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Speaking of going back. Guess who is going back in February. Yes his wife and kids will also be going. No I don't know how they are handling the paperwork this time. At least this time he'll actually know where the gently caress he is. Plus they do seem genuinely happy again these days. SerthVarnee fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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mainland, not singapore? lol
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i was in china last year and it was good
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SerthVarnee posted:Speaking of going back. The power of love
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MarcusSA posted:Where are you flying from??? I just checked LAX to Beijing and it was $1000-1200 From a place where it was $1000 last time. And still is to go to Tokyo, sooo.
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Just heard China is wimping out on their antilootbox stuff, booooooooooooooo
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Tunicate posted:Just heard China is wimping out on their antilootbox stuff, booooooooooooooo It affected tencent’s bottom line so they folded like bad seaweed lmao
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Why visit China when Vietnam is, like, right there? Vietnam rules, and its an actual socialist country
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Yeah I've heard lots of good stuff about Vietnam.
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ElGroucho posted:Why visit China when Vietnam is, like, right there? Vietnam rules, and its an actual socialist country Yeah I’ve heard nothing but really good tings about Vietnam.
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ElGroucho posted:Why visit China when Vietnam is, like, right there? Vietnam rules, and its an actual socialist country have you been? i heard mostly ok stuff, any sights?
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SerthVarnee posted:Speaking of going back. I can’t believe they worked it out
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so far
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah I’ve heard nothing but really good tings about Vietnam. Just gonna quote the wiki but "Vietnam has high levels of corruption, censorship, environmental issues and a poor human rights record; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities." All of which the people I met from Vietnam who moved abroad were more than happy to corroborate. One party states suck mega rear end universally.
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theyre basically in the happy fun stage of the soviet-japanese-chinese investment-fuelled-high-growth-without-handing-out-too-much-power-to-plebians cycle, like early 2000s prc or 1980s japan or 1960s ussr
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It's a good place to visit , or was a couple decades ago. Living there would be a different story.
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Lol actual socialist country. Yep, definitely not ""socialist"" with Vietnamese characteristics. E: Excuse me the Vietnamese term is apparently "socialist-oriented market economy". I'd like to go some day, I don't have any friends there I haven't seen for years though.
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vietnam is going to turn out no better than china did, don't kid yourself. that said, there is probably still a good 10-ish years of Happy Times before things start getting truly dark, so if you want to go make some friends, get some work, and have some fun then now's a fine time for it.
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Vietnam rules but yeah there's no pretending that it's anything other than an SEA autocracy that rolled the same dice as all the others (1-3 for eagle on cap; 4-6 for star on cap)Tunicate posted:Socialish
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they are way more jazzed about americans cuz they had one war w america which they won and 20 wars with china with a more mixed record, and the 21st is coming along one of these days
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Lots of scams on the Cambo Viet border Involving cops soldiers and forced locals, apart from that a cool and good place
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Grand Fromage posted:Lol actual socialist country. Yep, definitely not ""socialist"" with Vietnamese characteristics. E: Excuse me the Vietnamese term is apparently "socialist-oriented market economy". "If every family has a small business or shop then the workers own the means of production, right? 
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Just looked up the MMA Xu guy cause of this thread, lol what a legend, zero fucks
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Shadow bank Zhongzhi has gone bankrupt welp welp
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Top tier article on Taiwan's political history and upcoming election. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67920287
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I saw some KMT lad was handing out tide pods and a bunch of people got sick thinking they were candy lol.
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Gaius Marius posted:I saw some KMT lad was handing out tide pods and a bunch of people got sick thinking they were candy lol. God that’s so 2018
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Big rear end On Fire posted:Top tier article on Taiwan's political history and upcoming election. Almost as if Taiwan is historically and geographically it's own country and should be recognized as such, considering it's completely separate politics, language, food, art, culture, and even genetically etc. and the "Republic of China" concept should just be ditched as an outdated and unneeded idea Stop the hoopla already Toxic Mental fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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CCP is in a tough spot. As attitudes shift away from we are part of China to we are Taiwan they increasingly only have a violence option. Their best possible bet today is to woo the people and the government to somehow want to become China. Maybe that's laughable today. Any violent outcomes are pretty grim to imagine.
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CCP is in a tough spot. They could either relinquish their claim on a sovereign nation or they could start World War III
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Seriously. The CCP holds the cards here and has the agency. People would be pissed if they stopped claiming Taiwan, but I don't think that would endanger the government. There was a time where a one country two systems deal might have been possible. Then the CCP stomped Hong Kong into the dirt and eliminated any chance of that. They could have chosen to honor their treaties, stop menacing Taiwan all the time, and have the potential for a peaceful integration in the future. They weren't interested.
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Not sure if I'm interpreting snark correctly or what but just so it's clear, I am not suggesting China has a legitimate claim. I'm saying they do not appear to be backing down from this claim and in fact recently said it was off the table to Biden, and recent events in Ukraine have shown us what can happen in an invasion today between 2 forces with vaguely similar doctrines/hardware/backing. They're in a tough spot because they desperately want to fold Taiwan into China, are not backing down from this goal, and without the people of Taiwan wanting that to happen it's going to be ugly.
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Not even sure why China would want a country that doesn't want anything to do with you. Seems a bit dumb
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Imperialism, mainly
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Tai posted:Not even sure why China would want a country that doesn't want anything to do with you. Seems a bit dumb A mountainous, heavily forested country that has spent decades preparing for the eventuality of a Chinese invasion, no less.
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What's a better way to show the rest of the world that China is back, baby, and led by the biggest baddest swinging dick motherfucker around?
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It's mostly just revanchism, can't have the shame of losing territory to rebels, but there is a bit of a practical strategic thing since China's coast is completely surrounded by hostile countries that could theoretically cut off sea access. Conquering Taiwan would eliminate that. Of course, you could also just build up peaceful relations with your neighbors and not go to war with them, in which case you don't have to worry about it. That's silly though.
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Tai posted:Not even sure why China would want a country that doesn't want anything to do with you. Seems a bit dumb everything within the first island chain is pretty shallow so chinese nuclear subs can be tracked viably by the americans. if you launch off the east coast of taiwan, you can launch without being tracked, so their submarines can do submarine things much more effectively
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Big rear end On Fire posted:Top tier article on Taiwan's political history and upcoming election.  Hmm, a Taiwan and a 1
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