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Booger Presley posted:

I haven't lived in China in years, but the thing that used to piss me off nearly every day was stopping.

You see it at the entrance to every mall or shopping area, elevator doors, tops and bottoms of escalators, entrance/exit to subways, basically any place there was a choke point for pedestrian traffic.

You're moving with a few hundred of your closest friends, reach the choke point, and some group of idiots have stopped directly in the middle of the high traffic area to kan some renao or play a little phone.

Always happened trying to leave elevators, escalators and busses. Every. loving. Time.

Trying to step off the escalator before dozens of people are conveyer-belted on top of you? Better stop inches from the exit and stare blankly into space!

Grand Fromage posted:

As with many China things, it is a matter of degree more than kind. People do that poo poo everywhere. Nowhere else I have been is it done by a solid 90%+ of people.

Power Khan posted:

Being a tourist, where should I visit? China or Korea?

Ok, I know your answers: Taiwan or Japan.

Power Khan posted:

Being a tourist, where should I visit? China or Korea?

Ok, I know your answers: Taiwan or Japan.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

quote:

China must step up its battle against corruption in order to safeguard against a Soviet-style collapse, the country's second most senior graft buster said in an editorial on Wednesday.
Yang Xiaodu, the deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, who was promoted to the ruling Communist Party's 25-strong Politburo last month, said failure would risk the "red country changing color".

In unusually direct and strongly worded criticism of previous administrations, Yang said "in a previous period", corruption had been allowed to fester to such an extent that the party's leadership had weakened, with supervision soft, and ideology apathetic.

"It had developed to the point where if not rectified, the country could change color," Yang wrote in the official People's Daily.
"The future fate of the party and the country's people could follow the same old road to ruin as the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc."

President Xi Jinping, like many officials before him, is steeped in the party's long-held belief that loosening control too quickly or even at all could lead to chaos and the break up of the country. The party regularly implores cadres to study the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

TsarZiedonis posted:

Korea is a nice and fun country for a short visit with nice, cheap hotels, great food, a very active nightlife and where all of the buildings and idols look the same.

TsarZiedonis posted:

Korea is a country.

TsarZiedonis posted:

Taiwan is not China.

CIGNX posted:

I think it's referencing "color revolutions."

quote:

A call which first appeared on 17 February 2011 on the Chinese language site Boxun.com in the United States for a "Jasmine revolution" in the People's Republic of China and repeated on social networking sites in China resulted in blocking of internet searches for "jasmine" and a heavy police presence at designated sites for protest such as the McDonald's in central Beijing, one of the 13 designated protest sites, on 20 February 2011. A crowd did gather there, but their motivations were ambiguous as a crowd tends to draw a crowd in that area.

Wiggles Von Huggins posted:

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big time bisexual posted:

https://my.mixtape.moe/mtrguv.mp4

quote:

A mum has shared her outrage over the moment a ute stacked with pallets of baby formula she believes was on its way to China pulled in front of her husband at traffic lights.

Elini Carlyon had no choice but to ween her baby boy off formula when he was six months old after every shelf in nearby supermarkets was emptied by so-called daigous.

Ms Carlyon said she so outraged by seeing the ute stacked with pallets of baby formula on its tray she was throwing up whether to phone police.

"I was fuming, because he knew how much trouble it was for me to find it," she said.

"I was thinking, 'we should go to the police', but I know the police can't do anything about it."

A Current Affair (ACA) last night revealed Chemist Warehouse has set up a "pick and pack" centre in at least one of its stores to cash in on a booming daigou market.

ACA obtained stunning footage 13-year-old Jonathan shot showing daigous selecting from a range of "hundreds" of tins of baby formula in a room at the side of its Chadstone Shopping Centre store. Parcels with Chinese characters were provided to the daigous, who then packed the formula into cardboard boxes.

Jonathan told ACA he thought it was "disgraceful" his mum was forced to water down his brother's formula or call her friends for emergency supplies when there was so much of it being shipped to China.

"It frustrates me that my baby brother can't get formula," he said.

"What I saw in that room was chaotic ... It was chaotic (because) there were people everywhere. Packing or packaging boxes. Bring more formula in there."

In one clip, Jonathan films his grandma confronting daigous with shopping bags full of baby formula.

"Two (tins) per customer. How many times did you come in? ... Who am I? I am a concerned parent who can't get certain powder for the grandson."

"Do you think it's right, what you've been doing?

"You've got ten in there! ... Why are you doing this? You know you can't do this. Is it fair on our children?"

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The Great Autismo! posted:

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The Great Autismo! posted:

I know I shitpost a lot and like half of that thread hates me and has me on ignore but I unironically would love to buy a beer or two to anyone from SA, especially a china thread, just because having a beer and relaxing is cool and good, and I actually really like china and like talking about it and it's fun and stuff

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.9news.com.au/health/2017/11/16/10/08/baby-formula-crisis-can-aussie-parents-and-china-s-daigous-co-exist

kimcicle posted:

I missed Korea chat. My favorite kind of chat. Go visit Korea! It's not that bad, I swear!


You would think that manufacturers would be doing -something- to capitalize on this, rather than opening up this black market for baby formula. I would get stressed if we were getting low on our last can, despite the fact I could drive to three different stores within 10 minutes and buy another.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.9news.com.au/health/2017/11/16/10/08/baby-formula-crisis-can-aussie-parents-and-china-s-daigous-co-exist

Mistle posted:

The problem is that even if the manufacturer sends it directly to China, someone will skim it for profit. That, and the ubiquitous distrust if domestic products(even if they are safe and surprise: quality) means Chinese people will buy it outside the mainland and send it back. Because someone's grandma and uncle has the familial trust of a community over a manufacturer's safety seal.

The only way to guarantee its untampered quality is to buy it elsewhere.

Ups_rail posted:

I dont know much about Australia but if this is such a problem them perhaps the goverment should step in and issue ration cards for parents. make sure peoplel with children get first crack at buying it.

Alternatively import formula from china

big time bisexual posted:

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TsarZiedonis posted:

Oh right, we have some fairfax residents here! It's George Mason university, the school that incorporated its own police force which runs aggressive speed traps in town and DUI checks for residents of the neighborhood adjacent to their property!

Baronjutter posted:

It's too bad humans can't produce formula on their own. Like imagine if every mom had one (or maybe even two just in case) machines that could make safe healthy formula for free??

Mistle posted:

The problem is that even if the manufacturer sends it directly to China, someone will skim it for profit. That, and the ubiquitous distrust if domestic products(even if they are safe and surprise: quality) means Chinese people will buy it outside the mainland and send it back. Because someone's grandma and uncle has the familial trust of a community over a manufacturer's safety seal.

The only way to guarantee its untampered quality is to buy it elsewhere.

Baronjutter posted:

It's too bad humans can't produce formula on their own. Like imagine if every mom had one (or maybe even two just in case) machines that could make safe healthy formula for free??