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Why Do Americans Live In China?
Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:18pm
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:46pm
 
Why do so many Chinese live in the West?

There's a chance I could be moving to China myself... maybe.... depends on many things.
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Reply #2 - Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:51pm
 
Maurice Strong knew it was a good place to hide. Wink
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Reply #3 - Apr 5th, 2021 at 2:03pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:46pm:
Why do so many Chinese live in the West?

There's a chance I could be moving to China myself... maybe.... depends on many things.

Looking forward to your first propaganda broadcast! Who will I look for? Beijing Bob?!!
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Reply #4 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 1:25pm
 
After an intense visit to China the year before COVID-19 broke out....
My hubby and I would not wish to live there, many people are not independently well off .... can’t own their own property.... (it clicked to me why so many Chinese buy up overseas properties instead...ie...Australia) ....old people have to be (forced) looked after by their younger generations or else they risk fines/jail terms.

When 2 young Chinese girls working in a store summed up I’m not a spy and a genuine Aussie shopper/tourist... in their broken English were telling me in a secret way as they checked the perimeter of being within earshot of anyone...”you don’t know how hard it is for us” as we continued to talk of their struggles.

You know I picked up on a fear of them being able to talk freely?

Many live in fear.... have to abide by whatever it is they know which imposes restrictions .... have to be  “yes” people.

Mechanic hubby kept pointing out all the scooters in poor condition and how they are strapped to keep from falling apart.

Life is cheap over there. They are suppressed. They have family on one scooter travelling with no safety requirements!
One young mum sitting behind her partner/hubby, holding a baby in one arm .... yet here in Australia, we need safety approved seats/harnesses in a car... forget riding gunshot in a clapped out bike holding a precious baby loosely in arm!!!

Another store holder with a lovely jacket I bought from him, was telling me how Chinese money so cheap....worth little....I told him our Australian dollar is worth the same value to their yuan... so I concluded our money must be worth cheap too!

When back home, in Oz, people asked me if I bought lots of goods being cheaper over there. I said no, not the case at all... nothing seemed cheap as our Aussie dollar wasn’t that powerful in terms of value over there.
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Reply #5 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 2:15pm
 
NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 5th, 2021 at 2:03pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:46pm:
Why do so many Chinese live in the West?

There's a chance I could be moving to China myself... maybe.... depends on many things.

Looking forward to your first propaganda broadcast! Who will I look for? Beijing Bob?!!


Yah, yah.... don't forget, GI, who is sleeping with your wife tonight while you sit in your muddy trench on Iwo Jima waiting for the heroic People's Army to come get you... arriving by train from mainland are many millions of volunteers ........ in Beijing Glorious People's Republic all flowers and pretty girls as Spring is in the air ..... enjoy your sleep tonight, GI...... maybe for the last time.... now a little music from back home for you to remember ...


More likely to be followed around by a 'customs' officer or something.. like in Fiji...  nah - just a trip... I want to see Tibet... but be careful what you photograph... there's a reason you cannot self-drive in Tibet...

Modified - you can self-drive - just not alone and only with a Chinese driving licence ...... work that out... ah-ha - you hire a local driver approved by the State...
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Reply #6 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 2:49pm
 
Sophia wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 1:25pm:
Another store holder with a lovely jacket I bought from him, was telling me how Chinese money so cheap....worth little....I told him our Australian dollar is worth the same value to their yuan... so I concluded our money must be worth cheap too!

When back home, in Oz, people asked me if I bought lots of goods being cheaper over there. I said no, not the case at all... nothing seemed cheap as our Aussie dollar wasn’t that powerful in terms of value over there.

Ah! You fell for that one! Prices quadruple (and more) if the seller even smells a foreigner!
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Reply #7 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 2:53pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 2:15pm:
NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 5th, 2021 at 2:03pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 5th, 2021 at 1:46pm:
Why do so many Chinese live in the West?

There's a chance I could be moving to China myself... maybe.... depends on many things.

Looking forward to your first propaganda broadcast! Who will I look for? Beijing Bob?!!


Yah, yah.... don't forget, GI, who is sleeping with your wife tonight while you sit in your muddy trench on Iwo Jima waiting for the heroic People's Army to come get you... arriving by train from mainland are many millions of volunteers ........ in Beijing Glorious People's Republic all flowers and pretty girls as Spring is in the air ..... enjoy your sleep tonight, GI...... maybe for the last time.... now a little music from back home for you to remember ...


More likely to be followed around by a 'customs' officer or something.. like in Fiji...  nah - just a trip... I want to see Tibet... but be careful what you photograph... there's a reason you cannot self-drive in Tibet...

Modified - you can self-drive - just not alone and only with a Chinese driving licence ...... work that out... ah-ha - you hire a local driver approved by the State...

Yep! Same script this time as back then...

Rusted old National Socialist / Stalinist propaganda and WW2 passive-aggressive 'soft power' speak...

If only the Chinese knew how Marx the CCP is making them look to us... (Only not Karl... more Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo).
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Reply #8 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 3:07pm
 
Sophia wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 1:25pm:
After an intense visit to China the year before COVID-19 broke out....
My hubby and I would not wish to live there, many people are not independently well off .... can’t own their own property.... (it clicked to me why so many Chinese buy up overseas properties instead...ie...Australia) ....old people have to be (forced) looked after by their younger generations or else they risk fines/jail terms.

When 2 young Chinese girls working in a store summed up I’m not a spy and a genuine Aussie shopper/tourist... in their broken English were telling me in a secret way as they checked the perimeter of being within earshot of anyone...”you don’t know how hard it is for us” as we continued to talk of their struggles.

You know I picked up on a fear of them being able to talk freely?

Many live in fear.... have to abide by whatever it is they know which imposes restrictions .... have to be  “yes” people.

Mechanic hubby kept pointing out all the scooters in poor condition and how they are strapped to keep from falling apart.

Life is cheap over there. They are suppressed. They have family on one scooter travelling with no safety requirements!
One young mum sitting behind her partner/hubby, holding a baby in one arm .... yet here in Australia, we need safety approved seats/harnesses in a car... forget riding gunshot in a clapped out bike holding a precious baby loosely in arm!!!

Another store holder with a lovely jacket I bought from him, was telling me how Chinese money so cheap....worth little....I told him our Australian dollar is worth the same value to their yuan... so I concluded our money must be worth cheap too!

When back home, in Oz, people asked me if I bought lots of goods being cheaper over there. I said no, not the case at all... nothing seemed cheap as our Aussie dollar wasn’t that powerful in terms of value over there.


Did you reply to her in Chinese?
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Reply #9 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 3:15pm
 
athos wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 3:07pm:
Did you reply to her in Chinese?

The poor marketeers would have shet themselves if she did...

They'd think she really was a CCP undercover cop.

And we all know what happens when a Chinese national gets caught speaking poorly of the CCP, don't we.
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Reply #10 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 3:17pm
 
Sophia wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 1:25pm:
After an intense visit to China the year before COVID-19 broke out....
My hubby and I would not wish to live there, many people are not independently well off .... can’t own their own property.... (it clicked to me why so many Chinese buy up overseas properties instead...ie...Australia) ....old people have to be (forced) looked after by their younger generations or else they risk fines/jail terms.

When 2 young Chinese girls working in a store summed up I’m not a spy and a genuine Aussie shopper/tourist... in their broken English were telling me in a secret way as they checked the perimeter of being within earshot of anyone...”you don’t know how hard it is for us” as we continued to talk of their struggles.

You know I picked up on a fear of them being able to talk freely?

Many live in fear.... have to abide by whatever it is they know which imposes restrictions .... have to be  “yes” people.

Mechanic hubby kept pointing out all the scooters in poor condition and how they are strapped to keep from falling apart.

Life is cheap over there. They are suppressed. They have family on one scooter travelling with no safety requirements!
One young mum sitting behind her partner/hubby, holding a baby in one arm .... yet here in Australia, we need safety approved seats/harnesses in a car... forget riding gunshot in a clapped out bike holding a precious baby loosely in arm!!!

Another store holder with a lovely jacket I bought from him, was telling me how Chinese money so cheap....worth little....I told him our Australian dollar is worth the same value to their yuan... so I concluded our money must be worth cheap too!

When back home, in Oz, people asked me if I bought lots of goods being cheaper over there. I said no, not the case at all... nothing seemed cheap as our Aussie dollar wasn’t that powerful in terms of value over there.


Hmm, lols, I have a funny feeling that you may have overpaid some of those goods.  They were perhaps trying to get your sympathy, so that you can buy at an inflated price?    Huh
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Reply #11 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 5:43pm
 
"If only the Chinese knew how Marx the CCP is making them look to us... (Only not Karl... more Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo)."   Grin  Grin  Grin

Couple of Chinese running the local post office - I asked them which part they were from - Hong Kong.... very wise.. nice folk.. not sure - no rings so might be brother and sister...

More raw meat for the balcony:-

https://au.yahoo.com/news/the-china-crisis-australia-wont-be-able-to-escape-0404...

"There is a potential military crisis on the horizon that "Australia won't be able to escape," experts warn.

China has vowed to reclaim a defiant Taiwan with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, previously declaring he will take the country by force if necessary.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute Executive Director Peter Jennings fears Australia will have nowhere to hide if that happens.

Speaking on Sky News, he said the US would be drawn into any military escalation "and you better believe the United States will be expecting the help of its two key allies in the region – Japan and Australia – to play a role in the defence of Taiwan".

"This is something we won't be able to escape it seems to me," he said."


.. read more in link.. it's Yahoo News - safe to use...

Also met a Taiwanese SEAL once - twice as wide as me and same height and a face of granite - never smiled.  Inscrutabre...

Also note that l'ennemi ancien, Japan, is being called on to take on some of the burden of defending Taiwan.

"GI in you wet trench near Taipei - someone is comfort your girl while you shiver and shake... how you Jodi back home doing while you wait to die?  Mirrion of volunteer liberation army for Fascist Capitalist Occupied Territory of Taiwan on ship now to meet you.. very happy see you soon.  US Air Force and Navy all gone now... only heroic Chinese force in South China Sea for you... onry yesterday captain of you last aircraft carrier commit suicide... then ship scuttle... no mo' air covah fo' you... some nice music from home help you sleep now...


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Reply #12 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 5:58pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 5:43pm:
"If only the Chinese knew how Marx the CCP is making them look to us... (Only not Karl... more Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo)."   Grin  Grin  Grin

Couple of Chinese running the local post office - I asked them which part they were from - Hong Kong.... very wise.. nice folk.. not sure - no rings so might be brother and sister...

More raw meat for the balcony:-

https://au.yahoo.com/news/the-china-crisis-australia-wont-be-able-to-escape-0404...

"There is a potential military crisis on the horizon that "Australia won't be able to escape," experts warn.

China has vowed to reclaim a defiant Taiwan with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, previously declaring he will take the country by force if necessary.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute Executive Director Peter Jennings fears Australia will have nowhere to hide if that happens.

Speaking on Sky News, he said the US would be drawn into any military escalation "and you better believe the United States will be expecting the help of its two key allies in the region – Japan and Australia – to play a role in the defence of Taiwan".

"This is something we won't be able to escape it seems to me," he said."


.. read more in link.. it's Yahoo News - safe to use...

I totally agree that Australia will be drawn into it and that's as it should be.

All democracies have a duty to defend each other..

And if we love democracy and the freedoms it provides to us, then we owe it to our society to stand in its defense... It's not just about enjoying it as if it were god-given and inalienable from us.

And we rightly honour the Hong Kong protesters (and others) who are prepared to risk their lives to defend democracy.

The CCP is the great evil of our time that threatens the fundamental tenets of our society and it must be ended as urgently as our great-grandfathers and grandfathers were asked to do against National Socialism... Or throttled, as Soviet tyranny was.
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Reply #13 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 6:59pm
 
NorthOfNorth wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 5:58pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 5:43pm:
"If only the Chinese knew how Marx the CCP is making them look to us... (Only not Karl... more Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo)."   Grin  Grin  Grin

Couple of Chinese running the local post office - I asked them which part they were from - Hong Kong.... very wise.. nice folk.. not sure - no rings so might be brother and sister...

More raw meat for the balcony:-

https://au.yahoo.com/news/the-china-crisis-australia-wont-be-able-to-escape-0404...

"There is a potential military crisis on the horizon that "Australia won't be able to escape," experts warn.

China has vowed to reclaim a defiant Taiwan with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, previously declaring he will take the country by force if necessary.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute Executive Director Peter Jennings fears Australia will have nowhere to hide if that happens.

Speaking on Sky News, he said the US would be drawn into any military escalation "and you better believe the United States will be expecting the help of its two key allies in the region – Japan and Australia – to play a role in the defence of Taiwan".

"This is something we won't be able to escape it seems to me," he said."


.. read more in link.. it's Yahoo News - safe to use...

I totally agree that Australia will be drawn into it and that's as it should be.

All democracies have a duty to defend each other..

And if we love democracy and the freedoms it provides to us, then we owe it to our society to stand in its defense... It's not just about enjoying it as if it were god-given and inalienable from us.

And we rightly honour the Hong Kong protesters (and others) who are prepared to risk their lives to defend democracy.
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CCP is the great evil of our time that threatens the fundamental tenets of our society
and it must be ended as urgently as our great-grandfathers and grandfathers were asked to do against National Socialism... Or throttled, as Soviet tyranny was.



the woke radical left are the great evil of our time who threaten the tenets of our society.

the ccp are hard working patriots who are lifting 100's of millions of their people out of poverty, now that they have given up on radical left failed economic policy and embraced noble capitalism
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Reply #14 - Apr 7th, 2021 at 7:08pm
 
aquascoot wrote on Apr 7th, 2021 at 6:59pm:
the woke radical left are the great evil of our time who threaten the tenets of our society.


Bedwetters worry you that much?

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