Say nice things about China

badabing106

Chinese phones > Apple phones and Google phones. It really makes you realise what rip off merchants Apple and Google are(All their phones are made in China, by the way)

Chinese engineering is absolutely epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlQshnlbu2s

jimmii

I think we all appreciate their work in creating a 3 in 1.

Fann Linn

Their fake PPE gear is good enough also to bluff some govts.

They're a great bunch of lads.

Rows Grower

Beef Chop Suey, fried rice.

LeYouth

They're good at producing viruses!

Better Than Christ

They only come up to your knees, yet they're always friendly and they're ready to to please.

Chicken Chow Mein.

When you order something from China, you get the added entertainment of both anticipation and suspense - will it arrive within three months? Will it arrive at all? It adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the whole online shopping experience.

Generally seem like a great bunch of lads etc.

untitled no. 1

They don't question their elders... and as a result they end up killing lots of the Earth's endangered species for "medicinal purposes".

mikhail

They have an admirable culture of taking care of their elderly to a degree we don't (not that we're terrible, mind). Of course, this is partly because their healthcare system doesn't encourage long term care, but it's also rooted in their culture going back at least to Confucius.

People have already made a few jokes above about takeaway food here, but their real food culture is fascinating and rich. Like us, they have a cultural memory of harsh famine, but where it's left us with one of the more impoverished food cultures around (stew and coddle don't add up to much) they have a huge variety of dishes that make a lot of flavour out of very little meat. Given the world's growing appetite for meat and the relatively inefficient land use that amounts to, there's a lesson there for the future.

They are determined not to be at the mercy of foreign powers again after the humiliations of colonialism in the 19th and early 20th century. They replicate essential industries at home rather than create a dependency on imports. It seems like a better long term strategy than the western approach of sending all their manufacturing abroad, pretending that the pollution and labour conditions used to make our goods doesn't count because it's far away.

They build on an enormous scale that seems impossible in a less controlled economy. The Yangtze river dam may have its faults, but it's an incredible feat of engineering that provides power and water security.

They've uplifted an enormous population out of poverty in just a few decades. They were dirt poor in the 70s, but the switch from a communist to a fascist system has resulted something like the population of the USA rising to western living standards. That there's still a billion or so in poverty is just an indication of the scale of the problem to begin with.

They're not bombing the **** out of anywhere. Instead, they're building ports, roads, railways, and paying for natural resources. There are caviats here - they're getting something out of all of those projects too, often a very good deal, but it feels like a more proactive approach then european hand-wringing and aid that winds up in the hands of warlords, or US military intervention and more indirect support of coups to get their way.

Lots to criticise about them too, but let's not pretend 1.4 billion people don't have anything positive about them just because they're not a democracy (well, not just because... but that's another story).

Rows Grower

mikhail wrote: »

They have an admirable culture of taking care of their elderly to a degree we don't (not that we're terrible, mind). Of course, this is partly because their healthcare system doesn't encourage long term care, but it's also rooted in their culture going back at least to Confucius.

People have already made a few jokes above about takeaway food here, but their real food culture is fascinating and rich. Like us, they have a cultural memory of harsh famine, but where it's left us with one of the more impoverished food cultures around (stew and coddle don't add up to much) they have a huge variety of dishes that make a lot of flavour out of very little meat. Given the world's growing appetite for meat and the relatively inefficient land use that amounts to, there's a lesson there for the future.

They are determined not to be at the mercy of foreign powers again after the humiliations of colonialism in the 19th and early 20th century. They replicate essential industries at home rather than create a dependency on imports. It seems like a better long term strategy than the western approach of sending all their manufacturing abroad, pretending that the pollution and labour conditions used to make our goods doesn't count because it's far away.

They build on an enormous scale that seems impossible in a less controlled economy. The Yangtze river dam may have its faults, but it's an incredible feat of engineering that provides power and water security.

They've uplifted an enormous population out of poverty in just a few decades. They were dirt poor in the 70s, but the switch from a communist to a fascist system has resulted something like the population of the USA rising to western living standards. That there's still a billion or so in poverty is just an indication of the scale of the problem to begin with.

They're not bombing the **** out of anywhere. Instead, they're building ports, roads, railways, and paying for natural resources. There are caviats here - they're getting something out of all of those projects too, often a very good deal, but it feels like a more proactive approach then european hand-wringing and aid that winds up in the hands of warlords, or US military intervention and more indirect support of coups to get their way.

Lots to criticise about them too, but let's not pretend 1.4 billion people don't have anything positive about them just because they're not a democracy (well, not just because... but that's another story).

Thanks for that insight Captain Obvious.

Harry Palmr

They gave us Charlie Chan and Cato.

mikhail

Rows Grower wrote: »

Thanks for that insight Captain Obvious.

It's obvious that Chinese cuisine uses very little meat to the vast majority of users here who've never eaten it? Do you have anything of use to contribute, or should we send you a bill for all the oxygen you're wasting?

mikhail

mikhail wrote: »

It's obvious that Chinese cuisine uses very little meat to the vast majority of users here who've never eaten it? Do you have anything of use to contribute, or should we send you a bill for all the oxygen you're wasting?

Depends on the dish, and China has it's own type of BBQ. But yes, few here really know what genuine Chinese food is really like. As for takeaway, my preference is Duck Kung Po, which you will never find in China. They'll never mix Duck with Kung Po cooking styles.

Positives?

Food:
Sichuan Hot Pot. It's just wonderful.
Steamed dumplings, in a spicy soup.
Beijing Roast Duck. Yum.

Plenty of great food, loads of awful food, and the worst desserts in Asia. Pity they're so goddamn bad with steak, but you can't have everything, unfortunately.

I thoroughly enjoy the traditional food culture of eating outside, and drinking beer, or Baijiu. Very communal, and friendly. Street food can also be fantastic, although it's disappearing due to retarded city ordinances.

Fritzbox

mikhail wrote: »

They've uplifted an enormous population out of poverty in just a few decades. They were dirt poor in the 70s, but the switch from a communist to a fascist system has resulted something like the population of the USA rising to western living standards. That there's still a billion or so in poverty is just an indication of the scale of the problem to begin with.

Interesting to see you calling the Chinese regime a fascist system, and there could well be some truth in it.
I wonder if censorship in China today is more or less repressive than it was in Mussolini's Italy or Franco's Spain, or even to compare the level of centralisation of political power in the these countries?

Rows Grower

mikhail wrote: »

It's obvious that Chinese cuisine uses very little meat to the vast majority of users here who've never eaten it? Do you have anything of use to contribute, or should we send you a bill for all the oxygen you're wasting?

Lol, what's this "we" **** Tonto?

fryup

China Girl is a great tune, thumpin bassline

Giraffe Box

It's better than Borris-in-Ossory.

sabat

Pointy tits

addaword

Some say that virus research lab in Wuhan, accidentally or not, changed the world.

policarp

They have a great wall in China and a terracotta army to guard it.

4068ac1elhodqr

It's located close to Japan, and those chaps really are a great bunch of lads.

Disclaimer: I'm rather big in Japan. Note: (-5 CCP Social Credits Points)

Cee-Jay-Cee

It’s easy to spell.

policarp

Confucius has now confused us.

jaxxx

Pandas

rom

It's not North Korea.

evad_lhorg

"Say nice things about China"

Edgware

Well they can **** off now. Of course we still have the usual gob****es who think that the Chinese brand of Communism is the way forward

Muahahaha

CHY - NAA

sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

Edgware

Edgware wrote: »

Well they can **** off now. Of course we still have the usual gob****es who think that the Chinese brand of Communism is the way forward

I genuinely doubt there's many who believe that, and if they do, then they don't really have a clue of the Chinese system.

Tails142

They aren't paralyzed by NIMBYism

Pretzill

jaxxx wrote: »

Pandas

I'll second Pandas and manners, they're very mannerly (not all pandas...)

branie2

Great food

Edgware

branie2 wrote: »

Great food

Especially that Bat soup

Say my name

Great work ethic.
Won't stop till world domination is complete.
Can print their own money.
They don't watch Coronation Street.

All that fandango

Cheers for the spice bags

Mariomaker

Thanks for Ice Cream

Coming from the country the murdered 60 million of its population more then Stalin last century & is currently cleansing and has consentration camps in Xinjiang.

Corona20

Got my first big lob the gob to a Chinese song.
Tpau China in your hand.
China wasnt all I had in my hand that night wha?

cj maxx

The prawns from the river in Shanghai are fcucking delicious.
Also some very very attractive women

whisky_galore

They're not fussy eaters.

Zebra3

Their high speed rail is incredible.

Was on it a few years ago from Shanghai to Beijing.

Less than five hours and that's about the same distance as NYC to Chicago.

See how long that takes on a train.

Zebra3

Zebra3 wrote: »

Their high speed rail is incredible.

Was on it a few years ago from Shanghai to Beijing.

Less than five hours and that's about the same distance as NYC to Chicago.

See how long that takes on a train.

I was on the Maglev in Shanghai last July. 20 miles in 7 minutes.

Imagine... Dublin to Galway in 56 minutes.

gammygils

Wheeler Dealers is just not the same without Ed

fryup

great for drinking tea from

They limit people giving birth.
Thank fcuk.

biko

They have slightly relaxed their one child policy that have caused so much grief.

mikhail

biko wrote: »

They have slightly relaxed their one child policy that have caused so much grief.

Yeah, they upped it to 2 for everyone a few years ago. By the end, there were loads of exemptions to it anyway. The one child policy has left them with similar demographics problems to us - what gets referred to as the "pensions time bomb" here.

branie2

They're a great bunch of lads

kowloonkev

jaxxx wrote: »

Pandas

Red Pandas too

Kermit.de.frog

Capt'n Midnight

Harry Palmr wrote: »

They gave us Charlie Chan and Cato.

Wasn't Cato one of the guys who assassinated Julius Caesar ?