Darkest Auer posted:

Looks just like any other Chinese New Year day

quote:

A city in China’s central Hunan province reported that it had culled almost 18,000 chickens after an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in statement on its website Saturday.

The statement didn’t say when the outbreak occurred, or when the cull happened. Hunan is next to Hubei, the epicenter of the separate coronavirus outbreak.

The avian influenza, found in a farm in Shaoyang City, killed 4,500 chickens, more than half the farm’s flock, the ministry said. The city culled almost 18,000 poultry after the outbreak. The statement said the outbreak was of a “highly pathogenic subtype” of the H5N1 flu.

Since 2003, the H5N1 avian flu has killed 455 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Throatwarbler posted:

Have you considered the possibility that maybe white people are bad

Magna Kaser posted:

Those are both from Guangzhou and Guangzhou has always had a huge issue with racism against Africans. The city has a huge African population (Nigeria and Ghana mostly iirc but I could be wrong) that primarily live in one area of town dubbed “chocolate town” by locals. You can Probably find some good pieces on that cuz it’s been a thing for years and years..

Guangdong was also the 2nd hardest hit province outside of Hubei so combine these two for people more loudly exclaiming their poo poo.

The weird foreigner garbage strips on the other hand seem to be one super angry dude and not really any more widespread than any hyper racist poo poo my aunt shares on Facebook. When those popped up mid last week in news stories claiming everyone in China saw and most agreed with them, I showed some colleagues and friends and only one had even seen them and a couple commented the dude who made them must have wanted to date a girl who was dating a foreigner or something.

Could be Shanghai bubble tho.

Magna Kaser posted:

Of course it does?

I'm not sure what that has to do with me explaining how Guangzhou has a longstanding, especially bad racism-towards-black-people problem and the weird coincidence all the examples of hotels/restaurants/apartments banning black people recently are from Guangzhou (afaik, the ones I've seen have all been GZ). I didn't say "this doesn't happen in Shanghai or anywhere else" lol

All I said about Shanghai was that basically none of my coworkers had seen those comic strips of the dudes throwing foreigners in the trash till I asked if they had seen them.

Blistex posted:

What's she hoping to accomplish? Or is it just for a laugh?

Tarquinn posted:

Where is that racism against Blacks in China coming from? The western world with its history of colonialism and slavery has some people that really have not evolved from that mindset, but why are Chinese more racist against Blacks? What I am saying is, why aren't they equal opportunity racists?

Jeoh posted:

Posting on the second lucky page of the thread. 800 pages until the next, seize the opportunity.

d0s posted:

ok

Grand Fromage posted:

Chugging a liter of pocari before bed after a hard boozing session is a pro move.

LimburgLimbo posted:

Unironically yeah pretty much

Alan Smithee posted:

soup of theseus

goblin week posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHsGO8a8WOE

oohhboy posted:

How about gently caress you assholes for years of harassment. You just couldn't let go and took a joke years too far. gently caress you.

BrainDance posted:

Of all the things to feel harassed about... Why does it even matter? If the worse thing people say to you in a given day is "post the suit" that sounds alright.

I never ragged on you cuz I don't care but, why not just post the loving suit? Top 10 redemption arc right there bam it's done.

Zakrello posted:

I am a FA in HK, they knew of my presence for so long there's no point to hide behind anything. I have never done anything other then helping people out. not even chanting slogans.

Mark my words, if someone in HK being peaceful like me would gets into trouble with NSL, then any loving body can get into trouble, and HK the place will be of no value to anyone anymore.

What we really wanted is to save our next generation which is the boys and girls who cannot affort / have no skills yet to get outta here. personally I really appreciate the world's response in helping us, and I totally understands there are whole lots of political/economical/humanitarian issues other countries needs to clarify and balance out before doing anything, so such a quick response into NSL is really awesome and much appreciated. Our middle class or above probably have not much issue getting out if they wanted to (other then assets which idfc). When poo poo actually hits the fan, please help OUR KIDS out.

I know, kids being kids they can't produce the value we grown up could bring to the table right away, become a short > medium term burden for sure. but they are the aspiring one here, they formed the lines here, they gets the hits every loving where, while grown ups hosed up everything before they were even born and is now too afraid to even type stuff online.

thanks for reading a random rear end stranger's rant.

btw I won't commit suicide if it gets to matter in the future

Kill All Cops posted:

hmm... not seeing a lot of correlation between the China posters in the LAN thread and the CSPAM thread...

Imperialist Dog posted:

I've been quiet because I knew one day this would happen.

Still waiting for my CIA paycheque btw.

Fojar38 posted:

Tsinghua Professor Xu Zhangrun was recently detained by the Chinese government for his outspoken criticism of Xi Jinping

The reason why is his latest essay that was published in February, "When Fury Overcomes Fear."

There is a translation available at this link and I suggest everyone read it, if simply to appreciate the burns that he lays down practically every other sentence

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear

stephenthinkpad posted:

Who is "we"? US? You know the trade war has been fought for the entire year of last year right? Trade policy is no longer an effective tool America (or any country) has leverage over China.

Post Covid, the Chinese GDP will catch up to US even faster, just look at the world bank/IMF/etc prejections.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Sorry to be rude.

But by "they" do you mean The Party, or you FIL's family?

Coz if your FIL keeps his passport in a safe in his own house, then that's cool. Just being careful.

But if the safe in which your Father in Law's passport is at party headquarters, then loving hell, that must suck for him, and by extension your spouse.

Again, sorry for potentially misunderstanding your post.

D-Pad posted:

I've got a friend who won't shut up about how the three gorges dam is going to collapse at any moment. I can't find any non-questionable news sources about this, but at the same time it is China.

Is there actually a chance this happens?

stephenthinkpad posted:

And we all know Trump polling number has been pretty bad recently. If the Trump number is still terrible come Sep/Oct I wouldn't be surprise if Trump throw a hail mary. What is a hail mary you ask? I wouldn't be surprised if Trump bomb the military structures on the SCS man made islands. Something like this place. I can't follow all these different reefs in SCS but if US want to do something militarily, I would put money on one of the rocks inside Philippine's claim.

Grand Fromage posted:

Got yelled at many a time for saying Genghis Khan and the Mongols were not Chinese.

quote:

American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the complaints.

The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.

A former league employee compared the atmosphere when he worked in Xinjiang to "World War II Germany."

GoutPatrol posted:

you do not gonna hand it to Stiglich, the cartoonist, he is a big racist

As for beef noodles, a part of it is the broth itself, it is hard to get that same kind of flavor at home compared to a restaurant that has that simmering forever stock to pull from.

Mozi posted:

BrigadierSensible posted:

This is certainly a frivolous question, so I am sorry.

oohhboy posted:

Word play so pick 1 or 2 or 3 or 4th spicy or all versions. Depends on your cultural context and how smart or dumb you want it to be.

Strategic Tea posted:

this is killing