gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/bidetmarxman/status/1485766660166324225

Wait there are socialists in China still?

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

but doctor, it IS the dumb clown one

Atrocious Joe posted:

Seeing leftists hesitant about overseas solidarity for the protests in China reminds me of my friend Vincent Wong's incisive point: dogmatic applications of 'The main enemy is at home' makes no sense for many migrants in movements in the imperial core.

Liebknecht's slogan 'The main enemy is at home' was for socialists living in the actively aggressor state of Germany in WWI, not as ahistorical, moralizing, isolationist dogma for Western socialists to withhold critiques of other states when they oppress their own working-class.

Some Guy TT posted:

this cant be right everyone knows china hates gay people and doesnt let them watch gay movies

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1597821869763465216?cxt=HHwWgMDQmcyhzawsAAAA

I don't know what is happening with the Shanghai protests but it sounds like western journalists fed gullible rubes to the wolves.

Throatwarbler posted:

Thr last sentence says "don't post porn" which seems like a weird rule to need for this kind of thing.

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Great timing, comrade

Cartoon by Rebel Pepper

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 96, was not particularly popular during his 1993-2003 tenure, even though it was a time of fast economic growth and opening up after the Tiananmen crackdown. But he is looking better in retrospect compared to current leader Xi Jinping, who has largely put the breaks on market reforms in favor of state control and has governed with greater repression than his recent predecessors. The timing of Jiang's death is immensely awkward for Xi, who is facing down widespread protests that have included calls for his ouster over his harsh COVID restrictions.

i say swears online posted:

Toad King vs. Pooh Bear: Jiang Zemin’s death spells trouble for Chinese ruler Xi Jinping

Atrocious Joe posted:

many migrants in movements in the imperial core.

Zedhe Khoja posted:

tldr Mulan is turkish and China should be united with Istanbul where she belongs.

mawarannahr posted:

stephenthinkpad posted:

Okay I need to know who are the piggy and the rabbit. ScoMo?

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Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s anointment to a third term as China’s paramount leader came exactly as forecast. But he raised eyebrows by purging the Politburo Standing Committee of senior officials associated with economic reform and moderate foreign policies, replacing them with hard-liners and Xi loyalists. Most striking was the removal of all officials associated with the party’s China Youth League faction. The once powerful league was the base of Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao and of vice premier Hu Chunhua, who had been seen as a future top leader.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1597259685840949248

She is still at it, lmao.

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/DongshengNews/status/1597999107674673153

china is improving on corn with science

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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Psychol., 30 November 2022
Sec. Health Psychology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1034221
Changes in mental health levels among Chinese physical education college students from 1995 to 2019

Fengzhan Li1, Jinxiao Liu2, Fanshuo Qiu2, Huitao Liu2, Sufei Xin2* and Qun Yang1*
1Department of Military Medical Psychology, Air Force Medical University, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Xi’an, China
2Department of Psychology, School of Educational Science, Ludong University, Yantai, China
To explore the changes in the mental health levels of Chinese physical education college students, the present study conducted a cross-temporal meta-analysis of 43 papers that adopted the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) from 1995 to 2019. The results showed that the average scores of the seven SCL-90 factors were negatively correlated with the year of data collection. The socioeconomic indicators (GDP, per capita GDP and household consumption level) were significantly negatively correlated with the eight dimension scores of the SCL-90 (except for phobic anxiety). The mean effect sizes of the sex differences in the seven dimension scores (except depression and phobic anxiety) were lower than the small effect size. In conclusion, Chinese physical education college students’ mental health levels have increased in the past 25 years. This phenomenon may be related to Chinese socioeconomic growth, the implementation of national sports policies, and the provision of mental health education for college students. In addition, although the increasing trend in the mental health level of female students was more obvious, there were no significant sex differences.
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Potential reasons for the changes in the mental health levels of Chinese physical education college students

The present study found that the socioeconomic indicators (GDP, per capita GDP and household consumption level) for 3 years before, 1 year before and the current year of data collection were all significantly negatively correlated with the scores of the eight dimensions of the SCL-90 (except for phobic anxiety). Therefore, it can be concluded that the increase in the mental health levels of Chinese college physical education students may be related to Chinese socioeconomic growth. In fact, some studies have revealed the relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health, which found that a higher socioeconomic level was conducive to mental health status (Maldonadoa et al., 2022) and that a lower socioeconomic level had a negative effect on mental health (Li et al., 2022). Over the past 40 years, China has transformed from having a weak closed economy to an open global economy. China’s economic achievements have attracted worldwide attention, and people’s living standards have improved unprecedentedly. Therefore, people’s sense of happiness and gains are constantly improving, which is bound to promote their mental health status. The results of the present study show that this phenomenon is also reflected in Chinese physical education college students.

In addition, the increase in the mental health levels of Chinese physical education college students may also be related to the implementation of the “Sports Powerful Country” and “Healthy China” strategies. First, the Chinese government has promulgated many special support policies (i.e., the Outline for Building a Powerful Nation in Sport, the Guidance on Strengthening Health Promotion and Education) for sports development (Huang et al., 2018), which has greatly stimulated the vitality of sports development (Li et al., 2020). Under the guidance of special support policies, many government and social funds have poured into the sports industry (Shan et al., 2020). The sports industry is increasingly booming, and the demand for professionals is rising (Wang, 2015), which might alleviate the professional pressure of physical education college students to a certain extent (Chang, 2012; Wang et al., 2018) and then promote the increasing trend in Chinese physical education college students’ mental health levels. Second, with the development and implementation of many policies, such as the National Standards for Physical Education, talent training plans for physical education students have been further standardized (e.g., Huang et al., 2016; Yang, 2017). For instance, many colleges and universities have gradually adopted a series of employment-oriented teaching reform measures, which may have strengthened the professional abilities and competitive advantages of physical education college students to a certain extent (Zhang and Li, 2014; Wang et al., 2020) and thereby may have a positive effect on their mental health status.

Another potential reason for the changes in the mental health levels of Chinese physical education college students may be related to the mental health education of college students, which has been continuously strengthened in recent years (Xin and Chi, 2020). Since 2001, the government has successively issued a series of policy documents, such as “Opinions on Strengthening the Work of College Students’ Mental Health Education in Regular Institutions of Higher Education” and “Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving College Students’ Mental Health Education,” which have provided necessary guarantees for the sustained and healthy development of college students (Xin et al., 2019). In addition, as a result of receiving consistently mental health education, physical education college students may have a greater awareness of mental health and acquire more skills and strategies in maintaining their mental health levels, such as emotion regulation, self-confidence enhancement, reasonable career planning, etc. Therefore, the provision of mental health education may also help to improve the mental health status of physical education college students to a certain extent.

Sex differences in the mental health levels of physical education college students
The present study found that the increasing trend of mental health levels in female students was more obvious than that in male students, which might be related to the increasing number of women participating in sports activities in recent years. Many female athletes have obtained excellent achievements in various sporting events, bringing great encouragement to females (Fan et al., 2016). Moreover, the gradually developing sports industry has provided more opportunities for women, which may bring more hope and thereby enhance their mental health status. However, the opportunities of male students have always been relatively abundant, which may be the reason why the changing trend of males’ mental health levels is not as obvious as that of females. Moreover, the results of the traditional meta-analysis found that the difference in the mental health levels between male and female students was not significant, which may be because the living environment, learning environment and problems faced by physical education college students of different sexes are similar.

Limitations
The present study has the following limitations. First, apart from the SCL-90, there are other tools for testing mental health, e.g., the UPI and PHI (Zhou and Zhou, 2009; Ma et al., 2015). Future research can further explore the underlying mechanisms of physical education college students’ mental health status by comparing the results of cross-temporal meta-analyses that adopted other questionnaires with the current results. Second, the examination of sex differences was based on 20 papers, which may reduce the validity of the results. Future research can confirm the current conclusions until the number of studies is sufficient. Third, although the present study examined the changing trend of physical education college students’ mental health levels in China and provided possible reasons for the trend, it did not further reveal the specific influencing mechanism. Thus, future research should use a longitudinal design and corresponding statistical analysis methods to examine the related influencing factors.

Conclusion

The present study is the first to explore the changes in mental health levels among Chinese physical education college students by cross-temporal meta-analysis and found that Chinese physical education college students’ mental health levels have increased over the past 25 years. This phenomenon may be related to Chinese socioeconomic growth, the implementation of national sports policies, and the provision of mental health education for college students. In addition, although the increasing trend in the mental health levels of female students was more obvious, there were no significant sex differences.

Mr Hootington posted:

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Mr Hootington posted:

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gradenko_2000 posted:

is there a term, or maybe a similar historical precedent, for when trying to cut-off a country just gets them to innovate harder? the only other thing that comes to mind at the moment is Germany putting a lot of effort into synthetic oil and rubber (and not intended to be a slam on the PRC), but I suppose that's not a great comparison given that they weren't nearly as successful at that venture as China looks to be in the tech industry

stephenthinkpad posted:

Hyperbolic missile doesn't need that much memory.

mawarannahr posted:

Punkin Spunkin posted:

So cool they're letting china join nato

comedyblissoption posted:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00159-6/fulltext#bib0003

comedyblissoption posted:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00159-6/fulltext#bib0003

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Abstract
Depending on how one defines homelessness, China has either a very tiny homeless population or an extremely large one. Compared to other countries, there very few vagrants: people living on the streets of China's cities without means of support. But if one counts the people who migrated to cities without a legal permit (hukou), work as day laborers without job security or a company dormitory, and live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the edge of cities, there are nearly 300 million homeless. Free market fundamentalism is responsible for the emergence of this sort of homelessness in China. We review China's recent new policies to tackle homelessness and offer suggestions based on the traditional Chinese wisdom, which includes the concept of the universal family (family - tian xia). Homelessness in China must be addressed as a cultural problem caused by the breakdown of ancient methods of social integration. Treating it merely as a housing deficit will fail.

mawarannahr posted:

some decent rfas I missed