Hotznplotzn

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Call it whatever you want, but these kinds of comments always work in one direction: defending China, or at least distracting from the Chinese government's crimes by just shouting out "Gaza" or "Israel" or "UAE" or anything that.

It never goes the other way, though. There are many posts here calling out Israel and the US, for example, but there you don't see such comments saying, "But China's genocide ... "

What you are doing is widespread here in the Lemmyverse. It's some sort of "the West bad, China bad okay" stance. I call this whataboutism. It shows your hypocrisy.

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Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 17h ago

What an absurdly weird whataboutism. As if one crime would justify another.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 18h ago

That‘s never the case, fortunately!

Gabriel Boric is also citing his press advisor Nicole Vergara: “The people I distrust most are those who never doubt.”

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 19h ago

Yes, exports is China's last lifeline for now. It's economy has been highly dependent on foreign markets, and this might continue as an analysis based on newly released data by China's Statistics Office, but the researchers look a bit closer. They conclude that China’s “New” Strategic Industries Will Not Produce 5% GDP Growth -- (here is an archived link):

China’s high-technology industries will not generate investment sufficient to power 5% GDP growth in the years ahead
The reason is that the country's technology sector is too small relative to the property and infrastructure investment that are in sharp decline
China will become even more dependent upon gaining market share in export markets, in both new and traditional industries
China’s past economic performance has clearly been overstated, particularly since the decline of the property sector starting in 2022

It's time for the Europe, Canada, Australia et al to diversify away a bit faster from Chinese supply chains and their ChEaP pRoDuCtS mAdE bY sLaVe LaBoUr. These diversification is already under way, and the long-term outlook isn't too good for China as domestic markets are down, consumer confidence is sharply down since the start of the pandemic.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 19h ago

Yes, exports is China's last lifeline for now. It's economy has been highly dependent on foreign markets, and this might continue as an analysis based on newly released data by China's Statistics Office, but the researchers look a bit closer. They conclude that China’s “New” Strategic Industries Will Not Produce 5% GDP Growth -- (here is an archived link):

China’s high-technology industries will not generate investment sufficient to power 5% GDP growth in the years ahead
The reason is that the country's technology sector is too small relative to the property and infrastructure investment that are in sharp decline
China will become even more dependent upon gaining market share in export markets, in both new and traditional industries
China’s past economic performance has clearly been overstated, particularly since the decline of the property sector starting in 2022

It's time for the Europe, Canada, Australia et al to diversify away a bit faster from Chinese supply chains and their ChEaP pRoDuCtS mAdE bY sLaVe LaBoUr. These diversification is already under way, and the long-term outlook isn't too good for China as domestic markets are down, consumer confidence is sharply down since the start of the pandemic.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

This is a report published by a bank with considerable business in China that uses official data and Chinese Communist Party narratives.

There is an analysis based on newly released data by China's Statistics Office, but the researchers look a bit closer. They conclude that China’s “New” Strategic Industries Will Not Produce 5% GDP Growth -- (here is an archived link):

China’s high-technology industries will not generate investment sufficient to power 5% GDP growth in the years ahead
The reason is that the country's technology sector is too small relative to the property and infrastructure investment that are in sharp decline
China will become even more dependent upon gaining market share in export markets, in both new and traditional industries
China’s past economic performance has clearly been overstated, particularly since the decline of the property sector starting in 2022

[Edit typo.]

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Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

This is a report published by a bank with considerable business in China that uses official data and Chinese Communist Party narratives.

There is an analysis based on newly released data by China's Statistics Office, but the researchers look a bit closer. They conclude that China’s “New” Strategic Industries Will Not Produce 5% GDP Growth -- (here is an archived link):

China’s high-technology industries will not generate investment sufficient to power 5% GDP growth in the years ahead
The reason is that the country's technology sector is too small relative to the property and infrastructure investment that are in sharp decline
China will become even more dependent upon gaining market share in export markets, in both new and traditional industries
China’s past economic performance has clearly been overstated, particularly since the decline of the property sector starting in 2022

[Edit typo.]

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Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 3d ago

@fishos@lemmy.world

Your comment misses a lot of points. The catastrophic consequences for are seen, and they were foreseeable. It's just that the dictatorial government didn't listen to researchers. As you say that "ideally you’d have a 2 child policy to actually replace parents 1:1 with kids": No, ideally, you have no 'child policy'. It's not a government's role to say how many kids everyone should have.

I wrote in another threat that China's one-child policy has many issue caused by the government, and there are many consequences unique to this Chinese policy and that the article doesn't contain, such as unrecognised children in China’s post one-child policy landscape:

... Although gender may seem to be a less obvious element of China’s one-child policy, it was a crucial component. Not only did this cultural gender preference cause a large demographic imbalance between boys and girls, but it also led to phenomena like mass adoptions and even infanticides of baby girls. The government has also occasionally contributed to unethical and extreme measures by carrying out forced abortions and sterilisations in order to make families comply with the policy ...

The one-child policy, which reigned in the country for more than 30 years, has also resulted in the development of an entire generation of children—who are now also adults —that do not appear in Chinese state records. People who fall into this group are popularly called “Heihaizi“, China’s “black children” who could not obtain a hukou— an official household registration. Such children were primarily second-born or later children who, upon birth, had no recognized right to exist due to this family planning policy ...

Even in the case that families would want to regularize their Heihaizi’s administrative status and obtain a hukou registration, the cost to do so is often too prohibitive for them. This aspect has additionally highlighted economic and social disparities, as wealthier and more affluent families have been able to circumvent the norm by paying the fee for a hukou.

Not registered Heihaizi, therefore, end up being forced to stay away from society and even public spaces, spending most of their time confined to exclusively familiar spaces ...

This is devastating and absolutely incomparable in its cruelty to any other country afaik.

@nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

Do you have any evidence about this claim?

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Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

What a good trading partner China is, ha?

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Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

The world socialist website is still a propaganda medium that supports regimes that are traditionally authoritarian, like China, Russia, North Korea, and Venezuela. Very often, they frame narratives of "US versus China/Russia" which means they may have a very hard time at least in the near future as the US is turning authoritarian, too.

It won't change the fact that the world socialist website is not a reliable source and should not be trusted, though.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

I just made a similar comment in another thread in this comm. It seems OP is posting questionable sources all over the place.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

This Progressive International is another self-proclaimed 'left-wing' organization openly hailing authoritarian governments' politics and spreading anti-democratic propaganda by conveying, for example, pro-China narratives - such as Beijing's 'democracy' - and demanding the 'dismantlement of NATO.' Yanis Varoufakis is also among the guests there.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

I added a link to to the body of the text. It leads to the website of an independent investigative media platform focusing on the topic, and their research fully and devastatingly confirms the linked article. Here again the link: https://theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

I added a link in the body of the text that addresses your question.

To answer in short: No, China is not the only country that is plundering the sea, but it is by far the worst by all standards.

Hotznplotzn @lemmy.sdf.org 1w ago

Mr. Lee didn't say anything about Taiwan and Beijing's threats against Japan's PM, nor did he mention Beijing's bullying in the South China Sea. Let's hope he makes correct decisions.