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I am actually surprised that there haven't been more major air disasters in China, or involving Chinese airlines. Last major one I could find was Henan Airlines in August 2010 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan_Airlines_Flight_8387 quote:Investigators from the State Administration of Work Safety concluded that the captain, on his first flight into Yichun, switched off the autopilot and approached the runway covered by radiation fog despite the fact that visibility of 2,800 m (9,200 ft) was below the minimum of 3,600 m (11,800 ft).[5][23]
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Sparrow extermination film. This account regularly tweets cool old China videos. Last month or so was a Chinese lesson done entirely in 1930s Shanghainese. https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/990139486553157632?s=19
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Fojar38 posted:Yeah the pie in the sky utopian vision is usually some sort of US-China-EU "spheres of influence" bullshit that sounds like a really bad idea to anyone who knows anything about the history of great power relations less sarcastically than a picture of the golden throne, there's two distinct ways forward that don't involve a regression to regional great power fiefdoms: 1) the usa basically completes the economic victory it's started and exports its trading practices/values to so many places that functionally everyone has a lot of habits in common. wars and major strife become increasingly less common under this model because it becomes increasingly difficult to otherize your partners and disguise naked aggression when everyone is getting what they want anyway through trading really closely. this is still completely possible and the increasingly isolationist mood that the united states has been in since the middle of the iraq war is showing exactly how far down the road the world is on this path. there's a reason modern day pirates get so much attention for the 15 minutes they're a thing, it's because the US navy is omnipresent and ensures safe trade the world over, pretty much regardless of your diplomatic status with the usa. even while a bunch of gulf states were assassinating ambassadors and denouncing the USA in the UN, an american carrier group was hanging out in the gulf keeping oil flowing out and goods flowing in, even when they weren't american goods. they did this full time for 50 years, and only went down to 6 months out of the year in something like 2014. if america shakes out of its current attitude of annoyed torpor at the state of the world it could still end like this. 2) the world arranges itself in a sort of board room sort of atmosphere, with the USA as the chairman setting the agenda but otherwise not having an overwhelming amount of say in how things actually get done. this boils down to the network of friends that the US already has basically agreeing to cooperate for the benefit of most of the world and sharing the costs of that. wars and major strife become less and less common from the sheer amount of interdependence between countries; nobody wants to go to war with the guy providing all your dildos because then where would you get your dildos. i'd argue this one is more likely if the US stays in the mood it's been in since ~2003. the american electorate just isn't interested in exporting free trade and universal empathy the way it was back in the cold war era, and the 80s and 90s - even on Dubya's second term, he got asked more questions about domestic policy than foreign policy, despite foreign policy being the president's primary job. that trend has continued through both obama terms and into the 2016 election as well. and it's not like nobody else has seen this, either. this is increasingly how business was sliding during the obama years - japan knew that america was getting ready to pull back from a lot of the poo poo it was doing and showed up with a 500 billion dollar investment plan in american business to keep us engaged and interested in japanese prosperity - whereas in the 90s, american activity had a huge impact on japanese prosperity, but what americans got out of it was mostly just cheaper walkmans - but in the 90s, that was enough, so who cares. the british realized we were pretty tired of providing commercial security for the entire planet and recently offered up their own supercarrier to go on some patrols. a lot of people pretty reasonably asked what the gently caress that carrier was doing before, and the answer is basically nothing. they'd go out on exercises to keep training up but that's pretty much it - as a result, the British really unironically HAD capacity they could have offered for a few decades now, but just didn't because the USA was happy to shoulder all of the costs. it isn't anymore. if this behavior keeps up, there'll be a tranquility that settles in just because people honestly need each other and nobody wants the gravy train to stop. china sees the writing on that particular wall too, which is why daddy xi went to donny t and basically threw everything he had to offer on the negotiating table from the get go. like fromage said, china has no real friends so if it loses its seat in the boardroom by not showing up to work, it's gonna be on the outside looking in. i'm not saying that a regression to spheres of influence is impossible, but i find it less likely than the alternatives just because over the last 50 years or so, the USA has actually done a pretty good job of getting people to buy in on liberal trade policies and global networks. nobody wants that to go away, and spheres of influence, let alone anything more regional or feudal, preclude that stuff. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Coolguye posted:nobody wants that to go away, and spheres of influence It's not desirable, but that's exactly what is happening in the middle east with it's regional powerplayers of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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GoutPatrol posted:Does anyone have that music video of naked dudes pulling a boat? Imperialist Dog posted:Sparrow extermination film. This account regularly tweets cool old China videos. Last month or so was a Chinese lesson done entirely in 1930s Shanghainese. Digging into this account led me down a rabbit-hole of 1920's and 30's Chinese ad posters that are borderline softcore porn. And it's for the most random stuff too, like batteries and milk-powder. NSFW: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_440a15ce0101k3tb.html
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Imperialist Dog posted:Sparrow extermination film. This account regularly tweets cool old China videos. Last month or so was a Chinese lesson done entirely in 1930s Shanghainese. Good thing that China learnt from this and never experienced ecological disaster ever again!
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Imperialist Dog posted:Sparrow extermination film. This account regularly tweets cool old China videos. Last month or so was a Chinese lesson done entirely in 1930s Shanghainese. was that a cao ni ma i heard from that nice old lady?
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Has anyone got that "how tankie are you?" meme thing, where the ultimate tankie says "the sparrows had it coming" or something like that?
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I thought it was a galaxy brain meme with that as the bottom thought, but I can't find it either, so have this sparrow meme instead
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Extremely important duck update, going through some duck pictures she thinks the closest is the muscovy duck, like this Except its body was bright blue and green and it's red fleshy mask extended to "a red hat, but not feather, it was meat". There's a lot of types of muscovy ducks, and she said she's only ever seen this exact coloration in Canton so it's possible it's just a weird sort of cantonese muscovy duck with a meat hat.
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Fojar38 posted:Literally the only country that is capable of policing every major waterway on the planet is the United States by geography alone. If it stops doing so it becomes a nightmarish free for all and the global economy grinds to a halt. Peter Zeihan, is that you?
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Found a pic of that business woman Haijaj knows https://twitter.com/raykwong/status/990366394666573824?s=19
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Baronjutter posted:Extremely important duck update, going through some duck pictures she thinks the closest is the muscovy duck, like this When she moved away, she stopped getting dosed with LSD in her water.
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Ceciltron posted:When she moved away, she stopped getting dosed with LSD in her water. that or the heavy metal poisoning has altered her memory
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Is she absolutely certain that it was a duck? I don't know of any ducks with combs Knob-billed duck? simplefish fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Chinese government is being a huge cry baby about Taiwan again: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3416950 quote:China threatens United, American Airlines over Taiwan's listing as independent country
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP9M4iR8TQ I met a practitioner of TCM and Chinese martial arts last year, and the first thing I asked him about was iron egg technique. He was a little miffed.
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simplefish posted:Is she absolutely certain that it was a duck? I don't know of any ducks with combs She has some old black and white photos from when she was a kid and had the duck and is going to dig them out to help solve the mystery. She's sure it was a duck because it would quack and it knew how to cross the street safely to waddle over to the little lake where it would do duck stuff. I've become obsessed with the mystery of this hyper-intelligent flesh-crowed duck species.
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What's the name of that god-awful squeaking instrument at the beginning, and why do Chinese people like it?
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GotLag posted:What's the name of that god-awful squeaking instrument at the beginning, and why do Chinese people like it? That is a suona, and I got nothing  .
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GotLag posted:What's the name of that god-awful squeaking instrument at the beginning, and why do Chinese people like it? Godawful atonal screeching is the core of traditional Chinese music. Instrumental is good though, just please don't "sing". I'll listen to a nice guzheng player all day. I also have a soft spot for the sheng because it's such an absurd looking instrument.
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Platystemon posted:That is a suona, and I got nothing I have a suona and I like it. It's basically Chinese bagpipes; you either love it as a unique instrument or hate it as noise.
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hakimashou posted:I love Chinese opera. The look of pain on Trump's face when Xi Jinping was subjecting him to Peking opera was the only time I've ever 100% understood and agreed with him.
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Oh that’s Cojiro the blue cucco
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Baronjutter posted:Extremely important duck update, going through some duck pictures she thinks the closest is the muscovy duck, like this Some turkey breeds could kinda look like that
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Hmmmm. I looked at a video of Peking opera and it doesn’t seem super different from kabuki and kabuki is pretty cool albeit sometimes a little too long. Also wasn’t Farewell My Concubine about Peking opera? Leslie Cheung RIP. Probably my favorite Hong Kong actor
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Your delivery of burning car tires is almost here
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Dr.Radical posted:Oh that’s Cojiro the blue cucco
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Dr.Radical posted:Hmmmm. I looked at a video of Peking opera and it doesn’t seem super different from kabuki and kabuki is pretty cool albeit sometimes a little too long. Also wasn’t Farewell My Concubine about Peking opera? Leslie Cheung RIP. Probably my favorite Hong Kong actor Did you have the sound muted?
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Wizchine posted:Did you have the sound muted? Yeah, it should sound like cats yowling
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