Discuss what you think of..China

[Revoltingest]

Most important questions:
- Which do you prefer, northern or southern Chinese food?
- Boiled or fried guo tie / shui jiao?
- What is it with duck & chicken feet? I've eaten both, & just don't get the obsession with them?
- Same for sea cucumbers.
- How has food there changed as the country has become more prosperous?
- How common is wei qi? Do you play?

 

[BirdseyeSwordfish]

What i don't like about China is the fact that sometimes they are not fair with african people. I saw many of them making deals with corrupt african politicians, and those who suffer from this are the african population.

So, i think it's a good thing to see Chinese coming in Africa, but i hope they will not act like did the europeans.

I hold no sympathies for the Chinese government, but it seems like all countries which are powerful enough to project influence globally have done so. Sure, it's dirty business, but most business is dirty business. I would actually say that China is better than most.

As one example, the Americans used Operation Ajax to overthrow Mossadegh in Iran, with the primary purpose of securing oil reserves in that country.

 

[PassionFruit53]

Most important questions:
- Which do you prefer, northern or southern Chinese food?
- Boiled or fried guo tie / shui jiao?
- What is it with duck & chicken feet? I've eaten both, & just don't get the obsession with them?
- Same for sea cucumbers.
- How has food there changed as the country has become more prosperous?
- How common is wei qi? Do you play?

- I came from North China (born in ShanDong province, now live in Beijing), so I like northern food much more. However as Beijing is the Capital City there are people who came from all parts of China, so we can get food from any province.

- I like boiled.

- I don't know. Maybe it is because in the past China was poor so they didn't want to waste the food. And the chicken foot has a lot of fat and calories as well. Same thing for duck feet.

- I never ate sea cucmbers. You know they say that most Chinese will eat anything that moves, even house animals like dog or cat. Well I am not like that.

- I remember when I was young, we do not have so much money, so we ate meat once every other day. Sometimes, once a week. So, we ate a lot of vegetables back then. Now, in a more prosperous time, we can get the meat meal almost all the time. However, because it is healthy, I try to eat vegetarian at least one meal a day, and all vegetarin food, one day a week.

- I don't play.

 

[Pagan_Patriot]

Corrupt country. I wish our businesses would pull out of there and move them elsewhere, or better yet, bring them back home. We're helping build up a country that will most likely be aggressive to us in the future.

 

[Galen.Iksnudnard]

Human rights violator and only looking out for their own interests.

Whenever possible I try to avoid buying anything made in China.

 

[Poeticus]

I love Chinese women!

Oh, this is about the country/government? My b...

 

[renaud.kingsland]

I've been to China on a few occasions. I wasn't too impressed.

 

[darkendless]

Corrupt country. I wish our businesses would pull out of there and move them elsewhere, or better yet, bring them back home. We're helping build up a country that will most likely be aggressive to us in the future.

They're a necessary evil. Australia (where I live) is essentially at the mercy of the Chinese economically as a significant percentage of our mining exports go there and we are still a strong mining based economy.

They could hurt us significantly in a short period if their demand for our resources suddenly declined.

 

[chinu]

My name is Chinu, which is something like Chinese name, isn't it ?

 

[NobodyYouKnow]

China is very clever!

They just tied the Yuan to their gold reserves, importing 2 billion dollars worth of gold last year and not exporting any!

This will force the USA to do likewise and that will be a good thing.

However, for China to bail out the USA by deferring their debt won't come without consequences.

I can see the Yuan becoming the Global Reserve Currency very soon.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

China is very clever!

They just tied the Yuan to their gold reserves, importing 2 billion dollars worth of gold last year and not exporting any!

This will force the USA to do likewise and that will be a good thing.

However, for China to bail out the USA by deferring their debt won't come without consequences.

I can see the Yuan becoming the Global Reserve Currency very soon.

Probably why they are dipping their toes in the London money market, and setting up facilities there. The uk will be able to deal directly in Yuan for the first time.
Probably because London is the majority market in the world.

The U.K. joined Hong Kong and Taiwan in being allowed by China to take part in a program allowing offshore yuan to be invested in Chinese securities, a move that bolsters efforts to internationalize the currency.
China approved an 80 billion yuan ($13 billion) quota for investors in London to buy onshore assets under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said at a briefing in Beijing yesterday. The deal was part of a series of agreements signed during Osborne’s trip, which include direct trading between the yuan and pound and allowing Chinese lenders to open wholesale-banking branches in the U.K. capital.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I think that for me in the USA, there should be more emphasis upon foreign languages for children. I don't think that children should have to learn to write in Mandarin, but they should know a little bit of it as well as a little bit of Spanish.

I don't understand China's obsession with the island known as Taiwan. I feel like Taiwan is for China what Iraq has been for the USA. I don't know though. I just don't understand why the situation calls for military threats.

 

[Flankerl]

I don't understand China's obsession with the island known as Taiwan. I feel like Taiwan is for China what Iraq has been for the USA. I don't know though. I just don't understand why the situation calls for military threats.

Here you go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_civil_war


Result
- Communist takeover of mainland China
- People's Republic of China established in mainland China
- Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan
- Combat ended, but no armistice or peace treaty signed

 

[Aupmanyav]

Nice culture, nice government (after all they brought prosperity to its huge population), short on human rights (I hope they improve), not eco-friendly, very practical (don't miss any chance to acquire things).