China news, memes, and shitposts

"But, honey, it's my magical penis wine..."

I've seen North Korean "snake head" booze when I was working with South Koreans packing up soldier's stuff to relocate back to the US. It looked nasty, like a snake head decomposing in formaldehyde or something. Maybe when it's freshly made it's not that bad, who knows? Anyway the movers get some nice perks - there is a limit as to how much booze you can ship back to the US. If you are over the limit you have to do something with it, so most people give it to the movers. The movers would offer me some but since I was just escorting the movers around (they did all the work) I politely declined.

Shit's really hit the fan in Hong Kong. The airport, one of the busiest hubs in Asia, has been closed due to protesters crowding out the terminals. They're extra angry this week over police brutality.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49317975

If China thinks it can avoid Tiananmen imagery just by not using tanks, it's fucking kidding itself.

From the comments, there's some confusion about how old that video is -- may not be from today.

The PLA has been doing exercises anyway to prepare for the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Futian is the southernmost district in Shenzen. If it's not an old video, Hong Kong is in trouble.

China's First Cloned Police Dog Ready for Duty



How long before they start cloning human super-soldiers, Star Wars style?

whoa! Locating & detecting landmines? Damn the dogs better get extra snacks for that hazardous duty!
"Who's a good doggy? You're the good doggy! Show me the landmine! Show me...." KABOOM! ...."who's a dead doggy! Yes you're such a dead doggy!"

That said I for one welcome our cloned wolf dog overlords!

is his big dick what fucked up his left leg? It's all weird shaped! BTW I wonder how low the bar is set to consider somebody a "big dick" guy in that part of the world.

I'm sure you tried the jimjilbang sauna in Korea so you know it's low. Short dicks and long pubes.

I wasn't even ON that flight.

Guess they picked me up on radar.

Looks like the protests (and their repression) could be entering a new phase.

^In all fairness, what should we expect to happen generally when people assault police officers with pipes?

The young man was shot in the shoulder. He'll live.

John Oliver tackles the one- and two-child policies

Abortions at nine months, it’s a liberal paradise!

This is pretty interesting, how China stole its way ahead in aviation technology (like in a game of Civ).

One of China's most brazen hacking sprees involved intelligence officers, hackers, security researchers, and company insiders.

Look like they'll build a "Comac C919" to compete with Airbus and Boeing.

Meh.

Show me a country which doesn't use spying as a means to gain technological parity or advantage.

An attitude probably most common among people who have never created a thing in their life.

It's not an attitude. Every country engages in industrial espionage. All this tells us is that China are rather good at it.

False equivalency is false.

I don't see the false equivalence. Any and every government will use similar means to level the playing field or gain a competitive advantage in terms of technology, especially if that tech has a strategic nature.

The US is currently by and large a defensive player because it already has the technological edge in most fields, China is a rival player playing catch up and thus on the offensive.

Reverse the balance of power and you'd see a very different picture.

Oh:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/edward-snowden-says-nsa-engages-in-industrial-espionage-1.2511635

No surprise there.

Sorry, aren't you the moral crusader who found it offensive that a lawyer represented a client to do something lawful?

Even if we agreed that paying off hush money is sleazy, to use your rationale: everybody does it. US Congress. NBC.

You also recently rode your moral high horse on some other public policy matter that escapes me at the moment, can't be very important, probably filed under 'just typical liberal hypocrisy.'

More pointedly - I agree that US conducts intelligence gathering on both friends and rivals (and on enemies) but I distinguish that from state theft of commercial secrets.

Corporate espionage - even if you find it acceptable and commonly accepted (which I don't, I think it should be punished as severely as all crimes of a similar nature) only collapses into justifiable intelligence gathering when dealing with commie or socialist states.

China's behavior is more akin to playing Monopoly with a cousin who cheats on dice rolls, steals from bank, and does anything she can get away with when youre not looking. The Western world (Judeo-Christian ethic, probably) views that kind of cheating as wrong, and not compatible with (China's) All Fair in Love War and Business approach.

Absolutely, it's utterly sleazy.

My minimising is about the revelation, not the behaviour. I'd be surprised if they didn't do it, much as I'd be surprised at any other nation being able to somehow legitimately demonstrate innocence. It's dirty and shouldn't happen, but it's hardly unexpected and I call bollocks on the assertion the "Western world" operates differently and that China are a special case on that score.

Why? Theft is theft regardless of the victim. Applying a double standard only opens the door to said states making much the same claim in reverse.

You want that high ground you live up to it.

Chinese family in Hebei province dig up their dead daughter to be sold as a ghost bride

You wouldn't want your dead children to be alone in the afterlife, would you? The intentions are noble. For 12k USD, nothing weird at all!

You can get a professional for less than that, multiple times. Isn't a dead body a last resort? If I am paying whoever it is should really be doing something and not lying there like a corpse.

However, for 12k I would gladly lie still and spray myself down with the scent of rotting flesh if that is what you are into. I would also give multiple sessions for such payment. No fungus, rot, or disease.