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American media is genuinely so busted lol like how can you write this article and expect to be taken seriously. Here are some more examples of their “journalism”
"Look! This rich American grifter larping as a redneck really has a lot to say about our lives!"
Ya like does the article contain even one piece of evidence or talk with an actual rural Chinese person?
rich American grifter larping as a redneck
You really need to narrow it down there.
Unironically rural China has better living conditions than Appalachia
Didn't the un come through a while ago and say that parts of appalachia have some of the worst conditions in the world? Like no qualifiers about oecd or developed countries, appalachia is just that bad in some places?
lmao they buried the lede from the UN report: "Contempt for the poor in US drives cruel policies,” says UN expert
True
Not only that, but the government is trying to revitalize and modernize the country side to encourage more people to live there, particularly young people. https://crossingtheriver.substack.com/p/exploring-the-reality-of-chinas-new
Ridiculous considering that Xi is trying to make up for decades of underinvestment in rural China.
Also given the fact that Rural China pre CPC was an unrelenting hellhole that Appalachia could not imagine, where a "rich" family was one that ate Wheat and not Millet, and had meat 3 times a year.
the 'rural areas being left behind' are growing faster than anywhere on the planet, btw. all the chinese factories that people think are moving to mexico or vietnam are actually mostly moving to the chinese interior.
If the “rural areas being left behind” in China are not counted in global poverty statistics over the past 40 years, the number of people living in poverty globally has risen. Yet, when you count the so-called “rural areas being left behind” in China in global poverty statistics over the past 40 years, the number of people living in poverty globally has fallen.
Which means that there is literally like… one place on the entire planet where the rural poor are NOT being left behind. I wish somebody could tell us where it is.
Shuli Ren
Anyone with a Chinese sounding name writing columns for western propaganda outlets is either:
or
Beware of the Boba amerikkkans, and don't listen to anyone Mao would have dunce capped.
https://www.asifma.org/speakers/shuli-ren/
Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. She previously wrote on markets for Barron’s, following a career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York. She studied Economics at the University of Chicago and is a CFA charterholder.
EVERY SINGLE TIME
following a career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York.
In a more just society these people would’ve been shot
UC Hicago strikes again
You didn’t have to spell it out for us to know this is the truth, but I’m glad you did
Xi was literally a plumber and got caked in shit regularly building poop reactors for heating
If this is true, my whole world has just been made 100% more amazing.
Super Mario Brothers theme plays in my head every time I see a picture of Xi
The community leaders have a story of him during an emergency (without time change out his clothes into PPE gear) diving into the overflowing clogged poop tank to stop it from exploding lol
China has a 0% poverty rate meanwhile in America it is illegal to be homeless.
China: homelessness is illegal
America: homeless people are illegal
China: homelessness is illegal
America: homeless people are illegal
“these are the same thing”
in America it is illegal to be homeless.
Meaning that the state the required to provide everyone with a home, right?
Right?
America: We are going to end homelessness…
… by putting every homeless person…
in jail!
“Vance inspires 300mil rural Chinese people to get latex gloves and a pair of couch cushions so that a billionaire may one day pay them to be a puppet” - a serious journalist
The Opinion section is the daycare of the ruling class. It exists for them to whine.
Where's the fecking stat that 300 million are left behind? Or did they just count the totally number of rural people?
Im going to leave this here because it already has a lot of comments, but in the future, Bloomberg opinion pieces about what rural Chinese people think about jd vance or equally vacuous articles belong in the dunk tank, not in news
hillbilly elegy is dogshit. literally every single excerpt i've seen from that book is navel gazing musings larping as class consciousness. i told meemaw and pepepep i was gay and they asked if i sucked dicks (literally in the book). real working class appalaichinchilas sleep in their bloojeans, pajamas are for the decadent coastal elites (literally in the book)
As a person from Appalachia myself who did read his book, your assessment of the work is accurate.
Meanwhile, actual Appalachian politics:
People living in Appalachia: Please. Somebody help us. We will vote for anybody who promises to do something to materially improve our living conditions.
Democrats: We will literally do nothing to help you. You should have thought a little bit harder about becoming poor and isolated directly because of our policies (spits at their feet) sorry not sorry. You disgust me.
Republicans: damn lmao what the hell I can’t believe those guys actually straight up admitted that to you. Oh, what? You want a job or something? No, we won’t give you that, but at least we aren’t the team that openly disrespects you. We promise to only ever do that behind your back!
Why would anyone in China have even heard of JD Vance?
They wouldn’t. The average American can’t fathom that the rest of the world exists, let alone the fact that the rest of the world hardly knows anything about America. I’d feel pretty decent placing a bet that 40% of Americans couldn’t name a single politician actively in office from another country without multiple choice
Notice that they can't say 'impoverished'. They can only say things that have vague legal definitions.
Vance is a source of fascination in China
Who? Never hear of him before he is picked. Nobody will read this man's book.
I'm really interested in hearing more about the sordid criminal record of milk tea
Bloomberg Opinion
Yea I rather you keep that for yourself
Xi's parents were high-ranking
During and shortly after the revolution. They fkd around afterwards, father got locked up and family got sent to the rural countryside for reeducation. After serving the prison sentence, his father did eventually redeem himself but it left a mark. This experience in adolescence is supposedly what caused Xi to develop a hard-line reder-than-red Marxist-Leninist world view and aversion to corruption when others he grew up with fell down the liberal rabbit hole. This is at least what his CIA dossier outlined as family background and early life.
This is at least what his CIA dossier outlined as family background and early life.
One of the hardest roasts in history, an exchange between Nikita Khrushchev and Zhou Enlai:
Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class.
Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.
Totally unlike our politicians who are deeply in touch with what the rural poor need. Biden knows exactly how to and wants to help a family living in extreme poverty in a crumbling NM town
