KomodoWagon posted:

Why is he the lecher and not RoC?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Darkman Fanpage posted:

https://twitter.com/ShanghaiExpat/status/816944730781007872

china always breaking records!

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

It's a car with a mirror where you can see out but not in.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

https://twitter.com/ShanghaiExpat/status/816944730781007872

china always breaking records!

Darkman Fanpage posted:

jerk off instructions

Darkman Fanpage posted:

jerk off instructions

Darkman Fanpage posted:

jerk off instructions

mcvey posted:

Step 1: whip it out

Fojar38 posted:

japan just took pictures of chinas new "indigenous" aircraft carrier sitting in drydock and china is pissed that now everyone knows its a lovely kuznetsov knockoff complete with ski jump

https://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2016/12/448328.html

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When the 19th Party Congress rolls around next autumn, it will mark the tenth anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s first inclusion of the term “soft power” in its crucial political report, perhaps the best view we have of thinking at the highest levels of the country’s leadership.

That official introduction of the term marked a new level of recognition that China needs more than just hard power to project its influence around the world.

But setting aside for a moment the prickly issue of how China conceives of soft power as state-led public diplomacy as opposed to the more spontaneous effluence of culture, how is its soft power project going?

According to some experts, China is making real inroads in places like Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Others, most notably Joseph S. Nye, the Harvard professor who coined the term soft power, say that while China’s substantial investments in soft power — possibly 10 billion dollars a year — have had some results, its “soft power ambitions still face major obstacles.”

According to David Shambaugh, who has written extensively on the subject, “China’s favourability ratings are mixed at best, and predominantly negative, and declining over time.”

On the Soft Power 30 index for 2016, compiled by Portland Communications on the basis of objective metrics and international polling data, China ranked 28th in the world, just behind the Russian Federation and edging ahead of the Czech Republic and Argentina. The United States nabbed the top spot, pulling ahead of Great Britain. For Chinese leaders, who still see soft power, and in particular what they call “cultural soft power,” as an outgrowth of Party and state power, one crucial aspect of the country’s “strategy” (a word revealing in itself) is “developing the vehicle or the mechanisms by which China can project this soft power.”

Much of China’s official comment obsesses over the idea that the West, and particularly the United States, monopolises “discourse power” internationally and that China must work to revamp the global information order (perhaps with Russia’s help).

The formal launch this month of China Global Television Network (CGTN), bringing the international channels of China Central Television (CCTV) and its digital presence under a new branding effort, should be understood as the latest push to develop an international broadcast infrastructure allowing China to advance its messages and flex its “discourse power.”As bold and virile as this sounds, however, even a casual look at what CGTN currently has on offer indicates that this is probably another misguided venture that will line the pockets of China’s state broadcaster while offering little in the way of globally compelling products.

Speaking to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, CCTV official Chen Lidong said the network’s domestic operations would not be affected by the change, “But the international-facing makeover will be extensive.”

How extensive? Well, let’s take a look.

The brand-new CGTN has already released a pair of mobile apps for news and live broadcasts. Inexplicably, however, the albatross still hangs from the neck of this new brand: “CCTVNEWS” is placed prominently just under “China Global Television Network” on both of the offerings in the App Store — next to a drab, pea-soup logo with the banal acronym.

After years of apparent soul-searching about the need to entice, and to understand foreigners and their interests, do we get a new approach to news reporting, writing and selection?

No.

The mock-up for the news app features a story about a Chinese naval vessel — hastening non-Chinese readers to thoughts of realpolitik. Two of the three stories coming on its heels are about Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visiting Latin America, betraying state media’s all-too-familiar habit of reporting the news as though interesting and significant things are done only by Party and government leaders.

Has CCTV really learned nothing about the human element? Isn’t that what the attraction at the core of soft power is ultimately all about? Could they not have featured a story instead about the Chinese soccer club offering Real Madrid 300 million Euros for Christiano Ronaldo?

Is it so difficult to stand in the shoes of one’s target reader?

CGTN’s pitch for its news app comes across as callow: “New Reading Experience — different tabs to meet your various needs.” Are we supposed to marvel at the ingenuity of tabs? (And how dyspeptic will I seem if I complain that the font advertising my “New Reading Experience” isn’t fresh or edgy, but a lacklustre cursive?)

Then again, perhaps my exasperation is heightened by the unfortunate fact that Apple has succumbed to Chinese pressure and pulled both the English and Chinese-language apps for the New York Times from the App Store. Hard power hard at work.What about CGTN’s new website, to which all of CCTV’s international content has been directed?

When I first visited the new CGTN.com global website yesterday, the featured story suffered from strange breaks in both the headline (“Turkish authorities identify Istanbul nightclub attacker but”) and the teaser.

These evidently stemmed from basic kinks in the platform design — the kind of things one supposes should be ironed out before the president offers his felicitations on the front page of the official People’s Daily.Just as you could find at the old CCTV website, or at Xinhua’s English-language site, the occasional story to entertain or enlighten, there are odd stories at CGTN that surprise — like this little unpolished gem about a villager in Guangxi whose free outdoor film screenings have been curtailed by local officials.

But this does not look — not yet — like an extensive makeover. It looks like an ill-conceived web re-design alongside a simple acronym change. And as China, despite tightening controls, is in the midst of an exciting era at least in terms of technical and design innovation for the mobile internet, the CGTN platform seems to fall even flatter.

Why not find inspiration in the likes of The Paper or Jiemian?

In his recent well wishes to CGTN, Xi Jinping said that the platform should “fully seek closeness with its audience … using rich news and information, a clear Chinese perspective, and an expansive global way of looking at things in order to tell Chinese stories properly, transmitting China’s voice, allowing the world to see a colourful and three-dimensional China, and creating a favourable image of China as a builder of peace in the world, as a contributor to global development, and as a protector of the international order.”

Faced with such a medley of impossible expectations from those in power, is it any wonder that CCTV — I’m sorry, that CGTN — is confused?

peanut posted:

More kebab crackdowns

Beijing pollution: Police force to combat toxic smog - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38545649

oohhboy posted:

^^^^^^^Fishes HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

New name, same poo poo. China #28

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According to some experts,

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/01/07/new-logo-baffling-makeover-cctvs-global-push/

Haier posted:

I stopped reading after that. Who are worse? Chinese experts, or experts on China?

Haier posted:

I asked her how the teacher can grade a billion worksheets done by 50 kids, and she said the teacher won't check each answer, only look at the paper to see that it has writing on it.

Atlas Hugged posted:

ESL is a scourge on humanity that should be purged.

Sheep-Goats posted:

https://my.mixtape.moe/mecben.webm

Blistex posted:

Wow! Copied right down to the very panel and porthole. Is this is China's version of the Tupolev Tu-4 design process?

Well, I don't think we have to worry about China building real (CATOBAR) aircraft carriers for quite a while.

Magna Kaser posted:

When I was a teacher I once gave a kid with terrible english who wrote a terrible paper and failed all his tests a bad grade and I got told off by my boss since the mother decided the class wasn't working and wanted to pull him out of the classes.

Also once I was teaching a class of pretty smart kids to prep them for US or European universities. They all had really good English and were graduates of a nearby international school, so the class was more about how to write essays and do research and junk than anything else. Early on I gave them an assignment to write a paper about why they wanted to go to school abroad, and this one kid who probably had the best English in the class wrote his about how he wanted to go to college in America because American girls had bigger boobs than Chinese girls.

Those are my ESL stories.

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was teaching in Taiwan once and a new kid was enrolled in our school. He never sat in a chair and was a constant distraction to those around him. I had the Taiwanese staff ask his mother why he didn't want to do any of the activities or assignments and had no interest in participating in the class. Her response was classic. "He's a genius, he doesn't have to follow the rules."

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you dont realize how much you are constantly being shamed as a white in america or europe until you live in asia, i am not even talking about the general praise you get for being white- its the not constantly being called ugly, fat, stupid, or just worthless- it doesnt happen

and when you have people who their entire lives have been told the best thing they can do for the world is kill themselves suddenly being treated like they at least have some value, well it shakes everything in their life.

to me china is like the past, if you want work you get it regardless of the fact that you could be ugly, or stupid, or unlikable, there is just so much demand for work that people need to deal with it- america today has the ability to only choose sexy young people with tons of degrees- which is why it is losing its mind!

we voted in trump because frankly there are a lot of people tired of being told to just die and move on for the better looking and younger people

i am glad i left, but i dont pretend this isnt a career of last resort

Mameluke posted:

Since ESL discussion has come up...

Baronjutter posted:

There are no mental illnesses or learning disabilities in the east, those are purely western problems, probably due to poor blood and culture. I knew a chinese malaysian girl with a brother who was clearly mentally ill and needed help. From childhood he refused to study or really participate at school. When he became older he would suddenly become "possessed by a god" and when "possessed" they must treat him with extra respect and not make him do any work or the spirit may get angry. He had trouble with simple tasks, would fly off the handle at random things, and would become "possessed" any time he was really stressed or didn't want to do anything. But he didn't have any sort of disorder, he was actually quite blessed and extremely smart which is why the gods were always near him. I asked if they had ever taken him to a doctor and they said yes, traditional chinese medicine doctor and a monk both said the same thing. The boy is very blessed, very wise.

The stigma about any sort of mental illness or impairment in chinese culture is really really sad. So many people with treatable problems, so many kids with issues that some early therapy could help nip in the bud. But nope, too much shame to admit your blood could be defective, would shame your entire family and lineage.