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@Mont_Jiang 腐敗的滋味，或品味？

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@MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung 拼音語言流動性太大，無法凝固為一個統一的文化。 文-化：剛柔交錯，天文也；文明以止，人文也。觀天文以察時變，觀人文以化成天下。 中國的「書同文」早在秦始皇之前就已經開始了。秦始皇只是使它規範化而已。 歐洲的字母符號為語音服務。中國的象形字符(也就是文)太強大，語音只能為它服務。

@AngelicaOung Biological. Caucasians are too individualistic and uninhibited to unite under a same language and same identity

The problem with Europe is they are too disunited to change as a unit and too ties together to change as individual nations.

@ZhaiXiang5 @yoongyeepoh @ngwm8 @WillLangley96 @FT 邪火燒不盡，春風吹又生？

@yoongyeepoh @Nevertoolatet10 @ngwm8 @WillLangley96 @FT Thank you, that means a lot. I only hope this helps more people see why careful verification and ethical reporting matter.

China declared the end of extreme poverty in early 2021 after one of the largest anti-poverty campaigns in human history. But some still seem to be asking: did it really happen? Recently, "China said it ended poverty. Did it?" by @WillLangley96 of the Financial Times, raised doubts about the authenticity and sustainability of China's poverty alleviation efforts, based on his interview in two counties of southwest China's Guizhou Province. Such doubts are not new. But when they are built on limited samples, unverified details, selectively presented anecdotes, and missing context, the report goes beyond differing perspectives and raises questions of validity. Since 2012, China has pursued a new phase of poverty alleviation through a combination of industrial development, labor mobility, transport and communication facility expansion, and health insurance subsidies. In late 2020, Guizhou, one of China's most impoverished provincial regions, announced that its last nine poor counties had been lifted out of poverty, marking the removal of all 832 registered poor counties in China. A transition period then followed, with continued monitoring and support for those lifted out of poverty and those at risk of slipping there. To better understand the claims made and stories told in this China poverty report, I conducted a careful review, cross-checking key details with colleagues and relevant authorities. The result is: a number of the article's core assertions rely on fragile evidence, and in some cases fail to meet basic standards of verification. Here's a point-by-point fact-check on the Financial Times report. The article opens with a portrait of how Yang Nai Yan Qing, in her 60s, lives a frugal life, claiming that her monthly living expenses are less than 200 yuan (29 USD). Apart from special occasions, such as the Spring Festival, when she "buys some meat if she can afford it", Yang "eats only mustard greens, cabbage and sweet potatoes, almost all of which she grows herself in a field a long walk uphill. " Through this narrative, the image of an elderly woman struggling in hardship and deserving sympathy, is gradually constructed. This week, however, when our colleague in Guizhou visited Yang in Guizhou's Congjiang County, a different picture emerged. Yang's home is a self-built, three-and-a-half-storey house, one of the larger residences in the village. The ground floor alone measures around 160 square meters. Her family is not impoverished, so the house was not government-provided, but built at their own expense about a decade ago. With her permission, my colleague took photographs of both the interior and exterior. Judge by yourself whether the portrayal of poverty holds up. Near her home stands a pagoda-like structure known as a drum tower, a distinctive feature of the Dong ethnic group (top right). It's like a community center, serving as a communal space for discussion, decision-making, festivals, and other collective activities. At its top sits a drum that functions as the village's traditional "information hub" and "alarm system": specific drumbeats are used to convey messages and mobilize villagers, before the advent of modern communication. Granny Yang recalled that around January 30 this year, a foreigner arrived at her home by car with a Chinese assistant. The man, supposedly Langley, did not identify himself as a journalist. Out of hospitality, she invited them inside for a chat. She did not understand the purpose of the visit and simply took Langley and his assistant as tourists; to this day, she still does not know what the Financial Times is. The size of Granny Yang's kitchen is spacious (bottom left)-larger, I should admit, than my own bedroom in Beijing. She showed her double-door refrigerator, which was well stocked with meat (bottom right). Perhaps, the Financial Times should consider interviewing me next time. She explained that she simply does not like eating meat. In the past, when life was more difficult, she could not afford it even if she wanted to, but now she can have it whenever she wishes. Yang, 63, and her husband, 68, each receive pensions of around 200 yuan (29 USD) per month. Her mother-in-law, who is over 90, receives both a pension and an additional allowance for the elderly. Altogether, the elderly members of the household have a stable monthly income of nearly 700 yuan (102 USD). Her son and daughter-in-law have stable jobs as a driver and a salesperson, respectively. The annual income of the household they live in together is close to 80,000 yuan (11,702 USD). Her daughter is operating a start-up. Her children also give her some pocket money each month. And, the family owns a private car. The FT also reported "many of her neighbours were relocated to newer apartment blocks downhill." However, my colleague has verified that there has been no unified resettlement in the village. The so-called new apartments are mostly self-built homes constructed by villagers in recent years. Granny Yang herself has also retained a traditional wooden house not far away, which has clear ethnic characteristics and is not in disrepair. Langley wrote that "she says her life has barely changed." We are not sure whether this reflects a communication gap, but judging from her diet storage and housing conditions, the changes have in fact been quite significant. Perhaps what has remained unchanged is her long-standing habit of frugality. To equate such a lifestyle directly with poverty risks oversimplifying a more complex reality and reinforcing a selective narrative. It's a compelling story, until you start checking the details. This is just part of my response. Will posting more today.

@nikstankovic_ @RnaudBertrand I know. I actually appreciate your remarks. I was just trying to be sarcastic, maybe something like how to relieve the unbearable ugliness of being.

I disagree. I know a lot of Americans. Most truly believe this. It's a national belief, burned into people from a young age including in schools (and obviously media). Pointing it out does not lead to epiphany but a "blue screen" [of death], except a few that are openly racist. It's a similar level of belief like the belief most humans have that they are superior to animals. "You mean humans have a right to kill and eat animals, but animals don't have a right to kill and eat humans". I mean, yeah. Do people in other countries have these beliefs about their nations as well? Not the majority no. Some, a few, a clear minority. Not in the US. This is what the vast majority believes.

This guy's lack of shame is genuinely unparalleled

@dennisw5 @PoulKalff @RupprechtDeino Come to defend Taiwan and don’t run away next time when China has an exercise around Taiwan again.

@PoulKalff @RupprechtDeino Yes, because we are the gold standard. The Chinese don't even have a clue what a joint force is. They still have a PLA Army centric view of war.

This kind of exaggeration is not helpful. China's military is not a peer to US power and the General knows this.

@nikstankovic_ @RnaudBertrand Nah he just said this to earn his keep. Nobody, even him, can be this dumb and stupid. Not even dumb and dumber.

@RnaudBertrand He has no shame because he is a supremacist. He believes it is ok and normal for US use extraterritorial regulation, and to disrupt supply chains, but not for anyone else, because Americans are a superior race. He geniunely believes this and so there is no need for shame.

@BonnieGlaser Good, day by day, persistently, obstinately, without failingly, fantastically, wholeheartedly, America is turning itself into a 媽寳.

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to ​advance a proposal to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic ‌devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers for use in the United States. reuters.com/business/media…

@calvin21987 @AngelicaOung @BonnieGlaser “Why would anyone sacrifice their men if you won’t at minimum fund a credible defence.” That’s pure scam.

@AngelicaOung @BonnieGlaser That’s pure entitlement!

The way I think about this the American position vis a vis Taiwan is only becoming more untenable. With every year, the gap between Chinese and US capabilities diverge. And as status quo increasingly fragilizes, the possibility looms of getting cleared out of Asia in a hot war looms. If Trump can think clearly, he will see the value in Cheng's proposition.

@hugo_dayou @AngelicaOung @JimMillward 😂🤣🤣🤣 死去的人好像那個丈夫～

@AngelicaOung @JimMillward 逝者如斯夫。。。

库尔勒喝酒培训基地：”Korla【City】 drinking alcohol training base” in the video. “Training” was a term used for the internment camps peaking 2017-2020. 基地 ”base” also seems to me a really weird term in this weird context: same word as for “guerrilla base” etc.

@damienics Yah people will wait for China’s words to catch up with its deeds, while America’s words and deeds are models for the whole world to admire.

"US unpredictability has allowed China to capitalize on its positioning as the “responsible great power”. Paradoxically, the more China wins the perception game, the more likely expectations will rise for Beijing to deliver not just words but to demonstrate with its deeds." @ChongJaIan argues that the gap between words and deeds could catch up to Beijing as it continues to contrast itself with Washington: @CarnegieChina carnegieendowment.org/china/posts/20…

@ZhaiXiang5 @ngwm8 @WillLangley96 @FT That’s why your work is valuable, because you take up the responsibility for the state.

For me, the purpose of this thread is not escalation, but documentation. Facts should be placed on the record, because many around the world still trust what the FT says, and the people being portrayed deserve accuracy and respect. I doubt Will would get a state-level response, but he did get me, a national-level scholar, to spend days researching and writing a reply. In that sense, he has already gained from the attention. Hopefully, he takes what I have done as a favor. Credibility is ultimately rebuilt, or lost, through the handling of facts. It matters to them too.

@ngwm8 @ZhaiXiang5 @WillLangley96 @FT Their purpose is as much to provoke as to smear. If the Chinese government responds to their smearing, it’s to fall into their provoke trap. They are losing their credibility day by day and getting more and more desperate. So why bother?

@ZhaiXiang5 @WillLangley96 Would Mr Langley and FT @FT's answer this tweet?Why not have the PRC government or MFA send them an official letter requesting them to publish this response? Smaller governments would have taken to court parties publishing fabricated tales intending to defame. Why not China?

@AngelicaOung @attilanonym Not really. 孔孟思想可以提供意願，但馬克思主義提供了現代的鬥爭武器。 馬克思主義會再回到孔孟思想，但現在還未到那階段，只是在路上。

@Nevertoolatet10 @attilanonym They all intend to break the cycle

Hegel famously said that China has no history because it never seems to break out of the dynastic cycle. I would say rather that China speed-run history. This is because it was super early in achieving two things: freedom from religion in state affairs (« secular »Zhou replaced superstitious Shang 3000 years ago) and a laissez-faire market. This allowed for inequality to rapidly accumulate in society until it becomes intolerable over centuries. This didn’t happen in say Europe because religion and hierarchy kept ppl locked in rigid divisions of haves and have nots where they accept their lot in life. Feudalism was incredibly stable. In China however, the discontent of the have nots eventually boil over, most typically in a peasant rebellion led by a guy who failed his exams. Very intense civil wars typically follow and the disorder may last for decades or centuries before China unites again under a new central authority. Each new dynasty tries something different, to try and avert the calamity that befell the previous dynasty. So for instance the Tang dynasty overempowered the military and fell to coups. So the Song dynasty nerfed their military and eventualy fell to the mongols. But no dynasty have ever solved the cycle. If they did, they would still be here today. Instead, every dynasty eventually fell, with the successful ones lasting about 300 years, before the chessboard is flipped over, providing a hard reset that's needed to give everyone "table stakes" in society and the cycle starts all over again.

@AngelicaOung @attilanonym That’s the intention at least ～

@Nevertoolatet10 @attilanonym Too soon to tell!

@AngelicaOung @attilanonym 😂 The current one

@attilanonym Which one?

Feynman: "We know a lot more than we can prove" 🤔 Deng: "For me personally, an important reason is that I don't particularly like pure theory. I feel that in this world, the truths that can be rigorously proven are actually very limited, but the truths you can feel are very numerous. Many principles are more like a feeling or an energy, and it's hard to express them completely in mathematical form. But in mathematics and theoretical computer science, your conclusion must be rigorously provable, written on paper, before people will accept it. In AI, as long as you observe certain phenomena through experiments and intuitively feel they are correct, even if you can't fully convince everyone, you can gradually build your own system of understanding. This approach to understanding the world through intuition and experimentation appeals to me greatly. And this approach lets you discover patterns much faster than disciplines that rely on rigorous proofs."

@MrBig2024 @Changxche @Changxche 這孩子還是太嫰了點。 要不然就是，他還是身不由己，畢竟也是要吃紐約客的飯嘛。

@Nevertoolatet10 @Changxche To Volvo's credit, it seems to be very meme-aware

Volvo's new brand ambassador is Hu Xijin, longtime nationalist firebrand of the Global Times. The state's loudest voice and a top car company. Like the tech bros donating to the President's inauguration or Tucker Carlson as a Nike ambassador—not unfathomable. The twentieth century is not far in the rearview mirror... This quote is insane: "However fierce the storm, the steering wheel must stay steady. However noisy the discourse, safety is the bottom line." Yeah you know how we have to censor ourselves to keep us safe? That's also why we should buy Volvo cars

@MrBig2024 @Changxche And that’s why Volvo considers him safe.

@Changxche Sorry but if you think Hu Xijin is a "nationalist firebrand", you need to learn more about Chinese online discourse. He's in fact regularly laughed at by real nationalists for being too soft

@globaltimesnews @damienics 小胖怎麼不把手插在褲子口袋𥚃了？

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China is willing to work with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, and to promote practical cooperation, according to the Xinhua News Agency. globaltimes.cn/page/202604/13…