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    Just imagine, high speed trains to nowhere. Aukus has no high speed trains at all. There is no train link, not even a highway that links north and south America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Just imagine, high speed trains to nowhere.
    The government pumping billions into useless infratsructure just to keep people employed . . . who will soon be unemployed and very bitter. Promises by the Politbureau need to be kept.

    The empire will implode . . . and we'll all suffer, so I hope the status quo remains.



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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Just imagine, high speed trains to nowhere. Aukus has no high speed trains at all. There is no train link, not even a highway that links north and south America.
    I'm sure the chinky loan sharks would love to lend them some money and build it for them with chinky tools and labour, guaranteeing it will crumble almost instantly.

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    The Chinese high speed rail network is simply.... remarkable.


    High-speed rail (HSR) in China is the world's longest high speed railway network and most extensively used – with a total length of 40,000 km by the end of 2021.

    The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–350 km/h (120–220 mph). China's HSR accounts for two-thirds of the world's total high-speed railway networks.
    High-speed rail in China - Wikipedia

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The Chinese high speed rail network is simply.... remarkable.




    High-speed rail in China - Wikipedia


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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Raising a glass to Chinese vintners
    Nothing like a good chinky whine....

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    China urges US to immediately correct its tariff mistake after WTO rulingWashington urged to immediately correct tariff mistake after ruling


    By Chi Jingyi Published: Jan 27, 2022 10:52 PM

    "China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Thursday called on the US to stop looking for excuses and take immediate action to correct its wrong practices against China in trade remedy investigations, saying the US' refusal to carry out WTO rulings hurt the global trade environment, after the WTO delivered another win for China in tariff disputes with the US.

    The WTO on Wednesday ruled that China can retaliate against $645 million in annual goods trade with the US over Washington's anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese goods, putting additional pressure on US President Joe Biden, who has so far refused to roll back his predecessor's illegal tariffs on Chinese goods despite dangerous levels of US inflation.

    The outcome of this case is of great significance for addressing the US' illegal countervailing practices against China, safeguarding the legitimate trade interests of Chinese enterprises and defending the multilateral trading system, the MOFCOM said in a statement on Thursday.

    In 2012, China filed a complaint at the WTO challenging the countervailing duties imposed by the US between 2008 and 2012 on 22 Chinese products, ranging from solar panels to steel wire. The dispute has been under review for nearly a decade.

    A WTO arbitrator on Wednesday issued a ruling on China's countervailing measures against the US, holding that China may request authorization from the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body to suspend concessions or other obligations at a level not exceeding $645.121 million per annum against the US.

    It is the second time that China has been granted a favorable ruling by the WTO concerning trade retaliation against the US. Previously, China was granted $3.579 billion in annual trade retaliation against the US in a WTO dispute over anti-dumping measures, according to the MOFCOM.

    Analysts said that the ruling on Wednesday fully showed that the WTO has recognized the market economy status of China and its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and it is expected that the success rate of appeals of SOEs in international trade will be significantly improved in the future.

    The WTO panel found that the US Department of Commerce acted inconsistently with WTO rules because it determined that certain Chinese SOEs were "public bodies" based solely on the grounds that they were majority owned, or otherwise controlled, by the government of China.

    Analysts also said that China's goal is not to raise tariffs but to push the US to lower them, though the US may still refuse to correct its wrong practices as it has done before.

    "The US government did not follow the appellate body's ruling to modify or reverse the wrongful practices. In this case, China is authorized by the WTO to retaliate. But I think the US would still refuse to comply," Guan Jian, a partner at Beijing Globe-Law Law Firm, told the Global Times on Thursday.

    The WTO ruling on Wednesday also piles up pressure on Biden to remove tariffs on Chinese products imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump, which have already been determined illegal by the WTO and are causing headache for the US economy.

    A WTO appellate body judge ruled in October 2020 that additional tariffs imposed by Trump on $200 billion worth of Chinese products violated international rules. Biden has not removed the tariffs.

    "Wednesday's ruling was different from the additional tariffs imposed on $200 billion worth of Chinese products in the Trump era," Hu Qimu, chief research fellow at the Sinosteel Economic Research Institute, told the Global Times on Thursday, noting that the Trump-era tariffs are mixed with political factors.

    Analysts said that the White House is now facing a dilemma, as additional tariffs by both sides will continue to weigh on the US economy, particularly its sky-high inflation.

    "China's manufacturing industry is not afraid of US tariffs, because US consumers paid and will pay for the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods, contributing to today's inflation in the US and even affecting current US monetary policy," Hu said.

    The annual inflation rate in the US accelerated to 7 percent in December 2021, a fresh high since June of 1982, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.


    As a major world consumer market, the US imports a large number of industrial and consumer goods from China, and there are no alternatives, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Hu noted.

    He said that the US wanted to build manufacturing bases in North America, Mexico and Southeast Asia. However, manufacturing in these places has also been disrupted by the outbreak of COVID-19, and only China's manufacturing sector is functioning smoothly and providing goods and services to the world."

    China urges US to immediately correct its tariff mistake after WTO ruling - Global Times

    Another international body finds NaGastan breaking the "international Laws".
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    • Committed more genocide against Uighurs
    • Put more countries into debt with "Belt and Owed"
    • Plundered more global fish stocks
    • Chucked another gazillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere

    etc. etc.
    You missed responsible for well over 5 million covid 19 deaths.

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    Not to mention a severe pandemic of Yellow fever among the worlds Caucasian population.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post








    I assume on many of your posts you are being the devils advocate. I am not sure why, as OHOH is the resident CCP propagandist. I fervently hope you have the intelligence not to believe some of those poles you post. Whilst it is doubtful a full democracy could have achieved so much in the last 40 years that China has, it did come at a high cost of many individual freedoms oppreesion suppression etc being discarded along the way. That is a matter for the Chinese people to decide which is more important. It is hard for a starving family to concern itself about what govt is in power.
    The thing that worries me most about democracy, at least in Australia is elected members of parliament appear to hold loyalty to the party above the wishes of their constituents. That philosophy is starting to sound too close for comfort to the CCP. A two party system is little better than a one party state. Voting in Australia sometimes feels akin to a condemned man being given a choice of being shot in the head with a pistol or a revolver.

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    There is no excuse needed to point out the truth hugh. More interesting is why do so many people react with hostility when an inconvenient truth is pointed out to them? Not to mention, absurdity. Hence this thread.

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    China county sparks uproar by telling ‘leftover’ women to marry unemployed men

    A county in central China has sparked controversy by offering a host of incentives to encourage “leftover” women to marry, including with unemployed men, local media have reported, amid rising concern about the country’s dwindling birth rate.


    Yihuang county in Jiangxi province is offering preferential treatment for housing and employment, as well as birth allowances, to women and their partners, according to a report from Shanghai-based media The Paper.


    “At present, the phenomenon of ‘older young female cadres and workers’ remaining single in our county has become a very prominent problem, which urgently needs the care, help and support of the whole society,” the county government reportedly said in a document, referring to women older than 26.


    More controversially, authorities are trying to encourage women to marry unemployed men by promising their husbands vocational and entrepreneurship training, business loans and priority for public service positions.
    The proposal has been slammed online, with women questioning why it was a problem if they chose not to marry.


    “I think I know why the marriage rate and the birth rate keep falling, if they don’t respect women or treat women as human beings, then the extinction of mankind is not far!” said one commenter on social media platform Weibo.


    Another said: “Why should a 26-year-old female cadre be told that she is ‘old’ and has to have a baby with unemployed rubbish?”


    China is grappling with a declining marriage rate and birth rate, which has prompted a flurry of policies from local governments around the country to address the problem, including establishing official matchmaking databases, organising dating activities and giving out housing allowances based on the number of children in a family.


    Yihuang county, which has a population of 240,000, is also collecting information from single women to establish a database for matchmaking purposes, the document said.


    Last year, a proposal from a senior think tank official to match China’s “leftover” urban women with unmarried rural men also sparked anger on social media.


    In China, “leftover women”, or sheng nu, is a term used to describe unmarried – although usually highly educated and urban – women as young as 27.


    China recorded a historically low birth rate in 2021, despite ending its decades-old one-child policy in 2016 and allowing couples to have three children last year.


    Chinese mothers gave birth to 10.62 million babies in 2021 – down 11.5 per cent from 12 million in 2020, official statistics show.


    The national birth rate fell to 7.52 births for every 1,000 people, down from 8.52 in 2020, the lowest rate since records began.


    China county sparks uproar by telling ‘leftover’ women to marry | ABS-CBN News

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    There is no excuse needed to point out the truth hugh. More interesting is why do so many people react with hostility when an inconvenient truth is pointed out to them? Not to mention, absurdity. Hence this thread.
    You're having a soapy bath if you think the propaganda shite you little brownnosers post in this thread bears any resemblance to the truth.


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    The forum idiot hath spoken. Nice to get numpties riled up so easily, innit? Anyway, wake me up when the invasion of Ukraine happens 'arry. Or maybe find a mass grave of Uyghurs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The forum idiot hath spoken. Nice to get numpties riled up so easily, innit? Anyway, wake me up when the invasion of Ukraine happens 'arry. Or maybe find a mass grave of Uyghurs.
    Blabbering Brown Noser Blubs again.

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    Stoopid chinkies.



    BEIJING: The United States is paying athletes to “create disturbances” during the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.
    The accusations come just a week before the start of the most politicised Games in recent memory and immediately drew a denial from the US embassy in China.
    The China Daily newspaper, citing “sources familiar with the matter”, said there was a plot by Washington to persuade athletes to “play passively” or refuse to take part in competitions and “express discontent toward China”
    China: US 'paying athletes to disrupt Olympics'

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The forum idiot hath spoken.
    I have news for you, you pasty faced chinese micro-penis sucking groveller. Chico is the first forum idiot, followed quickly by backspit, and you round out the podium. Since deeks was banned and hopefully his new nick is as well, he is off the list.

    Your days of being an intelligent poster and mod are far far behind you.

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    My point is the accuracy of the poles. Being ask by a CCP official if you think the govt is doing a good job is akin to Assad asking you who you will be voting for in the next Syrian election.
    The other side too is that their is so much censorship in China many people probably have no comparison experience to base an informed decision on, especially compared to the west where travel is not a relatively recent experience and whatever little censorship there is on the net is easily bypassed. In addition there is a variety of international news outlets to get a variety of opinions, most of which are unavailable to the majority of Chinese.
    Your Blind acceptance of the voracity of the pole quite astounds me. I view poles in the west with skepticism let alone in a one party totalitarian state, where deviation from the party line can have real life consequences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Being ask by a CCP official if you think the govt is doing a good job is akin to Assad asking you who you will be voting for in the next Syrian election.
    A simple point for rational people. Sabang is far removed from that.

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    Must be soo hard trying to be Capt America these days.


    "U.S. set fire in Ukraine, then asks China to put it out"
    https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-29/U-S-set-fire-in-Ukraine-then-asks-China-to-put-it-out-17dj9bidij6/index.html

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    the voracity of the pole quite astounds me
    Assume you mean veracity of the poll. But if you want to fire some pollacks from a cannon and check their velocity, that's fine too.


    Multiple polls, my learned colleague, multiple. Including a long term survey conducted by Harvard University. I can sense your impotent rage- how on earth can you convince people with over 90% approval of their government that it sucks, when less than 50% of you approve of your own government! That must really hurt.
    Last edited by sabang; 30-01-2022 at 07:01 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    cgtn.com
    Fuck off with this garbage. Take the cock out of your mouth for once.

    It is one of six channels provided by China Global Television Network, owned by the Chinese state media China Central Television (CCTV), under the control of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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    Well, if you wanna call it garbage- up to you Joe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Not to mention a severe pandemic of Yellow fever among the worlds Caucasian population.
    As has been the case for a good few hundred years.

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