You can’t drink tap water in China. You’ve got to boil it first. Stick some tea leaves in there while you’re at it.

Was it really that bad in your experience? It seems hard to believe as someone who has not visited China but heard many great things about the nation.

I think it's more likely that we won't be alive.

Entrepreneurship is good, though. Innovation is necessary to make progress in advancing society, especially now that the US and its' satellites are preventing the export of high-value technological products to the country.

As for the crime, well, that's what happens when you live in the cradle of neoliberal rot and decay. The laws are no good if the ones writing and enforcing them are rats and maggots.

Is Russia Fascist?

No.

American media is disgustingly decadent; always publicly discussing about genitalia, sex, drugs and other yuck without a hint of shame.

You and I both know that is never going to happen.

This is a paraphrase of a comment that I posted on Reddit some time ago:

China certainly exports ideology. For example, the notion of "mutually beneficial win-win cooperation" as opposed to the "zero-sum game". These types of ideals serve as the foundation for China-Global South (South-South) cooperation to industrialize and modernize former colonized and developing nations rather than simply exist as raw material exporters. This way, they can finally pry the grasp of the imperial core on their holdings and become an independent, sovereign power. You could consider that exporting "revolution" or "socialism".

Realistically? Nothing.

Thank you, US; for destroying the American empire for our sake.

Has there ever been any incident where Huawei was illegally stealing information from foreigners and transmitting it to the Chinese government? Or is this another case of projection? "The Americans do it, so the Chinese do, too!".

I've heard rumors that the Russian military is planning a huge offensive wave to forcifully end the war. Perhaps, this is the main reason for the increase in defense?

A person drowning may drag you down with them, kind of situation..

Is there anything wrong with that?

I'm very uncomfortable with gun culture sigh I wish I wasn't living in this dystopian hellhole

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I just use both, occasionally swapping out one for the other.

The unpleasant reality is Russians, like the Chinese Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

The unpleasant reality is~~, Russians, like the Chinese,~~ Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

I spotted a typo in that quote block, so I fixed it.

Being able to speak as many languages as possible is good, actually.

I thought that AfD is rapidly gaining popularity among the masses because the party calls for a more independent foreign policy away from NATO, such as re-strengthening relationships with Russia and China, as well as distancing Germany from the US. Please excuse me if I am mistaken.