glenn239 Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) On 9/6/2020 at 11:59 PM, Adam_S said: There's plenty of other countries in the third world who would be more than happy to bang out iPads and cheap rubber dog shit for the West, so it'll be kind of interesting to see how this one pans out. Sure, buy a container of ipads from India and see how that works out for ya. Rubber production is a bit more than for toy dog shit. Funny thing about a 20,000lbs industrial loader. It's tires need to be made by somebody that knows what they are doing. Buy 23.5x25 tires from India or Thailand? Why not just shit all over $40,000 and flush it down the toilet? Edited September 10, 2020 by glenn239
JasonJ Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 Apparantly the movie was filmed near some of the intention centers and prisons. But since they seem to be all over the Xinjiang, no real way to not film near one probably if filming in Xinjiang. Quote TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Evidence has surfaced showing that scenes from the controversial Disney film "Mulan" were shot near at least 10 internment camps and five prisons in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, prompting Uyghur activists to call for a worldwide ban on "Disney's propaganda movie." On Monday (Sept. 7) Hong Kong-born British novelist Jeannette Ng (吳志麗) posted a screenshot of the film's closing credits in which Disney thanks a number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities in Xinjiang, where part of the movie was filmed. Among these were two publicity departments in the city of Turpan and one in Shanshan County, indicating that filming took place in both areas. The makers of the film even saw fit to thank the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security, which the U.S. Commerce Department last October placed on its Entity List for engaging in "human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the XUAR." According to Vogue, the Xinjiang segments of the film were shot in the "singing dunes of the Mingsha Shan Desert" and a "clay-and-earth Mazar village in the Tuyuk Valley." Not to be confused with the "Singing Sand Dunes of Dunhuang in neighboring Gansu Province, desert scenes in the Shanshan Desert appear to have been shot in the region's Shanshan County. Medium journalist Shawn Zhang, who claims to have mapped out the numerous camps in Xinjiang, wrote that if the "Mulan" film crew landed at the Turpan airport and traveled along highway G312 to the Shanshan Desert, "They could see at least seven re-education camps." Zhang told Taiwan News that "Re-education Camp No. 87" is located in Shanshan County a mere seven kilometers away from where the Shanshan Desert scenes were shot. The camp is officially called the Shanshan County Vocational Skill Education Center. Zhang said it is a stone material factory, based on satellite imagery. The village referenced in the Vogue article appears to be Mazar Village in Turpan Tuyugou, which based on Zhang's map of internment camps is 46.9 km by car from "Re-education Camps No. 76, 77, 78." It is also 47.7 kilometers by car from "Re-education Camp No. 36." On Tuesday (Sept. 8), the East Turkestan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) cited a report from 2019 that gave the coordinates for a total of 182 "concentration camps," 209 prisons, and 74 labor camps in Xinjiang, which it refers to as East Turkestan. The group then announced it had discovered that ten internment camps and five prisons were within a 130-km radius of Turpan. The group then pointed out that there are at least four internment camps and two prisons in the city itself. It added that there are four internment camps and two prisons in Turpan's Pichan County, while the prefecture-level city's Toksun County has one internment camp and a single prison. This means there are at least ten internment camps and five prisons in the same city area as the "Mulan" shoot. The activists refuted the Chinese government's claim that internees in the "re-education" camps had "graduated" by citing satellite imagery from March to July of 2020 that shows the camps still in operation. In response to the credit the Disney film gave to CCP authorities in Xinjiang, the report cited ETNAM President Salih Hudayar: “By filming the movie in Turpan, East Turkistan, where there are possibly hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs being detained in concentration camps and prisons, Disney is not only helping promote Chinese government propaganda but it is also helping the CCP whitewash the genocide faced by Uyghurs and demonizing the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan as “barbarians” and as enemies of China and the Chinese people.” The organization then called on people across the globe to boycott "Disney's propaganda movie 'Mulan.'" The ETNAM demanded that Disney immediately cancel all screenings of the film and issue a formal apology to Uyghurs and "other Turkic peoples of East Turkestan," adding that the entertainment conglomerate should not be "complicit in the ongoing genocide." An ETNAM representative told Taiwan News that based on the various government entities thanked in the closing credits, filming also took place at the "Flaming Mountains" in the Kumtag Desert, which is situated in Turpan's Gaochang District. They estimated that the nearest internment camp is within a 16-to 24-kilometer radius to the area that "Mulan" was filmed in. The spokesperson then emphasized that to get to the area where the filming took place, the Disney crew would have passed "several concentration camps," some of which are visible from the highway. The ETNAM estimates that in some villages in Turpan, up to 80 percent of the Uyghur population has been detained. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4004891
JasonJ Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 36 minutes ago, urbanoid said: Will somebody please think of the money we can make!!!
Stargrunt6 Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 4 hours ago, urbanoid said: I'll let the drunk Scotsman have his say:
JasonJ Posted September 15, 2020 Posted September 15, 2020 ((start)) China’s latest efforts to speed up the assimilation of its ethnic minorities into the majority Han culture have reached Inner Mongolia, where recent education reforms have sparked protests over fears they will erode the Mongolian language. Students staged walkouts, parents pulled their children out of school and petitions have been circulating online opposing the introduction of textbooks in key subjects, to be taught in Mandarin Chinese rather than the local language. The reforms were announced just days before the start of the school term, with new textbooks for language and literature, morality and law, and history classes which will be compulsory across all grades in Mongolian schools by 2022. China officially recognises 56 ethnic groups and grants a level of autonomy to some, but Beijing made clear late last year that the so-called affirmative action policies for these groups were being scaled back to promote integration into the majority Han Chinese group. Tibetan and Uygur minority language schools have mostly been eliminated since 2017 and replaced by Mandarin Chinese instruction, in tandem with a Beijing crackdown on dissent and mass detention of protesters and opponents. ... ((end)) https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3101186/language-rules-inner-mongolia-another-step-erode-ethnic-groups
lucklucky Posted August 10, 2021 Posted August 10, 2021 Win Math Olympiad 2021. https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2021
lucklucky Posted August 22, 2021 Posted August 22, 2021 https://quillette.com/2021/08/19/as-us-schools-prioritize-diversity-over-merit-china-is-becoming-the-worlds-stem-leader/amp/?__twitter_impression=true As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader Authors names: PERCY DEIFT, SVETLANA JITOMIRSKAYA, AND SERGIU KLAINERMAN All three of us are mathematicians who came to the United States as young immigrants, having been attracted by the unmatched quality and openness of American universities. We came, as many others before and after, with nothing more than a good education and a strong desire to succeed. As David Hilbert famously said, “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” Having built our careers in US academia, we are proud to call ourselves American mathematicians. (...) As part of this effort, China is identifying and nurturing talented math students as early as middle school. At the university entrance level, China relies on a hierarchical, layered system based on a highly competitive, fairly administered, national exam. STEM disciplines are encouraged: According to the World Economic Forum, China has the highest number of STEM grads in the world—at least 4.7 million in 2016. (By comparison, the United States came in third at 569,000. And as noted previously, a large portion of these graduates are foreign nationals.) China also has vastly increased the quality of its top universities, with six now ranked among the best 100 in the world. Tsinghua and Peking (ranked 17th and 18th respectively) now narrowly outrank Columbia, Princeton, and Cornell. As visitors to these Chinese universities (including ourselves) can attest, the average math undergraduate is now performing at a much higher level than his or her counterpart at comparable US institutions. (...)
JasonJ Posted August 31, 2021 Posted August 31, 2021 An August 3rd article about gaming being called "spiritual opium". Shares of Chinese game making companies drop. Quote Chinese online gaming companies tumbled on Tuesday, after a report by Xinhua News Agency-affiliated Economic Information Daily said that the business is "spiritual opium," and the impact on teenagers' growth should not be underestimated. In the morning trading on Tuesday, Tencent Holdings Ltd tumbled by 10.57 percent to HK$424.80 ($54.63) per share, NetEast Inc was down 11.76 percent to HK$139.60 and XD Inc fell to 11.97 percent to HK$42.30. In the A-share market, Wuhu 37 Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Group Co dipped 6.52 percent to 18.65 yuan ($2.89) per share, Perfect World Co Ltd down 5.41 percent to 15.38 yuan and Zhejiang Century Huatong Group Co Ltd down 3.68 percent to 5.49 yuan by 11:30 am. On Tuesday, the Economic Information Daily reported that addiction to online games has a double negative impact on teenagers' physiology and psychology. It pointed out that more than half of the country's children and teenagers suffered from nearsightedness in 2020, while there is a trend that addiction to online games impacts their academic performance and leading to the development of personality disorders. The report said that the harm of online games is increasingly becoming a social consensus, with the industry being dubbed "spiritual opium" or "electronic drugs." Online gaming has already grown into a massive industry. In 2020, the actual sales revenue of the games market in China grew 20.71 year-on-year to 278.7 billion yuan, whereas Tencent - which accounts for about half of market share - posted income of 156.1 billion yuan. The report said that a survey conducted at a middle school in Luzhou, Southwest China's Sichuan Province about students' addiction to online games showed that about 26.23 percent of the 2,000 some respondents play online games every two or three days, while 11.66 percent of the students play almost every day. Honor of Kings, developed by Tencent, is the most popular internet games among these students, with 47.59 percent of the respondents playing the games frequently. At the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference, better known as ChinaJoy, on July 29, Yang Fang, vice-director of the Publishing Bureau of the Central Publicity Department said that the country has established a national online game anti-addiction real-name authentication system, with over 5,000 enterprises and 10,000 games set to be connected. Yang said that relevant government agencies will continue to focus on anti-addiction work in a bid to make positive progress in this regard. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1230403.shtml Yesterday the PRC issued new regulation for online gaming for minors (18 and younger it seems). Only 1 hour, 8PM to 9PM, on only Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays. Quote BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has released a notice on preventing minors from becoming addicted to online games. Online game providers can only offer one-hour services to minors from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as on official holidays, according to the document made public on Monday. It also urged the strict implementation of real-name registration and logins, saying that online game providers must not provide any form of game service to users who fail to register and log in using their real identifications. Press and publication administrations at all levels have been asked to supervise the implementation of related measures and deal with companies that fail to put measures in place. Minors' addiction to online games has drawn much attention from the society, an official with the NPPA said, adding that the newly-released notice is meant for minors who are still in the developmental stage physically and mentally, and have poor self-control. A limited amount of gaming time for minors is understandable and acceptable as some online games can play an active role in their development, like sports, programming or chess, the official told Xinhua. In 2020, over 10,000 games had been checked by the NPPA, and more than 50 companies have been admonished and handled. The NPPA has pledged to carry out a special campaign in primary and middle schools, and efforts will be made to strengthen communication among the online gaming industry, parents, teachers and schools to create a better environment for the healthy development of minors. http://www.news.cn/english/2021-08/30/c_1310157911.htm
Ssnake Posted August 31, 2021 Posted August 31, 2021 I sold my Alibaba and Tencent shares a while ago when it became clear that the commies were back in "let's destroy businesses that we don't understand" mode. Was fun while it lasted, I'm out +/-0 so no harm done to my portfolio. Sucks to be them - but hey, "China". You're gonna be happy while you curry favor with the government, until you don't.
sunday Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 Nice processing chips you make, Arm. Do you want access to the Chinese market? What about a nice joint venture? What's the worse that could happen? It happened. https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century
RETAC21 Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 4 hours ago, sunday said: Nice processing chips you make, Arm. Do you want access to the Chinese market? What about a nice joint venture? What's the worse that could happen? It happened. https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century No heist, at this point they gave it away: "sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors". This happens when large companies cut corners and try to avoid proper due dilligence in the rush to make profits, so you end up in locations where the rules these companies know apply no more... It's not just white people Simon, it's people in general.
sunday Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 Read again the article, RETAC21. That was one man that defied the whole board, using a Chinese law technicality about the official company seal. A buccaneer of the board room, if there was even one.
RETAC21 Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 1 hour ago, sunday said: Read again the article, RETAC21. That was one man that defied the whole board, using a Chinese law technicality about the official company seal. A buccaneer of the board room, if there was even one. I saw that, and that happened because ARM (actually Softbank) didn't understand Chinese practices (which should have been point 1 on their process) enabling the local partners to take advantage. This is not necessarily a Chinese thing either, you can have that ova here if the powers of attorney granted to the CEO enable him to act alone (see Pescanova)
sunday Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 Fair point. Then the establishment of the JV was the origin of all that.
Simon Tan Posted September 1, 2021 Posted September 1, 2021 The simple question is why? Why do you need growth? Business need profitability. Not growth. Only idiot capital needs growth.
RETAC21 Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 On 9/1/2021 at 5:01 PM, Simon Tan said: The simple question is why? Why do you need growth? Business need profitability. Not growth. Only idiot capital needs growth. Fear of missing out, evidently. If you have a perfectly functioning enterprise, but you fear your competitors may undercut you on price, you start looking for "efficiencies" and all those expensive workers, with their pesky rights, need to go (and the experience goes with them but who cares...) instead going for places with slave labor so cost goes down. But of course, they don't have a clue, so you need to export your know how as they are "primitive". And primitive they may be, but not idiots (China only has 3200 years of history to draw on...) and the greedy westeners are baffled when they are outmaneuvred...
Simon Tan Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 In the pandemic, Carlsberg Malaysia saw it's sales drop by 50% (lockdown menas no on trade) but profitability was best ever. The company was discounting to get growth to meet Copenhagen's demands. This is why I say white ppl are stoopid.
sunday Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Simon Tan said: In the pandemic, Carlsberg Malaysia saw it's sales drop by 50% (lockdown menas no on trade) but profitability was best ever. The company was discounting to get growth to meet Copenhagen's demands. This is why I say white ppl are stoopid. When HR departments are SJWs strongholds, professional competence or business smarts are not priorities when hiring someone. Re: RETAC21, the last Manchus, and Mao did try to make the Chinese people stupider, but they did not succeeded. In parts not exposed to the Manchus, or Mao, like HK or SGP, there are very smart people, like the friends Simon introduced to me. Edited September 2, 2021 by sunday
RETAC21 Posted September 2, 2021 Posted September 2, 2021 11 minutes ago, sunday said: When HR departments are SJWs strongholds, professional competence or business smarts are not priorities when hiring someone. Re: RETAC21, the last Manchus, and Mao did try to make the Chinese people stupider, but they did not succeeded. In parts not exposed to the Manchus, or Mao, like HK or SGP, there are very smart people, like the friends Simon introduced to me. Problem with China is that they will default to a single man in power, which is good if he's smart but dangerous if he is an idiot. Currently the Commie party is trying and failing to set up a meritocracy in the Franco model (ie, the top guy has the final word but its others doing the thinking). Underlings have to be smart to thrive, else other underlings will step on them.
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