Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 15 2022 07:45am)
I think China's zero covid policy has become a huge drag for their economy and has accelerated the move of capital and investment out of China and toward other places. Corporations really don't like an environment in which their factories can be shut down for weeks on end at any moment.
Much overstated. China had a single quarter of stagnation, and last quarter saw a return to IIRC 4.9% growth yoy. Foreign corps are spending *more* money in China over the course of the pandemic, even with all these insane sanctions packages. This comes even during a previously gloated over decline in FDI inflows into China. (China as it climbs the value chain is gearing itself much more towards internally driven investment, because they seem to have successfully navigated the middle income trap.)
Lockdowns get endless press in Western media, but for long periods of this pandemic life in China has been basically normal. In all of 2021, only two people died in China from COVID-19 and you could go to the restaurant and, rather infamously, a water park rave at the same time that America was seeing it's first real hospital-crushing waves in early summer 2020.
That said Chinese people are also starting to get sick of Dynamic Zero (Zero Covid is a term no one in China uses), which is why we are starting to see the very beginning of it's altering to something more long-term. Even there we see once again the Western press just go nuts on overstating the facts. Here is a proper analysis of the changes:
https://www.pekingnology.com/p/full-text-and-analysis-chinas-20Again, for the hundredth time, have to state: nothing you read about China in the Western press is accurate. Western journos in China are sexpat crybabies, they hate China and they hate Chinese people, which you can see from their constant lies and misattributions, historical illiteracy and how a lot of them will live there for 30 years and speak Mandarin at barely an HSK4 level.
Quote (Palasan @ Nov 15 2022 07:54am)
Haven't seen kusotarre1 lately, should be here soon, maggots crawl out of the woodwork when Russia starts to propel feces out of its cave, won't change anything.
I have a life outside of internet forums and Diablo 2. Not all of us are weirdos who run 2 or 3 different accounts to post on gaming forums. In a few years I'll be completely gone, because I don't play many video games when I'm outside Canada, which will be permanent soon (thank fuck).
Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Nov 15 2022 08:04am)
Ok this is what happened today. <insane China things any sane person would laugh at on principle>
So, so, so gullible. Honestly, give your head a shake.
The rest of the thread I can be arsed to read is people talking about Russia hitting Poland (no, it was a misfired/malfunctioned Ukrop S-300 that landed there) and a bunch of dumb shit about nukes (Russia's nuclear doctrine doesn't allow it. If you want to see an insane world-ending nuclear doctrine, there's is one single country in the world providing one. Guess who.)
And then some stupid stuff about Japan, you people need to stop learning history from American propagandists and wikipedia. America nuked Japan to threaten the USSR, just as they did with nuclear threats against the USSR vis-a-vis presence in Iran a few years later.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Nov 15 2022 09:24pm