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Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

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taxiya said:
You know that a lot of Chinese table tennis player play for foreign countries. They are mostly the 2nd tiers in China, or they are the 1st tiers but not the best. But all of them would be 1st tier in other countries. They probably will never have a chance to enter Olympics if they play for China. But they certainly will be able to enter from other countries.

This is ultra competitiveness, but it is no fault of anybody, China has largest population, therefor largest talent pool, largest number of Ph.Ds. Of course some will loose out.

He is not a party member, so going up the ladder in a military institution is certainly difficult if it is possible at all. But if he is so brilliant, why not move to civilian institute.

We shouldn't necessarily believe what he said in the article. Everybody will blame others for their misfortune especially when being desperate like him.

Also, I won't blame him for "betraying". He went to US because there is a open position and the salary was higher than in China (even if he got promoted), his house in US would be multiple times larger than in Beijing or Shanghai, he would be able to have two cars while non in China due to the restrictions on pollution, etc. etc.

This is merely a personal bet on his future and turned out to be a bad bet ruined by Trump's fanatical policy.
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Thank you for a well thought out response which also played in part as to why my initial response to this article was more restraint since as you pointed out in your post all the possible reasons both personal and professional impediments that may have lead Dr.Chen into making his decisions on what's best for his family and his pursuit of science.

In a perfect world, people like Dr.Chen and many others shouldn't be made to feel that their actions could or would lead to their motherland at some form of disadvantage. Their pursuit of fame, fortune, or to simply live their lives in other countries wouldn't be looked into the critical eyes all because of geopolitics.

So I wonder if the duality of purpose can exist without being or causing harm to oneself, to your country and or both. I guess we can never really have our cake and eat it too.
 
plawolf

plawolf

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siegecrossbow said:
US has a deadline of carbon neutrality by 2050? How will it be achievable with at least 4 more years of Trump?
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They are just setting the target, they don’t care about actually achieving it since they will long be retired by then. They reap the rewards now while someone else can get the blame when the inevitable black sliding and failures become too obvious to hide anymore. In 2050.
 
solarz

solarz

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taxiya said:
You know that a lot of Chinese table tennis player play for foreign countries. They are mostly the 2nd tiers in China, or they are the 1st tiers but not the best. But all of them would be 1st tier in other countries. They probably will never have a chance to enter Olympics if they play for China. But they certainly will be able to enter from other countries.

This is ultra competitiveness, but it is no fault of anybody, China has largest population, therefor largest talent pool, largest number of Ph.Ds. Of course some will loose out.

He is not a party member, so going up the ladder in a military institution is certainly difficult if it is possible at all. But if he is so brilliant, why not move to civilian institute.

We shouldn't necessarily believe what he said in the article. Everybody will blame others for their misfortune especially when being desperate like him.

Also, I won't blame him for "betraying". He went to US because there is a open position and the salary was higher than in China (even if he got promoted), his house in US would be multiple times larger than in Beijing or Shanghai, he would be able to have two cars while non in China due to the restrictions on pollution, etc. etc.

This is merely a personal bet on his future and turned out to be a bad bet ruined by Trump's fanatical policy.
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Oh I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with going to the US for a better job.

What I do find pathetic, however, is staying in Mexico when you're visa is refused, while your resources dwindle, and your mother-in-law freaking dies because you can't give her money to continue treatment, all the while pleading with the US to let you back in instead of, you know, going back to China.

You know, now that I write this out, I'm thinking nobody sane would be staying in Mexico when they can return to China. He can just as easily wait for his visa application in China. So I'm going to guess that for whatever reason, he is incapable of returning to China. Maybe he's involved with the FLG? Who knows.
 
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AndrewS

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taxiya said:
The distance between Beijing and Shanghai is 1000km+. Beijing and Xi'an is 897km. Urumqi and Almaty is 869km, Urumuqi to Nur Sultan is 500km.

China's railway ambition is NOT merely aimed for Europe. It is time for everybody to drop the Euro-centric and Western-centric world view.;)

The land portion of OBOR is to boost central-western China to outside world by land links in the same way as the coastal region was boosted by maritime connections. It is also aimed at tapping the potential of under-developed central and western Asian market when the western market is drying up due to its worsening debt and stagnated economy.
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Look at the size of the population centres on any route.
I highly doubt even 2 high-speed trains could be supported on a section between Urumqi - Nur Sultan

Hence it's all still about freight movements.

So the land sections from Xinjiang are a useful diversification, but the transport volumes are very low in comparison to the seaports.
100,000 containers per month from Xinjiang works out as approximately 5 container ship loads.
 
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AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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I'll tell you what Kerry and the Biden Administration are up to regarding climate change. They're trying to setup standards and goals and trying to get China to comply just so the US can say they're leading the climate change fight. Trump certainly didn't have a goal because he doesn't take climate change seriously and Biden of course has to let the world know the US back after Trump turned on allies. It doesn't matter if the goals are reached because they probably will not be on the US's part alone since there's so much Republican opposition. It seems like Biden is trying to copy the Obama playbook. Just make a lot of inspirational speeches and expect everyone else to do the work and then blame everyone else for not doing enough if it fails. Obama is seen as a beloved President. Biden never was a serious challenger to be President before Obama made him his Vice-President and he sees all the love Obama gets even though he wasn't a good President in actuality. If China doesn't go along, he can blame China for its failure just like Obama tried blame China for the failure at the UN Copenhagen Climate summit in his first year in office to cover-up how the US was going to be responsible for its failure because Congress wasn't going to pass anything agreed there. Obama spun it to blame China so he didn't have failure on his record.
 
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