36 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Nice cherry picking of one sentence and the one-child policy only ended like in 2010, but Chinese people aren't interested in the CCP's U-turn... damage has already been done. Looks like the pro-CCP bots on here won't like the truth in that post and will deny everything... hope they are getting paid enough.

Still never been there, your blather is meaningless.

7 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

 

If you think that the CCP bot farms are not targeting ASEAN Now with properganda, then you are deluded. They are targeting everywhere and every online outlet from Youtube to this forum to anywhere they can try to bend opinion... paying people to do it too. How deluded some people are.

 

Mostly Russian here, still praising Trump for daddy Vlad.

12 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

But they are not now looking towards the US for those investments or business opportunities!

Vancouver

17 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Something many forget is that the US has a better demographic situation than China has, and it is all of China's own making with the one-child policy etc. As people age, there are fewer younger Chinese to replace those working late into their 50/60s and beyond (some say the Chinese pension system will collapse in about 10 years). Not to mention that the CCP's reputation is taking a battering due to their tofu-dreg construction projects failing/collapsing at the slightest thing.

Many younger Chinese people are starting to "Tang Ping" which translates to "Lie flat" because they think they have no future, and that working will not make their lives better... plus you have approx 12 million well-educated new grads each year entering the job market, which makes it overly competitive, and many are giving up as they were lied to be the CCP about their futures due to how hard it is now to find a job. China has fallen off a cliff since Xi took power... and he might not last that much longer.

Secondly, China is far too reliant on exports and much of the rest of the world is getting fed-up with the CCP's dumping practices that destroys local industries because they can't compete with the state-subsidizes Chinese firms.

Thirdly, another reason why there is population decline in China, is the same as it is for all totalitarian dictatorships and communist societies, people think it is morally wrong to bring children into such societies only to have a life of oppression, slavery, and drudgery, plus it is simply too expensive to do now with little state support... not just China, but many in the West think that far-lefty liberalism will not serve any children they have well either, and also too expensive.

People need to believe there is a good future to invest and spend, once they don't believe that anymore, then people start saving. All a self-made problem by these incompetent governments all round the world... what goes around comes around, and people will react after a while.

You have obviously never been there. The one child program ended years ago, the savings rate is high and people are looking for investments.

31 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

The way he is ruining the US I suspect the only way he will escape from the USA to Russia will be via a submarine at night off a darkened beach!

Probably too fat to fit in a torpedo tube.

Everything is available from little butanes to oxy-acetylene. Why are you trying to do gutters yourself?

I used to do this regularly when I lived in China. It would take a day or two to turn off ni hao and start saying sawasdee khup. Going back I would be saying Thai words to the Chinese as well. I have never understood Scottish, it is surprising they don't speak English by now.

Nope, I am staying here. Feel free to take my spot.

31 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

In typical MAGA style, you completely avoid answering the question and instead make some inane comment.

But I understand.  🙂

He's a Troll Bot from Russia.

The popularity of Biden is irrelevant to his views on the topic. He will be much more rational and lucid than Trump. Putin has told Trump to destroy America and break NATO. Trump is just following orders.

4 minutes ago, Sierra Tango said:

Some of what you say Pompolo is reasonably accurate but there are a couple of items that I have had a different experience of.

There is beef, although widley unavailable in many areas, there is a steak house retaurant just up the road from the office I was attached to in Mumbai. 

Yes, they like to stare at the white people although I found the more curious were in the rural areas. Most city folks don't get too excited.

I found English was not a problem, across the country however, in the Oil and Gas industry most people I dealt with were educated and English is taught in schools. Again, in the more rural areas where education was not so much of a priority, English was not so common.

Definitley rates up there in the dirty countries index.

It is not so much that cows have the right of way, It is because they are considered sacred and you get fined if you run into one in your vehicle. I guess that is right of way in a sense.

Either no deoderant or some tend to shower in it. Again, most educated people have a reasonable sense of hygeine.

Yep, no holding back, mostly from the homeless, having a squat beside the road. 

Not sure which southern areas you are talking about but the likes of Goa are still fairly liberal as far as clothing etc. goes.

The slum areas of Mumbai, which, if you are flying in during the day you can see stretching for miles, definitely smell of sewerage and if you are in the city during the monsoon season expect to gag whenever you walk out of your hotel. Vile, putrid, smells like death.

Many beautiful and believe it or not, clean and pristine areas to be found but you have to go way off the beaten track to find them.

Mostly true, there used to be beef but Modi really cracked down on it with his religious thugs. There is almost no pork. If you need to eat Western food, stay home. I would say the same about Thailand as well. Western stuff is expensive and not very good.

They do not have much proper anti-perspirant and the deodorants are just poor perfume. The people smell, especially in confined spaces like planes.

Everything works on the me first principle. Traffic, housing, shopping, everything. If they have an opportunity to take advantage of someone, they will, ruthlessly. It is OK to litter in public while keeping an immaculate home.

4 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Yet another post about "yet another Trump hate thread".
We keep "hating", but you keep coming. Why is that?

Because Daddy Vlad told him to.

32 minutes ago, Presnock said:

especially in the Punjab region! women are just a tad lower than whale crap for those people.  

Uttar Pradesh is the worst. Everything is run by the local Panchyats. Village elder law. So if someone rapes your sister, either she marries the rapist or you get to rape his sister. Honor killings are common and overlooked.

3 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

I lived in India for about 8 months back in the day and I can confidently say it would be a nightmare to retire to. What people don't realise about India is the sheer volume of people everywhere, it's teaming with mostly men with dodgy stashes just hanging around everywhere you go staring... you can't get away from the swathes of people everywhere unless you lock yourself in your room. 

It is certainly not a place to take a wife or girlfriend to, and the chances of meeting a decent Indian woman are close to zero... guess you might be okay if you are into boyfriends though, haha.

It is a shocking place for your mental state... unless maybe you went far up north to somewhere like Manali in the Kulu valley and smoked really good weed and meditated whilst enjoying hot spring baths, but it also gets so freezing cold there are night and in the morning. You go south and it's like an oven, scam central on everything, Indian police make Thai police look virtuous and the poster-boy for good policing etc. Probably a little bit of a troll post from the OP, but if it wasn't, then you have lost your mind to consider this.

Living in India brought me to Thailand. It was so corrupt and draining that I needed a place to decompress. The corruption is astounding and the abuse of women through chattel treatment was offensive.

My American girlfriend at the time visited once and some random guy pulled up next to her and requested a BJ, promising to respect her. She was not convinced for some reason.

I was treated very well but I could not abide the abuse of everyone else.

2 minutes ago, Presnock said:

especially in the Punjab region! women are just a tad lower than whale crap for those people.  

Explain Eve Teasing. They call it something else in other countries.

2 hours ago, S Mart said:

Better have a look at Federal Law in America before showing your intelligence.

State law. Showing your intelligence.

India is nice as a working expat but they treat women horribly.

20 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

US Attorney Habba investigating New Jersey governor over immigration enforcement policy

Good !

She will be disbarred.

2 hours ago, DEKEM said:

if tariffs are so bad, then why does every country have them on the usa?  and why is it... all these countries have trade surpluses with the usa?

Available information, ask your local community college about Econ-101.

9 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Stock rise and fall, any one that's an investor knows this, its part of the game. If they're smart they will buy now.

I bet any money it won't be reported when the markets rise

They do not normally rise and fall this quickly. What the market wants is stability. With an unstable criminal in the White House, there is no market stability. Investors will move offshore, just like Ford.