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What kind of wumao nonsense is this? Fire whoever wrote this!

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Public views of China are mixed, the study finds. While nearly six in 10 people overall view Beijing negatively, and one-quarter believe China is doing nothing to fight climate change, substantial slices of young respondents between 18 and 24 years old in the United States, United Kingdom and France have positive views of the country.

Most people on both sides of the Atlantic also want more cooperation with China in areas such as trade, energy and technology. But many also want a tougher approach to human rights. A striking 30% see China as becoming the most influential global actor in five years — just behind the United States, at 37%.
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Younger people especially, Weber says, are skeptical of narratives pushed by leaders like U.S. President Joe Biden on the importance of democracy versus autocracy in looking at China, for example.

“It’s something Generation Z doesn’t necessarily buy,” Weber said. “When I think about the political memory of this generation, they have these images of ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan … and also of the storming of the [U.S.] Capitol and violence against people of color in the U.S.”

China, by contrast, “offers a powerful counternarrative,” she said.
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It's almost as if these Tiktokers are sick and tired of being PUAed by senile boomers.
 
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Dolcevita

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Hadoren said:
Hong Kong is definitely more than the $7.66 they say. It's at least $10.

I also lived in inland China for several years. I'd say that the price there was closer to $5, not $3.46. And that was almost a decade ago.
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Sardaukar20 said:
Is that report reliable? Malaysia is top 7 of the lowest average meal price? As far most Malaysians are concerned, food is getting really expensive. It was a serious election topic last year. For some food items, their price rose by up to 100% compared to last year. Maybe they used doctored data submitted by the previous Malaysian administration? They were known liars. They have lied about inflation, Covid, and vaccinations.
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Many Chinese and Asian family eat simple meals at home and this will drive the average of meal lower.
 
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emblem21

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FriedButter said:
Been about a month since the Ukrainians say Asians lack human qualities.

Now they are saying Asians (Chinese, Indians, etc) have “weak intellect.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701555446891377000
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Hmmm I wonder if this idiot realises that the consequences of repeatedly angering Russia for 8 years of shelling ethnic Russians in east Ukraine and proudly mocking Russia while doing so and then finding out that Russia can and will kill the hell out of them to the point that the nation is one step away from falling apart counts as having a serious issue in intelligences and empathy to not see this coming. Maybe if people like this tone depth retard to see this, well lots of innocent people could’ve avoid death. Now I wonder if one day he will grow enough of a brain to realise that if Ukraine loses this fight (and they will) and that they sacrificed all those men, woman and children for what is essentially a neocon power trip from Washington, that maybe who ever is left will want to reserve the right to chop his balls off to put it mildly and then no excuses is going to save him this time.
 
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james smith esq said:
Too many Chinese think like merchants and too many diaspora Chinese are patriots in words only; they’re actually most loyal to their corporate masters for giving them their highly-valued engineering and tech jobs!
As much as it pains me to say so, to me, it seems that China has already lost this great competition, based, solely on its integration into the dominating economic order. I doubt that it will ever achieve separation sufficient to politico-economic independence. In fact, despite this being what it absolutely needs, I don’t believe this is what China actually wants.

For one, China really needs to re-think its emphasis on verticality, in everything. Stacking millions of people into gruesome uber-vertical tenements is no way to create domestic demand for the many, varied, products that China produces. With my driveway, walkway, front-yard, front-porch, backyard, patio, and garage (like everybody in my neighborhood, and most in my city), I create more demand for Chinese products than any but the highest-class of Chinese. Why not take advantage of the incredible transportation tech that’s been developed and build some horizontal cities in some of that empty space in central-China? With all that high-speed rail tech, folks could easily commute to the nearest profit-generating centers. Emphasize the building of houses, not goddamn apartments! Houses with porches and patios filled with furniture, yards with gardens and with swings for kids, gazebos with strings of lights and lawn furniture, and surrounded by fences, garages filled with lawn-care products and tools for all kinds of projects and bikes for the kids, and for the family, to ride!

Stop being the goddamn merchant to the world and focus on being the merchant to China!
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Well, nevermind how one can exactly emulate American suburban planning in a country of 1.4 billion people, American suburbs have been proven time and time again to be terrible for an individual's mental health due to the sense of isolation and living amongst strangers, being horrible for fostering a sense of community, and above all environmentally unfriendly.

Maybe you can like your open spaces, but China is an inherently communal society and wouldn't be privy to such style of living.
 
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