Thread: The View, from China

Sinophobia, Inc.

Good saying.

Originally Posted by sabang

Good saying.

One trotted out with monotonous regularity on r/Sino.

Well I assume so, since they banned me for daring to discuss how much Chinkystan spends on influencers.

I would be curious to know what chinkystan spends on 'Influencers', if you would care to link it here. Either way, China is fighting fire with fire. I trust that is obvious.

Originally Posted by sabang

I would be curious to know what chinkystan spends on 'Influencers', if you would care to link it here. Either way, China is fighting fire with fire. I trust that is obvious.

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No Link, then?

Sabang's Twatter profile pic:



Hoohoo will probably nick that.

Klondick doesn't know how to work twatter.

Oh, my. The Lemmings are fighting amongst each other...

Originally Posted by OhOh

Is China is sending its warships inside Nagastans' 12 mile, sovereign waters?

Double negative. Clearly, you are triggered.

Slight point of order Hoho- this is not really a "View from China", is it? Rather, News about some government apparatchiks having a meeting.

Originally Posted by sabang

News about some government apparatchiks having a meeting.

Understood, no recurrences.

No worries, SC rarely stays on track.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Understood, no recurrences.

Is that a promise?

Oh no, I forgot, that's not a chinky thing is it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is that a promise?

The thread owner's view is paramount.

Originally Posted by OhOh

The thread owner's view is paramount.

The....?


Oh never mind.

Originally Posted by OhOh

The thread owner's view is paramount.

You really are a pathetic clown. Nobody owns a thread on TD.

US photographer captures changes during 3,000-km tour after 27 years

Cycling China

By Global Times Published: Oct 07, 2021 06:13 PM

"Seeing is believing. US photographer and traveler Peter Crosby knows better than anyone, starting his second bike journey of over 3,000 kilometers across China 27 years after his first expedition in 1994.

An eight-episode documentary series Peter Crosby's Biketour to China, which has been aired on streaming platform Xigua Video premiering on September 29, follows his tour witnessing and capturing the tremendous changes and development taken place in China in the last nearly three decades.

In 1994, he took an over 3,000-kilometer bike ride from Beijing to Hong Kong, through provinces including Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong, during which he took 19,400 photos and 80-hour-long video.

According to a Xinhua report, Crosby recalled that the Chinese people who appeared before the lens of his camera in 1994 were the most vivid memories of the experience. "It's amazing to see all those people who let us film and photograph them so up-close and very personally."

It had been a dream for him to be back to China for a second trip, which he was waiting for until 2021. Crosby spent two months on the trip crossing the country in the series produced by Xigua Video, Yunji Media and China Intercontinental Communication Center.

Due to the changes to China's network of roads, the route follows 80 percent of the old route and 20 percent of the new that "Peter Crosby is interested in," according to the documentary series' director Li Jiameng, adding that Crosby kept daily over 10-kilometer riding exercise for the bike tour in the US.

From Beijing Film Academy to Shaolin Temple in Central China's Henan Province, he re-visited these sites and reunited with some old friends. "In order to meet the tight schedule, he had to ride at least four hours every day, which was a challenge," Li told the media.

The documentary series also includes the old videos that Crosby took in 1990s allowing more people to see the changes taken place. Zhang Xin from Xigua Video said that the series not only presents the dream of Peter Crosby, but also brings international audiences a chance to truly know China and the great changes.

The series has been well-received among Chinese audiences, who posted positive reviews on social media platforms with many hoping that international audiences can also get to know China through Peter Crosby's story.

In order to offer a full view of China, the series visits not only cities but also the rural areas from traditional mines and clean energy to infrastructures like highways and bridges, Zhang explained.
"Coming back to China for me was mostly like kind of opening an old box. It's completely different," he said, according to a report by Chinese media shine.cn"

US photographer captures changes during 3,000-km tour after 27 years - Global Times
A link to part of their original 1994:

Belly Of The Dragon (1994)

Belly Of The Dragon (1994) - National GeographicTV Explorer on Vimeo

A link to episode 1 of his return

Return to the Belly of the Dragon - episode 1

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A link to episode 2 of his return

A link to episode 3 of his return



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Will war inevitably break out between China and the United States? To some Americans it seems inescapable. This view has been promoted by the American elite over the years, and is still quite popular in the United States. Why?

International relations scholars in the United States and Europe have no doubt expounded and established their thoughts on international relations and foreign policy according to the thoughts of Machiavelli, who believed that there is no altruism or justice. In his famous political treatise, the prince becomes accustomed to doing evil, and is not troubled by being blamed for cruelty. Compassion is dangerous.

American politicians treat China as a rival to a large degree based on their slanted belief in the "Thucydides Trap", a rising power is bound to challenge an existing power, and the existing power is bound to respond to the threat, and war becomes inevitable. This phrase is based on an assertion by Thucydides, the famous Ancient Greek historian, that the war between Sparta and Athens was due to the fear instilled in the established dominant power of Sparta by the rising power of Athens.

Machiavelli famously asserted: "The end justifies the means." Because of this source of thought, western liberalism or western realism are only instrumental. Both have no intention to coexist and compromise with the existing world. Both have the strong exclusivity of religious fundamentalism, both seek the highest purity, or extreme, of theory and practice according to their own logic and ideas. The difference is that pessimistic Western realism insists its own interests and wants to eliminate imaginary opponents and conquer an "uncertain" world by force. Optimistic Western liberalism sees the non-Western world as an "opportunity". Its goal and means are to individualize, fragment and demonize the non-Western world with various "freedoms" of western standards, so that it has no intention or ability to respond to the flow of western capital and the spread of self-centered consciousness.

The biggest problem with America is that Americans don't understand what empathy is and how-to walk-in others' shoes. What they pursue is to impose their ideas and ideology on any other countries that have different ideologies or political systems. America promotes democracy in the world like a doctor prescribing Viagra to all his patients, whether young or old. It acts with a combination of missionary zeal and solipsism -- an inability even to conceive of another way of looking at the world.

Many Americans have a one-sided understanding of China. They need a new understanding of China and the Chinese spirit. The Chinese spirit is the spirit to build the Great Wall. The people who built the Great Wall were definitely not invading, but making the statement, "if you don't invade me, I will never invade you".

Equally, the spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation is represented by a diagram, known as the Taiji. The Taiji diagram is Yin with Yang, Yang with Yin, Yin and Yang grow together. The western way of thinking is a dichotomy of one cut and two halves, The future trend of the world's way of thinking should be one of Yin and Yang, not two. If western civilization is the white hemisphere of the Taiji chart, masculine culture, with strong extroversion, then Chinese culture is the black hemisphere, belonging to the feminine culture, with strong inclusiveness. Chinese culture has white in black. That is to say, Chinese culture can tolerate western civilization. Therefore, western civilization should also tolerate Chinese culture, rather than provoke a "clash of civilizations".

There is only one country today whose growth depends on 70 years of effort, no plundering, no colonization, that depends on the separation of migrant workers' families, on the export of resources of the whole country, on the export of the whole environment, and on how much it costs to change from foreign trade, bit by bit. Accumulated national strength is the reason it is what it is today.

Chinese culture is a heterogeneous culture based on harmony, it treats humanity as a continuity which is a master key to solving the cultural confusion.

China has not portrayed itself as the enemy of the West, but rather the enemy within the West has led to a hostile view of China. That enemy is the West's view of the world.

They misunderstand China in their imagination based on their incorrect recognition of the law of the jungle which refers to natural selection and survival of the fittest. The law of the jungle does not apply to human civilization, which is made up of intelligent creatures, unlike the wild, a competitive primeval forest. In the process of the development of human society, with the continuous improvement of the level of civilization, people do not remain in the state of animals in the jungle. Power is the truth in human society. Even if it exists temporarily, it will not last long. Human society will eventually destroy itself if it follows the law of the jungle.

Chinese culture celebrates the relational values of deference and interdependence. It respects the uniqueness of the particular. It promotes understanding and consensus among different civilizations through equal exchanges. It promotes the common values of mankind through mutual learning. Human beings should work together to build a community with a shared future for all, create a beautiful tapestry of human civilization, and share a harmonious and prosperous global village. The Chinese culture of harmony is not a part of an ideology - it is a moral vision, a way of being in the world. To regard it as a cultural resource is not romanticism, but arises from necessity. Although it has been ignored for a couple of hundreds of years, this culture of China deserves its place at the table. It has a lot to offer and is going to make a difference in the world.

The international community has to get past the ideology of individualism. We have to take responsibility for not only thinking of ourselves, but for what we mean for other actors who share the world in which we live. If your neighbor does better, you do better. It is that simple. The world is interdependent; it is is organic; we are all in play at the same time.

The author is Non-Resident Research Fellow, Global Engagement Academy, Shandong University (Weihai) China; Associate professor, School of Foreign languages , Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. Pu Jingxin@126.com


US views China as an enemy based on a slanted world view - Global Times


Food for thought.

USA has proved time and again agreements signed on paper mean nothing to them.

FTFY. Maybe it's a Gorilla thang.

Originally Posted by sabang

FTFY. Maybe it's a Gorilla thang.

Oh Oh is teaching you well. It is sad to see a poster formerly with credibility talking like someone from the CCP and has now lost all his credibility with anyone other than Oh oh and his mini me Klon. There is no view from China. Noone is allowed to have a view other than Xi. Did you forget the first doctor to report covid was arrested?

It is very sad an otherwise rational person such as yourself Hugh is so easily turned loony by this manufactured china derangement syndrome.
Do you want me to insult your intelligence by providing you with a list of the various treaties and agreements the US has reneged upon in recent history?
Which is why I opine "maybe it's a gorilla thang". But I am sure the US has done way more reneging than China in the current century. Way more.

Originally Posted by sabang

It is very sad an otherwise rational person such as yourself Hugh is so easily turned loony by this manufactured china derangement syndrome.
Do you want me to insult your intelligence by providing you with a list of the various treaties and agreements the US has reneged upon in recent history?
Which is why I opine "maybe it's a gorilla thang". But I am sure the US has done way more reneging than China in the current century. Way more.

That is the "view from China".

Of course they don't see the "view from Hong Kong".

Feckin' hongkies. They're mekkin' out like bandits.