Middle Management and the Middle Kingdom - the China Thread™

[bune]

Except for the whole Disney has a cadre of lawyer ninjas.

[tragabigzanda]

Prepping for the second interview in a month that's all about China. The last one was mostly focused on state-controlled media and the coronavirus, but this one is more about their economy: their aging population, increase in automation, etc...

We're totally screwed here in rural Montana.

[96583UP]

they have an assload of debt their authoritarian government just keeps hiding and rolling over, and no accounting standards

so you could talk about that part too

[tragabigzanda]

they have an assload of debt their authoritarian government just keeps hiding and rolling over, and no accounting standards

so you could talk about that part too

we will

[Bi_3]

Just do it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 66956.html

Spoiler: show

[96583UP]

quit getting the big picture Bi_3!

[BurtReynolds]

I get the feeling that the popular assumption that China is inevitable is false. They need our markets more than we need their manufacturing. Their demographics and debt problems are a lot worse than ours.

Not sure though.

[Bi_3]

They are certainly doing their damnedest to divert blame on this. The disinformation campaign is coming faster and hard, like this sick beat

[E.H. Ruddock]

I get the feeling that the popular assumption that China is inevitable is false. They need our markets more than we need their manufacturing. Their demographics and debt problems are a lot worse than ours.

Not sure though.

I live my life assuming China is always inevitable

[BurtReynolds]

[simple schoolboy]

I get the feeling that the popular assumption that China is inevitable is false. They need our markets more than we need their manufacturing. Their demographics and debt problems are a lot worse than ours.

Not sure though.

I live my life assuming China is always inevitable

I half hope that they are inevitable so we can be rid of the baizuo.

[BurtReynolds]

The Eternal Bugman.

[tragabigzanda]

I get the feeling that the popular assumption that China is inevitable is false. They need our markets more than we need their manufacturing. Their demographics and debt problems are a lot worse than ours.

Not sure though.

We did an episode recently that was all about dispelling this myth:

https://montanafreepress.org/2020/03/10 ... n-montana/

[BurtReynolds]

A commanding officer of the Indian army and two soldiers have died at Galwan Valley, in Ladakh, in a face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers, according to a statement by the Indian defence ministry. It's the first loss of life in at least 45 years and comes after weeks of tension between the two sides.

So weird to me that India and China hate each other so much.

edit: wait...no shots were fired? just clubs and rocks?

[BurtReynolds]

This turned out to be a lot more than was first reported

https://www.ibtimes.co.in/10-captive-in ... lks-822737

[Bi_3]

It seems like the Three Gorges dam might fail, and take a good chunk of China's pharmaceutical capacity (among other things) with it.

Um, holy shit. Don't like 100M people depend on that thing?

[simple schoolboy]

It seems like the Three Gorges dam might fail, and take a good chunk of China's pharmaceutical capacity (among other things) with it.

Um, holy shit. Don't like 100M people depend on that thing?

Official reporting does not support this, but the internet randos who were early on the Rona are not so optimistic.

[Mickey]

This thread title is the worst video game concept ever

Still the best, most insightful post in this thread.

[elliseamos]

1) Trump Admin. announces closure of Houston Consulate.

2) People in Houston call 911 because staff at the Consulate are frantically burning papers in garbage cans

3) China starts a Twitter poll for citizens to decide which US Consulate gets closed in China

4) ?

[BurtReynolds]

wtf

did you catch that?