Benagain posted:

That's because you've been reading horrible CIA influenced news, stick to reading the good stuff and you'll know exactly what the situation on the ground is.


Unbelievable that local government officials had turned against their country like this.

Some Guy TT posted:

does china just not bother to regulate local textbooks most of the time this is an awfully odd thing not to notice for thirteen years

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/zaikandongxi/status/1384119002994135050

Fleetwood posted:

I don't think I've seen Xi as happy as he is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0SCq7znwk&t=167s

stephenthinkpad posted:

Slightly off topic, I don't use Twitter because I am loving old. I just found out Carl Zha got married half year ago and his wife is Balinese. That kind of threw me off. I only read his post through the thread osmosis, I had alway assumed he was some kind of grandson of a real red princelin, and obviously would move back to China/HK and and marry a Chinese woman.

Some Guy TT posted:

china is openly promoting miscegenation right now because they are extremely racist

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TracyJan/status/1384549200805965830

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TracyJan/status/1384549200805965830

stephenthinkpad posted:

Slightly off topic, I don't use Twitter because I am loving old. I just found out Carl Zha got married half year ago and his wife is Balinese. That kind of threw me off. I only read his post through the thread osmosis, I had alway assumed he was some kind of grandson of a real red princelin, and obviously would move back to China/HK and and marry a Chinese woman. I also stumbled on his youtube channel and it only has 10k subs. That's a lot smaller than the other niche Chinese language politic talking head channels. Maybe twitter popularity doesn't' translate to youtube popularity?

paperwind posted:

Phew, thankfully America is perfectly free and just and has the moral high ground here!

quote:

Major change in vaccine policy
This is a major change in the vaccine rollout policy under which so far states were not allowed to procure the doses on their own and the makers were not allowed to sell the vaccines in the open market - i.e, to private hospitals and pharmacies.

What changes now
However, the biggest change that is going to happen in Phase-III is the pricing of the vaccines. In the first two phases, the vaccines were given free of cost and was charged at Rs 250 for a shot in private hospitals.

The price - Rs 250 each for the two shots was determined by the Central government as it was the only one procuring the vaccines from the drug companies.

But under the new policy, when vacancies will be made available in the open market from next month, private Hospitals would have to procure their supplies of Covid-19 vaccine exclusively from the 50% supply earmarked for other than Government and vaccination providers shall transparently declare their self-set vaccination price.

Market price
In January this Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India had said that his company was selling the first 100 million doses only to the Government of India on their request at a special price of Rs 200 and after that, the company will be selling it at Rs 1,000 in private markets.

i say swears online posted:

lmao oh no

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/ind...ore-538686.html

i say swears online posted:

lmao oh no

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/ind...ore-538686.html

stephenthinkpad posted:

I don't know if you guys are following Corona news in India. For some reason they had a relatively quiet winter and the Roni just exploded come spring. All the numbers are breaking records. And they are completely running out of space to perform cremation ritual along the river banks. Cremation pyres have to pushed into inner streets. And there is all kind of oxygen scrambling and remdesivir searching news. Yes that bullshit Trump drug that doesn't work, the Indians are refreshing their apps to find out where to buy them. The wall-to-wall news in Indian media really remind me of Wuhan in Feb and New York in April last year.

Rime posted:

https://twitter.com/patricia_energy/status/1384478760980914176?s=21

stephenthinkpad posted:

I don't know if you guys are following Corona news in India. For some reason they had a relatively quiet winter and the Roni just exploded come spring. All the numbers are breaking records. And they are completely running out of space to perform cremation ritual along the river banks. Cremation pyres have to pushed into inner streets. And there is all kind of oxygen scrambling and remdesivir searching news. Yes that bullshit Trump drug that doesn't work, the Indians are refreshing their apps to find out where to buy them. The wall-to-wall news in Indian media really remind me of Wuhan in Feb and New York in April last year.

Grapplejack posted:

quote:

The text translated here was written in early 2012, and offers a very frank criticism of China’s political and economic situation from the perspective of a conservative liberal for whom property rights are the foundation of a healthy political and social order. I read this text, and in fact, all 12 essays found on Ren’s Aisixiang page from 2012, in an effort to contextualize a talk Ren gave at a Crédit Suisse investment seminar on “Political Succession in China” in May of 2012, the video of which was banned in China. The goal of this mini-project was to determine to what extent Ren’s verbal remarks outside of China differed from his published work inside China, and you can read my thoughts on what I found here. I subsequently translated the text below as part of this project, but the text is worth reading on its own merits.

China’s future is bleak, Ren insists. Economic reforms have stalled because the Chinese Communist Party, which had a certain historic utility in a situation of revolutionary crisis, is now moribund and unable to take the steps necessary to push the reform agenda further by securing property rights for all economic actors. The Party is incapable of doing this both because it colludes with the entrepreneurial bigwigs that dominate the economy, and because a Marxist revolutionary party simply cannot surrender power without turning its back on its own elitist ideology. As a result, all the gains China achieved in an earlier period of reform are at risk, and the Party is running out of cards to play. Ren thinks a collapse of the economy is more than possible, and chides China’s leaders—and the Chinese people in general—for congratulating themselves for having “beat the West” in the context of the 2008 financial crisis, , instead of looking in the mirror and facing the multiple difficulties on the road ahead.

Ren’s text in fact reads like the work of any number of Western commentators who have gloomily predicted China’s demise over the years, either because of incomplete market reforms, overspending on infrastructure, burgeoning debt crises, official corruption, etc

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The timing of Rong’s essay is interesting. He first presented it at a seminar in January 2013 at the Unirule Institute of Economics 天则经济研究所 in Beijing. It was then published on Consensus 共识网 on 26 March 2013 and has since appeared on many other websites hosted in and outside China. The first half of 2013 was a time of intense speculation in mainland intellectual circles about the newly incumbent Party General Secretary, Xi Jinping, who had taken up this top leadership role in November 2012. Many had hoped that the plain-spoken Xi, unlike his ineloquent predecessor Hu Jintao (who spoke mostly in Party slogans), would implement reforms that would make the party-state system not only more accountable but also more hospitable to constructive criticism. It was in this generally positive ambience that Rong presented his seminar at the Unirule Institute.

However, all such expectations of greater intellectual freedoms would be dashed by mid- to late 2013. Xi revealed his determination to control and shape public culture to be stronger than Hu’s in August 2013 when his administration introduced new harsh penalties for ‘rumour mongering’. The arrest and televised humiliation of self-styled ‘liberal’ social commentators whose observations about quotidian injustices had offended the party-state, and whom it now identified as ‘rumour mongers’ soon followed. From then on and up to the present, mainland universities have been subjected to increasing political restrictions and outlets for independent inquiry have been shut down. Consensus, which published Rong’s essay and on which he kept a blog, was arguably the last leading online forum for intellectual debate standing by mid-2016. (The bold and influential magazine Yanhuang chunqiu 炎黄春秋 was silenced in July 2016 via the ousting of its editorial board). By October, Consensus too had ceased to operate.

Rong’s essay has fared somewhat better. As of 28 January 2017, it remains accessible on several mainland-based blogs, including Rong’s column on the Caijing website. The Unirule Institute which hosted Rong’s seminar is also renowned for its defence of intellectual independence. Founded by three economists Mao Yushi 茅于轼, Sheng Hong 盛洪 and Zhang Shuguang 张曙光 who are widely regarded as leading liberal intellectuals, this think tank has, so far, survived Xi’s continuing crackdown [Update: Unirule announced it was closing down in August 2019].

Fleetwood posted:

I don't think I've seen Xi as happy as he is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0SCq7znwk&t=167s

spaceblancmange posted:

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782986143490048

India is so loving grim right now.

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Jesus Christ
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1384800225399820289?s=20

Zodium posted:

is there more

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Chongrejo10/status/1384373672706678785

cant decide whether the idea of american cops giving out free helmets is absurd because theyre assholes or because cop helmets cost like a hundred dollars a pop and legally speaking losing one is about as big a deal as losing a gun

Agrajag posted:

also this like whuh?

https://twitter.com/NatTurner777/status/1384596436575207430?s=20

Gorman Thomas posted:

Can I get a rec for a dry rear end book on post-WWII Indian history. Bonus points for one on Pakistan.