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guessing this has something to with the run-up to the bangladesh war.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:12
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crepeface posted:lol, i couldn't finish the article. it's bad enough when you know how misleading normal western media is, but i don't need to read about "boycotting chinese-owned restaurants" lmfao how much does it cost to go from hk to there?
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Mar 4, 2024 18:37
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mawarannahr posted:how much does it cost to go from hk to there? can't remember, and it was like 20 years ago. fart simpson would probably know better.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:48
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mawarannahr posted:how much does it cost to go from hk to there? I just checked now its 200 HKD. Don't think the price has changed much in 20 years.
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Mar 4, 2024 19:05
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uninterrupted posted:the commute isn't bad i paid 30 bucks and sat in a supercool first class spaceship rear end seat from Guangzhou to HK. there's a customs check but I don't think Chinese citizens have to deal with it wow, a bay area with functional rail
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Mar 4, 2024 19:24
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I used to go to school in mumbai and lived in navi mumbai. Hell, commute was free on trains if you were going from/to school
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Mar 4, 2024 19:27
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stephenthinkpad posted:I just checked now its 200 HKD. Don't think the price has changed much in 20 years. not bad. thanks 
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Mar 4, 2024 19:29
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mila kunis posted:taiwan too https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-plans-taiwan-labour-supply-pact-while-china-tensions-brew lollll, so they're squaring this circle with open racism. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5106858 Taiwan recruiting Indians with 'similar skin color' to Taiwanese: Labor minister Northeast India's target for recruitment due to similar skin tone, eating habits, belief in Christianity, labor skills TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Labor Minister Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) said that Taiwan plans on recruiting migrant workers from northeast India because "their skin color and eating habits" are similar to Taiwanese, their Christian beliefs, and their skills in manufacturing, construction, and agriculture.
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Mar 4, 2024 19:39
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^^^ Yeah that got a raise out of me when I saw the news quote yesterday. I also want to know exactly the Christian percentage in Taiwan. It can't be that high. If you can't find Buddhist migrant workers in India, you should be able to find some in Nepal, I think they are still 30% Buddhists.
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Mar 4, 2024 19:45
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the large manufacturing hubs of manipur... At least the japanese racial power gamers plotted things onto a graph and came to the logical conclusion that their indian investments would be better off in Tamil Nadu.
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Mar 4, 2024 19:45
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i thought taiwan was part of the rules based order. i didn't know you could do the based yes guy 'Yes, we are racist and our policies are based on race' as the labor minister of a shining, vibrant, democratic US ally
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Mar 4, 2024 19:55
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taiwan is gonna need a lot of re-education camps
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Mar 4, 2024 20:09
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mila kunis posted:i thought taiwan was part of the rules based order. i didn't know you could do the based yes guy 'Yes, we are racist and our policies are based on race' as the labor minister of a shining, vibrant, democratic US ally they’re part of the special tier of march states along with israel and ukraine. if anything they’re taking it easy with what they can get away with
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Mar 4, 2024 20:34
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if they make hk housing affordable i will be fleeing there to escape burger persecution
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Mar 4, 2024 20:35
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mila kunis posted:i thought taiwan was part of the rules based order. i didn't know you could do the based yes guy 'Yes, we are racist and our policies are based on race' as the labor minister of a shining, vibrant, democratic US ally The US is racist as gently caress though? So Taiwan fits perfectly. Or is that the joke? 
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Mar 4, 2024 21:47
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Usually Taiwanese government's weird quirks are from Japan. So I wouldn't be surprised if Japanese migrant labor policy have a similar thing.
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Mar 4, 2024 22:22
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Lol that's Futurama Nixon
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Mar 4, 2024 22:35
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stephenthinkpad posted:Usually Taiwanese government's weird quirks are from Japan. So I wouldn't be surprised if Japanese migrant labor policy have a similar thing. in this case not really no. Japan invested in places that had skilled labor etc and hires its indians from there - mostly from tamil nadu.
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Mar 5, 2024 01:55
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actually vaguely related sidenote: can you drive onto HK from the mainland? do they have a little loop-de-loop to flip the side of the road you drive on to the British bullshit?
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Mar 5, 2024 02:13
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uninterrupted posted:actually vaguely related sidenote: can you drive onto HK from the mainland? do they have a little loop-de-loop to flip the side of the road you drive on to the British bullshit? You have to have a HK plate and have both HK and mainland driver licenses. And you switch lane to the wrong side when you drive pass the custom border. Yeah it's insane. HK doesn't allow purchase of right handed car, and verse versa in mainland so only HK cars get exemption to drive in mainland. A quick search show only commercial vehicles can apply for special dual-use permits. Edit, actually new regulation started last July allowed HK passenger cars to enter Guangdong province for 30 days without any special permit or insurance. Doesn't need a new license, just do an online application. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 02:51 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 02:38
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uninterrupted posted:the commute isn't bad i paid 30 bucks and sat in a supercool first class spaceship rear end seat from Guangzhou to HK. there's a customs check but I don't think Chinese citizens have to deal with it chinese citizens do have to cross through the border and customs, but they can use e-channel which means its a 5 minute thing in the worst case. actually, foreign citizens living in shenzhen on a residence permit (me) can apply for e-channel too. so i can go door to door from my apartment to my friend's in hong kong in like 1 hour
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Mar 5, 2024 02:43
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stephenthinkpad posted:I just checked now its 200 HKD. Don't think the price has changed much in 20 years. one way is cheaper. you can take the bus one way from the sz border to central for like 60 HKD. the new high speed train is 70 RMB. if you want to take public transportation it's more like 30 HKD each way from the border to central (if you're going somewhere close to the border in hong kong it will be like 10 RMB)
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Mar 5, 2024 02:47
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stephenthinkpad posted:You have to have a HK plate and have both HK and mainland driver licenses. And you switch lane to the wrong side when you drive pass the custom border. Yeah it's insane. not only are they commercial only, they're crazy expensive. like hundreds of thousands of dollars US from what ive heard anyway, a relatively new thing is that hong kong drivers can apply for a temporary permit to drive into mainland china for a short time, like for a trip or something. i don't know the details of it but i've heard that it now exists. i don't think you can do that the other way around (mainland driver driving their car into hong kong)
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Mar 5, 2024 02:51
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fart simpson posted:one way is cheaper. you can take the bus one way from the sz border to central for like 60 HKD. the new high speed train is 70 RMB. if you want to take public transportation it's more like 30 HKD each way from the border to central (if you're going somewhere close to the border in hong kong it will be like 10 RMB) I am pretty sure the cost to go from GZ to SZ was 55 RMB 15 years ago. Taking a bus from HKG to GZ was like 40-50 HKD. I don't know how I remember it. The fare has generally not changed, compared to everything else. 15 years ago it wasn't even proper HSR, it was the proto-high speed train called Hexie Hao (because "building hexie society" was a Hu era motto.)
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Mar 5, 2024 02:59
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fart simpson posted:chinese citizens do have to cross through the border and customs, but they can use e-channel which means its a 5 minute thing in the worst case. actually, foreign citizens living in shenzhen on a residence permit (me) can apply for e-channel too. so i can go door to door from my apartment to my friend's in hong kong in like 1 hour Why a Chinese citizen would want to go-to HK at this point is beyond me, likely to get ripped off and beat up.
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Mar 5, 2024 03:12
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Its like visiting another country but not really.
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Mar 5, 2024 03:13
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Spergin Morlock posted:I think it was here that I learned about the Wave Media channel that covered a lot of China centric topics. Just saw they decided to interview Jackson Hinkle about 'MAGA communism' and the replies are full of people praising him. I unfollowed that channel immediately lol careful, if you say this in the wrong places you'll get scolded because "at least he's saying the right things about palestine" by people who don't seem to know what opportunism is
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Mar 5, 2024 03:44
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Doktor Avalanche posted:miracle of socialism: in china even mckinsey does useful work just randomly thinking about this again. sometimes i hear about china getting into bed with pretty bad companies or institutions and it makes me go wtf. i guess if this kind of thing is their experience, it makes sense that they feel confident they can use them to do productive work. edit: oh, right. hinkle and "maga communism" is what made me think about it.
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Mar 5, 2024 04:22
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Gildiss posted:‘More than $1,000 per child’: Park Chung-hee’s Korea ignored Belgium’s calls for action on adoption profiteering one of my greater frustrations in regard to antikorean racism disguised as wokism thats just tacitly accepted as true is the idea that korean culture is blood obsessed and just leaves children out to die because why else would they send so many of their children out to to be adopted by strangers how backwards they were before white people taught them civilization meanwhile in the real world north korea mocked and belittled south korea for decades about the fact that they did this because it sounded every bit as insane to them as it did to anyone else but nobody on our side of the iron curtain even pretended like this was anything but the most aboveboard thing ever until the first generation of adoptees grew up and were telling south korea and their adoptive countries both to just choke on dicks and die
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Mar 5, 2024 05:35
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crepeface posted:just randomly thinking about this again. the title is clever but i think the fact of the matter is that mckinsey usually does useful work for whomever hires them.
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Mar 5, 2024 05:43
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HK locals relationship with the mainland is a lot like Singaporeans relationship with Malaysia. They are the place I get cheap labor, cheap goods, and cheap entertainment and they are also terrible nasty bog people who must be destroyed. It's not racist, tho. GlassEye-Boy posted:Why a Chinese citizen would want to go-to HK at this point is beyond me, likely to get ripped off and beat up. Brand name luxury shopping and 2- and 3-star Michelin restaurants. Actually for a lot of non rich people, you go to HK to visit Disney and maybe Ocean Park and eat some dim sum, maybe take a bunch of photos in SoHo at the murals. It's honestly a fun weekend destination. If my partner could find good employment on the mainland I'd happily move back, though.
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Mar 5, 2024 08:55
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Honestly, HK kind of seems stuck in the 80s compared to mainland cities from what I have seen. I guess it makes sense that it got built out and what they have, they have. It is just a 1st tier mainland city seems like it would be a better place to live, perhaps it is why younger HKers are changing their minds.
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Mar 5, 2024 09:07
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My wife had to go to Hong Kong when she was a teen because it was one of the only places you could take an SAT for applying to American universities.
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Mar 5, 2024 13:43
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Telluric Whistler posted:HK locals relationship with the mainland is a lot like Singaporeans relationship with Malaysia. They are the place I get cheap labor, cheap goods, and cheap entertainment and they are also terrible nasty bog people who must be destroyed. Interesting that Hong Kong and Singapore were British outposts and both have a similar relationships with their hinterlands as London does. Must be a coincidence.
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Mar 5, 2024 14:47
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Lol China just announced it spent 1.2 trillion yuan in investment in water conservancy projects for 2023. The Biden administration allocated 8.3 billion over ten years in 2022 and claimed it as a major win for us infrastructure.
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Mar 5, 2024 15:08
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RedSky posted:Interesting that Hong Kong and Singapore were British outposts and both have a similar relationships with their hinterlands as London does. Must be a coincidence. at least singapore adopted simplified chinese and has public housing so that's light years ahead of HK
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Mar 5, 2024 15:09
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RedSky posted:Interesting that Hong Kong and Singapore were British outposts and both have a similar relationships with their hinterlands as London does. Must be a coincidence. I am sure they wanted to make HK independent if them British got their way. Singapore was able to become a city state because there were ethnic conflicts the UK and US could exploit. This isn't the case in HK. Palladium posted:at least singapore adopted simplified chinese and has public housing so that's light years ahead of HK Yes probably best public housing projects in the world even. That's the difference between a Chinese ruled city and British Viceroy ruled city. All the British good at is making property price going higher and higher. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 16:10 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 16:07
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ikanreed posted:Lol China just announced it spent 1.2 trillion yuan in investment in water conservancy projects for 2023. So converted to dollars that's about 150 billion in one year for China?
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Mar 5, 2024 16:16
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Maybe not one year, I remember talks of long canals being built both in Yunnan and Tibet. Here is a link, wordings are kinda confusing. i think it meant "secured funding for projects..." https://www.ecns.cn/m/news/economy/2024-03-05/detail-ihcyipmf1900093.shtml stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 16:33 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 16:26
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The stated target coming out of the NPC report is 3% YoY CPI growth. Seems higher than the past? And more in line with what western economists are calling for but that's just because the banks want low interest rates again, not bc of any possible social outcomes.
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