xiangyu zheng
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@HimemiyaRie the results will definitely be amazing.
amazingly good, or amazingly bad, but amazing none the less.
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@danashen_cn @commiepommie 你婆婆只是买了药,钱被骗了而已,我小学初中同学,生病了,很小的病最后病重,因为她爸妈信法轮功,不吃药不打针,活生生的把她害死了,可她才14岁🥹🥹🥹
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@commiepommie 法轮功以前在中国大陆敛财卖神仙水,骗取农村无数老人血汗钱。我婆婆就高价买了去给她的孩子。所以我知道这个教真是邪教。
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When I first arrived in China back in 2016, I had no idea what to expect. 🇨🇳♥️
During the flight from Australia to Fujian, I was genuinely frightened. I remember thinking, “I need to be careful. I hope I don’t do something wrong and end up being imprisoned. Or have my organs harvested.” Yes, I actually had these thoughts in the back of my mind. Why? Because I was brainwashed.
For years, Australian news, BBC broadcasts and every mainstream outlet I consumed had painted China as a surveillance state where dissidents vanished and organs were harvested on demand. Falun Gong pamphlets appeared in Brisbane streets with horror stories. Politicians spoke about China the way they speak about countries they want you to fear, not understand. I absorbed it all without question. That is what brainwashing looks like: you do not even know it is happening.
Then I arrived.
Stepping out of the airport into Fujian for the first time, nothing matched the picture in my head. The streets were calm. People were going about their lives, shopping, eating, walking their dogs, dancing and singing in the streets and chatting on benches. There was no tension and no fear in anyone’s eyes. No dystopia, just a city functioning normally and me standing there realising everything I had been told was a lie.
Friends and family back in Australia had warned me not to go, some were absolutely adamant. They told me I would regret it, that I was naive and that I would come back with a different story about “how bad it really is.” I have been here for years now and I have never left. If China were what they described, I would have been on the first flight back.
What actually changed my thinking was not a grand revelation, it was daily life. The elderly woman insisted I join her table for tea as I was wandering through a park. The stranger who walked me where I needed to go when my Mandarin confused the taxi driver, not because he wanted anything, just because that is how people behave here. Walking home at 2am through streets that felt safer than any I had walked in Brisbane City, never once checking over my shoulder.
These are not anecdotes, they are routine. This is how life works in China and no Western article will ever tell you that because it contradicts the entire narrative.
Yes, I noticed cameras everywhere, and they were not concealed, they were right there in plain view. But I never once thought this was out of the ordinary, because back in Brisbane there are cameras everywhere too, they just aren’t immediately noticeable. Australia has metadata retention laws that log every phone call, every text and every browsing session. Facial recognition runs in pubs, casinos, streets, shopping centres and venue scanners track who enters and leaves.
The difference is not that China surveils and Australia does not. The difference is that China’s cameras are visible and Australia’s are hidden, and which one is actually more transparent?
Coming from government and corporate tech work, I know exactly what Australia’s surveillance infrastructure looks like from the inside. So when people tell me China is a surveillance state, I know they are not comparing reality to reality. They are comparing a headline to their imagination.
I do remember thinking the vehicle cameras on the roads were rather odd though, as they have giant flashes snapping photos of every vehicle that passes. But these are all in place for road safety. China has some of the strictest traffic enforcement in the world and it works: road fatalities per capita are far lower than in Australia or the US.
I made some local friends back in 2016 and they told me a story about an old man who went out walking but didn’t come home. After calling the police, they quickly found him in a park and he required medical assistance. It was only due to the systems in place that they knew where he was at that moment. The cameras and systems China has in place are truly there for the safety of citizens, not for mass surveillance.
People might keep shouting about mass surveillance, but from a tech perspective, it is impossible to track each and every movement of China’s 1.4 billion people. This is not what the nation is doing. It is doing everything possible to safeguard its people: make the streets safe, ensure everyone has access to basic necessities, and as a result, crime is almost non-existent.
Between 2016 and now, I have come to learn that China is not the country I once believed it was. It is not perfect, no country is, but China is doing a lot right. The country that “brainwashed” me into fearing it turned out to be the country that welcomed me, kept me safe and gave me a life I chose to stay in.
Instead of criticising China, other countries could learn a thing or two. Start by asking the people who actually live here.

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A Philippine Navy personnel is wounded after China Coast Guard members allegedly hit him with a wooden baton in an encounter near Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed South China Sea today, July 20.
📷 Armed Forces of the Philippines
@straits_times

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@dreams_asi @RnaudBertrand Try reddit or XHS you might find someone who knows English and Chinese just travel together.
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People in the comments have been asking me for videos of a local supermarket during my current roadtrip in Xinjiang, so here you go 👇
It's actually proven to be a very humbling experience: the abundance and diversity of products vastly exceeds anything you'd find in most supermarkets in the West, even in my native France.
And we're not even in a big city: I'm at a local supermarket in a small remote town named 特克斯, only 50k inhabitants, which is super tiny by Chinese standards.


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@SypuWindows 你是不是买贵了,到中国去广西那边,水果便宜的要死,西瓜都可能10几元带走两个又大又甜的,吃都可以吃的爽,在日本,西瓜都能卖到天价
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其实大部分中国人润日本,都是抱着获得“自由”,解放“政治压抑”的希望跑路的。
可是来到日本之后,发现日本的ルール、“空気読む”文化,比共产党的独裁可能更可怕。
就我的个人情况来说,我当时跑路的原因是包子修宪了,未来估计会进入一个长时间的倒车时代。特别是我属于网瘾少年,翻墙的梯子时好时坏,挺烦的。
不过另一方面,我在中国是不用强制上班的,不敢说财富自由,但是蔬菜水果自由是有的。
可是来了日本之后,为了签证,我必须不停上班;而且由于汇率暴跌,我的收入还没出国前工资高。并且连很多蔬菜水果也根本买不到,物质生活的质量还不如在中国。
所以对我来说,为了换取“上网自由”,却牺牲了“物质享受”和“时间自由”,甚至收入下降,这似乎根本是个得不偿失的选择。而且,现在回想起来,我只是为了上网不用挂梯子的话,其实根本不用选择日本啊。
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至于说“回国”这个选择,我觉得关键要看每个人在国内的情况。
我几个沿海的同学都选择回国了,别人回国了根本不需要工作,直接财富自由。而且帮帮家里做生意,一个月利润等于日本上班一年的收入。
但如果回国是干2~3000/月的低端工作,那我建议还是先在日本再观察观察,看看高主席的政治前途如何。
大ばナナ@UMP91147621
日本再怎么烂,也比中国强不知道哪里去了,我不是很理解现在这些回国的人到底是怎么想的 反正我是宁愿当日本的二等公民,也不回国,因为日本再怎么堕落,也有一个文明的底兜而且我也没回过的资本
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@jackey26003097 @itsmorganariel Have you ever done a hard day of blue collar work in your life?
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America needs China.
They create the majority of our goods.
China also needs us because we are the biggest consumers of those goods.
Without them our economy would suffer even more than it already is.
There is a mutually beneficial relationship between the US and China, unlike Israel who is a soul sucking parasite who takes our resources and provides zero value to our nation.
We are occupied by Israel not China.
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🇪🇺🇨🇳 Europe is preparing an emergency economic break with China.
🔸 Nearly 60% of Chinese firms’ global market-share gains since 2005 can be explained by subsidies.
🔸 Chinese firms receive 3 to 8 times more state support than competitors in OECD economies.
🔸 Chinese industrial subsidies are estimated at roughly 4% of GDP.
China uses unfair competition to make foreign countries dependent on it in strategic industries and gain influence over them.
Europe must rebuild its strategic industries and diversify away from excessive dependence on China.
ft.com/content/e8f185…
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He came here to study leaving his family back home. He finished and went back. He has no obligation to stay here, particularly when China offers him great opportunities and and a good lifestyle. I was talking to a professor at Yale who told me a couple of white American students of his took jobs in China after graduation.
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I think there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about Zhilin's visa, H1B lottery, immigration, and why he left the U.S.
Zhilin had many opportunities to stay in the U.S. if he wanted to. In fact, I was on an email thread with a senior Apple exec (Tim Cook's reports) asking whether Zhilin would consider joining Apple. I said that he wanted to go back to his homeland. The response was, well, we have an office in Beijing if he'd like to join there.
But Zhilin was quite determined to go back and build a startup. I remember him telling me that if he didn't at least try starting his own company, he would regret it for the rest of his life. I respect that, and he was right.
Many of my international PhD students do choose to stay in the U.S. Of course the U.S. immigration process can be quite intimidating and uncertain, even for superstar PhD graduates from places like CMU.
signüll@signulll
kimi’s founder & ceo got his phd at cmu. why didn’t he stay in america?!
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就这种人,整天说什么村里发金条了蛊惑别人
你觉得我是为什么要出国的?你觉得我不清楚自己为什么出国吗?
当然我做出来日本的这个决定的时候,不可能料到今天日本居然成了这个样子,回过头来看,来日本可能是我前半人生中最错误的一个决定
但是我来都来了,我能怎么办?
而且我来日本之后,虽然还在读书没工作,无法遇见经济利益,但的的确确的是获得了除经济利益以外的很多东西
如果从经济利益的角度来衡量,恐怕没有人会选择来日本,但是从其他方面综合考虑,日本的确还是一个值得留下的国家
但至于过什么样的生活,取决于你个人
我没钱,自然就不能把生活重心放在钱上,而是放在其他的东西上,所谓人穷志不穷,不过基本也没怎么努力就是了

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@scarymq69 @TaoistYouth 我去年招的主播,就给我读产品违禁词,连续天天读,导致我直播间违规被封,亏了 20 万🥲
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@TaoistYouth 又一个被弹幕玩坏的直播间😋😋网络看客只管自己乐,最后受罚的永远是主播
希望这次能给其他主播提个醒:陌生人发的词先查再读
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Remember how China always plays the race card? Saying it’s racist to say Covid came from Wuhan etc? Well I’m pretty sure that portraying the Philippines as a filthy monkey wearing a stereotypical hat by China’s official state media is actual racism
Jay Tarriela@jaytaryela
This is outright racism and an open mockery of international law — portraying the Philippines as a monkey and dismissing the Arbitral Award as nothing more than a script written by the US and Japan.
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@xiaxunqing @BruceLee666888 我自己开的水果店,店里就毫无技术的小妹最低薪资 5000,一天 9 小时,月休 4 天,加班 30 元一小时,打包的女工 230 一天,一天 9 小时左右,包生活,所以你拿 3000 元的工资,应该检讨的是自己
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@aweto5952 @BruceLee666888 你妈让你读书,然后出来了进厂,你这种吃辣之刃不会不知道宁德时代本科都只能当普工吧?大专二级本科三级,底薪2850,一天11小时,吃辣之刃哈哈哈
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🇨🇳中国就是一面巨大的镜子
🇺🇸美国人污蔑中国强迫维吾尔族种棉花
🇯🇵日本人污蔑中国军国主义
🇮🇳印度人污蔑中国有种姓制度
🇰🇷韩国人污蔑中国抄袭他们的文化
🇻🇳越南人污蔑中国侵略
🇵🇭菲律宾人污蔑中国侵占南海岛礁
以上言论不针对具体的对象
(其实在座的各个国家都是垃圾.jpg )
🤣🤣🤣
Shane David Jett@shanejett
@XH_Lee23 Since 1948, the Chinese Communist Party is guilty of 416-469 million deaths of their own people.📈☭ Congratulations, China is now bloodier than USSR. 🇨🇳☭ Fact: #1 killer of communists is communist leaders. ☠️☭ x.com/shanejett/stat…
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