It’s an eye opener. The West has no monopoly on racism.

    (You should really stay off that crank site, UhOh.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Have you ever been to China?
    A few times, and you?

    Have you been to Thailand, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Azerbaijan, Portugal, Tunisia, South Africa, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Canada, ameristan, Barbados, Jamaica, Australia, on many oil/gas platforms in the North Sea, down a Yorkshire coal mine, in a Steel Mill, in a Nuclear Power station, in a Nuclear Processing Plant, NATO HQ, on a Nuclear Bomb Manufacturers site, in a water supply control centre, in BP's Global Emergency Room, in the London MET offices, Transport for London Headquarters ............

    I've swum in the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, The North Sea, The Irish Sea, The Pacific Ocean, The Caribbean, The Mediterranean Sea, The Persian Gulf, The Indian Ocean, The Gulf of Thailand, The South China Sea, The East Sea, The Caspian Sea, The Aegean Sea, The Adriatic Sea, The Balearic Sea .........

    Never been to South America, I wanted to go but our Brazilian country office manger suggested it was too dangerous (having been mugged and forced at gunpoint to empty his bank account), Antarctica or a prison.

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    The West has no monopoly on racism
    Have I said anybody has dibs on racism?

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    (You should really stay off that crank site, UhOh.)
    Ditto with your propaganda sites. All I do is add some variance and alternate views to your propaganda sites.

    I note you never rebut the content of the alleged by you, "crank sites", just the messenger, that shows to me either an unwillingness to back your own posts or a lack of confidence in the cut and thrust here. Best to stay filling the forum with cut and pastes, eh.
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    China's eerie ghost cities a 'symptom' of the country's economic troubles and housing bubble

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    Fancy villas, high-rise apartment blocks, lakes, parks and sprawling road networks: Ghost cities in China have it all.

    Just one crucial element is missing — the people.

    Key points:
    • There may have be as many as 64 million empty apartments in China
    • Many people buy the properties as an investment with no intention of ever moving in
    • Author says ghost cities show growth is driven by debt in China


    Built for a population that never came, about 50 of these surreal sites lay desolate across the country.
    But still the construction continues.

    These new cities are usually built in rural areas on the outskirts of existing cities.
    Designed for populations numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the mass construction projects can include towering
    high-rise condominiums, huge shopping centres, city squares, street lights and replicas of cities in Europe and elsewhere.

    The 'Only in China' Thread-9909586-3x4-700x933-jpg
    The Yitian Eiffel is one of at least three replica Eiffel Towers in China.


    Not attached to the original story.
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    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    As the US builds trade barriers and imposes sanctions to prevent countries trading with each other China opens up to imports from anywhere in the world.

    The China International Import Expo, to be held in Shanghai from 5-10 November 2018, has launched a one-stop online trading platform to give the six-day event an extended online life


    The China International Import Expo, to be held in Shanghai from 5-10 November 2018, has launched a one stop online trading platform that aims to give the six-day event an extended life online throughout the year.


    Companies taking part in the Expo will be able to display their products on the e-platform. They can seek potential partners, and complete online trading using cashless tools like digital payment systems.


    In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation held in May 2017, President Xi Jinping announced China would host the CIIE from this year.

    More:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...l-import-expo/

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    China's eerie ghost cities a 'symptom' of the country's economic troubles and housing bubble
    Afraid of identifying the source eh?

    China's eerie ghost cities a 'symptom' of the country's economic troubles and housing bubble - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Austranazia, that well known centre of Southern Hemisphere racism and ameristani vassal. Recently passing anti Chinese laws.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/world/australia/australia-china-backlash-influence.html

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...nce/ar-AAzh98c
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