That's not really even a Chinese saying. The English version would be "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission". Literally almost every culture has a version of this saying, there's nothing inherently Chinese about it.
Old Chinese saying: "I like being evil and committing atrocities MUAHAHAHA"
Hilarious orientalism. Just like how "saving face" is just doing things to avoid public humiliation, but somehow only the Chinese do it.
yeah, just say it like yoda and say its an ancient chinese proverb or something iunno
The Western firm completely run by White people at the executive level that I worked for was packed with sons and daughters of clients and industry big wigs.
Now I understand that said firm must have been secretly Chinese.
- go to r/politics or r/news or some massive, lib subreddit
- use a whole lot of words to say "china authoritarian and scary" with made up anecdotes and nonsense
- enjoy reddit premium for the next 6 years
Huge fishing fleets flagged in Taiwan have been responsible for trawling vast areas of the sea in the EEZs of third world countries clean. In fact, they had a substantial role in overfishing the Gulf of Aden to such an extent that nearby Somali fishermen had to turn to piracy.
And yet nobody posts about that. I wonder why :thinkin-lenin:
I'm pretty sure it was french nuke dumping that turned Somali fishers to piracy. Taiwanese overfishing probably didn't help though
IIRC correctly from a paper I wrote about it way back in the day, a lot of toxic waste was dumped by French and Swiss companies, as well as the Italian mafia's waste disposal fronts.
At the same time, there was mass overfishing from Taiwanese and Thai(?) Fleets.
Turns out that if your government can't defend your maritime borders, all sorts of assholes will take advantage.
I think the french were using org crime to dump too
I'm just saying it's one thing if it's harder to get a catch, it's another if everyone eating your fish is dying from cancer. Ask the Athabascans
I think the french were using org crime to dump too
Thank you for the mental image of a gang of organized criminal mimes.
If you want to look into it more, the Taiwanese fishing industry was recently hit with a forced labor designation by the US.
Also reports by some Western NGOs say that there's systemic human rights abuses and wild life poaching happening on those Taiwanese ships.
I don't know enough about the landscape of environmental NGOs (which are good, which are flawed, which are just mouthpieces) so I won't post any articles. However, I'd be grateful if any Chapos who are in the know could recommend some.
Anyway, shit's gotta be megafucked if even the US is slapping those labels.
a lot to unpack here but
an Internet that's controlled from the top
how the fuck do they think the Internet works?
Xi is playing 7D Wei Qi by creating Winnie the Pooh memes and banning anyone who circulates them.
US and Western fleets that sail through the region to stir up trouble should unironically be sunk though.
I don't think these people are capable of thought and reflection in the first place. I think they take their western sources at face value and don't consider that stories are unnaturally promoted, embellished, or potentially fabricated.
Like how often do fishing violations happen all over the world? Why is this instance in particular being made into a story on channel 4?
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/klo0px/peruvian_coastguards_vs_massive_chinese_fishing/
Using colonialist nomenclature to designate actual borders is silly.
I grew up watching the US turn cities into rubble, I know many people who are terrified to even walk by the US embassy. Do they really expect me to think China is an aggressor when they've done none of that?
post constantly about wanting to kill cops. that's what got me banned.
What about killing Hong Kong cops? Would Reddit keep it then?
That thread was so fucking bazaar. Just full (more than the usual amounts ) of anti-china shit.
I don't know how much of it is CIA and how much is just dumbass redditors fully gorged on propoganda, but fuck...
