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JebKerman

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Actually only NZ$43 + NZ$2 delivery to NZ ... or roughly £20, including controller and USB ports :rolleyes: .. how on earth they could do that price
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Yeah no way that's 100W, my panel is more than twice the size. Reviews say 30W, so typical Aliexpress specs :D. I also paid more to get the more durable rigid rooftop glass panel.

Anyway 30W £18 shipped to the UK is still ridiculously cheap.
 

tygyg1111

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Most of these mixed marriages between a Chinese girl and white guy, their household eventually goes full Chinese. I think these Chinese girls figured something out, that us Chinese guys miss. They are working the system, so to speak. Well, if they are, then I guess that is good, I suppose. With white guys, the Chinese girl will push them around, to lessen the burden of being Chinese. That's pretty sharp I thought.
Interesting observation, I've noticed that too. And in most couples in general, the guy tends to be the one that changes the most.

They can try but Europeans and Americans are too expensive and have a need for a too high of a base income to make ends meet.
So i don't think NATOstan would ever be able to compete in the global marketplace with the global south unless they completely gut the western working class to the level of serfdom.
Don't speak too soon...
 

In4ser

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Interesting observation, I've noticed that too. And in most couples in general, the guy tends to be the one that changes the most.


Don't speak too soon...
The two closest species to humans are bonobos and chimpanzees. It’s just that women who tend to be smaller, weaker than men and have to bear and nurse children are more likely to take bonobo strategy of sex and reproduction versus chimpanzee’s war and conquest approach for achieving power and influence. Both are very effective strategies than have proven themselves over and over again throughout history.
 
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The Ukrainian government will take “painful” measures if the military conflict in the country lasts another three or four months, according to the country’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko. He said that the drastic steps may include a sharp increase of taxes, spending cuts as well as nationalization.

“What in recent years has become a fairly market-driven and free-wheeling economy could face a wave of nationalization that will undo years of hard progress,” Marchenko said in an interview with The Economist.

So the war is turning Ukraine into a socialist state. Well aren’t that ironic.
 

4Runner

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True. But it sounds like you are trying to say that the simplified characters were solely implemented by the PRC. Aside from @Temstar ’s post, simplified characters were actually based on 草书, which started from, I believe, the Jin dynasty. Simplified characters were inevitable.

As for the intellectuals aspect, Feng Youlan and Xiong Shili stayed in the PRC and they were considered some of China’s top philosophical intellectuals.

The one thing I do agree with you is Mao’s policies that had a huge negative impact on China’s culture, particularly the Cultural Revolution.
If you read my posts carefully, I did not say in an absolute way. Specifically at the end I said my points are in the ballpark and may not be accurate (meaning, 100% in details).

With regard to simplified characters, I did not argue against all of you inputs. I just pointed out that it was the new China that started using simplified in a systematic way by laws, i.e., a whole-sale revolution in Chinese usage.

With regard to the collateral damages of KMT withdrawal, I did not say "all". I just mentioned "some".

Most important of all, I did not agree that Taiwan keeps Chinese tradition better than mainland, in my original answer to the question. I merely provided some historical background to help explain that phenomenon. To the contrary, there is no way Taiwan keeps Chinese traditions, let alone representing. Otherwise, Taiwan would not have been green-colored so fast so deep.

So please do not twist my original answers to the original question. It was an explanation in a historical context, rather than any academic or definitive conclusions.

As I said, once again, they are in the ballpark. Collectively, they paint a picture that is sufficient to explain some perceptions or even distortions.
 
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