Not really , I give you an example of one the situation that happen to my current client.
It was quite recent about three weeks back.

He had a factory in Hang Zhou about 13 to 15 years back which operated about a few months before he moved to Shenzhen.
The Hang Zhou IRS back check his accounts and said that he didn't pay some taxes back then and decided to fine him about 7.5 M RMB which he paid.

Then the Shenzhen IRS checked on him which they say he is supposed to pay the 7.5 M RMB fine to the Shenzhen IRS instead and ask him to get the 7.5 M back from the Hang zhou IRS which obviously they don't want to release it.
So now he have to pay double if not he is going to get fine even more.

The tax structure is by cities and not a federal kind of structure, therefore it is very very messy. It is done through courts yes, but different jurisdiction in different cities, there isn't a federal structure which is now confusing a lot of business owners.
And the tax office have never did such back checks until recently this year. So everyone is being caught off guard.

Even those who fervently follow the rules are now being picked on. It is somewhat a random thing, they will check on your yearly revenue and how huge the size of your factory or company is and they will pick on you.
This is the difficulties that they are facing now.

The central government do not have that much control on these issues, these are being delegated to local and province government and entities.

Just listened to President Biden's speech, a war time speech re: good vs evil. He was quite charismatic and the speech was very rousing. Basically he re-committed to Ukraine's defense, derided President Putin, committed to impose further sanctions this week, condemned the war, spoke of Nato as the strongest military alliance in the world and spoke heavily about the strength of Democracy in the face of its opponents. Basically President Biden indicated that the US is in this for the long haul and wont abandon Ukraine while they continue to fight.

On an aside, as previously commented, there is no difference in foreign affairs regardless of who is in Office (Democrat/Republicans) therefore no change in the narrative is expected (caveat: Trump).

So, given this speech, America will continue to do what it can to thwart Russian goals in Ukraine and he hinted that more is going to happen over the next 5 years. The door is firmly closed with regards to having talks with Russia.

off to listen to President Putin's speech now (erf its 2 hours, wonder where i can find one with english dub, but well that might not be safe).

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 22 2023 04:12am

Lmao what sort of brain damage do you need to have to find Joe Biden rousing? My condolences, whatever the cause

did you not listen to it ? did you not see where i said it was a war time speech? those are meant to be rousing.
If you are opposed to America a better argument would have been to deride the speech noting he talked alot about democracy but ignored the fact that the ukrainian government in 2014 was inserted by a US backed coup and therefore was not democratic in the first place.

im listening to the chinese speech now (munich security conference 2023), he speaks very well (hint: its not 2 hours long).

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 22 2023 04:41am

Yes it was a generic US Murica "we are here to save you all" speech, have you not heard US presidents speak the exact same way about every conflict the US coincidentally ends up in?

What else would he have said? "Oh ya we caused this shit, our bad". The only thing impressive about it was that he didn't shit himself or fall asleep halfway through.

you dont have to like him. it WAS a good wartime speech.

note the chinese speech is only 11 minutes long and then 20 mins of Q&A. highly worth watching to get a very grounded understanding of Chinese foreign policy today and in the future.

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 22 2023 04:47am

Thank you for permission not to like him, and I'm sure it was great if you have some form of brain damage, thus the condolences.

did you listen to it ?

I mean I literally just said yes I did, is it a reading comprehension problem or a short term memory issue? Good lord

not sure about this aggression, meanwhile posted a video to put forward a position, when i watched the video i noted the video had a different message. when i challenged the user on this he said he had not watch the video!! so forgive me if I seek for a clarification from users from time to time.

You could just as easily be a bottom life feeder shit troll posting garbage spouting rubbish about a video you never watched and just assumed it would be bad. At no point prior to #22269 did you clearly state that you had watched it.

i just checked the last 70 posts and no where did you categorically state you had watched the video. to be clear: some users may suggest something, but i much prefer emphatic yes/no's in order for a very clear position to be known. While this may come across as being pedantic, for myself I just want clear transparency of position.

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so the chinese speech had nothing new - they want peace in russia / ukraine, they stated their efforts to achieve this but accepted the challenges, inferring some forces did not want the war to stop. taiwan was mentioned in the Q&A, as was China / US relations. Basically china would not start a war, either in taiwan or elsewhere but that as everyone knows there are problems in Taiwan and issues with the US. A general philosophy of peaceful growth and prosperity was laid out. so to reiterate: well worth watching.

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 22 2023 05:16am