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vesicles said:
The thinking that "since I'm already a bad person in others' eyes, I don't care anymore and will just do what they think I will do" is not what a responsible power should do. I honestly don't think China is thinking in that way at all. In my opinion, China holds itself to a much higher standard than that.

China is doing everything it can to preserve a peaceful image, without compromising its own bottomline of course. What Western media says does not influence China's decision-making. If China continues to be a responsible power, the public opinion will turn around. I am watching some political shows in Taiwan and am pleasantly shocked at how much public opinion toward Chinese Mainland has changed in Taiwan. The same thing will happen elsewhere if China simply does the honorable things that it always does. On the other hand, China will fall into a trap, a self-fulfilling trap, if China simply stops caring and starts to do irresponsible things.
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China has already hold a much higher standards already because it doesn't do regime changing and military basing through out the world out of "national security and terrorism".

The bottom line of the argument is WHO gets to be the referee to determine the narrative view of China over all? Answer: no body IMO. Does China really exist to worry about what others says about her or does she exist peacefully with others through consistent actions of peace and dialogue? If it's the former than China might as well listens to the unwise words of Gordon Chang to appeal and appease the few. The only one that's falling into a self-fulfilling trap is the Trump administration and his isolationists view with every American allies he's tweeting bad about. I have a lot more confidence in China's foreign diplomats and personnel to handle any crisis like the one recent border disputes with its neighbor India.
 
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taxiya

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One thing that some members seem to miss about China is that "China is a builder of a system, not just a destructor to destroy". There are things in the current world system China will change without doubt, but China is to change it to the better for herself and other countries alike. China is not set to be an angry boy who smashes everything. China is set to change and build, and uphold many existing rules that are commonly agreed today.

For China to realize the said above, China need support and collaboration from majority of the worlds in many aspects, including some countries who may be at odd with China in one place but sharing common goal in another. For that Chinese need to distant ourselves from raw emotional kneThat last thing China need is the attitude of "I am called bad, so I do bad", that is very childish.
 
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manqiangrexue said:
The more I think about this project, the more benign and non-weaponized it looks.

First of all, the Brahmaputra only irrigates East India, an area that mainland India only wants to control but doesn't care about the prosperity of. Then, according to Hendrik, 70% of the water comes from local Indian rainfall anyway so even if the entire flow from China were to be stopped (which I don't think is even possible), it'd still have 70%, which I assume could toss things around, but is not immediately life-threatening to those in India. Thirdly, in order to do a little damage to India, China would have to put Bangladesh on the grill big time because Bangladesh is completely reliant on the Brahmaputra and that would be China turning friends into enemies; that's a Donald Trump move, not Xi Jinping at all. There are many ways to deal with India but diverting water from the Brahmaputra seems one of the worst and least effective "weapons."

Rather, if this project comes to fruition, I believe that China would use this most wisely to only benefit itself without using it as a weapon against anyone. China would carefully measure the water that can be taken from the river without causing significant stress to downstream ecosystems thus slowly irrigating Xinjiang into "California" without damaging East India or Bangladesh. Just a big win for China with no losers. I think this is the designed purpose of the project and that's how it will move forward.
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I think most people agree with the good side of the diversion when it is done in a careful way as you pointed out. What people including myself are against is the "spin" of the project to be "weapon against India".

The very purpose of that "spin" is to picture "China's threat" in the eyes of neighbors' population, therefor putting pressure on their governments to put up objections and coordinated international resistance to obstruct an otherwise good (to be technically studied) project. This kind of spin has been played out in Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and some African countries. It is a sophisticated "soft power" play. Anybody who loves China should be very careful not to be enticed to unwittingly assist such ploy just because it feels mighty to scare/piss off some troublesome neighbor.
 
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Chinese firm breaks Samsung’s monopoly in flexible display production
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Chinese tech giant BOE recently announced its mass production of flexible displays in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, making China the second country to acquire the technology after South Korea, CCTV reported.

Utilizing active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) technology, the flexible displays can be used on mobile phones, wearables, and other portable electronics, allowing the device screen to be only 0.03 mm thick, bendable and even foldable.

The entire production line was designed, developed and established solely by BOE, and will be able to roll out 70 million flexible AMOLED displays annually.

"The mass production of our sixth generation AMOLED will substantially improve BOE's competitiveness," said Chen Yanshun, BOE's CEO.

Flexible displays use organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material, a self-lighting material that allows the screens to have better definition, fineness and color than ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) screens without needing a backlight.

The wide use of flexible AMOLED displays is expected to become a trend across the world. Chen predicted that the company's production growth will exceed 30 percent within three to five years.

Previously, South Korean company Samsung monopolized the field and with the production of AMOLED displays fair below the demand. The mass production of the display in China breaks that monopoly and markedly increases the supply. At a ceremony to celebrate the first batch of flexible displays produced, over ten Chinese phone makers, including Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo, have received samples, Yan said.

BOE has plans for another AMOLED factory in Mianyang, also in Sichuan Province, which will begin operation in two years.

Other Chinese businesses are also jumping into the smartphone display business. Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., for instance, has plans to increase investment.

Across China's entire display sector, investment in assembly lines planned or under construction for screens for TVs, computers, smartphones and other devices has reached 800 billion yuan. Industry associations predicted the country will overtake South Korea as the world's largest producer of display screens as early as 2019.
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China has dominated Asia for close to two millennia, much longer than what other colonial powers have managed to do between 16th and 20th centuries. China achieved this long dominance using one rule: I will be even nicer to you if you are nice to me". Of course, this is only the carrot part. The stick part is also big. Just ask the Huns who were chased out of Asia and permanently banned from Asia...

All this tells us one thing: the Chinese have always focused on positive rewards, not the negative enforcement. This may look kinda lame at times, but has allowed China to dominate Asia for a long long time.

Especially now, forging a win-win situation is key to the long term strategies of China. In fact, forging a win-win situation is now a common theme for China's foreign policy. Wherever Chinese diplomats go, heavy investment is the first thing they bring with them. And it seems that it has become an accepted norm for other countries to expect Chinese investment when China wants to talk with you. The message is loud the clear: you make money and get filthy rich when you are with China.

Building a tunnel that might threaten the lives of innocent civilians is not a win-win situation that China wants to be associated with. Doing something that will damage your credibility but with little added benefit is not smart.
 
manqiangrexue

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vesicles said:
Yes, those Taiwanese want to be associated with Chinese money, but not Chinese. Good luck with that.
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I think it's actually 2 different groups of people:

We have group one, which has money, runs businesses, expands them into the mainland and realizes what a pleasure it is to work with their mainland brothers and what a pride-bearing asset it is to be Chinese.

Then, we have group two, made of people with no money to invest, no businesses to run, nothing to live or die for, and only want something to scream about so they don't get bored to death living their meaningless lives of mediocrity; they support independence like people support their local sports teams for no reason that they understand.

Unfortunately, populations are usually comprised of a small group of smart, well-to-do people and a ton of sheep morons.
 
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Hendrik_2000 said:
India will always hostile and suspicious no matter what because she feel like she is the anointed super power but fail to realized it while at the same time looking at booming Chinese economy
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Well, I have a different opinion on that.

Not sure if you have been in the following situation:

You and your co-worker have been best buddies. One day, your co-worker is promoted to manager. You suddenly look at him as if he becomes this nasty, ugly SOB who must have done some naughty stuff to get that promotion. You don't want to talk to him anymore.

Then a few years later, when you get used to the idea that this guy is here to stay and he IS your boss, you accept that fact and move on. You are still not happy that you are not the one getting the promotion, but you understand that your buddy is a capable one who deserves the promotion albeit the fact that you prefer to be the manager.

A few more years passed, you become comfortable with the fact that your buddy is the manager and you folllow his orders.

This is where India is now. India and China used to be at similar levels. Of course, India has the ambition to be a superpower. China has moved up the ladder. That makes India mad. That's normal. It may take some time but eventually, India will accept the fact that China is more powerful. You just need to give them time.

In fact, the whole world needs time to get used to the idea that China is more powerful.

Just imagine what you would THINK about a buddy who suddenly becomes a billionaire. You may say "congratulations" but deep down in your heart, you wish it could be you and you curse the guy. That's what everyone in the world is doing to China. Perfectly normal. It just takes time.
 
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manqiangrexue said:
I think it's actually 2 different groups of people:

We have group one, which has money, runs businesses, expands them into the mainland and realizes what a pleasure it is to work with their mainland brothers and what a pride-bearing asset it is to be Chinese.

Then, we have group two, made of people with no money to invest, no businesses to run, nothing to live or die for, and only want something to scream about so they don't get bored to death living their meaningless lives of mediocrity; they support independence like people support their local sports teams for no reason that they understand.

Unfortunately, populations are usually comprised of a small group of smart, well-to-do people and a ton of sheep morons.
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Well put! Everytime Taiwan Independence is brought up, I am reminded of the words of Li Ao: Taiwan will never become independent because the pro-independence group is just spoiled kids. If you really wanted to fight for independence, you need to be ready to die for your cause. There's not one person in the TI group that's willing to do that.

Li Ao lived through the White Terror period under the KMT (he still hates their guts to this day), he was thrown in jail for his activism, so he knows what he's talking about.
 
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