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!"
- Some Chinese agricultural worker, presumably
Ya like does the article contain even one piece of evidence or talk with an actual rural Chinese person?
A rural chinese person once said “wow i wish i had more money”
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT CHINA’S ECONOMY IS JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM TOTAL COLLAPSE!
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?
https://www.wkyufm.org/economy/2018-06-08/un-poverty-report-finds-shocking-inequality-in-worlds-richest-nation
lmao they buried the lede from the UN report: "Contempt for the poor in US drives cruel policies,” says UN expert
I would really love to see the source for that, not that i doubt you i’m just very curious
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g18/125/30/pdf/g1812530.pdf?token=umpQ7aKW9oABHCAx4A&fe=true
I think this is the report i was thinking of.
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.
Thrice a year was actually above average for certain parts.
My grandfather recounted having to eat boiled grass to survive winters during the occupation after my great grandfather died (in a Japanese occupied coal mine). His family would eat offal once a year during spring festival as their only indulgence.
You rarely see men that excited to be presented with liver and stomach lining, a Pavlovian response to the dishes from when he was a child. His memory of 疙瘩湯 was just boiled bits of dough seasoned with salt.
These people have no idea what type of material conditions we came from and the suffering we endured on our way to building socialism.
You watch interviews with people who participated in the Long March and it's not people filled with regret that they didn't become millionaires. It's people who are grateful that their efforts, sacrifices, dealing with starvation, exhaustion, disease and death every day to preserve the nascent Communist Party as resulted in a better life for the people
Yeah. Horrific, almost impossible to visualise.
I'm reminded of the lines from the Chartist's Anthem
Ye men of bone, of shrunken shank, your only treasure dearth
Women who carry at their breasts, heirs to the hungry earth
Speak with one voice, we march, we fall, and march again upon the years
Those weren't hyperbole, that's what actually happened to the poor in the 19th century, in the rich Imperial core.
And only the partial, halting achievements Socialists have made there stopped that (with the help of our more successful comrades in AES.)
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:
- Brainwashed west worshipping lib who thinks if they act white enough they can be honorary whites too
or
- Falungong/Falungong adjacent CIA plant
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.
following a career as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York.
In a more just society these people would’ve been shot
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
Everything is better outside the USA, even the "before they were the leader" stories.
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
Do you know where I can read more about Xi's early/personal life? The bits of his story I do know of are fascinating
Not much different from Vance who is covered in shit often as well when The Help can’t wipe his ass for him
Xi was literally one of the students in the Down to the Countryside Movement.
Do they use the same kind of methane reclamation systems like in the DPRK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqeC8ihsO8&t=3899s
that looks similar to what xi described, yeah
he described it as a big mound of dirt piled on shit with various pipes in it. one of the pipes got clogged (threatening a dangerous explosion) and he unclogged it and got absolutely blasted in the face and mouth with poop. he also said his work crew laughed at him lol and that it humbled him greatly. he said he realized he was not so much smarter than rural people then, they suggested originally that they just evacuate the area and let it explode but he was stubborn and didnt want to lose all the work they did making it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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.
Literally. Look at the other articles by this person dawg 💀
And to have their toddlers (failsons/faildaughters) taken care of.
Where's the fecking stat that 300 million are left behind? Or did they just count the totally number of rural people?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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
Completely understood. I was going to post it there originally but thought that the dunk tank was basically only social media dunking, so last second decided to do it here since technically it’s on a news website.
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!
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
Uhh ever heard of Putin and zelensky much??? SMH my head these tankies think we don't watch msnbc
Oh yeah? Nice try, but not even the president of the United States of America could correctly identify the country each one of those people are politicians in
Uhm I know Drumpf and he's a foreign politician because he's a RuZZian asset.
I've been reading tons of posts here every day and while i probably read that name already some times, i only realised about who JD Vance exactly is just now.
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.
A ton of people already read his book, it was literally everywhere in 2016. The popularity of his book is how he rose to any prominence in the first place.
You’re right! I now remember seeing his books in the entry section of a local bookstore. This was when anti-trump literature sold pretty well and so the bookstores always bumped them to the front.
Nobody will read his book in China.
there will be more bad leadership in 
i am pathologically incapable of understanding the difference
