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by nomay 3y ago
Then thay are better off doing it their own currency, so they don‘t even have to pay back.
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by nomay 3y ago
The reality is someone have pay for those beautiful infrastructure, not going to be the incumbents due to political arrangment, then it’s the vulnerable newcomers shouldering all of it. Just think about those terrifying condo prices.
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by nomay 3y ago
I think it’s not just foreigers with unfavorable origins, in their speaking of ideology/regime/path confidence, anyone not subscribing and contributing to the greater good, foreigners or not, are not welcomed and supposed to stay
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by nomay 3y ago
The regime has trumpeted the superiority of their political and governing system since the second month of covid-19, in stark contrast to the decadent and degenerate west, daily news started with data of how many more thousands died in
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by nomay 4y ago
The CCP way is making you do thing out of your own volition so that they can always be the nice guy, they never banned US companies, they just made them extremely uncomfortable to operate so they quit themselves.
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by nomay 4y ago
You just explained the businness model of banking.
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by nomay 4y ago
Wouldn't that be much more convenient to just use those passenger planes?
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by nomay 4y ago
Amazon sellers are actually researching the market and designing new products, which can't be said about domestic Chinese brands and sellers that are mired in cutthroat price dogfights. The profits maybe not be that big, but big enoug
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by nomay 4y ago
Baba workers are not underpaid, they are the main property speculators.
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by nomay 4y ago
From the party's view, although e-commerce helped in driving down consumer prices despite sky-high inequality and property speculation (much to the party's plan and advantage), he should remain manageble and of use. The principle
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by nomay 4y ago
The authorities actively hunt down those who do it
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by nomay 4y ago
The property market is way over-priced during the fast and furious two-decades quest to blow a credit tsunami. Now that the credit tsunami looks to inexorablly ebb under its own weight, a looming population implosion, the party will have to
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Chinese bus, for Covid zero-out, crashes off highway midnight with 27 dead(reuters.com)
2 points by nomay 4y ago|0 comments
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by nomay 4y ago
COVID measures made WeChat a must have for anyone except toddlers, since you need to show your green COVID qr code to enter public spaces, and almost any Chinese had done one if not daily obligatory mass testing, in which various WeChat ap
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by nomay 4y ago
You are shut out, and with the latest CCP censorship measures you are forbidden to creat accounts "web-wide". So I guess you should just keep your mouth shut other than harmonious online activities to avoid that doomsday situation
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by nomay 4y ago
The Android Wechat app came bundled with a years-old fork of webview, coz the Android scene is a total mess, various vendors not only never update their system apps, but actually substitute it with their custom versions, this made it unusab
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by nomay 4y ago
I'd assume they included a cheap rudimentary cell antenna on the back side.
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by nomay 4y ago
In China it's directly tied to you eligibility to nearly all local civil services, since something like 60% of the condo price goes to local government in the form of land sales (70 years rental actually) plus taxes, not to mention the
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by nomay 4y ago
Don't know what it's like in Korea, but in China, it's pretty common to have pension higher than local average salary if you were in the state job system, which is absolutely huge. This is due to the polical power dynamic. Ma
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by nomay 4y ago
I don't think it's the case, old folks will outvote the young, same as the property speculators are doing.
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by nomay 4y ago
Paypal charges the seller $8 fee for every dispute, $16 if the dispute rate higher than 1.5%. And $2500 dispute fee for each order deemed against their Acceptable Use Policy.
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by nomay 4y ago
>Musk also said at the Miami event that he was open to the idea of Twitter transforming into something in the west akin to WeChat, the all-encompassing “superapp” in China that allows users to shop, text and post to social media all with
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Elon Musk: WeChat-alike app needs to exist, built out of Twitter or from scratch(ft.com)
2 points by nomay 4y ago|1 comments
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by nomay 4y ago
The Chinese jail system is as corrupt as you can think, since many connected people would like to take advantage of their connections and noboby wants to deny them. An inmate's death sentence can be commuted to as less as 12 years afte
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by nomay 4y ago
Yes it is, the name is a stereotypical western name, which alone is preferred choice for Chinese brands hoping for the most hype and recognition, and the phrase Moore's law is pretty wellknown in China for geopolitial reasons, tho most
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Xiaomi MIUI 13 allegedly blocks installation of “unlawful” apps(twitter.com)
26 points by nomay 5y ago|16 comments
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Alibaba punished by CN authority for not reporting the Log4j 0-day within 2 days(m.thepaper.cn)
2 points by nomay 5y ago|0 comments
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by nomay 5y ago
If laptops came with non-Windows OSes are cheaper, I think it will have its market share. In some markets, people just don't consider paying for Windows a thing.
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Tencent Opens WeChat to Rivals’ Links as China App Walls Crumble(bloomberg.com)
2 points by nomay 5y ago|0 comments
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by nomay 5y ago
Every Chinese would extol their low broadband prices, like 100 RMB for 300 to 500 mbps, but what they didn't care is that the prices for businesses are startlingly high, so you have to pay to get blocky 1080p or even 720p online videos

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