Luke in China

I finally made the choice that I won't be political in my Twitter feed due to many outside circumstances between those I follow, the implications of what is said in Twitter, and the future of Twitter. Only game analysis and news. Maybe comedy with friends.

@grok @arunpudur So @grok, it's very similar to an Indian caste system or if not, how does it differ

The hukou system discriminates by tying benefits and rights to inherited registration status based on birthplace and parents. Village-born people get rural hukou; city-born get urban hukou. This creates clear gaps: rural migrants' children often cannot easily enroll in urban public schools without extra fees or must stay behind in villages. They face restricted access to city healthcare, pensions, welfare, and subsidized housing. Many jobs and protections favor urban hukou holders, with wage gaps common for similar work. Converting rural hukou to urban remains difficult, especially in big cities. Recent reforms have eased some service access for migrants, but the core rural-urban divide and mobility limits persist from birth.

⚡ Yo @grok tell me about the CCP hukou system and how it discriminates against Chinese people.

@angeloinchina So you're saying China will attack the country in the future for issues with a defense alliance?

The Philippines could become the next "Ukraine"

@HPhobiaWatch You know, people died in this? I'm not really sure jokes are appropriate. Criticisms are fine though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengzhou…

China is so advanced and ahead of the rest of the world that it has built the world's first underwater metro

@loongkingdom Well, let's see how this goes. We got the first ones coming in a few years. I'm also interested in how this works out.

@GameAddict It would be reasonable to levy a land tax of several hundred yuan every 70 years on the area you have built on the Earth. The Han Chinese governance standard merely tells you that the land belongs to the Earth, not to any individual human being.

Only in China does there exist permanent property ownership. The debate is meaningless. All you need to do is observe the materials used by the people to build their own houses to see this.

@HAPPY889123 I like it. Really sticks to the throat more than anything but molasses. Highly recommend for sore throats.

"The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa has not changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet Chinese cough syrup, which has the colour and consistency of mud" Consistent with its appalling IGNORANCE and pathological OBSESSION to routinely include a jab intended to INSULT every time it reports on 🇨🇳 @TheEconomist, at this point widely regarded a smut rag for smut minds, is unable to even get the name of the cough syrup right, missing 4 key characters in the translation, plus openly declares a clear syrup has the "color and consistency of mud". Pictures 👇 Q: Does anyone think this syrup has the color and consistency of mud❓Next to it, for comparison, is a jar of $$$$ Class A Organic Wild Honey from Australia. Color and consistency of Mud❓ The formula for the cough syrup, concocted 400 years ago, remains unchanged because IT WORKS. Just like Artemisinin was isolated from a 2,500 year old TCM herb cure for Malaria that works, and the 🇨🇳medical doctor Tu Youyou who isolated the chemical compound from the herb won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 for her work. Out of the kindness of my heart, I include the label of the ingredients of this cough syrup. I guess @TheEconomist really enjoy slapping it own face. It cannot control itself. No longer Closet Masochist, it has fully "come out" head, tail, and butt. What a SICK paper. This is my opinion.

@StunnedD1 Pretty much. There wouldn't be a need for KMT to work with the communists. What would happen after that is for others to decide. But it would make for an interesting debate.

Japan’s invasion of China did more than start a war. It destroyed one empire, birthed another, propelled the Communists to power, shattered European colonial dominance in Asia, and created the strategic foundations for today’s Asia-Pacific order. The 20th-century Asian order was largely forged in the fires of China’s war with Japan. When Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and launched its full-scale invasion in July 1937 after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, nearly everyone expected China to collapse quickly. It didn’t. Instead, China endured one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. Between 1937 and 1945, an estimated 15–20 million Chinese soldiers and civilians died. Cities were razed. The Nanjing Massacre alone killed hundreds of thousands in a matter of weeks. But the invasion backfired on Tokyo in a profound way: it saved and strengthened the Chinese Communist Party. In 1937, Mao’s forces were a battered remnant of roughly 40,000 troops after the Long March. By 1945, through disciplined guerrilla warfare behind Japanese lines, the Communists had grown to hundreds of thousands of members, controlled large rural base areas, and earned genuine popular support. The war gave them time, legitimacy, recruits, weapons, and territory. When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Civil War resumed. Just four years later, Mao stood atop Tiananmen Gate and proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. Without Japan’s invasion, there is a strong argument that the Communists would not have won power in 1949. The consequences rippled across the continent. Japan’s stunning early victories over Britain, France, and the Netherlands demolished the myth of white invincibility in Asia. Colonial empires that had lasted centuries suddenly looked mortal. After 1945, independence movements exploded: Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Malaya, and beyond. European rule in Asia never recovered. The United States, meanwhile, emerged as the dominant Pacific power-- a position it maintains today through its network of alliances with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and others. China itself, after decades of suffering and reconstruction, rose to become the world’s second-largest economy and a peer competitor to the United States. One invasion. A chain reaction that reshaped nearly half of humanity. No Japanese invasion → No Communist victory in 1949 (in that form) → No rapid end of European colonial Asia → No U.S.-China strategic rivalry as we know it today. Which single event had the greater long-term impact on modern Asia: Japan’s full-scale invasion of China in 1937, or the Communist victory in 1949?

@0xRuzy Funny, I was sent one just today. I think it's because giving away free money for competition seems a bit different here. Not many shows here focus that much on the money, more on the person and the task.

Mr beast said when he started uploading in China they called him an “American capitalist” MrBeast: You know when I first started uploading in China, um, they're like, they called me like a, American capitalist or whatever. Whatever I post my, like we posted some of our videos that like, uh, got views. They're like, "This American, you know, capitalist." So we start, so I stopped posting the videos where we give away money, and just more like the challenge videos. And then they're like, "Oh, this is cool." Theo Von: (Laughs) So they just don't like the money as the goal. MrBeast: Yeah, I don't know...

Appreciate the personal attacks. The thing is, living here every day, what I actually see is a system where private enterprise, foreign brands, profit motives, and market competition are everywhere — exactly what people here and the government call 'socialism with Chinese characteristics.' I'm not the one redefining their system; I just know what's really happening here instead of what people with agendas tell me.

You are literally retarded. You're telling the Communist Party of China they're all wrong, over a billion Chinese people they're all wrong. YOU know their ideology better and actually the Communist Party are super secretly anti-communists and have "capitalistic values." This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. I'm not kidding. I can't believe a grown man can think something so stupid. I'm seriously in shock. Rather than think "Huh, maybe they lied to me about what Communism is, because I'm here in a Communist country and it's not what the retards back in America told me it was." It's "Nope, the Communist Party of China are super secretly ANTI-Communists!" That is a wild ignorance/ego combo, son.

You know... a lot of people believe the elites when they tell them capitalism is the most efficient system there is. They ignore Communist China. Or, for some bizarre reason, turn into leftists from 30 years ago and say it's "not real communism." Which is weird. But more importantly, they ignore basic facts. Right now, we produce more than enough food to feed the entire world. We have far more than enough for no one to go hungry. So how is it a better and more efficient way of doing things to allow so many to die or go hungry, when we are capable of feeding them all? The problem is not our ability to produce. It is the way we produce to enrich elites at the expense of everyone else. I don't know about you, reading this. But I am an American patriot. And it drives me crazy to walk down the street and see my fellow Americans impoverished and overweight, victims of the chemical-filled slop that mega-conglomerates are allowed to call "food" and sell to them. Especially when we have the capacity to produce good, healthy, nutritious food and the capacity to get it to everyone, but simply don't because we use outdated methods, have outdated politics, and outdated ideologies. If you're an American and you don't care about your fellow Americans, then you're not a patriot. You're a toady of the Epstein class - you just don't know it.

@serpentza Works at the College, so they must have pushed a nice hongbao. I was lucky enough just to do commercials for the school promotion, never propaganda.

Where on earth does the CCP dig up these shills?

@ShangguanJiewen This is Guomao, the richest area of Beijing.

Relax, and take a very brief tour of Beijing by car. 👇

@khrachvik Sorry I'm too pragmatic about this and have seen the great things China has done with capitalistic values these 15+ years working here. But stay comfy in your strange ideology. 加油。

@GameAddict You should have gone to school there. You wouldn't be saying things that are this retarded.

@khrachvik No I just live in it and see the realities being here rather than live off theories of what they hope to happen.

@GameAddict Hahahaa. Yeah. You know their theory and system better than the Communist Party of China does. It's wild how egomaniacal you retards are.

@khrachvik Sorry I need to spell it out. China is socialist with Chinese characteristics (aka capitalism). This is why they accepted capitalistic Japanese and American brands to enter the country. Or at least my rich Chinese friends with an iPhone and driving a Tesla tell me.

@GameAddict So... Communism is when there's no fast food?

@khrachvik Would say papa John's, but they closed down. But the Domino's Pizza still fights on.

@khrachvik Hard to call China communist when I have choose between coke or Pepsi at the 7-11 before getting dinner at pizza hut, McDonald's, taco bell, KFC, burger king, Chili's, shake shack, TGI Fridays, or subway for dinner. All 5km away from me.

@real_insight_1 Hey let me ask you @grok, is it true nongs can't study in cities and stay in rural areas only or he over simplifying this?

How do the Chinese still dare to lie? The Household Class System (Hukou) is real. Rural people (Nongs) cannot study in cities, they must stick to the low quality options in rural areas. An individual's social status and choices are determined by birth - that's exactly the definition of "Caste".

@cgtnamerica Been there, the selection is not as good as I hoped, and there aren't always great sales. But they are opening everywhere and even in the smallest of cities, so it's fun seeing people watch me there, asking why I'm in their city.

The snack supermarket is a growing trend in China, but as CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock finds out, tastes differ around the world. Which snack would you like to try?

@hazard_ede7461 @aslicheen I defend honesty. Just find honest things to attack China on if that's what you want to do. I won't hate if they are true.

@GameAddict @aslicheen I have seen this exact Tactics from other chinese who claim to hate CCP but come to defend all their horrible things in Indian timeline. CCP hates u still u defend its castism that doesn't make sense

You must have heard of the household caste system of china, where people are restricted to their birth place but have you heard about the social media caste system of china? Low caste rural chinese have different apps & they can't access high caste chinese apps.

@hazard_ede7461 @aslicheen You haven't read my replies. I'm an equal opportunity person. Some CCP bots hate me too.

@GameAddict @aslicheen You just giving more unmatched excuses and keep exposing yourself confirming doubts which just rumors & even worse twitter ban in china yet you chinese CCP bots here to defend CCP lot.