Since when do the Chinese build stations outside of the city? I can pick from any 4 stations all centrally located in Shanghai, and get off the train after 4 hours in the heart of Beijing and be in my hotel in 15 minutes. The same goes for any city. Chinese build airports outside of the city. If I would do the same trip with flights, I need travel 1 hour to the airport, be there 1 hour before, 2 hour flight, land 1 hour outside of Beijing. That’s 5 hours if all goes smooth. This is why high speed rail is the preferred option to travel. Especially if you can afford business class.

This is the kind of old school rhetoric that is a crock of shit.

The time that China is exploiting or stealing US IP are long gone. Just look at battery technology, EV’s, communication technology, pharmaceutical. China is now leading the world. Haven’t you read that the CEO’s from Ford and Honda stated it’s close to impossible to catch up with the innovation in regards to EV’s?

In regards to chips and GPUs, China is using open source technologies to advance. Are they there yet? No and that is in great part due to that clown Rutte who is in the pocket of Trump, and blocked ASML to sell in China. So they are 5 to 10 years behind hardware wise, but they will catch up.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/tech-news/chinas-gpu-breakthrough-a-real-threat-to-nvidia-or-just-catching-up

More parties is a disaster. The Netherlands is a prime example. Hundreds of parties so no one ever has majority which means they always have to do a coalition. And if course that means hardly anything gets done because there is never consensus. And you can count how many times in the last decade, the Dutch government either resigned or fell. That is why it’s a bit of mess and people have totally lost faith in politics in the Netherlands. The Dutch actually have a real pedophile party - much smaller than the Republican party in the US - but still. There is a pirate party, animal party, party against citizens.

At least in China, shit gets done. There are 5,10, 15 and 25 year plans and generally the government doesn’t deviate from it. Of course every year they discuss and make adjustments but the main points remain. In China’s case it’s self reliance, green energy, technology, infrastructure and social security and services. Makes it easier for business to better anticipate and innovate as you know what the goals are.

Dutch voting form the size of a newspaper

Indeed.

Who goes to Starbucks anyway? That place would not know what a coffee bean looked like if it rained beans. I’m lucky to live in a place where there are the most coffee shops in the world; over 9000 independent coffee shops with some amazing beans.

I thought it wasn’t a war but a military intervention? But since this is coming from the biggest traitor of the US, you know…

Good thing the US has a great high speed railway network. Oh wait…

That cunt would stink up the place with his fucking diaper.

If the US decides to close most of the bases, all the money they save will go to universal health care for Americans right?

Giving facts is bootlicking? There is workers protection in China, there is social security, there is social healthcare and there are laws that protect your privacy. Just because it doesn’t fit your worldview, doesn’t mean I’m a bot, or CCP clown or bootlicker. I thought people on lemmy are better educated.

People always shit on China, not realizing workers have good protection in general. Besides that unlike the US, China has a strong privacy protection law similar to the European GDPR. You’ll never hear about this, because that goes against what western propaganda would like you to believe.

https://www.hawksford.com/insights-and-guides/china-pipl-compliance-guide

Edit : exactly what I was expecting. Commenting ongoing negativity about China. Not talk about illegal wars started by the US, bombing children, the US genocide against the native Americans, slavery. No always the same rinse and repeat. I get it China bad. Like North Korea but worse except for all the advances in technology, infrastructure and medicine.

Note that most countries can travel visa free to China for upto 30 days. It includes all European countries as well as South America, Canada and middle east.

Of course the USA is excluded for so many obvious reasons.

https://chengdu-expat.com/china-visa-free-entry-countries-the-full-lists/

There was another guy in the late 1930’s to 1940’s in Germany who also put his face on everything.

Hahaha. The US is so fucking imbecile. Hahaha. OMG. I can’t breathe…

The US can do whatever they want in their country but leave the rest of us alone. We’re actually doing much better without you. It would be even better if you stopped interfering ie start an illegal war, in the name of Israel. Than we can all move on without the US.

Meanwhile the US has a president who doesn’t understand how magnets work.

No green energy. No windmills because they kill birds, no solar because of there is no sun, no power. Just beautiful coal and illegally obtained oil. And don’t get me started on the department of health and RFK Jr. The US is going backwards in such a rapid pace, almost gives me whiplash.

So the US will be very limited in their options for EV’s in the future. The bastion of freedom and choice is strangled by monopolies. It becomes more realistic every day that this will the Chinese century and the fall of faux Christian empire (at least that how they see themselves).

The reasons never to visit the US, keep piling up.